Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Mysterious. Dangerous. Reptilious. You've never seen heroes like this.
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “mutant sewer city”. The story fights on E8/E4/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing mutation, heroism, virus, corporate, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)E4/E8/E11 · rare rung · corporate, virus
Æon Flux (2005)E4/E11 · rare rung · identity
They Cloned Tyrone (2023)E4/E11 · rare rung · identity
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)E8 · heroism, identity
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003)E8 · heroism, identity
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)E8 · heroism, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Balto (1995)consciousness in animals · animal frontier
Mimic (1997)consciousness in animals · subway insect nightmare
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)consciousness in animals · mutant-nyc
Scoob! (2020)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic canine adventure
True Legend (2010)consciousness in animals · owl kingdom
Kung Fu Panda (2008)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic kung fu valleySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Blade: Trinity (2004)consciousness in monsters · virus
Ghost in the Shell (2017)consciousness in machines · corporate, identity
Venom (2018)consciousness in aliens · corporate, identity
TRON: Legacy (2010)consciousness in machines · corporate, identity
Max Steel (2016)consciousness in aliens · corporate, identity
Hercules (1997)consciousness carried elsewhere · heroism, identitySame people
Shared director or cast.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)Alan Ritchson
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Wrath of the Titans (2012)dir. Jonathan Liebesman
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Men in Black II (2002)Johnny Knoxville
Jonah Hex (2010)Megan Fox