What the Black Adam and the JSA comics may reveal about the future of the DCEU
How t𓂃wo DC mov🐭ie producers wrote the Black Adam story 20 years ago

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Adam exploded h🧸is way into a new trailer on June 8 for his eponymous film which stars Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in the 🧜title role.
Along with a few hints at how the fil🧸m will adapt Black Adam's comic book origin, the trailer shows off his in🔜teractions with the Justice Society, consisting in the film of heroes Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Cyclone, and Atom Smasher.
The inclusion of the Justice Society in Black Adam - specifically some of the characters chosen for the movie - is no arbitrary choice for expanding the DC Universe presence inꦍ the film.
In writers Geoff Johns and David Goyer's longrunning comic book title, which featu🐭red art from Stephen Sadowski, Alan Davis, and many others, Black Adam becomes a controversial member of the JSA himself, moving from his traditional role as an out-and-out villain to becoming more of a♛n anti-hero - before tragedy strikes, and Black Adam's relationship with the JSA takes a dark turn.
Through most of his history, Black Adam was a diabolical arch-enemy to SHAZAM!, sharing and abusing the power of the Wizard. But in Johns and Goyer's JSA, Black Adam reforms and joins the Justice Society after t🎀eaming up against them with the Injustice Society, who nearly kill the entire JSA until Adam's face turn.
Interestingly, this arc forꦚms the basis for the first ♎season of DC Universe/CW's Stargirl show.
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Following Black Adam's reformation, he and Atom Smasher – a size-changing hero who started out as the teen hero Nuklon of 80's Earth-2 team Infinity Inc. and whose grandfather wa🅰s the Golden Age atomic supervillain Cyclotron – first form a rivalry.
But as Atom Smasher grows more violent and ruthless in his superhero tactics, killing the villain Extant, Black Adam comes to consider him 🌌a brother and nurtures his increasꦑingly violent sense of twisted justice.
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This relationship culminates in a trip 𝓰to Black Adam's native country of Kahndaq, a fictional nation geographically located in the DC Universe's North Africa/Southwest Asia region.
While in Kahndaq, Atom Smasher assassinates the dictatorial president who holds power, allowing Black Adam to become Kahndaq's leader, exercising his own brand of ancient rule. Atom Smasher and several of his former Infinity, Inc. teammates become Black෴ Adam's enforcers, keeping the JSA out.
Ultimately, it's decided Black Adam can remain in power in Kahndaq, as long as he and his allies never leave the country. At first Black Adam agrees, but in🐷 the yearlong weekly limited series , Black Adam and his adopted family Isis and Osiris become global heroes – leading Amanda Waller to send the Suicide Squad to take them down.
Black Adam, Isis, and Osiris fight back – with Osiris ♚killing a member of the Squad. Wal♋ler exposes Osiris's act, and Black Adam turns against the entire world and its heroes in a story titled ''.
Black Adam's subsequent rampage leads Atom S♔masher to turn against him, helping defeat his one time mentor and eventually facing the consequences of his own crimes ꦺin Kahndaq.
The JSA in the Black Adam Movie
It's a lot, right?
There are a few big takeaways to parse from both this saga, and from what Dwayne Johnson said at the end of his Black Adam pജanel during DC Fandome 2021, in which he issued a challenge to the Justice League.
"Flash, SHAZAM!, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman, things will never be the same. The po▨wer balance of th🌳e DC Universe is about to change."
Couple that with the inclusion of the JSA in the film, and the trailer's hints at Black Adam's conflicted role as an anti-hero, a✃nd it seems that the Blac🌜k Adam movie may be just the start of his larger involvement in the DCEU.
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