A Retrospective on the Silent Hill Chapter | Dead by Daylight Lore Deep Dive
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- Welcome, friends and foes, Survivors and Killers. Today we'll be looking back on the Silent Hill chapter, which brought Konami's legendary horror franchise to Dead by Daylight with Midwich Elementary School, Cheryl Mason and Pyramid Head. We'll be discussing Pyramid Head's significant implications for DBD's canon and investigating the potential for an alternative Survivor to Cheryl, while showcasing some of Silent Hill's best moments such as a man shouting at another man eating pizza.
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“What are you gonna do, stab me?” - The Entity, June 16th 2020
"Yes. Yes, I am. Forever." Pyramid Head
Entity should Be the survivor now
@Jordy Maurice Trolled!!!
@@nonamemclovenakamr.n8100 Technically Nea is a survivor.
@@thomasobrien2780 I toldly forgot
Entity: Oh hey, so you're here because I need you to feed me
Pyramid head: No. Im not
*Doom music starts playing*
James in reality: *"I used the killer to kill the killer. "*
Id pay a lot of money to watch that fight
Pinhead would probably be there to torture and kill the Entity too. Just because it brought his Lament Configuration lol
Pyramid head: You're going to feed me!
*pinhead and the shape and Wesker behind pyramid head to back him up*
Your explanation is better than DBDs explanation to why he's in the game even though it probably is just cause pyramidhead is popular and makes alot of money.
@@nochannel8434 nice opinion, I'm glad you get something out of it.
@@nochannel8434 the guy up there is right tho... the problem still is (and why we still think that Cheryl/Heather was not the best choice of paired survivor in matter of tying it better together) that the way he is implemented is by the movies's design/ideals (albeit looking like James' red pyramid) that don't really tie into the original lore in any way apart from the fact that he looks cool... should've been either red pyramid+James (or Maria to keep the sex of the survivor) or movie/homecoming one+Heather or mayhaps even Alex (but i doubt anyone would want to see that guy)... all of these seem like a better lore/logical ideas than what we were given and would make more sense if the chapter was made more as a satiable fanservice to diehard fans instead of the "cashgrab" it is (but hey, beggars can't be choosers)
and well, the chapter is pretty far from perfect as it is, like, yeah, the other creatures in silent hill do fear him (and it's understandably logical for him to be the alpha that would be chosen by the entity), but only due to the fact that he originally is the most oppressive and suppressed feelings of James that threaten his own conviction and sense of self, the way we have him here is like i said more like the movie one where he IS the executioner, the punisher, BUT he punishes any and all instead of guiding with an iron fist (or blade) like he did originally, which would leave him (with a bit of thought) in the exact same position as Valtiel as your example - a guide, a protector even (regarding Cheryl at least)
with all that in mind, the chapter would be nearly perfect if it were James or Maria but unfortunately it's not and the fact that we were given Cibyl and Lisa as outfits is just further proof that money and looking cool actually was slightly more favored over thought even through all the credit we can try to give to bE by grasping at straws
@@nochannel8434Late reply but I agree but knowing his origin it's rather obvious he's there bc he's probably the most known sh monster
i mean to be fair they also have to appeal to the majority rather than the minority. if a sh chapter released with someone else nobody would buy it because no one would know who they are. ph has a presence and most people who will recognize him probably havent played sh.
y'know, I just thought of this and I don't know where to put it.
What if the Entity pulls a Monsters Inc. and discovers that laughter is 10 times more powerful than fear
bruh holy shit
ive actually never thought of this wtf
of course
iirc the entity feeds off of the hope of survivors
so we're already kinda half-way there
the entity doesnt just feed off of fear, but of all of the survivors emotions. survivors who have become emotionless and dead inside are sent to the void as they are no longer of use to the entity
@@nametagmc7935 so why not pursue a career in comedy? It causes a decent range of emotions.
@@supermarine2493 eh ancient elder god reasons thats why
@@supermarine2493 I suppose one emotion isn't a enough
Hearing Mary's letter again gives me chills
Is it HD remastered voice? That almost made me burp, with how terrible delivery was. I swear, in my pre-school kids were better at reading the lines than whatever that was. I haven't played the original in a while now, but no way it was that bad back then.
@@blindeyedblightmain3565 hoho fellow blight main wuzzah!!!
I want a remaster
@@blindeyedblightmain3565 No it’s 100% the original voice clip. Go watch the original intro again. ruclips.net/video/97D4oxrGg0c/видео.html
@@Kro-RissaVirus Damn, that's upsetting. At the time of release I though it was pretty good.
