r/shittymoviedetails • u/BaneShake • Mar 29 '23
In Shazam: Fury of the Gods, Billy’s foster parents have to give him “the talk.” No one can disprove me because no one went to fucking see this movie.
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u/MurderDoneRight Mar 29 '23
Is this the genie movie with Sinbad? He's hilarious!
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u/Ochikobore Mar 29 '23
no, i think this is the movie where Shaquille O’Neal is a genie that comes out of a magic boombox
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u/MusksStepSisterAunt Mar 29 '23
No, you're thinking of Nelson Mandella
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u/elspotto Mar 29 '23
No, that’s the file sharing app that pretty much guaranteed a virus in every download.
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u/Mapbot11 Mar 29 '23
How dare you compare this crap to a cornerstone of my childhood that most definitely exists.
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u/XyleneCobalt Mar 29 '23
Nah it's Shaq
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u/MurderDoneRight Mar 29 '23
You're thinking of Steel.
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u/MisterNiceGuy0001 Mar 29 '23
That's the movie where Wolverine trains his son to fight robots?
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u/Philcycles84 Mar 29 '23
Hey, I saw the skittles scene. That's all I needed to see thanks very much
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u/ZurioGSP Mar 29 '23
What happens in the skittle scene?
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u/Philcycles84 Mar 29 '23
They need the nectar of the gods (ambrosia) to tame some unicorns to take on the bad guys. They say they hsve the next best thing and throw skittles at them, before riding away on said unicorns screaming "taste the rainbow"
My soul hurts!
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u/CheeseIsQuestionable Mar 29 '23
I have no idea if this is true at this point
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u/Swoops0410 Mar 29 '23
I saw the movie and can sadly confirm it is true
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u/ZicarxTheGreat Mar 29 '23
i don’t even know if i believe you at this point
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u/siccoblue Mar 29 '23
I don't fucking know what to believe after morbius unironically said "it's morbin time" and morbed all over the place
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u/DarthVados Mar 30 '23
Believe it or not this scene also includes a child shouting “taste the rainbow motherfuckers!” (with the ‘fuckers’ part being censored by a loud unicorn noise)
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u/creative_user_name12 Average r/shittymoviedetails enjoyer: Mar 29 '23
I saw the Pitch Meeting and can confirm this is true
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u/bradleyhall3 Mar 29 '23
I'm actually on my way back from seeing this and sadly it's true. They say taste the rainbow twice
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u/JediGameFreak Mar 29 '23
Actually they say "taste the rainbow, motherfuckers!" Which lets you know they were actually sour skittles
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u/Deldris Mar 29 '23
After the Olive Garden plug in Sonic I feel like I have to believe this.
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u/Philcycles84 Mar 29 '23
I really enjoyed sonic, but you're right, the olive garden was painful
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u/Zandrick Mar 29 '23
Why would sonic advertise olive garden, that’s a completely different restaurant.
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u/Deldris Mar 29 '23
It's weird that movie somehow was simultaneously exactly what I thought it was going to be yet somehow exceeded my expectations.
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u/Wboy2006 I like shitty details Mar 30 '23
That's BY FAR the worst scene in the movie. If you liked the first movie, I really recommend it. It's genuinely really underrated
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u/bbobbn Mar 29 '23
He then said it's shazaming time and proceeded to shazam all over his foster parents
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u/BramDuin Mar 29 '23
Why is this meme still alive
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u/FrightenedTomato Mar 29 '23
It's a great meme that at this point has morbed into something much more general purpose.
It's useful for poking fun at generic movies and shows. Same with the other Morbius meme line - "It was one of the movies of all time" - a meme I don't think will die any time soon.
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u/Xero2814 Mar 29 '23
That line was around long before that shit fest
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u/FrightenedTomato Mar 29 '23
Might have been but it was definitely popularized by it.
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u/ferretkiller19 Mar 29 '23
Idk man my English teacher in high school used to sign yearbooks with "Of all my students, you were definitely one of them" and that was ... Fuckkk... A while ago....
