Rutger Hauer's Hobo: Christ Figure?

I'm guessing finding any sort of depth to the retro-exploitation film Hobo with a Shotgun was far from the minds of any of it's viewers.  I know it wasn't my goal as I simply sat down with my friends expecting to see a hilarious movie with a ridiculous plot and campy violence.  

It delivered on all those things, and on top of that I found something much more curious.  Rutger Hauer's character, the Hobo, was an incredibly bizarre Christ figure throughout the movie, although I'd bet money this was completely unintentional.

In Gnostic-Christian texts, such as The Secret Revelation of John and Hypostasis of the Archons, humanity lives in a completely corrupted world of illusions, which is controlled by demonic rulers (corrupt and wicked leadership a hot topic among the Gnostics).  Christ is sent to be an intermediary, or to protect man from the demonic entities who rule over the world from the shadows.

This worldview, despite how obscure it is, has been purposefully used for the backdrop of many Japanese anime series such as Big O and Ergo Proxy.  These stories are in a way, modern-day Gnostic passion plays.  In the same way the main characters in these series are a Gnostic Christ, the hobo also seems to be a Gnostic Christ.

A man of the humblest beginnings descends into a twisted and dilapidated world where the inhabitants are obsessed with chasing illusions such as drugs, power, and prostitution.  It is a world where the people are constantly oppressed and tortured by the demonic archons of "The Drake," his sons, and their enforcers "The Plague."

The hobo seeks to create his own idealized world (by starting his own business), and quickly becomes enamored with a pure-hearted woman, which could easily be viewed as a Sophia figure (in Gnostic texts Christ's counterpart is Sophia, the embodiment of wisdom/divine female archetype, aka the Holy Spirit). 

In order to protect "Sophia" the hobo seeks to transform the world first through exacting justice on the archons (with his shotgun of course), and then ultimately saves the people of that world by sacrificing himself, saving "Sophia" and defeating the archons.

As he dies he tells the antagonist something to the effect of "We're going straight to Hell, and you're riding shotgun."  After Christ is crucified, according to the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, and the Apostles Creed, He descends into Hell to free all prisoners, defeat death, and basically piss on the devil; a legend known as "The Harrowing of Hell." 

I find it no surprise to see the story of Christ repeated over and over.  Whether or not it is intentional or completely unintentional; that seems to me to be the way truth enters into the world.  After all, the Gnostic text The Gospel of Phillip states:

"Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images. The world will not receive truth in any other way. There is a rebirth and an image of rebirth."