Slender Man/Video Games

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## *Slender*

   Slender Man serves as the titular main antagonist of the 2012 horror video game *Slender: The Eight Pages* and its 2013 remake/sequel *Slender: The Arrival*. Here it stalks Oakside Park and hunts down victims that collect its pages. The depiction of Slender Man in these games is credited with helping shape the Slender Man mythos, including the static effect that occurs when Slender Man is seen, its teleportation, and its frequent setting in forests and woods.

 Past
Though it is unknown who or what exactly the Slender Man is and how it came to stalk Oakside Park, hints in the series suggest that a member of a girl named Kate's family, possibly her mother, summoned it on accident. Since then, Slender Man has been terrorizing the people of the area out of pure sadism.
One of its earlier victims was a young boy named Charlie Matheson Jr., who it lured into the forest with a trail of toys. Upon picking up the last toy, the Slender Man attacks and chases Charlie, who is trying to find his way back to his parents. Slender Man captures the crying child in its tentacles and kidnaps him, slowly tormenting and brainwashing him into a feral Proxy in its service and later causing Charlie's father to commit suicide.

*Slender: The Eight Pages*
Kate later comes into contact with Slender Man when she travels into the woods at night and begins collecting eight crudely-drawn pages. After collecting the first one, she begins to be stalked by Slender Man, who becomes increasingly hostile the longer she alludes it and collects more pages. After collecting the eighth page, Slender Man attacks, disabling Kate. However, rather than kill her, Slender Man simply claims that it has plans for her.

*Slender: The Arrival*
After growing up plagued by the Slender Man (who presumably also killed her mother), Kate decides to sell her family home and leave, sending letters to family and friends concerning her decision. Some of her notes are so cryptic and unsettling that her childhood friends CR and Lauren decide to go check on her.
When CR arrives, he tries to uncover the mystery of the Slender Man and what has happened to his friend, only to find that knowledge of the Slender Man is what keeps it around. In an attempt to end Slender Man's hold once and for all, he tries to kill Kate, but she is taken by Slender Man and has her transformation into the Chaser completed, now damned to be a creature of darkness in Slender Man's service. With nowhere else to go, CR douses himself in gasoline and lights himself on fire, killing himself to remove one more person who knows of Slender Man's existence.
Lauren arrives to find Kate's home disheveled, with cryptic warnings and scribbles on the walls and on pages of what she had encountered. Slender Man arrives and begins to stalk Lauren. Lauren hears Kate's scream from the woods, and rushes to help her.
When Lauren ventures into the woods, she comes across a burned-down house with Charlie stalking about and eight more pages. She begins to be stalked and attacked by Slender Man. After collecting all eight pages, Slender attacks. Lauren escapes, but trips down an embankment and passes out.
When Lauren wakes up the following morning, and searches for Kate in an abandoned coal mine. She finds her as the Chaser, who attacks her. Lauren searches the mine for generators to power the lift to the surface, but Slender Man and the Chaser are constantly following and trying to kill her. Lauren eventually manages to escape.
On the surface, Lauren finds old tapes and a television. Upon watching the tapes, she realizes that they are footage from Kate, CR, and Charlie as they encounter Slender Man, with Kate suffering an attack on her house, CR being chased by Charlie, and Charlie being lured away by Slender Man.
Lauren follows messages to a radio tower. However, upon arriving, she finds the surrounding area engulfed in fire and an enraged Slender Man following close behind. She navigates through the flames and enters the building, but only finds CR's burning corpse. As her camera battery begins to die, Slender Man and Charlie attack and knock her out.
Lauren awakes to find herself in a basement guarded by Charlie. She manages to get out, but hears Kate crying. Upon investigating, the Chaser attacks her. The final shot is Slender Man or one of his minions dragging Lauren's lifeless body away.

## *Slender Rising*

   Slender Man serves as the main antagonist of the 2012 iOS game *Slender Rising* and its 2014 sequel *Slender Rising 2*. The player can chose from a variety of maps, and must collect signs to escape, all while Slender Man is chasing them down. In *Slender Rising 2*, players can also try and aid the Lost Souls, tormented spirits of Slender Man's past victims that are damned to wander the areas where they died. Also in *Slender Rising 2*, in the Signs of the End mode, the player can find and equip a shotgun that will disable Slender Man for a brief period, though Slender Man will occasionally try and mind control the player into shooting themselves if the gun is equipped.

## *Haunted Memories*

   The 2013 game *Haunted Memories*, formerly known as *Slender: Haunt*, features a reimagining of Slender Man as a former human named **Mark Slender**, a former journalist who was captured by the Nazi Party and subjected to experimental chemicals that mutated him into a monstrous being that seeks revenge on humanity for his current state.

 In Mark's backstory, which is uncovered over the course of the game, Mark Slender was a reporter or journalist of some persuasion for an unknown company. Slender had been sent to a location with several others to report suspicious activity at a power plant out in a forest. Upon arrival and during investigation, Slender and his team were marked for termination, as the power plant had been commissioned by the Nazis for producing an experimental substance.
Slender and co. had discovered this function, as well as the nearby death camp. In order to keep their secrets safe, the Nazis terminated the investigation crew. Slender had managed to escape from the Waffen SS, and hid inside of a bunker. The SS decided it would be easier just to burn him alive, and set the bunker aflame.
Unfortunately, the chemicals inside the bunker caused a bizarre reaction to Slender. And as a result, Slender became a paranormal entity. He then proceeded to attack the facility and could not appear to be stopped.
The game opens with an unnamed male protagonist, who comes across an abandoned pickup truck outside the fenced off Green Park in Poland. The truck's origins are unknown, but the portfolio the character finds on top of the truck belongs to a Nazi scientific project known as Project: HAUNT. Out of curiosity, the unnamed male ventures into the park to investigate the whereabouts of the organization's members and their discoveries by collecting a set of ten documents and photographs as well as keys to locked off locations within the park's grounds.
Over the course of the game, the character is attacked and hunted by Mark Slender.

## *Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare*

    Slender Man makes an appearance as an Easter Egg in the 2014 video game *Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare*. On the Zomboss Estate level, behind the mansion and garden and just out of level boundaries, Slender Man can be seen standing in the woods. In the game's PC release and following the release of the Tactical Taco Party DLC, slender Man is seen being eaten by a Chomper plant.