Captain Marvel has had a whole host of villains of different zany types, most of whom only lasted a few issues after their debut, and only a few survived to be recurring enemies over the years.
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Golden Age Villains
Aunt Minerva
AKA: (Name Unknown)
First Appearance: Captain Marvel Adventures #59 (April, 1946)
"Ohh! you wonderful man! You're so strong and masterful! I'm just putty in your hands!"
The former wife of a deceased gang lord, Minerva proved herself very adept at taking over and running his crime ring, and now spends her time constantly searching for (often unwilling) candidates to be her next husband.
- Abhorrent Admirer: It's practically a Running Gag that most of the men she goes after are horrified at the perspective of being in a couple with her, let alone marrying her. When she was after Ibac, he was so afraid of her he actually went to beg Uncle Dudley for help, and the latter, who also had been subject to her advances in the past, actually agreed to help without hesitation, since in his opinion, even a villain like Ibac didn't deserve to end up married with her.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Pre-Crisis, Aunt Minerva appeared completely unaware that she was not seen as attractive, which was Played for Laughs. In The Power of Shazam!, Lady M is extremely bitter about losing her looks as she got older, and that this is how women are judged, hence her crimes being to maintain a supply of the skin-rejuvination formula Neoderm. She's also much more cynical about men as a result.
- Black Widow: Oddly enough, subverted; she's had five previous husbands, but it's never implied to be anything but a case of very bad luck. She's not even much of a Gold Digger.
- Evil Old Folks: Very old, very evil.
- Lady and Knight: Dark Lady type. Her main hang-up seems to be falling for powerful men, regardless of whether they're good or bad, that can protect her from harm (despite not needing their help in the slightest). As a result, she's become smitten with Captain Marvel, Sivana, Ibac — even Uncle Dudley, when he fought off the goons of another mob boss seeking revenge on her.
- Oblivious to Love: Inverted; she apparently can't understand when men aren't interested in her. When she tried to get with Ibac, he was terrified by her and kept running away, which she interpreted as him "playing hard to get".
- Stalker with a Crush: She is disturbingly devoted in her love for Captain Marvel, once fretting that he'd think something terrible had happened to her because she'd only written him ten letters that day.
Arson Fiend
AKA: George Tweedle
First Appearance: Captain Marvel Adventures #2 (June, 1941)
The Arson Fiend (George D. Tweedle) is a enemy of Captain Marvel with fire powers. Apparently, he gained his demonic powers from Blaze during the 1940s and was one of her pawns against the Wizard Shazam and the Fawcett City heroes. In the modern times, he fought Captain Marvel some times.
- Breath Weapon: Can rain fire from his mouth.
- Deal with the Devil: He gained his demonic powers from the demon Blaze during the 1940s.
- Jekyll & Hyde: Originally drank a formula to turn into a super-powered villain.
- Playing with Fire: Can generate and start fires with a touch. These fires can rain out from his mouth as well as his hands, allowing him to almost explode with fire if he wished. As such he is also immune to any of his own fire as well as any fire in the immediate area.
The Black Dragon Society
First Appearance: Master Comics #21 (December, 1941)
A cabal of Japanese scientists - Dr Smashi, Dr Hashi and Dr Peeyu - who served under Mr Mind.
- I Have Many Names: They also call themselves the Tokyo Torture Temple and the Jap Jab-in-the-Back Club.
- Yellow Peril: Yellow-skinned buck-toothed Japanese stereotypes from the 1940s.
Captain Nippon
First Appearance: Captain Marvel, Jr. #2 (December, 1942)
"Seven ancestors of the Seven Fiends! Honourable brat makes monkey of terrible Captain Nippon!"
Captain Nippon is a super-soldier created by Imperial Japan, serving as the Japanese equivalent of Captain Nazi. He is an enemy of Captain Marvel Jr. Captain Nippon is a sort of golem who was constructed and brought to life during World War 2 by the Jamambux, a secret society of Imperial Japanese sorcerers. The creature, which the narration compares to Frankenstein’s Monster, was compounded of “desirable things” - namely, Brute Force, Murder, Hate, Terror, Lust and Greed. This gave the beast-man great power, as well as human-level intelligence.
- Captain Patriotic: Captain Nippon was created as an embodiment of Imperial Japanese values.
- Carry a Big Stick: Captain Nippon wields a sort of spiked steel club, presumably made of some super-metal.
- Chest Insignia: Wears the Rising Sun emblem on his chest.
- Fangs Are Evil: One of Captain Nippon’s few salient traits are his teeth. Or rather his fangs, since they are clearly animalistic.
- Golem: He is an artificially made human being, crafted from magic.
- Man Bites Man: A distinctive feature are his fangs. He can use these to chew through solid steel. Nippon collapsed entire buildings by destroying the load-bearing girders through mastication.
- Super-Strength: Captain Nippon was powerful enough to knock out Captain Marvel Jr. with a blow from his club.
- Super-Toughness: Can ignore all attacks short of artillery.
- Torture Technician: Captain Nippon and his masters are, of course, enthusiastic torturers. Despite their Japanese nature, they're seen using Medieval European tools and techniques like iron boots or iron maidens.
- Yellow Peril: Captain Nippon is an exaggeration of every racist stereotype associated with the Japanese during WWII.
Color King
First Appearance: Mary Marvel #3 (July, 1946)
"Purple is the color of madness! I'll give this fool a concentrated dose, and drive him mad right on the spot!"
An enemy of Mary Marvel, he was a criminal who went to Tibet and gained the ability to project colors, each of which could cause a different effect.
- Emotion Control: He can project different coloured rays which affect emotions, for example green calms people.
- Green and Mean: He primarily used green gas to tranquilize people.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Dresses in green and orange.
The Crocodile Men
A trio of sentient crocodiles (known as Herkimer, Jorrk and Sylvester) from the planet Punkus, who served as henchmen in the Monster Society.
- The Creon: Herkimer the Crocodile-Man, who only takes over Leadership of the Society after Mister Mind gets Laser-Guided Amnesia and becomes good. Once he regains his memory Herkimer gives back control.
- Kaiju: At one point in the comic it was one titanic crocodile attacking Fawcett City.
- Multiple Head Case: In the 2019 Shazam comic, it was one crocodile with three heads.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Humanoid crocodiles are never a good news.
Dummy
- Depending on the Writer: Sometimes he's a human being who looks like a dummy, sometimes he's an actual Demonic Dummy.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Was formerly an enemy of the Vigilante.
