Stick It to the Stickman Dark Knight: Unlock Guide

The Stick It to the Stickman Dark Knight is the game's newest secret character, and the unlock quest is a proper night shift operation. You break cardboard CEOs, answer a radio, and hunt crime bosses across the map, all while a five-star wanted level tries to make every step expensive. It is one of the most atmospheric unlocks in the game, and the payoff is a character worth the effort.

This Stick It to the Stickman Dark Knight guide follows the saved community guide by hamsternick, which documents both this character and the red-gicide achievement in one route. It also explains the red-gicide overlap, because the two routes share steps. Community thread notes are labeled where they add detail the guide itself leaves out.

One warning before the steps: this quest requires night shift access in the Finance Tower, and no amount of daytime exploring will spawn what you need. Treat the night shift as step zero, and everything after it follows a clean sequence.

The Unlock Quest in Order

The guide's own summary is short. To unlock the Dark Knight, break all 5 of the CEO cardboard cutouts around the map after unlocking the night shift. Then pick up the radio, kill all the CEO crime bosses that spawn around the map, and go into the night shift menu after this is done. The order matters more than speed, and skipping the radio is the mistake players report most.

The guide says the Dark Knight is the newest secret character in the game. Community comments add that the quest only works in the night shift version of the map, which is where the cardboard CEOs actually appear. The quest's charm is that it reads like a heist checklist: break, answer, hunt, report back. The community's spoiler-wary players still quote the steps openly because the fun is in executing them, not reading them, and the five-star chase that follows the radio is the part nobody wants spoiled.

Finding the Five Cutouts

The guide treats the cutouts as a scavenger hunt rather than a checklist of coordinates, but the community fills in the shape of the search: the cutouts are spread across the map, with several near landmarks like the hospital and the upper road. Hunt them like secrets, not like objectives, and sweep each landmark slowly so you do not pass a breakable cutout twice.

Community comments stress the trigger order: breaking all five is what causes the next marker to appear, and until all five are broken, the radio does not exist for you. A Stick It to the Stickman dark knight search without the night shift is the most common false start in the thread.

One comment adds the key clarification: the cutouts only exist in the night shift version of the Finance Tower map, so daytime runs are a dead end, and the guide assumes you already know that.

The CEO Crime Boss Fight

When the cutouts are gone, a new marker appears. Go there, find the walkie talkie, and pick it up, and you will be told to kill the CEOs. Each CEO crime boss has 5 health, so a gun can one-shot them, and killing one instantly gives you 5 stars, so all three spawns turn the map hostile at once. Community comments describe the five-star stretch as the quest's real difficulty spike.

The guide's loadout advice follows from those numbers: bring a gun beforehand, because a one-shot weapon turns each boss into a single clean kill instead of a five-hit brawl under a five-star wanted level. A Stick It to the Stickman dark knight attempt without a gun is doable but miserable, because each boss takes five hits while the wanted level stacks.

Bringing the Right Loadout

The night shift is not the place for a fragile build. Community reports recommend a gun for the bosses, strong crowd control for the wanted-level chases, and enough health upgrades to survive between kills, because the map stays hostile for the whole hunt and retreat is rarely clean.

The guide's own ending note keeps it honest: kill all of them and you will get the character. No secret second phase, no hidden timer, just three one-shot kills in the right order.

If you die mid-hunt, the quest does not reset your cutout progress in the same run, but community reports disagree on whether cutout breaks persist across separate runs, so the safest plan is to attempt the full quest in one night shift session.

The Red-Gicide Connection

The saved guide pairs the Dark Knight with the red-gicide achievement, which is the same red-themed unlock the community achievement guides also list. Completing the Dark Knight route advances both goals at once, which is why the guide groups them, and for players chasing both, the Stick It to the Stickman dark knight route is the efficient path.

Community comments also note the guide's screenshots for cutout locations require clicking through Steam's external links, which is why this page describes the landmarks instead of the links.

FAQ

How do I unlock the Dark Knight in Stick It to the Stickman?

Unlock the night shift, break all 5 CEO cardboard cutouts, pick up the radio, kill the CEO crime bosses, then open the night shift menu. The character unlocks after that final step, and that is the entire Stick It to the Stickman dark knight sequence.

Do I need the night shift for the Dark Knight?

Yes. Community comments are explicit that night shift access in the Finance Tower is the only way to make the cardboard CEOs appear. Daytime runs never spawn the cutouts.

What weapon should I bring?

A gun. Each CEO crime boss has 5 health, so a gun can one-shot them, and killing one instantly gives you 5 stars, so clean one-shots matter. Boss fights stay short, and the wanted level is the real enemy, so carry spare ammo if your gun build allows it.

Is the Stick It to the Stickman Dark Knight the same as Batman?

In the game he is called Dark Knight, not Batman. The saved guide confirms the in-game name, and community comments still joke about the difference, which is half the fun. The guide author has had to explain this repeatedly in the comments.

Read the saved Dark Knight guide for the full route with its original screenshots.