History Characters / DeadByDaylightKillersPart1

!!"The Trapper" - Evan [=MacMillan=][[labelnote:✝]][[VideoGame/NaughtyBear Naughty Bear]][[/labelnote]]

!!"The Huntress" - Anna [[labelnote:✝]][[WebVideo/CryptTV The Mordeo]], The Were-Elk[[/labelnote]]

* PsychoLesbian: Downplayed. The tie-in comic confirms that Susie is gay (or at least bisexual) and had a one-sided crush on Julie. However, while she was a troubled teen, Susie was not a psychopath before being recruited into the Legion by the Entity.

* TheSociopath: The tie-in comics makes it clear that Julie was this trope before coming to the Entity's Realm. Unlike the other three members of the Legion, she came from a loving home with two adoring parents. However, she demonstrated a lack of empathy from a young age and was fantasizing about murder and mayhem prior to meeting Frank.

* StrugglingSingleMother: According to his Season's Killings cosmetic, Joey had one.

* TheSociopath: The tie-in comics makes it clear that Julie was this trope before coming to the Entity's Realm. Unlike the other three members of the Legion, she came from a loving home with two adoring parents. However, she demonstrated a lack of empathy from a young age and was fantasizing about murder prior to meeting Frank.

!!"The Huntress" - Anna [[labelnote:✝]][[WebVideo/CryptTV The Mordeo]][[/labelnote]]

* FinishingMove: Buries her axe in her prey's skull, then cuts into their body twice for good measure.

* PaletteSwap: The DLC Store "WebVideo/CryptTV [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DavMadZjxLw Collection]]" allows you to play as the Mordeo. Also, an Ultra Rare set turns her into the Literature/BabaYaga, which also changes the key of her lullaby.

* ForcedIntoEvil: Joey, Julie, and Susie didn't want to kill the cleaner, but Frank forced them to stab the cleaner so they'd share the punishment. Susie in particular had to have her hands physically forced into the man's neck. After The Entity claimed Frank, it decided to take his three accomplices as well when they went looking for him, and all four of the youths were merged together.

* TeensAreMonsters: Frank plays this fully straight, being willing to murder a man in cold blood. Julie and Joey are downplayed since they had to be convinced to take part in said murder, and Susie is even more downplayed since she had to be physically forced into compliance.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Not for whoever's playing The Clown, but whenever any Survivor player gets hit by the intense InterfaceScrew from his gas, a stationary crosshair is placed in the center of the screen to help prevent potential motion sickness.

* CantCatchUp: For a couple years after the game's release, Hillbilly was generally considered one of the top 3 most powerful Killers in the game due to his excellent map coverage and OneHitKill ability. However, his ability has remained the same while the game's meta has shifted considerably (his {{Nerf}} didn't help much in this regard either), and currently he's considered average at best. He finally received a major BalanceBuff in early 2024 making him noticeably more effective and less frustrating to play as.

* CanadaEh: All four of them are from Alberta, Canada. This usually isn't touched upon much in-game, aside from their map being a snow-covered ski resort, but the eleventh rift released a charm in the form of a maple leaf-shaped syrup bottle.

The Clown's unique perks, ''Bamboozle'', ''Coulrophobia'', and ''Pop Goes the Weasel'', focus on shutting down window loops and slowing survivors' progress. ''Bamboozle'' significantly speeds up the speed at which killers vault through windows and causes the Entity to block any windows they cross through, making that window useless for looping until it's moved to another window. ''Coulrophobia'' significantly reduces the healing speed of survivors if they're within the killer's terror radius. ''Pop Goes the Weasel'' activates after the killer hooks someone and opens up a window where if the killer kicks a generator, it not only starts regressing but instantly loses 30% of its progress.

* SkillGateCharacter: While not as extreme an example as Freddy, the Doctor is generally considered to be quite strong at beginner levels and quite weak at expert levels. While he can effectively nullify stealth (which is what makes him so strong against inexperienced survivors), expert survivors don't care much about stealth anyway, and it is more difficult to shut down loops compared to the Clown due to the slowdown and charge time of his shock attack (his BalanceBuff improving his controls makes it a bit easier to stop short-to-medium loops, but he's still relatively powerless at long loops).

* SkillGateCharacter: In their original incarnation, Legion was probably the easiest Killer in the game to play in terms of catching skilled survivors, but the drawback is he's unable to catch survivors ''quickly'' unless they make very rookie mistakes. The result was making it very hard for a single survivor to dominate them (whereas optimal survivors can be functionally invincible against every other Killer except the Nurse), but conversely it was hard for Legion to dominate a survivor team as they're likely to escape before they can make a sufficient number of hooks. Even this was too much for survivor players, who prefer a playstyle in which they always have the potential to take on a killer 1-vs-1 chase indefinitely, so Legion was {{Nerf}}ed so that their Feral Frenzy attack can't down injured survivors, unless they manage to chain together 4 slashes, in which case they'll be able to take down even a healthy survivor.

* SinisterStrangulation: Her mori is to FlashStep to a downed Survivor and choke the life out of them, creepily stroking their face afterwards.

* CantCatchUp: For a couple years after the game's release, Hillbilly was generally considered one of the top 3 most powerful Killers in the game due to his excellent map coverage and OneHitKill ability. However, his ability has remained the same while the game's meta has shifted considerably (his {{Nerf}} didn't help much in this regard either), and currently he's considered average at best.

* LongRangeFighter: Her throwing hatchets are one of the only ranged attacks in the game, and the only one that deals direct damage (the Deathslinger's rifle can't down a survivor directly, the Plague's corrupt purge is a SuperMode dependent on survivors' actions to unlock, and while the Trickster ''can'' deal damage it requires you to build up a meter by hitting 6 knives within a brief period of time). The drawback is that she's moderately slower than the other Killers and thus more dependent on her long-range attack.

* BalanceBuff: Previously, the Clown was slowed for a couple seconds after throwing a bottle. Without add-ons, this actually ''cancelled out'' the slowdown on a survivor being hit with a bottle, resulting in the Clown gaining zero total overall distance compared to just chasing normally. This was removed in the same update as the Silent Hill chapter, making the Clown much more effective in his role as an anti-loop CloseRangeCombatant. A second BalanceBuff gave him a second gas that allowed him to speed himself up (but which survivors could also use to speed themselves up), as well as reducing the reload time on his bottles.

!!"The Doctor" - Herman Carter [[labelnote:✝]][[WebVideo/CryptTV The Look-See]], [[Music/IronMaiden Powerslave Eddie]][[/labelnote]]

* DropTheHammer: His primary weapon is a broken cattle-hammer.

* DropTheHammer: His main weapon, when he isn't using his chainsaw, is a small hammer.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Has a chase theme filled with an unhinged rhythm and a siren-like flute boring into the ears.

* {{Leitmotif}}: He has one that sounds like twisted circus music, with a prominent accordion and chime motif. His chase music includes frantic flutes and booming trombones.