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Though the Shazam movie leaned into the Egyptian version of Black Adam's origin, in the Johns JSA run mentioned above the team retconned Adam to being from Kahndaq, a fictional North African nation. Hawkman's wings are powered by that magical compound, which is also connected to his origin as he was stabbed by a dagger made of Nth metal and cursed to live again and again and again.

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Plus there's the fact that Hawkman's entire backstory is filled with time travel, multiple lives, and DC's mysterious Nth metal. The Shazam movie featured a sequence which told the story of Black Adam, and it looked like he was in ancient Egypt. That doesn't mean his is a simple story though, as Carter Hall's Hawkman is actually a contemporary reincarnation of Khufu, an ancient Egyptian royal. Like most Big Two heroes, Hawkman has lived through multiple iterations with many people holding the mantle, but the usual suspect is Carter Hall, an Indiana Jones-style archeologist it seems unlikely that we'll see his alien Thanagarian cop iteration, Katar Hol, in this film.

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Hawkman, who is played by Aldis Hodge, has appeared in numerous DC animated movies and shows while also playing a major role in the early seasons of the long-running CW superhero series Legends of Tomorrow. Next up is probably the most well-known of Black Adam's antagonists. Basically, Black Adam and Atom Smasher are deeply connected in the comics, and you can expect to see Johnson and Centineo going on an emotional journey together in the film. If we look to that series as inspiration, we could see Johnson's powerful antagonist become an ally to these more traditionally heroic characters, at least for a little while. During the '90s JSA run written by Geoff Johns and David Goyer, with art by Stephen Sadowski, Black Adam joins the JSA alongside Atom Smasher and Stargirl. Despite his grim origin, the hero was always far more interested in following in the do-gooder footsteps of his heroes in the Justice Society of America, first as the teenage super Nuklon and later as the fully-fledged JSA member Atom Smasher.Ītom Smasher is a particularly interesting character choice when you set it alongside Dwayne Johnson's eagerness to frame Black Adam as an anti-hero rather than a straight-up villain. Though the Golden Age Atom received his abilities during a battle, Albert inherited his from the maniacal villain who was his grandfather. Just like the original Atom, the hero can manipulate the molecular structure of his body, and he even gained these powers in the same way as the original Atom, via a supervillain known as Cyclotron. The JSA’s connection to the World War II-era led to them being depicted as older characters who often mentored younger heroes, and the different Earths were eventually merged in 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths.

In 1961, the new Barry Allen Flash met his counterpart from the JSA, Jay Garrick, and soon the concept of alternate Earths established that the JSA had been from Earth-2 while the 'modern' heroes were from Earth-1. The JSA's adventures eventually ceased as superhero comics fell out of favor in the early 1950s, but in time the Silver Age of comics brought new versions of heroes like the Flash and Green Lantern back to popularity.

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(The Stargirl TV series, meanwhile, has featured a selection of those characters both in their classic forms, and as reimagined modern versions, alongside heroes from the Seven Soldiers of Victory including Starman and his titular legacy successor.)

The team debuted in 1941's All-Star Comics #3 - predating the Justice League by almost two decades - and featured a lineup of powerful heroes: Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Spectre, Atom, Hour-Man, Sandman, Jay Garrick’s Flash, and Alan Scott's Green Lantern.Įagle-eyed fans will notice that a couple of Black Adam’s characters are from that original lineup, as both Doctor Fate and Hawkman appear in the super-flick. The JSA is a classic Golden Age superhero team - the first superhero team actually - that was born out of the minds of Sheldon Mayer and Gardner Fox. Play What Are the Justice Society of America Characters?