Tear Jerker / Black Adam (2022)

• Ancient Kahndaq is a mess, ruled by a despotic tyrant who kills anyone who rebels against him, even a child.
• Teth-Adam suffers a severe case of Fish out of Temporal Water in the film. He's stunned when he sees how much of Kahndaq has been changed from what he remembers.
• After endangering Amon's life with his Power Incontinence, Black Adam is reminded of when he first gained his powers. He tells Hawkman how the original Champion of Kahndaq was his son Hurut, who was unable to protect his parents from being assassinated by the king out of spite. Wanting to save his dying father, Hurut shared some of his powers with Teth-Adam. When he tells Adam to say "SHAZAM", it causes him to revert back to his child form... which leaves him open to a sudden attack from some archers. Black Adam then went on a rampage and nearly wiped out Kahndaq in his grief. Feeling like he can't do anything right, Adam finally agrees to be locked up for life.
  • The tragedy is that it's possible for Hurut to just share the power with his father without reverting back to his unpowered form if Hurut knew about the Staff of Shazam. If that happened, both Teth-Adam and Hurut would've been able to survive. This also makes Black Adam's Roaring Rampage of Revenge even worse; he gets the powers that sets him on par with the gods... but all he wants is his son. These powers would never bring Hurut back, and he knows it.
• The truth that is the Champion of Kahndaq, who is really a combination of both Hurut and Teth-Adam (due to Hurut's Shazam form looking just like his dad). Hurut's noble deeds to liberate his fellow people were completely eclipsed by his own father's rage in the eyes of the Council of Wizards. Massive waves of destruction and death were unleashed in Teth-Adam's grief and Black Adam was sealed away, which caused the Wizard to not only be more picky with who he chooses, but this would later create Dr. Sivana in the future due to the Wizard's completely high standards. Worse, Black Adam's massacre of the Council is nothing but pure seething rage that they could've done something to help save his son but either chose not to or just couldn't.
• Teth-Adam never sees himself as a hero, as when he sees the statue of the Champion of Kahndaq (his son), he is utterly broken at how his son sacrificed his godly powers and no one in this day and age will know the truth of his death.
  Teth-Adam: (staring at the statue and bows his head) Forgive me.
• Doctor Fate has not had a happy life thanks to his supernatural vision. He recounts to Carter how his first airplane was spoiled by him knowing its pilots were to die in it, and he couldn't do anything to warn them. A life of dealing with the unchangeable order of destiny where it leads to sad/bittersweet endings has left him worn out and melancholy.
• Doctor Fate's death, performing a Heroic Sacrifice to save Hawkman from a predetermined death he had foreseen earlier in the film. What's worse about this death is that Hawkman comes this close to saving him and ends up watching SABBAC brutally kill Kent instead. The only bright side to this is that Kent is okay with dying, seeing his longetivity as a curse and is relieved that he can see nothing in the Helmet of Fate.

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