Ok so Shazam Fury Of The Gods is now out and throughout this video we're gonna be breaking
down the ending of the movie, discussing it's post-credits scenes and also going over what
this could mean for the future of the DCU. Is it canon, is it not? Well there are some
things in it that we know will at the very least be getting carried over to future
films and shows. However there are some things that I think might lead nowhere and with us
knowing the first phase of the DCU I think we can kinda see where things are going.
Heavy Spoilers from this point out and if you haven't had a chance to check out the
movie then check out now. I know most of you might not care so...if you haven't seen it...
I won't be mad at you either. Just don't kick off mate, don't be a d**k and with that out
the way, let's get into the breakdown.
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Ok so Shazam Fury Of The Gods culminates with the Shazam defeating the daughers of Atlas
and Kalypso.
This is inside a dome in which Shazam needs to supercharge the wizards staff and also
tell you what song youre listening to.
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Inside he foes this which kills Kalypso, the dragon and all of the beasts that have been
summoned to earth. However this exacts a toll on Billy and doing this unfortunately kills
him. This leads into a big funeral scene with Freddy asking if there's a way to bring him
back. In order to charge the staff and bring him back they need to power of a God and I
wonder...woman who that could be.
Yeah in an amazing marketing movie that rivals James Gunn telling you that none of this matter,
we had Dianas arrival spoiled by one of the recent tv spots. Wonder Woman comes in, charges
the staff and brings Billy back to life. This kinda plays upon the headless superman scene
from the last film and it's nice seeing Gal Gadot back because if there's one thing that
DC has told me it's that these people returning mean something.
Shazam bursts out the ground like a zombie but he's just fooling and eventually he also
gives the rest of the shazamily their powers back.
Anyway the Shazam flirts with Diana and says that he's gonna be 18 soon. She says that
he should stick to saving the world and as we know from Justice League, everyone is a
younger man to her.
Everything seems like it's gonna be ok and after we jump to a trip back home we watch
the wizard returning looking like he's just used our Manscaped code. Like the Genie at
the end of Aladdin he's decided to go and explore the world but before he leaves he
finally reveals what Billy's superhero name is. He tells them it's Shazam which is when
we cut to Freddy who says he thinks he still thinks that they can beat it.
Now that ends the movie to Elvis' little less conversation and from here we go to our first
post credits scene of the film in which Shazam is recruited into the JSA. In it we see John
Economos and Emilia Harcourt who by my count has now appeared in more movies than most
of the other superheroes. Just don't tell my wife yeah mate, I'm gonna look bad when
I don't even let her feature in the background of a video on the clips channel and Gunn's
making his wife the Nick Fury of the DCEU.
It's kinda like when your mate gets a new girlfriend and she starts showing up everywehre.
But what's going on with this scene exactly.
Well it starts off with them approaching Shazam out in the woods whilst he's shooting down
a bunch of beer bottles and offering him a position on a team.
They say they want to know if he'd be interested in joinging the Justice.....which is when
he immediately cuts them off and says Yes.
However they just wanna know if he wants to be in the Justice Society which bums him out
because he wants to be rubbing shoulders with Wonder Woman. They make a joke about changing
the name of it to stop people getting confused cos it is pretty stupid having two teams with
Justice in the name. He starts throwing some new names their way from his phone and throughout
the film there's this running gag about Superhero names in general. There's some little nods
here to other heroes like the Avengers and the Authority which we know are coming as
part of James Gunns chapter one.
Now the first Marvel nod to me is kinda just giving a nod to the wider universe and all
the things that have happened over the decades with the two companies. Shazam was of course
originally called Captain Marvel and The Eternals was filled with lines about Superman and Batman.
As for the Authority though we have some things that could be connecting to that and incase
you don't know, they're basically DC's answer to The Boys.
Published at the end of the 90s this Warren Ellis creation was super over the top in it's
gore and violence and it's basically your reverse Justice League.
Featuring characters like Apollo The Sun God and Jenny Sparks, this team is probably most
known for having the character Midnighter amongst it's ranks. I am really excited to
see what they do with it and though I've been ragging on James Gunn a bit I do think that
his sensibilities are perfect for that kind of project.
Now I'm gonna go out on a limb here and give a little theory time, theory time, theory
time.
So I actually think that this post credits scene potentially came from before Gunn fully
took over everything. The Justice Society of course featured in Black Adam and I think
that this scene might have potentially been setting up how Shazam was going to meet Black
Adam down the line. Both are of course enemies in the comics and Black Adam really came to
the forefront as a Shazam villain. According to reports, The Rock was supposed to be cameoing
in this movie originally but he shut that idea down and refused to do it. So I think
that this was probably Warner brothers trying to set it up so that Shazam eventually featured
in Black Adam 2 which...yeah we know that isn't coming in the way it was originally
meant to be.
The Rock wanted that movie to be Superman vs Black Adam but since Gunn took over that's
all been mothballed.
I also think that the Emilia and Ecnomons thing was supposed tie into Season 2 of Peacemaker
which we now has kinda warped into the Waller show. Centred around the titular character
this will probnably build upon the events of that show and it will also potentially
focus on Amanda and her relationship with her daughter.
