Line #18 Awesome/Shazam2019


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7	* Billy is absolutely no slouch when it comes to [[BullyHunter defending Freddy against the bullying by the Bryer brothers]], using Freddy's crutch to great effect against them, even before being empowered. His readiness to do such things is precisely what prompts the Wizard Shazam to empower him.
8	* The Wizard shouting each power of his namesakes as he empowers Billy. Creator/DjimonHounsou's no-holds barred delivery is sure to send chills down your spine.
9	* When Billy tries to use his powers to stop a crime the first time, [[BadassBystander the would-be victim has already maced the mugger and doesn't need any help]].
10	* Shazam throwing two robbers out the window of a convenience store after discovering he's bulletproof.
11	* Shazam punching through a concrete pillar as if it was styrofoam.
12	* Sivana, while doing research on magic, has a scientist touch a door she wasn't meant to touch. She is vaporized. He doesn't even flinch.
13	* Doctor Sivana unleashing the Sins on the boardroom of Sivana Industries (including his abusive father and older brother) is [[NightmareFuel as terrifying]] as it is well-deserved, especially when he throws his father's own taunts back at him right before he kills him.
14	-->'''Sivana:''' [[IronicEcho You can't go crying to other people all the time.]]
15	* Shazam saves Mary from being run-over using his super speed. And he does it [[InstantExpert smoothly]].
16	* After [[EpicFail accidentally causing a bus to fall off a bridge while showing off his lightning powers]], Billy proceeds to casually catch it.
17	* Villainous awesome: Doctor Sivana effortlessly [[PunchCatch catches Shazam's punch]].
18	* Instead of obeying Sivana's order to transmit him his powers, Billy takes back the staff and then tells his foster siblings to grasp it and call out "Shazam". When the dust settles, they've all turned into adult superheroes each with a piece of Shazam's powerset, and start battling the Seven Deadly Sins.
19	** It took Billy most of the film to figure out how to fly. When his disabled buddy Freddy first transforms? ''He floats with no effort!''
20	-->'''Freddy:''' I CAN FLY!!! (''bursts into joyful laughter'')
21	* In what's primarily an emotional scene, Billy does a very brave thing when he meets his biological mother. She assumed that leaving him would be best for him and even that him being in front of her now is just him letting her know that he's alright. She has NO idea that Billy has spent his whole life thus far looking for her and was hoping to be a family with her again until now. Billy could easily have thrown that back in her face and called her out for abandoning him, but instead he goes along with it and pretends that he was only there to check in. He spared her feelings even though she'd treated him poorly and even though he's clearly broken-hearted. It was a very mature moment from him.
22	** In the same vein, Billy giving her his compass and commenting "you might need it more than me" could have been a bitter or sarcastic thing to do, but instead it's played as a sincere acknowledgement that [[ParentsAsPeople he understands Marilyn has problems of her own]], and at the same time a gesture of forgiveness.
23	** What's more, his acknowledging his foster family as his [[FamilyOfChoice real family]] can be interpreted as a subtle ComingOfAge moment, where he's finally understanding that his real family is waiting for him at the Vasquez home.
24	** Fridge-Awesome: This acts as a {{Foil}} to how Sivana dealt with his own biological family. He indeed confronted his brother and father and [[CallingTheOldManOut let them have it]] (in the most satisfyingly vengeful way imaginable). Here, rather than chastise her (much less as Shazam), Billy finds the personal strength to be the bigger person, and walks away from it [[CharacterDevelopment with an understanding of how important his foster family has become to him]].
25	* After Billy hears that Sivana has taken his foster siblings hostage, he ''jumps from the top of a building'', pronounces the word, and gets struck by lightning in mid-air and in slow motion, then flies off like [[Characters/DCEUSuperman that other]] FlyingBrick.
26	** Before he fights Sivana at the carnival, Billy transforming [[TheSlowWalk mid-stroll]] is an extremely cool shot. With a deep and serious-sounding Shazam pronunciation to boot. Kudos to Asher Angel for the last one.
