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'''Cast of Characters'''

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[[folder:Silent Hill Origins Characters]]
!!Travis Grady
A trucker with a slight temper problem and a DarkAndTroubledPast that, in the words of ZeroPunctuation, is the equivalent of a season pass to Silent Hill.

* BadassBiker: After finishing the game for the first time you [[AndYourRewardIsClothes get a new costume for Travis]]; motorcycle leathers (which his comments confirm that he owns, alongside a bike).
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Which you unfold during the game.
* TheIshmael
* [[spoiler:ParentalAbandonment]]:[[spoiler: Mother went insane and was locked up in a nuthouse. Dad committed suicide]].
* RuleOfSymbolism: A recurring symbol of his character is a lonely moon; the lyrics to the song ''O.R.T.'' on the soundtrack describe him this way. His aforementioned motorcycle leathers have said moon on the back of the jacket.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The order did not plan on Travis's interference blowing their plans to hell for 7 years.
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[[folder:Silent Hill Characters]]
!!Harry Mason
A writer, widower, and devoted father who bumbles into SilentHill and proceeds to kick ass and chew bubblegum.

* BadassUnintentional
* CatchPhrase: "Have you seen a little girl?"
* NonActionGuy: At the beginning anyway
* PapaWolf: He will literally ''go to hell and back'' to save his little girl.
* TookALevelInBadass
* UnwittingPawn

!!Cheryl Mason
A little girl, short black hair, about seven years old, she goes missing from Harry's car after he crashes it.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: She was adopted by Harry and his wife. This is convenient for the plot, though not really for Cheryl herself.
* TheGhost
* HappilyAdopted
* [[spoiler:OlderThanTheyLook]]: In a way. [[spoiler:Since Cheryl and Alessa have the same soul, a lot of fans intepret that as being the same age. So Cheryl, even though she's technically seven during the game, could have a bunch of different ages.]]
** Lampshaded a bit during [=SH3=].

!!Cybil Bennett
A police officer dispatched from the neighboring town of Brahms. She's investigating the strange goings-on in Silent Hill, and like Harry, she's stuck in the town with no way to contact any backup. [[spoiler:Late in the game she gets possessed by a demon and Harry must fight her at the Fairgrounds. You can either save her with the bottle of Aglaophotis (red liquid) that you find via a very obscure sidequest, or kill her; which action you take changes the game's ending]].

* FairCop
* DonutMessWithACop: Played with, but you have to squint. You meet Cybil in a diner.

!!Dahlia Gillespie
This strange old woman who asks Harry to stop the birth of "Samael".[[spoiler: She's really Alessa's mother and a major member of The Order, the cult that resides in the town. Her goal was to summon a God that would lead all to "paradise", but to do so she ''burned her own daughter in the summoning ritual'', and keeping Alessa in constant agony and pain to incubate the god inside her.]]

* AbusiveParents: And how...
* BigBad: The primary villain in the original game in its prequel. Considering that she's had a hand in the events of the other games as well, she's probably the main one for the series.
* CompleteMonster: Just read the spoiler above.
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: Either gets fried by the very demon she tried to summon or by a vengeful Alessa.]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes
* EvilMentor
* EvilOldFolks: Subverted in that she's actually in her ''forties''! Someone certainly didn't age well.
* LargeHam: Not so much in the prequel, but her original voice actor loves to chew up the scenery.
* ManipulativeBastard
* MoralEventHorizon: Definitely crossed this when she [[spoiler: burned her daughter alive and sustained her for nearly a decade to make her an adequate host for God.]]

!!Michael Kaufmann
A not terribly pleasant doctor Harry encounters. [[spoiler: Was a drug runner, in bed with Dahlia [[{{Squick}} (maybe literally)]] in regards to the demon birth plan, and most likely killed Lisa. [[{{Understatement}} Not a nice guy]]. Lisa eventually hands him a KarmicDeath via dragging him to hell.]]

* CompleteMonster: Propelled to this in Origins.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As much of a bastard he is, he is disgusted by Dahlia's ultimate plan, [[spoiler:to the point that he helps Harry defeat her in the good endings.]]
* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath]]
* [[spoiler:TokenEvilTeammate]]

!!Lisa Garland
A kindly nurse Harry continuously bumps into as he shifts to and from the Otherworld. Though strangely, always in the same location, as she refuses to leave it. [[spoiler: Turns out she was Alessa's nurse post burning, died shortly thereafter (most likely murdered by Kaufmann), and Alessa's kind memories of her kept her around in the Otherworld. Until she figured it out, anyway...]]

* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]
* HospitalHottie
** HelloNurse
* TheWoobie: Becomes this in Silent Hill Origins, especially when it turns out that Kaufmann is blackmailing her for sex.

!!Alessa Gillespie
A young woman with mysterious powers who had the great misfortune of being Dahlia Gillespie's daughter, her suffering at her own mother's hand is what kicks off the plot to begin with.

[[spoiler:Alessa somehow split into two people--the Alessa you see wrapped in bandages at the final sequence of the game, and the girl that Harry found and raised as "Cheryl". The God couldn't be born unless both halves of Alessa were reunited, so Dahlia manipulates Harry into doing the dirty work for her. Depending on your ending, Harry either fights and kills the Complete Alessa, or Kaufmann intervenes and draws out the God for Harry to fight. The latter ending shows Alessa dying and giving Harry a baby girl, a reincarnation of herself and who will grow up to become Heather in ''Silent Hill 3''.]]

* AndIMustScream: She's been kept in constant agony for seven years just so her hatred can incubate a god. Thanks, Mom.
* ApocalypseMaiden
* MommyIssues: Oh so much...
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

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[[folder:Silent Hill 2 Characters]]
!!James Sunderland
A store clerk who comes to Silent Hill after getting a letter from his deceased wife, Mary. The plot kicks off when he arrives in town to solve the mystery behind said letter.

* CovertPervert [[spoiler: The town is using it against him.]]
* {{Determinator}}: He ''will'' find where his wife's letter came from. Monsters and common sense be damned.
* DespairEventHorizon: The Video Tape.
* DullSurprise: From time to time, though he mostly manages the right reactions.
* TheEveryman
* OnlySaneMan: While the supporting cast ''appears'' mostly-there at first glance, James is the one who manages to keep a grip for the longest.
* [[spoiler: SympatheticMurderer]]
* TragicHero
* [[spoiler: VillainProtagonist]]

!!Angela Orosco
A disturbed young woman with suicidal tendencies. [[spoiler:Gradually you come to find out that she was sexually abused by her father, and killed him--as well as herself--in a fire.]]

* BrokenBird
* DontYouDarePityMe
* KnifeNut
* [[spoiler:ManslaughterProvocation]]
* [[spoiler: RapeAsDrama]]
* [[spoiler: SympatheticMurderer]]
* TheWoobie

!!Laura
An annoying little girl who seems to have a special hatred for James.

* InvisibleToNormals: She's the only one who doesn't see Silent Hill as a monster-infested hellhole.
* MouthyKid
* TheScrappy: Fans hate her for her seemingly unjustified attitude (especially when she kicks an important key away from James and stomps on his hand)

!!Maria
A beautiful woman who bears a striking resemblance to James' wife.

[[spoiler:In reality she's a manifestation of an idealized Mary in James' psyche. She's repeatedly killed by Pyramid Head to show James the weight of his sin - killing his wife. Depending on the ending, James chooses to leave with her, and she begins to cough...implying that James didn't quite learn his lesson and the same fate that befell Mary will happen all over again, or James tells Maria that he "doesn't need her anymore" and she [[OneWingedAngel explodes into a nasty inverted demon in a cage]] that becomes the final boss.]]

* DeathIsCheap: She dies so many time throughout the game.
* FetishFuel
* [[spoiler:FinalBoss: She can be this in three out of four endings]].
* VictoriasSecretCompartment
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: She becomes one in the "Maria" Ending, complete with IncurableCoughOfDeath]].

!!Eddie Dombrowski
A bully of a man whose many, many issues only serve to remind the player that James' isn't exactly the epitome of sainthood, either.

* NauseaFuel: You first meet Eddie vomiting into a toilet; those weak of stomach are advised to mute the sound.
* RevolversAreJustBetter

!!Mary Shepherd-Sunderland
James' beautiful wife, who tragically died three years ago of a terminal illness...or did she?

* [[spoiler:FinalBoss: In the one ending where Maria doesn't take this place]].
* IncurableCoughOfDeath.

!!Pyramid Head
A strange man-like figure with a giant headpiece that hounds James.

* {{BFS}}: The Great Knife, which interestingly can be [[{{Foreshadowing}} picked up by James.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: He's arguably more popular than 95% of the cast in the ''series''. This may or may not be related to him not having a voice actor.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: A favored attack when he uses a spear. [[spoiler: Also a favorite method of suicide.]]
* ImplacableMan
* MemeticMolester: Why, look at the time! It's Rape o'clock!

