Black Adam: Ending Explained and Easter Eggs – IGN

When Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) finds out about the whole intergang-Kahndaq situation, she calls an assist from the JSA (the Justice Society of America) – Hawkman (Aldis Hodge), Doctor Fate (Pierce Brosnan), Cyclone (Quintessa Swindell) and Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo). The goal of the JSA? Stop Teth-Adam from going rogue.

Adrianna’s son Amon (Bodhi Sabongui) thinks that Teth-Adam should basically be the hero of Kahndaq and suggests they come over Black Adam because it sounds cooler. Eventually, Black Adam fights the Justice Society, but when there is a lull in the fight, the team explains that Adam lost control of his immense power thousands of years ago and destroyed most of Kahndaq. So Adrianna and the JSA decided to work on convincing Black Adam to be a hero and not a villain.

Eventually, however, Black Adam reveals to Hawkman that he was never Kahndaq’s champion, but his son. In an attempt to save his father, he gave Adam his power…but died in the process. This is what led to Black Adam’s assault on the realm all those centuries ago as he sought revenge for his son’s death.

But now he feels guilty and surrenders to the JSA, disempowers himself and is sent to an underwater prison so he will never lose control again. But in the meantime, Intergang member Ishmael Gregor (Marwan Kenzari), who was killed earlier in the film, is resurrected as Sabbac. He, in turn, summons a bunch of Kahndaq’s undead in a skeleton army-like situation. So having a fully powered Black Adam to fend them off would be pretty handy.

When the JSA fails to stop Sabbac, Doctor Fate astral projects to Adam just before he is killed by the villain. Black Adam then comes to the rescue, with timely assistance from Hawkman, who is wearing the dead Doctor Fate’s helmet. Finally, Adam rips Sabbac straight in half, long ways. Like grabbing his two horns and… splitting up.

In the end, Black Adam is cool with the JSA now, and they realize that sometimes they need someone with a darker edge who can rip a monster in half! The film ends with Black Adam sitting on the throne of Kahndaq before crushing it as well, saying the city doesn’t need a ruler…it needs a protector.

And there we let him protect Kahndaq and avoid trouble with Amanda Waller. Speaking of Amanda Waller…there’s that mid-credits scene.

Black Adam mid-credits scene explained

Yes, Henry Cavill’s Superman makes an appearance, and we think this may have been the whole point of Black Adam – instigating a possible future confrontation between Black Adam and Superman. At least that’s how Dwayne Johnson spoke.

He spoiled the hell that scene in the press, so it was hardly a secret at first. Amanda Waller contacts Black Adam with a drone and says she will let him remain a free metahuman for now because Kahndaq will essentially serve as his new prison, and if he ever leaves she will make him regret it. Black Adam scoffs at this and wipes out the drone. And then Cavill’s Superman shows up and says it’s been a while since anyone shook the earth. He then offers to talk…and the credits continue.

Dwayne Johnson has said his Black Adam would have been fighting Superman since 2021, and obviously this mid-credits scene simply introduces the two characters and leaves the fight to an unannounced possible future project. Follow the link to learn more about what the Black Adam post-credits scene could mean for the future of the DCEU.

Black Adam Easter Eggs

And now, of course, it’s time for the Easter Eggs we’ve found in this uninterrupted superhero film – particularly the ones we’ve found that give an idea of ​​how Black Adam fits into the larger DCEU.

• Henry Cavill’s Superman is obviously the big one. We haven’t seen him since The Snyder Cut, but his appearance here shows that he’s still the Superman of records and that everything that happened to this Superman is still DCEU canon.
• There’s a fight scene in a child’s room with posters of the other Justice League superheroes: Ben Affleck’s Batman, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa’s Aquaman, and Ezra Miller’s Flash. In this world they are real heroes.
• Of course, we last saw Amanda Waller in Peacemaker and before that in The Suicide Squad. Speaking of which, Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) also works in Amanda Waller’s underwater prison. So Black Adam is now tangentially connected to the Suicide Squad characters.
• But what about the power of Shazam? It’s definitely featured in a big way here, and Djimon Hounsou reprises his role as the wizard Shazam.
• So you have Superman, the Justice League, the Suicide Squad, and Shazam. Whatever you think of Black Adam, this movie is kind of a linchpin in terms of lore, as that one character ties into most of the other active parts of the DCEU.

Aside from that, there were a few other character-based Easter eggs worth noting:

• Sarah Shahi plays Adrianna Tomaz. In the comics, Adrianna is also the superhero Isis.
• The Justice Society of America was DC Comics’ Golden Age super team, first appearing in 1940. Just like the Justice League, the JSA’s roster changed from time to time, but typically included characters like Hawkman, Doctor Fate, and Atom Smasher. Cyclone first appeared in Alex Ross’ Kingdom Come as the daughter of Red Tornado.
• Intergang also draws its origins from the pages of DC Comics. Portrayed more as a terrorist in the film, Intergang in the comics is a worldwide criminal syndicate that regularly faces off against DC’s mightiest heroes, often using otherworldly technology from places like Apokolips (Darkseid’s home!).

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