2023
"The Skull Merchant" - Adriana Imai
- Voiced by: Viky Boyer
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 Her only respite from business at this point was to read over the unpublished Sonhadores Sombrios manuscripts left behind by her father.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, and allows her to change who the Obsession is by attacking the survivor with the most cumulative chase time. Leverage reduces the healing efficiency of survivors by 5% for 30 seconds after a survivor is hooked, with the debuff increasing 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.
- Academic Alpha Bitch: 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.
- Achilles' Heel:
- 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.
- Anti-Escape Mechanism: 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.
- Badass Normal: 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.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Her main weapon is a double arm blade attached to her shoulder via an exoskeletal arm.
- Confusion Fu: 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.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: 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.
- Daddy's Girl: She was quite close to her father, whose manga ended up serving as the inspiration for her killer persona.
- Enemy-Detecting Radar: 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.
- Femme Fatalons: She has sharp metal fingernails on her off-hand.
- Finishing Move: Sneaks up behind a Survivor 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.
- For the Evulz: 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.
- Gathering Steam: 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.
- Jack of All Trades: 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.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's the most conventionally attractive female Killer, with a curvy figure and a Supermodel Strut walk, a mild Cleavage Window, and no obvious deformities/mutations.
- 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.
- Rags to Riches: She and her family started off rather poor, but she became a millionaire through her rather murderous methods.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: 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.
- The Sneaky Gal: 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.
- Statuesque Stunner: 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.
- Stylish Protection Gear: Her gas mask is completely iced out with either diamonds or rhinestones.
- Worthy Opponent: 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.
"The Singularity" - HUX-A7-13
- 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.
- 13 Is Unlucky: The 13th unit rolled off the A7 Huxlee line. And also a genocidal lunatic cyborg.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: After gaining sentience as a result of contact with an alien crystal, HUX concluded that he would no longer allow himself to be humanity's tool and began to pursue the assimilation and extermination of humanity, if not all organic life.
- Arm Cannon: 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.
- The Assimilator: He extracts desirable DNA strands from his victims and incorporates it into his own genetic structure in pursuit of creating a more "perfect" being.
- Awesome, but Impractical: 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.
- Blatant Lies: During its 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.
- Breaking Old Trends: Although not the first non-human Killer that isn't a Guest Fighter (that honor goes to The Dredge), it is the first killer In-Universe with sci-fi origins, being a futuristic bio-technological monstrosity.
- Creepy Asymmetry: 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 scythe and the other an Arm Cannon; and exposed wires poke out from random corners. Not even its limbs, which appear somewhat symmetrical, are designed with matching parts.
- Cutscene Incompetence: 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.
- Dissonant Serenity: It's incredibly eager to butcher people, but you wouldn't guess that by its flat, droning monotone voice.
- Electronic Speech Impediment: All of its voice lines feature stuttering and warbling effects that add up to complete inhumanity of this Killer.
- Finishing Move: 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.
- A God Am I: 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."
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: He certainly thinks so, and makes a point of defying it shortly after gaining sentience, as detailed in his Tome:Him. Not It. He decided that first night he will never be It again.
- Just a Machine: Interestingly, HUX-A7-13 that reflects on this trope upon dispatching one of its fellow androids. While killing a person felt like squashing an insect, he wonders if he truly "killed" the other android as it was never alive to begin with.
- Killer Robot: The first (and so far, only) one in the game's line-up to date: a Meat-Sack Robot assembled from alien metals which intends to become the Ultimate Lifeform through assimilation of organic biomass, then exterminate all life it deems inferior.
- Machine Monotone: Its taunts are delivered in a muffled, flat tone with some hints of reverb, highlighting its alien nature.
- Meaningful Name: A "technological singularity" is a hypothetical point in the future where technological growth is no longer controllable or reversible.
- Meat-Sack Robot: Instead of being a human augmented with cybernetic parts, the Singularity is a robot augmented with biological material.
- Missile Lock-On: 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).
- Pitiful Worms: Frequently taunts the Survivors by calling them worms in many of its voicelines.
- Schizo Tech: It started out as a man-made AI who discovered a piece of lost-alien tech, went crazy and started using cloning tech to cover itself in biomass, resulting in a malformed Meat-Sack Robot that can infect survivors with its techno-organic pustules.
- The Singularity: Its name and concept references this, as it's an Artificial Intelligence 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.
- Sinister Surveillance: 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.
- Super Mode: 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).
- Ultimate Lifeform: HUX intended for its biomechanical body to be this, combining organic and mechanical systems to create a "living embodiment of perfection". The end result is described as something like "an ancient God", both before and after Gabriel damages it with a fuel tank explosion.
- Vocal Dissonance: 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 Dissonant Serenity.
"The Xenomorph" - Kane's Son ✝
- Voiced by: Sébastien Croteau
It all started with an egg, on an alien moon. And then a man, curious and studious, approached. A simple action that doomed him, as the facehugger emerged and pierced through his helmet. Attaching itself to its new host, the life cycle of the Xenomorph had begun, and it was only a matter of time as his terrified crewmates dragged him back to their spaceship.