As long as there is cruelty, there is sin. As long as there is sin, there is guilt. As long as there is guilt, there is the Executioner. - Fortune Cookie
I always thought that how it happened was The Entity DID snatch up James alongside Cheryl, and warped and twisted James into a reflection of the spectre which once tormented him.
Damn, dude, that's a quite cool idea.
@@somerandomguy9891 I mean yeah. Think about it, the entity clearly can't just snatch up abstract concepts or make it's own, it always has to have _something_ to anchor it's power to.
If not, it would just make it's own killers instead of abducting murderers and victims.
That isn't that far off of a theory. I don't remember which game, but one of the later titles had a bad ending where the main character was turned into a Pyramid Head. While we can debate how canon the ending itself is, it shows that the potential for this to actually happen exists within Silent Hill's universe.
Then again, this is the same franchise that had an ending where a Shiba Inu was responsible for the events of Silent Hill 2 as a joke, so I wouldn't be surprised if you call my observation flawed.
@@toptextbottomtext2776 Entity Whispering: yo girl im here for u
@@Xeranad homecoming, I think is the one you’re thinking off
Community: why is pyramid head here?
Devs: M O N I
On the symbolism of the knife itself, it seems to represent James’s desire for suicide since pyramid head only begins to wield it after James sees Angela contemplating ending it with a kitchen knife
Also sexual if want go abit more literal its apart the sexual metaphore aswell a blade which oenetrates maria
I always thought of it representing the weight of the guilt. The way Pyramid Head struggles to wield it reminds me of someone carrying a burden
When you said that Cheryl has never seen the photo of the hooded executioners, that might not really be true. Cheryl is a fraction of Alessa, and she was raised by Dahlia, a woman who tried to force the order and the history of silent hill upon her daughter. It would make sense that Alessa would be familiar with the executioners, and because of SH3 we know that Cheryl remembers a lot of her past. While it’s not explicit, I personally believe it’s completely plausible that Cheryl would picture pyramid head in the same way James did, especially due to her resentment of the order, and her guilt caused by her role in birthing incubus, the very thing she opposed.
Also, every creature follows a similar pattern or aesthetic in silent hill. If it was truly a reflection of everyone’s personal turmoil the creatures wouldn’t share such similarities. Every creature is shaped by the Otherworld, which in turn is shaped by the God that the order wishes to birth. It’s not entirely unreasonable that the God keeps designs for specific roles. The executioners would kill people in order to cleanse and make way for the new world, as was the order’s wish. It makes sense that the God would use its own twisted version of them to cleanse James of his guilt, to make way for the new James.
Just a thought :))
If you count Origins as canon, there's a picture of Pyramid Head at the Gillespie house. Travis can even comment about it, iirc. So yeah, Alessa definitely saw the executioners before being reborn.
@@SanelyInsane13 it's not canon
@@typerez8132 I believe it is, just not in the timeline where Cheryl is born.
I was too focused on the Power Struggle plays lmao
Your name makes me happy
The explanation of why Pyramid Head has a triangle, being the image from the museum, really reminds of the image from "Have you seen this man in your dreams?". Once you've seen it, it gets ingrained in your unconscious thoughts.
This strange interaction with the world of silent hill makes me wonder how the entity would deal with other powerful/strange licenced universes. Like if the entity somehow got pennywise, who is literally a god, would the entity have to strike up a deal? Or Pinhead, who himself is controlled by an entity like being?
Well, pennywise eats fear, while the entity eats hope...I guess that they could say that the entity "rescued" pennywise after the end of the movie (or book. They can always do their own pennywise, without the looks of curry or skasgard), twisted its powers and made a deal with it: it can chase and attack the survivors on the trials, but it has to hook them. It can keep the fear and feast on it, but it has to leave the hope to the entity.
@@somerandomguy9891 That’s......actually the best reason I’ve heard to put Pennywise in DbD. I still want Carrie more but I’d be down to see your interpretation in DbD.
