Glass." Elijah Price, also known as Mr. Glass, is the overall main antagonist of the Eastrail 177 film trilogy, serving as the main antagonist of the 2000 film Unbreakable, the unseen overarching antagonist of the 2017 film Split and the titular villainous main protagonist of the 2019 film Glass.
Samuel L. Jackson's Elijah Price made for a memorable, complex villain in both Glass and Unbreakable, but it's unclear what Mr. Glass' real superpower was. Unbreakable centers on David Dunn (Bruce Willis), a normal man who survives a horrifying train wreck without a single scratch.
The starting point for Unbreakable is the Eastrail 177 train crash, orchestrated by Elijah Price in a bid to find a superbeing, of which David Dunn is the only survivor.
After the Eastrail 177 Crash, he befriended David Dunn because of his interests in comic books and tries to get him to become a superhero. Unbeknownst to David, it was Elijah who orchestrated the train crash all along, allowing Elijah to become the villain to David's superhero.
What Makes Mr. Glass One Of The Most Chilling Villains In Film History
What is Mr. Glass's weakness?
Weaknesses. Frailty: Elijah's most debilitating weakness is his Type I Osteogenesis Imperfecta, that has rendered his bones extremely brittle. This has resulted in his arms and legs being broken by merely being born and breaking multiple bones throughout his body by falling down a flight of stairs.
One of the main characters, Elijah Price aka Mr. Glass, portrayed by Samuel L Jackson, suffers from type I osteogenesis imperfecta. As he puts it, “It's a genetic disorder. I don't make a particular protein very well, and it makes my bones very low in density…
At the end of that movie, the Beast lets Casey, one of the teenagers he has kidnapped, go—all because she has suffered sexual abuse throughout her life. (He only eats innocent girls who have never suffered.) The villain distills the movie's philosophy in one creepy line: “Rejoice! The broken are more evolved.”
Kevin's mother failed to protect him from abuse and neglect, either due to her own damaged state or her lack of interest in fulfilling her role as a caregiver [1]. Her abusive behavior and neglectful actions contributed to Kevin's trauma and likely exacerbated his psychological struggles.
While it has plenty of connections to Unbreakable, Glass is also a direct sequel to Split. It brings back Casey Cooke, the sole survivor of The Beast's rampage in Split and the only person capable of bringing Kevin's true identity to the forefront.
Ok, as we all know, Elijah Price, Kevin Wendell Crumb, and David Dunn all die. Elijah (aka Mr. Glass) is killed by the Beast, Kevin (aka the Beast) is killed by being shot by a sniper, and David is drowned in a puddle.
Elijah has a disease called osteogenesis imperfecta type I, a genetic disease that causes his bones to break as if they were glass, a fact that gave rise to his nickname in school.
Featuring characters like Samuel L. Jackson's villainous Mr. Glass and the many personalities who inhabit the body of James McAvoy's Kevin Wendell Crumb, this universe has its roots not in the comic libraries of Marvel or DC but rather in Shyamalan's own imagination.
David has a weakness to water; being exposed to water weakens him and drains his strength. He had a near-death experience when he nearly drowned at a young age due to children his age trying to push him under water. As a result, he wears a long, hooded raincoat as part of his vigilante disguise.
PURPLE represents royalty, power, and leadership. Elijah acted as David's leader or mentor troughout their journey. Every time we see Elijah Price or his mother they are wearing PURPLE. Whether it be in the lavish coats Elijah wears, his cane, or his mother's dress at the end, PURPLE is always present in his scenes.
And after a lifetime of being bullied for his particular condition, it is revealed at the end that Glass has decided his reason for being is to be the villain to Dunn's superhero. This was all connected in a twisty post-credits sequence during 2016's Split, starring James McAvoy.
The film has been poorly received by mental illness and dissociative identity disorder campaigners. Mental health advocates warn that the film stigmatizes dissociative identity disorder and may directly affect those living with it.
Thus, he is not a villain; he is a victim, just like Casey, and he is no more at fault for his behavioral issues than she is. Split criticizes the air of skepticism surrounding mental illness, implying that society is partially to blame for the antagonist's violence.
“Home Alone” never revealed what the family did for a living but it was assumed that Kate McCallister worked in fashion since the house had mannequins. Kevin's dad was a businessman because it was “a safe bet,” Todd Strasser, who wrote the official novelizations of “Home Alone” said, according to the Times.
The camera then tracks over to reveal Bruce Willis, reprising his role of David Dunn (evidenced by his nametag), who dryly confirms the old villain's identity as Mr. Glass and walks out. It's a plot twist that reveals the characters of Split and Unbreakable have been in the same world all along.
When Dennis takes one victim (Sula) into a private room, Casey whispers to the girl to “pee on yourself” as a defensive strategy. Given Dennis's germaphobia, the ploy works, although it soon becomes evident that sex slavery is not on the table.
Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
OI type 3 is a severe, progressive, rare form of autosomal dominant transmission with new mutations. Osteopenia and bone fragility are significant, with numerous fractures, continuous and severe deformity of the spine, and long bones with age. The sclera is normal.
David is on the hunt for Beast, the serial killer introduced in “Split,” 24 personalities inside one body (played by James McAvoy), who was once someone named Kevin. Kevin, who terrorized high-school girls in the first movie, is up to it again here, until David decides to intervene.
The film ends with its three superpowered men dead, but with Mr. Glass getting the last laugh; he's arranged for footage of their battle to be distributed around the world, thus informing humanity that superpowered beings are among them. That ending has been a point of contention among critics and film journalists.