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u/NobleSentiments Mar 29 '23
See what I don’t like is Zach Levi doesn’t have a thick neck. Shazam has some neck gains bro
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u/BaneShake Mar 29 '23
Finally, the only take that matters! 💯
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u/NobleSentiments Mar 29 '23
I’m sayin’. I’m sure I’m not the only one that’s brought this up before lol
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u/Corvo_Attano_451 Mar 30 '23
Chuck skipped neck day
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u/NobleSentiments Mar 30 '23
Chuuuuuuck. He needs to grab an Iron Neck to gather all the intel on its uses and get a thicccc neck
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u/AllBadAnswers Mar 29 '23 edited Mar 29 '23
The funniest review I've seen so far said one of the major shortcomings was there weren't very many scenes where Billy is in his kid form when compared to the first movie, which is bad because that kid is a better actor than Zachary Levi.
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u/Representative-Fig96 Mar 29 '23
There’s a scene at the end (an emotionally impactful one for sure) where the mom asks Billy to transform into his kid form and all I was thinking was “we need to contractually show the kid actor again since he has so few scenes.”
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u/ggimright Mar 29 '23
It’s so strange when the few minutes that he’s on screen he comes off as significantly more mature than his hero self. At least the others more or less matched their younger selves personalities in adult bodies.
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u/bluesblue1 Mar 30 '23
That kid showed more emotion in his 3 scenes than Zach Levi did the whole movie. The movie is overall pretty decent for a DC movie, but sadly no one cares about the DCU enough to watch it
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u/AirbagOff Mar 29 '23
That would have made the movie so much better.
Plus, one look at Mary Marvel and you gotta know what he’s thinking.
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u/The_King123431 Mar 29 '23
It kinda sucked that no one saw the second one, I quite liked the first one as it did the whole "Kid becomes a super hero" thing without being too childish and was a pretty good superhero comedy film
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u/BoonDockSaint_x Mar 30 '23
I actually liked this one as much of not more than the first! Obviously it has its problems, but I never go into a super hero movie expecting a masterpiece and most of the time I'm stoned as well. It had some questionable acting on Lucy's part and the difference between Billy and Shazams persona was too blatantly different. But I still had a good time and will likely see it again in theaters.
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u/SynthGreen Mar 29 '23
It’s a great film. It just hits both crowds wrong.
It is a comedy without being the overt parody of other super hero comedies. I think they found a really good blend; but it still hits those with super hero fatigue hard, and those who want a serious hero don’t get their fix. So it’s a niche middle ground which would be fine, but movies like this are so high budget you can’t hit that middle ground.
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u/BaneShake Mar 29 '23
Yeah, this is 100% the real factor, though their marketing certainly didn’t help
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u/StoneGoldX Mar 29 '23
This could technically count as marketing, but Black Adam sucking really didn't help.
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u/JediGameFreak Mar 29 '23
It's also incredibly morbid for a "family" movie. The funny helpful teacher commits brainwashed suicide! There are people like being killed off screen all over the place! But then funny boy in man's body joke! It was very totally dissonant for me
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u/sock_in_a_cock Mar 29 '23
The issue is that the director is a very good horror director out of his best element and playing to his strengths ultimately leads to a disjointed thematic vibe
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u/Axbris Mar 29 '23
The same director who is a very good horror director and directed the well-received first Shazam film? Idk if that applies.
I'd wager WB/DC changed a whole bunch of shit after the merger and with Gunn coming on board with his own plan. David F. Sandberg is more than capable, as he showed with the first film, of being out of his best element.
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u/Zandrick Mar 29 '23
Tbh the boy in the man’s body thing doesn’t even make sense anymore. The last movie was like four years ago, and that’s kind of a long time. So now in this one it was more like a young man in a man’s body.
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u/MakinBaconPancakezz Mar 29 '23
Yeah it’s weird how Billy is 17 but Shazam acts like a 12 year old
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u/nerdwarp112 Mar 29 '23
I honestly liked that a lot of people died, it made threat seem more urgent to me.
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u/frockinbrock Mar 29 '23
That’s interesting, for Shazam 1 I thought the biggest issue was it’s overall inconsistent tone and marketing. Seems it has stayed that way?
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u/SynthGreen Mar 29 '23
Effectively the same issue. But the bigger stakes make it more noticeable as well.
