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Star Wars is a mash-up of Sci-Fi and Fantasy - Luke isn't a superhero, he's a wizard (in the same you wouldn't call Gandalf a superhero).
Sorcerer, technically
Gandalf isn't a superhero because he's more like an angel. He played a part in the creation of the world, and is entirely inhuman. He's a primordial spirit masquerading in a corporeal form.
Luke Skywalker is much closer to a superhero because he's a mortal man who was inadvertently blessed with incredibly rare powers and chooses to use them for good.
Batman is a mortal man whose only super power is an obscene amount of money, and yet he's still categorized as a superhero.
I'd say Darth Vader was a supervillain but it still doesn't feel right calling Luke a superhero...
I always referred to them as space wizards.
Uncle Owen literally calls Obi-Wan a wizard — “That wizard’s a crazy old man” — so canonically that is how Jedi are seen by (at least some of) the population.
Oh. I didn’t know that. I’m more of a Star Trek guy.