Silent Hill 1/Characters

Harry Mason
A writer, widower, and devoted father who bumbles into Silent Hill and proceeds to kick ass and chew bubblegum.


 * Badass Unintentional
 * Catch Phrase: "Have you seen a little girl?"
 * Iconic Item: He's still wearing his brown jacket 17 years later.
 * Non-Action Guy: At the beginning anyway.
 * Papa Wolf: Harry is ready to go To Hell and Back to save his little girl.
 * Decoy Protagonist: Harry may be the main character, but most of the focus of the plot is on Alessa.
 * : In Silent Hill 3.
 * Unwitting Pawn: first tells Harry that the mark appearing all over town is the "Mark of Samael" and to "not let it be completed", but later it is revealed to be the Seal of Metratron, which Alessa was using to try to destroy herself and stop the birth of the god, and Dahlia was using Harry to stop her.
 * Waistcoat of Style

Cheryl Mason
A little girl, short black hair, about seven years old, she goes missing from Harry's car after he crashes it.


 * Conveniently an Orphan: She was adopted by Harry and his wife. This is convenient for the plot, though not really for Cheryl herself.
 * Creepy Child
 * Door Step Baby
 * Happily Adopted
 * Living MacGuffin
 * : In a way.
 * Power Floats: Walks easily over gaping chasms and a lake, confounding both Harry and Cybil.
 * The President's Daughter
 * Lampshaded a bit during SH3.
 * Shiny Midnight Black

Cybil Bennett
A police officer dispatched from the neighboring town of Brahms. She's investigating the strange goings-on in Silent Hill, and like Harry, she's stuck in the town with no way to contact any backup.


 * Badass Biker: Roars pasts Harry's jeep in the prologue.
 * Cool Shades: In the opening FMV.
 * Distress Ball: Despite having actual combat training, she gets overwhelmed quite easily in the sewers.
 * Donut Mess with a Cop: Played with, but you have to squint. You meet Cybil in a diner.
 * Fair Cop: Nice pants, Cybil.
 * Five Rounds Rapid: Her most defining trait. It even got transferred to the film version.
 * Hair of Gold
 * : On the carousel.
 * Shrug of God. The Book of Lost Memories says that
 * The Not Love Interest
 * Oh My Gods: "What in the Devil's name...?"
 * Painted-On Pants
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning:.
 * The Scully: Giant fissures, pterodactyls, flying children? Must be drug-related.

Dahlia Gillespie
This strange old woman who asks Harry to stop the birth of "Samael".


 * And how...
 * Bad Samaritan
 * Does Not Like Shoes
 * Evil Matriarch: Natch. ? Good luck topping that.
 * Evil Old Folks:.
 * Subverted in that she's actually in her forties! Someone certainly didn't age well.
 * Large Ham: Not so much in the prequel, but her original voice actor loves to chew up the scenery.
 * Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club: Green Lion Antiques.
 * Uncanny Valley Makeup: Dahlia, as evidenced in the close-up during the blooper reel.
 * Younger Than They Look: Dahlia looks old enough to be her daughter's grandmother. Word of God states her age at 46.
 * Interestingly, she looks much younger in Silent Hill Origins.
 * Uncanny Valley Makeup: Dahlia, as evidenced in the close-up during the blooper reel.
 * Younger Than They Look: Dahlia looks old enough to be her daughter's grandmother. Word of God states her age at 46.
 * Interestingly, she looks much younger in Silent Hill Origins.
 * Interestingly, she looks much younger in Silent Hill Origins.

Michael Kaufmann
A not terribly pleasant doctor Harry encounters.


 * Defector From Decadence: Whatever promised him, a few minutes alone in the Fog World is enough to make  throw in the towel. It's evident that he never fully trusted her, as he's stashed two vials of Aglaophotis as a countermeasure against.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: As much of a bastard as he is, he is disgusted by 's ultimate plan, to the point that he helps Harry defeat her in the good endings.
 * Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: He tries to shoot Harry from under three feet away when you meet him. He misses.
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
 * Show the Forehead
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness

Lisa Garland
A kindly nurse Harry continuously bumps into as he shifts to and from the Otherworld. Though strangely, always in the same location, as she refuses to leave it.


 * Body Horror: When the Flauros causes the Otherworld to lose cohesion, she does too. At first, this is mental, but before long, she is found to
 * Hospital Hottie:
 * Redheads Want the Hero
 * Puff of Logic: at the same time as the environment around you loses any sense of cohesion.
 * Puff of Logic: at the same time as the environment around you loses any sense of cohesion.

Alessa Gillespie
A young woman with mysterious powers


 * And I Must Scream: She's been kept in constant agony for seven years just so her hatred can incubate a god.
 * Apocalypse Maiden
 * Fate Worse Than Death: outright says this about her condition.