I don’t think it’s a masterpiece but I do think it’s a lot of fun and I don’t think it gets enough credit for giving its messages (it has a couple good ones) in a decent way, that aren’t as force fed as other movies in similar genres.
It takes the “the crippled kid can’t be a hero but luckily he gets powers” to “the crippled kid is the hero because of who he is and the powers just give him another way to save people”
It takes some seeds that were sprinkled in the first movie and let’s them grow and thrive.
The tonal issues keep it middle ground. Which sucks because I think there’s a lot to be learned from the movie that will mostly be missed.
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u/WildcatPlumber Mar 29 '23
I liked when the guy kid said he was gay, and the family is like Yeah we know.
Also the themes of how Billy felt as a foster kid was tastefully done.
Also Lucy Lui can still get it and I don't think we will need Futurama robots for her cause she don't age
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u/Briguy24 Mar 29 '23
It was better than I expected but it still wasn’t all that great.
I agree with a lot of others that Zachary Levi was the weak spot. He was just too goofy. Some minor nit pick would be the all black costume at the end. Seemed like it was just to have an all black suit because they could. Didn’t hate it but it stuck out like a sore thumb.
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u/SynthGreen Mar 29 '23
I am not mad I watched the first one. I didn’t like It that much, but the story felt like it wanted to be self aware but kept falling into bad plot points and formulaic storylines without realizing it.
Honestly I think the first movies biggest strength was the cast being so charming in their roles, to me.
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u/pepepicapapaspapa Mar 29 '23
I watched it. It was okay just wished tee ending was different I mean they are gonna reset the verse anyway so at least leave it on a high note
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u/JeffCentaur Mar 29 '23
I saw it, it was a pretty fun movie. The heroes charging into battle on unicorns fueled by Skittles really just felt like the writers having a great time.
That said, the scene at the end was real dumb.
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u/Iwasthewalrus Mar 29 '23
The heroes charging into battle on unicorns fueled by Skittles really just felt like the writers having a great time.
Well if you're gonna shill product placement I guess do it hard?
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u/JeffCentaur Mar 29 '23
How else are you going to have the little kid character yell "TASTE THE RAINBOW MOTHERFUCKERS!" as a battle cry?
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u/BoonDockSaint_x Mar 30 '23
It actually kinda was. Not a skittles dude and I kinda just let product placement wash over me like the constant car shit. But I like when they just say fuck it and tie it into the plot i.e Ricky Bobby sponsors
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u/Loud_farting_panda Mar 29 '23
That's the same as last two Thor movies. You won't like them if you take them seriously, but I couldn't stop myself from laughing all the time during Love and Thunder. I was high af tho.
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u/shaggybear89 Mar 29 '23
Ragnorok was a legitimately great film. Love and Thunder had so much potential, and Christian Bale's character could have been soo good and scary, but they really blew it and the writing was pretty bad, unfortunately. It was still a fun movie, but no where near the level of Ragnorok, and the wasted potential makes it really hurt all the more.
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u/Darkpoulay Mar 29 '23
"not taking it seriously" is so often written as some magic formula that turns every mediocre movie into a good one. That's not how it works
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u/PackageintheMaleBox Mar 29 '23
I saw it
You and 30 million other people. Redditors have a very odd definition of “no one” when talking about something they don’t like.
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u/personaluna Mar 29 '23
…I want to see it.
Is it really bad?
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u/BaneShake Mar 29 '23
Actually, no. It’s pretty fun.
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u/LiminalSh0ck Mar 30 '23
Your title made it sound like it is
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u/BaneShake Mar 30 '23
Nah, it's all about where you insert the "fucking." If it were "no one went to see this fucking movie," it would imply the movie is bad. "No one went to fucking see" puts the negativity on the lack of seeing this movie.
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u/KoiTama Mar 29 '23
I didn’t like how Shazam would just whip his penis out at any moment, it really threw me off guard but it was a brave acting move by Zach
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u/BaneShake Mar 29 '23
He just wanted someone to “touch his magic staff and say his name”
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u/5867898duncan Mar 29 '23
The movie is actually pretty good, especially if you go in expecting it to match the abysmal ratings.
