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In [[Blue Velvet]], Kyle [[Mc Lachlan]] 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.

Silent Hill 2 is probably the closest thing to a video game written and directed by David Lynch you'll ever play.

* This troper find this theory interesting, but disagrees with [[Deadly Premonition|that]] [[Killer 7Killer7|last]] [[Suda 51|sentence.]]

Think about it. Alessa created the Otherworld, and Mira is shown to have total control over it. How can this be unless they're connected? Eddie killed a dog that belonged to one of his tormenters, and Mira is implied in [[SH 2]]SH2's Dog Ending to be the very same dog he killed, meaning that Mira is a ghost haunting and controlling Silent Hill. Seeing the dots connect yet? Only one thing could've allowed this to happen: If Mira was a psychic like Alessa, whom the Otherworld accepted as its master.

* And the second Pyramid Head is Eddie, right?

*** How about more of an in-depth explanation? If you notice that whenever you fight Pyramid Head in the game and he thrusts his big sword or spear at you, he will make the same grunt that James makes whenever he gets hit by a monster. Perhaps it's just laziness on Konami's part and they couldn't find a random person to provide vocals for PH so they recycled James' voice actor's grunts and used them, but even that too would be a bit of a stretch. Why bother making PH sound like James? Everyone seems to agree that Pyramid Head is a part of the protagonist of [[SH 2]]SH2. IF the In Water ending happens then James doesn't get a chance to really 'go on' with his life as Mary had wished and he's doomed himself to Silent Hill purgatory for a while. Pyramid Head walks as if he's carrying a heavy burden and it's his job to deal out sentences to the guilty. It's only fitting that this is what James becomes if he fails to see the point of his whole trip and selfishly takes his life instead. Like James, Pyramid Head is not a villain, but merely a misunderstood character whose actions are not entirely laden with ill intent after the whole story is revealed. It seems his intentions throughout the game were ultimately good in the end. He had to break James' delusion and make him see the truth before it is too late. Maria was a distraction for James and the one thing preventing him from being able to own up to what he did to his wife. So one can conclude: James, although he smothered his sick wife with a pillow, is still at the core of his being a good man who is a victim of circumstance caused by not being able to handle the pain and the stress from seeing his wife deteriorate before his eyes. His need to find his wife and concern for the other characters indicate he is not an entirely bad person. And Pyramid Head was born from James' need to correct his wrong and the only part of James that knows the truth. James is also able to wield the Great Knife after finding it. Perhaps this is PH's way of reminding James of what he could become. But back to the In Water ending if it's the ending you want to believe. It would actually explain a lot as to why Pyramid Head seems bigger in size in the Arcade game and Silent Hill Homecoming. He is James Sunderland with all of the guilt of his actions realized and now a permanent apparatus of Silent Hill as opposed to being a tool from his own mind that the town exploited to "help" him.

**** Interesting, and certainly plausible, but in all seriousness, what about the second Pyramid Head?

***** Not the OP, but I have an idea. The second Pyramid Head is also James, but from a different ending. This is possible since the "Leave" ending is the only one where he actually moves on with his life.

** [[Jossed]]; [[Silent Hill Homecoming|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 [[Silent Hill (Filmfilm)|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.

Overall, this WMG seems to make a lot of sense, especially if you're not too concerned about tying [[SH 2]]SH2 in with the other games in the series. I think the game works better as a standalone story set in the same universe as the other games but with a plot that's not actually related to them.

While '''Silent Hill 2''' was in development "Repressed Memory Syndrome" was being debunked. Women had been convinced by their therapists that their fathers had molested them as children, but they had "repressed" the memory. The resulting false accusations were frequently believed, resulting in trials and incarceration. If this is what happened to Angela, if she murdered her father due to a false memory implanted by a therapist, then her killing him wasn't justified. Which would explain why she remained in Silent Hill.

Eddie stays because his killings weren't justified. James can leave after working through his guilt. Angela staying makes no sense if she had just cause for her action.

James' feelings that spawned the Abstract Daddys weren't as powerful as Angela's.

When you first see the Abstract Daddy, it's terrorizing Angela. It's ''Angela's'' monster. She created it in her mind, and it had a huge signifigance for her. The Abstract Daddy represents Angela's father as he allegedly raped her. The trauma from the memory was displaced into the monster, making it powerful. In the Boss fight, the Abstract Daddy was Angela's monster, and James just killed it for her.

After that scene, Angela accuses James of only wanting Sex from his wife Mary, and he denies it... but perhaps a small part of his mind wonders if it isn't true. Thus James's psyche--and own verison of Silent Hill--adopts the Abstract Daddy.

But the Abstract Daddy represents rape. James's feelings about rape--sex and power--are only a fantasy, while Angela experienced it firsthand. So, the monsters are stronger for Angela than they are for James.

* That makes a lot of sense. It's not uncommon in cases where a daughter is being sexually abused by her father that the mother feels jealousy towards her own victimized, child. Even going so far as claiming it's the child that's tearing the family apart.

** I agree with parts of this, but not all of it. For one thing, James hardly looks or acts outwardly badass, though you could argue he becomes so. What's more likely is that Eddie hates and sees James not as a badass, but as a smarmy, whimpering, condescending hypocrite ("Don't get all holy on me, James!") who lacks the balls to take what he wants, and looks down on him. As for Angela, James himself doesn't seem to think he's the best fit for her; notice his complete silence when she sarcastically asks him to "heal all her pain". By that point James is quite conscious of his moral track record, and the other characters seem to at least have a feeling about it.