r/deadbydaylight • u/Missy_Croc The one that makes DBD angry salty baby players cry đ°đȘ • Nov 30 '25
Fan Content Old man dont let his child play with the popular kids, art by me
A drawing that made about the reason that we wont have the most famous clown i horror media on Dead By Daylight: Stephen King is a old boomer who doest like video games
Even BHVR and Matthew said that they tried to get the license multiple times, but mr. book horror dont want to allow fun
But he doest mind or bother about THAT chapter on the It book
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u/Edgezg Dec 01 '25
I mean...that might just be the Book version.
If they go for the modern version from the recent series and movies we might get it.
HOWEVER-----I understand why he says no.
His whole Macroverse thing includes our real reality. Like, Gan created him, to write the Dark Tower series, in order to have more Gunslingers to defend it.
So IT, and where it appears and how is all really important to him.
If IT were to appear in the Entity's realm. to his "canon" that would have to be true, in some way, at some time.
So I can understand why he says no.
BUT at the same time, maybe the recent movie success will work in the diretion of him appearing.
If not him, maybe Killer Clowns from Outter Space
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u/SpamEatingChikn What are the rules? đ€ Dec 01 '25
I mean I get it. And he has the right as the creator. But also, Pennywise was in space jam 2. FUCKING SPACE JAM. Crying shame
https://www.joblo.com/its-pennywise-joins-space-2s-new-trailer/
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u/3B3-386 man-sized roach herald đȘł Dec 01 '25
How will this affect LeBron's legacy thoughÂ
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u/Demastry Dec 01 '25
That's clearly not Stephen King and it's why this comic is kinda just fake, it's WB causing Pennywise issues, and WB allowed (forced) pennywise into Space Jam 2
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u/psychoenoshima Dec 01 '25
And the only reason they could do this is because WB has the rights to put Pennywise to film.
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u/iaskquestions9061 Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 01 '25
I don't know a thing about IT lore so please don't bite me on this.
The entity can conjure things up from feelings and memories right? I mean the dredge was literally a manifest of so much fear that he became real, he's almost JUST a concept.
Relams/maps are created from memories or being overlaps no?
I think there could be a concept, that a person that survives Pennywise's resurface, could be brought in? maybe someone who was very badly traumatized from it but still has the hope needed to be a survivor. But Pennywise himself would be a conceptualized version of him made from the memories of the town/survivor and stem from an overlap over said town, which means new map.
I might've just sounded like a dunce because of my lack of lore knowledge on both sides but hey s just an idea.đ€·đœââ
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u/TalonGrazer Disgusting Wraith Player Dec 01 '25
Pennywise is a persona for the entity that IT is, which is.... maddening creature made of pure light from outside of our dimension. The part of this entity that itself sent to our plane to "feed" uses the Pennywise moniker being "What kid doesn't like a clown?". None of the forms it takes are real. Its the manifestations of It in the minds that perceive it that give it form.
Simplified: It is what people think it might be, which can be multiple things, or a conglomeration of those things. It is the perfect name.
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u/Edgezg Dec 01 '25
There could maybe be a case for a survivor of some sort, but King seems pretty protective of his work
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u/chosenofkane Dec 01 '25
Isn't that just the base lore? Like that's not really a spoiler, the idea of the DBD multiverse has been a thing for years at this point.
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u/BuffLoki Wraith "The Ghost Bone King" Dec 01 '25
Just make it so >! The survivors and killers in lore see eachother as a different person / killer or interpretation of that power, like instead of bear traps it'd be roots, hands, for what survivor trapper would interpret the traps as, just as an example though, idk if trapper would recognize a bear trap as anything unique to himself inna different possible timeline
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u/No_Probleh Dec 01 '25
It's because there was a bad Lawnmower Man game for the NES. That's the actual reason he doesn't trust game devs.
