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The Thundermans Return (2024)
★ 7.0 · 301 ratings on TMDB
Twins Phoebe and Max are enjoying their superhero lifestyle, but when one 'save' goes awry, the Thundermans are sent back to Hiddenville. While Hank and Barb enjoy their return, and Billy and Nora look forward to a normal high school life, Max and Phoebe are determined to regain their superhero status.
DirectorTrevor Kirschner
The emergence reading
The Thundermans Return keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, authority, family, bureaucracy.
zero-distanceUSpowerauthorityfamilybureaucracy
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E10lawheroes are legally prohibited from harming other heroes, enforced by the Hero League (social · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Lion King (1994)E8/E10 · authority, family
The Lion King (2019)E8/E10 · authority, family
Little Nicky (2000)E8/E10 · authority, family
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)E8/E10 · authority, family
Return to Halloweentown (2006)E8/E10 · authority, family
Leroy & Stitch (2006)E8/E10 · authority, familySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, power
Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)E6/E9 · rare rung · authority, family
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)E11/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Hail, Caesar! (2016)E9/E11 · authority, powerAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
The Incredibles (2004)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Simpsons Movie (2007)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Incredibles 2 (2018)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The First Purge (2018)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
R.I.P.D. (2013)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
