Black Adam

Black Adam is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Otto Binder and C. C. Beck, the character is a archenemy of Shazam, also known as Captain Marvel, and the nemesis of the Marvel/Shazam Family. Black Adam first appeared as a one-time villain for the first issue of Fawcett Comics‘ The Marvel Family comic book (December 1945). However, Black Adam was revived as a recurring character after DC Comics first licensed and then acquired the Fawcett characters and began publishing Captain Marvel/Marvel Family stories under the title Shazam! in the 1970s.

As originally depicted, Black Adam was a corrupted, ancient Egyptian predecessor of Captain Marvel, who fought his way to modern times to challenge the hero and his Marvel Family associates. Since the turn of the 21st century, however, Black Adam has been re-defined by DC Comics writers Jerry Ordway, Geoff Johns, and David S. Goyer as a corrupted antihero attempting to clear his name and reputation. Featured roles in such comic book series as Justice Society of America (JSA), Villains United, Infinite Crisis, and 52 have elevated the character to an unprecedented level of prominence in the overall universe of DC Comics characters.

In 2009, Black Adam was ranked as IGN‘s 16th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. Dwayne Johnson has been cast as Black Adam for an upcoming Black Adam feature film from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros.. Set in the DC Extended Universe film franchise.

Originally Posted by Kain Darkwind of the Dicefreaks forums.

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Black Adam
Medium outsider (Lawful, Proxy)
Wounds	194 WP, 715 VP (26d8+598)
Initiative	+20
Speed	420 ft; fly 840 ft. (perfect)
Armor Class	35 (+5 Dexterity, +6 natural, +14 speed) touch 29, flat footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple	+26/+84
Attack	Slam +64 melee (5d6 + 31 /19-20)
Full Attack	2 slams +64 melee (5d6 + 31 /19-20)
Space/Reach	5 ft. /5 ft.
Special Attacks	Improved grab, power word Shazam
Special Qualities	Damage reduction 45/epic, immune to electricity and fear, resistance to energy (all) 50, SHAZAM, Spell Resistance 30, super speed, super strength
Saves	Fort +36, Ref +35, Will +27
Abilities	Strength 59, Dexterity 23, Constitution 56, Intelligence 15, Wisdom 26, Charisma 20
Skills	Diplomacy +25, Gather Information +20, Intimidate +34, Jump+180, Knowledge (arcane) +18, Knowledge (civics) +30, Knowledge(current events) +20, Knowledge (history) +31, Listen +47, Move Silently +26, Sense Motive +47, Spot +47, Survival +25
Feats	Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Fly-by Attack, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (slam), Improved Sunder, Power Attack
Epic Feats	Epic Toughness, Epic Will
Climate/Terrain	Khandaq
Organization	Solitary (unique)
Challenge Rating	45
Treasure	None
Alignment	Lawful Evil with Lawful Neutral tendencies

Black Adam’s natural weapons count as magic and lawful aligned for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction or regeneration.

Improved Grab: Adam must hit a large or smaller creature with his slam attack to use this ability.

Power Word Shazam (Su): By calling out “Shazam!”, Black Adam invokes the magical energy which grants him his powers. This deals 25d6 magic electricity and divine damage to everyone adjacent to or grappling with Black Adam. Adam also loses all of his Shazam special qualities in his normal form.

SHAZAM: Adam possesses the following divine powers.

• Stamina of Shu: Black Adam receives a +40 enhancement bonus to Constitution, damage reduction 20/-, +6 natural armor and resistance to energy (all) 50.
• Swiftness of Heru: Black Adam receives a +10 enhancement bonus to Dexterity and super speed level 14.
• Strength of Amon: Black Adam receives a +40 enhancement bonus to strength, super strength and a slam attack dealing 5d6 damage.
• Wisdom of Zhuti: Black Adam receives a +10 enhancement bonus to his Wisdom. His senses are supernaturally acute.
• Power of Aton: Black Adam possesses damage reduction 45/epic, Spell Resistance 30 and immunity to lightning.
• Courage of Mehen: Black Adam is immune to fear.

Super Speed Level 14 (Ex):

• +14 speed bonus to AC, initiative, and Reflex saves
• +14 speed bonus to attack rolls
• +7 speed bonus to melee damage rolls
• Adam may make 14 additional swift actions in a round.
• Adam reduces the amount of time to complete an action by 3 steps, allowing him to take full round actions as swift actions and standard actions as immediate actions.
• Characters with less than Superspeed level 7 are considered flat-footed for the purposes of Adam’s attacks. Characters with Uncanny Dodge have an effective Superspeed Level equal to their Dexterity modifier for this purpose.
• When using the run action, Adam moves 40 times his movement rate. (16,800 feet; fly 33,600 feet)

Superstrength Level 10 (Ex):

• +20 bonus on Strength and Strength based checks.
• Lift capacity x1024

Skills: Adam has a +10 bonus on Listen, Sense Motive and Spot checks.