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Enemies faced by Champions who have been blessed with the powers of SHAZAM.

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Introduced in SHAZAM!

Doctor Sivana

Doctor Thaddeus Sivana

"You will beg for mercy, as I feast on your heart!"

Species: Empowered human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Sivana Industries, The Seven Deadly Sins (as their champion)

Portrayed By: Mark Strong, Ethan Pugiotto (young)

Voiced By: Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin-American Spanish), Takehito Koyasu (Japanese, adult), Sara Matsumoto (Japanese, young), Éric Herson-Macarel (European French), Patrick Chouinard (Canadian French), Hércules Franco (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: SHAZAM! | SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods ^note  In The Stinger

"You know what it's like for a child to be told you'll never be good enough? No you don't. What you said to me all those years ago made me realize who I really was. And you know something? I am not pure of heart."

Thaddeus Sivana is son of the head of Sivana Industries. After being spirited away to the Rock of Eternity, he has spent his life researching everything he could about the Wizard Shazam, whose test he failed when he was a young boy. Decades later, Dr Sivana found his way back to the Rock of Eternity and willingly became a vessel to the Seven Deadly Sins when he touched the Eye of Sin, becoming their champion and the first major enemy of Billy Batson.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: From his childhood and up to the movie's setting, Sivana wore eyeglasses like his comics counterpart. After gaining the power of the Eye of Sin, which lodges itself into his right eye, he doffs them and doesn't seem to need them anymore. Until he is depowered by Shazam and goes back to wearing his glasses.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Understandable, considering that the original version is basically a Gollum-like figure. There's an attempt to make Mark Strong uglier by giving him a scar and a supernatural eye, but since Strong is still quite a handsome fellow, it's to little avail.
  • Also applies to the New 52 version of Dr. Sivana, whose usage of the Eye of Sin had the side effect of gradually mummifying him. This take on Sivana never suffers any of that. In fact, his original eye even grows back once he's depowered.
• Adaptational Badass: Doctor Sivana in the comics is a non-combatant Mad Scientist who never fights, which means he's a definite Villainous Underdog against someone like Captain Marvel/Shazam. Doctor Sivana here however, catches a punch by the Kid Hero with no effort, which should tell you a lot about how powerful this version is. Aside from Super-Strength, he has a form of Telekinesis, has mastered the power of Flight, and can toss lightning bolts. However, he's Depowered when the Sins are resealed.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Dr. Sivana in the comics is seldom shown to be anything more than an amoral scientist. Here his motives for turning bad are given sizable attention, making it clear that if he wasn't mistreated throughout his entire childhood then he could have become a much more stable adult.
• Adaptational Wimp: While he's much more action-oriented than he was in the comics, most of Sivana's menace comes from being a vessel for the Seven Sins. In the comics Dr. Sivana could infamously walk through prison walls just by reciting an elaborate equation, while this take on Sivana would have rotted in his cell if it wasn't for Mister Mind coming to his aid.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: When he made his debut in the comics, Dr. Sivana was simply a Starter Villain that became a recurring foe. Here, Sivana's turn to villainy involves fatally wounding the Wizard Shazam and unleashing the Seven Sins, compelling the Wizard to settle on the very next candidate no matter who they may be, which just so happened to be Billy Batson.
• Adapted Out: If Dr. Sivana has any children in this universe like he does in the comics, he doesn't seem to be very involved in their lives.
• Ambition Is Evil: Dr. Sivana is contrasted against Billy Batson with his lofty goals. He wants absolute power while Billy was made champion against his will. Once Sivana finds out that a champion was chosen after he'd acquired the Eye of Sin, he tries to gain the power of Shazam as well so he can be uncontested.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: The adult Thaddeus is always seen clad in an immaculate business suit, topped off with a...
• Badass Longcoat: He wears a black leather longcoat with a fur collar once he grows fully into his villainous role.
• Bald of Evil: Both due to the comics and due to the actor's trademark baldness.
• Beard of Sorrow: Sports one in the second film due to his incarceration.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: He's introduced as a bullied child. By the third act, he's now the one bullying kids.
• Berserk Button: Because of how poorly his father and brother treated him, he hates hearing anything about families. As he was leaving his father's company through the elevator, the elevator plays a video about how Sivana Industries cares about families which results in Sivana punching the screen. Later on, he takes sadistic pleasure in taunting/threatening Billy's foster siblings.
• Big Bad: Sivana is the cause of the villainy and conflict in SHAZAM!, with the Seven Deadly Sins serving as his minions. Although they are crucially responsible for corrupting him into villainy, they obey his orders.
• Black Sheep: Sivana's The Unfavorite in his family and blamed for his father's disability. An alternate scene where he murders his family at their christmas party shows Sivana deliberately invoking this trope, as he shows up wearing his black coat with its woolen collar while the rest of his family wear white.
• Breaking Speech:
  • He keeps it brief and simple, but he tells the Wizard that he isn't pure of heart and while that qualifies him to be the champion of the Seven Deadly Sins, the Wizard will never find anyone who can be his champion.
  • He gives a few of these to Billy, in an attempt to shake him or demean him.
• Brought Down to Normal: Once Billy gets the upper hand in their climactic battle, he pulls the Eye of Sin out of Sivana's socket, rendering him powerless.
• Bullet Catch: Being empowered by the Seven Deadly Sins enhances his reflexes. When Mary tries to shoot Sivana in his Eye of Sin, Sivana manages to catch the bullet.
• The Bully: As soon as Sivana is empowered by the Seven Deadly Sins, he proceeds to abuse them by slaying his family members and pursuing his rival, even seeking to harm his loved ones.
• Bullying the Disabled: Sivana intimidates Freddy Freeman by yanking him by the scruff of his neck.
• Butt-Monkey: The end credits to Shazam! shows animated sequences of Dr. Sivana getting repeatedly thwarted and humiliated by Billy and his siblings. One particular moment is when Billy swaps his Eye of Sin with the compass keychain he got from his mother.
• Cain and Abel: Sivana's hatred for his brother (his father's clear favorite) has culminated with murder.
• Child Hater: If his interactions with Billy and his foster siblings are any indication, he is generally resentful towards children, likely because they remind him of his troubled childhood.
• The Chosen Wannabe: As a child, Sivana was deemed not worthy by Shazam and subsequently spent much of his adult life trying to return to the Rock of Eternity. He later becomes envious of Billy for being chosen by the Wizard.
• Cold Ham: Dr. Sivana has no trouble maintaining a straight face, but his lust for power and obsession with the paranormal cause him to spout some fairly cheesy lines. His inaudible taunting of Billy in the film's climax being the most noteworthy example.
• The Comically Serious: Dr. Sivana is completely humorless, but can be subjected to this when fighting Billy at the toy store as Billy throws toys at him advancing to no avail, first interrogating Freddy who hysterically thinks he will read his mind and finally trying to spout Evil Gloating in the final battle despite being far away and Billy unable to hear him from a distance.
• Composite Character:
  • With his dark clothing, super strength, flight and electrical powers; Dr. Sivana takes inspiration from Black Adam.
  • With Sivana being empowered by the Seven Deadly Sins, he also draws influence from the New 52 version of SABBAC, who is the result of all the sins possessing a human.
  • His darker wardrobe and less cartoony appearance are similar to the Dr. Sivana seen in Justice League: Gods and Monsters.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To both the villains of the previous DCEU film Aquaman (2018):
  • To Orm. Orm was a super powered being with years of combat experience who leads a vast army while Sivana is an ordinary human with no fighting ability who operates alone (except for the Seven Deadly Sins) and is wholly reliant on his powers. Orm had lofty goals about saving his kingdom from the surface world's actions while Sivana cares only about his own power. Despite all their conflict, it's shown that Orm does still care about Arthur, doesn't want to kill him and accepts his ultimate defeat with no issue while Sivana detests his brother Sid, making him his first victim, and is driven mad by his defeat, trying desperately to get his powers back before meeting up with Mister Mind.
  • To Black Manta. Manta was a young black man while Sivana is a white man in his fifties. Manta had years of combat training and experience while Sivana has no fighting abilities outside of his powers. Manta had no powers and relied on his own fighting skill and intellect and struggled against Arthur at first as a result while Sivana has powers equal to Billy. Manta operated covertly and outside the law while Sivana is a known member of a very wealthy and respected family. Manta worked with others, both his own men and Atlantean soldiers, while Sivana only has the Seven Deadly Sins. Perhaps the biggest one is that Manta and his father had a genuinely close and mutually loving relationship and Manta's motivation is avenging him while Sivana's father was horribly abusive and the first thing Sivana does with his powers is murder him and his brother.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Dr. Sivana could easily be compared to Harry Potter, if Harry never had any friends or proper guidance. As a child he had black hair and thick glasses, matching the boy wizard's exact physical description. He comes from an abusive family and he's suddenly approached by a wizard who offers to give him the chance to wield great magical powers. The scar he gets on his eye when he gains the power of the Seven Sins even resembles a lightning bolt. The deviation begins with Sivana being consumed by vengeance and a desperate need to feel powerful, while Harry Potter is usually shown to be humble and rarely uses his magic in a vengeful way outside of some harmless pranks.
• Cursed with Awesome: The Wizard warns Sivana that the Sins are using him to spread damnation across the world. After Sivana's vengeance is sated they spur him into further acts of villainy, showing that they want a lifelong commitment from him. Sivana doesn't mind any of this.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His childhood at the hands of a terrible father and brother. The latter of whom bullied him simply for taking interest in a Magic 8-Ball.
• Darker and Edgier: The Doctor Sivana from the comics is one of the more cartoonish villains in the DCEU, pretty much like Jesse Eisenberg's take on Lex Luthor but with even more outlandish schemes. Mark Strong's take on the character is a full-blown Knight of Cerebus, managing to make such conventionally funny moments like getting punched in the groin or stepping on a floor piano seem devoid of comedy.
• Dark Is Evil: Sivana wears lots of dark clothing once he bonds with the Seven Sins, such as his dark blue suit, leather coat and sunglasses. Also, as a child, his hair was black and his favorite possession was a magic 8-ball.
• Deal with the Devil: After a lifetime of being treated like crap, with the knowledge that he could have supernatural powers if he wanted them, Sivana willingly becomes a vessel for the Seven Sins and goes on a rampage. The Wizard warns him that eventually the Sins will override his will and force him to suffer through the destruction of civilization, but Sivana either wasn't listening or just hates humanity enough to consider this a good bargain.
• Decoy Protagonist: The first few minutes of the movie showcase him in the spotlight, making it seem like he'll be the central focus, only to show that it was just the origin story of his descent into darkness.
• Demon Head: When Billy starts agitating Envy while it's still in Sivana's body, the demon briefly erupts from Sivana's own face, giving him this look.
• Demonic Possession: Somewhat. Sivana is in control of his own actions when the Seven Deadly Sins inhabit his body and he uses them to settle personal scores. However, as he was warned, the Sins are not necessarily interested in Sivana himself but merely need a conduit to infest the real world. They ultimately don't care about his well-being and would just as soon let him die so long as they can escape, which is what happens when Billy tempts the last demon to act on its own agenda in the climax, leaving Sivana just a regular mortal. In other words, they possess his body but not his mind.
• De-power: Like Billy, his powers aren't inherited or earned, instead being granted by the Seven Deadly Sins. When they're sealed away again at the end, Sivana is left completely powerless.
• Destination Defenestration: Dr. Sivana kills his brother by tossing him out the top floor window of the Sivana Industries skyscraper. One of the Sins tosses the corpse of another executive the same way.