Evil Eye
Evil Eye was an aide to Mister Mind who helped the worm when he was trying to promote his goals by writing a book called Mind Kampf about how he would rule the world. Evil Eye hypnotized Billy Batson when the boy discovered their headquarters, but accidentally broke the spell by snapping his fingers. He tried to hypnotize Captain Marvel as well, but the hero was unaffected and destroyed the operation.
- Adaptational Abomination: The 2019 Shazam comic redesigned him as this.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Evil Eye has green skin. Although, as his origins are never established, he could be an alien or supernatural creature.
- Hypnotic Eyes: Evil Eye hypnotises people by staring into their eyes with his one oversized eye.
- Immune to Mind Control: Captain Marvel (and presumably the rest of the Shazam family) are immune to Evil Eye's hypnosis in super form.
Ebenezer Batson
Billy Batson’s uncle, who tries to steal his money.
- Deal with the Devil: Pre-Crisis, he sold his soul to Satan in exchange for an Earthly fortune. Post-Crisis, he sold his soul to Blaze the demoness in exchange for a son to inherit his fortune.
- Evil Uncle
Graybeard
Graybeard, a.k.a. 'the World's Oldest Criminal' was a for of Captain Marvel, Jr. As a young man, he was sentenced to 99 years in prison, to which he sarcastically told the judge how considerate he was to not make it a life sentence. When released, he found that the world had passed him by. Determined to revenge on society, and on the young in particular, he began a crime spree based on the theme of old age. Being the youngest of the Shazam family, Captain Marvel, Jr. became his especial target.
- Cane Fu: Graybeard carries a walking stick that he sometimes uses as a weapon.
- Captain Colorbeard: Greybeard
- Evil Old Folks: Graybeard is well over 100 years old, and takes on the Shazam family despite having no superpowers.
- Grumpy Old Man: Graybeard is what happens when a grumpy old man decides to become a supervillain.
- Longer-Than-Life Sentence: The judge sentenced Graybeard to 99 years for unspecified crimes. He served every one of those years.
Hal Hooey
An agent who flatters Mr Tawny he can make a great singer out of him. But all he wants is the fame of a talking tiger.
Ibac
AKA: Stanley "Stinky" Printwhistle
"Payback time, for all the humiliation I've suffered at your hands, all these years, "do-gooder.""
A scrawny criminal who gains the abilities of the worst humans to have existed when he says "Ibac". Somehow this results in a Dumb Muscle bruiser who poses little threat to anyone with superpowers.
- Adaptational Nationality: Pre-Flashpoint Stanley Printwhistle is American. Post-Flashpoint Emperor Ibac is from thousands of years before the US existed. Black Adam introduces a Stanley counterpart, Hamid Stanli, who's British.
- Bald of Evil: His scrawny alter ego.
- The Brute: Nothing much to contribute to any story besides act as Sivana's muscle, and give the good captain a warm-up.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: Saying "Ibac!" sees him gain the powers of some of the worst people in history.
- Carpet of Virility: Usually depicted as a Type 1.
- Deal with the Devil: How he originally became Ibac.
- Dumb Muscle: Strong enough to be a big threat to low level/mid-level superhumans, yet uses it like an idiot and is tricked into saying his mystic words constantly.
- Evil Counterpart: Was intended by Satan to be this to Captain Marvel. It didn't work out.
- Fun with Acronyms: By saying IBAC, he gains Ivan the Terrible's ability to inspire terror, Cesare Borgia's cunning, Attila the Hun's ferocity and Caligula's cruelty.
- Go and Sin No More: Each time he was defeated in the 40's Captain Marvel would let him go after extracting a promise not to transform again, but not doing anything to ensure it besides promising another pounding if he slipped back into his old ways. As might be imagined this didn't work very well and Printwhistle would change again whenever he thought he could commit a crime without Cap coming after him.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: The milquetoast Stanley keeps trying to reform, but the temptation of becoming the monster once again is simply too much for him to stand.
- Historical Domain Crossover: He combines the 'powers' of Ivan the Terrible, Cesare Borgia, Attila the Hun and Caligula.
- Retcon: His "Curse of Shazam" version changes everything about him, making Ibac his actual name, and turning him into a warlord who lived several thousand years ago, calling him "the man who invented evil".
- Race Lift: While it's not clear where he originates from, Emperor Ibac looks as white as his former self. Hamid Stanli, on the other hand, is definitely Arabic.
- Sickly Green Glow: In contrast with Captain Marvel's lightning bolt, his transformation is announced by green flames.
- Villain Decay: IBAC started out as seeming like a pretty credible threat, especially with being given his powers by Satan himself and among Captain Marvel's first super-powered enemies besides. By the end of IBAC's second appearance, though, Cap was actively toying with him before finally taking him out. The rest of their Golden Age battles were similarly one-sided, although the writers were trying a little bit harder to make him seem like a threat when DC relaunched the series.
Jeepers
A bat-creature that terrorized Fawcett City.
- Bat People: Looks like a humanoid, wingless bat, but his 2019 design now has wings to fly.
- Bat Out of Hell: Although it originally looked like a humanoid mouse, subsequent appearances are more bat-like.
- Last of His Kind: Jeepers was the last of a race of bat-like creatures who lived in caverns and were wiped out in some unknown disaster.
- Master of Disguise: Jeepers was able to convincingly pass for a human being until he accidentally let his tail be spotted.
Goat-Man
Goat-Man was the first recruit into Mr. Mind's Monster Society of Evil, and Mr. Mind often broadcast his thoughts directly into his lackey's mind.
- Decoy Leader: Before his identity was publicly known, Mr. Mind often used Goat-Man as his mouthpiece, causing many to assume that he was the leader of the Monster Society.
- Fauns and Satyrs: Goat-Man is an alien who looks like a humanoid goat.
- Scapegoat: The 2019 Shazam comic gives him the name of Scapegoat, and he lives up to this by setting up Tawky Tawny's tiger race for the slaughter of some talking animals.
The Hen
An enemy of Mary Marvel, who was a ruthless mobster.
- Animal Motifs: The hen.
- Annoying Laugh: It resembles a chicken clucking.
- Bad Boss: She refused to share loot with her people and killed any who protested. Understandably, few worked for her unless they were desperate.
- The Queenpin: A female crime boss.
Herr Phoul
A Nazi who served in the Monster Society.
- Bald of Evil
- High-Class Glass: Wears a monocle.
- Killed Off for Real: Died when a munitions plant exploded. All that was left was left of him appeared to be a charred sock embroidered with swastikas.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Was a liaison between the WWII Nazis and the Monster Society.
