It is, of course, both hilarious and painful that Levi seems to believe that a midcredits tease populated by the supporting superheroes of another middling DC enterprise could’ve helped salvage the fate of his own Shazam property-as if a billion dollars is only a Black Adam endorsement away, despite the fact that Black Adam itself did not make a billion. “We need to live in the truth!” he exclaims toward the end of the clip, addressing his “Shazamily.” Basically, in the above clip, Levi is agonizing about a post-credits scene filmed for Fury of the Gods featuring a couple of members of the Justice League’s C-team: specifically Hawkman and Cyclone, two characters who are not going to be getting their own HBO Max spinoff anytime soon but who did appear in Black Adam, which is information that will become relevant soon.

So I will attempt to make as much sense of this as I can, but first, it’s going to require some backstory. The specifics of Levi’s grievances will appear totally inconsequential to anyone who doesn’t possess a vested interest in the DC Extended Universe, and given the film’s opening domestic gross, you are likely to be one of those people. (It begins, for some reason, with him singing the song “Lights” by Journey.) “Even if it might fly in the face of something we believed before.”

And we should all live in it,” says Levi, at the climax of one of his more rousing calls to action on the behalf of his family movie. A post shared by Zachary Levi coming to the defense of truth.

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