He Suddenly Becomes a Host of an Alien Artifact That Turns Him Into a Superhuman

This combination of time travel and fabulism is a human superpower. It’s hard to fathom any other species doing something so complex,

It is precisely because we have a natural desire for the supernatural, as Henri de Lubac put it, that this arc of human hunger is prone to warping, tempted to find its rest in god-like substitutes like power, or parodies of religion like the military, or even the belonging one finds in a narco-gang, as if it were a sorry shadow of the civitas Dei.