History Recap / Shazam2019

Fast forward to present-day 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: a 14-year-old boy named Billy Batson tricks two police officers into walking into a store before locking them up so he can access their police cruiser’s database, finding and writing down information about a “Rachel Batson”. Billy has a flashback to the last day he was with his mother: he was begging his mother to win him a stuffed tiger for a balloon dart game booth at a carnival, but she could only win a compass. After accidentally dropping the compass, he was separated from his mother while trying to get it back and couldn't find her at all, and eventually the police found him. They also couldn't find his mother, and send him into foster care. In the present day, we see that the woman named Rachel is not Billy's mom, and he is caught by the same police he deceived. Billy is running from every foster home he is sent to, with his record going up to 23 now. He is brought to a foster home run by the Vasquezes, and meets his new foster siblings: Eugene Choi, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley, Pedro Pena, and Freddy Freeman, the latter of whom shares a room with Billy. Freddy becomes the most interactive with Billy, showing him around the school that the foster siblings attend.

Fast forward to present-day 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: a 14-year-old boy named Billy Batson tricks two police officers into walking into a store before locking them up so he can access their police cruiser’s database, finding and writing down information about a “Rachel Batson”. Billy has a flashback to the last day he was with his mother: he was begging his mother (whose first name he does not remember) to win him a stuffed tiger for a balloon dart game booth at a carnival, but she could only win a compass. After accidentally dropping the compass, he was separated from his mother while trying to get it back and couldn't find her at all, and eventually the police found him. They also couldn't find his mother, and send him into foster care. In the present day, we see that the woman named Rachel is not Billy's mom, and he is caught by the same police he deceived. Billy is running from every foster home he is sent to, with his record going up to 23 now. He is brought to a foster home run by the Vasquezes, and meets his new foster siblings: Eugene Choi, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley, Pedro Pena, and Freddy Freeman, the latter of whom shares a room with Billy. Freddy becomes the most interactive with Billy, showing him around the school that the foster siblings attend.

Fast forward to present-day 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: a 14-year-old boy named Billy Batson tricks two police officers into walking into a store before locking them up so he can access their police cruiser’s database, finding and writing down information about a “Rachel Batson”. Billy has a flashback to the last day he was with his mother: he was begging his mother (whose first name he does not remember) to win him a stuffed tiger for a balloon dart game booth at a carnival, but she could only win a compass. After accidentally dropping the compass, he was separated from his mother while trying to get it back and couldn't find her at all, and eventually the police found him. They also couldn't find his mother, and send him into foster care. In the present day, we see that the woman named Rachel is not Billy's mom, and he is caught by the same police he deceived. Billy is running from every foster home he is sent to, with his record going up to 23 now. He is brought to a foster home run by the Vasquezes, and meets his new foster siblings: Eugene Choi, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley, Pedro Pena, and Freddie Freeman, the latter of whom shares a room with Billy. Freddie becomes the most interactive with Billy, showing him around the school that the foster siblings attend.

At school, Billy and Freddie are attacked by the Breyer Brothers, two aggressive bullies who hit Freddie with their car and assault him. After Billy stands up for him and sucker-punches the bullies, they begin chasing Billy, who escapes into a subway station. In the subway car, Billy goes through the same experience Thad did and is met by the Wizard, who is now dying from the injuries he sustained from Sivana. The Wizard asks Billy to absorb all his powers and laments he has nobody else to turn to, fiercely pressuring Billy Batson to succeed him by absorbing his powers through the staff and saying “Shazam”. Billy reluctantly does so, and is transformed into an adult man wearing a strong red suit with a cape that has a lightning bolt insignia on his chest. The wizard offers him his staff, then crumbles to dust in front of him. Billy throws off the staff (not knowing why the wizard gave it to him) and returns to the foster home to tell Freddie about his transformation.

Billy discovers newfound powers such as lightning bolts, super strength, immunity to bullets, durability, and speed, and that he can switch between his teenage self and superhero adult self by saying the word “Shazam!”. Billy tries using his powers to stop crime, but as a kid who doesn't really know what he's doing, he doesn’t handle it very well, rushing to the aid of a woman who didn’t need his help warding off a mugger after her purse, and then shattering the window of a convenience store by tossing two would-be robbers through it. Furthermore, Billy and Freddie also start skipping school to test the former's powers; Freddie films these tests and starts posting them on [=YouTube=], earning Billy's superpowered form some moderate fame as Philadelphia's own superhero. They mostly use Billy's powers for personal gain, such as visiting adult-entertainment clubs, hacking [=ATM=]s for cash (buying luxuries such as televisions, strip clubs, buffalo wings and video games with the money), and emptying out soda vending machines; however, they also occasionally try to help other people by doing them minor favors such as charging their phones and stopping small-time criminals.

