Dwayne Johnson's Best Actor win for "Black Adam" indicates that the end of the world must be near

Just when you thought there were no more twists in the tale for Black Adam, star and producer Dwayne Johnson has only gone and completed the most unexpected Best Actor victory you’re likely to see this awards season.

There was widespread mockery when Warner Bros. revealed it was planning to submit the disappointing DCU dud for genuine Oscars consideration, but who’s laughing now after The Rock went home with the prestigious trophy for Favorite Movie Actor after being honored by the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards

In an even more delicious twist of irony, Johnson even managed to defeat arch-nemesis Vin Diesel to be named as the recipient of what’s almost definitely going to be the one and only time he finds “Black Adam” and “best actor” in the same sentence, with the Fast Furious 9 star ending up on the losing side of the equation alongside co-star John Cena, Spider-Man No Way Home‘s Tom Holland, Red Notice and Free Guy‘s Ryan Reynolds, as well as Space Jam Legacy‘s LeBron James for reasons we can’t quite comprehend.

A win is a win at the end of the day no matter how much you want to cut it, so we can now officially describe Black Adam – the overly ambitious and borderline self-indulgent misfire that saw both its leading man and Henry Cavill excised from the DCU after they’d both heavily touted a future that featured them both in a major capacity – as featuring an award-winning lead performance, which wasn’t on the bingo card by any stretch of the imagination.

One of the major takeaways from Dwayne Johnson’s ill-fated and incredibly short stint as part of the DCU was that the actor and producer seemed to have little no interest at all in David F. Sandberg’s Shazam saga, even though he was involved in both of them behind the scenes through his Seven Bucks company.

It swiftly became clear that The Rock only sought to leverage the Man in Black’s association with Billy Batson’s costumed alter ego as a means to put himself into the path of Henry Cavill’s Superman, a strategy that looked as if it was going to pay huge dividends for a hot minute before it imploded in spectacular fashion.

Not only that, but not too long after reports emerged that Johnson held a thinly-veiled disdain for Shazam, it was then claimed he turned down the opportunity to cameo in Fury of the Gods because he deemed it to be beneath him. We all know how that turned out in the end, but Zachary Levi was as diplomatic as you’d expect when asked by Jake’s Takes about whether or not a guest spot from his beefy nemesis was ever on the cards.

His response may be about as vanilla as it gets, but Levi wasn’t above trolling Johnson on social media in the aftermath of Black Adam being unceremoniously cast out of the DCU, although at least the online heat magnet hasn’t quite resorted to pointing and laughing in public, but maybe he will eventually if Shazam 3 gets the green light.

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