She tells James of the time he and Mary spent at the Lakeview Hotel , and he leaves to navigate his way through the Labyrinth. Pyramid Head can be found in this area, but he does not pursue James unless directly approached. When James finds Maria again, she has once again been murdered. Making his way out of the Labyrinth, he comes face-to-face with Eddie, who has been driven insane from his experiences in the town. Eddie tries to murder him, and James is forced to kill him in self-defense.
Shaken by the experience, James questions whether Mary really died three years prior as he remembers. James makes his way to the Lakeview Hotel, where he finds a video tape recording of him killing Mary and suddenly recalls his past actions.
He encounters Pyramid Head again, this time with a second Pyramid Head by his side. James realizes that his subconscious created them because of his guilty desire for punishment and decides that he no longer needs them. After a lengthy conflict, the two Pyramid Heads kill themselves, having fulfilled their purpose. A stylized painting of an executioner, similar to "Misty Days, Remains of the Judgement", is present in the Gillespie House when Travis pulls its resident from a fire.
Although unseen, the Bogeyman makes himself known to Alex Shepherd in the game's introductory level, Alchemilla Hospital. His first action is the murder of the doctor who wheels Alex into the operation theater. As the player progresses through the hospital, a grinding noise can be heard periodically.
Presumably, this is the Bogeyman dragging his knife across the floor. As the first level ends, Alex enters an elevator, following his brother. As it comes to a stop, the Bogeyman's knife plunges through the still-closed elevator door toward Alex.
The scene then transitions to a truck cab and an awakened Alex, revealing that he was dreaming. The Bogeyman only appears physically twice to Alex. He is first encountered in a cutscene in the Grand Hotel in Silent Hill; seen dragging his knife down a hallway and being trailed by insects similar to the film , he turns to face Alex, who has hidden himself behind a pile of rubble. The Bogeyman turns away and continues walking down the hall.
Much later, within the Church of the Holy Way , he appears a final time and executes Adam, cutting him in half lengthwise right before Alex's eyes. James Sunderland's Pyramid Head appears in a joke ending in Silent Hill: Downpour , involving various monsters and characters from the Silent Hill games throwing Murphy Pendleton a party. Pyramid Head cuts the cake. His arrival is heralded by swarms of Creepers. After a few failed attempts to kill Rose and Cybil Bennett , Red Pyramid pursues the protagonists to a church where they manage to escape.
A member of the town's cult , Anna falls behind and Red Pyramid brutally murders her. Pyramid Head is a figure of James Sunderland's guilt and inner torment, [78] manifesting from the part of his mind that desires punishment. Most of the people living there were either executioners themselves or family to an executioner. However, this design is not accurate.
Ito has elaborated, "Gecco's PH statue did the underneath [of the helmet]. I just put the bulge on the back of the neck of SH2's PH, not the underneath, it's so annoying. The front of the helmet is an iron plate. Underneath it is tongue-like flesh that Pyramid Head uses when attacking James and other monsters.
The bottom left corner of the plate will peel up, allowing for the tongue to slither out of the helmet. Ito used this to subtly convey that the monsters are James' delusion, since it is impossible for iron to bend. This too is erroneous. The hole only appears on the designs of the white-helmeted versions of Pyramid Head seen in Fukuro and White Hunter , which are not connected to James or Silent Hill.
The intention was for James to find the other half of the scissors a second Great Knife in the Labyrinth, symbolizing the connection between him and Pyramid Head. However, Ito did not have time to insert a distinct version of the Great Knife into the game for James, so the player is only able to obtain the knife that Pyramid Head was using. Ito's drawings of Pyramid Head outside of Silent Hill 2 have featured a differently shaped Great Knife because of this.
Pyramid Head exists to keep James human and help him realize that he is guilty, often attacking other monsters to fulfill his role. His fear of facing his inner demons manifested itself as Pyramid Head attacking other monsters to remove the visions from his psyche. 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. 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. The Bogeymen are the embodiment of a myth that parents used to control their children.
Jason Allen also referred to the Bogeymen as the "accretion of the activities going on in the town of Shepherd's Glen. It is unknown what Pyramid Head looks like underneath the helmet. Masahiro Ito stated that he never designed Pyramid Head's face, but had an idea of "a binded someone's head with many frames" at the time of creating him.
