How Dead by Daylight’s Moris Would Actually Kill You | Part 2

Ajouté : 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Hello, hello, and welcome back to another episode of Dead by Daylight is secretly just an anatomy class with extra screaming. I'm looking at you, Steegel.

[00:00:10]Today, we're diving into the next five killers: the Hag, the Doctor, the Huntress, the Cannibal, and the Nightmare.

[00:00:18]A lineup that feels less like a horror roster and more like the world's worst group therapy session. In this series, we take each killer's Mori, break down exactly what is happening to the human body, and ask the important medical question, "Would this actually kill you, or is the entity just being dramatic?"

[00:00:36]If you missed the first video, we already covered the five original killers: Trapper, Wraith, Hillbilly, Nurse, and Michael Myers. [music] So, go check out that one before this one so you can see where the medical malpractice all started. And before we begin into today's deep dive, please make sure to like, subscribe, and drop a comment uh letting me know which killer you would like me to medically dissect next. All right, grab your med kits, ignore the skill checks because they aren't going to help you here, and enjoy the medical deep dive.

[00:01:08]First up for this batch, we have the Hag, Lisa Sherwood, a killer for people who looked at Dead by Daylight and said, "You know what this game needs? More jump scares, more traps, and a deeper emotional attachment to totems." Hag mains are very special. There's only two things they truly love in this world: a hooked survivor and their precious totems. Touch either one, and suddenly this little swamp goblin erupts out of the ground like a cursed Jack-in-the-Box with trust issues.

[00:01:31]And that's the real Hag experience.

[00:01:33]She's not chasing you across the map, she's not winning a long-distance foot race. This woman is so slow that even the newest baby survivors can look over their shoulders like, "Wait, is she coming, or she just thinking about it?"

[00:01:45]But that's the trick. Hag doesn't need to be fast, she's not trying to chase you. She's trying to make the entire map feel like a haunted minefield. Every unhook, every totem cleanse, every suspicious [music] patch of dirt becomes a psychological panic attack.

[00:01:58]The Hag is not really a Wendigo, but she is clearly inspired by that kind of myth. Starvation, cannibalism, a body that looks like it's been running on bad vibes and swamp water, and a hunger that's gone on way, way too long. Her Mori captures this perfectly. She pounces on the survivor, tears into their throat with her teeth, and then digs into their abdomen with her right hand, pulling out what appears to be their liver, and starts going to town.

[00:02:21]Let's take a look.

[00:02:36]Mhm, mhm, mhm. Tasty. Let's break it down. First, the throat bite. Under normal circumstances, a human could not just bite someone's throat open like that. The carotid artery and jugular vein are not just sitting exposed under the skin waiting for a snack break.

[00:02:51]They're protected by skin, connective tissue, fascia, and thick muscles like the sternocleidomastoid.

[00:02:58]A normal human bite can absolutely break skin, cause deep puncture wounds, introduce infection, and cause serious soft tissue damage, but tearing through the neck and ripping out the throat in just one bite, that's not really realistic for a normal human jaw.

[00:03:11]But the Hag is very clearly not on normal human rules anymore, whether that is the entity, supernatural transformation, or just some good old-fashioned swamp-based performance-enhancing drugs, her bite force is clearly far beyond human. So, for the sake of the Mori, if she has enough force to tear through these protective layers, she could actually rupture the carotid artery, jugular vein, and do some serious damage to the trachea.

[00:03:35]The carotid supply blood to the brain, and the jugular veins drain the blood back out. If those structures are torn open, you get rapid blood loss, a drop in blood pressure, and a rapid drop in oxygen delivery to the brain. You're not losing hundreds of milliliters per second like some exaggerated movie, but you are losing enough that blackout could happen in roughly 5 to 10 seconds, especially if the airway trauma happens at the same time.

[00:03:59]And if the trachea is torn, now you have a second problem. The victim can't breathe normally, blood can enter the airway, oxygen levels crash, and the body begins to shut down.

[00:04:08]Then comes the disembowelment. The hag tears into the abdominal wall, cutting through the rectus abdominis, the obliques, and the peritoneum, which is the membrane lining the abdominal cavity. Once she reaches [music] inside and pulls out what appears to be the liver, the situation becomes instantly fatal. The liver is a massive, extremely vascular organ. It sits mostly in the upper right abdomen, tucked under the rib cage and diaphragm, and it receives about 1 to 1.5 L of blood per minute. It also holds roughly 10 to 15% of your total blood volume at any given time.

