Talk:The Smiling Man/@comment-9340689-20131122230131/@comment-24033368-20131122235349

I think it has something more to do with the concept of  an unknown stranger verses a malevolent stranger. The Slender Man is all about obscurity and the unknown or unknowable (at least as we've chosen to use him in the fear mythos), where as The Smiling Man is more about stalkers, serial killers and violent sadists. It's the difference of possibility against fact. You aren't sure what The Slender Man wants, it could be anything, but you know that The Smiling Man will hurt you. Of course, being that The Slender Man tecnically doesn't belong to us, some people use The Smiling Man to cover that uncertainty aspect while still kepping it all in The Mythos.

Though I think the better place to debate something like this would be the forum, where much more competent members can fully explain the difference between the two.