Beyond Omega Level: The Wizard Shazam

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  • @JustSoji
    @JustSoji 7 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    Billy is a stupidly trusting kid
    Cloaked figure: where's your house
    Billy: I don't have a bed. I sleep in the subway
    Cloaked figure: Follow me!
    SURE WHY NOT

    • @DjDragonblade
      @DjDragonblade 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Soji Adeleke lol... kinda reminded me of that episode of "Brickleberry" where after getting all the blind kids into his van, the clearly pedophilic clown said, "What?... It happened to me & I turned out alright!" or something similar to that...

    • @justanorc
      @justanorc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Kids gotta make money somehow

    • @boy6named6zoen6
      @boy6named6zoen6 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Soji Adeleke can you spell rape and repressed memories

    • @bonniecarrot2215
      @bonniecarrot2215 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Kid had nothing to lose anyway.

    • @mlasko74
      @mlasko74 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When u ain't got nuthin

  • @darwinprime
    @darwinprime 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    One of my favorite things about the Wizard is his love of Billy. The Wizard looks at Billy and he sees what he long hoped for: humanity at its best. It seems to have been something fairly consistent for him and why his desire to save Billy in Kingdom Come was so damned poignant. A father watching his beloved son being tormented.Waid and Ross really captured Shazam's misery at witnessing the torture of Billy at Luthor's hands.

  • @redshepherd32
    @redshepherd32 7 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    "the wizard was originally a shepherd boy born in the land of Canaan."
    Wow, I guess the biblical references didn't stop with just the figure/name of Solomon. That is honestly pretty cool IMHO.

  • @Alovatololo
    @Alovatololo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    Lol, homeless kid and dark cloaked figure. It was a different time.

    • @hatoftricks7132
      @hatoftricks7132 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Come down this alley and suck this hose pipe really hard for 5 dollars.

    • @markiegreen5214
      @markiegreen5214 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ACTUALLY IT WASNT....Billy Superhero, name was suppose to be Manzam...until that Cloaked pervert to Billy to that Dark cave....all i know, is he went in Manzam, and came out Shazam!

    • @goofygoober779
      @goofygoober779 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Are you prouda ya self @@markiegreen5214?

    • @markiegreen5214
      @markiegreen5214 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Goofy Goober.......WHY YES!!!!!!

    • @CdotPoppy
      @CdotPoppy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      In the movie... "Hold my shaft and say my name!!" Billyyy

  • @cjtrules1
    @cjtrules1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I LOVE Shazam's origins and the Shazam universe!

  • @bim41337
    @bim41337 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Damn, how can one guy all by himself be so knowledgeable and funny (in a cool way) at the same time? All your videos are just so entertaining to watch, it's a pleasure. Thank you, dear sir! :)

  • @greenman5255
    @greenman5255 7 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    Hey! One of the "Seven Deadly Sins" is actually "Roger", from "American Dad"!(selfishness-3:40)

    • @falcomalco
      @falcomalco 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yo, I was just thinking that as I watched. "Holy shit, tell me that one don't look like Roger!"

    • @greenman5255
      @greenman5255 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yyyyup! Hahaha. And tell me that Roger isn't the embodiment of Selfishness!

    • @jerryyeo5037
      @jerryyeo5037 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah that's Meliodas

    • @TurtReynalds
      @TurtReynalds 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jerryyeo5037 The sin of Greed or selfishness is Ban

    • @morrishellgrn
      @morrishellgrn 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Green Man and Roger actually is selfish lmao!!!

  • @lake_cooper
    @lake_cooper 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Uhhhhhhhhh @ 1:45, you forgot "Z" for the power of Zeus.

  • @theone3746
    @theone3746 7 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    Do the spectre. Even better do Amazo he's on a God level

    • @badabingbing474
      @badabingbing474 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Deon Hargrove only the Justice League cartoon version is god tier.

    • @shadowsetaq
      @shadowsetaq 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yes comic AMAZO was owned by Batman and Zatanna.

    • @DjDragonblade
      @DjDragonblade 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Robert Marius & "Batman: Under The Red Hood" AMAZO was taken out by Batman & Nightwing... Wait... Am I wrong?... I can't quite remember but I think that was AMAZO whose head was blown off with C4...

    • @shadowsetaq
      @shadowsetaq 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +DjDragonblade
      Pretty sure they where prototypes, not the Original AMAZO, either way comic Amazo, gets destroyed by the Cartoon Version.