[00:04:42]So, if she tears it loose, she's rupturing major hepatic vessels, causing massive hemorrhagic shock. That means blood pressure collapses, the brain stops getting oxygen, organs stop functioning, and the entire body completely shuts down. So, medically speaking, this mori is a brutal combination of neck vessel rupture, airway trauma, abdominal evisceration, and liver avulsion. Time to unconsciousness is probably 5 to 10 seconds. Time to death is likely within tens of seconds, especially once that liver is removed. There's nothing precise about the hag's mori. This is a full-blown wendigo-inspired nightmare fuel. The gaunt body, the feral pounce, the throat bite, and then the liver snack for the road. It's not elegant, but it's very on brand for a creature whose whole vibe is I skipped lunch for several centuries. Medical realism it gets a 9 out of 10. A normal human could not bite like that, but once you accept [music] that the hag is entity-enhanced swamp nightmare fuel, the injuries themselves are horrifyingly believable.

[00:05:49]>> Oh!

[00:06:01]>> Next up, we have the doctor, Herman.

[00:06:05]Yeah, Herman Carter. Dead by Daylight's resident neurologist, electrician, therapist, and walking malpractice lawsuit.

[00:06:13]Doctor mains have a certain reputation.

[00:06:16]Either they're a completely brand new to the game and shocking walls the whole time, or they're running the most annoying slow down build known to man while cackling every time someone misses a skill check. He's the king of you don't get to play the game, only I get to play the game. His Mori is exactly what you would expect from a man whose medical license was apparently written in crayon. The survivors lying face down and the doctor comes up behind them before charging up electricity in both hands, placing the current on either side of their heads right on the temples, and shocking them for about 4 seconds. Afterwards, he rolls them over, eyes rolled back, black smoke is coming out of their face. Let's take a look.

[00:06:55]>> [screaming] [laughter] >> I guess it's safe to say he likes the survivors extra crispy. Let's break it down. This Mori is clearly inspired by electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. Real ECT is an actual psychiatric treatment used for severe depression and other conditions. It uses controlled electrical pulses to trigger a brief seizure in the brain, but modern ECT is done under anesthesia with muscle relaxants, [music] careful monitoring, and controlled dosing.

[00:07:31]What the doctor is doing is clearly not ECT. It's what happens when someone hears controlled electrical stimulation and says, "Cool, but what if I wanted a light show at the same time?"

[00:07:42]Because the current is passing from temple to temple, this is a transcranial electrical injury. The electricity is traveling through the skull and brain, especially the temporal lobes, limbic system, and potentially deeper structures like the brain stem.

[00:07:55]To create visible arcs like that, you would need very high voltages at the surface, likely in the thousands to tens of thousands of volts. But voltage is not the only thing that matters. The dangerous part is the current, typically measured in amps. In real life, even 50 to 100 milliamps passing through the body can be dangerous, especially if it affects the heart or the lungs. Clinical ECT may use currents around the high hundreds of milliamps, but it's in controlled pulses and under medical supervision. The doctor's shock is sustained, uncontrolled, and clearly produces burns and smoke. So, we're probably talking about hundreds of milliamps to potentially over an amp passing through the head for several seconds. Within milliseconds, neurons would depolarize all at once. That means the brain's electrical signals fire uncontrollably, causing a generalized tonic seizure. Every muscle locks up, the jaw clamps down, the eye rolls upward because the extraocular muscles are contracting uncontrollably. In this state, even the motion of the jaw clenching can actually be terrifying.

[00:08:53]The masseter muscles [music] are some of the strongest muscles in the body. The average human bite force is around 160 psi, with maximum voluntary bite forces reaching about 275 psi. During an electrical seizure, the contraction is no longer voluntary. So, the person could bite through their tongue or cheek, break teeth, and even in rare cases dislocate their jaw. That being said, a dislocated jaw isn't going to kill anybody. But the black smoke, that's an important clue. The doctor's not vaporizing the entire head. That would take an absurd amount of energy.

[00:09:23]But he does not need to vaporize everything. He only needs to superheat small areas near the contact points. And water takes about 2.5 kilojoules of energy per gram to heat from body temperature to vaporization point. So, if even a few thousand joules are concentrated into tiny areas of tissue, you can create localized steam. Add in temperatures above 150 to 250° C, and now proteins are starting to denature, fats are breaking down, and tissue begins to carbonize. That black smoke coming from the eyes and mouth would be a mix of steam, pyrolysis gases, and microscopic charred tissue particles venting from the face.

[00:09:58]Basically, the tissue is not exploding, it's being electrically locally cooked.

[00:10:02]Neurologically, the shutdown is almost immediate. would lose organized electrical activity in under a second, a state called electrocerebral silence.

