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* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: According to WordOfGod, Cybil was killed by Harry Mason.]]

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* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: According to WordOfGod, Cybil was killed by Harry Mason.]] ]]
** Well, let's say ''probably''. It's more of a ShrugofGod. The Book of Lost Memories says that [[Cybil's ultimate fate is left to the player's imaginations. Masahiro Ito, when asked about her fate on Twitter, says he remembers that she's dead. When asked about the statement in the Book of Lost Memories, he said "if you choose "good+" ending among them, she is not dead, maybe."]]
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** Interestingly, she looks much younger in ''SilentHillOrigins''.

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** Interestingly, she looks much younger in ''SilentHillOrigins''.
''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins''.

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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]].

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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. attacks Harry. You can either save her with the bottle of Aglaophotis (red liquid) that you find via a very obscure sidequest, Cybil or kill her; which action you take changes the game's ending]].
her, but according to WordOfGod, she was killed.]]


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* NonActionGuy: At the beginning anyway. His marks

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* NonActionGuy: At the beginning anyway. His marks
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* [[spoiler:TokenEvilTeammate]]

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* [[spoiler:TokenEvilTeammate]]
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* DoorstopBaby
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Dahlia]] outright says this about her condition.

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* PapaWolf: He will literally ''go to hell and back'' to save his little girl.

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* PapaWolf: He will literally ''go Harry is ready to hell go {{to Hell and back'' back}} to save his little girl.girl.
* DecoyProtagonist: Harry may be the main character, but most of the focus of the plot is on Alessa.



* [[spoiler: UnwittingPawn ]]

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* [[spoiler: UnwittingPawn ]]UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Dahlia]] first tells Harry that the mark appearing all over town is the "Mark of Samael" and to "not let it be completed", but later it is revealed to be the Seal of Metratron, which Alessa was using to try to destroy herself and stop the birth of the god, and Dahlia was using Harry to stop her.



* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Puppet Cybil]].



* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: Either gets fried by the very demon she tried to summon or by a vengeful Alessa.]]



* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: Either gets fried by the very demon she tried to summon or by a vengeful Alessa.]]




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* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Green Lion Antiques.
* UncannyValleyMakeup: Dahlia, as evidenced in the close-up during the [[HilariousOuttakes blooper reel]].
* [[spoiler:TheVillainmakesThePlot]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Dahlia looks old enough to be her daughter's grandmother. WordOfGod states her age at 46.
** Interestingly, she looks much younger in ''SilentHillOrigins''.



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

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* [[spoiler:EvenEvilHasStandards: DefectorFromDecadence: Whatever [[spoiler:Dahlia]] promised him, a few minutes alone in the Fog World is enough to make [[spoiler:Kaufmann]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere throw in the towel]]. It's evident that he never ''fully'' trusted her, as he's stashed two vials of Aglaophotis as a countermeasure against [[spoiler:Alessa's ascension]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
As much of a bastard as he is, he is disgusted by Dahlia's [[spoiler:Dahlia]]'s ultimate plan, to the point that he helps Harry defeat her in the good endings.]]



* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When the Flauros causes the Otherworld to lose cohesion, she does too. At first, this is mental, but before long, she is found to bleed from her very pores.]]

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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When When the Flauros causes the Otherworld to lose cohesion, she does too. At first, this is mental, but before long, she is found to bleed [[spoiler:bleed from her very pores.every orifice.]]



* HospitalHottie
** HelloNurse

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* HospitalHottie
** HelloNurse
HospitalHottie: [[spoiler:Scratch the surface, though...]]



* PuffOfLogic

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* PuffOfLogic
PuffOfLogic: [[spoiler:Disintegrates into blood]] at the same time as the environment around you loses any sense of cohesion.

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* PowerFloats: Walks easily over gaping chasm and lakes, confounding both Harry and Cybil.

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* PowerFloats: Walks easily over gaping chasm chasms and lakes, a lake, confounding both Harry and Cybil.

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* BadSamaritan



* [[spoiler:EvilMentor]]

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* [[spoiler:EvilMentor]]EvilMatriarch: Natch. [[spoiler:Setting your daughter on fire, then using arcane magic to keep her alive and in infinite agony for ''seven years'']]? Good luck topping that.
* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:Dahlia]].



* BadSamaritan



* WouldHurtAChild

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* WouldHurtAChild
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* TheScully: Giant fissures, pterodactyls, flying children? Must be drug-related.




