Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Two worlds collide. One survives.
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager; Bumblebee; an English Lord; and an Oxford Professor.
In Transformers: The Last Knight, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “metallic war”. The story fights on E13/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, war, mythology, power.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Mazinger Z: Infinity (2017)E13 · rare rung · power, technology
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)E13 · rare rung · power, war
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)E13 · rare rung · power, technology
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)E11/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)E11/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E13 · rare rung · power, technologySame 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, technology
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, technology
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)E8/E14 · rare rung · power, technology
M3GAN 2.0 (2025)E8/E10/E14 · rare rung · power, technology
Terminator Genisys (2015)E8/E14 · rare rung · power, technology
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)E8/E14 · rare rung · technology, warAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)consciousness in machines · transformer war cosmos
Transformers: Beginnings (2007)consciousness in machines · mechanical war
Transformers One (2024)consciousness in machines · machine planet
Pixels (2015)consciousness in machines · arcade invasion
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)consciousness in machines · mechanical alien war
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)consciousness in machines · AI nuclear apocalypseSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Masters of the Universe (1987)consciousness in aliens · power, technology
Heavy Metal (1981)consciousness in abstractions · power, technology
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)consciousness in monsters · power, technology
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)consciousness in aliens · power, technology
Wizards (1977)consciousness in monsters · power, technology
Ratchet & Clank (2016)consciousness in animals · power, technologySame people
Shared director or cast.