• Disability-Negating Superpower: Dr. Sivana has worn glasses his whole life, but when he gains the Eye of Sin he stops wearing them, now possessing eyesight keen enough to catch a bullet in mid-air. Upon being defeated Sivana is seen wearing glasses again.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He savagely murders his father and brother simply because they mistreated him and blew him off when he was younger. He also had no issue having the other board members killed, even though they haven't done anything wrong to him.
• The Dog Bites Back: The Wizard, his father and his older brother all took shots at Sivana's self-esteem when he was a child and paid for it with their lives.
• Dragon-in-Chief: The de facto main antagonist, but is the champion to the Seven Deadly Sins, who ultimately view him as a means to an end, but his scheming is their only hope of being unleashed into the world.
• Driven by Envy: Generally, he qualifies for this jealousy trope, being jealous that Billy Batson was chosen to be the Wizard's champion despite not taking the role seriously. The uprising of metahumans over the last few years probably didn't help him come to terms with his jealousy.
• "Eureka!" Moment: Sivana has been trying for years to replicate the symbols needed to access the Rock of Eternity. It's when he sees video from someone approached (and rejected) by the Wizard that Sivana realizes that the seven symbols need to be written on a door seven times. He does so and reaches the Rock.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To Billy Batson. Both of them had troubles with families (Billy being separated by his mother, Sivana growing up with an abusive father and Big Brother Bully), have a "look for number one" mindset, and were considered candidates for Shazam's powers. However, Billy was considered worthy, while Sivana wasn't. Billy's main childhood possession was a compass while Sivana's was a magic 8-ball, showing two's reliance on objects for guidance. Throughout the film, Billy grows out of his selfish mindset and learns what makes a family, while Sivana hates even the concept of family and keeps his self-centered mindset.
  • His obsession with superpowers and feelings of insignificance also makes him this for Freddy Freeman, but while Freddy can shrug off most of his angst, Sivana is consumed by it.
• Evil Gloating: In pretty much his only comedic moment, Sivana tries tough-talking Billy, only he's about 20 metres away from his enemy and in mid-air, so Billy doesn't hear any of it. Even funnier is that none of what Sivana was saying was particularly interesting, he's just spouting Generic Doomsday Villain lines.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • He wants to be the most powerful being on earth, just for his own pleasure and satisfaction.
  • When entering the Vasquez's family house, he compliments the foster kids about it... then he changes his mind and says it's a shithole. Presumably because, it being a family home, it reminds him of his abusive family.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He's a supervillain with Mark Strong's commanding voice.
• Eye Scream: The Eye of Sin (the artifact that summons the Seven Deadly Sins) embedded itself in his right eye socket with enough force to send him flying across the room. In The Stinger, it is shown that he still has his regular eye, though the scar is still present.
• Evil Plan: Find his way back to the Rock of Eternity and use the power that the Seven Deadly Sins promised him as a child to get even with everyone who ever crossed him: His family, Wizard Shazam and, by association, Shazam himself.
• Evil Sorcerer: After getting the Eye of Sin, he gains the capacity to channel the Seven Deadly Sins' magic to great effect.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: At one point during their final showdown, Sivana goes on an extended Motive Rant mixed with Evil Gloating while he and Billy are hovering above the city. Unfortunately for him, they are so far apart that Billy can't make out what Sivana is saying, which turns a potentially dramatic scene into another hilarious one (assuming you found Sivana's cliched lines intimidating to begin with).
• Fatal Flaw: Envy. Resented his father and brother, especially since they were the ones who were running Sivana Industries, a company he wanted to run when he was older but they always disregarded him. Realising this also proves to be the key to defeating him. Since his own greatest sin was envy, that was the sin that he kept in his own body, to retain his own powers while summoning the others to battle the Marvel family. Knowing that allowed Billy to taunt Envy itself into attacking in person, departing Sivana's body and thus allowing the sins to be defeated.
• Faux Affably Evil:
  • In spite of his sour disposition, Sivana can affect a nice facade when he wants, but it doesn't take much for him to drop the charade and reveal what a cruel, spiteful egomaniac he actually is.
    Sivana: (referring to the Vasquez household) Oh, how quaint. [Beat] Actually, I take that back. What a shithole.
  • In an alternate scene, Thaddeus cheerfully greets his brother and father at their family Christmas party with the steadfast intention to terrorize and murder them.
• Flying Brick: Sivana has the standard super-strength and flight powers necessary to tangle with super-powered beings. Unlike Billy Batson, Sivana mastered flight with relative ease.
• Foil: To Billy Batson. Dr. Sivana is powered by the Seven Deadly Sins, enemies of the Council of Seven Wizards; he comes from a rich, privileged family who held little else but disdain for him and eventually this becomes mutual. Billy receives his boons from the virtues of six gods and demigods, granted by the last surviving Wizard; he lost his parents and, despite running away from a succession of loving foster families, desperately longs to find his own.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Sivana has been wearing glasses since he was a child and has zero empathy for anyone.
• Freudian Excuse: He was belittled and talked down to constantly by his father and older brother even before Shazam deemed him not worthy and subsequently being blamed for the accident that crippled his father and left him estranged from his family. Pursuit of Shazam's powers was all he felt he had left.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Started off as a shy, nerdy kid who was picked on by his brother and father, but later becomes a Psychopathic Manchild who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, and gains the same powers as Shazam.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He acquires nasty scars around his eye after the Eye of Sin lodges itself into his eye.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Although Sivana gets his powers from the Seven Deadly Sins, he embodies Envy the most, being envious of Billy for being chosen by the Wizard and envious of his brother Sid for being their father's favorite. Appropriately, Envy is the only demon he never explicitly summons himself, only being coaxed out after Billy taunts said demon.
• Hate at First Sight: Dr. Sivana was rejected by the Wizard Shazam for not fitting his idea of a champion, so when he finds out that the Wizard bestowed his powers onto Billy Batson — who uses said powers to become a local celebrity with no plans to ever become a superhero — Sivana is more than a little bit pissed.
• Healing Factor: Sivana relies on this trope as he somehow lacks Shazam's Nigh-Invulnerability (a replica Batarang somehow leaves a mark on him, twice). As it turns out this is zigzagged, when empowered by the seven deadly sins he has Nigh-Invulnerability like Shazam and a healing factor but if they all leave his body at once he goes back to being a normal human until at least one returns. For this reason he usually keeps one — Envy — inside of himself to avoid being vulnerable.
• The Heavy: While the Sins are the greater threats, Sivana's rampage and quest for revenge receives more prominence.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Sivana starts wearing a leather trench coat once he becomes a super-villain, complete with a fur collar.
• Hotter and Sexier: In the comics he was a withered-up Mad Scientist. Here he is young enough to have a living father and is considerably handsome.
• Hypocrite: Sivana points out to his father that the latter is motivated by greed. Sivana himself is quite greedy by wanting to gain superpowers through unearned means, even after he's already acquired superpowers.
• If I Can't Have You…: Non-romantic variant in regards to Shazam's powers. After being rejected by the Wizard, Sivana allies himself with Shazam's enemies and mortally wounds the Wizard. When he finds out through the Sins that the Wizard survived long enough to empower someone else, Sivana tracks down this new champion so he can take the power for himself.
• Irony: Sivana's father told him he needs to stop begging for help. When he's almost killed in his fight with Billy, Sivana never once begs for help.
• It Must Be Mine!: He will take the Wizard's power for himself, no matter if he's worthy or not. Failing that, he'll take the Eye of Sin, which gives him power equal to Shazam... only to try and obtain Shazam's powers as well.
• It's All About Me: Sivana is concerned only with his own power and benefit and doesn't care who gets hurt or what happens as long as he gets what he feels entitled to.
• I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Sivana's strategy to draw out Billy is to take his foster-siblings hostage or wreak havoc on innocent civilians.
• Lack of Empathy: Sivana doesn't bat an eye when his head researcher gets disintegrated in front of him, only caring that he finally found what he had been searching for his entire life. He would follow up on this with a massacre of his father's board members, none of whom had done anything wrong to him.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He gets the one sin most identified with, envy, coaxed out of his body in mid-flight, which renders him powerless and almost falling to his death.
• Logical Weakness: He gets his powers from being possessed by the Seven Deadly Sins, and can release all seven of them into physical manifestations. However, as Mary quickly deduces, he's nothing but a regular human should he summon all seven at the same time. Billy exploits this by luring him far away from the other six before taunting the seventh one out of him.
• Mad Scientist: He's implied to be a brilliant and evil scientist, enough to make him sufficiently wealthy to fund large-scale research into all the people the Wizard Shazam summoned for the last several decades.
• Magic 8-Ball: Sivana loved playing with his Magic 8-Ball as a child and kept it with him into adulthood. The Seven Deadly Sins made it actually magical when they sent him the "Find us" message after he was rejected by the Wizard Shazam.
• Magical Eye: The Eye of Sin, a magical Glass Eye that serves as the source of his power, the conduit of the Sins.
• Magic Staff: He possesses Shazam's staff for most of the climax to force Billy to give him the power, only for Billy to steal it and instead use it to empower his foster siblings.
• Magic Versus Science: Averted. While in the comics his inventions give him the means to fight Shazam, whose abilities were given to him via magic, both characters are fully magical in this incarnation. Sivana himself notes that the weapons of man cannot stop those powered by magic, like Billy and himself.
• A Minor Kidroduction: He's introduced as a child, which gives his eventual turn to villainy some perspective.
• Misplaced Retribution:
  • When Dr. Sivana is seeking his vengeance, he ends up killing many innocent bystanders who have never wronged him.
  • He unleashed the Seven Sins in a board meeting and didn't show any remorse when they murdered all the board members, who by all accounts were completely innocent. They just happened to be in the same room as his hated father and brother.
  • He rationalizes that Billy Batson's hiding amongst the crowds is why, claiming that if he does not come out of hiding and finally show himself for the battle, Sivana will punish the civilians for his cowardice.
    Thaddeus Sivana: (floating above carnival-goers looking for Billy) CHAMPION! You don't deserve that name! Hiding behind innocent people, who will now die! Because deep down, you're still just a scared little boy.
• Missing Mom: His mother is never seen or mentioned. It's unknown what role, if any, she had in his life. However, some alternate scenes do feature Sivana's mother. She's depicted as being indifferent to the abuse he gets from the rest of his family.
• Mission Creep: Sivana's character arc officially comes to an end once he usurps the Wizard before killing his father and brother. From then on he lets the Seven Sins call the shots, which leads him to Billy Batson. Once Sivana loses the power of the Seven Sins, his ambition is to reclaim his power, only to be dragged into whatever schemes Mister Mind has in store.
• Money Is Not Power: Dr. Sivana's father tries to bribe him to spare his life with money and his company, which mean nothing to the supervillain now that he has magical powers which enable him to do/take whatever he wants. Sivana then executes his father by letting him be mauled to death by Greed.
  Do you think that all this…material you’ve accumulated amounts to actual power? (gesturing at the Sins) This is power. More than you ever had. More than anyone has.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Doctor Sivana. It's never established exactly what he's a doctor of, but he seems to be some sort of psychiatrist as he was involved in a study of mass hysteria as a cover for searching for Shazam's sanctuary.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: The Dr. Sivana in the comics wears a white doctor's gown due to being a stock-standard Mad Scientist. Movie-Sivana has a doctorate but is never specified to be a scientist of any kind and dresses in a far more intimidating fashion, with his sunglasses and leather coat being noteworthy deviations.
