| 1 | Character page for ''Film/{{Split}}''. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | '''Beware of spoilers!''' |
| 4 | ---- |
| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | !!Kevin Wendell Crumb and his split Personalities |
| 8 | [[folder:Kevin Wendell Crumb]] |
| 9 | !!Kevin Wendell Crumb / The Horde |
| 10 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kevinwendellcrumbsplit.png]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Did I hurt you?"'']] |
| 12 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JamesMcAvoy |
| 13 | !!!'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/AlexisVictor (European French) |
| 14 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 15 | |
| 16 | ->''"Why do you all keep bringing me back? I-I don't want to be here!"'' |
| 17 | |
| 18 | A man who suffers from an extreme case of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), with two dozen separate personalities residing in his mind and alternatively taking over it. |
| 19 | ---- |
| 20 | * AbusiveParents: [[GreaterScopeVillain His mother]] was apparently a particularly heinous example. |
| 21 | * AlliterativeName: Similar to Clark Kent, Kevin Crumb has the same sounds, if not the same letters. |
| 22 | * AlternateIdentityAmnesia: TruthInTelevision. As with real life cases of DID, Kevin has no memory of his alters' actions. |
| 23 | * BaldOfEvil: Kevin keeps a very short buzz-cut, which augments the evil factor of his evil personalities. |
| 24 | * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: An aspect of his personalities. Each personality is so distinct that they differ psychologically and to a limited extent even ''physically and physiologically'' from each other. |
| 25 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: So incredibly dark and troubled he developed twenty-three alters to endure it. |
| 26 | * DeathSeeker: When he realizes his alters have hurt people, he asks Casey to shoot him. |
| 27 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:When he bites it at the end of ''Glass'', he dies in Casey's arms.]] |
| 28 | * DisappearedDad: His dad is mentioned as having left him at a train station, which is why he imagines the Beast residing there. Taking it with the TwistEnding, [[spoiler:it's highly likely his father died in the Eastrail 177 crash -- which was confirmed by ''Glass'']]. |
| 29 | * DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:An InvokedTrope by Casey in ''Glass'', who gives his FullNameUltimatum to push the alternate personalities away and render him vulnerable to gunfire, a fact that the AncientConspiracy of CapeBusters quickly takes advantage of.]] |
| 30 | * EnemyWithin: His three "undesirable" alters and [[spoiler:the Beast]]. |
| 31 | * FlipPersonality: When Kevin's alters take over, his body manifests changes in expression, posture, and voice. [[spoiler:And then the Beast takes this up a notch with overt supernatural powers.]] |
| 32 | * {{Foil}}: He is one to [[spoiler:[[Film/{{Unbreakable}} Elijah Price/Mr. Glass]]]]. Both were raised primarily by their mothers and had a less-than-stellar home life, but for completely opposite reasons. [[spoiler:Elijah was bullied for his condition that made his bones as brittle as glass, and]] Kevin is now feared for the condition that resulted in his super-strength. Ultimately, [[spoiler:both paths [[Film/Glass2019 set them towards meeting David Dunn]]]]. |
| 33 | * JekyllAndHyde: Kevin seems to be a completely normal and kind person, in spite of his mental condition. It seems that both himself and Barry represent his Jekyll half, while Hedwig, Dennis, and Patricia represent the various degrees of his darker, crazier aspects (in that order), which finally culminates in [[spoiler:The Beast, who on the other hand, fully embodies his Hyde half]]. |
| 34 | * TheKillerInMe: [[spoiler:The Beast.]] |
| 35 | * MeaningfulName: Given he's a NeatFreak (in fact, a bread crumb is one thing Dennis complains about finding in the girls' clothing) and is crumbling on the inside. |
| 36 | * MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities: Kevin has at least four female alters out of his twenty-three. |
| 37 | * ParentalAbandonment: Kevin's father is said to have "left on a train". Whether he died or simply left the family is ambiguous [[spoiler: until ''Glass'' reveals that he did indeed die, as the train he left on was Eastrail 177.]] |
| 38 | * ShootTheDog: [[spoiler: His fate by the end of ''Glass'' - Kevin remains a good person to the end, but he needs to die so that the Horde and the Beast perish with him.]] |
| 39 | * SuperPoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:The Beast.]] |
| 40 | * SplitPersonality: Oh boy yes... And a surprisingly [[TruthInTelevision accurate]] depiction of it. |
| 41 | * SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler:Patricia, Dennis, and Hedwig along with the Beast in the end.]] |
| 42 | * TragicVillain: Manages to come out briefly to ask Casey to shoot him before the Beast personality manages to retake control. Throughout the movie, Dr. Fletcher goes into intricate detail on how the multiple personalities were created to protect Kevin and mentions she can tell he does not wish to do bad things, since some of his personalities reach out to her for help. |
| 43 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Develops Dissociative Identity Disorder as a result of severe emotional trauma, and lack of treatment eventually drives him to harm people against his will. |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder: Barry]] |
| 47 | !!Barry |
| 48 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barry_1.jpg]] |
| 49 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm wearing cargo pants from the '90s. And a scarf. If it wasn't for the Varvatos T-shirt underneath, I'd be a mess."'']] |
