#The Shazam Family

[hufflebee-with-cheese]

Am I late? Did I do it right?

[heavenboy09]

5 YEARS AGO TODAY, ON APRIL 5TH, 2019

WARNER BROS PICTURES

NEW LINE CINEMA 🎥

& DC COMICS

PRESENTS

A NEW HERO EMERGES FROM THE DC UNIVERSE

WE ALL HAVE A SUPERHERO INSIDE OF US -- IT JUST TAKES A BIT OF MAGIC TO BRING IT OUT.

IN 14-YEAR-OLD BILLY BATSON CASE,

ALL HE NEEDS TO DO IS SHOUT OUT ONE WORD

TO TRANSFORM INTO THE ADULT SUPERHERO

SHAZAM ⚡🔴.

STILL A KID AT HEART, SHAZAM REVELS IN THE NEW VERSION OF HIMSELF BY DOING WHAT ANY OTHER TEEN WOULD DO

HAVE FUN .... WHILE TESTING OUT HIS NEWFOUND POWERS.

BESTOWED UPON HIM BY THE LAST MAGICAL BEING ON THE REALM OF EARTH 🌎

THE WIZARD 🧙🏿‍♂️

FROM THE ROCK OF ETERNITY

HE IS GRANTED

WISDOM OF SOLOMON ☁️. The "S" from “Shazam” comes from Solomon, and from Solomon comes Shazam's wisdom. ...

STRENGTH OF HERCULES 💪

STAMINA OF ATLAS 🔋

POWER OF ZEUS⚡

COURAGE OF ACHILLES 🦸‍♂️

& SPEED OF MERCURY🏃‍♂️👟

BUT HE'LL NEED TO MASTER THEM QUICKLY BEFORE THE EVIL 😈 DR. THADDEUS SIVANA CAN GET HIS HANDS ON SHAZAM'S ⚡🔴 MAGICAL ABILITIES.

AS THE 7 DEADLY SINS REIGN HELL ON EARTH 🌎

& ALL BEFORE CHRISTMAS 🎄 😉

WARNER BROS PICTURES

NEW LINE CINEMA 🎥

DC COMICS PRESENTS

ZACHARY LEVI

& ASHER ANGEL

The Greatest Superhero A 14 Year Old Boy granted the power of Magic from a Old Wizard..... Who can transform him from a Boy....... into a Full Grown Demi God.

OH YEAH.

Just Say The Magic Word.......

SHAZAM ⚡

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY TO WARNER BROS PICTURES & DC COMICS

SHAZAM ⚡ 🔴

#Shazam #BillyBatson #TheWizard #TheShazamFamily #DrThaddeusSivana #TheSevenDeadlySins #RockOfEternity #DCComics

[incorrectbatfam]

Jon: If Billy and I were drowning, who would you save?

Damian: You two can't swim?

Billy: It's a hypothetical question, Damian. Who would you save?

Damian: My time and effort.

[if-you-like-pina-colada-s]

Bruce, walking into the manor: Hello people who do not live here.

Clark: Hi :D

Diana: Hey!

Oliver: 'sup man

Dinah: yo

Hal: Hiii

Barry: Heyo

Arthur: wassup

Billy: Hey

Bruce: Why are you here??

Barry, mouth full of doritos: We ran out of doritos

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Bonus:

Bruce: Alfred, why the hell did you let them in??

Alfred, casually having tea w J'onn, whose just happy his son has friends: They ran out of doritos master Bruce, what was I to do? Let them starve??

Bruce: >:(

[halfghostwriter]

When a true baby ghost is born— a ghost not born of dying, but rather through the desire of another ghost— they are little more than a core with wispy ectoplasm emanating from them for about a month. During said month, they take on influence from their surroundings in order to figure out the form they’ll take, hence why so many young ghosts look like their parents.

Because they aren’t fully formed until a month after their birth, the parent or parents will take on a far more aggressive, primal form in order to protect their child. The parent’s form will become incredibly monstrous, and their size will increase, with triple their normal size being most common among parents. Their mental state also becomes incredibly instinctual, higher intelligence temporarily being replaced by aggression towards anyone the ghost doesn’t consider family. They stay in this state until the baby is fully formed.

Of course, Danny “don’t worry about it” Phantom forgets to add this bit of trivia to his explanation to his fellow heroes as to why he was taking paternity leave. In his defense, he didn’t expect them to visit during that month.

And he definitely didn’t expect his brooding brain to latch onto most everyone who visited as “part of his brood.”

