Who Is Mr Glass In Split

"Practice you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your identify in this world, to non know why you're hither. That'due south... that's just an awful feeling. I almost gave up hope. At that place were so many times I questioned myself. But I institute you. So many sacrifices... just to find you. At present that we know who you are... I know who I am. I'm not a mistake. It all makes sense. In a comic, yous know how you can tell who the arch-villain's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero, and nigh times, they're friends, like you and me. I should've known way back when. You know why, David? Because of the kids. They called me Mr. Glass."

—Mr. Glass to David Dunn in Unbreakable

Elijah Toll, also known as Mr. Glass, is the overall main adversary of the Eastrail 177 film trilogy, serving as the main adversary of the 2000 film Unbreakable, the unseen overarching adversary of the 2017 moving-picture show Divide and the titular cardinal protagonist villain of the 2019 moving picture Glass.

He is portrayed by Samuel 50. Jackson. At in one case David Dunn's mentor and archenemy, he is also the owner of Limited Edition comic book art museum and (as the finale reveals) a supervillain.

Biography [ ]

Early on Life [ ]

Elijah Toll was born with Type I Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a rare genetic disorder which left his basic extremely brittle: simply being born was plenty to break infant Elijah's limbs, every bit the attending physician quickly discovered. Immature Elijah was relentlessly mocked throughout his childhood by the other children in the neighborhood, who often called him "Mr Glass" for his frailty; for proficient measure, constant visits to the infirmary ensured that he remained isolated throughout his babyhood, forcing him to seek solace in his one major hobby - reading comic books. However, as deleted scenes reveal, he connected his attempts to effort and fit in, often with disastrous consequences: at a visit to a fairground, he attempted to ride 1 of the rougher rides - only to finish upwardly breaking several basic afterwards his improvised rubber padding slipped out of the ride.

Reading Comic Books [ ]

Eventually, the bullying and potential for further injury got too much for Elijah, and he resolved to never leave the firm over again. However, his mother came upwardly with a solution: buying a large supply of comics as presents for her son, she would regularly put 1 of them on a park bench merely outside their business firm, essentially forcing Elijah to go outside to retrieve the comic before it could be stolen by a passer-past. Though this gradually had the upshot of boosting his conviction and encouraging him to get outside, he never achieved much of a social life, and Elijah spent much of his fourth dimension lone.

Finding a Superhero [ ]

Elijah at an drome before a airplane crash.

Every bit he grew older, Elijah began to ponder the beingness of a superhuman: cartoon on his extensive cognition of comic books, he came to believe that superheroes had once been a reality in history, that people with "existent" superpowers had been lionized in history as mythical heroes and eventually exaggerated beyond reality past the modern amusement manufacture. He even theorized that, if he represented the frailest a human being existence could be, perhaps there might be someone in the earth who stood at the opposite terminate of the scale - someone who couldn't be injured like virtually humans. This was to form a lifelong obsession, beginning simply with him studying the newspapers for stories of people who'd survived catastrophic disasters without being harmed; however, this gradually grew to dangerous extremes.

Elijah at a bar talking with a worker of the railroad train station.

As an adult, Elijah's devotion to comic books gradually inspired him to commencement his own comic book art gallery, Limited Edition; though regarded as a perfectly respectable business by the general public, it was also to get Elijah's workshop - his role condign a planning center for continued attempts to locate his superhuman antithesis. Hither, he would make bombs, plan future acts of sabotage, and chart the patterns of survival in catastrophes throughout the globe - some of them planned by him, some entirely adventitious.

Elijah walking away from the railroad train after sabotaging the train.

Just prior to the events of the film, Elijah had begun his search for his opposite in earnest past bombing an airplane and called-for a hotel to the ground, both incidents resulting in hundreds of casualties. Disappointed past the absence of survivors, he continued.

Meeting David Dunn [ ]

Elijah Price selling a moving picture in his art gallery.

