Is The Rock's Black Adam Joining The Justice League?
The Rock will star as Teth-Adam in the upcoming DCEU film Black Adam, and some viewers may be wondering whether or not he’ll be joining the Justice League. Black Adam will feature the classic superhero team, the Justice Society of America (or JSA), with at least one member who seeks to recruit Black Adam. The Justice Society, however, is not the same team as the Justice League, and Black Adam has a different history with each team in DC’s comics.
Teth-Adam of the fictional nation Kahndaq received the same powers that Billy Batson acquired in 2019’s Shazam! Teth-Adam was chosen by The Wizard to be his first champion, but he became bitter and vengeful after criminals murdered his family. In DC Comics, Black Adam was initially one of Billy Batson’s greatest villains, but over time he became a more morally ambiguous character. The DCEU’s Teth-Adam, who became the legendary Black Adam, will be depicted as an anti-hero rather than a villain.
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The Black Adam promotional material shows the titular anti-hero interacting with famous JSA members, including Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Cyclone, and Atom Smasher. The Justice League is neither shown nor mentioned in Black Adam’s trailers, but Doctor Fate tries to recruit Black Adam into the JSA. Black Adam has been part of both the JSA and Justice League in the comics, but in the DCEU, he’ll likely only be part of the JSA, and it’s unclear how long his membership will last.
The Justice Society of America precedes the Justice League by over a decade, having debuted in the 1940s during the Golden Age of superhero comics. The JSA included numerous classic DC heroes in its original roster, eventually adding Superman, Wonder
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