Movie Substrate · Film
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
★ 6.2 · 12,628 ratings on TMDB
You'll like him when he's angry.
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.
DirectorLouis Leterrier
The emergence reading
The Incredible Hulk keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E5mutationgamma radiation triggers a reversible Hulk transformation in exposed humans (biology · personal)
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.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)E9/E11 · Action, Adventure
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)E11/E12/E13 · Action, Adventure
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)E11/E12 · Action, Adventure
Pacific Rim (2013)E11/E14 · Action, Adventure
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)E11/E12 · Action, Adventure
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · Action, AdventureAlso 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.
Iron Man 3 (2013)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
28 Days Later (2002)alters at E5 · same rung · rigorous
World War Z (2013)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
Zombieland (2009)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
Blade II (2002)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
Dawn of the Dead (2004)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
