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'''Dahlia:''' Now aren't you something? Good-looking stranger like yourself comes to town, seems like someone ought to do something to make you feel welcome.
  
'''Dahlia:''' Now aren't you something? Good-looking stranger like yourself comes to town, seems like someone ought to do something to make you feel welcome.
   
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'''Linkara:''' ''(pretending to hold something in his hand)'' Here, have an Applebee's coupon.
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'''Linkara:''' ''(as Dahlia, pretending to hold something in his hand)'' Here, have an Applebee's coupon.
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'''Jason:''' Well, sweetheart, I'm just getting enough food to keep my strength up so I can make it to the mountains one last time before I put a bullet in my goddamn head.
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'''Linkara:''' ''(as Dahlia)'' So you don't want the coupon?
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'''Linkara (v/o):''' She leaves, now apparently wearing a see-through bikini... The hell? ...and Jason returns to his car. Dahlia walks along, and apparently, she's a famous singer, and she listens to her own music ["Reason to Love"] on the radio.
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'''Radio announcer:''' I've had a lot of people ask if I think there's some deeper meaning in that song other than, "Yeah, duh, of course I'm depressed. Haven't you been listening?"
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'''Linkara:''' ''(as radio announcer)'' Well, personally, I think that if you slow it down and play it backwards, you can hear, "Paul is a dead man. Miss him, miss him."
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'''Linkara (v/o):''' And apparently, the cover to her album features her in pink lingerie, and another recurring motif in these one-shots: WOMEN IN PINK!
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''(Cut to a clip of the game ''Red vs. Blue'')''
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'''Private Donut:''' It's not pink, it's lightish red!
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''(Back to the comic again)''
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'''Radio announcer:''' Didn't Dahlia take her own life?
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''(Cut to a clip of the ''MST3K'' gang watching ''Cheating'', showing a huge question mark on the screen)''
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'''Crow:''' ''(imitating the Riddler)'' Riddle me this, Batman! Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo-hoo!
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''(Cut back to the comic)''
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'''Radio announcer:''' Or is she out there somewhere... looking for someone who'll give her that reason to live?
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'''Linkara:''' ''(pointing to camera)'' Don't give up! You've got a reason to live! Can't forget! [[You Get What You Give|You only get what you give!]]
   
 
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Silent Hill: Among the Damned

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Released
October 10, 2011
Running time
23:31
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(Linkara's room is full of fog)

Linkara: Hello, and welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. Well, if last week's Silent Hill comic was the absolute worst we've seen of Scott Ciencin's Silent Hill stories, this is probably the best. Oh, don't get me wrong, it's still awful, but I hate it the least.

(Cut to a closeup of the cover of the comic in question: "Silent Hill: Among the Damned")

Linkara (v/o): I think what helped save this comic is that this is the first of all these stories that gives us a likeable protagonist.

(Cut to shots of characters from "Silent Hill: Dying Inside" and "Dead/Alive")

Linkara (v/o): Troy Abernathy comes close, but then, when he became a servant of the town, he showed no regret or sorrow for what he had become. Lauryn, as we've covered, sacrificed other people so she could have zombie minions. Kenneth Carter was just boring and barely did anything, and even then, he decided to shack up with some random-cocaine snorting woman instead of the girl he actually loved because... because.

(Cut to "Paint It Black")

Linkara (v/o): And then there was "Paint It Black", which we looked at last week, featuring a full cast of unlikeable pricks.

Linkara: So what is it about this week's hero that actually works? Well, let's dig into (holds up today's comic) "Silent Hill: Among the Damned" and find out.

(AT4W intro plays; title card has "The Terminal Show" from Silent Hill: Homecoming playing in the background; cut to a closeup of the comic's cover)

Linkara (v/o): So, you still want the covers, eh? Well, here it is: a tentacle emerging from some woman's stomach. I hope that properly grounded you for the story.

(The comic opens to the first page)

Linkara (v/o): We open on a guy in sunglasses [Jason], standing on a mountain and watching the sunrise.

Jason: (narrating) This is what I dream about. This perfect time. This perfect place.

Linkara: (as Jason) Could've brought a warmer jacket, though. Perfection is chilly.

Jason: (narrating) The last thing I'll ever see. The dream never stays this way for long.

