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Angela never expresses remorse for what she did, although she may feel it. What she does express (particularly in her last cutscene) is complete and utter ''hopelessness'', to the point of bitterly and cynically rejecting any alternatives. She throws James' attempts at consoling her back in his face. She doesn't want anyone's pity. She doesn't want anyone's help. She isn't goint to help herself. She just wants to lay down and ''die''.

He and James have the exact same hair and eye color, plus his reason for being the way he is (severe bullying) likely stems from her hearing James complain about the way Mary acts without the full context, also, when you fight him, the Radio will go off, which literally means that he is a creation of Silent Hill.

* UFO Ending: James has moved in with Harry and Cheryl and is waiting for the UFOs to agree with Harry's plan to destroy Silent Hill. After the town is destroyed, James goes back with the Masons, encounters Douglas who wants information, tells him about it and the case is closed.

Adding onto the theory that Pyramid Head is James's form as a result of the In Water ending, it's possible the supernatural forces of the town made Mary's form the weapon Pyramid Head wields, making James's claim of uniting with Mary after death more literal.

* Dog Ending: James has to look for a vet in Silent Hill to make sure Mira the chiba inu is healthy enough to live with him. She isn't sick like Mary, but Silent Hill won't let James get a pet as a replacement for his wife that easily, he still hasn't even found any pet store.
* UFO Ending: James has moved in with Harry and Cheryl and is waiting for the UFOs to agree with Harry's plan to destroy Silent Hill. After the town is destroyed, James goes back with the Masons, encounters Douglas who wants information, tells him about it and the case is closed.

This is generally what I got an impression of, seeing as this game leans more on the psychological trauma rather than physical, along with a dash of symbolism that I felt extended to the endings as well.

* Leave: represents his biggest reason was to end her suffering, in his mind he just gave her assisted suicide, allowing her to die with at least some of herself still left (it is heavily shown that the woman James knew and loved was pretty much almost gone by the time he decided to do so.
* Maria: He murdered her because he couldn't stand the thought of this sexless all give and no take marriage anymore, his motivation was to find someone new who wouldn't give him the treatment he was getting with Mary, Maria encapsulates all of the things he no longer had, a woman who ''wants'' him, all he had to do was destroy the last remaining vestiges of his wife and move on, maybe not emotionally but sexually.
* In water: Runs with the same feelings as Leave but brings forth the fact that he killed her as something he could never shake off, he gained an immense amount of depression from the act, and despite having killed her, he just couldn't let her go, but also indicates that this was his state of mind while coming to Silent Hill was to drown himself in the lake with her corpse in the first place.
* Rebirth: His state of mind is the fact that he "stole" her life when he killed her, just as she "stole" years of his life, but again, he cannot shake the guilt of the act of stealing her life (however little was left) , so he decides to give it back (in whatever form she comes out of the church)implying he know she will probably come back a monster and steal back the life he took.

Inspired by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uSIwddRzfU this video here]]. In a nutshell, Maria is the embodiment of the ''positive'' aspects of Mary -- the things that drew James to her in the first place and made him fall in love with her. That's why she is the most pleasant character to interact with for James, and why she tempts him to embrace her. In contrast, Laura is the embodiment of the ''negative'' aspects of Mary, which is why she's so annoying; we're ''meant'' to find her annoying, which further makes it harder for players (and thusly James) to push for the truth, which is so painful. She likely manifests as a child because people are more inclined to forgive or make excuses for a BrattyHalfPint than they are for a bitchy adult woman.

* That's why the Abstract Daddy is shaped like two figures under a blanket, and why a female body with a bleeding pelvic area is pinned to the wall under a tarp in Angela's final scene. Her mother blamed Angela for it because her father was raping her on her bed, and since Angela continued to sleep there, her mother interpreted it to mean that Angela was "asking for it". She comes to Silent Hill to find her Mama, but her mother was also abusive; it's because she repressed her memory of her mother's abuse because she had no one else to turn to. She's attacked by monsters that symbolize her rape, in a room that represents her uterus and is most likely a reproduction of the room she was raped in as a child, but it's not until the very end of the game that she's able to say the truth about her mother rather than just to say she's looking for her Mama. Her progress parallels James' in many ways, and when we meet her in the hotel, she realizes that her mother isn't in Silent Hill because her mother is nowhere. Not because she's dead, but because the mother she's seeking, someone loving and understanding who can be her safe harbor in the storm of her awful, awful life, ''doesn't exist at all''. That's the revelation she comes to in the end, not that she's a murderer, but that she's utterly alone. That's why she chooses to die in the end: unlike James, she has no hope, because her entire trip through Silent Hill was meant to force her to face that awful reality.

And, being a dog, he has no idea of what he's doing.

** {{Jossed}}; [[SilentHillHomecoming Silent Hill 5]] has nothing at all to do with Silent Hill 2 -- not counting the appearance of Pyramid Head, since he was based off of [[Film/SilentHill the movie version]] this time around -- unless Alex and Mary are somehow related. Then again, they ''do'' have the same last name (Shepherd, Mary's maiden name), so you never know.

Solid, for me, since the Lying Figures he has around are already dead.

