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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
★ 7.6 · 8,544 ratings on TMDB
Come together.
A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine.
DirectorShawn Levy
The emergence reading
Deadpool & Wolverine keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing authority, control, time, bureaucracy, heroism.
zero-distanceUSauthoritycontroltimebureaucracyheroism
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E10anchoreach timeline requires a living anchor being; death of the anchor causes universal decay of that timeline (social · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Brazil (1985)E8 · authority, bureaucracy
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)E8/E11 · authority, control
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)E8/E11 · authority, heroism
Ghostbusters (2016)E8/E11 · authority, bureaucracy
Kinds of Kindness (2024)E8/E11 · authority, control
Cube Zero (2004)E8/E11 · authority, controlSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, control
Shin Godzilla (2016)E10/E12 · rare rung · authority, bureaucracy
Colony (2026)E9/E10 · authority, control
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)E9/E10 · authority, bureaucracy
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)E9/E10 · authority, bureaucracy
And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)E10 · authority, bureaucracyAlso 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.
The Village (2004)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Battle Royale (2000)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
R.I.P.D. (2013)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Eagle Eye (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
