All of these nine fine men end up in Silent Hill.
Who's most likely to escape and what are their personal hells like?
All of these nine fine men end up in Silent Hill.
All of these nine fine men end up in Silent Hill.
Who's most likely to escape and what are their personal hells like?
carl, his personal hell is his everyday life
And he dies frequently
If anyone is surviving this it’s probably Stan or Rick depending on how emotional they act. It seems to vary wildly but I’d put my money on Stan
Hopefully Stan's personal Hell doesn't involve a hot tub.
Rick is only able to put off his personal issues because he can science his way out of them. If he's thrown into a meaningless, dream-logic world like Silent Hill then he's probably killing himself in the first half hour.
Funny they nearly had an episode of that exact thing a week ago, with him wanting to kill himself, only to have the story cop out in the end.
>And he dies frequently
And doesn't stay dead. Regardless, the most likely scenario for Carl is that he actually ends up being happy in Silent Hill, makes friends, marries a nurse, has lots of weird sex... and then the Aqua Teens open a portal and drag him off in some misguided attempt at rescue.
Honestly, the only two who probably wouldn't ever get out are Clay and Bojack. Rusty would science his way out, Stan would CIA Weapons Expert his way out, Duckman would go off on a rant and get kicked out, Ruckus would Ruckus when he finds out Silent Hill is filled with black people, Rick would also science his way out, Eustace would probably get along with the monsters splendidly.
>and doesn’t stay dead
Which wasn’t the question it was would he survive it and he absolutely wouldn’t. Out of all of these he’s definitely the one the universe loves to see suffer the most.
>Which wasn’t the question it was would he survive it
No, the question was "who was most likely to escape." If Carl dies but doesn't stay dead, he can still escape.
That’s definitely not what OP meant. By that logic venture, Rick, Stan and Eustace also survive due to cartoon shenanigans. No one would consider dying and then being resurrected as surviving because you didn’t survive the situation you survived dying. We don’t even know if it’s the same Carl every time.
>By that logic venture, Rick, Stan and Eustace also survive due to cartoon shenanigans.
Literally yes. If you don't want CARTOON CHARACTERS using CARTOON SHENANIGANS to escape Silent Hill, don't put CARTOON CHARACTERS in Silent Hill.
But I don’t agree with you. I don’t consider dying during the hypothetical as surviving. Even if they come back they still didn’t survive it. They might survive death but not Silent Hill. A non co example but when Jon Snow was resurrected he didn’t survive the stabbings he was just brought back later. And again this even assumes it’s always the same Carl.
>But I don’t agree with you.
You say that like I'm supposed to give a shit.
Gave enough of a shit to answer back
This is why people don't like the buttholes who beat the "How high you can count in a minute is how much money you get" by counting using exponents.
Rick not having to actually work on conquering his demons by pulling out some deus ex machina specifically built to rescue him from Silent Hill is stupid and a waste of a premise.
>Carls ends up being happy in Silent Hill, makes friends, marries a nurse, has lots of weird sex... and then the Aqua Teens open a portal and drag him off in some misguided attempt at rescue
Reminds me of the ice cream episode from Codename: Kids Next Door. That shit pissed me off so bad.
Uncle ruckus somehow off screen becomes the leader of the entities
Probably Doc, despite all of his faults he does have his shit together and can acknowledge his past and try to move past it.
I feel like he and Duckman are the only ones who exhibit the ability to confront their demons and grow in a healthy way. Silent Hill for Rusty would just be his visit from Killinger again only with more horrific imagery, which probably wouldn't even phase him at this stage
Doc would think he got drugged and woke up in a haunted house escape room. He'd totally complain about how gimmicky and predictable everything is.
I feel like Stan would go through it unfazed and either not notice anything wrong for a "Stan is kinda dumb" gag or blame it all on Roger trying to prank him
Eustace faces eldritch horrors every day and comes out fine next episode so he can take it
>Carl is put through a perfectly replicates version of his regular life. He doesn't escape cause he doesn't know he's trapped
>Doc thinks he's dreaming and constantly trying to wake up. He has the slightest chance of escaping if only cause we've seen him confront his personal demons.
>I can't see Clay escaping at all, he'd kill himself before he even gets to the truly horrible parts
>Stan has been in personal hell situations if only slightly better than what SH would give him. Early season Stan would probably escape but the later seasons are more okay with non-canon endings so no on that part
>Duck man is hard to say cause he's prone to panic but after a while I feel like he could escape if something happened earlier in the day that can give him the confidence
>Ruckus suicide twelve seconds in
>Bojack would get super far and I mean nearly out but one little thing would make him gaslight himself into thinking he deserves it and stays to die
>Rick needs someone to help him out of his personal demons. He has never confronted something that genuinely hurts him alone. If Morty isn't there, he's done for
>Eustace is similar to Rick but instead of Morty he needs Courage. Without him he'd find the nearest lounge chair and read the newspaper
pretty good take overall
funnier idea than what I had in mind which is just a tl;dr of 'shrodingers Black' that's bound to itch at the back of his mind to just lose his shit.
Clay would probably think Silent Hill is an improvement considering he's already in a Hell of his own making in Moralton. He'd somehow become mayor of Silent Hill.
Both Carl and Eustace are already in their own personal Silent Hills, and they just go along with it, cause they don't end up dead permanently.
