History Characters / SilentHill1

* AbusiveParents: She deliberately kept Alessa alive and in pain for ''seven years'' just so her ritual to birth God could come to fruition.
%%* BadSamaritan

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The land upon which Silent Hill was built was rumored to be haunted or cursed beforehand, but it was the Order's fanaticism, more specifically Dahlia building an entire belief chain around her daughter being the mother and daughter of their "god" that set the Otherworld to consume the town and every future iteration of the series to haunt the protagonists with their own inner demons made manifest the same way Alessa's were given shape.]]

* AndIMustScream: She's been kept in constant agony for seven years just so her hatred can [[MysticalPregnancy incubate]] [[FetusTerrible a god]]. [[spoiler:[[MommyIssues Thanks, Mom]]]].
** Also, invoked by the impregnation ritual, which is implied to have caused her so much agony on its own that her [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] [[PsychicPowers powers]] accidentally triggered a boiler explosion in the Gillespies' house, turning her agony UpToEleven.

* CreepyChild: Although Alessa is too old to fill this role by the start of the game, the projections of her childhood memories are deeply disconcerting, with her appearing quiet and distant at times.

%%* MommyIssues

* TheQuietOne: If we disregard a flashback with her younger self, she has ''two lines'' in the entire game, and they're not even long. Maybe she would've succeeded in [[spoiler:stopping her mother]] if she had told Harry about it.

* BigRedDevil: Its form in ''Origins'' (as perceived by as Travis) invokes quite a bit of this imagery.

* BiggerBad: The main villain of most of the series as the god of the Order worships, and is even the final boss of three games.

* WeHaveReserves: Harry finds more than one Twinfeeler at the town center, but the trope is downplayed as only one of these cretures is fought, the biggest one at that.

[[folder: Harry Mason]]
!!Harry Mason
-> '''Voiced by:''' Michael Guinn

A writer, widower, and devoted father who bumbles into Silent Hill and proceeds to kick ass and chew bubblegum.

* ActionDad: Generally, he's a NonActionGuy (he has to be shown how to use a gun by ActionGirl cop Cybil) but when his [[ArcWords little girl, short, with black hair, just turned seven last month]] is in danger, he'll go ToHellAndBack, blunder through a TownWithADarkSecret, and kill an EldritchAbomination to save her.
* ActionSurvivor: Makes it through the horrors of Silent Hill alive. Of course [[spoiler: by the third game, his survival runs out.]]
* BadassBookworm: Harry is just an author and a pretty quick thinker when it comes to solving puzzles of Silent Hill.

* BadassUnintentional: Didn't expect or prepare for the horrors ahead, he was just a guy looking for his daughter.
* BumblingDad: {{Downplayed}}. Harry is no idiot and he is pretty badass for an average human, but his interactions with other characters paints him as a little clumsy and awkward.
* CatchPhrase: "Have you seen a little girl?"

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

* 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 Metatron, which Alessa was using to [[spoiler: try to destroy herself and stop the birth of the god, and Dahlia was using Harry to stop her]].
* WaistcoatOfStyle

[[folder: Cheryl Mason]]
!!Cheryl Mason
-> '''Voiced by:''' Sandra Wane

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.
* CreepyChild: Mainly in the introduction video, where she leers at the camera. Other than that, the creepiness is based mostly on what appears to be happening ''to'' her [[spoiler: and on the actions of her doppelganger]] rather than on what she actually does.

%%* HappilyAdopted
%%* LivingMacguffin
* 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.]]

[[folder: Cybil Bennett]]
!!Cybil Bennett
-> '''Voiced by:''' Susan Papa (''[=SH1=]''), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (''Book of Memories'' - cameo)

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. Late in the game, she gets possessed by a demon, and attacks Harry. You can either save Cybil or kill her; whether she survives the ending or not is [[ShrugOfGod up to the player's interpretation]].

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

%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* TheScully: Giant fissures, pterodactyls, flying children? Must be drug-related. [[spoiler: A stealthy bit of foreshadowing, that; all of what the player has seen at that point is definitely paranormal and connects to the cult, but the more obscure branches of the plot show the cult really ''is'' producing drugs.]]