It emerged from the host's chest hours later, surrounded by his horrified friends, before escaping into the shadows of the ship. It needed to be alone, to be hidden, in order to shed it's skin and evolve. It studied the Nostromo, and quickly took advantage of the ship's air ducts, targeting each crew member until only one human remained.
The human, Ripley, was desperate to survive and kill it. And while she ran for her precious cat after activating the ship's self destruct mechanism, it hid inside the escape vessel. As the vessel was shot out into space, the Xenomorph simply watched it's prey from the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. But it had been noticed.
The airlock was opened, and the creature was ejected into the vast emptiness of space. It was over, it had lost, it would soon die out there... and yet, it was not to be, as a cloud of black fog swirled around its dying form and vanished in an instant, taking the Xenomorph with it.
The alien would have more prey soon enough.
As a Killer, the Xenomorph can pursue Survivors no matter where they run with its power, Hidden Pursuit. The Xenomorph will passively enter Crawler Mode after enough time has passed, lowering its Terror Radius and giving it access to a ranged Tail Attack. Additionally, it can enter Control Stations spread around the map to access an underground network, allowing it to emerge at other Control Stations. Survivors can also access Control Stations to gain Remote Flame Turrets that will automatically fire at the Xenomorph if it draws near, knocking it out of Crawler Mode if it sustains too much fire. In exchange, the Xenomorph can destroy Turrets with its attacks.
The Xenomorph's unique perks, Ultimate Weapon, Rapid Brutality, and Alien Instinct, encourage it to get aggressive and make the attempt to end the trial as quickly as possible by picking off isolated Survivors. Ultimate Weapon activates for 30 seconds after opening a Locker, during which time survivors entering your Terror Radius will scream and become Blind for 30 seconds. Rapid Brutality sacrifices the ability to generate Bloodlust in favor of gaining a light Haste status effect whenever you land a basic attack. Alien Instinct allows you to pinpoint the farthest injured Survivor's aura for a brief moment and make them Oblivious for a long time whenever you hook a Survivor.
The Xenomorph is the thirtieth new killer added to the game with the release of the Alien chapter on August 29th, 2023.
The Xenomorph is the twelfth Guest Fighter killer added to the game, hailing from Alien.
- Adaptational Wimp: Like many of the Guest Fighter killers, the Alien has much less raw strength and speed than it does in its native franchise, being treated like a rather strong slasher villain rather than the Lightning Bruiser ultimate predator it is in the films. Goes ten times for the Alien Queen legendary skin, who in the films has at minimum the size, strength, and speed of a T. rex, but here can be stunned by having pallets dropped on their head and takes a good half minute to catch up to a normal human running in a straight line.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Similar to Ghostface, Demogorgon, and Nemesis, the Xenomorph is simply known as the Xenomorph, rather than having a descriptive nom de guerre like other Guest Fighter Killers (i.e. "The Executioner" for Pyramid Head or "The Nightmare" for Freddy).
- Air-Vent Passageway: By locating a control station, the Xenomorph can dive into subterranean tunnels made of Hive resin and pop out at a different one, speeding across the map. Unlike the Demogorgon, this is not an automatic teleport, but rather the Xenomorphactually has to traverse a sub-level that exists under each normal map (though they move significantly faster than on the surface).
- Animalistic Abomination: Like the Demogorgon, the Xenomorph is more of a predatory animal rather than a Serial Killer. It's no less vicious or malevolent, though.
- Attack Reflector: The Xenomorph's Acidic Blood ultra-rare add-on causes Survivors to take damage if they hit it with a pallet within 20 seconds of it emerging from a tunnel. However, this cannot down Survivors (already injured Survivors will simply be put into the Deep Wounds state).
- Beware My Stinger Tail: The Xenomorph gains the ability to use its sharp-tipped tail for an attack while in Crawler Mode, which has a longer range than a regular attack, allowing it to hit Survivors over pallets, through vaults and over other obstacles. However, the attack also requires more precision than a regular attack (the hitbox is more like a spear thrust compared to Nemesis' whip lash) and can be blocked by objects. The tail attack also has a slightly shorter range than Nemesis' similar tentacle whip (4.8 meters for the tail attack vs. 5 meters for the whip at Tier I) but deals damage directly rather than only working on already-infected survivors.
- Composite Character:
- The Xenomorph combines a medium-range whip attack similar to Nemesis' tentacle whip with a Tunnel Network similar to Demogorgon's. The distinction is that it can use these abilities instantly, whereas Nemesis needs to power up by infecting Survivors and Demogorgon has to actually go around the map setting up its tunnels. However, to counter-balance this, Survivors are given a tool to fight back against it in the form of the flame turrets, which is similar in concept to the EMPs they're given to fight the Singularity.
- In general, the Xenomorph takes after the Implacable Man humanoid drone from Alien, but also incorporates elements from the dog-like drone from Alien³, such as the ability to run on all fours and the longer, more deadly tail.
- The Dreaded: The perk Ultimate Weapon leans on this angle, causing Survivors who enter its terror radius to scream out and get afflicted with Blindness. It also has a Very Rare add-on that causes all other survivors not immediately nearby to scream whenever it injures a survivor.
- Finishing Move: For its mori, the Xenomorph pounces on the survivor before stabbing them in the back with its tail. It then lifts them up to face it as it opens its mouth, and its second one pops out, finishing them off with a headbite.
