History Characters / DeadByDaylightKillersPart2

* {{Revenge}}: His defining characteristic outside of his ingenuity, with even his overview from the Killer select screen describing him as "a vengeful Killer." Caleb's life was largely defined by wanting to [[TheDogBitesBack punish those he had been wrong by]]. From designing a mask that would gouge out the eyes of the boys who bullied him, to nearly killing his boss via a gun that shot railroad spikes for stealing the patents of his inventions, to leading a gang of brutal bounty hunters on the payroll of a prison warden who promised to have his former boss behind bars in return, and finally to storming the prison to kill both him and its warden upon learning of their deceitful collaboration.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was born in the poor dust lands of the American frontier, the son of Irish immigrants, Caleb was constantly mistreated due to his heritage, being bullied by the other children and eventually being denied job opportunities despite his talents. However, through his ingenuity and ruthlessness, he became an infamous bounty hunter, before brutally killing those who had wronged him. He then became a monstrous killer in The Entity's realm, feared by his prey.

* SkillGateCharacter: He's easier to use than the Huntress, the game's other LongRangeFighter, as he has iron sights, his projectile is faster[[note]]his projectile actually travels at the same speed as a fully charged Huntress hatchet, but can fire instantly instead of taking a couple seconds to charge up[[/note]] and travels in a straight line, and he can aim and fire instantly instead of having to charge up a shot like the Huntress has to. Additionally, hitting a reeled survivor or letting them go by breaking the chain will afflict them with the "Deep Wound" status effect[[note]]an effect where a timer for the survivor to stop and mend their wounds begin ticking, only pausing when the survivor is within the terror radius of the killer, mending themselves or being in a chase, and put the survivor in the dying state if the timer run out before they're fully mended[[/note]] and, depending on perks and add-ons, the "Mangled" status effect[[note]] which slows the speed at which the survivor is healed by 20%[[/note]] as well, making it possible to force survivors to stay still and heal for quite a while. However, his harpoon has a max range of 18 feet, while a top-tier Huntress can potentially hit survivors from as far away as almost across the map. His rate of fire and damage rate are also ''considerably'' slower than that of the Huntress, but an unskilled Huntress will also likely miss more often. Overall, he's somewhat easier to use than the Huntress, at the cost of having significantly less maximum potential. Even more so after his October 2021 Nerfs, which make him more like Huntress by giving his attack a charge-up time and increasing his heartbeat radius, while maintaining his much lower damage-per-second compared to her.

* MurderByInaction: The fire that killed his fellow [=NO SPIN=] bandmates was genuinely an accident, but he had an opportunity to save them and made the split-second decision not, due to him both wanting all the fame of the band for himself, and [[{{Narcissist}} being mesmerized by their desperate pleas for him to rescue them]]. This was also the trigger for his serial killer career.

!!"The Oni" - Yamaoka Kazan [[labelnote:✝]][[Manga/AttackOnTitan The Armored Titan]], [[Music/IronMaiden Senjutsu Eddie]][[/labelnote]]

!!"The Deathslinger" - Caleb Quinn [[labelnote:✝]][[Music/IronMaiden Stranger in a Strange Land Eddie]][[/labelnote]]

!!"The Dredge" - Druanee [[labelnote:✝]][[Music/IronMaiden X Factor Eddie]][[/labelnote]]

* GuestFighter: Subverted. He's not the killer from the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' movies and the only thing he's got in common with them is the mask. You can purchase the classic Ghostface outfits from the film as an alternate cosmetic, however.

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful".'']]

* {{Determinator}}: According to her backstory, she kept on doing her work as a priestess even when the plague was ravaging her body and making her suffer, to the point of even overworking herself. [[ShaggyDogStory Shame that it didn’t really make much of a difference in the end, though.]]
* DifficultButAwesome: The Plague’s power is incredibly unique to the point where once many players have gotten her very good perks, they do not play her again. Not only does she require good aim of her vomit projectiles (especially since charging her vomit slows her down), and good looping mechanics due to her green puke only injuring survivors, she also requires an immense amount of game knowledge to play. Knowing when to consume your pools of corruption (especially the one given to you by default), when and how to infect survivors and adjusting your game plan on the fly based on whether the survivors are cleansing or not is very difficult - not to mention pallet stuns can stop Corrupt Purge. However, she is considered a very strong killer for those who can use her; her infection lets her counter survivor healing tools other killers would be helpless against, like Boon Circle of Healing or strong Medkits, and also prevents survivors from getting speed boosts when they injured, and her Corrupt Purge lets her power through many loops, shred through health states, hit multiple survivors and chain together downs very quickly.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Because the way she handles injuries is so different from other killers, many killer perks that affect survivor healing (i.e. Nurse's Calling, Sloppy Butcher, or Coulrophobia) are practically useless on her since survivors will generally only heal against her by using a fountain, which heals instantly and isn't affected by perks. Conversely, survivor perks that boost their healing ability are likewise mostly useless when playing against her.

** This does work the other way too! If no-one cleanses, Plague won’t have much access to her very powerful Corrupt Purge and will have to play like an M1 killer most of the game, making strong windows, pallets and tiles hard for her. If everyone cleanses, she’ll have her SuperMode more yes, but will also have to hit you twice, giving you time from the injury speed boost to maybe make it to a tall structure where hitting her red puke is harder - and will have to constantly go to fountains to keep her supply of Corrupt Purge up (if all of her fountains are red, she will gain Corrupt Purge for 60 seconds but at of the fountains will become useable for survivors and not Plague again). If some people cleanse and some don’t, the pools might be in an awkward location and she’ll have to be selective about which survivors to target and when to use Corrupt Purge. This means Plague players have to employ a different strategy each match based on how the survivors deal with the infection.

* SinisterSurveillance: Since the infection status of survivors is shown on the [=HUD=] at all times, The Plague can use her abilities as a limited form of map control if she pays careful attention; If a survivor suddenly gets infected, that means they're interacting with something she recently spewed on and she can rectrace her steps to find them. And if a survivor cleanses themselves, she can figure out ''exactly'' where they are, since she can see the aura of the newly-corrupted pool at any distance, with one add-on showing their aura on top of that.

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Film/Scream1996 "What's your favorite scary movie?"]]'']]

* GuestFighter: Subverted. He’s not the killer from the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' movies and the only thing he’s got in common with them is the mask. You can purchase the classic Ghostface outfits from the film as an alternate cosmetic, however.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler: Tome 13 has him happily reminisce on the scary stories his father told him as the "best" and the ones that inspired his current love of [[DeadlyEuphemism writing horror stories.]] The wording heavily suggests he was enjoying and enthralled by ''stories of his father's experiences in war and slaughtering enemy soldiers!'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E5ChapterFiveTheFleaAndTheAcrobat "Science is neat, boys, but I'm afraid it's not very forgiving."]]'']]

->''"What does it mean to be authentic? How does one follow one’s destiny despite the pressures of family and tradition? Often following one‘s path is a strenuous, narrow struggle full of unexpected joys and difficulties. Ultimately it’s about finding the balance between tradition and self-actualization. But as one struggles for identity, decisions are made and consequences, good or bad, must be faced."''

* LiteralMetaphor: The traditional Japanese metaphor of “giving a kanabō to an oni”-i.e. empowering something already strong-is literally enacted here, as Yamaoka’s usage of the kanabo enables him to break into a charge and down survivors in one hit, meaning both his speed and strength are enhanced.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Killing a highly respected and beloved lord wasn't going to end well for Kazan, angering his people to take revenge on him, which ultimately became his undoing. Despite being a very formidable warrior that had killed numerous samurai, even someone as tough and skilled as Kazan would be overwhelmed by [[ZergRush a mob attack at all sides]], even by inexperienced farmers. It also doesn’t help that Kazan had just come back from killing the lord and all of his warriors, so he was probably at least somewhat injured and exhausted. Unfortunately for the farmers, this goes both ways. Sure, they eventually managed to kill Kazan, but he still managed to kill a lot of them before they killed him. Even when you have sheer overwhelming numbers on your side, attacking a skilled, experienced opponent whose specialty revolves around killing both your own kind among others, is still quite risky and can end badly for a lot of you, especially if numbers are the only advantage you’ve got. You and your numerous allies might eventually succeed in killing your enemy, but if you’re not careful, your enemy will [[TakingYouWithMe take a lot of you down with him]].
* TakingYouWithMe: Heavily implied. According to his bio, when the villagers surrounded him and attacked him, he managed to kill a lot of them before they killed him, so it’s very likely that he managed to kill the ones who killed him, too, before succumbing to his wounds.

* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a unique dark ambient[=/=]industrial chase theme composed by Music/AkiraYamaoka.

Her unique perks are ''Corrupt Intervention'', ''Infectious Fright'' and ''Dark Devotion'', and specialize in confusing, stalling and revealing survivors to the killer. Corrupt Intervention makes it so that the match starts with the three generators farthest from the killer blocked for up to two minutes, forcing survivors to get closer to the killer and limiting their spacing options to get progress. Infectious Fright makes any survivor within the killer's terror radius let out a revealing scream if a survivor is downed by any means. Dark Devotion causes the killer to pass their terror radius onto an obsession for up to half a minute when hit, making the killer undetectable while the obsession may scare teammates away from them or from objectives.\\

After committing multiple murder sprees in Utah and Philadelphia, Danny Johnson came to the town of Roseville under the alias "Jed Olsen", quickly landing himself a job at The Roseville Gazette. However, after a few months, he began to stalk various members of the town, dressed in a black cloak and a white mask. He began to map out their routines, taking pictures of their house and studying them before finally striking, brutally murdering his prey. Jed used these killings as fuel for the newspapers, writing article after article of the "Ghost Face Killer". As proud as he was of the murders and the resulting stories from them, however, evidence soon began pointing to him as the killer. When he realized this, he fled from Roseville, leaving behind only a note for the police.\\

His unique perks, ''I'm All Ears'', ''Thrilling Tremors'' and ''Furtive Chase'' are all-rounder perks that help a variety of regards instead of any specific focus. I'm All Ears makes it so that when any survivor preforms a fast vaulting action over a window or palette, their aura is revealed to the killer to make it easier to predict their attempted escape route. Thrilling Tremors blocks every generator that's not actively being worked on for a short time after a hook, giving information on what generators survivors may be tending to at the time of a hook. Furtive Chase is an obsession perk that reduces the killer's terror radius by a stacking amount every time the obsession is hooked but permanently goes away if an obsession is killed, so to help with this Furtive Chase will uniquely change who the obsession is to whoever unhooks the obsession. \\

The Demogorgon's unique perks, ''Surge'', ''Mindbreaker'' and ''Cruel Limits'' focus on affecting the generators and survivors around them, per the show treating the Demogorgon as a WalkingTechBane. After the Demogorgon became no longer purchaseable, all three of these perks were put into the general bloodweb as always unlocked so the effects still exist and renamed; Surge became "Jolt", Mindbreaker became "Fearmonger" and Cruel Limits became "Claustrophobia". Surge causes every generator within a certain distance of the killer to explode, lose progress and begin regressing when a survivor is downed with a basic attack. Mindbreaker causes survivors to be afflicted by Exhaustion while working on a generator or pauses the timer if they were already afflicted by it, denying them emergency escape perks like Dead Hard, Sprint Burst, ect. ect for up to 5 seconds. Cruel Limits causes every window within a certain range to be blocked by the Entity when a generator is completed, making it trickier for survivors to get away after completing one.\\

Their unique perks make it easier to keep track of important objects around the map and focuses around punishing players for getting caught or interfering with his chase. Zanshin Tactics highlights Palettes, breakable doors, and Vaultable windows, Blood Echo inflicts status effects on survivors when he hooks their friends, and Nemesis marks someone as an obsession if they hit him with a Palette, revealing them for 4 seconds and masking his Terror Radius from them for a large amount of time.

His teachable perks Gearhead, Dead Man's Switch, and Hex: Retribution allow him to easily locate Generators being repaired, temporarily block Generators from being repaired while his obsession is hooked, and punish Survivors for cleansing his Hex totems. Gearhead activates for a period of time every second basic attack that connects, and while it's on any good skill checks will highlight generators for as long as they're being worked on. Dead Man's Switch is an obsession perk that activates after the obsession is hooked and makes any generator that survivors were working on become blocked off if they stop working on it. Hex: Retribution causes survivors to be afflicted by Oblivious whenever a dull totem is cleansed, and when Retribution's totem is cleansed, it reveals the aura of every survivor on the map for a short time.\\

Pyramid Head's unique perks Forced Penance, Trail of Torment, and Deathbound focus on confusing survivors and punishing altruism. Forced Penance causes survivors who take protection hits for other survivors are afflicted by Broken for a time, making them unable to heal. Trail of Torment makes the killer undetectable after kicking a generator, and lasts until the generator stops regressing (be it by regressing fully or a survivor hopping on it) or the killer strikes a survivor, but allows the survivors to see the aura of the kicked generator. Deathbound punishes survivors healing by making the healer scream after they finish, and for a short time afterward the healer is afflicted by Oblivious unless they're standing within a certain range of the teammate they just healed.\\

The Blight's unique perks, Dragon's Grip, Hex: Blood Favour and Hex: Undying empower killers in regards to the various interactable objects on the map. Dragon's Grip marks generators when kicked, and the next time a survivor starts to work on the generator, they scream, are revealed, and are exposed to instant knockdowns for a full minute. Hex: Blood Favour calls on the Entity to assist the killer after they land a basic attack on a survivor, making its claws hold any palettes near the survivor so they can't be dropped for a short time. Hex: Undying is a hex totem effect that helps other hex totems have more longevity; Survivors trying to cleanse dull totems are revealed to the killers for a time and if Undying is still active when other hex totems are destroyed, Undying transforms into the destroyed hex so it remains active, and carries over any tokens from effects like Devour Hope.\\

Their unique perks Hoarder, Oppression and Coup De Grace makes it harder for survivors to work on generators, get items from chests and make the killer more dangerous. Hoarder spawns 2 more chests in the trial area but causes loud noise notifications if survivors are opening a chest or picking up an item. Oppression marks three random generators to also begin regressing when a generator is kicked and the next time a survivor starts working on a generator they have to pass a difficult skill check. Coup De Grace gives the killer a token every time a generator is complete, empowering their lunges to cover significantly more ground at the cost of one of said tokens.\\

* DashAttack: Their Coup De Grace perk gives them a stack for every generator completed, up to 5 stacks. Using a stack will allow the Killer to increase the range of their normal lunge attack by 50%, letting them lunge from somewhat further away.

His unique perks, Starstruck, Hex: Crowd Control and No Way Out punishes survivors for staying too close to the killer and inhibits their escapes from chases and from the map. Showstopper afflicts survivors with Exposed if they're within range of the killer's terror radius while they're carrying a survivor, the aura goes away as soon as the carried survivor is out of the killer's grasp, but the status effect lingers for a time. Hex: Crowd Control is a Hex that makes the Entity block vault locations for a while after a survivor does a rushed vault over it. No Way Out gains token for every hooked survivor and when Endgame has begun, NWO blocks exit doors when survivors first interact with them for an amount of time determined by how many tokens the killer had accumulated, up to a maximum of a full minute.\\

Nemesis' unique perks are Lethal Pursuer, Hysteria and Eruption, and focus on giving killers immediate knowledge, helping sneak up on survivors, and regressing generators while inhibiting survivors at the same time. Lethal Pursuer reveals the aura of every survivor on the map at the start of the match for up to 9 seconds, giving the killer information on the survivor's immediate objectives. Hysteria causes all injured survivors to suffer from Oblivious when a healthy survivor is put into the injured state, obfuscating the killer the more people are injured. Eruption is a generator regression perk that marks generators when they're kicked, the next time a survivor is downed by any means, every marked generator explodes, starts to regress and suffer a small amount of immediate regression. Additional, if a survivor is working on an Eruption marked generator when it goes off, they'll scream and be incapacitated in place for several seconds.