[00:10:10]The brainstem can fail, breathing stops, and the heart can lose rhythm from autonomic disruption. So, by the time the doctor rolls the survivor over, the eyes rolled up and smoke rising from the face, it actually makes sense in a very horrific scientific kind of way. Time to unconsciousness is almost instantly, likely under a second, and the time to death with this level of brain disruption and thermal injury, it's likely happening in a second or two. The doctor's worry is not just electrocution, it's neurological overload, seizure, respiratory arrest, thermal injury, and brain shutdown all happening at the same time. Medical realism gets an 8.5 to 9 out of 10. The visuals are obviously exaggerated, but the mechanism is real enough to make every ocean specter in a 5-mi radius want to quit on the spot.

[00:11:07]>> [laughter] [singing] >> Next, we have the Huntress, Anna, the 7-ft tall lullaby humming forest dommy mommy who proves that even a bedtime song can in fact be a warning label.

[00:11:23]Huntress mains come in two forms. Either they're landing cross-map hatchets from another zip code like they're possessed by a COD YouTuber making a NoobTube montage, or they're throwing hatchets into trees, rocks, walls, and occasionally the concept of hope itself.

[00:11:36]And no matter how many hatchets they have, they will check a locker. No hatchets, locker. Full hatchets, locker.

[00:11:43]Doesn't matter. It's an emotional support locker. Her Mori is simple and brutal. She raises a broad axe above her head, brings it down directly into the survivor's face, pulls it back out, and then brings it down two more times just for good measure in the center of the chest. Let's take a look.

[00:11:59]>> [screaming] >> God, she could step on me anytime.

[00:12:14]Oop, sorry. Inside thought. Inside thought. Anyway, let's break it down.

[00:12:18]The weapon she uses here matters. She's not using the little hatchets that she throws at you for the Mori. She's using her main weapon, which appears to be a broad axe. A traditional axe with a large heavy head, typically designed for squaring logs and planks. This means it's built for deep, powerful [music] chopping force. A broad axe can weigh around 6 to 10 lb depending on the design with a long handle and with someone that has a physique like the Huntress >> [music] >> swinging that bad boy overhead, the impact force could easily reach into the thousands of Newtons. This is more than enough force to fracture bone and drive the blade deep into the tissue. The first strike hits the face and that's immediately catastrophic. A downward axe blow to the face can fracture the frontal bone, nasal bones, maxilla, or bones around the eye. If the blade penetrates deep enough, it can enter the cranial cavity damaging the frontal lobes of the brain. A severe enough craniofacial injury can cause immediate unconsciousness from traumatic brain injury, brain bleeding, or direct destruction of brain tissue itself. If the axe tracks downward through the face, it could also damage the brain stem or upper cervical structures depending on the [music] angle. That would be even worse because the brain stem controls breathing, heart rate, and consciousness. Then she pulls the axe out. That's not just removing the weapon, it's creating more damage. As the blade pulls free through the tissue, it creates a partial vacuum on the way out, damaging the tissue further, widening the wound, and increasing bleeding. Then comes the two chest strikes, which were obviously definitely necessary. Not overkill at all, trust me. The front center of the chest is protected by your sternum, but the sternum's not built to handle repeated overhead axe blows from giant Russian murder athletes. A strong enough strike would fracture or split the sternum and enter the thoracic cavity, where the heart, lungs, and greater vessels are located. Directly behind the sternum are the right ventricle, portions of the left ventricle, the aorta, the pericardial sac around the heart. If the axe penetrates that area, you can get cardiac lacerations, aortic ruptures, hemothorax, or cardiac tamponade.

[00:14:14]Cardiac tamponade is when blood fills the sac around the heart and compresses it so it can't expand and pump. It's basically the heart being strangled by its own bleeding. The chest strikes could also puncture the lungs, causing a pneumothorax or collapsed lung, or a hemothorax, blood filling the chest cavity. Physiologically, the first strike likely causes instant unconsciousness from brain trauma. The second and third strike destroy the heart and chest cavity, guaranteeing the death. Time [music] to unconsciousness is possibly instant from the face strike, and the time to death is likely within seconds, especially after those chest strikes. The Huntress's Mori is not subtle, it's not complicated. It's mass, momentum, and a very large axe going in probably the two worst places to hit, the face and the heart. Medical realism gets a 9.5 out of 10. The only reason it's not a full 10 is because the axe would probably get stuck, and the Huntress removing it like she's chopping kindling is a bit of stretch.

[00:15:15]>> [screaming] >> Next up, the cannibal, Bubba Sawyer, the man, the myth, the face camping legend.

