The Story & Meaning Behind Every Killer’s Power (Dead by Daylight)
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Hey everyone, today we’re discussing the story behind the powers of DbD. We’ll be looking at how they came to be, and any possible meaning behind them.
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Music used from CZcams Audio Library:
The Emperor's Army - Jeremy Blake
Clean and Dance - An Jone
Intro 0:00
Bear Trap - Trapper 0:09
Wailing Bell - Wraith 0:33
Chainsaw - Billy 1:01
Spencer's Last Breath - Nurse 1:28
Hunting Hatchets - Huntress 2:09
Evil Within - Myers 2:30
Blackened Catalyst - Hag 3:05
Carter's Spark - Doctor 3:29
Bubba's Chainsaw - Bubba 3:54
Dream Demon - Freddy 4:08
Jigsaw's Baptism - Pig 4:36
Afterpiece Tonic & Antidote - Clown 5:02
Yamaoka's Haunting - Spirit 5:29
Feral Frenzy - Legion 5:59
Vile & Corrupt Purge - Plague 6:23
Night Shroud - Ghost Face 6:43
Of the Abyss - Demogorgon 7:02
Yamaoka's Wrath - Oni 7:29
The Redeemer - Deathslinger 7:46
Rites of Judgement - Pyramid Head 8:09
Blighted Corruption - Blight 8:40
Blood Bond - Twins 9:05
Showstopper - Trickster 9:25
T-Virus - Nemesis 9:44
Summons of Pain - Cenobite 10:08
Birds of Torment - Artist 10:28
Deluge of Fear - Sadako 11:01
Reign of Darkness - Dredge 11:48
Virulent Bound - Wesker 12:16
Guardia Compagnia - Knight 12:50
Eyes in the Sky - Skull Merchant 13:33
Quantum Instantiation - Singularity 13:53
Outro 14:22 - Hry
I always liked to think that wraith uses the bell to warn the survivors, he obviously can't fight the entity but he also didn't want this. It's the only compromise he has.
It's nice to know that even the killers I find annoying have a reason for being annoying
The fact that one player can basically decide if another player can actually play and enjoy the game is unfair and total BS. If a killer player decides to camp and tunnel a survivor they literally can deny that survivor the ability to play the game. That is wrong and needs to be stopped immediately. And BHVR actually allows it to happen. “It’s a strategy” that’s BS and everyone knows it. But yet killer mains will be the first ones here whining and complaining how OP survivors are. Absolutely mind boggling how entitled killer mains are.
@@haiz768 Why do you keep posting this in unrelated videos? Everyone already knows this and there will be an anti camp update anyways. Also, there are anti tunnel and camp perks but people just dont use them
@@dkolable8770 yeah this mf is just an entitled survivor main
@@dkolable8770 How is it unrelated when the video is about DBD and killers??
@@haiz768 This video is about killers' lore and it's relation to their ingame powers. It isn't about how camping and tunneling ruins the game. There are videos already made for that. Why don't you go and comment on those instead?
Side note: While I'm not sure if it's the Entity's tampering, but Oni's weapon choice seems very intentional. His normal, more calm state is him using a katana since he's a samurai. But when enraged, he uses an iron club. This is an obvious reference to the Japanese saying "鬼に金棒 (oni-ni-kanabō)" which translates to "Oni with an iron club". It means to make something already strong even stronger. Since the Oni is furious about being dubbed one, the entity probably grants him a kanabo when he is angry enough.
He actually did make use of both a katana and a Kanabo in life. The Kanabo wasn't an extremely common weapon but it was used when you wanted to destroy enemies wearing armour which, as Kazan's crusade was to kill pretender samurai, he would.
The weird thing is how his katana vanishes and rematerialises when he enters and leaves his rage
@@sev1120 i think his katana vanishing is just an entity thing
Oni is just an angry grandpa😁😁😁
You forgot to mention that Hux wasn’t programmed to harm the crew
Even though it's pitiful that Freddy's power concept hasn't been done with as much striking execution as other licenses, I actually love the idea of the Entity nerfing him to remind him of his place. You are my servant and I the master. Knowing his rage will be taken out on the survivors. I also love Pinhead's voice line, "What a waste of good suffering." It shows that he can no longer partake in the extreme sadomasochism he once flourished in, the Entity limiting his pleasures like a child with a video game. It's so wicked and brilliant lore inclusion in my opinion.