Well since pennywise was actually female and apparently pregnant at the time of its death maybe the entity managed to grab one of the still developing offspring growing it in a way that limits its abilities making it its own. It would still be pennywise but lore wise it’d pennywise jr
@@CleverFrenchName I’d buy that a bit less like in that case just give Pennywise a safe place to stay after the end of whatever property they pull from so it can give birth
I think the idea of Pennywise and the Entity striking a deal would work, assuming the Entity has something Pennywise wants. I've thought about this a lil' bit: Pennywise is only awake for one year, then hibernates for 27. What if, during his hibernation, he telepathically visits the Entity's realm to help torment the survivors? His powers are a bit more limited because he isn't fully there, but he's still more than a match for the survivors. It's a win-win; Pennywise gets to hunt and feed off of survivors' fear without actually leaving his lair, and the Entity gets another killer to make sacrifices. I imagine Penny would be another killer that can kill someone without an actual mori. I also think he should have a passive ability somewhat like the doctor's, making survivors hallucinate the longer they're in the trial/the more they're chased by him. (Either make them see the things he showed the Losers, or make them see the other killers.) Beyond that I'm not sure what ability he could have, there's a lot to chose from there.
Wow. So the Entity's realm is a place where Pyramid Head's job is never finished. There will always be someone, or something, to be punished.
I remember when I heard Silent Hill DLC was announced, my personal theory was that the entity took and corrupted James so he became the creature born of guilt, bu I like this theory better.
Silent Hill doesn’t corrupt people and turn them to monsters. It makes you face your inner monsters which either kill you or vice versa
Technically pyramid head is a part of James, a punisher born from his mind and possibly James himself fighting with his subconscious
@@PissQueen009 Didn't some side characters become monsters in some of the games? Maybe I'm mistaken
@@IMATR0LL0L0L Unless you consider a memory of someone revealing itself to be a monster as someone turning, then no.
"How can you sit there and eat pizza?!"
Rip Eddy
After I’ve seen Pyramid head outside of Silent Hill 2, I just assumed that he’s a creature that can appear in anyone’s Silent Hill. Same thing goes for those nurses.
You are speaking of Homecoming. We do not speak of Homecoming. Homecoming was a bad dream. It does not exist. It can not hurt us.
@@morganfitch8325 “There are no bodies in the water.”
Beyond Silent Hill 2, Pyramid Head doesn't exist. He was an entity specially designed to reflect James and his personality. Anything after the second game is tantamount to non-canonical and is just Konami milking the work of Team Silent for more money, because he's become a horror icon. Pyramid Head was in Homecoming for no reason beyond fanservice.
Wonder why it is that those 3 in particular can bypass the hooks, I think you nailed the explanation as to why pyramidhead is capable of this so there's one down. I think the situation with Myers could be because of the way his doctor describes him in the original Halloween, that being as the concept of evil poured into human form. If we to take that at face value than and go with the idea that there truly is no humanity in Michael (I honestly have no clue if this is true or not given how it is meant to be very purposely vague in the movie, but it's what I personally like to believe) than Michael being evil itself personified in a way may make him more powerful than the entity on a purely conceptual level thus being able to do his own thing at points. As for the pig well I have absolutely no clue. Idk if you'll see this comment cause I found the vid a week late but I would really like to here your input on this.
Perhaps it has something to do with Jigsaw's whole thing about overcoming the pain of horrific trials? I dunno, just a small thing that popped into my head upon reading your comment.
I think the whole idea with the reverse bear traps is keeping with the theme of placing the fate of the victims in their own hands. Should they fail to remove it they are spared from being feasted on by the Entity, but any hope of surviving the trial is lost as well. Whereas if they do remove it they still have hope to escape... if they can survive Amanda herself.
Personally, I just viewed it as Michael not having any sort of loyalty to The Entity and just killing them his own way because, like you said, he's 'evil personified,' and so he doesn't care what The Entity wants, it's the way he wants to do it and he isn't going to let anyone else tell him how to kill, while the other killers use the hooks because they feel like they either owe The Entity for saving them from death and letting them keep killing or out of fear of what would happen to them if The Entity decided they weren't worth the trouble. Though, honestly I've never seen any of the Halloween movies so I just built onto another theory I'd seen to explain why it was only Michael that could ignore it, so that might just be complete bullshit. If it is, sorry for pretending to understand what I'm talking about.
maybe jigsaw is the entity lol
@@ShootistFN I mean they both REEEAALLLYY like putting survivors through hell over and over.
Wait so besides Myers and Pyramid Head, who is the other killer that bypasses the hook system?
hahaha reverse bear trap go pop
Oh yeah, I forgot about The Pig
@@awkwardsquirtle poor Amanda, almost no one plays her.
@@PixelBush but those counts as sacrifices. don't they?
@@TheYarheeguy yeah but it doesn't technically feed the entity
This is my favorite chapter. I wish we can have custom menu backgrounds cause I miss the Silent Hill Chapter background.