* ShrugOfGod: The Book of Lost Memories says that [[spoiler: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."]]

!! The Order and Associates
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[[folder: Dahlia Gillespie]]
!!Dahlia Gillespie
-> '''Voiced by:''' Liz Mamorsky (''[=SH1=]''), Laurence Bouvard (''Origins'')

This strange old woman who asks Harry to stop the birth of "Samael". 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 in doing so, ''her own daughter burned during the summoning ritual'', and she is keeping Alessa alive in constant agony in order to incubate the god inside her.

%%* BarefootLoon
* BarefootSage: Looks like a combo of this, BarefootLoon, and MadOracle with her cryptic speeches, seeming willingness to help Harry, and the general impression that she sees and understands more than everyone else. [[spoiler: A very [[CerebusRetcon dark subversion]] actually: she [[ObfuscatingInsanity deliberately played up this image]] in order to [[ManipulativeBitch make Harry do her bidding]].]]
* 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.
* CloudCuckoolander: She initially comes across as this with her bizarre rambling. [[spoiler:It isn't until her plan to recapture Alessa succeeds that she [[ObfuscatingInsanity shows her true nature]].]]

* KarmicDeath: Either gets fried by the very god she tried to summon or by a vengeful Alessa. Although this is exactly what she had planned all along, the god is actually killed before he/she can finish the job.

* LaughingMad: She lets out a wild cackle as [[spoiler: the Incubus is expelled from Alessa.]]

%%* ManipulativeBitch
* PredecessorVillain: [[spoiler: To the antagonists in 3 and 4.]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Dahlia looks old enough to be her daughter's grandmother. WordOfGod states her age at 46. (Interestingly, she looks much younger in ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins''.)

[[folder: Dr. Michael Kaufmann]]
!!Dr. Michael Kaufmann
-> '''Voiced by:''' Jarion Monroe (''[=SH1=]''), John Chancer (''Origins'')

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-It's too soon to give up. This craziness can't go on forever.-]'']]

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

** HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Although he helps Harry stop Dahlia's plan in the Good Endings, Alessa still has Lisa drag him down to Hell for murdering the latter]].
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: He tries to shoot Harry ''from under three feet away'' when you meet him. He misses. (It was a warning shot, though.)

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Drug runner, a part of the local cult, and almost certainly involved in Lisa's death. And yes, he's a doctor at the hospital.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: [[spoiler:In the Good and Good+ endings, when Kaufmann smashes his vial of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Aglaophotis]] on Incubator's head. He doesn't care about [[PapaWolf Harry's quest]] to salvage his daughter. He just doesn't wanna be "[[FirePurifies cleansed by fire]]."]]

[[folder: Lisa Garland]]
!!Lisa Garland
-> '''Voiced by:''' Thessaly Lerner (''[=SH1=]''), Jennifer Woodward (''Origins'')

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. She was also Alessa's caregiver after the girl was burned, and as a result, she is somehow kept alive, where all the other nurses and doctors have been parasitized. Unfortunately, her existence is tied to the hellish [otherside], so when something happens to dismantle that dark, nightmare world things kinda go pear shaped.

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

%%* HeroesWantRedheads
* HospitalHottie: [[spoiler:Scratch the surface, though...]]
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: ''[[VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins Origins]]'' [[WordOfSaintPaul claims]] she was sleeping with Kaufmann, who is over 20 years her senior]]. Subverted in the sense that the sex [[SexSlave certainly isn't based on love]], and may in fact [[spoiler:be "payment" [[LeonineContract in return for]] the drugs Kaufmann was dealing her]].

* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:She is the one who drags Kaufmann to his death.]]
* StepfordSmiler: In ''Origins'' she comes across as cheerful and perky when Travis meets her, even playfully joking around with him. [[spoiler:She's also a drug addict, no thanks to Kaufmann and the Order]].

[[folder: Alessa Gillespie]]
!!Alessa Gillespie
-> '''Voiced by:''' Sandra Wane (''[=SH1=]''), Jennifer Woodward (''Origins'')

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[-No! Get away from me!-]'']]

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.

