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* DeusExMachina: A {{Downplayed|Trope}} but literal version. [[spoiler:In the denouement, despite having saved the day, Billy is dead, the other kids and Anthea are BroughtDownToNormal, the Gods' Realm that Anne and her sisters (or at least Hespera) were trying to save remains dead thanks to Kalypso planting the golden apple on Earth, and there's seemingly no way to reverse any of this because the staff has lost its magic after Billy used it to defeat Kalypso and Ladon. But then Wonder Woman shows up and reignites the staff, which revives the realm, restores Anne's powers, and brings Billy BackFromTheDead, and he promptly re-Shazam-ifies his siblings, too. It's downplayed because it was already established that Diana is the daughter of Zeus (another source of Shazam's powers along with Atlas) and there was {{Foreshadowing}} to her making an appearance at multiple points in the movie, but it still does count as an example of an actual god showing up out of nowhere, with no indication given of how she knew why she should come there or what needed to be done, to fix the heroes' problems.]]
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* DeusExMachina: A {{Downplayed|Trope}} but literal version. [[spoiler:In the denouement, despite having saved the day, Billy is dead, the other kids and Anthea are BroughtDownToNormal, the Gods' Realm that Anne and her sisters (or at least Hespera) were trying to save remains dead thanks to Kalypso planting the golden apple on Earth, and there's seemingly no way to reverse any of this because the staff has lost its magic after Billy used it to defeat Kalypso and Ladon. But then Wonder Woman shows up and reignites the staff, which revives the realm, restores Anne's powers, and brings Billy BackFromTheDead, and he promptly re-Shazam-ifies his siblings, too. It's downplayed because it was already established that Diana is the daughter of Zeus (another source of Shazam's powers along with Atlas) and there was {{Foreshadowing}} to her making an appearance at multiple points in the movie, but it still does count as an example of an actual god showing up out of nowhere, with no indication given of how she knew why she should come there or what needed to be done, to fix the heroes' problems. (Although the line "You got my bird letter" might explain some of it).]]
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* ActorAllusion: Billy tells his parents "Don't freak out", which was the catch phrase of one of Zachary Levi's [[Series/{{Chuck}} previous characters]].
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* {{Retcon}}: For the flashback to the first movie, the scene was recreated with this movie's updated costumes and without a different actress from Mary. The director said this was to keep things smoother for continuity reasons, and that the movie was originally supposed to come out after ''Film/TheFlash2023'', which was in effect a SoftReboot for the DCEU so this kind of thing could be handwaved away as a consequence of it. But for various reasons, ''The Flash'' came out after this one instead.
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* {{Retcon}}: For the flashback to the first movie, the scene was recreated with this movie's updated costumes and without a different actress from for Mary. The director said this was to keep things smoother for continuity reasons, and that the movie was originally supposed to come out after ''Film/TheFlash2023'', which was in effect a SoftReboot for the DCEU so this kind of thing could be handwaved away as a consequence of it. But for various reasons, ''The Flash'' came out after this one instead.
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* {{Retcon}}: For the flashback to the first movie, the scene was recreated with this movie's updated costumes and without a different actress from Mary. The director said this was to keep things smoother for continuity reasons, and that the movie was originally supposed to come out after ''Film/TheFlash2023'', which was in effect a SoftReboot for the DCEU so this kind of thing could be handwaved away as a consequence of it. But for various reasons, ''The Flash'' came out after this one instead.
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* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler: In the final battle, Billy/Shazam uses a lot of electricity around the dome after Hespera helps shrink it down to the baseball stadium where the Tree was planted, and once he uses the staff and shouts “SHAZAM!”, the transformation lightning and the unstable amount of electricity in the dome shoots down, killing Kalypso, Ladon and Billy altogether, [[HeroicSacrifice as the latter makes the ultimate sacrifice]] before the inside of the dome explodes with a giant bright light of electricity, which causes the whole city to black out.]]
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* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler: In the final battle, Billy/Shazam uses a lot of electricity around the dome after Hespera helps shrink it down to the baseball stadium where the Tree was that Kalypso planted, and once he uses the staff and shouts “SHAZAM!”, “Shazam!”, the transformation lightning and the unstable amount of electricity in the dome shoots down, killing Kalypso, Ladon and Billy as well as destroying the Tree altogether, [[HeroicSacrifice as the latter makes the ultimate sacrifice]] before the inside of the dome explodes with a giant bright light of electricity, which causes [[BigBlackout causing the whole city to black out.out]].]]
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* PhlebotinumOverload: [[spoiler: In the final battle, Billy/Shazam uses a lot of electricity around the dome after Hespera helps shrink it down to the baseball stadium where the Tree was planted, and once he uses the staff and shouts “SHAZAM!”, the transformation lightning and the unstable amount of electricity in the dome shoots down, killing Kalypso, Ladon and Billy altogether, [[HeroicSacrifice as the latter makes the ultimate sacrifice]] before the inside of the dome explodes with a giant bright light of electricity, which causes the whole city to black out.]]