The film begins with Elijah orchestrating a train crash, killing a hundred and thirty-one passengers and crew. However, this time there was a survivor: David Dunn, a humble security baby-sit. Seeking him out, Elijah plants a business organisation card on the front of David'south car, inviting him to Express Edition; however, later hearing the eccentric art dealer's theory, David isn't convinced and leaves under the impression that he'southward being scammed.

Injuring Himself [ ]

Prince talking to David Dunn near his by.

Undeterred, Elijah follows him to the football stadium where he works, gradually charming him into an extended conversation. However, while walking past a queue of people waiting to be immune into the stadium, David reveals an instinctive power to sense criminal beliefs or past wrongdoings by touch, intuiting that one of the men in line is carrying a gun. Though Elijah considers this farther proof of superhuman powers, David is in one case again dismissive. Withal, Elijah decides to follow the human out of the stadium, merely trips while descending a flight of stairs and shatters several basic - though he is vindicated when he discovers that his quarry is indeed armed.

Helping David Dunn [ ]

Elijah after falling down the stairs at the football game station.

Now wheelchair-leap for the adjacent few weeks, Elijah is assigned to physiotherapy and, after likely reading the list of therapists, chooses ane with Dunn as their last proper name, David's wife, Audrey. Over the form of their fourth dimension together, he learns that David supposedly injured himself in a car accident, ending his football game career; yet, Elijah believes that David faked his injuries and abased his future in sports in favor of his wedlock to Audrey - a theory eventually proved true. David continues to discount Elijah's theories of superhuman resilience, citing an incident in which he most drowned, and considers ending their discussions after his son almost shoots him in an effort to prove his powers be. Notwithstanding, Elijah eventually convinces him that this vulnerability to water is merely a superhuman Achilles Heel, and encourages him to use his powers to seek out wrongdoers.

The Handshake [ ]

After doing so - managing to rescue two children from a murderous abode-invader in the procedure - David attends an exhibition at Limited Edition to celebrate: here, Elijah congratulates him on finally discovering his truthful purpose in life, and shakes his hand. However, David's power to sense wrongdoing reveals Elijah'south crimes to him - including the train crash - and he can only stare in horror and disbelief as his mentor reveals himself, calmly merely eagerly challenge that the deaths were all justified equally a means to find a true superhero.

Toll reveals that he caused the train crash.

Overwhelmed with emotion, Elijah explains that he finally knows his purpose in life - to be the curvation-villain to David's hero, even going and then far as to suggest that his childhood moniker, "Mr. Glass," should take alerted him to the fact that he was always a meant to be a villain. Unable to comport the truth, David leaves. The final captions reveal that David led police to Elijah, who was committed to an institution for the criminally insane.

Incarceration [ ]

Elijah was incarcerated in Raven Colina Memorial Psychiatric Hospital, Elijah would effort to escape a few times only failed. Due to his many escape attempts the Doctors who attempt to heavily sedate Elijah, only would always swap out the prescribed quantity medication for aspirin in the same quantity. Elijah proved very capable at making the rest of the hospital staff thinking that he had gone into a catatonic state from the medication and other psychotropic drugs.

Condign the Mastermind... [ ]

Coming together Patricia & the Horde [ ]

After escaping from his room, Elijah went to the security room and logged onto a computer. Elijah began to research online manufactures about the Overseers' vigilante activities and examined a file on Kevin Wendell Nibble. Elijah looked at a list of the numerous identities residing within Kevin and the nature of The Creature. Elijah then entered the Hordes room to observe Patricia crying. Elijah told Patricia that he was a comic book expert and explained to Patricia his theory that comic books were equally a continuation of documentation recounting the superhuman feats that humans are capable of only had been over-exaggerated.

Elijah asks Patricia what is upsetting her, she reveals that she is beginning to doubt the Beasts boggling abilities and beliefs he may simply be unwell similar Elijah. Elijah reassures Patricia by stating that all things extraordinary can exist explained even though they are true and yet in that location are those who cannot exist killed with bullets and some who can all the same bend steel. Patricia tells Elijah that if he can go the Horde out of captivity and then he may meet the Beast.

