I was just thinking, people have commented that Black Adam believes himself the true champion and thus the hero in his own mind. And that’s when it dawned on me.
Mythological heroes tended to be jerks at best, and some could be downright murderous.
Theseus and his friend decided it’d be a great idea to kidnap a goddess. Perseus turned a bunch of innocent people into stone because of the actions of one man. Achilles spent a good portion of a war sulking in his tent because he couldn’t keep a woman he kidnapped.
Teth Adam technically is a hero of antiquity, of mythology, but that doesn’t mean he’s heroic, especially at the time he’s locked away. It’s just that he’s from a culture like that. At least, that’s how I see it.