DCEU’s upcoming entry, Black Adam, features Dwayne Johnson as the titular supervillain and will showcase his origin story. The character is an adversary of Shazam portrayed by Zachary Levi in 2019’s Shazam and it is quite possible he makes a cameo in the film. Well, now the film’s release is barely 10 days away and what we have today is not for people who want to go watch this movie without receiving any spoilers. So, yes a spoiler warning is obviously in effect from the next section as it contains some major spoilers about the film. The user responsible for the plot summary, u/whatthedeak saw Black Adam for free as an invited guest and has put this entire thing together. Some things might be in the wrong order but rest assured, it is completely reliable and true.
Black Adam Opening
Movie starts off with a 10 minute origin story of Teth-Adam (The Rock) rebelling against his enslavers, the origin of the crown of Sabbac, and Teth-Adam gaining his powers. Cuts to scene of Khandaq main cast trying to smuggle in Adrianna (Isis) past the Intergang (thats what the villains are called). Adrianna’s son distracts the Intergang and Adrianna is smuggled in. Adrianna and co. break into tomb of Teth-Adam. The plan goes south and Intergang shows up.
Adrianna uses the word Shazam to wake Teth-Adam from his slumber. The we get a fight scene where Teth-Adam rips a guy’s arm off, completely melts another guy, and kills about 20 men in his tomb using super speed and throwing them around. Teth-Adam leaves tomb and finds about a hundred Intergang guys outside. In slo-mo he kills every single one while the song “Paint it black” by the rolling stones plays. He puts a grenade in a guys mouth, throws a tank towards another tank, throws a helicopter blade into a few people. The scene plays at regular speed after and shows the aftermath.
Adam catches up to Adrianna and saves her from an ethereum missile (it’s shown earlier in the movie that he had to mine this element as a child to create the crown of Sabbac). The ethereum missile hurts Teth-Adam and knocks him unconscious. Adrianna and her family take Teth-Adam home and take care of him. He wakes up and destroys a superman poster. Adrianna’s son begins to list off Teth-Adam’s powers. Teth-Adam walks through a wall and sees a TV for the first time. Adrianna’s brother is watching a western movie and Teth-Adam explodes the TV thinking it’s a wizard trying to shoot him.
Adrianna and her family try to convince Adam to be Khandaq’s hero again but he replies “I am no hero”. Adam goes to stare at a statue of himself in Khandaq. Adrianna’s son watches him and gets into trouble with Intergang. Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo) is on the phone with the original atom smasher (Henry Winkler). OG atom smasher tells the new atom smasher to just follow Dr Fate and Hawkman’s lead. The JSA meet up at Hawkman’s estate and learn about Adam from Amanda Waller. They head to Khandaq to stop him.
Black Adam Meets Justice Society of America
Adam attacks the Intergang to save Adrianna’s son. He has a moment where he shoots lightning from his fingers and its staged like a western movie where Adam shoots lightning from his finger tips. The JSA intervene and fight Adam. Most of the fight is shown in the trailer but it still has very cool moments like Dr Fate invades Adam’s mind and makes him think that he’s back in old Khandaq. Adrianna’s son is kidnapped by Intergang and Adam and the JSA are forced to work together. Hawkman and Adam fight in Adrianna’s apartment and basically destroy it.
They agree to work with each other for Adrianna. Adam and Hawkman have a scene where Adam is throwing his enemies into the sky and trying to kill them while Hawkman is trying to save all of them. Hawkman reveals that Adam is not Khandaq’s true champion and he’s the one who actually almost destroyed it thousands of years ago to get revenge on his enslaver and king. Adrianna questions Adam about this and Adam reveals that his son was the one granted the powers by the wizards (yes it shows them). After Adam’s wife is murdered, his son transfers the powers to Adam to protect him.
Adam’s Son is murdered and Black Adam destroys most of Khandaq when he rages his revenge against the ancient king. Adrianna believes there is good in Adam and convinces him to keep trying to be a good ruler and champion and to help find her son. Adam agrees and him and the JSA start tracking down her son. Dr Fate has a vision of the world ending and Hawkman dying. The JSA and Adam find Adrianna’s son. He’s being held by the leader of Adrianna’s old rebel group from the beginning. The old leader reveals the he’s the heir to Khandaq and the last living descendant of the ancient king. He gets the crown of Sabbac from Adrianna’s son and pulls the trigger on him.
In slo-mo, All of the JSA and Adam race to save Adrianna’s son and Adam makes a very big explosion which kills everyone but him and the JSA. Adrianna and her son live as well but the descendant of the ancient king is killed and the JSA takes the crown of Sabbac. Adam agrees with Hawkman that he is no hero and agrees to say the word shazam and lose his power. He says the word and the JSA take him to a Task Force X base underwater. At TFX base theres a cameo from Agent Harcourt (from Peacemaker). They put Adam in a cryo chamber so he can never roam the world again.
The Ending
Dr Fate still has visions of the world ending and Hawkman dying. Adrianna and Cyclone figure out that in order to harness the power of the crown, the user must die and be sent to Khandaq’s version of hell first. The crown begins to disappear and we see the old rebel leader in an eternal flame with demon type things (sorry i forgot their name). They set him on fire and he comes back to earth as a very CGI satan creature. The JSA head to Khandaq with Hawkman accepting he must die to save the world. Dr Fate creates a force field so the rest of the JSA cant enter the castle where Sabbac is.
Dr Fate tells Hawkman that he doesn’t want to lose another friend and that he found a way to prevent Hawk from dying. Fate says that hes lived enough life and cant see his own future anymore and thats a beautiful thing. Dr Fate fights Sabaac using a bunch of cool magic but ultimately he sends himself to talk with adam at the same time. He wakes Adam up and tells him that the world needs him and he must say the word and become a god again. Dr Fate is killed by Sabaac as the JSA finally break in. Adam says the word and gets a much more shiny and comic looking suit with a cape.
Sabaac kills Hawkman but its revealed that Hawkman used the helmet of fate to create an illusion and he’s not really dead. It was just to give Adam enough time to get there. Hawkman makes hundreds of himself to hold Sabbac down while Adam is fighting Sabbac. Meanwhile, Sabbac raised an army of the dead and Adrianna and the rest of Khandaq fight them off with the help of Atom Smasher and Cyclone. Adam and Hawkman defeat Sabbac and Adam rips Sabbac in half down the middle.
The JSA and Adam make peace together and send each other off on pretty good terms. Adam destroys the throne of Khandaq and chooses not to be its ruler, but its protector instead. Teth Adam says he needs a more modern name because the world is not his own anymore. Adrianna’s son asks him what it’ll be and the screen cuts to the Black Adam titles.
Black Adam Post-Credits Scene
Black Adam is told by Amanda Waller via drone hologram that he cannot leave Khandaq or else. Black Adam says she can go ahead and try and out of a cloud, Henry Cavill Superman appears. He says “Black Adam, it’s been a while since someone has made the world this nervous. We need to talk.” Yes, Superman has a more vibrant suit, Superman curl in hair, and the leaker couldn’t hear if the Williams theme played because the theater was cheering so loud. However, we can confirm the Williams theme did play. Although, I have to admit that I am more of a Zimmer theme fan especially, “What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World” theme from Man of Steel and ZSJL.
Also, if you are interested, you can watch the leaked post credit scene right here. Black Adam is all set to release on 21st October 2022 in theatres worldwide.
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