We. Are at War
We'll annihilate everything.
The champions of this realm can do nothing to stop us.
You are very menacing.
I just want you to know that
a lot has changed in the last few years.
A wizard gave me superpowers.
The daughters of Atlas are coming to hunt us.
Children stole the power of the gods,
ripped it from our fathers. Cool.
But I feel like maybe I should be writing all this down.
Give us the powers, child.
Your world will not survive this.
You want these powers?
Come get them
khaleesi
we have one job to do. Save the world.
Billy
I don't know how we fight powers like this.
I can't do this.
Take my powers back.
You came to me so you would take them back right?
I spent a millenia
cearching for word to champion.
You know what must be done.
Really?
What are you doing?
I have to do this.
We end this now.
Yeah, we do.
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The big thing in this new trailer is
we learn a little bit more about the actual story.
So the whole idea is that
the three daughters of the Titan Atlas, the Greek titan,
because we're talking about Greek mythology, the same gods,
the same pantheon that Wonder Woman came from
Zeus is one of the people that grant Shazam their powers.
This is canonically.
The father of Wonder Woman.
They're trying to take back one of the sources of the Shazam family's powers.
So the whole idea is that the Shazam name is an acronym for where they get
all their powers from all the different gods, some of them Greek titans, not gods.
Slightly different. Same basic mythology, though.
So the Shazam acronym stands for The Wisdom of Solomon,
The Strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas.
So that's the power that the sisters are trying to take back, the stamina,
the power of Zeus.
That's where their lightning bolts come from.
The courage of Achilles in the speed of mercury.
Like the speed of mercury, for instance, makes them almost as fast as the flash,
about as fast as Superman is Each of the different letters
in the acronym powers, one of their major abilities.
They can also cast
spells like a normal magician or a normal sorcerer would be able to.
But Billy hasn't figured that out yet because he's a little kid.
That's part of the joke of the characters.
Like he's way more powerful than he realizes.
He just hasn't figured it out yet.
That's one of the reasons why the Wizard Shazam gets so pissed off at him,
who they're
also bringing back in this movie, and he looks like
a much younger version of himself, so it'll be interesting
to see which version they say this is.
If it's like some other version that they pulled
from a different part of the timeline, like somehow
they captured a version of him a long time ago in the past.
Or if this is a version from the afterlife,
like this is the version that died in the first movie
and they just found a way to capture his soul.
And that's how he's come back, because this place, their home base,
seems like a version of Mount Olympus or near Mount Olympus,
because that's where all the Greek titans, the Greek gods would live.
They changed a little bit of Greek mythology just to fit this to the movie.
Like the Greek Titan Atlas did have daughters, but they were the nymphs.
But in the movie, they're saying it was these
three daughters with slightly different names.
Helen Mirren is playing Hospira.
Lucy Liu is playing someone called Calypso in.
Rachel Ziegler is playing Anthea.
So as you can see, they're all just three different daughters
that were born during different time periods.
Helen Mirren is the oldest sister.
Lucy Liu is the middle sister.
She's middle aged in.
Rachel Ziegler is meant to be the youngest sister.
But I think part of the joke of that
is because of the way they exist, like their biology.
Some of them just seem a little bit older than the other, like Rachel Ziegler
seems like a beautiful young woman, but she's actually really, really old.
Like Wonder Woman.
Just starting at the beginning of the trailer footage,
Lucy Liu's calypso comes to the Philadelphia Stadium
because remember, this is taking place in the Philadelphia area.
She's already got the staff of the Wizard Shazam.
Remember, they find at the museum and they reform it
and they use that to channel their father's power.
When they have all these moments in the trailer where Billy talks
about giving up his powers to the sisters so that they'll leave Philadelphia alone,
they'll stop trying to destroy the planet.
And you see all the power coursing through him and through the staff.
It's not clear if they're saying that he's trying to give up all of his power
or just the part of the power that comes from the great Titan Atlas,
or they're going
to completely change all this and say that every single bit of their power
came from the Greek Titan Atlas instead of a bunch of different gods,
the golden apple that she jams into the ground
to start changing things is also from Greek mythology,
but they've changed the mythology just a little bit.
You also see Helen Mirren's character holding one of them.
Two golden apples appear in a bunch of different cultures, mythologies.
But because we're talking
about the Greek mythology of the DC Universe with Shazam and Wonder Woman,
these golden apples in particular were from the garden of the Disparities.
Who were the mythological daughters of the Greek Titan Atlas?
But in the movie they're saying these three daughters were those daughters.
The actual powers of the apples were said to grant immortality.
