What Licensed Solo Survivor does everyone here would think fit most into DBD

Definitely Sidney Prescott! She's the missing link.

Sidney Prescott is iconic I'll give you that, but I'm voting for Randy far, far, far, far, far more than I'm voting for Sidney Prescott.

To me every survivor represents an archetype. Meg is the athlete, Claudette is kind of a nerd, Jake is the lone wolf (even though this is Ash's description it fits Jake better if you've seen the show), Dwight is the nervous leader, Jeff is the gentle giant, Ace is the lucky gambler, Nea is the rebel, Steve Harrington is the (former) Jock, Nancy wheeler is the amateur Journalist with a sense for a good story, Jane is the celebrity, David Tapp is the obsessed cop, David King is the ######### / bully (this is how he is described by the devs in the stream when he first cam out), Feng Min is the gamer, Kate Denson is the free spirit, etc.

The important thing to note here is we've already got a character who fits the Final Girl archetype. Laurie is the Final Girl, so it doesn't make sense to have a second. I'd much rather have Randy because he represents a popular character archetype that we haven't seen yet before: "The Geek" or as I like to call him (because it's Randy) "The Horror Specialist"

Randy knows everything there is to know about Horror movies, that's what makes him so interesting a character in the context of the Scream films. He knows the tropes and he's the one who's got all the information about what is going down based on prior knowledge. Plus Randy is objectively the best / most interesting / most personality driven character from Scream let's be honest, there's a reason fans were so sad / outraged when he died in the second film, so much so that he still made it into the third movie despite his death.

I've been rooting for Randy for a long time now, which makes a lot of sense because one of the primary motivators he's given in the second movie shortly before his death is that he always plays second fiddle. The killer taunts him that he'll never be the leading man, he'll never get the girl, he's only an expendable character, and this makes him a character that I feel fits way too well with the types of stories Dead By Daylight tells with their characters to pass up.

Herbert West from Re-Animator

I dont think that there should be any licensed Solo Survivor-DLC in the future. Because it would repeat what happened with MoM - they would need to release a Perk which is way too strong with it so that people who are not interested in the character itself or are not interested in completion will also have a reason to buy it.

But IF I would need to choose one, I would go for Negan from TWD.

Journalist archetype

This is something that bugs me a little bit and I wrote about awhile ago, the investigative journalist archetype is something that feels a bit overplayed / overdone in Dead By Daylight. It makes for a perfect story in horror movies "The investigative journalist won't stop at anything to find a good story, but she bites off more than she can chew after uncovering a dark secret..." so when Dead By Daylight is an amalgamation of all these different horror stories and many of them have the same investigative journalist role you can see how they might end up with more of that than any other type of character. This sticks out all the more when BHVR for the most part, has done an absolutely fantastic job at creating unique characters with every single new chapter release after 3 years (4th anniversary will be in June) and 15 chapter releases.

If you go back even further Dead By Daylight's entire lore hinges on this character archetype and the one who started it all was Benedict Baker who was conducting an investigation into the Entity and the abandoned ghost town of Weeks.

My point being, it's not a good thing. We don't want to see repeated character archetypes and just because two characters might share similarities doesn't make free real estate to continue repeating characters and stories. It makes them the exception rather than the rule, and I think everyone can agree we want as absolutely diverse cast as possible. Saying we can add even more characters who fill the same role just because another was recently added who shares similar characteristics with one who currently exists is just an excuse.

Randy's significance (Vs. David Tapp)

As well, Randy didn't exactly die very early in the franchise when you consider that the story was meant to be a trilogy. On a personal level I'm a fan of all the movies but I understand when a decent chunk of people say that they didn't pay attention to the fourth, some go so far as to say they didn't pay attention past the first and everything after that didn't live up to the original's legacy. He was a re-acurring character for the trilogy and that's what counts.

