Talk:Black Adam

message: One thing I've never really understood is Black Adam's powers.  I understand how he got them -- granted to him by the wizard Shazam -- but I don't understand how he's kept them.  In The Power of Shazam! series that ran in the 90's, Shazam made a point, on several occaisions that his power was finite.  I recall this most notably when Mary and Billy want to grant some of their powers to Freddy after Freddy is badly hurt by Captain Nazi.
So how, then, does Black Adam retain superpowers after Shazam grants them to someone else?  And why, unlike the Marvel family, don't his abilities count toward the finite source?
The only thing I can think of is that for Black Adam, "SHAZAM" entails a different set of gods (therefore a different source), but to the best of my knowledge that explanation isn't substantiated in the comic.  It seems to me that Black Adam and Captain Marvel both draw their abilities from the same source with no penalty. -- Broken Arms Gordon 13:58, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: IIRC early in the Power of Shazam series he has his powers restored by Blaze.  It happens off-panel, so anyone is free to fill the details.  Maybe it is somehow Blaze instead of Shazam (who, I read, has been revelead to be her father) who empowers Adam. Luis Dantas 22:19, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

text: If you ask me, DC's power levels make even less sense than Marvel's.  But Black Adam has been known to fight Captain Marvel and Superman one-on-one, so he must be a close match for either. Luis Dantas 22:19, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe not the best place to ask, but how likely is it that Black Adam still has his powers? In Countdown, it seems that Mary Marvel now has "all of his powers," so does this mean that Black Adam is a powerless, normal human for the moment? Lord Shaz 21:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Powers 

message: It's outrageous that "Theo Adam" gets directed to this ridiculous article.
Theo Adam (born 1926) is a great opera singer who deserves his own article.
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Adam-Theo.htm
http://www.iclassics.com/artistBio?contentId=1789
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Adam
http://www.jenskleemann.de/wissen/bildung/wikipedia/t/th/theo_adam.html
Fusspot 20:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to change it. --DrBat 22:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Poor li'l opera buff got their sensabilities offended.  Awwwww.  :) CovenantD 22:23, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theo Adam - operatic superstar 

message: Well, I can see this article is quite large and people want to keep it at a reasonable size. However, there's such a thing as over summarization. 52 (comics) is a big thing and to simply cut out so much data from BA's appearances for the sake of a "short section" will be all for nought. I recommend an article be made for his appearances in 52 and linked back here. The summarization is reaching a point of inaccurately displaying information. With another article, shortness nuts can do what they like here, but the reader will still have a better source to turn to. Also, note the other character actuals with "52" sections. ACS (Wikipedian) 18:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How is it biased? Why would this section need to be large? Because it is current? --Chris Griswold 19:53, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section expansion. 

message: ===Namor/Black Adam===
Three other editors have separately reverted your recurring uncited comparison of the two characters. Your addition is WP:POV and WP:OR. Please discontinue this disallowed edit. Thanks. -- Tenebrae 17:35, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: CC of post at [[User talk:Thanos2099]]

message: Three other editors have separately reverted your recurring uncited comparison of the two characters. Your addition is WP:POV and WP:OR. Please discontinue this disallowed edit. Thanks. -- Tenebrae 17:35, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Namor/Black Adam

message: Anybody have a recolection of BA having this power? It's in tne table of gods, but I can't remember an instance of it. CovenantD 02:56, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't think of a single occurance of it.  Definately not enough to warrant his inclusion in a catagory for precogs.  -mordicai. 13:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clairvoyance 

message: Who will surely use it to ruin the Black Marvel's reputations. I know that it's totally obvious but isn't this speculation? I don't think Amanda Waller has said point blank that she plans to ruin their reputation (and I also don't think Waller's intentions have been revealed by an official source either). So technically, speculation?Jupiterzguy 02:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Speculative

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Cap adam.jpg

message: Not sure about this. Seeing as Wonder Woman is mentioned, should this not be strongest person? Also, are there not stronger villains (such as perhaps Darkseid)? Superman is regularly depicted as the strongest DC hero, but not stronger than Darkseid.Nda98 15:14, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strongest man in DC Universe? 

message: Under the subheading for Countdown, the article says that Captain Marvel changed Black Adam's magic word to "sorry."  Does anybody have a reference for it?  I've read Countdown #47, but nothing in that gave me the impression that his new magic word is "sorry."  Ccm043 22:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "I'm sorry.  So sorry." 

message: Did anyone read this .
Update article .
89.210.121.141 (talk) 08:38, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Countdown 1 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Black Adam's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "BlackAdamRelease":
From DC Extended Universe: 
From Shazam! (film): 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 12:03, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Black Adam]]