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Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys (2004)

★ 6.6 · 288 ratings on TMDB

Meet the mysterious Deoxys!

Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys poster★ 6.6

Deoxys, a Pokémon from outer space, terrorizes the high-tech city Ash Ketchum and his friends are visiting.

DirectorKunihiko Yuyama
CastChinami Nishimura, Fushigi Yamada, Ikue Otani, Inuko Inuyama, KAORI, Megumi Hayashibara
GenresAdventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

In Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “pokemon world”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, technology, environment, otherness.

↷ monsters and creaturesJPfeartechnologyenvironmentotherness
Also inFilms about othernessFilms about technologyConsciousness hiding in monstersFilms 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.

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)E8/E9 · environment, othernessTroll Hunter (2010)E8/E9 · environment, fearParanormal Activity 3 (2011)E8/E9 · fear, othernessFright Night (2011)E8/E9 · fear, othernessThe Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)E8/E9 · fear, othernessWhen Evil Lurks (2023)E8/E9 · fear, otherness

Same 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 · environment, technologyGodzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · environment, technologyThem! (1954)E14 · rare rung · environment, fearGodzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)E6/E11/E14 · rare rung · environment, technologyWALL·E (2008)E13/E14 · rare rung · environment, technologyMars Attacks! (1996)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, otherness

Also hides consciousness here

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

Pete's Dragon (2016)consciousness in monsters · dragon forestGodzilla (2014)consciousness in monsters · monster apocalypseGodzilla vs. Biollante (1989)consciousness in monsters · kaiju showdownHow the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)consciousness in monsters · Whoville holiday townHow to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)consciousness in monsters · dragon sanctuaryThe Watchers (2024)consciousness in monsters · fairy forest bunker

Same subject, different mask

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

Critters (1986)consciousness in aliens · fear, othernessKiller Klowns from Outer Space (1988)consciousness in aliens · fear, othernessV/H/S/94 (2021)consciousness in machines · fear, othernessGhostbusters (1984)consciousness in the dead · fear, othernessSonic the Hedgehog (2020)consciousness in animals · otherness, technologyJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)consciousness in animals · environment, technology

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005)dir. Kunihiko YuyamaPokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior (2008)dir. Kunihiko YuyamaPokémon: The First Movie (1998)dir. Kunihiko YuyamaPokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2001)Ikue OtaniCowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)Megumi HayashibaraPerfect Blue (1998)Rica Matsumoto