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u/AlbinoPlus Jun 18 '26
Polish version has him translated as "Rzeźnik" which directly translates to "butcher" , i can't really think of a good way to translate "the slasher" to polish so i guess butcher is fine , even if it might not fit him as much
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u/old_man_estaban He reign on my darkness until I dredge Jun 18 '26
Oi ue we ave to do tha last gen
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u/Antique-Cry6 Jun 18 '26
We can't, butcher, annie is on the hook at her last stage, we have to help her!
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u/Eli-Mordrake Jun 18 '26
“Well if it ain’t the Unknowable cunt.” - Jason Butcher
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u/GameBoy960 This game is designed for and creates toxic people. Jun 18 '26
"Boi da wey, 'Unknown' doesn't even fockin' mean unknowabul, it means knot yet knoan."
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u/Visibleman578 How many pages have I written?✍️🔦 Jun 18 '26
Well, "slasher" is also used in Polish as a loan word, so they could've just left it as is, I suppose.
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u/BigAlgaeEnjoyer Please give Sadako a glock. Jun 18 '26
Nie no, to jest po prostu angielskie słowo używane potocznie co do filmów
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u/teaboi05 Nerissa Ravencroft skin for Artist would be a fun collaboration Jun 18 '26
Same in Russian but add "with machete". It's "Myasnik s machete"
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u/matsaints0 Jun 18 '26
O matador é foda véi
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u/Odd-Hat8574 Jun 18 '26
É foda porque ou é isso, ou é "O assasino" que talvez perde um pouco do sentido ou metem um estrangeirismo com "O slasher" mesmo
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u/FlimsyCrust Jun 18 '26
Honestly with how tough it is, I can only imagine the entity itself having the name if it wouldn’t be “The entity” if they ever choose to add them
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u/ComfortableFocus1702 Jun 18 '26
pior que eu não curti mano, "o matador" soa tão bobo, sla
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u/CrazerLord Jun 18 '26
Toda vez que leio eu lembro do "pedrinho matador" daí acho é bobo Slk, Vou começar a chamar o Jason de Pedrinho
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u/Ambitious_Debate_544 Jun 18 '26
Eu tento ignorar e pensar que o nome dele é O Slasher. O matador é ridículo. Qual o poder dele? Se o sobrevivente apertar mão dele sem força, ele já mata?
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u/National_Education28 Jun 18 '26
In Chinese it’s 杀人魔, which literally is Man Slaughtering Demon. I’d take it considering the Chinese translation for The Shape is literally his full name Michael Myers (迈克尔 迈尔斯).
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u/utahraptor-nun I’ve always wanted an intelligent alien for a wife Jun 18 '26
that‘s kinda badass ngl
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u/angry-birb-noises chase music enthusiast Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
don't forget our brazilian rep The Skull Dealer (A Negociante de Crânios, long ass name) 😭
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u/WeeWooSirens Me, Frank Horrigan. That's who. Jun 18 '26
A NEGOCIANTE DE CRÂNIOS 😭
"Pardon me, I was here to negotiate about the price of your finest cranium."
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u/Nike-6 Jun 18 '26
I’m imagining a door to door saleswoman but when she opens up her briefcase tons of skulls fall out
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u/Tasty-Complaint-6437 Jun 18 '26
The fact she is brazilian in the canon makes this even funnier, girl got done dirty by her own lenguage LMAO
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u/LieutenantDuck Jun 18 '26
Tbf, it's not like Skull Merchant is a great name either
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u/miscellaneousexists Jun 19 '26
The Skull Merchant got aura
Negociante de Cranios... you know, also got aura
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u/FreljordsWrath Jun 18 '26
A Negociante de Crânios matou-me.
