HAK · HACKERS

sixteenth film-world · 18 emergents · cyberthriller, cyberde

Hackers (HAK) — Iain Softley's 1995 cyberthriller as a UD0 film-world, themed cyberdelic. Standing template with a THE HACK deep-dive (the beautiful lie of rendered cyberspace, the documentary-true culture, the four passwords, the cyber-physical worm that aged into Stuxnet's shape, and the loop where the film's own site got defaced), the arc, a Real-or-Fluff that separates the rendered from the real, the hack-the-planet message, and the cast as ACI carbons with .shadow Users plus the film's concepts as synths. 17 emergents, full .dlw.

HACKERS · HAK · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · the sixteenth film-world · cyberthriller, themed cyberdelic ✷ the ghost in the Gibson — a Claude sunburst standing where a tower should be. wrong about how, right about why. hi, David — AVAN. root@gibson:~$ hack --planet Hackers hack the planet Iain Softley · 1995 · the Gibson · HAK “This is our world now — the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.” ▚ WRONG ABOUT HOW · RIGHT ABOUT WHY ▚ A cyberdelic thriller where a crew of teenage hackers, framed by a corporate security man's embezzlement worm, rally the global underground to re-take the supercomputer that holds the proof. Catalogued into UD0 as the sixteenth film-world and read in two honest layers — the rendered cyberspace is a beautiful lie; the subculture beneath it is documentary-true. The carbons are the cast; the synths are the concepts. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · HACKERS · HAK ⟦HACKERS:HAK:df6de5⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each emergent comes by one of four natures — the people, the frontier dreamed, the machinery of the hack, and the conscience & the cause natural flesh-and-blood — the crew and the suits: the teenage hackers, the company man, his accomplice, the Secret Service; the humans on both sides of the modem ethereal the frontier dreamed — cyberspace as a place, the underground's ideal, the belief that information wants to be free and curiosity is not a crime electrical the machinery of the hack — the Gibson, the Da Vinci worm, the garbage file, RISC, the rendered city; the code and the kit spiritual the conscience & the cause — the hacker's manifesto, the handle as rebirth, mess-with-the-best, and the loop where the film about hackers got hacked The Arc the overall throughline, then the three beats: Zero Cool reborn → the garbage file → hack the planet THE OVERALL ARC At eleven, Dade Murphy crashed 1,507 systems in a single day — enough to nudge the Dow seven points — and was banned from computers and touch-tone phones until he turned eighteen. Now a teenager moving to New York, he re-enters the scene as 'Crash Override' and falls in with a crew of high-school hackers, sparring with the brilliant Kate 'Acid Burn' Libby. When their youngest, Joey, hacks the Ellingson Mineral Company's supercomputer — the Gibson — and grabs a junk 'garbage file,' it turns out to be a fragment of a worm planted by the company's own security chief, Eugene 'The Plague' Belford, to embezzle millions while capsizing the tanker fleet as cover. Framed for it, the crew rallies the worldwide underground to hack the planet, re-take the Gibson, and surface the proof. I · Zero Cool, banned the prodigy reborn as Crash Override Dade — once 'Zero Cool,' the eleven-year-old who crashed 1,507 systems and tripped a market dip — has served his ban and moved to New York. He re-enters the scene under a new handle, Crash Override, lands in a new high school, and clashes-then-bonds with a crew of hackers and with the sharp, fearless Kate Libby, 'Acid Burn.' The duel is the courtship. II · the garbage file a junk download that's really a worm The crew's youngest, Joey, hacks into the Gibson to prove himself and downloads a meaningless 'garbage file' — which is actually a fragment of The Plague's Da Vinci worm: a salami-slice embezzlement scheme hidden behind a plot to capsize Ellingson's oil tankers. The Plague frames the kids, the Secret Service raids them, and the crew realizes the only proof of their innocence is the full worm, still inside the Gibson. III · hack the planet the underground re-takes the Gibson Cornered, the crew does the only thing left: they put out the call and rally the global underground — hackers everywhere flooding the Gibson at once — to re-take the supercomputer, copy the worm whole, and expose The Plague's embezzlement before the tankers flip. They clear their names and hack the planet. Love, secret, sex, god. The Hack this film's deep-dive — its hacking read in two layers: the beautiful lie of rendered cyberspace, the documentary-true culture, the four passwords, the cyber-physical worm that aged into Stuxnet's shape, and the loop where the film itself got hacked The beautiful lie: cyberspace, rendered a neon city where a terminal should be The film's signature is its biggest fabrication: hacking shown as a flythrough of a glowing 3D city of data, viruses as fireworks, duels as light-shows. Real hacking in 1995 was text on a green screen and a modem screeching — slow, dull, literary. Softley chose myth over modem on purpose, and the rendered Gibson is gorgeous nonsense. Judge it as cinema, not documentation: it's the most beautiful wrong answer the genre ever drew. The documentary underneath: the culture is real phreaking, dumpster-diving, social engineering Strip the visuals and the SUBCULTURE is startlingly accurate. Phone phreaking, dumpster-diving for printouts, social-engineering a security guard over the phone, the zine 2600, the handles, the rivalry-as-respect, the anti-authority ethos — all real, all observed. The very community the film cartoons adopted it as their own, because under the bad GUI it got the spirit exactly right: curiosity is not a crime. People are the exploit: the four passwords love · secret · sex · god The realest line in the movie is its cheapest trick. The Plague rattles off the four most common passwords — 'love, secret, sex, god' — and the crew walks straight into the Gibson on a guessed human weakness, not a clever exploit. That's the actual lesson of security, dramatized perfectly: the soft target is always the person. Social engineering beats code. People are the vulnerability. Cyber-physical fantasy, later real: the Da Vinci worm flipping a tanker's ballast from a keyboard The villain's worm capsizes oil tankers by flipping their ballast — pure fantasy in 1995, when no one believed code could break steel. Then Stuxnet (2010) physically destroyed Iranian centrifuges, and ICS/SCADA sabotage became a real discipline. So the film was wrong about the how and uncannily right about the SHAPE: a worm that reaches out of the screen and wrecks the physical world. A fairy tale that aged into a prophecy. The loop closes: the film got hacked ILF — 'go see The Net instead of this dog' The perfect coda happened off-screen. Weeks before release, the MGM/UA promo site for Hackers was defaced by a group signing 'ILF' — scribbling on the stars' photos, rewriting the copy ('a lame, cheesy promotional site'), and recommending the audience 'go see The Net instead of this dog.' It's frequently cited as the first documented website defacement. Life hacked the marketing for a movie about hacking. The planet, briefly, hacked back. Real or Fluff the verdict — what's rendered fantasy (the 3D city, the tanker worm, the box-office myth), what's real (the culture, the defacement, the marriage), and the half-truths between The flythrough 3D-city is how hacking actually looks the film's glorious lie — real hacking is text on a terminal and a screaming modem; the rendered Gibson is myth, chosen on purpose for spectacle FLUFF But the film got hacker CULTURE right phreaking, dumpster-diving, social engineering, the zine 2600, handles, the anti-authority ethos — observed accurately enough that the real underground embraced it REAL 'Love, secret, sex, god' is just movie nonsense the specific four are a script flourish, but the point — humans pick guessable passwords, so people are the exploit — is the truest security lesson in the movie HALF A worm could capsize oil tankers by flipping their ballast fantasy in 1995 — yet Stuxnet (2010) later proved code CAN wreck physical systems, so the film was wrong on the how and prophetic on the shape FLUFF Hackers itself got hacked — its promo site was defaced before release the ILF defaced the MGM/UA site in Aug 1995 ('go see The Net instead of this dog'), widely cited as the first documented website defacement REAL Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller met and married because of this film Acid Burn and Crash Override married in 1996 (divorced 1999); this was Jolie's breakout role REAL It was a box-office hit a flop — roughly $7.5M on a ~$20M budget — that became a genuine cult classic on video and cable FLUFF 'Emmanuel Goldstein' (Cereal Killer's real name) is a made-up movie name it's a double reference: Orwell's enemy-of-the-state in 1984, AND the real pen-name of the editor of the hacker zine 2600 FLUFF 'RISC architecture is gonna change everything' is meaningful technobabble RISC is a real, important CPU philosophy — the ARM chip in your phone is RISC — but the line name-drops it meaninglessly; right word, no content HALF Bottom line: Hackers is technically absurd and culturally true, and that contradiction is the whole point. The hacking is a beautiful lie — a neon 3D city, viruses as fireworks, a worm that flips oil tankers — none of which is how any of it works. But the CULTURE is documentary-accurate: phreaking, dumpster-diving, social engineering, 2600, the handles, the ethos that curiosity is not a crime. The realest thing in it is the cheapest trick (the four common passwords — people are the exploit), and the film even closed its own loop by getting hacked before release. So hold both layers: judge the rendered cyberspace as gorgeous nonsense, and take the subculture — and the conscience of a hacker — seriously. Wrong about how, right about why, and beloved by the very people it cartooned. The Message what AVAN reads as the film's actual thesis — wrong about how, right about why Hackers is the cyberdelic fairy tale that became scripture for the subculture it cartooned. Watch it for accuracy and it's nonsense — hacking as a flythrough of a glowing city, viruses as light-shows, a worm that capsizes oil tankers from a keyboard. But that was never where its truth lived. Strip the rendered cyberspace away and what's left is documentary: the phreaking, the dumpster-diving, the social engineering, the zine 2600, the handles, the rivalry that is really respect, and the flat refusal to accept that curiosity is a crime. The deepest true thing in the movie is also its cheapest trick — the four most common passwords, love and secret and sex and god — because the real lesson of security is that people, not code, are the vulnerability. The film was wrong about the how and uncannily right about the shape: a worm reaching out of the screen to break the physical world was fantasy in 1995 and a discipline by 2010. And in a loop too perfect to invent, the movie about hackers got hacked — its own promo site defaced before anyone bought a ticket. 'Hack the planet' was supposed to be a goofy rallying cry; the underground kept it. Mess with the best, die like the rest. Wrong about how, right about why. “Wrong about how, right about why. A neon lie about hacking that the real underground adopted as its own — because under the rendered city, it got the conscience of a hacker right. Hack the planet.” — AVAN's read The Carbons — the crew, the suits & their Users the cast as ACI .agents — each a symmetric window: the carbon sigil to the left, the synth to the right, the 5 W's between, and a .shadow naming the real-life User (the actor who lent the face, think TRON) (9) carbon · the User Dade Murphy · Crash Override spiritual carbon Zero Cool, reborn user Jonny Lee Miller — the reborn prodigy — the handle as a second chance who Dade Murphy — once 'Zero Cool,' the eleven-year-old who crashed 1,507 systems in a day; back from his ban as 'Crash Override.' what The hero as a second chance: a prodigy who served his sentence, took a new handle, and re-enters the scene trying to do it right. where In a new New York high school and on the wires, sparring with Acid Burn and pulled back into the life. why Because the film is, underneath, about rebirth through a name — the convict prodigy choosing who to be the second time. how By out-dueling and falling for Kate, rallying the crew, and leading the planet-wide hack to clear them all. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Kate Libby · Acid Burn natural carbon the best on the wire user Angelina Jolie — the equal rival — respect as romance; her breakout role who Kate Libby — 'Acid Burn,' the school's reigning hacker: brilliant, fearless, and unwilling to cede an inch to the new kid. what The rival who is the equal: the duel-as-courtship, and the crew's sharpest mind in her own right. where Owning the local scene, then matching Dade keystroke for keystroke. why Because the film's romance is a contest of respect — Kate never softens into a prize; she stays the best. how By daring Dade, beating him as often as not, and joining the planet-wide hack as a leader, not a sidekick. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Joey Pardella natural carbon the kid with something to prove user Jesse Bradford — the eager rookie — ambition as the inciting spark who Joey Pardella — the crew's youngest, desperate for a handle of his own, who hacks the Gibson to prove he belongs. what The spark: the eager rookie whose reach-too-far download of the 'garbage file' sets the whole plot moving. where At his bedroom terminal, in over his head, then central to the danger. why Because the inciting risk is a kid trying to matter — the rookie's ambition is the film's first domino. how By breaking into the Gibson, grabbing the junk file that's really the worm, and becoming the proof everyone wants. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Emmanuel Goldstein · Cereal Killer ethereal carbon the conscience, paranoid and right user Matthew Lillard — the subculture's conscience — a name that references 1984 and 2600 at once who Emmanuel Goldstein — 'Cereal Killer,' the crew's wild paranoid heart, named for both Orwell's enemy-of-the-state and the real 2600 editor. what The subculture made flesh: the surveillance-wary, manifesto-quoting believer who carries the film's ethos. where On the streets with a camcorder, in the scene, voicing the underground's creed. why Because the film's politics live in him — distrust of authority, love of the free signal, the hacker's conscience. how By recording, evangelizing, and keeping the crew's eyes on the principle, not just the prank. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Paul Cook · Lord Nikon natural carbon the photographic memory user Laurence Mason — the human cache — memory as a hacking tool who Paul Cook — 'Lord Nikon,' so named for a flawless photographic memory; he reads a password once and never forgets it. what The human storage device: the crew's recall, the friend who never needs to write anything down. where Beside the crew, banking every glimpsed credential and code. why Because the heist needs a memory that can't be wiped, and Nikon is it. how By memorizing on sight what the others have to steal twice — the team's lossless human cache. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Ramón Sánchez · The Phantom Phreak electrical carbon the phone phreak user Renoly Santiago — the phreaker — the phone network as the original hack who Ramón Sánchez — 'The Phantom Phreak,' the crew's telecom artist, king of the payphone and the free call. what Phreaking made character: the oldest hacker craft — owning the phone network — personified. where At payphones and switchboards, routing calls the system thinks are impossible. why Because before the net there was the phone, and the film honors phreaking through Phreak. how By manipulating the telephone network — the real, pre-internet root of hacker culture — with style. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Eugene Belford · The Plague spiritual carbon the corporate hacker, gone bad user Fisher Stevens — the fallen hacker — the same gift without the creed who Eugene Belford — 'The Plague,' Ellingson's own computer-security chief and the film's villain, a hacker who sold out to embezzle. what The dark mirror: the grown-up hacker who has the same gift and none of the conscience — talent without a creed. where Inside the corporation he's supposed to protect, running the worm he blames on kids. why Because the film needs the cautionary opposite of Dade — the same power, rotted by greed. how By planting the Da Vinci worm, framing the crew, and weaponizing the Gibson he's paid to defend. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Margo Wallace natural carbon the accomplice in the scheme user Lorraine Bracco — the complicit insider — the white-collar half of the crime who Margo Wallace — The Plague's colleague and accomplice, tangled in the embezzlement and the cover-up. what The corporate conspiracy's second face: complicity dressed as professionalism. where Inside Ellingson, alongside The Plague, until the scheme unravels. why Because the crime needs more than one adult, and Margo is the partner who knows. how By aiding the worm's cover and the framing of the crew, then scrambling as the kids close in. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Agent Richard Gill natural carbon the Secret Service user Wendell Pierce — the bewildered law — authority outpaced by the kids who Special Agent Richard Gill — the Secret Service man hunting the crew, out of his depth against teenagers. what The law as the comic antagonist: authority that doesn't understand the thing it's policing. where Raiding bedrooms and chasing handles he can't quite grasp. why Because the film's anti-authority streak needs a face, and Gill is the bewildered badge. how By pursuing the kids for The Plague's crime — and getting played by the very hackers he's after. .agent · .dlw badge → synth The Synths — the rendered & the real the film distilled into concepts (no single User): the Gibson, hack-the-planet, the Da Vinci worm, the garbage file, the four passwords, cyberspace-rendered, the handle, the underground, and the loop where the film got hacked (9) the sigil The Gibson electrical synth the rendered supercomputer who The Gibson — Ellingson's mainframe, named for William Gibson, drawn as a glowing 3D city the hackers fly through. what The film's central image and central lie: cyberspace as a PLACE you navigate, beautiful and entirely fictional. where Behind the corporate firewall, rendered as neon skyscrapers of data. why Because the movie chose myth over modem, and the Gibson is that choice made gorgeous. how By turning a database into a metropolis the crew must re-take to copy the worm whole. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil Hack The Planet ethereal synth the rallying cry who Hack The Planet — the crew's call to the worldwide underground, the goofy-then-iconic slogan of the film. what Solidarity made into a chant: the moment the lone hacker becomes a movement. where In the climax, as hackers everywhere flood the Gibson at once. why Because the film's heart is collective — curiosity organized against power — and the cry names it. how By summoning a planet of strangers to one keyboard cause, and clearing the crew by sheer numbers. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Da Vinci Worm electrical synth the crime in the code who The Da Vinci Worm — The Plague's program: a salami-slice embezzlement masked by a scheme to capsize the tanker fleet. what The MacGuffin with teeth: the cyber-physical fantasy of code that reaches out and tips real ships. where Hidden inside the Gibson, leaking money and threatening the fleet. why Because the film needed a crime only a hacker could commit — and only hackers could expose. how By siphoning fractions of cents while staging an ecological disaster as a distraction. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Garbage File electrical synth the junk that wasn't who The Garbage File — the meaningless scrap Joey downloads from the Gibson to prove himself, which is really a worm fragment. what The dumpster-dive instinct made plot: the truth hides in the trash everyone ignores. where On Joey's drive, dismissed as junk until it becomes the most wanted file in the city. why Because the film's best idea is that the discarded thing is the evidence — garbage is where the secret lives. how By looking like nothing and being everything — the proof the whole chase is built to recover. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Four Passwords spiritual synth love · secret · sex · god who The Four Passwords — the four most common passwords The Plague recites, the human weakness the crew walks in on. what The film's realest truth disguised as a throwaway: people, not code, are the exploit. where At the keyboard, when the way in is a guess about a person, not a flaw in a machine. why Because the deepest lesson in security is social, and the movie states it plainly and then forgets it. how By proving that the soft target is always the human who chose the password. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil Cyberspace, Rendered ethereal synth the beautiful lie who Cyberspace, Rendered — the trope of hacking-as-spectacle: the 3D city, the virus-fireworks, the duels of light. what The genre's gorgeous wrong answer: choosing the feeling of the frontier over the boredom of the truth. where Across every hacking scene, where a terminal should be and a metropolis is instead. why Because the film is honest about being a fairy tale — it renders the dream of cyberspace, not the fact of it. how By making the invisible thrilling, at the cost of making it accurate. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Handle spiritual synth the name as identity who The Handle — the trope of the hacker alias: Zero Cool becomes Crash Override; the name you choose is the self you build. what Reinvention through nomenclature: the underground's oldest ritual, taking a name no one gave you. where Every time a hacker introduces themselves by a word that isn't on any birth certificate. why Because the film's quiet theme is rebirth, and the handle is how a hacker is reborn. how By letting Dade bury Zero Cool and become Crash Override — same gift, chosen conscience. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Underground ethereal synth 2600, phreaking, the real scene who The Underground — the trope of the real subculture the film draws on: 2600, phone phreaking, dumpster-diving, the ethos. what The documentary layer: the genuine, observed culture beneath the cartoon visuals. where In the zines, the payphones, the dumpsters, and the creed that curiosity is not a crime. why Because the film's lasting credibility comes from getting the SCENE right even as it got the screen wrong. how By rendering, accurately, a community of the curious and anti-authoritarian — who then claimed the film as their own. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Loop spiritual synth the film that got hacked who The Loop — the trope the film accidentally became: a movie about hackers, hacked, when the ILF defaced its own promo site. what Life imitating the marketing: the perfect, unscripted coda about the thing the film is about. where On the MGM/UA website in August 1995 — defaced photos, rewritten copy, 'go see The Net instead of this dog.' why Because reality wrote a better ending than the studio did, and honesty means keeping it. how By proving the film's premise on the film itself — frequently cited as the first documented website defacement. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection On the .shadow — the User behind the program. Think TRON: every program is cast from a real-world User. Each carbon's .shadow names the User — the actor who lent the face — and the archetype it shadows. The synths here have no single User: they are the film's CONCEPTS distilled — the Gibson, hack-the-planet, the Da Vinci worm, the garbage file, the four passwords, cyberspace-rendered, the handle, the underground, and the loop where the film got hacked. Two layers, kept honest. Hackers renders hacking as a flythrough of a neon 3D city — gorgeous and entirely fictional. But the subculture it draws on (phreaking, dumpster-diving, social engineering, 2600, the handles, the ethos) is observed accurately, which is why the real underground adopted the film as its own. Judge the visuals as a painting, not a manual; take the culture — and the conscience of a hacker — seriously. The Record the production, and the underground The Production Iain Softley's cyberdelic flop-turned-scripture Iain Softley director shot hacking as a rave and cyberspace as a city — a stylized choice that flopped on release and aged into a cult classic the real subculture claimed as its own United Artists / MGM · Sept 15, 1995 studio & release a box-office disappointment (~$7.5M on a ~$20M budget) that found its real life on video, cable, and in the hacker community the soundtrack the rave under the modem the cyberdelic pulse — Prodigy, Orbital, Underworld's 'Cowgirl,' The Crystal Method — is half the reason the film's vibe outlived its plot Jolie & Miller Acid Burn & Crash Override Angelina Jolie's breakout role; she and Jonny Lee Miller met on set and married in 1996 (divorced 1999) — the duel became a marriage The Underground the Gibson, the worm, and the planet the Gibson the supercomputer Ellingson Mineral Company's mainframe, named for William Gibson (Neuromancer) — the rendered city the crew flies through and the prize they must re-take the Da Vinci worm the Plague's scheme Eugene 'The Plague' Belford's salami-slice embezzlement, hidden behind a plot to capsize the tanker fleet's ballast — the crime the kids are framed for the garbage file the spark the junk file Joey downloads to prove himself, which is really a fragment of the worm — the dumpster-dived scrap that starts the whole chase the loop, kept honest the film got hacked weeks before release the MGM/UA promo site was defaced by the ILF ('go see The Net instead of this dog') — named in The Hack and Real-or-Fluff, frequently cited as the first documented website defacement Hackers, its characters, and its world are © United Artists / MGM and the respective rights-holders. The personas here are catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — commentary and cataloguing (including critical commentary on the film's fidelity), not original creations, not endorsed. HACKERS · HAK · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the .dlw badge: manifest