I dont know enough about Orel dad to comment on him.
Duckman, Stan, Rusty, and Ruckus would become trapped, but would learn to live and survive their situations.
Bojack would become trapped, but probably wouldn't even notice or care.
Rick's probably the only one who would realize what was going on, and would find a trivial way out, being all "Oh the Silent Hill thing again, huh? Real original, guys."
Eustace would never leave.
>NOPE. Not gettin' outta this chair!
Silent Hill is less of a personal hell and more like the Other World attempting (and failing) to understand/communicate with humanity through putting the guilty through nightmarish trials in an attempt to see them grow. It sounds bizarre, but Silent Hill (when not under the influence of The Order and channeling a specific person's psyche as seen in 1 and 2) is like an alien dimension using extreme therapy. Very Lovecraftian.
You can chalk this up to Twin Peaks (and Lynch's works in general), Shinto, Buddhism, Gnosticism, alchemy, the occult, and movies like Jacob's Ladder and Solraris as influences.
To answer OP's question, I'll take the characters I'm familiar with.
>Rusty would feel tremendous guilt over the many dead clones of his sons, everything to do with Dermott, etc. His Otherworld is VERY Freudian and also not unlike that of Eddie's from SH2. Imagine the Venture Compound with different areas representing the various typical adventure settings seen in the cartoon. Rusty's monsters not only reflect his children and his fears, but his largest one is some twisted mirror of Jonas Venture, evoking the image of Saturn as painted by Goya.
>Rick's Otherworld is framed by a sense of emptiness. It looks idyllic from afar but there's nobody around. Beer and other drugs litter the area. There's a sense of griminess and self-destruction. Lots of mirrors. Rick's Otherworld is fueled by the guilt he feels over the death of his original family, the guilt of pushing away his past lovers and friends, and the guilt he feels over mistreating Morty. Rick's monsters resemble Morty and himself.
In order from most likely to live to least:
Out of this list, I'd say Rick, Doc, and Stan would get out 9 times out of 10. They're all various levels of trope conscious and could probably figure out SH for what it is. Rick and Rusty are particularly experienced with basically with this kind of thing, just another adventure in the joke that is their lives. Stan would bumble his way out as he always does.
Carl could probably get out of he wanted but the horrors of SH would be so similar to his regular day to day that for him getting out wouldn't matter (nothing matters). I'd always say Eustice is near that same level of abilit as Carl and could get out if he really tried, he's had to be saved by Courage often but he's also been able to confront his own troubles before.
Ruckus is either committing suicide five minutes in or ends up running the show and baiting black guys in SH for the rest of his life. You can never tell with him.
Duckman and Bojack are the most likely to die, they're the most "normal" for lack of a better term and have unresolved issues that they can never quite deal with, Bojack especially so. That said they have a small chance still.
Oh right, and Oral's dad is on the bottom of the list. I'm completely sure he'd die in SH.
And Clay? Probably worse off than Bojack
Goes without saying let's be honest, at least Bojack is self-aware of terrible behavior, even if he can't control himself regardless. Clay is just pure fodder to an experience like Silent Hill.
>Carl
Yeah he'd make it through
>Rusty
Good shot given he went through Killinger therapy
>Clay
No
>Stan
Lean toward yes
>Duckman
Lean toward yes
>Ruckus
Not sure
>Bojack
Doubt it
>Rick
If his devices don't get him a free out then no way on his own. With Morty he has a chance
>Eustace
On his own no. Yes with Courage.
Duckman is hard to say. More so than any other character here, he has the most experience delving into his own psyche and confronting his issues like the typical Silent Hill storyline. And he usually learns his lesson by the end of the episode. He has also lived through numerous nightmare scenarios in his real life and survived through a mix a luck and his own efforts. Without Cornfed to help him his chances are worse but I still see him making it out in the end.
Duckmans personal torments consisted of guilt over his wife's death, lost loves, addiction, failure as a father and remorse about numerous people he has harmed in the past.
Bojack would find the secret room only to find out Mr. Peanutbutter was behind it all
Stan is a funny option since he already died on American Dad and is in his own personal heaven which is just his regular life.
Well?
Rick would get out. His personal hell would be him actually becoming a god that can literally do anything. He’ll hate it.
Eustace
Carl probably wouldn't even realize he's in Silent Hill, and would even up killed by a nurse or something.
Never watched Venture Bros.
Clay would double down on his bad traits and get stuck, similar to Eddie in SH2.
Stan can go either way, depending one which season it is, or if it's special episodes where dying is possible. The gag could also be that Stan casually fumbles his way out, not realizing he was in danger.
Duckman would probably make it out, since he is actually capable of growth and confronting his past.
Ruckus is in the same boat as Clay.
Bojack absolutely crumples in Silent Hill. Similar to In Water James and Angela in SH2, he'd end up stuck while spiraling into a deeper pit of depression and self-loathing.
Rick would roll his eyes and say "Oh, we're doing a Silent Hill now?" and have some asspull device to warp himself out of there. If his tech isn't on the table, he'd need someone like Morty to help him, since Rick can't grow on his own.
Eustance would need Courage's help, but would be stuck on his own.
Uncle Ruckus walks right through and comes out the other side perfectly fine.
He already lives hiss own personal hell every day by being born black.
He then goes on to explain how Silent Hill is like the Hood.