• Never My Fault: Sivana blames the Wizard Shazam for rejecting him and thus making him who he is. He conveniently forgets that he gave in to the Seven Deadly Sins and nearly freed them. No doubt a trait he picked up from his family when the car accident he got blamed for himself could have been prevented if his brother hadn't bullied him, or if his father had just made the latter stop instead of making Thaddeus stand up for himself and blaming the victim for his treatment.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The wizard could have spent an eternity trying to find someone to meet his impossible standards. By releasing the Seven Deadly Sins, Sivana made the wizard desperate enough to simply bestow the power on the next candidate.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Once Sivana gains the alliance of the Seven Sins, his first order of business is to confront his father and brother so he can give them their just desserts for treating a small helpless child like crap.
• Not Good with Rejection: The first thing Sivana does after acquiring the Eye of Sin is mortally wound Shazam for giving him the flick over 40 years ago.
• Oh, Crap!: He has one when he realizes Billy's taunts are getting to Envy, and a bigger one when Envy leaves him and he nearly falls to his death as a result.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: The Sivana family and Thaddeus himself when he was younger are American, but Mark Strong's accent is definitely shaky.
• Otherworldly Visits Youngest First: Sivana is the youngest member of the Sivana family. As a child, he was transported to the Rock of Eternity, where he met the Wizard Shazam, and was declared unworthy of possessing the power. He is able, years later, to return to the Rock of Eternity, seize the power of the Seven Deadly Sins for himself, and then demonstrate to his father and older brother that his claims of supernatural events were quite real...to their detriment.
• Patricide: Sivana has his wheelchair-bound father mauled to death by Greed shortly after killing his older brother. In an alternate scene he kills his mother alongside his father.
• Perpetual Frowner: A lifetime of being pushed around has made Dr. Sivana very bitter. Not once does he smile despite getting what he wants relatively early in the film.
• Power Misidentification: Billy wrongly assumes that Sivana can shoot lasers from his eye, when in reality he was conjuring one of the Sins and they were flying towards their target.
• Psycho Electro: Sivana can throw lightning bolts and he's a supervillain.
• Psychopathic Manchild: All in all, everything he does stems from his childish obsession with obtaining the champion's powers after being rejected by the Wizard for something that was his own fault when he was younger. For decades, Thaddeus Sivana has been chasing a dream he had when he was a child, and when he finally finds it, he uses the power to brutally murder his brother and father who always looked down on him. After that, his goal turns out to be nothing but taking over the world in a childish attempt to prove that he is better than everyone always thought. This makes him a suitable foil Billy, who despite a number of missteps learns not to hold onto old grudges or lord his powers over people.
• Punch Catch: Sivana grabs Billy's fist when he tries to deliver a punch, much to the hero's surprise. Followed immediately by a Neck Lift.
• Put on a Prison Bus: Once Billy strips him of his powers, Dr. Sivana is sent to prison, but Mister Mind tracks Sivana down and it's implied he'll break Sivana out. Though The Stinger in Fury of the Gods revealed that since Mister Mind is still just a worm, it will took him a long time to get anywhere, much to Sivana’s irritation.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Sivana gives one to Billy when he holds his siblings captive at their home. After seeing how pathetic he was during their first clash, he finds it hard to believe that the Wizard gave Billy his powers and calls him a coward and not a hero.
• Red Right Hand: He is one-eyed and has a nasty scar underneath his magical eye. These are healed when he loses the Eye of Sin.
• Refused by the Call: As a child, Sivana was once summoned by the Wizard Shazam to wield his powers. However, Sivana was tempted by the Seven Deadly Sins and Shazam rejected him. He then spent decades tracking down and studying other people who were also summoned and rejected by Shazam, so he could learn how to reopen the gate to the Rock of Eternity.
• Room Full of Crazy: After his defeat, Sivana vainly tries to get back into Shazam's sanctum by repeatedly writing the symbols, only for Mister Mind to approach him instead.
• Scars Are Forever: Averted. The scar that appears over Sivana's eye goes away once he loses the power of the Seven Sins.
• Self-Made Orphan: Sivana orders Greed to murder his father. An alternate scene shows him killing his mother along with his father.
• Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains: Billy Batson wears cheap clothes befitting an orphan that relies on public servants to keep him clothed. Doctor Sivana on the other hand wears a fine suit with a leather longcoat.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Sivana wears a pretty nice suit and leather coat when he becomes a full-on supervillain.
• Shooting Superman: Played for Laughs when Billy tries fighting Sivana by chucking toys at him.
• Sibling Murder: Sivana murders his own brother after being empowered by the Seven Deadly Sins.
• Sinister Shades: He normally wears glasses, but after getting the Eye of Sin placed in his right eye he starts wearing sunglasses to hide it.
• Smug Super: He revels in being the most powerful being to exist, being virtually unstoppable unless by a Champion with magical powers like his. Once he hears of the Champion, he tracks him down by hook or crook.
• The Sociopath: Sivana doesn't bat an eye over any of the people he has killed. He'll go as far as shoving Billy's head underwater when he's not in his superhero form, not bothered about the fact that he's trying to murder a kid.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Sivana hardly ever raises his voice when threatening others, making him all the more intimidating.
• Squishy Wizard: Dr. Sivana is completely powerless once all 7 Sins are conjured, which is why he keeps at least one handy during the climactic battle against the SHAZAM siblings.
• Starter Villain: Just like in the SHAZAM! comics, Dr. Sivana is the first supervillain Billy Batson has to defeat.
• Start of Darkness: Being rejected by Shazam and his family's car crashing moments later shortly before being blamed by his father and brother definitely kickstarts Sivana's descent into villainy.
• Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Sivana is able to duplicate the Wizard Shazam's portal door spell by watching a video of it being used and then copying the symbol pattern.
• Super-Strength: Once Dr. Sivana is empowered by the Seven Deadly Sins, his strength is on par with Billy in his superhero form.
• Take Over the World: It seems this is what he planned to do with the powers the Sins gave him. He tells Billy during their final battle that he’ll “have the world eating out of his hand”.
• Talk to the Fist: When Billy first meets Sivana, he warns the latter that it's a bad idea to pick a fight with a superhero. Sivana knocks him into the air mid-sentence.
• Terminator Impersonator: Dr. Sivana's a stoic man who wears leather with a pair of sunglasses that conceal a glowing eye. When he sets out to kill someone, nothing can convince him to back down.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: When Sivana finally makes his way back to the Rock of Eternity, he chews out the Wizard for writing him off based on a single impression. Sivana then defiantly takes the Eye of Sin and uses it to attack the Wizard. If he can't be good enough to be a hero, then he's fine being a villain.
• The Un-Favourite:
  • Thaddeus was the unfavourite compared to his older brother Sid. Not only does Mr. Sivana looks down on Thad and practically calls him a wimp, he also tolerates and even approves of Sid's bullying to some degree. No wonder Thaddeus goes to kill his family first.
  • It's implied that Thaddeus was never considered for a position in his family's company, while his brother is on the board of directors.
  • An alternate take on his childhood shows Thad's whole family spending Christmas day belittling him. The follow-up to this reveals that he wasn't even invited to their Chistmas party in the present day.
• The Unfettered: Dr. Sivana may have lost the Eye of Sin in the end, but he at least got his back against all the people who wronged him as a kid. Despite this, Sivana's lust for power hasn't been slaked in the least, as The Stinger implies he'll team up with Mr Mind and cause further chaos.
• Unwitting Pawn: Played With. Both Billy and the Wizard Shazam tell him that the Seven Deadly Sins are just using him as a puppet. Sivana ignores them but doesn't have a rebuttal either — since the Sins might feasibly abandon him at any moment anyway, it's likely he's doing whatever they want so that they stay with him and he won't lose the powers granted to him. It's also shown the Sins have no real investment in him personally, and have tempted every potential Champion and he's simply the one to actually set them free. Sure enough, when Billy goads Envy enough, it leaps out and leaves Sivana powerless and almost falling to his death.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Sivana used to be a polite, sensitive boy before his rejection by Shazam and the car accident turned him into a villainous Mad Scientist. It's worth noting that, at some point, Shazam's magic deemed him worthy enough to be a contender as a champion, even though Shazam himself ultimately didn't deem him completely pure enough.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: While SHAZAM! is easily the most lighthearted entry in the DCEU, things take a turn whenever the demonically-enhanced Dr. Sivana is on-screen. The Punch Catch he performs on Billy signals that shit's about to get real following Billy's funny Does Not Know His Own Strength and How Do I Shot Web? antics, and Sivana utterly trashes him.
• Villain Has a Point: Sivana gets it right a number of times. Justified, since Billy is a kid, the Wizard is out of touch with the modern world, and his family are awful.
  • When Sivana returns to the Rock of Eternity, he calls out the wizard Shazam for putting him through his test of character while he was a child. He points out that he was transported to a fantastic realm, offered a glimmer of hope to become a champion, only to be callously deemed unworthy and summarily tossed back when he failed, noting that all of this shattered the self-esteem of a young, impressionable child who was already dealing with emotional abuse.
    • Not only that, but Sivana's jibe at the wizard that there is no pure soul is also true. No mortal is perfect, but the best one can do is to keep trying and never give up.
    • This is proven to be true even In-Universe as the wizard resorted to Billy, not because he was pure enough, but out of desperation. Billy is far from an Ideal Hero by the time he gets his powers (and very well might've succumbed to the Seven Deadly Sins had they not already been taken by Sivana). He spends most of the film goofing off rather than doing good. Someone who is completely pure of heart just doesn't exist.
  • And while he did take it overboard, Sivana was right to be angry with his father and brother of constantly insulting, degrading, and disrespecting him.
  • He was mostly saying this to demean him, but he had a right to call out Billy for being a coward since the latter put others' lives at risk just to escape from him, as well as generally acting nothing like the kind of champion the Wizard was expecting Sivana to be. Though at this point, Billy had conquered his fears of him.
  • When Billy and the foster kids hide among the attendees at the carnival, Sivana calls him out for endangering innocent peoples' lives. Do they really think the villain cares about collateral damage?
• The Villain Knows Where You Live: It takes Sivana less than an hour to figure out where Billy Batson lives after their first confrontation. Part of this is because he caught a TV showing Shazam and Freddy together and capturing Freddy easily..
• Villain Opening Scene: SHAZAM! begins with the defining point of his childhood before shifting focus to Billy Batson.
• Villainous Breakdown: Getting Shazam's power stolen from him by a child and given to other children (note his status as a Child Hater), and later on getting abandoned by all the Sins and rendered powerless with this nearly causing his death, and finally his incarceration drives Sivana into an unhinged state by the end of the film.
• What You Are in the Dark: The Wizard was apprehensive about choosing Sivana to be his champion due to falling for the temptations of the Seven Sins. When Sivana comes back decades later and acquires their power, he knowingly proves the Wizard right by using their power to terrorize anyone in sight.
• Willing Channeler: The Eye of Sin allows him to house the Seven Deadly Sins inside his body and he needs at least one of them in there to access any kind of power.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: It's implied that Dr. Sivana spent his entire childhood being told he wasn't good enough by his own family. After meeting a godlike wizard who only had the same thing to tell him, he dedicated his life to proving his nay-sayers wrong, becoming a supervillain as a result.
• Would Hurt a Child: Considering his nemesis, it's obvious he has no issue with bringing harm to Billy or any member of his foster family.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Played with. The brief glimpse of Sivana's childhood shows his cold and emotionally abusive family relationship and invokes some sympathy for him being snatched away, given a faint hope of being the champion and then tossed back so abruptly. However, he did genuinely fail the "temptation test" and was not treated any more harshly than the other people that were summoned by Shazam's spell and also failed.