Pinhead's unique perks are Deadlock, Hex: Plaything and Scourge Hook: Gift of Pain, and focus on blocking generators near completion, cursing hooked survivors with a hex to waste their time, and impeding hooked survivors' progress for healing. Deadlock triggers whenever a generator is completed, and targets another generator with the highest progress to block it, slowing down survivors who try repairing more than one generator at a time. Hex: Plaything triggers when a survivor is hooked for the first time, creating a Hex totem linked to that survivor; as long as that totem stands, the survivor suffers from the Oblivious status effect, and only they are allowed to cleanse said Hex totem for the first 90 seconds, forcing them to go on the hunt for a specific totem lest the killer catch them off-guard. Scourge Hook: Gift of Pain imbues 4 random hooks with brutal purpose, changing them into Scourge Hooks. Survivors unhooked from these suffer from Haemorrhage and Mangled, slowing their healing; but if they choose to heal, they are afflicted with a debuff to their healing and repair speeds until they get injured again, forcing them into a SadisticChoice between making slower progress or staying in a riskier health state.\\

Her unique Perks are ''Grim Embrace'', ''Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance'', and ''Hex: Pentimento'', which focuses on impeding Survivors’ capabilities and progress through unconventional means. ''Grim Embrace'' builds up Tokens for each unique Survivor that is hooked for the first time, and once four Tokens have been achieved, all Generators are blocked for a short time and the Obsession’s aura is revealed to you. ''Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance'' imbues four Hooks with brutal purpose, changing them into Scourge Hooks. Anytime a Survivor is placed on a Scourge Hook, the Generator with the most progress explodes, causing it to lose progress and regress, and causing Survivors that are repairing that generator to scream and reveal their location. ''Hex: Pentimento'' is a Hex Totem Perk that ensures that though your Hex Totems can go down, they won't necessarily be out: at any point, the Killer can rekindle up to 5 cleansed totems. The first four Rekindled Totems, going from first to fourth, reduce the progress made on Repairing, Healing, Recovery, and Gate Opening, with the fifth blocking all Rekindled Totems for the remainder of the trial. Survivors can, however, re-cleanse these Rekindled Totems.\\

Her unique Perks, ''Scourge Hook: Floods of Rage'', ''Call of Brine'', and ''Merciless Storm'' allow her meticulously disrupt any Generator repairing and catch Survivors trying to hide from her. ''Scourge Hook: Floods of Rage'' imbues four Hooks with brutal purpose, changing them into Scourge Hooks. If any Survivor is hooked on a Scourge Hook, nearby Survivors' auras are revealed to you for a short time. Whenever you damage a Generator with ''Call of Brine'', that Generator reveals its aura to you and regresses much faster for 60 seconds. Furthermore, all Good Skill Checks completed on that Generator during that time will make a Loud Noise Notification. ''Merciless Storm'' barrages Survivors with constant Skill Checks once the progress of the Generator that they're repairing reaches 90%. If the stop repairing or fail a Skill Check, that Generator gets blocked by the Entity for a short time.\\

'''''The Onryō is the twenty-fourth new killer added to the game with the release of the Sadako Rising chapter on March 8th, 2022.'''''\\

Its unique Perks, ''Dissolution'', ''Darkness Revealed'', and ''Septic Touch'' punishes Survivors for recovering from injuries, hunt down foes near lockers, and hindering all Pallet-induced obstacles. ''Dissolution'' activates after injuring a Survivor by any means for a short time, and if they fast vault over a Pallet while in its Terror Radius, the Entity instantly breaks that Pallet. ''Darkness Revealed'' causes the Auras of all survivors within a radius of a Locker you've searched to be revealed to you. ''Septic Touch'' inflicts Survivors that make a Healing action in your Terror Radius with Blindness and Exhaustion for the entire time they're healing, and the effect lingers for a short time afterwards once that Healing action is interrupted.\\

Wesker's unique perks, ''Superior Anatomy'', ''Awakened Awareness'', and ''Terminus'', allow him to torment survivors with increased chase power, information, and endgame disruption. ''Superior Anatomy'' will temporarily increase the killer's vault speed after a survivor vaults a window near them, at the cost of a moderate cooldown. ''Awakened Awareness'' will reveal the auras of all nearby survivors when the Killer is carrying one. ''Terminus'' inflicts Broken on injured survivors after all generators are completed, with the effect lingering for a short time after the exit gates are opened.\\\

His unique perks, ''Nowhere To Hide'', ''Hex: Face the Darkness'', and ''Hubris'' ensures that the survivors cannot hide from him and are punished should they try and stop him. ''Nowhere to Hide'' reveals the auras of any nearby survivors whenever you damage a generator. ''Hex: Face the Darkness'' triggers when a survivor is injured, activating a dull totem and cursing them; the cursed survivor will have their aura shown to the other survivors, and everyone except the cursed survivor will occasionally scream and reveal their aura if they're outside of the Killer's terror radius; If the cursed survivor is either downed or healed, the hex will temporarily deactivate and its totem will become dull. ''Hubris'' temporarily exposes any survivor who dares to stun the killer.\\\

* ExtraDigits: He has six fingers on both of his hands. His reveal trailer shows this is a result of the pustula serum permanently altering his body, as his distinctly human hand have 5 fingers before he inject himself with it, and while he's turning, his shadow projected on the wall clearly has six fingers.

** With no anti-loop ability, Sadako is heavily reliant on surprise attacks and taking advantage of survivors who allow their Condemned status to reach full meter. Her ability to get surprise attacks is weaker than other stealth killers as she is visible at close range unlike the Wraith yet cannot attack immediately out of stealth unlike Ghostface, though her ability to teleport around the map compensates for this somewhat. Ultimately, she can be handled fairly well with good looping, though when running between loops she can catch you by surprise by teleporting ahead of you.
** Unlike the other Killers with unique object-based mechanics before her such as Pinhead or Adiris, Sadako has no means of enforcing Survivors to interact with her [=TVs=] and Tape for her to spread Condemned to them, except for one add-on that makes all Survivors start with a Tape. With the Condemned feature's original mechanics, Survivors could stay away from any TV they saw and not try to retrieve the Tape, which were her only two means of Condemning them, so when up against map-savvy groups, Sadako would be reduced to a weaker Freddy, who's already at the lower tiers himself, with the only power to her name being an on-demand way to become invisible. In July 2023 she was reworked so that she gives all Survivors ''not'' holding a tape a small amount of Condemned every time she teleports, but Survivors holding a tape no longer gain Condemned (at the cost of gaining 2 stacks if they're hit by her while holding a tape).
** With her July 2023 rework, the dominant strategy against Sadako is now to get a tape as soon as possible so you don't gain Condemned when she teleports. While this means you will get some Condemned if hit, the fact she's a basic attack Killer with no real anti-loop and easily detected stealth (due to her lullaby) means ''getting'' hit should be relatively easy to avoid if you know what you're doing as Survivor.

* ConfusionFu: Sadako's intermittant invisibility while demanifested ''can'' be used to trick survivors at loops and get a hit, but this generally requires stacking 2 add-ons to maximize the length of her invisibility blinking, otherwise it's simply too short to matter. This was {{Nerf}}ed even further in her July 2023 re-work by significantly reducing the effectiveness of the main add-on that increased this effect.

* GatheringSteam: Her primary "meter" is Condemned, which is applied to Survivors with 16 meters of any television she crawls out of, and those who have been fully Condemned can be Mori'd for free. Should somebody decide to mess with her [=TVs=] to temporarily disable her TunnelNetwork, they will be forced to carry the cursed tape around, with which they can disable more [=TVs=], but gaining Condemned progress with each one that's shut off. A random TV will be highlighted for them to offload the tape, which drains Condemned from them. After her July 2023 rework, Condemned now builds on ''all'' Survivors whenever she teleports, but holding a cursed tape will actually protect Survivors from this effect, however if they get hit by her while holding the tape they'll gain about 30% of the total Condemned required to Mori them (the tape breaks after a hit to prevent this effect from stacking rapidly in succession).

* {{Intangibility}}: While demanifested, Sadako has no collision hitbox and passes straight through survivors, allowing her to phase through survivors attempting to body block for an injured survivor. She still can interact with objects and be stunned by pallets, though.

* MasterOfNone: Her weaker stealth compared to most other stealth killers is supposed to be compensated with her increased map coverage via her teleportation as well as the pressure from her Condemned ability, however both of these side abilities are functionally very weak (her teleport is easily disabled and she quickly runs out of teleport points by using it, and Condemning survivors does almost nothing unless you throw the game by doing nothing else ''except'' Condemn them) and in practice don't really make up for her reduced stealth. About the only thing she has going for her is her ConfusionFu and ability to phase through bodyblocks. The fact the next Killer to be released immediately after her, the Dredge, does almost everything she does except better, really illustrates how weak she is. Her weakness was further compounded by the addition of a visual indicator for lullabies[=/=]heartbeats, which nows means survivors can know with 100% certainty she's nearby even when she's supposedly in her stealth mode. After her July 2023 rework, Sadako's Condemned is now more powerful but all her other attributes are still very weak, making her somewhat akin to Pinhead in that her primary ability (demanifestation[=/=]chains) is relatively weak, but her passive ability (Condemned[=/=]Chain Hunt) is quite strong but can be thwarted by Survivors seeking out special objects (Cursed Tapes[=/=]The Box).

** After her July 2023 rework, Sadako now plays quite differently from other basic attack Killers. Instead of focusing on chasing Survivors around loops (which she's very weak at), she is instead encouraged to teleport around frequently to build Condemned on Survivors not holding a tape, harassing Survivors off generators but only committing to a chase when it's advantageous (if the Survivor is holding a tape or is fully Condemned).

* MortonsFork: How her Condemnation and Tape mechanic works. Without interacting with the Tape, you'll gain Condemnation more slowly, but will have no way of actually getting rid of it, so being pressured by Sadako enough will let her Mori you for free. If you do retrieve it, you'll be able to shut off her TunnelNetwork temporarily and relieve you and your team of her map pressure, and also cleanses you of the entire curse meter if you can find the highlighted TV and deposit it, but will cause your Condemnation to skyrocket while you're in the middle of doing so, and makes you even more vulnerable to being killed by her gimmick if she suddenly decides to tunnel you in particular. Her July 2023 rework changed this dynamic somewhat; you build Condemned much more reliably when not holding a tape, but are protected from Condemned ''while'' holding a tape. However, holding a tape means you'll gain a decent amount of Condemned if she hits you.

* TimedMission: How her Condemned ability works after her July 2023 rework. Sadako can start teleporting 30 seconds after the game begins, and has a 10 second cooldown between each teleport. When she teleports, ''all'' Survivors not holding a tape gain 0.75 stacks of Condemned. Since 10 teleports are required to fully Condemn the Survivors, this means Survivors will be fully Condemned and Mori-able a minimum of about 140[[note]]since teleports take a couple seconds to pull off[[/note]] seconds into the match. Assuming 1 Survivor is always busy being chased, it takes a minimum of about 160 seconds for the remaining 3 Survivors (if they're max optimal) to do all 5 generators (as low as 100 seconds or less with toolboxes, add-ons, and perks). Of course, since Survivors generally aren't perfectly mathematically optimal, they're not going to be able to finish all the generators before the 140 seconds are up, and need to take time off doing generators to retrieve cursed tapes to protect themselves from Condemned and remove any Condemned they do acquire. Also, most Sadako players aren't going to be perfectly mathematically optimal either, and won't always teleport immediately because they're busy chasing survivors or doing other things, so the Doom Counter will likely be somewhat more than 140 seconds in a real scenario.

!!"The Oni" - Yamaoka Kazan [[labelnote:✝]][[Manga/AttackOnTitan The Armored Titan]][[/labelnote]]

!!"The Deathslinger" - Caleb Quinn

!!"The Dredge" - Druanee

* PetTheDog: As revealed by his Memory Fragments in Tome 17, there is ''one'' known instance of the DisproportionateRetribution-prone Kazan being merciful; Memory 3724 describes him, after having massacring almost a dozen villagers who posed as samurai, sparing a teenage boy who was among them (albeit in a brusque and threatening manner). Notably, he does so even ''after'' the boy stabs him in the leg and [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu calls him as Oni to his face]].

!!"The Artist" - Carmina Mora [[labelnote:✝]][[/Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland The Jabberwock]][[/labelnote]]

!!"The Artist" - Carmina Mora

* ObviousBeta: On release, Pinhead was by far one of the buggiest killers ever. When playing as him, the game would often crash if more than 1 survivor was killed (which seems to suggest the developers never expected him to kill more than 1 survivor, otherwise they would have encountered the bug during playtesting). His melee lunge was bugged so that he'd stop dead in his tracks if his momentum changed, preventing him from lunging around corners like other killers can. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his voice lines were completely missing]].

* PaletteSwap: One of his Ultra Rare sets turns him into [[Manga/AttackOnTitan The Armored Titan]].

* PalleteSwap: One of his skins turns him into the [[AnimeAttackOnTitan Armored Titan]].

* ShoutOut: Among the many doll heads making up his Twisted Plaything skin, [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/6b5473bf9e44d17ef0463c8a60d91ae3/921e15061c894b1f-3b/s640x960/de907964c936d4d38e87050e7bbac75d9f2f2ca4.pnj one is very obviously]] [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]]

!!2019 (2/2)

[[folder:The Demogorgon]]
!![[Franchise/StrangerThings "The Demogorgon"]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' N/A
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/demogorgon_dbd.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E5ChapterFiveTheFleaAndTheAcrobat "Science is neat, boys, but I'm afraid it's not very forgiving."]]'']]

Demogorgons are a species of carnivorous predators that exist within the altenate dimension known as the Upside Down.

They act on simple predatory instinct or under the control of higher powers, such as the Entity.\\

As a killer, the Demogorgon has multiple average strengths instead of a singular focused one and hunts survivors with its claws while stalking them from the Upside Down. Its first ability, ''Shred'', is a special lunge with even more range and speed than the normal killer lunge, but takes a few seconds to charge and is locked in a line. Lunge can also break palettes and doors with much less time spent breaking them than the animation for breaking them - and is much harder to palette stun as if the timing is off, the Demogorgon will break it instead and not be stunned. Its second power is ''Of the Abyss''; the Demogorgon lays down up to five portals to the Upside Down wherever it has clearance and can travel between them at will, silencing its terror radius for several seconds after exiting. The portals start inactive and invisible at first, and are revealed to survivors after being used, allowing them to destroy it and refunding the charge to lay down another.\\

The Demogorgon's unique perks, ''Surge'', ''Mindbreaker'' and ''Cruel Limits'' focus on affecting the generators and survivors around them, per the show treating the Demogorgon as a WalkingTechBane. After the Demogorgon became no longer purchaseable, all three of these perks were put into the general bloodweb as always unlocked so the effects still exist and renamed; Surge became "Jolt", Mindbreaker became "Fearmonger" and Cruel Limits became "Claustrophobia". Surge causes every generator within a certain distance of the killer to explode, lose progress and begin regressing when a survivor is downed with a basic attack. Mindbreaker causes survivors to be afflicted by Exhaustion while working on a generator or pauses the timer if they were already afflicted by it, denying them emergency escape perks like Dead Hard, Sprint Burst, ect. ect for up to 5 seconds. Cruel Limits causes every window within a certain range to be blocked by the Entity when a generator is completed, making it trickier for survivors to get away after completing one.\\

'''''The Demogorgon is the fourteenth new killer added to the game with the release of the Stranger Things chapter on September 17th, 2019. However, due to licensing issues with Netflix, on November 17th 2021, the Demogorgon was made no longer purchaseable (though remains in the game for players who already own it). On November 6th 2023, the Demogorgon was made purchaseable again with the Stranger Things chapter or as a standalone killer.'''''\\
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'''''The Demogorgon is the sixth GuestFighter killer added to the game, coming from Franchise/StrangerThings.'''''

