The Nurses in Silent Hill are some of the most iconic enemies in horror game history. So iconic that they have been featured in the Silent Hill films and nearly every Silent Hill game. Due to the recurring themes of hospitalization, insanity, and death, each game usually features a trip to one of Silent Hill’s hospitals, where these nurses can be encountered.

In Animaniacs, Hello Nurse is a buxom studio nurse who Yakko and Wakko constantly fawn over. Naturally they do their best to get injured so they can get her attention, exclaiming “hellooooooo, nurse” whenever she enters the room. It’s later revealed that not only is she beautiful but that she has a genius IQ of 192.

In The Zero Theorem, Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) is an eccentric and reclusive computer programmer for Mancom. He files a request to work from home so that he won’t miss a phone call that will give him the meaning of life. Instead, he is visited by Bainsley.

Blink-182’s 1999 release Enema of the State was a runaway success. The album cover features Janine Lindemulder in a scantily clad nurse’s uniform, which probably had something to do with that.

Introduced in the first Final Fight, Poison is one of the few characters from the Capcom series to move on to a minor role in the popular fighter game, Street Fighter. She has since appeared in later artworks and cross-over games and is notably one of the top female characters in video game history.

Heath Ledger once described his depiction of the
Joker as a “psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy.” Clearly, this Joker isn’t afraid to do what needs to be done, even if it means cross dressing in a nurse’s dress.