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When cleaning up, expanding, or rewriting an article, I prefer to use citations due to the eclectic nature of Silent Hill. There is a lot of misinformation, some of which has actually been published by Konami (such as the BradyGames guides). As such, my sources usually come from:
 * Quotations, Tweets, and interviews from the developers themselves. Silent Hill Memories and Masahiro Ito's Twitter are excellent resources.
 * Lost Memories: Silent Hill Chronicle and the Q&A from the Silent Hill Guidebook Complete.
 * Occasionally from memos from the games themselves. Many of them are there specifically for expositional purposes.

Notable work

 * Pyramid Head - Updated and improved with extensive citations to reliable sources (mostly the creators themselves)
 * Bubble Head Nurse
 * List of cancelled Silent Hill projects
 * Dead by Daylight: Chapter XVI - Silent Hill
 * Fog World
 * Template:Refn
 * Norihito Hatakeda
 * Lisa Garland
 * Abstract Daddy
 * Isao Takahashi
 * Reverend Stone
 * List of unused monsters

Work in progess

 * Silent Hill (2021 video game) (Draft)
 * Sexuality
 * Full Circle
 * Dahlia Gillespie

Some articles that need work

 * Otherworld
 * Silent Hill, Maine
 * God
 * Sexuality
 * The Order

Articles for creation

 * Naoko Satō

Sandbox


Pertinent sources
MANNEQUIN Area Apartment building, hotel Character Reacts strongly to light and comes alive when approached Metaphor A manifestation of James' natural urges and inclinations. Accordingly, it is abused by Pyramid Head. http://www.silenthillmemories.net/lost_memories/guide/048-049_en.htm

Asked whether he feels that he has a complete grasp of what happens in the Silent Hill games, Yamaoka says he wonders if anyone besides Owaku understands it all completely, and also expresses his shock at having recently heard that some of it is based in Freud's psychoanalytic theories. http://www.silenthillmemories.net/lost_memories/guide/073-080_en.htm

ABSTRACT DADDY Area Labyrinth, hotel Character Attacks by attempting to grab and envelop its victim Metaphor "Ideal father." On top of its bed-like form are two covered reclining figures. A symbol of Angela's past. http://www.silenthillmemories.net/lost_memories/guide/048-049_en.htm (rape)

The rewrite draft
"Psychological horror has to shake human's heart deeply. Shaking people's heart deeply means uncover people's core emotion and their core motivation for life. Everybody is thinking and concerning about sex and death. Everything. If we want to scare, shake, or touch the users or spectators, then we have to think about sex and death deeply. To make like a death scene, somebody died or monsters died, we tried to mix erotic essence. This is kind of a visual and a core concept."

- Takayoshi Sato

Sexuality is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the "capacity for sexual feelings". According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories, sexual urges have strong roots within the subconscious mind and are a primary motivator of human thought, behavior, and development. The original developers, particularly Hiroyuki Owaku and Takayoshi Sato, were inspired by these psychoanalytic theories when creating the original Silent Hill games. In Silent Hill lore, characters within proximity to Toluca Lake may experience a paranormal state in which the boundary between dream and reality is obscured, causing the physical manifestation of delusions, often in the form of monsters, environments, and poltergeists stemming from negative thoughts and emotions. This state transitions between the Fog World and Otherworld, mirroring the Non-REM and REM sleep cycle. The series employs erotic subtext, both to reflect the psyches of its characters and to get under the player's skin by disturbing them on a psychological level.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
"We're getting deep in it now. I can almost taste it. All this talking and we still haven't touched on the sex thing. ...That's what you're thinking. Aren't all psychiatrists supposed to be obsessed with sex? It's not us, it's you."

- Dr. Michael Kaufmann Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a reimagining of the series in which the player controls the deceased Harry Mason in dream sequences, representing his grieving daughter's memory of him during therapy. The game creates a Psych Profile and tailors itself to the player's decisions and how the player character behaves. Certain actions that Harry can take, such as acting in a flirtatious manner with female NPCs or staring at pornographic images, may influence the narrative. Examples of this include the Raw Shock creatures taking on a salacious appearance or the character Cybil Bennett wearing a shirt that partially reveals her cleavage. These actions may result in the "Sleaze and Sirens" ending in which his daughter comes to the revelation that Harry was sexually immoral and unfaithful to his wife.

Silent Hill: Homecoming
Silent Hill: Homecoming focuses on Alex Shepherd, a man blamed for the death of his kid brother Joshua who suffers a mental breakdown and is consequently admitted to Alchemilla Hospital: Asylum for the Mentally Ill by his parents. In his years institutionalized, Alex constructs a fantasy that he is a war veteran like his father and was admitted into the hospital due to war injuries. He escapes from the hospital when elements of his psyche are manifested by the Otherworld.

The game depicts the manifestation of sexuality more directly than earlier installments: the Demon Nurses are tied to his false memories of being treated by nurses in a military hospital. Alex recalls in his diary, "My wounds made me captive to a damn wheelchair for a long time. Thnaks to the helpfulness of the pretty nurses, in their low-cut, white clothes and their provocative stilettos, I learned – if painfully – to run again." The Nurses appear as a distorted image of the hyper-sexualized nurses that Shepherd lusted over.

Silent Hill: Downpour
Silent Hill: Downpour and its tie-in Anne's Story feature monsters known as Dolls that taunt the police officer Anne Marie Cunningham for cheating on her husband with another man, an act she is remorseful for. A man named Patrick Napier is also imprisoned in Overlook Penitentiary for pedophilia and murder, having killed a pre-adolescent boy he was attracted to. The grief of the boy's vengeful father Murphy sets the plot of the game into motion.

Other media

 * The art film Fukuro directed by Masahiro Ito contains overt sexuality and is intended to be an abstract metaphor for the human womb.