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Split

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Split	label	Split
Split	page	Split
Split	comment	Split is a 2017 horror/thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula and Betty Buckley.Teenager Casey Cooke (Taylor-Joy) and two classmates are abducted and held prisoner by Kevin (McAvoy), a mentally-ill man with no less than 23 personalities, some more dangerous than others. As the girls seek escape, Kevin has meetings with his psychiatrist Dr. Fletcher (Buckley) and finds his multiple identities destabilizing further and approaching war with one another. To top it all off, a 24th personality is apparently emerging...Being a Shyamalan film, the movie has dozens of twists and turns along with his iconic Mandatory Twist Ending. A sequel came out in January 2019, but to say anything about it on this page would give away said Twist Ending.Previews: Trailer 1, Trailer 2.Character tropes go on to the Characters Sheet.
Split	fetched	2023-05-23T07:28:27Z
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Split	processingComment	Dropped link to CallBack: Not a Feature - ITEM
Split	processingComment	Dropped link to Fanservice: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Split	processingComment	Dropped link to Unbreakable: Not a Feature - ITEM
Split	processingComment	Dropped link to Zelig: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Split / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
Split / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: Dr. Fletcher passes on a note about Kevin's full name.
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Split / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Split / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: As per Shyamalan tradition, the man himself makes a brief appearance as a computer tech. As revealed in Glass, it's the same character we saw in Unbreakable.
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Split / int_12e8e69b	type	Jekyll & Hyde
Split / int_12e8e69b	comment	Jekyll & Hyde: Kevin's personalities range from benevolent to utterly monstrous. In fact, most of Kevin's personalities are actively trying to stop his evil ones but have lost control. Like Hyde, they all do things for Kevin that he cannot do for himself.
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Split / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Split / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Lampshaded by Claire, who warns Casey that by taking the lift, she would have to listen to her father telling jokes only he thinks are funny.
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Split / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Split / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: The main premise of the movie comes from the idea that people with multiple personalities like this can actually change their body chemistry with each individual. This is reflected in that Dennis needs glasses, while one briefly shown personality, Jade, has diabetes and needs insulin shots. The Beast is capable of extreme abilities like Super Toughness, Super Strength, and Wall Crawling, which includes a Transformation Sequence of sorts as his body locks into place. This claim has legitimately gone around in some medical circles and is being researched, although it is unlikely [read:impossible] to the extent of what the film portrays and most of the specific claims brought up by Dr. Fletcher are unverified. note Some of what the Beast does appears based on some of Billy Milligan's abilities, but he and his other selves had all taught themselves and practiced over time in the usual way. Truddi Chase and the Troops were capable of looking taller or shorter or appearing to have Eye Color Change, but this had to do with their posture and the room lighting.The Beast's superpowers came from the fact that the movie took place in the same universe as Unbreakable.
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Split / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
Split / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: In M. Night Shyamalan's signature style, there is one. The ending reveals that the movie is actually a Stealth Sequel of Unbreakable, as David Dunn appears and even mentions Mr. Glass.
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Split / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Split / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: One that ends the movie: David Dunn from Unbreakable is seen at a diner talking to a patron about the incident, along with the one that happened in the 2000 film.
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Split / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Split / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Barry keeps sending messages to Dr. Fletcher to meet her so he can warn her of the Horde's plans, but he never just includes the warning in one of his messages, which allows the Horde to keep their plot a secret.
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Split / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Split / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: The Beast crushes Dr. Fletcher to death with his bare hands. Once the Beast arrives, he disposes of Casey's friends by cannibalizing them.
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Split / int_2022e66d	type	Invasion of the Baby Snatchers
Split / int_2022e66d	comment	Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: The sheer efficiency with how Dennis kidnapped the girls at the beginning of the film is unsettling. Luckily, as noted below, his method is highly unrealistic.
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Split / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
Split / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Simply mentioning that David Dunn is in this movie spoils its biggest twist, even though it happens at the very end.