Unfortunately, Billy starts to let his newfound powers go to his head. Then, one day, Freddie--tired of the Breyers repeatedly picking on him--boasts to the whole school that he is best friends with the superhero and promises to bring him to lunch the next day to prove it. This leads to an argument between Billy and Freddie, since Billy feels that Freddie is becoming clingy and is annoyed that, after Freddie previously insisted that Billy keep his identity and associations secret to avoid anyone in his life becoming collateral damage, he went back on this as soon as it suited him. Billy skips school again the next day to goof off with his powers, leaving Freddie to fend for himself against the Breyers, who give him a “suitcase wedgie” after the superhero does not show up for lunch. After school, he finds Billy showing off his lightning powers, and as he confronts him, Billy accidentally triggers a lightning bolt that strikes a bus’s wheels, forcing him to catch the bus with his own hands and bring it down onto the ground, with the bus passengers too traumatized to thank him for it. Freddie calls Billy out on his newfound arrogance with his powers and how the latter is now much more concerned about busking money from civilians than actually using his powers to help people, and storms off.

As Billy tries to shrug this off, he is approached by Sivana, who assaults him with punches. Billy does attempt to fight back, but Sivana proves to have the upper hand. He carries Billy high into the sky and then drops him, but just as it looks like Billy will fall to his death, he develops the ability to fly. Freddie sees this as well, but their delight is short-lived before Billy is tackled into a shopping mall by Sivana. The shopping mall attendees flee, and Billy turns off his Shazam-mode and reverts to his teenage self to blend in with the fleeing crowd and avoid Sivana. Sivana then spots Freddie looking for Billy at the same time that he sees a TV news clip of Freddie and Shazam-Billy arguing, realizes that the two are friends, and captures Freddie. Meanwhile, Billy arrives back at the foster home, where Victor and Rosa, his foster parents, have learned that he's been skipping school and harshly scold him. The rest of Billy's foster siblings, having figured out that he is the superhero, come into his room to comfort him, and reveal that Eugene has used his computer skills to find the real name and location of Billy's biological mother: her name is Marilyn, and she still lives in Philadelphia. Billy immediately runs from the house to go find her, with Victor and Rosa pursuing him in concern; soon after they leave, Sivana arrives with Freddie, having forced him to give up Billy’s location, and takes the rest of the foster kids hostage as well to use them all as bait for Billy.

Billy arrives at the subsidized housing building where Marilyn lives and tells her who he is, but she shies away from his attempt to hug her and reveals that, after losing sight of Billy at the carnival and seeing him with the police, she deliberately didn't claim him and left him there because she felt she couldn’t parent him with all of her own problems and that he would be better off with the state. Billy is heartbroken, but accepts this and claims that he just came to let her know he's doing okay, returning the compass she gave him and stating that he needs to get back to his "real family". However, as he leaves, he gets a phone call from Sivana (with Freddie’s phone) revealing that he’s captured Billy's foster siblings and demanding that he return home if he wants to save them. Billy switches back into his Shazam form and flies home to find Sivana using the Seven Deadly Sins (in demon manifestation) to threaten the kids. Sivana forces Billy to return to the Rock of Eternity and pass the Wizard’s powers on to him. Just as Billy is about to do so, Freddie--who, along with the other kids, followed them to the Rock--tosses the Batarang at Sivana’s head, and Billy stabs Sivana in the back with it, allowing him and the foster kids to escape to the same strip club that Billy attended earlier, and then flee to a nearby Christmas carnival.

Unfortunately, Billy begins to attract unwanted attention at the carnival, so he reverts back to his teenage form; Sivana sees the lightning bolt from his transformation and arrives at the carnival to search for him. He mercilessly attacks the carnival attendees (which include the Breyer brothers) to force Billy to come out of hiding, as he figures Billy will fight for the innocent people, and Billy does indeed transform again to fight him. Sivana and the Sins once again catch the foster kids and hold them hostage, but just before Billy is forced to give up his powers, he remembers the Wizard's words to him about filling the other empty thrones at the Rock of Eternity; with this epiphany, he swipes the staff out of Sivana’s hands and instead shares his powers with his siblings, who are all given their own superpowered forms that enable to battle off the Sins and rescue the carnival attendees while Billy fights off Sivana. Freddie also saves the Breyer bullies in time by giving them suitcase wedgies. Billy manages to goad Envy--the one remaining Sin who still resides in the Eye of Sin--into leaving Sivana's body to attack him, which leaves Sivana powerless. Billy expunges Envy with lightning, saves Sivana before he falls to death, and extracts the Eye from him, using it to re-seal the Sins at the Rock of Eternity.

Billy fully embraces his foster parents and siblings as his family, and goes back to attending school regularly. In the final scene, Freddie's siblings all join him for lunch, and they're soon joined by Billy in his Shazam form, who confirms to the other students that Freddie is his best friend. They are also joined by Superman, Freddie's biggest idol.