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins - Pride, Envy, Greed, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, and Lust

DON'T BE HIS CHAMPION. WE CAN GIVE YOU POWER. TAKE THE EYE.

Species: Demons

Voiced By: Steve Blum, Fred Tatasciore, Darin De Paul

Appearances: SHAZAM! | SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

YOU NEVER FOUND YOUR CHAMPION. BUT WE FOUND OURS!

Seven powerful demons based on the Seven Deadly Sins. Long ago they were encased in stone statues within the Rock of Eternity by the Council of Seven Wizards. After Dr. Sivana managed to open a doorway to the Rock, the Sins chose him as their "champion".

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• Adaptational Ugliness: The New 52 version of Pride resembled The Vamp, while here it's as hideous as the other Sins. The other Sins bar Wrath and Gluttony also count, as their New 52 forms at least looked human.
• Always Chaotic Evil: Their purpose is to cause destruction in the world.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: They are quite literally the physical embodiment of sin itself.
• Artifact of Attraction: The Eye of Sin tempts people into becoming a vessel. Sivana was drawn to it, while Billy revealed that he could resist it.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance:
  • Pride is the only Sin to have wings, to fly away and be aloof and distant from the others. Given that all the Sins can turn into smoke and thus rise into the air, it's also a meaningless attribute, symbolizing how vanity creates an inaccurate and exceptional self-image. He also looks the most impressive and intimidating of the bunch.
  • Wrath is bulked up and always snarling and is the most combative and confrontational of the bunch.
  • Lust has a long tongue used to lick females. It does not look hot at all, but it’s an avatar of uncontrollable sexual desire. It is formed from beauty, but it is not beauty itself.
  • Greed has four arms, more arms than is necessary and also useful for grabbing as much as it desires.
  • Gluttony is revoltingly obese and has a mouth that opens from his face to his belly.
  • Sloth has poor posture and its arms are tentacles which enable it to stretch out and grab things, rather than being physically active and properly moving around.
  • Envy is the smallest and weakest of the bunch, and as befits its name, it gets baited easily by Shazam for being a runt. This is a plot point, as Shazam, using the Wisdom of Solomon, is easily able to deduce which Sin is still in Sivana by analyzing the appearance of the other six to correctly guess which one they are.
• Berserk Button: Envy avoids getting directly involved until Billy calls him a cowardly runt who's too afraid and weak to fight, although specifically he's playing on Envys' own "envy" at all other six sins being free to run around while he is stuck holding the fort.
• The Brute: Pretty much all of them are brutish, but Wrath is most likely to do the villainous heavy lifting.
• Butt-Monkey: During the fight with the Shazam Family, Lust was pushed out of the way by Wrath and then later by Pride.
• Casting Gag: Envy is voiced by Steven Blum, who previously portrayed Starscream, a character himself so Driven by Envy he became a trope.
• Chekhov's Gun: They are tied to the Orb of Sin, a Glass Eye that can be used to imprison or free them.
• Combat Tentacles: Sloth's arms are made of tentacles.
• The Corrupter: When the Wizard Shazam summons a candidate to see if they're pure of heart, the Sins would tempt the candidates into freeing them with the promise of power. If the candidate complies with the Sins, then Shazam rejects them and sends them back to where they were.
• The Dividual: With the possible exception of Envy, none of them seem to have much in the way of differing personalities.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Lust threatens Darla — a child — with its phallic tongue.
• Elemental Motifs: While Shazam is affiliated with lightning and electricity, the Seven Sins are affiliated with clouds and smoke.
• Embodiment of Vice: Downplayed. Their titles are more descriptors of their personalities rather than indicative of their powers.
• Evil Is Petty: During the final battle, they go out of their way to knock over a ferris wheel with people in it, even though this serves no real purpose other than general misanthropy.
• Evil Sounds Deep: As one might guess from their three voice actors, their voices are appropriately demonic.
• Expy: Demons encased in stone who inhabit a human host and plot to bring about Pandemonium, but are thwarted by a plucky band of unlikely heroes who use electricity-based powers. They're dead ringers for the Terror Dogs from Ghostbusters.
• False Friend: To Sivana. They gave him magical power, but he's not worth anything to them beyond being used as a channel.
• Fat Bastard: Sloth and especially Gluttony are the fattest of the Sins.
• Greater-Scope Villain: They're the true villains of SHAZAM but must rely on Sivana as their champion, and it's his machinations that are their only hope of being unleashed into the world.
• Hero Killer: A Deleted Scene reveals that they killed off the Council of Wizards shortly before Shazam imprisoned them.
• Invincible Villain: They're personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins and can't be physically destroyed, even by Shazam's great power. They can only be temporarily subdued before reforming and the only way to keep them contained is to seal them in stone.
• Killer Gorilla: Wrath strongly resembles a gorilla, especially how he carries his upper body weight on his knuckles.
• Leaking Can of Evil: While the Sins are imprisoned, they can still speak and tempt potential hosts into unleashing them.
• Manipulative Bastard: They leave breadcrumbs for Sivana to follow that lead to him finding the Rock of Eternity and setting them free; they then encourage him to find Shazam's champion and steal his power too. Both Shazam and Billy warn him that they are just using him but Sivana is so insecure about his own strength that he follows anyway.
• Moment of Weakness: Billy manages to rile up Envy enough that it breaks out of Sivana's body, only to get blasted with lightning. With Sivana now defenceless, Billy extracts the Eye of Sin and imprisons the demons within the Rock of Eternity once again.
• More than Mind Control: The Wizard Shazam warns that the Sins will use Sivana as their personal vessel as they wreck havoc on Earth. Sivana's ascension to Big Bad would have probably stalled after murdering his father and brother if it wasn't for the Sins prodding him to keep it up and attack the new champion.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous:
  • Greed has four arms which is fitting considering what he represents.
  • Sloth can transform his arms into multiple tentacles.
• The Napoleon: Envy is the smallest of the Sins and Billy gets him to come out of Sivana by calling him a cowardly runt.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Yeah, Nice Job Leaving Your Host in the final battle, Envy!
• Obviously Evil: Their demonic appearance should be obvious they're not friendly at all.
• Our Demons Are Different: Each of the demons varies in appearance and are the physical manifestations of the Seven Deadly Sins.
• Overly-Long Tongue: Gluttony and Lust have very long tongues.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Supposedly killed millions of people and destroyed entire civilizations the last time they were set loose upon the world.
• Powers via Possession: When they possess Sivana, they grant him the same powers as Shazam — Super-Strength, Nigh-Invulnerability, Super-Speed, Flight, and Lightning Bolts. Sivana needs at least one of them to possess him to gain these powers, but if all of them are summoned out of Sivana, then he loses their powers.
• Primal Stance: All the demons, barring Pride, have a hunched posture to emphasize their monstrous nature. Lust, in particular, usually crawls on all fours, and Wrath walks on his knuckles like a gorilla.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: They all have red eyes to support the demon motif.
• The Runt at the End: Envy, appropriately enough, is the smallest and least imposing of the Sins, and often hangs in the background while the other six do their thing.
• Scary Teeth: Being demons, they all have long sharp teeth.
• Seven Deadly Sins: They're entirely based on this idea of seven kinds of sins and have appropriate forms to go with this.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Downplayed. Despite them being one of the main antagonists, they only appear in one of the teasers as their statue forms.
• Slasher Smile: Lust and Gluttony's faces are permanently fixed in this expression.
• Spikes of Villainy: Wrath and Envy are covered in thorny protrusions.
• Super-Empowering: The Sins can give their vessels all kinds of superpowers so long as at least one of them resides in their host.
• Super Smoke: When Billy tries to fight Wrath, he turns himself into smoke to avoid getting hit.
• Taken for Granite: In order to prevent the Sins from wreaking havoc in the world, the Wizard Shazam had their physical forms encased in stone and their power stored in the Eye of Sin.
• Tentacled Terror: Sloth has some prominent tentacles and Lust's tongue has polyps on its underside resembling an octopus limb.
• The Vamp: Discussed about Lust, who is an ugly demon like the rest, though Billy comments he thought Lust would be better looking. Considering the Seven Sins are influenced by their motifs as opposed to elicting these traits in others, it makes sense Lust would resemble a perverted fiend instead of a sexy succubus.
• Villain Decay: In-Universe, they were a formerly ancient evil who once destroyed whole civilizations and slaughtered millions once upon a time, but in the movie the only people they kill are for Sivana's revenge and afterwards they are seen terrorizing Billy's family and a carnival. This is somewhat justified because as they are tied to Sivana, he is the only one who can summon them and once he is defeated they are all easily subdued; another point to note is that they also seek the Champion to be vanquished first and recommend to Sivana that he finds him quickly.
  • In the second film, they are seen still trapped in the Rock of Eternity, only to suffer being covered in graffiti and swag.
• Winged Humanoid: Pride has wings and is the only sin that can fly.
• Wolverine Claws: Pride can grow out his talons.
  Freddy: Well, that's just terrifying.

Mister Mind

Mister Mind

"I name the gods, Doctor, not the other way around. Oh, what fun we're going to have together! The Seven Realms are about to be ours!"

Species: Venusian worm

Citizenship: Venusian

Voiced By: David F. Sandberg

Appearances: SHAZAM! ^note  In The Stinger | SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods ^note  In The Stinger

"Primitive symbols. You walking, talking monkeys with your cave drawings. You assume there's only one way to gain magic. No, no, no, there are more ways than a mind can imagine."

A highly intelligent alien caterpillar who was imprisoned at the Rock of Eternity and managed to break free.

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• Badass Boast: He gets a pretty impressive boast in during his Establishing Character Moment:
  Dr. Sivana: What in God's name...?
  Mister Mind: I name the gods, Doctor, not the other way around.
• Chekhov's Gunman: The worm is seen at the start of the movie, when Sivana is meeting the Wizard. It disappears when Billy meets the Wizard. Only to show up in the mid-credit stinger.
• Creator Cameo: He is voiced by the director of SHAZAM!, David F. Sandberg.
• Evil Laugh: He gives off several pretty menacing ones while speaking of his plans to Sivana.
• Evil Sounds Deep: The communicator he wears gives him a deep, gravelly voice that's all the more jarring for his diminuitive size.
• Faux Affably Evil: Mr Mind speaks in a polite tone but there's a definite menace to his words and behavior.
• Green and Mean: Being an alien bug who has a low opinion of humanity, this was inevitable.
• Insectoid Aliens: He's an alien worm from the planet Venus.
• Large Ham: Sandberg is clearly having a blast voicing the alien worm.
• Logical Weakness: As intelligent as he is, he is still a worm, so naturally it takes him a long time to get anywhere, much to Sivana's dismay.
• Long-Lived: If the opening scene of the first movie is any indication, Mr. Mind has been around since 1974, quite a while for a worm. Justified since he's an alien worm.
• Noodle Incident: The circumstances behind his capture and eventual escape aren't explained, since he's an Outside-Genre Foe with little influence on the main conflict.
• Not So Above It All: When Sivana snaps at Mind that he, a human man approaching sixty and stuck in prison, has been waiting for two years on Mind's vague promise, so he can't afford to be patient, Mind responds with irritation and embarrassment in his voice:
  "...It takes me a very long time to get places, okay?! I do not have legs. I do not have wings. I just slither around, endlessly."
• Radio Voice: Speaks via a communicator, giving him one of these.
• Riddle for the Ages: Was once held captive in the Rock of Eternity. When the film returns there later on, he's gone, implying he somehow escaped the Wizard and made his way out of the Rock of Eternity in the intervening 45 years or after Sivana released the Seven Sins.
• Son of an Ape: Mr Mind refers to humans as "walking talking monkeys".
• Starfish Aliens: An oversized caterpillar intelligent enough to patronise a human with a doctorate that requires a communication device.
• The Unfought: Billy and his foster siblings never actually meet Mister Mind and it's not clear if his grudge against the Wizard extends to his successors at this point. For the time being he's just content to roam around the universe.
• Vocal Dissonance: Justified since he's speaking through a machine, but correlating David Sandberg's voice with an alien worm is jarring to say the least.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about his appearance without mentioning that Doctor Sivana is in prison at the end of the film.
• We Can Rule Together: Gives Sivana this offer after showing up. Given what happens in the comics, it's a Foregone Conclusion that Sivana accepts, even though we don't see it happen.

