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A courtesy link or copy/paste of the text would be appreciated.
That said, is that really an "aesop" of the film? I know the film repeatedly keeps pushing his Anti-Hero image and that he does kill, but I think calling it any sort of an aesop seems like a stretch.
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My bad, here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=BrokenAesop.LiveActionFilms#edit37286213
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They have a whole song and dance about how Black Adam saved Kahndaq's people when the JSA didn't and how they can't judge him by their standards of heroism. The film has a consistent "ends justify the means" debate between Adam and Hawkman, and Hawkman comes around to Adam's killing in the end because he killed the bad guy. Its only real piece of character development outside of Black Adam not being angry (kinda?) is Hawkman and Doctor Fate realising that the world needs heroes like Black Adam willing to do what they won't do. I'd argue it's an aesop.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian
A while back, I added Black Adam (2022) to Broken Aesop due to the movie emphasising how special and necessary his killing and anti-heroic behaviour is, despite it never once actually helping the situation other than solving a problem his killing created to begin with. ~Doctor Sleep commented it out with the edit reason "Black Adam's aesop can probably be written off as him being an anti-hero rather than indecisive story-telling. ", which doesn't really make sense? Him being an anti-hero and that being a good thing is the broken aesop.
Is it okay for me to add it back?