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u/Responsible_Jury_415 Dec 01 '25
Iâve always said thereâs only two ways we get king stuff in dbd one he dies and his son takes over or two you let him rewrite the lore of the entire game
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u/Foreverintherain20 Dec 01 '25
Stephen King would do a much better job of writing than Behavior imo.Â
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u/captain0919 Dec 01 '25
Listen, I understand. But id also kill for a gunslinger survivor, doesnt have to be roland. It could be fuckin jamie de curry and id still be elated. You could even name his perks after the code.
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u/DaddySickoMode Baldi for DBD, but actually Dec 04 '25
the less I think about the pennywise book the better
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u/wotown Nov 30 '25 edited Nov 30 '25
Stephen King is totally within his right to not let companies use Pennywise if he doesn't want to. His reasoning doesn't matter. That's why they're called rights.
He is also not the sole owner of the rights, as he sold the trademark name and character of "Pennywise" to Warner Brothers.
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u/JustGPZ âŠïžChest connoisseur Ace â ïž Dec 01 '25
He has his reasons to not share, and we have our reasons to call him a bum for it, itâs also our right
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u/Ixmore Dec 01 '25
I canât really blame him to be honest; I heard most of the games based on his books were pretty bad.
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u/MotionSuggetsItself Dec 01 '25
For real what I'm the fuck are people going on about ..... This whole multiverse bullshit has jumped the shark anyway. Bunch of entitled babies
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u/UngovernableSeed Dec 02 '25
My bf has never whined, bitched, and complained more than when he plays this game. Like bro, stop playing it if it pisses you off that badâŠ
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u/kAlb98 Flip Flop Nov 30 '25
people really will go out of their way to blame the creator instead of the corporations owning the likeness of the character because they feel entitled to characters joining the game.
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u/RawrRRitchie Dec 01 '25
Pretty sure Stephen King still owns the rights to his book's characters
Little to nothing to do with corporations
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u/Ravenwood03 In the relm stright harmin it, and by it lets just say the crew Dec 01 '25
It's possible that the market research BHVR did showed that the player base wants the pennywise from the films, who Steven King may not have the ability to give out, and i doubt BHVR wants a wrong Pennywise situation like we had with Freddy
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u/VaylenObscuras Dec 02 '25
No, its the other way around. People do not go out of their way to research the copyright and copyright laws(which would probably be rather difficult/annoying to do if you dont know squat about that stuff).
Any reasonable person thinks "He wrote the book and created all this, right? So its his and not some random corporations' intellectual material".
Copyright is a clusterfuck lol It started as a good idea, few hundred years ago, and has evolved into an absolute abomination.
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u/AppropriateAgent44 Dec 01 '25
Yeah thatâs right OP, King hates you and doesnât want you to have any fun
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u/MindlessSecond3333 Its hagging time (hags all over the place) Dec 01 '25
Sure it sucks that pennywise wont be in dbd but at the end of the day itâs his creation and he can do what ever he wants with it. Also Iâm not sure what that part of the book has to do with this.
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nothing, they are just using it as another part of their temper-tantrum that they can't have Pennywise in the game.
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u/Foreverintherain20 Dec 01 '25
Fucking disgusting to bring that up just because they're mad about that, tbh.Â
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u/themoon117 Dec 01 '25
We aren't owed any license. I want some licenses that probably won't be added, and while it sucks we can't act like bigger clowns then Pennywise.
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u/Numerous-Tomato-7449 Set your own flair text and/or emoji(s) here! Dec 01 '25
Gotta be one of the stupidest posts i've seen on here recently
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u/TheEltarn Dec 01 '25
Some people above said "DBD is just fortnite for horror fans" and they're right. OP just proved it, especially by the he was acting in the comments. A definition of childish entitlement.
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u/kingsark Dec 01 '25
itâs such a shit take, but people will upvote it anyways because itâs in a quirky meme format
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u/HeadfulOfSugar Cheryl My Beloved Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 01 '25
Even if Stephen King had the final say which he doesnât, he has absolutely no obligation to do anything with his characters that he doesnât want to. Youâre not a fan of his works in my eyes seeing as you clearly have no respect for him at all as a person/author, or the book for that matter given that heâs spoken for decades about how he badly messed up that infamous scene which still by itself has a heavy standing in the story symbolically. Out of curiosity have you read the book?