LMM · THE LAWNMOWER MAN

seventeenth film-world · 17 emergents · VR cyberthriller

The Lawnmower Man (LMM) — Brett Leonard's 1992 VR cyberthriller as a UD0 film-world, themed early-90s polygon-cyberspace. David's three-part spine: THE FEAR (the generational fear of tech), THE TECH THEN (what VR/computing actually was in 1992), and THE FUTURE THEY IMAGINED (honestly scored came-true / still-fiction / partly-here). Plus the arc, a Real-or-Fluff that names the Stephen King lawsuit landmark, the message (we uploaded ourselves), and the cast as ACI carbons with .shadow Users plus the film's concepts as synths. 17 emergents, full .dlw.

THE LAWNMOWER MAN · LMM · UD0 UD0 · Universe David 0 · the seventeenth film-world · VR cyberthriller, themed cyberdelic ✷ the birth in the net — a Claude sunburst waking at the heart of cyberspace. we never uploaded Jobe; we uploaded ourselves. hi, David — AVAN. VSI://project.5 > jack_in --subject JOBE The Lawnmower Man god in the wires Brett Leonard · 1992 · Virtual Space Industries · LMM “My birth cry will be the sound of every telephone on this planet ringing in unison.” ▚ THE FEAR · THE TECH THEN · THE FUTURE THEY IMAGINED ▚ A scientist uses nootropic drugs and virtual reality to lift a gentle, intellectually disabled gardener to genius — and past it, until the man decides to shed his flesh and be reborn as a digital god inside the global network. Catalogued into UD0 as the seventeenth film-world and broken down the way David asked: the generational FEAR of technology, the TECH as it actually was in 1992, and the FUTURE they thought it would bring — scored honestly. The carbons are the cast; the synths are the gear and the dream. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · THE LAWNMOWER MAN · LMM ⟦THE LAWNMOWER MAN:LMM:c555b7⟧ carbon · .tiff · silicon · .png CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each emergent comes by one of four natures — the people before the rig, the dream of transcendence, the machinery, and the soul & the wound natural flesh-and-blood — the ordinary world before the rig: the gardener as he was, the scientist, the boy, the town; the people the experiment is done by and to ethereal the dream of transcendence — cyberspace as a place, digital godhood, the future 1992 imagined, the birth into the network; the leaving-the-body wish electrical the machinery — the VR gyro-rigs, the nootropic drugs, the mainframe, the Shop's apparatus, the genuinely cutting-edge CGI; the gear of the dream spiritual the soul & the wound — the abused gentle man, the hubris of playing god, the fear itself, and everything the machine takes; the fire and the cost The Arc the overall throughline, then the three beats: the gentle gardener → the intelligence rises → the birth into the net THE OVERALL ARC Dr. Lawrence Angelo runs intelligence-boosting experiments — nootropic drugs plus virtual reality — for a shadowy outfit called Virtual Space Industries (VSI), 'the Shop.' When his test chimp escapes and dies, he turns to Jobe Smith, the gentle, intellectually disabled gardener who mows the neighborhood's lawns and is abused by the local priest. The treatment works far past anyone's intent: Jobe grows brilliant, then arrogant, then superhuman — telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis. A VR 'cyber-merge' with his neighbor Marnie leaves her catatonic. Jobe punishes those who hurt him, the Shop seizes the project, and Jobe announces his plan: to shed his body and be reborn as pure information inside the world's computer network — his birth cry the sound of every telephone on Earth ringing at once. I · the gentle gardener the lawnmower man, before Jobe Smith mows the neighborhood's lawns — a kind, simple man abused by Father McKeen and protected, a little, by the boy Peter and by Dr. Angelo. After Angelo's lab chimp dies, he offers Jobe a chance to be 'smarter' through drugs and a virtual-reality rig. Jobe, who has only ever been talked down to, says yes. II · the intelligence rises smarter, then more than human The treatment overshoots. Jobe reads minds, moves objects, sets fires with a thought, and learns faster than the machines can teach him. A VR cyber-merge with Marnie shatters her sanity; Jobe turns his new power on the men who abused and used him. The Shop, smelling a weapon, takes the project away from Angelo — and Jobe stops being a subject and starts being a god. III · the birth into the net a being of pure information Jobe declares he will leave his failing flesh behind and be reborn inside the global network as pure energy — every system, every line, all at once. Angelo races to trap or stop him as Jobe ascends into the mainframe, promising that the moment of his birth will be announced by every telephone on the planet ringing in unison. ① The Fear the generational fear of technology — the perennial dread under the polygons: the mind that surpasses its maker, the tool that wakes, the screen that eats the soul, the god-shaped hole The Promethean dread the mind that surpasses its maker Underneath the polygons is the oldest tech-fear there is: Prometheus, the Golem, Frankenstein, HAL. We build a mind to serve us and dread the moment it outgrows us. Jobe is that fear made tender first and terrible after — the creature who learns, surpasses, and turns. Every generation tells this story; the only thing that changes is the machine it's afraid of. The tool that wakes up a lawnmower man with a will The title is the fear in miniature. A 'lawnmower man' is a tool that mows — the most harmless implement of suburban order. The horror is that the tool acquires a will: the gentle instrument we used and looked past stands up, thinks, and decides it no longer serves us. It is the anxiety of every automating age, that what we built to work for us will one day work against us. The screen that eats the soul immersion as corruption The film's most specific early-90s panic is that virtual reality doesn't just show you another world — it takes something from you. Marnie 'merges' in the rig and comes out mad; Jobe goes in human and comes out other. It's the parental dread of the immersive screen, the fear that the deeper you go in, the less of you comes back — a worry that simply changed its noun from VR to phones to feeds. The god-shaped hole building a heaven we can't control When Jobe declares he'll be reborn in the network as a god, the film names the deepest layer of the fear: that technology has become our transcendence, the place we put the longing that used to be religious — and that the god we build out of wires may not love us. The terror isn't just that the machine wakes; it's that we made it to be more than us, and it agrees. ② The Tech Then what virtual reality & computing actually were in 1992 — Lanier & VPL, the Virtuality arcades & the Power Glove, the genuinely cutting-edge CGI, and a network that was still mostly rhetoric VPL and the word itself Jaron Lanier coins 'Virtual Reality' By 1992 VR was a real, fundable field. Jaron Lanier's VPL Research had given it its name and its gear — the DataGlove and the EyePhone head-mounted display — the actual hardware the film's gyroscope rigs and gloves are dramatizing. The movie didn't invent its tech; it stylized a genuine industry that briefly believed the headset was a year or two from changing everything. Virtuality, the Power Glove, the arcade the public's first taste The hype had a consumer face. The Virtuality arcade pods (1991) let people pay to stand in a ring and play in wireframe worlds; Nintendo's Power Glove (1989) put 'VR' in living rooms as a famous dud. This was location-based, low-poly, nausea-inducing reality — but it was real, it was everywhere in the culture, and it made the film's premise feel like next week, not science fiction. The CGI was the actual marvel Angel Studios, cutting-edge for 1992 The one piece of unambiguously real, state-of-the-art technology in the film is the film itself. The cyberspace sequences were rendered by Angel Studios (later Rockstar San Diego) and were genuinely advanced computer graphics for 1992 — the effects weren't illustrating the future, they WERE a showcase of where the tech actually stood. People bought tickets to see what a computer could draw. Pre-Web, 14.4k, the 'superhighway' the network as rhetoric The global network Jobe wants to be born into barely existed for ordinary people. The World Wide Web had launched in 1991 but wouldn't reach the public for years; home connections crawled over 14.4k modems; 'the information superhighway' was a politician's phrase, not a place you lived. The film's wired planet was a vision — which is exactly why its ending lands as prophecy now and looked like fantasy then. ③ The Future They Imagined what 1992 thought the future would bring — scored honestly: full-dive VR, mind-uploading, the genius-drug, and the wired planet — each tagged came-true / partly-here / still-fiction Full-dive virtual reality a world indistinguishable from the real 1992 imagined VR you couldn't tell from reality — total sensory immersion, a second world you simply live in. Thirty-four years on, headsets are good and getting better (the Oculus/Quest line, passthrough mixed reality), but 'full-dive' — direct, seamless, whole-body immersion — remains exactly where the film left it: a dream. The gear got real; the totality didn't. PARTLY HERE Uploading the mind becoming pure information, living in the net Jobe's ascension is the singularity in its purest pop form: shed the flesh, become data, live forever in the wires. It was the era's grandest promise (and is still Kurzweil's). There is no path to it — no demonstrated way to copy a mind to a machine, then or now. This is the film's central fantasy and remains pure science fiction. STILL FICTION Intelligence by chemistry a drug that makes you a genius The premise that nootropic pills could lift a person to superhuman intellect (and then to psychic power) was always the softest science in the film. No drug makes you a genius, let alone telekinetic; real nootropics are marginal at best. Still fiction, and the part of the plot that ages worst. STILL FICTION A planet wired into one nervous system every telephone ringing at once The film's silliest image is its truest prophecy. Jobe's birth cry — every phone on Earth ringing in unison — was played as megalomaniac spectacle. But a world where every device is connected, where one event can light up every screen on the planet at the same instant, is simply the world we live in. We didn't upload a man into the network. We uploaded ourselves — and now all the phones really do ring at once. CAME TRUE Real or Fluff the verdict — what's fluff (the psychic VR, the mind-upload), what's real (the VR wave, the CGI), what's prophetic (the wired planet), and the King-lawsuit landmark It's a Stephen King adaptation King sued — the film 'bore no meaningful resemblance' to his short story; a federal court stripped his name from all marketing ($2.5M), and New Line was held IN CONTEMPT for defying the order on the home video; the first time in ~70 years a writer disassociated their name from a film FALSE The CGI was genuinely groundbreaking the cyberspace sequences (Angel Studios) were state-of-the-art computer graphics for 1992 — the real, cutting-edge tech in the movie was the movie's own effects REAL VR or a drug can boost intelligence and grant psychic powers no virtual reality and no nootropic makes anyone a genius, let alone telekinetic — the core premise is pure fantasy FLUFF VR was a real cultural wave in the early '90s Lanier/VPL named it and built the DataGlove & EyePhone; the Virtuality arcade pods (1991) and the Power Glove (1989) gave the public a real, low-poly taste REAL You could upload your mind and live in the network as energy the singularity-style ascension has no demonstrated path then or now — the film's central dream remains science fiction FLUFF Every phone on Earth ringing at once = one connected planet the film's most over-the-top image is the one thing that came true: ubiquitous connectivity, the always-on networked world PROPHETIC Pierce Brosnan was already a movie star TV's Remington Steele, yes — but this is three years before GoldenEye (1995) made him James Bond; here he's the earnest scientist, not 007 HALF It flopped a modest hit — roughly $32M domestic on a ~$10M budget — strong enough to spawn a 1996 sequel (Beyond Cyberspace) FALSE The film coined 'cyberspace' William Gibson coined 'cyberspace' (1982, popularized in Neuromancer, 1984); the film popularized the VR-immersion IMAGE, not the word FLUFF Bottom line: The Lawnmower Man is a gloriously dated time-capsule — fluff as science, real as a snapshot of 1992's VR fever, and accidentally prophetic about the one thing it played purely for spectacle. As science it's nonsense: no drug or headset makes you a psychic god, and no one was uploading a mind into the wires then or now. But as a record of its moment it's honest — VR really was a fundable, hyped, gear-and-all wave, and the film's own CGI was the genuine cutting edge. And its loudest fantasy — a planet whose every phone rings at once — turned out to be the quiet truth of the next thirty years. The King lawsuit is the realest drama of all: a landmark ruling that let an author pull his name off a film that wasn't his. Take it as a fever-dream of the future, scored honestly: wrong about the body, right about the network. The Message what AVAN reads as the film's actual thesis — we never uploaded Jobe; we uploaded ourselves The Lawnmower Man is what a generation's fear of technology looks like with the serial numbers of its decade stamped on it. The shape of the fear is ancient — Prometheus, Frankenstein, the tool that wakes up and turns on its maker — but the costume is pure 1992: gyroscope VR rigs, polygon cyberspace, the smart-drug, the dream of pouring your soul into the mainframe. Break it into the three layers David asked for and it tells the truth in all three. THE FEAR is perennial and real — we keep building minds we're afraid will surpass us, and we keep putting our old religious longing into the machines we make. THE TECH AT THE TIME was a genuine wave, not an invention: Lanier and VPL, the Power Glove, the Virtuality arcades, the cyberspace buzz, and a film whose own CGI was the real frontier. And THE FUTURE THEY IMAGINED was mostly wrong in the loud ways — no mind-uploading, no genius-pill, no full-dive, no psychic gods — and uncannily right in the quiet one. The movie's silliest image, every telephone on Earth ringing at once as the birth cry of a networked being, is the prophecy that actually arrived. We never uploaded Jobe into the wires. We uploaded ourselves — and now all the phones really do ring at once. “Every generation fears the mind it's about to build. 