| 50 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 51 | |
| 52 | ->''"The Horde keeps obsessing about the ones who haven't suffered. I don't know where they're going with this, but it scares me."'' |
| 53 | |
| 54 | The personality of a flamboyant fashion expert, working tirelessly with Dr. Fletcher to keep Kevin's more dangerous identities "out of the light". When Barry's control on the group starts to wane, Kevin's dark sides mutiny and he becomes lethal. |
| 55 | ---- |
| 56 | * BaldOfEvil: Defied. Being TheHeart of the personalities, he seems to prefer wearing a wool cap, which makes it seem like he has hair and thereby more personable. |
| 57 | * TheFashionista: He is big into fashion and enjoys dabbling in his own sketches. |
| 58 | * FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Barry tries to do this through e-mailing Dr. Fletcher to schedule appointments. Dennis learns of these and impersonates Barry in order to try and give off the impression that nothing is wrong.]] |
| 59 | * TheHeart: By far the nicest and most reasonable of Kevin's personalities. |
| 60 | * NiceGuy: Kevin's nicest and friendliest personality, by far, besides Kevin's core self. |
| 61 | [[/folder]] |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [[folder: Dennis]] |
| 64 | !!Dennis |
| 65 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dennis_0.jpg]] |
| 66 | [[caption-width-right:300:''[[NeatFreak "Please, keep your area neat."]]'']] |
| 67 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 68 | |
| 69 | ->''"I'm trying to be good."'' |
| 70 | |
| 71 | One of Kevin's more disturbing personalities, Dennis is temperamental and has a perverted liking for watching young girls dance naked. He demonstrates traits of obsessive-compulsive disorder and a firm tendency towards cleanliness and order (which is possibly duplicated from Kevin's abusive mother). Dennis is devious, being shown to have been masquerading as Barry since the very beginning of the film. |
| 72 | ---- |
| 73 | * AffablyEvil: He looks like he'd get along very well with Dr Fletcher if he wasn't so obsessed with the Beast. |
| 74 | * ApologeticAttacker: Is sincerely sorry when [[spoiler:he knocks out Dr. Fletcher and leaves her for the Beast]]. |
| 75 | * AxCrazy: He is not of sound mind. |
| 76 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Kevin, the original personality. Everything he does is to "protect" Kevin from harm. This especially extends to Hedwig, the youngest persona of Kevin. |
| 77 | * BigBadDuumvirate: He and Patricia are in charge of Kevin throughout most of the film thanks to their manipulation of Hedwig. |
| 78 | * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: A firm believer that Kevin has this, and wants to push it to its limits. [[spoiler:Which is why he tries to bring about the Beast.]] |
| 79 | * ControlFreak: A consequence of his ObsessivelyOrganized tendencies developed to protect Kevin from his psychotic mother, this lends to Dennis's tense persona. |
| 80 | * DeathGlare: Dennis gives some truly chilling ones. |
| 81 | * {{Ephebophile}}: Dennis is said to have a problem with watching teenage girls dance naked. |
| 82 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: As the result of his Big Brother personality, he is very '''disgusted''' by the girls when they trick Hedwig, the nine year old persona of Kevin. |
| 83 | -->'''Dennis''': You shouldn't trick children. That shows who you are. |
| 84 | ** [[spoiler: He is unwilling to go along with the plan to blow up Osaka Tower, so Hedwig and Patricia ban him from the light.]] |
| 85 | * HairTriggerTemper: Played with. Dennis is more easy to emotionally provoke than the other alters, but his ControlFreak nature keeps his temper from actually being loosed. |
| 86 | * TheHeavy: He is the alter who does the most heavy lifting, being the biggest and strongest of them. |
| 87 | * HydePlaysJekyll: Though not evil, Dennis is certainly more malevolent than Barry, the alter he impersonates when in sessions with his therapist. |
| 88 | * LeanAndMean: Though not as bad as [[EvilMatriarch Patricia]], Dennis is still pretty mean. |
| 89 | * MaddenIntoMisanthropy: The abuse he suffered at the hands of Kevin's mother is what obviously developed his sullen and wrathful nature. |
| 90 | * NeatFreak: He cannot stand seeing something dirty. |
| 91 | * ObsessivelyOrganized: He is distressed by anything dirty or disordered and manifested to keep everything spotless to keep Kevin's [[AbusiveParents mother]] from becoming angry. This is what first tips off Kevin's therapist that something is wrong, since the alter Barry, who he claims to be, doesn't have this. |
| 92 | * PapaWolf: Towards the original personality Kevin and the nine-year-old alter Hedwig. |
| 93 | * StrongerThanTheyLook: Dennis is strong enough to easily shove the door open, even with two of the three girls pushing against it. |
| 94 | * SuppressedRage: Dennis's default state. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Patricia]] |
| 98 | !!Patricia |
| 99 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/patricia_4.jpg]] |
| 100 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"We are what we believe we are..."'']] |
| 101 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 102 | |
| 103 | ->''"In the sun, we will find our passion. In the sun, we will find our purpose."'' |
| 104 | |
| 105 | The personality of a sophisticated, orderly, and polite 'woman' who has considerable command over some of the other personalities (claiming that the others 'listen' to her). She assures Casey, Claire, and Marcia that Dennis will not touch them because they are to serve a greater purpose than Dennis' desires. |
| 106 | ---- |
