Harry Mason
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| Harry Mason | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Age | 32 (Silent Hill), 49 (Silent Hill 3) |
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Appearance/s in Silent Hill Series | Silent Hill 1, Silent Hill 3 |
| Voice by/ Protrayer | Michael G |
Harry Mason is a fictional character and protagonist of the PlayStation video game Silent Hill.
Mason is a 32 year old writer. His wife, who still remains unnamed, died a few years before the first game. Although, in SH 3 it is stated that Cheryl was named after Harry's wife, therefore, his wife's name must have been Cheryl. Three years before she died, Mrs. Mason and Harry found a child on the side of the road outside of Silent Hill. They take the child home and name it Cheryl. For the next 7 years, Harry takes care of Cheryl up until the events of the first game. Harry and Cheryl decide to take a vacation to Silent Hill. While Harry is driving towards the town late at night with Cheryl in the front seat, he sees a young woman walk into the path of his vehicle. He tries to avoid her but loses control of his Jeep and crashes into a ditch. A few hours later in the morning, he awakens to find Cheryl missing. This is where Silent Hill 1 starts off.
Harry Mason is the archetypal Silent Hill protagonist, and as such he deviates substantially from classic video game protagonists. Harry is clumsy, and it is obvious he has never received training in survival or the use of firearms, a deficit which serves both the realism of the game and the horror it attempts to induce in the player. Harry is the father of Heather (the main character of Silent Hill 3). He was brutally murdered in Silent Hill 3 by the Missionary under Claudia Wolf's order.
Harry's radio and pocket clip flashlight serve as the template for all future Silent Hill protagonists, save for the sole exception of Henry Townshend from Silent Hill 4: The Room, who possesses neither item (although it can be argued that the radio that sits on a shelf in Room 302 counts, since it can be used to detect hauntings within the apartment that still need to be exorcised).
[edit] Harry's role in other games
While Harry is only ever a playable character in the first installment of the Silent Hill series, he is encountered elsewhere. The only time he is ever seen in the other games is in the "UFO" ending of Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, and the "Revenge" ending of Silent Hill 3. In Silent Hill 2 he descends from a space ship and asks James, the protagonist of the second game, if he has seen Cheryl; James asks if Harry has seen Mary, and James is shot and dragged onto the ship. In the third game's Revenge ending, Heather returns home to find that Harry is not in fact dead, and he then obliterates the town with the aliens' UFOs after hearing of his daughter's hardships. James can also be seen in this ending hiding behind a curtain, and then holding a block of wood which Harry karate-kicks to prove how serious he is about having Silent Hill obliterated.
