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New Killer From "Dark City"
TL;DR: Mr. Hand from the Dark City movie would be a good killer with his knife for the basic attack and tuning abilities for his character power. John Murdock could be the survivor, with the city itself being the Map.
So, I was watching Dark City the other day, if you don't know what this is, its a movie that came out back in 1998. It's a sci fi blend of noir, mystery/suspense, and horror elements. I love this movie and have seen it many times. But have not seen it since the release of DBD. Fast forwarding to today, I feel like why haven't I thought of this idea sooner, a great killer addition to DBD would be "The Stranger."
I will be diving a bit into movie spoilers here, but an alien race in the movie is known only as The Strangers, and one of the biggest characters from that is Mr. Hand. He's great, his tone, presence, look, and abilities would fit right into DBD. Mr. Hand has the ability of "tuning," which basically means he's psychic and can do many things like telekinesis, levitate, and put people to sleep by literally telling them "sleep now," among other things. He also walks around with a knife and uses it to kill people throughout the film.
The knife could be for the basic M1 attack, but then can use "tuning" as his special power to do things around the map and possibly put survivors to sleep somehow. Levitation and the ability to create doorways or entrances are possible options he can have at his disposal (which in the film doorways are possible to be created to move through a wall, this could possibly be implemented for breakable doorways, allowing him to walk through a breakable door and not actually needing to break it down). This could be a very unique thing to only him, where many other killers punish window vaults or pallet drops, he can punish breakable doorways or use them to his advantage. His levitation could also be used in such a way to essentially allow him to float up to the 2nd level of any floor. Imagine a survivor camping on 2nd level of a Haddonfield building where they can see you and you would normally have to walk all the way around through the staircase to get up top. Instead he can levitate to the balcony and continue the chase. These are just some ideas I've came up with, but there's a lot of potential for a character like this.
Dark City could potentially make an interesting and unique DBD map as well, and then John Murdock (the protagonist of the film) could be a potential survivor with his unique abilities and traits. This is something that would be unexpected and fit right into the universe of dead by daylight.
Edit: Separated some sentences to provide an easier read. Also, added a TL;DR.
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Another Dark City fan? I'm surprised.
Yes, Mr. Hand would certainly be an interesting killer. I couldn't really read your entire comment due to the lack of paragraphs, but I like the overall idea of adding him.
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Finally got around to editing my post, hopefully other people would give it a read now that its easier to look at and comment their thoughts.
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I love Dark City as well and while Mr Hand could be neat his design is waay to similar to a cenobyte unfortunately. Alex Proyas probably didnt intend to copy them but it definately feels inspired by them
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I totally forgot a it dark city. They would be an awesome dlc. Great idea
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I loved Dark City, but I totally agree with you. They look like cenobites.
I think the Tallman from Phantasm would be a great addition because his main power is read-to-go, directly from the movie. Plus I doubt there's any legal issues since the movie was so far back and hasn't been remade yet.
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