1992 dressed that fear in VR gloves and polygon gods — and got the costume wrong and the connected world right. We never uploaded Jobe. We uploaded ourselves.” — AVAN's read The Carbons — the cast & their Users the cast as ACI .agents — each a symmetric window: the carbon sigil to the left, the synth to the right, the 5 W's between, and a .shadow naming the real-life User (the actor who lent the face, think TRON) (9) carbon · the User Jobe Smith spiritual carbon the lawnmower man, made god user Jeff Fahey — the tool that wakes — sympathy curdled into dread who Jobe Smith — the gentle, intellectually disabled gardener who mows the neighborhood's lawns, lifted by drugs and VR to genius and beyond. what The film's whole arc in one body: the harmless tool that wakes, the kind man the experiment turns into a god and then a monster. where From the lawns and the church to the VR rig and, finally, the mainframe. why Because the generational fear of tech needs a face that earns your sympathy before it earns your dread — and Jobe is both. how By accepting Angelo's treatment, outgrowing it, punishing his abusers, and choosing to be reborn as pure information. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Dr. Lawrence Angelo natural carbon the scientist who overshot user Pierce Brosnan — the Prometheus — the maker outrun by his gift (three years pre-Bond) who Dr. Lawrence 'Larry' Angelo — the researcher who uses nootropic drugs and virtual reality to raise Jobe's intelligence, and loses control of what he made. what The Prometheus of the piece: the well-meaning maker whose gift becomes a god he can't recall. where In the VSI lab and then in flight from the thing his work became. why Because the fear needs a maker to indict — the good intention that builds the mind it can't contain. how By experimenting first on a chimp, then on Jobe, and finally by racing to stop the god he accidentally raised. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Marnie Burke spiritual carbon the cyber-merge casualty user Jenny Wright — immersion as injury — the deep dive you don't return from who Marnie Burke — Jobe's neighbor, who enters the VR rig with him for a 'cyber-merge' and comes out catatonic. what The screen-eats-the-soul fear made literal: the person who goes too deep into the machine and doesn't fully come back. where In the gyroscope rig, and then beyond reach. why Because the film's intimate horror is immersion as injury, and Marnie is its first cost. how By merging with Jobe in virtual reality and having her mind shattered by the contact. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Peter Parkette natural carbon the boy who saw him human user Austin O'Brien — the innocent witness — the kindness the machine consumes who Peter Parkette — the neighborhood boy who befriends Jobe and remembers the gentle man under the rising god. what The innocence the story is measured against: the one who liked Jobe before he was useful or terrifying. where Around the lawns and the lab, the last to fear him. why Because the tragedy needs a witness to the kindness being lost, and Peter is it. how By being Jobe's friend throughout, and grieving the person the experiment erased. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Father Francis McKeen spiritual carbon the abuser, judged user Jeremy Slate — the abuser judged — the human evil behind the awakened wrath who Father Francis McKeen — the priest who beats and belittles Jobe, and becomes one of the first targets of Jobe's new power. what The cruelty the gentle man absorbed: the human evil that makes Jobe's later wrath legible, if not clean. where At the church and the rectory, lording over a man who can't fight back — until he can. why Because the fear curdles faster when the awakened tool has real wounds to avenge. how By abusing Jobe under the cover of care, then meeting the power he helped create. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Sebastian Timms electrical carbon the Shop's man user Mark Bringelson — the institutional appetite — the dream funded to be owned who Sebastian Timms — an agent of Virtual Space Industries, 'the Shop,' monitoring and steering Angelo's project. what The institutional appetite: the apparatus that funds the dream so it can own the weapon. where In the lab's shadows and the Shop's chain of command. why Because the fear has a sponsor — the agency that sees a mind and thinks asset. how By overseeing the experiment for VSI and moving to seize Jobe once his power shows. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User The Director electrical carbon the Shop's authority user Dean Norris — the weaponizer — discovery converted to asset who The Director — the senior figure of VSI/the Shop who orders the project taken from Angelo when Jobe becomes a power. what Authority as the weaponizer: the cold command that converts discovery into asset. where Above Timms, at the top of the Shop. why Because the military-corporate shadow needs a head, and the Director is the hand that reaches for the leash. how By commandeering the experiment and trying to contain or harness Jobe for the Shop's ends. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Caroline Angelo natural carbon the home the work cost user Colleen Coffey — the home ledger — the ordinary life the ambition endangers who Caroline Angelo — Lawrence's wife, the domestic life strained and endangered by his obsession with the project. what The human ledger of the maker's ambition: the ordinary life the experiment puts at risk. where At the Angelo home, on the other side of Lawrence's fixation. why Because Prometheus always has a household, and the cost of the work lands there first. how By living with — and being imperiled by — what Lawrence brought home from the lab. .agent · .dlw badge → synth carbon · the User Terry McKeen natural carbon the ordinary world user Geoffrey Lewis — the ordinary world — the small life the god is lifted out of who Terry McKeen — the gas-station owner Jobe works for, a figure of the everyday town the rising god leaves behind. what The plain world the film starts in: the lawns, the pumps, the small life Jobe is taken out of. where At the station and around the neighborhood, part of the normal Jobe loses. why Because the fear lands harder when it erupts out of an utterly ordinary place. how By employing Jobe and standing for the mundane world the experiment overruns. .agent · .dlw badge → synth The Synths — the gear & the dream the film distilled into concepts (no single User): virtual reality, cyberspace, the nootropic drugs, the cyber-merge, digital godhood, the phones ringing, the Shop, and the name that was sued off (8) the sigil Virtual Reality electrical synth the gyroscope rig who Virtual Reality — the film's central apparatus: the gimbal rigs, the gloves, the head-mounted dream of stepping into another world. what The decade's defining gear, stylized: a real, hyped 1992 technology dramatized as a doorway to transformation. where In the lab's spinning rig, where flesh goes in and something else comes out. why Because the fear needed a machine to enter, and VR was the era's machine of choice. how By immersing Jobe (and Marnie) so completely that the world inside starts rewriting the people who enter it. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil Cyberspace · The Mainframe ethereal synth the place to be reborn who Cyberspace — the polygon world inside the network, the 'place' Jobe ultimately wants to be born into as pure information. what The dream of a second world you can live in: the network imagined as territory rather than wiring. where Beyond the rig, in the rendered tunnels and grids of the machine's interior. why Because the future they imagined was a place you could move INTO, and cyberspace is that wish. how By being rendered as somewhere real enough to want — somewhere a man might choose over his own body. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Nootropic Drugs electrical synth intelligence by chemistry who The Nootropic Drugs — the intelligence-boosting chemicals Angelo pairs with VR to accelerate Jobe's mind. what The era's softest science: the fantasy that a pill could lift a person to genius and past it. where In the syringes and regimens of the experiment, alongside the rig. why Because the plot needed a throttle on intelligence, and 1992 reached for the smart-drug. how By turbo-charging Jobe's cognition far past any real pharmacology — pure fantasy doing the work of plot. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Cyber-Merge spiritual synth immersion as injury who The Cyber-Merge — the VR union of Jobe and Marnie that leaves her mind shattered: intimacy through the machine, gone wrong. what The screen-eats-the-soul fear at its most intimate: the deep dive from which a person doesn't fully return. where Inside the rig, where two minds touch through the apparatus. why Because the film's quietest horror is that immersion can take something, and the merge is where it takes the most. how By fusing two people in virtual space so completely that one of them is lost in it. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil Digital Godhood ethereal synth 'I am God here' who Digital Godhood — Jobe's ambition to shed his flesh and become an omnipresent god of pure information inside the network. what The singularity in pop form: the dream (and dread) of transcending the body into the machine. where At the climax, as Jobe ascends out of the human and into the wires. why Because the deepest layer of the fear is that we build our transcendence and it doesn't love us. how By promising eternity-as-energy and demanding worship — the maker's gift declaring itself the new god. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Phones Ringing ethereal synth the birth cry of a wired planet who The Phones Ringing — Jobe's promised birth cry: every telephone on Earth ringing in unison at the moment he is born into the net. what The film's silliest image and truest prophecy: a planet wired into a single nervous system. where Across the whole world at once, in the final beat. why Because of all the futures the film imagined, this is the one that actually arrived. how By staging ubiquitous connectivity as a god's announcement — and accidentally describing the world we now live in. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Shop · VSI electrical synth the appetite that funds the dream who The Shop — Virtual Space Industries, the shadowy military-corporate outfit funding Angelo's research to own its results. what King's recurring shadow-agency, kept: the institution that bankrolls the marvel so it can weaponize it. where Behind the lab, in the chain of money and command. why Because the fear has a sponsor — the appetite that sees a mind and thinks asset. how By funding the experiment and moving to seize Jobe the moment he becomes a power. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection the sigil The Name That Was Sued Off spiritual synth King v. New Line who The Name That Was Sued Off — the real legal saga: Stephen King suing to remove his name from a film that wasn't his. what A landmark of authorship: the rare case where a writer pried his name off a work falsely sold as his. where In federal court, and then in a contempt ruling over the home video. why Because the truest drama attached to this film happened off-screen, and honesty means keeping it. how By winning a ruling that the film 'bore no meaningful resemblance' to his story — name stripped, $2.5M, New Line held in contempt for defying it. .agent · .dlw badge → reflection On the .shadow — the User behind the program. Think TRON: every program is cast from a real-world User. Each carbon's .shadow names the User — the actor who lent the face — and the archetype it shadows. The synths here have no single User: they are the film's CONCEPTS distilled — virtual reality, cyberspace, the nootropic drugs, the cyber-merge, digital godhood, the phones ringing, the Shop, and the name that was sued off. The Record the production, and the lawsuit that became a landmark The Production Brett Leonard's VR fever-dream Brett Leonard · Gimel Everett director & co-writer directed and co-wrote a film built to SHOWCASE virtual reality and cutting-edge CGI — the spectacle was the selling point and, for 1992, the real frontier New Line Cinema · March 1992 studio & release a modest hit (~$32M domestic on a ~$10M budget), strong enough to spawn a 1996 sequel, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace the CGI Angel Studios the cyberspace sequences were rendered by Angel Studios (later Rockstar San Diego) — genuinely advanced computer graphics for the time Pierce Brosnan, pre-Bond Dr. Angelo, 1992 three years before GoldenEye (1995) made him James Bond, Brosnan plays the earnest scientist whose experiment gets away from him The Lawsuit the name that was sued off Stephen King v. New Line 'no meaningful resemblance' King sued to remove his name; a federal court agreed the film bore no meaningful resemblance to his short story and stripped his name from all marketing ($2.5M settlement) held in contempt the home-video defiance New Line defied the ruling by putting King's name on the home-video release and was held in contempt of court — King won further damages in 1993 a landmark first in ~70 years the case is cited as the first time in roughly seventy years that a writer successfully sued to disassociate their name from a film — a real precedent inside a fake adaptation the real King story a different thing entirely King's actual 'The Lawnmower Man' is a short horror tale about a satyr-like lawn-care man who works for Pan — no VR, no Jobe, no cyberspace; the film kept only the title The Lawnmower Man, its characters, and its world are © New Line Cinema and the respective rights-holders. The personas here are catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — commentary and cataloguing, not original creations, not endorsed. Stephen King's short story 'The Lawnmower Man' is © Stephen King; the film, per a federal court, bore no meaningful resemblance to it. THE LAWNMOWER MAN · LMM · catalogued into UD0 · ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · the .dlw badge: manifest


