Mary Batson and Mary Marvel in Shazam?

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Carry on....

Me too - 1970s Mary really does it for me.  Must be a combination of the costume and how they wrote her personality in those days.  Also, that was the first version of her I read.

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Carry on....

This is one of my all time favorite Mary Marvel images.  

I've even commissioned versions of it a few times.  

www.deviantart.com/cerebus873/art/Mary-M...-scribbles-559874495

TwiceOnThursdays wrote:

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* Man, I grew up on the above image. *


Carry on....

This is one of my all time favorite Mary Marvel images.  

I've even commissioned versions of it a few times.  

www.deviantart.com/cerebus873/art/Mary-M...-scribbles-559874495

I know it's sort of crazy to say, but there is something undeniably sexy about that whole scenario!

I went to see shazam film today although I enjoyed itand thought grace fulton really good in her secret identity before coming mary marvel along rest billy family towards end of the film. that being said very disappointed that in final fight mary didn't do more to me less action than other member of  shazam family. I would love if there was a Mary marvel film as spin off with grace fulton as both mary in both identities wish for thinking through !

dave147 wrote: went to see shazam film today although I enjoyed itand thought grace fulton really good in her secret identity before coming mary marvel along rest billy family towards end of the film. that being said very disappointed that in final fight mary didn't do more to me less action than other member of  shazam family. Iwould love if there was a Mary marvel film as spin off with grace fulton as both mary in both identities wish for thinking through !

The focus was more more on Darla in the final fight than Mary.  Mary gets the least screen time of all of them.

They also should have just used the same acress for Mary and Mary Marvel (she's a graduating senior in the film).  The others are children that become adult versions of themselves.

Oh, wait, she's now "Mary Shazam".

The movie is fun, and enjoyable.  Heavily based on the last bit of Shazam that was a backup in Justice League though with Bill being less of a brat, and more understandable/sympathetic while not being as nice as the traditional Billy Batson. This Billy seems like a fully formed character, and is played well in both his forms.

I think the overall tone of the movie gets back to more of a comic book movie vs an adventure/action movie.  It really did feel like reading a comic back in the day.  Some camp, but not too much.  After Wonder Woman, Aquaman and now Shazam, DC might be finding their place with movies.

The Joker trailer looks really well done -- though I don't believe that a Joker Origin story movie should have been made, and that it's a horrible idea. (Telling the Joker origin robs some of the mystery and magic from the character.)  OTH, bringing Bucky back was a horrible idea, but Brubaker did that and made the story awesome and created the Winter Soldier.  So I think DC is doing something they shouldn't ... but they seem to be doing such a great job at it that it might excuse the sin of doing it in the first place.

I hope Shazam does well.  It's good to see DC succeed with movies that are not Batman and Superman so they'll keep making them. (But continual hits of Joker and Harley Quinn are problematic too...)  Just like it's great Sony woke up and realized they own more than just "Peter Parker, Spider-Man origin story".  Into the Spider-Verse is a great flick and really deserved it's animation oscar.

Is there any sort of transformation for Mary in the movie?

[Throw in the spoilers tag if you must!]

algae2k wrote: Is there any sort of transformation for Mary in the movie?

(Throw in the spoilers tag if you must!

murdough wrote:

algae2k wrote: Is there any sort of transformation for Mary in the movie?

(Throw in the spoilers tag if you must!

Warning: Spoiler!

Faster than me with a clip even!  Kudos!

The non-spoilery part is as a Transformation fan EVERY transformation in the movie sucks.  Not that I care about men transforming, but at least they're consistantly bad on all of them.

IRC they pretty much all go like this:

See Billy.

Camera off focuses from Billy a bit (we're "looking at something else")

SHAZAM!

Bright flash of light that blinds screen.

Camera refocuses, sometimes after searching through smoke, or "looking" for Billy and finding Shazam!.  In some ways I think the camera is trying to duplicate what people around "see" when Billy calls the lighting, and use that to explain why people do not figure it out.

That is I do not think you ever have Billy centered on screen going "Shazam!" (flash/thunder) and Shazam is standing there in the exact same pose.  So, while they transform it's offscreen, and as such, a real bummer.

This clip backs that up.  It spoils how they become Shazams (but if you've not figured this out by the time it happens .... ) so not really much of a spoiler. The big spoiler we've already done that there ARE the other Shazams.

so the TL;DR I think is "no, you do not get to see her transform" (in the spirt of what you're really asking.  She transforms but we do not get to see it.

murdough wrote:

algae2k wrote: Is there any sort of transformation for Mary in the movie?

(Throw in the spoilers tag if you must!

