r/Shazam

I kinda genuinely like how DC is bringing him back into prominence. They changed his name back to Captain Marvel and not only that but right now he is one of the main heroes in the series. I just wish he gets one or two badass fight sequences to up his power scaling like Superman keeps getting.

I think a "Shazam: The Animated Series", starring Billy Batson, AKA Captain Marvel, would be the perfect way to revive the Bruce Timm DCAU.

 

The character gained a decent amount of notoriety from the movies, his cast and stories are mostly self-contained within his hometown, and references to the wider DCAU could initially be kept to a minimum for the sake of easing in new fans. It could function as its own disconnected universe for the first season or two.

 

And if it proves to be successful? That's the go-ahead to start reintroducing the wider and classic universe and continuity to modern viewers, and work on greenlighting other series to set in it. It could even work to attract older fans of this universe, who grew up with it and still have fond memories of it.

 

As for the primary supporting cast of Billy, I'd have Victor and Rosa Vasquez as his foster parents, and Freddy Freeman and Mary Bromfield as his foster siblings, and Dudley as a neighbor who's like an uncle to Billy, Freddy, and Mary. He'd have a niece named Darla, who'd only be mentioned at first rather than shown. I'd introduce Darla, Pedro, and Eugene in later seasons as new foster siblings. I'd also reveal in a season that Mary is Billy's long-lost twin.

And in an episode, maybe a season finale or premiere, Superman would show up, with them having tension from the episode "Clash" in JLU. Superman would apologize for what happened back then, and so would Captain Marvel. After beating that episode's bad guy, Superman would request Captain Marvel to rejoin the Justice League, and Billy would accept, seeing that the League is finally back to being the heroes they used to be.

Finally, While I would like Stargirl to be Billy's love-interest like in the comics, pre-established episodes in the DCAU have made that impossible without retconning. Billy was in elementary school in “Clash”, while Courtney looked to be in her late teens in the episodes of JLU. So, I'll go with Cassie Sandsmark, AKA Wonder Girl. Since Cassie never appeared in the DCAU, I'll introduce her in this one (say, in the middle of season 2) and make her recurring character and be Billy's girlfriend.

As for her introductory episode: Gateway City's high school's basketball team came to play against Fawcett City's high school's basketball team, and Billy, Fawcett High's basketball team captain, bumped into Cassie, Gateway High's star cheerleader, and they get friendly. And when a bad guy attacks, they individually go to fight before bumping into each other again and then he figures out her secret identity in the middle of the fight against the villain and reveals her his after dealing with the villain. As her school bus was about to take her home, she gave him her phone number and a kiss on the cheek.

Voila! What do you all think?