Billy discovers newfound powers such as lightning bolts, super strength, immunity to bullets, durability, and speed, and that he can switch between his teenage self and superhero adult self by saying the word “Shazam!”. Billy tries using his powers to stop crime, but as a kid who doesn't really know what he's doing, he doesn’t handle it very well, rushing to the aid of a woman who didn’t need his help warding off a mugger after her purse, and then shattering the window of a convenience store by tossing two would-be robbers through it. Furthermore, Billy and Freddie also start skipping school to test the former's powers; Freddie films these tests and starts posting them on [=YouTube=], gearning Billy's superpowered form some moderate fame as Philadelphia's own superhero. They mostly use Billy's powers for personal gain, such as visiting adult-entertainment clubs, hacking [=ATM=]s for cash (buying luxuries such as televisions, strip clubs, buffalo wings and video games with the money), and emptying out soda vending machines; however, they also occasionally try to help other people by doing them minor favors such as charging their phones and stopping small-time criminals.

As Billy tries to shrug this off, he is approached by Sivana, who assaults him with punches. Billy does attempt to fight back, but Sivana proves to have the upper hand. He carries Billy high into the sky and then drops him, but just as it looks like Billy will fall to his death, he develops the ability to fly. Freddie sees this as well, but their delight is short-lived before Billy is tackled into a shopping mall by Sivana. The shopping mall attendees flee, and Billy turns off his Shazam-mode and reverts to his teenage self to blend in with the fleeing crowd and avoid Sivana. Sivana then spots Freddie looking for Billy at the same time that he sees a TV news clip of Freddie and Shazam-Billy, deduces that the two are friends, and captures Freddie. Meanwhile, Billy arrives back at the foster home, where Victor and Rosa, his foster parents, have learned that he's been skipping school and harshly scold him. The rest of Billy's foster siblings, having deduced that he is the superhero, come into his room to comfort him, and reveal that Eugene has used his computer skills to find the real name and location of Billy's biological mother: her name is Marilyn, and she still lives in Philadelphia. Billy immediately runs from the house to go find her, with Victor and Rosa pursuing him in concern; soon after they leave, Sivana arrives with Freddie, having forced him to give up Billy’s location, and takes the rest of the foster kids hostage as well to use them all as bait for Billy.

Fast forward to present-day 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: a 14-year-old boy named Billy Batson tricks two police officers into walking into a store before locking them up so he can access their police cruiser’s database writing down information on “Rachel Batson”. Billy has a flashback to the last day he was with his mother: he was begging his mother (whose first name he does not remember) to win him a stuffed tiger for a balloon dart game booth at a carnival, but she could only win a compass. After accidentally dropping the compass, he was separated from his mother while trying to get it back and couldn't find her at all, and eventually the police found him. They also couldn't find his mother, and send him into foster care. In the present day, we see that the woman named Rachel is not Billy's mom, and he is caught by the same police he deceived. Billy is running from every foster home he is sent to, with his record going up to 23 now. He is brought to a foster home run by the Vasquezes, and meets his new foster siblings: Eugene Choi, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley, Pedro Pena, and Freddie Freeman, the latter of whom shares a room with Billy. Freddie becomes the most interactive with Billy, showing him around the school that the foster siblings attend.

In 1974, a young boy named Thaddeus Sivana is in the car with his uncaring, cold-hearted father and cruel brother Sid who both openly express disdain towards him. Sid picks on Thad for believing in the luck of a Magic 8 Ball. Suddenly, Thad finds himself alone in the car, which is moving much too fast, and is terrified and has no idea what's going on. When the car stops, he exits to find himself in a dark underground cave setting known as the Rock of Eternity, and is approached by an elderly bearded man, a powerful wizard named Shazam who seeks someone worthy to become his "champion". The elderly Wizard is being burdened by the Seven Deadly Sins, who reside right next to his throne, and must find someone before he dies to become his successor. However, Thad gives in to the Sins' temptations and takes the Eye of Sin instead of the staff; as a result, Shazam angrily tells Thad that he will never be worthy of becoming his champion, and launches him back into the car with his father and brother. There, Thad screams over being rejected, wishing to return, and his father is distracted, causing them to collide with another car, resulting in his father becoming paralyzed. Sid blames Thad for the incident. Thad then finds his 8 Ball telling him to "Find Us", coming from the Seven Sins.

Fast forward to present-day 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a young boy (Billy Batson) tricks two police officers into walking into a store before locking them up so he can access their police cruiser’s database writing down information on “Rachel Batson”. Billy has a flashback to the last day he was with his mother: he was begging his mother (whose first name he does not remember) to win him a stuffed tiger for a balloon dart game booth at a carnival, but she could only win a compass. After accidentally dropping the compass, he was separated from his mother while trying to get it back and couldn't find her at all, and eventually the police found him. They also couldn't find his mother, and send him into foster care. In the present day, we see that the woman named Rachel is not Billy's mom, and he is caught by the same police he deceived. Billy is running from every foster home he is sent to, with his record going up to 23 now. He is brought to a foster home run by the Vasquezes, and meets his new foster siblings: Eugene Choi, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley, Pedro Pena, and Freddie Freeman, the latter of whom shares a room with Billy. Freddie becomes the most interactive with Billy, showing him around the school that the foster siblings attend.

