The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Silent Hill series is full of complex, interesting and eccentric characters, most of whom aren’t what they seem at first. In most cases, t🎃his is especially true for the protagonists, adding to the already mysterious vibe of the games.

Though we play as them, most of the time, w🍸e don’t really know them, which adds an intriguing layer to the story as we often find truth, satisfaction, and horror as they do when we experience their journeys. But when we find out certain details about them, we are often alienated✱ or endeared to them. So which ones have had the most interesting stories and developments?

Updated on October 21, 2024, By Christopher Padilla: With the launch of Silent Hill 2 remake, we go over the protagonists of our favorite town, updating its style and a few faces from the movies.

There wil🐬l be major, unmarked spoilers about multiple Silent Hill games ahead. Proceed with caution.

12 ♎ Sharon Da Silva (Heather Mason)

Silent Hill Revelations 3D

The protagonist of the much-maligne🥂d sequel to the Silent Hill movie, Sharon D𓂃a Silva is to the Heather Mason we know from Silent Hill 3 what this film is to the game itself. Which is to say, a theme park version of the original.

Much like in SH3, this version of Heather is combative and antisocial, but since we get to see it in action over a shorter time and with more people (like her briefly-seen classmates), she comes 💎off as far more unlik🐻eable.

Oddly enough, despite her heightened antisocial tendencies, this Heather is far more trusting of Vi🅘ncent, whereas the original was distrusting of every person she met in the game.

11 🧜 Henry Townsend

Silent Hill 4: The Room

The protagonist from one of the most divisive games in the Silent Hill series, Henry Townshend is a normal guy, perhaps the most normal and well-adjusted of the SH protagonists, lack🌼ing any of the trauma or involvement in the lore. This gives💛 him the vibe of an everyman, someone essentially an outsider looking into the bizarre and horrifying world of Silent Hill.

While he initially functions as a fine audience surrogate, Henry never gets more interesting than the concept of ‘normal guy’. There are hints that there might be more to him, that he might be a shut-𝔉in and not always all there, but these never really figure into the story.

10 Alex Shepherd ✃ ♛

Silent Hill: Homecoming

The protagonist of one of the most action-oriented main Silent Hill games, Alex Shepherd is perhaps one of the most athletic and effective combatants in the series. There’s a good reason for this - Alex is a soldier, a recently disch𒈔arged veteran coming home to a bunch of weird stuff going on. Except, he’s actually not.

He’s actually been at a mental institution before the events of the game. While that looks like a decent twist on paper, the details feel too contrived to lend it any weight and instead just raise f🥂urt🦂her questions.

9 Maria

Silent Hill 2: Born From A Wish

Maria is an important part of James’ story in Silent Hill 2, and was the protagonist of her own side-story, Born From A Wish. Though short, Maria’s side-story fleshes out her character and brings up some interesting quandaries about her existence, especially if you played the main game first. It would be safe to assume that she was created to me꧙ss with James, no📖 more sapient than the monsters that roam the streets if you hadn’t played her story, but afterward, you realize that she has her own thoughts and desires, her actions having logic and reason behind them.

Unfortunately, there are inconsistencies between her portrayal in her own story and James’ which are difficult to rec🥃oncile, muddying the waters and making you question whether she’s an independent being after all.

8 🌺 ꧑ Murphy Pendleton

Silent Hill: Downpour

At the beginning of Downpour, we know very little about Murphy Pendleton, save for the fact that he is a prisoner and that he likely deserves his sentence. As we go through the game, we find him to be a man beset by demons, even before he fou🃏nd himself in Silent Hill.

Though a lot꧟ of Murphy’s past 🐭and personality is determined by the player, we at least know he’s not all bad, and that his worst traits are brought out by a desire for revenge and a hot temper. If you take the tie-in comic Anne’s Story as canon, we find someone who is driven by vengeance and grief. He isn't a bad person, but one who tends to make bad decisions.

7 🍸 Rose Da 🐎Silva

Silent Hill The Movie

The Silent Hill movie was a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:surprisingly good movie adaptation of a video game at a time when most of them were terrible or nothing like the source material. Rose is a female ver🌳sion of Harry Mason of the original Silent Hill game, with both sharing the goal of finding their daughters after they’ve gone missing.

Though the movie mostly🏅 veers off into its own thing after the first act, Rose effectively fills out the same role as Harry. She has a stronger reaction to the town’s weirdness than he does, but she is also more tenacious and resourceful.💛 Unlike Harry, she’s not manipulated at all in her story, though the film didn’t really have time for the machinations of Kaufmann and Dahlia either.

6 ♔ Anita Planert

Silent Hill The Short Message

The game begins when Anita is drawn to the dilapidated Kettenstadt building by a text from her friend Maya. But all is not what it seems as she💯 finds herself trapped in Kettenstadt while looking for her lost friend and uncovers disturbing truths in the process.

As we’re drawn into the friendship of Anita, Maya, and 🍌Amelie, we find Anita to be erratic and impulsive – traumatized in many ways that are only revealed at thꦦe end. As you progress, she feels petty and contradictory. She’s at times unlikeable and despite her issues can be irritating.

But she’s strangely compelling, perhaps because of how authentic she is as a portrayal of a teenager charged with hormones and loaded with trauma. Though the writing is a little heavy-handed at times and melodramatic to a fault, Anita and𒈔 her friends see✤m genuinely human.

5 𓂃 Cheryl Heather Mason

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

The question of who the main character is not as obvious as it would seem when you start the game. In fact, save for some hints 🌳that work better in hindsight, you’re not informed of who the story is really about, till the very end of the game.

Then we find out that Harry Mason isn’t really who we thought he was and that he died a long time ago. Instead, we’ve been in the🐻 shoes of a figment, an abstraction of someone’s attempt to sort out their long-st♔anding grief, none other than Cheryl Heather Mason. The reality is that we’ve been following her journey of dealing with her father’s passing, especially in our interactions with her psychiatrist, Dr. Kaufmann.

It’s a masterful twist that casts the entire game in a completely different light, and though we don’t see Cheryl except for the very beginning and the very end, we🔥 know a lot about her– enough to paint a picture of a broken girl who mജisses her father.

4 Travis♋ Grady

Silent Hill Origins

Perhaps one of the most traumatized characters in the series, which says a lot, considering just how messed up everyone is in Silent Hill. He’s dealt with so much that until his traipse through the fog and rust, he forgot that his mother tried to kill him and his father killed himself when Travis was a child. He’s clearly heroic, not on🀅ly running into a ⭕burning building to save Alessa, but checking on her later despite not even knowing her. He also helps her throughout the story, at first unwillingly, but at the end, deciding to finish the job.

But there’s also a hint of darkness about him, given his familiarity with violence and a few other bread crumbs spread throughout the game, with the Bad Ending even implying that he might have been a serial killer. Travis is also important to t꧟he overall lore of Silent Hill, saving Alessa and allowing her to set the first Silent Hill in motion, and to a lesser 𒈔extent, driving Alex home in Homecoming.

3 🔯 Ha♍rry Mason

Silent Hill

A lot that 🌳can be said about Henry Townsend can also be said about Harry Mason - he’s a normal everyman, free of a guilty past, who got mixed up in some spooky stuff. But, for some reason, he works better as a character. Maybe it’s because, despite his lack of (known) connections to the town, we can root for him, since he has an important and ❀logical reason to be in Silent Hill: he’s looking for his daughter.

Maybe the thಌing that gives him the drive to wade through the supernatural BS, also endears him to the player. In any case, he’s a great example of an audience surrogate character done right.