Superman vs Jesus

Here's the downloadable teaser trailer to the new movie "Superman Returns". Note the messianic references when Jor-El (Superman's father who is doing the voice-over) says the following about the human race:
"They can be a great people Kal-El if they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all...(snip) I have sent them you... my only son!"

John 3:16 - the most famous scripture in the Bible says:
"For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son. That whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

In this teaser trailer, Superman is portrayed as a messianic figure, a possible saviour for the human race.

In his new book "Comic Book Character: Unleashing the Hero in Us All", David A. Zimmerman explores complex characters like Superman and Batman, Spider-Man and the X-Men, to uncover their cultural significance as models of moral character, virtue and heroism. Zimmerman shows how these iconic tales of good versus evil tap into our universal yearnings for justice and righteousness...

When asked "How are Superman and Jesus alike?" He states,
If I were to cast Superman in the Gospels, he would play Pontius Pilate: a guy with supreme power but who inevitably acquiesces to the will of the crowd and commits the most tragically evil act in history—the execution of the Son of God. Jesus and Superman are similar in that they’re both super-men—one raised as a human but endowed with powers by virtue of being an alien, the other literally the God-Man, but while Superman exists to advance an industry and maintain the status quo, Jesus seeks to draw us back into fellowship with our Creator. They’re superficially very similar, but ultimately their goals are irreconcilable.

I personally believe that this movie trailer communicates a yearning that has been placed in all of us by God himself.

We are spirits first of all, with a conscience (mind), placed in our earthly bodies. It is the innermost parts of our beings, our spirits, that yearn to be reconciled to our creator, and this can only be done through Jesus - the God given mediator between God and mankind.

This need for spiritual reconciliation with our creator, and a need for a saviour to show us the way, is often seen in our creative expressions, just like the messianic reference shown here in the Superman trailer.