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SHAZAM trailer
- Thread starter Wingfan19
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Jimmy Fallon wishes he was this funny (and could contain his laughter)
No. This is the antithesis of Synder's movies. They'll be some family drama but they won't go dark.
I don't know if I can get over how weird huge Levi looks but it seems like a DC movie is doing something right for once.
The person who was originally quoted asked what the tone of Shazam/Captain Marvel was like outside of Kingdom Come.
The person who posted that clip posted it to show off that even though Billy looks like an adult, and is one of the strongest superheros around, he's still a kid at heart.
And Levi seem's to be channeling that as well, his character comes off as playoff, joyful, and just having fun.
Feels like they got the tone just right.
Just wish they still didn't try to make the trailer edgy. Put some fun song there geez
Just wish they still didn't try to make the trailer edgy. Put some fun song there geez
I honestly don't know if your serious.
When referring to DC Comics they are the same person.
Captain Marvel's name was officially changed to Shazam in recent years.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-captain-marvel-ms-marvel-shazam-clusterf-ck-explai-1251423862
It's all because of the rights issues, and mainly because how Marvel Comics has the rights to the name Captain Marvel. Fawcett, publishers of the original Captain Marvel/Shazam comics, stopped making them in the '50s. In the '60s, Marvel Comics trademarked the name Captain Marvel for their own Kree alien superhero, which meant when DC licensed the Fawcett characters in 1972, they had the Fawcett character named Captain Marvel, but couldn't call the comic Captain Marvel, so they used his transformation cry "Shazam!" for the title.
This extended to other media as well — DC could not promote the character as Captain Marvel anywhere, even though the character's named was Captain Marvel. So when Billy Batson made his TV debut in 1974, his show was titled Shazam (okay, The Shazam/Isis Hour, but you get the point).
That's 40+ years of marketing the character as Shazam, and that's how he's known to pretty much everybody. Hell, even DC finally gave up when they did the New 52 and finally just renamed the character Shazam, just to cut down on the confusion, and I think it was a smart move. Point is, if even DC calls him Shazam now, he's Shazam. This battle is lost.
So, to summarize. The Wizard Shazam gave the hero formally known as Captain Marvel, now known as "Shazam" powers. Don't confuse him with the Marvel Superhero Captain Marvel, previously known as Ms Marvel.
This... Actually looks good. What the hell LOL. It went from "meh" to officially on my radar after that trailer.
They're the same character, DC had to rename Captain Marvel to Shazam over trademark issues with Marvel Comics.
Now that is more like it from DC, far better than the serious, dark and brooding tone of the other movies.
DC needs to have more fun with their movies now and this looks like the right direction.
DC needs to have more fun with their movies now and this looks like the right direction.