Greed

**Greed** is one of the demonic Seven Deadly Sins.

## Biography

### Released by Black Adam

When Teth-Adam's family was murdered, he unleashed the Seven Deadly Sins, including Greed, to kill his family's murderers and eventually millions of people in the city of Kahndaq. Greed and the rest of the Sins then killed the Council of Wizards, but the last surviving wizard managed to defeat Greed and the Sins, before imprisoning them within statues in the Rock of Eternity.

### Meeting Thaddeus Sivana

In 1974, when the wizard attempted to find a champion to inherit his powers, and he brought the young Thaddeus Sivana to the Rock of Eternity. Greed and the other sins watched as the wizard offered Thaddeus to become his champion and receive his powers, but they offered Thaddeus to become their champion by playing on his insecurities that his abusive unloving father and bullying older brother Sid made him develop, making Thaddeus attempt to take the Eye of Sin and the Wizard to deem unworthy and send him back to earth. However, Greed and the other sins sent Thaddeus a message on his magic 8 ball to find them.

### Freed by Sivana

In 2018, as the Wizard had failed to find a champion to inherit his powers, a now adult-aged Sivana arrives on the Rock of Eternity and takes the Eye of Sin, which frees Greed and the other sins from their statues. They then entered Sivana's body through the Eye of Sin, empowering Sivana. The next day, Sivana goes to his father's company, Sivana Industries (which he'd previously worked for), interrupts a board meeting, and uses his new powers to kill Sid by throwing out the window to his death. He then unleashes Greed and the other sins on the board members; the demonic beings proceeded to savagely kill all of the board members except Mr. Sivana. After Sivana gloats to his father about his "real power", Greed and the other sins inform Sivana that the wizard had finally chosen his champion and instruct him to kill the champion before he learns how to use his powers or he would defeat Sivana. Thus, Sivana tells the sins to show him where to find the champion, and recalls the sins to his body, except Greed, whom Sivana leaves to kill his father for displaying greed. As Sivana leaves the board room, Greed pounces on and viciously kills the terrified Mr. Sivana.

### Fight against the Shazam family

After Sivana finds the champion, who happens to be a teenager named Billy Batson, and he forces Billy to give him his powers by taking his foster siblings Freddy, Mary, Pedro, Eugene, and Darla hostage, then when Sivana takes Billy to the Rock of Eternity so he can transfer his powers to Sivana, Greed and the other sins are unleashed to watch. However, they are stopped by Freddy, Mary, Pedro, Eugene, and Darla, who followed them through the portal, and Freddy strikes Sivana with his batarang in the back of the head, which causes Sivana to bleed, which causes Billy to release needs the sins in his body keep his powers. Then Sivana recalls Greed and the other sins to his body so he can heal.

After Billy and his siblings escape from Sivana on the Rock of Eternity and the two begin a fight at a Christmas carnival, Sivana unleashes Greed and the others sins, except Envy, the sin that represents himself so he can keep his powers, to capture Billy's siblings while Wrath fights Billy and Greed manages to capture Darla. When Billy was about to give up to Sivana and he recalls Greed and the other sins to his body, Billy then remembered how the Wizard told him fill the thrones of his "brothers and sisters" and he decides share his powers with his siblings and turns them into adult superheroes by getting them to say the Wizard's name, then Sivana releases Greed and the other sins, except Envy, again, while Billy and Sivana continue to fight, his siblings fight against the other sins, during the fight Greed attempts to throw two people off a Ferris wheel, which was damaged by Sivana when arrived at the carnival and Pedro is holding up, but Darla manages to save them both.

The fight at the carnival continues until Billy tricks Envy into leaving Sivana's body rendering Sivana powerless. As Greed was fighting against Darla at carnival Billy returns with the now powerless Sivana and removes the Eye of Sin from him, Greed and the other sins are then sucked back into it. Then Billy and his siblings return Eye of Sin to Rock of Eternity, which the newly formed Shazam Family decide to use as their lair, and Greed and the other sins are imprisoned in their statues once again.

## Personality

He is the embodiment of greed, self-indulgence, and avarice.

## Powers and abilities

*To be added*

## Equipment

* **Eye of Sin**: *To be added*

## Relationships

	+ Envy
	+ Gluttony
	+ Lust
	+ Pride
	+ Sloth
	+ Wrath
* Mister Mind
* Teth-Adam/Black Adam
* Thaddeus Sivana - former host
* Mr. Sivana † - victim
* Shazam Family
	+ Billy Batson
	+ Mary Bromfield
	+ Freddy Freeman
	+ Eugene Choi
	+ Pedro Peña
	+ Darla Dudley

## References

Gayden, Henry, Lemke, Darren (writer) & Sandberg, David F. (director) (April 5, 2019). *Shazam!*.

## External links

The ***DC Extended Universe Wiki** has a collection of images and media related to* **Greed***.*
* File:Favicon.png Greed on DC Database

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