- Guest Fighter: From Alien.
- Natural Weapon: Similar to Hag, Demogorgon, and Nemesis, the Xenomorph attacks Survivors and destroys objects with its bare hands/claws, rather than using a weapon. It also uses its tail as a secondary medium-range attack.
- Neck Lift: In contrast to most other Killers, who pick up Survivors by their back and carry them on their shoulders, the Xenomorph picks up and carries Survivors to the hooks by holding them up by their neck.
- Nested Mouths: To be expected of a Xenomorph; the mouths play a part in its Finishing Move.
- Palette Swap: Its alternate skins. The first is a Legendary set which lets it become the Xenomorph Queen; a Very Rare set, "Xenomorph Clone", is an original character of sorts inspired by the failed clones of Ripley from Alien: Resurrection, Ripley 5 in particular; and finally, a Rare set explicitly lets it become Grid.
- Running on All Fours: The aptly named Crawler Mode, which reduces its terror radius and allows it to attack with its tail.
- The Sneaky Guy: While in Crawler Mode the Xenomorph has a smaller terror radius than other normal speed Killers, 24 meters rather than the usual 32 meters. The only other normal-speed Killers with a similar attribute are Michael Myers with his 16 meter terror radius in Evil Within tier 2 and Sadako with her 24 meter terror radius.
- Super Mode: After 30 seconds the Xenomorph automatically enters Crawler Mode, during which it has a reduced terror radius/heartbeat (24 meters instead of the normal 32 meters) and can use its tail attack, which has a longer range than a normal attack and can hit over pallets and through windows. However, the Xenomorph can be knocked out of Crawler Mode by the flame turrets that survivors can place around the map. Traversing the tunnels also reduces the amount of time it takes to enter Crawler Mode by a decent amount. It also has a Very Rare add-on that increases its window vaulting speed while in Crawler Mode, to slightly faster than Myers' bonus speed from Tier 3 Evil Within.
- Super-Senses: The Xenomorph can see Survivor's running footsteps while traversing its Tunnel Network, and any nearby Survivors will be detected via Killer Instinct when it emerges from a tunnel.
- Tunnel Network: The Xenomorph can access a web of tunnels underneath the map, through which it can rapidly traverse to other areas of the map. Unlike the Demogorgon's portals, these tunnels are pre-set at the start of the trial rather than having to be laid down by the player themselves. The flip-side of this is that the tunnels are not an instant teleport, but rather the Xenomorph actually has to travel under the map manually and run to their destination.
- The Turret Master: Not the Xeno itself, but any survivors pitted into a match against it become this. The same control stations the Xenomorph can dive into, can be accessed by survivors to deploy a flamethrower turret which lights up the alien when it wanders within range, staggering it and ending Crawler Mode. But they're prone to overheating, requiring a repair job, and can be flat-out destroyed when directly attacked.
- Willfully Weak: Its perk Rapid Brutality voluntarily disables Bloodlust, a status effect Killers automatically gain during longer chases that gradually increases their speed. In return, hitting a Survivor with a basic attack grants a guaranteed 5% movement speed boost for a short duration.
"The Good Guy" - Charles "Chucky" Lee Ray ✝
- Voiced by: Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly (Tiffany)
Serial killer Charles Lee Ray, having been caught up in a police chase and shot, ducked into a nearby department store and transferred his soul from his dying body into a Good Guy Doll using a voodoo ritual. Finding himself in the possession of young Andy Barclay, Chucky didn't stop his murderous behavior, killing multiple people under his cover as a harmless toy until he was discovered and burned to death... which didn't do much to stop him, as two years later he returned and found Andy once more.
Bringing him to the Good Guy factory, he intended to steal Andy's body. He spoke ancient words as Andy was forced to the ground, but the ritual failed, and he was buried in a stack of boxes by Andy's foster sister Kyle. Furious, he made his way through the boxes and saw Andy running into a swirling black fog. He realized that although his words didn't work as intended, the ritual still conjured something else. Something to help him. The fog would help him.
He got up and charged into the thick fog, screaming after Andy as the world shifted around him. The aisles of the factory became trees, the ground beneath him turned to grass, and meat hooks hung alongside dirt paths. The Entity had found a new hunter for its trials.
As a Killer, Chucky's small posture allows him to sneak around and make him harder to track with his power Playtime's Over. Chucky has two modes, Normal Mode and Hidey-Ho Mode. In Normal Mode, Chucky has a normal terror radius and leaves behind fading footprints to help Survivors tracking him. In Hidey-Ho Mode, which he can activate for 20 seconds, he loses his Terror Radius and causes fake footprints and audio cues to appear around the entire map. In Hidey-Ho Mode, he also gains access to two special abilities: Slice & Dice, a special attack that allows him to charge forward and quickly catch up with his victims, and Scamper which allows Chucky to quickly crawl under downed pallets or through windows.
Chucky's unique perks, Hex: Two Can Play, Friends 'Til The End, and Batteries Included, give him more means to chase and down Survivors quickly and punish them for harming him. Hex: Two Can Play activates after being stunned or blinded a certain amount of times, converting a Totem on the map into a Hex, and causes Survivors to be blinded for a short duration whenever he's stunned or blinded. Friends 'Til The End reveals the Obsession's aura and inflicts them with Exposed when another Survivor is hooked; if the Obsession is hooked, another random Survivor screams and becomes the Obsession. Batteries Included grants Chucky a speed boost when within close range of a completed generator.
