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Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is my full Black Adam breakdown and Easter eggs for
the entire movie hopefully you've had a chance to see it there's a bunch of big stuff they set up a
bunch of sequels obviously a bunch of Cameo scenes a big post-credits scene we've all been talking
about if you're brand new to the channel be sure to subscribe to get all the videos and obviously
careful for spoilers for the movie because we have to talk about everything that happened I
also just did a post-credit scene for the big Superman Henry Cavill post-credit scene with him
coming back in what that means in the dceu I will address that during this video but I've done like
a much bigger video just about the Superman scene so I'll link that at the end of this and down in
the description below but the movie is inside the dceu if it wasn't clear it takes place after
the events of the Justice League movie after the new Suicide Squad movie obviously and before the
events of Shazam Fury of the Gods also probably after the events of Peacemaker if you've been
following the DC movies for a long time now you may remember that they officially cast The Rock
as Black Adam over 10 years ago so a lot of you are asking why did it take them over 10 years to
make this movie that's mostly because when they were originally cast the rock as Black Adam like
more than 10 years ago at that time we were still sort of in the old regime it was still Christopher
Nolan era Batman with Christian Bale the Warner Brothers people had very different plans about
the future of the DCU and developing all those characters all the Justice League characters the
future of Superman Batman everybody so at the time they just didn't know how to fit in an anti-hero
obviously now things are very different the DC universe itself is very different the actual Black
Adam character debuted inside the original Fawcett Comics Shazam stories back in 1945 he debuted as
a Shazam villain in the original Shazam family Comics basically his origin in the movie draws
a little bit from his original origin story like the very first one back in 1945 and a little bit
from The New 52 version of his origin story with a couple changes that I'll address when we get to
those parts of the movie in his original origin story in 1945 in the Marvel family number one
they explained the wizard granted powers to a person called teth Adam based on at the time it
was Greco-Roman Gods like the Shazam character but then later they wrecked combat to Egyptian
gods so their power words are both Shazam but the acronyms stand for different gods in that original
story Black Adam killed the current pharaoh and then tried to rule the planet himself the wizard
in Revenge basically kicked into the other side of the universe and it took Black Adam 5
000 years to get back to planet Earth and when he got back it was present day he fought the
Shazam family the new 52 aspects of his origin story are everything about his son passing him
his powers and him being trapped in the magical prison for the last five thousand years originally
their plan was to actually introduce him during the first shazam movie because that is the new
52 origin story for Shazam the story of Billy Batson getting his powers is New 52 but during
that instead of just the seven deadly sins being released Black Adam also gets released and winds
up trying to fight the Shazam family at the end so you have to imagine the end of the first shazam
movie where they all get the powers and they all wind up fighting Black Adam instead eventually
they decided to just separate their origin story so Black Adam became a solo movie and they just
continued with the shazam movie Just substituting in a lot of Dr Savannah plot eventually they will
have a crossover with Shazam versus Black Adam but they have to kind of work up to that right
now it seems like they're more focused on Superman versus Black Adam as you see in the post-credits
scene we'll get there eventually the opening credits are meant to be similar to the Shazam
opening credits with a darker Vibe because they're setting him up as an anti-hero the oozing black
liquid running across the logo as it forms is meant to be a parallel for the end credit scenes
where they show the different character suits forming with the same kind of oozing metal all
over their suits that's meant to be a reference to the way that black Adam's suit forms around
him out of magic like Suboxone doctor Fates and hawkman's in everyone else's forming with
nanites basically the movie actually starts with a flashback to his original time and khandaq 5000
years ago to explain his origin story in the dceu like I said couple minor tweaks to his backstory
they don't give you the entire story to a little bit later in the movie but the whole idea is that
in the dceu kondok was meant to be the center of civilization like the first major civilization 5
000 years ago looking at the entire dceu timeline you remember that the Dark Side War happened 10
000 years ago so like Atlantis existed before khandaq so technically there were civilizations
before khandaq Wonder Woman is also just a little bit older than Black Adam she's a little bit over
5000 years old and if you really want to dig into deep history making more Superman
references because of the big Superman Henry Cavill post credit scene the Kryptonian ship
that he winds up finding in Man of Steel is over 20 000 years old so technically that's
like the oldest artifact we've found next to the actual rock of Eternity because there's a lot of
teasers for other untold history that they don't totally explain during the movie like setting up
big plot points that they'll cover in the sequels the current king of his day forces them to mine
