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* [[Alternate Universe]]: The second game's Archives show that both games take place in one where the Showa Period is still ongoing, meaning that Emperor Hirohito (who in our timeline died in 1989) was still alive as of 2005.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]: The final boss battle in ''Blood Curse'' is quite seizuriffic.
* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]:
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** Ditto on {{spoiler|Amana}} in ''Blood Curse''.
* [[Anachronic Order]]
* [[Ancestral Weapon]]: The Uryen figurines and the katana Homuranagi in the first game.
* [[Anvil on Head]]:
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: {{spoiler|Otoshigo and Mother}}.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]/[[Not Blood Siblings]]: Jun Kajiro was adopted and raised by the Kajiro family so that {{spoiler|should the ritual to sacrifice Miyako fail}}, he could marry Ayako Kajiro and continue the family line.
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* {{spoiler|[[Black Dude Dies First]]: Sol in ''Blood Curse''. ''Twice'', actually, thanks to the time rewind}}.
* [[Black Speech]]: The Shibito constantly mutter and sing to themselves, in words that can't quite be made out. Averted in the second game where the Yamibito speak English or Japanese, depending on your settings.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]:
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** The reason you're able to heal rapidly in the first game? {{spoiler|You've been exposed to the red water, and you're slowly mutating}}.
* [[Blind Seer]]:
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** Averted with Miyako in ''Blood Curse''.
* [[Body Horror]]:
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** Honorable mention goes to the Shibito Brain, {{spoiler|the Onda Twins near the end and Eiji Nagoshi's evolved Shibito form... which is '''literally''' a [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]}}.
* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]:
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** {{spoiler|Harumi is the only true survivor of the catastrophe. Everyone else is either a Shibito, a Shibito permanently tac-nuked by ''[[Ancestral Weapon|one of the Uryens or the Homuranagi]]'', or is trapped in the same temporal dimension as the Shibito with no way back home}}.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted in the first game. In the second, {{spoiler|as Ichiko Yagura is taken over by Oroshigo, she has periods of murderous insanity, wherein she (somehow) gets a machine gun with infinite ammo. Yorito Nagai gets an assault rifle with infinite ammo for the battle against Otoshigo}}.
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* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]: The Mana Cross, a strange variant, shows up all over the place in Hanuda. {{spoiler|It's actually patterned off of some planks the villagers put Datatsushi on when he crash-landed on Earth}}.
* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: Played with a bit. {{spoiler|Although Datatsushi's not a "hero", he was sacrificed upon the Mana Cross, proving the savior of the ancient village}}.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]:
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** According to the supplemental material, [[It Got Worse|they got worse]]. What happened to {{spoiler|[[Fridge Logic|all the Kajiros who didn't get sacrificed]]? They [[And I Must Scream|gradually lost their human figure]]. There's a rather literal family reunion nobody wants to join somewhere under their household}}.
** In the second game, {{spoiler|Sightjacking is said to actually be a curse from Otoshigo and Mother, permitting them to view all that transpires in the island}}.
* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Ichiko, who drowned in a ship accident and is now being taken over by an [[Eldritch Abomination]] from beneath the sea. The game lets you know that the sole survivor of the accident was a female student and lures you into believing that student was Ichiko... only to reveal later that it was in fact her best friend}}.
* [[Detect Evil]]: {{spoiler|Takeaki Misawa's instincts are sharp enough to pick out avatars of Mother (Yuri), or people under the power of Otoshigo (Ichiko)}}.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]:
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** In the second game, {{spoiler|1=Yorito Nagai kills Otoshigo by weakening it with bullets, causing it to crash into a fuel tank, then setting it ablaze by hitting it with an electric lightbulb attached to a generator. Mamoru, Ikuko and Kanae (formerly Akiko) arm themselves with the YamiNaki shards to fight Mother. Kanae stabs herself, weakening Mother through their connection, and Ikuko uses her powers to freeze Mother, allowing Mamoru to strike, sending her to the ground, where Ikuko can hit her. Finally, Mamoru lands the finishing blow, and the threat of Mother is gone forever}}.
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]:
** The Maedas. {{spoiler|Although in the end, they're harmoniously reunited. As Shibito}}.
** The Monroes in the third game.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: {{spoiler|The Datatsushi from the first game. Mother and Otoshigo from the second. Not the same species despite some misconceptions. Kaiko in ''Blood Curse''}}.
