Black Adamis the latest DC movie that is blowing up the box office. It has been a long time in the making and the Rock has been behind it 100% of the way. Despite the lower-than-average film scores on Metacritic, this film looks like it could be continued in another movie.
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WhetherBlack Adamgets a direct sequel or is part of another film remains to be seen. For now, let’s go through the things that didn’t make sense in the plot. Some of these points are silly topics to bring up for fun, while other points are generally confusing in thislatest DCEU film.There will be spoilers.
6Black Adam’s Eternium Wound
Early on in the film, Black Adam receives his first wound in the battle against the mercenaries. This rocket is filled with Eternium, which leaves a scar on his chest, which is odd considering it was an entire explosion. What’s even stranger is that Black Adam flies away and then crash lands, presumably because this wound messes him up so badly.
After sleeping it off at Adrianna’s apartment, in Amon’s room, Black Adam wakes up good as new. He uses his electric powers to heal his wound. It seems like Eternium is Black Adam’s weakness, but the film plays fast and loose with this concept. Altogether his falling in battle because of the rocket is a weaker part of the plot since it is inconsequential minutes later.
5The Quickdraw Scene
One of the funnier parts of the film is when Black Adam sees Amer watchingThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,which isa classic western. Black Adam mistakes the characters on the TV as real and then blasts them away. Shortly after, when the mercenaries attack again, there is a standoff between one of the men and Black Adam.
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Western music starts to play as they both eye each other up before Black Adam gets the draw first. It’s a cool scene, but ultimately doesn’t make sense. Why would this mercenary throw his rifle away and hesitate to draw his sidearm like he was in a western movie?
4How Could Black Adam Speak English?
The easy answer for this could be magic, but that is the simple answer formost comic movieswherein characters suddenly know English. In the brief period when he transforms back into his human self, Black Adam switches back to his native language. It’s another example of how the film likes to play fast and loose with its lore.
Was he speaking his native tongue out of respect for his people, or could he truly not speak English anymore? Also, if he couldn’t speak English, then how could he understand it? Of all the plot holes in the film, this is a minor one, but it is still a fun topic to discuss.
3Why Did The Justice Society Wait To Save Kahndaq?
Someone in the film brings up the point that Kahndaq has been enslaved for centuries. Even though Black Adam saved them from a tyrannical king ages ago, that hasn’t stopped people like the mercenary group from coming in to invade the country to acquire Eternium. If this mineral is so precious and powerful, then why wasn’t a group like the Justice Society brought in sooner? This is alsoasked of Hawkmanwhen he is trying to calm the people down.
They are livid that Hawkman and his associates think they can push them around at this point, as it is too little too late. It’s a great scene that could be a good analogy for world politics as well. Point is, someone should have noticed this happening way before Black Adam was awakened because Kahndaq was not a hidden country, unlike the similar Marvelcountry of Wakanda.
2Should Have Cut Black Adam’s Tongue Out
Black Adam can get his powers because he is imbued withwizard energy like Shazamin his titular film. The two heroes even transform, saying the same word, Shazam. Hawkman planned to get Black Adam to relinquish his power by saying that name.
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Black Adam eventually does it of his own free will, but there is another problem.The Justice Societyneeded to figure out how to prevent him from returning. Their solution was to put him in Amanda Waller’s underwater prison and gag him in a tank filled with water so that he couldn’t say “Shazam.” Two other solutions would have been more practical. They could have cut out his tongue or just killed him if they thought he was that dangerous. Killing, presumably, would have gone against the hero code that Hawkman clung to so desperately throughout the movie.
1The Power Of The Crown
There is a legend in Kahndaq that if their mineral of Eternium was ever forged into a crown, that user would be granted great power. It is never explained why the crown is needed, though. Eventually, Sabbac wears the crown, and after he dies, the crown resurrects him and then disappears. Why it disappears is another open-ended question that doesn’t make complete sense.
Could this transformation have worked with a ring of power instead like inThe Lord of the Ringsor some other piece of jewelry? Because Eternium is just a mineral that is plentiful in the country, the idea that it is magically tied to the underworld is a bit farfetched. Eternium is not something like the Infinity Stones from the Marvel universe after all, or at least it doesn’t appear that way based on the loose lore the film explains.
