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| “ | He's Mr. Scratch, your friends will meet him when you're gone. | „ |
| ~ Thomas Zane introducing Mr. Scratch to Alan Wake. |
| “ | Do you know the real difference between us? I’m not afraid to be the center of attention. | „ |
| ~ Mr. Scratch's famous quote. |
| “ | This is my story!! | „ |
| ~ Scratch. |
Mr. Scratch, also known as Scratch and the Herald of Darkness, is the secondary antagonist of the Alan Wake franchise.
He is the evil doppelganger and archenemy of novelist Alan Wake, created by Thomas Zane to take his place in the real world during his confinement in the Dark Place, but was corrupted by the Dark Presence through false rumors about Alice's murder and the missing people that he had committed, causing him to transform into the psychotic serial killer. After that, he wanted to cause chaos and destruction in the real world and steal Alan Wake's life.
Thirteen years later, Scratch returns as spiritual essence inside the Alan Wake's body, seeking to find the device known as The Clicker and bring about a "happy ending" to the horror story in which Saga Anderson, Alex Casey and the people in Bright Falls they find themselves.
He was voiced by Matthew Porretta and modeled by Ilkka Villi, who also voiced and modeled Alan Wake, Insane Alan, and Fade Outs in the same series. While possessing Alex Casey, he was modeled by Sam Lake.
Description[]
| “ | Mr. Scratch is a twisted copy of me, powerful and dangerous, but I know I can fight him. I don't think anybody else can. They don't understand what he represents, or that all the horrible things he does here are almost insignificant compared to what he will unleash on Earth, given the chance. | „ |
| ~ Alan's description of Mr. Scratch in his manuscript. |
Mr. Scratch is the spitting image of Alan Wake himself, originally created by the poet Thomas Zane to take Alan Wake's place during his absence in the real world, however, the false rumors about Alan in Bright Falls that people said, specifically about the writer having committed murders, made The Dark Presence look for an opportunity to have him as their avatar, turning him into a dangerous evil serial killer.
In the first recording of him, Mr. Scratch describes himself as Alan but "not afraid of the spotlight." In many of the recordings, Mr. Scratch demonstrates his sociopathy by brutally torturing and killing several unfortunate victims, all while taunting or speaking cryptically to Alan (who is believed to be dead), telling him how he will take his life in the real world and deceive, even tormenting, Alan's wife, Alice, until the day he kills her. He also relates his awareness of being a villain in a story and how he will continue to be a villain in the fictional world of Alan Wake. He also prefers silence and is shown to murder those who are too loud for his taste, such as the partygoers in the recording.
However, after Mr. Scratch was destroyed, Alan believed he was still alive and still outside but discovers that it was himself who was consumed by his own darkness manifested as his evil double as part of the Dark Presence's plan to escape. completely from the Dark Place through its spiritual essence.
Biography[]
Alan Wake[]
Mr. Scratch briefly appears for the first time in the Dark Place as a creation by poet Thomas Zane, and tells him that he is the one Alan's friends will meet on the other side. The double gives Alan a disconcerting smile before disappearing.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare[]
Mr. Scratch gets ahead of Alan, searching for something, which causes those Alan encounters to initially suspect he is Scratch. At the Motel, Mr. Scratch manifests as the Darkness and kills the mechanic, Emma Sloan, when she refuses to heed Alan's advice about remaining in the light. At the Observatory, Dr. Meadows tells Alan that Mr. Scratch had appeared seeking information regarding an unusual phenomenon in the sky and its signal but didn't understand the reading.
He also murdered and tortured individuals at the motel when their party got out of hand. Throughout the game, he leaves Alan multiple recordings via old television sets, either demonstrating his horrendous acts or declarations that he could live Alan's life far better than he ever could.
