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| 6 | Enemies faced by Champions who have been blessed with the powers of SHAZAM. |
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| 12 | !!Introduced in ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' |
| 13 | [[folder:Doctor Sivana]] |
| 14 | !!''Doctor Thaddeus Sivana'' |
| 15 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drsivana.jpg]] |
| 16 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"You will beg for mercy, as I feast on your heart!"'']] |
| 17 | !!!'''Species:''' Empowered human |
| 18 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 19 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Sivana Industries, The Seven Deadly Sins (as their champion) |
| 20 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MarkStrong, Ethan Pugiotto (young) |
| 21 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (Japanese, adult), Sara Matsumoto (Japanese, young), Creator/EricHersonMacarel (European French), Patrick Chouinard (Canadian French), Hércules Franco (Brazilian Portuguese) |
| 22 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' | ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' [[note]] In TheStinger [[/note]] |
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| 24 | ->''"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."'' |
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| 26 | 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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| 29 | * AbledInTheAdaptation: 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. [[spoiler:Until he is [[DePower depowered]] by Shazam and goes back to wearing his glasses.]] |
| 30 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: 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. |
| 31 | ** 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. [[spoiler:In fact, his original eye even grows back once he's depowered.]] |
| 32 | * AdaptationalBadass: Doctor Sivana in the comics is a non-combatant MadScientist who never fights, which means he's a definite VillainousUnderdog against someone like Captain Marvel/Shazam. Doctor Sivana here however, catches a punch by the KidHero with no effort, which should tell you ''a lot'' about how powerful this version is. Aside from SuperStrength, he has a form of {{Telekinesis}}, has mastered the power of {{Flight}}, and can toss [[ShockAndAwe lightning bolts]]. [[spoiler:However, he's {{Depower}}ed when the Sins are resealed.]] |
| 33 | * AdaptationalSympathy: 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. |
| 34 | * AdaptationalWimp: 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 [[spoiler:Mister Mind]] coming to his aid. |
| 35 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: When he made his debut in the comics, Dr. Sivana was simply a StarterVillain 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. |
| 36 | * AdaptedOut: 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. |
| 37 | * AmbitionIsEvil: 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. |
| 38 | * BadassInANiceSuit: The adult Thaddeus is always seen clad in an immaculate business suit, topped off with a... |
| 39 | * BadassLongcoat: He wears a black leather longcoat with a [[FurAndLoathing fur collar]] once he grows fully into his villainous role. |
| 40 | * BaldOfEvil: Both due to the comics and due to the actor's trademark baldness. |
| 41 | * BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler: Sports one in the second film due to his incarceration. ]] |
| 42 | * BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: He's introduced as a bullied child. By the third act, he's now the one bullying kids. |
| 43 | * BerserkButton: 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. [[spoiler:Later on, he takes sadistic pleasure in taunting/threatening Billy's foster siblings.]] |
| 44 | * BigBad: Sivana is the cause of the villainy and conflict in ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'', with the Seven Deadly Sins serving as his minions. Although they are crucially responsible for corrupting him into villainy, they obey his orders. |
| 45 | * BlackSheep: Sivana's TheUnfavorite 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. |
| 46 | * BreakingSpeech: |
| 47 | ** 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. |
| 48 | ** He gives a few of these to Billy, in an attempt to shake him or demean him. |
| 49 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Once Billy gets the upper hand in their climactic battle, he pulls the Eye of Sin out of Sivana's socket, rendering him powerless. |
| 50 | * BulletCatch: 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. |
| 51 | * TheBully: 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. |
| 52 | * BullyingTheDisabled: Sivana intimidates Freddy Freeman by yanking him by the scruff of his neck. |
| 53 | * ButtMonkey: 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. |
| 54 | * CainAndAbel: Sivana's hatred for his brother (his father's clear favorite) has culminated with murder. |
| 55 | * ChildHater: 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. |
| 56 | * TheChosenWannabe: 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. |
| 57 | * ColdHam: 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. |
| 58 | * TheComicallySerious: Dr. Sivana is completely humorless, but can be subjected to this when fighting Billy at the toy store as Billy throws toys at him [[ImplacableMan advancing to no avail]], first interrogating Freddy who hysterically thinks he will read his mind and finally trying to spout EvilGloating in the final battle despite being far away and Billy unable to hear him from a distance. |
| 59 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 60 | ** With his dark clothing, super strength, flight and electrical powers; Dr. Sivana takes inspiration from Black Adam. |
| 61 | ** [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 62 | ** His darker wardrobe and less cartoony appearance are similar to the Dr. Sivana seen in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters''. |
| 63 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To both the villains of the previous DCEU film ''Film/Aquaman2018'': |
| 64 | ** 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 [[spoiler:Mister Mind.]] |
| 65 | ** 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. |
| 66 | * CorruptedCharacterCopy: Dr. Sivana could easily be compared to [[Characters/HarryPotterHarryJamesPotter 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. |
| 67 | * CursedWithAwesome: 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. |
| 68 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: 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. |
| 69 | * DarkerAndEdgier: 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 KnightOfCerebus, managing to make such conventionally funny moments like getting punched in the groin or stepping on a floor piano seem devoid of comedy. |
| 70 | * DarkIsEvil: 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. |
| 71 | * DealWithTheDevil: 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. |
| 72 | * DecoyProtagonist: 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. |
| 73 | * DemonHead: 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. |
| 74 | * DemonicPossession: 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, [[spoiler: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. |
| 75 | * DePower: [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 76 | * DestinationDefenestration: 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. |
| 77 | * DisabilityNegatingSuperpower: 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. |
| 78 | * DisproportionateRetribution: 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 [[BoardToDeath having the other board members killed]], [[MisplacedRetribution even though they haven't done anything wrong to him]]. |
| 79 | * TheDogBitesBack: 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. |
| 80 | * DragonInChief: The ''de facto'' main antagonist, but is the champion to the Seven Deadly Sins, [[spoiler:who ultimately view him as a means to an end, but his scheming is their only hope of being unleashed into the world.]] |
| 81 | * DrivenByEnvy: 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. |
| 82 | * EurekaMoment: 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. |
| 83 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 84 | ** To Billy Batson. Both of them had troubles with families (Billy being separated by his mother, Sivana growing up with an abusive father and BigBrotherBully), 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. |
| 85 | ** 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. |
| 86 | * EvilGloating: 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 GenericDoomsdayVillain lines. |
| 87 | * EvilIsPetty: |
| 88 | ** He wants to be the most powerful being on earth, just for his own pleasure and satisfaction. |
| 89 | ** 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. |
| 90 | * EvilSoundsDeep: He's a supervillain with Mark Strong's commanding voice. |
