Headscratchers / Dead by Daylight

• Why did Philip Ojomo even become a serial killer? He was incredibly angry that his boss used him for murder when he discovered one of the victims in the trunk of a car he was about to compress. If he was so against killing innocent people, why would he continue to kill innocent people after he took revenge on his boss? Besides that, how does his powers as the Wraith have anything to do with his backstory? Most of the killers have some explanation for how they do what they do or their powers related to who they were in life. Why did Philip get the power to go invisible? The fact he is a reference for the phrase "for whom to bell tolls" also doesn't make a lot of sense since bells had no significance for him in life.
  • Throwing a person in a crusher and then ripping out their head and spine as they're being painfully crushed to death, no matter how much of an Asshole Victim they were, are not the acts of a person motivated by a sense of right and wrong or regard for human life. Philip completely lost it when he realized the peaceful, safe life he'd worked hard to achieve, especially as it was implied that he was trying to escape a Dark and Troubled Past and potentially even had done wrongs himself he was trying to move on from and reform himself ("came to this country without anything than hope for a new beginning"; "He had seen criminal activity up close in his homeland"). There's no indication that he ever snapped back out of the insanity and rage he was in when he killed his boss, and considering what a horrible thing he'd done and how his hopes for a new life were dashed, the sympathetic Philip is probably gone for good. Besides, it sounds like the Entity probably snatched him up soon after that and it's implied the Entity is willing to torture its Killers to make them do what it wants, so even if Philip didn't want to do it, he'd just be tortured until he snapped again and went after the survivors. As for his invisibility, probably either the Entity gave it to him as it gives the other killers and survivors powers (maybe it wanted to see how an invisible killer would perform and how the survivors would react) or he might've happened to have some undisclosed occult knowledge from whatever country he came from that wasn't relevant to anything in his background but that he now uses to turn himself invisible, just as villagers in the Hag's town knew spells they taught her. And technically speaking, his bio does say "Then he left and was never seen again" — so if you're willing to stretch it, it's at least referenced in his background.
  • Depending on how far you want to stretch things to include game and story integration, there was a point where The Wraith was widely considered the worst killer in game before he was reworked to have better add-ons and killers like Legion began falling into this. If he is indeed Ojomo, then this whole (intentional) murder thing is pretty new for him, thus he is not as good as all the other killers who don’t give off as much of a warning sign that they are right behind you. Or for that matter, the advantages of being able to attack when your target can’t see you. In a sense, his Rework could be seen as noticing Ojomo wasn't as experienced in killing as the other killers and providing him some new toys to help him find his footing.
  • It could be possible that even though he wasn't aware of the other victims he compacted, the Entity still considered them his victims. He was still the cause of their deaths by putting the cars through the crusher (think about it, how many cars did he crush before he found the guy inside of the one that made him realize what was happening?). So, in the Entity's "eyes" (so to speak), he was their killer and their blood was on his hands. And when he finally killed Azarov, that was just the final nail in the coffin of his sanity. He may have been a good guy once upon a time, but he broke bad as a result of realizing that he murdered a lot of people, even if he never had the inclination to do so before that discovery. As a result, the unintentional body count he racked up and the cruelty of the deaths was enough to capture the Entity's attention. It makes sense when you consider the amount of victims the other killers had under their belt (especially for slasher killers like Michael Myers {75 victims, not including the kills from the remake and its sequel and Halloween (2018)}^note Though it's really less than that, as according to the lore this version of Michael has only experienced the original movie, Freddy Kruger {5, as he's the Freddy from the remake, while the original Freddy has 34 kills, not including Wes Craven's New Nightmare}, Amanda aka The Pig {Though we know she was responsible for at least three deaths directly, she was indirectly responsible for some of the Jigsaw deaths as she was the apprentice to Kramer}, and Leatherface {28, not including the remake and the remake's prequel}, and how cruel the deaths of their victims were.