    • @tonyblank2022
      @tonyblank2022 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      But for some reason in the cartoon Justice League Unlimited Amazo struggled to stop Solomon Grundy

  • @bigbofa1488
    @bigbofa1488 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    If Shazam was changed that drastically in the New 52, that means Dr. Manhattan is so powerful he was able to strip Shazam of his powers and completely rewrite his history. To quote him from the Before Watchmen series, "I am limitless".

    • @yellowpower3755
      @yellowpower3755 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even though Shazam had magical powers?

    • @otacogaming
      @otacogaming ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yellowpower3755 i think it might be that doctor manhattan removed the physical source of his magic rather than the magic itself

  • @Meganonr1
    @Meganonr1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I'd like to see a you making a video where you rank all the Omega level characters of their respective universes in a top 10 of some sorts.

  • @DrBiBeatz
    @DrBiBeatz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Dr Manhattan " Magic is the scraps from the big bang " dr Manhattan would've done a quick work of him

    • @conor2878
      @conor2878 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Doc would do a quick work of anyone
      Except for maybe the genie from Aladdin

  • @luiscampagna2423
    @luiscampagna2423 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Achilles was a Demigod so in a way he could have ascended into godhood. However, he didn't. He died and went to the hell for heroes. Now, King Solomon was a biblical figure that in many ways throughout history has being refer to as the wises king that has ever lived and a god-like being. As a result, we can say that both of these figures can be use as gods to empower Shazam.

  • @davidlevy2705
    @davidlevy2705 7 ปีที่แล้ว +607

    Do lucifer Morningstar next

    • @kupidzheart
      @kupidzheart 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      or Michael

    • @tengkualiff
      @tengkualiff 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      YES

    • @Kingmw01
      @Kingmw01 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      David Levy Great idea!

    • @memeboi2096
      @memeboi2096 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah he's the most powerful thing god created piece

    • @arjunratnadev
      @arjunratnadev 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I thought he was Samael!? -_-

  • @OneWakfu
    @OneWakfu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    well since you are planning to do some DC characters i would love to see a beyond omega level of the mask, that would be pretty fucking cool.

  • @CaptainMarvelCulture
    @CaptainMarvelCulture 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is a very nicely done video, with a wonderful collection of art from several generations of comics. You did a pretty good job of mashing up the two different histories of the wizard "Shazam" (Jerry Ordway's reboot made some significant differences from the Fawcett/DC version). When you explained the acronym, however, you missed that the "Z" stood for Zeus, who gave the hero "power."
    And as far as the pronunciation of Vlarem's pantheon goes, don't sweat it. Those gods were made up by the writer of the story in which they first appeared.
    One major nit-pick, though. The heroic alter-ego of Billy Batson before the New 52 is named Captain Marvel, and there were at least four versions of him. There was the original, who we met in Whiz Comics #2 from Fawcett Publications, and whose stories were picked up by DC in the 1970's, the short-lived post-"Crisis on Infinite Earths" version by Roy Thomas, and the one in Jerry Ordway;s "Power of "Shazam," and the one intorduced in Jeff Smith's "Monster Society of Evil," whose adventures were continued in the Johnny DC title "Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam." Each of these versions of the hero were named "Captain Marvel, and currently, in the Multiverse, the original is living on Earth-5. The only version of the character named "Shazam" is the one in the New 52.
    One bit of trivia: The original version of the Wizard was, technically, dead. He existed in ghostly form on the Rock of Eternity and could be called to earthby the lighting of a brazier next to his throne in the cave in which Billy first met him. In "Captain Marvel Battles the Plot Against the Universe (Captain Marvel Adventures #100, n947, Fawcett), it was revealed that he wore a bracelet made of "Shazamium," an element not on our periodic table. This bracelet kept him alive inn ghostly form, but if he were to not wear it for 24 hours, he would disappear into nothingness. It;s a great story, in which Dr. Sivana gets a hold of the bracelet, puts it on, turns into a ghost, and blackmails Captain Marvel into helping him conquer the universe. You should check it out, if you haven't already!

  • @STNeish
    @STNeish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Billy Batson is Captain Marvel. Shazam is Shazam. It's only confusing because they're trying to cram the idea down our throats that Batson is Shazam now.

    • @STNeish
      @STNeish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Mark Hanson No, for 80 years Billy Batson has been Captain Marvel, and Shazam was the wizard. The character was created in 1939, and now they think they can rewrite history? Nope, it's not right.

  • @Skooby59
    @Skooby59 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    phantom stranger origin? love your stuff rob, keep it up man

  • @rasputinsbeard3899
    @rasputinsbeard3899 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I can't help but notice that the wizard's "word of power" was an anagram of Marvel, but then made Billy say "Shazam", because suddenly, that's the wizard's name, then called the kid Captain Marvel. That's a mess.

