Black Adam clobbers Hawkman in 'Black Adam' Comic Con sneak peak
When the Black Adam trailer dropped last month, we got our first taste of Dwayne Johnson's take on this classic DC antihero: torn, tortured, and aligned somewhere between hero and villain, as expected. He also punched a fighter jet.
In the Comic Con sneak peek presented at Hall H on Saturday — where Dwayne Johnson himself made a memorably noisy appearance, in character and seeming to levitate amid a vortex of lighting — Black Adam is an even darker figure. He considers his powers a curse, once again punches that fighter jet, and then gets into a fight with Hawkman (Aldis Hodge).
Hawkman, a Justice League of America founder, originates in ancient Egypt — as does Black Adam — and seems to serve as a sort of moral counterweight to Black Adam, who has a pro-killing-people stance that sets him apart from superheroes. But it seems this is more than a philosophical conflict because now we know Black Adam uses his lightning powers to blast Hawkman into the side of a car. Looks like it's going to take a whole movie to resolve this.