Judging from the first trailer, Dwayne Johnson's antihero in the upcoming Black Adam could be essentially immortal. After over a decade in development, The Rock's superhero origin movie is on the way, with Black Adam's first full trailer hitting the internet. The teaser references Teth-Adam's comic book history as a slave in the ancient nation of Kahndaq, and places a very strong emphasis on his power level in the movie.

In the comics, Teth-Adam was bestowed with the powers of the gods and used them to unleash merciless vengeance on his and his people's oppressors. As Black Adam, he is extremely powerful, with superhuman strength, speed, flight, and other abilities. The Black Adam trailer also shows Johnson's character as seemingly impervious to any and all harm, and this is very much in line with his comic book background.

In the comics, Black Adam is also an effectively invincible character with few weaknesses. The magical basis of his powers makes sorcery one of his few weaknesses, as well as lightning. Despite the appearance in the film by the Justice Society of America, however, the Black Adam trailer doesn't show any characters who are fully like Adam in terms of invulnerability. Rockets, machine guns, blunt trauma - nothing can hurt the magically powered antihero. That doesn't mean that Adam is totally undefeatable; there is his aforementioned weakness to magic. It can also be expected that Adam will face some kind of obstacle or opponent of a similar power level in the movie simply for there to be any risk for him at all. That said, as the big-screen debut of a character whose history has been reshaped and retconned multiple times, the Black Adam trailer has let Black Adam's Injustice mindset to fighting evil be known. It's also shown that he's all but totally indestructible by any known characters in the movie so far.


As the film's leading man and executive producer, Dwayne Johnson is well-known for his marketing savvy. With Black Adam being sold as much on his involvement and passion for the project as on the DC character himself, the trailer's clear mandate was in familiarizing the world with Johnson's character. In showing Adam being harmed by nothing thrown at him, Black Adam appears intent on minimizing any and all vulnerability of its antihero to set him apart from other superhero adventures populating movie theaters.

With Black Adam releasing in October, Johnson and everyone involved has gone out of their way to show Adam as virtually unstoppable. Indeed, the question could well be whether or not Superman is the only opponent who could stand his ground against Adam. With Dwayne Johnson long envisioning Black Adam and Henry Cavill's Superman doing battle, after the release of Black Adam, the Man of Steel himself might be Adam's true Kryptonite.

Black Adam (2022)
Release Date: Oct 21, 2022