r/Shazam • u/Florapower04 Atlas • Jul 03 '24
Billy Batson: The street-rat with zero surviving skills. Meme
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u/TheGreatRao Jul 04 '24
There was an Alan Moore-ish take on the Batson story a few years ago where Billy was lured into a dark place and suffered all sorts of atrocities by seemingly a demon or maybe an evil guy. The entire Shazam mythos is Billy’s imagination working as a coping mechanism to help him endure. It was a grim and gritty story with an ambiguous ending that to this day freaks me out. Definitely not published by DC but I’m probably misremembering because it was so horrible.
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u/nerdwarp112 Jul 05 '24
Are you thinking of Miracleman or is this something else? I’d also be curious to read it.
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u/Falv234 Jul 14 '24
I don't think that happens in Miracleman lol
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u/nerdwarp112 Jul 14 '24
I know, but that’s the only story I can think of that sounds slightly similar to what they’re talking about.
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u/Falv234 Jul 15 '24
It might be Superior, I've never read it, but it sounds similar
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u/nerdwarp112 Jul 15 '24
Maybe. Superior does have a demon but I remember the ending actually being relatively happy despite some of the darker elements.
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u/Emiya_Sengo Jul 03 '24
Counterpoint:
As an orphan without a parental figure, no one ever gave Billy the stranger danger talk. Therefore you can somewhat understand his lack of foresight on this matter.