Yes I absolutely would love to see Final Destination's Death come to Dead by Daylight. Just like Makima's entry parts of this going to serve a pitch to the team. I decided to make the pitch separate to help it stand out more. Ultimately I'm sharing my analyze of the character. In all honestly, this particular entry was something I considered doing a good while.
Death
Death is the Grim Reaper who represents death on a conceptual level. I know some might view Death as an antagonist. He's actually more of trying to maintain the balance of everything. If one too many survived could mean the end of everything. Usually someone among a group that survived some form of tragedy foresaw what's about to happen.
Often this causes those people to freak out. Unavoidably saving a few people right before something terrible about to happen. This forces Death to hunt down the survivors to those that weren't supposed to survive. Death is among the most creative slashers I ever seen!!! He also among the most powerful from those I seen.
Death can cause huge accidents that kills a lot of people to happen. Especially in ways you wouldn't even think of that were possible. Unfortunately, Death can't simply give them the touch of Death. The entity uses whatever he could find to kill people. For majority of these deaths, a domino effect often occurs.
Death slowly sets things into motion. If he fails either he tries again or go another person on his lists. Like Scream series, each movie had different rules the groups followed. The assumption Death himself followed those rules. By default, you can't see Death but there do exist a few glimpse of the entity in the movies.
This isn't an being they could directly fight either. So many situations could be used to kill his targets. There's little to no limits what Death could do. Confirmed in Final Destination: Bloodlines after several failed attempts. Death will give those targets terrible diseases. Inevitably you are going to die if you're on any of those lists.
Which bags the question did anyone survive Death? Only one woman found a way to beat Death. Kimberly Corman nearly drowned to be revived shortly afterwards. Death doesn't shy away going after young, old, male or female. If you are on any of his lists there's no where to hide. Death can easily go anywhere he's needed bypassing any protection people on his lists had.
Death can go small to disaster levels with ease. Death can start things miles away working towards his targets. The entity doesn't have any notable weaknesses. Simply going by the movies, he can't be reason with either. He goes out of his way to hunt them down for the good of the balance. He does go after families very true in Final Destination: Bloodlines.
He prefers to not have any unfinished business. He lacks a way to prevent someone among each group for foreseeing his plans. Death can use anything that could harm you in some way to kill you. Death will manipulate technology to get what he wants. Yes this does include huge vehicles like planes. Even small household objects could be used to kill you.
He existed as long as death came into existence. He doesn't like getting taunted to a degree. Most of them doesn't even realize how many advantages he has? The only person that came close was Iris Campbell. The same old woman who was in a modified house to prevent Death getting her. People who saw his plans can see further signs of how someone going to die.
Usually through shadows or pictures in the case of Final Destination 3. Death is a master strategist that will unexpectedly go bigger to get the last few people on his lists. Time is not a factor since he has plans through plan z with some people. Death will never stop coming after you until somehow you survived. In a way Death stops coming after you or the ugly truth you die along with everyone else.
Don't view Death as a person he's much bigger than that. He is essentially a deity trying to keep things spinning. But can't allow too many timelines that's not supposed to exist. The more people that survives when they're not suppose to be. The greater of the end of things going to be. Something no one ever realizes in any of the movies.
By being alive, some people can't be born neither die until this matter is fixed. As if the life cycle can't properly continue flowing. Yes Death delivers some truly horrible ends to his targets. But try to think of it for a greater cause in the grand scheme of things. Death simply wants things to be fixed nothing more. Things only gets worst for those that continue to survive.
The true perceptive is Death the hero by doing some truly unpleasant things. Everyone that survived beyond when they're suppose to be. This actually triggers a slow moving end to humanity. Even decent people among the targets needs to be removed. Death isn't a monster in what he does. He is largely misunderstood by his targets.
Death is a entity that doesn't like to be tested. He also doesn't like people originally not targets trying to save someone who is. Yes they will end up becoming targets themselves. The only true limitation Death has is within every thing he uses. For example, he can't fire more nails from a nail gun if there's no more nails.
There's some obvious tech situations that could occur. Despite this, Death always found a way to make it work. Death won't bend such concepts making him more fair than they ever realize. Usually he easily could use something else before any of those situations happens. Death can virtually do whatever he wants.
At the same time, he does represent order. He expects to get one or multiple targets at a time. No matter what other people in those groups does. As long people kept foreseeing his plans. Many people needs to die to maintain order. He doesn't kill without a reason let's make that crystal clear. There was one notable fun time messing with someone in Final Destination: Bloodlines.
Although this came at the expense of someone. This proved Death does occasionally have fun on the side while working. This also proves Death isn't evil either. If any of this terrifying you it should indeed. He represents the inevitable end of every living being. There is little to no escape from his wrath. Sooner or later, he will get you.
Dead by Daylight pitch
Let's be honest, there's a lot of choices among the survivors to choose from. I still felt they should go with the one person to survive him. Kimberly Corman from Final Destination 2 it makes perfect sense. The only person to found a way to beat Death in the movies. There's virtually no question the killer needs to be Death!!!
I know the big question is exactly how to go about playing as Death in Dead by Daylight right? It's a bit ambitious but also quite simple at the same time. Death was meant to be invisible like The Wraith to a degree. They would place anything Death could use against survivors around the maps. Which also could be the generators themselves.
