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** Later he holds them all hostage and he knows exactly what four words he has to say to get Billy to cave to his demands. "Kill the little girl." It's unsettling how dangerously close one of the sins comes to killing Darla as a result of this.

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** Later he holds them all hostage and he knows exactly what four words he has to say to get Billy to cave to his demands. "Kill "'''Kill the little girl." '''" It's unsettling how dangerously close one of the sins comes to killing Darla as a result of this.
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* When the foster family is trying to escape Sivana at the Rock of Eternity, Pedro opens a door and [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoments an alien plant/tentacle comes out and tries to grab him]]. He promptly closes it.

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* When the foster family is trying to escape Sivana at the Rock of Eternity, Pedro opens a door and [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoments [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment an alien plant/tentacle comes out and tries to grab him]]. He promptly closes it.
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* When the foster family is trying to escape Sivana at the Rock of Eternity, Pedro opens a door and [[SurpriseCreepy an alien plant/tentacle comes out and tries to grab him]]. He promptly closes it.

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* When the foster family is trying to escape Sivana at the Rock of Eternity, Pedro opens a door and [[SurpriseCreepy [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoments an alien plant/tentacle comes out and tries to grab him]]. He promptly closes it.
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* The trip to the Rock of Eternity is this if it wasn't for the fact the wizard is a good guy. First off everything around the person gets dark and cold, and everyone besides them disappear. The place they're in starts moving and speeding at a ridiculous speed and when they arrive and open their doors, they see a weird cave with horrifying demonic statues. To make it worse, they are then put to a test which they fail and then get kicked out of the lair after a speech of how unworthy they are. Thaddeus's reaction speaks for itself for how terrifying it actually is.

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* The trip to the Rock of Eternity is this if it wasn't for the fact the wizard Wizard is a good guy. First off everything around the person gets dark and cold, and everyone besides them disappear. The place they're in starts moving and speeding at a ridiculous speed and when they arrive and open their doors, they see a weird cave with horrifying demonic statues. To make it worse, they are then put to a test which they fail and then get kicked out of the lair after a speech of how unworthy they are. Thaddeus's reaction speaks for itself for how terrifying it actually is.



** It would have been easy to just directly attack Billy now, while he was in his regular form, kill him while he's unable to call out to his powers, but Sivana seems ''perfectly fine'' with making Billy suffer with his death, even pulling up his head a few times just put it back into the water.

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** It would have been easy for Sivana to just directly attack Billy now, while he was in his regular form, kill him while he's unable to call out to his powers, but Sivana he seems ''perfectly fine'' with making Billy suffer with his death, even pulling up his head a few times just put it back into the water.
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2mfYHUPqz8 alternate, deleted version]] of the massacre is terrifying in its own way. Sivana instead visits his the company Christmas party at his family's mansion, which is bustling with guests, musicians and waitstaff. After his brother tells him he's not invited, he boasts about his new powers, twists his arm with audible cracking, and disintegrates him on the spot. He then starts levitating and uses his powers on the whole mansion, and it cuts to the exterior as light flashes repeatedly as screaming can be heard. It cuts back to the mansion empty aside from the [[ReducedToDust numerous piles of dust on the ground]], as Sivana brags to his father's now-unoccupied wheelchair. It's slightly less gruesome than the above due to the more fantasy-esque deaths (as opposed to the Sins presumably ripping everyone apart) and heavier use of GoryDiscretionShot, but probably clears the former in terms of sheer body count.
** More disturbingly, you can see [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill multiple flashes]] when the GoryDiscretionShot happens, as opposed to just one. Does this mean that one zap wasn't enough to properly disintegrate everyone, and if so, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath were they still alive during that]]?
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** Becomes HarsherInHindsight when you realize that this Champion was ''[[Film/BlackAdam2022 Black Adam]]'', who [[spoiler:went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge after his son died]] as is revealed in the film. Black Adam nearly destroyed the world ''[[spoiler:entirely by accident]]''.
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* There's all the AdultFear that comes with Sivana targeting Billy's defenseless foster family after interrogating Freddy.