The fact that one player can basically decide if another player can actually play and enjoy the game is unfair and total BS. If a killer player decides to camp and tunnel a survivor they literally can deny that survivor the ability to play the game. That is wrong and needs to be stopped immediately. And BHVR actually allows it to happen. “It’s a strategy” that’s BS and everyone knows it. But yet killer mains will be the first ones here whining and complaining how OP survivors are. Absolutely mind boggling how entitled killer mains are.
@@haiz768 is this the comment you meant to rant under?
@@haiz768 what are you smoking please reply to somebody else since this is the wrong comment
guys report them. they are just a spammer ranting about killers
@@haiz768 Crotus Prenn Asylum has an inmate missing again
I love how the Entity was like
"Okay, Trickster: enchanted speed. Charlotte: I revive your brother. Deathslinger: I like your invention, you can keep it and use it. Demo: you're fine as you are. Ghostface."
*Intense stare contest *
"Ghostface. I'll give you
✨✨✨ fashion ✨✨✨"
Fitting for what is potentially the weirdest eldritch horror I’ve seen. And this is a world where an eldritch horror known as The King in Yellow exists. XD
Maybe the trickster was already that fast.
"okay, Frank and Julie, I like your group's taste in music, check out my mix tape"
With trickster I believe there is more entity influence than most would think.
The obvious reason being the blades come from his wrists, if you throw a blade he will flick his wrists and blades will come from under his jacket, this implies, his knives are stored within the sleeves of his jacket.
And I HIGHLY doubt there is anyway for him to walk let along run safely with 44+ knives in his sleeves.
Who knows, bro might just be like:
Crazy
and run around with the knives stabbing him whilst carrying and swinging at survivors
And the killers do get straight up stabbed in the back and bashed in the head with pallets, blinded with flashlights, firecrackers (those hurt especially, if they are the right kind),
what’s the matter getting stabbed when you can’t really get hurt.
u realize 44 blades is a fucking game mechanic and not a lore thing, right?
@@SonOfHubris you realise there’s absolutely zero need to have a hostile tone when literally everyone and their mother knows this.
Not everyone is as stupid as you might think they are 💀
Most people forgot that Wesker also got the Prototype virus from Birkin, which brings him back to life after being impailed by the Tyrant and also the source of his superhuman strength and speed, so technically he has 3 virus in his body at the end of RE5 and Dead by Daylight.
And with the serum of the Blight...he's completly inmortal...
A note on wesker's power, is that while he is infected by the Uroboros virus which he uses for infection, is only second to the fact he is infected with the Prototype Virus, a virus that increases metabolism, leading to superhuman abilities, such as agility, endurance, etc.
This is where the actual bound in Wesker's bound comes from.
Wesker so strong,he don't die (Umbrella corps and more details)he alive
Another thing to add onto what you said for the huntress' power is that it feels almost superhuman given how far and quickly she can throw hatchets. There's a theory that she's actually a bodark, which is a werewolf from Russian mythology. This could explain her superhuman strength and fully black animal-like eyes.
This is super cool. It could explain some of her skins as well!
Yeah! And it kinda explains the blighted skin having some sort of fur
@@Anastasiaaugh Oh yeah I forgot about that!
It might also explain the fact that two of her teachables have wolves in them.
With Executioner, i personally believe his knife hurts the entity when he makes trails, in his trailer you see it ripping the floors of Midwich apart, and in game it makes a fleshy sound, and with him being a manifestation of punishment, it feels appropriate for what he is. Now I've never played Silent Hill, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think his Great Knife is a sort of supernatural weapon. Which could have any matter of power
He doesn’t even really exist he’s imagination caught in reality if that is scary really terrifying to you then he would implant that image in your head then prove it to be right to punish you farther to cause more despair and misery to you.
Could you try explaining all the addons for every killer as in like how the addons may relate to killers in their lore and any references for licenses?
I've done this for the iris and purples, so I will move on to green next.
that "Hey Everyone" always hits hard
so real
and that GOOOOOODbye
Lord Cylon Has Returned
and hearing the balls swing left and right. you can just hear them flapping together. thats why i love plagues weapon because the details in the gumball machine is great :)
The fact that one player can basically decide if another player can actually play and enjoy the game is unfair and total BS. If a killer player decides to camp and tunnel a survivor they literally can deny that survivor the ability to play the game. That is wrong and needs to be stopped immediately. And BHVR actually allows it to happen. “It’s a strategy” that’s BS and everyone knows it. But yet killer mains will be the first ones here whining and complaining how OP survivors are. Absolutely mind boggling how entitled killer mains are.
