According to a report for PC Gamer, one of the site’s writers has compiled an unofficial list of character concepts they believe Valve could add to its upcoming hero shooter Deadlock. The piece frames itself as tongue-in-cheek ideation rather than any genuine insight into the studio’s plans.
The writer argues that while Deadlock already features a broad range of supernatural heroes, it leaves gaps in cryptozoology and occult lore—territory they say would be ripe for expansion. Rather than offering real information about Valve’s development, the article instead delivers a series of jokes built around existing fictional characters and folklore.
The concepts range from references to established comic strips—such as a “Summer Mummy” drawn from Heathcliff, the orange cat series—to original mashups of mythological figures like a baseball-playing minotaur and a haunted suit of armor that boxes.
Several entries lean on pop-culture callbacks. A Loch Ness Monster’s child is pitched partly for its microtransaction potential through purchasable skins, while a “Bigfoot running for mayor” concept imagines the creature wielding a Lewis gun and fielding questions from fellow heroes.
The remaining ideas include three gnomes in a trench coat with little guns, an eight-limbed spider, a Humpty Dumpty reimagined as a grim antihero, the rest of the monkey behind the Monkey’s Paw, a North Pole elf labor rights activist, and a Staten Island deer transformed into a sapient figure struggling with city life.
The article does not contain any factual reporting on Deadlock’s roster, release details, or Valve’s design decisions. It is written purely as humor, using the game’s occult art direction as a jumping-off point for satire.
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