27	* Freddy throwing his prized replica Bat-arang at Sivana, leaving a notable wound on the back of his head. On two more levels is this awesome: (A) Batman indirectly helped these kids by creating the Bat-arang and (B) if he hadn't wounded Sivana's head, no one would've figured out he was vulnerable without his sins.
28	* Shazam and Doctor Sivana are fighting while flying over a city skyline. They trade [[MegatonPunch superpowered blows]] that [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punch them hundreds of feet forward]], very much like [[Film/ManOfSteel Zod and Superman]].
29	* Eugene trying to defend Freddy from the Byers Brothers with nunchucks. Yeah, he [[EpicFail just knocked himself out]] but it took guts to try.
30	* Billy beating Sivana with his ''head'', not his combat-based powers: figuring out that Envy is the sin that's constantly still inside him, he proceeds to taunt and insult Envy over the sin it represents. This [[DrivenByEnvy enrages]] the demon enough that it can't resist leaping out to try and kill him... leaving Sivana completely powerless, allowing Billy to temporarily defeat Envy and use the Eye of Sin to seal the Seven Deadly Sins back away.
31	-->'''Shazam:''' So this is like the SevenDeadlySins, right? I mean, I've never been great at math but uh...[[TheBrute The big angry one,]] that's Wrath, yeah? And then [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony,]] obvi. Then {{Pride}}, {{Greed}}, [[LazyBum Sloth]], {{Lust}}, who [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments I thought was gonna be way hotter, if I'm honest.]] But that's only six! Where's - where's lucky number seven? Where's little man? Where's [[GreenEyedMonster Envy?]] Is he just scared of me and my family because we're so awesome? 'Cause I get that. Like the other sins, they get to come out and fight because they're big and strong and scary. But Envy? ''He's just the runt.''
32	-->(Dr. Sivana shoots him a DeathGlare, and Envy briefly manifests, snarling in anger)
33	-->'''Shazam:''' And that's why the other sins never invite him out to play, man. 'Cause they all know who'd win! And it's not [[PunctuatedForEmphasis weak. Worthless. Ugly.]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Envy.]]''
34	* Billy exploiting the transformation and lightning that come with it not only once, but twice in the fight. The first time happens before the siblings get their power and when Sivana still has his, showing once again Billy's bravery and why he was chosen, and the second weaponizes it to attack Envy. In the first, he takes advantage of the fact that switches from a super-buff super-tall hero to a scrawny 14-year-old-boy to escape one of the Sins holding him immobile. The second, he completely (if temporarily) discorporates Envy with the bolt of magic lightning that strikes him when he transforms.[[note]]Fun fact: At least once in the comics, Shazam has used the fact that he's struck by a ''magical'' bolt of lightning every time he transforms to ''defeat Superman!''[[/note]]
35	* Mary pulls her weight in the fight before getting her powers, with a combination of XanatosGambit and exceptional aiming skills. When a superpowered Sivana is holding Billy's head underwater, drowning him and preventing him from saying his name to transform, she grabs one of the fair's guns to shoot at Sivana's eye. When the bullet is about to hit it, Sivana casually catches it (points for him)... Taking his hand off Billy's head in doing so, giving him the chance to transform back.
36	* At the end of the movie Freddie is back to being shunned by the other kids at school when it's revealed that his siblings all changed their lunch schedule so they could eat with him...then Billy shows up to hang out with them in his Shazam form (Freddie having previously told everyone at school that he was friends with "Captain Sparklefingers", and having no one believe him)... then Billy reveals that he had invited [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} another friend]] to hang out with them too (Superman):
37	--> '''Shazam:''' “I invited another friend. I hope that’s ok.”
38	** What makes the scene even more awesome is it’s EXACTLY something [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} said friend]] would do.
39	* Mister Mind shows up in the stinger to give a BadassBoast to Sivana.
40	--> '''Mister Mind''': "I name the gods, doctor. Not the other way around."

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