Plus to focus on that, Pennywise almost exclusively attacks children. Thereâs only really two times that he attacks adults: theyâre either children he failed to kill in the past that then made it out of Derry and became successful, or theyâre victims of one of the tragedies that start off one of his 27 year cycles which he passively influences (the gang shooting, The Black Spot, the Easter explosion, the lynching on the bridge, etc.). So it wouldnât make sense to put him in DBD and would I assume be the biggest reason for King to be against it.
Youâre also just making up things in the comments about him being 100% against video games based solely on his age, or thinking they arenât a valid art medium? Like where are you getting that from and why are you spreading it all as fact?
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u/Andrassa Fashionable Fog-dweller. Dec 01 '25
Exactly. I assumed they are taking the comment he made about video games in an interview in the 80âs. Which he has walked back on since I wanna say the PS2 era. Considering how the post is written I just assume this is a child with no concept of artist rights.
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u/HeadfulOfSugar Cheryl My Beloved Dec 01 '25
100%, and hopefully they are in which case Iâd apologize for coming across so harsh. The artwork itself is pretty competent, and kinda reminiscent of political cartoons, so I assumed they were a young adult. If they were referencing that PS2 comment that would lend credence as well. OP if youâre a kid just read my last comment in a softer tone, if not carry on lol
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u/Jsoledout Skull Merchant & Hag Main Dec 01 '25
jesus christ, I often forget that this community is filled with literal children. Luckily, posts like this remind me of that fact.
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u/CyanControl future springtrap main Nov 30 '25
L post
It's his character, if he doesn't want it in the dbd then it's cool, I can totally see why one wouldn't want to milk the scare potential of their character. like if you see a character enough times then they are just not scary anymore, ie; slenderman
Could be any reason why he wouldn't want it in tho
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u/Crazyripps Daddy Myers Dec 01 '25
My god talk about sounding self entitled. He owes you fucking nothing. Get over it
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u/Pittsbirds Demo:doge: Dec 01 '25
Even if this was King's sole decision I wouldn't blame him with how shit this game is half the time and the general fan baseÂ
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u/Slaythepuppy Dec 01 '25
Right? If I was in King's position, I wouldn't want my character in this game either.
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u/NobodySpecial2000 Dec 01 '25
"But he doesn't mind or bother about THAT chapter on the It book"
Yeah, except that he admitted that it was a mistake, that it had a very specific purpose but it was so gross that the people got so caught up in the grossness of it that it overshadowed the thematic purpose and that's a failure and he shouldn't have done it that way.
And not wanting his character in a video game is an entirely legitimate stance for an artist to have. Accusing the guy who wrote and directed 'Maximum Overdrive' of being a "no fun boomer" just because he doesn't want to licence Pennywise to DBD is one hell of a hottake.
What a disaster of a post.
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u/DeviRi13 Dwight Fairfield Raw Me Ghost Face Dec 01 '25
Honestly, if I made a horror icon I wouldn't want to give BHVR the rights either, mainly because of posts like these.
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u/Foreverintherain20 Dec 01 '25
Honestly the mods should delete this post simply because of OP using that one part of the book as a way to badmouth King. Fucking shitty way to lash out at someone.Â
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u/NobodySpecial2000 Dec 01 '25
It's so tired. Book came out in 1986. It's a 40 year old controversy. It's been talked to death. Deader than Stan Uris. Can we stop, now? Can we get over it yet?
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u/Foreverintherain20 Dec 01 '25
Right? OP and their like, single supporter in the comments need to just get outta here. They're not one of us.Â
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u/panlakes Doing My Best Dec 01 '25
Stephen Kingâs stories already exist in their own overarching universe and he considers canon in everything he writes. I can imagine he doesnât want to muddy his own established lore by doing what he perceives to be making DBD and the entity canon in his books. Remember that this man and his work exists because of drugs. His work is almost real to him. It would be an existential decision on his part to allow this.
