Black Adam is the dawn of a new DC Extended Universe.
But after so many new dawns, does that mean anything at this point?
The hierarchy of power in the DC universe has changed.
The answer, sadly, is probably more of the latter than the former.
Warning: The following contains spoilers for the end of Black Adam.
Shazam, for instance, is a very fun movie.
Upon release, it was hailed for its humor and potentially being a new direction for the DCEU.
While a sequel comes next year, Shazam certainly didn’t change the course of DC Films.
However, it could be argued that both are far better films than the movie they spun off from.
At this point, though, the franchise can’t be expanded much further.
What’s missing is a throughline.
But in the bigger sense, where is any of this leading and why does it matter?
When the MCU launched, it was a series of standalone movies building up to the first Avengers film.
From there, the studio has seemingly been throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks.
What we’re left with is Black Adam, another movie attempting to course-correct the DCEU.
The issue at hand is nobody seems to know what the course is that’s being corrected.
Black Adam is in theaters now.
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