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DC fans are unhappy due to the recent changes in the new era of the DCU. Talking about the upcomingShazam! Fury of the Gods(2023), the fans have been getting angry over Zachary Levi’s line that reportedly has been cut from the movie.
The line in question was featured at the end of the trailer when it initially premiered and the fans hated it. Salty fans of the superhero genre made the director’s life miserable so much that he had to answer to this hatred via Twitter. The line was forcibly removed from the movie but the hatred didn’t stop there.
DC Fans Hated This Line InShazam! Fury of the Gods
The San Diego Comic-Con 2022 gave the people many trailers and sneak peeks into the upcoming plethora of movies and series coming their way. Amongst them, the trailer for the upcomingShazam! Fury of the Godsmade its way through the crowds.
At the end of the trailer,Zachary Levi’scharacter of Shazam throws a truck at a dragon. The character proceeds to blurt out the following sentences and follow the classic comic trope of stating the obvious.
“I just threw a truck at a dragon. I love my life.”
Before judging the line or the trailer, keep in mind that the character is just a teenager who gains superpowers from a wizard. Shifting the perspective through the eyes of a teenager indeed makes sense for the line but not for the people who proceeded to slam the line and called it cringe. The people took to Twitter to bring out their anger and called it a cringe line and a cringe movie.
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Things got so heated that the director of the movie David F. Sandberg had to speak out on the social media platform. The director informed the people that the line was cut from the movie and was just there for the trailer.
What’s more interesting is that the people stood against the removal of the line and were unhappy due to the changes in the movie. Many fans understood Shazam’s character and how it would be normal for him to say things like that. The war among DC fans started as people stood in defense of the character’s humor while people clamored for DC to be darker and grittier.
These so call fans complain like little girls over everything it’s pathetic 🙄🤡
— Lloyd (@Lloyd95808630)June 25, 2025
Billy is a kid. It fits his character. For example if the roles were reversed and Marvel had the darker universe, Spiderman would still be his quipping self. Why? Because he’s a kid and it fits the character of Spiderman
— Shane Almond 🟢🏹 (@NightOwlScribe)August 24, 2025
Do you even know who Shazam is?? He’s a kid who has become a superhero. That’s literally something that he would say. He says excitable things like that in the comics too
Lesson to the people who make films at Hollywood: Don’t always listen to the fans. They are not the ones making the movie, you are. If they wanna make their own “better” movie, they can do it themselves. You are in control of what you put in your own movie, not them.
— Carl Nwakakwa (@CaNwakakwa)August 04, 2025
It’s right out of the comics and totally in line with the character. People will complain about the most ridiculous thing while praising rdj calling what’s his name squidward.pic.twitter.com/u4cKAyliHJ
— Michael Aguiar (@MatchesMallone)August 12, 2025
Funnily enough, the age-old debate of Marvel vs DC once again came into play as the fans stated how this line would actually suit Marvel rather than DC. The seriousness of Marvel movies was also put into question and called childish in nature by some salty DC fans. In the end, though, the line was forcibly removed from the movie just because some of the fans hated it.
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Shazam! Fury of the GodsWill IncorporateBlack Adam?
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Dwayne Johnson’splan for the new era of the DCU is all about expanding the universe and merging the characters together (much like how Marvel did). As we know from the comics, Black Adam is the antagonist of Shazam. There were even reports of Black Adam making an appearance at the end of the first movieShazam!but was changed and reorganized.
The upcomingShazam! Fury of the Godswill surely tackle the huge problem of Teth Adam aka Black Adam and will expand the DCU further while bringing the characters a bit closer.Shazam! Fury of the Godsis slated for a release date of 17th March 2023.
Source:Twitter
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