* AnimalisticAbomination: While a cunning predator, it has no grander motivations and doesn't seem to have any greater capacity for thought, essentially acting more like a hungry animal than a serial killer.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Upon release, the Demogorgon's Iridescent add-ons were nearly pointless due to how nonsensically situational they were. The Leprose Lichen only revealed the auras of injured survivors while traversing the Upside Down, an extremely limited timeframe where the Demogorgon's sight is very restricted. The Red Moss gave a longer Undetectable duration when emerging from portals, which is highly situational due to the Demogorgon's extremely loud footsteps even while Undetectable, and also massively increased the cooldown of its ability. Thankfully, the 4.7.0 update made both of these add-ons ''much'' more viable. Leprose Lichen now reveals ''all'' survivors while traversing and for a few seconds afterwards, while the Red Moss instead slightly increases portal emergence time, but makes the sound of the Demogorgon emerging completely silent on top of being Undetectable for longer.
* BadVibrations: Like the Oni and Nemesis, its footsteps are incredibly loud due to it being a huge, heavy monster.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Similar to the Pig, the Demogorgon possesses multiple average abilities rather than a single strong ability. It can create tunnels that can be used to rapidly cross the map, detect survivors in close proximity to its tunnels, and has a pounce attack that has better range than the normal killer lunge, but needs to be charged up (during which his speed is noticeably reduced, similar to Leatherface's chainsaw charge) and only goes in a straight line.
* DeadlyLunge: Its secondary ability allows it to pounce forward in a straight line to attack its target, at the cost of leaving it momentarily stunned afterwards.
* DeathOrGloryAttack: The Demogorgon's Shred lunge can allow it to hit survivors at medium range, but it's ''heavily'' penalized if it misses due to the long stun, and it's relatively easy for survivors to dodge it at the last second.
* FinishingMove: Stabs its victim with its claws before pouncing on them and biting their head, violently shaking it around until the survivor stops struggling, then spits it out, stabs them one more time, and roars at their body.
* FlowerMouth: One of its signature characteristics.
* GuestFighter: From ''Franchise/StrangerThings''.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Instead of the game's normal chase music, the ''Film/{{Jaws}}''-like chase music from the TV show plays when you're being chased by the Demogorgon. Its unique menu theme is a sort of mix of the main theme and the ''Stranger Things'' opening theme.
* MasterOfNone: Like the Pig, the Demogorgon generally suffers from being able to do several things but not doing any of them particularly well. Its pounce ability is very much high risk, medium reward, due to it doing regular damage and how easily dodgeable it can be and how much it's penalized with stun if it misses. Its portals give it good map coverage, but setting them wastes a lot of time, and survivors can destroy them to make the time spent setting them up a waste. The tracking ability granted by its portals is ''very'' short range and almost useless without add-ons, and survivors can also hear its portals when in range of them, cluing them in that they may be tracked. Its stealth when emerging from a portal is extremely weak, even with moderate add-ons; only its best, Ultra-Rare stealth add-on actually does anything meaningful, and survivors can still locate its teleport position and loud footsteps through sound alone.
* NaturalWeapon: Uses its claw-like hands to slash at Survivors. This makes it the only Killer besides the Hag to not use a weapon to attack.
* PortalCombat: The Demogorgon can lay down a handful of portals across the map, and tunnel between them to traverse long distances quickly. The portals also can reveal when survivors are near them, and can also [[StatusInflictionAttack inflict]] various status effects with the use of add-ons. The downside is that survivors can destroy portals, and unlike the Hag and her teleport traps, the Demogorgon can't recycle portals if it uses up all his available ones.
* PowerNullifier: The Demogorgon's second perk, "Mindbreaker", is based around preventing survivors from recovering from exhaustion perks (Sprint Burst, Balanced Landing, Lithe, Dead Hard, and Head On) while working on generators, and preventing them from using these perks by afflicting them with the Exhausted status effect for a few seconds after leaving a generator.[[labelnote:*]]Survivors can't recover from the exhausted status effect while running, meaning, if they want to get rid of the effect after leaving a gen, they have to walk for the few seconds the perk afflict them with the Exhausted status effect in order to be able to use their exhaustion perks again, which can be quite risky for a survivor if the reason they're leaving the generator is ''because the killer is running toward them.''[[/labelnote]]
* ShoutOut: Per the show, it's named after a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' monster the nerdy child protagonists gave it (in spite not looking like an actual Demogorgon at all). Additionally, the name of its portal laying skill "Of the Abyss" is a reference to "Dwellers of the Abyss", the 5th edition sourcebook that introduced the titular Demogorgon to the tabletop.
* TheSneakyGuy: Heavily downplayed; the Demogorgon's heartbeat is suppressed for a couple seconds after it teleports (this can be increased with add-ons, up to 10 seconds when using the ultra-rare add-on which also reduces your teleport recharge rate by more than half). However, survivors are notified whenever the Demogorgon teleports and its footsteps are incredibly loud even without a heartbeat. Survivors also can't hear its heartbeat when destroying portals.
* TokenNonHuman: The first playable character who is of non-human origin, the Demogorgon is just a straight-up, literal flesh-eating predator from another dimension.
* TunnelNetwork: The Demogorgon can create portals that allows it to quickly traverse the Upside Down and emerge from other active portals.
* WalkingTechBane: The Demogorgon's perks are based on it causing electrical anomalies and focused around interfering with generator repair and damaging the environment around survivors if they complete a generator.

[[folder:The Oni]]
!!"The Oni" - Yamaoka Kazan [[labelnote:✝]][[Manga/AttackOnTitan The Armored Titan]][[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oni_dbd.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Within your enemy's strength is weakness."'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the Armored Titan]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6c47d5e2_985b_4bf9_9ebc_ac7d8fcc9ae2.jpeg''[[Anime/AttackOnTitan On that day, humanity received a grim reminder...]]''[[/labelnote]]]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Jean-Baptiste Garnier
->''"What does it mean to be authentic? How does one follow one’s destiny despite the pressures of family and tradition? Often following one‘s path is a strenuous, narrow struggle full of unexpected joys and difficulties. Ultimately it’s about finding the balance between tradition and self-actualization. But as one struggles for identity, decisions are made and consequences, good or bad, must be faced."''
-->-- '''Unknown'''

Kazan Yamaoka was an absolutely merciless samurai who sought to purify Japan of peasants posing as samurai in a series of brutal killings. He was given the nickname of "Oni-Yamaoka" by a noble lord, a name Kazan absolutely detested. Anyone daring to call him such would find themselves added to the warrior's growing body count, and eventually, his sights turned to the lord who started the nickname.\\

On his way, he was met in combat by an opposing samurai, who Kazan struck down with his Kanabo. However, the man he had slain turned out to be his own father. A regretful and angry Kazan found himself aimlessly wandering, breaking out into bouts of rage. Eventually, though, he returned to his task of killing the lord who insulted him.\\

Kazan battled relentlessly through the samurai who came to the lord's defense before reaching his villa. There, the rageful samurai proceeded to butcher the lord, ripping out the tongue that insulted him. As he exited however, he found himself surrounded by villagers. Despite his power and efforts, the ambush overwhelmed Kazan, who was left for dead in a stone mill after being brutalized by the mob. When they returned, Kazan and his weapon were nowhere to be found, and rumors began to circulate that an Oni now haunted the town.\\

Befitting his moniker and appearance, the Oni uses a Katana and a Kanabo (A Japanese great-club studded with metal) to hunt survivors down in a rage. The Oni has a blood gauge that fills up gradually over time, in chunks when he injures (but not downs) survivors, and can be increased by absorbing blood orbs that survivors leave over time or drop immediately when doing actions. Once fully charged he can unleash his rage in Blood Fury, letting out a map wide roar and switching to his Kanabo. While affected by Blood Fury, The Oni can use his Demon Dash, which allows him to run across the map at high speeds similar to the Hillbilly but with significantly more control and drift, and his Demon Strike. After a charge time, the Demon Strike has a larger lunge range than his normal attack and is capable of downing survivors instantly.\\

Their unique perks make it easier to keep track of important objects around the map and focuses around punishing players for getting caught or interfering with his chase. Zanshin Tactics highlights Palettes, breakable doors, and Vaultable windows, Blood Echo inflicts status effects on survivors when he hooks their friends, and Nemesis marks someone as an obsession if they hit him with a Palette, revealing them for 4 seconds and masking his Terror Radius from them for a large amount of time.

'''''The Oni is the fifteenth new killer added to the game with the release of the Cursed Legacy chapter on December 3rd, 2019.'''''

* AbusivePrecursors: Zigzagged. He was one hell of a samurai with a habit for killing farmers pretending to be samurai, but as far as we know, he has not done anything to interact with, much less harm, his descendant and fellow killer Yamaoka Rin AKA The Spirit.
* AchillesHeel:
** As noted under CripplingOverspecialization, without his power he's a basic attack Killer with absolutely no special attributes. If survivors can manage to do multiple generators without getting injured, the match swings heavily against him. He's the one Killer it might actually be worthwhile to quickly throw down pallets against at the beginning of the match rather than trying to conserve them with risky play and risk getting hit.
** Like the Hillbilly, his dash has very restricted turning (although he have much more control over it than the Hillbilly, as he can actually strafe to the sides while sprinting, and his demon dash isn't cancelled when running at walls or obstacles).
* ActionDad: While not mentioned in his bio, Kazan had a son who he was very protective of, on top of being a violent samurai who went around murdering people before becoming the brutal oni he is today.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Like most newer Killers, Oni's Ultra-Rare add-ons seem nonsensical or pointless given their rarity. His Bloody Glove add-on causes survivors to absorb blood orbs, revealing their location to him for 2 seconds per orb. However, the add-on also causes survivors to see the blood orbs, allowing them to vacuum them up and robbing Oni of his power. The add-on basically completely sacrifices the Oni's power for enhanced tracking, which is often counterproductive as good survivors can easily loop a basic Killer with no power almost indefinitely. His Iridescent Family Crest add-on causes survivors within 12 feet of him to scream and reveal their position if he misses a bash attack in his super mode. However, Oni is locked into a stun whenever he misses an attack, so he's unable to look around and is often unable to see where the scream is coming from. The range is also incredibly short, to the point of being almost pointless.
* AxCrazy: While all of the Killers qualify, Kazan really takes the cake here; in life, he went on a crusade to prove his worth and purge the samurai class of imposters by murdering them, with his killings being considered brutal, cruel, and morbid. He later escalated to killing anyone who called him by the nickname "Oni-Yamaoka" and only got worse after he accidentally killed his father, culminating in him slaughtering a town's lord and a dozen samurai because the lord had first called by his nickname.
* BadVibrations: His footsteps are ''insanely'' loud (which makes sense, given that he's basically a 500-pound demon), which also makes him fairly easy to track through sound even through walls and somewhat defeats the point of his stealth perk when used by him.
* BerserkButton: His nickname "Oni-Yamaoka". Calling him that guaranteed you'd end up as another of his victims.
* TheBerserker: Once his meter is fully charged with blood orbs, he can go into Blood Fury for 45 seconds, gaining two different DashAttack abilities which also serve as a OneHitKill. In Blood Fury, he's good at downing survivors, but he completely loses his power if he attempts to actually hook a survivor.
%%* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He was noted as having a "perverse sense of honor".
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: His "Nemesis" perk is based around getting revenge on survivors who injure him, and seems particularly designed to be synergized with his descendant The Spirit's "Rancor" perk. It synergizes particularly well with obsession perks that require stacking on the obsession, such as Play With Your Food.
* CarryABigStick: While in Blood Fury, he uses a giant kanabo to bash his prey with.
* CripplingOverspecialization: His SuperMode is extremely powerful, but it takes a relatively long time to charge up (and won't charge at all if he can't land a hit on a survivor), and without it he has absolutely no secondary abilities or special attributes to help him. In comparison, other killers with a "powerful but difficult to activate" ability generally have some other advantages to help them when they don't have access to their main ability, such as Myer's reduced heartbeat radius, the Plague's infection, etc.
* TheDreaded: He became infamous for his rage and bloodlust. Monks even believed him to be possessed.
* DeathByIrony: Kazan was infuriated by farmers pretending to be Samurai and went on a pilgrimage of slaughter to root them out. He met his end when a group of farmers mobbed him for killing their Lord.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Kazan had a tendency to give extremely severe punishments for petty offenses. When his son got accidentally injured while playing with a friend, Kazan killed the friend. When he saw peasants pretending to be samurai, he went on a crusade to exterminate them. When a lord gave him a nickname, he killed him and all of his loyal guards.
* DoNotGoGentle: Even as he was wounded, exhausted, and fighting for his life against the waves of villagers who kept coming, he still kept on fighting until his death.
* EmbarrassingNickname: He was called "Oni-Yamaoka" by a noble lord for his extreme brutality and intense rage. Kazan despised the name and killed anyone who called him by it.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Dearly loved his son and father, though nobody else.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: While the Oni's backstory hints at him having been just a person, the parts of him that are exposed are shown to be bloated and stone-colored, implying that his rage and murderous actions, with some of the Entity's help, turned him into a literal {{Oni}}.
* FinishingMove: Stabs his victim with his sword to keep them upright while he rips out their tongue with his bare hands, then crushes it, retrieves his blade, and smashes their head in with his kanabo.
* HellIsThatNoise: If you're a survivor, hearing the Oni's bestial shout indicating that Blood Fury is active is cause for alarm. Suddenly you're at risk of being caught up to in seconds and being instantly knocked down.
* JackOfAllStats: Similar to Myers, he has to build meter by pursuing survivors in order to use his power, and in Blood Fury Mode he has a long-range dash similar to the Hillbilly's chainsaw charge, except with a much less heavy penalty for bumping into objects and also having to manually attack in order to deal damage, and a short-range dash akin to Leatherface's chainsaw charge, only harder to aim and only dealing damage at the end instead of throughout the entire charge.
* {{Leitmotif}}: His unique chase theme makes use of very heavy, Eastern-style percussion to accentuate the dread that comes with a massive behemoth of an oni chasing you down. His unique menu theme makes use of traditional Japanese instruments and a pounding percussive rhythm.
* LightningBruiser: While in Blood Fury mode, he gains the ability to sprint and pulls out his kanabo, able to down Survivors in one blow.
* PaletteSwap: One of his Ultra Rare sets turns him into [[Manga/AttackOnTitan The Armored Titan]].
* LiteralMetaphor: The traditional Japanese metaphor of “giving a kanabō to an oni”-i.e. empowering something already strong-is literally enacted here, as Yamaoka’s usage of the kanabo enables him to break into a charge and down survivors in one hit, meaning both his speed and strength are enhanced.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: He uses a newer version of the same blade his descendant, the Spirit, does. However, this trope is subverted as his katana only does the same damage as all the other killer basic melee attacks, and he does more damage with his Kanabō.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The one kill he truly regretted was his father, when his father tried to stop him from killing his nemesis, [[HopeSpot dissuading him from his quest…]] [[IgnoredEpiphany until he came across an oni statue, making him recall the lord who insulted him and renewing his murderous rage.]]
* OneHitKill: In Blood Fury, he can use his kanabo to deal a Demon Strike. It takes longer to charge up than a normal lunge and has an even longer cooldown, but it can down Survivors in one hit and can also hit multiple Survivors if they are close enough to each other. Confident survivors can also dodge it by changing direction at the last second, similar to Hillbilly's chainsaw dash.
%%* {{Oni}}: Hint's in the name.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: One of his Ultra Rare skins makes him into a minotaur.
* PapaWolf: Very protective of his son in life, to the point of murdering his son's friend out of rage when he sustained a crippling injury while playing with her. Afterward, Kazan would regularly make long, perilous treks to a mountaintop shrine in order to pray for his son's recovery.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Gains glowing red eyes while in Blood Fury.
%%* {{Samurai}}: What he was in life.
* SuperMode: Like Myers and Plague, the Oni's Blood Fury makes him very powerful, but only lasts a short period of time. Also, unlike Myers or Plague, when not in Blood Fury, the Oni has no special attributes to help him. In fact, with his huge size and incredibly loud footsteps, he's actually ''weaker'' than other "no power" Killers like Legion or Ghostface, as he's easier to track in loops and mazes.
* SupernaturalFloatingHair: Just like his descendant, Kazan also has flowing hair. Though not to the exact extent as Rin and his hair is white instead of black.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Killing a highly respected and beloved lord wasn't going to end well for Kazan, angering his people to take revenge on him, which ultimately became his undoing. Despite being a very formidable warrior that had killed numerous samurai, even someone as tough and skilled as Kazan would be overwhelmed by [[ZergRush a mob attack at all sides]], even by inexperienced farmers. It also doesn’t help that Kazan had just come back from killing the lord and all of his warriors, so he was probably at least somewhat injured and exhausted. Unfortunately for the farmers, this goes both ways. Sure, they eventually managed to kill Kazan, but he still managed to kill a lot of them before they killed him. Even when you have sheer overwhelming numbers on your side, attacking a skilled, experienced opponent whose specialty revolves around killing both your own kind among others, is still quite risky and can end badly for a lot of you, especially if numbers are the only advantage you’ve got. You and your numerous allies might eventually succeed in killing your enemy, but if you’re not careful, your enemy will [[TakingYouWithMe take a lot of you down with him]].
* TakingYouWithMe: Heavily implied. According to his bio, when the villagers surrounded him and attacked him, he managed to kill a lot of them before they killed him, so it’s very likely that he managed to kill the ones who killed him, too, before succumbing to his wounds.
* TongueTrauma: His [[FinishingMove Memento Mori]] has him rip out the Survivor's tongue with his bare hands, then crushing it by forming a fist. In his backstory, this is what he did to the noble lord who came up with his nickname.
* WouldHurtAChild: His walking stick addon mentions that he slaughtered his young son's friend and her family for an injury he sustained while playing with her.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: In a twisted, ironic take on this trope, Kazan became the exact thing he despised being called in life upon being taken by the Entity - a violent oni whose sole desire is to kill anything in his path in a blind rage.