Coming together the Creature [ ]

Using hypnotic lights he manages to bring out Hedwig, who follows him into the surgery room. He turns around and watches Hedwig give the light to the Beast. The Creature asks Elijah if he truly believes in him, and reaffirms he does further stating that he has believed in the existence of superhumans like the Beast his whole life. Elijah tells the Beast that in comic books superhumans would disharmonism at a place celebrating man'southward achievements only he will need to fight David in order to convince the globe of their existence.

Escape from Raven Hill Memorial [ ]

Boxing betwixt the Overseer and the Beast [ ]

Death [ ]

During the battle between David Dunn and The Beast, Elijah reveals to The Beast David's weakness for water, after which Joseph reveals that Kevin'due south begetter died in the train wreck caused by Elijah Price xix years before. Despite thanking him for his creation, The Beast mortally wounds Elijah out of distrust for Kevin after which he succumbs to his injuries.

Legacy [ ]

"At that place are unknown forces that don't want us to realise to what nosotros are truly capable of, they don't want us to know the things nosotros suspect that are extraordinary near ourselves are real. I believe that if everyone sees what simply a few people become when they wholly comprehend their gifts others will awaken. Belief in oneself is contagious, we give each other permission to be superheroes, nosotros will never awaken otherwise. Whoever these people are who don't want united states of america to know the truth, today they lose."

Despite his death, too equally the unfortunate demises of Kevin Wendell Nibble and the Overseer, information technology was Price who got the final laugh. As he knew that there were those who didn't want people to know of superhuman or their potentials, he was able to fool Dr. Staple into believing that he was planning to expose superhumans and the recently built Osaka Tower in Philadelphia. In reality, he initiated a suicide mission at Raven Hill to expose the truth. Prior to his decease, he leaked the footage of the consequence to a private site where information technology could be broadcasted across the Internet and numerous news stations across the earth, resulting in the existence of superhuman revealed to the world, and making the Black Clover System's attempts to cover-up an ultimately futile one, undoing 10,000 years of covering upwardly the superhuman'south existence and their suppression/genocide. Information technology is also probable that the his mission brought the organization'due south conspiracy and actions to low-cal.

Personality [ ]

Elijah is a remarkably complicated man, in no small part due to the double life he leads as a terrorist and budding supervillain. For much of the film, he appears to be a perfectly respectable member of guild; intelligent, immensely knowledgeable in his chosen field of study, and broken-hearted to see the globe improved past the presence of a superhero, he even serves every bit a mentor of sorts to David in encouraging him to attain his true potential.

However, long before the final revelation, Elijah demonstrates a pronounced obsessive streak - both in regards to comics and in regards to proving David a superhero: in the case of the former, he'southward prepared to go into an statement with a high-paying client over the proper use of comic book art, while in the example of the latter, he's willing to get and then far as to stem David at work in an effort to persuade him. In a farther testify of obsessive dedication, he risks decease or serious injury while pursuing a criminal down a flight of stairs (an incident that ends with Elijah tripping over and shattering several bones) in an endeavour to see if the human being was actually carrying a gun, every bit David had suspected.

He also demonstrates a remarkable souvenir for charisma and manipulation, proving himself able to enthrall his audience with lectures and unexpected topics of conversation: fifty-fifty during a adequately mundane talk with his physiotherapist, he is able to steer the course of the conversation away from his physical therapy and towards his therapist's union - to the bespeak that the therapist herself puts aside all talk of work in favor of an extended discussion of her husband. On a much grander scale, Elijah is able to gradually convince both David and his son of the reality of a superhuman, until even the immensely skeptical David finds himself enthralled by the idea.