[jumpuffed]

Drew @vexfulfolly ‘s low power Billy AU!! I’m going through a really bad art block rn so I’m not too happy with this but I simply cannot contain my joy for the design it’s so cute

[vexfulfolly]

Something possessed me while making this

[is-this-even-relatable]

DC PROMPT #1:

So you know how Billy’s last name is Batson? Well think in terms of Norse naming schemes and it’s Bat son.

I want a fic where people think Billy is Batman’s son.

Batman knows who Captain Marvel is, and sometimes Billy has a tough day. Sometimes Batman comes to help out in Fawcett City and happens to run into scrawny kid Billy. So he helps/offers emotional or physical support.

And Billy is a little shit, and also magical as fuck so he’s got Weird-Vibes (TM)

People see this strange, obviously not normal child. People see Batman, the cryptid, whom shadows cling to and is quieter than the night he dwells in.

Yeah that black haired kid is obviously some magical spawn of batman.

And then they learn his name is Billy Batson? Yeah, that’s definitely Batman’s son, didn’t know Batman was norse though?

[bruciemilf]

Billy: I don't want to be adopted by anyone from the League. Batman asked and I had to buy him an ice cream cause I felt bad for saying no.

Freddy: Ha, at least no one tried anymore, right? Eugene and I have a betting pool, so please tell me they hate you

Billy: Haha. I mean, Wonder Woman kinda seems like she wants to? She pretty much tackled me into a hug and made me regret drinking coffee-

Freddy: Backtrack. Backtrack. Wonder Woman. Wants to adopt you.

Billy: I mean, yeah, but of course I said no-

Freddy: WONDER WOMAN. WANTS TO ADOPT US.

Billy: I don't see how this relates to you but-

Freddy, writing in the Shazam Fam GC: everybody buckle up new mom just dropped

-

Diana, proudly showing off pictures of her newly adopted kids: And this is my beloved Mary. My beloved Eugene. My beloved darling Darla, and my beloved Pedro, and my beloved Freddy, and my beloved Billy. They enjoy video games and snacks

Bruce, taking this as an obvious challenge, taking out the Batfamily Batalbum: This is Jason. His favorite hobby is murder

[the-brash-spud]

Billy fic idea where all the heroes and their close ones get kidnapped/transported, and after JL frees itself, there is the questions of where's Marvel and who the hell is that random family - and is that a tiger? Anyway, the Vasquez family tries to play dumb but they're too casual around heroes and other weird stuff.

Idk where the story would go from there, but I can imagine Billy lying his ass off the next time he sees the Leage like "Oh, yeah, they. Eeeeemmmm. I kinda time travelled? Like I'm from the future. Yeah. That's why they're all full of magic like that. They're... they're gonna be the new wizards?" And that either causes him more problems or helps him a bit bc in the eyes of others it explains a lot!

[ardustein]

Omg art prompt 👀

May I see a Billy Batson wearing a batman costume for Halloween? (and maybe getting caught)

POV: You're Batman at the JLA's annual Halloween party.

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

I do decree that as a writer I must make Billy Batson a teen dad by way of ridiculous adoptions

[howdoidothiss-blog]

I feel in my heart that BatFam enjoyers should love the Shazamily more but society is scared to have that conversation 😔✊

[incorrectbatfam]

Jon: What happened in 1812?

Damian: The War of 1812.

Jon: When was it?

Colin: 1812.

Jon: What happened then?

Billy: War.

[soleminisanction]

I've always really liked DC's in-house choice of referring to their various superhero groupings as "families," but it has gotten a little frustrating recently with people both in canon and in fandom seeming to forget that families aren't just a parental-unit-and-kids formation. They're complicated, and a lot of the DC families are too messy to fit into that neat little nuclear family mode.

Which is to say... here's some scattered thoughts/summaries about how these families are actually structured in canon, because I think it's interesting:

Supers -- The smaller, more traditional Superfamily (Clark, Lois, Kara, Kon, etc.) is a pretty traditional Midwestern nuclear family, with Jimmy Olsen filling the role of close family friend/goofy neighbor sidekick (in the Silver Age, he was Kara's would-be suitor) and Steel feeling more like part of Clark's personal circle of friends. The recent line up, though, with Jon, the twins, Kong and Nat? Starts to feel more like some old dynasty or noble house, complete with fostered foundlings and the Steels acting almost like knights under a noble's banner, possibly reflective of what the House of El would have been on Krypton.