The Ice King
A survivor of the previous ice age, who wields technology that can give him ice powers.
India Rubber Man
Mahatma Squatma, a fakir in the Bingling Bros Circus, got sick of tying himself in knots every day and decided to try supervillainy.
King Kull
- "Ho hah! Burn, books, burn! And those three human brats I found unconscious... I reserve a special spot for them! Ho Ha! Burn, kids, burn! Ho Haaaaaaaa!"
Former ruler of the "Submen", a brutish but technologically skilled humanoid race that ruled over early man until being overthrown in a sudden revolution. Now set free after eons of suspended animation, he plots to conquer the modern world anew.
- Arch-Enemy: Initially created to spice up the later issues of the series with a unique new recurring nemesis.
- Beard of Evil: He's always depicted with a full beard and is evil.
- Big Bad: Of Crisis in Eternity.
- Evil Laugh: In sharp contrast to Sivana's high-pitched, wheezy chuckle, his is a booming, throaty guffaw.
- Genius Bruiser: He doesn't really look like one, but he was the king of a technologically advanced species. Thus while he could trade punches with Marvel, his schemes always hinged on some new gadget he'd come up with to exterminate humans.
- Jerkass: To put it lightly, he is very unpleasant to talk with, fight against, and in general be with. Not helped by his demeaning behavior, racist attitude, and violent nature.
- Last of His Kind: Though the Submen were technologically superior, Cro-Magnons vastly outnumbered them and overwhelmed them by sheer force; Kull is the only one remaining. If he can't rule the world, he's equally satisfied with destroying it as his revenge on mankind.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Is willing to kill all humans if given the chance, and most of his plots derive from world domination. In Crisis in Eternity, he's perfectly willing to destroy any Earth with humanity on it, regardless of whether his species existed on them or not.
- Super-Strength: Tremendous amounts of strength yet is still below the Captain Marvel family.
- Ultraterrestrials: He comes from a race of super-advanced cavemen.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Tends to just go around in a loin cloth and helmet.
The Mad Mummy
- ''"Harken! My old pyramid was destroyed by the Marvels! I need a new headquarters from which to send my plagues of horror over the world! Begin the NEW PYRAMID OF EVIL!"
An Ancient Egyptian mass murderer whom the wizard Shazam had defeated and imprisoned in the Pyramid of Peril, only to return millennia later when his Pyramid was discovered by archeologists.
- Complete Immortality: Can't be killed, since he's already dead.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Magically imprisoned by Shazam in ages past, and again at the end of the story arc.
Mad Poet
An enemy of Mary Marvel, he was a poet called Egbert Alvin Pfoe, who came third in a poetry contest and swore revenge.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He came third place, but wants revenge on the second and first place winners.
- Mad Artist
- Punny Name: He’s named after Edgar Allan Poe.
Mister Atom
"I shall rule the world! That is the destiny of Mr. Atom."
Mister Atom was a robot created by Doctor Charles Langley, who unfortunately died when he gave life to his creation with radioactive energy. The robot was instilled with hostile intentions of ruling the world
- Depending on the Artist: His design has varied between looking like an actual mechanical creation, a metal humanoid and a Humongous Mecha.
- Flight: Mister Atom can fly.
- Hand Blasts: Can fire nuclear blasts from his hands.
- Killer Robot: Believing he should rule the world, Mr. Atom has no qualms about killing puny humans.
- Losing Your Head: Mr. Atom can securely detach his head from his body.
- Master Computer: Seeing how much mightier he was than humans, Atom determined to become Earth's ruler.
- Tailor-Made Prison: At the end of his first appearance, Mr. Atom is imprisoned in an underground, lead-lined cell, as no other prison could contain his power, but he threatens to break out one day.
- Token Robot: He's the only robot among the human, alien or monster members of the Monster Society.
Mister Banjo
A.K.A.: Kurt Filpots
A spy in disguise as a musician who delivered secret messages using the musical notes of his banjo.
- Complexity Addiction: Even for wartime espionage, Banjo's scheme really takes the cake. A mole working as a secretary at the American Naval Headquarters would tap out a coded pattern on her typewriter for a fellow agent (whose family in Vichy France was being held hostage) that came in posing as a crank; the man would leave the HQ whistling the pattern, passing by Mr. Banjo, who would mentally translate it and replay it on his banjo with further instructions under the open window of a print shop... that then transcribed the notes onto sheet music and played them again on a radio broadcast, where they would FINALLY be intercepted and read by German command in the Pacific. Notably, after being foiled by Captain Marvel, his second and final plan doesn't involve music at all, just kidnapping FDR and replacing him with an Axis doppelganger.
- Musical Assassin: Defied. Filpots relies on a gun when the going gets rough, and uses his banjo for purely utilitarian code transmission; Captain Marvel's the one to break it over his head. By his second appearance, he doesn't have a new one, and his evil plot has nothing to do with music.
- Redhead In Green: Wears a green suit and has orange hair.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: Has auburn hair and wears green clothes.
Mister Who
See Doctor Fate
The Monster Society of Evil
Mister Mind assembled one of the first ever gang of bad guys in comic history. The roster includes members on this page, and some who only appear briefly.
The comic has a page here.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Mr. Mind created three monsters to set on Capt Marvel: Oliver the octopus, Ophelius the ram, and Oliphant the dragon.
- Crossover: One of the earliest in comics. The first roster brought in villains who were previously enemies of other heroes, and united them under Mister Mind's leadership. Also a case of Rogues' Gallery Transplant.
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The roster is comprised of aliens, beast-creatures, fantasy beings, Nazis and Japanese from World War 2, and the odd demon and robot or two.
- Legion of Doom: One of the earliest in comics.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: The Society has had Asian villains and Nazis in its ranks. Also a case of Values Dissonance since that happened during World War 2 and hasn't been done since then.
Nippo the Nipponese
Nippo is a master of jujitsu and an agent of Imperial Japan during WWII.
- Alliterative Name: Nippo the Nipponese.
- Asian Buck Teeth: As with most offensive and dated depictions of Japanese people, he has prominent buck teeth.
- Crystal Ball: Possessed two magical black pearls stolen from India, which gave him the ability to spy on people and see/hear what they were doing.
- Yellow Peril: The guy is a walking stereotype of Japanese people during WWII.
Nyola
- “Hail to Yum Chac… make the Aztec race mighty again… we offer thee thy sacrifice…”
An Aztec priestess who can control the weather. Served in the Monster Society.