[00:15:30]Bubba mains are famous for one thing, standing near a hooked survivor, revving their chainsaw like it's powered by anxiety, and daring the entire team to make a bad decision. Some call it toxic, some call it strategy, Bubba calls it family dinner preparation. His Mori is very on brand. He smacks the survivor in the back of the head with a hammer, dazing them, then he revs up the chainsaw, drives it through the lower to mid back, just below the rib cage, and drags it upward until it exits through the right shoulder. Gnarly, let's take a look.

[00:16:06]>> [screaming] [groaning] >> And just like that, dinner is served.

[00:16:16]Let's break it down. First, the hammer.

[00:16:18]This is not some big fancy sledgehammer, it's just normal hammer, but that doesn't make it harmless. A standard hammer actually has a smaller striking surface, meaning all of the force gets concentrated into a very small area. A full force strike to the back of the head can cause a concussion, linear skull fractures, or depressive skull fractures of the occipital lobe. The occipital region is especially dangerous because it sits near the base of the skull, close to the brain stem and the structures that control consciousness.

[00:16:45]Even if the skull does not fracture, the sudden acceleration can cause diffuse axonal injuries, where nerve fibers in the brain shear from the rapid movement.

[00:16:54]That can cause an immediate loss of consciousness, but that is clearly not the case in the Mori. Then comes the chainsaw. Bubba's saw is a gas-powered monster, probably running around 9,000 RPM, with chain teeth moving roughly 60 to 70 mph. But real talk, chainsaws are designed to cut wood, not human bodies.

[00:17:12]They're not meant to be stabbed tip first, and they're definitely not optimized to be cutting through clothes, flesh, bone, or even connective tissues.

[00:17:20]In reality, you would expect problems.

[00:17:22]Clothing could snag, bones could bind the chain, tissues and fluids could clog the sprocket [music] and clutch, the chain could derail, stall, kickback, snap. So, mechanically, this Mori asks an awful lot from the chainsaw. But, for the sake of the video, we're going to assume Bubba's chainsaw works flawlessly because otherwise this becomes a chainsaw maintenance tutorial [music] and no one clicked on that. But, if you're interested, let me know in the comments below.

[00:17:47]Just kidding. When the saw enters just below the rib cage, it first tears through the erector spinae muscles, thoracolumbar fascia, and deep back muscles. These are thick stabilizing muscles, but a chainsaw does not cut cleanly. It tears and pulverizes. At that level, the saw can enter the retroperitoneal space, which is the deep area behind the abdominal cavity. That space contains major structures like the kidneys, abdominal aorta, and inferior vena cava. If the saw damages the abdominal aorta, that is catastrophic arterial bleeding. If it damages the inferior vena cava, that is massive venous bleeding from one of the largest veins in the body. Either way, blood pressure collapses almost instantly.

[00:18:27]As the saw travels upwards, it crosses the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen and allows for breathing. Once the diaphragm is torn, breathing mechanics fail. Then, the saw enters the thoracic cavity where it can damage the lungs, ribs, and other major vessels.

[00:18:42]>> [music] >> By the time it exits through the right shoulder, it's likely to destroy the scapula, subclavian artery, and brachial plexus. The subclavian artery supplies blood to the arm, and the brachial plexus controls movement and sensation.

[00:18:54]So, the shoulder's not just injured, it's functionally disconnected. So, physiologically, this Mori stacks multiple fatal injuries: blunt head trauma, massive abdominal bleeding, diaphragm rupture, lung injury, spinal trauma, and major vascular destruction.

[00:19:08]Is it over the top? Yes. Is it a watch? Also, yes. [music] Time to unconsciousness in reality likely immediately from the hammer blow, but from the Mori we can see that the survivor gets to be awake from the next part. So, within a few seconds once the saw enters their body, the time to death is probably 5 to 10 seconds once the chainsaw begins its pathway of [music] destruction.

[00:19:29]If the Hillbilly is mechanically devastating, Bubba is industrial disassembly. Less precision, more horsepower, and an alarming need for a pressure washer afterwards.

[00:19:39]Medical realism is a 9 out of 10. The injuries are medically sound. The only thing holding it back is the fact that a real chainsaw would probably jam, kickback, or file a worker's comp claim.

[00:19:55]Finally, we have the Nightmare, Freddy Krueger, the dream demon, the striped sweater menace, the man who somehow went from a horror icon to in Dead by Daylight terms, "Oh, great. This match is going to take forever." Freddy mains have a reputation for being slow, methodical, and just a little boring to play against. You do not lose to a Freddy because he overwhelms you with speed. You lose because the match slowly drains you of your will to live until you're basically begging for the end game collapse. But, his Mori, that part's not boring at all. Freddy stands behind the survivor, drives his clawed hand straight through the back center of their chest, punching all the way through before pulling his hand out and letting them drop dead. Let's take a look.