In 1974, a young boy named Thaddeus Sivana is in the car with his uncaring, cold-hearted father and cruel brother Sid who both openly express disdain towards him. Sid picks on Thad for believing in the luck of a Magic 8 Ball. Suddenly, Sivana while in the car is suddenly alone and the car is moving at a hyper speed to the point Sivana is terrified and has no idea where he’s headed for. When the car stops, he exits to find himself in a dark underground cave setting and is approached by an elderly bearded man, who happens to be a powerful wizard, sitting on a throne who asks if he is worthy to become his new successor. The elderly wizard is being burdened by the Seven Deadly Sins, who reside right next to his throne and that he must find someone worthy who can ward of all sins to become his successor. Thad gives in to the Sins' temptations that he take the Eye of Sin instead of the staff, and because he chooses the Eye he is disqualified, making the wizard launch him back into the car with his father and brother. There, Thad screams over being rejected wishing to return and his father is distracted, causing them to collide with another car and his father is left paralyzed as a result. Sid blames Thad for the incident. Thad angrily denies his father’s accident is his fault. Thad then finds his 8 Ball telling him to "Find Us", coming from the Seven Sins.

Fast forward to present-day 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a young boy (Billy Batson) tricks two police officers into walking into a store before locking them up so he can access their police cruiser’s database writing down information on “Rachel Batson”. Billy has a flashback to the last day he was with his mother: he was begging his mother (whose first name he does not remember) to win him a stuffed tiger for a balloon dart game booth at a carnival, but instead only wins a compass. After losing the compass, he is separated from his mother and can’t find her at all, forcing him to summon the police. The police cannot find his mother, and send him to an orphanage. We then see that Billy did not find the correct woman with the surname "Batson" and is caught by the same police he deceived. Billy is running from every orphanage he is sent to, with his record going up to 23 now. He is brought to an orphanage run by the Vasquezs who are parenting the orphans Eugene Choi, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley and Pedro Pena and Freddie Freeman. Freddie becomes the most interactive with Billy, showing him around the school that the foster siblings attend.

A now grown-up Thaddeus Sivana, exacting revenge on the Wizard and his father and brother, draws up equations that allow him to return to the Rock of Eternity (The cave lair that the Wizard was in), where he steals the Eye of Sin (allowing him to gain command of the Seven Deadly Sins so he may unleash them upon humanity). Gaining the Eye allows Thad to collect magic powers of destruction (and as a minor bonus, it even cures him of his impaired vision that required him to wear glasses) As retribution for rejecting him to collect all 6 of his powers, Thaddeus shocks the Wizard with his own lightning ignoring the Wizard’s pleas not to spread the Sins to humanity. Thad retorts that when it comes to finding a successor for the Wizard who is pure-of-heart, “No one’s worthy.”

At school, Billy and Freddie are attacked by the Breyer Brothers, two aggressive bullies who hit Freddie with their car and assault him. They give chase to Billy who escapes through a subway. There in the subway, Billy goes through the same experience Thad did and is met by the Wizard, who is now dying from the injuries he sustained from Thad. The Wizard asks Billy to absorb all his powers and laments he has nobody else to turn to, fiercely pressuring Billy Batson to succeed him by absorbing his powers through the staff and saying “Shazam”. Billy does so being intimidated to follow his orders, and is transformed into an adult man wearing a strong red suit with a cape that has a lightning bolt insignia on his chest. The wizard offers him his staff then crumbles to dust in front of him. Billy throws off the staff (not knowing what the wizard gave it to him for) and returns to the orphanage to tell Freddie about his transformation.

Billy discovers newfound powers such as lightning bolts, super strength, immunity to bullets, durability and speed as while Billy believes he can fly but for now can only leap very great heights and that he can switch between his teenage self and superhero adult self by saying the word “Shazam!”. Billy tries using his powers to stop crime, but being unprofessional about it he doesn’t handle it very well rushing to the aid of a woman who didn’t need his help warding off a mugger after her purse and then shattering the window of a convenience store that was robbed by 2 masked men armed with guns who threatened the cashier.

Thaddeus arrives at his father’s workplace, an economically thriving conglomerate company called [=SIVANA INDUSTRIES=] to exact his revenge on his new billionaire yet elderly father for blaming him for the accident and neglecting him as a son as well as giving special treatment to his brother Sid. As Thad starts chiding his father, Sid threatens to kick him out physically. Thad with his newly gained powers throws his brother Sid out the window then unleashes the Seven Deadly Sins upon the Sivana Industries board of directors to devour and mutilate them. They save Thad’s father for last, who starts wailing for help. Unable to flee, Thad’s father starts bribing him with money and total control of the company in exchange for not killing him. Thad dismisses the bribe, chiding his father that money is what corrupted him in the first place and allows Greed to tear his father to shreds. Thad goes to hunt down the champion selected by the Wizard to inherit his powers.