eternium which are fragments of the rock of Eternity that have fallen to Earth that only exist
in khandaq in their current form they have magical properties they're like laced with magic which
is how inter gangs Tech runs on it has all those special properties and how they can use eternium
weapons to harm Black Adam here's where we start setting up the sequel movies the reason why there
would be fragments of the rock of Eternity in khandaq before the events of this movie
like that they're buried in the earth and they've been there for a long time is there had been some
ancient battle that the Wizards had before this that they don't get into in the movie that they'll
cover in the sequels I actually think it was the Wizards fighting eclipso because if you remember
the original teaser for the movie they had like a completely different plot eclipso was a big
part of it like you have eclipso's gem here next to Black Adam in the flashback during that scene
to ancient khandaq you see this giant explosion happen and then they show all the eclipso stuff
so I think the idea is that eclipso attacked the rock of Eternity and that would cause shards of it
to fall to khandaq in the comics it's a little bit different Dr Savana accidentally created
eternium when he attacked the rock of Eternity and that's what caused the fragments to fall to
Earth black Adam's son is chosen to be the next Champion by the Council of wizards at the time
who Grant him the powers from all the gods that are different from the Shazam Gods like I said
based more on Egyptian mythology and when they Grant him Powers even though they don't show
him till a little bit later in the movie his outline is made to look just like comic book
Black Adam with a very special looking haircut he winds up passing his power to his father or just
like Billy Batson did with the shazamly at the end of their first movie but instead of granting him
a portion of his power he gives all of his power leaving himself weak and able to be killed by the
King's Men Black Adam then kills the king all those men in Revenge and The Wizard traps Black
Adam for five thousand years after his powers get out of control and threaten to destroy the world
in the comics the difference is that black Adam's nephew was the one who got the powers whose name
was Amon five thousand years ago and he killed his nephew after he tricked him into giving
him his powers so comic book Black Adam was way more irredeemable than the movie version in the
movie they also give the Iman name to Adrianna tomaz' son the former King had been using the
eternium to craft the magical crown called the crown of sabbac who is from the Shazam comics
like those original Fawcett era 1940s comics in sabak is basically like an evil version
of Shazam the zabach name is also an acronym just like the Shazam name and stands for six
different demon evil gods that Grant the powers to this person his acronym stands for Satan aim
Belial Beelzebub asmodius and cradius so later in the movie when Ishmael is being granted the powers
of these different demons that's basically who you're seeing all the different demons there are
the ones that are part of the acronym the trick that they pull though is that the demons are just
using their sabach Champion as a finger puppet to create a conduit to the main DCEU Dimension so
that they can conquer it the symbol of the three triangles that shows up throughout the timeline
like the slave symbol in the past and Adrianna's eternium necklace in the future is meant to be a
reference to the normal citizens of khandaq in general like a symbol of the slaves themselves
that they use to unite in his son and then later Amon uses big rallying cries the actual Black
Adam name is something that Adrianna's son winds up helping him come up with just saying that his
teth Adam name is very outdated that is his real name like his birth name that he was given so he
just calls himself that through most of the film until the end in the present day of the movie in
the dceu kondok is being controlled by intergang who are secretly being used by Ishmael the Last
Descendant of that original King to reclaim the crown of Sabbath can take his powers eater gang
is like a whole big separate evil organization that you probably recognize from some of the
comics or the young justice TV series they're an Intergalactic evil organization with Lex Luthor
working in partnership with Darkseid for those of you that want to see more Darkseid in the DCEU but
just to be clear everything that Ishmael was doing inside inner gang was him going rogue on his own
using a portion of their forces like the larger inner Gang has their hands and a lot more pies
around the world so we'll probably see inner gang and other future things like this isn't the end of
inner gang by any means when we first meet Amon he's wearing a red hoodie which is meant to be a
reference to Billy Batson Shazam because they want him to feel just like Billy Batson even though
in the movie they use him a little bit more like Freddie Freeman because both of them are superhero
Justice League Fanboys Amon has Justice League merch all over his room comic books posters action
figures even real life comic books everything is based on real life DC merch that you could go out
to a store and buy a lot of the art that they use a lot of the action figures and posters they use
are from different arrows of the comics that's why some of the logos look a little bit different like
this isn't Ben Affleck's Batman logo this looks a little bit closer to Michael Keaton's Batman
logo he has some Jim Lee Batman art you have some rebirth era cyborg comics for those of you wanting
