Movie Substrate · Film
Stargate (1994)
★ 7.0 · 3,772 ratings on TMDB
It will take you a million light years from home. But will it bring you back?
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
DirectorRoland Emmerich
The emergence reading
In Stargate, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “ancient alien gate world”. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing colonialism, religion, technology, power.
↷ aliensUScolonialismreligiontechnologypower
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Masters of the Universe (1987)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, technology
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, technology
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)E8/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, power
Skylines (2020)E13 · rare rung · colonialism, power
Occupation: Rainfall (2020)E13 · rare rung · colonialism, technology
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)E13 · rare rung · colonialism, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Wolfwalkers (2020)E7/E9/E10 · rare rung · colonialism, power
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, technology
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, technology
Outlander (2008)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · colonialism, technology
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · power, technology
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · rare rung · power, technologyAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)consciousness in aliens · Feebla‑Oot alien world
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)consciousness in aliens · interstellar religious war
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)consciousness in aliens · heroic alliance vs alien empire
The Marvels (2023)consciousness in aliens · interstellar entanglement
Jupiter Ascending (2015)consciousness in aliens · galactic aristocracy
The Blackout (2019)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion apocalypseSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Ratchet & Clank (2016)consciousness in animals · colonialism, power
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)consciousness carried elsewhere · colonialism, technology
Underworld: Awakening (2012)consciousness in monsters · power, technology
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)consciousness in machines · power, technology
Super Mario Bros. (1993)consciousness in animals · power, technology
Transformers One (2024)consciousness in machines · power, technology