    • @amuroray9115
      @amuroray9115 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      classic comic book rewrites

  • @abj136
    @abj136 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Solomon - a Jewish king known for wisdom.
    Hercules - a Greek demi-god
    Atlas - a Greek titan
    Zeus - a Greek god
    Achilles - a Greek demi-god
    Mercury - a Roman god matching a certain planet. The greek equivalent was Hermes.
    If they wanted to be ethnically consistent, they should have picked Socrates and Hermes. Shazah!

    • @shady8045
      @shady8045 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      abj they probably picked Solomon because his wisdom was directly given by god while Socrates was just a guy who was smart. Plus more kids know who Solomon is.

    • @shady8045
      @shady8045 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      La El yeah but Azham isn’t as catchy

    • @TheZenytram
      @TheZenytram 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also Heracles

  • @zhin8294
    @zhin8294 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Rob.... I have a REALLY good suggestion for you. I know you are gonna love doing a video on him, and I just wanna see how you encounter and explain his "Abilities" and his existance to the viewers. That character is "Cosmic Armor Superman". PLEASE ROB! Do a video on him. I would LOVE to see your take on the character. And your explaination on what he is and how he exists.

    • @kalebsantos72
      @kalebsantos72 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mahtada bashir like from power puff girls?

    • @Sacremas
      @Sacremas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Vastly overrated is what he is, it's one of these characters built more on hearsay than feats, given the armor was destroyed the issue after it appeared by an Anti-Monitor level character it failed to destroy, yet somehow people who likely never read the story heard of it and decided it was the most powerful thing ever. It's not even technically the most powerful incarnation of Superman like some claim, because it was basically a Superman shaped Mecha made by Dax Novu the first Monitor (incidentally the same being it failed to destroy), then piloted by the fused together essences of both Superman and Ultraman (fused by basically Doctor Manhattan, or an identical character in every way at least). Put that together and there's not much left of Clark Kent in that equation really, SM1M in that respect serves much better as a ultimate Superman incarnation.

    • @Sacremas
      @Sacremas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Okay. The cosmic armor is a "thought robot" that exists in an upper dimension, where belief and ideas is largely what controls things things rather than physical actions. The Overmonitor had witnessed Superman in the "germ worlds" that had appeared inside it, and as a reflex made both a giant Superman statue, and a super-people to act as shield between it and the Orrery/multiverse; the Monitors. Through their unknown amount of time (actual time; less than ten years, given they were created during Crisis on Infinite Earths, but in a place where time has no meaning; all the time there ever was) the monitors had stared up at the Superman statue and tried to figure out what it was, and they reasoned it had to be an ultimate protector, a last gift of some ancient early super-monitor, a sentinel to stand against the ultimate evil... and in believing this they not only granted the statue these ultimate powers, they created the ultimate evil for it to fight, in terms of Mandrakk the Dark Vampire Monitor, who lives only because they believe he should.
      When Mandrakk is then freed by Monitor's fear of him and starts sending destroyer ships that attack all the universes, the mentioned fused being of Superman and Ultraman end up being sent up to possess the Superman statue, who have now become the Cosmic Armor, a thought robot who has Superman's powers to begin with, and who will adapt and increase it's power in order to combat any foe (this is largely where the various arguments for it being the ultimate power comes in, which it could be in theory, but wait). Shortly thereafter Mandrakk is released and battles the Cosmic Armor, each of them growing in power exponentially as their battle goes on possibly for an eternity, Superman eventually manages to throw Mandrakk out of the monitor-worlld for him to fall into the over-mind and be swallowed until not even the memory of him remains. In the process however the cosmic armor was wrecked entirely, it was blind and falling apart, after scratching in the words "To be continued" on it' headstone it died from the injuries it took from Mandrakk, at which Superman and Ultraman reappeared where they had been sent from before. Mandrakk meanwhile reappears at the end of Final Crisis, and is destroyed by an army of multiversal Supermen, the Pax Dei host and the Green Lantern corps.
      So yeah... that's the cosmic armor. Due to it appearing in a reality where the universe is pictured as an orrery holding fist-sized globes, some belie the armor is bigger than entire universes... except that it exists on a plane were size like time isn't really a thing that can be applied (in fact it's size changes dramatically in the story itself, appearing a hundred times bigger than a Monitor at first, then maybe five times as big, then the same size as one). It's main power is instead of course the adaptability, if you bring along the Anti-Monitor or Nekron or the Living Tribunal, the Cosmic Armor will adapt to fight them and increase in power as needed, purely because that's what the monitors believed it should do, where it used to be just a statue. However the fact that Mandrakk destroyed it before he was cast out, while it failed to do it's job and destroy Mandrakk, while he in turn was annihilated by a small army of powerful but still quite "mundane" characters puts it's power in question. Mandrakk died easier than the Anti-Monitor did, and so was likely weaker, and he in turn was weaker than Nekron, and he in turn is weaker than Imperiex, and he in turn is in theory weaker than Lucifer Morningstar... and if Mandrakk destroyed it then couldn't Lucifer also, likely with some ease at that, as it's toughness obviously does not adapt properly. In the grand scheme of "this thing could totally rip the One Above All to shred" arguments that's one hell of an Achilles heel. Presuming the damn thing would have worked at all outside Monitor space.