Hearing the letter give me goosebumps every time. Especially hearing the voice actress start crying.
So this whole time Pyramid Head good boi?
Always has been
@@rovirejams5391 Dun dun dun
Neither good or bad we have no clue if silent hills even inteligent let alone good or eveil
I feel like they did this to rep the trilogy series something from the first 3 games
15:50 that must be why in the latest tome trailer a vampire was shown drinking blood and the towers of the castle were added to the tower of the archives
that was the first time my comment was hearted thank you so much
Honestly, when this chapter came out, I nearly cried from how happy I was. We haven't had a FULL silent hill game since 2012, and when PT (Silent Hills) was cancelled, I was gutted. So it's good to see the franchise still alive. Hopefully another game will some soon.
I’m something of a doctor myself. Love your pfp.
I know all of us are gutted I hope one day we get a good silent hill. Although with most of the people that worked on it gone and Konami being the way they are rn. I have a feeling PT sadly will be our last look into that town.
Yo, guess what
@@thestorm5735 oh yes, I know :)
The Pyramid Head justification could've worked at least slightly better if they redesigned PH's clothes (not his blade and mask) to look like the survivor of a war, or the survivor of a wilderness, and just added in his default clothes from the game as a costume
The inclusion of Marry's letter in this video, fully voiced and all, really gives the video emotional weight.
Love the video. I just assume that in any map where PH has spawned, James is hiding in one of the lockers.
May I ask what part of James' toxic masculinity resulted in Pyramid Head's bottom being dummy thicc- you know what, forget that I asked
The part that makes him want to be attractive duh
i mean yeah that's pretty much the answer lol
If he has sex, he also wants to be sexy, obviously. It's clear you have no clue how to do this. To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand SILENT HILL II. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also JAMES SUTHERLAND's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterization - his personal philosophy draws heavily from SILENT HILL I literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike SILENT HILL II truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humor in JAMES SUTHERLAND's existential catchphrase "HOW CAN YOU SIT THERE AND EAT PIZZA?," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those RESIDENT EVIL FANS scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a SILENT HILL II tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
I kinda like the idea Silent Hill has a lot of influence on the Entity even if it doesn't know it
There’s a theory that other entity’s are trying to attack the DBD entity such as the one from stranger things, the one from silent hill and etc for taking their killers from them.
Interesting
It makes more sense that pyramid head is in the game now that James is in the game.
Not once did I consider the real reason Pyramid Head might be in the Entity's realm. Your theory puts a whole new perspective on PH's presence.
I like this show that the entity is fighting another entity. entity of silent hill that it is punching it for its cruelty, it’s horrible Deeds. And it never will except it’s punishment for it’s guilt of horrible things it’s done.
a H.P Lovecraft fight. WORLD STAR!!!!
Don’t forget the mindflayer, taking the demogorgon from it
@@gennarosevero1856 No joke love to see who comes out on top between the two.
but there's one problem, entity can't feel any guilt, also this video ignores Ph backstory that tells us that this Ph in the game is something more than creation of James, which proves that Ph, cheryl and other legendary cosmetics were taken from another timeline, or timelines. I know, date
Mary's letter got me right in the feels. She truly loved James and was tragic when she got sick. Something beyond her control. She didn't deserve what happened and though James did bad things he also didn't deserve the things that drove him to it. If you look between the lines of the letter. James was a good man that treated Mary good and they loved each other very much.
The biggest injustice done by this video was claiming this game had ANYTHING to do with "tOxIc mAScULiniTy".
James and Mary's relationship is memorable because of how honest it is. It isn't portrayed to be explicitly good or bad, it had layers. James LOVED Mary. He missed her. He cared about her. But he was also a man taking care of someone suffering from a terminal illness for several years, it had deteriorated his mental state, and as anyone who has had a family member with dementia will tell you, it was literally a matter of slowly watching someone rot away and become someone you DON'T know. Mary was having mood swings both from the illness and from the knowledge that this unavoidable circumstance had robbed her of her life, her relationship, and her agency. She was self aware. She knew she was having these swings and could not bear with what they were doing to James. SHE asked him to kill her.
The plot of the game is about how James has internalized this situation and can't let go; not just because his wife died and he was the one that had to kill her, but because he feels he did it for the wrong reasons. It should have been out of love, but in that moment he was conflicted abd might have done it out of desperation to escape that situation he was in.
That's what makes this game so great. There is James, the loving husband, but there is also James the worn down guy who was put in a situation NO human being wants to be in.
