Superman & Luke Skywalker - Heroes of Hope
Superman & Luke Skywalker Just on the surface, these two are arguably the most iconic heroes for DC and Star Wars. Both are deeply connected to the sci-fi fantasy genre of stories. Both also have iconic musical themes crafted by the legend of film score himself John Williams that were even composed around the same time, with Richard Donner’s film and George Lucas’ original Star Wars (which we now know as Episode IV: A New Hope) releasing in 1978 and 1977 respectively. Hope is also an essential recurring theme of stories of their universes and both characters specifically are cited as living legends of hope and what it means. To understand this, we need to go back to… I. Genesis Kal-El was an orphaned survivor of a doomed planet, his desperate scientist parents sent him to Earth as their last hope where he was adopted by a kindly couple in a small town literally named Smallville, raised as Clark Kent. There he grew up on a fa...