With the cavalcade of crossover content within the game, Dead by Daylight has managed to put in many small nods to the source material of the franchises brought into the realm of the Entity.
Expect unmarked spoilers for the following franchises below.
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Halloween
- Michael's name in the game is "The Shape", which is directly taken from the credits of the original movie.
- Michael's add-ons include:
- The shards of his sister's mirror.
- Judith's tombstone.
- The offering for the Haddonfield map is the Strode Realty Key.
Left 4 Dead
- The "Left for Dead" achievement not only references the game's name, but the position of Bill's body in the picture is a match for how his dead body is found in Left 4 Dead 2's The Passing campaign, sans his weapon. The achievement's requirements* also mirror his last action in life: activating a generator.
- His idle pose in the main menu is also reminiscent of how his body is found in The Passing.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Even before The Cannibal was added into the game, the sacrificial hooks were an obvious nod to the meathook that Leatherface impaled Pam upon.
- "Franklin's Demise" is named after the famous chainsaw death of Franklin from the original film. The emblem of said perk shows him dropping the flashlight he was holding at the time.
- The lore refers to Leatherface as Bubba, firmly putting this incarnation of the character within the first two films. His brothers from the first film Drayton and the Nubbins are also quoted in his unique perks and add-ons.
- The Award-Winning Chili add-on is a reference to Drayton Sawyer winning the chili cook-off in the beginning of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
- Freddy's add-ons include:
- His gardening rake.
- Nancy's drawings.
- Kris and Nancy's dresses.
- The Zoneral pill bottle.
- The class-photo which Nancy and Quentin discover in a secret drawer.
- The paintbrush Freddy used to paint in the Secret Cave.
- The black box which Quentin and Nancy find towards the end of the film.
- The map offering is The Pied Piper, which Quentin talks about in the film.
- Freddy's Mori animation directly references Jesse Braun's death.
Saw
- The main part of the Pig's power is to put the iconic Reverse Bear Traps on downed survivors.
- The Jigsaw Box has Billy the Puppet, the series' Mascot, on top of it. It even does the laugh when you search the wrong box.
- The Jigsaw Box also seems to be based off the Blood Beaker trap from Saw V.
- The Pig's add-ons include:
- Amanda's self-harm box.
- The blackmail letter Hoffman wrote to her.
- The map has:
- The Rift for Tome X added a charm based on Mr. Snuggles.
Evil Dead
- Ash's alternate outfits, all from Ash vs. Evil Dead, include:
- His Value Stop outfit, along with his wooden hand.
- His Jacksonville partying outfit from the Season 2 premiere, along with the Ashy Slashy puppet.
- His post-apocalyptic future outfit from the Series Finale, complete with the android hand. Fittingly, the outfit's name is "Finale".
- Ash's title is "An alone wolf.", a reference to a scene in Season 1 of Ash vs. Evil Dead where Ash calls himself that before Kelly tells him it's actually "lone wolf".
- Ash's Ugly Christmas Sweater is covered in tiny versions of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.
- According to his Lore, Ash still sucks at reciting magic words properly.
Stranger Things
- The Demogorgon's add-ons comprise of;
- Barb's glasses.
- Eleven's Cola can.
- Billy's lifeguard whistle.
- Steve's lighter.
- The body of Mew, Dustin's mom's cat.
- The liver and tail of a rat.
- A rotten Pumpkin from Merril's pumpkin patch.
- Steve and Nancy's alternate cosmetics include...
- Steve and Nancy's Ugly Christmas Sweaters are taken directly from Season 1 and 2 respectively.
- From Season 2, Steve gets his monster-hunting and tunnel-raiding outfits while Nancy gets her red jacket and ponytail look and her Snow Ball outfit.
- From Season 3, Steve gets his Scoops Ahoy uniform and Nancy gets her outfit from near the end of the season.
Silent Hill
- The map offering is Mary's Letter from Silent Hill 2.
- Pyramid Head's add ons are various items from the second game.
- The locker room jumpscare from the original Silent Hill can be encountered in the Midwich Elementary School map.
- The Legion also has "Robbie the Rabbit" outfits.
- There are Lying Figures from Silent Hill 2 trapped writhing in cages.
- At the start of the match on Midwich Elementary School, the siren that signals the transition to the Otherworld plays in the distance.
- An Easter Egg on the Midwich Elementary School involves repairing two generators in the Chemistry Lab and Music Rooms, which adds two medallions on each side of the clocktower, then opening the Exit Gates to open the door to the Clocktower, revealing a secret chest. This is a reference to a puzzle from the first Silent Hill, which involved completing two tasks in each of those rooms to obtain the medallions and open the clocktower.
Resident Evil
- Nemesis’s add-ons are all references to the first three Resident Evil games:
- The intestines of Brian Irons.
- The eyeball of Captain Mikhail Viktor.
- Marvin Branagh's blood.
- The remains of a T-002 Tyrant.
- A Licker’s tongue.
- The NE-α Parasite.
- A depleted ink ribbon.
- A broken Recovery Coin.
- Rather humorously, one of the add-ons is Jill’s Sandwich, a nod to this
scene from the first game.
- Wesker's add-ons:
- The laboratory photo from the first game that revealed him as the traitor in S.T.A.R.S.
- A green herb
- A red herb
- The portable safe from Resident Evil 2 (Remake)
- A Gold Egg.
- A Gold Chalice
- The videoconferencing device that he used to communicate with Ada in Resident Evil 4
- The Lion and Unicorn Medallions.
- A Loose Crank.