And Pixel Bush comes right in and just dismisses that entire cavern of nuance as "Toxic Masculinity"..
@@Impalingthorn I couldn't have said it any better.
@@Impalingthorn I don’t think he was dismissing it entirely, he just worded it wrong. The toxic masculinity part wasn’t incorrect but it’s far from the only reason he did it so he should’ve thrown a “partially” or a clarification in there somewhere
@@Impalingthorn Yeah, he wasn't dismissing that. I think he was talking about Pyramid Head himself, as his character traits are all of the things that James hates about himself, all of the parts of him he tries so hard to suppress. This is why Pyramid Head sexually abuses many of the other monsters, and, of course, the "Toxic Masculinity".
Lore wise, it makes no sense. Logistics wise, making the series mascot the killer, and having Heather being the closest thing to a final girl in the series is what makes it, well, make sense.
You don't understand Silent Hill then. Silent Hill is not a slasher game buddy it never was, but alas DBD fanboys are clueless.
@@lazyvoid7107 First of all, you need to put a period after, "then," comma before, "buddy," the a period after it. Capitalizing at the start of each sentence goes without saying.
Second, I meant lore wise for Silent Hill, because Pyramid Head is, and will always will be, James' enemy. Whenever it does annoy me to no end whenever I he's put into something without James, ie. SH: Homecoming.
Third, I don't even play DBD. I just know about it through osmosis. That, and it's outside of my budget.
@@cooltrainervaultboy-39 -🤓
Watching this now after the RE chapter, it's funny how the Entity was only able to affect midwich by adding the gates & hooks (i let the basement slide since Midwich also had one), but Raccoon City PD has clear evidence of the Entity's influence.
Perhaps that's because RPD is a physical place not controlled by something of similar power to The Entity. Once it copied the form of RPD within its realm, it could play with it however it wanted.
Incredible explanation! I love how you explained Pyramid Head being able to completely defy the entities rules because he really isn’t even supposed to be there. Even in his DBD backstory it just says he was engulfed in fog and his duties were now required elsewhere. Makes perfect sense! 10/10 video man!
James Sunderland is now a skin for Cheryl, so now it makes sense Pyramid Head is there.
Now that James Sunderland is now in the game no abstract explanations are needed. It is weird that he wasn’t there from the beginning.
Can’t wait for you to be the next sensation. Keep it up
Still amazed Nurse didn’t get a skin with the Silent Hill chapter. Also pretty sure Valtiel isn’t a manifestation like most Silent Hill monsters but is an independent being. The missionary was a human before Claudia transformed them.
like how your ending phrase was lined up with the executioners mori
How can you sit there and eat pizza
The silent hill chapter really gave me hope, that someday we might get a resident evil chapter... would be so sick
Resident Evil is being speculated to be Chapter 20, because Matheiu said that the 5th year anniversary will feature: "Impressive STARS that will blow your minds."
@@FookMi69 wow didnt hear that
What Killer would come from RE, do you think? Nemesis or the Hunter are the only ones I can think of that would make the most sense (though having "The Hunter" & "The Huntress" might not be something they want). What would Nemesis' ability even be? I'm imagining pulling survivors with his tentacle but that would be too similar to Deathslinger
@@IMATR0LL0L0L I know something different for Nemesis’s tendrils. Instead of reeling survivors, maybe he can use the tendrils as more of a grapple hook, as we see him use in the classic RE3. For his special ability, he *r u n s* (sorry to give ya all another running killer, lmao), and punches a survivor.
Now that may sound op, so I’ll try and balance it. The rush ability doesn’t insta-down, and feels more like Blight’s rush minus the bouncing off of walls stuff. And maybe we can have tendril only Nemesis as an addon where he can reel survivors, along with a running only addon with an instadown that feels more like Hillbilly.
@@IMATR0LL0L0L i think this guy made a pretty good concept out of jack backer from re7: ruclips.net/video/a_0hbtt9NWI/видео.html
he is kind of a mix of the plaque and the pig which isn’t that bad ig
My theory for why he and many other monsters reappear across different games was that Silent Hill remembers. And it essentially pulls these nightmares from its database and tweaks them for each person
That letter is always instant chills that game is a masterpiece it’s crazy how damn near flawless it is
I find this funny to look back on now that James is in the game
I agree with everything that you've said.
I also had my own thoughts on PH's appearance in DBD.
The Entity saw the potential for violence and torture in the Executioner and desired him for itself. It ripped Pyramid Head from Silent Hill, a reality very similar to its own, but PH is a concept rather than a person.