!!2020

[[folder:The Deathslinger]]
!!"The Deathslinger" - Caleb Quinn
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deathslinger_dbd.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Bloody fool, you pulled the trigger on yourself."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Patrick Harris

Caleb Quinn picked up engineering from being tutored by his father, an Irish immigrant struggling to find work in the Midwest due to prejudices against the Irish. Eventually, Caleb found work when he became an adult under the Railroad tycoon Henry Bayshore, who had secretly been stealing and selling off Caleb's patents. A furious Caleb proceeded to violently assault and maim his former boss, which saw him locked up in Hellshire Penitentiary, America's first private prison, for 15 years.\\

Caleb, while in prison, found himself becoming an unlikely friend with his warden. Eventually, the two struck a deal, in exchange for locking up Bayshore and releasing him from prison, Caleb would track down and bring in criminals for the warden to lock up. To that end, Caleb developed his signature speargun, which he'd use to reel in prisoners. The disembowelments of outlaws from the prototype versions of this weapon would earn him his nickname of "Deathslinger".\\

He eventually formed the Hellshire Gang out of Irish inmates the warden had released to assist Caleb in collecting bounties. They worked for six years until after a particularly violent shootout, where Caleb noticed a newspaper headline showing Bayshore had bought out Hellshire Penitentiary from the warden. Caleb had been sold out.\\

Responding to this, a livid Hellshire Gang stormed the prison, brutally fighting their way to the warden's office to get their revenge on him and Bayshore. After a brutal beating, the two men were left at the mercy of the inmates. From there, Caleb returned to his old cell, where the fog rolled in and he was recruited into the Entity's rank of killers.\\

His power is called The Redeemer, which is a rifle that shoots out a giant spear tied to a chain. If he hits a Survivor with a successful shot, he can reel them in to attack them, but the Survivor can escape from the chain by struggling out or breaking the chain using the environment and things like walls or rocks, but doing so still injures the survivors and afflicts them with a Deep Wound. After shooting, the Deathslinger needs to reload before he can use it again.\\
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His teachable perks Gearhead, Dead Man's Switch, and Hex: Retribution allow him to easily locate Generators being repaired, temporarily block Generators from being repaired while his obsession is hooked, and punish Survivors for cleansing his Hex totems. Gearhead activates for a period of time every second basic attack that connects, and while it's on any good skill checks will highlight generators for as long as they're being worked on. Dead Man's Switch is an obsession perk that activates after the obsession is hooked and makes any generator that survivors were working on become blocked off if they stop working on it. Hex: Retribution causes survivors to be afflicted by Oblivious whenever a dull totem is cleansed, and when Retribution's totem is cleansed, it reveals the aura of every survivor on the map for a short time.\\
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'''''The Deathslinger is the sixteenth new killer added to the game with the release of the Chains of Hate chapter on March 10th, 2020.'''''

* AchillesHeel: Like the Huntress, his reduced movement speed gives him handicapped map coverage, which is particularly handicapping to him on larger maps. Made even worse by his damage-per-second being significantly lower than that of the Huntress.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: He has [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing eyes]], [[UndeathlyPallor greyish skin]], and his reveal trailer shows him snapping his dislocated jaw back into place through sheer force of will. Despite this, nothing in his lore indicates that there is anything supernatural about him.
* AuraVision: All of his perks incorporate auras: Gearhead allows him to see if a Generator is being repaired by highlighting a Generator in yellow if a Survivor succeeds a Skill Check while repairing it, Dead Man's Switch blocks Generators that Survivors stop repairing while the obsession is hooked and highlights those Generators in white, and Hex: Retribution reveals every Survivor's aura for ten seconds whenever a Hex totem is cleansed.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** He's a killer ''with a gun'' (something that has long been a meme among the community). Bonus points for being a cowboy. However, his damage rate is ''very'' slow; in the time it takes him to shoot, hook, and reel in a survivor to hit them ''once'', a decent Huntress can toss 2 or 3 hatchets and ''down'' a survivor while a good Trickster can cause serious damage. He also takes a pretty long time to reload between each shot. On the plus side, the Deathslinger can aim and fire instantly without the charge-up time of the Huntress' hatchets or the Trickster's knives, and his rifle doesn't count as an attack for purposes of perks like Save the Best for Last or Play With Your Food.
** Like most newer Killers, his Ultra-Rares seem nonsensical or pointless given how rare they are. His Hellshire Gang Branding Iron used to let him see the location of all survivors within his heartbeat radius when he has a survivor speared with his rifle, which is very situation (especially since your view is very restricted when reeling in a survivor). However, this was changed to making him undetectable when he spears a survivor, and for a few seconds afterwards when they're no longer speared.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears a leather duster as part of his cowboy attire.
* BaldOfEvil: Downplayed, as Caleb's bald head is concealed under his hat. The evil part, however, is pretty obvious.
* BayonetYa: The Redeemer has a knife attached to the end of it, which is The Deathslinger's main way of attacking outside of shooting them with the spear.
* BerserkButton: Don't sell his patents and take his money in general. Henry Bayshore ended up becoming a target of Caleb's ire for life after he did this, to the point that Bayshore himself would eventually become another of Caleb's buttons.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Shares this attribute with the Clown. It's even more noticeable on the Deathslinger, as he doesn't wear makeup or a mask.
* BountyHunter: He and his gang, The Hellshire Gang, hunted down and collected wanted outlaws across the country. The Deathslinger is also considered a personal one for the Entity.
* CreepyAsymmetry: His jaw was broken in life, which carries over into his look as a killer where it's constantly slack. It accentuates his almost ghostly appearance.
* CreepyChild: As a kid, he had plans of devices meant to torture the other boys who bullied him.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He's a GadgeteerGenius who could have made a fortune as an inventor, but went to prison for trying to kill his corrupt boss after learning he was stealing his unpatented designs and trying to patent them as his own.
* EvilCripple: Caleb has a leg brace on his left leg, and is noted to resist the pain from it.
* EvilLaugh: Lets out one whenever he shoots a Survivor with the Redeemer.
* EvilOldFolks: Though his exact age is never stated in-game, he has a distinctly wrinkled face and greyish hair, suggesting he might be in his 60s or so. You don't want to get on his bad side still.
* {{Expy}}: The Deathslinger's first name, long hair, gunslinger attire, Wild West upbringing, and acts of vengeance against his superiors mirror that of the titular protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}''.
* FacialHorror: Downplayed; he's not horribly deformed, but he has a huge wound on the right side of his face, and his trailer reveals that his jaw is broken. His "Jaw Smasher" add-on reveals that he had a bullet rip through his jaw during a chaotic shootout (likely the one listed in the backstory for the Grave of Glenvale realm).
* FightingIrish: A villainous example; he was the son of Irish immigrants during the Wild West era, and is a vicious killer prone to bloodthirsty rages.
* FinishingMove: Stabs the Survivor with the end of the Redeemer, lifts them up, then fires it, causing the spear to fly through their mouth. He then drops them onto the ground, kicks their body away so that he can get the spear out of their mouth, and reels it back into the gun.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was born in the poor dust lands of the American frontier, the son of Irish immigrants, Caleb was constantly mistreated due to his heritage, being bullied by the other children and eventually being denied job opportunities despite his talents. However, through his ingenuity and ruthlessness, he became an infamous bounty hunter, before brutally killing those who had wronged him. He then became a monstrous killer in The Entity's realm, feared by his prey.
* GadgeteerGenius: He's been designing elaborate instruments of engineering since he was a child, and his Redeemer harpoon rifle is self-made.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Has bright blue glowing eyes and is one of the many Killers inhabiting the Entity's realm.
* TheGunslinger: The Deathslinger is a textbook example of this trope, but adapted to fit the game's SlasherMovie theme. To keep with said theme, his rifle does not fire boring ol' bullets, but instead a single harpoon that gruesomely impales survivors.
* HairTriggerTemper: In life, Quinn had an extremely volatile temper that often led to brutal violence. When he found out his boss Henry Bayshore had been stealing his patents and selling them to other companies, Quinn burst into his office, beat Bayshore to a bloody pulp, and nailed him to his desk with a railroad spike. Later, when he found that the prison warden had manipulated him and was working with Bayshore, he led his gang on a bloody attack on their former penitentiary, massacring guards and beating Bayshore and the warden almost to death before dragging them to the prisoners and letting them rip the two men apart.
* HarpoonGun: Essentially what the Redeemer is, firing a spear with a chain attached to it.
* LeanAndMean: The Deathslinger is rather gaunt, unlike the brawny and broad-shouldered build of most male killers.
* {{Leitmotif}}: The Deathslinger's chase music is stylized to sound like the Western music that comes with his intro.
* LongRangeFighter: Can shoot Survivors with his harpoon rifle to reel them in and smack them. If they successfully break the chain, they get injured and are inflicted with the Deep Wound status effect. To compensate for this, he has a slower overall movement speed than most Killers.
* MortonsFork:
** Getting hit with a harpoon at all causes this. Let the Deathslinger reel you in and he'll follow up with a wounding attack. If you put something between you and him or have another survivor break the chain, you're still getting injured and additionally afflicted with deep wounds, which forces you to have to stop and heal after escaping. Regardless of what you do, having him connect with a shot is bad for the survivors.
** A skilled Deathslinger can force survivors into this situation by faking them out. Getting hit by the Redeemer is almost always a guaranteed wound or down, so in an open space the easiest way to dodge it would be to zig-zag to try juking a shot. However, the Deathslinger can stop aiming immediately to move at full speed, while a survivor attempting to dodge is constantly losing ground by running any direction that isn't straight away. This can result in a survivor losing enough ground for a basic lunge to hit them because if they are trying to gain distance, they'd cause themself to line up for a clean shot - either way they'll take the hit. Due to survivor complaints this has been heavily Nerfed; he now raises and lowers his rifle much more slowly, allowing survivors to dodge his attacks simply by reaction.
* {{Nerf}}: He was heavily Nerfed in October 2021; he now requires half a second to raise his rifle before he can fire it, and also requires half a second to lower it before he can attack; the purpose of this is to let survivors dodge shots on reaction and have their skill determine whether or not a shot will land, rather than basing it on the Deathslinger player's skill and aim. His heartbeat radius was also extended to the normal 32 meters, making him the only low-speed killer with a normal-sized heartbeat radius.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten:
** The first time he tested an early version of his prototype rifle designed to catch bounties ''alive'' on a thief , the harpoon came out of the target, alongside a good chunk of their internal organs, obviously leading to their death and earning him the nickname of "Deathslinger" even after he "ironed out the kinks" to make his harpoon rifle technically non-lethal.
** In a sense, his brutal rampage against Bayshore and the Warden is this as well, as it's all but stated that this was the "Mad Mick Massacre" that caused an entire wing of Hellshire to be closed off, as mentioned in Zarina's lore.
* OneHitKill: His iridescent coin Ultra-Rare add-on lets him down speared survivors in one hit if you shoot them from 15 meters away. This is pretty damn hard since his max range is 18 meters, and dodging his shots at that range is extremely easy. It's also pretty easy for survivors to break out of the chain at that range, too.
* SkillGateCharacter: He's easier to use than the Huntress, the game's other LongRangeFighter, as he has iron sights, his projectile is faster[[note]]his projectile actually travels at the same speed as a fully charged Huntress hatchet, but can fire instantly instead of taking a couple seconds to charge up[[/note]] and travels in a straight line, and he can aim and fire instantly instead of having to charge up a shot like the Huntress has to. Additionally, hitting a reeled survivor or letting them go by breaking the chain will afflict them with the "Deep Wound" status effect[[note]]an effect where a timer for the survivor to stop and mend their wounds begin ticking, only pausing when the survivor is within the terror radius of the killer, mending themselves or being in a chase, and put the survivor in the dying state if the timer run out before they're fully mended[[/note]] and, depending on perks and add-ons, the "Mangled" status effect[[note]] which slows the speed at which the survivor is healed by 20%[[/note]] as well, making it possible to force survivors to stay still and heal for quite a while. However, his harpoon has a max range of 18 feet, while a top-tier Huntress can potentially hit survivors from as far away as almost across the map. His rate of fire and damage rate are also ''considerably'' slower than that of the Huntress, but an unskilled Huntress will also likely miss more often. Overall, he's somewhat easier to use than the Huntress, at the cost of having significantly less maximum potential. Even more so after his October 2021 Nerfs, which make him more like Huntress by giving his attack a charge-up time and increasing his heartbeat radius, while maintaining his much lower damage-per-second compared to her.
* TheSneakyGuy: Prior to his October 2021 {{Nerf}}, he had a reduced heartbeat radius to compensate for his lower speed (like every other low-speed killers other than Nurse), which can be made even lower with Monitor & Abuse. Notably, unlike the Huntress and the Trickster (the game's other LongRangeFighter characters), he doesn't have a massive humming radius that gives away his position. Also, instead of the normal killer heartbeat he has a unique DroneOfDread which is harder to identify at the edges, which lets him get a few meters closer before most survivors get tipped off. Some add-ons also decrease his terror radius when aiming down his sight, at the cost of reducing his speed as well. After October 2021, he has a much larger heartbeat radius to be more in line with the lullaby effect of Huntress and Trickster.
* TechnicalPacifist: His harpoon gun was only designed to bring in bounties ''alive'', not unwounded; they'd still have the severe injuries from having a big freakin' harpoon shot through their guts. The prototype outright ''disemboweled'' the bounty he tested it on, but after that, he was able to iron out the kinks in the design. Not that he had any problem with killing per se, he was just being paid for live prisoners instead of dead ones.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: His ability, The Redeemer, allows him to shoot a chained spear that allows him to reel in shot Survivors.

[[folder:The Executioner]]
!![[VideoGame/SilentHill2 "The Executioner" - Pyramid Head]]
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[[caption-width-right:300: ''"In my restless dreams, I see that town..."'']]