- Lady in Red: Dresses in red priestess clothes.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Was formerly an enemy of Hawkman and Hawkgirl
Oggar
"Hah! I cannot defeat Hercules, Atlas and the others each in turn! But in the 20th Century, they will all be combined in one man—Capt. Marvel, the world's mightiest mortal! Then I will have only one enemy!"
A former pupil of Shazam, self-stylized as The Mightiest Immortal, who was so powerful that the wizard Shazam was originally called Shazamo to use his power. However, he rebelled against Shazamo to use his power for evil and the wizard cast him out, and thus the wizard shortened his own name to Shazam. Once that was done, Oggar bided his time for Shazam to die and then take on his successor, who turned out to be Billy Batson.
He is a villain of immense power who can do nearly anything with his magic. For instance, Oggar can hit a Marvel with Magic Lightning to forcibly change him back and then mute him to keep him that way. Another time, Oggar created a whole army of soldiers out of the sands of Egypt for Black Adam to command with a wave of his hand and a verbal command.
However, his power comes with two limitations: he can only cast one particular magical spell on a particular person once, and his magic cannot directly harm a female target. Oggar only appeared three times and only in the Pre-Crisis period (Once in the Fawcett period as a solo villain, albeit in a long multi-part Story Arc that spanned six issues, and twice in World's Finest as a member of Mr. Mind's Monster Society of Evil), likely because unless a female hero, like Mary Marvel, is helping, this villain is practically suicide for a male hero to oppose.
- Evil Sorcerer: He is a villain of immense power who can do nearly anything with his magic.
- Exact Words: Oggar is still dangerous to even female targets since he's capable of carefully phrasing his spells to affect them indirectly. For instance, Oggar realized that he could not say to Mary Marvel, "Let Magic Lightning strike you down!" to any effect, but he could say "Let Magic Lightning strike her where she stands."
- Limited-Use Magical Device: In his 40s appearances, his magic lets him do anything he can vocalize, but each power is limited to one use only (to explain why he doesn't just zap Captain Marvel back to a helpless kid and kill him after the first time).
- No Ontological Inertia: When he died at the end of his serial in the 40s note , his spell keeping the witch Circe alive for centuries ended and she immediately decayed to her skeleton.
- Physical God: As The World's Mightiest Immortal, he has every power Captain Marvel does at the same level of potency. He's also a wizard on top of that.
- A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Like Black Adam he was a student of Shazam, mentor to the hero, and like Black Adam he was corrupted by his godly powers.
- Red Right Hand: Oggar has cloven hooves instead of human feet.
- Smug Snake: He knows his immense power, and loves to rub it in his foes' faces, although Mary Marvel has been able to embarrass him.
- Story-Breaker Power: Oggar's literally a god, and is equally as strong as Captain Marvel, so the good captain can't defeat him in a fight. Oggar also knows wizardry, enough to conjure entire buildings and armies out of thin air. Unless an opponent is female and thus plays to the blindspot of his magic powers, no opponent can stand a chance against him.
- Villain Decay: When he was revived in the 80s, it totally ignored his godly physical attributes in favor of his magic.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Oggar is more than willing to attack a female opponent, but his magic cannot directly harm female targets. Even forcibly moving them without causing injury with it will not work apparently because that is also interpreted as harm. He can, if he's sneaky, get around the limitation by framing things in a positive way, such as making Circe immortal, but leaving her to still grow old.
Oom the Mighty
An alien serial killer.
- Bald of Evil: He's balding and a serial killer from outer space.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Was formerly an enemy of the Spectre.
- Serial Killer: He's a killer from outer space.
- Taken for Granite: Is of a stony gray physique.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Oom doesn't bother with a shirt.
Ramulus
- Beard of Evil: Has a green beard.
- Green Thumb: He started out controlling artificial plants of his own creation, then later on got the power to control real ones.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Was formerly an enemy of the Sandman.
Red Crusher
A champion of North Korea sent to fight Captain Marvel.
- Captain Ersatz: He's King Kull if he served in the Korean People's Army — immense strength, grotesque hairy body, cruel nature, booming "ho! ho!" laugh, advanced weapons, everything.
- Dirty Commies: A caricatured World War II-style antagonist for the Korean War.
- Genius Bruiser: Described as having "a mind of scientific genius but a soul of blackest evil" in his second appearance, and creates jet-propelled spiked spheres and electric death rays as well as charging into battle wielding a giant flail.
- Yellow Peril: Except he comes from North Korea instead of China.
Spider Man
No, not that one (notice the missing hyphen). A robber who spins threads from plastic to ensnare people, and also keeps a pet poisonous tarantula.
Tong
A Chinese villain and descendant of Genghis Khan.
- Yellow Peril: A pretty obvious negative stereotype of Chinese people.
The Weeper
A.K.A.: Mortimer Gloom
Mortimer Gloom was a circus performer. He was known as the "Crying Clown" or "Weeping Willie". He was fired for being dishonest. Sometime afterward he committed several acts of revenge. He later took on the name "The Weeper". He was originally the Archenemy of Bulletman and Bulletgirl. After the original Weeper died attempting to seek revenge against Bulletman and Bulletgirl, his son adopted the identity and attempted to revenge himself on Bulletgirl, who teamed up with Mary Marvel to stop him. Since then, the Weeper has become part of the Shazam rogues gallery.
- Catchphrase: "How sad it is".
- The Eeyore: The Weeper hates to see people happy but feels bad after he hurts them.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Began as the Archenemy of Bulletman and Bulletgirl. When the other Earth-S heroes were left languishing in limbo, the Weeper became a part of the Shazam rogues gallery.
- He was recently seen in the Batman Brave and the Bold cartoon as Joker's idol.
Modern Shazam Villains
The Black Marvel Family
Blaze
AKA: Angelica Blaze
"Unschooled as he is in the depth of his own power, Fate may not live to see the dawn of the underworld'!"
One of Shazam's children, the demoness Blaze battles her brother Satanus for control of their Hell dimension.
- Antagonistic Offspring: To her father, Shazam.
- The Corrupter: Of both Black Adamnote and Osiris.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: A demon lord.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Part human, part devil.
- Horned Humanoid: Has curved horns.
- Lean and Mean: Very skinny.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her skin is red and she has black hair. Her other appearance is also dark reddish and black.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Originally a Superman villain, but shifted to the Shazam cast when it turned out the Wizard was her father.
- Sibling Rivalry: With her brother Lord Satanus.
- Wicked Witch: Very wicked and a witch.