| 107 | * AffablyEvil: Tries her best to comfort the girls in their last hours. Even when the girls try to escape, she approaches them like a disappointed mother. This doesn't change the fact that she seeks to unleash the Beast, and the DissonantSerenity may actually make her more creepy, not less. |
| 108 | * BigBadDuumvirate: She and Dennis are in charge of Kevin throughout most of the film thanks to their manipulation of Hedwig. |
| 109 | * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: A firm believer that Kevin has this, and wants to push it to its limits. [[spoiler:Which is why she tries to bring about the Beast, a personality that believes itself to be an evolved superhuman.]] |
| 110 | * CondescendingCompassion: Her character in a nutshell. |
| 111 | * TheCorrupter: [[spoiler:Between the events of ''Split'' and ''Glass'', she has managed to convert several more of Kevin's alters to "Team Horde", raising its total members from three to twelve.]] |
| 112 | * CreepyCrossdresser: She is Kevin's female personality. Not so much with what little we see of Jade, his other feminine persona who seems to be a fairly normal alternate. |
| 113 | * EvilMatriarch: Patricia is the personality of an elderly, passive-aggressive, and very dangerous lady. She treats the hostages to dinner, and insists on combing their hair and dressing them up for their "special night". She relates to the other personalities as a maternal figure. She views Dennis as a "not-well" but otherwise helpful subordinate, and Hedwig as a child in need of guidance. While Hedwig may be the personality that is in possession of the "light", it's clear that Patricia is the main ideological force behind "The Horde". |
| 114 | * TheFundamentalist: She wholeheartedly believes in purging the weak and bringing pain to the ones who haven't suffered, and that Kevin's Dissociative Identity Disorder has allowed him to transcend human limitations. [[spoiler:She believes so strongly that she deliberately sets out to bring about the emergence of The Beast.]] |
| 115 | * SocialDarwinist: She appears to be the biggest proponent of the "Purge the Weak" mentality [[spoiler:that is later fully realized by the Beast]]. |
| 116 | * TheUnfettered: Why she was banned from "the Light" by the other personalities. [[spoiler:She will stop at nothing to awaken the Beast and make the "impure" suffer.]] |
| 117 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Like the other personalities, she wants to do what is best for Kevin. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she thinks that the best way to help Kevin is to bring about the birth of the murderous, cannibalistic, super-powered Beast.]] |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:Hedwig]] |
| 121 | !!Hedwig |
| 122 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hedwig_8.jpg]] |
| 123 | [[caption-width-right:300:''[[CatchPhrase "Et cetera."]]'']] |
| 124 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 125 | |
| 126 | ->''"No one's allowed to make fun of me anymore."'' |
| 127 | |
| 128 | The personality of a nine-year-old boy with several compulsive behaviors, such as proclaiming that he has red socks, crawling on bent knees, and ending sentences with 'et cetera'. He loves to dance crazily, do drawings, and he is disciplined by the other personalities. He befriends Casey. |
| 129 | ---- |
| 130 | * AdultsDressedAsChildren: The alter Hedwig is a 9 year-old-child and attempts to dress as such in a sports outfit. He also has a habit of mentioning his sock colors randomly to show his childishness. |
| 131 | * AllPowerfulBystander: Hedwig has the ability to "Steal the light" which basically means he is capable of choosing which personality is present at any given moment and is capable of effortlessly doing this with all of them (yes including TheDreaded beast). However since he has the mind of a 9 year-old boy he is easily manipulated by the more malicious personalities; essentially turning him into a tool to keep the kinder personalities locked up and not much else. |
| 132 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: Kevin's most childlike personality. |
| 133 | * CatchPhrase: Hedwig often uses the phrase "Et cetera" when ending his statements. |
| 134 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He is mostly just ''off'' as opposed to being malevolent, behaving similarly to any kid with an behavior disorder (in this case, an odd mix of ADD with a few sociopathic traits thrown in for good measure). |
| 135 | * CreepyChild: He's as naive and emotionally unstable as a small child, but with the body of an adult. Even ignoring his physical age, his excitement over the Beast's abilities and disconnection from the pain he's causing would be pretty creepy anyway. |
| 136 | * DudeShesLikeInAComa: Casey was asleep when Hedwig decided to sneak in and join her nap. She wakes up and is shown as being very disturbed by the realization that she is not napping alone. |
| 137 | * GenderBlenderName: He is a 9-year-old boy with a girl's name. |
| 138 | * KidsAreCruel: Is fully aware that the Beast does "horrible things" to people and doesn't seem at all bothered that the girls he's chatting with are about to become victims. He is also quite gleeful about being the one in charge of which alter gets to control Kevin's body, and shows a disturbing excitement about the power he wields. |
| 139 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Casey uses this to her advantage to trick Hedwig into believing that Patricia and Dennis are plotting against him despite his initial boasts of knowing their plans regarding the Beast. |
| 140 | * ManChild: Kevin, the host, is an adult male and several of the other alters are adults or teenagers. Hedwig appears to be the only child alter. |