Billy and Freddie both easily enjoy the new powers that were granted to Billy, using the powers to engage in adult-entertainment clubs, hacking [=ATM=]s for cash (buying luxuries such as televisions, strip clubs, buffalo wings and video games with the money), emptying out soda vending machines, doing people favors by charging their phones and overall keeping the city safe and free of crime. Billy and Freddie are now considering moving out of the orphanage to start their own lives in a new house. Then, when Freddie returns to school again being confronted by the Breyers, Billy does not come to school, and so Freddie is forced to fend for himself getting a “suitcase wedgie” from the bullies.

Freddie gets weary of Billy’s newfound arrogance with his powers and that Billy is now much more concerned about busking money from civilians he puts on a show for so as to preserve his newfound and luxurious lifestyle. Billy accidentally triggers a lightning bolt that strikes a bus’s wheels, forcing him to catch the bus with his own hands and bring it down onto the ground, with the bus passengers too traumatized to thank him for it. Freddie decides he’s better off without Billy and walks off, and as Billy tries calling him to return, he is approached by Thaddeus, who assaults him with punches. Billy does fight back, but Thaddeus proves to have the upper hand. Thaddeus grabs him and launches into the sky, chiding Billy for groveling like a child making Billy plead that he actually is a boy inside a man's body. Thad drops him and as Billy falls he develops the ability to fly but is tackled by Thaddeus repeatedly before they crash into a shopping mall where Freddie has gone off to. The shopping mall attendants flee and Billy turns off his Shazam-mode to blend in with the fleeing crowd so as to avoid Thad. Thad then notices Billy and Freddie communicating on a TV news station, and spots Freddie deducing that the two are friends. Thad takes Freddie hostage, and forces him to give up Billy’s location (the orphanage), where he takes the rest of the foster kids hostages to use them as bait for Billy.

Billy then arrives at the subsidized housing building where his mother, Marilyn, lives, and he tries reuniting with her before she rejects taking him in asserting that she deliberately left Billy back at the carnival because she felt she couldn’t parent him with all of her own problems. Billy walks away to return to the orphanage, but not before getting a phone call from Thad (through Freddie’s number) that he’s taken the orphanage kids hostage and that he must continue their brawl to save his foster siblings. Billy arrives and sees that Thaddeus is using the Seven Deadly Sins (in demon manifestation) to take the kids hostage. Thad forces Billy to return to the Rock of Eternity and pass on the Wizard’s powers down to him. Just as Billy is about to do so, Freddie tosses the Batarang at Thad’s head and Billy stabs Thad in the back with it, allowing him and the foster kids to escape after opening some wrong doors and find a door that leads them to the same strip club that Billy attended earlier for the hot wings, running into a carnival.

Thad gives chase to Billy who has run off to a carnival and because Billy won’t show himself in SHAZAM! form, Thad mercilessly attacks the carnival attendants to force Billy to come out of hiding as he figures Billy will fight for the innocent people. Thad sprays the carnival with lightning bolts, setting people ablaze on fire and electrocuting the same Ferris wheel that the Breyer brothers happen to be on, forcing them to hang on for dear life. Thad and the Demons once again catch the foster kids and hold them hostage but before Billy is forced to give up his powers this time, he instead swipes the staff out of Thad’s hands and swats him away with it, allowing him to transfer the powers into the foster siblings who are able to battle off the Demons and rescue the carnival attendants while Billy fights off Thad. Freddie also saves the Breyer bullies in time by giving them suitcase wedgies. Billy manages to goad Envy into leaving Thad, and expunges Envy with lightning and then saves Thad before he falls to death. As the foster siblings cannot defeat the Demons, Billy extracts the Eye from Thad and absorbs the Demons back in. The people all cheer for and salute the SHAZAM! family for saving the day. The SHAZAM! Family then return to the Rock of Eternity to return the Demons to their rightful places, and Billy goes back to attending school instead of playing hooky anymore.

In the cafeteria joining Shazam and Freddy for lunch is none other than Superman, just as Shazam promised to everybody’s awe. The ending credits animated sequence depicts the SHAZAM! family joining the Justice League, all the meanwhile besting and overpowering the Justice League in friendly contests such as arm-wrestling, racing and helming the Batmobile before Batman can.

While incarcerated, Thad tries writing out the formula on his cell walls that will restore his magical powers to help him escape his captivity. His black chalk snaps from overuse and he screams in anguish. But then he hears laughter. It’s coming from the green caterpillar-like creature wearing an audio speaker Mr. Mind, who asks Thad to calm down assuring him there are other means to regain his magic and that together they can claim the Seven Realms.

