… thus turning him back into a regular Egyptian peasant. And, since he’s 5,000 years old, it only takes a few seconds for him to start looking his age and turn into a corpse.
The wizard thanks Dudley and his sidekicks, who never stop to question why he didn’t simply teleport the villain back to that distant star and get him off their backs for 5,000 more years, since that’s a thing he can do. But then again, they defeated Adam so fast that the wizard probably didn’t even have time to do that.
So, to recap, Black Adam: 1) was the most powerful man on Earth for like 10 minutes, 2) spent 5,000 years flying in the emptiness of space, and 3) was easily defeated by an old goofball and died. After that, the character didn’t appear in the comics for almost 30 years, but we doubt many readers were clamoring for his return after this unfortunate debut.
Anyway, we’re looking forward to Black Adam and the promised follow-up movie where the title character meets Zachary Levi’s Shazam. If you read something like “John C. Reilly cast as Uncle Dudley,” you already know how it’s gonna end.
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