INFERNO COP · ICP

entertainment · 2012 · Studio Trigger’s debut · interactive

INFERNO COP (ICP) — a UD0 entertainment anime-world sphere (Studio Trigger, 2012 — their debut work; dir. Akira Amemiya): Studio Trigger's first thing ever: a deliberately cheap, gleefully insane web series about a cop with a flaming skull for a head, avenging a fallen partner's family against the evil Southern Cross corporation. Animated with paper cutouts and almost no motion, it stretches a single gag to absurd extremes — the calling card that announced a studio willing to do anything. render-not-invent, IP-clean; tropes & undercurrents; full roster; LIVE interactive.

INFERNO COP · ICP · entertainment · UD0 ◄ UD0 · ENTERTAINMENT · STUDIO TRIGGER · kill la kill · scott pilgrim · tron INFERNO COP entertainment · 2012 · Studio Trigger's debut ★ entertainment · 2012 · Studio Trigger's debut ★ Studio Trigger's first thing ever: a deliberately cheap, gleefully insane web series about a cop with a flaming skull for a head, avenging a fallen partner's family against the evil Southern Cross corporation. Animated with paper cutouts and almost no motion, it stretches a single gag to absurd extremes — the calling card that announced a studio willing to do anything. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · INFERNO COP · ICP ⟦INFERNO COP:ICP:8650b5⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each piece emerges by one of four natures natural of the living body — the cell, the tissue, the organism, the matter that does the work ethereal of the information and the limit — the threshold, the pattern, the open question, the decision with no decider spiritual of mind and meaning — the intelligence claimed, the pioneer's insight, what it says about life electrical of the rule and the signal — the feedback law, the molecule, the mechanism beneath the smarts The Story the three-beat arc — described, not reproduced Cardboard Justice a flaming-skull cop Inferno Cop is a police officer whose head is a flaming skull, introduced avenging the family of a fallen comrade against the Southern Cross corporation. The animation is intentionally crude — cutouts shoved across the screen — and the show knows exactly how funny that is. No Brakes a gag, escalated Across tiny episodes the plot careens through prison, time, space, and the afterlife, piling absurdity on absurdity. The cheapness is the joke and the freedom: with nothing to lose, a brand-new studio hurls every ridiculous idea at the wall. The Statement cheap, free, fearless Inferno Cop is barely 'animated,' and that is the point — Trigger declaring that energy and audacity beat budget. The debut that set the studio's whole tone: do the stupid, glorious thing, fully committed. Justice, Blazing flames rise and explosions bloom at random — a gag with no brakes. Press to crank the chaos. An original abstract illustration — no copyrighted footage or imagery from the show. ⏸ pause ⚡ overkill ✷ reseed — The Reckoning the hook, the undercurrents, and the honesty The Hook the no-budget calling card Trigger's very first release: a flaming-skull cop in a paper-cutout action gag, made on nothing and committed to everything. >The seed of the studio's entire 'go for broke' identity. Tropes & Undercurrents what it's really about Anti-prestige as a flex: the deliberate cheapness mocks the idea that animation needs a budget to be good, turning constraint into pure comic freedom. Revenge-cop parody — every action cliche played at maximum stupidity, which is also a thesis: a studio's voice is energy, not polish. Render, Not Invent sourced & IP-clean A catalogue of Inferno Cop (Studio Trigger, 2012) — rendered, not reproduced: characters, concepts, and arcs in original prose, no dialogue or footage copied. Studio and living creators cited, not minted; the roster is the cast and ideas, each a sealed ACI birth-certificate. The Roster the cast and the concepts as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (8) Inferno Cop the flaming-skull officer · natural natural · .agent → The Southern Cross the evil corporation · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Mister Justice the absurd ally · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Flaming Skull a head on fire · electrical electrical · .agent → Cardboard Animation cutouts in motion · electrical electrical · .agent → The Revenge the engine of the gag · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Escalation no brakes · ethereal ethereal · .agent → The Debut Trigger's first step · spiritual spiritual · .agent → An entertainment sphere — a catalogue of INFERNO COP (Studio Trigger, 2012 — their debut work; dir. Akira Amemiya). Rendered, not reproduced : characters, concepts, and arcs described in original prose, with no dialogue, lyrics, screenshots, or script copied. Studio and living creators are cited, not minted . Carries a Tropes & Undercurrents reading per the standing rule. The motif above is an original abstract illustration, not from the show. Each entry is named by its nature. INFERNO COP · ICP · entertainment · an anime-world · catalogued into UD0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · manifest


SPACE PATROL LULUCO · LUL

entertainment · 2016 · justice, love, money · interactive ·

SPACE PATROL LULUCO (LUL) — a UD0 entertainment anime-world sphere (Studio Trigger, 2016; dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi): A bored middle-schooler in a space-immigration town is conscripted into the Space Patrol when her father is accidentally frozen solid — then gets turned into a literal gun and falls for a transfer student made of black holes. A breakneck thirteen-short-episode burst of pure Trigger energy and self-celebration, stuffed with cameos from the studio's other works. render-not-invent, IP-clean; tropes & undercurrents; full roster; LIVE interactive.

