Black Adam (2022)Family Tragedy history – Awwaken.com

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Black Adam was long road to the big screen finally came to an end this year. Originally planned to be Shazam’s villain! Dwayne Johnson, star and executive producer of that DC movie, asked WB to separate and give each character a separate film.

In the past, comic fans only knew Black Adam as Shazam’s opposite, a former magical champion corrupted by his powers before becoming a DC antihero. It’s a creative decision made in light of Black Adam’s history.

History of black Adam & trailer of Black adam

 

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As Black Adam has grown and evolved over the past 20 years, he has become more complicated in the DC universe than just a “Shazam villain,” with his own superfamily and cast of colorful characters. The journey there is fascinating.

The idea of superhero families began with Fawcett Comics, the home and publisher of Shazam in the 1940s and ’50s. In retrospect, it makes sense. Ultimately, Shazam is about a lone orphan child who has lost his family. From there, you end up assembling a surrogate family of characters. A key element of Shazam’s ethos is sharing power.

Mary Marvel, or Captain Marvel Jr., is Billy’s equal (and lost sister). Almost fairy-tale adventures are had by a group of struggling kids. Super-animals like Tawky Tawny, an anthropomorphic tiger, or Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who is Shazam-powered, offer them support.

A family ideal filtered through childhood is reflected in Uncle Dudley’s attempts to accompany them on their adventures.

Otto Binder and legend C.C Beck played a crucial role in black adam

In all this, Otto Binder and legend C.C Beck played a crucial role. Trying to firmly establish the Shazam family, Binder and Beck created Black Adam in the first issue of the comic.

Shazam’s relationship with Black Adam provided a counterpoint to their heroic nature and helped define them as a group. Fawcett would never incorporate him again as a villain (for a time).

After a string of lawsuits, Fawcett stopped publishing Shazam due to DC Comics feeling threatened by the popularity of its flagship heroes. With Fawcett’s fall, Shazam writers such as Otto Binder worked at DC, specifically on Superman comics. Binder’s work reshaped both the Man of Steel and his mythology.

 We owe much of Superman lore to Binder. He would adapt much of what made Fawcett comics so thrilling and exciting to Superman. Mary Marvel influenced Supergirl with her concepts. In The Adventures of Superman, Jimmy Olsen was reworked as Shazam’s Tiger-pal Tawky Tawny, hence becoming “Superman’s pal” in our minds.

Krypto the Super-Dog would be Superman’s pet. It was Binder’s intention to make the concept of a superfamily feel closer to the more adult neuroses of Clark Kent, rather than Billy Batson’s youth.

Interval of the black adam – Batwoman and Batgirl for an all-American family fee

 

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He too was motivated by familial heartache, as an orphan. Once again, the family conceit was tweaked to fit the adult Batman, of course. Batman, unlike Superman, is a single father with a child to raise. Both Batman and Detective Comics paired father and son with Batwoman and Batgirl for an all-American family feel.

Like Good ol’ Uncle Dudley from the Shazam comics, Alfred and Gordon serve as grandfatherly figures, while Ace the Bat-Hound joins the fray.

Almost every superhero world now has superfamilies, from the Flash to Ant-Man. Those Fawcett comics of the 1950s are the roots of the JSA Black Adam, which writer Geoff Johns revamped in the 2000s. The villain poisoned by power was replaced by a more complicated figure with a new and tragic origin story.

The character was literally created and defined against the first superfamily. With the help of Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid, Keith Giffen, and others, Johns would develop a whole Black Adam Family in 52, a seminal series that contrasted Shazam and Superman families directly.

Christopher Priest, legendary writer and Black Panther icon, has expanded and added to Black Adam’s life world, and now leans heavily into Batman and Bat-Family parallels and contrasts.

If you’re new to Black Adam, here’s a quick guide to his superhero family:

Isis and Adrianna Tomaz –  Black adam VS Shazam

 

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Before Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman aired, The Secrets of Isis starred a female lead. Shazam shared her programming block! in the Shazam! / Isis Power Hour. When Shazam needed a new figure, it was obvious to revamp Isis from DC.

