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Welcome friends and foes, Survivors and Killers. Today we’ll be looking at the lore for Evan Macmillan, AKA The Trapper.
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I don’t care what anyone says about Trapper, he’s one of the most fun killers to play as
Was that a TF2 reference?
388th!!!
Brilliant video. Being the first killer of the game, I can see why his tome missed the mark of his brutality as a person. I wish it delved more on his mother. Maybe she was cruel to him too but was weak for herself and her own morals, and Evan wanted to be separate from that weakness. Also, a cutscene in the mobile version shows him fighting the Entity, so perhaps there's a limit to cruelty even for him. He'll never be a hero, but I like to think he would join the stand against the Entity someday.
Oh your face reveal very underlined there good job
You did what i asked for fuck yea! love you man<3
I like how Trapper is a reference to the Miner
Every time this man said Blood, Brass and Grit just made me grin.
“And everything changed when the tomes attacked.”
I do not mean this as an insult but why don't you make your own rewrites of the stories?
I will ALWAYS love Evan. I loved him before and his tome didn't change that. I mean, just look at him (his ingame-self) he's hot! And I would totally go into his basement and let myself get trapped. Oh Evan … why are you doing this to my poor heart?
18:40 Nurse's story still hits me because I feel like they really could have unified the Angel of Mercy aspect she previously was with the historically accurate genetics angle by simple stating that Nurse wants a better fate for her patients but believes they're doomed because of their genetics, something outside their control, thus opting for a mercy killing. And it would have blended in with her mindset of killing off survivors as an unwilling killer as fast as she can in the Trials as the survivors are also in a position outside their control. Making her a negative fatalistic person would've went a long way but they didn't do it well enough to make it coherent or good.
7:08 – I know it's a tangent, but can people agree the perk would make more sense if it was called anticipation instead of agitation?
I'd be really interested to see a killer's perspective of their time in the fog honestly
dont know why they still have Trappers old lore up on his page, because almost all of it has been retconned. Dave even confirmed to me on twitter when Tome 1 came out that Evan never dropped the mine on the workers, Archie did it. The Entire old lore page of Trapper was written from a separate perspective, designed to frame Evan for the brutality that came from his father. Evan has ALWAYS been sympathetic, ever since the retcon at least, and his archive was there to establish that he has always only been brutal and willing to kill and hurt as a desperately reach for a semblance of power and control that his father always took from him, not necessarily because he enjoys the act of killing itself. He feels like a completely different character from his base lore because he IS a different character from his base lore. Theres no connection to his archive and base lore because his base lore isnt canon anymore. I do agree though that his story is way too vague and needs a lot more exploring, but this is why his story doesnt make any sense if you dont have the years long context of shit said occasionally by devs on a lot of different platforms, like the devs confirming that The Entity had to torture Evan to get him to kill survivors, he never dropped the mine on his workers, and he canonically doesnt like yogurt. Dave even said to me, and I quote, "The father is the real bad guy" implying Evan to be even more sympathetic than they want us to think he is. Lot of great points in your video, really enjoyed it!
Since david is getting a second tome I imagine we could get another trapper one to improve it at some point.
(also that shia labeouf song edit murdered me lmao)
Amazing vid as always! I could never quite get a grip on Evan’s funky lore :’)
Ah old reliable trapper can't go wrong with him
I only knew Trapper after his tome was out, and while I do agree it needed to go deeper in his choices and motivations, I don't think the tome disconects much from the Traper we know today.
Evan being described as afectionate and creative and this encouraged from his mom makes her murder by archie seems an atempt to silence the good in Evan by his abuser, wich paralels perfectly the entity torturing him for compliance while he resist.
Evan is defined as a survivor of abuse that only found his autonomy in violence, much like Anakin's decent orchestrated by Palpatine if we want to paralel the brute henchmen. Evan, after beating his Dad and killing several in the mines, still fought back to not become a monster to be overpowered again. His facade of brutality and relentlesness is his coping mecanism to feel some autonomy in his life, because yet again he is not free from being a monster for his master.
WHO IS GAMORA?
I raise you one better, WHY IS EVAN MACMILAN!?
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I like the trapper, i'm shit with him but he is good.
Shia labeouf legendary skin for trapper when?
I like how DBD's Killers have evolved from "Imposing stalker with sadistic cunning" to "K-Pop Idol who likes knives a bit too much"
On the subject of killers needing a revisit in the tomes, Legion was given a very conflicting lore expansion. It’s unclear if the events that take place in Legion’s tome are from an alternate timeline from the base lore, the events in the convenience store are inaccurately being retold from Julie’s perspective, or if the writers never even bothered with the base lore and just opted to retcon it.