Captain Nazi
AKA: Albrecht Krieger
"Good, Captain Nippon! I think. You and I together can crush any American insects that stand in our way! Ho, ho, ho!"
A Nazi super soldier and enemy of Captain Marvel who, in both Pre-and-Post-Crisis continuities crippled Freddy Freeman and murdered his grandfather. He's served in several supervillain teams since then, but always returns to clash with the Marvels, and Captain Marvel Jr. in particular.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: May or may not be one for Nazism.
- Arch-Enemy: Of Captain Marvel Jr.
- As Long as There Is Evil: Once, Black Adam asked how he came back after a sure death. He explains that as long as at least one person in the world believes in the ideals of Nazism, he can never die.
- Badass Cape: Sometimes.
- Butt-Monkey: Even other villains hate him, and like to see him fail.
- The Captain: Evil example.
- Chest Insignia: His Hakenkreuz swastika.
- Depending on the Writer: In some stories, his level of admiration for Hitler himself — although he is staunchly devoted to Nazi ideals, he distastefully notes once or twice how Hitler's brunette hair and ill health was a sign of genetic impurity, and thinks of himself as a much more fitting example of "the perfect Aryan leader".
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His brother, to a lesser degree, his great-niece, and of course, Adolf Hitler.
- Evil Old Folks: In current continuity, he's over 115 years old, even if he doesn't look it.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Extremely misogynistic, even towards his own great-niece.
- Hero-Worshipper: Of Hitler.
- Jerkass: A dick to everybody, including his brother and great-niece. He has no redeeming qualities at all.
- Kick the Dog: In the middle of a battle with Captain Marvel, Captain Nazi took time off to murder Freddy's grandfather and cripple him. Why? For the heck of it. He later came back and tried to finish Freddy off. Why? Because he doesn't like the fact that the public is sympathizing with the kid.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Nazis weren't very good people.
- Obviously Evil: What part of "Captain Nazi" do you not understand?
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Racist, misogynistic, and a dick in general.
- Required Secondary Powers: Averted for his Golden Age incarnation, who had super-strength without a proportionate level of invulnerability.
- Scars Are Forever: His Golden Age version had a prominent facial scar from a fencing injury back when he was a more mundane nazi.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His outfit is green and he's a Nazi.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: He's a nazi Super-Soldier.
- Super-Soldier: Originally a state actor apparently reporting directly to Hitler, he is later retconned (for obvious reasons) to a presumably self-radicalized lone-wolf terrorist.
- Super-Strength: A unique example, above most B and C-list heroes and villains in terms of sheer brute strength. Yet below A-list fighters such as Wonder Woman and Superman.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Freddy and his grandfather saved Captain Nazi from drowning. He promptly killed the latter and crippled the former. Why? As he puts it, "Might as well ask, 'Why is the sky blue?'" He later tries to kill Theo Adam after the latter helps him escape from prison.
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Has a swastika on his chest.
Chain Lightning
Amy
AKA: Amy
"Oooh, lightning. Do you like lightning too?"
A troubled girl with electrical powers and a fractured personality, Amy was saved by Captain Marvel Jr. when she tried to commit suicide. She eventually developed a crush on him, which the three alternate personalities (Amber, The Inner Child, and Id) skewed into a dangerous obsession.
- Abusive Dad: Referenced by The Inner Child.
- Clothes Make the Superman: Her costume stops her from overloading and killing herself, and helps to keep the other three under control.
- Death Seeker: Amy can definitely come off like this.
- Driven to Suicide: Amy tried to kill herself during a brief period when she was in control.
- Enemy Without: When Chain Lightning drained the three Captain Marvels of their powers, all three of her alternate personalities manifested independently of Amy.
- Energy Absorption: Can drain electricity from anything, including the Marvel Family.
- Enfant Terrible: The form taken by The Inner Child when manifested.
- Foil: To Freddy, who is more or less emotionally stable, but physically crippled, while she is physically fine, but too mentally damaged to live her own life.
- Golem: Captain Nippon is a sort of golem. He was built and animated by Imperial Japanese sorcerers serving Emperor Hirohito.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Amy makes a variant on one when she absorbs Amber, The Inner Child, and Id back into herself, losing her mind again in order to save Junior.
- Insanity Defence: Gets off on this, and with good cause, seeing as Amy isn't the one who actually breaks the law.
- It's All About Me: The Amber persona evidences traits of this.
- Love Makes You Crazy/Love Makes You Evil: Seeing Captain Marvel Jr. holding hands with Mary Marvel was enough to trigger a relapse, shortly after her release from the hospital.
- Man of Kryptonite: With a big enough charge, she can force the Marvel family to revert to their normal forms.
- The Mentally Disturbed: Amy's a depressed, suicidal girl, with three alternate personalities in addition to her own, who has to be heavily medicated in order to stay functional.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: When under Amber's influence she tries to kill anybody she sees as standing between herself and Junior.
- Only One Name: None of her personas have last names.
- Psycho Electro: Very unbalanced and possessed of electric powers.
- Shock and Awe: Her powers of electricity.
- Split Personality: Three personalities, plus Amy.
- Split-Personality Takeover: Amber is usually dominant.
- Stalker with a Crush: Very interested in Captain Marvel Junior, but it's obviously not reciprocated.
- Stripperiffic: Amber's costumes tend to be along these lines when she manifests physically.
- Tragic Villain: Amy's an innocent girl who just happens to suffer from a crippling mental illness.
- Villainous Crush: On Captain Marvel Jr.
Darkling
A.K.A.: Dora Keane
Dora Keane was Fawcett City woman who did a “deal with the devil” to give her the powers of Darkling and enable her to battle Mary Marvel.
- Casting a Shadow: Darkling can command supernatural dark shadow-energy, and create shadow fields that can block the lightnings from Marvel Family.
- Deal with the Devil: Gained her powers through making a pact with 'Satan'.
King Kid
- "Rule number one of the Funlands — never trust an adult."
A villain who made his debut in the 2018 Shazam comics. He is the child ruler of the Funlands, a realm where kids can play for as long as they want, but at a price.
- Abusive Parents: Had these growing up, that drove him to run away.
- Anti-Climax Boss: He was set up as the ultimate Arc Villain of the Seven Realms arc but in the end he goes down pretty easily when his magic staff is destroyed.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Villain King Kid is one to Peter Pan; both of them live in fantastical worlds that provide a home to lost children, have mystical powers, and never grew up. But while Peter Pan is a mischievous but altogether good-natured soul, King Kid is a tyrant who let his hatred for adults consume him to the point where he keeps the Funlands running by using everybody over the age of seventeen as slave labor, something Peter Pan would never stoop to.