Fast forward to present-day 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a young boy (Billy Batson) tricks two police officers into walking into a store before locking them up so he can access their police cruiser’s database writing down information on “Rachel Batson”. Billy has a flashback to the last day he was with his mother: he was begging his mother Rachel to win him a stuffed tiger for a balloon dart game booth at a carnival, but instead only wins a compass. After losing the compass, he is separated from his mother and can’t find her at all, forcing him to summon the police. The police cannot find his mother, and send him to an orphanage. We then see that Billy did not find the correct “Rachel Batson” and is caught by the same police he deceived. Billy is running from every orphanage he is sent to, with his record going up to 23 now. He is brought to an orphanage run by the Vasquezs who are parenting the orphans Eugene Choi, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley and Pedro Pena and Freddie Freeman. Freddie becomes the most interactive with Billy, showing him around the school that the foster siblings attend.

Billy then arrives at the subsidized housing building where his mother lives, and he tries reuniting with her before she rejects taking him in asserting that she deliberately left Billy back at the carnival because she felt she couldn’t parent him with all of her own problems. Billy walks away to return to the orphanage, but not before getting a phone call from Thad (through Freddie’s number) that he’s taken the orphanage kids hostage and that he must continue their brawl to save his foster siblings. Billy arrives and sees that Thaddeus is using the Seven Deadly Sins (in demon manifestation) to take the kids hostage. Thad forces Billy to return to the Rock of Eternity and pass on the Wizard’s powers down to him. Just as Billy is about to do so, Freddie tosses the Batarang at Thad’s head and Billy stabs Thad in the back with it, allowing him and the foster kids to escape after opening some wrong doors and find a door that leads them to the same strip club that Billy attended earlier for the hot wings, running into a carnival.

Thaddeus arrives at his father’s workplace, an economically thriving conglomerate company called [=SIVANA INDUSTRIES=] to exact his revenge on his new billionaire yet elderly father for blaming him for the accident and neglecting him as a son as well as giving special treatment to his brother Sid. As Thad starts chiding his father, Sid threatens to kick him out physically. Thad with his newly gained powers throws his brother Sid out the window then unleashes the Seven Deadly Sins upon the Sivana Industries board of directors to devour and mutilate them. They save Thad’s father for last, who starts wailing for help. Unable to flee, Thad’s father starts bribing him with money and total control of the company in exchange for not killing him. Thad dismisses the bribe, and allows Greed to tear his father to shreds.

Fast forward to present-day 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a young boy (Billy Batson) tricks two police officers into walking into a store before locking them up so he can access their police cruiser’s database writing down information on “Rachel Batson”. Billy has a flashback to the last day he was with his mother: he was begging his mother Rachel to win him a stuffed tiger for a balloon dart game booth at a carnival, but instead only wins a compass. Then, he is separated from his mother and can’t find her at all, forcing him to summon the police. The police cannot find his mother, and send him to an orphanage. We then see that Billy did not find the correct “Rachel Batson” and is caught by the same police he deceived. Billy is running from every orphanage he is sent to, with his record going up to 23 now. He is brought to an orphanage run by the Vasquezs who are parenting the orphans Eugene Choi, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley and Pedro Pena and Freddie Freeman. Freddie becomes the most interactive with Billy, showing him around the school that the foster siblings attend.

Freddie gets weary of Billy’s newfound arrogance with his powers and that Billy is now much more concerned about busking money from civilians he puts on a show for so as to preserve his newfound and luxurious lifestyle. Billy accidentally triggers a lightning bolt that strikes a bus’s wheels, forcing him to catch the bus with his own hands and bring it down onto the ground, with the bus passengers too traumatized to thank him for it. Freddie decides he’s better off without Billy and walks off, and as Billy tries calling him to return, he is approached by Thaddeus, who assaults him with punches. Billy does fight back, but Thaddeus proves to have the upper hand. Thaddeus grabs him and launches into the sky, chiding Billy for groveling like a child making Billy plead that he actually is a boy inside a man's body. Thad drops him and as Billy falls he develops the ability to fly but is tackled by Thaddeus repeatedly before they crash into a shopping mall where Freddie has gone off to. The shopping mall attendants flee and Billy turns off his superhero-mode to blend in with the fleeing crowd so as to avoid Thad. Thad then notices Billy and Freddie communicating on a TV news station, and spots Freddie deducing that the two are friends. Thad takes Freddie hostage, and forces him to give up Billy’s location (the orphanage), where he takes the rest of the foster kids hostages to use them as bait for Billy.

Billy then arrives at his biological mother’s location, and he tries reuniting with her before she rejects taking him in asserting that she deliberately left Billy back at the carnival because she felt she couldn’t parent him with all of her own problems. Billy walks away to return to the orphanage, but not before getting a phone call from Thad (through Freddie’s number) that he’s taken the orphanage kids hostage and that he must continue their brawl to save his foster siblings. Billy arrives and sees that Thaddeus is using the Seven Deadly Sins (in demon manifestation) to take the kids hostage. Thad forces Billy to return to the Rock of Eternity and pass on the Wizard’s powers down to him. Just as Billy is about to do so, Freddie tosses the Batarang at Thad’s head and Billy stabs Thad in the back with it, allowing him and the foster kids to escape after opening some wrong doors and find a door that leads them to the same strip club that Billy attended earlier for the hot wings, running into a carnival.

