| “ | Mr. Sivana: Help! Somebody! Help me! Thaddeus: You can't go crying to other people all the time. What sin best befits you, Father? Hmm? Mr. Sivana: I'll give you anything. Money? The company? You want the company? Thaddeus: There it is, Greed. |
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| ~ Mr. Sivana panicking then begging Thaddeus to spare him, also their final conversation. |
Mr. Sivana is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Black Adam) of the 2019 superhero film Shazam!. He was the founder of his company Sivana Industries, the husband of Mrs. Sivana, and the father of Sid and Thaddeus Sivana.
He was portrayed by John Glover.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
- He is a sadistic and abusive father who often abuses and belittles Thaddeus and favors Sid over him, including allowing the latter to have a high-ranking position in Sivana Industries while refusing to give the former a proper chance while he was an old man in the present.
- He tries to make Thaddeus grow up too fast, not letting him bring toys to his relatives' house and telling him men don't go crying to their daddies when they're bullied, even though he's the one bullying his own son.
- He vehemently shuts down and belittles Thaddeus when he tries to explain his experience in the Rock of Eternity and cruelly blames him for losing his legs even though it was his own fault for loudly calling him "a miserable, whiny little shit" with his back turned to the road while not even wearing his seatbelt. Thaddeus will later imply he took the belittling up multiple notches after the aforementioned event.
- It should also be noted that Sivana Industries's marketing puts emphasis on family, even though he as the company's CEO has been an extremely bad father himself. When Thaddeus is going down on an elevator, a Sivana Industries ad pops up saying that the company's focus is family which causes him to smash the screen in a fit of rage, showing how much he hates the concept of families due to the abuse his father put him through.
- He's a coward, as he panics after the other board members get slaughtered and then resorts to groveling to his son that he abused, which also makes him hypocritical due to as stated prior having chastised him for groveling himself before. He promises him his entire corporation simply to have his life spared instead of apologizing to him.
- While he does get crippled while Thaddeus was a kid and ends up being murdered by Greed while the former was an adult, these fates aren't exactly played for satisfaction, but they're not played for sympathy either, considering for the latter, it is only meant to show just how powerful Thaddeus became.
- While it's not elaborated on enough how his power over Sivana Industries has made him think he's better than everyone else and callously dismissive of power in the form of magic (the Black Zero Event and Enchantress' juvenile antics made everyone aware of its existence), it fully aligns with the rest of his characterization, so it counts.
- He is inadvertedly responsible for having Thaddeus Sivana going down the path of evil and causing all events of the film duology to transpire.
External Links[]
- Mr. Sivana on the Villains Wiki
- Mr. Sivana on the Standard Evil Wiki
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