On top of this, if you think Randy isn't as iconic why don't you talk to SaW fans when they realized that Detective David Tapp was the survivor for that chapter?? The SaW franchise is ######### 8 movies long at this point with a 9th currently on the way, and the character they picked from the entire convoluted timeline was one who died in the very first ######### movie. Compared to the role Randy plays in Scream Detective Tapp is absolutely insignificant, completely and utterly inconsequential in every possible sense. Randy plays a key role in the survival of the main characters in Scream even AFTER he's dead in the third movie when they discover he left behind a tape recording of him explaining the rules of a trilogy. Tapp has barely any real significance in the one movie he shows up in and he has absolutely no impact on any film that came after for the rest of the series.

Keep in mind this is a film series who's timeline is so convolutedly full of secrets that it turns out one of the main characters (Doctor Lawrence Gordon) from the very first movie (the same movie that Tapp appears but has no significance in) actually turned out to be a secret antagonist working behind the scenes for Jigsaw for the next six movies until his role in the jigsaw murders was finally revealed in Saw 7 out of ######### nowhere. So it's not like Tapp couldn't have been written in as a more important character later on down the line, he just wasn't and was promptly completely forgotten about until Dead By Daylight picked him up.

PS.

I have no idea where you got the idea that Dwight is a nerd, just because he wears glasses, a tie, and a button up shirt that makes him a nerd?? Sure, on the surface he may look the part but his character is clearly described in the lore as having Grades that were "Distinctly below average". That immediately takes him out of the running for taking the role of the nerd archetype in Dead By Daylight, on the other hand Claudette definitely fits the nerd category. Regardless of what field of study she's into (Nerds are not specific to Math or technology: In this case she has an affinity for Biology - specifically Botany) she's very smart (her lore describes she earned an "early scholarship at a great college" in her original bio she is described as being "introverted [by] nature" and "Her brilliance provided her with a social handicap" This was reconfirmed 3 years later when Tome I was released and the archives described her as more or less a social outcast in elementary school. All of these are trademark characteristics of any classic Nerd character in popular culture.

A "Caring environmentalist" is not an archetype, at least not in horror movies. That doesn't mean characters who care for the environment don't show up, it means that they're far less common to constitute having an entire archetype, and likely would still fall under the role of a nerd in their story. Examples of archetypes in these kind of stories are "The Jock (often athletic, but not very smart), The Nerd (often intellectually savvy, typically lacks social skills), The popular girl (Often very pretty or beautiful and well respected by her peers for superficial reasons, usually arrogant or stuck up) The Nice guy (your average "nice guy" who is nice to the other characters in the story, doesn't stick out too much, sets a baseline for the audience to connect to and typically tied to the main character or has a leading role in some way), the rebel (A badass who cares mostly about themselves but later revealed to care about others to some degree, holds disregard or disdain for laws, rules, or convention, has a penchant for Leather clothing), etc.

This comes to Randy's archetype: The Geek. Closely correlated to the Nerd but without the downsides, they are typically defined by being smart (though not as smart as the Nerd) but are very capable in social situations, though might still be social outcasts to a certain degree. Often Witty or funny, their knowledge extends widely into popular culture such as movies, (video / board) games, celebrities, etc. making them very knowledgable about the climate they live in. I don't know about you but there isn't a single character in DBD that I can think of that truly embodies and embraces these characteristics which is why I would so look forward to Randy being introduced.

Or, BHVR could come up with their own original character who happens to be a geek. In which case the numerous paragraphs I have written arguing why Randy should make it in will be all for naught. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have a proposal for Shaggy. there was a DC comic series called Scooby Apocalypse, in which it's scooby doo and the gang in a zombie apocalypse. This is not like actual scooby doo, more for like a 13+ audience. I know it's not quite for adults like most other properties in DBD, but that doesn't matter. looking at the licenced properties, Stranger things (specifically S3) is rated as PG-14, which I feel is close enough.

TLDR: Shaggy should be in DBD because of DC's zombie shenanigans.

Alan Wake.

Rick Grimes, Carol, Daryll, Negan or Michonne from the walking dead.