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->''"I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash a superhero with a red suit with a lightning bolt on it]]. {{Characters/DCEU Aquaman}} is literally huge, and he's so manly. And [[Characters/DCEUBatman Batman]], he's so cool! And I'm just me. I feel like a fraud. It doesn't matter."''
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->''"I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash a superhero with a red suit with a lightning bolt on it]]. {{Characters/DCEU Aquaman}} [[Characters/DCEUAquaman Aquaman]] is literally huge, and he's so manly. And [[Characters/DCEUBatman Batman]], he's so cool! And I'm just me. I feel like a fraud. It doesn't matter."''
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->''"I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash a superhero with a red suit with a lightning bolt on it]]. {{Characters/DCEU Aquaman}} is literally huge, and he's so manly. And {{Characters/DCEU Batman}}, he's so cool! And I'm just me. I feel like a fraud. It doesn't matter."''
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->''"I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash a superhero with a red suit with a lightning bolt on it]]. {{Characters/DCEU Aquaman}} is literally huge, and he's so manly. And {{Characters/DCEU Batman}}, [[Characters/DCEUBatman Batman]], he's so cool! And I'm just me. I feel like a fraud. It doesn't matter."''
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* DeusExMachina: A {{Downplayed|Trope}} but literal version. [[spoiler:In the denoument, despite having saved the day, Billy is dead, the other kids and Anthea are BroughtDownToNormal, the Gods' Realm that Anne and her sisters (or at least Hespera) were trying to save remains dead thanks to Kalypso planting the golden apple on Earth, and there's seemingly no way to reverse any of this because the staff has lost its magic after Billy used it to defeat Kalypso and Ladon. But then Wonder Woman shows up and reignites the staff, which revives the realm, restores Anne's powers, and brings Billy BackFromTheDead, and he promptly re-Shazam-ifies his siblings, too. It's downplayed because it was already established that Diana is the daughter of Zeus (another source of Shazam's powers along with Atlas) and there was {{Foreshadowing}} to her making an appearance at multiple points in the movie, but it still does count as an example of an actual god showing up out of nowhere, with no indication given of how she knew why she should come there or what needed to be done, to fix the heroes' problems.]]
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* DeusExMachina: A {{Downplayed|Trope}} but literal version. [[spoiler:In the denoument, denouement, despite having saved the day, Billy is dead, the other kids and Anthea are BroughtDownToNormal, the Gods' Realm that Anne and her sisters (or at least Hespera) were trying to save remains dead thanks to Kalypso planting the golden apple on Earth, and there's seemingly no way to reverse any of this because the staff has lost its magic after Billy used it to defeat Kalypso and Ladon. But then Wonder Woman shows up and reignites the staff, which revives the realm, restores Anne's powers, and brings Billy BackFromTheDead, and he promptly re-Shazam-ifies his siblings, too. It's downplayed because it was already established that Diana is the daughter of Zeus (another source of Shazam's powers along with Atlas) and there was {{Foreshadowing}} to her making an appearance at multiple points in the movie, but it still does count as an example of an actual god showing up out of nowhere, with no indication given of how she knew why she should come there or what needed to be done, to fix the heroes' problems.]]
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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: The main villains of the movie are three Greek goddesses, but Wonder Woman doesn't show up [[spoiler: until after the primary conflict is resolved, just in time to bring Billy back to life.]]
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->''"I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash a superhero with a red suit with a lightning bolt on it]]. [[Characters/DCEU Aquaman]] is literally huge, and he's so manly. And {{Characters/DCEU Batman}}, he's so cool! And I'm just me. I feel like a fraud. It doesn't matter."''
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->''"I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash a superhero with a red suit with a lightning bolt on it]]. [[Characters/DCEU Aquaman]] {{Characters/DCEU Aquaman}} is literally huge, and he's so manly. And {{Characters/DCEU Batman}}, he's so cool! And I'm just me. I feel like a fraud. It doesn't matter."''
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->''"I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash a superhero with a red suit with a lightning bolt on it]]. [[Characters/DCEU Aquaman]] is literally huge, and he's so manly. And [[Characters/DCEU Batman]], he's so cool! And I'm just me. I feel like a fraud. It doesn't matter."''
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->''"I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already [[Characters/DCEUTheFlash a superhero with a red suit with a lightning bolt on it]]. [[Characters/DCEU Aquaman]] is literally huge, and he's so manly. And [[Characters/DCEU Batman]], {{Characters/DCEU Batman}}, he's so cool! And I'm just me. I feel like a fraud. It doesn't matter."''