| 91 | * EyeScream: 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. [[spoiler:In TheStinger, it is shown that he still has his regular eye, though the scar is still present]]. |
| 92 | * EvilPlan: 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. |
| 93 | * EvilSorcerer: After getting the Eye of Sin, he gains the capacity to channel the Seven Deadly Sins' magic to great effect. |
| 94 | * FailedAttemptAtDrama: At one point during their final showdown, Sivana goes on an extended MotiveRant mixed with EvilGloating 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). |
| 95 | * FatalFlaw: 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. [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 96 | * FauxAffablyEvil: |
| 97 | ** 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. |
| 98 | --->'''Sivana:''' ''(referring to the Vasquez household)'' Oh, how quaint. ''[{{beat}}]'' Actually, I take that back. What a shithole. |
| 99 | ** 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. |
| 100 | * FlyingBrick: 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. |
| 101 | * {{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. |
| 102 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: Sivana has been wearing glasses since he was a child and has zero empathy for anyone. |
| 103 | * FreudianExcuse: 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. |
| 104 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Started off as a shy, nerdy kid who was picked on by his brother and father, but later becomes a PsychopathicManchild who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, and gains the same powers as Shazam. |
| 105 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: He acquires nasty scars around his eye after the Eye of Sin lodges itself into his eye. |
| 106 | * GreenEyedMonster: Although Sivana gets his powers from the SevenDeadlySins, 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. [[spoiler:Appropriately, Envy is the only demon he never explicitly summons himself, only being coaxed out after Billy taunts said demon.]] |
| 107 | * HateAtFirstSight: 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. |
| 108 | * HealingFactor: Sivana relies on this trope as he somehow lacks Shazam's NighInvulnerability (a ''replica Batarang'' somehow leaves a mark on him, twice). [[spoiler:As it turns out this is zigzagged, when empowered by the seven deadly sins he has NighInvulnerability 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.]] |
| 109 | * TheHeavy: While the Sins are the greater threats, Sivana's rampage and quest for revenge receives more prominence. |
| 110 | * HellBentForLeather: Sivana starts wearing a leather trench coat once he becomes a super-villain, [[FurAndLoathing complete with a fur collar]]. |
| 111 | * HotterAndSexier: In the comics he was a withered-up MadScientist. Here he is young enough to have a living father and is considerably handsome. |
| 112 | * {{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. |
| 113 | * IfICantHaveYou: 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. |
| 114 | * {{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. |
| 115 | * ItMustBeMine: 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. |
| 116 | * ItsAllAboutMe: 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. |
| 117 | * IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: Sivana's strategy to draw out Billy is to take his foster-siblings hostage or wreak havoc on innocent civilians. |
| 118 | * LackOfEmpathy: 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. |
| 119 | * LaserGuidedKarma: 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. |
| 120 | * LogicalWeakness: He gets his powers from being possessed by the SevenDeadlySins, and can release all seven of them into physical manifestations. [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 121 | * MadScientist: 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. |
| 122 | * Magic8Ball: 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. |
| 123 | * MagicalEye: The Eye of Sin, a magical GlassEye that serves as the source of his power, the conduit of the Sins. |
| 124 | * MagicStaff: He possesses Shazam's staff for most of the climax to force Billy to give him the power, only for [[spoiler:Billy to steal it and instead use it to empower his foster siblings.]] |
| 125 | * MagicVersusScience: 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. |
| 126 | * AMinorKidroduction: He's introduced as a child, which gives his eventual turn to villainy some perspective. |
| 127 | * MisplacedRetribution: |
| 128 | ** When Dr. Sivana is seeking his vengeance, he ends up killing many innocent bystanders who have never wronged him. |
| 129 | ** 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. |
| 130 | ** 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. |
| 131 | --->'''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. |
| 132 | * MissingMom: 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. |
| 133 | * MissionCreep: 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. [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 134 | * MoneyIsNotPower: 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. |
| 135 | -->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. |
| 136 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: ''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. |
| 137 | * MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: The Dr. Sivana in the comics wears a white doctor's gown due to being a stock-standard MadScientist. 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. |
| 138 | * NeverMyFault: 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 [[{{Irony}} 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 [[TheSocialDarwinist instead of making Thaddeus stand up for himself and blaming the victim for his treatment]]. |
| 139 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: 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. |
| 140 | * NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: 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. |
| 141 | * NotGoodWithRejection: The first thing Sivana does after acquiring the Eye of Sin is mortally wound Shazam for giving him the flick over 40 years ago. |
| 142 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler:He has one when he realizes Billy's taunts are getting to Envy, and a ''bigger'' one when Envy leaves him and he nearly [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death as a result.]]]] |
| 143 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: The Sivana family and Thaddeus himself when he was younger are American, but Mark Strong's accent is definitely shaky. |
| 144 | * OtherworldlyVisitsYoungestFirst: 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. |
| 145 | * {{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. |
| 146 | * PerpetualFrowner: 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. |
| 147 | * PowerMisidentification: 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. |
| 148 | * PsychoElectro: Sivana can throw lightning bolts and he's a supervillain. |
| 149 | * PsychopathicManchild: 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. |
| 150 | * PunchCatch: Sivana grabs Billy's fist when he tries to deliver a punch, much to the hero's surprise. Followed immediately by a NeckLift. |
| 151 | * PutOnAPrisonBus: Once Billy strips him of his powers, Dr. Sivana is sent to prison, [[spoiler:but Mister Mind tracks Sivana down and it's implied he'll break Sivana out. Though TheStinger 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.]] |
| 152 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: 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. |
| 153 | * RedRightHand: He is one-eyed and has a nasty scar underneath his magical eye. [[spoiler: These are healed when he loses the Eye of Sin.]] |
| 154 | * RefusedByTheCall: 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. |
| 155 | * RoomFullOfCrazy: [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 156 | * ScarsAreForever: Averted. The scar that appears over Sivana's eye goes away once he loses the power of the Seven Sins. |
| 157 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Sivana orders Greed to murder his father. An alternate scene shows him killing his mother along with his father. |
| 158 | * ShabbyHeroesWellDressedVillains: 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. |
| 159 | * SharpDressedMan: Sivana wears a pretty nice suit and leather coat when he becomes a full-on supervillain. |
| 160 | * ShootingSuperman: PlayedForLaughs when Billy tries fighting Sivana by chucking toys at him. |
| 161 | * SiblingMurder: Sivana murders his own brother after being empowered by the Seven Deadly Sins. |
| 162 | * SinisterShades: He normally wears glasses, but after getting the Eye of Sin placed in his right eye he starts wearing sunglasses to hide it. |
| 163 | * SmugSuper: 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. |
| 164 | * TheSociopath: Sivana doesn't bat an eye over any of the people he has killed. He'll go as far as [[WouldHurtAChild 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. |