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[[folder:Silent Hill 3 Characters]]
!!Heather Mason-Morris
A spunky 17 year old who's out on a shopping trip in a nearby town before the shopping mall she's in takes a turn for the worse.

* ActionGirl: Probably who sets her apart from most Survival Horror female protagonists.
* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Heather finds out through Harry memoirs that she is Alessa reincarnated, but unlike Alessa, Heather chooses life over death.]]
* [[spoiler:ApocalypseMaiden]]
* EyeBeam: [[CallingYourAttack HEATHAA BEAM!!]]
* [[spoiler:FetusTerrible: The reason Heather keeps doubling over in pain? She's still carrying the god Dahlia put into Alessa, and it wants out.]]
* MagicalGirl: Unlockable secret for NewGamePlus
* MirrorBoss
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Due to [[spoiler: Harry Mason's death]]

!!Claudia
A member of the Order devoted to resurrecting God in order to create paradise.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Murdering Harry.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!!Vincent
* [[spoiler:AlasPoorVillain]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards
* EvillyAffable
* SlasherSmile
* SmugSnake

!!Douglas
A PrivateDetective hired by Claudia to track down Heather for her.
* CoolOldGuy
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[[folder:Silent Hill 4: The Room Characters]]
!!'''Henry Townshend'''
A photographer with a bit of a voyeurism fetish, Henry wakes up one morning to find that he's been trapped in his own apartment.

[[spoiler:Henry is number 21 of the 21 Sacraments, "The Receiver of Wisdom", the final stage of Walter's ritual to "awaken his mother".]]

* CatchPhrase: "What the hell?"
* DullSurprise
* ShrinkingViolet: Henry is mentioned by the others as very shy, so it's not seen to be too strange when he doesn't emerge from his apartment for days on end.
* TheIshmael: You control him, yes, but the story's more or less about [[BigBad Walter.]]
* TheStoic: Whatever emotions Henry may have, he certainly doesn't express them very strongly, leading to many {{Dull Surprise}}s.

!!'''Eileen Galvin'''
Henry's next-door neighbor. She's upbeat and perky, and although she and Henry are only passing acquaintances he seems to have more than a passing interest in her.

[[spoiler:Of the 21 Sacraments, she is "The Mother Reborn". She should have been killed by Walter but was stopped by the mysterious boy (Young Walter). She still suffered many injuries and was sent to the hospital, but ended up being sucked into the dark world again, this time Henry managed to get to her before Walter did, taking her under his care and protection. She cannot die but she does suffer damage, which affects her survival at the game's end.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:He seems to think of her as this Walter in a way, thus she is "The Mother Reborn". [[WildMassGuessing Fans speculate that she ends up pregnant of a reborn Walter in the "Mother" ending]].]]
* [[spoiler:Protectorate: During the later half of the game]]
* VideogameCaringPotential

!!'''Frank Sunderland'''
James' father and the superintendent of South Ashfield apartments.

* ContinuityNod: To Silent Hill 2, of course.

!!'''Richard Braintree'''
A violent, abusive man who lives in South Ashfield, [[spoiler: Victim 19 of 21]].

!!'''Jasper Gein'''
A strange young man who's quite interested in Silent Hill's cult.[[spoiler:Victim 17 of 21]].

* [[spoiler:ManOnFire: How Jasper dies. He later [[InfernalRetaliation comes back]] as a ghost... still on fire.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jasper sure likes chocolate milk...

!!'''Walter Sullivan'''
A supposedly dead serial killer--so what is he doing still stalking the halls of Ashfield Heights, killing (or attempting to kill) everyone he comes across?

* AntiVillain: Seriously.
* DualWielding: Guns, and that's when he's most annoying.
* ImplacableMan
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: In fact, as close to a literal example as it gets.]]
* [[spoiler: VillainProtagonist: Arguably, the whole game's about him.]]

!!'''Cynthia Velasquez'''
[[spoiler:Victim 16 of 21]].

* SpicyLatina
* TearJerker [[spoiler:Her death.]]
!!'''Andrew [=DeSalvo=]'''
An obese man Henry comes across while the former is trapped in the Wish House's prison. [[spoiler:Victim 18 of 21]].

