Bruh, it seems you are missing out on key details to suit the narrative that this movie makes sense when it doesn’t.
Again Elijah’s plan in unbreakable was to find his opposite to prove he wasn’t a mistake. Not to expose superheroes. To say his plan all along was to expose people with powers just ain’t true. Because for 19 years due was locked up with no clues on what was happening outside. He literally came up with his plan the night before because he found out David and the beast were at the same facility earlier that day.
Not to mention, the all ended up at the same facility by happenstance. Which happened a lot in this movie. David just happened to run into the beast that day and went after him that night because he didn’t listen to his son. and the organization just happened to show up at the right time. You realize if David listened to his son, he would have never went there and the beast would have ate the girls and kept it moving. All of this was pure coincidence because elijah is not omniscient All of this is happening without Elijah’s knowledge so it can’t be part of some plan to expose people with powers.
Also another point of happenstance. Elijah didn’t know sh*t about Casey. So Casey f*cked up the plan as well by accidentally showing up the next day during the fight and making the beast change back into Kevin. This is the only reason the organization got a chance to shoot Kevin. Elijah didn’t know this. Nobody knew this would happen. The same thing with Joseph showing up out of nowhere.
The movie relies on coincidences that make no sense to justify the Elijah is a mastermind plot but when you think about it, it ultimately doesn’t hold up.
No. I think you misinterpreted. His theory was that if he existed, others existed as well. This was stated in Unbreakable and once again in this film. He was obsessed in finding ANYONE that resembled any gift. However, his first theory was to find his opposite, since he wouldn't know what other abilities they had.
Everything you're mentioning has no bearing on the plot which is to make the world aware of people with abilities. First to find them, then make them known. It was him (and the son) that convinced David to go out into the world and save people in Unbreakable. David has been spotted and photographed on his own. Okay, he learned about the Beast a few months prior, so why wouldn't his plan be to put David against the Beast? Once again, he's obsessed with comics and the hero villain fight. That's why the tower was irrelevant. He spent months/years looking for someone like David. Once Glass was in the facility, he knew it was a matter of time before someone else would be in there as well. He's been patient, and knows that they are being watched. Glass is an urban myth, the Beast was on the news, and Dunn had been making noise in the papers for damn near 2 decades.
One of the reasons you can say he was having doubts could have been because he was getting bored in waiting. The doc even implied that he had been out of his room before, and he's been tampering with things around the facility. Once he had enough pieces in place, game on. Casey is irrelevant to the plot. Glass didn't even want to kill Beast, just wanted Beast abilities on display. He had nothing to do with Dunn dying either, that was just collateral damage, he only guessed that he would die.