A Brief Guide toShazam‘s Surprising Mid-Credits Character

Like all New superhero flick , getting the full effect ofWarner Bros. ’Shazamrequires that you sit through a few minutes of credit to see a conniption feature steer about matter that might come to pass infuture sequelsorother films set in the divvy up universe .

Interestingly , both of the Shazam scenes that play after the proper film is done focus on things you actually see for the first time over the course of Billy Batson becoming a superhero . The more cryptic of the two stinger establishes an important part of Shazam ’s mythos from DC Comics suggesting that when next we see him , it ’s not justBlack Adamthat he ’s going to have to worry about .

early on on into Shazam there ’s a prospect in which a unseasoned Thaddeus Sivana satisfy the ancient wizard Shazam , who ’s summoned him to the Rock of Eternity believe that the young boy might make a desirable new champion suitable of wield his Brobdingnagian magical power . As Sivana make his way into Shazam ’s lair , there ’s a abbreviated guesswork showing off some of the many artifact the wizard ’s collected over the years , like a perpetually - burning string cat’s-paw , the fiend - harnessing orb that finally grants Sivana his Shazam - similar power , and a army tank turn back a orotund caterpillar . When Billy Batson finally fix his way to the Rock to become Shazam , the burning pawn is still there , Savanna ’s long since stolen the orb , and the cat ’s ostensibly escape from its now - broken enclosure .

Freddy Freeman and Shazam getting into mischief.

Freddy Freeman and Shazam getting into mischief.Image: (Warner Bros.)

The vibrant lepidopter does n’t make another show for the rest of the photographic film itself , but halfway through the credits , we ’re brought to a scene where an gaol Sivana is spend his time describe magical runes all across the wall of his cell in an attempt to escape . As Sivana ’s only piece of chalk breaks , the scientist collapses in a fit of frustration , but his here and now of anger is dead interrupt by laughter from someone in the elbow room that he ca n’t ab initio see . It ’s the caterpillar , who is sentient , and he ’s catch some thoughts about both Sivana ’s plight and humanity as a whole :

Primitive . dewy-eyed . You walking , talking monkeys with your cave drawings . You assume there ’s only one way to gain illusion . No , no , no . There are more ways than a mind can imagine . I name the gods , doctor . Not the other way around . Oh what fun we ’re going to have together . The seven region are about to be ours .

While the caterpillar never says his name , theater director David F. Sandberg ( who also voiced the character ) has explainedthat he is , in fact , Mister Mind .

An opening page of the “Monster Society” arc in Captain Marvel Adventures #22.Image: C.C. Beck (DC Comics)

DC ’s Mister Mind is indeed an insect - like creature and one of Shazam ’s odder villains from his Golden Age days as Captain Marvel in Fawcett Comics ’ books . He was first introduced in Adventures of Captain Marvel # 22 as the conceiver behind a coordinate attack on Shazam ’s life that he directs over the radio . Though the villain initially live in a dreadful castle on the surface of Venus , he develops a hatred for Shazam ( and by extension Billy Batson ) after he inadvertently intercepts Billy ’s news program broadcasts from Earth where he works as a receiving set newsperson . At first , Mister Mind calls upon Captain Nazi and orders him to try and beat Shazam on his own , but when that initial plan fail , the insectoid unveil that his factual scheme to overcome the submarine involves wreak together the whole of his rogues gallery to form the Monster Society of Evil .

In his original embodiment , Mister Mind is n’t exactly as concerned in Nazism as much as he was just very into the concept of evil itself . ally with the Axis , he explain , was merely a means to an closing in his ultimate pursuit of wreaking havoc upon the reality and get Shazam his specific target .

After arrive at his debut and subsequently dying during that first “ Monster Society ” spark , Mister Mind would disappear from the comics macrocosm for tenner follow Fawcett Comics ’ shuttering and the Captain Marvel comics right hand proceed over to DC Comics . In the early ‘ 70s , Mister Mind remerged and became one of Shazam ’s most even foes ; as meter has go on , the specific nature of the baddie ’s powers and his reason for being evil have shift as unlike writers have incorporate them into their stories .

Image: C.C. Beck

An opening page of the “Monster Society” arc in Captain Marvel Adventures #22.Image: C.C. Beck (DC Comics)

In Johns ’ on-going Shazam comic , the curious puppet hatches a plan to destroy the intact Shazam family by forcing them to split up and leave the Rock of Eternity for one of seven magical , kid - theme land — the “ Funlands , Gamelands , Darklands , Monsterlands , Wildlands , Wozenderlands , and Earthlands . ” While each of the lands might seem as if it ’s merely a fantastical proportion meant to reflect the imaginations of tyke , the secret exponent flowing through them all has the potential to be harnessed for incredible feats of creation or death , make them places the Shazam family needs to protect for the great good .

Mister Mind does n’t cite any of the Magiclands in Shazam , but his mentioning other agency of tapping into magic and the fact that he was , at one head , trapped on the Rock of Eternity paint a picture that that aspect of the character reference ’s lore might be incorporated intoShazam 2 . It would also make sensation considering that Black Adam ’s been a member of the Monster Society .

There ’s no reason to assume it ’s the case , but Shazam ’s post - credits conniption — a jest about Shazam not having Aquaman ’s powers to control ocean biography — might also be a nod toZack Snyder ’s cryptic “ unify the seven ” Aquaman teasing , suggesting that if and when Mister Mind make his next appearance , it ’s going to take an intact league of heroes to terminate whatever it is that he ’s design .

Image: Keith Giffen, Joe Bennett, Jack Jadson, Belardino Brabo