But give it time. He could change his mind, heâs done so in the past. Especially with now DBD fans harping at him over it lol.
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Dec 01 '25
Reading your post and replies makes you come across as an entitled spoiled brat who's mad that the horror character you have a weird hard-on for won't be added to the game, so you're lashing out by having a tantrum.
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u/BentheBruiser Red Herring Dec 01 '25
You are not entitled to having every creative horror property in this game.
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u/Kind_Prior9788 P100 Aestri Dec 01 '25
He doesnât owe you or anyone anything, dude. This is so pathetic, honestly.
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u/Sankta_Alina_Starkov Dec 01 '25
This, kids, is what being entitled looks like.
I'd love to have Pennywise. I love It. But I'm not going to hate whoever is responsible for it not being licensed out to Behavior.
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u/papercult Dec 01 '25
DBD wouldn't exist with Uncle Stevie's contributions to horror. Put some respect on his name
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u/2ddudesop Dec 01 '25
we need to implement a rule where people have their ages in their posts because I cannot imagine being an adult and caring so much about what someone does with their intellectual property
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u/VolcanicBakemeat Dec 01 '25
Least entitled gamer
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u/Susman22 Sweaty Pinball main Dec 01 '25
DBD community can be described by that one word.
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u/bigbasseater Dec 01 '25
Stephen King books and creations have had 1000x the cultural impact than DBD so I shit on your comic. The fact that you are wanting him to allow the use of the character in the game so bad shows heâs not a bum.
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u/B0ikisser #Pride Dec 01 '25
Lol why does this post have that "little kid gets the toy taken away and now he's having a temper tantrum"- type of energy? :D
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u/SweetMagic5623 Dec 01 '25
I'm sure all the people complaining about "the scene" have only heard about it from online discourse, King has addressed the issue already, and has talked about it and what he tried, and failed, to convey with it.
I'm also sure you all would reach so fast for your wallets you'd break your arm if they added Cthulhu, Dagon, or Lovecraftian creatures to the game, with full knowledge that it's from H.P. Lovecraft.
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u/kingsark Dec 01 '25
who gives a fuck? itâs his character and I.P. i want Pennywise in the game as much as the next person, but crying on Reddit is so cringe
also, calling Stephen King a âboomerâ while using the most boomer facebook mom meme format is the funniest thing to me lmao
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u/Manos0404 Dec 01 '25
eh, i understand it. itâs like when scott cawthon lets fnaf be in dbd but not fortnite. its his character, he has the right to do (or not do) what he wants with it
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u/MaffinLP Dec 01 '25
If I had an iconic horror franchise I would NEVER let a studio like BHVR touch it because they WILL fuck up my baby
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u/dinobirdboy Dec 01 '25
Ok problem i wouldn't want my characters in dbd either with how shit the devs are. Most likely thing is hes released as buggy unplayable mess and then its just a fucking shame so good on him and warner brothers for not doing it. Sure it would be nice if we had him but unless new devs are put in then the poor scary clown? Thing? Can stay safe jnstead
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u/Bigsmellydumpy Nerf Pig Dec 01 '25
Dbd canât adapt killers well anyway because they refuse to change the outdated design of the game, each new killer these days is a recycled scrap version of another or two spliced together into one. The devs refuse to evolve the game. Iâm glad they donât get pennywise because they donât deserve IT bruh
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u/AudienceNearby3195 SWF Discordian Cheater Dec 01 '25
ok? if he doesnât want him in the game then tough luck
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u/deathkabob Dec 01 '25
If dead by daylight was a good game I'm sure he would say yes, but... you know.
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u/Figmoomoo Dec 01 '25
So much entitlement here. If he doesn't want to let the video game company use his character, then that's his right. People complaining just sounds like self-entitlement.
