History Headscratchers / HelloNeighbor

* Why doesn't the protagonist call the police? I know that The Neighbor has a right to privacy, but come on! "Hello? Police? I think that my neighbor is hiding something illegal in his basement. I have been watching from my house across the street, and he has boarded up the basement door, and outfitted it with a keycard lock. I tried to think nothing of it, but he's impossible. If I even try to go over and introduce myself, he freaks out and forces me back to my side of the street. If he even catches me on his side of the street, he'll chase after me and force me back to my side. I have done nothing to him, and he treats me like I'm a criminal. He must be hiding something illegal" This is just going off of the Alpha 2 version. This goes double for the Alpha 3 version where he throws bottles of glue at you, and triple for the pre-Alpha and Alpha 1 versions where he throws tomatoes and ''beartraps'' at you. Keep in mind that he ''can'' act this way without you giving him any reason to. If you so much as go over and ring his doorbell, he will come after you, and assuming you used the sleep feature in the pre-alpha version and waited until morning to go over to his house, and didn't do anything more in either that version or in Alphas 1, 2, and 3 than ring the doorbell when you first went over (and assuming you managed to get out of his house after the cutscene of him boarding up the door in Alpha 2 without him seeing you, thus leaving him with no knowledge of the fact that you saw him boarding up the door or that you snuck in his house), this would be well before you did anything to antagonize him. I think boarding up a basement, using a keycard lock on it, refusing to let anyone on your side of the street, and throwing things at people warrants a call to the police.

** The final game implies that [[spoiler: his wife has just died in a car accident.]]
* Why doesn't the protagonist call the police? I know that The Neighbor has a right to privacy, but come on! "Hello? Police? I think that my neighbor is hiding something illegal in his basement. I have been watching from my house across the street, and he has boarded up the basement door, and outfitted it with a keycard lock. I tried to think nothing of it, but he's impossible. If I even try to go over and introduce myself, he freaks out and forces me back to my side of the street. If he even catches me on his side of the street, he'll chase after me and force me back to my side. I have done nothing to him, and he treats me like I'm a criminal. He must be hiding something illegal" This is just going off of the alpha 2 version. This goes double for the alpha 3 version where he throws bottles of glue at you, and triple for the pre-alpha and alpha 1 versions where he throws tomatoes and ''beartraps'' at you. Keep in mind that he ''can'' act this way without you giving him any reason to. If you so much as go over and ring his doorbell, he will come after you, and assuming you used the sleep feature in the pre-alpha version and waited until morning to go over to his house, and didn't do anything more in either that version or in alphas 1 2 and 3 than ring the doorbell when you first went over (and assuming you managed to get out of his house after the cutscene of him boarding up the door in alpha 2 without him seeing you, thus leaving him with no knowledge of the fact that you saw him boarding up the door or that you snuck in his house), this would be well before you did anything to antagonize him. I think boarding up a basement, using a keycard lock on it, refusing to let anyone on your side of the street, and throwing things at people warrants a call to the police.

** A creepy neighbor who never seems to leave his house, doesn't seem to have friends of any kind, never buys groceries, or even sleeps for any extended length of time. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything How very]] [[Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark ominous]]. But probably nothing unless we here whatever is in the basement asking to be fed...

** Because then he'd have to explain why he's breaking and robbing his neighbours house. He also wants to solve the mystery for himself.

*** Because then, the police would have to potentially look through his house. And the Neighbour '''really''' seems to hate people going in his house.

*** Because then, the police would have to potentially look through his house. And the Neighbour '''really''' seems to hate people in his house.

** My personal headcanon is that it's also a joke on the word "sinning", making it a "Sinning Child" poster instead.