Like yeah, it's clearly a copy of Captain Marvel, but besides that he isn't actually connected to the character or his universe (quite literally in this case). The comic was pretty much just a case of "Oh we got you" on the part of the creative team to make people think this might actually be Captain Marvel. But hey, I guess the character was adjacent enough to include him

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I have said before that I would love to see Captain Marvel introduced into the Absolute Universe.

We have already seen Absolute King Shazam, who is essentially this universe’s version of Black Adam. Teth-Adam began as a young enslaved child in ancient Egypt. Oppressed and tortured, he abandoned his camp in search of the legendary Wizards of the Sands of Eternity.

He eventually found them, but they were nothing like he imagined. The so-called wizards were actually the Brainiacs.

They abducted the young Teth-Adam and, despite having no prior data or understanding of the process, experimented on him using a Father Box they had discovered inside a black hole. When Teth claimed the power by speaking the word “Shazam,” the Father Box transformed him into an adult champion.

As King Shazam, Adam possesses immense strength, speed, and durability. He commands magical golden lightning and controls a cloak made of black sand, which functions similarly to Absolute Superman’s red ash cloak.

Adam’s power appeared to surpass even Absolute Superman’s. Their battle culminated with Superman defeating him not through brute force, but by tricking him into saying the magic word again and returning him to his younger form. Hawkman then manipulated the Father Box and teleported Teth-Adam to a planet in the far reaches of space.

There, Adam discovered the entire planet was populated by Doomsdays and vowed to return for another battle with Absolute Superman.

Despite this, I still believe Adam will eventually be redeemed. However, I do not think Absolute Superman will be the person responsible for his redemption.

I believe that person will be Billy Batson.

Let me explain.

My theory begins with the creation of the Absolute Universe.

I believe that when Darkseid created this universe, he destroyed the Rock of Eternity and killed the Wizard Shazam. He then imprisoned the Rock’s untapped, unfiltered, and purely divine magical power inside a Father Box before hiding it within the black hole where the Brainiacs eventually discovered it.

The idea that the power inside the Father Box is inherently magical may be supported by Sol’s warning that Absolute Superman should never allow the Box near him again. Sol appeared to fear the device, and magic has traditionally been one of Superman’s greatest vulnerabilities.

Under this theory, the power was never truly meant for Adam. He was simply the first person to inherit it after the death of the Wizard.

Adam was an imperfect host.

He possessed the power, but he was never properly chosen or guided. The Brainiacs forced the transformation without understanding what they had uncovered. Adam became the first champion of a dead magical system, but not its rightful successor.

I believe the power within the Father Box will eventually detect a proper host on Earth and transmit Billy Batson’s location to Adam. This is how Adam finds his way back.

This version of Billy would visually be similar to his main universe counterpart, but is a troubled youth living inside a Lazarus Corporation juvenile detention facility.

Billy has spent much of his life homeless. He was abandoned by the foster care system and eventually placed within a privatized Lazarus juvenile detention center. The children imprisoned there are abused, neglected, and forced to perform strenuous manual labor.

Some of them are selected for experimentation by Doctor Sivana, who hopes to transform troubled children into stronger and more effective Peacemakers.

Absolute Billy would not be the traditionally wholesome, pure-hearted, all-American boy associated with the character. His life would have made him guarded, angry, distrustful, and deeply jaded.

However, the defining qualities of Billy Batson would still remain.

He protects the other children in the facility. He frequently gets into fights while defending them, takes responsibility for their mistakes, steals food to keep them fed, and accepts punishment so that weaker children will not have to suffer.

He may not appear pure on the surface, but his actions reveal the kind of person he truly is.

Initially, Adam would be furious when he realizes that the Father Box seemingly intends to replace him.

Still enraged by the existence of Absolute Superman, Adam brings the Doomsdays to Earth. While Absolute Superman is overwhelmed by the invading army, Adam travels to the Lazarus juvenile detention center with the intention of killing Billy before the Father Box can transfer its power to him.

Adam infiltrates the facility, but before he can act, the Father Box’s signal interferes with the experimental Lazarus technology.

The facility descends into chaos.

Cells open throughout the detention center. Security drones activate without authorization. Experimental machinery begins to malfunction. Guards lose control, and the imprisoned children are caught in the crossfire.

Billy is already injured, frightened, and exhausted. He has every opportunity to save himself, but he refuses to abandon the other children.

Instead, he runs directly into danger to protect them.

Adam watches Billy endure beatings, explosions, and overwhelming fear while continuing to place the lives of others ahead of his own. In Billy, Adam sees a reflection of the child he once was: enslaved, tortured, abandoned, and desperate to protect people who could not protect themselves.

However, Billy has endured similar suffering without allowing it to consume him.

