Silent Hill 2/YMMV

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  • Alternative Character Interpretation: There is still a tremendous back-and-forth argument on the correct way to interpret James. Many see him as a heartbreaking sympathetic man put into a terrible situation and ended his wife's suffering as a result, while others see him as a selfish misogynist who murdered his wife to move on with his life. However, the fans aren't the only ones, as James himself is unsure of which is really true.
  • Creepy Sexy: Pyramid Head to many fans. For a violent, inhuman monster, he's got one hell of a body.
  • Fetish Fuel: Maria.
  • Freud Was Right/Faux Symbolism: When and where these tropes get applied depends on your Alternative Character Interpretation of choice.
  • Fridge Brilliance: When the game begins, James is looking in the mirror. He then spends the rest of the game searching for his true self.
  • Fridge Horror: The moment when you realize Maria is the Big Bad and has been planning to kill you all along. Suddenly, fighting off all those Lying Figures doesn't seem as frightening.
  • Hell Is That Noise: Silent Hill isn't totally silent: various ambient sounds throughout the game- scraping, moaning, footsteps, whispers- add to the paranoid ambiance of the game. The sound of Eddie vomiting into a toilet might count as well, if only because it sounds so realistically gross that even those with strong stomachs might feel like barfing themselves.
  • Ho Yay Shipping: You'd be surprised, what with the many Alternative Character Interpretations that James was gay all along and that Pyramid Head is the physical manifestation of his pent-up emotions, people tend to pair them up A LOT.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Angela. Her rude and cynical behavior is because of horrific past.
  • Memetic Mutation: Try image-googling "rape clock" (may or may not be NSFW).
  • Memetic Rapist:
    • Pyramid Head isn't really raping you if you let him. And you know you would.
    • If you hear the jokes before playing the game, it might sound like he's just supposed to be an awesome, deadly character, rape being video game slang for "very one-sided kill". Not the case.
    • Not even memetic. What exactly do you think he was doing to those Mannequins?
  • Narm:
    • "I hate bowling." "We didn't come here to play, you know."
    • "YOU FARTFACE!"
      • Laura in general, really.
    • "How can you sit here and eat pizza?!"
    • "Eddie, have you gone nuts?"
      • LET'S PARTY!
  • Nausea Fuel: Meeting Eddie while he barfs incessantly into the toilet. You don't see anything, but the sound effects are more than enough.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: The radio "game show" that takes place in the hospital elevator. Maria simply asks "What was that?" and nothing more is made of it.
    • From a gameplay standpoint, though, it might be good to pay attention. The correct answers are the code to open a chest in one of the storage rooms of the hospital with a nice amount of supplies. Get the answers wrong and you get a face full of acid.
    • The Dog Ending certainly qualifies. Especially when the dog starts crawling at something... hairy.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: At the start of the game, James spends the first fifteen or so minutes walking down a fog-shrouded path along the edge of a cliff. There are no monsters or any obstacles of any sort, and barely any sounds other than your footsteps (and those mysterious footsteps coming from behind you... or are they?)
  • Porting Disaster: While not exactly a disaster, the PC version has a few issues. Music skipping can be solved with a fan patch, and the game isn't designed to run on multi-core machines so you get voice de-synching and other issues if you don't manually set it to run on one core (CTRL+ALT+DEL>Processes>Set Affinity).
  • That One Boss: Eddie can be really annoying compared to the other bosses. Mostly due to using a gun.
  • The Scrappy: Laura. Fans hate her for her seemingly unjustified attitude (especially when she kicks an important key away from James and stomps on his hand). It turns out that it is justified, particularly from a child's point of view, when you come to understand what's really going on.
  • The Woobie:
    • Angela definitely qualifies. Eddie tries to invoke this trope but fails miserably, depending on if you hate people for their weight.
      • Or, you know, if you hate people for shooting dogs.
    • Maria might qualify if you play Born From A Wish. At the end she comes to realize she's just a torture implement created by the forces of Silent Hill and considers committing suicide.
    • Pretty much all of the characters with the exception of Pyramid Head count really.
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