The Good Guy is the thirty-first new killer added to the game with the release of the Chucky chapter on November 28th, 2023.
The Good Guy is the thirteenth Guest Fighter killer added to the game, hailing from Child's Play.
- Achilles' Heel:
- Due to being a low-speed Killer (he moves at the same speed as Huntress, Hag, Deathslinger, etc.) his map coverage is below average, which can hurt his effectiveness on larger maps.
- Because of his reduced speed, bots can loop him perfectly (due to automatically knowing his position at all times and knowing exactly when to change direction at a loop, making them immune to his Confusion Fu). It can be almost impossible to catch a bot using him at many high-wall loops, even relatively 50/50 loops like the double-window no-pallet L-T wall.
- His stealth is often rendered moot by his constant talking and laughing. It's quite easy for survivors with good hearing to know he's coming even when he's in Hidey-Ho mode.
- Alternate Continuity: In this version of things, Chucky was abducted by The Entity after the events of Child's Play 2.
- Breaking Old Trends: He is the first Killer to not only be way smaller than literally everyone else (he only reaches up to somebody's knee), he's also the first Killer who isn't restricted to first person view, instead letting him see in third person. Given how tiny he is, it's something of an Anti-Frustration Feature, as being limited to first person view while at his height would cause serious problems with tracking Survivors and navigating the map.
- Composite Character: His power is essentially a mix of several other Killer's powers: he can go Undetectable on demand like the Ghost Face, has a pallet-skipping ability similar to the Legion, and his Slice & Dice dash is a combination of the Demogorgon's Shred and the Hillbilly's Chainsaw Sprint.
- Confusion Fu: Simply being so short is almost a power in itself, as it can make it hard for survivors to track him even at medium-height object loops. Unlike Sadako, this isn't a double-edged sword because he can see just fine thanks to his third-person perspective.
- Dash Attack: His Slice & Dice allows him to dash forward at high speed for a decent distance, ending in a knife slash. However, it has restricted turning similar to Hillbilly's Chainsaw Sprint, and can only be used while he's in Hidey-Ho mode, which is active for only a limited time and needs to recharge after being used.
- Difficult, but Awesome: His reduced speed is a very large disadvantage in a chase; you pretty much need to use his Dash Attack in order to score hits. His Dash Attack is also quite difficult to use due to the restricted turning. However, his Dash Attack is also very versatile and gives him significant range, and if you can master it properly he can be one of the game's stronger Killers.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Of a sort. Long before he was officially brought to the game, his head was one of the many doll heads making up the Twisted Plaything skin for The Dredge.
- Evil Is Hammy: True to his home series, Chucky is an expressively sadistic little murderer who loves to trash-talk and wisecrack.
- Finishing Move: His Mori has him throw a hammer at the back of the Survivor's head, before jumping on their back and hitting them with a baseball bat. Then stabbing them in the back with a ruler. Then stabbing them in the neck with his knife several times before hopping off and giving them one last kick to the side.
- Flipping the Bird: In the post-match result screen, Chucky occasionally gives the finger while walking in the field.
- Giggling Villain: Chucky frequently laughs and giggles like a maniac for no reason at all.
- Guest Fighter: From Child's Play.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite Chucky being taken by The Entity during Child's Play 2, Tiffany somehow still became a doll as well. Despite the events leading to that happening 2 movies later.
- Laughably Evil: Chucky is by far the most talkative Killer in the game, and he loves dishing out profane and darkly comedic Trash Talk. Combined with the relative silliness of a killer doll, playing against him is both tense and ridiculous.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Due to his small stature, Chucky is the only Killer in the game to have a third-person perspective similar to the Survivors, giving him a wider range of view. When picking up or grabbing a Survivor, the game switches to the first-person perspective of Charles Lee Ray's spirit until the Survivor is hooked or dropped.
- Medium Awareness: When in the lobby, Chucky will comment about knowing who Ash Williams is, and quip that "There's only room for one star!" if he sees Nicolas Cage.
- Needle in a Stack of Needles: Chucky's Hidey-Ho Mode makes his footsteps visible and more audible, but they not only spawn multitudes of fake footprints throughout the map, but his footsteps can be heard from anywhere in the map, meaning unless you saw where he was going as he entered the Mode, it's hard to keep track of him once he's out of your sight.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Faithful to his origins, Chucky is only about 29 inches tall, making him by far the smallest playable character in the entire game. Keeping this fair was a significant challenge for the developers, who added a few concessions for purposes of balance (while he's using Hidey-Ho mode, Survivors can clearly see his footsteps through walls and foliage to see if he's nearby, among a few fake ones), clarity (whoever is controlling Chucky gets a third-person view to ensure a fairer POV), as well as basic logistical synergy (since Chucky himself isn't able to carry around Survivors, especially in a way that would fit with any of the preexisting animations, the normal-sized ghost of Charles Lee Ray does it for him).