At the Drive-In, Mr. Scratch manifests and summons a horde of Taken, taunting Alan by questioning if he'll be the hero to save the day. He disappears after Alan defeats the Taken, leaving another recording in his wake (showing him dancing to a song with "Psycho" as its lyrics). Serena Valdivia, a curator at the Drive-In, is influenced by Scratch and the Darkness (implying that he seduced or may have even forced her into sex, given her sexually suggestive behavior during the aforementioned influenced state) but is saved by Alan's efforts.
She reveals that Mr. Scratch intends to keep the world in eternal night by making it so the sun never rises again, via the Drive-In's projector room and a film of Alan made by Alice in memory of her disappeared husband. The incomplete signal from the Observatory is one of the pages with which Alan can restore reality and stop Mr. Scratch. Unfortunately, the incomplete page doesn't affect Mr. Scratch, who cruelly gloats and sends Alan back in time.
Forced to repeat his actions two times more, Alan can save Emma from being killed the third time and get a complete readout from Meadows' printer. With these events set into motion, Alan can reset reality and show Alice's film. Mr. Scratch appears again in one final attempt to take out Alan, yelling that he only took what Alan "didn't have the balls to take." In the light of the projector showing Alice's tribute to her husband, Mr. Scratch begins to disintegrate and dies, screaming that he deserves a life.
Alan Wake II[]
After 13 years of being trapped in a dark place, Alan Wake escapes the alternative dimension. He was found by FBI Special Agent Saga Anderson and her partner Alex Casey at Cauldron Lake after coming to the town of Bright Falls to investigate a series of ritualistic murders. Alan had been interrogated by both Saga and Casey, explaining how he escaped the dark place, that he wrote a new novel called Return. However, the manuscript has now been re-edited into a horror story, taking effect in reality, and Scratch wrote it, Alan Wake’s doppelganger. Alan warns Saga and Casey that Scratch is dangerous and is searching for the clicker, which is the key he needs to free the malevolent Dark Presence completely, but also the key to permanently defeating it.
Alan was searching around the forest for Alex Casey, who was under attack by Scratch until the Koskela Brothers attacked him. Ilmo, dressed as a cult figure, attempted to kill Alan until Saga stopped him, and Casey is now missing. The Federal Bureau of Control arrested Alan Wake and the Koskela Brothers and took over the investigation. They demanded Saga stay out of it and told her they would find Casey. Odin and Torr Anderson explain to Saga that the Clicker does not do anything by itself but dramatically enhances the creative power of the person using it. Which explains why it was so important to Alan and Scratch.
Saga returns to Bright Falls to give the Clicker back to Alan and confront him about her daughter Logan, who had died from an accident by drowning, which was written by Alan. However Saga finds out that the Alan Wake who escaped Cauldron lake wasn’t Alan and was Scratch, learning he was pretending to be Alan to manipulate everyone including Saga and Casey. With his identity now being exposed, Scratch kills Jaakko and escapes from captivity, attempting to take the Clicker from Saga. He is temporarily thwarted and banished, thanks to the FBC's light technology, leaving Saga wondering what to do next.
Saga and Alan realize that Alan and Scratch were always the same person, with Scratch being Alan, who the Dark Presence possesses at the end of every loop, and thus indirectly responsible for Alice's death. Scratch arrives at the summoning site, and Saga can banish him from Alan's body, only for Scratch to possess Casey instead, steal the Clicker, and throw Saga into the Dark Place. With Scratch now possessing Alex Casey in possession of the clicker, Alan now concludes the only way to stop him is by finding the manuscript and completely writing a new ending for Return.
In the Writing Room, now with the Clicker, Alan manages to banish Scratch from Alex Casey’s body, only for Scratch to possess Alan again. Both Saga and Casey are now in the dark place, and Saga shoots Alan with the Bullet of Light, knocking out Alan and killing Scratch for good. As Casey recovers from his possession, Saga tries to call Logan to confirm her safety, but the scene cuts short before any answer can be heard. Alan revives from the gunshot after his wife Alice reveals that she faked her suicide and has now entered the Dark Place and Alan says, "It's not a loop, it's a spiral."
