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Underworld: Endless War es una película de animación estrenada en 2011 basado en la
serie Underworld. Estas tres historias de anime, cuya creación fue supervisada por
Len Wiseman, director de las dos primeras películas de
Underworld y productor/escritor de
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans y
Underworld: Awakening,
son cada uno un poco más de cinco minutos de duración, y contienen una
historia diferente en tres diferentes períodos de la historia, (1890,
1967, 2012), para poner de relieve los nuevos eventos de la mitología de
Underworld. Estas historias también hablan de lo que ocurrió antes de los acontecimientos en
Underworld: Awakening.
English
Part I
In 1890,
Selene is in Paris, investigating reports of three Lycan brothers, who, as
werewolves terrorize the area, but in human form, are posing as
lords, and have claimed a
castle/
mansion as their-own. Selene has been dispatched to investigate the reports, eliminate these self-styled "
Lords of the Crescent Wills", and secure the mansion for the Paris branch of the
Old World Vampire Coven. From a perch up in the
belfry
of a high building, Selene sights one of the brothers, Darius, the
oldest. She receives a scroll, (via messenger bat), with likenesses of
all three brothers and the layout of their mansion, and Selene realizes
the reason that Kraven and higher-ups want the castle is to put the
balance of power in the area in favor of the Vampires. Determined to
exterminate the self-styles Lycan Lords, Selene makes her way after the
oldest brother.
Arriving at the mansion first, the oldest Lycan informs his brothers,
twins Vregis and Krandrill, that a Death Dealer has found them, and
that they must leave at once. But they both do not take this seriously,
and, against their brother's warnings, insist that they kill the Death
Dealer first. Together, all three brothers try to ambush Selene down in
the
sewers,
thinking that, it being three-against-one, they have her at a
disadvantage. Selene, however, proves to be more than they had
estimated; she cuts-off half of one of the two younger brothers' ears,
and then, with a pair of
swords, mortally wounds the oldest brother, who then sacrifices himself to
shield
his brothers against Selene's gunfire. The younger two brothers flee
while Selene finishes-off the oldest Lycan brother. As they leave the
estate via
rowing boat, they vow revenge against the Death Dealer and the Vampires.
Part II
In
1967, nearly 80-years later, Selene has returned to Paris, to
investigate familier reports of the two remaining Lycan brothers, who
had escaped her decades earlier. Unbeknownst to her, she is spotted in
the
streets
of Paris by the youngest Lycan brother, Krandrill, (from the very same
belfrey she had sighted his oldest brother in Part I). While he goes to
inform his twin brother, Selene is giving her report to Kraven via
telephone. To her disgust, Selene is informed that her presence is
'eagerly-awaited at the mansion' by Lord Clovis. Meanwhile, Krandrill
arrives at the
backroom of the
weed shop they've been working out off. Vregis comments that the '
incense
can only hide [them] for so-long', and Krandrill informs him that he
has spotted the Death Dealer that killed Darius in Paris. Figuring that
she's there as protection for Lord Clovis at the 'Crimson Moon
ceremony', being held at their old mansion, they decide to crash the
ceremony to lure her out, so that they can both kill her and the other
Vampires, and reclaim their old home, all in one night.
Selene drives to the mansion, figuring that 'it's only a matter of
time' before the two brothers will attack at the mansion, and she now
has their trail. In the middle of the ceremony, the Lycan brothers crash
the ceremony and
decapitate
Lord Clovis, before Selene jumps in after them and opens fire. The
brothers retreat to the shadows, circling, before one, (Vregis), dashes
out and knocks her against a piller, causing her to drop her guns.
Selene recovers, draws her sword, and dashes forward at Vregis,
somersaults
over his shoulder and drives the blade straight through the back of his
skull. With the second brother down, Selene turns her attention towards
the third brother, Krandrill, who charges at her, but she responds with
her last weapon, a
shuriken, severing his left
arm clean off. As he flees, Selene comments that it is only a matter of time before he'll 'join [his] brothers in
hell'.
Part III
In 2012, a few years after the death of
Alexander Corvinus,
Selene has returned to Paris with the intention of finishing off the
last Lycan brother once and for all (Krandrill having deliberately
brought attention to himself), and she has brought
Michael with her to help. Since Alexander's death,
humanity
has caught on to the existence of vampires and Lycanthropes, and has
begun to identify and exterminate the 'Infected'. As Selene observes, a
couple in a car are singled out (by an IPU (
Infected
Persons
Unit)
sniper stationed in the same belfry seen in Parts I & II), and tested first with
Ag (silver) gas, and then with
UV
light, revealing them as vampires, and promptly shot. Having been lured
back to Paris by Krandrill, Selene and Michael had split up in order to
cover more ground; Selene is sent a picture by her contact, a female
security guard at the Tati hotel, confirming Krandrill's regular
presence there. Selene and Michael talk by
smartphone,
and Michael recognizes Krandrill in the picture. He approaches the
hotel as Selene makes her way to meet up with him there. Krandrill's
plan, after having brought himself to Selene's attention again in the
first place, is to lure Selene and Michael into an ambush with his
harem, where he intends to kill Michael in front of Selene, in
retaliation for her slaying his older brothers.
Michael's attempt to take Krandrill by surprise is foiled when Krandrill picks up on Michael's
scent first, and Michael hears
howling,
all before Selene can meet him there, as she has to deal with the IPU
men (who also heard the howling). Michael crashes through the entrance,
only to be taken by surprise himself by Krandrill (already in werewolf
form), and his harem of
female Lycans (all of whom are
armed), and transforms into his
hybrid form. They open fire on him after pinning him to the wall with
grappling guns,
but Michael breaks free and slashes through Krandrill's harem, before
being taken on by Krandrill himself. Krandrill, however, makes the same
mistakes as twice-before and underestimates his enemy's strength, and is
sent flying out a
window. Before he starts to fall, Selene jumps down from off of the
rooftop and as she sends him down to street below peppers him with silver bullets. Before he dies, Krandrill gives a passing
taunt, that her kind is being hunted now, and that she'll soon join him and his brothers in hell, before Selene finishes him off.
In a
voiceover, Selene comments about the 'endless war': "
I don't feel 'Victory'; this never ends. (About Kandrill's Last Words) He might be right. We are
the Hunted. But as long as I have Him, I'm all right. As long as we're together, I can live forever..."
