Anthea

Anthea is a major character of the 2023 DC Extended Universe superhero film Shazam! Fury of the Gods. 
She is one of the Hesperides, who wishes to take back the powers her father gave to the Wizard Shazam. By the 21st century, Anthea comes across Billy Batson and his foster siblings, who fight crime as the Shazam Family, but soon starts growing close to Freddie Freeman. She and her eldest sister, Hespera were betrayed by their sister Kalypso (who killed Hespera and attempted to use the golden apple into the Earth to destroy all life). 
She was portrayed by Rachel Zegler, who also portrayed María Vasquez in the 2021 film adaptation of West Side Story, Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and will portray Snow White in the 2025 live-action film of the same name.
== Overview ==
Millenia after Atlas' death, Anthea and her sisters sought to recover their father's stamina from the Shazam Family and restore their home realm using the Golden Apple from Hera's sacred tree, while Kalypso also intended to terraform Earth with Shazam's Staff of the Gods. When Anthea and Hespera objected, Kalypso mortally wounded Hespera and depowered Anthea before planting the Apple and attacking Philadelphia with her army of mythical creatures. After Kalypso's defeat and Billy's sacrifice, Anthea went with Shazam Family to Mount Olympus to bury Batson, but Wonder Woman appears and restore the power of the Staff of the Gods, reviving Billy and restoring Anthea's powers. Anthea then decided to stay on Earth with Freddy and learn more about humanity.
== Personality ==
Anthea is by far the least cruel of the Daughters of Atlas from the start, only wanting to revive the gods' realm with as little violence as possible, and goes behind her sisters' backs fairly early on to help Freddy and the Wizard escape. Likewise, she is a selfless and heroic love interest, who would do anything to protect humanity and her lover Freddy and do what she thinks is right. She at first believed Kalypso's lies and manipulations to an extent, and she was vengeful towards Shazam before meeting him. She was never prepared to hurt Freddy herself, but at first, she wouldn't resist when Kalypso and Hespera have kidnapped him. However, she would be horrified when Kalypso tortured him.
She later fully changed sides, and joined forces against Kalypso. She would even be the one to open Hespera's eyes to Kalypso's villainy. Anthea was shown to be even more horrified of witnessing her eldest sister, Hespera's death when her second sister Kalypso has betrayed them.
== Powers & Abilities ==
Titan Physiology: As a daughter of Atlas and Nyx, Anthea is a formidable Titan with a wide array of magical abilities including her special power named, the power of axis.
* Immortality: Anthea has lived for centuries along with her sisters because they are daughters of Atlas.
* Titan Magic: Due to being a Titan, Anthea has access to their primordial magics.
** Power of Axis: Anthea wields the primordial force of Axis. This allows her to warp reality and manipulate structures to her liking. She said she could’ve rearranged Brett & Burke Breyer’s internal organs implying she can manipulate people's bodies but never shows it.
== Trivia ==
* Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, both of which Rachel Zegler starred in, both came out in 2023.
==External Links==
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*Anthea on the DC Extended Universe Wiki
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