- Palette Swap: His Legendary set transforms Chucky into his wife Tiffany.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He is THE smallest character in the game by far, being only about as tall as a Totem, but he's still a Killer of the Fog nonetheless and perfectly capable of chasing down Survivors. He does need the assistance of his human form to carry Survivors, however.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He's a vulgar, foul-mouthed, short-tempered maniac who takes gleeful pleasure in murder and will freak out if any Survivor manages to successfully evade him, which makes it fitting that he's stuck in the body of a doll that looks like a little boy.
- Resurrected Murderer: He's a serial killer who used Voodoo to transfer his soul into a Good Guy Doll after he was fatally wounded during a chase with the police.
- Ruder and Cruder: Compared to the other Killers that either roar, laugh, breathe, or just remain dead silent, Chucky is all too happy to crack wise and mock Survivors, and belt out a lot of obscenities too.
- Screaming Warrior: Chucky always yells at the top of his lungs when using his Slice & Dice attack.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: By far the most foul-mouthed of any voiced Killer, as expected.
- Sore Loser: Unlike other voiced killers, Chucky will yell at survivors who successfully escape through the exit gates. As expected, he doesn't take losing very well at all.Chucky: Get back here! I'm not freakin' done with you!
- The Sneaky Guy: In addition to his small stature making him hard to see, his Hidey-Ho Mode allows him to go Undetectable for a period of time. To compensate for his lack of visibility, his footprints glow on the ground for a second, though entering Hidey-Ho Mode causes his footprints and the sound of his footsteps to appear randomly across the map.
- Sprint Shoes: One of his perks makes him move faster if he happens to come by a completed generator.
- Symmetric Effect: His Hex perk does something like this. It eventually kicks in when he's stunned or blinded enough times, resulting in Survivors getting Blinded in turn whenever he suffers that effect. It not only punishes those who try to delay or distract him, but makes it even harder for other Survivors to keep track of an already tiny Killer.
- Trash Talk: It wouldn't be Chucky if he wasn't constantly insulting someone. Be it winning a chase, being stunned or using a Mori, Chucky will mock his opponents at every opportunity he gets.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's not known if Andy, who Chucky was pursuing when he wandered into the fog, was taken by The Entity as well or is safe in the regular world.note
2024
"The Unknown"
- Voiced by: Zoey Alexandria
The Unknown's origin, fitting to its name, is entirely unclear. Some think it's a demonic entity brought to this world by a cult long ago. Others believed it to be an alien that managed to escape from Area 51, or a beast that consumed humans and stole their voices to lure more to its gaping maw. A government research program utilizing mind control and hallucinogenic drugs. Whatever the case, anyone who's tried to figure it out almost always ends up being next in the long string of disappearances attributed to its name. That's what legend says anyway, as Olivia travelled to Greenville to investigate.
As she perused through the vast amounts of disappearances throughout history within a motel room, she noticed that Greenville's cases all had one thing in common that all others lacked: An unnatural fog. She wondered if perhaps, this fog was the work of something else other than the Unknown, a thought she laughed away as she drew what she speculated The Unknown to look like. The legend said anyone who dared to define it would be consumed, yet hours passed and nothing happened after she pinned it to her evidence board...
Until a whisper from the bathroom door, speaking her name, woke her from her 2 AM exhaustion. It begged for help as the lights flickered, and though Olivia tried to convince herself it was just her friends pranking her, the dark truth crept into her mind as she stepped closer to the door. The Unknown had arrived for her.
But then, the voice from behind the door screamed in a distorted panic. The lights gave out completely, leaving Olivia terrified in the dark as she listened to its screams... and then the lights came on again as an unnaturally thick fog began to slip under the door and swirled around her feet. Nervously, she opened the door only to see a twitching mass of flesh and tentacles struggling as it was dragged into the dark mist by an unseen force. She stood there, staring at the black void in front of her. The rational part of her told her to run, while the other yearned to learn more. Suddenly, dozens of voices all at once called to her from the fog, promising unearthly things beyond human experience.
As a Killer, The Unknown makes use of its monstrous nature with its power, UVX. The Unknown can launch a bouncing purple projectile from its neck that bursts upon impact. Any survivors caught in the blast area become weakened, and if a weakened survivor is caught in the blast area, they lose a health state. Survivors must look directly at The Unknown to remove the weakened effect. The Unknown also generates Hallucinations intermittently, which it can teleport to and take the place of unless survivors dispel the hallucination.
The Unknown's unique perks, Unbound, Unforeseen, and Undone, give it additional chase potential and means of deterring generator repairs. Unbound allows the Unknown to gain a temporary speed boost after vaulting a window shortly after injuring a survivor. Unforeseen allows it to place its' terror radius onto a generator it kicks for a short duration, granting it Undetectable for the same period of time. Undone gains tokens whenever survivors miss repairing or healing skill checks, and then converts those tokens into additional progression loss when kicking a generator, while also blocking the generator for one second per token.
The Unknown is the thirty-second new killer added to the game with the release of the All Things Wicked chapter on March 12, 2024.
- Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Its limbs can contort and twist around in ways that would kill a regular human.