    • @hyku8453
      @hyku8453 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sacremas so SM1M Is the most powerful superman?

    • @Sacremas
      @Sacremas 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Other than the pre-crisis Superman around the Bronze age when he was towing around multiple planets on a single giant chain and destroyed a galaxy by sneezing then went back in time and fixed it, yes, SM1M is the most powerful version. Neither of them is really in continuity though, SM1M is a future alternate Superman that seems to originate from All-Star Superman (which is of a separate continuity) rather than be a version of any mainstream Superman, and pre-crisis Superman was determined in the Crisis on Infinite Earths to be a separate character who was then killed by Superboy prime in Infinite Crisis.

  • @Amihumanlol
    @Amihumanlol 7 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Achilles is a demi God

    • @nothanks5570
      @nothanks5570 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      No, he was not. His father, Peleus, is a human. His mother, Thetis, was a sea nymph. She bathed him in the river Styx, but not his ankles. Hence him being invulnerable except for where his ankles are involved; that's how Paris shot him in the ankle with an arrow which wounded him enough for him to die.

    • @BluePraetor
      @BluePraetor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      The Gotham Goliath Nymphs are basically lower goddesses. He still counts as a demigod

    • @nothanks5570
      @nothanks5570 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sure, I guess if you count sons of sea deities as goddesses, then he's a demigod.

    • @ONAStonards
      @ONAStonards 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Thetis is the daughter of Nereus, who is a god.

    • @blackeesh463
      @blackeesh463 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ONAStonards thetis herself isnt a goddes tho

  • @MarchallWhite12345
    @MarchallWhite12345 7 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    The Wizard would destroy Dr. Strange

    • @Miniman2640
      @Miniman2640 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Marchall White no shit

    • @Miniman2640
      @Miniman2640 7 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Marchall White since shazam is Omni everything he could destroy dr strange before he even knows about shazam

    • @chrishinojos9821
      @chrishinojos9821 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Marchall White the Vishanti would destroy the Wizard

    • @joluoto
      @joluoto 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      He'd esaily destroy post- retcon Dr. Strange, but might be somewhat equal with the Pre- retcon version.

    • @joneshugh
      @joneshugh 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They ARE powerful,but below Chaos/Order who are below Eternity.

  • @TahjOrlando
    @TahjOrlando 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was absolutely my favorite video you have done thus far sir

  • @bigdaddyl-rob7445
    @bigdaddyl-rob7445 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Rob,first of I'm a BIG fan of your work!! My question is,being that I'm a BIG TIME Superman fan,can you please explain Superman's place among the Quintessence. Does Supes understand why they invited him to listen in on their meetings? I would LOVE to see the "Golden Age" Superman as a member of the Quintessence. I'd love your response and keep up the great work!

  • @leifmoak7008
    @leifmoak7008 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like the Dwayne Johnson easter egg you included. A very nice touch. I can't wait to see him "rock," the role of Black Adam!

  • @bencraig9479
    @bencraig9479 7 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Do how to kill uncle Ben
    Oh that's easy

    • @ryateo1
      @ryateo1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Leave him in the microwave to long.

    • @orlandoyork2587
      @orlandoyork2587 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryateo1 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @stevesteve7354
      @stevesteve7354 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't feel so good Mr stark

    • @Nnothingg-
      @Nnothingg- 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      First things first open the door for his killer on the way out

  • @patrickedmknd9333
    @patrickedmknd9333 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    where does rob find those calm smooth instrumentals that's always in the blackground!!?? I love them!! at the end of big you can always catch a little peace of chillaxation!!!

  • @dawae814
    @dawae814 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    1:44 Sir you forgot the power of Zues

  • @eze4068
    @eze4068 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    omg did Rob actually know dwayne was gonna play him before he mentioned him as a joke??? or was that just a coincidence

  • @SupremacyGamesYT
    @SupremacyGamesYT 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    An ancient egyptian man named... The Brahma Bull. He was the most electrifying man on earth.

