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I have difficulty keeping my sanity. Each day, this altering world provides me with new trials. A man wearing the robes of a doctor crossed my path. From afar, I witness him walking around, searching. But he was not... normal. Eyes and mouth pried open, in a painful and disturbing way. Where do these fiends stem from? I do not trust him, he looks like he wants to bring pain, not healing? I will stay away, it is the wisest thing to do.
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~ A unknown figure on The Doctor.
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It's time for your treatment!
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~ The Doctor.
Herman Carter, better known as The Doctor, is one of the playable killers in Dead by Daylight. He was once a neuroscientist recruited by the CIA to torture prisoners till his desire for knowledge and power over others drove him to perform maliciously unethical experiments on everyone.
Real power is freedom. True freedom. Freedom beyond the limits of ethics and morality.
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~ The Doctor's twisted philosophy on knowledge as power.
Herman Carter was a rather morbidly inquisitive man with an obsession of the human psyche and performing hands-on experiments. In his youth, he transplanted a mouse brain into a rabbit and would cause fights with his parents after performing song loop experiments on them. He was a star pupil among his teachers, good in high school, and published an article for a psychological gazette. One of his idols was a scientist named Lord Crag, whom performed cruel experiments on his patients.
At Yale University, Carter and his lab partners began a group experiment on the good-doctor-bad-doctor interrogation at an old farmhouse, where he plays the Bad Doctor and the other plays the Good Doctor. Seeing as to how his lab partners were unfazed by typical mundane interrogation techniques, he took matters into his own hands by brutally torturing the Good Doctor classmate, brainwashing him into believing the other classmates are the Russian spies, which led to the Good Doctor murdering the other seven classmates with a spoon. Herman attempted to trick Blanchard into dismissing the incident as the Good Doctor student losing his mind, but Blanchard, upon looking at Carter's bloody handiwork, stated that entire interrogation was taped. It was revealed that the project was actually a front planned by the CIA to find an individual with the potential to go to worse lengths to gather knowledge. Impressed by his gruesome presentation, Herman became a vicious figure among the CIA, nicknamed as "The Doctor," as a lead scientist in Project MKAwakening, a program that developed torture methods to collect intel from prisoners.
Herman was pupiled under the supervision of his mentor Otto Stamper at Léry's Memorial Institute, given the tools and knowledge he needed because after all... knowledge is power. Although Stamper encouraged Carter's inhumane methods onto prisoners, the freedom to have power over mind control caused Carter to snap, killing or leaving everyone at Lery's in a broken vegetative state, including Stamper. His mentor was found in the most terrifying state of all the patients. His head had been peeled open and electrodes had been attached to his brain, which was somehow still in function despite being almost obliterated. Herman Carter was nowhere to be found, only his research notes on the key to mind control. The horrified government condemned the building and redacted every single information on it, likely staying so forever.
Meanwhile, Carter became one of The Entity's servants as The Doctor, granted electrical powers which he uses to fry his victim's brains and induce madness onto them.
Powers and Abilities[]
Scientific Genius: Carter is a gifted scientist and surgical expert in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. One of the earliest examples of his scientific prowess occurred when at a very young age he single-handedly implanted a mouse brain into a rabbit.
Manipulation: Carter's twisted in-depth knowledge of psychology has allowed him to become an uncannily effective manipulator, as demonstrated during the Yale University experiment, where he managed to break a classmate's mind to the point of being brainwashed into killing his lab partners with a spoon.
Electrokinesis: He can send a shockwave of electrical energy that renders his victims insane or in a vegetative state.
Torture Expert: A sinister user of torture methods and devices, most famously known for his ECT treatments.
Intimidation: What Carter had done to his prisoners is so monstrous he terrified all other prisoners into begging to be taken to a different interrogator.
Quotes[]
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I CAN SEE THEIR DISGUSTING ILLNESSES.
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~ The Doctor (possibly).
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The stimulus must be kept active at a convulsive level.
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~ The Doctor
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To avoid relapse from our most tenacious subjects, use maximum levels when proceeding with disciplinary actions.
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~ The Doctor
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Higher quality seizures trigger catatonia. At least it gives me peace for the time it lasts.
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~ The Doctor
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Once we have established an effective method of treatment, we can focus on its efficient means of delivery.
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~ The Doctor
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It's a trap. But a trap one must step in...
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~ The Doctor.
Gallery[]
The Doctor's portrait.
Herman Carter torturing his victims in his past life.
Herman Carter getting detained by the CIA.
Herman Carter's evil grin.
Herman Carter's depravity.
Herman transforming into The Doctor.
Videos[]
Dead by Daylight The Doctor New Chase Music (LIVE)
Trivia[]
The Doctor is a macabre representation of the classic mad scientist/doctor trope.
His facial equipment is a reference to the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.
The Doctor seems to be inspired by Yang Yongxin, a controversial Chinese psychiatrist who used electroconvulsive therapy without anesthetics or relaxants on alleged internet addicts to "cure" them of their addiction.
The Doctor was originally supposed to be Chinese with the name "Mu Yi", but the idea was scrapped and the developers went with the current African American depiction.
This is also shown by the survivor that released with him Feng Min being a gamer which is what Yongxin "cures"
Carter's background on MKAwakening is a reference to the real-life MKUltra project (1951-1971) conducted by the CIA involving unethical experiments on mind control and interrogation.
The Doctor was the first Killer to be given a nickname/primary alias before coming to the Entity's Realm besides the menu showing it as an official name, with the second one being The Huntress. He was nicknamed "The Doctor" by the CIA for his twisted knowledge in torture.
Besides ECT torture treatments, not much was known about what exactly happened to The Doctor's prisoners during and after interrogation. What had happened, however, was so horrifying it can only be known by how the prisoners begged to be taken to another interrogator except The Doctor.
Whether he has earned a medical degree or doctoral degree is unknown.
He is the first Killer to be a scientist, the second being The Skull Merchant.
He is the second Killer to be a medical professional, the first being The Nurse.
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