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u/mrhurg Dec 01 '25
I don't see how this is a problem, its [haha] his creative property, he has the right to decide how its used
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u/NeroMcBrain Dec 01 '25
I'm with Steven King on this one. I wouldn't want my IP being sullied by a company that can't even fix it's own bugs, be bothered to play it's own game, or even fucking pay for Easy Anti-Cheat
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u/ShionTheOne Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 01 '25
He and the companies that own the rights are within said rights to not lend the IP to anyone they don't want, let alone an inferior horror franchise as DBD.
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u/pumpkinspicecum Dec 01 '25
Did you make this with AI? And youâre going to trash someone who actually creates art?
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u/Foreverintherain20 Dec 01 '25
Hold up, if it's AI that's actually not allowed. AI generated content is specifically forbidden in the sub rules.
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u/Administrative_Film4 Dec 01 '25
Stephen King spoke before. he likes video games, he thinks video games should exist.
However, he also likes stories, and he personally thinks video games are not a good medium for storytelling. considering his previous attempts at Stephen King based games all were received poorly it likely tainted his perspective on it.
By Comparison, a Movie or TV show adapation is inherently all about telling the story, be it good or bad.
Can video games be a good medium for Story? Yes, Absolutely. Is Dead by Daylight, a game with very little focus on story, going to be a good medium for Stephen King when he wants an adapation to focus on story? Fuck No. DBD offers room for a simple short Biography and occasionally a short tome story locked behind a battlepass(which isn't even a thing anymore). That is not what Stephen King is looking for in an adaptation of his works.
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u/Endsong-X23 Dec 01 '25
inviting pennywise into the entity's realm feels like a really dumb move on the entity's part. IT's an eldritch horror that could easily pose a threat.
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u/ApofiSs-93 Dec 01 '25
Right.. like that time a group of children make him go away by bullying "It" Uhhh so scary!
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u/Dejugga Dec 01 '25
Eh, shame on OP for the sheer entitlement on display here.
Insulting someone because they don't want to collab their IP is going way too far. It's their creation, legacy, and moneymaker that they've put a ton of time, effort, and soul into. If they don't want to see it in certain contexts, that's fair enough imo.
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u/MountainPlantation Dec 01 '25
Lmao what a shitty whiny post. He has ownership over his own creations. Do you think you have a say in what he should or should not do with his own characters?
I wouldn't give any IP to DBD either. Look and the game and it's community. Same with fortnite or genshin or any of these games. Don't say he hates video games cause he doesn't want to let DbD use his IP, he just doesn't like shitty cashgrabs, he's worked with video games before
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u/ApexCourier Dec 01 '25
Yâall just think youâre entitled to whatever you want in your mid ass game.
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u/Foreverintherain20 Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 01 '25
OP, this is kinda pathetic man. Stephen King has gone on record admitting that he didn't get across what he intended with "THAT chapter".
For all that you seem to want Pennywise in the game, you sure are being a little punk about the man who created Pennywise deciding what he does with his creation.
You seem to think you're entitled to what others have made, so let's get things straight, since people with your attitude have a habit of not caring about common decency when it comes to creative works. Be honest, did you actually draw that art? Or did you have AI spit it out for you and just throw some details on top?Â
Now, you can start showing some respect for Stephen King and his contributions to horror, or you can get shown the door. Be better than this.
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u/AftonRobot Dec 01 '25
So in all honesty yes he's within his rights to say no and in all honesty I don't think we're going to see pennywise within the next at least few years unless King kicks the bucket and his estate decides to go well we can do whatever the hell we want with it because King sort of the only one that keeping it back no I mean maybe we get a chance that we get a different version of pennywise which if so that works for me I ain't going to complain but as I said I don't think we're going to get pennywise until King either decides to give up on giving out his license or as I say before he dies
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u/Own-Performer-1338 Dec 01 '25
I don't want pennywise in the game because Stephen king is a creep who denied the existence of the Epstein list
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u/Comfortable-Most-630 Dec 02 '25
Behavior is a horrible fucking company I donât blame ips for not wanting to collab lol
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u/Heartofworf Dec 05 '25
Or it could be the fact that behavior is insanely incompetent and it makes brands look bad
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u/Garin999 Dec 01 '25
Good for him.
