Dead By Daylight: Diversity 2021

I’m pretty sure nurse is English, no?

She worked in the asylum in the USA. It’s the same burned down building Nea went missing and Nea was living in the USA at that time.

If you wanted, you could probably figure out the heritage of a lot of these people based on their last name origin.

For example, Fredrick Kruger would be Saxon since Kruger is a very Saxon based name.

Michael myers with myers being a very European last name (found in Dutch, English, or German but all connected to Anglo-saxon)

Clown is Jeffrey Hawk with Hawk being a British based name.

Etc etc

Ohh oops. Good catch. My bad.

But yeah OP if you wanted to complete this more you could check into last names place of origin.

Thanks for putting this together either way

I'll be real, the people I remember having an Australian accent are Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin (whom I loved as a child, I was a Crocodile Hunter superfan at 3 years old lmao)

Poor Australians lol. A crocodile hunter themed killer wouldn't be so bad tbf.

I like how you just shoved Demo and Pyramid Head in the ocean because you didn't know where they were from.

"I mean for most shows/games they are taking place somewhere specific and it actually makes sense that for example in Japan there are mostly Japanese people.

but for Dead by Daylight, it just makes sense to have people from all over the place, as they are getting brought from their world to the Entity’s realm."

That makes sense. I guess my point is that it's not being brought up from a place of "this game is technically located everywhere" and instead it's brought up in the sense of forced diversity quotas which feels discriminatory. I wouldn't want to be judged by my nationality but by the content of my character.

"also, diversity doesn’t hurt anyone. But it can make people feel acknowledged/included when they don’t feel that way generally."

Well for example let's say you had a cool concept for a samurai killer but oh wait, inclusivity, so you we make the samurai whatever other ethnicity. You just took that other persons position and gave it to another for the sake of their nationality, aka discrimination. Obviously these aren't real people but this is more a comment to "diversity doesn't hurt anyone", it can. I find "acknowledged/included" a very weird concept. In my previous example of an asian game I don't feel excluded because it's just asian characters, it's an asian made game, that just makes sense to me and is expected, it's logical. Why do people need to feel "acknowledged"? It's a game lol.

In other words I like the idea of unique characters from all over the world that get brought in because they have unique and cool stories that need to be included. What I don't like is forced quotas that look to put characters in because they fill the check mark next to that nationality etc. So I agree with the end result, it's the thought process and means to getting there I take issue with.

yeah, that’s alright but.. this forced diversity does not happen in Dead by Daylight?

i agree forced diversity and inclusiveness is wrong and shouldn’t be in any media without context etc. But in DbD and especially with the devs we know they do it in a great way and because they actually want to do it.

there is no reason to assume they do it for the wrong reasons. We got a Kpop star that is Korean even though they already had ticked of the Korean department with Jake. We got Yui and Oni even though we already had Spirit as a ‚token’ Japanese character. They are not going after a checklist and creating token characters is what I am trying to say, they are creating the Chars they want to create and the storys the want to tell.

I've always been curious about where The Trapper is actually from. They gave him a Skin that's a reference to My Bloody Valentine which is a old Horror film from the late 70's that's set in a small mining town in Nova Scotia. Kinda wonder if the Macmillan estate is in NS, would kind of be nice to have a stage that encorperates beaches and maybe a lighthouse.

If I’m not mistaken isn’t Jeff originally Canadian? He has Norwegian roots but it never says how far back

I came in expecting a complaint post about how diversity ruins games, because that's just how these forums are. Instead, I got a pretty cool chart and map of where the characters are from. I don't necessarily agree with some of the choices made, like licensed characters shouldn't be included in looking at diversity because the devs can't do anything about that, Jane, while definitely of latin descent, is American (her lore puts her father's house in New Jersey and her archive makes a big deal about her wanting to just be considered American), and Jamaica isn't part of Africa, so Adam should be put in a Caribbean section if you're going to do that. But other than some of these small nitpicks (and other things you might have forgotten such as Elodie's parents being from Madagascar), this was well done.

First paragraph of Trapper's archive firmly roots him in Seattle, Washington.

Overwatch is WAY more diverse, There are only 4 american characters

Plus shouldn't zarina be in lebanon? if we're talking about where they are from zarina should be in lebanon but where they live? yeah she's in america obviously

I don't think so, Because adam should've been in japan since he lived there BEFORE taken by the entity

Same with wraith he went to america before taken by the entity

Slinger Irish? I thought he was american. Like he has Irish heritage but isn't really Irish imo. I am still holding out for a bean sí(banshee) as an actual Irish killer.