Now in the Entity's world, without being bound by James or the laws of Silent Hill and being allowed to exist independently of them, Pyramid Head is now completely unleashed. The behaviors that gave him shape can now be directed towards anybody or anything with no restraints.
The Entity tortured its killers so they would perform its rituals correctly, but the Executioner does not have a past on which to torment or a pain threshold. He was created to punish and torture and that is what he'll do.
For now, the Entity's trials serve the same purpose but PH cannot be controlled, so it remains to be seen what effect the Executioner's presence will have in this world.
There is one thing that bothers me, though. When Freddy Kruger was brought here, he noted that his powers were tempered in some ways and focused in others. This was done by the Entity, so I'm wondering if Pyramid Head's powers were allowed or if they were an accident.
The Entity is already capable of pulling characters and people completely independent of time and space which explains why a match can have multiples of the same survivor show up or they could wear a mix of cosmetics from various points in their lives before and after being taken by The Entity.
Pyramid Head is tied to James in terms of lore but The Entity existing outside of time could just pull him into its realm as a concept.
@@caldw615 But can't control so big L
Poggers. Also this was actually kinda sad😅
honestly, when i heard that silent hill was going to be in the game I knew it was going to be a very good chapter with a good and interesting killer and a survivor that is good well in these rare times behavior did a good job with this chapter in sparking a nice reception within the Silent Hill series
Great video! I've been playing through SH2 for the first time and everything in the video is we researched! I love that explanation for the Angel of Death to be drawn into towards and sees the Entity as another victim to punished!
I like to think PH sees the Survivors and go, "Da FUCK is that!? Your ALL GUILTY TOO?!"
Hey these kind of videos are quite amazing, I wasn't so keen on DbD lore but watching some of your videos actually got me interested. Thank you so much and I hope you keep making them!
Ok who was that one dislike?!
Jacob Rees-Mogg probably. Apparently he's scared of triangles.
@@PixelBush lol
Myers: kills for blood
Pyramid Head: kills to disobey the entity
Amanda: *trep*
So in a way, Pyramid Head aka “The Executioner” is a hero?
When the video got to the Executioner's Duty section and I saw where the argument was going, that was such a cool moment. It makes so much sense, I love it.
The letter reading was so well done and emotionally impactful with the music.
Love the channel bro keep up the great content
Now that James is in, there is now a explanation.
AMAZING take. The image of the Executioner cutting gouges into the Entity's world... I'll never look at it the same again
This is such an amazing video, I truly loved your devotion into making this work better than the devs made it, and honestly this is the canon reason Pyramid Head is in DbD, for me at least. Keep up the amazing vids Pixel, here since 300 subs and will be for many more.
I know for a fact PH can manifest for other people, especially in their dreams. I have been chased and nearly killed in my dreams once or twice by that guy lol
Late reply but PH is a manifestation of James guilt so tbh it wouldn't really make sense for it to be other people's executioners
I always thought that they paired PH with Cheryl because of the movie universe version of the story. In the movies, PH was Alessa’s protector and then later, Alessa was reincarnated as Cheryl. I just figured he’s following her and/or trying to “free” Alessa (to explain why he tries to kill her as a survivor).
Your video has given me new purpose to playing pyramid head! And has made him one of my favorites
I imagine the entity trying to understand what it would like to be human would be like a human trying to understand what it meant to be an ant
Thank you, great video! It really is unfortunate that some fans of this genre haven't played these games and I strongly encourage anyone that fits the description to play them... Even now, 20 years later, they are some of the greatest survival horror pieces in the genre.
I just love this idea not just because of how much sense it makes, but also that it gives a killer an actual win condition. All the other killers have no place outside the entities realm, either their long dead, should be dead, are considered criminals or have nowhere to go after. If the entity is ever defeated, whether by behavior doing a final pre DBD shutdown event to slay the entity, or just the servers being shut down...the entity loses. And if the entity loses, dying off because it cannot feed off emotion anymore or being defeated by outside forces freeing the survivors? Pyramid Head wins. His job is done. He's the only killer that, just like in Silent Hill 2, can win through losing, if the entity is never bested, it's happy to eternally punish the guilt of survivors and the entity alike forever more, but if the ebeity is beaten, it still wind in the end. Putting the entity in its place, one way or another, so it can return to its eternal slumber in the memories of Silent Hill
I cannot tell you how much I love your videos on DbD and your takes on the chapters!! Amazing work, keep up the great content
That's a really good theory. I think it's really appropriate and the gouging of the trials and killing without hooks makes so much sense.