  • Now with the addition of the Spirit and the Plague, it seems like a kill count is not a requirement for the entity (unless you count the Plague possibly passing around the disease). In fact, the Spirit wasn't even the original target — her father was, so it's hard to tell by what standard the Entity chooses its killers.
    • And with the inclusion of Pinhead, who’s more known for torturing rather than killing, perhaps you just need to be, at the very least, involved with inflicting pain, suffering, hatred, fear, or immoral pleasure in order to be a Killer. If the Entity sees you as someone who takes glory in their murders (Clown, Legion, Ghostface), a being that only knows that sees pain as either a thing to ignore, a thing no different from pleasure, or a thing to inflict (Demogorgon, Executioner, Nemesis, Cenobite), someone who’ll do anything for their pain and suffering to stop (Spirit, Plague), someone who kills because they’re told to by family (Trapper, Cannibal) or just one irredeemable son-of-a-bitch (Shape, Nightmare, Trickster), AND your evil actions outweigh your good actions (if you even have an idea on what morals are), you’re a Killer. That’s why The Spirit (who hasn’t killed anyone, and wasn’t even supposed to be the Killer in the first place, but her turmoil was far greater for weaponising against other Survivors than her father’s rage) is a Killer, and characters like Bill (who, being in the Vietnam War, had killed at least one person prior to the Green Flu outbreak, but ended up giving his life fixing a generator in order for his team to escape the zombie apocalypse) end up being Survivors.
• Considering how old the Entity is, what happened to Survivors from time periods before technology? Did they get some primitive version of the generators and exit gates to operate? It'd seem like a bit of a Curb-Stomp Battle if they're hopeless with technology and just get hooked in one fell swoop, and while the sacrifices are exactly what the Entity feasts on, it seems like less food on its plate if they have much less hope of escaping than the technologically-inclined Survivors.
  • There was probably just different 'skins' on the same idea. Light six signal fires and a ship will come to the docks, collect six specific keys from piles of fakes to open the door, so on. I also guess the Entity is able to put enough knowledge into the survivor's heads to let them have a chance, ie giving everyone a crash course in gen repair, or even just have the gen start working no matter what you do once you poke it for long enough, so that everyone has a shot at the current 'game'.
  • It is confirmed that time is not linear in the Entity's realm. For example, a survivor from 2037 could appear in the realm before a killer from the 15th century. So it is likely that the technological elements of the trials always have been and always will be the way they are now.
• How the hell did nobody ever suspect Ji-Woon was responsible for murder besides Yun-Jin? It’s hard to believe that nobody else was as perceptive as her when it came to deciphering the screaming in his songs, especially in combination with his increasingly violent and edgier persona. All it would take is a good ear to connect the screaming in his song to the screaming in the video of the victim posted by the News, and while Yun-Jin might’ve not been willing to turn him in, anyone else would likely look further into it, creating a scandal that would ruin his career.
  • Refuge in Audacity. "This K-pop singer is a secret serial killer" is such a ludicrous concept that nobody would really entertain. The Archives show that Yun-Jin had some insider knowledge that led her to suspect him (she recognised his rare headphones and knives), but to the outside observer it's just a guy's music getting Darker and Edgier and that's hardly enough to warrant a deeper investigation.
• How come all the survivors know how to repair generators? Sure, a few of them would already have the knowledge to repair stuff but ALL of them? What? Does the Entity specifically kidnap people with skills in repairing? Does it beam an instruction manual directly into it's victims brains to make them able to play its sick game? How does this work?
  • The Entity feeds off of hope, so it providing its victims with information regarding how to escape their circumstances of its own volition isn't entirely out of the realm of possibility. But with Vittorio's presence now demonstrating, the cast literally have centuries of experience to reference on what it takes to survive in the Entity's realm.
  • As stated above, The Entity may simply have created generators that will eventually fire after so much time working on them no matter what you do. If you watch the action during the repair process, there's little rhyme or reason. The side workers pull and poke at the innards, while those on the end, simply twist sparking wires together. Even if you bring a toolbox, there's no animation showing your survivor using a wrench or anything on the machinery.

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