History Characters / SilentHill1

* AnimeAnatomy: Its form in the third game lacks nipples, being only an emanciated corpse.

* FullFrontalAssault: Both of Its forms have [[FanDisservice visibly naked breasts on emanciated, fleshy corpses]].

* GodOfLight: The Order explictly [[SternSunWorshippers worships this thing]] as a solar deity.

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* AstralProjection: It's part of her abilities, and this is primarily how she makes her appearances through the first game and ''Origins'', [[spoiler:due to her body being badly burned in the flames caused by Dahlia's ritual. It's also how she causes the car accident in the beginning of the game, by walking onto the middle of the road and tricking Harry into swerving to avoid hitting her]] while Cheryl sits in the passenger's seat.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear as to what was actually the cause of the house fire that burned Alessa; due to a newspaper article stating that the fire was believed to be started by a malfunctioning boiler, a popular theory is that Alessa's PsychicPowers went out of control due to her mother's ritual and caused the boiler to explode in the Gillespie residence. ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'', on the other hand, suggests that Dahlia herself immolated Alessa as part of the ritual itself, judging from the lack of concern when she's spotted leaving her burning house while Alessa is still inside.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear as to what was actually the cause of the house fire that burned Alessa; due to a newspaper article stating that the fire was believed to be started by a malfunctioning boiler, a popular theory is that Alessa's PsychicPowers went out of control due to her mother's ritual and caused the boiler to explode in the Gillespie residence. ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'', on the other hand, suggests that Dahlia herself immolated Alessa as part of the ritual itself, judging from the lack of concern when she's spotted leaving her burning house while Alessa is still inside. [[WordOfGod Writer Keiichiro Toyama also believes that Dahlia intentionally set Alessa on fire, and did so impulsively when she chose to carry it out in her own house.]]

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

The other possible form of the Order's god that can be fought as the final boss of ''Silent Hill'', only encountered if the player saved Dr. Kaufmann beforehand, locking them into the Good and Good+ endings. This creature, a far more monstrous variation with wings and a disgusting body, is the canonical final boss of the original game.

** Tellingly, it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_CDmBbnOw boss theme]] is [[HellIsThatNoise less "music"]] and more heavily implied to be Harry's radio going [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm absolutely apeshit trying to]] [[LogicBomb register the threat that the Incubus poses]].

** Tellingly, it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_CDmBbnOw boss theme]] is [[HellIsThatNoise less "music"]] and more heavily implied to be Harry's radio going [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm absolutely apeshit trying to register the threat that the Incubus poses]].

* TheChosenOne: Subverted. Dahlia sure says he's the only one who can stop the town's darkness, but [[spoiler:she is actually manipulating him to bring about the end of the world]].

* AbusiveParents: The fire in the Gillespie house that [[spoiler:immolated Alessa was the result of a ritual performed by her, and Dahlia deliberately kept Alessa alive and in pain for ''seven years'' just so her ritual to birth God could come to fruition, and she is stated by WordOfGod to have inflicted ''even more pain'' on Alessa through her incantation to compel Cheryl Mason, the other half of Alessa's soul, to return to her.]]

* MagicalAbortion: If Harry saves Kaufmann in Annie's Bar, [[spoiler:he shows up at the end and throws a vial of Aglaophotis at Alessa, which forcibly expels the God from her body prematurely.

* Cloudcuckoolander: She initially comes across as this with her bizarre rambling and a few odd line choices. [[spoiler:It isn't until her plan to recapture Alessa succeeds that she [[ObfuscatingInsanity shows her true nature]].]]

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: She's the proprietress Green Lion Antiques.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: She was adopted by Harry and his wife after they found her abandoned on the side of the road.
* 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.
* DoorstopBaby: She was found abandoned by the side of the road, and Harry and his wife took her in.

* ThatManIsDead: Not invoked by her, but by the time the game ends, [[spoiler:the 7-year-old Harry Mason raised and cared for is essentially gone, now back to being a baby he must raise once again, whose soul is now complete and consists of both herself and Alessa]].

* AbusiveParents: The fire in the Gillespie house that immolated Alessa was done on purpose by her as part of a ritual, and she deliberately kept Alessa alive and in pain for ''seven years'' just so her ritual to birth God could come to fruition.

* BigBad: The primary villain in the original game and a secondary one in ''Origins''.
* CloudCuckoolander: She initially comes across as this with her bizarre rambling and a few odd line choices. [[spoiler:It isn't until her plan to recapture Alessa succeeds that she [[ObfuscatingInsanity shows her true nature]].]]

* 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 Alessa 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.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:She's immolated by the very god she tried to summon, either in Alessa's form or in its true demonic apparition, burned in the same way she let her own daughter burn.]]

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: Green Lion Antiques.
* ManipulativeBitch: She used Harry by telling him Alessa was some kind of demon that needed to be purged before it destroyed the world, and that doing so would save his daughter. [[spoiler:His daughter is with the Order to be merged back into Alessa, and Dahlia is ensuring her daughter doesn't stop their ritual.]]

* BigBad: At first, but she did make the entire town 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, as much as she '''''really''''' doesn't want it to happen.
* 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. Her appearance as a 7-year-old in ''Origins'' plays this straight as she projects herself in front of Travis, remaining silent.

* 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.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Her projecting her nightmare onto Silent Hill via her PsychicPowers acts as the catalyst for the town's spiritual nature becoming twisted and manifesting the distorted subconscious of the sequels' protagonists.]]

* MysticalPregnancy: With the cult's main [[FetusTerrible god]].
* PsychicPowers: For reasons unknown, she was born with them, but those powers never manifested presumably until [[spoiler: she became the surrogate mother of the Order's "God" as a result of her mother's ritual, which in turn is the reason why the town has become so warped as a result of her nightmare made manifest.]] Considering her state as a [[spoiler:bedridden burn victim]], it comes handy that she's capable of astral projection.

* 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.

* BigBad: He's still well into the Order's activities by the time of ''Origins'', with Travis having to go after him and facing him as the cult header before facing the final boss.

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