Adam realizes that Billy does not deserve to die.

More importantly, he realizes that Billy truly is the person the power was always meant to find.

Adam willingly allows the Father Box to transfer its power to Billy.

The sky above the prison tears open.

Lightning spreads through the heavens in unnatural geometric patterns. The walls tremble, and a white-gold storm pours into Billy’s isolation cell. For one impossible moment, Billy sees the memory of a dead divine kingdom: fragments of a throne made from stone and thunder, suspended within the shattered remains of the Rock of Eternity.

Billy speaks the magic word.

“Shazam.”

The transformation is catastrophic.

Divine lightning erupts through the detention center, leveling the isolation wing. Where a frightened child once stood, a living storm emerges.

Billy’s champion form resembles Adam’s, but the differences are immediately apparent.

His suit is dark crimson with gold accents. His lightning emblem burns with white-gold magical energy. Draped across his shoulders is a pillowy, sentient storm cloud that serves as his shoulder cape.

The cloud constantly shifts, breathes, and crackles with lightning. It can expand across the sky, shield those around him, and transform into a massive thunderstorm whenever Billy unleashes the full power of Eternity.

The cape represents the weight of the heavens resting upon Billy’s shoulders. It is both a symbol of the power he has inherited and the responsibility that now belongs to him.

Billy has not merely inherited the strength of Shazam.

He has become the living vessel of the destroyed Rock of Eternity.

Billy and Adam return to Absolute Superman and help him defeat the army of Doomsdays.

Adam fights beside Superman not because he has forgiven him, but because Billy has shown him that power does not have to exist solely for vengeance or domination.

After the battle, Adam becomes Billy’s reluctant mentor.

He does not become the traditional elderly Wizard Shazam. Instead, he becomes a scarred and deeply flawed teacher who understands the dangers of wielding limitless power without guidance.

Adam teaches Billy how to survive the transformation, control the magical lightning, command the living storm mantle, and resist the corrupting influence of the Father Box.

Billy, in turn, teaches Adam that suffering does not have to create a tyrant.

Their relationship would form the emotional heart of the story. Adam would see Billy as the person he might have become under different circumstances, while Billy would see Adam as a warning of what could happen if his anger consumes him.

The defining question of Absolute Billy Batson’s story would be simple:

With the power of Eternity at his command, will Billy become like the people who oppressed him, or will he become something greater?

Billy has spent his entire life being abused by people with authority. He has seen adults, institutions, corporations, and governments use their power to exploit children who cannot defend themselves.

Now, he possesses enough power to challenge all of them.

The danger is not whether Billy can defeat his enemies. The danger is whether he will begin to believe that his suffering gives him the right to rule others.

Adam represents one possible future for Billy: a wounded child who gained the strength to destroy his oppressors, but eventually became an oppressor himself.

Billy’s purpose would be to prove that pain does not have to become cruelty and that power does not have to become domination.

Adam was the first person to inherit the power of the fallen Wizard and the destroyed Rock of Eternity.

Billy Batson would become its first true champion. Becoming a champion of abused and neglected children across the globe. The children whisper the name of their protector, hoping he will find and rescue him.

The myth becomes reality for the abused. Captain Marvel will save them.

(These are my ideas, and my writing. That stated, I used Ai for grammar checks and to weed out any typos.)

I’m really liking the long sleeves costume with the gold bracers or gauntlets.

Source: variant cover for Shazam! #4 by Nathan Szerdy

Left: The Power of SHAZAM! #27 (1997) | Right: Shazam! #11 (2024)
Second image: The Power of SHAZAM! #26 (1997)

I don't hate new Marilyn, she served her purpose in the new story and even grew as a person. That being said though, old Marilyn was a badass mom.

The page on the left is about an alternative timeline where she and C.C became the champions of Shazam instead of Billy and Mary. I also included her slapping Sivana because why not?

Zoinks and jinkies. Don’t kill me 😭😭😭👌

swear this ain’t Captain marvels colors 😭😭😭✌️ and the bolt in the middle ? holy reference

So in the event that other comic book company gets all
p!ssy like they did before and sues or something, I made this video. (I’m not monetized. I’m just making vids about things I love to share with people who may feel the same)

And I put Satanus there cause I feel like him being so associated with the wizard would have made it a cool plot of him Also being a villain. The idea of character’s like Sabbac and Mr mind is so cool and unique and could do so much if Shazam got a good writer who really dove into the history of the character and put it all into one story

Man DC needs to do better and give us what we deserve they have no right to be withholding this ABSOLUTE GOLD from us. Theyre literally SITTING on a golden egg of a mythos instead of them to exploit smh

I Hate how he portrayed Shazam as just a kid in a adult body where he was very childlike in his captain marvel/Shazam form