| 165 | * SoftSpokenSadist: Sivana hardly ever raises his voice when threatening others, making him all the more intimidating. |
| 166 | * SquishyWizard: 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. |
| 167 | * StarterVillain: Just like in the ''SHAZAM!'' comics, Dr. Sivana is the first supervillain Billy Batson has to defeat. |
| 168 | * StartOfDarkness: 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. |
| 169 | * SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: 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. |
| 170 | * SuperStrength: Once Dr. Sivana is empowered by the Seven Deadly Sins, his strength is on par with Billy in his superhero form. |
| 171 | * TakeOverTheWorld: 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”. |
| 172 | * TalkToTheFist: 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. |
| 173 | * TerminatorImpersonator: 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. |
| 174 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: 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. |
| 175 | * TheUnfavourite: |
| 176 | ** 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. |
| 177 | ** 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. |
| 178 | ** 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. |
| 179 | * TheUnfettered: 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 TheStinger implies he'll team up with Mr Mind and cause further chaos. |
| 180 | * UnwittingPawn: PlayedWith. Both Billy and the Wizard Shazam tell him that the SevenDeadlySins 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. [[spoiler:Sure enough, when Billy goads Envy enough, it leaps out and leaves Sivana powerless and almost falling to his death.]] |
| 181 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Sivana used to be a polite, sensitive boy before his rejection by Shazam and the car accident turned him into a villainous MadScientist. It's worth noting that, at some point, Shazam's magic deemed him [[spoiler:worthy enough to be a ''contender'' as a champion, even though Shazam himself ultimately didn't deem him completely pure enough.]] |
| 182 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: 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 PunchCatch he performs on Billy signals that shit's about to get real following Billy's funny DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength and HowDoIShotWeb antics, and Sivana utterly trashes him. |
| 183 | * VillainHasAPoint: 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. |
| 184 | ** 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. |
| 185 | *** 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. |
| 186 | *** This is proven to be true even InUniverse as the wizard resorted to Billy, not because he was pure enough, but out of desperation. Billy is far from an IdealHero 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. |
| 187 | ** 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. |
| 188 | ** 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. |
| 189 | ** 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? |
| 190 | * TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: It takes Sivana less than an hour to figure out where Billy Batson lives after their first confrontation. [[spoiler: Part of this is because he caught a TV showing Shazam and Freddy together and capturing Freddy easily.]]. |
| 191 | * VillainOpeningScene: ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' begins with the defining point of his childhood before shifting focus to Billy Batson. |
| 192 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Getting Shazam's power stolen from him by a child and given to other children (note his status as a ChildHater), 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.]] |
| 193 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: 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. |
| 194 | * WillingChanneler: The Eye of Sin allows him to house the SevenDeadlySins inside his body and he needs at least one of them in there to access any kind of power. |
| 195 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: 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. |
| 196 | * WouldHurtAChild: Considering his nemesis, it's obvious he has no issue with bringing harm to Billy or any member of his foster family. |
| 197 | * YankTheDogsChain: 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. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:The Seven Deadly Sins]] |
| 201 | !!''The Seven Deadly Sins - Pride, Envy, Greed, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, and Lust'' |
| 202 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2020_07_19_shazam_beginning_scene_part_1_1080p_0.jpg]] |
| 203 | [[caption-width-right:350:''[[AC: DON'T BE HIS CHAMPION. WE CAN GIVE YOU POWER. TAKE THE EYE.]]'']] |
| 204 | !!!'''Species:''' Demons |
| 205 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/SteveBlum, Creator/FredTatasciore, Creator/DarinDePaul |
| 206 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' | ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 207 | |
| 208 | ->''[[AC: YOU NEVER FOUND YOUR CHAMPION. BUT WE FOUND OURS!]]'' |
| 209 | |
| 210 | Seven powerful demons based on the SevenDeadlySins. 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". |
| 211 | ---- |
| 212 | * AdaptationalUgliness: The New 52 version of Pride resembled TheVamp, 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. |
| 213 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Their purpose is to cause destruction in the world. |
| 214 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: They are quite literally the physical embodiment of sin itself. |
| 215 | * ArtifactOfAttraction: The Eye of Sin tempts people into becoming a vessel. Sivana was drawn to it, while [[spoiler:Billy revealed that he could resist it]]. |
| 216 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: |
| 217 | ** 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. |
| 218 | ** Wrath is bulked up and always snarling and is the most combative and confrontational of the bunch. |
| 219 | ** 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. |
| 220 | ** Greed has four arms, more arms than is necessary and also useful for grabbing as much as it desires. |
| 221 | ** Gluttony is revoltingly obese and has a mouth that opens from his face to his belly. |
| 222 | ** 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. |
| 223 | ** 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 [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 224 | * BerserkButton: 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. |
| 225 | * TheBrute: Pretty much all of them are brutish, but Wrath is most likely to do the villainous heavy lifting. |
| 226 | * ButtMonkey: During the fight with [[spoiler:the Shazam Family]], Lust was pushed out of the way by Wrath and then later by Pride. |
| 227 | * CastingGag: Envy is voiced by Steven Blum, who previously portrayed Starscream, a character himself so DrivenByEnvy he became a trope. |
| 228 | * ChekhovsGun: They are tied to the Orb of Sin, a GlassEye that can be used to imprison or free them. |
| 229 | * CombatTentacles: Sloth's arms are made of tentacles. |
| 230 | * TheCorrupter: 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. |
| 231 | * TheDividual: With the possible exception of Envy, none of them seem to have much in the way of differing personalities. |
| 232 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lust threatens Darla -- a ''child'' -- with its phallic tongue. |
| 233 | * ElementalMotifs: While Shazam is affiliated with lightning and electricity, the Seven Sins are affiliated with clouds and smoke. |
| 234 | * EmbodimentOfVice: Downplayed. Their titles are more descriptors of their personalities rather than indicative of their powers. |
| 235 | * EvilIsPetty: 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. |
| 236 | * EvilSoundsDeep: As one might guess from their three voice actors, their voices are appropriately demonic. |
| 237 | * {{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 ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''. |
| 238 | * FalseFriend: To Sivana. They gave him magical power, but he's not worth anything to them beyond being used as a channel. |
| 239 | * FatBastard: Sloth and especially Gluttony are the fattest of the Sins. |
| 240 | * GreaterScopeVillain: 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. |
| 241 | * HeroKiller: A DeletedScene reveals that they killed off the Council of Wizards shortly before Shazam imprisoned them. |
| 242 | * InvincibleVillain: They're personifications of the SevenDeadlySins 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. |
| 243 | * KillerGorilla: Wrath strongly resembles a gorilla, especially how he carries his upper body weight on his knuckles. |
| 244 | * LeakingCanOfEvil: While the Sins are imprisoned, they can still speak and tempt potential hosts into unleashing them. |
| 245 | * ManipulativeBastard: 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. |
