History Headscratchers / Shazam2019

** I think it was less of a inferiority complex and more of him being immensely resentful of the years of abuse and mistreatment. It was obvious that Sivana wasn't exactly the most loved kid before the car accident, and things got much worse after that. Any need of simply proving them his worth most likely was replaced several years prior the events of the film by pure hatred and desire for revenge, which the sins increased when they took over.
** His resentment and envy were no doubt exacerbated after his initial encounters with Shazam ("The wizard rejected ''me'' and chose ''him''?")

** Related to the above, at the time of his abandonement, Billy was around three years old, which would make it difficult to provide the police with any useful information to link him to his mother. He didn't know her full name, probably didn't know their adress, either, he may have still not be attending school, etc. So unless he was walking around with his birth certificate and medical records inside his jacket, there was no way the police could identify who he was, and therefore, who his mom was. Especially if his mother or family never reported him as missing, which apparently, they didn't. There was just no way to link him to her, barring a DNA test.

[[folder:Sivanna's goal]]
* The Sins tell Sivanna to ''kill'' the Champion in no uncertain terms, simply because he's the only one who could stop them. Sivanna finds Shazam and quite confidently kicks his ass - we see that Shazam is not invincible against him. But then the plan suddenly changes to "coerce Shazam into transferring his power into Sivanna". Why? What powers was Sivanna previously lacking that necessitated this change?
** None. But remember which of the Sins is in Sivanna the most -- '''Greed'''.
*** It was Envy that was the last to leave Sivanna, not Greed.

** The Sins told Silvana to kill the champion before he mastered his power and became a threat. Sivanna wanted the power of Shazam for himself because he still felt hurt that the wizard had judged him unworthy. Since killing Shazam would likely have destroyed Shazam's power and he had been warned that Shazam was more powerful, Sivanna decided that convincing Billy Batson to surrender his power would be a better way to serve Sivanna's purposes as well as that of the Sins.

[[folder:Sivanna vs. the wizard]]
* Why were both Sivanna, Sins and the wizard so inactive during their altercation? The wizard lets Sivanna grab the Eye (it's not like he has no powers - he tries to zap Sivanna immediately afterwards), and neither Sivanna, nor the Sins think of killing the wizard to ensure he doesn't transfer his power to anyone. Sure, the wizard might've had impossibly high standards before that, but with the Sins unleashed, you don't need the benefit of hindsight to realise that he'll get desperate and choose the next shmuck the seeking spell brings him, just to have a chance. So why keep him alive?

** The first time Billy says the word, it's in a hesitant manner, Shazaa? Then when he says it properly the lightning comes down. So in this film yes it needs to be spoken clearly.

How did the kids return the Eye to the temple at the end? There's no indication that they figured out the spell, and the doorway at their house had stopped working, even if they could have snuck past their parents.

* Darla would be ideal, but she's too young. The Captain Marvel mythos brings up the fact that a child isn't supposed to wield the magic, and in recent years the characters have been aged to being angsty teenagers.