History Characters / Shazam

* CannotTakeCriticism: If he feels you are anything less than respectful in his presence, that's more than enough reason for him to end you. Insulting him directly, makes him even more vicious.

* UpperClassTwit: She's notable ditzy and displays traits commonly seen with the BeautifulElite. She's also somewhat prejudiced, as she referred to the Black Marvel Family as "camel jockeys" after Isis and Osiris had an argument in Arabic.

* AbusiveParents: Though she is amicable to her biological children, she blatantly dislikes and disparages her step-children, Georgia and Thaddeus Jr. She also ordered Magnificus to remove a feral Sobek off the family dinner table because it was ruining her peach cobbler for their charity dinner with the Black Marvel Family despite his blatant terror.

[[WMG:Beautia Sivana]]
-->''"Just call me 'Tia. Otherwise you're just stating the obvious."
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The oldest daughter of Dr. Sivana, Beautia is stunningly pretty, and exceptionally pleasant, if vain. Initially willing to work for her father, she quickly turned on him, becoming an ally and friend of the Marvel Family during the GoldenAge. In the Dark Age and Modern Age, we only meet her after her HeelFaceTurn. In both continuities, she has a serious crush on Captain Marvel.

* TheUnfavorite: She along with her brother are blatantly disliked by her mother, Venus, and her siblings Beautia and Magnificus for taking after their father in appearance and his mad scientist tendencies. Her mother derogatorily refers to her and her brother as "The Butterfaces" in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' and angrily told her to be silent over complaining about how hair was ruined while coddling Beautia over the same issue after Sobek smashed through their home.

* TheUnfavorite: Her along with his sister, Georgia, are blatantly disliked by their mother, Venus, and their siblings Beautia and Magnificus for taking after their father in appearance and his mad scientist tendencies.

* LovesMyAlterEgo: Crushses on Captain Marvel without knowing he's actually a child/teenager.

* MrViceGuy: Rather vain, and a touch on the shallow side, but still a good person, and one of the few adults to be unfailingly nice to Billy.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: He and his sister Beautia are the attractive ones in the family, and the generally good-aligned ones.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Averted.

* CorruptTheCutie. Having her home destroyed, being killed, and being resurrected to be used as a sex slave by Felix Faust definitely ruined any sunny outlook she originally had about life.

* KnightTemplar: After her resurrection. Too the point she declared Kahndaq a closed state to all foreign influence with the consequence of foreign intrusion being another World War III event caused by her.

* TakenForGranite

* KnightTemplar: After her resurrection.

* MoralityPet: She used to be this for Adam by encouraging him to use his powers to improve his country and placating his temper when he gets wrathful, but her eventual last words that Adam was correct in his vicious approach and that he should obtain vengeance before her death after Khandaq was attacked terminated that status.

** FaceHeelTurn: No longer cares who he kills so long as he gets results.

* TheArchmage: Shazam is ''the'' most powerful sorcerer in TheDCU, bar none. So powerful he could actually ''defeat ComicBook/TheSpectre in a fight.''

* MadScientist: The UrExample in TheDCU, and a classic one to this day.

* TheObiWan: In some versions of the story, Shazam dies as soon as he empowers Billy.

* HenshinHero: One of the first!

* {{Badass}}: He's basically a Superman with magic powers. What did you expect?
** BadassCape: Though an unusually short one.

* {{Badass}}

* {{Expy}}: In an odd series of developments, an editor ordered his writers to base Captain Marvel on Superman (although he turned out quite different and more lighthearted); Wonder Woman was apparently based on Captain Marvel (with the similar grounding in magic, and more specifically the divine gifts); Mary Marvel seemed based on Wonder Woman; Supergirl was based on Mary Marvel; and ComicBook/PowerGirl was based on Supergirl.

* BlondesAreEvil

* BlondesAreEvil

* BlondesAreEvil: In her first Golden Age appearance she was working for her father. She quickly switches sides, averting the trope.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Comes with the Nazi Super Soldier territory

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[{{Understatement}} Nazis weren't very good people.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast

* SuperSoldier
* ThoseWackyNazis

* LightningCanDoAnything: Golden and Bronze Age stories feature the Shazam lightning doing more than just transforming the various Marvels. (For example, tha time he beat Mr. Atom at the Indy 500 by using his lightning to turn a racecar into the Shazamobile)

** SuperStrength: Hercules' strength, as mentionned above.

* HenshinHero
* LightningCanDoAnything
* SuperpoweredAlterEgo

* FunPersonified

A friend of Billy Batson's who was crippled by Captain Nazi in both Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis continuity, Freddy Freeman was granted a portion of Billy and Mary's powers in order to help him walk again. When he says "Captain Marvel" he is transformed into a physically perfect version of himself, with a portion of Captain Marvel's powers, with a strikingly distinctive yellow on blue variation of the Marvel costume. He's had issues with Billy at various points, most notably due to his own interest in Mary and Billy's insistence on protecting his sister.