That was their main ability,
but it sounds like they can be used for other things too.
Most people think of the golden Apples because they were a big part of Hercules
famous 12 labors that he was given to complete.
Like his part of one of them,
he had to steal the golden apples from the secret garden where they rested,
which would have been tended by these three sisters like their lair.
He would have had to steal the golden apples from their lair.
Basically.
I don't think we've actually seen Hercules inside the DC Universe,
but they did tease him
in the Marvel movies in Thor, Love and Thunder in that Post-Credits scene.
The reason why both Marvel and DC can do versions of the Greek pantheon
like Hercules in zoos is because there's no copyright on those characters.
They have a bunch of scenes back at their lair
at this place where it seems that they're keeping the Wizard Shazam captive,
and it seems like they capture Freddie Freeman and take him back there too.
It looks like they use the power of the golden apples and there's a power
that they have access to already to change Philadelphia into something more akin
to what you would have seen in Greek mythology is history.
They cut past the Fast and Furious.
Seemed like
they had a version of this scene in the last trailer
where he makes the Fast and Furious family joke just because that's the whole basis
for the Shazam movies, is it?
It's about the Shazam family,
Lucius family, Everybody posting your Vin Diesel memes.
They use this scene with her just slapping him around just because he was clowning.
So much. Just to let you know that she is a threat.
She does have actual power without taking all of the power back.
Just because they want their father's power
doesn't mean they don't already have a lot of power.
The new version of the Warner Brothers logo for the movie
just looks like it's etched in stone just to make it look very ancient.
This just seems like one of the books of magic
that they're reading that
you see Mary Marvel reading from with a bunch of Greek mythology around it,
like a bunch of Greek artifacts, is they're trying to figure out
what's going on with the sisters.
Part of the idea of this movie,
because there's so much of that, they don't know, is it?
They'll just learn more about their actual powers,
like how their actual powers work, where they come from,
how they got them in the first place, which gets back to the source,
like how the power came from this Greek titan Atlas.
It's one of those situations where people like the Wizard Shazam,
like the people who originated a lot of the powers,
created a lot of the way the powers work,
reveals information that he hasn't already like,
Oh, by the way, yeah, When I gave you these powers,
I got them from a bunch of these
other places in the places that I got them from
are now getting really pissed off about that.
It seems like their fight with Calypso is dragging
is a huge part of the movie, like one of the huge action sequences
because there's so much of it in all the trailers.
He even makes a Game of Thrones Khaleesi reference talking about Calypso,
losing your Dragons, Khaleesi got AJ colors.
And the other interesting thing too, is that it seems like
even though they take Freddie Freeman Anthea, Rachel Ziegler's character
seems like she has like some weird shit going on with him where she actually goes
against her sisters to try and protect him.
Like she starts siding with the Shazam family because you see her
getting blasted by the same energy that the sisters are giving off.
There's a real big Batman and Robin Easter egg on Freddie Freeman's t shirt.
He was also wearing the Superman Henry Cavill t shirt in the last movie.
He's meant to be the big Justice League fanboy.
He's the one that also had Batman's battering.
This t shirt also has a big Robin reference.
Obviously, we know Robin exists because we saw a version of him
during Batman v Superman or his suit, but he was long since dead.
It seems kind of like a macabre Easter egg,
but the whole idea is that they're actual birds,
like it's a Batman bird and it's a robin that's an actual Robin.
Ben Affleck's Batman wasn't supposed to be featured in the movie,
but they did have a version of him in the last trailer.
But the footage was from the Justice League movie.
One of the planned cameos for the movie was Wonder Woman.
There were a bunch of Wonder Woman cameos in the upcoming films this year
that reportedly they actually deleted because of all the re castings.
I don't know if they've gotten rid
of Wonder Woman in this movie because she sounds like
she was a bit of a throwaway joke the way that they used her in the movie.
So they might still let her be in it.
I think a lot of the teasers in the post-credits scenes and things
that they got rid of in movies like The Flash movie, for instance,
that Big Superman cameo during that were mostly
because they were meant to set up future movies
that they never intend on paying off now because of all the recasting
and the rebooting.
But you see all the other DCU footage here,
they in the trailer when he's talking to his therapist, his child therapist,
because Billy is still technically a child in the eyes of the law.
And he just talking to them about how a couple of years on
since the events of the first movie, he still feels like kind of a fraud
compared to the other Justice League characters
in reportedly, while he's talking to his therapist,
he talks about this fantasy that he has about going on a date
with Wonder Woman, and they pay that off at some point.