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Split / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Split / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: When Dennis chooses Marcia for an unknown activity (it's later revealed he wanted her to dance naked), Casey tells her to pee herself as she is being pulled into another room. Ten seconds later, Dennis throws her back in, wiping his hand off, and it's shown she did as Casey said. As Dennis is a Neat Freak, this was especially repulsive to him. It also foreshadows the reveal that Casey has been sexually abused and knows better than the others how to deal with these situations.
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Split / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Split / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The Beast emerges, kills three people to prove his point, and manages to escape. The only upsides are that one of his victims made it out alive, people know who he is now, and David Dunn — one of the few people that may be capable of taking him down — could soon be on his trail.
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Split / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
Split / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: After "The Horde" escapes and reveals his new power, the Unbreakable theme kicks in for a final scene at a diner where David appears alongside other patrons watching the news report.
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Split / int_2fb3170e	type	Enemy Within
Split / int_2fb3170e	comment	Enemy Within: Part of the plot involves an internal struggle between Kevin's identities.
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Split / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Split / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Patricia is adamant that Dennis not abuse the girls, and after Casey attempts to manipulate Hedwig, Dennis seems sincere when he expresses disapproval for the way she scared the child.
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Split / int_32e7cb8d	type	Waking Up Elsewhere
Split / int_32e7cb8d	comment	Waking Up Elsewhere: The three girls are sedated in a car and wake up as Bunker Girls.
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Split / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Split / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: The film runs on this. Kevin has 23 of them even before the Beast begins to emerge. The names of all of them can be seen on a computer screen, but McAvoy only performs and is credited for 7: Dennis, Patricia, Hedwig, The Beast, Kevin Wendell Crumb, Barry, Orwell, and Jade
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Split / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Split / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the ending scene, the camera pans past David Dunn's green raincoat a few moments before its owner appears in the diner.
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Split / int_3ac2aa04	type	Deadly Hug
Split / int_3ac2aa04	comment	Deadly Hug: The Beast murders Dr. Fletcher by hugging her from behind and crushing her to death.
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Split / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Split / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Casey survives, but the Beast is still at large, her friends are dead, and she still has her abusive uncle to deal with. On a positive note, her traumatic experience has left her in a better state to confront her abuser and David Dunn is now aware of the Beast himself.
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Split / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Split / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Casey and her friends are locked up in Kevin's basement. They make great efforts to escape throughout the film, though without much success.
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Split / int_419f37b9	type	ShapeshifterSwansong
Split / int_419f37b9	comment	Shapeshifter Swan Song: Done in spirit, even if not literally. Calling out the full name of Kevin Wendell Crumb causes the core, original Kevin personality to emerge, but at the cost of inciting all the other personalities to fight for control. Kevin gets to talk for a minute asking Casey to get a shotgun and kill him, and in quick succession Barry, Orwell, and Jade beg her not to, with Hedwig, Patricia, and Dennis regaining control, saying they locked Kevin away and they prepare to release the Beast once again.
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Split / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Split / int_41be2c1b	comment	Something of a Spoiler Title, "Split" is one word and thematically similar but opposite to "Unbreakable." One poster even has a cracked glass look, similar to the posters for Unbreakable, and in fact the two posters' cracks line up if the two are set side by side.
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Split / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Split / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: 'The Horde' (Patricia and Dennis) were 'banned' Alters who weren't allowed to have any time running loose during Barry's time as the dominant personality because of their malevolent nature and beliefs about the Beast. Unfortunately, by the events of the movie, Hedwig has gained control and released them while doing the same to Kevin's benevolent personalities.
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Split / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Split / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: This is how the movie presents Dissociative Identity Disorder as happening. The alternate personalities are so certain of their traits that they become physically real. The Beast is so convinced of its power that it has Super Strength, is Made of Iron, and can Wall Crawl. (Some researchers credit people with DID as having this ability in real life, a position which is controversial, to say the least.)
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Split / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Split / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line:
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Split / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Split / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Just before the Wham Line is uttered, one can spot the top of David Dunn's head behind the woman wondering about "that crazy guy in the wheelchair".