| 246 | * MomentOfWeakness: 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. |
| 247 | * MoreThanMindControl: The Wizard Shazam warns that the Sins will use Sivana as their personal vessel as they wreck havoc on Earth. Sivana's ascension to BigBad 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. |
| 248 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: |
| 249 | ** Greed has four arms which is fitting considering what he represents. |
| 250 | ** Sloth can transform his arms into multiple tentacles. |
| 251 | * TheNapoleon: Envy is the smallest of the Sins and Billy gets him to come out of Sivana by calling him a cowardly runt. |
| 252 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: Yeah, Nice Job Leaving Your Host in the final battle, Envy! |
| 253 | * ObviouslyEvil: Their demonic appearance should be obvious they're not friendly at all. |
| 254 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: Each of the demons varies in appearance and are the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification physical manifestations]] of the Seven Deadly Sins. |
| 255 | * OverlyLongTongue: Gluttony and Lust have very long tongues. |
| 256 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: Supposedly killed millions of people and destroyed entire civilizations the last time they were set loose upon the world. |
| 257 | * PowersViaPossession: When they possess Sivana, they grant him the same powers as Shazam -- SuperStrength, NighInvulnerability, SuperSpeed, {{Flight}}, and [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Bolts]]. [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 258 | * PrimalStance: 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. |
| 259 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: They all have red eyes to support the demon motif. |
| 260 | * TheRuntAtTheEnd: 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. |
| 261 | * ScaryTeeth: Being demons, they all have long sharp teeth. |
| 262 | * SevenDeadlySins: They're entirely based on this idea of seven kinds of sins and have appropriate forms to go with this. |
| 263 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Downplayed. Despite them being one of the main antagonists, they only appear in one of the teasers as their statue forms. |
| 264 | * SlasherSmile: Lust and Gluttony's faces are permanently fixed in this expression. |
| 265 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Wrath and Envy are covered in thorny protrusions. |
| 266 | * SuperEmpowering: The Sins can give their vessels all kinds of superpowers so long as at least one of them resides in their host. |
| 267 | * SuperSmoke: When Billy tries to fight Wrath, he turns himself into smoke to avoid getting hit. |
| 268 | * TakenForGranite: 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. |
| 269 | * TentacledTerror: Sloth has some prominent tentacles and Lust's tongue has polyps on its underside resembling an octopus limb. |
| 270 | * TheVamp: 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. |
| 271 | * VillainDecay: InUniverse, 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. |
| 272 | ** In the second film, they are seen still trapped in the Rock of Eternity, only to suffer being covered in graffiti and swag. |
| 273 | * WingedHumanoid: Pride has wings and is the only sin that can fly. |
| 274 | * WolverineClaws: Pride can grow out his talons. |
| 275 | -->'''Freddy:''' Well, that's just terrifying. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Mister Mind]] |
| 279 | !!''Mister Mind'' |
| 280 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrmind.jpg]] |
| 281 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"[[BadassBoast 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!"'']] |
| 282 | !!!'''Species:''' Venusian worm |
| 283 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Venusian |
| 284 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DavidFSandberg |
| 285 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' [[note]] In TheStinger [[/note]] | ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' [[note]] In TheStinger [[/note]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | ->''"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."'' |
| 288 | |
| 289 | A highly intelligent alien caterpillar who was imprisoned at the Rock of Eternity and managed to break free. |
| 290 | ---- |
| 291 | * BadassBoast: He gets a pretty impressive boast in during his EstablishingCharacterMoment: |
| 292 | -->'''Dr. Sivana:''' What in God's name...?\ |
| 293 | '''Mister Mind:''' I name the gods, Doctor, not the other way around. |
| 294 | * ChekhovsGunman: 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. |
| 295 | * CreatorCameo: He is voiced by the director of ''SHAZAM!'', David F. Sandberg. |
| 296 | * EvilLaugh: He gives off several pretty menacing ones while speaking of his plans to Sivana. |
| 297 | * EvilSoundsDeep: The communicator he wears gives him a deep, gravelly voice that's all the more jarring for his diminuitive size. |
| 298 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Mr Mind speaks in a polite tone but there's a definite menace to his words and behavior. |
| 299 | * GreenAndMean: Being an alien bug who has a low opinion of humanity, this was inevitable. |
| 300 | * InsectoidAliens: He's an alien worm from the planet Venus. |
| 301 | * LargeHam: Sandberg is clearly having a blast voicing the alien worm. |
| 302 | * LogicalWeakness: 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. |
| 303 | * LongLived: 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. |
| 304 | * NoodleIncident: The circumstances behind his capture and eventual escape aren't explained, since he's an OutsideGenreFoe with little influence on the main conflict. |
| 305 | * NotSoAboveItAll: 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: |
| 306 | -->"...It takes me a very long time to ''get'' places, okay?! [[MythologyGag I do not have legs. I do not have wings.]] I just slither around, endlessly." |
| 307 | * RadioVoice: Speaks via a communicator, giving him one of these. |
| 308 | * RiddleForTheAges: 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. |
| 309 | * SonOfAnApe: Mr Mind refers to humans as "walking talking monkeys". |
| 310 | * StarfishAliens: An oversized caterpillar intelligent enough to patronise a human with a doctorate that requires a communication device. |
| 311 | * TheUnfought: 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. |
| 312 | * VocalDissonance: Justified since he's speaking through a machine, but correlating David Sandberg's voice with an alien worm is jarring to say the least. |
| 313 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about his appearance without mentioning that [[spoiler:Doctor Sivana is in prison]] at the end of the film. |
| 314 | * WeCanRuleTogether: Gives Sivana this offer after showing up. Given what happens in the comics, it's a ForegoneConclusion that Sivana accepts, even though we don't see it happen. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | !!Introduced in ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:SABBAC]] |
| 320 | !!''Ishmael/SABBAC'' |
| 321 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230112_015521_youtube.jpg]] |
| 322 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Let the fate of Kahndaq be decided by a true battle of Champions!"'']] |
| 323 | [[quoteright:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Ishmael]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230112_014441_youtube.jpg ''"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."''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 324 | !!!'''Species:''' Empowered human |
| 325 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Kahndaqi |
| 326 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Kahndaq's Royal Family, Intergang, Demon Lords |
| 327 | !!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarwanKenzari |
| 328 | !!!'''Dubbed by:''' Christian Strempler (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/YasuyukiKase (Japanese) |
| 329 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''ComicBook/BlackAdamTheJusticeSocietyFiles''[[note]]Doctor Fate's vision[[/note]] | ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' |
| 330 | |
| 331 | ->''"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."'' |
| 332 | |
| 333 | 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. |
| 334 | ---- |
| 335 | * AdaptationalNationality: 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 AdaptationalNameChange. |
| 336 | * ActorAllusion: Once again, Marwan Kenzari plays [[Film/Aladdin2019 a power-hungry treacherous Arabian man that become a giant redskinned devil when he achieves ultimate power]]. |
| 337 | * TheAntichrist: SABBAC's an avatar for the forces of Hell whose aesthetic resembles a devilish version of Jesus (spiked crown, loincloth and scarred body), [[spoiler: he resurrects after wearing a crown]] and he appears as the BigBad in Doctor Fate's vision of a world gone to Hell. |
| 338 | * BeardOfEvil: SABBAC has a goatee. His [=McFarlane=] figurine is clean-shaven though. |
