Oh man. So here’s the thing. I’m unbreakable. Un. Break. Able. Except … well my brain is still a brain and I’ve now sustained I think 50 massive concussions. I can’t remember how many (literally). Do you remember what happened in Glass?
Pop Quiz Hot Shot!
1) Aw man you remember Unbreakable … yeah that was cool. Well our hero has a new job. What is it?
2) Aw man you remember Split?! Well our villain is really up to no good. Where is he keeping his new set of girls to be consumed by The Beast?
3) Aw man you remember … this movie. Well our other villain Mr. Glass is still around. Where has he been being kept for these long years?
4) Well guess what, now they are all there. How do they keep Split and Unbreakable under control though?
5) Aw shoot, I’m out of questions. Well I guess one more question. Who is the actual villains of the film and what are their nefarious plans?
Bonus Question: Well … now they need a hero. Where do you find the next Unbreakable?
Answers
1) He sells security equipment. He was a security guard. And now him and his son sell techno-wizardy in the form of modern security equipment.
2) In a brick factory. Well an abandoned one. We know that because he says a bunch of times “He’s hiding them in a brick factory” since he sees like brick dust on Split’s pants.
3) In a psychiatric hospital. Because he’s a stone cold psycho. And he’s for sure definitely comatose and not just pretending and putting into motion his grand plan to take over the world (or whatever) again.
4) For Split they have some nonsense about light induced hypnosis. It is supposed to force his personality to relinquish control. This appears to be disorienting enough that he is unable to get out of the room which sounds absurd. As for Unbreakable he gets blasted with water (a high pressure water gun, my only weakness! How did you know?). Might as well throw in Mr. Glass: he’s drugged.
5) They are an international (although currently all in Philadelphia?) conspiracy like the Illuminati whose sole purpose is to identify and take down superheroes / supervillains as they emerge. But this time they are going to do something a little different: they are going to give them a chance to forget they are super. Doesn’t work, and they are forced to kill them all. But their friends/family release a rather unimpressive YouTube video that is sure to convince people that superheroes are real and this is definitely not a lame looking prank using modestly budgeted CGI.
Bonus Answer: I guess in this world we are looking for a guy who is only sliiiiiightly superpowered. So let’s go with something simple … a guy who is like slightly faster than you would think. He came about due to childhood trauma. He was born with deformed legs. Through years of painful surgery and reconstruction overseen by his strict father, a doctor who couldn’t bear to see his “imperfect” son be made anything less than perfect. For his entire childhood he could run, let alone walk. But when his father had one too many and killed a patient during a routine surgery his life spirals and home became unbearable. One night, his father flew into a rage and the kid (now almost a man) finally ran. On the street he became a thief, and the bewildered police suggested a cat burglar who seemed faster than any perp they had ever encountered. Some even maintained he could outrun their cars. Well, on the mean streetz of Philly, The Thief has a run in with Unbreakable Jr. (now something of a Batman-esque character taking up the mantle of his father as best he can), who realized if he can turn this man to good they could have the hero they need. And just in time, because there is a new villain in town as well, and the Syndicate (or whatever) are still hunting down the new emerging superpowered individuals as they crop up as well.
It’s called Heist, and yeah, it kicks off a whole new era of M. Night films in the Unbreakable-verse.
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