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Hey everyone, today we’re looking at the inspirations for the characters, and what they could be based on. This is a video I wanted to revisit, in part because of all the new characters, but also because I would say I have a bit more knowledge than the first-time round. I also want to try and be more concise and more specific hopefully.
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The Emperor’s Army – Jeremy Blake
Clean and Dance – An Jone
Night Run Away – An Jone
Intro 0:00
Trapper 0:18
Wraith 0:46
Billy 1:09
Nurse 1:21
Shape 1:31
Hag 1:52
Doctor 2:05
Huntress 2:25
Bubba 2:56
Nightmare 3:03
Pig 3:18
Clown 3:38
Spirit 3:52
Legion 4:09
Plague 4:33
Ghost Face 4:49
Demogorgon 5:04
Oni 5:21
Deathslinger 5:29
Executioner 5:56
Blight 6:30
Twins 6:52
Trickster 7:17
Nemesis 7:38
Cenobite 8:09
Artist 8:24
Onryō 8:43
Dredge 8:53
Mastermind 9:13
Knight 9:34
Skull Merchant 10:04
Singularity 10:45
Outro 11:16
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i always tho singularity was based on fnaf
The Huntress isn't based at Baba Yaga at all. The only thing that connects them is that they both live in forest. In slavic folklore Baba Yaga is an old, ugly and hunched witch that eats people, which has nothing to do with our big and strong woman in shes prime, also I don't remember any mentions that Huntress is a cannibal or wields a magic of some sort xd
The Clown is based off of John Wayne Gacy a pedophile who kills children, and The Legion is not like Ghostface at all, I'd say he's more like a killer from The Purge, Wesker is nothing like Neo from The Matrix I can't believe you said that! Skull Merchant is based off of Predator and The Wraith I can say is to, The Knight to me is based off of For Honor he's a mix of Warden&Kilmonger. Singularity to me is based off of Alien&Meet Your Maker I can see it being a little similar
Clown is based of of John Wayne gacy
7:00 the twins could be based on the horror movie basket case which is about seperated joined twins and one of the brothers is a small deformed blob of flesh that looks like viktor if he moved via claymation.
Wouldn't wraiths bell also be either a funeral bell or a reference to For Whom The Bell Tolls as his lore was not even a twinkle in behaviours eyes at the time
The doctor you said tried to cure internet addiction. Pretty sure he still is using electro shock therapy to cure gaming and internet addiction today
The warden has a crossover with samurai shodown so I doubt they couldn't get the license for them to play the knight
I think for skull merchant, she takes some inspiration from killers like Chromeskull (laid to rest). A rich, affluent person who secretly kills others for their advantages. I rhink her mask kinda takes inspiration from Chromeskull (although his mask is more chrome and hers is more of a diamond covered mask.) It could just be me being a weird horror movie fan
As a resident evil fan the thumbnail genuinely hurts
The Pig’s outfit has a few different sources. And they all come from the first Saw movie!
The outfit and mask is from when Adam is abducted from his apartment. Amanda is wearing a pig mask and a red cloak when she takes him.
The hidden blade is from when Detective David Tapp and Detective Steven Sing infiltrate Jigsaw’s lair and Jigsaw is wearing a black cloak and has a hidden blade which he uses to slit Tapp’s throat before he escapes. Tapp survives and even has a scar on his neck on his in game model!
I always knew freddy was a pepperoni pizza
Albert wesker was created in 1996 where as Neo was created in 1999
Deathslinger was inspired by the gunslinger from Stephen kings dark tower series. I remember seeing it in an interview.
Eeyo, Skull Merchant is The Mechanist, from Fallout. XD
6:10 wow such tiger ( I know it’s a nitpicking thing but I’m a huge history nerd and that’s a panther tank )
i think the singularity was mainly inspired by SOMA, more specifically the construct or robot girl
Actually i heard that Nemesis is a Greek goddess of retribution which is slightly different
I also think Singularity is inspired by many similar stories in film and television. The setting and atmosphere of the future feels very Alien. The way they describe Hux’s previous form reminds me of androids from the alien franchise like Ash from the first Alien or also the Working Joes from Alien Isolation. Also his whole MO and design reminds me of the 1999 movie Virus. In that movie a space lightning bolt strikes a Russian ship, quickly taking over the computer systems and gaining sentience. It also constructs crude physical bodies that are made of both machine parts and organic matter.
Also, the lore of Legion is like a dark version of I Know What You Did Last Summer. Same case with a murder and same narrative with "it's OUR secret, and we will take it to our graves"
I also feel like hux is based of hal 9000 especially with the glowing red dot as an eye
I think the skull merchant could be based on kabal and baraka from mortal kombat
The Legion, rather than being visually inspired by the purge, seems to be inspired by a scrapped idea for Scream 2. In this scrapped script, Stu the original killer survived and was leading an army or “legion” of Ghostfaces.
Singularity is definitely based off of squidward from five nights at the chum bucket
singularity is probably based on the horror game soma
The inspiration for Wesker wasn't Neo, man. wtf
Bubba is NOT based off of a grave robber. You might wanna revisit the TCM movies and research them a bit more to see what they were based on
The clown is a version OF JHON WAYNE GASEY OR HOW EVER YOU SAY HIS LAST NAME now i see a lot of people mentioned this person
surprised you didn't draw a connection to HAL-9000 from 2001: a space odyssey for the singularity.
bro said “My Bloody Valentine” and I got excited bro I’m a nerd 🙁
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I'd love an amnesia TDD crossover
5:29 Tombstone (film)
I wouldnt be surprised in the inspiration for the twins could be the film Basket Case. Little gremlin thing in an older siblings body and also screams very loud
Video suggestions: All of the killers crimes they committed and part 2 for the survivors for something
Deathslinger is based off of tbe Saint of Killers from Preacher. Clown is based off John Wayne Gacy. Skull Merchant is extremely similar to Scandal Savage (an obscure DC supervillian), the daughter of Vandal Savage and taking inspiration from him. She is a competent businesswoman, she is rich, she is Brazilian, she has the exact same weapon and look.
The names Hux and Soma remind me of "Brave new world" by Aldous Huxley. Its a dystopion book in which a drug called soma is used.
Also Twins remind me of a gothic horror short story i've read years ago, taking place in france and containing a pair of conjoined twins (both male and grown up but one of them died so its kinda similar..).
The skull merchant's mask is clearly inspirated in the Brazilian Film and comic book "The Awakener" (O Doutrinador in Portuguese)
Some also notes for specific killers;
The Nurse actually shares a good bit of her backstory and themes with, ironically, Lisa Garland from Silent Hill 1 specifically. With both being withered down over years of working in hospital/asylums and dying/snapping.
Freddy in general is also inspired by real life deaths of the Mong people, it's too much to go into but there are a good amount of videos going into it.
Ghostface is heavily based of his Scream counterpart's real life inspiration, Danny Rolling. His "Classic" robe is also not the one from the film but based on it, being non sparkled and different drapes.
Twins seem to be based on a film called Basket Case. Just look it up and you'll see lots of references 👍
i hope some dead by daylight characters will be in mortal kombat
and some mortal kombat characters can be in dead by daylight
I like to think Death Slinger is based off of Micah Bell from Red Dead Redemption 2 in appearance
that thing from meet your maker i knew that was the singularity