Billy and Freddie both easily enjoy the new powers that were granted to Billy, using the powers to engage in adult-entertainment clubs, hacking [=ATM=]s for cash (buying luxuries such as televisions, nude bars, buffalo wings and video games with the money), emptying out soda vending machines, doing people favors by charging their phones and overall keeping the city safe and free of crime. Billy and Freddie are now considering moving out of the orphanage to start their own lives in a new house. Then, when Freddie returns to school again being confronted by the Breyers, Billy does not come to school, and so Freddie is forced to fend for himself getting a “suitcase wedgie” from the bullies.

Thaddeus arrives at his father’s workplace, an economically thriving conglomerate company called [=SIVANA INDUSTRIES=] to exact his revenge on his new billionaire yet elderly father for blaming him for the accident and neglecting him as a son as well as giving special treatment to his brother Sid. As Thad starts chiding his father, Sid threatens to kick him out physically. Thad with his newly gained powers throws his brother Sid out the window then unleashes the Seven Deadly Sins upon the Sivana Industries chairman to devour and mutilate them. They save Thad’s father for last, who starts wailing for help. Unable to flee, Thad’s father starts bribing him with money and total control of the company in exchange for not killing him. Thad dismisses the bribe, and allows Greed to tear his father to shreds.

Billy and Freddie both easily enjoy the new powers that were granted to Billy, using the powers to engage in adult-entertainment clubs, hacking [=ATM=]s for cash (buying luxuries such as televisions and video games with the money), emptying out soda vending machines, doing people favors by charging their phones and overall keeping the city safe and free of crime. Billy and Freddie are now considering moving out of the orphanage to start their own lives in a new house. Then, when Freddie returns to school again being confronted by the Breyers, Billy does not come to school, and so Freddie is forced to fend for himself getting a “suitcase wedgie” from the bullies.

Freddie gets weary of Billy’s newfound arrogance with his powers and that Billy is now much more concerned about collecting money from civilians he puts on a show for so as to preserve his luxurious lifestyle. Billy accidentally triggers a lightning bolt that strikes a bus’s wheels, forcing him to catch the bus with his own hands and bring it down onto the ground, with the bus passengers too traumatized to thank him for it. Freddie decides he’s better off without Billy and walks off, and as Billy tries calling him to return, he is approached by Thaddeus, who assaults him with punches. Billy does fight back, but Thaddeus proves to have the upper hand. Thaddeus grabs him and launches into the sky, and as Billy falls he develops the ability to fly but is tackled by Thaddeus repeatedly before they crash into a shopping mall where Freddie has gone off to. The shopping mall attendants flee and Billy turns off his superhero-mode to blend in with the fleeing crowd so as to avoid Thad. Thad then notices Billy and Freddie communicating on a TV news station, and spots Freddie deducing that the two are friends. Thad takes Freddie hostage, and forces him to give up Billy’s location (the orphanage).

Billy then arrives at his biological mother’s location, and he tries reuniting with her before she rejects taking him in asserting that she deliberately left Billy back at the carnival because she felt she couldn’t parent him with all of her own problems. Billy walks away to return to the orphanage, but not before getting a phone call from Thad (through Freddie’s number) that he’s taken the orphanage kids hostage and that he must continue their physical brawl to save his foster siblings. Billy arrives and sees that Thaddeus is using the Seven Deadly Sins (in demon manifestation) to take the kids hostage. Thad forces Billy to return to the Rock of Eternity and pass on the Wizard’s powers down to him. Just as Billy is about to do so, Freddie tosses the Batarang at Thad’s head and Billy stabs Thad in the back with it, allowing him and the foster kids to escape after opening some wrong doors and find a door that leads them to the same strip club that Billy attended earlier for the hot wings, running into a carnival.

In the cafeteria joining Shazam and Freddy for lunch is none other than Superman, just as Shazam promised to everybody’s surprise. The ending credits animated sequence depicts the SHAZAM! family joining the Justice League, all the meanwhile besting and overpowering the Justice League in friendly contests such as arm-wrestling, racing and helming the Batmobile before Batman can.

While incarcerated, Thad tries writing out the formula on his cell walls that will restore his magical powers to help him escape his captivity. His black chalk snaps from overuse and he screams in anguish. But then he hears laughter. It’s coming from a green caterpillar-like creature wearing an audio speaker (Mr. Mind), who asks Thad to calm down assuring there are other means to regain his magic and that together they can claim the Seven Realms.