| 141 | * NightmareFuelColoringBook: Dr. Fletcher has a file on him which includes a creepy children paintings of the Beast. |
| 142 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He is mostly just a CreepyChild who doesn't fully comprehend the horror he's helping Dennis and Patricia to release. But without his ability to "steal the Light", i.e. take over Kevin's body and allow any of the other alters he chooses to take over in turn, they'd never have been able to go ahead with their plan, as Barry and the other alters had banished them from the Light and were keeping them at bay until they got Hedwig on their side. |
| 143 | * SituationalSexuality: Dennis is the alter with the most blatantly obvious desire to do "inappropriate" things with the girls, according to Patricia. However, neither of the adult alters notice Hedwig's somewhat innocent signs of sexual interest towards Casey and the others. Hedwig is the only one to kiss one of the girls, albeit awkwardly since he claims to never have kissed someone before. He also is the only one to nap with one of the girls while she is asleep (she is shown to not like this). |
| 144 | * SpeechImpediment: Has a lisp. |
| 145 | * VerbalTic: Tends to add "et cetera" to the end of his sentences. It pretty much sounds like a kid that just learned a new word and keeps trying to fit it in a sentence, without really knowing what that word means. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Orwell]] |
| 149 | !!Orwell |
| 150 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/orwell_4.jpg]] |
| 151 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"As in 1008, when Anandapala suffered the Shahis' most crushing defeat and Mahmud overran the entirety of the Punjab region, taking the famed temple of Kangra, we have been wronged by this alliance, this horde of Patricia, Dennis and the boy. Their actions do not represent us."'']] |
| 152 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 153 | |
| 154 | ->''"With regard to Chahamana's defeat and Muhammad of Ghor’s conquests between 1192 and 1200, I would liken it to Muhammad’s brazen ultimatum that Prithviraj either apostatize or fight. Like Prithviraj's defiance, we should stand up to The Horde's advances."'' |
| 155 | |
| 156 | The personality of an introverted and highly intelligent man. He appears in a video on Kevin's computer. |
| 157 | ---- |
| 158 | * NerdGlasses: He appears to be some kind of scholar who seemingly majored in Central Asian history, given how he cites very precise facts about the Indian dynasty of Chahamanas of Shakambhari, Ghurid Empire ruler Muhammad of Ghor and whatnot, and he wears glasses that are bigger and thicker than Dennis'. |
| 159 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: His verbosity tends to overshadow his intended meaning. [[spoiler: He even stays within the confines of this trope as he's begging Casey not to kill him, and when he nears death in ''Film/Glass2019'']]. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Jade]] |
| 163 | !!Jade |
| 164 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 165 | |
| 166 | ->''"I hate my insulin shots. No one else around here has to take them. Why do I have to have diabetes? All the doctors, besides Dr. Fletcher, say that we're the same person. Just personalities, huh? How do you explain I'm the only one that needs '''these''', you [[CurseCutShort motherfu--]]"'' |
| 167 | |
| 168 | The personality of a teenage girl who has diabetes and has to take insulin shots. |
| 169 | ---- |
| 170 | * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Jade is the only one of Kevin's alters with diabetes, and it greatly annoys her. |
| 171 | * FaceHeelTurn: By the time of ''Glass'', she has become a member of the Horde. |
| 172 | -->'''Jade:''' (to Daryl) Orwell and Barry are so angry with me that I flipped. But the truth is we really can do things that you can't do. |
| 173 | * PrecisionFStrike: Drops one in her video log in ''Split'', as shown in her character quote. |
| 174 | * ShowSomeLeg: In ''Glass'', she flirts with Daryl the orderly during her escape attempt. |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:The Beast]] |
| 179 | !!The Beast |
| 180 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/splitthebeast.jpg]] |
| 181 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Kevin is a man! I am '''much''' more!"'']] |
| 182 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 183 | |
| 184 | ->''"The impure are the untouched! The unburned! The unslain! Those who have not been torn have no value in themselves, and no place in this world! They are asleep!"'' |
| 185 | |
| 186 | By far the most dangerous, hostile, and terrifying of all the personalities, the Beast is the 24th identity that resides in Kevin's mind. The Beast is extremely violent to the point of savagery, having an unquenchable lust for human flesh, and an intense perspective that the rest of the world are impure because they haven't suffered like he has. The Beast possesses superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, invulnerability, and pain tolerance. |
| 187 | ---- |
| 188 | * AffablyEvil: Has moments of this; his PreMortemOneLiner to [[spoiler:Dr. Fletcher expresses genuine gratitude for everything she's done for them]]. |
| 189 | * AllYourPowersCombined: He is an amalgamation of all the largest predators at the zoo where Kevin was employed, and thus physically manifests animalistic traits such as the carnivorous appetite of a tiger, the ability to crawl walls like a spider, a thick skin like a rhino, etc. |
| 190 | * AxCrazy: By far the most homicidal of Kevin’s personalities, The Beast is only human in his mindset via being able to talk. Otherwise, he's a violent animalistic monster butchering nearly everybody he comes across. |