Linkara: (as Jason) It quickly turns into that dream where you go to school in your underwear.

Linkara (v/o): No, actually, he dreams about being in a military unit and being attacked by the monsters of Silent Hill, though they appear to be in a desert, so who knows what the heck is going on? Our main character, Jason, save his best friend [Aaron]'s life from one of the monsters. However, the dream ends when he's attacked from behind by this weird butcher kind of monster that's wearing solar panels as an apron. Well, the monsters from Silent Hill may be horrific abominations against God and nature, but at least they're green. Jason wakes up from the dream.

Jason: (narrating) Good one. And there's Dahlia watching* this (beep).

  • NOTE: Jason actually says "catching", not "watching".

Linkara (v/o): Dahlia?

(Cut to a clip of a Silent Hill game)

Man: Dahlia Gillespie.

(Cut back to the comic)

Linkara (v/o): This is the second comic in a row where we see names of people from the games for no reason! And here's where things get a little confusing. He wakes up, talking about how Dahlia saw him... I don't know, wake up with a start. Don't quite know why that's a problem. But now he's in a barracks that has writing in blood all over.

Bloody text: Look. Then tell them all.

Linkara: (holding up hand dramatically) Tell them about the low, low prices they can get for car insurance.

Linkara (v/o): He looks at the door, then BAM! We cut to a motel, where he's checking in. Great, and I thought the time transitions in "Paint It Black" were bad. At least it was always moving forward. Is this in the past? The future? Was that just another dream? Well, he says in the panel before that it isn't a dream, so what the hell?

Jason: (narrating) Funny, I was dreaming about killing myself even before I saw the enemy left for us.

Linkara: (holding up index finger) Aaand I've gotta stop right there. As I said, this is the first of these comics where we actually have a likeable protagonist. Jason is a soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor's guilt, and that is something we can get behind as the person we're rooting for.

(Shots of previous Silent Hill "protagonists" are shown: Troy, Lauryn, Ike, and Ken)

Linkara (v/o): Let's face it: previously, our heroes have been a womanizer, a sociopath, a lazy sociopath, and Ken Carter, who's only the best out of the rest of them for being so damn bland.

(Cut back to "Among the Damned")

Linkara (v/o): Having a character with a troubled past like this actually makes for an interesting story and can also create some interesting visuals for the town to take advantage of, kind of like what Homecoming was supposed to be like, instead of just a rehashed Silent Hill 2. That doesn't really happen here, but hey, it's a good idea. Anyway, on with the plot: Jason meets this Dahlia woman at the motel.

Dahlia: Now aren't you something? Good-looking stranger like yourself comes to town, seems like someone ought to do something to make you feel welcome.

Linkara: (as Dahlia, pretending to hold something in his hand) Here, have an Applebee's coupon.

Jason: Well, sweetheart, I'm just getting enough food to keep my strength up so I can make it to the mountains one last time before I put a bullet in my goddamn head.

Linkara: (as Dahlia) So you don't want the coupon?

Linkara (v/o): She leaves, now apparently wearing a see-through bikini... The hell? ...and Jason returns to his car. Dahlia walks along, and apparently, she's a famous singer, and she listens to her own music ["Reason to Love"] on the radio.

Radio announcer: I've had a lot of people ask if I think there's some deeper meaning in that song other than, "Yeah, duh, of course I'm depressed. Haven't you been listening?"

Linkara: (as radio announcer) Well, personally, I think that if you slow it down and play it backwards, you can hear, "Paul is a dead man. Miss him, miss him."

Linkara (v/o): And apparently, the cover to her album features her in pink lingerie, and another recurring motif in these one-shots: WOMEN IN PINK!

(Cut to a clip of the game Red vs. Blue)

Private Donut: It's not pink, it's lightish red!

(Back to the comic again)

Radio announcer: Didn't Dahlia take her own life?

(Cut to a clip of the MST3K gang watching Cheating, showing a huge question mark on the screen)

Crow: (imitating the Riddler) Riddle me this, Batman! Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo-hoo!

(Cut back to the comic)

Radio announcer: Or is she out there somewhere... looking for someone who'll give her that reason to live?

Linkara: (pointing to camera) Don't give up! You've got a reason to live! Can't forget! You only get what you give!

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