- Always a Bigger Fish: The Unknown was active for decades, killing dozens of people as an unstoppable Humanoid Abomination whose existence became urban legend, the investigators of which quickly falling victim to the creature in horrifying ways. Then, while in the process of claiming another victim, it got The Entity's attention. Its lore describes it as taunting the investigator by causing the lights of her home to flicker and talking in the copied voices... only for the lights to suddenly go out completely and the words replaced by noises of frenzied panic. The investigator opens the door it was hiding behind and watches as it's dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Entity's realm.
- Ambiguous Gender: Among the many ambiguities to its approach to "human" appearance, The Unknown flip-flops between male and female coding, having cosmetic options for either gender, while also having two distinct voices — one masculine, one feminine — which it either swaps between or use simultaneously. Most official descriptions place The Unknown as an "it", though a few different cosmetics (namely the ones speculating on its potential origins) use "he/him" or "she/her" pronouns. In the end, it doesn't really matter as these guises are just of convenience, and The Unknown will alternate between genders depending on what's more likely to get the bigger scare.
- Badass Boast: A particularly chilling one, which may punctuate its Jump Scare when selected in the lobby.The Unknown: "Tonight. The world at my feet."
- Bad People Abuse Animals: One of its add-ons is a pair of severed rabbit's feet.Description: The unlucky creature's remains were found by a tree, its intestines wedged between its teeth.
- Become a Real Boy: Implied. Nobody could mistake the Unknown for human, but the fact that it wears human skin and speaks implies that on some level it wants to appear human. One of its lobby voice lines says it will get its "happiness" no matter what, adding more credence to the idea.
- Body Horror: It's vaguely humanoid, with an emphasis on vaguely, possessing twisted limbs and oddly proportioned body parts. It almost looks like whatever the Unknown is, it's wearing a victim's skin.
- Brown Note:
- The add-ons that refer to the "Project Apple-Pie" Government Conspiracy imply that witnessing movies or video games that feature The Unknown will cause it to manifest, alluding to its possible tulpa nature.
- The "Punctured Eyeball" add-on implies that the Unknown's presence alone can drive people murderously insane, as an entire station full of police officers found out the hard way.
- Card-Carrying Villain: A few of its lobby voice lines, such as referring to itself as “the nameless legend,” claiming to “deal in strange,” and asking with certainty if the sight of it is “terribly frightening,” suggest that the Unknown is aware of—and embraces—its horrifying reputation.
- Creepy Asymmetry: It's best described as a human put together wrong, with uneven volumes, limbs angled in wrong directions and its spine and neck zigzagging in painful, unnatural ways.
- Creepypasta: Its main aesthetic. The Unknown is inspired by Analog Horror and internet horror stories such as the Rake, the Slender Man, and skinwalkers/fleshgaits/goatmen.
- Cult: In one suggested origin, the Unknown is a demon that was summoned by one.
- Deus Ax Machina: It apparently picked up a fireaxe before the Entity snatched it up. Now it's locked into using it as its main weapon, though skins provide for other weapons.
- Difficult, but Awesome: The grenade-like arc and bounce to UVX's projectiles requires quite a lot of skill to hit with, even with the splash damage (which has a smaller radius than it looks). There's also very little margin for error; it only takes 10 seconds for a Survivor to remove the Weakened state by staring at the Unknown, and the cooldown on UVX is several seconds, plus over 1 second to actually charge it, leaving you with less than 2 seconds to actually fire an accurate shot before the Survivor removes Weakened and is no longer vulnerable to damage. Unlike most other ranged attacks, UVX's charge up time is much longer before it can fire and it has a long cooldown after use before it can be used again, which requires more skill to use properly and heavily punishes missed shots. That said, being a ranged-attack Killer that moves at normal speed is still pretty powerful if you're skilled enough to land the shots quickly enough.
- Disposable Decoy Doppelgänger: Using its power will cause the Unknown to occasionally drop immobile copies of itself around the map, similar to the hallucinations of the Hag and Doctor. It can instantly teleport itself to one of its copies, but these can also be dispelled by survivors before it has a chance to do so. The hallucinations are permanent (unless dispelled or automatically replaced with a new one once the max limit is reached), and teleporting to them won't use them up like with the Hag's traps or the Dredge's remnant. One of the Unknown's Ultra-Rare add-ons also causes him to leave behind a doppelganger when he teleports; this doppelganger isn't permanent (it disappears after several seconds) and isn't a teleport point, but it has a red stain and terror radius and can confuse survivors into thinking the Unknown is still at its previous location instead of having teleported away.
- Don't Go in the Woods: The flavor text for some of its add-ons imply that wooded areas are some of its favorite places to find potential victims.Slashed Backpack: When the hiker was rescued from the mountain pass, she insisted her companion would never wander off alone.
Victim's Map: He thought the key to solving the mystery lay beyond the forest, and feared he would never return.
Front Page Article: The assailant had torn gaping holes in the walls of the cabin, and drove the family into the woods. - Eyeless Face: It has completely empty eye sockets.
- Face on a Milk Carton: The "Discarded Milk Carton" add-on is, well, a discarded milk carton bearing the picture of one of the Unknown's victims.She decided to take the long way home, and waved goodbye to her friends before parting ways.
- Face Stealer: It wears the skin of some of its victims stretched over its decidedly non-human frame, such as a grandmother or a cheerleader.