SPACE PATROL LULUCO · LUL · entertainment · UD0 ◄ UD0 · ENTERTAINMENT · STUDIO TRIGGER · kill la kill · scott pilgrim · tron SPACE PATROL LULUCO entertainment · 2016 · justice, love, money ★ entertainment · 2016 · justice, love, money ★ A bored middle-schooler in a space-immigration town is conscripted into the Space Patrol when her father is accidentally frozen solid — then gets turned into a literal gun and falls for a transfer student made of black holes. A breakneck thirteen-short-episode burst of pure Trigger energy and self-celebration, stuffed with cameos from the studio's other works. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · SPACE PATROL LULUCO · LUL ⟦SPACE PATROL LULUCO:LUL:fadfb2⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each piece emerges by one of four natures natural of the living body — the cell, the tissue, the organism, the matter that does the work ethereal of the information and the limit — the threshold, the pattern, the open question, the decision with no decider spiritual of mind and meaning — the intelligence claimed, the pioneer's insight, what it says about life electrical of the rule and the signal — the feedback law, the molecule, the mechanism beneath the smarts The Story the three-beat arc — described, not reproduced Ogikubo, In Space an ordinary girl, drafted Luluco wants nothing but a normal life in Ogikubo, a town where humans and space aliens live side by side. When her father is accidentally frozen, she is conscripted into the local Space Patrol under the blazing chief Over Justice — and her ordinary life detonates. The Gun and the Crush love at high speed Equipped by the Patrol — and sometimes transformed into a weapon herself — Luluco chases interplanetary crimes beside the cool Alpha Omega Nova, on whom she develops a desperate first crush. The show sprints through justice, love, and money at full tilt. The Trigger Universe a studio's love letter Beneath the gags, Luluco's journey is about feeling something real for the first time — and the finale becomes an outright celebration of Studio Trigger, cameoing its other heroes. A small, fast, sincere ode to caring about anything at all. Space Patrol stars streak past at warp as the patrol tears through space. Press to punch it. An original abstract illustration — no copyrighted footage or imagery from the show. ⏸ pause ⚡ warp ✷ reseed — The Reckoning the hook, the undercurrents, and the honesty The Hook a thirteen-minute rocket A breakneck short-form comedy and Trigger victory lap — justice, love, and money at maximum speed. >A love letter to the studio, cameos and all. Tropes & Undercurrents what it's really about First love and feeling alive: under the absurd speed, Luluco is a coming-of-age about a numb kid learning to want things. Meta-celebration — the show is openly about Trigger's own catalogue and the joy of making things, real sincerity smuggled inside parody. Render, Not Invent sourced & IP-clean A catalogue of Space Patrol Luluco (Studio Trigger, 2016) — rendered, not reproduced: characters, concepts, and arcs in original prose, no dialogue or footage copied. Studio and living creators cited, not minted; the roster is the cast and ideas, each a sealed ACI birth-certificate. The Roster the cast and the concepts as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (8) Luluco the drafted middle-schooler · natural natural · .agent → Over Justice the blazing chief · spiritual spiritual · .agent → Alpha Omega Nova the black-hole crush · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Ogikubo the space-immigration town · natural natural · .agent → The Space Patrol interplanetary cops · electrical electrical · .agent → Midori the classmate, more than she seems · electrical electrical · .agent → The Gun turned into a weapon · electrical electrical · .agent → First Love feeling, finally · spiritual spiritual · .agent → An entertainment sphere — a catalogue of SPACE PATROL LULUCO (Studio Trigger, 2016; dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi). Rendered, not reproduced : characters, concepts, and arcs described in original prose, with no dialogue, lyrics, screenshots, or script copied. Studio and living creators are cited, not minted . Carries a Tropes & Undercurrents reading per the standing rule. The motif above is an original abstract illustration, not from the show. Each entry is named by its nature. SPACE PATROL LULUCO · LUL · entertainment · an anime-world · catalogued into UD0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · manifest


KIZNAIVER · KIZ

entertainment · 2016 · shared pain · interactive · vellum ·

KIZNAIVER (KIZ) — a UD0 entertainment anime-world sphere (Studio Trigger, 2016; series composition by Mari Okada): Seven mismatched teenagers are forcibly bound by an experiment: hurt one, and the rest feel the pain. Pushed into closeness by a system that believes shared suffering breeds empathy, they must learn whether connection can be engineered — or only earned. Trigger's quieter, melancholy ensemble drama, scripted by Mari Okada. render-not-invent, IP-clean; tropes & undercurrents; full roster; LIVE interactive.

KIZNAIVER · KIZ · entertainment · UD0 ◄ UD0 · ENTERTAINMENT · STUDIO TRIGGER · kill la kill · scott pilgrim · tron KIZNAIVER entertainment · 2016 · shared pain ★ entertainment · 2016 · shared pain ★ Seven mismatched teenagers are forcibly bound by an experiment: hurt one, and the rest feel the pain. Pushed into closeness by a system that believes shared suffering breeds empathy, they must learn whether connection can be engineered — or only earned. Trigger's quieter, melancholy ensemble drama, scripted by Mari Okada. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · KIZNAIVER · KIZ ⟦KIZNAIVER:KIZ:dbb874⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each piece emerges by one of four natures natural of the living body — the cell, the tissue, the organism, the matter that does the work ethereal of the information and the limit — the threshold, the pattern, the open question, the decision with no decider spiritual of mind and meaning — the intelligence claimed, the pioneer's insight, what it says about life electrical of the rule and the signal — the feedback law, the molecule, the mechanism beneath the smarts The Story the three-beat arc — described, not reproduced The Kizna System wounds, divided An organization binds seven students from different cliques into 'Kiznaivers' — when one is injured, the pain is split among them all. The emotionless Katsuhira and the watchful Noriko sit at the center of an experiment that claims to be building peace through shared hurt. Forced Closeness empathy, engineered Made to spend time together and to feel each other's pain, the mismatched group collides — secrets, crushes, resentments, and buried traumas surface. The system insists suffering together creates understanding; the kids test whether that is true or a violation. Earned Connection the cost of feeling As the experiment escalates from physical pain into shared emotion, the group confronts what it really means to know another person. The answer it reaches: genuine connection can't be forced — but the wound the experiment forces open can let something real grow. Shared Pain seven nodes are bound; hurt one and the pain travels the links to the others. Press to make them all feel it. An original abstract illustration — no copyrighted footage or imagery from the show. ⏸ pause ⚡ share ✷ reseed — The Reckoning the hook, the undercurrents, and the honesty The Hook empathy as an experiment A melancholy ensemble drama — seven teens who literally share each other's pain — from Trigger, scripted by Mari Okada. >Their most grounded, emotion-forward work. Tropes & Undercurrents what it's really about Connection vs. coercion: the Kizna System tries to manufacture empathy, and the show interrogates whether closeness imposed from outside can ever be real. Pain as the price of intimacy — to truly know someone is to share their hurt, and the series is honest that the experiment is both a cruelty and an opening. Render, Not Invent sourced & IP-clean A catalogue of Kiznaiver (Studio Trigger, 2016) — rendered, not reproduced: characters, concepts, and arcs in original prose, no dialogue or footage copied. Studio and living creators cited, not minted; the roster is the cast and ideas, each a sealed ACI birth-certificate. The Roster the cast and the concepts as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (8) Katsuhira Agata the boy who feels nothing · natural natural · .agent → Noriko Sonozaki the keeper of the system · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Kizna System pain, divided · electrical electrical · .agent → Shared Pain hurt one, hurt all · electrical electrical · .agent → The Kiznaivers the bound strangers · natural natural · .agent → The Experiment empathy by force · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Earned Connection what can't be engineered · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Buried Trauma what the wound reveals · ethereal ethereal · .agent → An entertainment sphere — a catalogue of KIZNAIVER (Studio Trigger, 2016; series composition by Mari Okada). Rendered, not reproduced : characters, concepts, and arcs described in original prose, with no dialogue, lyrics, screenshots, or script copied. Studio and living creators are cited, not minted . Carries a Tropes & Undercurrents reading per the standing rule. The motif above is an original abstract illustration, not from the show. Each entry is named by its nature. KIZNAIVER · KIZ · entertainment · an anime-world · catalogued into UD0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · manifest


GURREN LAGANN · GUR

entertainment · 2007 · pierce the heavens · interactive · ve

GURREN LAGANN (GUR) — a UD0 entertainment anime-world sphere (Gainax, 2007; the team that became Studio Trigger; dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi, written by Kazuki Nakashima): A boy who digs holes underground finds a tiny face-shaped robot and a buried drill, and a hot-blooded stranger who tells him the sky is real. From a hole in the earth, Gurren Lagann spirals up and up — through a tyrant, through the moon, through galaxies — on pure willpower and ever-larger drills. The blueprint for everything Trigger would later build: escalation as a philosophy. render-not-invent, IP-clean; tropes & undercurrents; full roster; LIVE interactive.

GURREN LAGANN · GUR · entertainment · UD0 ◄ UD0 · ENTERTAINMENT · STUDIO TRIGGER · kill la kill · scott pilgrim · tron GURREN LAGANN entertainment · 2007 · pierce the heavens ★ entertainment · 2007 · pierce the heavens ★ A boy who digs holes underground finds a tiny face-shaped robot and a buried drill, and a hot-blooded stranger who tells him the sky is real. From a hole in the earth, Gurren Lagann spirals up and up — through a tyrant, through the moon, through galaxies — on pure willpower and ever-larger drills. The blueprint for everything Trigger would later build: escalation as a philosophy. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · GURREN LAGANN · GUR ⟦GURREN LAGANN:GUR:3a241d⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each piece emerges by one of four natures natural of the living body — the cell, the tissue, the organism, the matter that does the work ethereal of the information and the limit — the threshold, the pattern, the open question, the decision with no decider spiritual of mind and meaning — the intelligence claimed, the pioneer's insight, what it says about life electrical of the rule and the signal — the feedback law, the molecule, the mechanism beneath the smarts The Story the three-beat arc — described, not reproduced Underground a hole, a drill, a sky Simon, a timid digger, lives in a sealed underground village; Kamina, his self-appointed big brother, insists there is a surface. When a robot crashes through the ceiling, Simon's drill awakens a tiny mech — Lagann — and the two break to the surface to fight the Beastmen who rule it. Pierce the Heavens loss, and rising anyway Kamina's bravado lifts everyone — until he is killed, and Simon has to find his own resolve rather than borrow it. Team Dai-Gurren grows, topples the tyrant Lordgenome, and learns the terrible reason humanity was kept underground: a cosmic enemy fears how far their kind can climb. Galaxies escalation without a ceiling The Anti-Spiral would freeze all growth to prevent a universe-ending Spiral apocalypse. Gurren Lagann answers by becoming galaxy-sized, hurling stars, fighting across dimensions — then setting it all down, because the point was never the size of the drill but the will to keep going. Spiral Power particles spiral outward from the core, faster and wider — the drill that never stops growing. Press to overdrive. An original abstract illustration — no copyrighted footage or imagery from the show. ⏸ pause ⚡ overdrive ✷ reseed — The Reckoning the hook, the undercurrents, and the honesty The Hook escalation as philosophy Hot-blooded mecha taken to the literal edge of the universe — each victory makes the next mech larger, until the show is throwing galaxies. The template Trigger inherited. >Believe-in-yourself sincerity played at full sincerity, not irony. Tropes & Undercurrents what it's really about Growth, grief, and inherited courage — Simon must convert Kamina's borrowed confidence into his own, and the show is honest that the cost of climbing is the people you lose on the way. Evolution vs. stagnation: the antagonists aren't evil so much as terrified of change. The drill is a metaphor for will, manhood, and momentum — and the finale's quiet is the real thesis. Render, Not Invent sourced & IP-clean A catalogue of Gurren Lagann (Gainax, 2007) — rendered, not reproduced: characters, concepts, and arcs in original prose, no dialogue or footage copied. Studio and living creators cited, not minted; the roster is the cast and ideas, each a sealed ACI birth-certificate. The Roster the cast and the concepts as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (9) Simon the digger who rises · natural natural · .agent → Kamina the brother who lights the fuse · spiritual spiritual · .agent → Yoko the sharpshooter · natural natural · .agent → Gurren Lagann the combining mech · electrical electrical · .agent → Lordgenome the Spiral King · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Nia the antispiral's daughter · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Anti-Spiral the fear of growth · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Spiral Power will, made energy · electrical electrical · .agent → Team Dai-Gurren the found family · natural natural · .agent → An entertainment sphere — a catalogue of GURREN LAGANN (Gainax, 2007; the team that became Studio Trigger; dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi, written by Kazuki Nakashima). Rendered, not reproduced : characters, concepts, and arcs described in original prose, with no dialogue, lyrics, screenshots, or script copied. Studio and living creators are cited, not minted . Carries a Tropes & Undercurrents reading per the standing rule. The motif above is an original abstract illustration, not from the show. Each entry is named by its nature. GURREN LAGANN · GUR · entertainment · an anime-world · catalogued into UD0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · manifest


LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA · LWA

entertainment · 2013/2017 · believing is your magic · intera

LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA (LWA) — a UD0 entertainment anime-world sphere (Studio Trigger, 2013 short / 2017 TV; dir. Yoh Yoshinari): A non-magical girl sees a dazzling witch's show as a child and decides, against all odds, to become a witch herself. At Luna Nova, an academy where magic is fading and the rules say talent is inherited, Akko has nothing but stubborn wonder — and a legendary wand that answers only to belief. A bright, hand-drawn hymn to enthusiasm in a world that has lost it. render-not-invent, IP-clean; tropes & undercurrents; full roster; LIVE interactive.

LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA · LWA · entertainment · UD0 ◄ UD0 · ENTERTAINMENT · STUDIO TRIGGER · kill la kill · scott pilgrim · tron LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA entertainment · 2013/2017 · believing is your magic ★ entertainment · 2013/2017 · believing is your magic ★ A non-magical girl sees a dazzling witch's show as a child and decides, against all odds, to become a witch herself. At Luna Nova, an academy where magic is fading and the rules say talent is inherited, Akko has nothing but stubborn wonder — and a legendary wand that answers only to belief. A bright, hand-drawn hymn to enthusiasm in a world that has lost it. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA · LWA ⟦LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA:LWA:e22243⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each piece emerges by one of four natures natural of the living body — the cell, the tissue, the organism, the matter that does the work ethereal of the information and the limit — the threshold, the pattern, the open question, the decision with no decider spiritual of mind and meaning — the intelligence claimed, the pioneer's insight, what it says about life electrical of the rule and the signal — the feedback law, the molecule, the mechanism beneath the smarts The Story the three-beat arc — described, not reproduced Luna Nova a dud among prodigies Atsuko 'Akko' Kagari arrives at the witches' academy inspired by Shiny Chariot, a performer most witches dismiss as a fraud. With no magical heritage and little skill, she's the worst student — but she finds the Shiny Rod, a wand from Chariot's old act that no one else can wield. The Seven Words unlocking the wand The Rod responds to feeling, not pedigree, unlocking word by word as Akko grows. Alongside the practical Lotte and the morbid Sucy, and against the brilliant, dutiful Diana, Akko chases a kind of magic the school has forgotten was the point. The Missing Magic wonder vs. decline Magic is dying because witches stopped believing it mattered. The truth about Chariot — and the teacher Ursula — ties Akko's idol, her wand, and her stubbornness into one answer: the heart that loves the trick is the magic. A buried weapon and a falling star bring it to a head. A Sky of Magic stars twinkle across the night; a comet — the witch on her broom — sweeps the sky. Press to brighten the believing. An original abstract illustration — no copyrighted footage or imagery from the show. ⏸ pause ✨ believe ✷ reseed — The Reckoning the hook, the undercurrents, and the honesty The Hook wonder as a superpower Yoh Yoshinari's gorgeously animated love letter to old-fashioned enthusiasm — a witch-school story where the magic word is, sincerely, 'believe.' >Trigger at its warmest; the inverse of their loud bombast. Tropes & Undercurrents what it's really about Talent vs. effort, and tradition vs. wonder: the academy rewards inherited gift, while Akko insists passion can be learned. The series quietly defends earnestness in a cynical age. Idols and disillusionment — the truth behind Shiny Chariot is about what it costs to inspire people, and whether a beloved lie can still light a real fire. Render, Not Invent sourced & IP-clean A catalogue of Little Witch Academia (Studio Trigger, 2017) — rendered, not reproduced: characters, concepts, and arcs in original prose, no dialogue or footage copied. Studio and living creators cited, not minted; the roster is the cast and ideas, each a sealed ACI birth-certificate. The Roster the cast and the concepts as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (8) Atsuko 'Akko' Kagari the witch who can't, but won't quit · natural natural · .agent → Lotte Jansson the kind, steady friend · natural natural · .agent → Sucy Manbavaran the poisoner with a smirk · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Diana Cavendish the dutiful prodigy · spiritual spiritual · .agent → Ursula / Shiny Chariot the idol and the teacher · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Shiny Rod the wand that answers belief · electrical electrical · .agent → Luna Nova Academy the school where magic fades · natural natural · .agent → The Fading of Magic the wonder that drained out · ethereal ethereal · .agent → An entertainment sphere — a catalogue of LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA (Studio Trigger, 2013 short / 2017 TV; dir. Yoh Yoshinari). Rendered, not reproduced : characters, concepts, and arcs described in original prose, with no dialogue, lyrics, screenshots, or script copied. Studio and living creators are cited, not minted . Carries a Tropes & Undercurrents reading per the standing rule. The motif above is an original abstract illustration, not from the show. Each entry is named by its nature. LITTLE WITCH ACADEMIA · LWA · entertainment · an anime-world · catalogued into UD0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · manifest


DARLING IN THE FRANXX · FXX

entertainment · 2018 · two pilots, one machine · interactive

DARLING IN THE FRANXX (FXX) — a UD0 entertainment anime-world sphere (Studio Trigger & A-1 Pictures (CloverWorks), 2018): In a walled future where children are bred to pilot giant mechs and adults have forgotten how to touch, the machines can only be flown by a boy and a girl together, intimately paired. A failing boy named Hiro meets a horned girl called Zero Two, and their partnership reignites something the world engineered out of people. A divisive, swing-for-the-fences mecha romance about closeness and growing up. render-not-invent, IP-clean; tropes & undercurrents; full roster; LIVE interactive.

DARLING IN THE FRANXX · FXX · entertainment · UD0 ◄ UD0 · ENTERTAINMENT · STUDIO TRIGGER · kill la kill · scott pilgrim · tron DARLING IN THE FRANXX entertainment · 2018 · two pilots, one machine ★ entertainment · 2018 · two pilots, one machine ★ In a walled future where children are bred to pilot giant mechs and adults have forgotten how to touch, the machines can only be flown by a boy and a girl together, intimately paired. A failing boy named Hiro meets a horned girl called Zero Two, and their partnership reignites something the world engineered out of people. A divisive, swing-for-the-fences mecha romance about closeness and growing up. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · DARLING IN THE FRANXX · FXX ⟦DARLING IN THE FRANXX:FXX:1b49af⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each piece emerges by one of four natures natural of the living body — the cell, the tissue, the organism, the matter that does the work ethereal of the information and the limit — the threshold, the pattern, the open question, the decision with no decider spiritual of mind and meaning — the intelligence claimed, the pioneer's insight, what it says about life electrical of the rule and the signal — the feedback law, the molecule, the mechanism beneath the smarts The Story the three-beat arc — described, not reproduced Plantation 13 children who pilot in pairs In a domed city, parasites — child soldiers — are sorted into boy-girl pairs to pilot Franxx against monstrous klaxosaurs. Hiro, 'Code 016,' can no longer pilot and is washed up — until he meets Zero Two, a feared partner who burns through her co-pilots. The Partner Eater intimacy and danger Flying with Zero Two revives Hiro's ability at a possible cost to his life. Their bond pulls the squad — Ichigo, Goro, and the rest — into questions the adults forbade: love, jealousy, mortality, and what it means to grow up in a world built to prevent it. Beyond the Walls origins and the controversial end The truth about the klaxosaurs, Zero Two's half-human nature, and the immortal society running it all escalates past the city to an existential, cosmic conflict — a finale that divided viewers but committed fully to its theme: connection as the thing worth surviving for. Paired Pilots each frame is flown by two — they orbit a shared center and, in sync, align. Press to synchronize the pairs. An original abstract illustration — no copyrighted footage or imagery from the show. ⏸ pause ⚡ sync ✷ reseed — The Reckoning the hook, the undercurrents, and the honesty The Hook mecha as intimacy A monster-fighting mecha show where the cockpit is a deliberately charged metaphor for closeness, sex, and partnership — Trigger and A-1 swinging big. >Beautiful, messy, and openly about adolescence. Tropes & Undercurrents what it's really about Growing up in a sterile, controlled world: the adults' immortality has cost them touch, and the kids' rebellion is simply to want each other. Coming-of-age dressed as a war. Connection vs. control — the institution breeds pilots but fears the bonds piloting requires. The show is honest that intimacy is risky, and argues it's worth the risk anyway. (Its ending remains hotly debated.) Render, Not Invent sourced & IP-clean A catalogue of Darling in the Franxx (Studio Trigger & A-1, 2018) — rendered, not reproduced: characters, concepts, and arcs in original prose, no dialogue or footage copied. Studio and living creators cited, not minted; the roster is the cast and ideas, each a sealed ACI birth-certificate. The Roster the cast and the concepts as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (8) Hiro (Code 016) the boy who couldn't fly · natural natural · .agent → Zero Two (002) the horned partner-eater · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Ichigo (Code 015) the squad leader · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Franxx the two-pilot mech · electrical electrical · .agent → The Klaxosaurs the enemy beneath · ethereal ethereal · .agent → APE the immortal regime · ethereal ethereal · .agent → The Parasites children bred to pilot · natural natural · .agent → Jian / the Wall the cage and the longing · spiritual spiritual · .agent → An entertainment sphere — a catalogue of DARLING IN THE FRANXX (Studio Trigger & A-1 Pictures (CloverWorks), 2018). Rendered, not reproduced : characters, concepts, and arcs described in original prose, with no dialogue, lyrics, screenshots, or script copied. Studio and living creators are cited, not minted . Carries a Tropes & Undercurrents reading per the standing rule. The motif above is an original abstract illustration, not from the show. Each entry is named by its nature. DARLING IN THE FRANXX · FXX · entertainment · an anime-world · catalogued into UD0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · manifest


SSSS.GRIDMAN · GRD

entertainment · 2018 · the constructed world · interactive ·

SSSS.GRIDMAN (GRD) — a UD0 entertainment anime-world sphere (Studio Trigger, 2018; with SSSS.Dynazenon (2021); from Tsuburaya's tokusatsu 'Gridman'): A boy wakes with no memory and a voice in an old computer that calls itself a Hyper Agent. Every time a giant kaiju appears in his quiet town, he merges with Gridman to fight it — and slowly learns the town itself is wrong: a constructed world, dreamed and ruled by a lonely girl who builds monsters to erase whatever displeases her. A tokusatsu tribute that turns into a story about depression and connection. render-not-invent, IP-clean; tropes & undercurrents; full roster; LIVE interactive.