Introduced in Black Adam

SABBAC

Ishmael/SABBAC

"Let the fate of Kahndaq be decided by a true battle of Champions!"

^{Click here to see Ishmael} "Let me teach you some history that you’ve never learned in one of your mother’s classes; When we had a powerful king, Kahndaq used to be something much better than free. It used to be great."

Species: Empowered human

Citizenship: Kahndaqi

Affiliation(s): Kahndaq's Royal Family, Intergang, Demon Lords

Played by: Marwan Kenzari

Dubbed by: Christian Strempler (Latin-American Spanish), Yasuyuki Kase (Japanese)

Appearances: Black Adam - The Justice Society Files^note Doctor Fate's vision | Black Adam

"I’m the last living descendant of King Ahk-Ton the Great. And you have just given me everything I need to become the next king of Kahndaq."

The Champion of the six rulers of Hell. Long ago, the power-hungry king of Kahndaq discovered a magical element called Eternium. He forced the nation's inhabitants to work day and night to mine the country for enough eternium to forge a crown that would grant its wearer the powers of six demons. The king's descendant Ishmael teams up with Intergang to obtain the crown and gain infernal powers, making himself Kahndaq's new tyrant.

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• Adaptational Nationality: In the comics, Ishmael Gregor was a Russian-American. Here, he's a Khandaq native. His surname is never mentioned, so there's also the possibility of Adaptational Name Change.
• Actor Allusion: Once again, Marwan Kenzari plays a power-hungry treacherous Arabian man that become a giant redskinned devil when he achieves ultimate power.
• The Antichrist: SABBAC's an avatar for the forces of Hell whose aesthetic resembles a devilish version of Jesus (spiked crown, loincloth and scarred body), he resurrects after wearing a crown and he appears as the Big Bad in Doctor Fate's vision of a world gone to Hell.
• Beard of Evil: SABBAC has a goatee. His McFarlane figurine is clean-shaven though.
• Beast of the Apocalypse: In exchange for gaining their powers, the demon lords command Ishmael to claim the throne of Kahndaq so that they can bring about the End Times. When SABBAC sits on the throne, he unleashes a pillar of hellfire that reaches the sky and instantly raises an army of undead soldiers.
• Beyond Redemption: Ishmael sold out his country to invaders, has no qualms killing kids and will cheat his way out of a bargain just because he can. And all of this is before he agrees to turn Kahndaq into a living Hell. Note how when Black Adam's lightning surge killed Ishmael the first time, none of the Justice Society tried to protect him.
• Big Bad: Of Black Adam. Ishmael manipulates Adrianna into helping him locate the crown, which leads to a domino effect whereby Black Adam is reawakened and the Justice Society get involved.
• Big Red Devil: Having infernal powers bestowed onto Ishmael turns him into one, due in no part to the fact that his human form was fried to a crisp.
• Bling of War: SABBAC wears numerous gold trinkets.
• Chest Insignia: SABBAC has a glowing pentagram carved into his chest. His ancestor Akh-Ton had the same scarring before he gained the crown.
• Chest Blaster: He can shoot a wave of Hellfire from the pentagram on his chest.
• Composite Character: Ishmael is based on his comic version (a crime boss who wields demonic powers), and contains traits of New 52 Ibac II (a tyrant ruler of Kahndaq descended from the ancient tyrant who enslaved Black Adam's family).
• Conflict Killer: Black Adam and the Justice Society drop their animosity so they can stop Ishmael.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
  • In stark contrast to James Gunn's productions like The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, SABBAC is a Demon of Human Origin to contrast the Starfish Alien threats. While Starro and the Butterflies had sympathetic motives that drove them to villainy, Ishmael has no reason whatsoever to be a villain, only becoming one because he feels entitled to be a God-Emperor based on his ancestry. Starro and the Butterflies were beaten through the plucky efforts of a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, while SABBAC is destroyed by a superpowered individual.
  • Ishmael and Dr Sivana are both power-hungry men that ally with demonic forces, but in terms of personality they're not so similar. Dr Sivana was a product of child abuse, rightfully hated his family and lacks the people skills needed to pull off a conspiracy or amass an army. Ishmael takes pride in his heritage, which implies his childhood was a stable one and he's charismatic enough to work his way into a commanding position among Intergang while also playing the Kahndaq resistance like a fiddle. Finally, Doctor Sivana was able to be depowered and jailed, while SABBAC had to be completely destroyed.
• Cool Crown: He wears a black Crown of Horns made of eternium, originally forged for his ancestor Akh-Ton. It was initially believed that just wearing the crown would empower Ishmael, but in truth he has to die while wearing it. Ishmael's soul is then brought to Hell where he enters an allegiance with Hell's rulers.
• Darker and Edgier: While his powers aren't any different to Dr Sivana's, Ishmael does cause more damage than the doctor did in his confrontation with Billy Batson. SABBAC's able to raise Hell on Earth just by sitting on Kahndaq's throne and he can fight all of the Justice Society at once, whereas Dr Sivana was evenly matched against Billy. To say nothing of SABBAC managing to kill Doctor Fate before dying a gruesome death.
• Deal with the Devil: How Ishmael became SABBAC. The cost of this deal seems to be getting turned into a Monstrous Humanoid whose identity is implied to have been overwritten for the demon lord's collective benefit. Though Ishmael wouldn't take issue with any of that.
• Death-Activated Superpower: Ishmael realizes that he must die while wearing the crown in order to gain the power of the six demons and baits Black Adam into killing him.
• Demon of Human Origin: To become SABBAC, one must die while wearing the crown. As a human vessel isn't strong enough to contain the kind of power the demons are willing to bestow, the process turns the wearer of the crown into something monstrous.
• Despotism Justifies the Means: Ishmael has a fanatical desire to be Kahndaq's king, even if it means unleashing so much chaos there wouldn't be any Kahndaq left for him to rule.
• Dismissive Kick: After killing Doctor Fate, SABBAC knocks aside his helmet with a sweep of his foot.
• Disproportionate Retribution: When one of his Intergang confidants roughs him up a little too hard, Ishmael shoots him.
  "I told you to make it look real, not punch me in the face!" *Bang*
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To SHAZAM as a concept. While Billy Batson and Black Adam gained their powers from divine figures, SABBAC is an amalgamation of infernal ones.
  • Ishmael himself comes across as an even worse version of General Zod. While Zod may have tried to conquer Earth and wipe out humanity, he ultimately just wanted to salvage his dead culture and judging by the level of respect he garnered from his troops, he was good to his own. Ishmael on the other hand conquers not out of love for his culture, but out of a psychotic sense of entitlement and he treats friend and foe alike as nothing more than pawns in his ambitions. Zod's resurrection as Doomsday was against his will and he was turned into a confused beast, while Ishmael's resurrection as SABBAC was planned and he has enough sense to be held accountable for his actions.
• Evil Is Burning Hot: Water boils when it comes in contact with his skin.
• Evil Is Petty: In order to aggravate Black Adam enough to kill him, Ishmael taunts Black Adam for weeping when his son died.
• Evil Makes You Monstrous: Harnessing the powers of the six demon lords instead of the lower-tier Seven Sins turns Ishmael into a Demon of Human Origin, complete with horns, exaggerated muscles and fire spewing out of his face and chest.
• Evil Only Has to Win Once: Once Ishamel becomes SABBAC, the Justice Society have to keep him from sitting on the throne of Kahndaq, which will trigger the end of the world.
• Evil Overlooker: The demon that accosts Doctor Fate in The Justice Society Files presents SABBAC in such a way in an apocalyptic future where Black Adam has killed the Justice Society.
• Evil Overlord: His aspiration, due to being heir to the tyrannical Akh-Ton.
• Evil Running Good: Ishmael first appears as a member of the Kahndaq resistance. He used this cover so that Adrianna would lead him to the crown's location.
• Fangs Are Evil: His teeth are serrated.
• Faux Affably Evil: Ishmael is charismatic enough to worm his way into the resistance, but even when masquerading as an ally Adrianna is uneasy around him. He also casually chats with Amon while planning to shoot him if necessary. Once he becomes SABBAC, Ishmael loses this trait and turns into a near-mindless juggernaut.
• Fighting a Shadow: He successfully kills Doctor Fate, only to learn the hard way that Fate's powers were in his helmet, which Hawkman is able to use.
• Flaming Emblem: The sigil on his chest glows with hellfire.
• Flat Character: Ishmael's motives aren't given any greater depth than seeking to use the Crown of SABBAC to gain power as his ancestor planned to do. Once he becomes SABBAC, he graduates to Generic Doomsday Villain, as his actions are limited to fighting superheroes and raising Hell while planning to Take Over the World.
• Flying Brick: His powers include levitation and super-strength.
• Foil: Ishmael and Black Adam have contrasting death scenes. Ishmael was electrified, had his soul sent to Hell and became a pawn for infernal forces. Teth Adam on the other hand drowned in an icy ocean and was sent to his own idea of paradise; his original time period where his wife and son were still alive.
• For the Evulz: Ishmael descended from the Kahndaqi tyrant Akh-Ton. Feeling that this makes him a king by birthright, he sought out the crown that Akh-Ton forced his slaves to develop so that he can rule over the nation. He also decides to shoot Amon after agreeing not to because he wants Black Adam to kill him while he wears the crown, when he could have easily found a less cruel way to get himself killed by the Champion.
• God-Emperor: His aspiration. Once Ishmael is resurrected as SABBAC, he shows no personality beyond this goal, hinting that his mind may have been affected by the conditions that transformed him.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: SABBAC is defeated when Black Adam splits him in two.
• Hate Sink: Unlike Black Adam, Ishamel doesn't have any redeeming traits, being a backstabbing entitled scumbag who only wants to become SABBAC so he can be Kahndaq's new tyrant.
• Hellfire: His manifested powers.
• Hell Seeker: Ishmael figured out prior to the film's events that once he obtains the crown, he'll need to physically meet with the demons that will empower him.
  Amon: Go to Hell!
  Ishmael: That's the idea.
• Hero Killer: Doctor Fate has a vision of SABBAC killing Hawkman. He defies his own namesake by dying in Hawkman's stead.
• Horned Humanoid: Appropriate considering his power source.
• Hypocrite: He calls out Black Adam for allying himself with "foreign invaders" (the Justice Society), even though Ishmael himself is affiliated with the Intergang (and later the Demon Lords).
• Identical Grandson: Marwan Kenzari plays both Ishmael and his ancestor Akh-Ton.
• The Juggernaut: SABBAC ploughs through the Justice Society with frightening ease. Even Black Adam has a hard time fighting him.
• Kick the Dog: Pretty much anytime he kills somebody, you just know he's getting his jollies. He kills one of Adrianna's teammates and dumps the body to startle Karim. He orders Adrianna to give him the crown in exchange for Amon's life, then changes his mind and tries to shoot Amon anyway. When SABBAC kills Doctor Fate, he holds his impaled body up high so the Justice Society can see their beloved comrade burn to ashes before kicking the Helmet of Fate aside.
• Lack of Empathy: He actually chuckles at the thought of Black Adam weeping over his son's death.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Gets held down on the throne he craved, and he gets torn in half starting from his horns.
• Last of His Kind: Ishmael is the sole descendant of Akh-Ton. Fittingly, Black Adam destroys Akh-Ton's throne after bringing their lineage to an end.
• Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: Teth-Adam gained the powers of lightning upon being chosen by the Council of Wizards. Ishmael, on the other hand, gains the demonic powers of fire upon his transformation into SABBAC by the ancient demons.
• Ludicrous Gibs: When Black Adam kills him a second time, his remains turn molten.
• Made of Evil: Ishmael's corpse was horribly charred. When he's resurrected, his flesh is replaced with red muscles, horns and extravagant accessories.
• Man of Kryptonite: The source of his powers comes from using eternium as a conduit, so he's got a slight advantage over Black Adam, who is vulnerable to that element.
• The Mole: He acts as this for Intergang, successfully infiltrating the resistance and leading his troops to Adrianna's location once she gains the crown.
• No Brows: Due to his entire forehead being distorted into a pair of devil-horns.
• Not Afraid of Hell: When he's spirited into Hell, Ishmael shows no sign of fear. In fact he seems to be ecstatic at the sight of Hell.
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: Black Adam is chronology centuries older than him and Dr. Fate is an elderly hero and both are the older heroes in contrast to his younger villain.
• Pointy Ears: His ears are noticably sharp-looking. When combined with his slicked-back hair, he somewhat resembles Black Adam's comicbook self.
• The Quisling: Ishmael doesn't give a damn about his countrymen. He sides with Intergang so they can help him get the crown of SABBAC, then he sides with the six rulers of Hell to become a devil and conquer the nation.
• Race Lift: In the comics Ishmael was of Russian descent. Here he's a Kahndaqi native.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: He's got crimson skin with a black loincloth and cape.
• Replacement Flat Character: With Black Adam undergoing Adaptational Heroism, SABBAC fills the void he otherwise would have taken if Adam was still a villain. Except while the comics version of Black Adam had redeeming traits in spite of his villainy, SABBAC is a Card-Carrying Villain devoid of any complexity.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: He's got his start as a villain to Shazam in the comics but is instead an enemy to Black Adam in the film.
• Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: While the heroic Justice Society and the Anti-Hero Black Adam all dress modestly, SABBAC wears only the bare minimum of clothing.
• Superhero Movie Villains Die: Twice in Ishmael's case. The first being part of his plan to gain the powers of the six demon lords. The second time he's split vertically, with his crown getting destroyed in the process so that he couldn't return.
• Take Over the City: Ishmael sees the kingdom of Kahndaq as his birthright.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Ishmael manages to slip past suspicion due to being a Kahndaq native. When he's outed as an Intergang member, he evades capture again by hiding among the hover-bike division.
• To Hell and Back: After Black Adam fries Ishmael the moment he dons the crown, everyone assumes he's done and dusted. It's not until Adrianna gives the crown's inscription a second read that she figures out Ishmael was planning on dying. Sure enough, when Ishmael is sent to Hell, the demons empower him and send him back to Earth as their harbinger of doom.
• Villainous Lineage: Descendant of Kahndaq's hated tyrant Akh-Ton. He thinks that his heritage gives him the right to the crown.
• With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Ishmael was a scruffy-looking man with a lanky build. Once he becomes SABBAC, he gains a muscular build with a slick visage.
• World's Strongest Man: Once he becomes SABBAC, even Black Adam has a hard time fighting him.
• Worthy Opponent: SABBAC acknowledges Teth-Adam as an equal.
• Would Hurt a Child: Ishmael takes Amon hostage and barters his life in exchange for the crown. Upon reading the inscription on the crown, he realizes he needs to die in order to activate its power, so he baits Black Adam into attacking him by shooting Amon.
• You Don't Look Like You: The McFarlane figure and his cameo in The Justice Society Files show SABBAC as clean-shaven with yellow eyes. In the film he has a goatee and white eyes.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: As soon as they reach the location of the crown, Ishmael kills one of Adrianna's comrades and would have killed her too if things didn't go pear-shaped at the last minute.