Arrows -- Might currently be the closet to a traditional nuclear family structure. You've got Ollie and Dinah, their younger sisters, Ollie's adopted and biological children, and Ollie's granddaughter through Roy, plus by some counts Roy's co-parent and her sister as "in-laws." Bonnie and Cissie King-Jones are adjacent to but not technically "part" of the family, though I believe it's implied at one point that Ollie might also be Cissie's bio-dad. Pretty straightforward, these guys are actually family and they act like it, for good and ill.

Shazam Family -- Also a literal, actual family. Not originally, the original golden age "Marvel Family" was considerably more complicated and only Billy and Mary were full siblings, but nowadays the whole point of the modern Shazam family is that they're foster siblings united by familial love and that's fantastic. Meanwhile your average Black Adam story is 75% angsty family drama, 25% Egyptian mythology references.

Flashes -- Technically closer to three nuclear families (the Allens, the Wests and the Garricks; four if you include the Quicks), two of whom are united by marriage and all of whom are bound by the Speedforce, which, given its semi-spiritual connections to things like Speedster afterlives, can act almost like a religious force that connects them to the additional members like Avery, Circuit Breaker and Max as Bart's foster-dad. They're a big, sprawling tree with more cousins than siblings, the kind of family that functionally has a reunion every Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Lanterns -- Now these guys are the exception that proves my point about the whole 'family' thing not being straightforward. The lanterns aren't a family, they're a corps. Soldiers. Space cops. Comrades-in-arms. They respect each other, have each other's backs, might even like or care about each other, but those last two are optional, and they don't have the same kind of assumed obligations towards each other that a family would have. They're friends and co-workers, not family, but that doesn't mean their relationships are less significant, they're just different.

Wonders -- Roughly half of them are either one of Hippolyta's daughters (Diana, Donna, Nubia pre-Crisis) or related to them through the gods (Cassie), and the other half (Artemis, Yara, modern-age Nubia) use sister as a term of endearment more in a utopian lesbian commune kind of way. I think they brought Steve Trevor back recently? He's basically the Ken in this equation and perfectly fine with that role. None of which should be surprising if you've seen Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.

Bats -- This is the one that people get really wrong when they try to force it into a traditional family structure. Don't let WFA fool you, the Bats are and have always been way more a snarled mess of tangled interpersonal relationships than they've ever been a cohesive family. Whether Dick is Bruce's son or his brother depends on what era you're talking about, and the former reading is much more recent than you think -- as in "started cropping up in the early 2000s" recent. Barbara is both Cassandra's sister and her mother. Duke and Steph both have living parents and neither of them want or would ever dream of treating Bruce like their dad; Tim was the same way until his dad died. None of the Robins ever lived in the mansion together, nor did Cass. Babs considered Jean-Paul Valley her brother and Huntress is so close to Tim she once hallucinated him calling her Big Sister. They're a beautiful mess of people finding places where their broken edges fit together into something that works for them and trying to reduce it down to a cozy nuclear family is just so goddamn reductive and lazy.

Blue Beetles -- Are only tangentially related to each other. Seriously, they never even get direct mentoring, each one just takes over when the previous one dies and works on completely different rules from the other two. They're complete strangers bound by a legacy and that's honestly pretty fun.

Zataras -- There's only three of them and they're literally a father, daughter and cousin.

Martians -- Not really a family because there's only the two of them, but an interesting case where the two survivors of what was functionally a war of mutually assured destruction came together in an attempt to find some peace in the aftermath of what they'd lost.

Titans -- The JLA and JSA aren't really in the "family" category, but the Titans lean into it hard, mostly because they're a textbook found family. They don't mirror a nuclear family structure, they're simply a group of people who came together to form a mutual support network. They're the idealized college friends you grew into your own with, some of them childhood companions and others you only met once you leave home for the first time, but all of them friends that you manage to maintain contact with for life, with everyone coming back together even as you scatter and do your own things.

Young Justice -- Meanwhile, this team is the chaotic group of misfits you hung out with when you were a teenager, especially when you were just starting to be allowed to act without adult supervision. You drive each other crazy, none of you know you're all queer as fuck, and you'd fight a bear for any of them even if they asked you not to. They'd probably be insulted if you tried to call them a family. They come out here to get away from their families, thank you very much.

[mistergreatbones]

I like the idea that the rest of the League knows Billy’s kid but they a) know they can’t stop him from fighting b) respect his abilities of protecting his city and c) can’t put him send him to Titans because it would put his identity at risk so the League just has to deal with the fact that one of their coworkers/brothers-in-arms is ten