The Child with a Chainsaw

The Child with a Chainsaw is a boss in the video-game, Catherine. It takes the form of The Child with disturbing modifications: a chainsaw for an arm, a pincer for the other arm, and a gatling gun in its mouth. The chainsaw is connected to its eye by a metal tube. As the level ends, its face breaks open to reveal something more machine than human, with two chainsaws in one eye socket, and a mouth with teeth in the other socket where the tube had been connected. Metal plates are visible all across its body.

Introduction
Vincent walks through the door into the final stage of the Clock Tower. Unsure of where he is, a huge blur comes quickly, then a bloody chainsaw. The final nightmare of the night begins.

Meaning
This is the second time The Child returns to Vincent's fears, though for a completely different reason. The symbolism of the baby on the outside mixed with the grotesque inhuman construction lurking underneath shows Vincent's fear that the child Katherine is carrying belongs to another man, Steve Delhomme. The weaponry hidden inside the baby signifies that even though it may appear to be his on the outside, he will always have doubts about what's underneath: his child, or the blade of betrayal. The metal tube connecting the chainsaw to the Child's eye, later revealed to be a mouth in the eye socket, also is symbolic of the umbilical cord connected to a very dangerous thing: in this case, a cheating Katherine.