Demon Lords

Demon Lords

"As life is the path to death, your death is a path to life."

Species: Demons

Affiliation(s): SABBAC

Appearances: Black Adam - The Justice Society Files | Black Adam

"The Wizards have their Champion, now we have ours! You will take the throne of Kahndaq and unleash Hell on Earth. Speak our name."

Diabolical entities residing in a portion of Hell known as the Rock of Finality. They bestow their powers onto one who wears the crown of SABBAC when they die. The demons have scores to settle with both the Justice Society and Black Adam.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's not specified what their names are. As Billy Batson and Black Adam's monikers adhere to the comics, it can be assumed the demons are named Satan, Aym, Belial, Beelzebub, Asmodel and Crateis. The only question is who gets what name.
• Baphomet: The demon that torments Doctor Fate has goatlike features.
• Bird People: The demon that turns Craddock into Gentleman Ghost has wings and a bird's head.
• Cute Monster Girl: The female demon has the most human appearance.
• Demon Lords And Arch Devils: They're the arch-devils to the Seven Deadly Sin's demons, illustrated by their wider powerset and their hosts being forcibly transformed into humanoid abominations in order to contain the demon's world-destroying power.
• Devil, but No God: The most terifying beings in mainstream religion are alive and well, with Zeus confirmed dead and the only other "god" archetype who is currently active being the equally malevolent Darkseid.
• Evil Counterpart: They are this to the Council of Wizards, residing in the Rock of Finality while the wizards reside in the Rock of Eternity. Rather than taking powers from deities as the wizards do, they function without the middle-man. This means they require their Champion to die so they may bring their soul to Hell and resurrect them as SABBAC.
• Evil Is Bigger: The hawk-demon that meets Craddock is big enough to swallow him whole. The demon that greets Ishmael is the size of a house.
• Evil Welcomes Defectors: They have no problem entrusting their powers to a notorious backstabber.
• Expy:
  • The first demon has a bit in common with Hawkman's enemy Thasaro, being a bird-themed apparition that has it in for Hawkman and treats his human minions like cannon fodder.
  • The second demon is similar to Trigon from the Teen Titans. Like Trigon he has two pairs of eyes and can only interact with Earth by possessing a young girl.
  • The two most visible demons who appear before Ishmael have large horns, with one having a masculine voice while the other has a feminine voice, making them similar to Blaze and Satanus.
• Fire and Brimstone Hell: If Ishmael's immediate surroundings are anything to go by, the demon's realm is nothing but volcanic rock formations floating in a volatile red void.
• Greater-Scope Villain: As they bestow the power of SABBAC, they are this to Ishmael and his ancestor Ahk-Ton. Since they established themselves as a counterpart to the Council of Wizards, they could be considered a Greater Scope Villain on an even wider scale.
• Hell on Earth: What they task Ishmael with acheiving. What's really horrifying is that his initial victory doesn't look anywhere near as nightmarish as the literal Hell, which means things would only get worse the longer he was allowed to reign as SABBAC.
• Red Is Violent: All of the most visible demons are red.
• Religion of Evil: They'd established this sometime before the first appearance of Black Adam, having inspired Akh-Ton to mine Kahndaq for Eternium and forge a crown that would allow its wearer to channel the demon lord's power.
• Satan: The first demon that Ishmael sees when he arrives in Hell is strongly implied to be the Prince of Darkness himself.
• Snake People: The most visible member of their group has a serpentine lower body.
• Spikes of Villainy: The demon who confronts Doctor Fate has quills on his head and forearms.
• Unseen Evil: Including the two demons from The Justice Society Files, a maximum of four out of six have been shown. The remaining two are only shown in silhouette.^note Assuming none of the visible demon lords are Belial, we can probably assume he looks similar to his son, the demon Etrigan
• Winged Humanoid: At least three of the demons have wings. The one who resurrected Craddock has bird wings while the one who confronted Doctor Fat has bat wings. A demon with insect wings can also be spotted among them while they're lurking in the shadows
• World of Chaos: Hell is revealed to have Escher-style gravity, seen with Ishmael standing upside-down. It's also dark and stormy with glowing sulphur and the inhabitants blend in with their surroundings.

Introduced in SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

Daughters of Atlas

L-R: Kalypso, Hespera, Anthea

Species: Hesperides

Citizenship: Olympians

Portrayed By: Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, Rachel Zegler

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

"Listen to me Billy. The fate of your world depends on it. The Daughters of Atlas are coming for you."

—SHAZAM

Three Olympian deities who seek to reclaim the Champion's powers.

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General

• Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: They wear ornate suits of armor in contrast to the SHAZAM family's spandex.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Anthea is the Beauty, Hespera is the Brains, and Kalypso is the Brawn.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Hespera and Kalypso (and Anthea), who seek to take the Shazamily's powers in order to rebuild their homeland. Eventually, Kalypso's ruthlessness grows too great, prompting Hespera and Anthea to defect and pull a Heel–Face Turn, leaving Kalypso as the film's sole Big Bad.
• Bling of War: They all wear earrings.
• Canon Foreigner: They don't appear in any Shazam comics, but are new antagonists created for this film.
• Cool Crown: They wear ornate headpieces.
• Continuity Nod: They wear divine suits of armor fashioned by the Olympian gods, in keeping with the mythology established with characters like Diana and Ares.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: They are Olympian demigoddeses, in contrast to the first film which featured Christian demons while Black Adam has a Big Red Devil. Additionally, the first SHAZAM! and Black Adam both had humans harnessing otherworldly powers for villainous purposes, while the Daughters of Atlas are born from the otherworld.
• Elemental Powers: As befits their ties to the nature god Atlas, they can wield elemental powers. Hespera has power over rock and air, Kalypso has power over plants and Anthea can manipulate the Earth itself.
• The Hecate Sisters: Going by their physical appearances, Anthea is the Maiden (youthful looks), Kalypso is the Mother (appears middle-aged) and Hespera is the Crone (looks elderly).
• Heel–Face Turn: Both Anthea and Hespera eventually turn on Kalypso when it becomes evident that she'd rather take revenge on humanity than restore the gods realm.
• No Body Left Behind: Hespera, Kalypso and Ladon's bodies dissolve into dust after Billy defeats the latter two.
• Practically Different Generations: While it's unknown precisely how much older Kalypso is than Anthea, or Hespera from both of them, Billy does observe that they don't look like they could be sisters. Comparing the real life ages of their respective actresses, Helen Mirren is 23 years older than Lucy Liu and there's an even larger age gap of 33 years between Liu and Rachel Zegler.
• Red Is Violent: Hespera and Kalypso wear red capes when they claim the Magic Staff and terrorize a group of tourists.
• Sadly Mythtaken: Played with. The origins of the Hesperides in mythology vary as much as anything, but while they were said to be either daughters of Atlas or Nyx, it wasn't with each other; Nyx either gave birth to them alone or mated with Erebus, while Atlas mated with Hesperis.
• Samus Is a Girl: An in-universe one at the very beginning, when two people dressed as gladiators with helmets that cover their faces storm into the museum to steal the staff. The tour guide makes the general assumption that they're men and even addresses one of them as "sir", but after they break the glass case around the staff, they take off the helmets and are shown to be Hespera and Kalypso, which audiences probably would have guessed.
• Sibling Murder: Once Kalypso deems both of her sisters "traitors" for refusing to go along with her revenge against humanity, she has Ladon mortally wound Hespera, and then tries to kill Anthea as well until she (and Freddy) are saved by Shazam.
• Superhero Movie Villains Die: Kalypso and Ladon both are killed and disintegrate into ash during Shazam's Heroic Sacrifice. Hespera subverts this, as she's seemingly killed by Kalypso just when she's made a Heel–Face Turn, is revived by Shazam long enough to help him by shrinking the barrier, and then dies for real after the battle is won, once she's no longer a villain.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • As the villainous offspring of a figure associated with the Rock of Eternity, they're essentially divine versions of Blaze and Satanus. Hespera and Kalypso even wear Spartan helmets in one scene.
  • Being the villainous offspring of a Greek deity also makes them a Distaff Counterpart to Phobos and Deimos, two of Wonder Woman's enemies.
• Taken for Granite: Hespera and Kalypso to all of the museum visitors when they steal the staff at the beginning. Kalypso even pushes over the tour guide and shatters him to make sure he's extra-dead.
• The Weird Sisters: A trio of women akin to the Fates from Greek mythology. All three of them use magic.

