Billy batson

A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy. Shazam : Gentlemen, why use billy batson when we can handle this like real men?

William Joseph "Billy" Batson , also known as the superhero Shazam , [1] is a foster child chosen by the wizard Shazam to be his final champion, granting him immense magical power from six legendary sources to help protect the entire world from the forces of evil. With the guidance of his foster brother and best friend Freddy Freeman , he would use these incredible powers to become a superhero in Philadelphia , defeat rejected champion candidate Thaddeus Sivana in battle , and bond with his new foster family , eventually sharing his powers with them to become a superhero team to defend the innocent and protect their home from those who would threaten it. Being the leader of the Shazam Family , Billy and his brothers saved Philadelphia several times, but without being recognized as superheroes, making Billy feel bad for his bad leadership and his brothers having their personal lives, worrying about ending up abandoned again. After receiving a warning from Shazam , Billy and his brothers came into conflict with the Hespera , who kidnapped Freddy Freeman , and tried to use the Staff of the Gods to steal his powers until the Goddesses got hold of the Golden Apple , with which manifested the Tree of Life. Using the staff, Billy finally confronted Kalypso and Ladon , whom he defeated, but at the cost of his life, though he would be resurrected by Wonder Woman and reconcile with his family. Later, Billy and his brothers finally gained respect as heroes. Billy was born to C.

Billy batson

When young William Joseph Billy Batson's parents were killed by their treacherous assistant Theo Adam who was revealed to be the ancient villain Teth-Adam - better known as the nefarious Black Adam , he was separated from his sister Mary and sent to live with their Uncle. Unfortunately, his uncle soon kicked Billy out and stole his inheritance. Living on the streets, Billy survived by selling newspapers until one day a strange cloaked man lead him to a part of the subway which he had never seen before. A marvelous train awaited them, covered in hieroglyphs and runes. Billy and the stranger boarded and rode the train deep into the bowels of the Earth eventually stopping in a long cavern which housed statues of the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man. There Billy met the ancient wizard Shazam who had protected mankind from the Seven Deadly Enemies for thousands of years. Shazam had observed Billy as he dealt with and endured the trials and hardships of his young life. Shazam was impressed with Billy's irrepressible altruism and optimism. Billy Batson is a bright young man with a warm and light-hearted personality. He is kind, optimistic, courageous and altruistic. Although he will usually try to avoid physical confrontation, he will always stand up for what is right no matter the personal risks or cost. Billy idolizes Superman and, despite their many clashes, has tried to follow the Man of Steel's heroic example. Billy is quite protective of his twin sister Mary, both before and after she was also given the power of the elders and became Mary Marvel.

Captain Marvel is not completely invulnerable. He told her that she was his son that she lost.

Billy Batson is Shazam , a young hero empowered with the gifts of ancient gods and mythological figures by the Wizard. He later changed his name to the Captain after he found out he could not say his magic word without transforming. Billy Batson became an orphan at a young age after his parents, C. After the death of his parents, Billy became cold and cruel to most people. Growing selfish and heartless, he went from foster home to foster home until he landed in an orphanage in Philadelphia. At the age of fifteen Billy was placed in the care of Victor and Rosa Vasquez , both former foster children themselves, who had already adopted a number of children. Billy refused to connect to the other children and rejected their attempts to get close to him.

Billy Batson was active as a superhero known as Captain Marvel , until the world had changed around him to the point where he stopped calling on the name of Shazam. Somewhere along the line as he grew into adulthood, Billy became a servant to Lex Luthor , becoming brainwashed through torture into believing that all superheroes were monsters and that he also had a monster within himself. Bruce Wayne , who temporarily aligned himself with Luthor's Mankind Liberation Front to discover his plans concerning the Justice League and the metahuman prison, the " Gulag ", tried to reason with Billy when he also discovered Luthor's torture methods. Instead of listening, Billy fled and called on Shazam to become Captain Marvel, using the lightning power to break open the "Gulag" and to cause a massive meta-human war that threatened to engulf the Earth. As the Secretary-General of the United Nations sent the Blackhawk Squadron to drop nuclear bombs that would destroy most meta-human lifeforms, Superman found himself relentlessly pummeled by Captain Marvel's lightning bolts until he ended up having Billy be struck by one of them, changing him back to Billy Batson. After Superman told Billy about the nuclear bomb that's about to drop on the warring superheroes, he transformed back into Captain Marvel and outraced Superman to reach the bomb first, calling upon Shazam's lightning power to ignite the bomb before it struck the earth, sacrificing himself in the process. The surviving heroes remembered this sacrifice by having Captain Marvel's cape be hung among the flags of the United Nations member countries as a memorial. As Superman's equal, his power, speed and skill exceeds most of the Superhuman population. His very presence terrifies even the likes of Green Lantern into silence. The Spectre remarked that Superman was in wrong in believing he alone had the power to stop the war, with the implication that Marvel could stop it as well.

Billy batson

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Empowered by her natural abilities, the Powers of Shazam, and the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, Raven confidently escapes her confinement, believing that with the Spectre's demise, there will be no one to oppose her. Instead of directly following the lead of the comics, the Shazam! Crisis on Infinite Earths. Aquaman went onto say that batman is a founding League member and Billy was still new to the team, Shazam simply groaned stating the full grown would just screw everything up on their own. After acting innocent and telling the police, the perpetrators went through the back of the building. Thundercrack , which will take place within the storyline of the Shazam! His visual appearance was modeled after that of Fred MacMurray , a popular American actor of the period, [16] though comparisons with both Cary Grant and Jack Oakie were made as well. Filled with anger, Captain Marvel went to the police station where one of the mercenaries was being held and persuaded him to name of the person who had hired them to kill Billy. Young Billy Batson is attacked by Black Adam, but is helped by Superman, but Black Adam is able to take advantage of Superman's vulnerability to magic. Omnilingual: Captain Marvel has the ability to speak any language and can even communicate with aliens. The Power of Shazam!

An original live-action Billy Batson has a cameo in Shazam!

After he knocked on the door, he had finally met his mother, who initially didn't recognize him. Fawcett's circulation director Roscoe Kent Fawcett recalled telling the staff, "Give me a Superman, only have his other identity be a or year-old boy rather than a man". Batson was also a founding member of Maxwell Lord's Justice League. Living Lightning of M amaragan. Archived from the original on September 5, Tawny was initially depicted as a magically-charged zoo tiger in the Justice League backup stories. December 22, Teleportation : Shazam showcased this when rushing to a battle from S. The most notable change that DC introduced into the Captain Marvel mythos was that the personality of young Billy Batson is retained when he transforms into the Captain; this change would remain for most future uses of the character as justification for his sunny, Golden-Age personality in the darker modern-day comic book world instead of the Golden Age depiction which tended to treat Captain Marvel and Billy as two separate personalities. Billy then went to the roof of the apartment complex where he ran and jumped out of it as he transformed into a superhero and flew back home. The Courage of Achilles grants Billy peak physical defenses, rendering him nearly invulnerable.