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  • Adrianna demonstrates that she's no damsel in distress when she evades Intergang while absconding with the crown of SABBAC. Ishmael is surprised to see that she managed to sneak it out of the case it was locked in without anybody noticing.
    • Amon demonstrates that he's a chip off his mother's block when he hides the crown in his room while letting Ishmael and Intergang assume he had it in his backpack the whole time.
  • Black Adam's awakening. The teaser played it as Nightmare Fuel, but in the film proper it's shown that all the people he killed were Intergang soldiers that already killed one of Adrianna's allies and were about to do the same to herself and Karim. As Black Adam tears through them, his Leitmotif swells to a crescendo and he bursts out of his tomb.
  • Once out of the tomb, Adam pulls off Bullet Time kills set to "Paint It Black", including one where he throws helicopter blades at an Intergang van, throws a rocket into a tank, and sticks a grenade in a mook's mouth before he can react.
  • Black Adam gives Amon some advice that would make Conan the Barbarian beam with pride:
    "Prove your strength. Destroy your enemy and all he cares about. Make him beg for mercy, but deny it until his final breath."
    • Adrianna then protests that she doesn't want Adam teaching her son violence, which is pretty ballsy by itself. Surprisingly, Adam actually apologizes... because he thinks she meant he's overstepping his bounds and she's defending Amon's father's (who he thinks is Karim) authority and right to "teach him violence".
  • Hawkman vs. Black Adam. Hawkman charges at Adam with his mace held high, but Adam grabs the mace with one hand and uses it to send a jolt of electricity into Hawkman before blasting him into a car.
  • Cyclone is both awesome and graceful when using her wind powers.
  • Atom Smasher only gets one hit on Black Adam, but he manages to keep him down longer than the combined efforts of Hawkman, Doctor Fate and Cyclone.
  • Any time Doctor Fate shows off his magical prowess to pin down Black Adam and later, SABBAC. Hell, even his costume is a CMOA simply because of how good it looks. To make things better, he keeps on doing so despite knowing that he is outmatched against them.
  • Teth-Adam's son Hurut openly defies the king's slavers and steals a nugget of eternium from them after they kill the slave who discovered it. He's arrested and sentenced to public execution for his defiance, but rather than break down sobbing as you'd expect of a child in his predicament, Hurut performs the Kahndaqui symbol of freedom. No wonder the Wizards chose him to be Shazam!
  • By far the greatest demonstration of might in a movie bursting with mightiness has to be when Doctor Fate releases Teth-Adam from cryo-stasis. He's unable to remove his gag before the guards try to restrain him again, but Adam fights two of them off at the same time before using a third as a shield from the gunfire of several more guards. Just because he can't use his powers doesn't change the fact that this is still a character played by The Rock.
  • Amon rallying the people of Kahndaq to fight back against SABBAC's demonic forces during the Final Battle.
    Civilian: These are our streets! Our city! Free Kahndaq! (angry mob give a battle cry and charge the undead)
  • Black Adam vs SABBAC. After the diabolical one ploughs through the Justice Society like tissue paper, Black Adam ends his life by tearing him down the middle.
    • He also finally managed to use his catchphrase the right way:
    Adam: Tell them the man in black sent you.
  • When asked what he'll do next, Adam sits on the throne of Kahndaq, posed exactly like the famous cover of 52, with the audience naturally assuming this is how the film ends with him taking over as ruler... but when asked how it feels, he intones "Wrong." He then flies up and lands on the throne, destroying it, making it clear he'll be his nation's protector, but not its king. Or, at very least, that he's not ruling tyranically from a throne like Akh-Ton did.
  • The Stinger. Amanda Waller warns Black Adam that he better keep himself in Kahndaq. He boasts that no one in this planet can beat him. She replies she can use people Not of This Earth. He simply retorts that she should send them all. And after he destroys Waller's transmitter, a caped figure slowly descends and steps out of the smoke as an unmistakable leitmotif plays... it's Henry Cavill, returning as SUPERMAN!
    Superman: It's been a while since anyone has made the world this nervous... Black Adam. We should talk.

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