10 Massively Missed Opportunities In Recent Movies

4. NOT Revealing That Dr. Staple Is A Secret Supervillain - Glass

What Should've Happened

Ahead of the release of M. Night Shyamalan's Glass, rumours were running rampant about the nature of the inevitable big twist the filmmaker would blindside audiences with.

And the one that unquestionably picked up the most traction? That psychiatrist Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson) would turn out to be a supervillain, with her sights set on draining Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), The Horde (James McAcoy) and David Dunn (Bruce Willis) of their powers to supplement her own.

Given Paulson's acting chops and what actually happened, it would've been a fun twist - especially if it resulted in the three protagonists reluctantly teaming up to take her down. Perhaps Mr. Glass is killed in the fight, but The Horde and Dunn go their separate ways to fight another day in the not-so-inevitable sequel.

What Actually Happened

Staple is still the villain of the movie, but she's not superhuman at all, and in fact quite the opposite.

It's revealed that Staple is part of a secret society of humans aware of the existence of super-powered individuals, and who effectively try to gaslight these people into believing they're mentally ill. If they don't comply, they kill them.

As a result, Mr. Glass is killed during the final fight, The Horde is shot dead by one of Staple's snipers, and Dunn is drowned in a freaking pothole by another anonymous goon.

One suspects Shyamalan was constrained by his mere $20 million budget here, and while nobody wanted the film to devolve into sloppy CGI nonsense in its third act, offing the main characters in such shockingly casual fashion left a sour taste in viewers' mouths.