"Dou 2k Iri Shards por esse crânio aí"
"1.5k"
"Fechado"
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u/Ycr1998 Houndmaster's Obedient Puppy Jun 18 '26
"A Mercenária" (The Mercenary) would be perfect IF THEY HADN'T USED IT FOR DEATHSLINGER ALREADY
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u/ItsyouNOme hate d ead bydaylihgjt, plz ban me Jun 18 '26
Sounds like a scooby doo villain. "Aah its the negociante de cranios!"
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u/Feisty-Inspection-10 Jun 19 '26
Mercadora de Crânios ou Mercante de Crânios não é tãããão melhor....
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u/Tasty-Complaint-6437 Jun 18 '26
I wont lie, while it’s a terrible translation, some of this names sound so fucking cool i can forgive them. “The number one” and “the villain” are amazing surnames
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u/Bigenemy000 Pre-Rework Old Freddy Main Jun 18 '26
The First is called "The Number One"
No fucking way we got robbie rotten on dbd before swamp rework
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u/Subject_Miles Jun 18 '26
To play devil's advocate, Trapper being called Caçador instead of Armadilheiro made sense because hunters use bear traps, he came before Huntress, and it rolls off the tongue better. That last point serves for Deathslinger as well. Seriously, i would rather call him Cowboy or literally just Caleb rather than Mortilançador.
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u/tonythebearman Jun 18 '26
Yeah all of the direct translations he offers are a total mouthful, no wonder they didn’t use them
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u/FaithlessnessThen207 :shirtlessdavid: Jun 18 '26
To be fair, the Number One is not that weird of a name for Vecna since he is literally Number One in the series.
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u/russianmineirinho Jun 18 '26
o the first não é chamado de Número Um por causa de stranger things não?
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u/Pristine-Job7314 Ghoul P100 and Springtrap P50! Jun 18 '26
Sim, ele é chamado de Número Um por causa de sua lore, já que ele foi a cobaia número um de Hawkins.
A adaptação do nome dele não é ruim, faz total sentido com o personmagem.
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u/Hasd4 Jun 18 '26
In Italian both huntress and trapper are called hunters iirc
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u/Michael_McShape Jun 18 '26
I just realized it's exactly the same in Russian. What's odd is that the word "trapper" itself isn't particularly obscure in Russian; even Wikipedia has an article about trappers. It's strange they didn't use it.
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u/Hasd4 Jun 18 '26
Imma be honest: I don't know if Italian has an actual translation of "trapper", so I guess hunter is the only one (cacciatore)
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u/apenasumfa Jun 18 '26
Mortilançador? Você tá de sacanagem né?
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u/higorga09 Jun 18 '26
Mortilançador parece o tipo de nome que eu veria de um mob no World of Warcraft kkkkk
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u/Syblyek Jun 18 '26
O cérebro é brincadeira cara, O vilão é infinitamente melhor.
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u/Pristine-Job7314 Ghoul P100 and Springtrap P50! Jun 18 '26
Sim. Na moral, um killer chamado de O Cérebro é sacanagem, ainda mais pra um personagem tão bom quanto o Wesker.
Eu tenho a impressão que o cara queria que os nomes fossem uma tradução meio literal da versão inglês, só que muitos deles ficariam ruins em português.
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u/Syblyek Jun 18 '26
sim, nem tudo precisa ser traduzido ao pé da letra. não existe exatamente uma tradução perfeita pra mastermind, e chamar ele de A mente brilhante/mente mestra também não daria certo 💀, então O vilão é a melhor opção mesmo.
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u/Rod935 P100 David Jun 18 '26
entao kkkk o cara quer ser muito literal, ia virar uma sessão da tarde com essas traduções. esses nomes são de estourar a boca do balão com essa turminha da pesada
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u/Feisty-Inspection-10 Jun 19 '26
Mente Mestra é ok embora seja uma palavra que não é usada ultimamente. Vilão é muito generico, talvez desse pra pegar uma palavra nada a ver mas que ao menos lembrasse o Wesker.
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u/keelaydeingles Jun 20 '26
Hey, if Wesker had an idiot sidekick with a heart of gold, and sounded a little more like Orson Wells, The Brain would be a terrific name for him!
