Dr Killjoy

In The Suffering
Dr. Q. L. Killjoy (who bears a very strong resemblance to Vincent Price) is a depraved psychologist/medical practitioner who worked out of the Asylum in the early 1900s. He used many deplorable methods on his patients, more often than not resulting in their death. No one knows what happened to him, but his spirit now lives on through old film projectors. Killjoy gains an interest in Torque during their first meeting and tries to cure his mental instability, though the reasons for this are ambiguous at best. Torque meets him at several points of the game and confronts him in the old ruined Asylum, wherein he destroys Killjoy's projectors. Following this, Killjoy delivers Torque a diagnosis and makes a final apparition right before the final battle to deliver him his "cure". This "cure", which is a device patented by Killjoy which allows energy to be fired, is crucial toward the end of the game in defeating The Black One at the docks, thus curing Torque's instability and allowing him to be rescued from Carnate by the skiff. He represents the past.