Black Adam (2022)

Sarah Shahi: Adrianna Tomaz

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Quotes 

• Adrianna Tomaz : [reads inscription]  Shazam!

  [Black Adam appears] 

• Karim : Don't touch him. He's made of lightning.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Good point. You get him, you're the electrician.

• Karim : All I inherited was a sweater.

  Adrianna Tomaz : That's not true. Baba left you his van, and his bald spot.

  Karim : You know, some women like a bald spot. Curly on the outside, smooth on the inside.

• Teth-Adam : It was you who spoke. You woke me.

  Adrianna Tomaz : I didn't have a choice. I'd be dead if it hadn't worked.

  Teth-Adam : The men in my tomb, they were your enemies?

  Adrianna Tomaz : Yes.

  Teth-Adam : Then your enemies are vanquished, condemned to the eternal sleep of the damned.

  Amon Tomaz : Actually, we still have a lot of enemies that need vanquishing.

  Teth-Adam : Then destroy them.

  Amon Tomaz : Intergang have guns and flybikes and Eternium rockets. We have my mom.

  Teth-Adam : Prove your strength. Destroy your enemy and all he cares about. Make him beg for mercy, but deny it until his final breath.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Interesting, okay? I appreciate what you did for me, but I do not want you teaching my son violence.

  Teth-Adam : I understand.

  [refers to Karim] 

  Teth-Adam : You want his father to teach him violence.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Gross, that's my brother.

  Karim : That's my sister.

  Adrianna Tomaz : His father's dead.

  Teth-Adam : I'm sorry. Who do you want to teach him violence then?

  Amon Tomaz : Yeah, Mom. Who do you want to teach me violence?

  Adrianna Tomaz : No one. I want a champion to help free Kahndaq from Intergang. Please, help us.

• Adrianna Tomaz : "Speak not his power, so he may suffer a dreamless sleep for all eternity." Teth Adam. The slave who became champion and defeated the king. The legend was true. Kahndaq... really did have a hero once.

  Ishmael : If he was such a hero, why'd they bury him down here?

• Carter Hall : You going to keep my boy out of trouble?

  Adrianna Tomaz : As long as no one comes looking for it.

  Carter Hall : Fair enough.

• Kent Nelson : There's no point in dwelling in the past. It's already moved on from you.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Why did you say that?

  Kent Nelson : You were blaming yourself for trusting Ishmael. Your thoughts are better spent on the things you can change, not those you can't.

  Adrianna Tomaz : You see the future? Tell me how I get my son back.

  Kent Nelson : By trusting us. Karim will live. We will save Amon. It's what we do.

  [Adam crashes through the balcony window] 

  Kent Nelson : I suppose they didn't have doors in your day.

  Black Adam : Well, of course we did. That's how we entered rooms.

  Kent Nelson : What I did there is called sarcasm.

• Black Adam : I want you all to leave Kahndaq and never return.

  Carter Hall : Gladly, with you as our prisoner.

  Black Adam : How about I rip your little wings off instead?

  Carter Hall : I'd like to see you try.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Okay, more fighting won't solve this.

  Black Adam : I disagree.

  Carter Hall : Me, too.

  Al Rothstein : Looks like we found common ground.

• Teth-Adam : I never said I was a hero. I never claimed to be anything.

  Adrianna Tomaz : You may not have been a hero. But that doesn't mean that you can't be one now.

• Adrianna Tomaz : Ishmael said, "Death is the only path to life." But that's not what the inscription says.

  Maxine Hunkel : Right. "Life is the only path to death." Maybe he got it backwards, like he read it in a mirror or something.

  Adrianna Tomaz : [something in her mind clicks]  That's it. In Kahndaqi mythology, the souls of the damned are sent to the Rock of Finality. The underworld is a mirror to our own. Here, turn the crown around.

  [turning it upside down] 

  Adrianna Tomaz : Now mirror the letters. See? That's what I missed. "Death is the only path to life." He kidnapped Amon on purpose, because he knew that Teth-Adam would kill him. And he believed the Champion's magic would send him to the Rock of Finality.

• Carter Hall : We don't have time for this. Teth-Adam first, then the crown.

  Adrianna Tomaz : You don't have any authority here. Teth-Adam has done nothing...

  Carter Hall : Teth-Adam is not who you think he is.

  Adrianna Tomaz : And how would you know?

  Carter Hall : We have access to ancient texts that have been kept secret for centuries.

  Adrianna Tomaz : And what exactly do these supposed ancient texts say?

  Carter Hall : They say that his rage nearly destroyed Kahndaq. And we flew all the way over here to stop it from happening again.

• Adrianna Tomaz : Intergang are after my son.

  Kent Nelson : They don't want him, they want the Crown of Sabbac.

  Adrianna Tomaz : [to Adam]  I know you're not a hero. But you're not a monster, either. I don't care what anyone says. You saved me in that cave. You didn't know me and your first instinct was to save me. I'm begging you. Please, save my son.