Hespera

Hespera

"Children stole the power of all the gods. This is very personal, Billy."

Species: Hesperides

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Portrayed By: Helen Mirren

Voiced By: Keiko Toda (Japanese)

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

"We are at war. We will annihilate everything. The champions of this realm can do nothing to stop us."

The eldest of the daughters. She possesses the power of Elements.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: In the trailer she takes Billy's crack about her age in stride. Given her father is a titan, she obviously didn't feel the need to argue when he said she's "super old". In the film proper she actually seems seems mildly offended.
• Affably Evil: While not as affable as Anthea, she sits down with Billy and talks through her side of the story and she tries to rein in Kalypso’s more Ax-Crazy tendencies. She only attacks Billy after he pushes a berserk button.
• Black Comedy Burst: Hespera shows up to the meeting with Shazam in a Stealth Hi/Bye, and when he lampshades this, she replies that a silent arrival is good for being able to quickly slit the enemy's throat. He chuckles in response to what he perceives as a joke, before quickly realizing she's actually dead serious.
• Captured on Purpose: Billy is able to defeat Hespera in their first fight with help from Darla and Mary, and brings her back to the Rock of Eternity to imprison her. She easily breaks out once they've left her alone and steals the golden apple from their library before heading to the room of doors to return to her realm, and the siblings realize that this was her plan all along.
• Celebrity Paradox: She's perplexed when Billy mentions the Fast & Furious movies. Helen Mirren played Queenie Shaw in three of them.
• Choke Holds: In Hespera's fight with the Shazam forms of Billy, Mary, and Darla, she uses her Power of Elements to turn nearby metal pipes into wires that bind both of the girls from head to toe and begin choking them. Billy actually rips the cords away from both of their throats so they're not strangled by them, but Hespera yanks him away to keep fighting before he can free them, and the wires continue to squeeze them tighter and tighter, nearly suffocating them until Billy beats Hespera (which puts a stop to it).
• Elemental Powers: Her one unique power that her sisters do not share is control over the elements.
• Effortless Amazonian Lift: Despite having the body of an old lady, Hespera manages to hoist the titular hero over head during one of the battles.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Her goal was never one of revenge against humanity in the form of genocide, but to restore her home to its former glory. When she tries to stop the rampant destruction Kalypso unleashed on Earth, she is mortally wounded by her younger sister.
  • She offers to spare Freddy if he tells her the names of his siblings, seemingly reluctant to kill a child. She similarly offers mercy to Billy and his family if they return their powers, and takes the time to explain her grievances.
  • She could have attacked the Champions in their stronghold, or at least destroyed portions of it to make their job more difficult, but she just took the Seed and quietly left.
  • When Billy reveals his plan to use the Staff of Shazam as a bomb, Hespera is shocked as it would destroy everything and everyone trapped under the dome. She shrinks the dome to contain just Citizens Bank Park in order to protect innocent civilians.
• Evil Brit: She has Helen Mirren's English accent, though being from a celestial race means she's unlikely to have been born in England or even on Earth.
• Evil Old Folks: Hespera has the oldest appearance and is the leader of the trio.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: She develops these when she first grasps the staff of Shazam, along with some Volcanic Veins for good measure.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: She has the most regal appearance of her sisters, wearing gold armor with a pointed tiara that resembles a crown moreso than the other two, takes the leadership role and she's got a British accent. Still, she is not the most evil of the three.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Hespera and Shazam-Billy eat lunch together (Read: Sat together with food between them) while negotiating Freddy's freedom in exchange for the Shazamily's powers.
• It's Personal: The Daughters of Atlas state that they consider our heroes’ “theft” of the gods’ powers to be an affront, with Hespera downright saying to Billy she's taking it personal when he tries to tell her to think otherwise.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": A member of the Hesperides race named "Hespera". Given the name "Adam" means "man", it's not too unusual.
• Never Mess with Granny: While she looks like an elderly woman, she's physically far stronger than any of the Champions, and it takes at least two of them working together to temporarily subdue her (though she lacks their super-speed). She also possess a powerful command over elemental forces.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Hespera's breakout and subsequent returning to the gods' realm through one of the doors allows the Shazamily to follow her and get Freddy back from where the Daughters are holding him hostage and have him cornered.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The in-between of the sisters. She has little qualms with the harm she causes to get her way, but unlike Kalypso she only sees it as a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
• Not Quite Dead: Hespera was seemingly killed impaled by Ladon. But Billy improvises a defibrilator with his lightning and revives her (even making her complain "let me go to the underworld in peace!") long enough for her to help him defeat Kalypso.
• Parental Favoritism: Or rather, sibling favoritism. A line from Kalypso ("You favor her, Hespera, and still she betrays us!") indicates that Hespera shows this to Anthea over her; considering that Anthea is the Nice Girl and Kalypso is the Jerkass in the sisters' Nice, Mean, and In-Between dynamic, with the former mostly showing kindness to her sisters (the worst being that she feels they're too controlling sometimes) until they treat her poorly while the latter is constantly clashing with Hespera, it's pretty understandable.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She takes the time to negotiate with Billy and explain her position and she generally seems to prefer to handle things quietly whenever possible (like offering to spare Freddy rather than just ripping information from his mind), though she is more than willing to resort to violence the moment she thinks things are going nowhere.
• Redemption Equals Death: Hespera is alienated by Kalypso's needless cruelty and turns on her, and once the latter kills her and Shazam brings her back to life (temporarily), she helps him defeat her sister. She expressed Villain Respect for Shazam's Heroic Sacrifice in defeating Kalypso before succumbing to her wounds.
• Superhero Movie Villains Die: Hespera subverts this, as she's seemingly killed by Kalypso just when she's made a Heel–Face Turn, is revived by Shazam long enough to help him by shrinking the barrier, and then dies for real after the battle is won, once she's no longer a villain.
• Villain Ball: Hespera refuses to negotiate with Shazam, and antagonizes the Champions to begin with by taking their powers. If she had just told him she wanted the Golden Apple to restore the dying realm of the gods and otherwise left them alone, most of the plot could have been resolved a lot faster, and with less death and destruction.^note To be fair, Shazam wasn't really planning to peacefully negotiate, either. And she wouldn't start her Heel–Face Turn until seeing how far off the deep end Kalypso was.
• Villain Respect: Just before she passed away, Hespera's final words for Shazam's Heroic Sacrifice are an impressed "A hero and a god", showing that she considers him a worthy inheritor of her father's powers.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Her hair is pure white and she's a ruthless supervillain.

Kalypso

Kalypso

Species: Hesperides

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Portrayed By: Lucy Liu

Voiced By: Romi Park (Japanese)

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

The middle child of the Daughters and Hespera's second in command. She possesses the power of Chaos.

