Harry Mason (Silent Hill)
Similar to good o’ Mike Haggar, Harry Mason from the original Silent Hill horror game shows us the incredible lengths a father would go to to bring their child back home. While we are not trying to downplay the epicness of Hagar’s crusade on the criminal underworld to get his daughter back, it does not hold a candle to the brave actions of Harry, who willingly descended into a hellish world of nightmares in search of his seven year old daughter Cheryl.
First, let’s back track a bit. Cheryl is not the biological child of Harry and his former wife Jodie, but that is irrelevant because Harry loved Cheryl all the same. At the age of 25, Harry and Jodie were married and had found baby Cheryl abandoned on the side of the road. They took her in and adopted her into the family for the next three years. Jodie later died due to a terminal illness, leaving Harry alone to raise Cheryl. One day, during a road trip with Cheryl to Silent Hill on vacation, a mysterious apparition in the form a teenage girl appeared in front of his car, causing him to lose control and veer off the road. Harry later awakens to find Cheryl missing.
What later transpires is a descent into horror and madness while running into and confronting cults, dark rituals, demonic nurses, and of course this bloody bugger – the damn Incubus. In a bizarre turn of events, Harry is allowed to leave the hellish world of Silent Hill with a newborn – the reincarnation in body and soul of both Cheryl and Alessa Gillespie combined. This new child would later become Heather, whom Harry loved and cared for no less, even despite the phantasmagorical events that led to her birth. In so many ways, Harry Mason is the true embodiment of fatherly unconditional love.
