The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear overalls.
While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.
In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “mushroom kingdom adventure”. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, family, war.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)E6/E11 · rare rung · family, war
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · power, war
Skylines (2020)E6/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)E11/E13 · rare rung · power, war
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)E11/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)E9/E13 · rare rung · power, warAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Wonder Woman (2017)consciousness in monsters · mythic-war
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)consciousness in monsters · vampire‑infested civil war
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)consciousness in monsters · giant-kingdom clash
BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2010)consciousness in monsters · vampire-war
Warcraft (2016)consciousness in monsters · fantasy warworld
The Return of Godzilla (1984)consciousness in monsters · kaiju Cold WarSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)consciousness in aliens · family, power
Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge (1991)consciousness in aliens · family, power
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)consciousness carried elsewhere · power, war
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)consciousness carried elsewhere · power, war
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020)consciousness in the dead · power, war
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)consciousness in animals · power, war