- Enfant Terrible: As befits a villain to a child hero.
- Freudian Excuse: He was treated badly by adults, and so he has never wished to become one.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Billy points out how his actions have made him as bad as his parents.
- Peter Pan Parody: He is an Evil Counterpart of Disney’s Peter Pan (a boy who never grew up) and his realm is a combination of Neverland and Pinocchio's Pleasure Island (where the kids that outlive their childhood are made into slave labor).
Madame Libertine
AKA: Katrina Krieger
The great-niece of Captain Nazi, and granddaughter of his Mad Scientist brother, Wolf, Madame Libertine is a committed Neo-Nazi who possesses the power to make people lose their inhibitions. She has a rocky relationship with her misogynistic great-uncle, yet aids him nonetheless.
- Alliterative Name: Katrina Krieger.
- Daddy's Little Villain: Grandfather's little villain, anyways.
- Green and Mean: Dark green and she's a Nazi.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Every bit the Nazi that her grandfather and great-uncle are.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Her father was a Nazi scientist, and grand-uncle a Nazi specimen that is all.
- Villainous Lineage: Her grandfather is a Nazi scientist, her grand-uncle is Captain Nazi.
Mayor Krunket
The Elephant mayor of the city in the Wildlands, and a veteran of a war that drove out the humans, that was introduced in the 2018 Shazam comics. Has a strong distrust towards Tigers and predators similar to them and even has scars on his face. He has Tawny arrested and feeds humans to other Tigers they hold prisoner.
- Cruel Elephant: Is the Elephant mayor that created the punishment of feeding Humans to Tigers.
- Fantastic Racism: Towards humans and tigers.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: The right half of his face is covered with claw marks and a glassed over eye.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: A line from Scapegoat, a member of the Monster Society of Evil, implies that Scapegoat (a goat) killed some sheep citizens and the blame fell on predatory animals. Krunket's harsh actions could be a response to Scapegoat's murders, with Krunket not knowing the actual perpetrator was not a predatory animal.
Mister Mind
Post-Crisis Mister Mind
An evil worm (or caterpillar) from Venus, Mister Mind uses his telepathic powers to try and rule the world. The Pre-Crisis, Golden Age Mind wore spectacles, used a voice box to communicate with regular humans, and ran a group called The Monster Society of Evil, which included most of Captain Marvel's major enemies, and tried to sabotage Allied efforts during WWII.
Despite what you might be expecting after reading the above, he's one of the few Captain Marvel villains who isn't Played for Laughs Post-Crisis. Reimagined as a more realistic looking caterpillar, Mind's telepathic powers were made far more potent, making him one of the most powerful psychics in the DCU. He tried to pave the way for his species to invade Earth, and following his defeat hijacked Sarge Steel and tried to trigger a nuclear holocaust, destroying Mary Marvel's hometown of Fairfield in the process. Since then, he's evolved into the Hyperfly and tried to devour the multiverse, clashed with Lex Luthor on behalf of the Zone Child, and remained a major player in the Post-Crisis world.
A version of Mind also appears in the Alternate Universe of The Monster Society of Evil, as a tiny snake from another dimension who invades Earth with his army of monsters and giant robots, manipulating the likes of Dr. Sivana to serve his purposes.
- Alien Invasion: The scout for an alien invasion from Venus.
- Aliens Are Bastards: His entire species was pretty godawful, a fact that Mind acknowledges during a conversation with Captain and Mary Marvel.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: Inverted; he went from a cartoony, Funny Animal-like look in the Golden Age to looking like a real-life millipede in the Modern Age.
- Archenemy: To the Marvel Family as a whole, in both the Golden Age and the Dark Age & The Modern Age of Comic Books. Individual enemies like Sivana and Captain Nazi have claims on Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr., but when it comes to threatening the Marvels as a group, nobody holds a candle to Mister Mind.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Creates a hallucination of himself growing to several hundred feet and then rampaging through Washington and the White House.
- Badass Bookworm: Surprisingly resilient for something so small, Mind manages to give the Captains a good fight after climbing into his Mobile-Suit Human.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: Takes on Luthor this way in The Black Ring.
- Beware the Silly Ones: You’d never believe it at first glance, but this funny little talking caterpillar was once one of the single most dangerous villains in the entire DC Universe, and has more casualties to his name than even mass-murderers like the Joker could dream about.
- Big Bad: Of the Monster Society of Evil, and numerous arcs in the comics, with and without the Society behind him. He was also the Big Bad in Jeff Smith's "Monster Society of Evil", which takes place in an alternate universe.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Let's see — he's immune to electricity, hibernates when frozen, can survive beatings no one should be able to, can breed without mating, and oh yeah, can pass his memories onto his offspring via a strand of RNA.
- Breakout Character/Breakout Villain: Mister Mind has gone onto be a much bigger player in the larger DC Universe than Captain Marvel has.
- Card-Carrying Villain: During the 1940s when he ran a "School of Evil". The modern version of the character drops these qualities in favour of a more classic Alien Invasion.
- The Chessmaster: Tremendously proficient at manipulating people into doing what he wants, where he wants it, and how he wants it.
- Depending on the Artist: How many legs he has, how long he is, and how anthropomorphic he looks.
- Furthermore, he has also had different voices in media: cartoons give him either a geeky squeaky voice for contrast, or for Vocal Dissonance a deep voice or a mechanical voice from using a voice machine.
- Evil Laugh: Is notorious for having a strange laugh.
- Evil Genius: Extremely intelligent, generally uses that to manipulate everything into his favor.
- Evil Versus Evil: Has clashed with Lex Luthor in the pages of Action Comics.
- Eviler than Thou: With Dr. Sivana in The Power of Shazam. Mind won out.
- Green and Mean: Mr. has always been colored green and is a pretty nasty little critter.
- Hive Mind: The only survivor of one, he has all the powers of everyone who was ever connected to him.
- Hive Queen: Hive King actually, controlling every single one of his larvae.
- Humongous Mecha: Brings three giant robots to invade Earth and scour it of life in "Monster Society of Evil."
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Played with in The Black Ring. Mind goes through a lot of trauma and would be sympathetic — but, as Luthor reminds himself, this is the being that nuked a city and tried to devour the multiverse.
- It's Personal: With the Marvels after he nukes Fairfield.
- Kangaroo Court: Found himself on the end of one when he was arrested with a six-digit kill count. Not even his attorney would defend him. Sounds unfair, but... it's Mr. Mind.
