Game/comic Book Discrepancies
While the comic books are based upon the video game series of Silent Hill, there are noticeable differences not just in the town aesthetically but also in the history and the nature of the forces of Silent Hill. This has led many Silent Hill fans to consider the Silent Hill in the comic books existing in a different fictional universe than the Silent Hill of the video games. Examples of these discrepancies are:
In "The Grinning Man", the Lakeview Hotel is actually not on Toluca Lake at all, as opposed to the Lakeview Hotel from Silent Hill 2.
The introduction of several characters who are extremely important to the universe of the comic books (Whately, Dr. Abernathy, Christabella, Laura, etc.) yet are not mentioned once in any of the games. Likewise, none of the characters from the games (Dahlia, James, Harry, etc.) are mentioned in the comic books. However, James and his wife Mary can be seen in 'Silent Hill: Hunger' when Douglass mentions that Silent Hill is a resort town people often like to visit. Though they are shown, their purpose in the comic seems to strictly be fan service.
The Lakeview Hotel, Brookhaven Hospital, and even the Lighthouse are extremely different cosmetically than the same locations in the video games.
While the catalyst for the town's increase in power in the video games was when Alessa was impregnated with The Order's God by her mother, Dahlia, when she was seven, in 'Silent Hill: Hunger' the catalyst for the comic book Silent Hill is a young woman who is forcibly impregnated by Whately and a Doctor who worked at Brookhaven. Similarly with matriarchal villain figures prevalent in Silent Hill lore, the SH motion picture directed by Christophe Gans has a villain character named Christabella, who shares the same name although a separate backstory to the villain Christabella from the Dying Inside series,
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