more cyborg in the DCEU the whole idea is that the Justice League Heroes have just become pop
culture icons so a lot of merch is being created around them so the idea is that DC Comics does
exist inside the dceu it's the same thing in the Marvel movies too like there is a company inside
the Marvel movies that's named Marvel Studios that creates Marvel comic books as well but basically
you see merge from all the main Justice League Heroes the only one I didn't feel like I saw
Easter eggs for here was Green Lantern there were Green Lantern Easter eggs though in the Shazam
Fury of the Gods trailer video so that means that there is Green Lantern stuff happening in
this universe if there's merch being created about the character I also think a mod being in the red
hoodie foreshadows Black Adam eventually giving him a portion of his powers like Billy Batson
did along with Adrianna Tomaz like they basically set up him granting them Powers creating his own
version of the Shazam family which is something that they did a lot in the comics also him in
the red and wearing the red cape later foreshadows the Superman post-credits scene with Henry Cavill
we meet Adrianna Tomaz who's a long time love interest of Black Adam in the comics they do
eventually get married in the dceu she worked at a local University in khandaq she studies history
which is how she knows everything about the eternium the crown of sabak how she could read the
ancient khandaq language on black Adam's prison she's also kind of a freedom fighter too they use
the first big action scene when she releases him to show you his basic Powers but the soft
explainer on that pretty easy is that his powers are exactly like shazam's Powers we find out
that Amanda Waller has been monitoring everything knows about Black Adam getting out of his prison I
believe she knows what inner gang is doing like she's been monitoring them she knows about the
eternium that they use in its value but it sounds like she doesn't totally know what's going on with
the actual crown of sabok and what Ishmael has planned the reason she calls the Justice Society
instead of the Justice League at first is just because she doesn't think the problem was big
enough to require Superman others like she refers to them later in the movie as an even bigger favor
that she has to call in also in the comics Black Adam has way more history with the Justice Society
characters than the Justice League so on a story level it just made more sense to start with the
Justice Society and they want to grow the DCEU as much as possible which requires them introducing
a bunch of new characters so it just made more sense to use those characters than to start out
with the Justice League the movie only gives us a little backstory on the original version of the
Justice Society team they said that was on purpose and they'd explain characters origins in future
movies and spin-offs but on the DCEU Earth they implied that the Justice Society used to be a big
thing 30-40 plus years ago when all the characters were very young with the exception of Doctor Fate
and Hawkman who either had their lives extended by the helmet of fate in his powers or in the case of
Hawkman reincarnate the original version of the atom on that team was played by Henry Winkler
who's obviously an old man also Cyclone's mother is the original Red Tornado and she was on that
original Justice Society team the way they're explaining Doctor Fate in this movie is they're
going with the more Cosmic origin story not the one that you saw during Young Justice with Vandal
Savage in this version of the origin story the original one Kent Nelson was a Swedish American
who discovered the tomb of Naboo with his father having accidentally killed his father due to
a deadly gas the Lords of order felt pity for him and trained him in the ways of magic for a
couple of decades then bequeathed him his mystical Amulet the helmet of Fate the cloak as well as his
knowledge before he started his career as Doctor Fate the Lords of Order and Chaos are primordial
forces in the DCEU that existed at the dawn of creation that kind of existed in an alternate
Dimension and influence all of reality in the dceu the origin story for Naboo who basically is
the spirit inside the helmet of Fate is that he's one of the descendants of the Lords of order who
manifested themselves as the first sentient race in the universe on this other planet Naboo was one
of their descendants and he eventually traveled to planet Earth and became an advisor to the ancient
pharaohs of the day so in the movie when they say the helmet of Fate came from another planet that's
what they're talking about hawkman's backstory is way more more complicated in the comics so we'll
see how they explain it in the DCEU they might go with the hawkworld origin story or they might
go with the archaeologist or the resurrection backstory the basic idea is that he's a member of
this ancient thanagarian race who's got a version of Amnesia and reincarnates over time and is
bonded to the nth metal like the nth metal comes from thanagar it's sort of like the DC version
of vibranium they did say that Hawkgirl was part of the movie at one point but they decided to do
something else with the character we'll probably meet her in either sequels or some other future
DC movie but she is inside the DCEU somewhere they also explained that he's the person who owns the
Justice Society mansion and his Mansion is meant to be like the classic Justice Society Mansion the
vibe they're going with in the movie though is that it's a little bit more like the X-Mansion
in those original X-Men movies because he has this whole jet underneath the backyard the current Atom
Smasher is the nephew of the original atom smasher using his original costume that's why he keeps
