Elijah received fractures in the arms and legs in the womb. All his life he was a walking catastrophe, having turned out to be an average age in a wheelchair. Mother, seeing that all the misfortunes Elijah attracts like a magnet, gave him a set of comics, which the boy was carried away for life, seriously studying them. David Dunn has always been the only survivor in the worst catastrophes, where everyone died, and David did not receive any scratches. And he never got sick. All his life Elijah worked on decoding the comics, and David tried to deal with his gift, not finding any use for it.