The "Mr X/Pennywise" Problem.

He is physically just a really strong dude. If Claire can survive the dude giving her a solid punch, so can Dwight. I think your dramatically overestimating the preformance of 'base' tyrants.

He DEFINITELY isn't too tall. He is literally just 7 foot tall, which makes him shorter than a lot of killers. He would be about doctor sized.

As for powers there are plenty. His charge is a good example of one, but he also has the faceshield which may address your 'but pallets and flashlights though' bit by giving him the ability to 'no-sell' them if expecting them. There is also his most famous aspect: Mr. X would be a prime candidate for a detection power, because that is what he is most famous for. If we were to take from the dubiously canon and doomed Resistance, this aspect was represented as a 'scan' ability that both let him find the survivors easier in that game and do MUCH more damage to them. So perhaps he could be a stalker who doesn't need LOS and is 'assigned' targets? Would be a neat way to make a killer who is legitimately rewarded for trying to go for a 12 hook.

Like, again, as a mega RE fan who literally modded his PS2 for the Japanese region when Outbreak US went down and who played Gaiden, you... don't seem to understand the capabilities of the BOWs that well. Also, DBD gets to be wonky with that anyway: Freddy and the Demo don't behave like their canon counterparts at ALL.

As for 'Pennywise is defeated by emotion' making It (heh) unsuitable: Uhhh... do you know where we are right now? ALL the killers in DBD are essentially defeated by the emotional whims of the entity. Pennywise is probably one of the most suited IPs for DBD because the entire conceit is the killer is restrained from killing the survivors until they kill their hope.

This logic applies to killers that are already in the game so its not a valid reason to not add a killer. Pyramid head can't hurt anyone outside of silent hill Freddy can't hurt anyone outside of the dream world. Yet the do in the game because the entity changes them to fit the rules of their game. I agree on the Xenomorph I would be really dumb to see it get looped ,but nemesis isn't too far off he isn't something like superman that just doesn't react to pain he gets hit around the whole game. The entity would have to make him a lot weaker but I totally think he could work.

This is a bit of offtopic but since a lot of times people discuss extremely powerful or eldritch beings as potential Killers this it always comes into play, people misunderstand how hard and durable pallets are in real life, especially when as thick as the ones we have in this game, real life pallets are constructed by nailing wooden planks to wooden beams, they have a lot of empty space, what we have looks very solid, more of a bunch of planks tied and nailed together with almost no air in between, making them much heavier and potentially much much more durable.

I work in an oil refinery and we use pallets to avoid putting heavy machinery on direct contact with the ground to avoid humidity and dirt, those things can be loaded with a couple of tons of steel machinery without even flinching as long as they have enough surface to rest in more than 2 wooden planks and they rest on top of one of the strong interior beams, old pallets that the repair teams forget must be disposed off, those things weight A LOT (and ours are probably lighter than what we have ingame) usually must be either pushed by 1 or lifted by 2 and to break those things we use hammers unless they are extremely old and starting to rot or dried after rotting, if thats the case the wooden planks can be smashed by kicking BUT the beams must always be broken with hammers, about throwing them is not that hard even by small people because you just need to unbalance them a bit for them to drop, thats the most realistic thing about pallets in this game.

Onto the topic, I can perfectly picture anyone in this game being stunned (or outright trapped under if of small and weak frame like Jigsaw, Hag or Nurse), even Oni or Trapper which are massive by human standards (but so are the pallets) but things like Nemesis and Mr X who can break concrete walls with their body and withstand an helicopter crashing into them, the Xenomorph which is bigger, stronger and more agile than any current Killer, Pinhead has more power than most of the cast combined, IT is more close to The Entity than to the Killers, I cant picture IT being dominated by The Entity and do its biding, for them to put such juggernauts they would have to make them increasingly weak compared to their original IP counterparts.

If you get Nemesis its not going to be that 3 meters mass of meat crashing around everywhere, breaking everything on its path, eating more bullets than a Hongkong film action hero, attacking with his bazooka and tentacles killing everything on sight, it would be the size of Trapper, with a ranged attack similar to what Pyramid Head has, who would get blinded by flashlights, bodyblocked by a conga line made of small chinese girls on pink rabbit hoodies and stunned by pallets, all of this while it gets streamed to the world while someone laughs at you, he would be pitiful compared to RE3 Nemesis.

P.D. something like Predator wouldnt make sense either mainly because Predator main thing is his ability to jump and stalk from trees while taking pot shots at unsuspecting prey, his game would be too vertical and this game has none of that and its not prepared either, also lorewise Predator only hunts strong prey not scared, weak and defenseless victims.