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 who will grow up to become Heather in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3''.

* AndIMustScream: She's been kept in constant agony for seven years just so her hatred can [[MysticalPregnancy incubate]] [[FetusTerrible a god]]. [[spoiler:[[MommyIssues Thanks, Mom]]]].
** Also, invoked by the impregnation ritual, which is implied to have caused her so much agony on its own that her [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] [[PsychicPowers powers]] accidentally triggered a boiler explosion in the Gillespies' house, turning her agony UpToEleven.
* ApocalypseMaiden: She's at the center of Dahlia's plot; her role is to birth the cult's god.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Sure, she can control the Otherworld and acts as the primary antagonist, [[spoiler: but she does it to ''stop'' the end of the world, which the protagonist is unwittingly working to bring about]].
* BigBad: At first but she did make the town itself into what it is now. Considering that the God appears as the final boss in ''1'', ''3'', and ''Origins'' with Alessa, it could be considered Alessa's monster form of sorts.
* CreepyChild: Although Alessa is too old to fill this role by the start of the game, the projections of her childhood memories are deeply disconcerting.
* EldritchAbomination: The Town itself is alive due to her making a town an extension of herself and her monster form is the God probably a manifestation of her wrath and the town's spirits.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Dahlia]] outright says this about her condition.
* GeniusLoci: Could have turned Silent Hill into this with her will -- which would make the titular town an extension of her darker aspects, with the spirits within being in its servitude.
* HeroicSuicide: Alessa attempts this at first by [[SelfSacrificeScheme containing]] the [[EldritchAbomination hellish]] [[{{Darkworld}} Otherworld]], before [[TakeAThirdOption changing her mind]] and [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture resplitting]]/[[BornAgainImmortality reincarnating]] her soul [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture in the hopes of living a better life]]. ''[[VideoGame/SilentHill3 3]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins Origins]]'' also show versions of Alessa trying to invoke this trope.
%%* MommyIssues
* MysticalPregnancy: With the cult's main [[FetusTerrible god]].
* TheQuietOne: If we disregard a flashback with her younger self, she has ''two lines'' in the entire game, and they're not even long. Maybe she would've succeeded in [[spoiler:stopping her mother]] if she had told Harry about it.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: After being tortured in her nightmares for 7 years.]] As for ''[[VideoGame/SilentHill3 3]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SilentHill4 4]]'', to think the tragedy could have been avoided if only Claudia and Walter had gotten more hugs growing up.

[[folder: "God"]]
!![[SatanicArchetype "God"]]

The Order's mythology depicts their God as a seemingly female being who descended to Earth sometime in the distant past and relieved humans of suffering. According to the myth, "God's strength ran out," and then died. However, before dying, God promised that they would return to Earth if people remained faithful to It.

The Order's ultimate goal is the reincarnation of this "God" into the physical world, whereupon resurrection it would be bring about "Paradise".

This "God" was stated to be the [[UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} Talmudic]] angel/demon Samael, according to Dahlia [[spoiler:(though this was actually a lie)]]. The gender of the God remains an enigma: the cultists believe "God" to be male in ''1'' and female in ''[[VideoGame/SilentHill3 3]]'', and indeed, God's canonical final-boss form in either game mirrors the contemporaneous belief. The reason for these different forms is likely due to It taking on the appearance of what the host or ritual performer perceives the God to look like. It could also be considered Alessa's monster form.