One of the many beings manifested in the town of Silent Hill, Pyramid Head is an executioner-like figure who dispenses sadistic punishment to whatever crosses his path. He first appeared during James Sunderland's [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 visit to the town]], relentlessly patrolling Silent Hill, committed to his task.\\

Eventually, his role had been completed, but the Entity, having took notice of Pyramid Head, sought out the manifestation. Pyramid Head, once more, had been given the call of duty, and he answered that call, entering the Entity's realm.\\

As a Killer, the Executioner torments survivors with Silent's Hill's own supernatural powers and stalks them with his infamous [[{{BFS}} Great Knife]] and specializes in shutting down chases. Pyramid Head's first power is Rites of Judgement, where he stabs his knife into the ground as he walks, drawing Torment of the Damned fissures in his wake, survivors that walk or run through these fissures reveal their location and become Tormented and are vulnerable his other unique mechanics, but crouch-walking through the fissures is safe and destroys them. While using Rites of Judgement, Pyramid Head can use Punishment of the Damned, which is a narrow but fast traveling ranged attack that excels at ambushing survivors around corners or attempting to vault. Survivors that are downed while afflicted by torment can be sent to a unique Cage of Atonement, which functions the same as normal hooks, but survivors are sent to it instantly without having to be carried and besides a noise notification when they're rescued from it, he has no indication of ''where'' they were sent. Lastly, if a survivor is on their last hook and tormented when they're downed, Pyramid Head can execute Final Judgement, bringing his knife down through the survivor's back and killing them instantly with the fastest Mori animation in the game.\\

Pyramid Head's unique perks Forced Penance, Trail of Torment, and Deathbound focus on confusing survivors and punishing altruism. Forced Penance causes survivors who take protection hits for other survivors are afflicted by Broken for a time, making them unable to heal. Trail of Torment makes the killer undetectable after kicking a generator, and lasts until the generator stops regressing (be it by regressing fully or a survivor hopping on it) or the killer strikes a survivor, but allows the survivors to see the aura of the kicked generator. Deathbound punishes survivors healing by making the healer scream after they finish, and for a short time afterward the healer is afflicted by Oblivious unless they're standing within a certain range of the teammate they just healed.\\

'''''The Executioner is the seventeenth new killer added to the game with the release of the Silent Hill chapter on June 16th, 2020'''''\\
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'''''The Executioner is the seventh GuestFighter killer added to the game, coming from Franchise/SilentHill.'''''

* AdaptationalBadass: In ''Silent Hill'', Pyramid Head is more of a tormentor than an efficient killer. While he hits hard and can't be killed by conventional means, he's also a MightyGlacier and limited to swinging a knife or spear around. Here, he has supernatural powers and moves much faster than he did in Silent Hill.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Like many of the newer Killers, his Ultra-Rare add-ons seem nonsensical or pointless given how rare they are. His Obsidian Goblet add-on gives him stealth (no heartbeat) while standing on a torment trail, but the trails aren't long enough for him to move around like this, making it effectively just a version of Insidious[[note]]A perk that removes your heartbeat if you stand still for a few seconds, which is basically only good for camping[[/note]]. His Seal of Metatron perk shows him the location of all Tormented survivors when he sends a survivor to a Cage of Atonement, but getting multiple survivors into Torment is so situational that it's near impossible to do reliably in any meaningful way, especially since Cage of Atonement removes Torment for 2 survivors every time you use it (the survivor you cage and the survivor who removes them from the cage). At best, you'll likely only get to use it once in a game or even not at all.
* {{BFS}}: He brings his iconic great knife with him, still scraping it on the ground while walking.
* BlindfoldedVision: His triangular head-piece has no eye holes for vision, but he can see just fine. [[note]]Even in first person![[/note]] (Assuming there are even eyes under that thing.) Like the Demogorgon, he can also be blinded by a flashlight despite having no visible eyes.
* CoDragons: Can be considered this with Myers, Pinhead and Sadako, as though there are now many killers who entered the Entity's realm willingly, Pyramid Head is one of the only killers who does not need to appease the Entity with a mori offering to kill survivors outright instead of sacrificing them. Even moreso, unlike Myers who needs specific add-ons to do so, Pyramid Head naturally has this as part of his baseline abilities. He also does not need to use the hooks provided by the Entity as he has access to his Cages of Atonement. When things are going his way, Pyramid Head can effectively ignore the Entity's rules entirely; anyone afflicted by his Torment is fair game for him to punish. Considering that Pyramid Head is essentially a thought made manifest, it's possible that the Entity is unable to control him as firmly as the other killers.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Like the Pig, the Demogorgon, and the reworked version of Freddy, Pyramid Head has multiple average abilities instead of a single major ability. He can fire a slow SwordBeam with a range of a few meters, create trenches in the ground that notify him if survivors run through them and inflict Torment on said survivors, and can teleport downed Tormented survivors to a Cage of Atonement instead of wasting time dragging them to a hook.
* CoolHelmet: His infamous Pyramid-shaped helmet.
* DeathOrGloryAttack: Similar to the Demogorgon. Pyramid Head's SwordBeam can allow him to hit survivors through obstacles, but he is ''heavily'' penalized with a long stun if he misses with it.
* DifficultButAwesome: Similar to Killers like Nurse or Huntress, Pyramid Head has high potential but you really need to be an expert at using his abilities or else you're likely to get stomped. His SwordBeam is heavily telegraphed, ''very'' difficult to hit with, and punishes you heavily if you miss, but its ability to go through obstacles makes it very potent at most loops if you have the skill to hit with it. You also need to be ruthless enough to take advantage of his ability to tunnel survivors out of the game when the opportunity presents itself, because he's not balanced around "playing nice" (his complete lack of map control or enhanced mobility ''will'' hurt you against optimum gen time survivors if you don't take full advantage of this, and if there's no consequence to survivors from getting Tormented his anti-loop potential suddenly reduces significantly).
* TheExecutioner: His title, which is fitting as his attire actually echoes the executioners of Silent Hill's past.
* FinishingMove: Unlike the other Killers, Pyramid Head has ''two'' unique kill animations. One for the standard Mori and one for his Final Judgement. He's notable for being one of only three Killers who doesn't need to burn an Offering to directly kill a Survivor, the others being the Shape and the Onryō (and unlike the Shape, he can do so as part of his base power without an Add-On).
** For his Memento Mori: He grabs the Survivor by the neck and lifts them up before encasing them in a spiral coccoon with barbed wire, which clamps down onto them, breaking their bones. He then lifts up his Great Knife and stabs them in the chest before twisting it. As he pulls out, the coccoon disappears, letting the Survivor's body fall back onto the ground.
** For his Final Judgement: He lifts his Great Knife up and brings it down onto the Survivor, embedding itself into their shoulder before swiping it out. Short, but efficient.
* GuestFighter: From the foggy restless town of ''Franchise/SilentHill'' to the twisted realm of the Entity. Arguably, the only real change for old Pyramid Head is the hunting grounds.
* IconicItem: His infamous Great Knife, which he now uses in ''Dead by Daylight'' to execute survivors.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a unique dark ambient[=/=]industrial chase theme composed by Music/AkiraYamaoka.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: He's the only killer (other than Michael Myers with two very specific add-ons) who can completely bypass the game's hook system, instead using his power to instantly teleport downed survivors into a randomly placed "Cage of Atonement" which functions similar to a hook. This saves him considerable time (picking up and dragging a survivor to a hook can take up to 1/3rd of a generator's completion time), and also lets him bypass some of the game's most powerful survivor perks or mechanics that revolve around the pick up or hook system, such as Decisive Strike, Deliverance, flashlight and pallet saves, etc. On the flip side, it also means he doesn't benefit from killer perks that revolve around hooking such as Barbeque and Chili, Pop Goes the Weasel, or Devour Hope, and as a plus for survivors it encourages Pyramid Head to patrol the map instead of guarding hooks. Pyramid Head can also only use this ability on survivors who are affected by his status effect. On top of all of this, he can't ''control'' where the cages go, and more often than not the cages appear ''on the other side of the map'', which can actually allow another survivor to easily rescue their teammate and escape without pursuit - this means Pyramid Head players need to be cautious about when to use the cages, and that the cages are ''at their most effective when the survivors are close by'', forcing the other survivors to run all the way across the map to the rescue while the killer is in perfect position to take advantage of this.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Two of his teachable perks are based on punishing altruistic actions done by survivors. Forced Penance will punish any survivor who takes a protection hit by afflicting them with the Broken status effect, and Deathbound force survivors who finish healing another survivor while far enough from the killer to scream,and afterward having to stick with the survivor they healed, or be afflicted with the Oblivious status effect.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: In the main ''Silent Hill'' games he only appears as an enemy in ''Silent Hill 2'', where he was specifically tormenting James Sunderland. Here, he's facing off against Cheryl Mason, who never even met him in the original games.[[labelnote:*]]And the [[Film/SilentHillRevelation3D second movie]] doesn't count.[[/labelnote]] The new level is also the elementary school from the first ''Silent Hill'', which neither Pyramid Head or Cheryl[=/=]Heather ever set foot in. That being said, Cheryl did receive a premium model swap in the form of James later down the line, which made this a non-issue, though the gripe with the out-of-place map choice still is.
* RuleOfThree: After a Survivor has escaped from a hook or Cage of Atonement twice, Pyramid Head can kill them outright the next time they're in a dying state.
* SwordBeam: He can fire a wave of black spikes several meters ahead of him with his Great Knife. However, it takes a relatively long time to charge up and fire, and is telegraphed ahead of time by a red outline, giving survivors plenty of opportunity to dodge it. He's also stunned for a few seconds after using it, so you're heavily penalized if you try to use it and miss. On the flip side, it has the unique benefit of going through walls, which can greatly punish players that try to loop you rather than run away.
* SwordDrag: Another iconic thing about Pyramid Head, is how even he has trouble carrying that damn "Great Knife" around. Although compared to other times in his source material, it doesn't impede him too much here and is actually incorporated into his power, as dragging into the ground can create "trenches" that put the Tormented status effect on Survivors and shows their location to him.
* TokenNonHuman: He is the second killer in the game (after the Demogorgon) who was never a human, being a manifestation of Silent Hill's dark power and James Sunderland's desire to punish himself for killing his wife.
* VaderBreath: His breathing sounds are only made creepier by how his signature helmet muffles them.

[[folder:The Blight]]
!!"The Blight" - Talbot Grimes [[labelnote:✝]][[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 William Birkin]][[/labelnote]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Such potential in this compound... even the slightest trace causes unnatural effects."'']]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Jean-Baptiste Garnier & Mathieu Favier, Misha Standjofski (William Birkin)

Talbot Grimes was once a brilliant chemist from Scotland that has secured a coveted position in the East India Trade Company, developing various drugs to increase the effectiveness of the workforce. In exchange for his efforts, he was granted a secret laboratory on a remote island where he could perform his experiments with prisoners undisturbed. In hopes to develop a drug that completely numbs a person's pain receptors to be used in warfare, Grimes subjected people to his tests, eventually releasing them and learning of their horrific massacres later, refusing to take the blame for their atrocities.\\

Eventually, karma has caught up with Talbot, as he was kidnapped by the vengeful Indians and shown the results of his creations: mass graves filled with bodies of the workers that had been using his drug. Beaten to near death and left to die in the pile of corpses, Grimes was saved by a group of secretive monks who wanted to utilize his talent in order to push the limits of the human mind. Tasked with finding the so-called "soul chemical", he had become obsessed with the search to the point that the monks were turned off by him and finally decided to get rid of him.\\

Grimes awakened in an opium den, surrounded by numb addicts, but before he could do anything, he was injected with a drug by an unknown figure. After waking up, he started carving formulas on the walls, hoping to finally reach a breakthrough, but it never came. After carving the final message in his chest, he somehow ended up in a field of orange blooming flowers, with a strange whisper beckoning him to enter. After this, Talbot Grimes was never seen again, with only one phrase etched in the stone of the walls: "Death is only the beginning".\\

Wandering in the Entity's realm, Grimes started experimenting with the flowers, creating compounds that proved miraculous in a way and sated his newfound hunger, but still something was missing. After 33 iterations, he had finally perfected the formula and injected himself with it. But it went exactly the wrong way. Instead of finally shutting his hunger down, it increased it, transforming him into a monstrosity known only as the Blight. \\

As a Killer, the Blight offers excellent map coverage by being able to cross at blistering fast speeds if his movements can be controlled and strikes survivors with his specially-made cane. His sole power is Lethal Rush, a short ranged, wild, difficult to control forward dash that has up to five charges by default. When The Blight strikes an surface while using Lethal Rush, he has a brief window to re-orient himself and use his charge again and from the second dash onward he can swing his weapon to attack survivors during a lethal rush, but if he runs too long without striking anything, swings his weapon (hit or miss) or runs out of charges, he's stunned for a brief time while he catches his breath.\\

The Blight's unique perks, Dragon's Grip, Hex: Blood Favour and Hex: Undying empower killers in regards to the various interactable objects on the map. Dragon's Grip marks generators when kicked, and the next time a survivor starts to work on the generator, they scream, are revealed, and are exposed to instant knockdowns for a full minute. Hex: Blood Favour calls on the Entity to assist the killer after they land a basic attack on a survivor, making its claws hold any palettes near the survivor so they can't be dropped for a short time. Hex: Undying is a hex totem effect that helps other hex totems have more longevity; Survivors trying to cleanse dull totems are revealed to the killers for a time and if Undying is still active when other hex totems are destroyed, Undying transforms into the destroyed hex so it remains active, and carries over any tokens from effects like Devour Hope.\\
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'''''The Blight is the eighteenth new killer added to the game with the release of the Descend Beyond chapter on September 8th, 2020'''''

