Silent Hill: Promise: Difference between revisions

* [[Creepy Doll]]: The kewpie doll

* [[Creepy Cathedral]]: St. Stella Church

* [[Distress Call]]: A cell phone call years after her uncle's disappearance leads Vanessa to Silent Hill.

* [[Dream Ballet]]: Evoked when Vanessa pricks her finger and hallucinates that she is trick or treating as a literal ballerina.

* [[Patron Saint]]: Vanessa swears by an increasing number of saints, in different situations.

** One of the puzzles in the Otherworld church involves identifying four particular saints (although one of them isn't officially canonized as such) based on what they are the patron of.

* [[Point of No Return]]: The "weird phone lady" warned Vanessa that if she didn't leave Silent Hill as soon as she escaped from the church, she wouldn't get another chance. Vanessa chose to ignore her and keep searching.

* [[Psychological Horror]]

* [[Reality Warper]]: The town itself. In a subtle case, {{spoiler|it's starting to warp Vanessa's memories and a photo of James' wedding}}.

* [[Religious Horror]]: Shades of this in the church.

* [[Second Person Narration]]

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: We first meet Borje right after he's come out of the shower. It's quite distracting, both for Vanessa and the readers.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Vanessa smokes Lucky Strikes. The supposed cool factor is [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]].

* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: Silent Hill

* [[Survival Horror]]: Silent Hill, again.

* [[Tears of Blood]]: The mannequin, once activated.

* [[Walls of Text]]: The comic, like an old graphical text adventure, supplements the images with narration.

* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Silent Hill has no canonical location. The area code Vanessa sees on her cell phone puts it somewhere in upstate New York.

 

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