10 Recent Movie Subplots Everybody Hated

Oh, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, we all wanted you to be good, but you just weren't.

There are plenty of complaints to make about the movie, but the one aspect of its narrative that fell most horrendously flat? Freddy's (Jack Dylan Grazer) romance with Anne aka Anthea (Rachel Zegler).

Though Freddy was largely the highlight of the movie, his love story with goddess Anthea was at best dull and uninteresting, and at worst distractingly problematic.

To be clear, Freddy is 17 years old in the film while Anthea is 6,000 years of age, creating quite the epic age gap between them. While few would bat an eyelid if Freddy was, say, 25 and dating Anthea, it adds an unnecessary layer of grossness that Freddy is right on the razor's edge of adulthood.

And more to the point, why would a 6,000-year-old goddess ever be romantically interested in a teenager of all people?

To make it even weirder, the film actively draws attention to the age gap, when Freddy's foster mother makes a crack about her kids favouring older women.

Ultimately why invite these sorts of questions into a family-friendly superhero movie of all things? Between this and Wonder Woman 1984's deeply creepy body-hijacking debacle, DC movies sure do love their needlessly unsettling romantic subplots.