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Andrew runs the very prison that he was trapped in. You find out that the children were often forced to drink water with leech in it]].
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[[folder:Silent Hill Homecoming Characters]]

!!Alex Shepherd

* AbusiveParents
* BigBrotherInstinct
* PrecisionFStrike: He swears lots more than other SilentHill's protagonists.

!!Elle Holloway

* DistressedDamsel: Happens several times.

!!Joshua Shepherd

Alex's younger brother, who was the favorite child in the family. He disappears some time before Alex arrives back in Shepherds Glen.

* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong: Alex accidentally knocked Josh into Toluca lake on a late night boating trip.]]
* [[spoiler:[[DeadLittleSister Dead Little Brother]]]]
* YoungestChildWins: Subverted, Josh definitely had a better life than Alex,[[spoiler: until that life ended when he drowned]].

!!Deputy Wheeler

* ConspiracyTheorist
* MadeOfIron
* TokenMinority

!!Judge Holloway

* AbusiveParents
* CompleteMonster
* HangingJudge
* LawfulEvil
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[[folder:Silent Hill Shattered Memories Characters]]
!!Harry Mason

The main protagnoist. After a car crash, he loses his young daughter Cheryl and will stop at nothing to find her, no matter what abominations he must face.

[[spoiler:Turns out, he has been dead for years and may or may not be a figment of Cheryl's imagination, a "perfect" idea of her father she created after the guilt of his death.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Pretty much what his character could be said to be ''built upon'', as in game decisions can lead to four different epilogues that portray him in four different ways that just can't match one another.
* ChickMagnet
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong: A weird case where ''the Protagonist'' is this.]]
* [[spoiler:DecoyProtagonist]]
* KirkThornton
* NonActionGuy: During the whole game this time.
* PapaWolf: Harry is once again ready to go ToHellAndBack to save his little girl.
** [[spoiler: Which may or may not be true, considering that he's practically AlternateCharacterInterpretation ''incarnate'' in this game]].

!!Cheryl Mason

Harry's young daughter, gone missing after he crashed his car. Harry's goal is to find her, no matter what.

[[spoiler:She actually never was in the crash, which happened 18 years ago, that killed Harry. The therapy sessions in the game are via her perspective.]]

* [[spoiler: ParentalIncest: If her feelings for daddy are interpreted in ''really screwed up ways'']].
* TheWoobie

!!Cybil Bennett

A cop who flip-flops between helping or hindering Harry, and will act and dress differently depending on how you act in the game and answer the questions in the therapy session.

* FairCop

!!Dahlia [[spoiler:Mason]]

A woman who mysteriously pops up in the game midway, who hits on Harry as if she was his lover, despite Harry having no clue who she is. Her clothes and attitude are affected by in-game choices and the therapy sessions.

[[spoiler:In reality, she is Harry's ex-wife and Cheryl's mother, who Cheryl resents heavily.]]

* DeadpanSnarker
* [[spoiler:HotMom]]
* LegalJailbait

!!Michael Kaufmann

The therapist that is seen in the first-person therapy sessions. He is bitter and pessimistic about marriage and love.

* DrJerk
* [[spoiler:HiddenHeartOfGold]]: During the ending.
* TheAlcoholic: Implied.

!!Michelle Valdez

A former student/prom queen of Midwich High School and the sole attendee of the high school reunion (canceled due to the snow storm). She claims that she attended school with [[spoiler:Cheryl Mason]]. She is currently dating a guy, [[spoiler:but he either breaks up with her, or vice versa, depending on player actions]]. Her outfit changes depending on the in-game actions and the answers in the psychological parts of the player.

[[spoiler:One of the endings implies that Harry was having an affair with Michelle, along with Lisa, behind Dahlia's back.]]

* GenkiGirl: She is easily the most upbeat of the cast.
* LadyInRed: Depending on the scenario, Michelle wears a red dress.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Her relationship with John.
* TheWoobie: In the scenario when [[spoiler:John breaks up with her.]]

!!Lisa Garland

A nurse at the hospital in Silent Hill. She is... just a normal nurse. She is sorta tomboyish, but that is about it. [[spoiler:Oh, and she dies, though it may or may not be the player's fault.]]

[[spoiler:One of the endings implies that Harry was having an affair with Lisa, along with Michelle, behind Dahlia's back.]]

* TheCutie: Despite her jaded outlook, Lisa easily comes across as this.
* [[spoiler:KillTheCutie]]
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* MagicalGirl: [[CallingYourAttack HEATHAA BEAM!!]]

* SpunkyGirl

* SpunkyGirl