[dighton]

Oy!

[Horatio Gates]

I don't buy it. Jesus would have never put the moves on Lois Lane at the Fortress of Solitude

[NonLinear]

"It's a misrecognition," said Amy Pedersen, who is writing her doctoral thesis in art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, on superhero comic books.

Talk about so many insights layered into one line....

[Oztrich Boy]

WWSD?

[dfwgator]

My Son. My Son. I am your father, Jor-El. Your mother and I have sent you to Earth the only survivor of Krypton. As you hear this, I will have been dead many centuries, but I will reborn as Charlie Rich. On the planet Earth you have special powers and knowledge, which will separate you from mankind. Use these powers only for good, and above all you must never tamper with the destiny of man. And don't eat junk food.

[JamesP81]

I don't know if it's been on purpose, but there have been a number of biblical parralels in many of these comic book movies. Spiderman was among these, especially the second movie.

It's almost a story of redemption. Peter Parker knows he's not a perfect human being and he hates himself for it. He does what he does as Spiderman because it seems right (great power, great responsibility and all that stuff). He denies himself the love of his life, feeling that either no one could love him or if someone did she'd only get hurt. This was reinforced by the fact that everyone hated him for doing right.

There was no better illustration of how wrong this thought is than at the end of the second movie when Mary Jane showed up in his apartment in her wedding dress. She said, "So here I am, standing in your doorway. I've always been standing in your doorway. Isn't it about time somebody saved your life?"

Combine that with the obvious themes of self-sacrifice, and you can see the biblical principles being portrayed, even if it wasn't the intent originally.

[Doomonyou]

"Is this a new Superman for the new Evangelist red state America?

Red states will stick to the real thing.

[discostu]

There's nothing new about it. There were always strong Christ (only son sacrificed to make the world better) and Moses (sent adrift upon a "river" to be adopted by other parents and accomplish great things) parallels in the story of Superman. That's part of what's made Superman stay in the culture for so long, most of the fictional characters that have been popular through multiple generations have some level of connection to core biblical stories.