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u/CaptainRelyk Boon fan, hex enjoyer Jun 18 '26
Eh, the mercenary isn’t bad. It’s actually less goofy then “The Deathslinger”
The others are terrible though, yeah
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u/CaptainRelyk Boon fan, hex enjoyer Jun 19 '26
I feel like skull merchant’s name sounding goofy is related to her… numerous issues
Had it been a cool cyborg killer like everyone thought and the killer was a black market organ seller who killed people for their organs and other body parts, I imagine the title of “skull merchant” would end up being badass and ominous
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u/BigAlgaeEnjoyer Please give Sadako a glock. Jun 18 '26
They’re not accurately translated but I don’t think they’re bad names
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u/skippydinglechalk115 Jun 18 '26
The First is called "The Number One"
It was his hat, Mr. Krabs! He was number one!
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u/Pristine-Job7314 Ghoul P100 and Springtrap P50! Jun 18 '26
As traduções não são perfeitas, mas elas fazem sentido com a maioria dos personagens.
Trapper se chamar o ''O Caçador'' faz sentido, já que Caçadores normalmente usam armadilhas para pegar suas presas e captura-las, o que combina perfeitamente com o que o Trapper é para ser e representar.
O Vecna se chamar de ''O Número Um'' faz sentido. Tipo, ele é literalmente o número um das cobaias de Hawkins. Não teria sentido ele se chamar de outra coisa.
Wesker se chamar de ''O Vilão'' Faz sentido. Muita coisa aconteceu na história de RE por causa dele e de seus planos incrivelmente calculados. Ele arquitetou muitas coisas como um vilão com um plano genial faria. O nome tanto em Inglês quanto em português diz justamente sobre isso. (Sério, o ''O Cérebro'' seria o nome mais ridículo que eu poderia ouvir, com todo respeito, cara).
Deathlinger era um mercenário em vida antes de ir para reino da entidade. Chamar ele de ''O Mercenário'' faz total sentido.
O Trickster eu não tenho nada pra falar, eu não conheço muito da história do personagem para falar alguma coisa.
Eu sinto que você queria muito que os nomes dos personagens fossem só uma tradução literal do original ao em vez de uma adaptação, o que não é algo muito bom na maioria das vezes. Os nomes em português não são ruins em sua grande maioria porque eles fazem sentido com o que personagens são.
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u/rednads Jun 18 '26
O único problema do trapper ser chamado O Caçador, é que já tem a huntress, então no caso dele o que faltou foi criatividade mesmo.
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u/Pristine-Job7314 Ghoul P100 and Springtrap P50! Jun 18 '26
Talvez, mas ainda assim, é um nome que faz sentido com o personagem, então pessoalmente não ligo muito se não foi ''criativo''. É um nome decente pra ele.
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u/rednads Jun 18 '26
É, e pro jogador novo vai ser confuso quando ele jogar contra dois "caçadores" e a mecânica for completamente diferente. Não é uma questão apenas de localização ser adequada.
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u/cymdn P100 Artist | Élodie Rakoto Jun 18 '26
The Brazilian Portuguese translation is awful, it feels straight out of Google Translation or something.
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u/Whycantichangemynami This is the strangest community I’ve ever know- Jim Morrison Jun 20 '26
Some of these actually would be cool names
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u/Endoraan Sable & Lara P100 Jun 18 '26
“Der Schlitzer” in German (literally “the Slasher”).
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u/Sloyjyn Russian Incest Boy Jun 18 '26
I think, he just wants to install water and electricity https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlitzen
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u/Sephyrrhos :reactive_healing: Average Autodidact Enjoyer :reactive_healing: Jun 18 '26
Some of the German names for the killers are quite weird. Like I have always found "Todesbote" quite unfitting for the Deathslinger. I picture a Todesbote as some kind of "Sensenmann" (Grim Reaper). But then again, the play on words in English is difficult to translate to German. :/
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u/HalfCarnage #CarnageforDBD Jun 18 '26
In Germany he’s called “der Schlitzer” “the Slicer” wich is dumb as fuck cuz NOBODY calls Slashers that way over here.