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* There's all the AdultFear that comes with Sivana targeting Billy's defenseless foster family after interrogating Freddy.

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* In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, [[Foreshadowing Mary notes that the seventh seat is left vacant]]. Darla says it won't matter who will sit there as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. [[DramaticIrony We know exactly who that seat is for]] but the fact the family has no clue what or rather ''[[Film/BlackAdam2022 who]]'' is coming for them is quite foreboding.

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* In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, [[Foreshadowing Mary notes that the seventh seat is left vacant]].vacant. Darla says it won't matter who will sit there as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. [[DramaticIrony We know exactly who that seat is for]] but the fact the family has no clue what or rather ''[[Film/BlackAdam2022 who]]'' is coming for them is quite foreboding.
** What doesn't help the unsettling foreshadowing is the tonal shift in the music when it cuts to the empty throne.
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* In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, Mary notes that the seventh seat is left vacant. Darla says it won't matter as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. We, the audience, [[Film/BlackAdam2022 know exactly who that seat is for]] [[DramaticIrony but the fact the Shazam family don't know what or rather ''who'' is coming for them is haunting]].

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* In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, [[Foreshadowing Mary notes that the seventh seat is left vacant. vacant]]. Darla says it won't matter who will sit there as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. We, the audience, [[Film/BlackAdam2022 [[DramaticIrony We know exactly who that seat is for]] [[DramaticIrony but the fact the Shazam family don't know has no clue what or rather ''who'' ''[[Film/BlackAdam2022 who]]'' is coming for them is haunting]].quite foreboding.
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* In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, Mary notes that the seventh seat left vacant. Darla says it won't matter as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. We, the audience, [[Film/BlackAdam2022 know exactly who that seat is for]] but the fact the Shazam family don't know what or rather ''who'' is coming for them is haunting.

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* In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, Mary notes that the seventh seat is left vacant. Darla says it won't matter as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. We, the audience, [[Film/BlackAdam2022 know exactly who that seat is for]] [[DramaticIrony but the fact the Shazam family don't know what or rather ''who'' is coming for them is haunting.haunting]].
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** In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, Mary notes that the seventh seat left vacant. Darla says it won't matter as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. We, the audience, [[Film/BlackAdam2022 know exactly who that seat is for]] but the fact the Shazam family don't know what or rather ''who'' is coming for them is haunting.

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** In *In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, Mary notes that the seventh seat left vacant. Darla says it won't matter as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. We, the audience, [[Film/BlackAdam2022 know exactly who that seat is for]] but the fact the Shazam family don't know what or rather ''who'' is coming for them is haunting.
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**In a deleted scene, the Shazam family take their seats at the Rock of Eternity. However, Mary notes that the seventh seat left vacant. Darla says it won't matter as they'll be a part of the family and she'll love them. We, the audience, [[Film/BlackAdam2022 know exactly who that seat is for]] but the fact the Shazam family don't know what or rather ''who'' is coming for them is haunting.
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** The fact that we never actually ''see'' the massacre [[NothingIsScarier is scary in its own right,]] considering that it's left up to audiences to imagine how the demons kill their victims. One female director in particular tries to run, but is cornered by Lust, which... [[Squick yeah.]] Probably best not to imagine, then.

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** The fact that we never actually ''see'' the massacre [[NothingIsScarier is scary in its own right,]] considering that it's left up to audiences to imagine how the demons kill their victims. One female director in particular tries to run, but is cornered by Lust, which... [[Squick yeah.]] yeah. Probably best not to imagine, then.
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** The fact that we never actually ''see'' the massacre [[NothingIsScarier is scary in its own right,]] considering that it's left up to audiences to imagine how the demons kill their victims. One female director in particular tries to run, but is cornered by Lust, which...[[Squick yeah.]] Probably best not to imagine, then.

