The Tall Man
Has anyone already suggested The Tall Man?
In case you aren't familiar with Phantasm:
From wikipedia:
Powers and weapons
The Tall Man has superhuman strength, and has been seen lifting a man or even an entire (occupied) coffin with only one arm and little effort. He has also been seen to possess telekinetic abilities, able to control both inanimate objects and people with only the use of his mind. Despite his mundane outward appearance, any parts of the Tall Man's body that are severed or otherwise amputated from the whole have been known to subsequently transform into hostile insect-like creatures, or to bleed a yellow colored substance (possibly his blood, but probably intended to represent embalming fluid.)[5]
He also has the ability to shapeshift into other people including women in order to trick potential victims. The Tall Man routinely surrounds himself with various accomplices, ranging from apparently willing human aides to resurrected corpses and other demonic creatures. His main source of assistance comes in the form of corpses that he exhumes from the graveyards under his control; after digging up the cadavers, he crushes the body to the size of a dwarf, removes the brain and reanimates the body. Despite their diminutive stature, these dwarves (also known as "Lurkers") constitute the majority of the Tall Man's forces, alongside foes wearing gas masks (also known as "Gravers"). The Tall Man also utilizes flying metallic "spheres" (also known as "Sentinels") that conceal within them many offensive weapons, including blades, drills, lasers and circular saws. The spheres, which have come to be considered the Tall Man's signature weapons, contain (and are apparently controlled by) the shrunken brains removed from the Lurkers. Later, Tall Man also utilizes some kind of alien virus. When a human is infected, the victim's head will explode and the virus will spread.[6]
Though he has thus far been impossible to permanently kill, the Tall Man can be hurt. It has been shown on more than one occasion that he has an extreme aversion to cold; Mike Pearson, another main character in the Phantasm films, says that this might possibly be because the realm he comes from is very warm. He has also displayed a vulnerability to certain pitches of sound, which can temporarily immobilize him. On those occasions when his body has sustained mortal injury, an identical new Tall Man has immediately emerged from his portal, ready to continue on unfazed from where his predecessor left off.
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Wow, this would be a pretty deep cut!
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@Majestic_Herman proposed a disgusing killer and the idea of adding The Tall Man to the game would be a nice touch.
He could not only play with his terror radius while on disguise (depending on what add ons you use), but he also has map pressure potential which doesn't make him virtually useless against SWF teams; he would be able to throw spheres at gens to injure survivors, put them in the dying state or scare them away from them (similar to what Freddy does when you teleport to a gen). Sinec he has map pressure potential I think he would be a strong disguising killer. In the movie the spheres do different things so the add ons could modify them in different ways and apply different status effects.
I'm having trouble thinking about how his basic attack would work tho.
Please consider this BHVR! I would love to see this iconic character in the game.
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In case you wonder how the spheres could look like; they added the Spheres as a weapon on Blood 2: The chosen.
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