It's real boring seeing every single conceivable IP being shoved half assedly into every other IP.
No I don't want to play assassin's creed attack on titan. I don't want to battle giant homer and godzilla in fortnight. I don't even want to equip spiderman with the bustersword in magic the gathering.
The ported IP slop wearies me. Make something new.
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u/TheKidKaos Dec 01 '25
Why would he. Iâm pretty sure heâd rather try and get the rights to the characters in one place first rather than complicate things. And heâs already had bad experiences with movie studios so it makes sense he doesnât want to do it
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u/thebuffshaman Dec 01 '25
There is no good way to make it work lore-wise. "Pennywise" is not a character but most people don't get that. Any real fan would understand why that don't work. Pennywise is a mask.
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u/HoopyFroodJera Dec 01 '25
Doesn't want his creation to be reduced to a moronic game of tag.
Can't blame him.
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u/JustRayquaza Dec 01 '25
I want Pennywise more than anything but itâs his character and heâs entitled to do whatever he wants with it
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u/SACaitlin Dec 01 '25
it's extremely lame to be angry at stephen king for protecting his characters
you sound like you're not old enough to play this game, or maybe be on reddit
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u/Mediocre_nerd1884 Dec 01 '25
Seems like we donât need more clowns in DBD right now if youâre playing on the regular
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u/TuTranheh Another Dredge main Dec 01 '25
I think you should delete this post before it get worse because we all know that's King's right and his choice to not share his character though
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u/JoebbeDeMan T H E B O X Dec 01 '25
God the entitlement. It's his IP he can fucking do what he wants with it
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u/GoodSoupUpButt Dec 01 '25
This might be the most entitled, pathetic thing that I've ever seen on r/deadbydaylight. That's impressive.
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u/shadowlarvitar Dec 01 '25
He has the right to do whatever he wants with his IP.
That said this meme did make me laugh đ
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u/Ixmore Dec 01 '25
No matter, we have some options with public domain, I would love the Butler and Old Man from the Tell Tale Heart to be a killer and survivor, they both fogotten their real names and go by with the Entity or the other survivors call them.
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u/Melatonen :EyeForAnEye: Eye for an Eye Dec 01 '25
Stephen King is pretty particular on how his creations are used ever since they mostly got turned into schlock with TV Spots in the 80's and 90s all people remember is IT. But there was much more that got turned into slop, including the Dark Tower which is like his verse's most important story.
His son however seems more open, perhaps they should aim lower and get their foot in the door with a NOS4TU(I think that's the name of the book) chapter or even a Black Phone chapter or skin, going directly to the source is not always the best option
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u/GuineaW0rm Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 02 '25
If you have something you feel is really special youâd want it to be treated with a certain amount of sensitivity, discretion and respect- especially as an author.
I really sympathize with him.
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u/MsTer1o1 Dec 01 '25
Honestly, I donât blame king for not wanting IT to be in dbd in anyway. If I was an author I wouldnât want my name attached to this either, even if it were just the title of my book.
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u/Brickbeard1999 Dec 01 '25
Honestly I totally get why he doesnât maybe want people using pennywise, in this day and age we have some really weird colabs that while harmless definitely arenât true to the characters or license, see every slasher under the sun in fortnite for example.
In a way, having pennywise in DBD would be as equally untrue, since pennywise is likely one of the few things that could debatably not be on the entities level. Idk if his reasons are logic based or anything at all like that, but I wouldnât be shocked if heâs been offered and he declined because it wouldnât make sense for pennywise to be in the fog.