• Kent Nelson : Excuse me, you if I look in your bag?

  Adrianna Tomaz : Yes, I do mind.

  Carter Hall : Where are you going with this, Kent?

  Kent Nelson : She's got the Crown of Sabbac.

  Carter Hall : One catastrophe at a time. We can't give him a chance to regroup.

  Maxine Hunkel : He's been spotted entering the palace. It's safe to say he's not going there to surrender.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Why do you want Teth-Adam to surrender? He's the Champion of Khandaq. Who are you? The Justice Society? We have been living under military occupation for 27 years, and never seen you before. You didn't come when Intergang invaded our country, when they stole our resources and killed my husband. But now, we finally have our own hero and you decide to fly down here and save us? Thank you, but... we're covered. Go and protect international stability someplace else. Oh, and second, I don't have the crown.

  Carter Hall : Let me spell it out for you. Teth-Adam can't be Khandaq's champion, because he is not a hero.

  Adrianna Tomaz : [pointing around the square]  Tell that... to all the people he just liberated.

• Ishmael : Pure Eternium shield. Unbreakable, even with your powers.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Amon!

  Black Adam : You hurt him, I will kill all of you.

  Ishmael : Nobody has to die. We just want the crown.

  Hawkman : We don't have it.

  Kent Nelson : Believe me, nothing good will come from that crown.

  Ishmael : [aiming his gun at Amon]  No crown, no negotiation.

  Adrianna Tomaz : I have it! It's right here. Release my son, you can have it.

  Hawkman : What do you think you're doing?

  Adrianna Tomaz : Intergang killed my husband. I'm not letting them take my son, too.

  [Adam knocks Carter back, then destroys a protective barrier Kent tries to create] 

  Black Adam : Not your son. Not your country. Not your decision to make.

• Black Adam : You brought the invaders with you.

  Adrianna Tomaz : They only want to talk.

  Black Adam : They can talk. I won't listen.

  Adrianna Tomaz : When I was a little girl, my grandmother told me the story of how the Champion came to this exact spot to free the enslaved people of Kahndaq by defeating King Ahk-Ton in battle. But according to the Justice Society, that's not really what happened. They say that you didn't come here to seek justice. That you came to exact revenge. And in your anger... your power grew, until it became uncontrollable. And the Council of Wizards was forced to deem you unworthy of the gifts that you were granted. It wasn't your tomb that I opened, was it? It was your prison.

• Black Adam : It should be buried under the ocean for eternity.

  Carter Hall : That's not far from what we had in mind for you when this is over.

  Black Adam : Or I could bury you with it.

  Adrianna Tomaz : We can't get rid of it now. It's the one thing that Intergang wants. Believe me, I know more than anyone what this crown is capable of. But we have to keep it until my son is safe.

  Carter Hall : Adrianna... trust me, we will get your son back.

  Black Adam : They don't care about him. They just want to defeat me.

  Carter Hall : Hand it over. We can't risk letting the crown fall into the wrong hands. We'll find another way.

  Adrianna Tomaz : No. You like to split the world into good and bad, but that's easy to do when you're the one drawing the line. All I care about is Amon. And until he is safe, we're all on the same side. And you... you will work together.

  Carter Hall : Set a course for the Al Hadidiyah Mountains. We'll go in at dawn. I hope you can be a team player.

  Black Adam : I love teams.

  Kent Nelson : That was sarcasm again, yes?

  Black Adam : Very much so.

  Kent Nelson : Good. Just checking.

• Ishmael : What kind of Champion of Kahndaq sides with foreign invaders?

  Black Adam : You have what you want. Let him go.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Ishmael, what are you doing?

  Ishmael : Taking back what's mine. I'm the last living descendant of King Ahk-Ton the Great. And you have just given me everything I need to become the next... king of Kahndaq. My family passed the knowledge on, you know, one to the next. The crown, crafted by our ancestors, stolen by the wizards and hidden away. But still a source of great power, if only we can wield it. They say when Hurut died, you wept like a baby. I wonder if you'll do the same for them.

  Amon Tomaz : Please, Ishmael.

  Ishmael : [taking aim with his gun]  Sorry, Amon.

  Hawkman : Fate, get ready.

  Ishmael : [in Kahndaqi]  Death is the only path to life.

• Karim : What are you doing? Don't touch him, he's made of lightening.

  Adrianna Tomaz : Good point. You get him, you're the electrician.

• Samir : That would get you a fortune on the black market. Is that real Eternium? Show us a little magic.

  Adrianna Tomaz : It doesn't work like that, it's unrefined.

  Ishmael : You guys should get some rest.

  Samir : I thought Intergang seized all the old relics.

  Ishmael : Hey, come on. Stop it.

  Samir : I'm just curious how she got it.

  Adrianna Tomaz : My grandmother gave it to me.

  Samir : How did *she* get it?

  Adrianna Tomaz : It's not a medium piece. It's a family heirloom, going all the way back to the days when Kahndaq was free.