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Split / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
Split / int_4e9fe57d	comment	Two teenaged girls pulled a prank on Barry by pulling his hands under their shirts. It's heavily implied this incident hit one of Kevin's psychological fears or traumas, resulting in Barry losing his place as the dominant personality to Hedwig and allowing Patricia and Dennis' Split-Personality Takeover.
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Split / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Split / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Kevin's body also begins to start changing along with his personalities, on a few occasions contorting his body unnaturally while his bones snap and crack horrifically to suit it.
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Split / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Split / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Courtesy of the Beast: "Thank you for taking care of us until now."
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Split / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Split / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Casey's past, with incest being a compounding factor.
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Split / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Split / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Discussed. In a flashback scene, Casey's father mentions that female deer are smarter than male adding that the same is true for humans.
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Split / int_57cfcbdd	type	Meta Twist
Split / int_57cfcbdd	comment	Meta Twist: In spite of being an M. Night Shyamalan movie, the Twist Ending is not the kind of big reveal that causes you to rethink the entire movie, as the movie is essentially what the trailers made it out to be. The twist is that Split is a sequel to Unbreakable, which would make this film the first sequel that Shyamalan has ever made. And if you aren't familiar with Unbreakable, the ending of the movie still makes sense.
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Split / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Split / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The two cops at the train station assume the Beast is an animal and make no attempt to pursue him. Given what the Beast would've done to them, this was probably the right call. Also, the security guard at the zoo thinks that Casey's frantic call for help is a prank and dismisses it.
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Split / int_5a62e8d0	type	SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
Split / int_5a62e8d0	comment	Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Heavily horror-focused, though there are bits of humor in the movie (which mostly come as a result of Hedwig's unusual mannerisms).
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Split / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Split / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Attempted. One of the girls escapes this way, but she gets caught before she can get out of the building.
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Split / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Split / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Kevin's improbably fast acting can of aerosolized anesthetic.
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Split / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Split / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: Both the initial title screen and the end credits have a background of 24 tiny mirrors of what is on the screen, reflecting the 24 personalities Kevin has.
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Split / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
Split / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: The transformation into the Beast is not a pleasant one. This actually helps Casey, as she manages to escape while he's disabled by the pain of it.
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Split / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Split / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Hedwig's ability to "steal the light" from the other alters allows Dennis and Patricia, the two malevolent alters the others had collectively banished, to return, depose Barry (who was keeping them in check), and proceed with their plan to awaken The Beast.
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Split / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Split / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The ending teases a more conventional sequel to Unbreakable, possibly involving David Dunn going after Kevin; M. Night Shyamalan later confirmed that this was indeed the case.
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Split / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Split / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: It's mentioned an event instigated the personalities' current action where a couple of teenage girls, on a dare, approached Kevin and put his hand under their shirts to embarrass him. It's left unclear if this was Claire and Marcia, or if they simply reminded him of them.
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Split / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
Split / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": Can be heard when the Beast crushes Dr. Fletcher's rib cage.
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Split / int_6500e9cc	type	Fighting from the Inside
Split / int_6500e9cc	comment	Fighting from the Inside: Barry tries to do this through e-mailing his doctor to schedule appointments. Dennis learns of these and impersonates Barry in order to try and give off the impression that nothing is wrong.
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Split / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Split / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: It is kept a mystery exactly where the girls are being held until the very end, when Casey is found by a maintenance worker and helped to the surface where we see the zoo.
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Split / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Split / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: When Kevin finally reemerges and discovers the Beast has murdered Dr. Fletcher, he tells Casey where his shotgun is and tells her to kill him. Though it should be noted that only Kevin feels this way, his other good personalities want to stop the evil ones, but don't want to die.
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Split / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
Split / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: How Kevin's mother screamed at him as a kid. It can also force Kevin to emerge, though this causes chaos between the other personalities.
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Split / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Split / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: More often than any other color, Kevin wears yellow clothes, and his hideout that the girls are trapped in has very yellowy lighting as well. Unbreakable depicted yellow as a color representing negativity or danger, summing up just why he's always associated with the color.
