Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
It's the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble.
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “toon metropolis”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, law, corporate, media, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)E9/E10 · corporate, identity
Ella Enchanted (2004)E9/E10 · identity, law
The Addams Family (2019)E9/E10 · identity, media
The Bad Guys (2022)E9/E10 · identity, law
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)E9/E10 · identity, law
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)E9/E10 · identity, lawSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)E4/E8/E11 · rare rung · corporate, identity
Extinction (2018)E8/E14 · rare rung · identity, prejudice
Underworld: Awakening (2012)E8/E13 · rare rung · identity, prejudice
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)E8/E13 · rare rung · identity, prejudice
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)E8/E13 · rare rung · identity, prejudice
War, Inc. (2008)E12/E13 · rare rung · corporate, mediaAlso 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.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)alters at E0 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Secret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · seasonal fairy realm
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · elemental metropolis
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · fairy dust realm
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · pixie hollow
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · celestial courtroom
Franklyn (2008)consciousness carried elsewhere · dual-reality citySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Jungle Book (2016)consciousness in animals · identity, law
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · identity, law
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)consciousness in animals · identity, media
KPop Demon Hunters (2025)consciousness in monsters · identity, media
The Happytime Murders (2018)consciousness in objects · identity, law
Alien Nation (1988)consciousness in aliens · identity, lawSame people
Shared director or cast.
