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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)
★ 6.6 · 131 ratings on TMDB
During summer vacation Nobita picks up a small rocket containing Papi, a palm-sized alien president escaping rebels on his home planet Pirika.
DirectorSusumu Yamaguchi
The emergence reading
In Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “miniature alien war”. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing war, friendship, power, colonialism, identity.
↷ aliensJPwarfriendshippowercolonialismidentity
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)E8/E13 · rare rung · identity, power
Thor: The Dark World (2013)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Stargate (1994)E8/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, power
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)E8/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, power
Hero (2002)E8/E13 · rare rung · identity, power
Masters of the Universe (1987)E8/E13 · rare rung · power, warSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Wolfwalkers (2020)E7/E9/E10 · rare rung · colonialism, identity
Frozen II (2019)E7/E9/E10 · rare rung · colonialism, identity
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, war
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · identity, power
The Odyssey (2026)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · identity, power
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)E9/E12 · rare rung · colonialism, identityAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)consciousness in aliens · heroic alliance vs alien empire
The Marvels (2023)consciousness in aliens · interstellar entanglement
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)consciousness in aliens · Feebla‑Oot alien world
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)consciousness in aliens · interstellar religious war
Skylines (2020)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion war
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)consciousness in aliens · space‑pirate crewSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, power
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)consciousness in machines · identity, power
Transformers: Beginnings (2007)consciousness in machines · identity, power
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · identity, power
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)consciousness in monsters · identity, power
Hellboy (2004)consciousness in monsters · identity, powerSame people
Shared director or cast.