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Split / int_77cd56b3	type	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
Split / int_77cd56b3	comment	Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Whether it's sexuality per se or specifically abusive sexuality is unclear, but it's suggested that Kevin has this; an incident where two teenage girls pulled Barry's hands under their shirts seems to have been the trigger for Barry losing his dominance over the others, and the fact that Hedwig becomes the one able to decide who steps into the light suggests it regressed Kevin to a child-like state. Then there's also Dennis' attempt to make one of the girls dance for him before Patricia stops him.
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Split / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Split / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: Done in a very subtle way, the final scene doesn't change, per se, what we see happen, but it does provide greater context to what is happening. The film takes place in the same universe as Unbreakable, with Bruce Willis reprising David Dunn in the ending scene. Viewing the events of Split through the rules established by Unbreakable makes you realize this is a Super Villain Origin Story.
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Split / int_7f9b12a6	type	Chairman of the Brawl
Split / int_7f9b12a6	comment	Chairman of the Brawl: As Patricia prepares sandwiches for Casey and Marcia, Marcia decides to try to escape and smashes her chair on Patricia's back. Patricia quickly recovers and chases after her. Unlike most examples, the chair doesn't break.
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Split / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Split / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Near the start of film Casey tells Marcia to pee herself to stop Dennis making her 'dance' naked. If 'dancing' meant rape, then Marcia would have been broken by it, and the beast may well have spared her – indeed, Patricia rebuked Dennis saying the 'food' would be spoiled if it 'danced' for him. Casey giving Marcia anti-rape advice may have killed her.
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Split / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Split / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Casey is introduced sitting sullenly alone as two classmates gripe about being forced to invite her for politeness's sake. She's an outsider. Claire is first heard griping about being forced to invite the weirdo Casey to her birthday party, but when Casey gives her an excuse to leave her behind, Claire encourages her to accept her father's invitation of a ride. While Claire might be a bit stuck-up, she's ultimately a good person you can sympathize with. Dennis ominously enters the drivers seat of Claire's dad's car and can't help using a napkin to deal with the trash on the dashboard. Then he knocks out the girls in the backseat. He goes back to cleaning the car.
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Split / int_86bbf6b5	type	Newscaster Cameo
Split / int_86bbf6b5	comment	Newscaster Cameo: The TV news anchor at the end is played by Ukee Washington, the actual news anchor for KYW, which is the CBS affiliate station in Philadelphia.
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Split / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Split / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The moment when Casey tells Marcia to pee herself is based on emergency tactics suggested to women if they find themselves in a worst case scenario with a sexual predator. The idea is to make yourself disgusting so as to remove the "romanticism" that motivates the person. note The advice, learned in isolation, is controversial but is typically given alongside a large number of other tips and instructions, including self-defense and avoidance tactics. It's implied that Casey learned this from being sexually abused by her Creepy Uncle.
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Split / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Split / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: From what little we see of her, the Jade personality acts like this.
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Split / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Split / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Comes up twice. First when Patricia tells Dennis not to hurt the girls, although this is really just to prevent them from being "purified" by trauma. Second in the flashbacks where Casey's uncle John is a child molester.
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Split / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Split / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Like Unbreakable deconstructed the idea of a superhero, this film deconstructs the idea of a supervillain, showing how absolutely horrifying it'd be to be a normal everyday person suddenly in the middle of the rampage of a lunatic with powers beyond those of a normal person.
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Split / int_90a1fbd4	type	Split-Personality Takeover
Split / int_90a1fbd4	comment	Split-Personality Takeover: Kevin has totally lost control to the alters. In fact, the video diaries suggest that the Kevin personality is #4 in the internal hierarchy. Normally, Barry is in charge, but by the time the film starts, Dennis and Patricia have taken over.
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Split / int_92163e88	type	Locked in a Room
Split / int_92163e88	comment	Locked in a Room: About 80 percent of the film takes place in the renovated industrial basement Kevin seems to live in.
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Split / int_954b3c7b	type	Strong Flesh, Weak Steel
Split / int_954b3c7b	comment	Strong Flesh, Weak Steel: Dr. Fletcher tries to defend herself from the Beast by stabbing him repeatedly with a knife. The knife doesn't do any damage and eventually snaps.
