9. There’s A Good Reason Why Both Need To Shout “Shazam!”

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Shazam was originally also known as Captain Marvel, but he was renamed possibly due to complaints from Marvel who gave that title to Ms. Marvel not too long ago. Regardless, Shazam is a lot more than what you might initially believe to be just another cheesy superhero name as both he and Black Adam must say it to fully take advantage of their powers and can call down incredibly powerful lightning by shouting it out.

Each letter has a meaning too and refers to the powers Shazam has. S is for the Wisdom of Solomon, H for the Strength of Hercules, A for the Stamina of Atlas, Z for the Power of Zeus, A for the Courage of Achilles, and M for the Speed of Mercury.

Shazam once tricked Black Adam into saying this, turning him back into his ancient self which was just dust after so many hundreds of years of staying as Black Adam.