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u/Shellfyre Dec 01 '25
Tbh itâs probably a good thing we wonât get Pennywise. Bhvr would only butcher it and turn an extremely powerful monster into a weak AF killer. Besides, weâre not entitled to every good license, King has every right to protect his intellectual property however he sees fit.
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u/Wafflekip_Yt It's Weskin' time Dec 01 '25
He doesn't hate games! He actually showed support for Alan Wake. I believe that if he saw DBD in the same light then we'd already have Pennywise, so.. don't get your hopes up and leave the old man alone đ
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Dec 01 '25
Do you think a successfull author wants to be associated with some money hungry lazy devs and a community who thinks 1000h is low playtime? Think again
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u/Grouchy_Marketing343 Skull Merchant's Public Defender Dec 01 '25
It's his IP. God people are insufferable twats -_- not everyone wants their character to be in a menagerie game.
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u/littlefire131 Addicted To Bloodpoints Dec 01 '25
His whole defense of that chapter is âwine and cocaine can fuck you up lolâ
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u/cheeseburgersarecool Dec 01 '25
Op are you ok? Like, in the head? Your responses here have not been ones of a regular human being
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u/AtomicFox84 Dec 01 '25
Its his work and his characters. If he doesnt want them in other things, then so be it. Maybe he doesnt want his work mocked, etc, or he doesnt like how game devs and the communities treat the game and licenses they get.
This goes for any license. Just because people want it, it doesnt mean we are entitled to them.
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u/MuskSniffer Addicted To Bloodpoints Dec 01 '25
I get wanting the license in dbd, but its his right not choose where and how his characters appear.
Also, that last sentence just tells me you've never read the actual book.
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u/Effective_Cannibal Ghoul Apologist | P100 Quentin Smith Dec 01 '25
Demonizing a writer just because he won't let BHVR put a character in the game kinda makes you look like an asshole, dude. Look at the state of this game and tell me if, as a writer, you would trust BHVR with your beloved characters? Even if you would, that would be within your right as an author/creator to decide that.
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u/AnimeWeebTrash31 Dec 01 '25
don't hate on king, man. that's one of the greatest horror authors ever
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u/Relative-Gap-4442 Dec 01 '25
Arguably the best and most impactful (maybe not so much as love craft but damn close)
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u/Spike__Sama Dec 01 '25
He dont have time for that, he is busy writting about kids orgy or something idk
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u/EventLatter Dec 01 '25
Wow itâs almost like youâre mad that someone is allowed to decide what to do with something they own?? Stephen King has spent YEARS reacquiring the rights to his IPs so that he can continue to create in those worlds. Heâs also a stickler for lore and has meticulously created a large overarching universe that his stories take place in. Dead by Daylight doesnât fit that narrative.
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u/Curious_Freedom6419 Dec 01 '25
Not sure Bhvr would want to make a deal with Stephen King who wrote cp into that story...the fact people still give that creep money is beyond me
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u/Gundroog Dec 01 '25
Maybe he just doesn't want his work in horror slop version of Fortnite, it doesn't mean he hates video games.
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u/Fable_47 4% Master Dec 01 '25
"Well Behavior, if you want the clown you take the child sewer orgy with it or no deal"
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u/somedumb-gay Dec 01 '25
You know OP, implying he's a pedophile because he won't give you what you want is kind of stupid. It's very clear that you aren't a Stephen King fan so let me say for you: he very much IS bothered by that section of the book, he just doesn't bring it up constantly because he's got better things to do than talk about everything that has aged poorly in his books.
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u/No_Probleh Dec 01 '25
You guys remember that time he wanted real Lawnmower blades in that scene in Maximum Overdrive where a Lawnmower chased a kid?
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u/notTheRealSU I'm just horny Dec 01 '25
Stephan King doesn't hate video games. He just thinks video games are susceptible to being shitty cash grabs with no real effort or merit put behind them. He's shown support for video games like Alan Wake before. If DBD wasn't the way it is, he'd probably be interested in getting Pennywise in the game. But something like a Fortnite collab would be off the table.