Where to start with this is a question that perfectly describes my original thought on this. According to a few DbD leakers, Chucky suppose to get a licensed legacy skin that's the Leprechaun. This by itself raises many great questions. Such as a few companies involved with two franchises sharing a slot. Basically they previously gotten Chucky with Tiffany being an legacy skin of him with her voice overs.
I can understand having a few characters from the same franchise sharing a slot among the character selection. But three characters with one from another franchise sharing the same slot? They would have to evenly share their cut of the money. This is notably different than if the Leprechaun simply going to be in his own slot no real issue could occur.
We don't even know which version of Leprechaun they're going for. Which quickly becomes a more interesting question than anything else. Another factor why I question this is the creator of Chucky rather cross over with more popular horror icons like M3gan. Which I'm directly against but absolutely loved their show rants towards her.
He also previously wanted to cross Chucky over with Freddy. Well it eventually happened in Dead by Daylight. A lot of people want M3gan in this as well. I'm more in favor of Five Nights at Freddy's myself. A lot stuff possibly coming to the game in comparison. To me, it's just way more interesting than a knock off of a remake Chucky character.
People who seen the first six Leprechaun movies. You already know all of them are separate stories. Warwick Davis played six versions of the same creature. There's also Leprechaun: Origins not a leprechaun. I highly doubt they would bother with that pathetic representation of the franchise. Especially considering WWE moved Raw onto Netflix recently.
It's very common knowledge Leprechaun fans hated that film with a passion. I gotta mention Leprechaun Returns a direct sequel to the original Leprechaun movie. There's some notable changes to the character including his height. They would have to figure exactly which version of the character to go for. I highly doubt it's going to be Leprechaun 4: In Space.
Let's be honest, they have a few maps not on Earth. Which could've been used to bring that version of the character in. Like Leprechaun: Origins, it's also heavily disliked by the fans. Plus possible backlash from people that gotten screwed out of Jason X stuff in Friday the 13th: The Game. The last thing they want is DbD getting some Leprechaun 4 theme stuff.
Even if we don't bring in a space ship map into this. I felt the four most likely versions of the character they're go for. The original Leprechaun it's kinda an obvious pick. A lot of people still heavily enjoyed that movie for many years. You already notice some licensed killers were pulled from those films. Leprechaun in the Hood version was surprisingly popular in my high school.
I would even say one of the funniest Leprechaun movies ever!!! They also could reference the magical flute as a charm. Leprechaun Returns also could work if they can't get Warwick Davis to reprise the role. I felt Linden Porco did a great job playing the character in that movie. Also considering he's the most recent actor to do the role.
It's possible we could end up with Porco reprising the role for Dead by Daylight. My main choice hands down not even close. Every Leprechaun fan absolutely loves this film. Leprechaun 3 now they could actually have some fun with this version. He could have some possible skins like his doctor disguise or an magician outfit.
There's also the height issue to a degree. I also see people having a huge issue if Chucky's voices comes out his mouth. Not only that, Leprechaun would've worked way better as his own killer. There's also the fact they have to notably change Chucky's animations to better fit the character. They even confess can be somewhat tedious to do at times.
Assuming this is going to happen like this. I see some major obstacles that could easily make it one of their worst licensing situations in history. They recently had an issue with the Junji Ito Collection. A lot of licensed skins from that horror manga author's works. Thankfully they were able to fix the problem before it gotten much worst.
I don't think that situation going to happen with the Leprechaun. I do think due to some factors you better buy em while he's available. There's no way the character as a legacy skin going to stay in the game for long. He isn't that popular to begin with. I could justify The Djinn from Wishmaster series being a possible legacy skin for The Vecna.
Which would've worked wonders but also make a lot more sense. Let's be honest, it's a bit too weird to have an magical creature as a skin for a possessed doll that uses voodoo. You kinda have to use your imagination to help make it work. Then again some fan horror films is better to watch than attempt doing that.
This is a rather interesting situation. Which company for the Leprechaun actually involve if this gets revealed to be true? Lionsgate currently owns majority of the films. Syfy did make Leprechaun Returns which could make that the more likely option. Again it just bags so many questions with not enough answers.
Another thing to consider is they usually don't do alternative skins for legacy skin characters. Which in this case could be a huge missed opportunity. Indirectly, the famous Chucky in Space joke happens. But by having the Leprechaun as a legacy skin of him. By now the world knows the Leprechaun been to space.
This almost comes off as a well made joke or a somewhat decent bar joke. The insane amount of work to make this possible the way they're suggesting. It's almost like they didn't actually wanna do the character at all. Then again some DbD fans still ask for Predator. Despite the fact, he already gotten a similar multiplayer game!!!
The point I'm trying to make is how all of that effort quickly blow up in their faces. Especially when simply making the Leprechaun a full killer would've work out much better than this. You are basically saying Leprechaun needed Chucky's support in DbD. When the character clearly could've done things on his own is rather insulting to me.
In my mind, this is simply doomed to fail. As much I really wanna see these two cross over. It's actually among my most wanted to date. This really isn't the best way of doing things. I kinda felt cheated the Leprechaun going to get treated in such a matter. In all honestly, I really hope for them this turns out to be false.
Otherwise I'll be waiting patiently waiting to see the unavoidably backlash this entire situation going to cost em. We're dealing with licensed characters this will hit em very hard. If it was over original characters they created. Then giving em licensed skins that's fine by me. But putting a different franchise onto another to get more money out of people is rather shady.
The big difference is when they do licensed skins on their original characters. The possible backlash is notably smaller compared to this. Leprechaun skin is almost under a microscope the entire time. One wrong move, everybody upset at them. In comparison, they got more room of error if anything happens with licensed skins on their characters.
There doesn't exist such a safety net for this particular situation. Hell a lot of people really wanted Robert Englund to reprise Freddy in a new licensed skin. Which would work out way better than this!!! Honestly, if they were planning to do this. They better reconsider not doing it at all. I can promise you only mass negative reception is awaiting them following this Leprechaun skin's release.
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