{"id":3899,"date":"2025-11-07T19:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:37:49","slug":"superman-2025-who-did-superman-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/superman-2025-who-did-superman-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman (2025): Who Did Superman Used to Be?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do we want a Christlike Superman or a humanist Superman? The (relatively) new movie <em>Superman <\/em>(2025) depicts Superman in a way that challenges previous film portrayals of this classic superhero, such as the movies <em>Superman <\/em>(1978) and <em>Man of Steel<\/em>. Underneath the colorfully diverse cast of comic book characters, and the bright and chaotic superpowered fights, there are interesting questions to be explored in light of this film\u2019s reinterpretation of Superman\u2019s character, origins and philosophical significance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the newest movie, Superman is much less of a Christ figure and much more of an existentialist hero. Whether or not this change is welcome will depend on what kind of character we want Superman to be. I\u2019ll explore all these questions in a three part article series, beginning with the theme of Superman as a Christ figure in past Superman films.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"245\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Superman_actors.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3905\" style=\"width:260px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Superman_actors.jpg 245w, https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Superman_actors-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ghost of Superman Past<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Should we think of Superman as a Christ figure? By \u201cChrist figure\u201d, I mean a person who embodies or represents some important aspect (or aspects) of Jesus Christ\u2019s messianic character, identity and\/or mission. For example, C.S. Lewis\u2019s character Aslan in <em>The Chronicles of Narnia <\/em>is a very clear example of a Christ figure. Aslan sacrifices himself to save Edmund\u2019s life, and then later resurrects from the dead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, is Superman like Aslan? Does Superman resemble Christ in any significant way? In old film portrayals of Superman, I think the answer to this question is a definite \u201cyes\u201d. In the newest rendition of Superman, or the movie <em>Superman <\/em>(2025), I think the answer to this question is \u201cnot really\u201d. Again, in this film, the theme is way more humanist than it is Christian. But before we can explore this thematic subversion, and why it matters, we must travel back in time to see how older films depicted Superman as a Christ figure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not hard to see the Christian elements of Superman in films like <em>Man of Steel <\/em>and especially <em>Superman <\/em>(1978). The character of Superman naturally has messianic undertones, as he is a godlike being who can fly, is nigh invulnerable, and who has all sorts of other overpowered abilities like super strength, super speed, and heat vision. He also spends his free time flying around Metropolis saving people. If that wasn\u2019t enough, his typical origin story is that his parents sent him from the dying planet Krypton to Earth to guide humanity and give them hope. This sounds a lot like what a divine Messiah might do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"912\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AAAABdqRk1shqO3UQcgBheTuLNhAvBV5VVWpeveZqgoVZc9QGBNwqd8iqEmvIzuLv7Ut59vW7D4o-lfAaovDd6B9EqnSfXKJGUm6j_Ay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3906\" style=\"width:635px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AAAABdqRk1shqO3UQcgBheTuLNhAvBV5VVWpeveZqgoVZc9QGBNwqd8iqEmvIzuLv7Ut59vW7D4o-lfAaovDd6B9EqnSfXKJGUm6j_Ay.jpg 912w, https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AAAABdqRk1shqO3UQcgBheTuLNhAvBV5VVWpeveZqgoVZc9QGBNwqd8iqEmvIzuLv7Ut59vW7D4o-lfAaovDd6B9EqnSfXKJGUm6j_Ay-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AAAABdqRk1shqO3UQcgBheTuLNhAvBV5VVWpeveZqgoVZc9QGBNwqd8iqEmvIzuLv7Ut59vW7D4o-lfAaovDd6B9EqnSfXKJGUm6j_Ay-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Man of Steel<\/em> and the Messiah<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Take <em>Man of Steel<\/em>, for example. In this movie, Clark Kent (his Kryptonian name is Kal-El) boards a Kryptonian ship in the Arctic and talks to Jor-El, his Kryptonian father, who is now just an Artificial Intelligence aboard the ship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe people of earth are different from us, it\u2019s true. But ultimately I believe that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d Jor-El says. \u201cThey won\u2019t necessarily make the same mistakes we did. Not if you guide them, Kal. Not if you give them hope.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jor-El explains that the \u201cS\u201d symbol, Superman\u2019s symbol, means \u201chope\u201d. He says, \u201cEmbodied within that hope is the fundamental belief in the potential of every person to be a force for good. That\u2019s what you can bring them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here, Superman is meant to give humans guidance and hope. Specifically, he\u2019s tasked by his <em>father <\/em>to carry out this spiritual mission. Jor-El tells his son, \u201cYou\u2019re as much a child of Earth now as you are of Krypton. You can embody the best of both worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sound familiar? John 1:14 declares \u201cAnd the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth&#8221;. And Philippians 2:6-7 says that Jesus \u201cthough he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So just as Clark is Kryptonian, yet can also identify with humanity, Jesus is fully divine and fully human.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2012-02-26-11h32m44s52.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3907\" style=\"width:634px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2012-02-26-11h32m44s52.jpg 853w, https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2012-02-26-11h32m44s52-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artandthekingdom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vlcsnap-2012-02-26-11h32m44s52-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Savior in <em>Superman <\/em>(1978)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em> Superman<\/em> (1978) presents Superman as even more of a Christ figure. In this movie, Jor-El tells Clark, \u201cIt is now time for you to rejoin your new world and to serve its collective humanity\u2026They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you, my only son.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of Jor-El\u2019s terms here are conspicuously Christian. First, Clark is to be a \u201clight to show the way\u201d. In John 8:12, Jesus says, \u201cI am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.\u201d Second, Jor-El sends his \u201conly son\u201d to be this light for humanity. This echoes John 3:16:&nbsp; \u201cFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Back to the Future<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all, it seems pretty clear that past portrayals of Superman in film have presented him as a Messianic, Christlike figure who is sent to Earth by his father Jor-El (a parallel of God the Father) to guide and save humanity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as we\u2019ll see, this is not at all how Superman\u2019s origins play out in <em>Superman <\/em>(2025). In this movie, Superman\u2019s parents are a lot more like Nazis than they are like God the Father, and the mission they give Superman is malevolent, not messianic. This revision of Superman\u2019s origin story fundamentally changes Superman\u2019s philosophical and religious significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the newest movie, Superman is much less of a Christ figure and much more of an existentialist hero. Whether or not this change is welcome will depend on what kind of character we want Superman to be. 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