Warning: Spoiler!

The laughter and other audience reactions are cute in that clip.

Quick question for those who've seen the movie (as I might be able to see this today):

Once the credits start rolling, is there any further content (either within or after the credits)?  I might be able to catch this at 2:10, but I have an appointment 5 minutes away at 4:45... and I would like to avoid missing any content!

[mark answer with spoiler tag, just in case]

Woodclaw wrote:

algae2k wrote: Quick question for those who've seen the movie (as I might be able to see this today):

Once the credits start rolling, is there any further content (either within or after the credits)?  I might be able to catch this at 2:10, but I have an appointment 5 minutes away at 4:45... and I would like to avoid missing any content!

[mark answer with spoiler tag, just in case]

From what I heard there are 2 scenes.

Yes, there are.  The first one is the real end credit scene and is near the start of the credits . The second one isn't that important and is all the way at the end.  

Not sure how to do spoilers and I'm at work so I can't look it up.

But keeping it general it's just a funny scene between Shazam and Freddy.

algae2k wrote: Quick question for those who've seen the movie (as I might be able to see this today):

Once the credits start rolling, is there any further content (either within or after the credits)?  I might be able to catch this at 2:10, but I have an appointment 5 minutes away at 4:45... and I would like to avoid missing any content!

[mark answer with spoiler tag, just in case]

Just saw the movie yesterday and enjoyed it a great deal.

While I too would have preferred to see more or Mary in action in her hero form, I have a suspicion about why Darla and (to a lesser extent) Pedro got more screen time than Billy's other foster siblings (in their hero forms).

While it wasn't made explicit in the film, I think the six foster siblings don't (quite) have identical power sets.  Similar, yes but not identical.  Each got an 'extra helping', if I may put it that way, of one attribute of the Wizard's powers.

I'm inferring a lot of this from a Wiki article about Flashpoint.  If I'm not mistaken, that was the first time any versions of Darla Dudley, Pedro Pena, and Eugene Choi were seen in the DC Multiverse.  They were friends with Billy, Mary and Freddy and (long story short) each of them wound up with one of the six powers referred to in the SHAZAM acronym.  (They could also combine into a Captain Marvel analog with all of their powers called Captain Thunder, but that's getting off topic.)  Eugene got the Wisdom of Solomon, Pedro received the Strength of Hercules, Mary got the Stamina of Atlas, Freddy received the Power of Zeus, Billy receive the Courage of Achilles and Darla received the Speed of Mercury.

That was the Flashpoint timeline which ended up being erased, and while I haven't been able to find a wiki with up to date info, I understand the situation in current DC Comics continuity closely parallels the situation at the end of the movie - the six of them are foster siblings all of whom can call upon the power of Shazam to become superheroes.

Now, I might be mis-remembering this next bit, but I seem to recall reading somewhere (unfortunately, I've forgotten where) that each of this six 'specializes' in one of the six powers.  Who specializes in what would match up with what was said above about the Flashpoint timeline.

Back to the movie.  Almost all of Hero Darla's scenes were about her using her hyperspeed (the movie seemed to prefer that term to superspeed) and Hero Pedro's scenes were about him using his strength to hold up a damaged Ferris wheel.

So, basically, Darla is the group's speedster, and Pedro is the strongman.  Speed and strength are the easier superpowers to show on screen, so that's why those two got more attention than the others.

I mean if I was a filmmaker and someone asked we 'How do you show Freddy having the Power of Zeus onscreen?' I might go, "Hmm, one of Zeus' talents in mythology was throwing lightning bolts, lightning is a form of electricity, let's have Freddy go to town with the electrokinesis" but that's something of a reach.  I'd have to include some dialogue to lead the audience to make that connection, and it's not terribly faithful to the history of the character - the Power of Zeus was part of his origin from the beginning, put the Marvel family having electrokinesis was not.

Basically, it was a lot easier to throw in scenes that displayed 'this is the really fast one' or 'this is the really strong one' than 'this is the one with extra incredible stamina'.

And, for the record, I think the film makers deliberately did not make explicit they were using this 'each kid has an extra dose of one of the powers' thing to give them the option of walking away from it (without causing an uproar from anal fanboys about the 'retcon') in any potential sequels.

So, that's my theory, for what it's worth.

Link to Flashpoint/Captain Thunder Article I referred to:  shazam.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Thunder

It sounds like the producers were originally planning to include a tribute to Mary's whimsically dated "dance lesson" comment from her origin story.  They probably filmed it but didn't use it.

I've heard the movie had a large amount of reshoots (as always these days). We'll probably see more of her on an eventual physical release