In a funny way, during the movie,
you know, he's wearing The Goonies t shirt as they're activating their powers
Thematically, their group is kind of like The Goonies.
Never say Die, a group of little kids going on an adventure.
They just happen to have crazy powers.
This thing of Helen Mirren's character
talking about the power being ripped from her father
seems like she's talking to Jim Enhances Wizard.
Shazam.
The joke here with Billy talking about writing things down
also seems like they're in some sort of nightclub,
like there's people serving drinks behind them and he's a little kid.
He's not supposed to be in there, like get to be over 21 to be in a bar like that.
They'll probably a couple of scenes like that in the movie
where he's in very adult situations, but he's still technically a little kid.
So we just ask really awkward.
Then Billy actually tries to give his powers back to the sisters.
One of the differences too, I'm not sure how they're going
to explain this during the movie yet, but in the comics,
the way that Shazam shares his powers with the rest of the Shazam family
is that you have a bunch of different letters
for the different acronyms representing the different gods
and the different types of abilities that they get from them.
Originally, when he shared his powers, he just shared different parts
of the acronym.
But the way they change that in the first movie,
they made it seem like the issues here a fractional amount of the exact
same powers, like they all have access to all the abilities there is operating
at a fractional amount of the total amount of power available to them.
So when it seems like he's trying to give the powers back to them,
it sounds like he's trying to give all of the power back to them,
not just the stamina of Atlas because of the big DC reboot.
Obviously a lot of questions about how they're going to end this movie.
Like, I'm not expecting them to end the movie
with Zero Power, but there might be a big twist.
Usually in a movie like this, they pull a Thor Ragnarok
where they recontextualize the way their powers work,
or they find a different source for their powers.
That's also one of the big things about the Shazam characters.
It's the same for Black Adam too.
They can get the same power, but from different gods,
like they can make bargains
or contracts with different gods, so they have the same abilities.
The other thing they might wind up doing, because it seems like Hospira,
Rachel Ziegler's character, goes against her sisters,
is that by the end of the movie they'll come to an agreement with them
and they'll start acting more like the patron gods
granting their powers to the Shazam family.
Whereas at the beginning of the movie, they're trying to take everything back.
But in the original comics,
Shazam didn't take all the power from like Zuse and the other Greek gods.
They were just granted access to that power
by the gods who were still alive at the time.
The big change in the DC Universe, though, is that all those Greek gods
are supposed to have died a long time ago, according to Wonder Woman.
But because we have the big James Gunn
DC Phase one reboot, obviously a lot of that doesn't matter anymore.
Speaking of which,
Zachary Levi was seen with Peter Safran and family posting about people
in this big reboot and he seems very confident
that he's going to be coming back to Shazam.
Jason Momoa also just posted something very similar
where he seems very confident that he's coming back
like no one is coming to take Aquaman for me.
I will always be Aquaman.
What was your meeting with James Gunn and Peter Safran like?
It's very, very wonderful.
I'm in the house of Warner Brothers and that they like him a lot of stuff
I'm doing, and we got a lot of good things going, you know, I'll always be Aquaman.
The rumors are
I'll always be like lemonade and want to go and take
And then there might be some other characters too, so.
Oh, so we can play.
I can play other things too.
I can be funny and savage and charming once in a while.
The extra joke about Jason Momoa, though, is that he also said
that he would be additional characters on top of that too.
I've already done like a completely separate video,
so I'll post the link at the end of this
because it sounds like he's actually going to be playing
a version of Lobo, potentially even more characters on top of that,
while he also plays Aquaman at the same time in future
DC movies, it'll be fascinating to see how they pull that off.
And because it's the end of January is me posting this video.
James Gunn said that he would announce the DC Phase one slate, or he's calling it
DC chapter one, like he's calling them chapters.
So instead of DC phase one, technically it's DC chapter one two movies,
but it's the same basic concept of like Marvel Phase
one, Marvel, Phase two, Marvel, Phase three.
What will probably happen
because we're so close to the end of the month, is that
he's either
waiting till like the beginning of next week,
like literally the end of the month, like the last
possible minute on January 31st or it'll be in the next couple of days.
We're literally coming down to the wire.
So of course
I'll post videos for whatever he announces these new DC movies are going to be.
We know about the new Superman movie,
but there's still a lot of questions about what the other ones are going to be
because the Super Bowl is coming really soon.
The new Flash trailer is going to drop at the Super Bowl.
There'll be a whole bunch of other Super Bowl
trailers, too, for Marvel, for other stuff.
Of course they'll do videos for all those.
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