Paradise Lost: Good V.S. Evil

Paradise Lost is an epic written by John Milton and deals with themes of Good vs Evil. This theme is widely popular in all forms of media thanks to John Milton and can be seen in shows like Transformers and Samurai Jack.

Samurai Jack is a TV show about a Samurai named Jack(duh). He has to fight his enemy Aku but during his final battle with him Aku sends him far into the future away from ancient civilization giving Aku the upper-hand to ultimately change the world since Jack is the only one who can stop him. The rest of the show is about Samurai Jack trying his best to get back to his own time period while fighting off Aku’s goons in the process. Eventually Jack gets closer to his goal so Aku makes “daughters” just as deadly as Jack as a means to keep him busy. Long story short, Jack ends up hooking up with one of Aku’s daughters and after killing Aku he is sent back to his original time period to live his life as he should have. Thanks to the butterfly effect since Aku is killed he technically never made his daughters so on Jack’s wedding day his soon to be wife is erased from existence.

Another story with these same themes can be found in the 1986 Transformers film. Optimus Prime and Megatron are leaders of their respective factions the Autobots and Decepticons. In the film there’s this giant battle between the two factions at Autobot City and right when the Autobots are about to lose Optimus Prime comes down from Cybertron to turn the tide. After a epic battle between the two leaders both Megatron and Optimus Prime are left to die.

These two stories seem to share a similarity in the fact that one cannot exist without the other. In Samurai Jack, while Aku is alive; Jack finds true love but once he’s defeated Aku he loses the one thing he truly cared about other than his family. In Transformers, nobody really wins in the end of the first battle because both factions lost their leaders and fled the battle.