  • @Maximara
    @Maximara 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Johnny Sorrow was able to turn the Wizard to stone with his gaze. Also somewhere along the line Billy Batson briefly took over the Wizard's duties.

  • @alltaken21
    @alltaken21 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Billy will allways be captain marvel, no matter which agreement DC and Marvel made

  • @kstewartjr89
    @kstewartjr89 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I liked how you threw in The Rock's name as Black Adam!!!! 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😉😉😉😆😆😆

  • @ArthurEKing8472
    @ArthurEKing8472 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Small nitpick. At 5:10 you say "The concept of the Octessence" when you meant Quintessence. Easy to mix-up, but Octessence is from Marvel, the 8 avatars of whom, Juggernaut is one of.

  • @willanderson716
    @willanderson716 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Doc... You are the man... I can always s re you quickly rebound from the Unexpected. You have a very orderly and focused mind. A lot of people are rattled easily... Not you... You doubled down and refocused on your patient... I love your work and gain a better perspective in pursuit of my personal and professional goals. 👍🏾💪🏾😎

  • @blueraven7803
    @blueraven7803 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Can we get a video on the Phantom Stranger

  • @Kstar2807
    @Kstar2807 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love that we are talking more about Shazam! Leaning more everyday!

  • @riellyalexander
    @riellyalexander 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    4:01 this aged well

  • @locolando8139
    @locolando8139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Named Dwayne Johnson” I never get tired of this video lol

  • @XxbarricanexX
    @XxbarricanexX 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Can you do the Phantom Stranger, he's pretty interesting

  • @trajer1535
    @trajer1535 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd love to see/hear more about Marvel's Mephisto! He seems Omega Level and is a super interesting character who looks really different depending on what you're reading. Either way, I'd love to learn more about him.

  • @jimmyvictor13
    @jimmyvictor13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What if the Wizard is Billy from a different time ... after black Adam he decides there can only be one Shazam!!

  • @carbxncle
    @carbxncle 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rob you always have such amazing outro music themes, it would be great if you could also post the source in the description. Keep up the amazing work!

  • @kevinx.4292
    @kevinx.4292 7 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    Hey rob you did a marvel power hierarchy and it seemed really popular how about doing a dc one?

    • @pious83
      @pious83 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      He said before he tried, but DC's tier system is far more convoluted than Marvels, so he couldn't do it in a way that made sense.

    • @Painocus
      @Painocus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      DC's cosmology is inherently different from Marvel's. While in Marvel level of actualized power and level of importance go hand in hand and you got a few omnipotent beings at the top and a pyramid of decreasing power under them, DC is more characterized my a multitude of different primordial forces with different roles, spheres of influence and modes of which to actualize their powers and the DCU itself existing in the interplay of these forces. It has sometimes been said (although I don't know if it's canon following the New52) that all power in the DCU flows from the Source, but the Source itself is not an entity that can wield these powers, but a spring from which it comes, and it's not really conscious in a traditional sense. It has a will, but that will is more like the laws of nature (or Dharma or Tao or the Force in Star Wars) than a person making active decisions. This is true of most of the other strongest forces within the DCU as well, with the major players (like the Endless for example) being just representatives of these cosmic forces rather than actually harboring the powers themselves.
      If the Marvel universe can be compared to a catholic hierarchy of angels with God on the top, DC is more pantheistic and polytheistic in the way that many forms of Hinduism and Taoism is.

    • @TheTriangle444
      @TheTriangle444 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      instead of doing another power hierarchy, do some intelligence hierarchy which is something DC really has, ex: Brainiac's 12th level intelligence

    • @mastershake42019
      @mastershake42019 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They are fictional characters. You can't say one is more powerful than the other cause u can just write a new story saying they are the strongest. Such a stupid thing to want to know.

    • @onlycorndog6322
      @onlycorndog6322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like pious83 said, DC's power higherarchy is pretty complicated but, if I had to ballpark it, I'd say that the most powerful being in DC is probably a six-way tie between The Phantom Stranger, Trigon, The Anti-Monitor, The Spectre, Volthoom, and Darkseid. Unless you're including otherworldly beings, in which case the top is probably either The Pressence, Lucifer Morningstar, or Doctor Manhattan.

  • @KelticTim
    @KelticTim 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The wizard got a wicked tan in the new 52. My man musta have conjured up a tanning bed

  • @socialaccount0000
    @socialaccount0000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Okay Rob, you wanna do more obscure characters?
    Who the hell is the Phantom Stranger?
    I only remember seeing him once the Justice League TV show I think it was, and he was apparently a role model for Bruce. Basically the Batman before Batman. But apparently he's this godlike being??

