All 26 Killers Ranked Least to Most Tragic (Dead by Daylight Tier List)



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Hey everyone, today we’re going to rank every Dead by Daylight killer from least to most tragic. We have five tiers. Not tragic at all, Not tragic, Neutral, Somewhat tragic, and Extremely tragic. What is and isn’t tragic is kinda complicated and also quite subjective, and a lot of the situations are fairly complicated, so if you disagree with any of these, be sure to drop your own thoughts, down below. I obviously can’t completely summarise how tragedy should be judged in this short little video about a video game, so, yea. Let’s get into it.

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Intro 0:00
Not tragic at all 0:35
Not tragic 2:40
Neutral 6:09
Somewhat tragic 9:34
Extremely tragic 12:27
Outro 14:28

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48 thoughts on “All 26 Killers Ranked Least to Most Tragic (Dead by Daylight Tier List)”

  1. hey azhy i think you should maybe re do your what killers could stand a chance against the entity i thinks you put trapper worse than he should be because hes the only one whos attempted to fight the entity so he has the most experince

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  2. I'd say Amanda Young/Pig is more tragic than you may think. First off the main reason she even really joined up with John was because she was in an extremely emotionally vulnerable place (drug addiction and recovery and almost being killed by the reverse bear trap) and he was basically the first person who was nice to her and offered her a sense of belonging. She was also supposed to get backstory shown in the movies about her being abused by her parents but it was cut (although I think it's still considered canon). And then she started rigging traps because she stopped believing in the jigsaw ideology that they actually helped people change. There were a few other examples she saw but the biggest one was her. Yes she had stopped using drugs, but she was just self harming instead. She hadn't REALLY changed, she had just swapped one self destructive habit for another one. In her final scene, she's begging John (who at this point is on his deathbed) to help her and fix her, because she does want it but just doesn't know how. The reason she was put in the trap in the first place was because she was considered a lost cause at John's wife's drug clinic. She's a murderer, but she got there by trying to be something more through Jigsaw (hell her first kill was a mercy kill) and she just couldn't.

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  3. i know there not out yet but i would put Sadako Yamamura (the Ringu) killer in very tragic as she was a very lonely person who was made an outcast because of her psychic powers when she visited her father in hospital she ended up getting raped by a doctor who discovered she was an hermaphrodite this led to him killing her and throwing her down the well which led to her becoming a murderous spirit

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  4. I wouldn’t really say ANY of the four original cenobites have a tragic story except for Chatterer. Chatterer was a kid, so it’s pretty sad he got transformed into the monster he did. The others seem to actually enjoy what they do.

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  5. Bubba should be mid somewhat tragic because he doesn’t really know what he is doing and doesn’t enjoy it he is abused and confused and if he was raised by anyone else he would have been normal the point of the character is that evil is not born it is made

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  6. Here’s an idea: Rating each killers lobby idle animation. Pre-game lobby: what their special thing is like how the artist sends her crows out and cenobite sending the chains out and like how oni hits the ground with his thing and loses his power

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  7. For me personally Plague would have gone in the top teir, considering what she is doing both outside & inside the realm was in an effort to save her people. And due to her time period has seemingly been serving the entity the longest probably, in a constant state of asking the entity "Please just keep my people safe" & that her servitude if she does it long enough will actually save them. But chances are the city did fall to the plague & now she can't even visit the temple in a correct manner anymore cause the entity has corrupted her memory of it ripping it away and putting it in the middle of the red forest as well as it being in disarray.

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  8. I feel like Nemesis being the result of human experimentation would bump him up slightly considering Umbrella Corp isn't at all known for being picky with who they turn into violent, mindless monsters

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  9. Pyramid head is the definition of tragic. You put him in neutral cause you say he is just what he is, but no, pyramid head is a physical manifestation of James’ trauma and desire for punishment. Pyramid head is the bad part of James, which if you’ve played 2, you’ll know is very traumatic.

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  10. I think the Cenobite could be argued for being more tragic cuz we see his human self and cenobite self split in two, Pinhead is basically just a minion to Leviathan, carrying out his will against the wishes of his human self.

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  11. nurse is tragic. she was drove insane by the horrors she saw and back then the asylum's pretty much were a living nightmare. Taking care of people with what was done to them is not only horrifying but drove many staff insane for real.
    she is someone who wanted to help others who got twisted and turned until she believed the only way to help them was to release them from this life.
    even her mori shows her gently rubbing the survivors cheek as if she's sorry and has a relationship with wraith.

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  12. tbh i think clown shouldve been neutral or not tragic due to his father being abusive and that ended up messing up his brain, leading to psychopathy/sociopathy

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  13. I honestly disagree…
    My ranking would be:

    1. Twins (ET)
    2. Spirit (ET)
    3. Wraith (ET)
    4. Artist (ET)
    5. Hillbilly (ET)
    6. Hag (ET)
    7. Plague (ST)
    8. Susie and Joey (ST)
    9. Pig (ST)
    10. Nurse (ST)
    11. Deathslinger (N)
    12. Huntress (N)
    13. Trapper (N)
    14. Blight (N)
    15. Bubba (N)
    16. Pinhead (N)
    17. Julie and Frank (NT)
    18. Demo (NT)
    19. Pyramid (NT)
    20. Nemesis (NT)
    21. Clown (NT / NTA)
    22. Oni (NT / NTA)
    23. Freddy (NTA)
    24. Michael (NTA)
    25. Trickster (NTA)
    26. Ghostface (NTA)
    27. Doctor (NTA)

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  14. I’d argue that the Pyramid Head goes to the “somewhat tragic” category and here’s why

    So as we know, PH are James Sunderland’s desires to be punished for the sin he committed (such as killing his bedridden wife who would’ve died from the illness anyway). In my eyes, PH was some kind of coping mechanism for James.

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  15. Pinhead is definitely a tragic character. Before he became a Cenobite, he was a human with normal life, but was left ruined by the experiences of WW1. After he became Pinhead, he became a new being. Cenobites have no memories of their past lives, they think of themselves as eternal and wouldn't ever think they once were human. Only after Kirstey Cotton made them believe, they started remembering.
    I think he's a very tragic character, considering he never wanted to become a Cenobite.

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  16. What if Joey and Susie never existed but were created from the more innocent sides from Frank and Julie? Like The Entity took Frank and Julie but changed their memories to create Joey and Susie, which would explain why Joey and Susie were reticent to kill that shop employee.

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  17. I think Huntress deserves a bit more credit. She's definitely the most animalistic among the killers and so she acts on instincts and doesn't think the way humans like we do. Like, no wonder she's gone insane given that she hadn't talked to a living soul since her mother died. Also, what I think is pretty tragic is that Anna wants to be a mother herself – she wears her bunny mask and hums the lullaby specifically to calm down the girls that she later kidnaps. I mean, sure, kidnapping isn't nice, but it's not like she has bad intents. She has good intents – to protect the girls and raise them as her own children but fails miserably because she doesn't know how to do so which is also mentioned to hurt her.
    I believe Anna could be a really great mother if only she was found early enough by someone who made her a part of the society and like, an actual human.

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