Why the M. Night Shyamalan's Superhero Universe is too Underrated?

Harihar Muni

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SUPERHEROES the moment you listen to this word what is the first thing that comes to your mind? A handsome tall ripped shaped body showing off some really incredible with some high-octane actions, right? This is all we think, don't we?

 Honestly, it's not your fault but the creators of these superhero movies/ comic books are the ones who have spoilt us. Today the most leading or who has a large number of fans are been more attracted to these commercial or pretty manipulated superhero stories, like the Marvel and DC but more often Marvel superhero universe. Where their major focus is on attracting the audiences by really jaw-dropping VFX or some of its top-notch action sequences instead of constructing the characters and bringing out some really grounded superhero movies or stories that would be loved why the masses just like the Batman series or the DC Universe but there is more incredible and grounded superhero cinematic universe which just went unnoticed.

In this movie still, there are three major characters from the Shyamalan's trilogy 

The Eastrail 177 trilogy it's famously called the Unbreakable series by M. Night Shyamalan. Superhero films were not more famous back than in the early 2000s also there was really no grounded superhero like Batman or else, but we had one actually two more but they wouldn’t be completely considered as superheroes. Night Shyamalan introduced the world to some really mighty and evil fiction characters from the comic. It all started from the 2000 film Unbreakable story written and directed by Shyamalan himself, David Dunn (Bruce Wills) train accident survivor who was only the passenger who had zero injuries and nor a single scratch on his body. He is therefore known as UNBREAKABLE. Just like every human has some weak points our hero had the same, water was his threat for life. He was the first superhero who was introduced into the trilogy a completely grounded superhuman who discovered his strength and superpowers by another intelligent yet character who is very much confusing also great at the same time. First name Mr, last name Glass yes this is how he introduce himself; Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson) He had a very interesting superpower? Yes, we can but his superpower was a curse for himself, he is as delicate glass can be, a small punch and he is broken into pieces. When was born his left arm was actually sabotaged very badly no it wasn’t purposely but by mistake, but just like David Dunn he had weakness called a mental person who lives in a dream comic world, he was actually very much smart, this is because he made the world witness that there are superheroes and supervillains do exists.

Wait did I say supervillain? Yes there is a supervillain in Night Shyamalan’s superhero universe and his name is Kevin Windell Crumb, Ms. Patrichia, Dennis, Orwell, the Beast, I know you are confused to let me explain to you, so basically Kevin (James McAvoy) is the real character the man who had a very dark past due to which he is very much attached and affected because of which he is suffering from a dissociative identity disorder. And these names are all these characters whom he transforms to change himself into any character he has a file saved on his desktop basically there are not one or a couple of personalities but 23 personalities which were not actually shown but in the final series of the trilogy had come out of these the most brutal and dangerous is the Beast. The proper order of watching these three films is very much simplified by the creator of this incredible yet underrated film. It pretty took 10 years for the sequel of the film and say goodbye within a span of two years.

 

Wait this is not the end actually it’s said that the trilogy is over but, Shyamalan told Vulture that technically, the universe he created "could" continue, but he also noted that he has no plans for another installment in the series. Now let’s wait for the next Shyamalan cinematic universe or a superhero film series our we can keep our fingers crossed that we might any spinoff of any characters. The Shyamalan trilogy is so really underrated but now just like me, there are more fans of such genre, stories. Lastly, like Mr. Glass said that superheroes are everywhere it’s upon us how we can bring it and show it to the world. This was a piece from the Archives.