Real killers do not belong in dbd

Thankfully, the opinion of real murderers being in dbd isn’t the most common opinion ever, but I’ve heard it a couple times and I think that’s just way too much

People wanting actual murderers into the game is so stupid, like people will go “but leather face IS Ed gein” no. He’s not, he’s a heavily inspired by those real murders, but the film and the character don’t make light of it, they use real events and Connections you can make in your mind to effectively convey realistic horror, and even can help people understand how viscerally horrifying murder is.

that’s why characters like the clown With John Wayne Gacy, the riddler (“the Batman” version) with the zodiac killer work because they don’t glorify these killers by commemorating them, they use them to research what these people act like, to create realistic stories. Fiction, and real life atrocities, should not intertwine with fiction, because people LIKE fictional characters, especially in a game like dbd where they have cool powers and quirks, and if you give that to a real monster, it’s so incredibly distasteful, and the more praise you give people who do bad shit, the more bad shit will happen.

The doctor, chucky, xeno can be based on real life killers, the doctor with certain evil doctors

or kinds of people Charles lee ray being this kinda, Prototypical serial killer so the film can explore what would happen if a bad selfish evil adult was placed into his position, and the fear of those people tainting your child’s innocence and the helplessness which that can cause

or crimes, the xenomorph being a metaphor for the horror of sexual assault so the film can show the audience how terrifying being invaded, bloodied, and forced to give new life as a result is.

Because they’re done tastefully, OR they simply BASE characters off real people for the narrative.

I think plenty of killer characters are so cool, Chucky is my favorite character of all time, and I love writing horror, but there’s a massive difference between fiction and reality