[00:20:40]>> [screaming] >> Well, I'm definitely glad my sleep paralysis demon can't do that. Let's break it down. The first important detail is the point of entry, the center of the upper back. This means the claws are entering through the posterior thorax and traveling through the chest.

[00:20:57]If Freddy's claws pass between the ribs, the force needed is actually not as impossible as it looks for them to stab all the way through. A sharp blade passing through soft tissue and between ribs might only need about 150 to 300 Newtons of force. For context, a committed strike or shove from an average adult male can produce roughly 300 to 700 Newtons of peak force, with trained fighters going much, much higher. So, in theory, if Freddy threads the claws between the ribs, it's physically possible that the blade stabbed through the chest, just not the whole hand like some sick, twisted chest burster.

[00:21:30]That killer comes later. But, if he hits bone, the story changes. Ribs and sternum can push that force requirement into 1 to 2 kilonewton range or higher.

[00:21:40]And if he hits the spine directly, now we're talking about several kilonewtons and probably supernatural assistance.

[00:21:46]So, the cleanest explanation is that the entity is doing what the entity does best, ignoring physics for dramatic effect. Once the claws enter the thoracic cavity, they pass through the mediastinum, which is the central compartment of the chest. That area contains the heart, aorta, vena cava, trachea, esophagus, and major nerves.

[00:22:04]And because he punches all the way through, those claws are not just reaching those structures, they're passing directly through them. A central chest penetration like this could rupture the left ventricle, right ventricle, or aortic arch. If the heart is split or the aorta is torn, blood pressure drops to zero almost instantly.

[00:22:20]The brain has no oxygenated blood supply, and unconsciousness follows within seconds. The claws would also likely puncture one or both lungs, causing pneumothorax or bilateral pneumothorax if both lungs collapse. Add bleeding into the chest cavity, hemothorax, and now the survivor cannot breathe, cannot circulate blood, and cannot maintain oxygen delivery.

[00:22:40]Typically considered things someone should be doing if they want to be considered medically alive. If the claws damage the thoracic spine [music] on entry, they could also cause spinal cord transaction, meaning instant paralysis below the injury. But, honestly, with the heart and aorta destroyed, paralysis is kind of the least of the body's concerns. Then Freddy pulls his hand back out. That withdrawal matters because it widens the wound path and removes any temporary pressure the claws were creating. The result is rapid blood loss, air entering the chest cavity, lungs collapse, and complete circulatory failure. The time to unconsciousness is probably 2 to 5 seconds and time to death is likely under 10 seconds depending on whether the heart or aorta is hit. And based on the animation, they absolutely are. Freddy's Mori is brutally simple, one strike, one direct path, total system failure. Freddy's Mori is simple, fast, and absolutely lethal. But let's [music] be real, there's no way his entire clawed hand punches clean through a human chest without some entity-powered [music] nonsense helping him out. A blade slipping between the ribs is one thing, a fully hand glove going through the thorax like the survivor is made out of wet cardboard, that is where the anatomy files a formal complaint. Somatically, the injuries are extremely realistic, heart rupture, lung collapse, major vessel damage, and catastrophic blood loss, but mechanically, the actual follow-through is pure supernatural horror logic. Medical realism, it gets an 8.5 out of 10. The damage is completely believable, but Freddy gets docked because the punching through definitely came with an entity assist, and honestly, that feels right for the Freddy. Even in the fog, he still finds a way to cheat while everyone else is trying to play the game.

[00:24:23]>> [screaming] >> And that's going to wrap up part two of our medical deep dive into the Dead by Daylight Moris. Today, we covered swamp gremlin, organ theft, electrical malpractice, axe-based facial reconstruction, chainsaw anatomy lessons, and Freddy Krueger proving once again that sleep apparently is optional and a very dangerous. If you made it this far in the video, first of all, thank you so very much. I really appreciate your support. Out of this group, some of these killers were surprisingly medically sound, some needed a little entity assistance, and some made me question why I decided to turn a horror game finishers into an anatomy lecture in the first place.

[00:25:01]If you missed part one, go check that out. We covered the original five killers and figured out just how badly the human body handles things like machetes, chainsaws, strangulation, and Michael Myers being Michael Myers.

[00:25:14]Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like and subscribe for more, and remember, in the fog, death is not an escape, it's just another case study.