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PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023)
★ 7.0 · 541 ratings on TMDB
Unleash your powers.
A magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City and gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The Mighty Pups.
DirectorCal Brunker
The emergence reading
In PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic dog city”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, community, power, technology, heroism.
↷ animalsUSidentitycommunitypowertechnologyheroism
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Belle (2021)E8/E9 · community, identity
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)E8 · heroism, identity
Finding Nemo (2003)E8/E9 · community, identity
Black Panther (2018)E8/E9 · identity, power
Kung Fu Panda (2008)E8/E9 · heroism, identity
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)E8/E9 · identity, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, technology
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, technology
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · power, technology
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · rare rung · power, technology
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · identity, power
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · power, technologyAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal world
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)consciousness in animals · Incan cartoon empire
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014)consciousness in animals · magical Oz
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)consciousness in animals · superpowered city
Mickey's House of Villains (2002)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic cartoon stage
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal worldSame 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 · community, heroism
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · identity, power
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · community, heroism
Superman Returns (2006)consciousness in aliens · heroism, identity
The Legend of Hei (2019)consciousness in monsters · identity, power
Kim Possible (2019)consciousness in machines · identity, power