| 191 | * ABeastInNameAndNature: Known as the Beast, and on top of his superhuman powers, is possessed of an appropriately animalistic personality, either crushing his foes with his bare hands or literally devouring their bodies. |
| 192 | * TheBerserker: [[spoiler:Even after being shot two times by a shotgun, the Beast doesn't even flinch. He has a moment of appearing surprised, then returns to his previous actions. More so as it is a ferocious creature that craves human flesh.]] |
| 193 | * BigBad: Kevin's secret 24th personality. |
| 194 | * BigBadDuumvirate: Alongside [[spoiler:Mr. Glass in ''Glass.'']] |
| 195 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Has some unconventional views on human nature. In particular, [[spoiler:only those who have endured great suffering deserve to live]]. |
| 196 | * BrainsAndBrawn: He has this dynamic with [[spoiler:Mr. Glass -- the physically fragile but profoundly intelligent Glass, and the crazed but strong Beast.]] |
| 197 | * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Basically what he is. He believes that his suffering has made him more than human, so that is what he is. |
| 198 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler: The Beast is the exact opposite of Elijah Price from Unbreakable. While Elijah was a primarily cerebral threat who presented himself as David's ally and friend throughout before being revealed as a criminal and terrorist, the Beast doesn't appear until the end, serving as an entirely physical threat who attacks and violently pursues Casey, but ultimately chooses to spare her. Also, as Mrs. Price alluded to in the first film, the Beast is the Soldier Villain- a physical threat to the hero to Elijah's Mastermind- the true antagonist of the story. So it's fitting that he ultimately agrees to become TheDragon to Elijah in Glass.]] |
| 199 | * DemonicPossession: The methods required to "summon" the Beast and the manifestation of its powers are more similar to this than an alter. |
| 200 | * DumbMuscle: He's not the brightest bulb in the box, but he's strong enough to [[spoiler:crush a person's internal organs using only his arms.]] |
| 201 | * EvilCounterpart: The Beast is one to [[spoiler:[[Film/{{Unbreakable}} David Dunn]]]]. They both have similar powers, but whereas [[spoiler:David is a ReluctantHero who wishes to simply have a [[IJustWantToBeNormal normal life]]]], the Beast is a cannibalistic SocialDarwinist who wants to commit genocide on people he feels are unworthy of life. |
| 202 | * EvilSoundsDeep: The Beast is the most evil and powerful out of Kevin's personalities, and he suitably gets the deepest, most threatening tone out of all of them. |
| 203 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[Film/RedDragon the Great Red Dragon]], both being super-strong, animalistic split personalities with God Complexes brought on by child abuse. |
| 204 | * FlipPersonality: While all of Kevin's personalities have this to a degree, the Beast takes this up a notch with superhuman powers. |
| 205 | * {{Foil}}: He is this to [[spoiler:[[{{Film/Unbreakable}} Elijah]] [[Film/Glass2019 Price]]]]. They both have similar goals of [[spoiler:finding people who have ascended normal human limitations]], but while [[spoiler:Price]] is calm and smart, but physically weak, The Beast is wild and insane and a muscular powerhouse, but also [[DumbMuscle kinda dumb]]. |
| 206 | * TheFundamentalist: To the point of killing and eating those who are "unsoiled". However, this also means that he will spare those who he has deemed to have been "purified" through suffering, like Casey. |
| 207 | * ImAHumanitarian: The Beast is a cannibal, and eats Casey's friends after emerging. |
| 208 | * ImmuneToBullets: [[spoiler:Downplayed, Casey shoots him point-blank with a shotgun ''twice''. While it isn't enough to kill him, it still ''hurt'' a lot and leaves some wounds. However, this does ''not'' extend to any of the other personalities, enabling him to be effectively {{depower}}ed if he can be forced back.]] |
| 209 | * ImplacableMan: Dr. Fletcher tries stabbing him? The knife ''breaks''. Casey locks him in a room? He just rips the door open, destroying the lock like it's nothing. Casey shoots him ''twice'' at point-blank range after he dodges multiple shots? He just gets right back up, not even badly hurt. She locks herself inside a cage to keep him away? He ''begins bending the bars open with his bare hands''. The only thing that even slows him down is her briefly making Kevin reemerge, and that only stops him long enough for her to escape. In the end, she only manages to hold him off long enough for him to notice her scars and choose to spare her. |
| 210 | * ItCanThink: He's not stupid. When Casey gets a shotgun, he immediately backs off, then starts taking out the lights to limit her visibility. He then quickly darts from cover to cover, and moves quickly to get her to miss and waste ammunition. |
| 211 | * JekyllAndHyde: Is this to Kevin. Kevin is a gentle, sensitive man constantly haunted by his past trauma, and who is willing to commit suicide when he finds out what his personalities have done. The Beast is a murderous, SocialDarwinist self-proclaimed superman who insists on killing those who are "impure". |
| 212 | * LargeHam: Just read the above quote. |
| 213 | * MasterOfYourDomain: The Beast's powers seem to rely on this, which is why Dennis and Patricia want to bring it out. |
| 214 | * MiseryBuildsCharacter: The Beast's guiding philosophy, which proves to be the key reason why he lets Casey go free once he sees her numerous scars. |
| 215 | * PainfulTransformation: The most of all the personalities. Other alters can manifest in less than a second with little negative physical effects. When becoming the Beast, Kevin undergoes a long and obviously painful transformation as his body pushes itself to superhuman levels, with veins bulging through his skin, and blood filling up the whites of his eyes. |