Man this whole thread was people giving you exact reasons why it would work and you saying it wouldn't. Your exact argument was used against Pyramid Head as well, but now Pyramid Head is in the game. The Devs are the ones who create the lore and the rules, not you, if they have said they would love characters like Pennywise, and many others that means if they got the licenses, they would make it work. Almost no killers and horror icons are out of question, anything is possible and the Devs have shown in the past they can make any killer idea work. The entity invited Pyramid Head to fight for it, it didn't take it. Same thing could be done for Pennywise. Oni USED to be human, but in his lore it says that the Entity made him into the living embodiment of an oni, a legendary insanely powerful samurai spirit. Freddy in his movies was a metaphysical being, only in his own realm and world. In the game they made an entire new concept for him, and he is physical now. Anything is possible and you aren't helping anyone or letting people know some forbidden knowledge, you are just saying to stop having hope for something people like because YOU think, not know for a fact, that they won't happen. This anniversary is coming and it's said to be licensed, hope its RE or Pennywise now so you can seem much worse

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You're talking about the same character who was wounded by an inhaler right? So an inhaler to face is perfectly believable, but slamming down a pallet should do nothing? Weird place to draw the line.

What damages IT in that instance is the lack of fear of the assailant and the belief on his part the object would harm IT not the inhaler itself (the kid believed it was acid and extremely harmful so his beliefs made it manifest), the same when the kids used silver which they believed harms mystical creatures.

IT works a lot like WH40k Orkz in the sense if enough people believe something is harmful and feel no fear they can actually damage IT using wathever.

I think the survivors would believe the pallets would stun him, considering they've stunned every other killer the survivors threw them at in the past. In fact, Pennywise would basically be forced to play by the Entity's rules because that's how the survivors believe things work.

I see what you're getting at, but to me, I still think it doesn't really matter; no disrespect.

If I recall correctly, Freddy worked similarly in the sense that he became weaker if you didn't fear him. Not quite defenseless, but still he would lose power from it and he seems to work fine in the game. Fear gave him more control and power and he certainly doesn't work like that in the game.

The same logic applies to Pyramid Head, which I am more knowledgeable about. Pyramid Head is the literal embodiment of a man's guilt, and cannot be harmed by normal means. 'Stunned' by gunshots sure, but even they basically do nothing. He only 'died' once James faced the truth. Silent Hill has always been about psychological horror and occult horror. Plus, and this has been brought up a lot, he technically shouldn't even be a killer as he's specifically James' demon, you could argue he's in other games, but that is usually as an easter egg or cameo rather than a genuine place in the story. The devs are somewhat inconsistent as to whether or not he is only James' demon, but that simply is how most people interpret and remember him.

Regardless of how you interpret him, he is an embodiment of guilt specific to Silent Hill and he was added because he's iconic and beloved. Pretty sure the devs could make RE or Pennywise work. Don't see why other licenses wouldn't apply that here. This is imaginary Smash Bros rules all over again. It also entirely depends on how the developer feels about 'accurately' representing their game, money talks and it's quite the charmer.

Even if Pennywise is essentially a god, that doesn't mean there can't be an in-lore reason as to why it can't work. DBD isn't exactly known for complex and amazing lore, it's the horror icons.

Also still waiting for my James or Maria legendary skin. 😃

Pennywise wise, It would be more a matter of what would he do and how would If effect gameplay.

Mr.X can be put into the game..But,once again what would his power be unlike Pennywise It is not a he can do too much as much as, what is something special to him?

I like to think they wanted to mix up the three first silent hill games so they get one major thing from each of the three into the dlc. I think it's nice they thought of it this way.

A lot of these replies are surprising.

So what if Nemesis uses guns in RE, The Entity can take them away and leave him with his flamethrower or something. If Oni can get stunned by a pallet, no reason why Nemesis can't.

No point bringing up the actual power of characters, since they would all be in The Entity's realm and be under it's control. That's why Pyramid Head doesn't pursue survivors past the exit gates or why Freddy can't do much more crazy stuff like in his movies. The Entity is a multi-dimensional cosmic horror, if it wants a killer, it'll get them.

"WAAAAAAAAA BIG TYRANT GAME CAN'T BE KILLER CAUSE OTHER KILLERS TALL WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA TYRANT MAN CANT GET HURT WHAT THE HECK"

Uh huh.

I get I'm late to this, but...

Pyramid Head is there to torment the entity. He actively takes power away from it by denying it sacrifices with cages and final judgement. The trials are where the entity tries to contain him.

Chucky would be such a good add to the game.

Mcote actually answered this in an old stream, he didn't mention all licences since the question was about Myers but i think it applies to all of them, someone asked if a survivor would recognise Michael from a movie and he said something among these lines; "Not really, in the dbd universe that story was real".