Captain Marvel (2019)
Higher. Further. Faster.
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In Captain Marvel, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “interstellar war”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, war, refugee, identity, power.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Gulliver's Travels (2010)E8/E9 · identity, power
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005)E8 · identity, power
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
X-Men: First Class (2011)E8/E9/E10 · power, prejudice
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9/E10 · identity, powerSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, war
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · power, prejudice
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · identity, power
Skylines (2020)E6/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · power, prejudice
Independence Day (1996)E12/E13 · rare rung · power, warAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)consciousness in aliens · galactic warzone
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)consciousness in aliens · alien-hero metropolis
I Am Number Four (2011)consciousness in aliens · alien exile
Superman (2025)consciousness in aliens · alien hero geopolitics
Black Site (2022)consciousness in aliens · underwater empire
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)consciousness in aliens · miniature alien warSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · identity, power
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)consciousness in machines · identity, power
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, power
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · identity, power
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · identity, power
Blade (1998)consciousness in monsters · identity, power
