Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
Welcome to the Jam!
When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.'s digitized champions on the court. It's Tunes versus Goons in the highest-stakes challenge of his life.
In Space Jam: A New Legacy, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “cartoon‑serververse”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, media, control, identity, creativity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)E8/E10 · identity, media
Tron (1982)E8/E10 · control, identity
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007)E8/E10 · control, identity
Ready Player One (2018)E8 · control, identity
Ghost in the Shell (2017)E8 · control, identity
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)E8 · identity, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
They Cloned Tyrone (2023)E4/E9/E11 · rare rung · control, identity
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · control, technology
The Animatrix (2003)E9/E12 · rare rung · identity, technology
Impossible Things (2021)E11/E12 · rare rung · control, technology
Death Race 2000 (1975)E12 · rare rung · control, mediaAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)consciousness in animals · mutant metropolis
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014)consciousness in animals · magical Oz
Duck Amuck (1953)consciousness in animals · meta-cartoon
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal galaxy
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal hero
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)consciousness in animals · mutant-animal metropolisSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Emoji Movie (2017)consciousness in machines · control, identity
The Matrix (1999)consciousness in machines · control, identity
Morbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · control, identity
The Signal (2014)consciousness in aliens · control, identity
A Minecraft Movie (2025)consciousness in monsters · control, creativity
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · control, creativity