    • @edwuncleriii3798
      @edwuncleriii3798 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Social Account he is, although he's hardly that obscure, but I can see how someone doesn't know much of him.

    • @heraldofmorning3219
      @heraldofmorning3219 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      the Phantom Stranger is Judas Iscariot. He is judged by the Circle of Eternity. For his betrayal of Jesus Christ, he is condemned to walk the earth for eternity as the Phantom Stranger, an agent of God. He then discovers his divine charge: to turn humanity away from evil, one soul at a time. When the Stranger facilitates the transformation of Jim Corrigan into the Spectre, one of the coins falls from the necklace and crumbles, bringing him one step closer to redemption.

    • @xXifusion
      @xXifusion 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Social Account You're thinking of the Grey Ghost, from BTAS. The Phantom Stranger is a completely different character.

    • @jeffreygreene7561
      @jeffreygreene7561 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Morningstar 35 You are thinking about the 52 Phantom Stranger not "The Phantom Stranger".

    • @abj136
      @abj136 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was Phantom Stranger also the guy who called Billy Batson in this video to meet the Wizard?
      As for Morningstar's story, that kind of discards the Alan Moore story (pre-new-52) which tells the Phantom Stranger is an angelic being from before the time of men, who followed Lucifer merely to inquire about the rebellion. Though he never actually rebelled, yet for having left heaven was condemned to wander the earth.

  • @bamstewart9725
    @bamstewart9725 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can listen to Rob drop knowledge about the Shazam-verse every damn day.... #RobCorpStandUp

  • @thatguyoverthere468
    @thatguyoverthere468 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Do the great evil beast or the specter next for D.C.

  • @johnmoghabghab6027
    @johnmoghabghab6027 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    As always Rob your Videos are amazingly accurate, I just want to say Happy New Year!!!

  • @mralvinbundu
    @mralvinbundu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You should name this Omega and beyond

  • @jenneh3217
    @jenneh3217 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love ur sense of humor Rob.

  • @omarturcios3654
    @omarturcios3654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Is it just me or almost every character in comics is beyond omega level

  • @StevenErnest
    @StevenErnest 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sometime you should take a look at Alan Moore's riff on Shazam nee Captain Marvel, namely: Marvelman/Miracle Man... ("Kimota!") I know Neil Gaiman's been trying to get the rights from Todd McFarlene to continue the Miracle Man series, which he was writing for the late Eclipse Comics.

    • @justanorc
      @justanorc 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, Gaiman has likely stopped trying to get the rights from McFarlane, with Marvel having the rights and all.

  • @davidlevy2705
    @davidlevy2705 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Nabu vs the wizard?

  • @1mmorta1coi1
    @1mmorta1coi1 ปีที่แล้ว

    (1:55) -- Achilles, Sir, was a demigod -- Son of Peleus (a Human King) and Thetis (a Sea Goddess). With Zeus in his Paternal line and Gaia in his Maternal line, it was Heaven and Earth inside the same fists

  • @utube8745
    @utube8745 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Wizard 🧙‍♂️ already revealed that Shazam was his adopted name his name is Mamaragan

  • @erictheguapo
    @erictheguapo 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this channel. This is great stuff

  • @casimiriii5941
    @casimiriii5941 7 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    Dwayne Johnson would be more believable.

    • @casimiriii5941
      @casimiriii5941 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Megavicid you just sound salty to me.

    • @JJRBones
      @JJRBones 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      David Craft actually you might be the salty one, he IS overrated, however he looks like he'd make a good Black Adam

    • @coreyjohnson5200
      @coreyjohnson5200 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If he looses a ton of muscle maybe

    • @ind3n
      @ind3n 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Tired of seeing Dwayne Johnson, it almost seems like every movie he starred in is inevitably going to suck.

    • @sebastianjuares7522
      @sebastianjuares7522 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn fr tho

  • @WanderlandHunterNeophite
    @WanderlandHunterNeophite 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    i'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS. AN EXPLANATION OF THE WIZARD SHAZAM. THANK YOU IDOL. I LOVE YOU!

  • @frozenfaeitv3894
    @frozenfaeitv3894 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    can pls do something about the Phantom Stranger Im really intreged about this charakter

  • @HDR97
    @HDR97 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An explained video on the Phantom Stranger would be cool.

  • @HiDefHDMusic
    @HiDefHDMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "SHAAM"? I think you forgot to mention Zues when you explained the acronym.