- Wesker's Mori involves the Survivor punching him and breaking his sunglasses before he kills them and pulls another pair from his coat. This nods back to Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where Wesker's shades could be broken by opponents' attacks and replaced with his taunt animation.
Hellraiser
- The Chapter 21 teaser is a malfunctioning television set with a very brief shot of a red rose, a reference to the ominous supernatural events happening shortly before the Cenobites first arrive to Kirsty Cotton's hospital room in Hellraiser.
- Pinhead's Memento Mori is directly based on Frank Cotton's death.
- The phrase Pinhead utters while teleporting ("The box. You opened it, and I came.") is taken almost verbatim from Hellraiser as he addresses Kirsty Cotton, except referring to himself singularly as opposed to a group of Cenobites.
- Pinhead's add ons are various items from the first movie.
- A piece of Frank Cotton's skin with his eye, as well as his heart and gory flesh.
- Larry Cotton's skinless remains and blood, as well as the rusty nail that spilled it.
- A lens from the Butterball's glasses.
- One of the Chatterer's teeth.
- The wires from the Female Cenobite's gaping throat.
- Candles used by Frank in the summoning ceremony.
Alien
- Ash's body and decapitated head can be found on the table in the Nostromo Wreckage's entrance.
- Jonesy the cat appears in both Ripley's idle animations as well as the Nostromo Wreckage map, having a chance of leaving out of a locker when a Survivor hides inside of it.
- When walking by a window in the Nostromo Wreckage, there's a chance that a Facehugger will leap at the window before falling off.
- By hacking a particular terminal, you can gain access to Mother's chamber and a chest within.
- The achievement for hitting 30 Survivors with the Xenomorph's tail attack is called "Terror of LV-426". LV-426, "Acheron", is the moon that the Nostromo landed on to investigate the signal and cause Kane to be attacked by the facehugger.
- Ellen Ripley's alternate outfits include:
- Her shorter hair, shirt and coveralls look from Aliens.
- Her clone, Ripley 8 from Alien: Resurrection.
- The Xenomorph's alternate outfits include:
- Grid from Alien vs. Predator.
- A cloned Xenomorph from Alien: Resurrection, based on Ripley 5.
- A Xenomorph Queen, based on the one from Aliens.
- The Xenomorph's add ons are various items from the first movie.
- Ripley's wristwatch.
- Drinking birds.
- Brett's cap.
- Parker's headband.
- Lambert's star map.
- Kane's broken helmet.
- Jones's cat carrier.
- A cattle prod used to destroy Ash.
- The Nostromo's self-destruct bolts.
- The Alien's own acid blood.
Child’s Play
- Chucky's Mori references several of his kills and actions throughout the series:
- First he throws a hammer at his target. He did so to Maggie in the first film, hitting her in the eye and causing her to fall out of a window to her death.
- Next he uses a baseball bat on his target. He struck Andy with one of these in the second film.
- He then uses a ruler to bludgeon his target several times. This was the way he killed Mrs. Kettlewell in the second film.
- Chucky's "Back From The Dead" outfit is based directly on his look from Bride of Chucky.
- When Charles Lee Ray manifests his old body to carry Survivors, he picks up Chucky with his other hand, who will keep stubbornly slashing at the victim. This calls back to Chucky's appearance in Ready Player One, where he acted as an equippable item that would slash at his user when held.
- Some of Chucky's add-ons include:
- The yardstick from Child's Play 2
- The eyes of a Good Guy Doll, used in 2 to kill a factory technician via Eye Scream.
- The rat poison from Curse of Chucky
- A scalpel, which Chucky has used before in Cult of Chucky and the TV series.
- The Heart of Dambalha.
- The plastic bag used to try and choke Detective Norris in the first film (as well as looking like the successfully killed exec in 2).
- The shaving razor from Child's Play 3.
- The hypnotic strobelight from Cult of Chucky.
- The silk pillow he smothered Damien with in Bride of Chucky
- The aerosol can and lighter Glenda torched Joan with in Seed of Chucky
- The plastic hammer Andy was playing with in the first film.
Alan Wake
- Several of Alan's voicelines are callbacks to the games:
- When being hounded by crows if left idle for long enough, Alan mentions that he hates birds and keeps an eye on the crows. Any veteran will know that crows were a common enemy in the first game.
- When recovering from a wound, Alan sometimes notes that it's "just a scratch", then scoffs at the irony. Scratch himself is also available as a Very Rare outfit for Alan.
- Two of Alan's store outfits are based on his looks from the original Alan Wake and Alan Wake's American Nightmare, though in the case of the latter, the sleeves rolled back down and the messy hair more closely resemble how the American Nightmare look was portrayed in Alan Wake 2.
- The exclusive charm you get for purchasing the chapter DLC is the nailgun used in Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
- A number of charms and player card items from Tome 18's Rift come from the series, in order:
- A badge of the Cult of the Tree's symbol from Alan Wake 2, with a charm of said symbol later down the rift.
- A Deerfest mask charm.
- A charm of Mr. Drippy from the Coffee World amusement park in Alan Wake 2.
- One of Rose's Alex Casey lunchboxes she left for Saga in Alan Wake 2 as a charm.
- A banner of "Night Springs", the In-Universe TV Show that Alan wrote for prior to the games' events.
- An "Oh Deer Diner" coffee thermos charm, which were utilized as collectibles in Alan Wake and save points in Alan Wake 2.
- The Angel Lamp used in Alan Wake 2 by Alan is also a charm.
- The typewriter Alan uses throughout the series is a charm.
- Bright Falls' lighthouse is a player badge.
- And last but not least, a dead deer half-submerged in water, as shown in the opening of Alan Wake 2.