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** The fact that we never actually ''see'' the massacre [[NothingIsScarier is scary in its own right,]] considering that it's left up to audiences to imagine how the demons kill their victims. One female director in particular tries to run, but is cornered by Lust, which... [[Squick yeah.]] Probably best not to imagine, then.
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** A female director runs screaming, and is confronted by the demon Lust. However she died, it must have been in a sexually violent manner (e.g., ''raped to death'', a la the Lust victim in ''Film/Se7en''), and could possibly be one of the worst deaths in that massacre. The same could go for any of the other poor souls who Lust went after.

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** A The fact that we never actually ''see'' the massacre [[NothingIsScarier is scary in its own right,]] considering that it's left up to audiences to imagine how the demons kill their victims. One female director runs screaming, and in particular tries to run, but is confronted cornered by the demon Lust. However she died, it must have been in a sexually violent manner (e.g., ''raped Lust, which...[[Squick yeah.]] Probably best not to death'', a la the Lust victim in ''Film/Se7en''), and could possibly be one of the worst deaths in that massacre. The same could go for any of the other poor souls who Lust went after. imagine, then.
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** A female director runs screaming, and is confronted by the demon Lust. However she died, it must have been in a sexually violent matter (e.g., ''raped to death'', a la the Lust victim in ''Film/Se7en''), and could possibly be one of the worst deaths in that massacre. The same could go for any of the other poor souls who Lust went after.

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** A female director runs screaming, and is confronted by the demon Lust. However she died, it must have been in a sexually violent matter manner (e.g., ''raped to death'', a la the Lust victim in ''Film/Se7en''), and could possibly be one of the worst deaths in that massacre. The same could go for any of the other poor souls who Lust went after.
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Proposed one of the potential ways Lust put an end to the female director he's seen about to have his way with during the Sivana Industries board scene


** A female director runs screaming, and is confronted by the demon Lust. However she died, it must have been in a sexually violent matter, and could possibly be one of the worst deaths in that massacre. The same could go for any of the other poor souls who Lust went after.

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** A female director runs screaming, and is confronted by the demon Lust. However she died, it must have been in a sexually violent matter, matter (e.g., ''raped to death'', a la the Lust victim in ''Film/Se7en''), and could possibly be one of the worst deaths in that massacre. The same could go for any of the other poor souls who Lust went after.
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** The appearance of a tiny caterpillar in a glass case in the Rock of Eternity. At first, comic fans may brush it off as a neat little MythologyGag... but when Billy finds his way to the Rock after Sivanna frees the Sins, [[WhamShot that same case has been smashed open and the caterpillar is gone]]. Cue every comic fan in the audience going "OhCrap" even before this is paid off in TheStinger.
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The sentence about Sivana wanting Billy to suffer seems kind of redundant (because of the preceding sentence)


** Later he holds them all hostage and he knows exactly what four words he has to say to get Billy to cave to his demands. "Kill the little girl." It's unsettling how close one of the sins comes to killing Darla as a result of this.

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** Later he holds them all hostage and he knows exactly what four words he has to say to get Billy to cave to his demands. "Kill the little girl." It's unsettling how dangerously close one of the sins comes to killing Darla as a result of this.



* During the big fight, Billy briefly turns into his regular form to escape a death grasp, but Wrath breaks the ice he was standing on, causing him to slip head first into freezing cold water. Just as he managed to get himself out, His head is grabbed by Sivana, unfazed by Billy's human form, [[WouldHurtAChild who sadistically dunks Billy's head underwater, pulling his head up a few times only to dunk it straight back into the ice cold water]]. As Billy is drowning, you can hear him frantically trying to call out 'Shazam' to transform, but it doesn't seem to work underwater, and screaming the transformation name only accelerates the few precious breaths he has left. If Mary wasn't there to distract Sivana, Billy would have likely drowned.
** It would have been easy to just directly attack Billy now, while he was in his regular form, kill him while he's unable to call out to his powers, but Sivana seems perfectly fine with making Billy suffer with his death, even pulling up his head a few times just put it back into the water. Sivana ''wants'' Billy to suffer.