  • @kevinbrown4420
    @kevinbrown4420 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Innovative information as usual,
    Rob! And where do you get the music for your videos? the Shazam App...ha...couldn't identify that cool song at the end. But it kind of reminded me of music from Earthbound on the SNES

  • @CesarAGomez-se9nw
    @CesarAGomez-se9nw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Achilles is a demigod. Great warrior,invinurebility excepting his famous week point.

  • @thembrownbois9283
    @thembrownbois9283 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:00 bro predicted the future

  • @bobdabanana
    @bobdabanana 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Well the movies pretty good.

  • @casimiriii5941
    @casimiriii5941 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He was immortal, except for his heel, and his mother was a goddess.

  • @quitebad459
    @quitebad459 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Pls do a video on the overmoniter

  • @JDP7463
    @JDP7463 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. Thank God New 52 is effectively being corrected!

  • @ray_ex3
    @ray_ex3 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do Imperiex next he can literally wield the Big Bang and has the power to create black holes that can suck up universes

  • @robjla1
    @robjla1 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want to see two videos a day! Idc what it is as long as it's not a comic comercial.

  • @LuisGarcia-rz4xv
    @LuisGarcia-rz4xv 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Do phantom stranger

  • @nilsamatos3483
    @nilsamatos3483 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the editing and is so funny

  • @scasfilms8175
    @scasfilms8175 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Can you do a video on the phantom stranger?

  • @omaridavis8088
    @omaridavis8088 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Rob, give a link to the music you use in your videos, please.

  • @shikhadixit6877
    @shikhadixit6877 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    please keep doing this for dc

  • @kingkasper4950
    @kingkasper4950 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Zor!!! So crazy powerful/obscure! It'll be perfect!!

  • @KingdomComeClark
    @KingdomComeClark 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    DC has a lot of repairing to do concerning the damages they've done to Captain Marvel and SHAZAM. They made a ****ing mess out of one of their greatest heroes.😡

    • @ThePrice265
      @ThePrice265 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      John Penza my thoughts exactly, he's just confusing the non comics fans and pleasing Marvel Fanboys.

    • @marcocolecchia4147
      @marcocolecchia4147 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally agree

  • @noaboahQR
    @noaboahQR 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rob im a bit late to comment (i just got out of the hospital) but you have responded a few times to me before and as usual man top notch video well researched perfectly presented keep it up!
    Ps. I'd REALLY love it if you could *do a video like this for the phantom stranger* you mentioned him a hand full of times but i know almost NOTHING about him. Anyway idk if you will see this but thanks man!
    #robcorpforlife!

  • @ChristineP223
    @ChristineP223 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Could you please do the Phantom Stranger. I've tried to research him but that dudes got like three origins and I can't tell which one is canon and which have been retconned.

    • @jeffreygreene7561
      @jeffreygreene7561 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The fact that he has multiple origins is what makes him the Stranger. Most tend to accept the Alan Moore version.

  • @ganju_san2675
    @ganju_san2675 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4 years later & Dwayne Johnson is playing Black Adam😂👏🏿🔥🔥

  • @allalongthespaceman
    @allalongthespaceman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    some of these “gods” aren’t even in the same mythos

  • @Fontana22
    @Fontana22 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    i always find funny when people try to scream "softly" 2:04

  • @ChinmaiNaregal
    @ChinmaiNaregal 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was good

  • @olewis843
    @olewis843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Theres a 90% chance I butchered those names Don't Care!" 😂😂😂

    • @abiolaalade7970
      @abiolaalade7970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Drop the 🎤 moment.😏😏..........🤣🤣🤣

  • @tropic294boi7
    @tropic294boi7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Can you please do unstoppable colossus vs world war hulk

    • @pious83
      @pious83 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Still waiting for the new Unstoppable Juggernaut to go toe to toe with a Hulk. Unfortunately I doubt Amadeus Cho Hulk would last anywhere near as long as Banner might have..

    • @hyku8453
      @hyku8453 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jenelle Perry Bruh what the fuck? That's entirely false, he broke his arms, that was juggernaut who he tricked to going unstoppable

    • @hyku8453
      @hyku8453 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jenelle Perry no that was juggernaut you uneducated swine

    • @Sacremas
      @Sacremas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Only time he's outright beaten the Juggernaut was when augmented by Apocalypse into War, all other times the Juggernaut has simply been too powerful. Colossus was even more powerful than Cain (possibly not more than current version though) due to his existing powers, so I doubt WWH would beat him. But deflect him into a swamp or otherwise just contain him, like he did with Cain in WWH vs X-Men, yeah that's something else, as WWH had almost full Banner intelligence.
      Now Worldbreaker Hulk on the other hand, that's something else, I could see that monster smashing the Juggernaut. Better place the fight on a planet you don't mind losing though.

