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There are times I’m convinced some contributors make up odd notions to troll people or out of some strange “I’m making you think” reasoning. Yes, sometimes this is MatPat but not today. For one thing this makes less sense that some of his odder story theories.

When you title your article “Black Adam’s Cannibalism Proves He Can Be DC’s Ultimate Hero” you’re telling me “please tell me what a moron I am”. I can’t promise that will be my harshest comment but I’ll try. Thanks to this Bounding Into Comics post I learned of an commentary on ScreenRant that came from someone who is just shilling for The Rock’s questionable take on Black Adam. Dwayne Johnson has been tied to play Black Adam almost from the first time any kind of Captain Marvel/Shazam movie was considered. Now they don’t want him to be a villain, as the character was created to be, they want him to be an “antihero” or even a full-fledged superhero. Sorry, ScreenRant contributor Todd Petrella, but you do not make a good case when you invoke cannibalism.

Black Adam first appeared in The Marvel Family #1, which would also be his last appearance under original publisher Fawcett Comics. Basically he died at the end. DC would have Doctor Silvana resurrect him after “Earth-S” moved to the DC multiverse…where he again dies, but got to live longer than half a comic. He also appeared in the original Shazam cartoon as part of the Kids Super Power Hour on NBC Saturday Mornings and most recently appeared in Justice League Action. In all of these incarnations he was a supervillain, the opposite number to Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family. (Kiss off, Marvel Comics and give Billy back his name. Even Carol Danvers isn’t making it work for you.) For whatever reason DiDio’s brigade had they decided to turn Teth-Adam into Doctor Doom, making him ruler of an Egyptian nation, and ruining one of Filmation’s other superheroes in a way that would only be surpassed by a real world terror group. ScreenRant wants to make him a hero because we can’t hate The Rock or something. (It’s not like he didn’t play a villain before, you know. The Rock used to go by Rocky Maivia before joining and taking over extremist wrestling faction the Nation Of Domination, which is when he became “The Rock”. Then again they’d probably consider the Nation Of Domination heroes too.) This is not how you do it.

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