DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
Sit, stay, save the world.
When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto the Super-Dog must convince a rag-tag shelter pack - Ace the hound, PB the potbellied pig, Merton the turtle and Chip the squirrel - to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the superheroes.
In DC League of Super-Pets, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “super-pet universe”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, identity, adoption.
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · savanna monarchy
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · ape civilization post‑human collapse
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · fairy‑tale kingdom
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic savanna
The Lion King 1½ (2004)consciousness in animals · savanna society
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)consciousness in animals · Incan cartoon empireSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)consciousness in aliens · identity, power
Aladdin (2019)consciousness in monsters · identity, power
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)consciousness in monsters · identity, power
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, power
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · identity, power
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · identity, power
