I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent brave is people!

Need my sister and daughter.

Roseburg.

What's in the box?

Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special.

I am Sam Adams and I am joined in

Slate New York studios by Marissa Martinelli. This week we're spoiling the movie

Shazam. Shazam is the story of Billy Batsen, an itinerant foster child

who search for his birth mother brings him to a group home in Philadelphia.

After defending his disabled foster brother from a pair of school bullies, Billy flees into the Philadelphia subway,

but he's unknowingly transported to the rock of eternity, where he meets

a wizard with a proposition, say my name and take on my powers. Saying that name, Shazam, transforms

Billy into a musselbound superhero played by Zachary Levi, but he's still a 14-year-old boy inside, which

means that even as he's defending the world from ancient terrors, he still has to figure

out who he is and where he belongs. So Marissa and I have both seen

Shazam. I think we both watched it this week and I saw that a few weeks ago. So where

where do you come down on Shazam? Marissa.

So I went into this movie with the lowest of expectations.

I had never heard of the character as someone who's not up and up on comics.

I did know that the character was originally called Captain Marvel,

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