History WMG / SilentHillDownpour

Murphy has been waking up dead on-and-off the whole game. Silent Hill has given him plenty of extra lives... but he's failed the test. It's not over forever, but just like Riggs was no longer able to leave on his own and became trapped in the radio tower, now Murphy is one of Silent Hill's long-term residents, trapped in its purgatory and waiting for the help of others to free him.

As more or less a helpless victim who's been through a lot of undeserved shit and fought back. "I never killed anyone who didn't deserve it," he tells JP. Charlie's murder, motivated by spite? That was the work of some boogeyman or an evil pedophile, certainly not Murphy himself. How dare one even suggest he killed his son, he tells the kid in the orphanage. Besides, just look at what Charlie's death did to ''him''. Murphy ended up all alone in prison, having to deal with mean inmates and a bitchy ex-wife. Coleridge's death was all ''Sewell's'' fault, all his idea. He was framed! Don't you feel sorry for him?

What's more, Murphy notes that the little boy looks just like Charlie. If [[spoiler:Napier]] was targeting boys with certain features, it would explain why he targeted Daniel.

[[WMG:Murphy Pendleton is really [[{{Silent Hill 4}} Henry Townsend]].]]

[[WMG:Napier is really [[SilentHill2 Eddie]]]]

What's more, Murphy notes that the little boy looks just like Charlie. If [[spoiler:Napier]] was targeting boys with certain features, it would explain why he targeted Daniel.

[[WMG: Silent Hill is and has always been a place of healing.]]
In Silent Hill 2 and this game, the town and its puzzles seem to be entirely geared toward getting the protagonist to accept loss and overcome his own associated issues. Even in the others, though its less obvious with the whole Cult taking stage and somewhat hijacking its reality warping functions.

0rigins - Travis Grady was essentially abandoned by his parents and had a number interpersonal issues as a result. His trip through Silent Hill involves saving a girl from her abusive mother and demented cult she serves, Interestingly enough, this may have something to do with the girl in question having a certain level of control of the reality warping part(Travis asks the Alessa!ghost thing to see what is in her fucked up head and THE NEXT LEVEL deals with a time she got scared of a stage prop)

Silent Hill 1 - Harry Mason loses his daughter for most of the game and has to deal with the idea that he may not get her back, I am making an assumption here that this was a deep seated fear of his after losing his wife.

Silent Hill 2 - James Sunderland is in denial about his wife's deal and his associated guilt, Silent Hill calls him and two other troubled people to it and attempts to give them a way to confront their issues head on. Eddie's condition just gets worse, while Angela commits suicide because she can't deal with it any more. James can follow Angela's example if he obsesses over her knife.

Silent Hill 3 - Heather Mason deals with a

* On top of that, [[spoiler: Anne Cunningham]] has a lot of similarities to Walter Sullivan. [[spoiler: She's an AntiVillain out to kill the main character due to parent issues, though she's not totally willing to go through it at first. She even has a kid version of herself running around.]]

** Now that the game is out [[spoiler:this is quite possible-he could be in a guilt-induced dream over his role in the death of Napier and possibly Coleridge. Sewell is definitely real though,]]

And that makes Anne a Reaper trying to stop him from winning the Game while Sewell is the Game Master.
* Answer is [[spoiler:unlikely-Anne's hatred of Murphy is entirely personal. Doesn't stop the Wheelman from being the Game Master though, the game fee being Murphy's memory of whether he really killed Frank or not.]]

The scene in the orphanage where we get a real introduction to the Bogeyman and Murphy reads the rhyme in an attempt to save the orphan boy/Charlie is frustrating because Murphy has the rhyme written down in his notes that he's carrying around, but he doesn't take them out to read it aloud. This is a really, really stupid thing to do when it's the only thing that can save the kid from the Bogeyman. But the scene mirrors what happened to Murphy's son, Charlie. Murphy had been unable to rescue Charlie from Napier, [[spoiler: who had kidnapped, raped, and murdered Charlie]]. Murphy is also unable to save the orphan boy from the Bogeyman. This just might be Silent Hill reinforcing Murphy's feeling of uselessness to put Murphy in a place where he'd be more willing to listen to the lesson that Silent Hill is trying to teach him [[spoiler: and Anne]]. So even if he had taken out the rhyme, Silent Hill probably would have made it so that it was still in vain. Maybe the town made it so that it didn't occur to Murphy to take the notes out. Either way, the town would have somehow made it so that no matter what Murphy did, he couldn't save the orphan boy because the orphan boy is Charlie and Charlie can't be saved. (It might be possible that the little girl who accuses Murphy of killing Charlie might be a representation of Murphy's wife. [[spoiler: It's probably a mistake to equate the Bogeyman as Murphy just yet because Charlie is ANNA'S Bogeyman, not Murphy's. So Murphy isn't the Bogeyman until Silent Hill makes Murphy into the Bogeyman. So until then, the Bogeyman is Murphy's memory of Napier.]] The scene demonstrates how Murphy had done everything he could possible do to protect Charlie, but somehow he missed something important, and that is what took Charlie away from him and eventually led to his death.

As more or less, a helpless victim who's been through a lot of undeserved shit and fought back. "I never killed anyone who didn't deserve it," he tells JP. Charlie's murder, motivated by spite? That was the work of some boogeyman or an evil pedophile, certainly not Murphy himself. How dare one even suggest he killed his son, he tells the kid in the orphanage. Besides, just look at what Charlie's death did to ''him''. Murphy ended up all alone in prison, having to deal with mean inmates and a bitchy ex-wife. Coleridge's death was all ''Sewell's'' fault, all his idea. He was framed! Don't you feel sorry for him?

[[WMG:Napier is really Eddie]]
The first thing I thought when I saw him was "didn't I kill you six games ago?" We all know that it's questionable how much of Silent Hill 2 actually happened. Perhaps he didn't actually succeed.