Lisa Unger (nee Bridges) was the common-law wife of Cliff Unger and biological mother of Sam.
Story[]
Lisa met United States Special Forces captain Cliff Unger on one of her birthdays; the two eventually fell in love, entered a common-law marriage, and conceived a son. Following Cliff's return from service to be with his new family, the couple was involved in an accident that rendered Lisa brain dead and their unborn son's life at risk. Desperate to save his family, Cliff willingly brought them to Bridges for experimental procedures. Lisa was put on life support to prevent her from entering cardiac arrest and dying.
Holding out hope of Lisa returning to him, Cliff routinely visited Lisa where she was kept in a Bridges facility. His regret over her condition caused him to turn to alcohol on several occasions. Eventually, Cliff accepted that she would never recover from her brain death and turned his attention to their son, who had been placed in a stasis pod. Bridges, however, intended to use the child as a sacrifice for the creation of a new communications network. Cliff learned of this from an old comrade and friend, John Blake McClane, who helped Cliff attempt to escape with the infant. After John rigged the facility's system to spoof Lisa's vitals, a remorseful Cliff promised his wife he would protect their son and kissed her one last time before shooting her in the head.
Notes[]
- "Anomalisa" – the name Cliff affectionately referred to Lisa as – is used in the 2015 film Anomalisa. In the film, a character named Lisa Hesselman is called "Anomalisa" by her love interest, main character Michael Stone, after describing herself to him as an "anomaly". At the end of the film, Lisa writes in a letter to Michael that she has looked up "Anomalisa" in a Japanese-English dictionary to learn that it means "goddess of heaven".
- In the same movie, it has often been concluded that it wasn't a romantic film, but rather, a film about delusions, in which Lisa is implied to be a simple hallucination or deluded perception of a Japanese robot the main character had purchased early in the film.
- She shares her name with Lisa, a prominent antagonist in P.T., a demo for the cancelled Silent Hills, that was under development by Hideo Kojima. This demo also included Norman Reedus, Sam Porter's model and voice actor, as the model for the main character.
- She also shares her name with Lisa Garland of the Silent Hill franchise, an Alchemilla Hospital nurse who appears in Silent Hill, Silent Hill 3, Origins, Cage of Cradle, and Shattered Memories. She briefly appeared in the 2006 film, Silent Hill, and is a playable character in the game Dead by Daylight.