The sum total culmination of the six S.H.A.Z.A.M kids. Captain thunder has had numerous appearances around the dc continuity first starting off as his own Captain marvel during the Gold and Silver ages with his host being the young boy Willie Fawcett who would come to inherit his power from a native american spirit named Merokee. Who then gifted him with a thunderbolt emblazoned belt buckle which enchanted him with the seven attributes of various natural elements and creatures of nature, before departing through a hole in the surreal dimension it made to commune with Willie, who eventually went on to become his dimension of Earth-276 (named after his first comic appearance) greatest protector and champion until he went on to battle the Monster League of Evil, a conflict of which spanning across thousands of parallel earths and eventually landing him on Earth 1 after banishing them to the misty dimesion.

The Captain Thunder of the broken Flashpoint universe came to be when six orphan kids got on the same train previous incarnations of Billy did at the same time. Transporting them all to the mystical rock of eternity where the Wizard Shazam sat waiting for them, unable to give sole ownership of the power to just one child. Shazam divided the individual powers of they're SuperpoweredAlterEgo to each of the six street urchins giving them a letter corresponding to the different attribute.

* AlliterativeName: Willie Fawcett
* AllYourPowersCombined: Has a Tornado's Power, Hare's Speed, Uncas Bravery, Natures Wisdom, a Diamonds Toughness, an Eagles Flight and a Ram's Tenacity.
* AlternateSelf: Comes with being an parallel Captain Marvel.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Happened to him after his transformation into captain thunder after besting the monster league of evil, he got better of coarse.

** HenshinHero: Comes with having a transformative belt buckle
** MagicAndPowers

** SuperStrength

* AlliterativeName: Billy Batson, Freddy Freeman, Mary Bromfield, Darla Dudley, Eugene Choi and Pedro Peña.
** FusionDance: He's a composite being of the children's divine powers.
* AllYourPowersCombined: Has Eugene's Wisdom of Solomon, Pedro's Strength of Hercules, Mary's Stamina of Atlas, Freddy's Power of Zeus, Billy's Courage of Achilles and Darla's Speed of Mercury.

** {{Flight}}: Effect of both having a twisters power and an Eagles flight.
** HenshinHero: Team S.H.A.Z.A.M speaks the word in unison.
** MagicAndPowers

** ShockAndAwe: Powered and can freely utilize the same magic lightning old verse Captain Marvel used.
** SuperStrength: Hercules' strength, as mentionned above.

* GoodScarsEvilScars

* ByThePowerOfGreySkull: For Adam "Shazam!", differs with the others

* BreakoutCharacter[=/=]BreakoutVillain: Proved to be a massively popular character in the 90s, eventually starring in his own miniseries, joining the JSA, and being a big player in the DCU.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: In some continuities' backstories, Adam was denounced and banished by the wizard for falling in love with an evil woman (such as Blaze in ''The Power of Shazam!'' or Princess Jemia in the Filmation cartoon). Of course, Adam doesn't see his lover as evil, hence his anger at the wizard.

The world's foremost MadScientist, Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana is a spiteful, petty, raving troll of a man who will settle for nothing less than total global domination... if only he can get rid of that Big Red Cheese first. Originally the CEO of Sivana Industries, Sivana's battles with Captain Marvel led to his financial ruin, which caused him to slip deeper and deeper into insanity. He was also the employer of Theo Adam, and accidentally provided him with the scarab that turned him into Black Adam; he later helped create the Four Horsemen who killed Isis and Osiris. Today, Sivana is a rogue scientist who has allied himself with the Secret Society of Super-Villains, the Injustice League, and the Oolong Island Science Squad.

* PointyEars: Inexplicably. At first it was probably to give him a demonic appearance, but now it's just TheArtifact (and makes him look like the {{Sub-Mariner}}'s long-lost twin).
* {{Reincarnation}}: Theo Adam is a descendent and reincarnation of the original Teth-Adam.

* ACupAngst

* TheArchmage: Shazam is ''the'' most powerful sorcerer in TheDCU, bar none. So powerful he could actually ''defeat TheSpectre in a fight.''

* HeroesEvilPredecessor: was previously empowered by Shazam but turned evil, meaning ''CaptainMarvel'' was recruited to replace him.

* HerosEvelPredecessor: was previously empowered by Shazam but turned evil, meaning ''CaptainMarvel'' was recruited to replace him.

* DistaffCounterpart: Possibly the first superhero example, although [[SubMariner Namora]] was introduced near the same time.

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