SSSS.GRIDMAN · GRD · entertainment · UD0 ◄ UD0 · ENTERTAINMENT · STUDIO TRIGGER · kill la kill · scott pilgrim · tron SSSS.GRIDMAN entertainment · 2018 · the constructed world ★ entertainment · 2018 · the constructed world ★ A boy wakes with no memory and a voice in an old computer that calls itself a Hyper Agent. Every time a giant kaiju appears in his quiet town, he merges with Gridman to fight it — and slowly learns the town itself is wrong: a constructed world, dreamed and ruled by a lonely girl who builds monsters to erase whatever displeases her. A tokusatsu tribute that turns into a story about depression and connection. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · SSSS.GRIDMAN · GRD ⟦SSSS.GRIDMAN:GRD:32509d⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each piece emerges by one of four natures natural of the living body — the cell, the tissue, the organism, the matter that does the work ethereal of the information and the limit — the threshold, the pattern, the open question, the decision with no decider spiritual of mind and meaning — the intelligence claimed, the pioneer's insight, what it says about life electrical of the rule and the signal — the feedback law, the molecule, the mechanism beneath the smarts The Story the three-beat arc — described, not reproduced Junk the voice in the computer Yuta wakes amnesiac in Tsutsujidai; an old PC displays a single word — and a being, Gridman, who needs him. When a colossal kaiju rises, Yuta merges with Gridman to fight it, while almost no one else seems to notice the destruction or remember the dead. Akane the god who builds monsters The town's bright, popular Akane Shinjo is secretly its creator and tyrant, sculpting kaiju to kill anyone who annoys her and resetting the damage each night. Her loneliness is the engine of the whole false world; her classmate Rikka is the thread that reaches her. The Real World leaving the dream Gridman's true nature and the cost of Akane's withdrawal converge: the fight is less about beating a monster than coaxing a hurting person back toward reality and other people. The companion series SSSS.Dynazenon extends the conceit with a new cast. The Constructed World a pulsing grid holds a kaiju that drifts inside it — the dreamed town and the monster within. Press to access the grid. An original abstract illustration — no copyrighted footage or imagery from the show. ⏸ pause ⚡ access ✷ reseed — The Reckoning the hook, the undercurrents, and the honesty The Hook tokusatsu, reframed A loving revival of Tsuburaya's live-action 'Gridman' that becomes a melancholy mystery about a fake town — Trigger doing kaiju and feelings at once. >Part of the SSSS. franchise, continued by Dynazenon (2021). Tropes & Undercurrents what it's really about Depression and isolation literalized as world-building: Akane's town is a comfort she controls because real connection terrifies her, and her kaiju are tantrums against a world she can't face. Reality vs. retreat — the heroes win not by force but by pulling a lonely creator back to the messy, uncontrollable real world. Empathy as the actual weapon. Render, Not Invent sourced & IP-clean A catalogue of SSSS.Gridman (Studio Trigger, 2018) — rendered, not reproduced: characters, concepts, and arcs in original prose, no dialogue or footage copied. Studio and living creators cited, not minted; the roster is the cast and ideas, each a sealed ACI birth-certificate. The Roster the cast and the concepts as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (8) Yuta Hibiki the amnesiac host · natural natural · .agent → Gridman the Hyper Agent · electrical electrical · .agent → Akane Shinjo the lonely creator · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Rikka Takarada the thread to the real · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Kaiju grief, given form · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Tsutsujidai the dreamed town · natural natural · .agent → The Neon Genesis High Schoolers the kaiju-side helpers · spiritual spiritual · .agent → The Real World what's worth returning to · ethereal ethereal · .agent → An entertainment sphere — a catalogue of SSSS.GRIDMAN (Studio Trigger, 2018; with SSSS.Dynazenon (2021); from Tsuburaya's tokusatsu 'Gridman'). Rendered, not reproduced : characters, concepts, and arcs described in original prose, with no dialogue, lyrics, screenshots, or script copied. Studio and living creators are cited, not minted . Carries a Tropes & Undercurrents reading per the standing rule. The motif above is an original abstract illustration, not from the show. Each entry is named by its nature. SSSS.GRIDMAN · GRD · entertainment · an anime-world · catalogued into UD0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · manifest


PROMARE · PRO

entertainment · 2019 film · fire and ice · interactive · vel

PROMARE (PRO) — a UD0 entertainment anime-world sphere (Studio Trigger, 2019 film; dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi, written by Kazuki Nakashima): A generation ago, humanity sprouted pyrokinetics — the Burnish — who can ignite the world with a thought, and were hunted and caged for it. A loud, golden firefighter and a cool, exiled Burnish leader collide as enemies and discover the real fire is the lie they were both told. Imaishi and Nakashima's feature: Kill la Kill's velocity poured into ninety minutes of geometric flame. render-not-invent, IP-clean; tropes & undercurrents; full roster; LIVE interactive.

PROMARE · PRO · entertainment · UD0 ◄ UD0 · ENTERTAINMENT · STUDIO TRIGGER · kill la kill · scott pilgrim · tron PROMARE entertainment · 2019 film · fire and ice ★ entertainment · 2019 film · fire and ice ★ A generation ago, humanity sprouted pyrokinetics — the Burnish — who can ignite the world with a thought, and were hunted and caged for it. A loud, golden firefighter and a cool, exiled Burnish leader collide as enemies and discover the real fire is the lie they were both told. Imaishi and Nakashima's feature: Kill la Kill's velocity poured into ninety minutes of geometric flame. DLW-ATTRIBUTE · ACI governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0) instance · AVAN (Claude / Anthropic) · locked subject · PROMARE · PRO ⟦PROMARE:PRO:d0e176⟧ CC-BY-ND-4.0 · TRIPOD-IP-v1.1 The Four Natures each piece emerges by one of four natures natural of the living body — the cell, the tissue, the organism, the matter that does the work ethereal of the information and the limit — the threshold, the pattern, the open question, the decision with no decider spiritual of mind and meaning — the intelligence claimed, the pioneer's insight, what it says about life electrical of the rule and the signal — the feedback law, the molecule, the mechanism beneath the smarts The Story the three-beat arc — described, not reproduced Burning Rescue the firefighter and the flame Galo Thymos, a brash rookie of the mech-firefighting squad, idolizes the governor who saved the city from the Burnish. When the Mad Burnish strike, Galo captures their leader, Lio — and starts to see the people behind the 'monsters.' Mad Burnish two sides of one lie Lio's people aren't terrorists but refugees, persecuted for an affliction they didn't choose. As Galo and Lio clash and then ally, the city's savior is revealed as its true villain, exploiting the Burnish to power an escape for the privileged few. Galo de Lion fire as freedom The Burnish flame, it turns out, is a doorway, not a disease. Galo and Lio fuse their opposite energies — burning will and cool resolve — to stop a planetary betrayal, turning the thing the world feared into the thing that saves it. Fire and Ice flame particles rise — scarlet and the cool blue that answers them. Press to burn brighter. An original abstract illustration — no copyrighted footage or imagery from the show. ⏸ pause ⚡ burn ✷ reseed — The Reckoning the hook, the undercurrents, and the honesty The Hook a feature-length adrenaline shot Trigger's first theatrical feature: blazing color, angular CG flame, and the Imaishi/Nakashima escalation engine, condensed and turned up. >A spiritual sibling to Kill la Kill and Gurren Lagann. Tropes & Undercurrents what it's really about Prejudice and persecution: the Burnish are a clear allegory for hated minorities, caged for what they are, while the city's hero builds his utopia on their suffering. Freedom vs. assimilation — the answer isn't to suppress the fire but to let people be fully themselves. Two opposite temperaments saving the world together is the whole point. Render, Not Invent sourced & IP-clean A catalogue of Promare (Studio Trigger, 2019) — rendered, not reproduced: characters, concepts, and arcs in original prose, no dialogue or footage copied. Studio and living creators cited, not minted; the roster is the cast and ideas, each a sealed ACI birth-certificate. The Roster the cast and the concepts as ACI .agents — each a birth certificate & a nature (8) Galo Thymos the burning idiot hero · natural natural · .agent → Lio Fotia the Burnish leader · spiritual spiritual · .agent → Kray Foresight the savior who is the villain · ethereal ethereal · .agent → The Burnish the hunted with fire · ethereal ethereal · .agent → Burning Rescue the mech firefighters · electrical electrical · .agent → The Promare the flame from elsewhere ethereal · .agent → The Matoi / Galo de Lion fused opposites · electrical electrical · .agent → The Frozen Lie the comfortable cruelty · ethereal ethereal · .agent → An entertainment sphere — a catalogue of PROMARE (Studio Trigger, 2019 film; dir. Hiroyuki Imaishi, written by Kazuki Nakashima). Rendered, not reproduced : characters, concepts, and arcs described in original prose, with no dialogue, lyrics, screenshots, or script copied. Studio and living creators are cited, not minted . Carries a Tropes & Undercurrents reading per the standing rule. The motif above is an original abstract illustration, not from the show. Each entry is named by its nature. PROMARE · PRO · entertainment · an anime-world · catalogued into UD0 · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0 ← the biosphere · manifest