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Split / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Split / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Marcia is the first one of her group to be killed (offscreen) by the Beast
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Split / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Split / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Many reviewers said that when The Beast emerges, the movie started to lose them, but viewed with the knowledge it is in the Unbreakable world, everything else made sense.
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Split / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Split / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: The Beast has a skewed The Social Darwinist viewpoint, that the sheltered and privileged cannot understand pain and suffering and are impure because of it. That is the reason he had the Horde abduct Claire and Marcia, believing they are inferior creatures. Casey was not intended to be a target, but he assumed she was the same as Claire and Marcia. In the end, the Beast sees her self-inflicted scars and recognizes her as having been purified and strengthened by trauma, the same as him.
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Split / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Split / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Two teenaged girls pulled a prank on Barry by pulling his hands under their shirts. It's heavily implied this incident hit one of Kevin's psychological fears or traumas, resulting in Barry losing his place as the dominant personality to Hedwig and allowing Patricia and Dennis' Split-Personality Takeover. Dr. Fletcher spends a good portion of the film talking with colleagues about Kevin and others with D.I.D. and the remarkable abilities they demonstrate, believing that they could actually be an explanation of the paranormal. It's revealed that the qualities of The Beast are in part because Dennis, Patricia, and Hedwig believed her and decided to test how far they could take Kevin's body.
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Split / int_9b6cc16b	type	No Range Like Point-Blank Range
Split / int_9b6cc16b	comment	No Range Like Point-Blank Range: Casey lures the Beast into point-blank range by locking herself in a cage so there's no way he can get to her but from somewhere she can see, then blasts him in the chest twice with a shotgun (which doesn't do more than injure him somewhat). Justified, because his Super Speed means he's moving too fast for her to hit otherwise.
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Split / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Split / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The twist that the film is set the same universe as Unbreakable is foreshadowed by monumental amounts: The 'two types of villain' thing established in the first film fits Dennis and Patricia like a glove: the 'soldier villain' who fights the heroes with his hands (Dennis is the most physically powerful of Kevin's personalities sans the Beast, but subservient to Patricia) and the 'brilliant and evil archenemy who fights the hero with his mind' (Patricia, who is the mastermind of the entire thing). While the Beast is very powerful, he also shows some degree of intellect by taking out the lights so Casey can't target him effectively, showing traits of both types. The arch-villain is the exact opposite of the hero. Depending on who the hero is, this works both ways. While Kevin and Casey have similar pasts, their ways of dealing with it are complete opposites, with Casey relying on learning ways to deal with it while Kevin created Dennis to deal with it for him. If it's the Beast and David Dunn who are the opposites, then it's their worldview: David is a Reluctant Hero while the Beast revels in its power and believes itself superior. Patricia and Dennis were called 'the Horde' by the other personalities long before their Split-Personality Takeover. Just like Mr. Glass got his moniker a long time before he became a supervillain. The Beast was referred to as such by the Horde for some time before it actually emerged, as it was the reason they were locked up in the first place. Kevin's evil personalities are shown several times with their eyes wide, fitting the 'villains have large eyes' rule. Patricia, who's the leading evil personality, is introduced wearing a red shirt. Red is one of the colors associated with villains in Unbreakable. In addition, Hedwig is introduced wearing a yellow jacket, which was also one of the colors associated with villains. On top of that, Casey starts the film wearing a red plaid jacket, subtly implying her seeming obstructive behavior. The jacket gets taken, leaving her in a grey long-sleeved shirt. The shirt gets taken, leaving her in a thin white t-shirt. The t-shirt gets torn off in a scuffle with the Beast, leaving her in a small tank top colored olive green, green being David Dunn's heroic color. Dr. Fletcher talks about what people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Kevin in particular, are capable of accomplishing mirrors the same rhetoric that Elijah would use when describing how people could have actual superpowers. She even mentions that it could be a connection to the paranormal. The Beast emerges as Kevin is in a train car. David was also put on his path due to being on a train. This specific example doubly counts with the release of Glass, seeing that Kevin's father was a passenger on Eastrail 177. Something of a Spoiler Title, "Split" is one word and thematically similar but opposite