This video was so emotionally all over the place for me. I'm not a horror fan at all, and I only play DBD because my friends invested in the game for me by gifting it to me. But the reading of the letter was so heart-wrenching, so emotionally driven, so painfully beautiful.
12:09 Could be that Pyramid Head takes the form of the old executioners because it's part of the town's history and would have appeared in that form regardless of whether James knew about the executioners or not
I really like the idea of the Executioner‘s sole purpose in the Entity’s realm being to punish it, but if he’s driven by guilt, what kind of guilt could manifest within the Entity?
Guilt within the survivors would be logical since they’re all human, but the Entity isn’t bound to these emotions, nor does it fully understand them.
The only explanation I‘d have is that the collective guilt of the different killers has manifested within the Entity, since it has attached itself to their minds and their memories, causing it to imitate these emotions in a way.
I‘m not gonna say anything else though since I’m probably putting way too much thought into this.
Pyramid Head is one of my favorite killers, and I really like the explanation you gave for his existence.
I love your content and I‘m really looking forward to any of your future lore videos!
Well since James is coming to DBD i wonder how this video will age
I think it went like this
1: the entity took sable, Cheryl and Lisa
2: James went to investigate hearing about all the things happening in silent hill
3: James is taken
4: James is absorbed into the entity, with everything in the realm being made or entity, this means the realm is made of James sunderland
5: this awakens pyramid head, all the survivor are James, the entity is James, the floor is James, the hooks are James
6: pyramid head begins doing whatever it can to kill all the “James’s” no matter what it takes
7: pyramid head is now the killer
Ph literally gives the finger to the entity. I like it
This vid just made me main p-head
They literally could've just had James be the survivor but fuck it let's just use Heather
They probably wanted to represent all of Silent Hill more than fit the lore of Silent Hill, which is completely reasonable.
@Raggedy Matty That's the other popular theory. The Entity snagged James too, but saw his lack of Survivor qualities, so it morphed him into his biggest demon. If the Entity can't have a Survivor, it will certainly have its Killer
@Raggedy Matty I was more talking about how he isn't exactly a good person, and he's rather suicidal and easy to tempt. He's not truly resilient unless you go for the true ending.
The Entity feeds off of hope. James certainly doesn't have any of that left
@@ZeroSpeaks still doesn't justify pairing a monster that is psychologically linked to James with a completely different character that is no where close to James in anyway whatsoever
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Man games were on another level back then!
I wonder if Legendary Skins factor into this: Lisa Garland (a ghost of Silent Hill), Cybil Bennett (a puppet of Silent Hill), and ESPECIALLY the girl who started it all, Alessa Gillsepie. I've always found the Alessa one fascinating in particular since she's arguably one of the antagonists too in additon to being one of the reasons Silent Hill is the hellscape it is. Plus she and Cheryl were both the mothers of God (which might be part of the reason it's not Valtiel or Missionary since their task was to PROTECT the mother of God to a certain degree?).
Feel free to debunk me if I'm wrong, I don't really know Silent Hill that well, just from what I've read in the wikis.
Oh baby. You sweet summer child. LET ME HELP YOU. First off, don’t look into the skins at all. They’re just for fun. Second, Lisa is not a ghost. She’s simply someone who was caught in the same web of pain and suffering due to her proximity. Alessa liked Lisa so she wasn’t among the first people to feel he wrath, one of the literal last in fact. Thirdly, Cybil was no puppet. To date, the only “puppet” silent hill actively used was Maria from the second game. I know why you’d assume she was a puppet but silent hill itself didn’t do that. It was Dahlia/Kauffman that knocked her unconscious and infected her in the same parasite that the doctors/nurses in the hospital were infected with. Next, Alessa is the victim. 200000% and I’m not hearing otherwise. If your house was set on fire, would you blame the fire for burning your house down, or the person who started the fire? Alessa was a victim of horrendous amounts of torture and kept alive and in agony. Her constant state of pain is what silent hill represents. Alessa is the fire. She didn’t want to birth god, she wanted to be with her mother. In being close with her mother, the ritual began. Bing bang boom god fetus. Lastly, people will argue against it but if the sky is blue, why say the sky isn’t blue, ya know? Pyramid head literally is Valtiel. Same being, different forms. Yes logically “Valtiel” wouldn’t want to harm the mother of god BUUUUUUUUT the Heather in dbd is, canonically speaking, after the events of sh3. At that point, she’s killed god. She is no longer preggo so it would make sense in that aspect. Also, Mercenary literally tried to kill Heather. He lowkey highkey showed footage of the boss battle from the game itself, so that logic doesn’t track. If you want a reason as to why he did, as Claudia said, Heather’s heart needed to be filled with hatred and anger. This thing just killed her dad and is ready to whoop her ass next. That would drive her into a fury. Walked right into Claudia’s trap.
