Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Believe it or not... He's the good guy.
Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.
In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “mythic war”. The story fights on E8/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, power, culture, conflict.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Wolves (2014)consciousness in monsters · werewolf pack society
The Legend of Hei (2019)consciousness in monsters · spirit guild realm
Blade (1998)consciousness in monsters · vampire underworld
Underworld: Evolution (2006)consciousness in monsters · vampire‑lycan war
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)consciousness in monsters · monster cruise
Pokémon: The First Movie (1998)consciousness in monsters · pokemon realmSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Open Season 2 (2008)consciousness in animals · conflict, culture
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · identity, power
Byzantium (2013)consciousness in the dead · identity, power
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · identity, power
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)consciousness in machines · culture, identity
Captain Marvel (2019)consciousness in aliens · identity, power