Now Waller is a big character in the MCU and though her we can very much explore the direction
that the DCU is going. Normally shes used as someone who introduces the teams but going
forward they can instead use her as someone who lays the ground work of where we'll be
going. She obviously has Task Force X on her side but it's clear that she's also trying
to create her own legitmate group in the Justice Society. Now theory time within a theory time,
but I actually think that she's going to be the one who puts together the Authority and
this will be here trying to bridge the gap between the suicide squad and Justice League.
They're both opposite ends of the spectrum and the Authority is basically that middle
ground in which you have unhinged heroes who think they're doing good.
So jump out of those two theories times and then go into the second post credits scene.
Now if you cast your mind back to the first Shazam post credits scene then you might remember
it invovled Dr Sivana in jail which is when he was scribbling symbols on the wall. He
was visited by Mr Mind who said that there were other ways to gain magic and he said
that the seven realms were about to be theirs. However we're now two years later and like
a dc movie announcement, nothing has happened.
We catch Sivan still surrounded in scribblings and he now has a full on beard.
Mr Mind apologises and says that his plan just needs more time but that it wont be long
until everything comes together. Sivana is furious because he's 57 years old now but
Mind apologises because it takes him a long time to get places and when Sivana demands
he tells him the plan he says he has just one more thing to do.
He then scurries off which ends the scene and the movie as a whole.
So what could be happening here.
Well luckily I did a big breakdown on this for the last movie that kinda covers the ins
and outs of where things may lead.
Now Mr Mind is a telephatic gree worm who amplifies his voice through a radio speaker
around his neck. First introduced in 1943 by Otto Binder the character was made as a
novely villain to stand out against the more fearsome foes like Lex Luthor and The Red
skull.
He created the Monster Society Of Evil which included Sivana, Captain Naz...can't really
say that without getting demonetised and even real life figures like Hitler and Mussolini.
A mastermind of evil, he actually wishes to charge himself up into becoming a Hyperfly
which is his final form. However in order to do this he needs to build up brainwaves
which he does by pulling in parts of the space time continuum. Mr Mind has the ability to
somewhat alter time and space and he's been used as a way to trim continuity and canon
before which could pull into whats going on with the DCU.
In the past mind has ate time and years from the timeline and thus if they want to pull
him into that then they could quite easily use the goofy little critter to explain why
some things are different in gunns version. It's pretty much the exact same post credits
scene as the one from the last movie and when it first started off I genuinely thought there
was an issue with the film but no, here it is.
Now I was thinking about this before and I think that they could even just have this
as a stupid running joke that goes on for years and years.
I think it would be so f**king stupid if every two years we just get a post credits scene
like this where Mr Mind returns to find sivana slightly older and looking worse and worse.
Do it for like...do it for like 10 years, make it the longest running joke ever and
then just have him get to a point where he shows up and Sivana is dead. That would be
hilarious to me and I think it's so stupid that I acutally hope they end up doing it.
Do it for the f**king laughs, make it last longer than the DCEU you f**ks.
Anyway that sets up the future of the DCU and how we think it'll play into it. I dunno
how well Shazam 2 is gonna do at the box office though and at the moment it looks like it's
gonna make negative money so who knows how things are gonna shake up in
the future. We do know that at least for now that Shazam hasn't featured in the line up
of the Gods and Monster slate and thus he's either gonna be announced as a new project
or as something down the line. The Rock did say that Black Adam wouldnt feature in the
first phase of the upcoming dcu and thus Shazam could potentially be the same too.
However no one is saying nothing and I think that if this movie underperforms then they
will probably look at reworking things within the DCU. It's difficult to know whether this
is going to fit in with Gunns vision oif the future and I think that the reason they're
keeping their mouths closed is because they really wanna see how the movie does at the
box office. I think that's across the board with everything coming this year too including
whether they're keeping Ezra as the Flash, Jason Momoa as Aquaman and so on and so forth.
Personally I think they shouldve waited until these movies had been released before they
announced that they were rebooting elements because it kinda kills the momentum of these
when we think they're leading to a cul-de-sac. It's something Warner Brothers have done before
and I always think that if you don't need to open your mouth then you don't need to
open your mouth.
Gunns movies wont come out until 2025 at the earliest and I think that they couldve just
announced he was taking over and let these movies play out and then announce what they
were doing.
Just my personal feelings and I think that the Harcourt still will likely come back around
in the Waller show with them clearly trying to form other teams. It's also important to
bear in mind that there have been several different versions of the flash shown to test
audiences that all have different endings. These have featured different Batmen and I
was watching a video on the scenes by the channel Austin Fans the other day that brought
up a great point. Now obviously Gunn has cut things from upcoming movies such as Henry
Cavill appearing in the flash and Ben Affleck in Aquaman 2. Austin said that Gunn would
at least have to give the green light on these post credit scenes for them to be included
in Shazam. Therefore the fact these have leads into other films might tease that Zach levi
is in fact coming back down the line.
The frustrating thing is that we dont know and thus you kinda can't expect people to
get that invested when we don't really know whats happening.
As for my feelings on the movie.
Thor Love and Thunder and yep...take that how you want.
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