History Fridge / SilentHill2

* More horror involving Laura but if she does get adopted by James, let's hope she doesn't learn how James had to kill Eddie or learn how Eddie was mentally troubled. Or better yet, does she ever realize that Eddie died?
* Think Angela's life can't get any worse? Well if ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' is correct, there are others just like her who were unable to escape Silent Hill and went "Full Circle", a GroundhogDayLoop that makes you repeat the loop over and over again. In the case of Howard Blackwood, who's been around prior to the ''19th Century'', killing yourself won't end your pain. So Angela either has to forgive herself or be trapped in that wretched town with all of her sins '''forever'''.

* One of the key landmarks is Neely's Bar which alludes to James turning to alcohol to cope with his depression. Notably, the bar is mostly empty and run down which leaves much to the viewer's imagination. The message "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." can also be interpreted in multiple ways, one of them being James [[DrowningMySorrows drinking to fill]] the hole left in his life, in addition to James's sexual frustration. Note that this isn't entirely speculation; checking the stacks of liquor bottles in the strip club will have James confirm that he's taken to drinking heavily to numb his pain and loneliness.

* One of the key landmarks is Neely's Bar which alludes to James turning to alcohol to cope with this depression. Notably, the bar is mostly empty and run down which leaves much to the viewer's imagination. The message "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." can also be interpreted in multiple ways, one of them being James [[DrowningMySorrows drinking to fill]] the hole left in his life, in addition to James's sexual frustration. Note that this isn't entirely speculation; checking the stacks of liquor bottles in the strip club will have James confirm that he's taken to drinking heavily to numb his pain and loneliness.

* While there were plenty of hints beforehand, two of the more overt signs that James is misremembering the details of Mary's death occur directly after James kills Eddie in self-defense (namely, the letter starting to disappear and James wondering if Mary really died three years ago). There are all sorts of reasons why this could be, but how much of it was because James killed someone and realized that ''it felt familiar''...?

* One of the key landmarks is Neely's Bar which alludes to James turning to alcohol to cope with this depression. Notably, the bar is mostly empty and run down which leaves much to the viewer's imagination. The message "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." can also be interpreted in multiple ways, one of them being James [[DrowningMySorrows drinking to fill]] the hole left in his life, in addition to James's sexual frustration. Note that this isn't entirely speculation; checking the stacks of liquor bottles in the strip club with have James confirm that he's taken to drinking heavily to numb his pain and loneliness.

* One of the key landmarks is Neely's Bar which alludes to James turning to alcohol to cope with this depression. Notably, the bar is mostly empty and run down which leaves much to the viewer's imagination. The message "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." can also be interpreted in multiple ways, one of them being James [[DrowningMySorrows drinking to fill]] the hole left in his life, in addition to James's sexual frustration.

* More horror involving Laura but if she does get adopted by James, let's hope she doesn't learn how James had to kill Eddie or learn how Eddie was mentally troubled. Or better yet, does she ever realize that Eddie died?

* It's both implied and outright shown that each character's perception of the town bleeds over into the others' whenever their paths cross. Those "weird-lookin' monsters" that scared Eddie in the apartments? Probably Lying Figures or Mannequins that he came across when James happened to be exploring nearby. Same thing with the human corpses James usually finds whenever Eddie is in the area, pretty much all of which appear to have been dispatched via gunshots.

* The credits roll song "Overdose Delusion" for the Leave ending stands out from the other ending songs in that it has a sad chorus while the other songs are more upbeat in general. This might seems like a case of the SoundtrackDissonance, but it fits the idea of James stopping his delusions and moving on as a happier person while healthily admitting that he's still sad about Mary's death.

* In the room where you rescue Angela from the Abstract Daddy, the walls have this weird kind of decoration up near the ceiling. There are these holes up there, and they have some kind of peg-like mechanism going in and out of them. After you defeat the Abstract Daddy, Angela reveals to James that her father raped her. .

* One of the key landmarks is Neely's Bar which alludes to James turning to alcohol to cope with this depression. Notably, the bar is mostly empty and run down which leaves much to the viewer's imagination. The message "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." can also be interpreted in multiple ways, one of them being James [[DrowingMySorrows drinking to fill]] the hole left in his life, in addition to James's sexual frustration.

* One of the key landmarks is Neely's Bar which alludes to James turning to alcohol to cope with this depression. Notably, the bar is mostly empty and run down which leaves much to the viewer's imagination.

* The credits roll song "Overdose Delusion" for the Leave ending stands out from the other ending songs in that it has a sad chorus while the other songs are more upbeat in general. This might seems like a case of the TheDayTheMusicLied, but it fits the idea of James stopping his delusions and moving on as a happier person while healthily admitting that he's still sad about Mary's death.

** James always sees Silent Hill as being a waterlogged, collapsing mess, Angela sees it constantly on fire, Eddie sees it as a freezer-temperature meat locker. It makes sense for a lot of reasons (James is "drowning" in guilt, Angela is "burning" with anger, Eddie has become numbed and cold from bullying) but considering the more Freudian motifs at work in the story, it carries another meaning. James has the capacity to be a rapist, driven by sexual frustration (as evidenced by Pyramid Head's behavior), and Angela is a rape victim, driven by shame and anger. James also has the capacity to rationalize away his killing of Mary as IDidWhatIHadToDo and start cultivating a LackOfEmpathy or hiding the problem behind Maria.

** James always sees Silent Hill as being a waterlogged, collapsing mess, Angela sees it constantly on fire, Eddie sees it as a freezer-temperature meat locker. It makes sense for a lot of reasons (James is "drowning" in guilt, Angela is "burning" with anger, Eddie has become numbed and cold from bullying) but considering the more Freudian motifs at work in the story, it carries another meaning. James has the capacity to be a rapist, driven by sexual frustration (as evidenced by Pyramid Head's behavior), and Angela is a rape victim, driven by shame and anger. James also has the capacity to rationalize away his killing of Mary as IDidWhatIHadTo and start cultivating a LackOfEmpathy or hiding the problem behind Maria.