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* [[Flash Back]]: Much of the backstory of the characters and main villain.
* [[Fountain of Youth]]: Naoko Mihama misinterprets an offhand remark from Akira Shimura, which leads her to believe that bathing in the red water will make her eternally young and beautiful. {{spoiler|Since Dog Shibito can't talk, we can't ask her what she thinks of how it turned out}}.
* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]:
** Implied to be happening in the original game; see [[Mind Screw]] below.
** Hits halfway {{spoiler|through the second game}}.
** Also hits partway {{spoiler|through the third game}}.
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
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** In one of the first missions of the game, you're required to pick up a radio, visit the well, pull up the bucket, put the radio in the bucket, hide, wait for a Shibito to inspect the radio, and shoot the Shibito down the well just so that the Shibito isn't there to kill ''someone else'' in a later stage. Also, you only get this hint (which consists of an extremely vague clue: "Search the Yoshimura house and well") if you decide to revisit this stage for some reason, not on the stage where you actually need it.
** In one of the other first missions, you need to look for a number on the wall of a house, go to a tape recorder, rewind the tape until it reaches that number, listen to the numbers that are said on the tape, use those numbers to unlock a shed door, get a face towel, and put the face towel in the freezer. In a later mission, you need to take the same face towel, place it under a piggy bank, wait for the towel to melt so that the piggy bank falls and causes a distraction, kill the Shibito it attracts, and then get an I.D. badge. Yeah...
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** {{spoiler|In the first game, Reiko Takato takes herself out blowing up a truck's fuel tank to save Harumi from a Shibito, then ''saves her a second time'' '''even as a Shibito''' from Eiji Nagoshi. Also, after pretty much doing a Riverdance on the [[Moral Event Horizon]] several times, Shiro Miyata frees the Onda sisters and a whole bunch of other people trapped in Shibito state by powering the Shield Uryen with his own lifeforce}}.
* [[Hide Your Children]]: The American release of the first game raises Kyoya Suda's age from sixteen to eighteen, and Miyako Kajiro and Tomoko Maeda's ages from fourteen to seventeen.
* [[Hive Mind]]:
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** {{spoiler|It might be more of the village and its cursed nature that provides the link grants Sightjacking rather than a Shibito hivemind. Even Harumi was able to use it, and she was the sole living survivor of the Hanuda catastrophe, found in the middle of what used to be the village and nowhere near a Shibito state}}.
*** {{spoiler|Harumi is gifted the "The Sight", a form of ESP similar to Sightjacking, as demonstrated in Archive 007}}.
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* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Required to get Shibito Risa Onda off your back in one level. Happens to, well, an arguably good guy in the second with Tomoe Ohta, at least the first time she dies}}.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Over the course of the second game, Mamoru Itsuki, Ikuko Kifune and Akiko Kiyota, all pick up mysterious fossils known as YamiNaki or Annuaki shards. {{spoiler|These appear to be fragments of the ancestor god of Mother and Otoshigo, and in the second battle, they actually [[Morph Weapon|transform to resemble glowing swords]]}}. Also, at one point while playing as Ichiko, you can kill a Shibito and grab the item he was holding, a trophy about half Ichiko's height, which doubles as an Archive Item and a melee weapon.
* [[Infant Immortality]]:
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** This trope is probably the reason the aforementioned characters had their ages raised in the US version.
* [[Infernal Paradise]]
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]
* [[Invincible Minor Minion]]:
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** In the second game, the corpses of the Shibito and Yamibito are simply possessed by new shiryo or yamirei within moments, which apparently heals the body. {{spoiler|Explained by the island's belief that if corpses aren't staked with Mekkojou branches, they will be unable to go to Heaven and their bodies will be possessed by evil spirits}}.
* [[Kill'Em All]]: {{spoiler|Most of the characters end up dead or undead. The ones that ''don't'' die are [[Downer Ending|trapped in Hanuda forever]], with the exception of Harumi}}.
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* [[Mad Doctor]]: {{spoiler|Shiro Miata}}.
* [[Madness Mantra]]: "Won't you look at me? Tell me I'm beautiful! Eternal youth! Eternal youth! Won't you look at me...?"
* [[Mama Bear]]:
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** Again with Melissa to Bella in ''Blood Curse''. {{spoiler|Also even after becoming a Maggot Shibito and getting struck by lightning}}.