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* TheScully: Giant fissures, pterodactyls, flying children? Must be drug-related.
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* TheScully: Giant fissures, pterodactyls, flying children? Must be drugs.

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* TheScully: Giant fissures, pterodactyls, flying children? Must be drugs.drug-related.
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* CreepyChil

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* CreepyChilCreepyChild

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* NonActionGuy: At the beginning anyway

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* IconicItem: He's still wearing his brown jacket 17 years later.
* NonActionGuy: At the beginning anywayanyway. His marks



* [[spoiler:StuffedIntoTheFridge: In ''Silent Hill 3''.]]
* TookALevelInBadass

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* [[spoiler:StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome]]: In ''Silent Hill 3''.]]
* TookALevelInBadass




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* WaistcoatOfStyle



* TheGhost

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* TheGhostCreepyChil



* LivingMacguffin



* PowerFloats: Walks easily over gaping chasm and lakes, confounding both Harry and Cybil.
* ThePresidentsDaughter




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* ShinyMidnightBlack



* BadassBiker: Roars pasts Harry's jeep in the prologue.
* CoolShades: In the opening FMV.
* DistressBall: Despite having actual combat training, she gets overwhelmed quite easily in the sewers.



** Which is where she brought the unconscious Harry.
* FairCop

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** Which is where she brought * FairCop: Nice pants, Cybil.
* FiveRoundsRapid: Her most defining trait. It even got transferred to
the unconscious Harry.
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* FairCop
[[spoiler:ImplacableMan]]: On the carousel.
* TheNotLoveInterest
* OhMyGods: "What in the Devil's name...?"
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* BadSamaritan



* {{Jerkass}}



* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* ShowTheForehead




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* WouldHurtAChild



* [[spoiler:DeadToBeginWith]]




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* [[HeroesWantRedheads Redheads Want the Hero]]
* PuffOfLogic
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarkmanshipAcademy: He tries to shoot Harry ''from under three feet away'' when you meet him. He misses.

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* ImperialStormtrooperMarkmanshipAcademy: ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: He tries to shoot Harry ''from under three feet away'' when you meet him. He misses.
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* ImperialStormtrooperAccuracyAward: He tries to shoot Harry ''from under three feet away'' when you meet him. He misses.

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* ImperialStormtrooperAccuracyAward: ImperialStormtrooperMarkmanshipAcademy: He tries to shoot Harry ''from under three feet away'' when you meet him. He misses.

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* FairCop




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** Which is where she brought the unconscious Harry.
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* [[spoiler:ManipulativeBastard]]


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* [[spoiler:ManipulativeBastard]]

[[spoiler:ManipulativeBitch]]




* {{Jerkass}}


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

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



* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

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* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster: Just read AbusiveParents above. Dear ''God''.]]



* [[spoiler:MoralEventHorizon: Definitely crossed this when she burned her daughter alive and sustained her for nearly a decade to make her an adequate host for God.]]

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* [[spoiler:MoralEventHorizon: Definitely crossed this when she burned her daughter alive and sustained her for nearly a decade to make her an adequate host for God.]]




* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster: Propelled to this in Origins. This game (arguably) makes him mildly sympathetic - see EvenEvilHasStandards below.]]

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* [[spoiler:CompleteMonster: Propelled to this in Origins. This game (arguably) makes him mildly sympathetic - see EvenEvilHasStandards below.]]


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.]]

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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]].guy. Lisa eventually hands him a KarmicDeath via dragging him to hell.]]

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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...]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When Lisa realizes that she's another creation of the town, she starts bleeding from ''everywhere''.]]
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]

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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 [[spoiler: She was also Alessa's nurse post-burning, died shortly thereafter (most likely murdered by Kaufmann), caregiver after the girl was burned, and Alessa's kind memories of her as a result, she is somehow kept alive, where all the other nurses and doctors have been parasitized. Unfortunately, her around in existence is tied to the Otherworld. Until she figured it out, anyway...hellish [otherside], so when something happens to dismantle that dark, nightmare world...]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When Lisa realizes that she's another creation of the town, Flauros causes the Otherworld to lose cohesion, she starts bleeding does too. At first, this is mental, but before long, she is found to bleed from ''everywhere''.]]
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]]
her very pores.]]
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* [[spoiler:StuffedIntoTheFridge: In ''Silent Hill 3''.]]
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When Lisa realizes that she's another creation of the town, she starts bleeding from ''everywhere''.]]
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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]].

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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 game, she gets possessed by a demon 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]].



* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: ]] And how...
* [[spoiler: 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. ]]
* [[spoiler: CompleteMonster: Just read the spoiler above. ]]
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: Either gets fried by the very demon she tried to summon or by a vengeful Alessa.]]

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* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: ]] [[spoiler:AbusiveParents:]] And how...
* [[spoiler: BigBad: [[spoiler:BigBad: The primary villain in the original game and 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. ]]
* [[spoiler: CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:CompleteMonster: Just read the spoiler AbusiveParents above. Dear ''God''.]]
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:KarmicDeath: Either gets fried by the very demon she tried to summon or by a vengeful Alessa.]]



* [[spoiler: EvilMentor ]]
* [[spoiler: EvilOldFolks: ]] Subverted in that she's actually in her ''forties''! Someone certainly didn't age well.

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* [[spoiler: EvilMentor ]]
[[spoiler:EvilMentor]]
* [[spoiler: EvilOldFolks: ]] [[spoiler:EvilOldFolks:]] Subverted in that she's actually in her ''forties''! Someone certainly didn't age well.



* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard ]]
* [[spoiler: MoralEventHorizon: Definitely crossed this when she burned her daughter alive and sustained her for nearly a decade to make her an adequate host for God.]]

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* [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard ]]
[[spoiler:ManipulativeBastard]]
* [[spoiler: MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:MoralEventHorizon: Definitely crossed this when she burned her daughter alive and sustained her for nearly a decade to make her an adequate host for God.]]



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.]]

* [[spoiler: CompleteMonster: Propelled to this in Origins. ]]

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A not terribly pleasant doctor Harry encounters. [[spoiler: Was [[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.]]

* [[spoiler: CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:CompleteMonster: Propelled to this in Origins. Origins. This game (arguably) makes him mildly sympathetic - see EvenEvilHasStandards below.]]



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

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



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...]]

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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 [[spoiler:Turns out she was Alessa's nurse post burning, 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...]]



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

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



A young woman with mysterious powers [[spoiler: 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. [[spoiler: Thanks, Mom.]]

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A young woman with mysterious powers [[spoiler: who [[spoiler:who had the great misfortune of being Dahlia Gillespie's daughter, 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 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''.''SilentHill3''.]]

* AndIMustScream: She's been kept in constant agony for seven years just so her hatred can incubate a god. [[spoiler: Thanks, [[spoiler:Thanks, Mom.]]



* [[spoiler: MommyIssues: Oh so much...]]

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* [[spoiler: MommyIssues: [[spoiler:MommyIssues: Oh so much...]]

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* 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.]]

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* {{Jerkass}}
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EvenEvilHasStandards: As much of a bastard he is, he is disgusted by Dahlia's ultimate plan, [[spoiler:to to the point that he helps Harry defeat her in the good endings.]]
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* UnwittingPawn

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* UnwittingPawn
[[spoiler: UnwittingPawn ]]



* AbusiveParents: And how...

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* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: ]] And how...
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* EvilMentor
* EvilOldFolks: Subverted in that she's actually in her ''forties''! Someone certainly didn't age well.

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* EvilMentor
[[spoiler: EvilMentor ]]
* [[spoiler: EvilOldFolks: ]] Subverted in that she's actually in her ''forties''! Someone certainly didn't age well.



* ManipulativeBastard
* MoralEventHorizon:[[spoiler: Definitely crossed this when she burned her daughter alive and sustained her for nearly a decade to make her an adequate host for God.]]

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* ManipulativeBastard
[[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard ]]
* MoralEventHorizon:[[spoiler: [[spoiler: MoralEventHorizon: Definitely crossed this when she burned her daughter alive and sustained her for nearly a decade to make her an adequate host for God.]]



* CompleteMonster: Propelled to this in Origins.

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* [[spoiler: CompleteMonster: Propelled to this in Origins.Origins. ]]



* TheWoobie: Becomes this in Silent Hill Origins, especially when it turns out that Kaufmann is blackmailing her for sex.

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



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.

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A young woman with mysterious powers [[spoiler: 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.
with. ]]



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

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* AndIMustScream: She's been kept in constant agony for seven years just so her hatred can incubate a god. [[spoiler: Thanks, Mom.]]



* MommyIssues: Oh so much...

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* [[spoiler: MommyIssues: Oh so much...]]
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* 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.

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* [[spoiler: 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.
series. ]]
* [[spoiler: CompleteMonster: Just read the spoiler above. ]]



* 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.]]

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* MoralEventHorizon: MoralEventHorizon:[[spoiler: 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.]]

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