| 339 | * BeastOfTheApocalypse: 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. |
| 340 | * BeyondRedemption: 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. [[spoiler: Note how when Black Adam's lightning surge killed Ishmael the first time, ''none'' of the Justice Society tried to protect him.]] |
| 341 | * BigBad: 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. |
| 342 | * BigRedDevil: Having infernal powers bestowed onto Ishmael turns him into one, due in no part to the fact that [[spoiler: his human form was fried to a crisp]]. |
| 343 | * BlingOfWar: SABBAC wears numerous gold trinkets. |
| 344 | * ChestInsignia: SABBAC has a glowing pentagram carved into his chest. His ancestor Akh-Ton had the same scarring before he gained the crown. |
| 345 | * ChestBlaster: He can shoot a wave of Hellfire from the pentagram on his chest. |
| 346 | * CompositeCharacter: 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). |
| 347 | * ConflictKiller: Black Adam and the Justice Society drop their animosity so they can stop Ishmael. |
| 348 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: |
| 349 | ** In stark contrast to James Gunn's productions like ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' and ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}'', SABBAC is a DemonOfHumanOrigin to contrast the StarfishAlien 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 GodEmperor based on his ancestry. [[spoiler: Starro and the Butterflies were beaten through the plucky efforts of a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, while SABBAC is destroyed by a superpowered individual.]] |
| 350 | ** 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. [[spoiler: Finally, Doctor Sivana was able to be depowered and jailed, while SABBAC had to be completely destroyed.]] |
| 351 | * CoolCrown: He wears a black CrownOfHorns made of eternium, originally forged for his ancestor Akh-Ton. [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 352 | * DarkerAndEdgier: 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 [[spoiler: SABBAC managing to kill Doctor Fate before dying a gruesome death]]. |
| 353 | * DealWithTheDevil: How Ishmael became SABBAC. The cost of this deal seems to be getting turned into a MonstrousHumanoid 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. |
| 354 | * DeathActivatedSuperpower: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 355 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: To become SABBAC, [[spoiler: 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. |
| 356 | * DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: 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. |
| 357 | * DismissiveKick: After killing [[spoiler: Doctor Fate]], SABBAC knocks aside [[spoiler: his helmet]] with a sweep of his foot. |
| 358 | * DisproportionateRetribution: When one of his Intergang confidants roughs him up a little too hard, Ishmael shoots him. |
| 359 | -->"I told you to make it look real, not punch me in the face!" *''Bang''* |
| 360 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 361 | ** To SHAZAM as a concept. While Billy Batson and Black Adam gained their powers from divine figures, SABBAC is an amalgamation of infernal ones. |
| 362 | ** 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. [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 363 | * EvilIsBurningHot: Water boils when it comes in contact with his skin. |
| 364 | * EvilIsPetty: In order to aggravate Black Adam enough to [[spoiler: kill him]], Ishmael taunts Black Adam for weeping when his son died. |
| 365 | * EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Harnessing the powers of the six demon lords instead of the lower-tier Seven Sins turns Ishmael into a DemonOfHumanOrigin, complete with horns, exaggerated muscles and fire spewing out of his face and chest. |
| 366 | * EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: 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. |
| 367 | * EvilOverlooker: 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. |
| 368 | * EvilOverlord: His aspiration, due to being heir to the tyrannical Akh-Ton. |
| 369 | * EvilRunningGood: 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. |
| 370 | * FangsAreEvil: His teeth are serrated. |
| 371 | * FauxAffablyEvil: 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. |
| 372 | * FightingAShadow: He successfully [[spoiler: kills Doctor Fate, only to learn the hard way that Fate's powers were in his helmet, which Hawkman is able to use]]. |
| 373 | * FlamingEmblem: The sigil on his chest glows with hellfire. |
| 374 | * FlatCharacter: 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 GenericDoomsdayVillain, as his actions are limited to fighting superheroes and raising Hell while planning to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 375 | * FlyingBrick: His powers include levitation and super-strength. |
| 376 | * {{Foil}}: Ishmael and Black Adam have contrasting [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 377 | * ForTheEvulz: 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 [[spoiler: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]]. |
| 378 | * GodEmperor: 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. |
| 379 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:SABBAC is defeated when Black Adam splits him in two.]] |
| 380 | * HateSink: 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. |
| 381 | * {{Hellfire}}: His manifested powers. |
| 382 | * HellSeeker: 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. |
| 383 | -->'''Amon:''' Go to Hell!\ |
| 384 | '''Ishmael:''' That's the idea. |
| 385 | * HeroKiller: Doctor Fate has a vision of SABBAC killing Hawkman. [[spoiler:He defies his own namesake by dying in Hawkman's stead.]] |
| 386 | * HornedHumanoid: Appropriate considering his power source. |
| 387 | * {{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). |
| 388 | * IdenticalGrandson: Marwan Kenzari plays both Ishmael and his ancestor Akh-Ton. |
| 389 | * TheJuggernaut: SABBAC ploughs through the Justice Society with frightening ease. Even Black Adam has a hard time fighting him. |
| 390 | * KickTheDog: 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 [[spoiler: 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]]. |
| 391 | * LackOfEmpathy: He actually ''chuckles'' at the thought of Black Adam weeping over his son's death. |
| 392 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Gets held down on the throne he craved, and [[spoiler: he gets torn in half starting from his horns.]] |
| 393 | * LastOfHisKind: Ishmael is the sole descendant of Akh-Ton. [[spoiler: Fittingly, Black Adam destroys Akh-Ton's throne after bringing their lineage to an end.]] |
| 394 | * LightningFireJuxtaposition: 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. |
| 395 | * LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: When Black Adam kills him a second time, his remains turn molten.]] |
| 396 | * MadeOfEvil: [[spoiler: Ishmael's corpse was horribly charred. When he's resurrected, his flesh is replaced with red muscles, horns and extravagant accessories.]] |
| 397 | * ManOfKryptonite: 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. |
| 398 | * TheMole: He acts as this for Intergang, successfully infiltrating the resistance and leading his troops to Adrianna's location once she gains the crown. |
| 399 | * NoBrows: Due to his entire forehead being distorted into a pair of devil-horns. |
| 400 | * NotAfraidOfHell: When he's spirited into Hell, Ishmael shows no sign of fear. In fact he seems to be ecstatic at the sight of Hell. |
| 401 | * OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: 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. |
| 402 | * PointyEars: His ears are noticably sharp-looking. When combined with his slicked-back hair, he somewhat resembles Black Adam's comicbook self. |
| 403 | * TheQuisling: 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. |
| 404 | * RaceLift: In the comics Ishmael was of Russian descent. Here he's a Kahndaqi native. |
| 405 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He's got crimson skin with a black loincloth and cape. |
| 406 | * ReplacementFlatCharacter: With Black Adam undergoing AdaptationalHeroism, 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 CardCarryingVillain devoid of any complexity. |
| 407 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: He's got his start as a villain to Shazam in the comics but is instead an enemy to Black Adam in the film. |
| 408 | * SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: While the heroic Justice Society and the AntiHero Black Adam all dress modestly, SABBAC wears only the bare minimum of clothing. |
| 409 | * SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 410 | * TakeOverTheCity: Ishmael sees the kingdom of Kahndaq as his birthright. |
| 411 | * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: 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. |
| 412 | * ToHellAndBack: After [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 413 | * VillainousLineage: Descendant of Kahndaq's hated tyrant Akh-Ton. He thinks that his heritage gives him the right to the crown. |