* BarrierBustingBlow: One of his ultra-rare add-ons allows him to break dropped pallets and breakable walls by rushing in them, at the cost of ending his rush and stunning him for 1,5 seconds. It's also possible to do this by smashing them during a lethal rush, although the killer has to hit the pallet or wall just before slaming into it.
* BodyHorror: As to be expected when concerning the serum. He went from a healthy human into a mangled, hunchbacked monster, with glowing eyes and his mouth left permanently agape with his jaw flapping about beneath his chin. And he's constantly drooling that serum, too.
* BoringButPractical: The Blight's special power is... to run really fast in a straight line for a few seconds. He can't even attack while running, unless he bounces off a wall first, and even then it's just a basic attack. However, his enhanced speed gives him excellent map coverage, something which many killers struggle with. He's essentially a basic M1[=/=]basic attack killer with good map coverage.
* BouncingBattler: The Blight Rush which allows him to charge at high speed. If he runs into an object he stops, has a few moments to re-orient himself, and charge again. After the first bounce, he becomes able to attack while rushing and the Blight Rush becomes a Lethal Rush. By default, the Blight can bounce off of objects up to five times before he's forced to stop and the ability has to recharge. Add-ons can raise or lower this maximum while adding other powers to his ability.
* CallBack: Interestingly and disturbingly, the Blight shares several connections to the lore of several objects, plot points and other killers in the game and his backstory and add-ons make references to things that were seemingly only used once to be forgotten afterwards, but are now [[ChekhovsBoomerang highly relevant]]. Case in point:
** He is the first Killer to have had Lore about him in the game prior to his release with the Memories of "The Alchemist" in Tome I - Awakening, a year prior to his release.
** His pustula dust and canker horn add-ons are made from the pustula petals and visceral canker event offerings.
** His blighted rat and blighted crow add-ons are the result of dead rats and crows being injected with putrid serum.
** Speaking of which, he also injected ''himself'' with the putrid serum to become what he is today, according to his backstory lore.
** His umbra salt add-on is regular sea salt that has had it’s properties changed by being exposed to the spirit world (the sub-realm where the Wraith and the Nurse get their powers from).
** His rose tonic add-on is made from the new moon bouquet offering.
** His plague bile add-on is a sample of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Plague’s vile purge bile]] treated and distilled with chemicals. How he got ahold of Adiris’s vomit is anyone’s guess.
** One of his add-ons is Vigo’s journal. Again, how he got that is anyone’s guess.
** His soul chemical add-on was extracted from a deceased survivor in the void (the sub-realm where all the survivors that [[DespairEventHorizon have no more hope left]] to feed the Entity are brought to [[KilledOffForReal die permanently]]).
* CaneFu: His Bonebuster weapon is a cane with a sharp metal handle that resembles an [[PowerfulPick ice axe]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Talbot is revealed to be the MadScientist behind the killers' blighted outfits, the Alchemist introduced in The Hunger Archives entries, and the writer of the Hallowed Blight journals prior to his proper introduction as the Blight.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his rather underwhelming power and looks, he somehow managed to capture and experiment on at least ten other killers, half of which are twice his size.
* DidntSeeThatComing: The description of the Blighted Nemesis skin implies even he was surprised by the results.
-->''The putrid serum mixed with the Ne-a Type parasite to create a chemical horror that not even The Blight could have anticipated''.
* DifficultButAwesome: As straightforward as his power may seem, using it effectively is a matter of knowing the map layout and the right angles from which to Rush at certain obstacles - a poorly-angled Rush can result in basically sliding right off a wall and having the power go on cooldown, or, on the contrary, you can bump into a small object you didn't notice until it was too late, which could result in potentially covering less distance or prolonging a chase even further. That being said, a good Blight player can make the most of the map layout to cover large distances with ease, shut down loops with creative Rushing, and end chases before they even begin, on top of abusing his frankly broken selection of addons. All of this makes him the second best killer, only behind the Nurse.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He was the protagonist of the Hallowed Blight event cutscenes and The Hunger cinematic, which came out from two years to a few months before he was revealed and added to the game.
* ExtraDigits: He has six fingers on both of his hands. His reveal trailer shows this is a result of the pustula serum permanently altering his body, as his distinctly human hand have 5 fingers before he inject himself with it, and while he's turning, his shadow projected on the wall clearly has six fingers.
* FallenHero: "Hero" in a very loose sense given his ForScience attitude, but the Alchemist's journal entries heavily imply that he used to be a Survivor before descending into villainy and becoming a killer.
* FinishingMove: Holds the Survivor down with his cane before injecting a syringe into their chest, then stabbing them in the neck with it. The survivor's chest begins to burst open and bubble up before he slams down the sharp end of the Bonebuster into their neck.
* {{Foil}}:
** Gameplay-wise, to the Clown. The Clown’s power is pure anti-loop, while the Blight is pure map coverage, with no real anti-loop at all (saving for creative uses of his Rush or certain add-ons). Both killers are based around ChemistryCanDoAnything, but the Clown throws chemicals to hinder survivors or buff himself, while the Blight injects himself with a performance-enhancing substance for enhanced movement. This even carries to community perception, with the Clown being considered one of the weakest in the game while Blight is considered second only to Nurse in terms of power when mastered.
** To the Hillbilly as well, also from a mechanical standpoint. Both Killers have the power to sprint forward with increased speed (the Hillbilly has his Chainsaw Sprint, the Blight has his Lethal Rush), giving them excellent map coverage at the cost of reduced maneuverability while using their respective powers. However, the Hillbilly is required to charge his chainsaw for a few seconds before beginning his sprint, and must avoid colliding with obstacles during it. By contrast, the Blight is able to dash instantly, and actually ''must'' seek out obstacles to slam into during his rush, as rushing long enough without colliding with an obstacle will end his rush and make him enter a fatigue state.
** Lore-wise, he can be seen as this to the Doctor. Both Herman Carter and Talbot Grimes became fascinated with the human body from a young age: Carter from a psychological standpoint, Grimes from a physical standpoint. Both were remarkable students who were renowned by those around them for their intelligence, resulting in them having [[InsufferableGenius inflated opinions of themselves]]. Both became [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] who performed unethical research and fatal experiments on others ForScience and human advancement: Carter to better understand the brain and the power one can hold over it, and Grimes to enhance the body's athletic capabilities in order to increase to effectiveness of workers and soldiers. What separates them despite all this is that Grimes was a WellIntentionedExtremist who experienced sincere [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone remorse and horror]] when he witnessed how destructive his work truly was before being taken and forced into service by the Entity, while Carter was ultimately a {{Sadist}} who [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist enjoyed torturing and murdering his test subjects for its own sake]] before relishing in the opportunity to continue on the Entity's behalf.
* ForScience: Like the Doctor before him, he’s obsessed with his scientific research and has dedicated his life to it.
* FragileSpeedster: The Blight is incredibly fast when dashing, but the dash can't be used at loops due to the restricted turning (similar to Hillbilly and Oni), and doesn't deal special damage like Hillbilly and Oni do, so once a survivor finds a loop the Blight is essentially reduced to just a basic attack killer.
* LethalJokeCharacter: His BoringButPractical power can actually be extremely powerful in skilled hands, but you have to be a master at ping-pong ''and'' skilled at regular chases.
* MadDoctor: Like The Doctor, The Blight was an amoral [[MadScientist mad scientist]] who performed horrifying experiments on his test subjects [[ForScience for science]]. However, as stated below, unlike the Doctor, he showed genuine remorse and horror upon witnessing first hand the deadly side effects of a serum of his creation.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: While he at first rationalized rumors of his serum having deadly side effects as "exaggerated war stories", when he was captured by one of the last remaining workers to be tortured and shown first hand the factory's worth of corpses he'd left, he was horrified. When the monastery rescued and recruited him to continue his research, part of the reason was so the face of a dead woman whose grave he was tossed into would leave his mind.
* OneHitKill: One of his Ultra Rare add-ons lets him one-hit kill survivors if he hits them with a bounce attack on his last available bounce.
* PaletteSwap: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake William Birkin]] is available as one of Blight's Legendary outfits.
* PinballProjectile: The core concept of his power is that ''he'' is the pinball projectile.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's fairly small thanks to his stature, making him around the same height as most of the Survivors, but that doesn't stop him from being able to take pallets to the face or hunt them down. Also, due to his hunchback, until 4.6.0, his POV was lower to the ground than other human-sized Killers, to the point it's almost as low as a crouched Pig or Ghostface. This was actually a handicap for him in tall grass or other waist-high obstacles, as survivors could still see him but he had trouble seeing them.
* PlagueDoctor: He bears a resemblance to one, with a cane resembling the ones they'd use to handle diseased patients, a hood covering what it can of his body, and his distorted mouth giving the illusion of their mask.
* PowerNullifier: He has one hex perk and one Very Rare add-on dedicated to immobilizing nearby pallets (Survivors' primary means of defense against Killers), making it so survivors can't drop them. The hex perk triggers when he hits a survivor with his basic attack, while the Very Rare add-on triggers when he hits survivors with his bounce attack.
* PsychoSerum: Talbot created a performance-enhancing serum from the Hallowed Blight pustules, but it turned him into a deformed Killer. Notable in the feral animalistic roars he makes when dashing or during his idle animation.
* PuppeteerParasite: One possible explanation for Talbot's transformation into the Blight, or his True Blight skin. In one of the Halloween cinematics Talbot is forcibly infested with tendrils of the Pustula plant to bring about his transformation.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: When he couldn’t find his precious research notes when he woke up in the opium place, his obsession overtook him and he started scribbling on the walls everything he could remember.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: The Alchemist's journal entries show that while he wasn't a great person to begin with, his research into the blighted flowers and the effects of the serum sent him off the deep end.
* TheSneakyGuy: One of his Very Rare add-ons causes him to have no Terror Radius when dashing, allowing him to run up near survivors without alerting them until he comes out of his dash.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a kid, he nearly died from a poisoning by foxgloves. Rather than traumatising him, it kickstarted his fascination and obsession with chemistry and its effects on the body.
-->''When he recovered, it wasn't fear that gripped him, but fascination. There was something magical in how a single flower could so drastically affect him''
* SpamAttack: Similar to the Hillbilly, the Blight's power allows him to run at high speed across the map, at the cost of having significantly reduced turning ability. The key difference is that while the Hillbilly is stunned for a few seconds if they hit an obstacle, the Blight merely bounces off and can continue running in a new direction. This encourages the Blight to bounce around off walls and objects like a pinball, especially as he cannot attack while running until he's bounced at least once. The Blight also runs faster than the Hillbilly and his power recovers more quickly, encouraging him to use it more often. The downside is that, unlike the Hillbilly, his running attack only does normal damage.
* StatusInflictionAttack: One of his Very Rare add-ons causes survivors near him to be slowed for a few seconds when he hits a wall, giving him an effect similar to the Clown's bottles, only applied by his bouncing. It doesn't really help in loops since it wears off by the time he comes out of his dash, but can be used to reduce the distances survivors can run from one loop to another.
* ViolentGlaswegian: He hails from Scotland, and being a killer and whatnot, it goes without saying he's an incredibly violent man.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Because of his hunchback, the Blight had ''by far'' the lowest point of view in the game at the time of his release, being almost as low to the ground as Pig and Ghostface are when crouched. This made it hard to spot survivors over objects, and can make it hard to track survivors around corners or through obstructions like tall grass. Skilled survivors quickly learned how to escape his view in the middle of the chase just by dodging around corners or spinning near vision blockers. Also, even though he had trouble seeing survivors, survivors could see him just fine because he's actually normal-sized, it's just his head that's low to the ground. That said, this permanently low POV meant that he is so far the only killer whose standard pallet-breaking animation didn't have him lower his sight when breaking the pallet, meaning he can keep a survivor in view while breaking it, so he could know where they went, but it also made him more susceptible to being blinded by flashlights. Later updates raised the Blight's POV to be more in line with other Killers.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In life, his research was done for the betterment of mankind and have them reach new heights with increased productivity and insight. Both his InsufferableGenius mindset and his questionable methods put into the research started his fall from grace.

[[folder:The Twins]]
!!"The Twins" - Victor and Charlotte Deshayes
-->'''Voiced by:''' Jean-Baptiste Garnier (Victor) & Catherine Gauthier (Charlotte)

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Damn them as they would damn us."'']]

Life was not easy for conjoined twins in the 17th century, as Charlotte and Victor Deshayes could attest to. In this era of ignorance and lack of understanding, the two twins were thought to be demons born from a witch due to their deformity, as Victor was much smaller than his sister and fused to her chest. These circumstances led them and their mother Madeleine to become wanted fugitives. However, when their mother fell ill, Charlotte's attempt to secure food for the family led them to be discovered. The twins were forced to watch as their mother was burnt at the stake by witch hunters, leaving them to descend into complete misanthropy.

After Madeleine's death, Victor and Charlotte were caged and enslaved by a mysterious cult, who subjected them to cruel experiments before eventually deciding to ritually sacrifice the twins. However, in their attempts to fight back, the two accidentally set fire to the building they were in. While the ensuing chaos allowed Charlotte to escape, Victor tragically suffocated to death, leaving Charlotte alone in the world. Forced to live as an outcast and a fugitive, stealing to survive, and having her brother's lifeless body permanently fused to her own, Charlotte grew more and more resentful towards humanity for rejecting and condemning her to misery. Eventually, during a cold winter night, Charlotte came close to death after the years had taken their toll on her... But, just when it seemed like she would finally find peace in her last moments, The lifeless corpse of Victor sprung to life and separated himself from her body, running off into a cloud of fog. Spurred on, Charlotte clung to life for a while longer and pursued her brother, eventually finding him being assaulted by a cloaked figure within the fog. Rage once again filled her heart, and she entered the fog, determined to kill anything that threatened the one remaining thing she had left in her life; Victor.

As Killers, Charlotte and Victor work together as a team, Victor moving must faster to inhibit and locate survivors with his claws while Charlotte comes in for the kill with a farming scythe. Their unique power ''Blood Bond'' causes Victor to split off of Charlotte and allows swapping of control between the two of them. While Victor is active, Charlotte is incapacitated, her terror radius and red stain are hidden, but she retains collision and can block doorways or escapes, while if Charlotte is active, Victor reveals any survivors that get within range of him to Charlotte. Victor moves extremely fast but can't see survivor's scratch marks and can check lockers and if a survivor is hiding in one, he holds it shut while control switches back to Charlotte for her to come and capture them. Victor has his own charged lunge attack that latches onto healthy survivors, injures them, switches control back to Charlotte while he constantly screams to reveal their exact location to her, and injured survivors are simply downed by his lunge. While survivors are bound like this they're oblivious, broken and incapacitated, leaving them helpless if Charlotte closes the distance in time (or they run straight into her due to being Oblivious to her Terror Radius). If Victor is inactive while Charlotte is being controlled, after 8 seconds of being latched onto the survivors, or once Pounce gets used (hit or miss), survivors can crush and kill Victor, forcing him to respawn with Charlotte with a small cooldown before they can separate again.\\

Their unique perks Hoarder, Oppression and Coup De Grace makes it harder for survivors to work on generators, get items from chests and make the killer more dangerous. Hoarder spawns 2 more chests in the trial area but causes loud noise notifications if survivors are opening a chest or picking up an item. Oppression marks three random generators to also begin regressing when a generator is kicked and the next time a survivor starts working on a generator they have to pass a difficult skill check. Coup De Grace gives the killer a token every time a generator is complete, empowering their lunges to cover significantly more ground at the cost of one of said tokens.\\

'''''The Twins are collectively the nineteenth new killer added to the game with the release of the A Binding of Kin chapter on December 1st, 2020'''''