I hope I didn’t come off as shitty, you just have THE WORST understanding of sh and I don’t blame you! You said it yourself; you really only know what wiki told you. Clearly this bitch is gonna have to go and update some shit cause that’s not a cute look 💖💖
Ah. The doge from SH2 is the entity.
I think one thing that's interesting is in a roundabout way, Cheryl/Heather created the red pyramid thing/pyramid head
My idea is that basically, the Executioner left a sort of stain on the canvas of Silent Hill, and thus, the Executioner is the only being that could possibly leave Silent Hill, as he is the only monster from Silent Hill that has a lingering presence.
Let’s face it: the letter to James made us all cry
Great explanation, I’ll think that the Executioner puts Survivors in cages as punishment for the Entity, including the trenches. And to be honest, the chase music fits well, the sound of bells and various instruments playing signifying the oncoming judgement and execution
Love the idea that pyramid head is punishing the entity by not allowing to get the pleasure of the hooks by not only imprisoning survivers in a cage but killing them as well.
Am still annoyed why James was not in the game it would have been really cool if we had two survivors like the stranger things chapter ☹️
Maybe we'll get James legendendary skin)
I was thinking of that but am really not sure if it will because i don’t really know if they will go back to this chapter who knows🤷♂️
I hope that BHVR will create Maria or Mary skins for Cheryl)
Yeah Mary would be cool character as well 👍
I love your explanation, keep going with the good job
Great video as always man, thanks alot
I feel like you can read the entity in two ways. Either as a malevolent force that understands humans to some level and can manipulate them or a more primordial force that doesn't really understand its actions or the humans its subjugates only doing things out of instinct and for its own survival.
when he said the answer is simple n played the clip my eyes flew out my head because damn wow foreshadowing just smacked me upside the head
All the videos I've seen you do for Dead By Daylight lore is amazing
James could be abducted by the Entity and thrown into the void, simply to be able to project PH (Entity is picky, check Spirit's backstory), but not being good enough of a survivor to suck hope from. With this in mind, PH might be the first killer to not be actual being (as he isn't actual being in the first place) and just be Entity's projection, just like everything else is (except characters in game).
Your explanantion is almost perfect... but even though The Entity is filled with guilt (some bits of it at least, mostly hope) it's not IT'S guilt, it's not devouring it from the inside.
But it does explain his power during trials perfectly, I have to admit that! Good stuff!
I agree that Myers is on the same page as PH as he is evil incarnate and Entity can't just torture him into obeying, but Amanda, as twisted as she is, is just human. I treat her traps more like tools she've been braught with and actually panicking inside for survivors to get them off.
Cheryl/Heather may not have encountered Pyramid Head, but surely Alessa - being daughter of the high priestess - would have known the history
Hey Idk if it’s possible but is there gonna be a Kate Denson lore video? I mean I remember you saying that she could be the main protagonist (she’s not cuz apparently it’s Adam) and also i don’t know if it’s because I’m dumb but I didn’t really understand her archive cinematics too. Anyways I love ur videos
Mary's letter gets me crying everytime 😭😭😭
Another thing that could cause pyramid head is survivors that feel guilty like Ash because in the first two Evil Dead films every one dies except for Ash. He probably feels guilty for their deaths. He feels like he could had saved them but couldn't. He even was a coward in the first film until he was the only one left.
Or maybe Elodie because she was the one who summoned the entity and caused her and everyone else's parents to be taken. That could be apart of the reason she searched for the entity.
But theirs more to pyramid head then punishing the guilty and I can't think of any one who represents toxic masculinity in their backstory
In Silent Hill Origins, Downpour, AND Homecoming, pyramid head appears to the protagonists so it can’t just be exclusive to James’ psyche.
Konami's gonna keep using Pyramid Head, so we might as well get used to it. I do think the Killer should have either been the Missionary, Claudia Wolf, or the Memory of Alessa, just because they are prominant in her story, and would have more reason to appear with Heather in DbD. However, Pyramid Head's apperance also makes sense to me.
I actually like this !! thank you fro making video talking about their retrospective