The live-action DC universe has been expanding out into some interesting territory over the past few years, with an array of characters entering the fold. That has included some previously lesser-known heroes and villains, including Christopher Smith / Peacemaker (John Cena), who now leads his own HBO Max series. The fourth episode of Peacemaker surprised fans by name-dropping the delightfully-obscure DC character Matter-Eater Lad — but apparently, that isn’t the first time his unique skillset has been acknowledged in the DCEU. Shazam! and Shazam!: Fury of the Gods director David F. Sandberg recently revealed that “matter eating” is among the list of potential superpowers that Shazam! (Zachary Levi) and Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer) are testing out in the first film. This comes after Sandberg had tweeted back in 2018 that Matter-Eater Lad was another character he would want to make a DC movie about.
It’s also one of the powers they test in Shazam. As you can see Shazam failed to eat matter. Somehow. https://t.co/TkJkwKt37r pic.twitter.com/vaWyTdOsGF