In 1974, a young boy named Thaddeus Sivana is in the car with his uncaring, cold-hearted father and cruel brother Sid who both openly express disdain towards him. Sid picks on Thad for believing in the luck of a Magic 8 Ball. Suddenly, Sivana while in the car is suddenly alone and the car is moving at a hyper speed to the point Sivana is terrified and has no idea where he’s headed for. When the car stops, he exits to find himself in a dark underground cave setting and is approached by an elderly bearded man, who happens to be a powerful wizard, sitting on a throne who asks if he is worthy to become his new successor. The elderly wizard is being burdened by the Seven Deadly Sins, who reside right next to his throne and that he must find someone worthy who can ward of all sins to become his successor. Thad gives in to the Sins' temptations that he take the Eye of Sin instead of the staff, and because he chooses the Eye he is disqualified, making the wizard launch him back into the car with his father and brother. There, Thad screams over being rejected wishing to return and his father is distracted, causing them to collide with another car and his father is left paralyzed as a result. Sid blames Thad for the incident. Thad angrily denies his father’s accident is his fault. Thad then finds his 8 Ball telling him "Find Us", coming from the Seven Sins.

In 1974, a young boy named Thaddeus Sivana is in the car with his uncaring, cold-hearted father and cruel brother Sid who both openly express disdain towards him. Sid picks on Thad for believing in the luck of a Magic 8 Ball. Suddenly, Sivana while in the car is suddenly alone and the car is moving at a hyper speed to the point Sivana is terrified and has no idea where he’s headed for. When the car stops, he exits to find himself in a dark underground cave setting and is approached by an elderly bearded man, who happens to be a powerful wizard, sitting on a throne who asks if he is worthy to become his new successor. The elderly wizard is being burdened by the Seven Deadly Sins, who reside right next to his throne and that he must find someone worthy who can ward of all sins to become his successor. Thad gives in to the Sins' temptations that he take the Eye of Sin instead of the staff, and because he chooses the Eye he is disqualified, making the wizard launch him back into the car with his father and brother. There, Thad screams over being rejected wishing to return and his father is distracted, causing them to collide with another car and his father is left paralyzed as a result. Sid blames Thad for the incident. Thad angrily denies his father’s accident is his fault. Sid then finds his 8 Ball telling him "Find Us", coming from the Seven Sins.

In 1974, a young boy named Thaddeus Sivana is in the car with his uncaring, cold-hearted father and cruel brother Sid who both openly express disdain towards him. Suddenly, Sivana while in the car is suddenly alone and the car is moving at a hyper speed to the point Sivana is terrified and has no idea where he’s headed for. When the car stops, he exits to find himself in a dark underground cave setting and is approached by an elderly bearded man, who happens to be a powerful wizard, sitting on a throne who asks if he is worthy to become his new successor. The elderly wizard is being burdened by the Seven Deadly Sins, who reside right next to his throne and that he must find someone worthy who can ward of all sins to become his successor. Thad gives in to the Sins' temptations that he take the Eye of Sin instead of the staff, and because he chooses the Eye he is disqualified, making the wizard launch him back into the car with his father and brother. There, Thad screams over being rejected wishing to return and his father is distracted, causing them to collide with another car and his father is left paralyzed as a result. Sid blames Thad for the incident. Thad angrily denies his father’s accident is his fault.

A now grown-up Thaddeus Sivana, exacting revenge on the Wizard and his father and brother, draws up equations that allow him to return to the Rock of Eternity (The cave lair that the Wizard was in), where he steals the Eye of Sin (allowing him to gain command of the Seven Deadly Sins so he may unleash them upon humanity). Gaining the Eye allows Thad to collect magic powers of destruction (and as a minor bonus, it even cures him of his impaired vision that required him to wear glasses) As retribution for rejecting him to collect all 6 of his powers, Thaddeus shocks the Wizard with his own lightning ignoring the Wizard’s pleas not to spread the Sins to humanity. Thad retorts that when it comes to finding a successor for the Wizard who is pure-of-heart, “No one’s worthy!”

In 1974, a young boy named Thaddeus Sivana is in the car with his uncaring, cold-hearted father and cruel brother Sid who both openly express disdain towards him. Suddenly, Sivana while in the car is suddenly alone and the car is moving at a hyper speed to the point Sivana is terrified and has no idea where he’s headed for. When the car stops, he exits to find himself in a dark underground cave setting and is approached by an elderly bearded man, who happens to be a powerful wizard, sitting on a throne who asks if he is worthy to become his new successor. The elderly wizard is being burdened by the Seven Deadly Sins, who reside right next to his throne and that he must find someone worthy who can ward of all sins to become his successor. Thad gives in to the temptations of the Sins, and so he is disqualified, making the wizard throw him back into the car with his father and brother. There, Thad screams over being rejected wishing to return and his father is distracted, causing them to collide with another car and his father is left paralyzed as a result. Sid blames Thad for the incident. Thad angrily denies his father’s accident is his fault.

In the cafeteria joining Shazam and Freddy for lunch is none other than Superman, just as Shazam promised to everybody’s surprise.