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Logan (2017)
★ 7.8 · 20,328 ratings on TMDB
Someone has come along.
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
DirectorJames Mangold
The emergence reading
Logan keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E4fertilitymutant fertility set to zero – no new mutants have been born for 25 years (biology · universal)
Same rung, same subject
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