I think the OP needs to take a good literary theory class at college and learn about the notion of archetypes!

He needs also to learn about how popular culture reflects the zeitgeist -- which is why we had an era of supernatural sitcoms in the early1960s, for example (Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Addams Family, The Munsters) and an era of disaster movies in the 1970s and an era of mystical fairytale films in the 1980s and an era of . . . . you get the picture.

This idea may be new to him, but it's been openly discussed for a century now and can be traced back in the esoteric writings a few thousand years to Plato.

Well, EVERYONE should know MARVEL, the "creative ideas" theory is bullshit. DC's first comic was in June 1938 and started publishing right away, but MARVEL was created around the same time a year or so later, and didn't start publishing for a while. What were they doing? My first guess would be Stan Lee copying, he even admitted it.