saying that it's retro they'll probably give him a new suit in one of the future movies in the same
way that Ant-Man started out in the first Ant-Man movie wearing in the original suit and then got a
new one in the sequels Cyclone is meant to be the granddaughter of the original Red Tornado who was
on that original Justice Society team when she was younger she was captured by the scientists
who created the second Android version of Red Tornado who injected her with nanites giving her
her powers they're basically exactly what you see in the movie wind control the youth are kind of
like a version of Storm from the X-Men on the team I already explained all the Justice League Easter
eggs around Amon's room but part of the comedy here too is him blasting Superman's picture in
action figures everywhere he goes That's just to foreshadow them fighting in the sequels like if
all the things that he could have destroyed in Amon's room he destroys just the Superman stuff
when he busts into the living room the Clint Eastwood movie playing on the TV is The Good
the Bad and the Ugly later in the movie they referenced Clint Eastwood's man with no name
character again like they referenced the events of the film again when Black Adam fights the
inner gang soldiers using his magical lightning as if he were the Clint Eastwood man with no name
character they also play the theme song from that movie when he's doing that just to set him up as
an anti-hero because Clint Eastwood's man with no name character was a big anti-hero as well we get
another Cameo scene from Emilia Harcourt this time last seen during the events of Peacemaker because
she's working with Amanda Waller again it seems like they're on relatively good terms I think we
can assume that they put their differences aside but when they lock Black Adam up there's a bunch
of other DC Villains that are also locked up there under that polar ice cap prison it's really quick
blink on you'll miss it it's a little too blurry so I have to wait for like an HD copy of the movie
to come out so we can zoom and enhance a little bit easier and see exactly what they have there
but if you think you spotted any of these other DC Villains that were in the prison write in
the comments below Adam Smasher gives Amon the red cape like I said foreshadowing the Superman
Cameo scene in the post credits and foreshadowing him getting his own powers from Black Adam in the
sequels and when Black Adam reactivates his powers again this time his suit regenerates as if it were
brand spaking new like previously they'd implied that his older costume he'd been wearing for the
past five thousand years in his prison and it just suffered a lot of wear and tear so that's
why it looks like there was so much battle damage and the colors were so faded also the new costume
is meant to look a little bit more comic book accurate like he has the comic book cape on too
Doctor Fate winds up sacrificing himself and even though the helmet disintegrates really what was
happening if you've read any of the comics is that it transported itself to its next wielder
like selecting the next person to become Doctor Fate in the comics the second version of the
character was named Eric Strauss but we'll see who they wind up using in the DCEU when
the character comes back and then we get our big post-credits scene Cameo scene with Henry Cavill
Superman returning and I've already done a much bigger video about this but the whole idea is that
Amanda Waller is basically putting Black Adam on notice like you step out of khandaq you step out
of line we're going to call in bigger favors with more powerful people from other planets like you
are not the most powerful person in the universe maybe on the planet but not in the universe when
he shows up they play the classic John Williams Superman theme he looks a little bit more like
comic book Superman with the hair curl his colors are a little tuned up but it's the classic colors
of the costume for those of you asking too who's more powerful Shazam or Black Adam the way they're
using the characters right now Black Adam is more powerful because he's not sharing his power with
anyone else like he has a hundred percent of the available power given to him whereas Shazam only
has a fraction of it because he's giving the rest of it to the rest of the shazamly the whole idea
with the post credit scene though is that it's meant to directly set up sequels in the future of
Superman in the dceu so Black Adam 2 like I said in my post-credits scene video might draw a little
from the comics where Black Adam grants powers to Amon and Adrianna and things go off the rails like
Amon winds up doing something bad Superman gets involved because he's worried about the rest of
the planet and because he lays hands on him on Black Adam gets pissed off at him and that's why
they fight like this very Captain America Civil War type of situation they're also developing
Man of Steel too and they also have Justice League two coming up that they plan on making
which will involve the Shazam characters which includes Black Adam now as well but if you have
any big questions about plot points or big Easter eggs or references you spotted in the movie that
I didn't talk about in the video just write them Below in the comments and I'll talk a little bit
more about Black Adam versus Shazam when we get to more Shazam Fury the god stuff that'll be dropping
early next year we'll probably get a couple more trailers for that pretty soon soon my next big
video will be for the house of the dragon episode 10 finale everyone click here for that I'll update
the link as soon as I post it and click here for that Black Adam Superman post-credits scene
thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one!