The New Game Plus mode has a new ending; as he's shot with the Bullet of Light, Alan realizes that it was meant to cleanse a part of himself the Dark Presence used to create Scratch, finally killing his doppelganger for good while finishing the spiral and freeing Alan from the loop. Saga's call connects, confirming Logan's survival, and Alan revives soon after to the surprise of her and Casey, declaring himself the master of not just two worlds, but many.
Night Springs Chapter 1: Number One Fan[]
In The Waitress's adventure to rescue The Writer, she meets her "rebellious twin", which surprises her, but he tells her that she will never see him again, in his books, or anything related to her writer because he locked him up in the mansion and that she has nothing to save him, then her tells him that she has a shotgun, something that he did not expect, but still, he sends his army of "Haters" to kill her and goes with his motorcycle to the forest in his dark form.
Quotes[]
| “ | I know it bothers you that I’m like this, that I use your name and crawl my way into your life. But I only do it because... I'm better at being you than you ever were! | „ |
| ~ Mr. Scratch. |
| “ | What? What is this?! No! No! You can't do this! All I did was take the things you always wanted but never had the balls to go for! It's my turn now! It's my life! It's my life! | „ |
| ~ Mr. Scratch's breakdown upon his defeat. |
| “ | This is the ritual to lead you on. | „ |
| ~ Scratch after Alan is attacked in Mr. Door's backstage studio. |
| “ | Anderson. This is my story. | „ |
| ~ Scratch to Saga after killing Jakko. |
| “ | The Clicker. | „ |
| ~ Scratch. |
| “ | Anderson!! | „ |
| ~ Scratch to Saga Anderson. |
| “ | Give me the clicker! | „ |
| ~ Scratch to Saga. |
| “ | You are in my story. | „ |
| ~ Scratch to Saga. |
| “ | The clicker is mine. | „ |
| ~ Scratch to Saga. |
| “ | You are home! Everything revolves around us! Happy ending! We belong together! Everyone loves us! We should be one! We are the heart! | „ |
| ~ Scratch confronting Alan. |
| “ | We made this! Our story! Our ending! Our book! We are one! We belong together! Welcome me back home! | „ |
| ~ Scratch. |
Trivia[]
- He is the second villain of the Alan Wake franchise, which is a dark version of the writer Alan Wake, even being much worse and evil than Insane Alan.
- Although Alan Wake himself and fans of this franchise confused Insane Alan with Mr. Scratch, the poet Thomas Zane denies that detail, revealing that they are two different entities.
- Anytime Mr. Scratch is said, there is scratching or disorientated sound, except in Alan Wake II.
- Prior to the release of American Nightmare, Mr. Scratch appeared in some Internet promotional videos for the DLC. In one he tortures Sam Lake (the creator of the series, for whom Alan is an avatar), while in another he kills him. In another, he goes through the office of Remedy Entertainment, the game's developer, torturing and murdering employees. Aside from this, he also enjoys praise from commentators who praise his psychopathy.
- Old Scratch or Mr. Scratch is the folk name for The Devil in local legends and pre-Civil War America.
- Mr. Scratch is very similar to Randall Flagg, a character and villain created by Stephen King, as he is amused constantly by his own antics of behavior, characteristics and demeanors are, traveling between worlds and similarities to a Nyarlathotep. He is often implied to have been inspired by Flagg, though it’s yet to be confirmed.
- Mr. Scratch serves as a dark reflection of Alan Wake, representing an "improved" version of himself if he had had the life he had really wanted, but becoming a ruthless, selfish, arrogant person with no interest in other people, as shown on the tapes, showing him in the way that Alan Wake could have been by getting what he always wanted in his life and letting his selfishness consume him.
External Links[]
- Mr. Scratch on the Alan Wake Wiki.
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