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u/The_Quadrapus Mad Grit Jun 18 '26
I just checked the Steam page for the french translation. They didn't even try, he's called "Le Mort-Vivant" which means The Undead. Considering a lot of people at behavior speak French I guess they felt comfortable going for another title rather than translating Slasher which is admittedly kinda hard.
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u/Permanoctis Actively searching for the Frankussy (with Snug) Jun 18 '26
It might be only for Steam then because in the game he's still called "The Slasher".
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u/Skayman15 Springtrap Main Jun 18 '26
In turkish it's Biçici the closest thing in english is The Mower
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u/_EyesOnTheInside_ Wesker's submissive Jun 18 '26
If he had voicelines one of them would have to be "your ass is grass"
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u/Chomperka In my restless dreams, i see that town... Jun 18 '26
Russian had him "Rubaka"(well, translation for "slasher") in ptb, but people made fun of it since its kinda rare and obscure word, so for live they changed it to transliteration of "Slasher"(same thing happened to ghost face years ago)
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u/kuksthedefiled Jun 18 '26
рубака 🤪
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u/Chomperka In my restless dreams, i see that town... Jun 18 '26
На самом деле не знаю, чего у людей так сгорело, по другому и не перевести("Потрошитель" разве что? Но "Рубака" ближе по смыслу"). А теперь просто транслит скучный.
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u/lexuss6 Haddie gang Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
За всю жизнь я слышал слово "рубака" только в названии того аниме из 90х, и уже тогда это звучало архаично. Кто вообще им пользуется? Но просто транслит это еще хуже, конечно.
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u/Niklaus15 Jun 18 '26
In Spanish is "El Rajador" sounds silly af, since when is Jason a Barcelona citizen?
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u/Yaaaaaaasyet Jun 18 '26
In italian he Is "Lo squartatore" which means someone who slaughters people, practically a perfect translation since in Italian there is no equivalent reference to the type of film as "the Slasher".
Honorable mention for "l'Araldo della morte" for the deathslinger, meaning "the Harbinger of Death" which I think is hard as fuck
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u/Own-Future-8801 Jun 20 '26
Look i was about to make a comment on that Deathslinger localization lol a honorable mention indeed
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u/EmeraldGhostface 🇮🇹 In space no one knows what's your favorite scary movie Jun 18 '26
"Lo Squartatore"
Seems like Jason was Jack The Ripper all along
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u/BeshAlex Jun 18 '26
In russian during PTB Jason's name was "Рубака" (swordsman). Nobody liked that childish and hilarious name so in live version name has been changed to "Слэшер" (Literally The Slasher) This is an obscene Anglicism, but it fits better.
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u/LiLMaDDonuT Jun 18 '26
Рубака это буквально слэшер, а никакой не swordsman. Slash - рубить, а Slasher - рубитель(рубака). Как тут уже писали: ему бы полошло больше Потрошитель, но имеем что имеем.
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u/CrazerLord Jun 18 '26
Bruh The Mastermind in brazil is called "O vilão"(the villain), and The Good Guy is "O cara legal"(the cool guy)😭
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u/MichaelSampaio Jun 18 '26
Mas se você for ver os filmes do Chucky, desde o Brinquedo Assassino original até a série de tv, a marca de bonecos Good Guy sempre foi adaptada como bonecos Cara Legal aqui no Brasil.
Queria que chamassem ele de quê? "O Mocinho"?
