Long ago, I special ordered at great cost a copy of Jeff Rovin’s ‘Encyclopedia of Super-Heroes’, at a time when you couldn’t just go to Amazon or eBay and snag anything ever printed. No, friends, I had to walk to a book store, look up an obscure code, pay way too much for shipping and wait a couple of weeks, all to find out that Rovin has a very specific and inconsistent definition of the term. Indiana Jones is definitely not a superhero, according to his logic, nor are Gilgamesh, Hercules or James Bond, but Tarzan, Robin Hood and Conan The Barbaian do fit the bill, leading to today’s midicholorian query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) won’t tell you how Rovin votes on our fave-rave Jedi Knight, suffice to say that I disagree with his take, asking: The Skywalker Conundrum: Is he or is he not a superhero?
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Early Luke from original movie trilogy is, old man Luke from new ones is not. Times, character and presentation have changed.
Hmmm… mind control, telekinesis, and can understand the beeps & whistles of droids.
Fights against the forces of Evil in a morality play narrative.
Sounds like a superhero to me!