| 216 | * PetTheDog: [[spoiler:He thanks Dr. Fletcher for helping before killing her; he also doesn't eat her.]] |
| 217 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Invoked. Hedwig's drawing of the Beast depicts him as a pitch-black figure with red eyes. |
| 218 | * ShadowArchetype: The Beast is a manifestation of Kevin's desire for the power to stand against all the things that hurt him, and to lash out at those who never took the time to try and understand his suffering. As such, The Beast is by far the most physically powerful of the personalities, to the point of being downright superhuman, and he murders and consumes those who have not suffered. As Kevin enjoyed his time working at the zoo and being with the animals there, the Beast manifests aspects of those animals. |
| 219 | * SocialDarwinist: Feels that those who have not been "purified" by trauma are less than human and do not deserve to live. He hence kills and eats those whom he deems as having not suffered enough. As a result, [[spoiler:Casey is spared when the Beast realizes she is a survivor of abuse]]. He also perceives himself and Kevin as being a higher stage of evolution. |
| 220 | * StartOfDarkness: The entire movie is about his emergence as a supervillain. |
| 221 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: While a number of Kevin's personalities are evil, the Beast is this. [[spoiler:He has SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, can WallCrawl, and has SuperToughness to the point of being able to withstand two shotgun blasts.]] |
| 222 | * SuperStrength: He breaks through a door latch through sheer muscle power, bending the lock off the frame. He later attempts to reach Casey in a large animal cage by slowly bending inch-thick bars. [[spoiler:However, this strength is not ''quite'' as high as that of David Dunn, forcing him to use agility to keep up in their fight.]] |
| 223 | * {{Supervillain}}: [[spoiler:A genuinely superpowered one, to contrast against David Dunn's superhero.]] |
| 224 | * SuperToughness: Is hyped up as having skin as thick as a rhino. His skin is so tough that stabbing him only breaks the blade. Point-black shotgun blasts only slightly pierce his skin. |
| 225 | * TaintedVeins: A clue that the Beast is in "the light". |
| 226 | * {{Ubermensch}}: The Beast's ideology of those who have endured suffering being superior to those who haven't and his desire to purge the world of the unworthy "impure". The desire of Patricia, Dennis, and Hedwig (which reflects the desire of Kevin's mind for power) to make the Beast come out resembles Nietzsche's concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_to_power#Appearance_of_the_concept_in_Nietzsche%27s_work/ Will to Power]]. Also, the belief of The Beast (and overall tract of the movie) that those who survive suffering come out strengthened recalls Nietzsche's admiration of such people and theories. |
| 227 | * UnskilledButStrong: The Beast more or less a feral creature that attacks more like a wild animal. |
| 228 | * UnstoppableRage: It's ground state of mind. The Beast is more of a homicidal monster that it brutally kills those who are not pure. |
| 229 | * VillainRespect: [[spoiler:Has this for both Casey Cooke and Mr. Glass, viewing them both as "pure" due to their suffering.]] |
| 230 | * WalkingShirtlessScene: Of the personalities, he's the only one that doesn't wear a shirt at all. |
| 231 | * WallCrawl: Can use even the slightest of grips to climb any surface. |
| 232 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Like the other personalities, The Beast wants to help Kevin in his own twisted way. Unfortunately, the Beast takes this desire to murderous and cannibalistic extremes, hunting down anyone who lived a life without suffering like Kevin suffered, and making sure that they suffer. |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | !!Other Characters |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Casey]] |
| 238 | !!Casey Cooke |
| 239 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/caseycooke.jpg]] |
| 240 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I'll let you know when I hear something that makes sense."'']] |
| 241 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy, Izzie Coffey (5 year old) |
| 242 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 243 | |
| 244 | ->''"Everything is so easy for you guys. You do one thing, you can predict the next thing. It's not the way it's gonna be in this situation."'' |
| 245 | |
| 246 | A young girl with a traumatic past and a history of SelfHarm, who is kidnapped along with her two friends Claire and Marcia by "Dennis", one of Kevin's personalities. |
| 247 | ---- |
| 248 | * AlliterativeName: '''C'''asey '''C'''ooke. [[spoiler:Which makes her a good match for David Dunn.]] |
| 249 | * BrokenBird: She's had a difficult life. [[spoiler:Her father died when she was only a child, leaving her in the care of her abusive uncle. It ultimately makes the Beast spare her]]. |
| 250 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: [[spoiler: To David Dunn from ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}''. David is an adult man who has never been hurt or sick in his life, had a privileged childhood in which he was a football star who married his high school sweetheart, and functions as an ActionHero whose NonActionBigBad adversary acted as his friend. Casey, on the other hand, is a teenage girl who is covered in scars, is a social outcast who has spent years being sexually abused by her CreepyUncle, and is a GuileHeroine facing a physically powerful enemy with a mental disorder, and survives by trying to use it against him.]] |