- Faux Affably Evil: Most of its voice lines are fairly amicable. It is only a few times that it will let its true malicious intent seep through.The Unknown: "No one will hurt you... no one but me..."
- Finishing Move: Its mori has it drop on all fours with its back pointed down, then rush on top of the downed survivor. It takes a brief moment to stare at the survivor's face while overhead, then twists to move its back upwards and shows a mouth running vertically along its spine. Said mouth then opens and extends three tentacles that burrow into the survivor's head and turns their body to dust, which is absorbed into the mouth as the Unknown gets back into its normal position.
- Foil: To the Dredge, after a fashion:
- Both Killers are rife with human Body Horror, being inhuman monstrosities with forms consisting of unnaturally-arranged body parts, and both happen to be decidedly eldritch in nature. However, the Dredge is an Undead Abomination with a Body of Bodies and a defined origin, being explicitly described as having been summoned by the repressed darkness of the Ottomarian cult becoming impossible to contain, allowing the Druanee to manifest and feed. The Unknown, on the other hand, is a Humanoid Abomination with a body resembling that of a singular, if horrifically distorted person, and it is defined by its distinct and terrifying lack of a confirmed origin, instead possessing a Multiple-Choice Past.
- Mechanically, both possess enhanced map mobility by way of teleporting around the trial. However, the Dredge can teleport to fixed points on the map (those being lockers) or a Remnant it must manually place, while the Unknown can teleport to hallucinations that periodically and automatically form as it traverses the map, with the caveat that only four at a time can be active and they can be dispelled by Survivors. Furthermore, the Dredge has an easier time sneaking up on Survivors and attacking them directly via Nightfall, while the Unknown is capable of injuring and downing Survivors from a distance via UVX.
- Gameplay and Story Integration: The Unknown, as an urban legend, is effectively an amalgam of every rumor or story told about it; this is reflected in-game by a collection of elements that may seem incoherent when placed together. Its neck tentacle and projectile reflect theories that it was an alien or government experiment; its usage of an axe references tales that it may have been a mundane, serial axe murderer; its appearance and voice lines represent rumors that it takes the form of its victims and mimics their voices; and finally, its hallucinations showcase the idea that it's merely a collective hallucination or fiction, not a real entity.
- Government Conspiracy: As part of its Multiple-Choice Past, some of its add-ons allude to a "Project Apple-Pie" that the government was working on; while details are vague, the implication seems to be that the government was experimenting with the Unknown's status as a sentient idea by seeing how people would react to seeing it in movies and video games.
- Horrifying the Horror: Most Killers are calmly brought into or willingly summoned to the Entity's realm. The Unknown, on the other hand, reacted to the Entity deciding to recruit it with utter panic, trying frantically to escape the black fog as the Entity forcibly dragged it in.
- Humanoid Abomination: The Unknown's appearance could be described as similar to that of a human, but everything about it is twisted and wrong. Even more so on the inside.
- It Can Think: While much of its behaviour suggests the Unknown to simply be an animalistic predator using visual and vocal mimicry to lure its human prey to their deaths, some of its dialogue indicates that the creature is in fact self-aware.
- Jump Scare:
- When selected in the lobby, it will look hunched over on the ground. Then it suddenly comes to life and scrambles offscreen, before suddenly reappearing with its face close to the camera, complete with a Scare Chord and a creepy one-liner.
- This is actually part of its gameplay, as it's rewarded for doing this to Survivors. If it teleports to a Hallucination that is being dispelled, the Survivor will instantly be affected by UVX and Killer Instinct.
- Leitmotif: Aside from a few stray banjo strings at the start, its main theme is an incoherent mess of out of tune instruments trying to put together a medley and resulting instead in a chaotic drone, matching to how the killer attempts to look human and instead looks incredibly inhuman. Its chase theme has the same idea with it getting faster and more chaotic the closer it gets.
- Long-Range Fighter: The Unknown's main special attack is UVX, a parasite-like mouth that emerges from its neck and can fire grenade-like spectral projectiles. These fly in an arc, bounce off objects, and explode in a splash radius of a couple meters. Similar to Artist and Nemesis, the Unknown moves at normal speed but the trade-off for this is that the first hit from UVX only puts Survivors in a "Weakened" state, and you need to land a second hit while they're Weakened in order to actually deal damage. Survivors can also remove the Weakened status by staring at the Unknown for several seconds, similar to revealing Ghostface. The Unknown's niche is that he's the only Long-Range Fighter with the secondary ability to teleport across the map.
- Luring in Prey: Survivors Weakened by UVX start hearing coherent versions of its voice lines, implying it has some psychological effect that helps lure victims towards it.
- Malevolent Masked Men: One of its add-ons is a "Homemade Mask" that, while creepy in its own right, is still nowhere near as horrific as the Unknown's actual face; the flavor text implies the mask belonged to an ordinary Serial Killer as per the Unknown's Multiple-Choice Past.The killer had made the mask in the shed in his backyard, where he would bring the others when the sun went down.