- Karma Houdini: Post-Crisis Mind was last seen making his escape into deep space with Luthor's Lois Lane robot as a bodysuit. The reboot happened immediately afterwards, so he never got his comeuppance.
- Kill All Humans: Tries this in his second appearance in The Power of Shazam, attempting to arrange a nuclear holocaust.
- Knight of Cerebus: In The Power of Shazam, where he enslaved minds, mutated Sinclair Batson into a twisted mess, blew up Fairfield and threatened the world with nuclear annihilation, a far cry from the petty criminals that Captain Marvel normally dealt with.
- Laughably Evil: When he went up against Luthor in Action Comics.
- The Leader: Of the Monster Society of Evil in both the Golden Age and Jeff Smith's version.
- Literal Bookworm: Pre-Crisis Mister Mind is one of the Marvel Family's greatest archfoes... and yet he's a Venusian worm whose initial design borne of this trope. He's a cartoonish green worm with spectacles and a voicebox around his neck. Though he's not directly linked to literature, as his name indicates, his greatest power is his mind in contrast to the Marvel Family of Physical Gods.
- Logical Weakness: Mister Mind needs to use his voice box to cast spells, as he must say the spells out loud. Billy realizes this and destroys the voice box, rendering Mister Mind mute, as he is just a worm.
- Made of Iron: Mind has survived freezing, blowing up, being thrown off a skyscraper, and numerous other events that should kill a human, let alone a being of his size. His Bizarre Alien Biology may be a part of this.
- The Man Behind the Curtain: In his first confrontation with Captain Marvel in the Golden Age he only talked through media, or intermediary bodies he had possessed, and never revealed himself. As a result, it was quite a surprise to find out the fearsome Mister Mind actually was a mere worm. The same thing happens in Jeff Smith's "Monster Society of Evil", where Mind hides inside a giant robot, and when asked to show himself, uses a much larger projection. Billy and Mary are quite shocked when they meet the real Mister Mind.
- The Man Behind the Monsters: In The Monster Society of Evil, he has an army of talking alien alligators, centaurs, cyclopes, and other strange beings at his disposal.
- Meaningful Name: Mister Mind is a telepath, and an immensely intelligent one at that.
- Mind Rape: Does it to Sarge Steel and Luthor.
- Mobile-Suit Human: During Power of Shazam Mind has an eight-foot tall suit that he dons to fight Captain Marvel and Mary Marvel head on. It appears to be a Powered Armor from a human perspective, but from his point of view it's probably more of a Humongous Mecha.
- The Napoleon: Exaggerated. He's a two-inch long worm with dreams of world conquest.
- Narcissist: Of the kind that reacts to humiliation with a nuclear strike. Mind's all about feeding his ego, and can't bear anything that might make him seem weak.
- Nuke 'em: Tries to cause a nuclear holocaust in The Power of Shazam and succeeds in obliterating the town of Fairfield with the atomic robot Mister Atom.
- Omnicidal Maniac: During 52 when he evolves into The Hyperfly and tries to devour the multiverse.
- Person of Mass Destruction: A Golden Age comic gave him a kill count of 186,744 people. This was before he Took a Level in Badass.
- Pride: Easily his big sin.
- Psychic Powers: Including telepathy and Mind Rape.
- Puppeteer Parasite: Can control you from a distance via telepathy, or crawl in your ear for total mental domination.
- Reality Warper: During 52 as The Hyperfly, which was able to eat portions of space/time.
- Red Baron: Much as Sivana is the "World's Wickedest Scientist", Mind has sparingly been referred to by the title of "World's Wickedest Worm".
- Robot Master: Has regularly used robots to do his fighting for him.
- Shorter Means Smarter: Only a few inches tall, arguably the smartest person in the whole series.
- Solar System Neighbors: He was introduced before the Venera Program debunked Venus as a habitable world, but his home world remained the same and he got off-world by stowing away in a space probe.
- Starfish Aliens: He's a two-inch alien worm.
- Telepathy: One of the strongest telepaths in the DCU.
- Truly Single Parent: Produces large numbers of larval offspring whom he then mind controls into doing his bidding.
- Un Evil Laugh:Mr. Mind: HEE HO HA HO HAHO HEE HO HAW HAW YUK YUK HAAA HAAAAA HO HAAAAAAA-AAAA!
Narrator: Mr. Mind's horrible laughter cannot be matched by anyone on Earth! - Worm in an Apple:
- When Captain Marvel finally comes face-to-face with Mister Mind for the first time, he nearly misses him anyway because he doesn't know what the villain looks like and the miniature laboratory he's supposed to reside in is empty. A civilian finds his lunch box open nearby and wants to eat the apple he'd brought along, which just so happens to be Mister Mind's makeshift hiding place. It is then that Captain Marvel learns that Mister Mind is a worm.
- In Issue #14 of the 1973 volume of Shazam!, Georgia Sivana discovers a worm in her apple, and is about to squash it when she is stopped by her father, who has recognised the worm as Mister Mind.
Pharyngula
A demon created from stillborn babies, who fought Mary Marvel and was defeated.
- Body Horror: His body is made of baby corpses.
- Body of Bodies: As said so above, his body is made of baby corpses.
- Punny Name: He is named after a scientific word for “embryo”.
- Red Baron: His title is Harvester of Stillborn Souls. And he's really colored red.
Sabbac
Sabbac I
AKA: Timothy Karnes
Freddy Freeman's former foster brother, Timothy Karnes used black magic to contact Hell and gain powers from six of the most powerful archdevils and demon lords in existence. When he says "Sabbac" he is transformed into a green-robed version of himself, empowered by the demons in much the same the Marvel Family is empowered by its benefactors.
- All Your Powers Combined: Has Satan's Strength, Aym's Invulnerability, Belial's Wisdom, Beelzebub's Flames, Asmodeus' Courage, and Craeteis' Flight.
- Bald of Evil: His transformation turns him bald.
- Black Magic: Uses this when he turns into a avatar of multiple demons.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: "Sabbac!"
- Cain and Abel: He and Freddy were once foster brothers.
- Demon Lords And Arch Devils: Sabbac is powered by six of them: Satan, Aym, Belial, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, and Crateis.
- Evil Counterpart: A better one than Ibac.
- Evil Sorceror: How he got his start.
- Flying Brick: His powers left him with the power to fight Shazam, but not the experience nor the permanent means to end him.
