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Secret Headquarters (2022)

★ 6.4 · 413 ratings on TMDB

When the secret is out, the adventure begins.

Secret Headquarters poster★ 6.4

While hanging out after school, Charlie and his friends discover the headquarters of the world’s most powerful superhero hidden beneath his home. When villains attack, they must team up to defend the headquarters and save the world.

DirectorAriel Schulman, Henry Joost
CastAbby James Witherspoon, Charles Melton, Dustin Ingram, Jesse Williams, Jessie Mueller, Keith L. Williams
GenresAction, Adventure, Comedy, Family
The emergence reading

Secret Headquarters keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8powera mysterious alien sphere grants permanent superhuman abilities to its holder (technology · personal)
Also inFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)E8/E11Fight Club (1999)E8/E11Iron Man 3 (2013)E8/E11John Wick (2014)E8/E11Iron Man 2 (2010)E8/E11Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)E8/E11

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Titan A.E. (2000)E13/E14 · Action, AdventureSpace Chimps (2008)E6/E10 · Adventure, Comedy2012 (2009)E12/E14 · Action, AdventureThe Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)E4/E10 · Action, AdventureA Bug's Life (1998)E6/E9 · Adventure, ComedyX-Men: The Last Stand (2006)E9/E10 · Action, Adventure

Also 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.

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · looseInside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorousAvatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · looseInception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · looseYour Name. (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · looseLimitless (2011)alters at E8 · same rung · loose

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)dir. Ariel SchulmanNerve (2016)dir. Ariel SchulmanProject Power (2020)dir. Ariel SchulmanAnt-Man (2015)Michael PeñaThe Martian (2015)Michael PeñaAnt-Man and the Wasp (2018)Michael Peña