| 251 | * DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Her father died of a heart attack when she was very young.]] |
| 252 | * FinalGirl: [[spoiler:She becomes this after Claire, Marcia, and Dr. Fletcher are killed by the Beast.]] |
| 253 | * MissingMom: Casey's mom is never mentioned. [[spoiler:Since her uncle is her guardian, her mom is most likely dead or unable to care for her for reasons that could include anything from illness to abandonment.]] |
| 254 | * NiceGirl: Despite her emotional trauma and BrokenBird status, she's a fundamentally kind person at heart. Even though she, Marcia, and Claire aren't really friends, she does her best to save them. She also empathizes with Kevin, recognizing him as a fellow victim of the whole mess and being unwilling to kill him, even at his request. |
| 255 | * ShrinkingViolet: She is even highlighted as a case of LonersAreFreaks. |
| 256 | * TheSmartGirl: Out of the three girls, she's the savviest on how to behave with Kevin and his personalities to have a chance to survive. |
| 257 | * TheSpock: She's the most calm and logical of the trio. |
| 258 | * UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome: Played with. |
| 259 | ** By ''Glass'', she shows overt sympathy towards Kevin, is portrayed as his main friend/loved one, and [[spoiler:summons his real personality in order to subdue the Beast]]. Kevin wasn't the personality who actually kidnapped her, though. Kevin was in some ways as much a victim of the Horde as Casey having last been in control 2 years ago and when confronted with what his alters had done, asked her to kill him. His brief return was the sanest moment of her captivity. |
| 260 | ** Casey can't contain a smile at Hedwig's goofy nature when meeting him in "Glass", despite that he helped to keep her captive. Hedwig is perpetually 9 though so despite his CreepyChild tendencies has an air of innocence. |
| 261 | ** Casey is more serious and business with Dennis, though she still shows concern for the Horde. The fact that at least 12 good alters, including Kevin are in the same body gives a pretty good reason to care regardless of her feeling on Dennis, the guy who actually kidnapped her and her classmates. |
| 262 | * ZenSurvivor: Was a victim of abuse by her uncle, and that unpleasant experience helps her deal with her captivity better than the two other girls. [[spoiler:It's also what saved her life when the Beast spared her after seeing her scars.]] |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Claire]] |
| 266 | !!Claire Benoit |
| 267 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/claire_61.jpg]] |
| 268 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 269 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/HaleyLuRichardson |
| 270 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' |
| 271 | |
| 272 | A young girl who is kidnapped on her birthday along with her two friends Casey and Marcia by "Dennis," one of Kevin's personalities. |
| 273 | ---- |
| 274 | * ABirthdayNotABreak: She is kidnapped on her birthday. |
| 275 | * ClassPrincess: It's hard to tell whether Claire is a LovableAlphaBitch (as most of her screentime is spent trying to escape from an insane killer rather than in a regular setting). She is air-headed and occasionally rude, but she strives to avoid being mean or exclusionary, even to people she doesn't really like, such as inviting Casey to her birthday party so she won't feel left out after Claire invited the rest of their class, and offering her a ride home after the party. |
| 276 | * {{Determinator}}: Of all the girls, she's the one who fights the hardest to stay alive on a physical level. |
| 277 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Invoked. She doesn't seem to like Casey and sees her as off-putting but invites her to her birthday party anyway as she felt it wouldn't have been fair to invite everyone but Casey, even stating "I'm not a monster". |
| 278 | * HotBlooded: Not initially, but in her attempts to escape she becomes increasingly aggressive and loud. |
| 279 | * IKnowKungFu: Mocked. Her suggesting this is pointed out as utterly pointless by Casey, as Dennis is still far stronger than her. |
| 280 | * TheMcCoy: She's the most emotional of the group. |
| 281 | * ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:She spends the whole movie fighting to escape and is ultimately killed and eaten by the Beast just before Casey can reach her.]] |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Marcia]] |
| 285 | !! Marcia |
| 286 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marcia_4.jpg]] |
| 287 | !!!'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JessicaSula |
| 288 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' |
| 289 | |
| 290 | Claire's best friend who is kidnapped alongside her and Casey by "Dennis", one of Kevin's personalities. |
| 291 | ---- |
| 292 | * AsianAirhead: Her actress has Chinese ancestry (as well as black) and she doesn't come across as very bright. |
| 293 | * BlackGuyDiesFirst: Is the first one out of the group to be killed by the Beast |
| 294 | * BringMyBrownPants: Urinates on herself while Dennis is taking her away, using his ObsessivelyOrganized tendencies against him. |
| 295 | * ButtMonkey: In a film where nothing goes right for people, Marcia is most likely to be humiliated or just have something blow up on her. |
| 296 | * FlatCharacter: She's not very fleshed out, compared to Casey and Claire. |
| 297 | * KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Killed by the Beast during the finale of the film, just before Casey can save her and Claire.]] |
| 298 | * TheKirk: She's not as emotional as Claire but not as calm as Casey. Ironically, this makes her the most useless of the trio because she can't commit to a tactic. |
