Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014)
There's trouble in OZ...
Dorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man, and Glinda, from a devious new villain, the Jester. New comrades Wiser the Owl, Marshal Mallow, China Princess, and Tugg the Tugboat join Dorothy on her latest magical journey through the colorful landscape of Oz to restore order and happiness to Emerald City.
In Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “magical Oz”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing authority, power, control, community, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)E8/E9/E10 · authority, community
The Monkey King (2023)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)E8/E9 · authority, community
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)E8/E9 · authority, community
The Queen's Corgi (2019)E8/E9 · authority, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, power
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, control
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · identity, power
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, powerAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)consciousness in animals · Incan cartoon empire
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · savanna monarchy
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic savanna
The Golden Compass (2007)consciousness in animals · soul‑animal world
Shrek Forever After (2010)consciousness in animals · ogre‑centric fairy‑tale kingdom
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)consciousness in animals · superpowered citySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011)consciousness in aliens · authority, community
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · authority, identity
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)consciousness in monsters · authority, community
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)consciousness in objects · authority, identity
Labyrinth (1986)consciousness in monsters · authority, identity
Ghost in the Shell (1995)consciousness in machines · authority, control