| 414 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness: Ishmael was a scruffy-looking man with a lanky build. Once he becomes SABBAC, he gains a muscular build with a slick visage. |
| 415 | * WorldsStrongestMan: Once he becomes SABBAC, even Black Adam has a hard time fighting him. |
| 416 | * WorthyOpponent: SABBAC acknowledges Teth-Adam as an equal. |
| 417 | * WouldHurtAChild: 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 [[spoiler: die]] in order to activate its power, so he baits Black Adam into attacking him by shooting Amon. |
| 418 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: 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. |
| 419 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: 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. |
| 420 | [[/folder]] |
| 421 | |
| 422 | [[folder:Demon Lords]] |
| 423 | !!''Demon Lords'' |
| 424 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gridart_20230118_224607754_3.jpg]] |
| 425 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[AC:"As life is the path to death, your death is a path to life."]]]] |
| 426 | !!!'''Species:''' Demons |
| 427 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' SABBAC |
| 428 | !!! '''Appearances:''' ''ComicBook/BlackAdamTheJusticeSocietyFiles'' | ''Film/{{Black Adam|2022}}'' |
| 429 | |
| 430 | ->[[AC:"The Wizards have their Champion, now we have ours! You will take the throne of Kahndaq and unleash Hell on Earth. Speak our name."]] |
| 431 | |
| 432 | 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. |
| 433 | ---- |
| 434 | * AmbiguousSituation: 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. |
| 435 | * {{Baphomet}}: The demon that torments Doctor Fate has goatlike features. |
| 436 | * BirdPeople: The demon that turns Craddock into Gentleman Ghost has wings and a bird's head. |
| 437 | * CuteMonsterGirl: The female demon has the most human appearance. |
| 438 | * DemonLordsAndArchDevils: 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. |
| 439 | * DevilButNoGod: 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. |
| 440 | * EvilCounterpart: 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. |
| 441 | * EvilIsBigger: The hawk-demon that meets Craddock is big enough to swallow him whole. The demon that greets Ishmael is the size of a house. |
| 442 | * EvilWelcomesDefectors: They have no problem entrusting their powers to a notorious backstabber. |
| 443 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 444 | ** 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. |
| 445 | ** 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. |
| 446 | ** 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. |
| 447 | * FireAndBrimstoneHell: 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. |
| 448 | * GreaterScopeVillain: 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. |
| 449 | * HellOnEarth: 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. |
| 450 | * RedIsViolent: All of the most visible demons are red. |
| 451 | * ReligionOfEvil: 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. |
| 452 | * {{Satan}}: The first demon that Ishmael sees when he arrives in Hell is strongly implied to be the Prince of Darkness himself. |
| 453 | * SnakePeople: The most visible member of their group has a serpentine lower body. |
| 454 | * SpikesOfVillainy: The demon who confronts Doctor Fate has quills on his head and forearms. |
| 455 | * UnseenEvil: 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 Comicbook/{{Etrigan}}[[/note]] |
| 456 | * WingedHumanoid: 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 |
| 457 | * WorldOfChaos: 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. |
| 458 | [[/folder]] |
| 459 | |
| 460 | !!Introduced in ''[[Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods]]'' |
| 461 | !!!'''Daughters of Atlas''' |
| 462 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230221_211054_samsung_internet.jpg]] |
| 463 | [[caption-width-right:300:L-R: Kalypso, Hespera, Anthea]] |
| 464 | !!!'''Species:''' Hesperides |
| 465 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympians |
| 466 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HelenMirren, Creator/LucyLiu, Creator/RachelZegler |
| 467 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 468 | |
| 469 | ->''"Listen to me Billy. The fate of your world depends on it. The Daughters of Atlas are coming for you."'' |
| 470 | -->--'''SHAZAM''' |
| 471 | |
| 472 | Three Olympian deities who seek to reclaim the Champion's powers. |
| 473 | ---- |
| 474 | [[folder:General]] |
| 475 | * ArmoredVillainsUnarmoredHeroes: They wear ornate suits of armor in contrast to the SHAZAM family's spandex. |
| 476 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Anthea is the Beauty, Hespera is the Brains, and Kalypso is the Brawn. |
| 477 | * BigBadDuumvirate: Hespera and Kalypso [[spoiler: (and [[TokenGoodTeammate Anthea]])]], who seek to take the Shazamily's powers in order to rebuild their homeland. [[spoiler:Eventually, Kalypso's ruthlessness grows too great, prompting Hespera and Anthea to defect and pull a HeelFaceTurn, leaving Kalypso as the film's sole BigBad.]] |
| 478 | * BlingOfWar: They all wear earrings. |
| 479 | * CanonForeigner: They don't appear in any Shazam comics, but are new antagonists created for this film. |
| 480 | * CoolCrown: They wear ornate headpieces. |
| 481 | * ContinuityNod: They wear divine suits of armor fashioned by the Olympian gods, in keeping with the mythology established with characters like Diana and Ares. |
| 482 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: They are Olympian demigoddeses, in contrast to the first film which featured Christian demons while ''Black Adam'' has a BigRedDevil. 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. |
| 483 | * ElementalPowers: 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. |
| 484 | * TheHecateSisters: 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). |
| 485 | * HeelFaceTurn: Both [[spoiler:Anthea and Hespera]] eventually turn on [[spoiler:Kalypso]] when it becomes evident that [[spoiler:she'd rather [[RevengeBeforeReason take revenge on humanity]] than restore the gods realm.]] |
| 486 | * NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:Hespera, Kalypso and Ladon's bodies dissolve into dust after Billy defeats the latter two.]] |
| 487 | * PracticallyDifferentGenerations: 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. |
| 488 | * RedIsViolent: Hespera and Kalypso wear red capes when they claim the MagicStaff and terrorize a group of tourists. |
| 489 | * SadlyMythtaken: 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. |
| 490 | * SamusIsAGirl: 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. |
| 491 | * SiblingMurder: [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 492 | * SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: [[spoiler:Kalypso and Ladon both are killed and disintegrate into ash during Shazam's HeroicSacrifice. Hespera subverts this, as she's seemingly killed by Kalypso just when she's made a HeelFaceTurn, 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.]] |
| 493 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: |
| 494 | ** 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. |
| 495 | ** Being the villainous offspring of a Greek deity also makes them a DistaffCounterpart to Phobos and Deimos, two of Wonder Woman's enemies. |
| 496 | * TakenForGranite: Hespera and Kalypso to all of the museum visitors when they steal the staff at the beginning. Kalypso even [[KickTheDog pushes over the tour guide and shatters him]] to make sure he's extra-dead. |
| 497 | * TheWeirdSisters: A trio of women akin to the Fates from Greek mythology. All three of them use magic. |
| 498 | [[/folder]] |
| 499 | |
| 500 | [[folder:Hespera]] |
| 501 | !!''Hespera'' |
| 502 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shazam21_fury_of_the_gods_hespera_poster.jpg]] |
| 503 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Children stole the power of all the gods. [[ItsPersonal This is very personal]], Billy."'']] |
| 504 | !!!'''Species:''' Hesperides |
| 505 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 506 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 507 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HelenMirren |
| 508 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KeikoToda (Japanese) |
| 509 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 510 | |
| 511 | ->''"We are at war. We will annihilate everything. The champions of this realm can do nothing to stop us."'' |
| 512 | |
| 513 | The eldest of the daughters. She possesses the power of Elements. |
| 514 | ---- |
| 515 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: 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. |
| 516 | * AffablyEvil: 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 AxCrazy tendencies. She only attacks Billy after he pushes a berserk button. |
| 517 | * BlackComedyBurst: Hespera shows up to the meeting with Shazam in a StealthHiBye, 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. |
