#I actually have an Arrowverse version of Monkey Prince but it's much darker in the tone of Arrow

[zorilleerrant]

I think the version of a show they would do if they made an Arrowverse!Billy is actually a high school drama. Instead of being siblings, all of the Shazamily would be the same age, and they'd be in some sort of club together - probably a radio/podcast club of some sort - and they would be the main characters. They'd start as freshman (and the show would collapse if it hit season 5, as all high school dramas inevitably do). They would get their powers in episode 1, Animorphs style, while they were trying to walk home.

I don't think it would be particularly dark, but they would occasionally do Issues Episodes, which would be handled to various degrees of success, but pretty much always feel weird because they break off from the season narrative and don't advance ongoing character interaction plots. That's where we'd get the heft of character backstory, though, so they would be a lot of people's favorite episodes. They would have a lot of flashbacks and discussion of people's various traumas.

Other than those episodes, we'd have a standard Big Bad/Monster of the Week structure as the A plot of each season, with B plots that ran 1-3 episodes about mundane school things. There would be a running theme (but not enough content for a whole plot) about hiding superhero things from each kid's parents. This would especially be used to highlight the tragedy of Billy either being secretly homeless or having abusive parents (probably Uncle Ebenezer).

(There would also be a bunch of drama around dating and relationships, and unfortunately Billy would definitely be endgame with Mary. There would be a lot about him pining and being in love with her, or having awkward dates where he thinks he upset her. Darla would end up dating Freddy in season 3 with no buildup, Pedro would have a boyfriend who was mentioned once and then showed up again in the series finale, and Eugene would be so haha funny that he couldn't get a gf.)

We would have several funny bit parts for teachers who really played it up and were a lot of fun to watch, and one of them would become a kind of mentor to Billy, but it wouldn't be developed enough and everyone would think he should get more screen time. There would also be a wacky art teacher who's Darla's favorite and everyone would think she was very funny. (She'd wear hot pink and big flower patterns and have funky earrings.) Each kid would have their own favorite subject and corresponding campy teacher.

The superhero plots would be pretty standard, but they would have cool special effects, and a lot a lot of flying. (There'd also be gratuitous flying shots every time they went home, just for fun, with silly one-liners during.) Each season's Big Bad would be a standard Marvel villain, but cartoonified, and some wouldn't be very recognizable compared to other versions. The MotW would usually be something made up for the show, or background rogues from Batman, Superman, etc. Probably their main hurdle would be teamwork, and they would easily defeat the villain after resolving their interpersonal problems each week.

They would also add some kind of Shazam Dog. People would be like why didn't they just use Tawky Tawny.

HI I LOVE YOUR BLOG

I have been rewatching some CW shows (of the DC arrowverse), and I wanted to ask how do you think a Captain Marvel show would have been done? How would you have written it to match with the arrowverse energy or as it's own thing seperate from the other shows? I'm not sure if you've even watched the DC CW shows, but I honestly think a live action show would have been nice to see. Black Adam apparently exists in the CW, but by brief mentions of versions of his name and country only.

Aww thank you!

I used to watch the CW arrowverse shows for years until I fell very far behind and struggled to keep up with them all. I thoroughly enjoyed them even if their versions of the characters were very different from the comics.

If I were to put a Captain Marvel show in the arrowverse there would be a few different options.

Option 1: setting the show in the same universe as Supergirl. As a whole his character and brand of hero fits better in that world than in the main arrowverse world. It's also (generally speaking) often lighter in tone and would accommodate his fantastical adventures and cheerful attitude.

Option 2: setting it in the main arrowverse would, in my opinion, lend itself best to the New 52 version of the character. Billy as an angry runaway foster kid given powers he doesn't know how to use or control ends catching the attention of a lot of bad people. Maybe he's on his own at first and moves in with the Vasquez family as like a closure to his first character arc. Maybe the other heroes would think he's a metahuman and the Flash approaches him to help with his powers.

Option 3: bring him in via the Legends of Tomorrow crew. Fawcett City is trapped in a time bubble, forever living in a loop of 1940s Era life. The Legends essentially pop the bubble and drag all of Fawcett to the present. Billy has to adjust to the 21st century while being a hero.

Option 4: since the arrowverse dived headfirst into the multiverse, including traveling through it semi regularly, the connection could be via the fact that the Rock of Eternity is technically the center of the DC multiverse. Captain Marvel could be from any world in the multiverse, including his own, and be pulled in via one of the many crises and make friends with all the arrowverse heroes (before accidentally revealing his identity). Then like Supergirl he could have a self contained show that only crosses over when someone travels across worlds.

Thank you for this ask! It was a lot of fun to think of scenarios that would fit Billy and Cap into the established arrowverse. If anyone else has any ideas feel free to share them!