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u/flamingjaws Mar 29 '23
Agreed. The movie wasn't peak fiction, but it was not the hot garbage you'd expect from a movie rated 51% on rotten tomatoes. It at least felt more held-together than Thor 4 and Doctor Strange 2.
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u/TheFunnyManIsNotHere Mar 29 '23
Movie theatres are becoming a relic Lmao. Shame for the industry but with what happened with the second screening of morbius, could be funny to trick company’s into wasting money.
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u/LemonStains Mar 29 '23
Movie theaters aren’t becoming a relic. It’s superhero movies declining in popularity. Top Gun and Avatar did massive numbers last year, while Creed III, Scream VI, and John Wick 4 all released in the last month and are on track to do record numbers for their franchises.
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u/PackageintheMaleBox Mar 29 '23
Movie theatres are becoming a relic
Is that why 9 of the 10 highest grossing movies of all time are from the last 15 years? With Titanic being the only exception.
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u/spunkyweazle Mar 29 '23
This is how I learn the movie came out? Yeah no wonder no one saw it
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u/the_3-14_is_a_lie Mar 29 '23
Jokes aside for a moment
I watched this movie last Sunday and tbh it doesn't deserve to flop, I've had a really good time with it. Only problem was the skittles product placement (which is weird, because the best joke in the movie is imo one that contains another product placement, that being the Gatorade one) and some cringy moments.
Also as you might expect the plot wasn't that consistent and there were some plot threads which weren't developed, but overall the story is pretty good for the low standards that superhero movies have set nowadays.
In conclusion, it's better than Morbius. If you liked the first Shazam, it's a worth watch, even though it's definetly worse than the original to some degree which may vary depending on your taste.
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u/BaneShake Mar 29 '23
And honestly, the skittles bit is so dumb some people will honestly enjoy it ironically too, YMMV
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u/LightRayAAA Mar 29 '23
imo it’s a fine movie. There’s points where it’s trying way too hard and there’s points where i cringed but I had an okay time
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u/Rockworm503 Mar 29 '23
It was a weird choice to have Shazam make that long winded anti vax rant just before Black Adam rock bottomed him off a skyscraper.
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u/LooseAsparagus6617 Mar 29 '23
I really liked the first one. I can wait till it online for this one.
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u/Mygaffer Mar 29 '23
I literally didn't know it had released and then when I watched the trailer it... did not look appealing.
And I loved the first Shazam movie.
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u/CDXX_LXIL Mar 29 '23
It's a stupid movie and I'm glad that it's stupid because I wanted something ggofy out of Shazam in the first place.
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u/OlSnickerdoodle Mar 29 '23
I love how the lead actor in Shazam blamed his character being cut from a post-credits scene in Black Adam for the movie tanking. Almost like he forgot Black Adam also tanked.
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u/TheNightDrivers Mar 29 '23
I went to Shazam 2 and can confirm this happens.
Only those brave enough to have seen this movie can refute me.
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u/Gravy_31 Mar 29 '23
Shazam was the only DC movie my wife liked lmao. I'm excited to watch this one.
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u/Thebardofthegingers Mar 29 '23
As one of the five people in the cinema watching this movie I can confirm billy gets given the talk.
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u/Goadfang Mar 29 '23
Wait, this movie actually came out? I didn't even know. The marketing team needs to be fired.
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u/Averenn Mar 30 '23
I went to go see this movie but I also cannot disprove you because I spent the entire time looking at Mary and not absorbing anything else
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u/Snerpahsnerr Mar 30 '23
I guess this is the unpopular opinion but I didn’t hate this movie, some parts made me roll my eyes but I kinda had fun in it
Or maybe I just like Lucy Liu a lot idk
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u/llamanatee Mar 30 '23
I think some people lost a lot of interest when they realised that in a few movies it’ll be all for nothing.
I’ll give it this though; it depicts a family dynamic WAY better than Ant-Man 3.
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u/sassycho1050 Mar 29 '23
Jokes on you, I saw it twice! Between good and great for an action comedy, I laughed out loud at the letter-reading scenes, and the whole 'holding on too tight' theme for Billy was a really nice arc.
The whole Anthea-Freddy thing was a little.... odd.
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '23
It was also implied that the blue Shazam had sex with a 27 year old, which is a whole can of worm by itself..