to "Unbreakable." One poster even has a cracked glass look, similar to the posters for Unbreakable, and in fact the two posters' cracks line up if the two are set side by side. A subtle indication that the Beast is an actual alter ego and not just a story Patricia and Dennis made up: the opening credits are shown with large text in the center of the screen, with the background split into a grid of twenty-four smaller versions. Kevin mentions that he followed Claire and Marcia for several days before the abduction, meaning he carefully planned his target. He did not plan on taking Casey, but had to given the circumstances. He chose Claire and Marcia because he viewed them as shallow, sheltered girls, making them impure because they didn't understand pain and trauma. When the Beast sees Casey's self-abuse scars, he acknowledges her implied trauma and declares her to be pure because of it, and leaves her alone. The location that the girls are being held is kept somewhat vague until the end, but is given plenty of hints that are obvious in hindsight. An incident mentioned with some teenage girls indicates it's a public place that schools visit, there are frequent mentions of comparing animals to The Beast, one tank mentions chlorine, Hedwig's room is filled with animal figurines, the Horde displays some detailed knowledge of tigers, and Dennis uses a handheld CB radio for work. Casey finds out she was being held under the Philadelphia Zoo. Hedwig notes how odd it is for Casey to wear so many layers. It's later revealed that she's covering self-harm scars.
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Split / int_a0789a91	type	Hyde Plays Jekyll
Split / int_a0789a91	comment	Hyde Plays Jekyll: Dennis pretends to be Barry during their meetings with Dr. Fletcher, so that Barry can't reveal their Evil Plan to her. She realizes it's not Barry because of his OCD and he's lacking Barry's extroverted personality.
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Split / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Split / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The original personality, Kevin, emerges near the end, and after realizing what the other personalities have done, asks Casey to kill him.
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Split / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
Split / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: At the end of the film as Kevin's murders are being reported and he is named the Horde, a bar patron says that all this reminds her of a certain guy in a wheelchair 15 years ago whose name she can't recall. Her fellow patron, David Dunn (Bruce Willis) from Unbreakable, tells her the guy's name was Mr. Glass.
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Split / int_a5c56581	type	IKnowKungFu
Split / int_a5c56581	comment	I Know Kung Fu: Mocked, as Claire suggests they all try to rush Kevin at the same time, saying she took 6 months of Kenpo karate. Casey dismisses the plan as folly, after already getting a glimpse of how strong Dennis is.
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Split / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Split / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The most dominant personality Kevin has is Barry, an outgoing and friendly guy with an eye for art and fashion and holds the others in check. Dennis, Patricia, and Hedwig are close behind. Others get a chance to take control or be "in the light", but are otherwise fleeting. This becomes even more clear as Dr. Fletcher realizes that Kevin's e-mails and last minute meetings with her originate from the other personalities trying to warn her that Dennis, Patricia, and Hedwig are trying to bring the Beast out and are impersonating Barry. Dr. Fletcher knows something is very wrong when she gets 20 different e-mails from Barry's account (23 - 20 = 3). The actual Kevin personality is only seen briefly near the end, unaware that years have passed since he's been out and is horrified to learn he did something really bad.
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Split / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Split / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Casey attempts to use Hedwig's walkie to call for help. Vince, the man on the other end, doesn't take it seriously and assumes one of his co-workers is pulling a prank and drops the call, in spite of Casey explaining to him that she's been abducted and telling him to call the police.
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Split / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Split / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: A number of flashbacks showing more of Casey's past demonstrate how she knows how to handle herself. More specifically, a hunting trip shows that she knows how to use a shotgun.
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Split / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Split / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Dr. Fletcher's reaction to discovering the Beast is indeed a 24th split personality of Kevin's, and a potentially homicidal and violent one at that. The security guard at the end when he realizes that "prank call" was real.
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Split / int_b1f6077d	type	Supervillain
Split / int_b1f6077d	comment	Supervillain: Where its predecessor, Unbreakable, deconstructed the idea of a superhero story, this film uses Beware the Superman to the fullest extent and shows what happens when a mentally ill man has similar abilities to that of the hero. It's completely terrifying, to say the least.
