Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn (1995)
Hell’s gates have opened.
Not paying attention to his job, a young demon allows the evil cleansing machine to overflow and explode, turning the young demon into the infamous monster Janemba. Goku and Vegeta make solo attempts to defeat the monster, but realize their only option is fusion.
In Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “afterlife battleground”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing mortality, power, authority.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Labyrinth (1986)E8/E10 · authority, power
Little Nicky (2000)E8/E10 · authority, power
DragonHeart: A New Beginning (2000)E8/E10 · authority, power
Ninja Scroll (1993)E8/E10 · authority, power
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)E8/E10 · authority, mortality
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)E8/E10 · mortality, powerSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, power
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, mortality
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)E11/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Hail, Caesar! (2016)E9/E11 · authority, powerAlso 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.
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018)consciousness in monsters · hellish-earth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)consciousness in monsters · cursed high seas
Beowulf (2007)consciousness in monsters · mythic mead‑hall
Clash of the Titans (2010)consciousness in monsters · mythic Greek pantheon
Underworld (2003)consciousness in monsters · immortal war
The Room (2019)consciousness in monsters · wish‑room domestic horrorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar (2022)consciousness in machines · authority, mortality
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)consciousness in aliens · authority, mortality
Wrath of the Titans (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · authority, mortality
Dogma (1999)consciousness carried elsewhere · authority, mortality
Superman: Doomsday (2007)consciousness in aliens · authority, mortality
The Lion King (2019)consciousness in animals · authority, powerSame people
Shared director or cast.
Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996)dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993)dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming (1994)dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)Daisuke Gori
Dragon Ball Z: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans (2010)Hiromi Tsuru
Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound (1993)Daisuke Gori