Shazam!
Warning ! spoiler ahead forThe New Champion of Shazam ! # 1
In the DC Universe , Shazamis known for being super powerful , but it turns out that empowering his family with his abilities actually makes him weaker .
Billy Batson is usually known as the champion of Shazam , but he ’s latterly become trapped in the Rock of Eternity . Cut off from Billy ’s magic , his foster siblings , who usually become Billy ’s Shazam family , move on to seek normal lives . Mary end up going to her dreaming college and is passing nervous being a freshman and having non - family roommates for the first time . Unfortunately for her , this normal aliveness is about to get turned upside down .
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InThe New Champion of Shazam ! # 1by Josie Campbell and Evan " Doc " Shaner , the pet bunny rabbit of Mary ’s roommatebecomes hue with magic trick by Billy so that she can become Shazam ’s new champion . Mary attempt to refuse the use but she does n’t have a choice . The bunny rabbit teleports her to a camber in the middle of a armed robbery . When Mary says the magic word and becomes Shazam , she crusade the scoundrel performing the heist and break that her world power is so much stronger than what she ’s used to . The bunny excuse that this is because now she has all of Shazam ’s magic inside of her rather than bear it split up five ways with her menage .
Although this level is n’t about Billy being Shazam , this input is very revealing as to what really takes place when he had his foster siblingsbecome part of his Shazam family . buff might recollect that Billy does this so that he has allies to help in a fight , but he ’s really making himself weak by splitting his magic five ways to give his sib the power . This is obstinate to many superhero stories when a squad of heroes unable to defeat a powerful villain by themselves cease up loaning their power to a single sub to advance his strength . What Shazam does is the precise opposite .
That is n’t to say that Shazam does n’t have any advantages in fight back with a family . If he ’s facing overpowering odds it helps to have more number on his side even if those number make him severally infirm . Also , get a kin fighting alongside of him has worked up benefits . For much of his life-time , Billy was alone . So the fact that he has a kinsfolk that is willing to go into battle with him must be a peachy mental and worked up boost that could aid his morale and confidence . But still , in term of raw enduringness , there’sno deny thatShazambecomes weakerwhen he has to separate his innate ability between his other family member .
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The New Champion of Shazam # 1is available now from DC Comics !