For Myers power, part of the implication is that he draws potential “evil” out of survivors while stalking them that he uses to charge his own power.
Isn't he possessed by pure evil when he was a kid aka thorn cult or whatever and it supposed to give him immortality after killing his family members
And one movie he walk all the way to another country or something to get his niece
@@samuraituff9653Idk man the movies have all these different timelines and shit it’s hard to keep track. There’s multiple timelines like the remake timeline, Jamie Lloyd timeline, 2018 timeline, Season of the Witch timeline, and the H20 timeline
@@JeroldBoy0407 bro there all the same and take place after each other what are you talking about
@@samuraituff9653 Ok so…
Notice how Laurie Strode literally DIED in resurrection? How is she alive in 2018?
Ah ha
@@JeroldBoy0407 well idk if all the movies are cannon because not all of them are made by the same guy
Entity: I can give you superhuman capabilities to make you a unrivaled killer.
Ghostface: Nah but you can up the drip and give me tassels.
Danny(DBD Ghostfaces’ actual name): Bitch I already am an unrivaled killer, just give me some cool drip and we’re good to go fam.
Ghostface and Legion are definitely buffed up in some way. David King is an ex boxer, and built like a tank, yet Ghostface and Legion (all 4 of them) can yoink him off a pallet or over a ledge and hold him without him being able to do a thing. If they were just normal kids, the 4 survivors could just beat their asses to death. Like, how would they ever stand a chance in a trial with FOUR LEONS if they werent superhuman.
Ghostface can be decently strong depends on the person
But ghostface can be strong as well. Everyone can be behind the mask.
The Ghostface in DBD isn’t a kid though, he’s an adult man named Danny Johnson, I feel like DBD Ghostface could probably yoink someone like David off of a pallet. The Legion on the other hand? Probably not.
Freddy’s power was a wish granted to him from the ruler of the dead realm he was gifted endless killing and fear in ppls dream
That's the original Nightmare on Elm Street; on the remake (which is the one in DbD) it's never explained clearly why Freddy has his powers.
@@thatlemonadeguy6742wasn't it like these 3 godlike creatures or something? I know some of the movies is very back and forth with this though.
The entity might be making fun of Phillips cowardice by having it make him invisible. Safe from all harm, but at what cost
I would have never understood bubbas power without this video , could you maybe do a video on why big hat Logan is called that as well ? Thank you
ive heard he had some kinda special shoes, that may be why they gave him that nickname.
Just a small note. Besides gameplay reasons, I think the dredge appears out of lockers because it's representing a monster in your closet as a kid, waiting for you to open the door, and scratching at it when it's locked
I love the comfort in the "Hey everyone" Keep up the great work! 💜
The tentacle can be used for many things, such as oddly allowing me to have infinite sunglasses
I like that the Entity appreciates astetiks enough to make sure Ghostfaces cape floats lol
Definitely a cool video to watch. Keep it up ❤️
Is nobody gonna talk about how PERFECT his time stamps are? They are like on the spot. 👏
Honestly, I just like hearing your voice. Learning about DBD just makes is better❤
Actually Singularity's power comes from the fact that It wasn't programmed to harm the crew.
Blessed is a day with a new AZHYMOVS video
Keep these videos going man. I love these
Seeing this man missing an artist snipe on that feng, who was literally standing still, gave me physical pain
5:20 Clown is likely always under the effects of the tonic and is why the antidote speeds him up.
Absolutely love your videos ❤🤗 please keep making more unique videos 😁
This is such a sick video idea! 10/10
Please do a fully fleshed out video; one exploring the origins & motivations of each character, while showing gameplay of them hunting and/or being hunted!
Thank you I didn't know some of these keep up the good work I've been watching for a long time 4 years i now
Also Freddy got his powers from other demons it was shown in the movies
that dwight in the footage was an absolute champ
entity:you get the power to use blood to fuel your rage.
trapper:what about me?
entity:sum fuking beartraps idk lol
Will you ever do another perk ranking?
Bro this vid definitely made my afternoon more fun
For your next ranking video please do ranking prestige 6 appearances on all killers/survivors
Entity: “Artist, since your hands are gone I’ll give you ink hands that can summon a crow that when hit will burst into a murder surrounding the survivors, and possibly down them.”