* [[Mind Screw]]: As to be expected from the mind behind the first four ''[[Silent Hill]]'' games, only amplified by the games' [[Anachronic Order]].
* [[Mood Swinger]]: The shibito randomly exhibit various different emotions at any given time. They may be crying one moment and giggling the next.
* [[Mook Face Turn]]:
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** This apparently happens to a lot of Mother's Avatars, {{spoiler|including Ryuko}}.
▲** {{spoiler|He crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] several times, including when his twin brother Kei Makino happens upon him conducting an experiment on the Shibito-fied Onda Sisters that wouldn't be out of place in Herbert West's science book. Extra [[Squick]] when he stomps on the Shibito-fied fetus that Mina had been carrying before her murder}}.
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Just prior to the events of the first game, {{spoiler|Mina Onda apparently told Shiro Miyata that she was pregnant with his child. He didn't take it too well}}.
* [[Mystical Waif]]: Miyako, as far as her role and apperance go. Personality-wise, she's more snarky and moody than most examples.
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* [[Non-Lethal KO]]: No matter how hard you beat down a Shibito, they always get right back up a short time later.
* [[Not Quite the Right Thing]]: In the second game, Yorito Nagai sees Takeaki Misawa, his SDF superior {{spoiler|(who has been acting increasingly unstable)}} holding Ichiko Yagura at gunpoint. {{spoiler|So he shoots him in the back. This comes back to bite him twofold. see [[The Corruption]] above and [[Our Zombies Are Different]] below}}.
* [[Ominous Fog]]:
** Even the daylight moments in Hanuda are depressingly cloudy and misty.
** In the second game, evolved male Yamibito apparently emit [[Ominous Fog]]. When you're in close proximity to them, everything goes dark around you.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]:
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*** There's also a plot reason: {{spoiler|any graze means she's compromised by red water}}.
** A level played as young Shu in the second game is the same case.
* [[One-Woman Wail]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyiACMF6jeE Karuwari II].
* [[One Bad Mother]]: "Mother" is more or less the ultimate foe in the second game.
* [[Oral Tradition]]: {{spoiler|Hisako Yao is based off the Japanese legend of the Yaobikune, the Eight-Hundred Year Old Nun who became immortal after consuming mermaid flesh. Given a Lovecraftian twist of course. She even dresses up in a manner similar to a Catholic Nun to [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a Lampshade]] on this}}.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]:
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** In the second game, "Shibito" are more conventional zombies, corpses animated by "Shiryo", which are spirits {{spoiler|controlled by Otoshigo. "Yamibito" are Shibito who have been taken over and altered by "Yamirei", spirit-creature-thingies controlled by Mother}}.
* [[Parasol of Pain]]: Umbrellas can be used as weapons in both games. They work about as well as you'd expect.
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** ''Siren: Blood Curse'' is made in the style of a Western J-Horror remake, with a composite [[Expy]] cast that includes Americans who decide to pay that quaint little village of Hanuda a visit.
** The air raid siren's usage can be considered a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Silent Hill]]'', or alternatively just a part of creator Keiichirō Toyama's [[Signature Style]]; he's also the man behind the first and original ''[[Silent Hill]]'', and reportedly the use of sirens in both games was inspired by recurring nightmares he had about the sound.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Kei Makino and Shiro Miyata are basically opposites. Kei's is a kind-hearted, but completely ineffectual guy, and Shiro's cold, but gets things done. Shiro envies Kei, due to his place within the community, {{spoiler|and we all know what can happen when [[Cain and Abel|brothers envy each other
* [[Sinister Geometry]]: Late in the first game, Hanuda is slowly being converted into a hideous nest for {{spoiler|the Datatsushi and its Shibito servants}}.
** In the second game, the Yamibito apparently grow shrouds from their bodies that they use to cover up a building's windows and other places where light might get in.
* [[Sins of Our Fathers]]: The events of the first ''Siren'' are rooted well in the ancient past. {{spoiler|On the brink of death by starvation, the inhabitants of Hanuda resort to ''[[Squick|making a meal out of a still living Datatsushi]]''. Needless to say, the big fella didn't care much for the gnoshing, and his outraged and pained shriek mutates into the familiar siren wail while pronouncing a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] on the entire village in a Lovecraftian twist on [[As the Good Book Says...|The Last Supper]]}}.