This is just one gripe I have with the Legion tome. Another being the abandonment of the core themes behind The Legion with Frank being a master manipulator. Frank successfully corrupted 3 innocent teens to commit heinous crimes that exponentially got worse where it can be assumed that neither Julie, Susie, nor Joey had any want to do such things before meeting Frank. The tome makes Julie out to be a serial killer apologist and fanatic. She keeps newspaper articles about real life killers in her room and fantasizes about joining their ranks. This was all before she even met Frank.
This characterization takes Frank from being an intelligent manipulator to being just an enabler. This brings up some interesting story potential but sacrifices Frank’s pre established character.
I always saw the story of the Legion as the beginnings of a cult that didn’t take off because… Entity. Frank as the head of the cult, manipulating his members emotionally and convincing them to do what he wants by convincing them that they want it to.
I wouldn't say no to going to Macmillan maps 9999% of the time.
Yes I noticed 😛
Honestly, I kind of don't mind the disconnect between base lore and tome lore because it leaves room for people to interpret Evan as either purely self-interested and unsympathetic or highly sympathetic and having been framed / set-up from the start. He can be anything and everything and no one can really tell you otherwise because there is evidence for it in the lore. Is he the willing servant (implied by Agitation) or the reluctant killer (implied by the Mobile cutscenes and his tortured appearance)? Is he the "social Darwinist" turned Oedipus (killing his father the moment his father was too weak to be of any more use) or the socialist who was betrayed by his comrades (implied by his tome)? If DBD ever gets a story mode, I'd almost like it to be a choose your own adventure from Trapper's perspective, with people getting to decide whether they want to be a survivor or killer as him.
The most interesting part of The Trapper for me is the idea that he, more than almost any other killer apart from The Artist or The Plague, has had the Entity watching him for a very long time, possibly guiding and grooming him into the role of killer through his whole life. His father heard whispers, but were those the whispers of the Entity or just the decaying mind of a paranoid man.
One of the Observer cutscenes also shows a young version of Evan setting up a trap for a giant spider, possibly in a pocket realm of the Entity, meaning that like The Blight and The Observer, Evan is one of the few who managed to avoid the trials for a time after being taken and spent that time learning how to survive and trap. And that leaves the question of when the Entity did find him, did it change him to held him in trials, or to bring him to heel?
Only time (or another tome) may tell.
Now let's hope that the twins get the good tome writer. Because we've seen what the bad writer has done to amanda
6:50 Can we just talk about how you downed someone, and they still dropped the pallet?
Beautiful video as always <3
Something i never understood, is what happend at the end of Even's tome. What caused the mine to collapse, and how did even survive it? And what happend to his hand that made it need to be bandeged?
I mean me personally
I can relate to this story a bit
Mostly the aspects of a family wanting you to do what they want you to do and enjoying hurting because it's the only time you ever feel in power of yourself
But this is a story video not a therapy session
Peanut
Good video, but can we take a second to appreciate how varied the killer powers are in DBD? We have otherworldly monsters, telepathic women, and practically immortal incarnations of evil. We also have bear trap man, a heroin addict, and not one, but TWO killers who’s power include having knees 🙂
7:24 Tally Hall
Don’t get me wrong, I like a good “no remorse, no reason” character, but in this instance, I actually like Evan as a sympathetic character, it makes you wonder “how far gone are they from their humanity after what happened?” or even if they still have it. In fact, I would’ve liked the character if he only killed his father, whether out of fear, or wanting to save the workers is up to BHVR. Sure it isn’t the greatest plot point, but I personally like it. “Someone killed someone in an attempt to save others/out of fear, and is then taken and forced to kill even if they don’t want to” is a story I prefer over “Guy is and enforcer in a relative’s ___ but greed eventually outshines loyalty and he kills them.”
Feng DESPERATELY needs a new tome… it just feels weird David is getting a new one
I didn't really liked the trapper Archives lore either, it reads more like a survivor tome than a killer tome and i didn't knew why he became a killer after. It made more sense that the entity punished him with hooks and that he tried to escaped though
PB: "the most famous right hand in fiction"
Me: "STARSCREAM!"
PB: "…Darth Vader"
Me: "…Ah"
Evan MacMillan is the trapper duhhhh 🙄🙄🙄
Pixel, my dude, you most definitely need to be in charge or have some degree of influence over Behavior's writing department. Your presence would 100% do the lore of every character a lot of good since you have a clear understanding of a number of them.
Little me is the best right hand man in fiction
But David already has his tome lore, why would they give him another there are still others who need tome lore, like feng min, Adam and etc.
The only killer so far to show signs of refusing to do the entity's bidding
good dbd vid
I haven't read the tome lore. So I can't say how well written it is. But idk I really like the way he was painted as trying to be a really good person before transforming to what he is now.