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Split / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Split / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Dr. Fletcher, in response to her associate Jai, played by Shyamalan himself, eating chicken wings from Hooters, derides it as an exploitation of humanity's love of fatty food and men's love for big mammaries, dropping this gem:
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Split / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Split / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: The actual Kevin shows up near the end and is horrified to learn what he has done, and quickly informs Casey where to find a shotgun and shells so that she can kill him before he does any more harm.
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Split / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Split / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: The Beast after getting shot twice in the torso.
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Split / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Split / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The malevolent personalities really dislike it when Dr. Fletcher inquires about whether "Barry" is the one in control.
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Split / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Split / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Casey Cooke, David Dunn. Given the nature of the film, this may be a deliberate choice to emphasize her role in the story. Superheroes in comic books are famous for having alliterative names, implying she's become a hero herself.
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Split / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Split / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Several. The girls realize that there is a covered vent in the ceiling. One of them even manages to escape the room through it, but Dennis recaptures her. Hedwig says he has a window in his room and Casey asks if she can see it... It's only a crayon drawing of a window. Casey uses Hedwig's walkie-talkie and reaches Vince, who later turns out to be the security guard at the zoo. However, he dismisses her frantic call for help as a prank call. Casey manages to use Kevin's trigger (which Dr. Fletcher managed to write down before she was killed) to force Kevin himself to emerge. However, his evil personalities manage to regain control and it won't work again, though it does show her where a weapon is and buy her time while the Beast's Painful Transformation happens. Marcia, with Claire's encouragement, is just barely able to open the slide bolt on the other side of her door, with a bent metal clothing hanger. However, it's all for naught, as both of them are killed and eaten by the Beast off-screen shortly after.
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Split / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Split / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The Beast. A shirtless James McAvoy is normally eye-candy, but not when his skin is covered with bulging, monstrous veins.
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Split / int_c6dccfb7	type	Musical Spoiler
Split / int_c6dccfb7	comment	Musical Spoiler: The music playing while Dennis, Patricia, and Hedwig are looking over the wounds the Beast got in the final confrontation is an amalgamation of several different tracks from Unbreakable.
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Split / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Split / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During the sequence where Casey manages to escape her room and looks at Kevin's computer, one can see a list of all the personalities Kevin has. In keeping with the film's Alfred Hitchcock-esque theme, one can see a file for a 'Norma', a reference to one of Hitchcock's famous films — Psycho (a movie that's also about a villain with the same disorder that Kevin has). A patient with several personalities is cared for by a kind, female doctor named Fletcher.
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Split / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Split / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: At first, Casey appears to be doing this before the audience realizes what she's doing.
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Split / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Split / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Truth in Television: Kevin's personalities were each created to protect him from some form of trauma or other issue he can't deal with himself. Dennis was created to deal with his mother's abuse and has OCD because keeping everything neat and tidy prevented him from being hurt.
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Split / int_c973fe1d	type	If We Get Through This…
Split / int_c973fe1d	comment	If We Get Through This…: While trying to break out of their adjacent rooms, Claire tells Marcia she should picture herself in a couple of hours at home, on the couch. Needless to say that neither character makes it.
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Split / int_cbd0ac32	type	Environmental Symbolism
Split / int_cbd0ac32	comment	Environmental Symbolism: The girls figure out early on that the space they are being held is a series of locked doors and labyrinth tunnels, making an escape that much more difficult. It's also a good indicator of what it must be like inside Kevin's mind.
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Split / int_ce6487aa	type	Misery Builds Character
Split / int_ce6487aa	comment	Misery Builds Character: The Beast's guiding philosophy, which proves to be the key reason why he lets Casey go free once he sees her numerous scars. Also played literally for Casey herself, since being a sexual assault survivor is what prepared her to survive as Kevin's captive, both in terms of taking the time to study his behavior as a predator in order to make sound decisions when she has to respond to him, and in terms of having the guts to pull the trigger on him.