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• Ax-Crazy: Unlike her younger sister (who goes out of her way to try to keep collateral damage to a minimum) or her older sister (who only sees it as a means to an end), Kalypso takes outright joy in killing humans and making them suffer.
• Big Bad: Hespera is the eldest of the sisters, but she is far from ruthless compared to Kalypso — who takes over as the main antagonist after she betrays her for her own agenda.
• Blood Knight: Being the daughter with the power of Chaos, she naturally enjoys the death and destruction she causes. Hespera reminds her at least twice in the film that they are not supposed to be having "fun".
• Cain and Abel: Ultimately, Kalypso turns out to be the Cain to Anthea's and (to a lesser extent) Hespera's Abel. While Hespera is far less innocent than the typical Abel, she still has standards and turns on Kalypso after hearing her plan to make humanity suffer instead of restoring the gods' realm. Kalypso responds by killing her (even if she ends up being Not Quite Dead for a while), takes Anthea's powers away, and later tries to kill her too.
• Compelling Voice: Her one unique power not shared by her sisters. She can mind-control humans by whispering commands in their ear.
• Dark Is Evil: Kalypso wears the darkest attire out of her sisters.
• The Dragon: Kalypso serves as this to her older sister Hespera, the leader of the Daughters of Atlas, although she shows signs of being The Starscream. She also has her own literal example with Ladon. Once Kalypso betrays Hespera and ascends to the true Big Bad of the movie, Ladon's an even more literal example.
• Dragon Rider: In the trailer she can be seen perched on the head of the dragon that Billy fights.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While it's dubious Atlas would approve of her abusing the golden apple's powers to destroy humanity, every evil action she does is in Atlas' name. She verbatim states that everything she does is to avenge her father. Her sisters don't get this treatment; she's happy to kill them for not being quite as devoted to Revenge Before Reason as she is.
• Exact Words: Freddy pleads with the Daughters of Atlas not to hurt his teacher who happened to walk in at the wrong time, and Kalypso assures him she won't touch him. She instead mind-controls the man to kill himself by walking off the edge of the roof and falling to his death.
• Green Thumb: She summons the Tree of Life in the middle of a stadium. Said tree extends its roots throughout all of Philadelphia.
• Hate Sink: Although far less despicable than Sid Sivana, Mr. Sivana, and the Breyer Brothers, Kalypso is one of the three Daughters of Atlas and unlike the other two, draws immense sadistic pleasure from torturing and killing humans any way she can. In the opening when she and sister Hespera are retrieving the broken staff, Kalypso turns the humans there on each other by means of a brainwashing curse that she applies through whispering, turns them all to stone immediately after that too, torturing and brainwashing the wizard "Shazam" to cooperate as well and senselessly murdering Freddy Freeman's teacher Mr. Geckle by brainwashing him into walking off the roof of the school. Once Hespera retrieves the seed, rather than honor Atlas's wishes to restore the world of the gods by planting it there, Kalypso hatefully chooses Revenge Before Reason and implants it in the human world so that demonic creatures will form from nature and destroy humans while also morally wounding Hespera for trying to stop her—and trying to finish her off later on for switching sides too; stripping other sister Anthea of her powers and then trying to use her dragon to not only target more humans, but to specifically torture and kill both Freddy and Anthea all while evilly smiling.
• Hypocrite:
  • She accuses Hespera and Anthea of being traitors despite her being the one who turned on them when they objected to her desire to needlessly punish humanity.
  • She usually points out all the flaws that humans possess, but in reality all the flaws that she mentions are things that she also possesses.
• Jerkass: Kalypso doesn't miss a chance to drop snide comments.
• Kick the Dog: Kalypso ultimately proves that she's the most evil of the Daughters of Atlas through this:
  • Right at the beginning during their attack at the museum, the tour guide who was telling a group about the staff pleads with Hespera and Kalypso to let him go. Once they've turned everyone there to stone, Kalypso pushes him over and shatters him, ensuring that he's dead for good even if the other visitors are revived somehow.
  • There's one teacher at the kids' school, Mr. Greckle (played by Diedrich Bader), who is consistently nice to Freddy and sticks up for him. Mr. G happens to find Freddy on the roof after the Daughters of Atlas have taken away his powers, and for no reason other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Kalypso Mind Controls him to walk off the roof and fall to his death, to Freddy's absolute horror. Just to rub it in for him even more, she comments with cold indifference on the gross "splatting" sounds that human bodies make when dying in such a way.
  • Unlike Hespera and Anthea, who just want to revive the realm of the gods as their father would have wanted, Kalypso is so twisted with hate that she suggests planting the golden apple on Earth instead to punish humanity and make them suffer, even though the humans she would be killing had nothing to do with stealing their father's powers or sealing them away. When her sisters protest this, Kalypso deems them both traitors, has Ladon kill Hespera, and de-powers Anne just for the crime of sympathizing with humans, later attempting to outright murder her too.
• Mind Control: Kalypso's special ability with her Powers of Chaos. It's what ultimately cements her as the most evil of the Daughters of Atlas and the true Big Bad of the film.
  • She uses a brainwashing version at the museum in the beginning to cause numerous visitors to start attacking each other, before Hespera eventually turns all of them to stone.
  • She also uses her Compelling Voice to force the Wizard to re-forge his staff so they can use it to attack and De-power the Champions of the human realm.
  • When she and Hespera confront Anne and Freddy on the roof, the latter's favorite teacher, Mr. G, happens to show up at the worst possible time. Freddy pleads with him to leave and for the Daughters not to hurt him, and Kalypso agrees...only to mind-control him into jumping off the building, killing him.
  • She also uses this to interrogate Freddy and find out the names of his siblings and fellow Champions. Despite the pain, Freddy's Heroic Willpower is strong enough that he's able to resist for quite a while before she eventually chokes Billy's name out of him.
• Minidress of Power: While Hespera and Anthea wear long dresses, Kalypso wears a short skirt.
• Misplaced Retribution: The citizens of present-day Earth have absolutely nothing to do with the imprisonment of the Daughters of Atlas or the Council of Wizards' rebellion against the gods. That doesn't stop Kalypso from deciding to plant the Seed of Life on Earth to grow monsters to kill them all in retaliation, never mind that her sisters just want to restore their realm.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The mean of the three as she is by far the most evil and vengeful.
• Oxymoronic Being: Kalypso is the most violent of the three sisters and relishes the chance to get her hands dirty, but her powers are non-combative.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Kalypso does this to Freddy's teacher who has the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Mind Controlling him into walking right off the roof, largely just For the Evulz.
• Revenge Before Reason: Kalypso gradually descends into this before the movie's third act. Hespera and Anthea want to retrieve the golden apple, the seed of life, so they can plant it in the gods' dead realm and restore it to life, as they're certain their father would have wanted. Kalypso, Straw Nihilist that she is, instead insists on planting the apple on Earth, where it won't grow properly and will mutate and form monsters, just to punish humanity for its few members long ago who killed the Gods' Realm in the first place and imprisoned them there, her justification pretty much just amounting to "Humans Are Bastards". Not only is this Misplaced Retribution at its finest since the present-day citizens of Philadelphia and the world in general are completely innocent of the wrongs committed against the Daughters, but this will also prevent them from being able to save the realm of the gods like they were trying to do in the first place.
• Tainted Veins: Anyone brainwashed by Kalypso receives blackened blood vessels, with their eyes turning completely black.

Anthea

Anthea

Species: Hesperides

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Portrayed By: Rachel Zegler

Voiced By: Akari Kitou (Japanese)

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

The youngest of the daughters. She possesses the power of Axle.

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• Ambiguously Bi: When Freddy tries to point her towards "the hot one" in a picture of the whole Shazamily, she initially assumed he meant Mary, which heavily implies at her own preferences. Bear in mind that this is quite normal in ancient Greece.
• Anti-Villain: Anthea doesn’t actually do anything evil and is one of the sweetest characters in the film. The only reason she's technically a villain is because of association.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Anthea is visibly the youngest-looking daughter.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: She is the most conventionally attractive of the daughters and by far the friendliest towards humanity even before her actual Heel–Face Turn.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Initially revealed to be this but is subverted when she genuinely is nice despite working with the antagonists.
• Black Comedy Burst: During the otherwise-heartwarming scene where Anthea saves Freddy and the Wizard in return for the former having tried to protect her from bullies earlier, she remarks that before he intervened, she was about to use her Powers of Axle to completely rearrange their insides...but then sweetly adds that, of course, Freddy didn't know that, so his actions were still heroic.
• Deus Exit Machina: Anthea's Power of Axle has the potential to be a Story-Breaker Power in the climax during the fight against Kalypso and Ladon, since she could easily rearrange the landscape to get them closer or farther away or slam them with buildings. So to ensure that the Final Battle remains between Shazam and Kalypso, the latter subjects Anne to a De-power—stating that, if she sympathizes with humans so much, she should become one as well—which keeps her from playing any further major role in the fight.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: While her sisters wear dull bronze, Anthea wears bright gold.
• Instant Runes: They appear on her hands when she's casting magic.
• Ephebophile: Appearances aside she is over six thousand years old with a lot of life experience as she herself implies. Even Freddy’s own parents in-universe comment that their relationship feels inappropriate with that revelation.
• Karma Houdini: Sure, she as the Token Good Teammate didn't commit any onscreen atrocities other than being allied with her more villainous sisters. However, she did intentionally lure Freddy into a trap by getting him to expose his superhero alter-ego, and more importantly, she is at the very least guilty of aiding her sisters who are the direct troublemakers. The film ending made it look as if she did not receive any punishment and was with the heroes all along.
• Love Redeems: Downplayed. Anthea, or "Anne", was already the Token Good Teammate of the Daughters of Atlas, but Freddy's kindness to her and her genuinely falling for him is the impetus for her to help him and the Wizard escape captivity and then try to save humanity from Kalypso. Once he comes to protect her after her De-power, she sticks with him for the rest of the film, is the only one of the Daughters of Atlas to survive, and seems to be living with the Vasquez family at the end.
• Mayfly–December Romance: The 17-year-old Freddy quickly develops mutual feelings for Anne, who, despite looking like she's around his age, is actually six thousand years old, a time which she has mostly spent sealed in the God Realm with her sisters. At the end, Anne has decided to stay on Earth for a while and has apparently entered a relationship with Freddy.
• Ms. Fanservice: She is the only one of the daughters to be seen in civilian clothing (featuring some very short shorts) when she's "undercover" posing as a new transfer student at Billy and Freddy's school. Even in her Olympian armor, her outfit is the most revealing of the three, with her shoulders and thighs fully exposed.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After she finds out that Freddy is one of the champions, Anthea reacts this way, and it prompts her to make a Heel–Face Turn soon after to save him from her sisters.
• Nice Girl: Starts off as Affably Evil, but becomes this after her Heel Face Turn.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The nice one. She has no interest in hurting humanity and just wants to regain her family's powers.
• Reality Warper: She has the ability to transform and alter an entire city-scape with little effort, whether it's to fight Shazam or elude Kalypso.
• Really 700 Years Old: Anne might look like a schoolgirl but is 6000 years old, making the rest of the family wonder if there's a problem regarding the massive age difference between her and Freddy...
• Rings of Activation: Circles seem to be a recurring element with her character. Circular runes appear on her hands when she's casting magic, one of her spells causes the ground beneath her to rotate, her crown resembles a caesar's olive-branch headpiece and in her civilian guise she wears hoop earrings.
• Sole Survivor: She's the only one of the daughters to survive the film's events. She's also, along with Diana, technically the last of the gods despite being depowered by Kalypso.
• Space Master: She has the ability to fold space, which she can use to shift around the entire city of Philadelphia, and transport herself hundreds of miles in an instant.
• Story-Breaker Power: While not directly addressed in the film, Anthea's powers is almost practically that of a Reality Warper given how she casually warped the laws of physics, potentially making her the most dangerous opponent among the three Daughters of Atlas. So of course she is Brought Down to Normal just when she decides to completely turn against the Big Bad Kalypso.
• Token Good Teammate: She is by far the least cruel of the Daughters of Atlas from the start, only wanting to revive the gods' realm with as little violence as possible, and goes behind her sisters' backs fairly early on to help Freddy and the Wizard escape. She then completely turns Face once she discovers that Kalypso plans to eradicate humanity in misplaced revenge and then witnesses her (apparently) kill Hespera.

Minions

Ladon

Ladon

Species: Dragon

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

A dragon summoned by the Daughters to be their chief enforcer.

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• Breath Weapon: Ladon breathes blue energy.
• Dark Is Evil: It's a dark dull brown and quite vicious.
• The Dragon: Well, yeah. But seriously: acts as the main enforcer of the Daughters of Atlas, mainly Kalypso.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Combined with Throat Light. Ladon's entire internal structure glows with the same blue light as its energy blasts, similar to the Motherboxes.
• Knight of Cerebus: Billy gets the beating of his life when he tries to fight the dragon. So far it's the only enemy to damage his uniform, which the previous film established could withstand gunfire.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Billy even notes how Ladon being made of wood is weird and possibly hazardous given it breathes fire.
• Spikes of Villainy: It could give Steppenwolf a run for his money.
• Supernatural Fear Inducer: Ladon's breath has the ability to strike such fear into the hearts of mortals that they're paralyzed and unable to move, as Freddy and the Wizard discover before Anne saves them. Later, when Kalypso and Ladon have the Brought Down to Normal Anne cornered and are going to kill her, Freddy withstands and pushes through these effects with The Power of Love to protect her.

Olympian Guards

Olympian Guards

Species: Unknown

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

Attendants of the Daughters of Atlas.

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• Ambiguously Human: They're humanoid, but it's difficult to tell if their monstrous teeth are parts of their helmets or not. Additionally, Kalypso's power to enslave people raises the possibility that some of them may be brainwashed civilians.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: By all accounts none of them possess any powers like the Daughters do, yet they operate much like any palace guardsmen.

Tree of Life Spawn

Manticore

Species: Manticore

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

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• Mix-and-Match Critters: As befitting the legends, the Manticore looks like an amalgamation of a lion, a bat and a crocodile, complete with horns and a scorpion stinger on the tip of its tail.
• Our Manticores Are Spinier: It looks more draconic than conventional manticores, as well as having a much uglier face.

Cyclops

Species: Cyclops

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

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• Horned Humanoid: It has a horn in the middle of its forehead.

Minotaur

Species: Minotaur

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

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• Dark Is Evil: It has pitch-black skin and is very aggressive.

Harpy

Species: Harpy

Citizenship: Olympian

Affiliation(s): Daughters of Atlas

Appearances: SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods

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• Reused Character Design: The harpy strongly resembles the bat-creature that appeared in Bruce Wayne's nightmare back in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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