Every Magic User In The DCEU Explained (Including The Rock’s Black Adam)
The DCEU started with a sense of realism inherited from Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, but the franchise quickly opened its doors for magic. The DC universe in the comic books always involved more than just aliens and metahumans, and it would not take long before a magic user appeared in the DCEU. Still, Wonder Woman and Shazam ended up becoming the only two anchors for the magic side of the DCEU, but that is about to change as names like Black Adam and Doctor Fate are also arriving.
Given how DCEU canon after Justice League is still up in the air, with The Flashexpected to reboot some aspects of the saga, it is hard to establish universal rules for how magic works and will continue to work in future DC movies. That said, confusing magic rules are not exclusive to the DCEU. In the MCU, between releases like WandaVision, Moon Knight, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, keeping track of what the rules of magic are is difficult.
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From Wonder Woman to Black Adam, the DCEU has seen several magic beings. While the magic nature of some of those characters was not always in the spotlight, others are deeply involved in the magic lore of the DC universe. Here is a breakdown of every magic user in the DCEU.
Although Man of Steel tried to keep a sense of realism, at least as much as a Superman movie could have, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opened the doors of the newly formed DCEU to the fantastic, magic side of the DC universe. While the DCEU's Superman skills could be explained with a sci-fi element, Wonder Woman’s origins and powers were intrinsically linked with gods and magic. Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman origin story would not be told until Wonder
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