Earth 10 Captain Shazam

Metaphor

Transgender Issues

Rogues Gallery

Trying to keep the senses of whimsy that infuses what would be an otherwise bleak world for Billie.

Dr. Sivana

Billie’s father, he’s the classic evil genius, with emphasis on both words. The Captain spends a lot of time stopping Sivana’s plans for dominion over the Fawcett city and perhaps the Earth, but it was only recently that she learned how close to home his evil started, that her childhood of abuse was the first stage of Thaddeus’ hypnotic program. Her mother Venus and siblings Beautia and Magnificus have had the full Asimov protocols installed and must follow their father’s instructions; in Billie’s case she simply cannot harm him, or through inaction allow him to come to harm. When the Captain found himself unable to punch Dr. Sivana, Thaddeus likely realized who he/she was. No good can come from that. This lifetime of manipulation and treating his family like tools shows the real darkness in her father’s soul.

Black Adam

The first person to wield the power of the wizard, with the powers of six other acronymed gods as Teth Adam. Eventually the power corrupted him, causing him to seek dominion over the civilizations he had been defending. The wizard, unable to fully take back what he had given, stripped Adam of much of his power bound him and entombed him. Contemporary Egyptologist Adam Ghandor learned the secret of the first Mighty Adam and became obsessed his legends. Mastering dark arts he stole portions of the powers six Egyptian gods and used them to face the newly appeared Captain Shazam. His reliance on the powers of a single pantheon proved his undoing as the Captain defeated him with an ostrich feather that evoked the goddess Ma’at. The threat of Black Adam was doubtless resolved.

Unfortunately, well-meaning scholars are about to dig up a particular tomb in 2013…. [1]

Talky Tawney

A member of the parliament of animals – the intelligent, magical animals of Chinese legend – Tingzhe Taun is a con man and grifter in Fawcett City known as Talky Tawney. Able to shift between the form of a tiger and a man, to create illusions and disguises, Tawney a fixture in the Batson’s social circles. A friend of Billie's, she sometimes get pulled into his cons, sometimes has to undo the harm he’s done and on more than one occasion had to defend him from very dangerous people who want whatever he just inadvertently lifted from them. Billie is the only one who knows Tawney’s real nature since the Wisdom of Solomon and the Vision of Heimdallr are not fooled by such tricks as his.

Blaster Panda

A less harmless member of the parliament of animals, Wong Chen “Wok” Panda has been stripped of much of his magic by the other animals for infractions against their code of secrecy in his career as a superhuman mercenary and muscle for hire. Trapped in his Panda shape and only able to cloak himself with a specific illusion of one man, he has made up for this loss of subtlety in a truly 21st century fashion – he has outfitted himself with paired high tech energy pistols. Taking the nom du guerre of Blaster Panda, he is a force to be reckoned with. Because he’s a big strong panda. With blasters.