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* During the big fight, Billy briefly turns into his regular form to escape a death grasp, but Wrath breaks the ice he was standing on, causing him to slip head first into freezing cold water. Just as he managed to get himself out, His his head is grabbed by Sivana, unfazed by Billy's human form, [[WouldHurtAChild who sadistically dunks Billy's head underwater, pulling his head up a few times only to dunk it straight back into the ice cold water]]. As Billy is drowning, you can hear him frantically trying to call out 'Shazam' to transform, but it doesn't seem to work underwater, and screaming the transformation name only accelerates the few precious breaths he has left. If Mary wasn't there to distract Sivana, Billy would have likely drowned.
** It would have been easy to just directly attack Billy now, while he was in his regular form, kill him while he's unable to call out to his powers, but Sivana seems perfectly fine ''perfectly fine'' with making Billy suffer with his death, even pulling up his head a few times just put it back into the water. Sivana ''wants'' Billy to suffer.water.
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Billy actually DID do a loud 'Stop' to save Darla (unless I'm misremembering things). It's because of this inaccuracy that I deleted the section that I did.


** Later he holds them all hostage and he knows exactly what four words he has to say to get Billy to cave to his demands. "Kill the little girl." It's unsettling how close one of the sins comes to killing Darla as a result of this. Billy's scream to get them to stop is just as unnerving, since it isn't a quick, stoic "stop" or even a commanding "stop!" It's a drawn out, primal scream of fear.

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** Later he holds them all hostage and he knows exactly what four words he has to say to get Billy to cave to his demands. "Kill the little girl." It's unsettling how close one of the sins comes to killing Darla as a result of this. Billy's scream to get them to stop is just as unnerving, since it isn't a quick, stoic "stop" or even a commanding "stop!" It's a drawn out, primal scream of fear.
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* Dr. Sivana hearing a creepy RadioVoice in his prison cell. It turns out it's Mr. Mind, a Venusian worm who looks like an oversized caterpillar.

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* Dr. Sivana hearing a creepy RadioVoice in his prison cell. It turns out it's Mr. Mind, a Venusian worm who looks like an oversized caterpillar.caterpillar, but that has never stopped him from being one of the Shazam Captain Marvel's greatest enemies.
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** A female director runs screaming, and is confronted by the demon Lust. However she died, it must have been in a sexually violent matter, and could possibly be one of the worst deaths in that massacre. The same could go for any of the other poor souls who Lust went after.
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Creator/DavidFSandberg made his fame with horror movies, and though ''SHAZAM!'' is the most lighthearted film in the DC Extended Universe by a long shot, it does display some of that influence.

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Creator/DavidFSandberg made his fame with horror movies, and though ''SHAZAM!'' is the most lighthearted film in the DC Extended Universe Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse by a long shot, it does display some of that influence.
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* When the foster family is trying to escape Sivana at the Rock of Eternity, Pedro opens a door and an alien plant/tentacle comes out and tries to grab him. He promptly closes it.

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* When the foster family is trying to escape Sivana at the Rock of Eternity, Pedro opens a door and [[SurpriseCreepy an alien plant/tentacle comes out and tries to grab him.him]]. He promptly closes it.
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** It's much worse as that monster is a cameo from ''Film/TheMist''.
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Being demons/demon-like beings, it's not clear whether or not the Sins need to eat or drink to survive, so it's unclear if the board members died via being devoured or merely being beheaded, disemboweled, dismembered, etc.


** The massacre of the Sivana Industries board is pretty brutal, and the board members' only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This includes a security guard terrified when he sees the board members pounding on the glass walls before being yanked back and getting devoured.

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** The massacre of the Sivana Industries board is pretty brutal, and the board members' only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This includes a security guard terrified when he sees the board members pounding on the glass walls before being yanked back and getting devoured.to their deaths.

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