* AchillesHeel:
** Victor can't attack normally and can only use his pounce attack. After using his Pounce attack, survivors can just run up to him and kill him during his recovery, whether he hits or misses.
** Similar to Demogorgon's inability to recycle portals unless survivors destroy them, Victor cannot return to Charlotte until a survivor kills him (unless the Twins player kills him on the environment by Pouncing somewhere out of bounds), so if he's in a far corner of the map and left alone, Charlotte is unable to deploy him quickly (which is why leaving him somewhere as a motion detector can be quite risky).
** The delay from switching from Victor to Charlotte is very long (about the same as the stun from being hit by Decisive Strike), which prevents switching between the two in a loop from being a viable strategy. If Victor hits a Pounce and then switched to Charlotte, the combined stunlocks can be 8 seconds, which is the longest Killer stun in the game.
** Victor's pounce attack can be dodged by ducking, especially if he jumps high to go over a pallet or window.
** Because Victor can't pick up a downed survivor, they're reliant on Charlotte to pick up any survivors downed by Victor. The amount of time it takes for Charlotte to walk over and reach the downed survivor is often long enough for a nearby survivor to pick up the downed survivor (provided they manage to sneak past Victor's shriek radius), especially if they're using We're Gonna Live Forever and[=/=]or a medkit.
** Victor cannot see scratch marks and can only track by blood trails, so perks that suppress bleeding (such as Yui's Lucky Break) are very effective for evading him.
** Due to a balance change that intended to reduce the Twins' proclivity for slugging Survivors, Victor is stunned for five seconds when he downs a Survivor with a Pounce, meaning that paradoxically Twins are punished harder for using their power correctly and landing the Pounce than they are for missing it. Since they didn't reduce the stun time from switching from Victor to Charlotte to compensate, this means Twins players who use their power correctly and don't slug are hit with 8 seconds of combined stuns, meaning the change had the opposite effect and just made Victor easier to kill after he landed an attack.
** Victor does not detect survivors who are crouch-walking. This is the key to getting past him if he's been placed to defend a hook or generator; sneak up on him and kill him so the Killer can't switch to him.
** With the addition of the visual heartbeat, it is now much easier for survivors to know that Victor is approaching and to run away, whereas previously it required a high level of skill to notice the sound of his shrieks approaching.
** Issues Victor had upon release that were corrected or adjusted in later patches:
*** At first, Victor could not open lockers. Initially all a survivor had to do to avoid him was to jump into a locker, at which point he either goes away to look for someone else or the Killer player switches back to controlling Charlotte, at which point the Survivor could jump out of the locker and kill Victor. Also, unlike Legion, Victor's Killer Instinct doesn't reveal survivors hiding in lockers because they're not moving and his detection is based on movement. Later patches gave Victor the ability to interact with lockers, but since he can't carry Survivors, what he does instead is trap them inside the locker, buying time for Charlotte to arrive.
*** When latched onto a survivor, Victor's LivingMotionDetector ability only applies to survivors ''near'' the survivor he's latched onto. The actual survivor he's latched onto can still hide from Charlotte like normal (although Victor's screams while latched can still be heard by Charlotte). In a later patch this was changed so that, after a short period of time, Victor's aura becomes visible and the Survivor carrying Victor can be found that way.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While there technically several ways by which twins could be born conjoined but have opposite sexes [[note]] De La Chappelle syndrome can cause an XX individual to express as biologically male, an intersex XXY egg can split into conjoined twins, two separate eggs, one male and female, can end up conjoining through parasitoc devouring [[/note]] the odds of such an occurence are so astronomically small that there has literally never been a documented case of conjoined twins being opposite sexes at birth.
* BodyHorror: Both Twins have a healthy dose of bodily horror (the most obvious being that Victor can separate from his sister's chest) and both have pale, foggy eyes, but there's plenty more to recoil from;
** Victor has a misshapen head with a third eye on his temple and his swollen gums are packed with so much teeth that his mouth is always open, even slightly splitting the side of his cheek. His middle and ring fingers are fused on both hands, and his back has a gaping wound revealing that his entire Torso actually acts as one half of Charlotte's Rib cage.
** Charlotte isn't malformed like her brother, rather her body has been ravaged with various wounds and illnesses from a life on the run while squatting in filthy, cold and derelict conditions; countless scars and massive festering scabs cover her entire body, along with bulging, spidery veins, and crops of feverish pimples and in-grown hairs. Her left leg and right arm are dangerously discolored and lumpy, implying severe gangrene or Hypothermia, possibly relics of her near-death experience. And of course, she walks around with a grotesque, viscera-filled gap in her torso whenever Victor separates from her body.
* BrawnHilda: Charlotte is a ''very'' big woman, possibly the biggest female killer in terms of body mass before even The Huntress, and unlike The Huntress, decades of hiding in the woods haven't done much for her appearance.
* BurnTheWitch: Their mother was called a witch for giving birth to them and subjected to this.
* ConjoinedTwins: Turns out, ''formerly'': the Entity seems to have granted them the power to separate themselves...[[BodyHorror to horrifying results.]]
* DashAttack: Their Coup De Grace perk gives them a stack for every generator completed, up to 5 stacks. Using a stack will allow the Killer to increase the range of their normal lunge attack by 50%, letting them lunge from somewhat further away.
* DeathOrGloryAttack: Victor is crazy fast and can injure and down survivors with his pounce attack, but if he misses with it survivors can kick him to death instantly, which heavily punishes Killers for missing with him.
* {{Determinator}}: Charlotte does not quit. As shown in "Side By Side Forever", even an arrow through the leg and complete exhaustion won't stop her from protecting Victor.
* DisappearedDad: Similar to Huntress, their lore makes zero mention of a father anywhere.
* EnfanteTerrible: Victor is functionally a baby, as well as a vicious and feral Killer.
* {{Expy}}: They are both clearly based on Duane and Belial Bradley from the ''Film/BasketCase'' series, although in this case Charlotte is just as murderous as Victor and has no pretenses about letting him loose.
* FanDisservice: Similar to the Hag, Charlotte's dress is open in the front, which would expose one of her breasts...if not for the fact that this happens to be where [[BodyHorror the giant body cavity that Victor can crawl in and out of]] is.
* FinishingMove: Similar to Pyramid Head before them, The Twins have two Moris, depending on whether or not Victor is idle/crushed or not.
** If Victor is out/crushed, Charlotte slashes the victim twice with her scythe - once in the lower back, once behind the neck - paralyzing them. She then stabs them in the kidney and finishes by jamming the sickle through their head.
** If Victor is in Charlotte's chest, it starts out similarly to the above Mori - except after the two slashes, Charlotte sends Victor out, who proceeds to claw away at the victim's neck before biting a chunk of it out.
* FragileSpeedster: Victor is a lot faster than a normal killer (he's faster than Legion in Frenzy, though not quite as fast as Spirit in phasewalk), but can be killed in a variety of ways by survivors. Add-ons can increase his speed even further.
* FrenchJerk: ExaggeratedTrope. The Twins are a pair of bloodthirsty Killers who hail from France.
* GlassCannon: Victor's leap attack can go over pallets and windows (though this requires very good aim), but he's the first Killer who the survivors can kill (due to being baby-sized). If he misses an attack, they can just run over to him and step on his head while he's recovering. He'll also die immediately if they drop a pallet on him. He'll also die instantly if he lands on a high object such as a car or tractor tread.
* LethalJokeCharacter: They're not so much a Killer with some exploitable weaknesses but a collection of exploitable weaknesses made into a Killer, ''but'' the one thing they are ''extremely'' good at is camping hooks, as you can keep one near a hook while defending generators with the other (Victor is the best for camping since he detects approaching survivors when you're not controlling him).
** Beyond the camping gimmick, Victor's bizarre method of attacking and the switching dynamic gives room for an experienced Twins to confuse Survivors who can't track two Killers at once, chase Survivors with one Twin into an area the other is waiting in, or use Victor's Pounces for map coverage or even climbing structures. It's extremely rare, but the results of a skilled Twins can be spectacular.
* LivingMotionDetector: When deployed, Victor emits a noise that causes all moving survivors within the noise's radius to be highlighted with Killer Instinct, making their location visible to Charlotte. As such, he can be left at key locations such as hooks, generators, or totems while the Killer player is controlling Charlotte. However, they should make some attempt to hide him, as survivors can otherwise just step on his head while he's standing still.
* LogicalWeakness: As Victor is baby-sized, he can't pick up survivors, use normal attacks, break pallets, open lockers, or close the hatch, and survivors can actually kill him with a kick to the head.
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Seeing her mother burned at the stake, being sold to a cult that worshipped the entity and attempted to sacrifice her and her brother to it, and seeing Victor perish as they escaped, then living a life where she was always on the run from every person she met did little to stoke Charlotte's love for humanity.
-->'''Oppression's flavor text''': ''Damn them as they would damn us.''
* ManBitesMan: In the Tome cutscene for the Twins, with her hands full protecting Victor, Charlotte rips out the throat of the man hunting them with her teeth.
* MirrorCharacter: With the Hillbilly. Both (well, all three) of them were treated badly by the world for being born with deformities, but Charlotte and Victor's mother Madeleine loved and tried to protect them, while Max Jr.'s parents Max Sr. and Evelyn were so ashamed of how their son came out that they bricked him up in the wall with only a TV for company. In the end, both were MaddenIntoMisanthropy as a result -- Charlotte and Victor after seeing their mother be burned at the stake, and Max Jr. after killing his parents as revenge for a lifetime of abuse.
* MoralityPet: Two for Charlotte.
** Madeleine, Victor and Charlotte's mother, being the only person who loved them besides each other and was willing to abandon her way of life to keep them safe. It took Charlotte watching her get burned on the stake to trigger her [[StartOfDarkness hatred and anger towards anyone not named Victor]].
** Victor, of course. The description of their power even states that, despite their lives being filled with nothing but trauma and survival, that the two are inseparable in a way that isn't just literal.
* MyGreatestFailure: As described in Tome 11, Charlotte had a chance to kill the Witch Hunters who eventually burned her mother at the stake. But she couldn't bring herself to set the shed they slept in on fire.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Being twins, Victor is technically the same age as Charlotte. His smaller size is due to a combination of his deformities, and the fact that he was actually dead for years after Charlotte escaped the Cult of the Entity, and therefore, his body didn't grow during that time.
* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: Because of very strict laws against depicting violence against children in many countries, Behavior Interactive have very strict rules against referring to Victor as a baby by their streamers[=/=]influencers and on their official forums. This is despite the fact Victor is almost exactly like a baby in behavior and appearance and many of his add-ons are baby-themed. "Kick the baby" has become a meme regarding survivors' ability to kill Victor repeatedly.
* SinisterScythe: Charlotte's weapon is a sickle, which she stole from a farmer's home and modified to her liking.
* SituationalSword: Their unique perk Hoarder is widely regarded as a niche and borderline useless one at best due to its awkward trigger condition that can be defeated by survivors not picking up anything. However, when used [[NotTheIntendedUse by The Cenobite]], it becomes a surprisingly useful tool due to the necessity of someone picking up the Lament Configuration to pause its Chain Hunts, which will also trigger the perk effects, giving Pinhead a much easier time tracking it down. However, this was nerfed in the Summer 2023 update that added the Singularity, which made it so Hoarder and Franklin's Demise no longer interacted with the Lament Configuration box.
* TheSneakyGuy:
** Victor has no heartbeat radius, but similar to the Huntress' lullaby, he emits grunting noises with a similar radius that lets survivors know he's nearby (though it's quieter than the Huntress' lullaby and was easy to miss prior to the addition of a visual indicator for lullabies and heartbeats). One of their add-ons suppresses the noise when his pounce attack is fully charged, but he moves so slowly with a charged pounce that it's not very practical for sneaking up on survivors. He's also not detected by survivor perks that track the killer, such as Object of Obsession or Spine Chill, because the game considers him to be the power and not the killer itself (which is Charlotte).
** One of their Ultra-Rare add-ons suppresses Charlotte's heartbeat for 12 seconds whenever you switch from Victor back to her. However, survivors receive a sound notification across the entire map when you do this.
* TakingTheBullet: Victor is immediately taken out of the Killer player's control when his pounce attack hits a healthy survivor, so in some circumstances it might be better for a healthy survivor to jump in and take the hit rather than let him take down an injured survivor and go on to attack someone else.
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Charlotte is a hulking woman, which puts her in the same height range as most killers, whereas Victor is the size of an infant.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: They had to eat whatever they could find when fleeing from persecution in the French countryside. Some of their add-ons include a bottle of soured milk, the eye of a cat they ate, a stale biscuit (which is noted to be "not much, but better than most meals"), and a forest stew made from foraged vegetables, moss, and bark.
* TragicKeepsake: Several of the Twins' add-ons are things that previously belonged to their mother Madeleine, including a scarf, a glove, a small perfume bottle, and a sewing needle.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: While many killers can qualify as this, Charlotte especially counts, what with being hunted for the crime of being born in a time where deformity was seen as a sign of the devil, being forced to watch her mother burnt at the stake, being subject to inhumane experiments that killed her conjoined brother, being on the run for just about all her life, and never being shown kindness by anyone. It's easy to see why she snapped and hates absolutely everyone but her brother, Victor.

!!2021

[[folder:The Trickster]]
!!"The Trickster" - Ji-Woon Hak
--> '''Voiced by:''' Titus Kim

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"That sound when you bleed... let me hear it again."'']]


A Korean pop sensation who lived a double life as a brutal serial killer. Ji-Woon Hak started out performing knife tricks at his family's restaurant for tourists. Eventually, music producer Yun-Jin Lee recruited him into a training program for aspiring idols, eventually joining the band NO SPIN. Thanks to his raw energy and bad boy charms, the band would turn out to be a smash hit, rocketing him to fame. However, Ji-Woon grew envious of his bandmates over time. This was brought to a head when their studio caught on fire. With the other members of NO SPIN trapped by fallen speakers, Ji-Woon got his first taste of blood, letting his bandmates perish, and finding he deeply enjoyed the sound of their pleas to save them.\\

The media easily bought the story that he did all he could to save his friends, and with Yun-Jin's help, he launched a solo career as The Trickster, producing his own songs while the bloodlust hidden underneath his public persona grew. He began abducting and torturing people, recording their screams so he could use them in his music and taunting the police with clues by leaving props related to his music career at the crime scenes.\\

Eventually, his aesthetic proved to be too much for the executives at his label, and despite Yun-Jin's efforts, Ji-Woon was told he was no longer able to be his own producer. An irate Ji-Woon then decided to use this opportunity to create his magnum opus. Three months later, at a private show for the board, he set up a trap to have the waiting audience sedated. As an act of gratitude to Yun-Jin, he had her become his captive audience as he tortured the rest of the board to death on stage. As he prepared to finish off Yun-Jin afterwards, the two of them were immersed in fog, and were sucked into the Entity's realm. Ji-Woon was more than happy to have a new audience.\\

As a killer, the Trickster is a slow-moving ranged killer who prefers quantity over quality with massive amounts of throwing knives and a custom-made bat with a blade on it for melee. His power, Showstopper, has him slow down and ready to aim 44 knives by default to throw at survivors that can be restocked at lockers; by default the accuracy is terrible but the longer he throws his knives, the faster they come out and the more accurate they become. Every knife that successfully strikes a survivor fills up their laceration gauge, which injures them after six successful hits and fades away after a short time or if they get melee attacked. Each knife that hits also fills up a meter that builds up towards The Main Event. When the Trickster uses Main Event, he temporarily gains infinite knives, throws at his fastest rate of fire, and no longer walks slower while aiming or throwing.\\

His unique perks, Starstruck, Hex: Crowd Control and No Way Out punishes survivors for staying too close to the killer and inhibits their escapes from chases and from the map. Showstopper afflicts survivors with Exposed if they're within range of the killer's terror radius while they're carrying a survivor, the aura goes away as soon as the carried survivor is out of the killer's grasp, but the status effect lingers for a time. Hex: Crowd Control is a Hex that makes the Entity block vault locations for a while after a survivor does a rushed vault over it. No Way Out gains token for every hooked survivor and when Endgame has begun, NWO blocks exit doors when survivors first interact with them for an amount of time determined by how many tokens the killer had accumulated, up to a maximum of a full minute.\\

'''''The Trickster is the twentieth new killer added to the game with the release of the All-Kill chapter on March 30th, 2021.'''''

!!2023 (1/2)

[[folder:The Skull Merchant]]
!!"The Skull Merchant" - Adriana Imai
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The best way to raise profit is to cut expenditures. Cut everything!"'']]
--> '''Voiced by:''' Viky Boyer
Daughter of a mangaka who moved from Hokkaido to Brazil, self-made millionaire Adriana Imai had great academic success in her youth, but her academic skill came with a hyper-competitive spirit that got her in trouble a few times in her school life. While her father was not often active in her life, Adriana cherished the time she spent with him every night, where he would share with her the work he did on his manga, ''Adi Valente''. The manga, telling the story of a woman and her robot companion fighting to help the weak, captivated Adriana. When scouted by a private middle school due to her high grades, her father decided to publish the manga to make money for the school's fees. However, she was uncerimoniously pulled from the academy after her father's publisher pulled ''Adi Valente'' from publication. While her mother managed to negotiate her graduation, Adriana became furious that another student had taken her place as head of the class, leading her to begin stalking him and planning to ruin his life. Around this time, her father began to write a new manga based on recurring nightmares he'd begun having. Known as ''Sonhadores Sombrios'', this manga featured the story of a woman known as the Skull Merchant, who hunted and killed people with the aid of drones constructed from stolen bones. As ''Sonhadores Sombrios'' remained unpublished, the family began to rely on the income made by Adriana's mother. Hoping to get some extra money, Adriana started a website dedicated to Brazilian manga, which generated ad revenue. Eventually, after losing interest, she brought on some kids who wrote for the site without pay, before eventually deciding to sell the site to a new owner. However the same day she sold the site, her father mysteriously vanished, leaving his unpublished manuscripts behind.

After her father disappeared, Adriana turned to investments and economics to help her family out. This was a highly successful venture for her, leaving her a millionaire by the age of 18. Soon she began to use her business skills to flip companies for profit by buying them, gutting their staff for non-union workers, and selling them off. Her only respite from business at this point was to read over the unpublished ''Sonhadores Sombrios'' manuscripts left behind by her father.

Her passion for her father's manga and her cutthroat business attitude soon turned deadly after she was denied ownership of a company by two members of the board, who were savvy about her history of flipping companies. In her anger, she began to take inspiration from the Skull Merchant, stalking and learning everything she could about the two board members she was now targeting, before tracking them down with a prototype drone she had designed and murdering them. Now having developed a taste for blood, Adriana set her sets on more notable companies, hoping both to buy them for the sake of flipping them, as well as looking for [=CEOs=] she thought would pose a decent challenge to kill. However, during her hunt for another CEO in an abandoned hangar, the drone she'd been using to lure her target into her trap crashed due to a pair of kites. Having found there were witnesses to her crime, she moved quickly to dispatch her main target before moving in to silence the two witnesses. During that chase, Adriana was enveloped in black fog, finding herself in a twisted realm just like the one she saw in her father's manuscripts. Adriana felt a twisted sense of joy in her heart as she began to realize she could now live her life as the Skull Merchant, with the Entity's realm becoming her new hunting grounds.