    • @pious83
      @pious83 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Sacremas It would have to be a _disposable_ planet if you were to pit WWH or even Heart of The Monster Hulk against the current Unstoppable Juggernaut. I'd love to see it though. I notice a lot of people seem to underestimate how formidable Juggernaut is. That he has gone one on one against some of the strongest in Marvel and rarely loses.

  • @TheRealDustinNunn
    @TheRealDustinNunn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Trivia: Shazam the Wizard was originally called Shazamo. Shazamo's name was short for Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury and Oggar. The character, Oggar, who represented the "O" in Shazamo's name, turned evil and corrupt and Shazamo defeated Oggar and banished Oggar from the Rock of Eternity (Shazamo/Shazam the Wizard's home). After Shazamo banished Oggar from the Rock of Eternity, Shazamo removed the "O" from his name and that's how Shazamo became known as "Shazam". Shazam is the wizard, formerly known as Shazamo, not Billy Batson, aka the original TRUE Captain Marvel. Billy Batson's adult male superhero alter-ego can still be known as "Captain Marvel" as a character, but due to crooked trademarking and crooked copyrighting, Billy Batson's adult male superhero alter-ego cannot be called "Captain Marvel" as a trademark because of Marvel Comics "Legally" (I'm using that term very loosely) owning the rights to the "Captain Marvel" name.

  • @RazerAssassin41
    @RazerAssassin41 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    DUDE YOU PREDICTED DWAYNE JOHNSON AS BLACK ADAM THREE YEARS AGO

    • @bbqseitan7106
      @bbqseitan7106 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The comics community has been saying THE rock should be Black Adam for like 7 years mow

  • @overcast59
    @overcast59 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes 1st time i heard you talk about spawn. .. would love to heard your take on it....

  • @benstevens2
    @benstevens2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Omega level Full powered Superman

  • @dallasmartinfark
    @dallasmartinfark 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was great! Please do the character Spiral

  • @maximillion65
    @maximillion65 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    why have you not done BLUE MARVEL yet or any other black beyond omega level characters

    • @bamstewart9725
      @bamstewart9725 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      THEFINALBOSS Playa, Rob did a 4 or 5 issue series about the blue marvel from marvel... Check his archives... Its there...

    • @Stabsdagoblin
      @Stabsdagoblin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      THEFINALBOSS Why does it matter if their black?

    • @FiftyStates5
      @FiftyStates5 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Race is irrelevant

    • @TheSuperdarklord100
      @TheSuperdarklord100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He did a video on Chaos king. I doubt you can get blacker than that.

    • @williamconwell6105
      @williamconwell6105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheSuperdarklord100 "Mr popo disagrees"

  • @Th3Joker96
    @Th3Joker96 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't remember if you did the Phantom Stranger but that would be dope

  • @omegahtv6779
    @omegahtv6779 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Please do The Phantom Stranger.

  • @kaaba92
    @kaaba92 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rob as always, you put in that work! Keep up the Awesome work Bro. peace

  • @ProwlersPit
    @ProwlersPit 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    HIS NAME ISN'T Shazam. It's Captain Marvel.

    • @ThePrice265
      @ThePrice265 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Herbert Leggieri I still call him that.

  • @Jac4ester
    @Jac4ester 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Solomon - Human
    Hercules - Demi God
    Atlas - Titan
    Zeus - Greek God
    Achilles - Demi God
    Mercury - Roman God

  • @雷神-b7z
    @雷神-b7z 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Could you please do all-father hercules from choas wars, hes as strong as the choas king who was stronger then eternity.

    • @77Sakshin
      @77Sakshin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rahul Malik He was killed by Chaos War Hercules in one punch. So i guess Rob should do a video on Herc

    • @雷神-b7z
      @雷神-b7z 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Vasile Brandsch yeahh thats who i want him to do the video on, hes so op omniscience, omnipotence. All father herc is op glad theres someone elsewho agrees

    • @hyku8453
      @hyku8453 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's overrated

    • @雷神-b7z
      @雷神-b7z 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hyku hes still extremely powerfull healing the mutliverse is quite a feat, becoming the god of gods is op only problem is the way he became so powerfull was a bit boring so its understandable.

    • @hyku8453
      @hyku8453 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rahul Malik molecule man, beyonder, the alien entity and sise neg are capable of that feat, so did white phoenix of the crown

  • @ajurden
    @ajurden 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rob you should do Blue Marvel next. That guy is OP as hell!