Beano's Fourth Chin
6/23/2006, 11:06 AM
- Both Superman's Krypton father and Superman have the same last name - El, the Hebrew name for God. On the Superman: The Movie Special Edition DVD, the writer of the film confirmed that the parallel in the name was intentional.
-The new movie's trailer makes a clear connection between Superman's and Jesus' mission in the world. According to the trailer, Superman's father sent his one and only son into the world to show humans "the light."
- The name of Superman's arch enemy, Lex Luthor, sounds like "Lucifer," the "arch enemy" of Jesus and Christians. He is the "evil one."
- In the Smallville pilot television show, which chronicles Superman as a youth, the episode followed much of the Passion narrative. In the climax, Clark Kent hangs on a scarecrow cross with kryptonite (a metaphor for sin according to Skelton) around his neck. And again, the parallel is no coincidence. "I thought there were a lot of metaphors between Clark [Kent] and Jesus actually. And I tried to throw in as many of them as I could," the episode's director said on the DVD version of the show.
- Superman also performs a variety of miraculous deeds that recall miracles Jesus performed in the Bible. Some of these include "raising" Lois Lane from the dead in Superman: The Movie (like Jesus' raising of Lazarus) and rescuing the U.S. president's plane during a storm (like Jesus' rescue of the disciples during a storm).
-The new movie's trailer makes a clear connection between Superman's and Jesus' mission in the world. According to the trailer, Superman's father sent his one and only son into the world to show humans "the light."
- The name of Superman's arch enemy, Lex Luthor, sounds like "Lucifer," the "arch enemy" of Jesus and Christians. He is the "evil one."
- In the Smallville pilot television show, which chronicles Superman as a youth, the episode followed much of the Passion narrative. In the climax, Clark Kent hangs on a scarecrow cross with kryptonite (a metaphor for sin according to Skelton) around his neck. And again, the parallel is no coincidence. "I thought there were a lot of metaphors between Clark [Kent] and Jesus actually. And I tried to throw in as many of them as I could," the episode's director said on the DVD version of the show.
- Superman also performs a variety of miraculous deeds that recall miracles Jesus performed in the Bible. Some of these include "raising" Lois Lane from the dead in Superman: The Movie (like Jesus' raising of Lazarus) and rescuing the U.S. president's plane during a storm (like Jesus' rescue of the disciples during a storm).