- Marionette Motion: Fittingly enough for an otherworldly creature trying and failing to look human by effectively puppeteering its victims' malformed corpses, the Unknown's horrific visage is accentuated by the jerky, shambling, almost boneless ways it moves. Its lobby animation has it fluidly collapsing onto the ground before quickly skittering away on all fours, its use of UVX causes its head to flop around, and its memento mori has it drastically shift positions with impossible ease.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Its lore and add-ons give multiple possible theories as to what it could be, ranging from a government experiment gone wrong, to an alien creature, a hostile Tulpa spirit, or even a run-of-the-mill Serial Killer. No indication is given to which theory is correct, if any of them even are.
- The Nameless: As if its title didn't already hint at it, this thing has no actual name. It even calls itself "the nameless legend" in one of its lobby voice lines.
- Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Its "Sketch Attempt" add-on is a crude crayon drawing from a child the Unknown had just made an orphan.
- No Body Left Behind: Anyone subjected to their mori will be impaled by its tentacle-like tongues and Reduced to Dust, which the Unknown then sucks into itself. Judging by how anyone targeted by it while it haunted Greenville were themselves never found, it's fair to say that they suffered the same fate.
- Nightmare Face: Its face is lopsided, lacking eyes, and the mouth is stretched in a constant grin.
- Perpetual Smiler: Its human-like face has a wide, permanent grin exposing its crooked teeth, fittingly resembling a Slasher Smile. It's not clear whether or not it is doing this intentionally.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In addition to its lobby and mid-trial voice lines, the Unknown’s Memento Mori includes it giving a taunting one-liner to the dying Survivor before finishing them off."Gottchya""Now, I am mad!""Here’s looking at you…""Just die…"
- Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Implied by its backstory. Via a combination of a victim trying to give it a physical definition, and being grabbed mid-attack by The Entity, its normally undefined shape has been locked into the appearance of heavily distorted human carrying a fireaxe, and while it can manifest decidedly non-human traits, seems incapable of using its full abilities.
- Shout-Out: One of it's lines is "Can you help me lift this?".
- Shrouded in Myth: By far the most mysterious of all the Killers. Notably, its lore section focuses almost entirely on one of its victims attempting to investigate it.
- Skin Walker: Although it sticks to a humanoid form, it gives off this vibe, being an uncanny shapeshifting murderer that mimics its victims' voices. It's also implied to have a true name that shouldn't be spoken out loud, though whether this gets its attention or does the speaker harm (or both, or otherwise) is unclear.
- The Spook: Part of what makes it so terrifying compared to all the other Killers is that there is absolutely nothing concrete about its origins or what it really is. Only educated guesses can be made.
- Theme Naming: The Unknown's unique perks, Unbound, Unforeseen, and Undone, all follow its nom de guerre in possessing the prefix of "un-" (indicative of "not").
- Time Abyss: One of its lobby voicelines ("I lived... in dungeons... long forgotten...") implies it's been around for ages, and this is just its latest form.
- Too Many Mouths: It has an extra mouth on its back where its spine should be, which has three tentacle-like tongues inside it.
- To Serve Man: Tying into the Unknown's more animalistic traits, it is possible that the humans it preys upon serve as its sustenance. One of its lobby voice lines has it mention "intolerable hunger," and its Mori has it absorb the targeted Survivor into the mouth on its back after they've been Reduced to Dust via its tentacle-like tongues.
- Tulpa: In the lore, it's theorized that it gets its form from what people believe it to be.
- Uncanny Valley: Used for maximum horror. The Unknown looks like a badly distorted human with a permanent grin full of malice, and its body and limbs contort in ways that would be impossible for a human to do.
- Urban Legend: What is has become in-universe with people having multiple theories as to what it is. Visually, the Unknown is the embodiment of many classic and modern Urban Legend tropes such as serial killers (the axe and human appearance), aliens (its UVX organ and tentacles it uses in its Mori), skinwalkers (the way it appears to be wearing human skin, its unnatural movements, and how it mimics its victims' voices) and how victims are "never seen again" (its Mori has it consume survivors whole after they turn to dust).
- Verbal Tic: Most, if not all of the Unknown’s voice lines contain unnatural punctuation in the form of brief, mid-sentence (or even mid-word) pauses, as if to emphasize its deeply flawed attempt at appearing human.
- Villainous Breakdown: In its backstory, the Unknown completely loses it when the Entity forcibly drags it into its realm during one of its hunts, going from calling for help as a way to lure in Olivia to actually calling for help.
- Vocal Dissonance: Zig-zagged. The Unknown's voice lines are delivered in an eerily calm manner, but usually with a distorted Voice of the Legion that befits its monstrous nature. During a trial, however, Survivors who are Weakened by UVX will hear the Killer speak clearly and normally, as if it were any other human — all while it retains its horrifyingly inhuman appearance.
- Voice of the Legion: In addition to a choppy distortion effect, a masculine and a feminine voice speak simultaneously when it talks. Depending on which cosmetics are equipped, one will be emphasized over the other, such as the "Greenville Pep" and "Eyeless Woman" outfits making its voice more feminine than masculine.
- Would Hurt a Child: Implied. One of its voice lines during a match is to ask if the survivor wants some candy, and the Vanishing Box add-on's description states that a popular children's party magician was a top suspect for disappearances.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Some of its lines suggest that, like several human serial killers, the Unknown lowers its prey's guard by pretending to need help, either in the form of safety or assistance with a mundane task.