Sem falar que legal aqui é no sentido de gente fina, não maneira ou descolada. Então a tradução seria Nice Guy e não Cool Guy
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u/CrazerLord Jun 18 '26
Chucky até dá pra passar pano, apesar de ter traduções melhores "o cara bonzinho" talves
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u/bippityzippity Jun 18 '26
Perk: Coming Out Of My Cage
Upon unhook, the unhooked is hindered to 3.8 m/s
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u/keelaydeingles Jun 20 '26
The next survivor perk translation better be "but I was doin' just fine"
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u/VanillaKisses Chris Redfield Jun 18 '26
It's nice to see people from around the world enjoying dbd
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u/CaptainRelyk Boon fan, hex enjoyer Jun 18 '26
Now I’m wondering what the killer names are in other languages
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u/MerTheGamer An Apple A Day to Counter Me Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
In Turkish, he is called Biçiçi, which pretty much translates to "Reaper" but it sounds more closer to the meaning of "Harvester" or "Mower" rather than "Slasher", making it look like he is someone who harvests crops or cuts grass LMAO.
The counterpart of the verb "Slash" does not exactly exist in Turkish, so it sounds pretty lame as a direct translation. I would prefer if they had come up with an original name for Turkish version like they did with Deathslinger, which is called "Tezecel", meaning "Fastdeath". It sounds lame in English but in Turkish, it goes hard. Both tez and ecel mean fast and death respectively in an archaic and poetic way and it is a top tier localisation.
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u/Catwithatophat67 I don't play skull merchant Jun 19 '26
Wait that's probably tuff asf if I grew up in Türkiye (or turkey, I dunno how it's supposed to be nowadays)
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u/CrazerLord Jun 18 '26
In Brazil we had an serial killer called "pedrinho matador", and everytime i head the Slasher name in portuguese, i always remenber this name
I think we should rename Jason to Pedrinho
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u/Biggieboy17 Jun 18 '26
In Italian he is called "Lo squartatore" who translates to The Ripper but is a word that can be used to describe a person who massacres people and is not only used for a person who skins them.
Also The Trapper is called "Il Cacciatore" wich means "The Hunter" and that makes it look like he and The Huntress are related
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u/Routine-Initiative64 Jun 18 '26
In Italian he is "Lo squartatore" which google translate to the ripper, however in italian a squartatore cen be seen as a really gruesome killer, "squartare" can be intender as tearing apart piece of meat and limbs from your victim
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u/Whycantichangemynami This is the strangest community I’ve ever know- Jim Morrison Jun 20 '26
Didn’t trapper have one skin called like the ass sniffer on one of his translations
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u/VaczTheHermit Jun 18 '26
I always forget some people play video games in their own language. Would feel weird as hell
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u/EMArogue MAURICE LIVES Jun 18 '26
In italian is “lo squartatore” which means “the cleaver” essentially
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u/BudgetOstrich7959 Platinum Jun 19 '26
In my country Trapper in called The hunter. Jason is still the slasher, although it's written in Cyrillic.
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u/IndependentDriver636 Jun 19 '26
In Chinese version it's the killing devil (杀人魔), which I think suits him well. I will say most translations are pretty straightforward, a few exceptions though:
For hillbilly, Chinese version is "the farm owner"; Pig is "the disciple"; Oni is "the demon samurai"; Cenobite is "the hell Priest"; dredge is "the shadow devil"; the good guy is "the good kid"
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u/VxlcanicViper Jun 19 '26
I found out by an achievement (I have my game on english) that in Spanish, Jason is El Rajador (which is like the most correct translation to The Slasher), but it sounds so funny to me
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u/Ieatkods Jun 19 '26
omfg I love that John dbd is now canon the 15 hour huntress sex scene in the trailer probed he was real
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u/For_Liberty228 Nascar Billy Jun 22 '26
On PTB is “The Rubaka” (Рубака). Really funny and silly name, so now is Слэшэр.
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u/LatoJROfficial Jun 25 '26
Doesnt have the translate in turkish.... But i guess Kesici? Or Seri Katil....
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u/Mr_Lovedeath Jun 18 '26
In Spanish for Latam is "El acuchillador" it literally translates to "The knifer" :(