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Mickey's House of Villains (2002)

★ 7.3 · 312 ratings on TMDB

Disney's greatest villains take on Mickey!

Mickey's House of Villains poster★ 7.3

The villains from the popular animated Disney films are gathered at the House of Mouse with plans to take over. Soon, the villains take over the house and kick out Mickey, Donald and Goofy. It's all up to Mickey and his friends to overthrow evil and return the House of Mouse to normal--or as close to normal as it gets.

DirectorBobs Gannaway, Burt Gillett, Jack Hannah
CastBill Farmer, Corey Burton, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Jonathan Freeman
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

In Mickey's House of Villains, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic cartoon stage”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, authority, identity, conflict, heroism.

↷ animalsUSpowerauthorityidentityconflictheroism
Also inConsciousness hiding in animalsFilms about identityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! (2008)consciousness in aliens · conflict, heroismMegamind: The Button of Doom (2011)consciousness in aliens · authority, heroismHellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)consciousness in monsters · conflict, identityThe Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)consciousness in objects · authority, identityLabyrinth (1986)consciousness in monsters · authority, identityHercules (1997)consciousness carried elsewhere · heroism, identity

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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