** {{spoiler|Same thing happens to Kaiko in ''Blood Curse''}}.
* [[Spirit Advisor]]:
** {{spoiler|Miyako Kajiro to Kyoya Suda at the end of the first game}}.
** {{spoiler|Shu Mikami to everyone in the second game, though he generally just stands around looking depressed}}.
** {{spoiler|A different Miyako to Howard in ''Blood Curse''}}.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]:
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** {{spoiler|In the remake, the good guy has to set everything into motion by e-mailing one of his crew from 1973 after the town goes whacked again. As well Amana, meet Bella. Bella, meet Amana}}.
** {{spoiler|The cycle of Ouroborus. Yao both sets into motion and dooms herself, though it's not really a loop since she and Datatsushi's skull show up in multiple spots along time}}.
** The supplemental stories include a case where a girl {{spoiler|dies being chased by a Shibito, revives as one, and spots her past, living self. She tries to warn her not to go that way}}...
* [[Stealth Based Game]]:
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** ''Siren 2'' also follows the same route; although some enemy weapons can be picked up and used, it is best not to be seen if you can help it.
* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: Hanuda is engulfed in the middle of a storm late in the first game.
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* [[Survival Horror]]: If we have to explain, we're going to force-feed you some mermaid.
* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: The Homuranagi ''sort of'' qualifies. {{spoiler|Kyoya automatically obtains it after taking down the Shibito-fied Jun Kajiro in the Netherworld with the Uryen, but using it to go ''[[Highlander]]'' [[Off with His Head|on Datatsushi]] is necessary to achieve the True (or rather, Full) Ending}}.
* [[They Would Cut You Up]]:
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** Also happens to {{spoiler|The previous Miyako from the last failed ceremony, after her escape attempt failed}}.
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: {{spoiler|Shiro nearly quotes the trope verbatim as he goes to finish off the Ondas. But by that point, he had shot his brother Kei and assumed his identity, making the quote darkly funny}}...
* [[Time Travel]]:
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** {{spoiler|After she's caught in Datatsushi's collapse, white-haired Yao falls outside of time with Datatsushi's skull. You can actually catch Miyako smashing the skull early in the game to sabotage the ritual, only to be surprised later when it's found intact. The skull, also existing outside time, can and has been replaced as needed}}.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]:
** {{spoiler|Kyoya}} and {{spoiler|Yoriko}} in the first game.
** {{spoiler|The partial ending has the Shibito wreaking havoc across all the fields... and Kyoya packed with grenades, the Homuranagi and an assault rifle. And he kicks off the massacre by [[Death From Above|calling down a celestial artillery strike on the Shibito with the Sword Uryen]]}}.
** {{spoiler|Yorito Nagai}} in the second game.
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: The village of Hanuda.
* [[Twin Switch]]: {{spoiler|Even the game doesn't tell you about it}}.
* [[Ultimate Evil]]:
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** The siren is {{spoiler|the cry of Datatsushi in the first game, and the cry of Mother in the second}}.
** Mother and Otoshigo in the second game.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]:
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** Towards the end, a disoriented {{spoiler|Tamon sees Yoriko with the pale face of a Shibito running at him. From Yoriko's less infected view, we see Tamon was the one becoming a near-complete Shibito}}.
** Miyata sees {{spoiler|a rather optimistic welcome to the afterlife, complete with the women he vivisected and/or murdered along with their unborn child happily calling him over}}.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: {{spoiler|Yorito}} develops a case of this near the end of the second game.
* [[Unusable Enemy Equipment]]: Played straight in the first game, averted in the second.
* [[The Virus]]:
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** {{spoiler|The red water is actually a physical manifestation of the Datatsushi's curse upon the village of Hanuda, somewhat understandably resentful of the ancient inhabitants going way overboard with the whole [[As the Good Book Says...|Body of Christ]] communion}}.
* [[Walk the Earth]]: {{spoiler|If the second game is any indication, Kyoya, unable to return to our world, wanders the Netherworld defeating supernatural menaces with the Uryen and the Homuranagi. One wonders where he gets batteries for his portable stereo player}}...
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* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: {{spoiler|Once you have red water in your system, you can never leave the Netherworld, even if you don't become a Shibito}}.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|After the ritual to restore Datatsushi proves successful, no more generations of Kajiros are needed, and so Ayako Kajiro gets roasted}}.
* [[You're Insane!]]: Said verbatim by {{spoiler|Kei Makino upon seeing what Shiro did with the Onda sisters. [[Captain Obvious|No kiddin'
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