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[[File:silent_hill_1_6089.png|frame| [[Blatant Lies|It's your usual, quiet, out-of-the-way little town.]]]]
{{quote|''When I woke up, it was like this. Everyone seems to have disappeared. And it's snowing out, this time of year. Something's gone seriously wrong. Did you see those monsters? Have you ever seen such aberrations? Ever even heard of such things? You and I both know creatures like that don't exist.''|Doctor Michael Kaufmann}}
After the success of ''[[Resident Evil]]'', [[Konami]] jumped on the [[Survival Horror]] bandwagon with 1999's '''''Silent Hill'''''
Single father Harry Mason is taking his daughter Cheryl on a holiday to the resort town of Silent Hill. Disaster strikes as Harry swerves to avoid a girl standing in the road and [[Fright Deathtrap|crashes his car]].
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It is hard to spoil the plot of ''Silent Hill'' because very little is explicitly stated. The story revolves around one man's personal struggle to find his daughter, his role as a pawn in a cosmic battle between two powerful entities over the power of a god, arcane rituals of an occult variety, reincarnation, possession, drug addiction, and alternative realities. The player [[Unreliable Narrator|receives few explanations for anything that happens]], and the game often glosses over or completely ignores key events while presenting the player with intense imagery and deeply psychological horror.
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Konami released a remake/reimagining of this game (''[[
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* [[All Just a Dream]]: {{spoiler|The worst ending. A non-canon [[Dying Dream]].}}
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: Note the awesome "Study, Dammit!" poster in Store 8. It depicts a hippie [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|pointing a gun]] at the viewer.
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* [[Armed Altruism]]: In an act of coolness, Cybil offers Harry her gun.
* [[Beware of Vicious Dog]]: Subverted early on; Harry runs straight into a <small>BEWARE OF DOG</small> sign, but find only intestines on the other side. K. Gordon's doghouse, however, is protected by two of these critters (regardless of [http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/silent-hill-dog.jpg what Harry says]).
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Big Red Button]]: The school's boiler room, and the hospital's power generator.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: The bag of jellybeans containing the Key of Bethor is a knockoff of the Jelly Belly persuasion.
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* [[Booby Trap]]: {{spoiler|The fridge in Nowhere.}} It wouldn't be so bad, except that it's the only one in the entire game and happens without any warning.
** The broken chains and ominous noises coming from inside the fridge should be warning enough.
* [[Book Ends]]: The GOOD+ ending {{spoiler|has Harry and Cybil find infant Cheryl in the cemetery}} just like in the opening cutscene. After saving, the opening cutscene of a [[New Game
* [[Boss Corridor]]: Before the fight with Floatstinger.
** The final room in Nowhere is {{spoiler|Alessa}}'s old house. Heather revisits it in a later game.
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* [[Brand X]]: All over the place, the most famous of which is the Vestal Gigastore ([[Don't Explain the Joke|vestal as in vestal virgin; get it?]]). There’s also Queen Burger, Fedy-X Espresso parcels, Poston Market, the [[Signs of Disrepair|(S)]][[Meaningful Name|Hell]] station with the nautilus shell icon, the Circle 8 convenience store with its 7-Eleven motif, and the AEC restaurant that was apparently inspired by A&W.
* [[Cat Scare]]: Played straight until the cat leaves the scene, and then is devoured by an unseen monster; in the Otherworld, the same locker will emit pathetic meowing sounds, but opening it reveals {{spoiler|a blood-coated, but empty, locker}}.
** And then {{spoiler|a nearby locker bursts open and [[Peek
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Twice. "Was I dreaming?"
* [[Ceiling Cling]]: Hanged Scratchers are known to camp out on the ceiling.
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: One of the unlockable weapons for [[New Game
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Two. One is the Flauros, which, like any good [[Chekhov's Gun]], makes its purpose apparent at the right time. The other is the Aglaophotis, which ''may'' make its purpose apparent, and only ''after'' the knowledge is useful to either Harry or the player.
* [[Clock Tower]]: In Midwitch Elementery School's courtyard. Harry uses it to traverse into the Otherworld.
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* [[Deadly Doctor]]: Dr. Kaufmann; also, a number of parasite-possessed [[Mook]] doctors.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|Harry fights a manifestation of the cult's god in the final battle.}}
* [[Do Not Run
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Emergency Fire Hammer. Less a mallet, more like [https://web.archive.org/web/20111222010322/http://lparchive.org/Silent-Hill-1/Update%208/8_16_32_17.jpg spike on a pole].