| 518 | * CapturedOnPurpose: 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. |
| 519 | * CelebrityParadox: She's perplexed when Billy mentions the ''Fast & Furious'' movies. Helen Mirren played Queenie Shaw in three of them. |
| 520 | * ChokeHolds: 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). |
| 521 | * ElementalPowers: Her one unique power that her sisters do not share is control over the elements. |
| 522 | * EffortlessAmazonianLift: Despite having the body of an old lady, Hespera manages to hoist the titular hero over head during one of the battles. |
| 523 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Her goal was never one of revenge against humanity in the form of genocide, but to restore her home to its former glory. [[spoiler:When she tries to stop the rampant destruction Kalypso unleashed on Earth, she is mortally wounded by her younger sister.]] |
| 524 | ** 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. |
| 525 | ** [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 526 | ** [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 527 | * EvilBrit: 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. |
| 528 | * EvilOldFolks: Hespera has the oldest appearance and is the leader of the trio. |
| 529 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: She develops these when she first grasps the staff of Shazam, along with some VolcanicVeins for good measure. |
| 530 | * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: 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. |
| 531 | * GoKartingWithBowser: Hespera and Shazam-Billy eat lunch together (Read: [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich Sat together with food between them]]) while negotiating [[spoiler: Freddy's freedom in exchange for the Shazamily's powers]]. |
| 532 | * ItsPersonal: 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. |
| 533 | * ALizardNamedLiz: A member of the Hesperides race named "Hespera". Given the name "Adam" means "man", it's not too unusual. |
| 534 | * NeverMessWithGranny: 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. |
| 535 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: 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. |
| 536 | * NiceMeanAndInbetween: 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. |
| 537 | * NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 538 | * ParentalFavoritism: 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 NiceGirl and Kalypso is the {{Jerkass}} in the sisters' NiceMeanAndInbetween 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. |
| 539 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: 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. |
| 540 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: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 VillainRespect for Shazam's HeroicSacrifice in defeating Kalypso before succumbing to her wounds]]. |
| 541 | * SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: [[spoiler:Hespera subverts this, as she's seemingly killed by Kalypso just when she's made a HeelFaceTurn, 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.]] |
| 542 | * VillainBall: 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. [[spoiler:And she wouldn't start her HeelFaceTurn until seeing how far off the deep end Kalypso was]].[[/note]] |
| 543 | * VillainRespect: [[spoiler:Just before she passed away, Hespera's final words for Shazam's HeroicSacrifice are an impressed "A hero ''and'' a god", showing that she considers him a worthy inheritor of her father's powers]]. |
| 544 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Her hair is pure white and she's a ruthless supervillain. |
| 545 | [[/folder]] |
| 546 | |
| 547 | [[folder:Kalypso]] |
| 548 | !!''Kalypso'' |
| 549 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shazam21_fury_of_the_gods_kalypso_poster.jpg]] |
| 550 | !!!'''Species:''' Hesperides |
| 551 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 552 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 553 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/LucyLiu |
| 554 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/RomiPark (Japanese) |
| 555 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 556 | |
| 557 | The middle child of the Daughters and Hespera's second in command. She possesses the power of Chaos. |
| 558 | ---- |
| 559 | * AxCrazy: 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. |
| 560 | * BigBad: Hespera is the eldest of the sisters, [[spoiler:but she is far from ruthless compared to Kalypso — who takes over as the main antagonist after she betrays her for her own agenda]]. |
| 561 | * BloodKnight: 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". |
| 562 | * CainAndAbel: Ultimately, [[spoiler:Kalypso]] turns out to be the Cain to [[spoiler:Anthea's and (to a lesser extent) Hespera's]] Abel. [[spoiler:While Hespera is far less innocent than the typical Abel, [[EvenEvilHasStandards 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 NotQuiteDead for a while), takes Anthea's powers away, and later tries to kill her too.]] |
| 563 | * CompellingVoice: Her one unique power not shared by her sisters. She can mind-control humans by whispering commands in their ear. |
| 564 | * DarkIsEvil: Kalypso wears the darkest attire out of her sisters. |
| 565 | * TheDragon: Kalypso serves as this to her older sister Hespera, the leader of the Daughters of Atlas, although she shows signs of being TheStarscream. She also has her own literal example with Ladon. [[spoiler:Once Kalypso betrays Hespera and ascends to the true BigBad of the movie, Ladon's an even more literal example.]] |
| 566 | * DragonRider: In the trailer she can be seen perched on the head of the dragon that Billy fights. |
| 567 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: 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. [[spoiler:Her sisters don't get this treatment; she's happy to kill them for not being quite as devoted to RevengeBeforeReason as she is]]. |
| 568 | * ExactWords: 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 [[KickTheDog mind-controls the man]] to kill ''himself'' by walking off the edge of the roof and falling to his death. |
| 569 | * GreenThumb: She summons the Tree of Life in the middle of a stadium. Said tree extends its roots throughout all of Philadelphia. |
| 570 | * HateSink: 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 RevengeBeforeReason 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. |
| 571 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 572 | ** 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. |
| 573 | ** 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. |
| 574 | * {{Jerkass}}: Kalypso doesn't miss a chance to drop snide comments. |
| 575 | * KickTheDog: Kalypso ultimately proves that she's the most evil of the Daughters of Atlas through this: |
| 576 | ** 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 [[TakenForGranite 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. |
| 577 | ** 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 Control}}s him to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide 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. |
| 578 | ** 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, [[MisplacedRetribution even though the humans she would be killing had nothing to do with stealing their father's powers or sealing them away]]. [[spoiler:When her sisters protest this, Kalypso deems them both traitors, has Ladon kill Hespera, and [[DePower de-powers]] Anne just for the crime of sympathizing with humans, later attempting to outright murder her too.]] |
| 579 | * MindControl: Kalypso's special ability with her Powers of Chaos. It's what ultimately cements her as the most evil of the Daughters of Atlas [[spoiler:and the true BigBad of the film.]] |
| 580 | ** 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. |
| 581 | ** She also uses her CompellingVoice to force the Wizard to re-forge his staff so they can use it to attack and DePower the Champions of the human realm. |
| 582 | ** 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 [[ExactWords agrees]]...[[KickTheDog only to]] mind-control him into [[PsychicAssistedSuicide jumping off the building, killing him]]. |
| 583 | ** She also uses this to interrogate Freddy and find out the names of his siblings and fellow Champions. Despite the pain, Freddy's HeroicWillpower is strong enough that he's able to resist for quite a while before she eventually chokes Billy's name out of him. |
| 584 | * MinidressOfPower: While Hespera and Anthea wear long dresses, Kalypso wears a short skirt. |
| 585 | * MisplacedRetribution: 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. [[spoiler:That doesn't stop Kalypso from deciding to plant the Seed of Life on Earth to grow monsters to kill them all in retaliation, [[RevengeBeforeReason never mind that her sisters just want to restore their realm]].]] |
| 586 | * NiceMeanAndInbetween: The mean of the three as she is by far the most evil and vengeful. |
