

He becomes part of the lens through which you see the world." Dark Horse's Fight Club sequels take the idea of Tyler Durden beyond mere mental illness and expand it into a supernatural, anarchist manifesto brought to life. Tyler works like a superstition or a prejudice. The correct question is, what is Tyler Durden? The comics provide the answer: Dr. Who is Tyler Durden? That isn't the right question. The narrator goes to war against Tyler Durden to save his son from Tyler's twisted influence.įight Club 3 is a family affair as it forces an unlikely alliance between the narrator, Tyler Durden and their son to stop Rize or Die from fine-tuning the world in their vision. He tries to take control of Marla and Sebastian's child to continue Project Mayhem, which has been rebranded as Rize or Die. Fight Club 2 reveals Tyler Durden killed the narrator's parents to secure his hold on the narrators' mind. RELATED: Fight Club Helped Influence Harley Quinn and Birds of Prey's Costumesįight Club's sequels take Sebastian on a spiraling adventure through his own world, which has been poisoned by Tyler Durden since he was a child. However, Marla's not satisfied by their subdued sex life and embarks on an affair - with Tyler Durden. She cuts Sebastian's meds and Tyler Durden starts reappearing, which thrusts Sebastian and Marla's life back into chaos. He's been medicated for nearly a decade to suppress Tyler Durden's maniacal ways. Ten years after the original story concludes, the narrator - now calling himself Sebastian - lives a subdued life married to Marla Singer and taking care of their child. Fight Club's universe acts like a nihilistic thought experiment through the lens of an anarchist's playbook full of clever writing, callbacks and meta fourth wall breaks.

The sequel comics are also written by Palahniuk and follow the narrator's life after the events of the film.

Fans never got to see Pitt and Norton reprise their roles on the silver screen, but Dark Horse Comics expanded Tyler Durden's reach through two sequel comics: Fight Club 2 and Fight Club 3. Fight Club is now hands-down a cult classic - and fans have long urged Palahniuk to deliver a sequel expanding on Tyler Durden's story. However, it was the 1999 film with the same name starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter that made Tyler Durden a household name. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club was released in 1996.