It's a purgatory that was created by the sinister [[SilentHill1 Dahlia Gillespie]]. It call those or is "conviently found by those who seek punishment for something even if they don't really don't deserve such as Angela Orosco. Even though the Mother Sect that gave Silent Hill(Other World) is a blasphemous lie, it still had an affect on Silent Hill. Everyone in Silent Hill(Hell) clearly sees it differently and if affected by it differently judging by their comments during their ordealous journeys. Eddie and Angela definitely didn't go through the same chain of events in Silent Hill as James because they were searching for something different.

* Douglas makes a similar comment regarding James disappearing in ''SilentHill3'', but I don't think that necessarily means James is canonically dead. He could have just as easily dropped off the grid with Laura after the "Leave" ending.

Mostly supported in ''{{Silent Hill 4}}''. In Henry's apartment, when he looks at one picture depicted a location in original Silent hill he says that there have been rumored spottings of UFO's in there(a location in Silent Hill). To add to that James Sunderlands's whereabouts aren't hinted at one whit. Judging by the info we get James is still in Silent Hill but nobody know's anything about his wellbeing, as if he disappeared perhaps?

Unfortunately, this may be more true than I want to think it is. In ''SilentHill4'', James is briefly mentioned to have disappeared after having left to Silent Hill. Not only that, but in the novelization of ''Silent Hill 2'', [[http://otakunoeiyaku.blogspot.com/2011/10/silent-hill-2-chapter-6-final-chapter.html the In Water ending is used]]. James is officially dead. Dammit.

Eddie, clearly, doesn't really see monsters. He sees people. He says that they're "laughing at him with their eyes", which is either paranoia, or what Eddie subconsciously wants: carte blanche to kill whoever he pleases. He first feels guilt (vomiting over his first human victim), but rather than coming to Silent Hill to confront the shame and guilt of being a repeat victim of bullying, he's really there to indulge himself. The guilt he feels eventually passes as the feelings of power grow, and Silent Hill (giving only what its visitors really want) presents him with as many victims as he could want. Eventually, Silent Hill ''gives him James''. Think about it: James is strong, married, good-looking, and wanders into his life looking like ... well, the protagonist of a survival horror game: armed with a gun and a flashlight and looking like a BadAss, too hardcore to think Eddie is anything but a pizza-eating turd. Exactly the kind of person Eddie wants to kill most. It just didn't work out because James is every bit as bad ass as he looks, and Eddie is basically just a very angry coward.

*** I disagree. James doesn't look like a grizzled, AmbiguouslyBrown Call of Duty hero or anything, but he's the only character who runs around consciously armed for self-defense and carrying a flashlight and a radio. He's calm and rational when the others are losing their minds, and he's doing all of it in search of his lost wife. He's outwardly normal, but his actions paint him as a BadAss, motives notwithstanding because he doesn't remember them yet. Eddie definitely sees it, and that's why he hates James. James is tall, svelte, blonde, moderately athletic, but ultimately a hypocrite, on the same level with the people who used to bully him, and Eddie is on a power trip-slash-killing spree who sees ''everyone'' as beneath him. As to Angela, James is ultimately what she wants, but that doesn't negate or overwrite James' free will. She even suggests it herself, but only sarcastically: those are her true desires, to have someone come and rescue her, but she's so consumed with guilt and self-loathing, she takes James' reluctance to instantly step up for her as confirmation that it can't happen and she doesn't deserve to be saved.

** At least, it's the closest we'll get to DavidLynch doing the sound design for a game.

In {{Blue Velvet}}, Kyle McLachlan ducks in a closet and watches Dennis Hopper rape Isabella Rossellini. He's then drawn into a sordid world of sex and violence, and Dennis Hopper (who, in his own words, will "f*** anything that moves") beats him half to death and possibly rapes him.
In {{Lost Highway}}, Bill Pullman finds a video tape on his doorstep that shows him killing his wife. To escape what he's done, he uses the infinite magics from beyond time and night to transform himself into Balthazar Getty. Once he becomes Balthazar Getty, he meets a woman who looks just like his dead wife and starts sleeping with her.

** There's definitely a sexually suggestive element to the way Pyramid Head and his victim are posed in that scene, and it's not like a video game in that time could have featured an actual, graphic rape scene. Combine that with the ongoing theme of James' sexual frustration and the generally-present theme of abuse, and the idea that it "logically" could not have been rape is just pedantic.

Read the [[http://www.animelyrics.com/game/silenthill/esperandote.htm lyrics]]. The song has nothing to do with the plot of the original ''Videogame/SilentHill'' game, but fits perfectly with many of the themes from Silent Hill 2.

* This troper find this theory interesting, but disagrees with [[VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition that]] [[{{Killer7}} last]] [[{{Suda51}} sentence.]]

[[http://www.megabearsfan.net/post/2011/05/26/Is-Pyramid-Head-a-rapist.aspx As this fan notes]], there's actually a lot of happensay and DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything involved in the Red Pyramid Head's infamous "rape time scene", but no real logical reason for it. With what we know about the rest of the game, it makes more sense that the scene was actually a re-enactment of [[spoiler: James smothering his wife]].

[[WMG: Silent Hill is part of [[ChangelingTheLost the Hedge]].]]

The town intentionally brings together people who will represent things to each other while inside it as a way to help them face and deal with their issues. There may have been other people around, but the town never led James to them or let him see them because they wouldn't be relevant to his story.

Read the [[http://www.animelyrics.com/game/silenthill/esperandote.htm lyrics]]. The song has nothing to do with the plot of the original ''Videogame/SilentHill'' game, but fits perfectly with many of the themes from Silent Hill 2.