In the film universe, Red Pyramid wears a basin with sharper corners and has a significantly stronger, more superhuman musculature than James' Pyramid Head. He wears an apron made of human skin with no top covering his upper torso. Christophe Gans , the director of the first Silent Hill film, had tried to give him a more game-accurate appearance, but the shape of the helmet was impractical.
Other monsters such as the faceless nurses seen in Silent Hill 2 also symbolize how James viewed the other women in his life, with him even mentally sexualizing the nurses that were helping Mary. This is simply due to developers wanting to capitalize off of Pyramid Head's popularity as a character and placing his reason for existing after having him in a game at all.
Pyramid Head's original designer , Masahiro Ito, generally isn't a fan of his constant inclusion in other titles that aren't related to the character of James Sunderland. However, there is an attempt to have some semblance of reasoning in Silent Hill: Homecoming , where Pyramid Head is known as the Bogeyman.
He appears once in the protagonist, Alex Shepherd's, dreams and then appears physically two more times later in the game. In folklore, beings known as the Bogeyman are often told in childhood stories where the Bogeyman will "get" children who misbehave. Stories such as this play off the guilt that children feel and have the Bogeyman as some kind of punishing entity.
This parallels Pyramid Head's role as an Executioner and a symbol of guilt. Going forward, it is great to see this terrifying entity appear in Dead by Daylight , but it would probably be best for the Silent Hill series to create new terrifying monsters to be on par with Pyramid Head, rather than constantly bringing him back due to his reasoning for existing.
As fans wait for news of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 2, they should consider what characters the game will use for its story after the purge. Sam is a guide writer for GameRant, as well as an independent game designer. Sam loves horror games most of all when it comes to making and playing. Why does Pyramid Head wear a pyramid on his head? James' Guilt When designing Pyramid Head, the sharp points of the pyramid were created to subtly suggest pain going toward the monster as well , as Pyramid Head is a reflection of James.
As can be seen in a painting and as Pyramid Head's title in Dead by Daylight, he is also known as the Executioner. Is James Sunderland Pyramid Head? Pyramid Head essentially serves as the main antagonist of Silent Hill 2. According to series lore, the town of Silent Hill has the ability to give life to a person's innermost thoughts. Is Pyramid Head a good guy? I'm not going to sit here and argue that Pyramid Head was a "good guy ," in Silent Hill 2, as this video by RagnarRox itself notes that Pyramid Head can be seen as kind of a boiled down, violent and unhealthy version of the main character's need for power, sexual potency and lack of emotional attachment.
Who is Pyramid Head to James? In a quote tweet, Ito revealed Pyramid Head's Great Knife is actually one side of a pair of scissors, meant to be the other half of James' Great Knife. Ito wanted to use this revelation as a way of hinting that Pyramid Head is actually the other half of James.
Can other people see Pyramid Head? Overall, Pyramid Head can be classed as a manifestation of James' guilt over what he did since nobody else can see them in the game.
Afterwards, Pyramid Head starts to torment Maria as well in the hospital. In a narrow corridor, James and Maria are being chased by Pyramid Head, and attempt to make it to the elevator. James makes it to the elevator, but Maria doesn't. As James tries to open the door, Maria is impaled by Pyramid Head, and screams in agony as the elevator door closes. Pyramid Head makes another appearance in the Labyrinth of the Toluca prison. He chases you with a spear.
James can enter a room where Pyramid Head lives, where the player can take Pyramid Head's great knife and use it as a weapon for the rest of the game. The weapon itself is awkward and has little use other than one hit kills and in the fight with Eddie. At one point in the prison, you run into Maria on the other side of a prison cell. By the time you go around the building and find the door that leads to her, she is dead on the cell's bed.
It is inferred that Pyramid Head is the cause of this. Pyramid Head makes his final appearance just before the final boss, where two Pyramid Heads a 'red' one, for new blood, and a 'brown' one, for old blood take part in the encounter. They kill Maria a third time, and then attack James.
After relentlessly pursuing James around the room for a while, eventually both Pyramid Heads commit suicide, by impaling themselves on their spears. The peculiar thing about Pyramid Head, even though he is considered a boss, one never has to actually engage him in battle. The first battle, he leaves on his own free will, and the one in the labyrinth, and corridor must never be engaged in battle.
The last battle with both of the pyramid heads ends after they kill themselves. Attacking them only speed the process up, according to the difficulty. Pyramid Head acts as a metaphor for James, as he murders Maria, a manifestation of James' lust towards his dead wife, multiple times in the game.
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