Freddy Freeman: If you could have one superpower, what would you pick? Everybody chooses flight. You know why?
Billy Batson: So they can fly away from this conversation?
Freddy Freeman: What are your superpowers?
Shazam: Superpowers? Dude, I don't even know how to pee in this thing.
Rosa Vasquez: Please don't say anything weird to Billy.
Freddy Freeman: You mean like how the Romans used to brush their teeth with their own urine?
Freddy Freeman: All right, well, I feel like every criminal is either on drugs or asleep by now. Wanna head home?
Shazam: Looking like this?
Freddy Freeman: Well, yeah, I mean, usually, we'd have a lair to go back to, but that's long-term. Right now, we have a bunk bed.
Billy Batson: Shazam!
The Wizard: Billy Batson, I choose you as champion.
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.
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