What the ‘Black Adam’ Credits Scene Means for the DCEU
22.10.2022 - 00:17
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major spoiler warning. If you haven’t seen “Black Adam” yet or haven’t read an interview Dwayne Johnson has given in the past few weeks, then turn back now. We’ll be here.At the end of “Black Adam,” Teth-Adam has defeated the devil guy and become a self-styled champion of the people of Khandaq.
He is still dangerous (he kills the bad guy by ripping him in half) and is still following his own rules, but he’s become a pillar of the community. Even the Justice Society, initially tasked with bringing him in, has accepted his unorthodox approach to hero work.During the credits we see him in his temple in Khandaq. A drone flies in and projects a hologram.
It’s Amanda Waller (played by Oscar-winner Viola Davis), who lays down the law for the DC Extended Universe’s newest (anti) hero.Yes.Well, in the context of “Black Adam,” she was advising and overseeing this incarnation of the Justice Society, who she had tasked with bringing in Teth-Adam.Yes, that is true. Previously, Amanda Waller was seen in 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” (from 2021) and the HBO Max series “Peacemaker” (from earlier this year). (Emilia Harcourt, one of Waller’s lackies and played by Jennifer Holland, also makes a brief appearance.) In all instances Waller, was in charge of the Suicide Squad, a band of merry murderers and social misfits who agree to do a go-for-broke mission for Waller, in exchange for time off their sentence.
It rarely works in the convicts’ favor, and most of them end up dead. The Justice Society, or Justice Society of America (oftentimes abbreviated as JSA), debuted in “All-Star Comics” #3 back in 1940. It has always been a consortium of good guys; in “Black Adam,” the team is made up of Hawkman, Doctor Fate
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