- Playing with Fire: He frequently uses to burn his opponents, which would work way better on someone not enhanced by six gods.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: How he was defeated in the Golden Age; as the demons who gave him his powers realized they couldn't win they'd run away one by one, and take the power they gave Sabbac with them. Until he was eventually just an unpowered human.
- Superpowered Evil Side: His evil side is ranting, egotistical, and hammy to which Shazam lampshades. His other side is less evil, more tragic and scared.
Sabbac II
AKA: Ishmael Gregor
"Human beings! Soft, wet things! All I see in front of me is human beings! Some with all kinds of flashy powers, and strength. But still — you are flesh and blood. Meat and bone. I am a creature of fire. Of stone. And ash! I am a death dealer — Satan's right hand! You will not be able to stop me!"
A Russian mob boss with a serious craving for power, Ishmael Gregor killed the original Sabbac and stole his power in a black magic ritual, transforming into a new version of Sabbac that stood several stories tall.
- All Your Powers Combined: Has Satan's Strength, Aym's Invulnerability, Belial's Wisdom, Beelzebub's Flames, Asmodeus' Courage, and Craeteis' Flight.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He's grown to giant size once or twice.
- Breath Weapon: Breathes demonic fire.
- Demon Lords and Archdevils: Powered by the same six demon lords who empowered the original Sabbac.
- Evil Counterpart: To Captain Marvel, and a much eviler counterpart to the original.
- Flying Brick: Vast amounts of strength, speed, durability, stamina, reflexes, and can fly.
- Genius Bruiser: Far smarter than the original Sabbac. Uses this intellect to dominate, and control a mob.
- Husky Russkie: Russian, speaks with accent, and is very strong.
- Kaiju: A multistory monster.
- Legacy Character: Of the original Sabbac whom he killed.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Enjoys high class luxuries.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Nothing short of powerful mystical weapons, and people on his level can bring him harm.
- Playing with Fire: Able to burn almost everything with his flames.
- Super-Reflexes: Very sharp reflexes.
- Super-Strength: As someone said to be on par on Shazam, and at times required several teams of superhumans to deal with him, he is extremely strong.
Sabina De La Croix
A Creole sorceress who is Freddy Freeman’s rival in the Trials of Shazam.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She gives these a lot, operating chiefly through stealth and coercion/blackmail. In an act of laser-guided karma, she dies at the receiving end of one.
- Dreadlock Warrior: Her hair is full of dreadlocks and she's certainly a Dark Action Girl, powers of Shazam or not.
- Evil Counterpart: To Freddy Freeman. Her costume is a red thunderbolt on black.
- Her ancestor Merlin – a villainous version of the classic King Arthur ally, a horned zombie necromancer – counts as one to Shazam the Wizard.
- Godzilla Threshold: She throws the world into chaos by killing Atlas, the god who held up the world, which necessitates Apollo to take his place. Eventually Captain Marvel has to call on every magical superhuman in the DC superhero community and the Justice League to stop her.
- Hell Gate: She opens one to get Zeus’s attention in the finale of the Trials of Shazam. She gets thrown into it, destroying both it and her.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives one to Freddy during the final Trial of Shazam, pointing out that while he spent time trying to prove his worthiness to the gods, she just tracked them down and took their power through murder/coercion. Counts also as a “World of Hannibal” speech.
- Freddy gives one back to her, saying that he keeps fighting for good no matter how powerful or worthy/unworthy he is, and that he is ready to kill himself and erase the Shazam power forever rather than let her have it, something she’d never be noble or brave enough to do.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Her costume as Shazam is black with a red thunderbolt, and she's a sociopath with no regard for the lives of anyone.
- The Rival: To Freddy Freeman.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: She doesn’t bother following the Trials of Shazam, she just forces the gods to give her their power by hook or crook. She murders two gods, Achilles and Atlas (the latter needing a replacement to preserve the world), and attempts a blood sacrifice to force Zeus to give her his power. Probably the better for her, if she gets the power to survive the nightmare world she causes.
- The Sociopath: She kills anyone around her who defies/offends her, no matter how small a threat they are or whether they're her allies or just strangers. She’s so out of touch she doesn’t even care how much trouble her actions/deeds will cause to the world (she killed Atlas, the Titan who held up the Earth, which would have thrown it into chaos).
- Villainous Breakdown: She has one when she hears Freddy’s kamikaze plan and sees that he has the power and courage to see it through. She spends the very brief remainder of the fight screaming at Freddy to cease and desist.Sabina de la Croix: Are you out of your @##$$% mind?!!
Freddy Freeman: You're one to talk.
Sabina de la Croix: If you force us through the portal we—!!
Freddy Freeman: I'm going to close the door, Sabina.
Sabina de la Croix: You're gonna get us both killed! - White Hair, Black Heart: Has white hair and is heartless and utterly unfettered.
- Would Hurt a Child: She threatens to kill the children of Mercury if he doesn’t give her his power.
- You're Insane!: She says this to Freddy when he tries to destroy the Shazam power. He throws it back saying it's no worse than what she's done.
The Sivana Family
See their own page
The Seven Deadly Enemies of Man
A set of seven demons, based on the Seven Deadly Sins, who were contained as statues by the Wizard and stored at the Rock of Eternity. They’ve repeatedly escaped and tormented mankind over the years.
- The Corruptor: They can possess people and tempt/force them into evil.
- Depending on the Artist: They have taken various visual forms across Capt Marvel's history:
- Their form in the classic DC comics are of ugly statues, ranging across various styles.
- The New 52 gives them a more humanoid and clothed appearance, making them resemble spirits.
- The 2019 film features them as monstrous gargoyles.
- Lighter and Softer: When they first debuted in the 1940s, they were known as the Seven Deadly Enemies and four of the vices (Lust, Gluttony, Sloth and Wrath) were changed to Hatred, Selfishness, Laziness and Injustice.
- Literal Metaphor: They’re vices taken solid form, capable of influencing others.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: They were contained at the Rock of Eternity by the Wizard, and as they can't be killed the only way to stop them is to imprison them again.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Were based on this, and around the New 52 they’ve been using their original titles.
- Taken for Granite: They are imprisoned as statues.
The Three Faces of Evil
- "For too many years have I been trapped within, by the wizard Shazam."
A three-headed dragon the Wizard faced when he was serving as Shazam. Each head represents a specific sin: Terror, Sin, and Wickedness.
- Draconic Abomination
- Literal Metaphor: They're vices taken solid form, capable of influencing others.
- Our Hydras Are Different
- Predecessor Villain: To the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The Rock of Eternity was created to seal them.