The finale of the film ultimately reveals that Elijah's obsessions are far more dangerous and violent than beginning appearances propose: suffering an intense inferiority circuitous as a result of his inability, he is driven to find his heroic antithesis by any means necessary, assertive it to be the just means of justifying his existence. To this end, he has gone then far every bit to engineer the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of people in airdrome bombings, hotel fires, and (virtually recently) railroad train crashes. Though lacking a criminal organization or henchmen of any kind, Elijah was able to accomplish these acts just by applying his impressive intelligence to manufacturing explosives and planning unimaginable acts of sabotage - non to mention his noted gift for manipulation: not only was he able to beguile a hotel employee into discussing the structural weaknesses of the building he was planning to incinerate, but he was able to make himself finer beneath suspicion only by seeming as well helpless to pose a threat; at i point in David'southward flashback, Elijah is seen limping out of the driver's compartment on the train he sabotaged, but the driver rapidly dismisses the sighting without another idea.

In the terminate, Elijah makes no apologies for his deportment, nor does he always believe that his crimes are annihilation but justified. However, rather than letting his activities go undiscovered, he decides to reveal himself by shaking David's hand, allowing him to witness the full extent of his efforts to detect his contrary; though he is arrested soon after, Elijah is final seen smile through his tears, charmed at his success in validating his ain existence.

During the events of Glass, Toll believes it to exist his responsibility to expose The Clover Organisation's actions of hiding superhumans from the rest of the world. Information technology would seem Price considers himself the spokesperson for superhumans.

Powers and Abilities [ ]

Powers [ ]

Superhuman Intelligence: Elijah Price has demonstrated himself a supergenius at deduction, tactics, strategies, manipulation, and overall data retention, which has immune him to achieve most, if non any stop goal he desires, despite his concrete frailty. This is most obviously displayed in Elijah'south encyclopedic cognition of comic book history and lore, besides as his ability to depict upon aboriginal myths and legends to produce elaborate and surprisingly accurate theories and hypotheses well-nigh superhumans. This superhuman intelligence also allowed Elijah to quickly learn how to apply new technologies and exploit their weaknesses, as demonstrated when he was capable of hacking into a computer even afterwards he was sedated for a lengthy menstruation. Indeed, with that concluding hack, Elijah was able to irreversibly expose the being of superhumans to the world at large, and permanently thwart the Clover Organization, despite that grouping having murdered himself, Dunn, and Crumb.

Abilities [ ]

Principal Manipulator: Despite his off-putting demeanor and reclusive nature, Elijah possesses a level of charisma that has immune him to gain the trust of individuals such as David Dunn and Kevin Wendell Crumb, (specifically his personalities, including even the cannibalistic sociopath, "The Beast"), simply losing David's friendship due to Elijah revealing his murderous nature to him, and The Horde's trust due to Joseph telling The Beast the truth behind Elijah's role in the decease of Clarence Wendell Crumb.

Weaknesses [ ]

Frailty: Elijah'southward almost debilitating weakness is his Type I Osteogenesis Imperfecta, that has rendered his basic extremely breakable. This has resulted in his artillery and legs beingness cleaved by merely being born and breaking multiple bones throughout his body by falling down a flying of stairs. Elijah has had a total of 94 breaks in his 56 year lifespan. This ultimately led to his death, as Elijah was easily brutalized by the superhuman forcefulness of the Fauna - having his shoulder and collarbone crushed, and ribcage destroyed with one punch, with those cleaved basic lacerating Elijah's internal organs.

Relationships [ ]

Family unit [ ]

Mrs. Price - Mother
Father

Allies [ ]

Dr. Mathison - Doctor
Kevin Wendell Nibble/The Horde † - Marry turned Killer

Enemies [ ]

David Dunn/The Overseer † - Former Friend turned Arch Enemy
Audrey Dunn †
Joseph Dunn
Dr. Ellie Staple

Trivia [ ]

Fan theory further speculates that the father of Kevin Wendell Nibble, aka The Horde, could've been killed in the same train derailment that David Dunn was the but survivor of. If this proves truthful, so Price not just created a superhero, David, but a super villain as well, Kevin, equally he was raised by his abusive mother due to his father's death and every bit a result adult 24 personalities to hold the pain of the abuse inflicted by his female parent. In the end of Glass, this is proved to be true.

References [ ]

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'Carve up' Sequel Starring Samuel Fifty. Jackson every bit Mr. Drinking glass Coming
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