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A lot of people do not consider The Legion to be scary, and back in the days, fitting to the game. But are they really not? Let’s take a look at the possible real life inspiration behind Legion that not many people know about!
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Huge thanks to @_itshellblazer_ for the inspiration and research!
Sources for the case: https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/the-christmas-killings
00:00 Intro for ADHD
00:22 The Problems Legion Had
01:20 Legion Critiques
03:34 The Downtown Posse
06:45 A Coincidence?
08:09 The True Horror Behind Legion
09:57 The Legion’s Misconceptions
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The Legion are considered by many to be one of the least scary and fitting characters in the game. And, while this might be true from and outside perspective…. when we take a look at what could have been their inspiration, we can see a new element of horror that many players underrated before!
Apologies for the weird audio cuts on the middle of the video. I had to do it to avoid the dreading YT strike, and the Deathslinger is just so you understand what the word cut was.
Please give me any criticism you have of this vid, as I would like to breach out a bit and go more into history and real life cases when talking about Dead by Daylight!
Great idea for a series. Some killers like Clown, Doctor, Dredge have more obvious real world inspirations in the lore but diving into other ones and looking for real world parallels will be interesting
You know for experience all the rest kills after the first are easy…?
Mint, is there anything you wanna tell us?
A leader giving commands, ah yes that is not what leader means. Good vid btw
Clown inspiration: 🤮🤢🤢🤮🤢🤢🤮
Dredge inspiration: 😭😭😭😭😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰
Both of these two are fked up look up pixlebrush on these two
More normal = more fun
Doctor mains crying rn😭
I love everything about the Legion, except their game play. The music, the lore, the visuals, is really cool. But my God feral frenzy is such a boring power to use, which sucks cuz I want to listen to their music every chase.
I like the perspective you give to the character and it reminds me a lot of my favorite horror saga Texas chainsaw massacre because I feel that something like that or worse could happen in real life in perspective are a couple of young people intertwined by a group of crazy people in a semi-abandoned location
even in one movie there are no survivors and in another movie leatherface is chasing after a pregnant girl And I really liked the argument of the happiness some of the human characters have when committing those crimes couse characters like Demogorgon are like animals and dont fell satisfaction for killing
lol when you were showing the target audience for the cosmetics, you put the stereotypical discord mod as Susie’s. I personally really love Susie’s cosmetics above all the other members, but I’m the different kinda of audience.
The femboys in denial who would unironically wear Susie’s cosmetics irl
Like Ron Perlmans Hellboy: Yeah, uh, "posse"? With your accent? Might not want to use that too much
IS EVERYONE GOING TO IGNORE MINTSKULL SAYING THAT HE HAS EXPERIENCE IN MURDER???
I know this video is serious but this just got me off guard and made me giggle 7:43
7:43 ik it’s a serious video but it just got me off guard and made me giggle
7:43–7:48 tf?
"Trust me i know from experience"
Im guessing your hobby is hunting then
If you read the comic there is soooo much more context to their motivations (which of course in short remains the want to watch the world burn) and it’s really interesting and cool. I highly recommend if you haven’t read them yet.
STORY??? OMG I LVOE YOU
As a Legion main I thank thee for setting the records straight about this killer ! Looking forward for new videos of this format !
While they did some stinky stuff to Legion's lore with their tome, hasn't it been confirmed by bhvr that outfits shouldn't really be considered canon? They're like alternative versions of existing characters from other multiverses and modern dbd lore just fucking loves talking about different realities.
Granted, that explanation is really "pick and choose" when it comes to what outfits would you consider belonging to the "original" version of the character and which you wouldn't.
Neat theory. But I never feel like most killers are based on real world tragedies as it feels tasteless. Reminds me of how Pixel Bush makes videos on similar topics.
Yippeh
"Trust me, I know from experience" Bro are you alright?….
I was very happy to see that you chose to feature The Legion as your first in this series. I personally love to play as The Legion and was excited to see a more in depth story on the lore. Keep making this series it is very entertaining.
From what I've seen of their lore I always imagined them all to have this dark side and intrigue for morbid things, but that Frank was the catalyst that brought them together and had given the others the push do actually act on it.
My friends always said that they were nothing more than edgy teenagers, but the way I see it (as someone who was an edgy teenager) they aren't 'just edgy'. They are what anyone could be if they took the wrong route and had little to no compassion for the ones that they hurt.
That isn't being edgy. That's the type of person people are afraid of in real life.
This was good
Also the lore of Dredge is similar to Johnstown incident happened irl
"after your first kill all the rest are easier , trust me i know from experience " AYO?
keep making this series, it’s actually awesome
Honestly I've always agreed. I just wish that they'd have a power that made sense instead of just being able to stab people really fast without that being able to down their victims somehow. It sucks knowing that we won't get any real reworks for the legion since bhvr is happy where they are in terms of balance and that two of the members are locked behind a paywall.
Thank you for this. I've always hated when people treat horror as if it's some sort of anime specifically aimed at children with a blatant and silly power scaling rather than what best inspires dread and revulsion (subjective, of course, but discussable). I think the real horror is the number of grown-ass adults who actually sit there and debate whether Superman or Goku would win in a fight – or in this case which generic masked killer would. :/
Speaking of two face and dc What if they made anarchy from dc a legendary skin for the legion
Poosay?
7:43 📸🤨officer he's right here