* AmbiguousGender: Its gender is never nailed down and almost always mixs-and-matches different sexual characteristics from game to game, but Its given title in the first game as "The Incubus" suggests that it is truly male.
* AnimeAnatomy: Its form in the third game lacks nipples.
* BigBad: The main villain of most of the series as the god of the Order worships, and is even the final boss of three games.
* BigRedDevil: Its form in ''Origins'' (as perceived by as Travis) invokes quite a bit of this imagery.
* BodyHorror: Its form in the first game is hideously emaciated, has a goat's head, and has no stomach or waist, just a spine and pelvis.
* ChestBurster: In the first game, It is expelled from [[spoiler:Alessa]]'s body by literally tearing through her back.
* EldritchAbomination: Most of the other eldritch horrors seem to be related or directly spawned from Her, and when It is finally manifested into physical being, some of the forms It takes are purely and simply ''wrong''. It could the manifestation of Alessa's dark side and her Monster form.
* FinalBoss: of the First, Third, and Origins games.
* FetusTerrible: Seems to get stuck in this form a lot as the general driving forces of the games that It is directly involved in revolve around The Order's efforts to reincarnate it.
* FullFrontalAssault: Both of Its forms have [[FanDisservice visibly naked breasts]].
* GodOfEvil: It's worshiped by the Cult and is evil. It might even be {{Satan}} himself.
* GeniusLoci: Most of the time It just takes the form of MalevolentArchitecture in and around Silent Hill, permeating the town with evil spirits.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Not only one for the series as a whole, with the driving force of The Order being to resurrect their "God", but in ''4'' and ''Homecoming'', due to being the ultimate goal of the respective {{Big Bad}}s.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: By the standards of a series that already features monsters anyway. The Book of Lost Memories supplement suggest that It may not necessarily be a god, but just another kind of monster born from Silent Hill. The only times It appears are as a final boss, which makes it hard to determine exactly what It is. It could also just be a monstrous entity borne of Alessa's vengeful will.
* OneWingedAngel: Yet another theory is that this "God" is Alessa combined with the power of the Town's spirits, culminating in one ''really'' pissed off little girl.
* {{Satan}}: A possible interpetation as to its identity, given that The Order is a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic Cult]] in all but name.
* SatanicArchetype: One of the obvious takeaways from Its various appearances and the mythology of The Order, but especially in the first game, where its form as the TrueFinalBoss is almost identical to {{Baphomet}}.
* SuperpoweredEvilside: Possibly one for Alessa, as It could be the dark aspects of her combined with the power of the town's spirits.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Implied, with how its perceived form seems to vary from person to person. Notably, Travis, a somewhat simple-minded trucker, sees It as a pretty archetypical BigRedDevil, while Harry, a novel author, perceives it as a weirdly sexual, goat-headed demon.

[[folder: Other Monsters]]
The various BodyHorror-infused abominations that inhabit Silent Hill and the Otherworld.
!!Grey Child

* CreepyChild: They make [[HellIsThatNoise child-like laughter]] as they attack Harry and grab his legs in a similar way to how a small child would do to a adult.
* KidsAreCruel: A given considering [[spoiler:they represent Alessa's classmates]]. When stabbing Harry, the noise they utter is actually a recording of a child's laughter slowed down.

* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: They represent a dark and distorted memory of [[KidsAreCruel Alessa’s classmates, who constantly tormented and ridiculed her, such as writing "DROP DEAD" and "GO HOME" on her desk]]. The knifes presumably symbolise how she was constantly under attack from them.]]

!!Air Screecher

The first monster Harry gets to actually fight back against, the Air Screecher is a vaguely pterodactyl-like bird creature with rotten skin.

* AnimalisticAbomination /PrehistoricMonster: They look something like a cross between a FeatheredFiend and a PteroSoarer.
* TheGoomba: While they can be hard to hit due to their {{Flight}}, they're easy to bring down with a few bullets.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:They represent the various monsters and mythological beings Alessa read about in fairy-tales, as well as demons]].

!!Groaner
Resembling a rotting, malnourished dog, Groaners patrol the streets of Silent Hill, and will typically hide in the fog and pounce at Harry unless the player can pick up on the sound of their heavy breathing.

* AngryGuardDog: Often seen around houses.

* HellHound: A quite different and much more straightforward one to the increasingly warped and bizarre canine-like enemies in future games, but no less frightening to players ([[spoiler:just like Alessa and her fear of dogs]]). It looks almost "normal" enough that you can't be ''entirely'' sure it's anything more than a very hungry, very sickly canine. Nothing about it appears outwardly impossible or unnatural, and what with the Puppet Doctors and Nurses, it's neither identified whether or not it's an actual real dog under some sort of corruptive force.
* NothingButSkinAndBones: The creatures are hideously emaciated.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:They represent Alessa's cynophobia (fear of dogs) and her views of the Order - vicious and heartless attack dogs for Dahlia.]]

