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I truly doubt that skull merchant was supposed to be predator.
People are huffing so much copium at this point, seriously this amount of copium is dangerous for your health. I keep seeing "Skull Merchant was supposed to be predator but they lost the liscenced" like, how? Genuinely how, there is no similarities between skull merchant and predator except for the claw. And maybe their high tech vibe but that's it. And the claw is obviously just inspired by predator, like hillbilly was inspired by Leatherface, and like how trapper was inspired by Jason. Honestly I would understand this theory if the skull merchant could like turn invisible or something, or had anything else similar to predator but she doesn't. Her power isn't related to predator in any way.
I bet that if a killer like trapper came out today people would be like "Omg this character was supposed to be Jason but they lost the liscence!" People are huffing way too much copium, just admit the chapter isn't very good and move on.
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Personally, from what I've seen of her lore my thought is she was inspired by a serial killer wannabe from Edmonton, Alberta named Mark Twitchell, a.k.a. "The Dexter Killer" after the fictional character he claimed inspired him. I say wannabe not because he only had 1 victim before being very quickly caught because Twitchell was a moron (2 if you count a guy he assaulted that got away) but because he kept a laptop containing a file literally called "S. K. Confessions" detailing what he wanted to do and why, because Twitchell was a moron.
The main reasons my mind went to Twitchell are he's an infamous figure the Canadian devs are likely to possibly be familiar with and Twitchell, along with being a wannabe serial killer was also a wannabe filmmaker who was big in the cosplay scene. Meanwhile the Skull Merchant takes her identity by cosplaying as her father's comic book killer character (in other words the Skull Merchant is to her what Dexter was to Twitchell).
There's plenty of means to learn about him but if you want to hear Twitchell be described as the loser he is, I recommend either The Last Podcast on the Left (episodes 346-347) or Timesuck (episode 257).
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Yeah if we’re going by that logic then Artist was meant to be candyman and legion was meant to be Ghostie
It’s just BHVR’s take on a style of horror character so of course there will be overlap
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I've always seen Legion as discount Ghostie to be fair, though Skull Merchant isn't even vaguely similar to Predator.
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It also ignores the fact that BHVR can simply just be inspired by other horror characters.
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Don't you know? Every original killer was obviously supposed to be a licensed character originally, it's the only real explaination why a new character would have something similar that an already existing character has. /s
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Honestly I think the only one where that's true is the Hillbilly as their version of Leatherface, since that was before licenses we really an open.
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I assumed Skull Merchant was based off Robert Hansen, a guy who hunted women like animals in Alaska.
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I think Twitchell has more parallels to the lore than Hansen. The comic nerd angle is particularly specific. Hansen's most notable non-serisl killer traits were being a baker and having an Elder Fudd-style speech impediment.
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Doctor was actually suppose to be raiden from mortal kombat
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Skull Merchant is a fusion of Kano and Frost.
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Skull merchant instantly gave MK vibes to me. She really does look like Frost.
If only her Mori was the spine rip
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Lol! I'd love to see a Raiden outfit with that hat!
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It's the face mask.
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People think way too much into this game.
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The most likely inspiration is the standard trope of the crazy millionaire hunter who wants to hunt people popularized by the 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game. Predator is also inspired by that trope but with extra alien window dressing.
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