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Superman killed Shazam because the latter opposed his plan of destroying Gotham City to set an example to Batman and the other heroes that fought him in the Injustice storyline. When Superman got tired of Shazam’s opposition, he swiftly killed him by freezing his mouth and using heat vision.
Superman can’t possibly kill Shazam! He can’t overpower him, and his heat vision can’t hurt Shazam! (See superman vs shazam comic for this) while they’re both invulnerable, superman is vulnerable to magic, while Shazam is only vulnerable as Billy, in other words, Shazam has no vulnerability.
First, Superman used his ice breath to seal his mouth before Shazam could use his powerful magical phrase to summon a lightning bolt. Then he calmly burned through Shazam’s eyes with his heat...
Unlike Superman, however, Captain Marvel wasn’t an alien, but was actually a young boy named Billy Batson who became an adult hero whenever he yelled out the magic worlds “SHAZAM!”
Shazam was untransformed when Superman killed him. That’s why he shut Shazam’s mouth to prevent him from transforming. Transformed, Shazam is about equal to Superman with an advantage due to his magic.
In December of 1972, DC introduced Captain Marvel in a new title called Shazam! #1, and from his very first appearance—which was rebranded due to copyright issues over the similarly-named character at Marvel—he was aligned with DC's most famous hero, Superman.
After what has become an infamous Superman cameo in 2019's Shazam!, Shazam! Fury of the Gods director David F. Sandberg told all about what happened and why Henry Cavill didn't actually appear.
Magic merely affects him the same way it does to anyone else. So if Harry Potter's Voldemort casts a killing curse on Superman, it would kill him, despite Clark's physical resistance. The reason magic is considered a "weakness" is because it directly bypasses his physical invulnerability.
Superman kills Shazam. Me and my brother got into a debate over dinner about the scene in Injustice 1 where superman shoots heat vision through Shazam's head. He's telling me that canonically shazam would be impervious to the heat vision, and while every forum I've read says the same.
Why did Superman kill Shazam? Summary by Ground News. Superman and Shazam are two heaviest hitters in the DC universe. It seems unlikely that these two heroes would fight, let alone kill each other. Injustice was an epic storyline that dragged in most of the DC Universe over several years.