Assalamu Alaikum - Thoughts on Jinn in Modern Media and the Limits of Imagination

Assalamu Alaikum. I've been thinking about how common the idea of jinn (or similar unseen beings) is in today's entertainment and what that says about our imagination. Encounters with jinn-like beings show up all over the world under many names: demons, spirits, ghosts, yokai, rakshasas, duendes, elementals, genies, and so on. Because they belong to the unseen and aren't something you can measure in a lab, people explain experiences with them in many different ways. You see these kinds of beings a lot in sci-fi, horror, movies, TV, and especially anime. Often they're shown as evil, manipulative creatures that can be partly invisible, very strong, change shape, or have other powers. Media sometimes puts them in their own parallel realm - the shadow world, underworld, spirit world, or similar settings. For us as Muslims it's helpful to remember that human imagination has limits. Most ideas aren't made from nothing - they're reshaped from something real: a natural event, a historical story, a psychological experience, or an older myth. What people call “original” is usually just a new mix or twist on things we've already encountered. Our creativity is tied to past experiences; we recombine, exaggerate, or distort what we remember or have learned. In more traditional communities, stories were treated as part of the community's heritage, passed down and kept by the group. Today, modern culture often treats stories as the property of individual creators. Both views shape how tales about the unseen are shared and changed. Just my simple thoughts - curious if others have noticed the same patterns when they see jinn-like beings in media, and how you reconcile those portrayals with our teachings.