Trapper and Bubba: “what about us?”
Entity: “Just keep your gadgets and go”
Tricksters power is probably his own skill mixed with an enhancement from The Entity, simply allowing him to do what he's good at better. Simple but clearly works well for him.
Babe wake up new azhymovs video
Fun fact for the executioner/red pyramid thing I noticed! The default weapon skin is incorrect. It states that the great knife is a “oversized chef’s knife” when it is actually one half of an oversized pair of scissors.
Hellraisers Labyrinth, Silent Hills Otherworld, The Entity’s Realms all exist in the DBD universe
That’s terrifying
I feel myers symbolizes the concept of him in the movie where the more he kills the more powerful he becomes which he becomes more equipped to kill by evil within
As a Ex huntress main Obviously she has super strength but I believe she’s like a werewolf or a type of supernatural rabbit type of thing because in one of her styles she grows for and sharp claws Michael Myers in the comics he is basically one of the reincarnations of evil so his ability comes from supernatural force but I guess it not supposed to make sense either and Freddy Krueger got his powers from green demons bro it’s like you don’t know the movies or novels I’m just hearing new or different stuff but W vid❤ and in every power have a meaning in the lore
Freddy have had multiple explonations for his powers inn the different movies though. The demons you talk about is usally a depiction of "the elder gods". A different explonation inn one of the movies was god of death. Yet another one was simply his cruelty cast a curse on elm street by himself.
I think a great licence for the game would be a zombie named alpha from serial z nation. He is mysterious, intelligent, stealthy and in real life he would give you heart attack
12:09 Dwight just chilling there
Dwight in the beginning be JUICING
I would say that myers power (evil/darkness) just got strong enough or Buffed in the realm, that he can use it physically.
Now I know how the other killers have powers.
I’m a big fan, but please tell me where you bought that oversized knife
Hey, I’m in the gameplay in the background. Dwight. I forget if it was this game or a different one was when I DCED as my internet went out. Storm in my area
I watched the gameplay and you, sir, are a CHAMP.
Its funny how singularitys power is just "Nobody is smart enough to understand it"
My theory for the trappers red tint in his trap is the blood of survivors in the previous trials and the blood just stays even when the trials reset
Would have been cool if you went over legendaries and mention their canon powers or dbd justifications
Teickster is buffed. He can pick up peopel now and that arm strength letntou throw very fast
This guy's voice is satisfying to me for some reason
My theories on Freddy getting nerfed is that The Entity and Freddy are gambling who would dominate one another on the conflict of two realms the dream realm and the entities realm
if The Entity wins Freddy has to play his game
And if Freddy wins then thats a mystery
But soon the battle was over and The Entity won and Freddy had to pay the price but The Entity did give him a substitute dream realm to kill
FYI about the Artist gameplay, don't shoot crows on top of the entrance stairs, it won't hit that bottom right gen
@@Tbot_2 Yeah, it kinda threw me off when he wasnt trying to get the injure with carmina's crows
Maybe the Knight was near death before the Entity took him, and his boys already died, making him the last one standing which is why he's the one doing the summoning. Idk just a theory
Myres' power is based on the rising danger of a killer in a movie and his knack for stalking people. While he doesn't get stronger as the movie progresses, he does get more aggressive and unrelenting
Next video should be rating killers cooldown animations!
Maybe you could do an explanation for every survivor perk too.
dwight can see through walls cuz...uhhhhh..hes a leader
@@alexandredasilvavilasboasrosasDavid can tank a hit cuz.... Uhhhh... He's dead hard
Jonah can pick himself up in a totem because… uh… math
Mikaela can boon totems because she….uhhh..Ummm.. is a witch
@@peterparker0999 and he can be hurt for the whole trial because
Fun fact the head traps are manifested by the entity when she puts the trap onto a survivors head
i don’t know about the general myers lore as it’s been retconned a thousand times but the one dbd goes with is that he’s the physical manifestation of evil
No it haven't in the movies it brings up thorn cult the thing that drives him to kill his family for immortality and gives him power, but he is definitely possessed by pure evil
@@samuraituff9653 it has been, in total
just him being straight up evil
cursed by the cult of thor
possessed by a demon
possessed by pure evil
and more i can’t remember
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 ok state you're sources because I don't remember the director or who ever made this would agree
@@samuraituff9653 Watch the movies
@@samuraituff9653multiple directors for the movies. I heard most of the one he stated to, do some googling and it probably show upp some of the explonations.