| 587 | * OxymoronicBeing: Kalypso is the most violent of the three sisters and relishes the chance to get her hands dirty, but her powers are non-combative. |
| 588 | * PsychicAssistedSuicide: Kalypso does this to Freddy's teacher who has the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, {{Mind Control}}ling him into walking right off the roof, largely just ForTheEvulz. |
| 589 | * RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: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, StrawNihilist 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 "HumansAreBastards". Not only is this MisplacedRetribution 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]]. |
| 590 | * TaintedVeins: Anyone brainwashed by Kalypso receives blackened blood vessels, with their eyes turning completely black. |
| 591 | [[/folder]] |
| 592 | |
| 593 | [[folder:Anthea]] |
| 594 | !!''Anthea'' |
| 595 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shazam21_fury_of_the_gods_anthea_poster.jpg]] |
| 596 | !!!'''Species:''' Hesperides |
| 597 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 598 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 599 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RachelZegler |
| 600 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/AkariKitou (Japanese) |
| 601 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 602 | |
| 603 | The youngest of the daughters. She possesses the power of Axle. |
| 604 | ---- |
| 605 | * AmbiguouslyBi: 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. |
| 606 | * AntiVillain: 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. |
| 607 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: Anthea is visibly the youngest-looking daughter. |
| 608 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: She is the most conventionally attractive of the daughters and by far the friendliest towards humanity even before her actual HeelFaceTurn. |
| 609 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Initially revealed to be this but is subverted when she genuinely is nice despite working with the antagonists. |
| 610 | * BlackComedyBurst: 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 [[BodyHorror completely rearrange their insides]]...but then sweetly adds that, of course, Freddy didn't know that, so his actions were still heroic. |
| 611 | * DeusExitMachina: [[spoiler:Anthea's Power of Axle has the potential to be a StoryBreakerPower 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 FinalBattle remains between Shazam and Kalypso, the latter subjects Anne to a DePower--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.]] |
| 612 | * GoldColoredSuperiority: While her sisters wear dull bronze, Anthea wears bright gold. |
| 613 | * InstantRunes: They appear on her hands when she's casting magic. |
| 614 | * {{Ephebophile}}: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 615 | * KarmaHoudini: Sure, she as the TokenGoodTeammate 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. |
| 616 | * LoveRedeems: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Anthea, or "Anne", was already the TokenGoodTeammate 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 DePower, 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.]] |
| 617 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: The 17-year-old Freddy quickly develops mutual feelings for Anne, who, despite ''looking'' like she's around his age, is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld actually six thousand years old]], a time which she has mostly spent sealed in the God Realm with her sisters. [[spoiler:At the end, Anne has decided to stay on Earth for a while and has apparently entered a relationship with Freddy.]] |
| 618 | * MsFanservice: 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. |
| 619 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After she finds out that Freddy is one of the champions, Anthea reacts this way, and it prompts her to make a HeelFaceTurn soon after to save him from her sisters. |
| 620 | * NiceGirl: Starts off as Affably Evil, but becomes this after her Heel Face Turn. |
| 621 | * NiceMeanAndInbetween: The nice one. She has no interest in hurting humanity and just wants to regain her family's powers. |
| 622 | * RealityWarper: She has the ability to transform and alter an entire city-scape with little effort, whether it's to fight Shazam or elude Kalypso. |
| 623 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: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...]] |
| 624 | * RingsOfActivation: 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. |
| 625 | * SoleSurvivor: 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. |
| 626 | * SpaceMaster: 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. |
| 627 | * StoryBreakerPower: While not directly addressed in the film, Anthea's powers is almost practically that of a RealityWarper 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 BroughtDownToNormal just when she decides to completely turn against the BigBad Kalypso. |
| 628 | * TokenGoodTeammate: 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 [[spoiler: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.]] |
| 629 | [[/folder]] |
| 630 | |
| 631 | !!!'''Minions''' |
| 632 | [[folder:Ladon]] |
| 633 | !!''Ladon'' |
| 634 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230129_220417_samsung_internet.jpg]] |
| 635 | !!!'''Species:''' Dragon |
| 636 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 637 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 638 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 639 | |
| 640 | A dragon summoned by the Daughters to be their chief enforcer. |
| 641 | ---- |
| 642 | * BreathWeapon: Ladon breathes blue energy. |
| 643 | * DarkIsEvil: It's a dark dull brown and quite vicious. |
| 644 | * TheDragon: Well, ''yeah''. But seriously: acts as the main enforcer of the Daughters of Atlas, mainly Kalypso. |
| 645 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Combined with ThroatLight. Ladon's entire internal structure glows with the same blue light as its energy blasts, similar to the Motherboxes. |
| 646 | * KnightOfCerebus: 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. |
| 647 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Billy even notes how Ladon being made of wood is weird and possibly hazardous given it breathes fire. |
| 648 | * SpikesOfVillainy: It could give Steppenwolf a run for his money. |
| 649 | * SupernaturalFearInducer: 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. [[spoiler:Later, when Kalypso and Ladon have the BroughtDownToNormal Anne cornered and are going to kill her, Freddy withstands and pushes through these effects with ThePowerOfLove to protect her.]] |
| 650 | [[/folder]] |
| 651 | |
| 652 | [[folder:Olympian Guards]] |
| 653 | !!''Olympian Guards'' |
| 654 | !!!'''Species:''' Unknown |
| 655 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 656 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 657 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 658 | |
| 659 | Attendants of the Daughters of Atlas. |
| 660 | ---- |
| 661 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: 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. |
| 662 | * BodyguardingABadass: By all accounts none of them possess any powers like the Daughters do, yet they operate much like any palace guardsmen. |
| 663 | [[/folder]] |
| 664 | |
| 665 | [[folder:Tree of Life Spawn]] |
| 666 | !!''Manticore'' |
| 667 | !!!'''Species:''' Manticore |
| 668 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 669 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 670 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 671 | |
| 672 | ---- |
| 673 | * MixAndMatchCritters: 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. |
| 674 | * OurManticoresAreSpinier: It looks more draconic than conventional manticores, as well as having a much uglier face. |
| 675 | |
| 676 | !!''Cyclops'' |
| 677 | !!!'''Species:''' Cyclops |
| 678 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 679 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 680 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 681 | |
| 682 | ---- |
| 683 | * HornedHumanoid: It has a horn in the middle of its forehead. |
| 684 | |
| 685 | !!''Minotaur'' |
| 686 | !!!'''Species:''' Minotaur |
| 687 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 688 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 689 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 690 | |
| 691 | ---- |
| 692 | * DarkIsEvil: It has pitch-black skin and is very aggressive. |
| 693 | |
| 694 | !!''Harpy'' |
| 695 | !!!'''Species:''' Harpy |
| 696 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Olympian |
| 697 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Daughters of Atlas |
| 698 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'' |
| 699 | |
| 700 | ---- |
| 701 | * ReusedCharacterDesign: The harpy strongly resembles the bat-creature that appeared in Bruce Wayne's nightmare back in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. |
| 702 | [[/folder]] |
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