Throughout the film, Adrianna Tomaz (played by Sarah Shahi) says I am Isis! while holding her Amulet of Isis. while holding her Amulet of Isis. In his strange life, she becomes a Lois Lane-esque figure, the one who will tell him the truth no matter what. Isis is committed to building a better world, making Black Adam better, and helping him be the ideal he strives to be.

They end up getting married, in a grand ceremony in Kahndaq, because Isis is every bit as powerful and unrelenting as Adam. There’s no doubt that  Black Adam is not Superman. The story of his life is not one of a hero meant to inspire, but of a tragedy. After Isis dies in the apocalypse, we realize that the Black Adam Family will never have a happy ending.

Amon Tomaz/Osiris – Black Adam moive

A kidnapped and tortured boy, Amon Tomaz is the younger brother of Adrianna/Isis. This is when Black Adam shares his power with us. Amon transforms into the superpowered Osiris after uttering the words “Black Adam.” This is a clear riff on Captain Marvel Jr., who had to say his family’s leading figure’s name in order to become a superhero.

 The movie is based on the analogies above, with Amon playing Adrianna’s son rather than her sibling. When the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse come to Kahndaq, he also dies, much like his sister. The death of Black Adam symbolizes the death of a different, more hopeful path for the future.

Super crocodile Sobek   

Introducing the family’s Super-Animal Ally! Tawky Tawny, the squad’s strange super best pal, introduced Sobek as a dark mirror. The film takes a surprising turn after it is revealed that Sobek is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, despite it initially appearing as a fun (though violent) take on that classic super-animal concept.

Neither he nor those he encounters fare well in the end. It’s clear what to take away from this. It says everything about Black Adam’s hope for redemption when he’s revealed as a monstrous mourning-god avatar.

Bolt aka Malik White fan of Black adam 

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This is the first time Malik White has appeared. As legendary writer Christopher Priest has noted, “Black Adam” is both Adam’s mortal persona of “Theo” and his Batman persona of “Black Adam”. Priest’s spectacular Black Panther run orbited Batman archetypes and figures, as Priest himself admitted. All his ideas went into Panther, since he felt he would never be hired as a regular Batman writer.

As a result, we’re introduced to Yigal Blaustein, a member of the United States Diplomatic Corps assigned to keep an eye on Adam. The tension of a reporter reporting on Adam’s best friendship is a riff on Alfred or Jim Gordon that Priest relishes. Black Adam/Theo’s ex Chuck, a CIA operative and also a femme fatale figure, operates in a similar space to Talia al Ghul. More than anything else, what does Batman need more than a butler and a love interest? An eagle.

The answer to that question lies with Malik White. In addition to being a doctor-in-training, he is also a long distant descendant of Black Adam. As Adam’s heir and successor, Malik is chosen. The sacred duty of protecting Kahndaq will pass to him as well as Adam’s powers. Through him, Black Adam hopes to cleanse himself of his sins. After falling victim to tragedy up until this point, Malik represents Black Adam’s second (and final) chance.

Osiris was Jason Todd’s scenario of heartbreak. Malik is Robin’s successor, like Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, or Damian Wayne. Chosen Apprentice is the name he has been given. Robins have their perks, however. Being Bolt, Black Adam’s apprentice and heir, is complicated. 

In Priest’s Black Adam story, everyone who gets near Adam is caught up in his ultimate fate, as in Shakespeare’s tragedies.

The Dark Dog of Anubis – Idea of Krypto The Super-Dog

A new member of the Black Adam Family of characters, this one comes courtesy of Dwayne Johnson. The idea of Krypto The Super-Dog was created by Black Adam’s co-creator Otto Binder, so it makes sense to reflect it back.

DC League of Super-Pets introduces Anubis as a dark mirror to Krypto, and it’s a delightfully fun remix. It’s not the first time a super-animal inspired by Black Adam has been created. In the Fawcett era, there was a Captain Black Bunny, and Anubis continues that tradition.

In the comics, Black Adam and his family are at a crossroads, bound together by history, but now reflecting modern superfamilies as well. Despite the lukewarm reception the film received, the comics remain a fascinating exploration and mirror of superhero storytelling in the DC Universe.