Shazam!

Shazam! (2019)

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Corrected entry: In one of the first scenes of the movie, Billy locks the cops inside of the store. But the lock was on the outside of the store, and it was a latch lock, not a dead lock/key lock. I'm surprised that the owner of the store hasn't already been robbed yet.

Correction: Stores have shutters with locks like that. It's not a movie mistake just because you don't like it.

Corrected entry: At the carnival Shazam says the magic word to become Billy among several kids and people. The lighting hits him but the people around are not affected by the blast like the monsters were.

oswal13

Correction: The lightning only affected the monster because it was directly on top of him. The bystanders weren't.

Correction: But he uses the blast to hurt Sivana and it works.

oswal13

It's a magical bolt of lightning. It reacts to what he wants to do with it, when he can control it.

lionhead

That, plus the bolt hit an ice rink which exploded so that would have knocked Sivana back as well.

Correction: While the number certainly isn't massive, I wouldn't say it just a few. There's over 50 actors that have spanned DC and Marvel.

Bishop73

Correction: Anyway, the point is that he has been in both companies.

oswal13

Generally an actor's resume isn't trivia unless it somehow relates to the movie or character itself. Given that so many actors have done Marvel and DC, there's unique about it and there's nothing to connect the two characters.

Continuity mistake: After Billy catches the bus, argues with Freddy and leaves, the floor around the people besides it is dry, then wet, repeatedly.

oswal13

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Trivia: In the toy shop, Shazam steps on a floor piano and starts playing it with his feet for a moment. This is a reference to the Tom Hanks movie Big, where it is also a boy trapped in a man's body.

Quantom X

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Question: Why is the character called Shazam instead of his original name, Captain Marvel? The character first appeared in DC comics in 1939 so, shouldn't the name belong to him and not the Marvel universe?

Answer: Fawcett Comics originally published Captain Marvel, not DC. DC sued, claiming the character was too similar to Superman, and Fawcett stopped publication in 1953, and sold the rights to DC in 1972. But in the intervening period Marvel had started their own "Captain Marvel" character and got the trademark for it, as Fawcett's had expired. So while the character remained technically called Captain Marvel, DC used the trademark "Shazam" in marketing, and in 2011 renamed the character to Shazam officially, as people generally thought that was his name anyway.

Jon Sandys

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