| 299 | * TheLoad: Of the three, Marcia is remarkably useless, to the point where her escape attempt is so futile that Patricia catches her on her own. |
| 300 | ** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Patricia. |
| 301 | -->'''Patricia''': You've always been protected. You've never truly suffered. And that's why we chose you. You've always been asleep. You never had a chance. |
| 302 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Half-black/Half-asian and the only person of (any) color in the film. |
| 303 | * NegatedMomentOfAwesome: She begins using a coat hanger to escape the room she's locked in. [[spoiler: Then the Beast gets her.]] |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Dr. Fletcher]] |
| 307 | !!Dr. Karen Fletcher |
| 308 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drfletcher_2.jpg]] |
| 309 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 310 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Betty Buckley |
| 311 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' |
| 312 | |
| 313 | A psychologist who attempts to help Kevin with his DID, and believes that said disorder can, in extreme cases, cause physiological changes. |
| 314 | ---- |
| 315 | * AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler:She eventually finds herself at the mercy of the Beast, who kills her.]] |
| 316 | * CassandraTruth: She firmly believes that extreme split personalities disorders can also trigger radical biochemical and physical changes in the body of people like Kevin, which is ludicrous from a scientific standpoint. [[spoiler:The Beast proves her right, in horrific fashion.]] |
| 317 | * CoolOldLady: She is very patient with Kevin while treating him, and gives conferences on Skype. |
| 318 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The Beast crushes her backbone with his bare hands.]] |
| 319 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler:Her reaction upon discovering the Beast is indeed Kevin's 24th split personality, and a potentially homicidal and violent one at that.]] |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:John]] |
| 323 | !!John Cooke |
| 324 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/john_8.jpg]] |
| 325 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 326 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BradWilliamHenke |
| 327 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' |
| 328 | |
| 329 | Casey Cooke's creepy uncle. |
| 330 | ---- |
| 331 | * CreepyUncle: Through Casey's childhood flashbacks, it's revealed that he is actually a real sick piece of work. [[spoiler:The "games which he played" with Casey wherein "they pretended to be animals" are heavily implied to be something much nastier, especially when he asked her to take her clothes off as "animals don't wear clothes". The obvious abuse only got worse when Casey's father died and her uncle became her guardian, a thing that eventually led to multiple scars on her body and/or Casey's SelfHarm which is common on abused children.]] |
| 332 | * HateSink: He seems okay at first, but then it's revealed that he sexually abused his own niece as a child, an act that usually disgusts [[EvenEvilHasStandards even criminals]] to no end, let alone the average viewer. |
| 333 | * KarmaHoudini: Casey came close to shooting him as a child, but was unable to go through with it. Then her father died, and she ended up in his care. He essentially got off scot-free with everything he did to her. |
| 334 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: As revealed in ''Glass'', he's now serving time in prison. Casey eventually had him arrested and put on trial less than three weeks after the end of the ordeal Kevin Wendell Crumb put her through. |
| 335 | * PaedoHunt: Sexually exploiting his young niece marks him as a truly repugnant piece of work. |
| 336 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He somehow comes across as more reprehensible than the Beast, who is a literal cannibalistic monster. |
| 337 | * AWolfInSheepsClothing: John presents himself as a loving brother and uncle due to his chummy manner and sense of humor. In reality he's a predatory animal. |
| 338 | [[/folder]] |
| 339 | |
| 340 | [[folder:Mr. Cooke]] |
| 341 | !!Mr. Cooke |
| 342 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrcooke.jpg]] |
| 343 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 344 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sebastian Arcelus |
| 345 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' |
| 346 | |
| 347 | Casey Cooke's father. |
| 348 | ---- |
| 349 | * DisappearedDad: He died of a heart attack while Casey was still very young. |
| 350 | * NoNameGiven: His forename is not mentioned. |
| 351 | [[/folder]] |
| 352 | |
| 353 | [[folder:Penelope Crumb]] |
| 354 | [[quoteright:298:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mother_9.jpg]] |
| 355 | [[caption-width-right:298:''"KEVIN WENDELL CRUMB, YOU'VE MADE A MESS! GET OUT HERE!"'']] |
| 356 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Rosemary Howard |
| 357 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Split}}'' | ''Film/Glass2019'' |
| 358 | |
| 359 | ->''"Kevin Wendell Crumb! What did I tell you?! There is no running in the house, Kevin Wendell Crumb!"'' |
| 360 | ---- |
| 361 | * AbusiveParents: She threatened Kevin to death. In ''Glass'', she appears in a flashback, seemingly threatening Kevin with a hot clothes iron. |
| 362 | * PredecessorVillain: Her abuse created Kevin's split personalities. |
| 363 | [[/folder]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[folder:Diner Patron - SPOILER]] |
| 366 | !!David Dunn |
| 367 | -->See his sheet on the ''Characters/{{Unbreakable}}'' page. |
| 368 | [[/folder]] |
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