Fury Of The Gods Is Cleverly Fixing A Shazam Family Problem

Shazam!’s ending created a Shazam Family challenge for the effect, and the rearmost Fury of the Gods campers shows that it's being answered. 

The alternate Shazam! Fury of the Gods caravan hints at how the effect will break its Shazam Family challenge. Inspired by the New 52 rendition of the character, Shazam! introduced not only Billy Batson but also his family – who would also come Shazam soldiers. While the Shazam Family only joined the action at the end of the first film to fight Doctor Sivana and the Seven Deadly Sins, having six characters participating the power of the Shazam champion is tricky as the new Fury of the Gods caravan proves. 

 Though the Shazam Family of superheroes isn't always part of the Shazam stories in the comics, conforming that part of the character’s mythos was the right choice for the DCEU movie. Shazam! was about family, with Billy chancing in his new home everything he'd been looking for. Given how late in Shazam! Billy’s family gets powers, it was anticipated that the Shazam! Fury of the Gods would heavily feature the Shazam Family. The problem, still, is that having six characters with the same set of god- suchlike superpowers in what isn't anticipated to be a Justice League- position trouble can not work in the long term. 

Hespera Is Taking The Shazam Family Powers Back

 The Shazam! Fury of the Gods caravan explosively suggests that Helen Mirren’s Hespera is taking away the Shazam Family's powers one by one. Hespera converted Freddy back to hisnon-superhero form right before saying “ give us the powers, ” and the villain had preliminarily mentioned in the caravan that her father’s powers had been stolen. latterly in the caravan, Mary was hit by a analogous magic ray and also regressed to hernon-superhero form. By the end of the caravan, Billy Batson was grueling Hespera to a fight with no bone at his side. All of those moments point to the Shazam Family losing their powers at some point. 

 Having Hespera chasing the Shazam Family to get the power of the gods back would make sense, and it would explain the title of the Shazam effect being “ Fury of the Gods. ” In addition, having the Daughters of Atlas take the powers from the Shazam Family would avoid having six superheroes throughout the entire film, commodity that would make Fury of the Gods too sophisticated. As fun as the Shazam Family is, Billy Batson should be the focus of the Shazam! effect, especially because six superheroes fighting through the skies would snappily turn into a Justice League- position event. Shazam!’s simplicity added to the film and should be replicated. 

Why Fury Of The Gods’ Solution To The Shazam Family Problem Works

 The Shazam Family is part of Shazam's mythos and a crucial part of the DCEU’s Shazam film, yet Fury of the Gods shouldn't have to have six active superheroes all the way through. Basically, not every superhero story needs to be a big crossover event like Justice League or The punishers. Potentially removing the Shazam Family’s powers fluently fixes that challenge without dwindling the significance of Billy’s family to the story. For illustration, Freddy was ever involved in the action during some of the Shazam! Fury of the Gods caravan scenes despite not being in his superhero form. In addition, it raises the stakes for what Billy must face.