* [[Dying Dream]]: {{spoiler|The worst ending reveals the whole game to have been this, but it's not the canon ending.}}
* [[Enter Solution Here]]: The code to Lisa's room in Nowhere.
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* [[I Can't Reach It]]: The key inside the birdcage. D'oh!
** The school's rain gutter contains a key lying just out of reach. You'll need to divert the water.
* [["I Know You
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The emergency hammer in Alchemilla Hospital's power generator room that's obtainable while in the otherworld. It is the best melee weapon you can find and is really good on Puppet Nurses and Puppet Doctors.
* [[Justified Save Point]]: Fish gotta swim, writers gotta write. Harry takes careful notes on his experiences; these notepads come in handy for Heather {{spoiler|aka Cheryl}} in ''[[Silent Hill 3]]''.
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** {{spoiler|Dahlia}} burned Alessa for her to eventually give birth to the cult's god. At the end of the game, she gets burned to death by that same god.
** {{spoiler|Kaufmann}} was abusive towards Lisa and forced her into the psychologically-traumatic job of watching Alessa by using her drug habit as leverage. In the Good and Good+ endings, she hauls him off to his demise.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: One of the unlockable weapons for [[New Game
* [[Key Under the Doormat|Key Under The Doghouse]]: Harry will need to get past Fido to enter K. Gordon's house.
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: The Grey Children are the distorted projections of Alessa's abusive classmates. When stabbing Harry, the 'noise' they utter is actually a recording of a child's laughter slowed down.
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]: Cybil and Kaufmann aren't interested in tagging along with you. Lisa would like to come, but is compelled to stay where she is...
* [[Lighthouse Point]]: Dahlia sends you here.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Referencing the [[Brand X]] entry above, the [
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job Breaking It, Harry]]: Twofold: He is being {{spoiler|used as a pawn by Dahlia, with potentially world-ending results}}, and in a more heartbreaking sense, {{spoiler|Harry may be able to acquire the means to save Cybil's life before it becomes necessary to do so. The only problem is, he doesn't ''know'' he has the means until after he kills her, which would have to make the final encounter that much more sickening for the man.}}
* [[No Name Given]]: Harry's late wife, who is only seen once, during the opening sequence. Harry doesn't even mention her until his first conversation with Dr. Kaufmann, where he states that she died four years prior to the current events.
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* [[Portal Picture]]: In the school's waiting room, Harry comments that the gory painting is in poor taste. He ends up inside of it in the Otherworld.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The 'worm' controlling Achemilla Hospital's staff. This is the first (and only) instance of ''Silent Hill's'' Nurses being linked with an external parasite.
* [[Ray Gun]]: One of the unlockable weapons for [[New Game
* [[Remixed Level]]: "Nowhere" is a return trip through Midwitch, Achemilla, the shopping mall, and Dahlia's store.
* [[Rooftop Confrontation]]: Harry is diverted to the Post Office rooftop for the duel with Floatstinger.
* [[Sawed
* [[Snow Means Death]]: The snow falling from the sky [[Faux Symbolism|during the middle of summer]]. [[Handwaved]] as ash from an underground coal fire in [[Silent Hill (
* [[Shout
** Alessa's old teacher, "K. Gordon," is a reference to [[Sonic Youth]] bass guitarist Kim Gordon. This is confirmed by the reference to three more teachers who bear the names of "T. Moore", "L. Ranaldo" and "S. Shelley" (Kim's fellow bandmates, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley).
** According to [[Word of God]], heavily inspired by ''[[
** At the locker room; one of the lockers open up and {{spoiler|the locker in front of you suddenly opens, and a dead body wrapped in a bag falls out of it.}} This could be a [[Shout
* [[Songs in
* [[The Stinger]]: Both the good and bad endings have them, though with very different implications.
* [[Swallowed Whole]]: This is a big danger when tangling with Split Head. This battle will test your strafing skill.
* [[Teleporting Keycard Squad]]: The sewer exit key. {{spoiler|Immediately after grabbing it, a horde of Hanged Scratchers chase after Harry, forcing him back the way he came}}. Hope you memorized where the dead ends are.
* [[This Is a Drill]]: One of the unlockable weapons for [[New Game
* [[Ticking Clock]]: Dahlia warns that Harry has to stop the Mark of Samuel from appearing all over town, or else reality will be irrecoverable.
* [[Token Romance]]: The Good ending suggests this between Harry and Cybil.
* [[Tomato in
* [[Turns Red]]: Shooting at Split Head eventually causes its mandibles to start drooling. That can't be good...
* [[Twitchy Eye]]: {{spoiler|Lisa}} invokes this during her fourth appearance.
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