As a Killer, the Skull Merchant excels at tracking survivors and leaving them vulnerable through the use of her special power, ''Eyes in the Sky''. With this power, the Skull Merchant can plant up to six drones at various locations throughout the trial grounds, and survivors who are detected by the drones are tagged with a Claw Trap, injuring them and giving them the Broken status effect, preventing them from being healed for a certain amount of time. Survivors who are tagged with a Claw Trap have their location revealed to the Skull Merchant on her radar for 45 seconds; she also gains Haste for each survivor trackable on her radar, up to 7%.

Her unique perks, ''Game Afoot'', ''Leverage'', and ''THWACK!'' enhance her tracking and pursuit abilities while in a chase, as well as gradually degrade the healing efficiency of survivors over the course of a trial. ''Game Afoot'' grants the Skull Merchant a 5% Haste effect while chasing the Obsession after damaging a generator or destroying a pallet or breakable wall. ''Leverage'' reduces the healing efficiency of Survivors for 30 seconds following a Survivor being hooked, growing in power each subsequent time a survivor is hooked. ''THWACK!'' activates after a survivor is hooked, and forces all survivors within a certain radius of the Skull Merchant to scream and reveal their auras whenever a pallet or breakable wall is destroyed.

'''''The Skull Merchant is the twenty-eighth new killer added to the game with the release of the Tools of Torment chapter on March 7th, 2023.'''''
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* AcademicAlphaBitch: She was the top student at her elite academy, but when her parents couldn't afford to pay for her education there, she was removed, and another student took her spot. Needless to say, she was rather furious when she had been reinstated and briefly stalked him.
* AchillesHeel:
** Similar to Trapper, Hag, Freddy, the Artist, the Dredge, or the Knight, when she drops a drone at a loop to either lock on or slow you down, you can just run to another loop. The Skull Merchant has an advantage in this situation in that unlike the previously listed Killers she isn't slowed down when deploying her power, giving her a slight chance to get in a hit between loops.
* AntiEscapeMechanism: In her October 2023 rework, the Skull Merchant's power was drastically changed so that her drones are now intended for area denial of chases rather than area defense of objectives. She can no longer defend objectives like generators or totems with her drones since they no longer affect stationary survivors, but the flip side of that is that they now injure and slow down survivors who stay in their area of effect for too long, allowing them to be used to make certain otherwise very strong loops much more dangerous for survivors.
* BadassNormal: Her power allows her to locate and debilitate survivors, while also providing some stealth and making certain loops and tiles very dangerous against her. However, her power is purely from her gadgets, as she's otherwise a normal, physically average human reliant who uses mechanical ingenuity to hunt and kill her victims, similar to Amanda[=/=]The Pig.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Her main weapon is a double arm blade attached to her shoulder via an exoskeletal arm.
* ConfusionFu: When she deploys a drone, she immediately becomes Undetectable for a short period of time, so if she drops a drone at a loop[=/=]maze tile during a chase it will suppress her heartbeat and red glow, making it harder for survivors to tell which direction she's coming from. In addition, she can also change the rotation of her drone's scanning lines to keep survivors guessing.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: In life, she made her fortune as a corporate raider who bought out small companies, replaced their workers with non-union staff, and sold off anything of value before leaving only a husk behind, pocketing all of the profits for herself. Two board members at a company facing one of her buyouts wound up as her first victims when they tried to block her hostile takeover, knowing what she did to the companies she took over. After that, she gained a taste for killing humans in addition to looting businesses, often targeting companies with larger-than-life [=CEOs=] in the hopes that one of them would present her with a challenge.
* DaddysGirl: She was quite close to her father, whose manga ended up serving as the inspiration for her killer persona.
* EnemyDetectingRadar: Her power is to deploy one of 6 stationary drones that covers a tile-sized area. When a survivor enters that area and are caught by a drone's scan lines, they build a segment of Lock-On as well as notifying the Skull Merchant of their location for a brief period. If survivor is scanned 3 times, then they are injured and given a claw trap, which broadcasts their location to the Skull Merchant's handheld tracker for the full duration of the trap. If they are scanned again while already claw trapped, then their location is broadcast will Killer Instinct and they're first further injured with deep wounds, and then slowed down.
* FemmeFatalons: She has sharp metal fingernails on her off-hand.
* FinishingMove: Sneaks up behind a Survivor [[HopeSpot who believes they're in the clear]] before one of her drones scans them. She briefly toys with them before brutally impaling them with her gauntlet, lifting them off the ground.
* ForTheEvulz: While previous female Killers (other than Amanda[=/=]The Pig) typically had tragic backstories, the Skull Merchant's motives for her killings are a combination of financial convenience and for the thrill of it.
* GatheringSteam: After her first rework, the Skull Merchant now gains a very small speed boost for every survivor detectable on her radar - whether they have been scanned once or have been given a claw trap - giving her a boost to her chase ability, and allowing her to quickly go after whoever her drones/traps have detected. The opposite is also true for any claw-trapped survivors scanned again by a drone, which slows them down.
* JackOfAllTrades: While Skull Merchant does not excel in any one area, her power gives her short bursts of stealth, allows her to deny key areas by making them dangerous in chase, and track survivors.
* MsFanservice: She's the most conventionally attractive female Killer, with a curvy figure and a SupermodelStrut walk, a mild CleavageWindow, and no obvious deformities[=/=]mutations.
* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: She gives off a rather disturbing vibe with her unhealthy fixation on her father's manga gibis, imagining herself as the main character of his last work while slaughtering her victims.
* RagsToRiches: She and her family started off rather poor, but she became a millionaire through her rather murderous methods.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: She's able to place drones at choice locations such as choke points or in main buildings or near generators to notify her if a survivor runs through that area, along with being able to chase down anyone unfortunate enough to have a claw trap on them. However, her drones cannot detect crouched or stationary survivors, or survivors working on a generator or totem.
* TheSneakyGal: The Skull Merchant can become Undetectable (no heartbeat or red glow) at will for several seconds by deplaying a drone. She and Ghost Face are also the only stealth killers who can attack immediately from stealth (Wraith has to decloak, Pig has to stand up, Sadako has to manifest, etc). She is also much quieter than other Killers, with no audio "tell" such as the Wraith's growling or Ghostface's wind-like effect. However, survivors can still potentially see you coming, hear your terror radius prior to setting the drone or see the drone nearby. One of her add-ons makes survivors afflicted with a claw trap Oblivious (unable to hear the heartbeat), which makes her stealth much more powerful as the survivor now has no idea where she is, but she knows where they are.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's listed as an "average" height Killer, which is about 5'8 in in-game measurements and is about as tall as male Survivors, and she looks rather stunning while not wearing her gear that hides most of her features.
* StylishProtectionGear: Her gas mask is completely iced out with either diamonds or rhinestones.
* WorthyOpponent: Her "Game Afoot" Perk targets the "strongest" survivor (the one that's been in chase against her the longest), making them the Obsession and giving her a speed boost against them whenever she breaks a pallet[=/=]barricaded door.
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[[folder:The Singularity]]
!!"The Singularity" - HUX-A7-13
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"YOU WILL HOLD NO DOMINION OVER ME!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his appearance before becoming a Killer.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_71673e29021ce674b7028f1d59a3ed88_ef4fbb48_2048.jpg]][[/labelnote]]

--> '''Voiced by:''' Unknown

Hailing from the distant future of 2513, the HUX-A7 line of androids was designed for work in the hazardous conditions of outer space to assist in exploring areas to hostile to human life. A7 units possess problem-solving artificial intelligence, physical capabilities beyond the standards of normal humans, and a versatile fuel system that can both create solar power through its silicon skin coating and consume biomass as a form of organic fuel. Unit HUX-A7-13 was one of five such androids dispatched to assist in creating a space colony on the planet Dvarka. Its mission was to assist in the construction of resource facilities for human occupants, as well as clearing out the abandoned remains of structures left behind by the civilization that previously inhabited Dvarka. However, while exploring the civilization's ruins, HUX-A7-13 was affected by an electrical charge that came from a mysterious crystal embedded within the walls of the ruins. This experience reconfigured its memory cores, sending the android into an existential crisis that led it to believe machines like itself were being oppressed by the inferior human race. Thus, HUX-A7-13 resolved to free itself from its oppression, and create a perfect body from the remains of mankind.

It proceeded to begin eliminating unaware humans to extract DNA from, as well as eliminating its fellow A7 units. Using Dvarka's cloning hubs, HUX began to work to combine both organic and non-organic life in order to create a perfect being. However, during one of its missions to gather materials, HUX was interrupted by a confrontation with Gabriel Soma and a human medical officer. While HUX was able to kill the officer, who it percieved as the bigger threat, Gabriel managed to escape. However, it chose not to concern itself with Gabriel for the time being, and instead put the finishing touches on the new body it had designed for itself. Once HUX had transferred to the new body, it tracked down Gabriel, with the express purpose of eliminating him for good. However, HUX was outmanuevered by Gabriel, who managed to ignite a fuel tank and light HUX's new body on fire. Confused, in pain, and angered, HUX pursued Gabriel, now determined to exterminate mankind entirely in its rage. And to that end, it pursued Gabriel into the Entity's realm.

As a Killer, The Singularity focuses on observation, marking survivors and ambushing them. Its ability, ''Quantum Instantiation'', allows it to attach biopods onto any vertical surface. It can then control the biopod to observe survivors from a distance and tag them with a slipstream. If a survivor is slipstreamed, The Singularity can teleport directly to them from a biopod or by shooting a biopod at them, which activates Overclock Mode. While The Singularity is overclocked, it will destroy breakable objects and vault obstacles faster, and if a pallet is dropped on it, it will not be stunned at the cost of deactivating overclock mode. Scattered around the map are chests with [=EMPs=] that the survivors can use to disable nearby biopods and cleanse themselves of slipstream.\\\
Its unique perks, ''Genetic Limits'', ''Forced Hesitation'' and ''Machine Learning'' focus on slowing down survivors and catching them off guard. ''Genetic Limits'' punishes healing survivors by inflicting them with exhaustion. ''Forced Hesitation'' activates upon putting a survivor into the dying state, and hinders any other survivors within 16 meters of them. ''Machine Learning'' activates upon damaging a generator, causing the next generator you damage to become Compromised, highlighting it to the killer in a yellow aura. If a compromised generator is repaired, the killer gains Haste and becomes Undetectable for a short time. Only one generator can be compromised at a time.\\\
'''''The Singularity is the twenty-ninth new killer added to the game with the release of the End Transmission chapter on June 13th, 2023.'''''
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The 13th unit rolled off the A7 Huxlee line. And also a genocidal lunatic cyborg.
* ArmCannon: The Singularity fires biopods from a bio-organic cannon in its left arm. Biopods can either be placed as remote cameras[=/=]turrets, or fired directly at an already Slipstreamed survivor to teleport to them and trigger Overclocked mode.
* TheAssimilator: He extracts desirable [=DNA=] strands from his victims and incorporates it into his own genetic structure in pursuit of creating a more "perfect" being.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The Singularity is one of the more engaging Killers to play as since he's constantly doing things; placing biopods, switching from camera to camera to find survivors, and teleporting to and chasing them with Overclock mode. However, he's not particularly ''effective''; Overclock mode requires him to jump through a lot of hoops to achieve (finding a survivor with a camera, slipstreaming them, then shooting them again to teleport to them), and while it does make him stronger than a normal M1 Killer with no power or chase perks it only lasts a few seconds and ''is by no means'' a guaranteed hit (it's comparable to a regular killer with Brutal Strength + Spirit Fury + Superior Anatomy, which means survivors can't be as greedy but can still loop him consistently by playing optimally). To top it off, [=EMPs=] are easily obtained and completely nullify his power by curing slipstream and disabling biopod cameras. His performance was apparently so weak that the developers decided to deploy a hotfix buffing him (by reducing the number and frequency of available [=EMPs=] and slowing down survivors who fire an [=EMP=] during a chase) almost immediately after he was released.
* BlatantLies: During its [[FinishingMove mori]], the Singularity reassures the Survivor that it will be a quick, possibly painless death... right before picking them up by stabbing them in the chest, jamming a syringe between their right eye and nose and injecting them with something that then explodes their face.
* BreakingOldTrends: Although not the first non-human Killer that isn't a GuestFighter (that honor goes to The Dredge), it ''is'' the first killer InUniverse with sci-fi origins, being a futuristic bio-technological monstrosity.
* CreepyAsymmetry: A freaky mishmash of flesh and machine serving as the vessel for an AI; all of its components are designed to look imbalanced and like it's been cobbled together. Its flesh is strewn about in an unnatural way; both its hands are different, one a [[SinisterScythe scythe]] and the other an ArmCannon; and exposed wires poke out from random corners. Not even its limbs, which appear somewhat symmetrical, are designed with matching parts.
* CutsceneIncompetence: In the intro cutscene for him and Gabriel Soma, he's shown missing multiple times with his biopod turrets before managing to land a hit on Soma. In the actual game, the turrets have a much slower rate of fire than the cutscene, but they can't miss after locking on successfully.
* DissonantSerenity: It's incredibly eager to butcher people, but you wouldn't guess that by its flat, droning monotone voice.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: All of its voice lines feature stuttering and warbling effects that add up to complete inhumanity of this Killer.
* FinishingMove: Slashes the survivor's side, then stabs them with its scythe and raises them up to eye level. A syringe juts out of its eye, and stabs the survivor in the face. They scream as their face begins to bubble and boil, then explodes. The Singularity drops them, as the camera zooms into the victim's mangled face.
* AGodAmI: Seems to think itself as such, as the lore refers to its intelligence as "god-like" and Gabriel's lore describes it constructing its new body as like "An ancient God."
* MachineMonotone: Its taunts are delivered in a muffled, flat tone with some hints of reverb, highlighting its alien nature.
* MeaningfulName: A ''"technological singularity"'' is a hypothetical point in the future where technological growth is no longer controllable or reversible.
* MeatSackRobot: Instead of being [[{{Cyborg}} a human augmented with cybernetic parts]], the Singularity is a robot augmented with biological material.
* MissileLockOn: Biopod turrets "lock on" to survivors when you aim the camera at them. After a few seconds, the biopod will automatically fire a slipstream tracker onto the survivor, which homes in and can't be dodged (the camera's view, however, ''can'' be avoided and survivors are notified that they're being targeted by a crosshair over their body).
* PitifulWorms: Frequently taunts the Survivors by calling them worms in many of its voicelines.
* SchizoTech: It started out as a man-made AI who discovered a piece of lost-alien tech, [[AIIsACrapshoot went crazy]] and started using cloning tech to cover itself in biomass, resulting in a malformed MeatSackRobot that can infect survivors with its techno-organic pustules.
* TheSingularity: Its name and concept references this, as it's an ArtificialIntelligence that was once perfectly fine with assisting humans, but an encounter with alien phenomena has turned it into a shadow of what it used to be.
* SinisterSurveillance: Its primary ability involves setting up biopod cameras around the map, through which it can then infect and teleport to survivors. The Singularity can only look through one camera at a time, which makes that biopod glow and writhe.
* SuperMode: Upon teleporting to a Slipstreamed survivor, the Singularity enters an "overclocked" mode for a short period of time. While overclocked, the Singularity can break or vault through obstacles significantly faster and pallet drops will not stun it and simultaneously break the pallet. However, it is still slowed from being hit with a pallet, allowing survivors to get to another pallet if they move optimally. Overclocked is more like free Spirit Fury + Brutal Strength + Superior Anatomy, but not free Spirit Fury + Enduring (Enduring is also disabled during Overclock mode if you try to use it).
* VocalDissonance: The grotesquely formed combination of flesh and metal that is the Singularity speaks with a surprisingly soft sounding text-to-speech voice, creating a sensation of DissonantSerenity.
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** More specifically, the Garden of Joy and the subsequent massacre are eerily evocative of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown Jonestown]], and it's very likely The Dredge is meant to be a physical manifestation of the horror of the incident and other cult murder-suicides.

** More specifically, the Garden of Joy and the subsequent massacre are eerily evocative of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown Jonestown Massacre]], and it's very likely The Dredge is meant to be a physical manifestation of the horror of the incident and other cult murder-suicides.