Death would be done in a rather unique simulator style. Where you can see a large portion of the map from bird eye view. To some people this would be similar to many simulator games. Death can easily cause something from one side of the map. Then quickly do something else on the opposite side. Of course, they would need to slow this down a bit to make it fair for survivor players.
This also would allow the team creativity. How to go about harming the survivors as Death during matches? Instead of Death directly showing up to carry survivors to hooks. He could directly manipulate the hooks themselves to hang people. Which would be faithful to the source material. There's no question Death is among my most requested horror icons for the game.
Another possible cool aspects they could do. Players could be given a huge variety of stuff to work with. Thus bringing a more unique game play style that anyone could make their own in some way. Virtually making Death among the most customizable in terms of attacking people. I do believe if this done right going to easily make Death among the most popular killers in the game!!!
Some maps can be quite huge making playing Death a little trickier. This also would make it easier for Death to place traps or simply wait for opportunities to strike. This would completely transform Dead by Daylight into a vastly different horror game experience. Instead of appearing to close the hatches during matches.
Death would need to control something to close them. This also would buy survivors more time to find the hatches. It also wouldn't be fair to place stuff outside exit gates. Although, those playing as the character can place stuff close by them. There would be some limitations on placing things. None of it could be permanently broken.
Just temporary disabled with times for becoming available to use differs among them. There wouldn't be actual cosmetics for Death himself. However whatever he's given to hunt down the survivors with. Those would receive cosmetics to further allow customization to the overall experience. Also considering Final Destination: Bloodlines was the late Tony Todd's last movie.
I felt Death is a better choice than Candyman at the moment. Let's be honest, they might have no choice but use the other Candyman character. Whose not getting requested at all by the community. I really think Candyman is off the table for the game. But Todd played a notable character in Final Destination series.
In a way, he probably prefer Death over Candyman coming to the game. Unless someone close to him confirms the opposite. Being afraid of Death is a very common fear among every living thing. You knew eventually they had to do a more direct take on the concept. Which is exactly why this version of the Grim Reaper would be perfect for that.
I'm also aware this could work against him trying to maintain the natural order of things. By accepting to be among many killers for The Entity. His universe no longer have death effectively dooming everyone. The Entity can manipulate the life cycle to a degree. I felt The Entity would make a deal with Death than having him as an enemy.
You could name a lot of great killers in any franchise. But none of them came close to the Grim Reaper!!! I do have some ideas exactly where to pull these Final Destination characters from. Kimberly would be taken during getting revived after nearly drowned. A mysterious black fog came to take her. As for Death, I felt the perfect opportunity would be finishing his list.
In Final Destination: Bloodlines following William Bludworth passed away concluding several events of the movies. Death was directly encountered by The Entity. There was a brief fight before a deal was made. Death agreed to join among it's many killers. This also would prevent getting Bludworth into the game.
As for the add-ons being among the most creative aspects of the character in the game. Death could use a huge variety of anything given to him during matches. Therefore, Death would have a rather lengthy list of add-ons for each type players can use to tone it down a little down. For example, if they want something to be a little more flammable or explosive they can.
They also can increase the meters to get more usage about them. There wouldn't be add-ons to work on more than one type though. Otherwise that simply wouldn't be fair to the survivors side. This further brings in customization to the game in a way it never had previously. This is exactly why Final Destination's Death always been a huge request for me.
Death wouldn't be allowed to directly have planned layouts on maps. After all, the maps are randomly generated. The very last thing they want is giving killer players a little too much of an advantage. They only would control what they could use against the survivors. Along with which add-ons being applied to some of those.
There's plenty of ways they could balance things to make it fair for both sides. Playing Death virtually is similar to creator modes in many video games. They would give you plenty to work with. They really wanna see how truly creative you could be with this killer. I wouldn't even be surprise they end up making a contest about it either.
I really think Final Destination chapter could be among the most successful they ever done!!! Especially if they really take the time to make it a truly unique experience. I doubt they increase PTB period though. Personally I would rather they should increase that period just for this killer. They likely expecting a long list of details from those testing the character.
Death would be exactly what this game needs? They been looking for more variety among horror genre. Final Destination franchise would help bridge that gap. Not only that, playing as Death should be a truly unforgettable experience. You know how some people felt among playing video games off a particular list before you die.
Death should be handle to a similar quality. They easily could do a couple legacy skin characters. I also think Death being one of a very few killers to work perfectly on every map. Death has just enough control over the survivors to keep things interesting as well as balanced. Who knows if this convinces the team to go for the license or not?
They also mentioned they wanna be more creative about the upcoming changing weather system. Which licensed killer more perfect than Final Destination's Death? Not only this killer could take advantage of the weather. Some disasters allowed in by the developers also could be used. Of course, any notable damage to the map like that overtime would be fixed for fairness purposes.
This should make Death among the scariest killers in the game. Killer players simply can't control which weather conditions going to show up during matches. Which also being done for fairness purposes. They still could maintain control of everything else to make up for that. This is easily my most ambitious killer request for the game hands down!!!
Conclusion
Final Destination series is among the most creative horror movies I ever seen!!! It really would mean so much to me. If Dead by Daylight could bring in such an iconic horror movie franchise to the game. Especially one that literately terrifying to most people who seen them. Death may be viewed as a villain actually the hero in their stories.
Considering next month is The Judgment whose an angel killing survivors coming for that game. By this point anything could happen. Death would be a really awesome addition to the overall experience. Honestly, I think they really can't go wrong with this. Final Destination series earned a place in that game.