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S1E1 - An Introduction to Dead by Daylight
In which Caro finds out just what kind of game these characters are from.
Let the game begin.
Welcome to a sort of Episode Zero situation in which Caro, Cole, and Gavin sit down to talk about the video game Dead by Daylight. Never played the game before? This might be a good first episode.
S1E2 - The Huntress: Death from Afar
She's hot, she's resourceful, she's awful with children.
She'd like to axe you a question.
The Huntress. The first ranged killer in DBD, this probably-Russian badass runs around the map humming a lullaby about wolves stealing children in the night and throwing axes at people.
S1E3 - The Trapper: Angry Swol Capitalist
He's rich, he's got daddy issues, he's got some bear traps for SOME reason.
Evan's Got Issues.
He's on the box art, he's the face of Dead by Daylight, which begs the question: why is Dollar Tree Jason Vorhees the character Behaviour sold the game with? Why does he have all that metal sticking out of him? Why is he burned?
S1E4 - The Wraith: An Invisible Dorito in the Night
He's got a bell, he's got a knife-club made out of his old boss. He rocks.
He ALWAYS skips leg day.
Wraith. One of the original three killers to launch with Dead by Daylight. The game's answer to Michael Myers, only for them to actually license Michael Myers several months later. What's Philip's backstory? Is it at all problematic?
S1E5 - The Hillbilly: Chicken-Fried Chainsaw Action
What if rich people Cask of Amontillado'd their kid?
Which Rich Farmers Go Bad
The Hillbilly. None of his lore really establishes any sense of location or culture that would make him a hillbilly, yet we're calling him that anyway. This is a rough one, folks.
S1E6 - The Nurse: Floating Eugenicist Girlboss
From a time when nursing was more of a vibe than a science.
The Nurse
She could've been so cool, yet she ends up so frustrating. Join us on the adventure of picking through the wreckage that is Sally Smithson's lore, as well as attempting to convince Caro she gets kinda cool from a gameplay perspective.
S1E7 - The Shape: Literal Stalker Michael Myers
Local Clown Boy Grows Up, Finds Knife
Big daddy head tilt is here.
It's time to talk about the first copyrighted killer to enter the Entity's clutches. This one gets a little saucy, a little pro-Myers, and Gavin introduces a bit for every time they say the wrong person with the same name as Michael Myers.
S1E8 - The Hag: Cannibal Tree Witch
She's literally named after a forest. No joke I write will top that.
Have you tried NOT tempting fate?
Lisa Sherwood, a woman named after a famous forest who gets turned into a tree-cannibal. A character so loosely-written they had to retroactively add more lore just to make it more clear as to why the Entity considered her a killer and took her in the first place.
S1E9 - The Doctor: A Shocking Backstory
His Methods Have Electrifying Results
He's gonna zap ya.
Prepare the Pepe Silvia gif reactions, it's time to talk about the killer with a potentially bonkers pseudo-coverup attached to his backstory. Is he fully fiction? Was he originally based on a real person before having his identity scrubbed at the last minute to
S1E10 - The Cannibal: His Chainsaw Hungers
Bubba wants to snap into a slim Jim.
Hope you saved some room for dessert.
That's right. It's time to talk Leatherface. The second instance of the developers patching in a character who they'd only just created an off-brand version of for the launch of the game. Where Michael Myers was the proto-Wraith, Hillbilly owes his existence of Bubba.