!!Mumbler
Also referred to as Claw Fingers, Mumblers are vaguely humanoid, grotesque monsters with giant holes where their faces should be and three gigantic clawed hands. They appear most prominently in the European and Japanese versions, where they replace the Grey Children, but still appear in the sewers and Annie's Bar in the American version.

* EldritchAbomination: By far the biggest in the original game, with the possible exception of the final boss. Whereas the other monsters are all clearly based on something, the Mumbler is just, well, a ''thing'' with claws. Its massive nails jut out like railroad spikes, and a toothless, nondescript hole is more or less its only other feature at all. It can't be pinned directly to a person, an animal, or much of a "theme", because its anatomy is so minimal that it's just sort of an abstract, organic shape, or a rough idea given flesh.

* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:They presumably represent the small dangerous animals and demons from the fairy tales Alessa read.]]

!!Larval Stalker
Technically an enemy, but completely harmless and invulnerable, the Larval Stalker is a small, baby-like shadowy creature that just waddles around like a newborn and falls over on occassion. They will disappear after a few seconds.

* AdorableEvilMinions: We're not too sure about the "evil" or "minions" parts, but they sure are adorable.
* InvincibleMinorMinion/ HarmlessEnemy: Harry can't attack them, and they can't attack him.
* LivingShadow: Their form.

!!Creeper
A gigantic, monstrous cockroach, first encountered in the Alchemilla Hospital. Creepers attack Harry with their long mandibles, [[RealityEnsues but Harry can quickly kill them by stomping on them]].

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Each is around a foot or two in length, and
* CreepyCockroach: You did read the explanation of them above, right?
* TheGoomba: Seriously, just stomp on them and they'll go down.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:They represent Alessa's fear of insects (except for butterflies and moths), of which there were many in the basement of Alchemilla Hospital.]]

!!Puppet Doctors and Nurses
Alchemilla Hospital's staff, who have, with the exception of Kaufmann, all been taken over by a worm-like PuppeteerParasite, resulting in them having massive red growths on their backs and causing them to hunch over. Acting much like Resident Evil-like zombies, they attack Harry with scalpels.

* AmbiguousInnocence: Whether or not they were related to the Order, and by how much, is debatable.
* DeadlyDoctor: A whole horde of them.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Nurse enemies have become a staple of the franchise, but this is the only game where they're non-sexualised, have faces, and are real humans under the control of a living parasite.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: As they are Alchemilla's staffs that got infected and controlled by PuppeteerParasite. Might also TechnicallyLivingZombie.
* PuppeteerParasite: The "worm" that controls them [[spoiler:and later Cybil]], resulting in the giant red tumours on their backs.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:They presumably represent Alessa's [[AfraidOfDoctors fear and hatred of the doctors at Alchemilla Hospital]], resulting in them becoming possessed.]]

!!Bloodsucker
A weird creature only encountered twice, in Alchemilla Hospital. The Bloodsucker is essentially three giant octopus-tentacle-like leeches contained behind a wall, and is [[InvincibleMinorMinion immune to Harry's attacks]] - the only way to get past it is to distract it.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: It's the only genuinely hostile enemy in the game that can't be harmed by Harry's weapons - to get past it, you need to throw it a blood pack and run.
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:They represent Alessa's fear of leeches and bloodsuckers, how she and Harry were both pulled into the Order's plans (as it will try to grab Harry and pull him in), and {{Greed}}, as shown by its voracious consumption of blood.]]
* UniqueEnemy: Only two are encountered in the whole game.
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* BumblingDad: {{Downplayed}}. Henry is no idiot and he is pretty badass for an average human, but his interactions with other characters paints him as a little clumsy and awkward.

* BumblingDad: His interactions with other characters paints him as a little clumsy and awkward.

* BodyHorror: Its form in the first game is hideously emancipated, has a goat's head, and has no stomach or waist, just a spine and pelvis.