12:09 Dwight in a corner xD
It makes sense many of the killers have their powers come from their emotions. Either major anger or thrill is what led to them becoming killers and then would fuel their continuation.
For plague, though her power is the illness she caught I think the entity influence is 1) it was nerfed to only make sick not kill and 2) it can transform into the physically harming corrupt purge. The entity might also be able to change it to threaten to kill her if she ever stopped believing the entity was her god.
Nice video
I thought Nurse travels through the void and not the spirit world, but I could be wrong
In my opinion i think legion is influenced by adrenaline due to how he breathes, but the entity also plays a part by making him go at inhuman speeds at the cost of his energy
You should make new versions of your tierlists from a few years ago
I am working through updating some of the oldest ones, but I also don't want to repeat content too much so I won't redo everything
I wonder? Does docotrs electricity travel in the fog in trials like wayer eoth electricity? That sounds cool
By the way, freddy's powers come from nightmare demons
Try make a video where 'If the survivors had weapons, which weapons would they wield?'
Hey Az. Could you make a video about what if the killers were in a zombie apocalypse?
Nemesis would just be chilling
@@patrickshannon3884 XD YEPPERS.
In the portraits in the corner, why use the default skin for every killer except the skull merchant?
Nem's zombies are part of his power, and the entity is pretty much definitely why they don't stay dead
Nemesis: ...........
STAARRRSSSS
I WANT THE STUN NOISE LIST
Like u Said, Michael's Power has multiple theories and stories but i like to think he is it. Not Michael posessed by demon but like its called its The shape of Michael who became pure evil but there is nothing left of Him anymore that's why "The shape
Freddy hot his powers after being killed by the parents of his victims when he got to hell he was confronted by demons who admired his work and gave him the power to infiltrate peoples dreams and slaughter as he pleased as long as people feared him
If you really think about it, the entity saved Earth and probably human Kind by taking Singularity to the realm.
If not, most probably he would have found a way to travel to earth and kill everyone.
Nurse literally just said let take this breath real quick 😭
What licenses do you guys think the next chapters lincenses gonna be i think theres 3 main contendors fnaf candyman and predator im hoping its candyman as hes my second most wanted predator would be cool but i want butch as a survivor and fnaf would be lackluster but id still buy it because im somewhat a perfectionist
Why not Jeff the killer or some creepypasta thing? Slenderman or whatever? 😂
Would be kinda wierd, but funny. 😂
@@trueredpanda1538 I hate cringypastas and besides Slenderman and Jeff are not capitol L licenses like they said
The goofy low quality photo of james sunderland makes it funnier
i’m high right now and i was gonna watch t his cuz it seemed interesting but low and behold i space out on the dude talking while focusing my attention on the gameplay
yo wasn’t the plague pretty much a “gift” so she can use it to “protect” her people because she believes that the entity is their GOD
krampus and wendigo from until dawn should also be in the game
Trapper has a Krampus Skin, so Krampus is already in the game.
Please do if all the survivors fought using their perks who would win
Sadako has the power of thotography huh... you learn something new every day.
Glad to be early
2nd video asking for memes tier list
For the majority of this video in RPD what is that thing floating above the main gen?
Quick question? Did wraith and nurse meet in there. They canr be in same trial so was it like as nirse blinked she saw wraith and wraith saw her and they developed feels for eachother. I didnt make uo the love part bhvr says it technically is canon
I think like the Survivors, they have their own place where they chill and have fun outside the Trials.
@@LeavingThisTownYT ok this could be a cool fanstory, it's been awhile since I've done dbd. Thanks for letting me know. Also related to that how do you think people like legion react to having Myers and ghostface next to them. Probably the equivalent to feng seeing Jill right there
@Sir_Choobly If they hang out at a common space outside the trials, they do have their own friend groups, lovers, fan moments etc. Hahahaha.
Singularity prower comes from the program that wasnt made to harm the crew
Did The Entity also capture Rin’s father so she can torture him when she’s not in trials?
Freddy got his powers from 3 fire hell demons while in Hell
Rank every dev quotes in the loading screen (aniversary)
Those survivors are the ones I get when I play survivor
I wish for a killer that has the most resemblance with The Entity, black with gold and spider thingy
It would be cool to see a member of the Black Vale as a killer, maybe even having entity claws breaking out from their skin
Blight?
Technically, billy isn't superhuman as there is a human who runs faster than him