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Split / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Split / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: As a reference to a split personalities, which plays a major part in the story.
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Split / int_d13e75b2	type	How's Your British Accent?
Split / int_d13e75b2	comment	How's Your British Accent?: Kevin is an American, but his personalities affect a wide range of accents.
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Split / int_d43733d6	type	Killer Bear Hug
Split / int_d43733d6	comment	Killer Bear Hug: The Beast is so inhumanly strong that crushing someone's bones and internal organs with a hug proves to be one of its best methods of killing.
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Split / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Split / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: All three girls taken separately with Kevin, then Dr. Fletcher as well.
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Split / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Split / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: The entire film is Kevin/The Horde's origin as a supervillain, in contrast to Unbreakable being David Dunn's hero origin story.
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Split / int_e4eb20fa	type	Mandatory Twist Ending
Split / int_e4eb20fa	comment	Mandatory Twist Ending: Probably the first Shyamalan film to capitalize and anticipate this; as a result it was a twist so big it caught even the most jaded viewers by surprise. The main story has no real twist, it plays out relatively straight with a couple of natural revelations. But it is the final scene with David Dunn that lets the audience realize the film does not exist in a vacuum.
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Split / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
Split / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: The plot kicks off with a man with DID kidnapping teenage girls, and it only gets worse for them from there. Played With, however, in that before the Horde took over, Kevin was actually high functioning, holding a steady job, and not a threat to anyone else. It was only once his malevolent personalities managed to take over that he fell into this trope.
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Split / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
Split / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Done as an important plot development. Dennis requests the girls remove their clothes after they get dirty making certain escapes. As Clair and Marcia are quickly left in their underwear, Casey had on more layers to stay covered up. As the Beast is chasing her at the end, she gets her outerwear torn up and she is left in a tiny tank top, revealing that she has many scars on her shoulders and stomach (implied to be from self-harm).
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Split / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Split / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Dr. Fletcher is suspicious when Barry contradicts several of his standard behavior patterns, such as forgetting to take his art book with him and walking straight through a pile of trash. She believes that one of Kevin's other personalities is masquerading as Barry to prevent Barry from warning her about their plans.
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Split / int_efc49c38	comment	Trapped-with-Monster Plot: The climax has Casey in an enclosed environment trying to get away from the Beast.
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Split / int_f10a1faf	comment	The arch-villain is the exact opposite of the hero. Depending on who the hero is, this works both ways. While Kevin and Casey have similar pasts, their ways of dealing with it are complete opposites, with Casey relying on learning ways to deal with it while Kevin created Dennis to deal with it for him. If it's the Beast and David Dunn who are the opposites, then it's their worldview: David is a Reluctant Hero while the Beast revels in its power and believes itself superior.
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Split / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Karen very conspicuously mentions that she's giving a remote lecture via Skype. We see part of her Skype lecture later.
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Split / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Implied with Casey at the end. Casey gets away from Kevin and the murders of three innocent people perfectly calmly, but she tears up when the cop tells her that her pervert uncle just showed up; after her Character Development that lets her fire the shotgun without freezing up and the proof literally written on her skin, it's implied that she's going to rat him out.
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Split / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Averted in the case of Dennis and Patricia, both of whom are soft-spoken. Played straight with the Beast, who is as unrestrained in his speech as he is in his actions.
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Split / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The psychological aspects of dissociative identity disorder are presented accurately to how they appear in medical literature. The alternate personalities, called alters, are all concerned with either protecting Kevin or doing something for him that he can't do himself. In a similar manner, many people with mental disabilities can display incredible amounts of strength because their mental blocks are different. The other physical differences vital to the story are more debatable. All of the changes mentioned (except The Beast) have been claimed to happen, mostly by Dr. Bernie Siegel,note who is a retired pediatric surgeon, not a research psychologist but never demonstrated in medical literature. Also, many of Casey's attributes are sadly accurate of real-life victims of sexual abuse. Particularly her aloof demeanor and wearing multiple layers of clothing which is usually done out of a fear of intimacy and discomfort with one's own body, attempting to "desexualize" themselves.
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