* NothingButSkinAndBones: The creatures are hideously emancipated.

* {{Baphomat}}: Its form in the original game is based on one.

* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:They presumably Alessa's [[AfraidOfDoctors fear and hatred of the doctors at Alchemilla Hospital]], resulting in them becoming possessed.]]

!!Creeper
A gigantic, monsterous cockroach, first encountered in the Alchemilla Hospital. Creepers attack Harry with their long mandibles, [[RealityEnsues but Harry can quickly kill them by stomping on them]].

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: The Nurse enemies have become a staple of the franchise, but this is the only game where they're non-sexualised, have faces, and are real humans under the control of a living parasite.

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

* GreaterScopeVillain: Not only one for the series as a whole, with the driving force of The Order being to resurrect their "God", but in 4 and Homecoming, due to being the ultimate goal of the respective {{Big Bad}}s.

** HeelFaceDoorSlam: Although he helps Harry stop Dahlia's plan in the Good Endings, [[spoiler: Alessa still has Lisa drag him down to Hell for murdering the latter]].

%%* {{Jerkass}}

The various BodyHorror-infused abominations that inhabit Silent Hill and

* FullFrontalAssault: Both of Its forms have visibly naked breasts.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Implied, with how its perceived form seems to vary from person to person. Notably, Travis, a somewhat simple-minded trucker, sees It as a pretty archetypical BigRedDevil.
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-> '''Voiced by:''' Susan Papa (''[=SH1=]''), MaryElizabethMcGlynn (''Book of Memories'' - cameo)

%%* TheVillainMakesThePlot
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Dahlia looks old enough to be her daughter's grandmother. WordOfGod states her age at 46.
** Interestingly, she looks much younger in ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins''.

* BarefootSage: Looks like a combo of this, BarefootLoon, and MadOracle with her cryptic speeches, seeming willingness to help Harry, and the general impression that she sees and understands more than everyone else. [[spoiler: A very [[CerebusRetcon dark subversion]] actually: she [[ObfuscatingStupidity deliberately played up this image]] in order to [[ManipulativeBitch make Harry do her bidding]].]]

* CloudCuckoolander: She initially comes across as this with her bizarre rambling. [[spoiler:It isn't until her plan to recapture Alessa succeeds that she [[ObfuscatingStupidity shows her true nature]].]]

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: He tries to shoot Harry ''from under three feet away'' when you meet him. [[CaptainObvious He misses]]. (It was a warning shot, though.)

[[folder: Alessa Gillspie]]

* GeniusLoci: Most of the time She just takes the form of MalevolentArchitecture in and around Silent Hill, permeating the town with evil spirits.

* BigRedDevil: Her form in ''Origins'' (as perceived by as Travis) invokes quite a bit of this imagery.
* ChestBurster: In the first game, She is expelled from [[spoiler:Alessa]]'s body by literally tearing through her back.

The Order's mythology depicts God as a seemingly female being who descended to Earth sometime in the distant past and relieved humans of suffering. According to the myth, "God's strength ran out," and then died. However, before dying, God promised that they would return to Earth if people remained faithful to It.

* AnimeAnatomy: Her form in the third game lacks nipples.
* BigBad: The main villain of most of the series as the god of the Order worships, and is even the final boss of at least three games.

* GodOfEvil: She's worshiped by the Cult and is evil. She might even be [[Satan]] himself.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In 4 and Homecoming, due to being the ultimate goal of the respective {{Big Bad}}s.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: By the standards of a series that already features monsters anyway. The Book of Lost Memories supplement suggests that She may not necessarily be a god, but just another kind of monster born from Silent Hill. The only times She appears are as a final boss, which makes Her hard to determine exactly what She is. She could also just be a monstrous entity borne of Alessa's vengeful will.

* Satan
* Satanic Archetype: One of the obvious takeaways from Its various appearances and the mythology of The Order, but especially in the first game, where its form as the TrueFinalBoss is almost identical to [[Baphomet]].

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Implied, with how Its perceived form seems to vary from person to person. Notably, Travis, a somewhat simple-minded trucker, sees It as a pretty archetypical BigRedDevil.