The Last of Us

by Naughty Dog

Twenty years after a Cordyceps fungal pandemic ended civilization, a hardened smuggler named Joel is tasked with escorting a fourteen-year-old girl — Ellie, the only known immune person — across the ruins of America to a rebel group that might be able to create a vaccine. What begins as a job becomes something neither of them expected, and the choice Joel makes at the end will define everything that follows.

37 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Joel Miller — A smuggler who lost his daughter on Outbreak Day and spent twenty years making sure he'd never care about anyone enough to lose them again — until a f
• Ellie Williams — The girl who's immune to the thing that ended the world — bitten at fourteen, never turned, and spent the rest of her life losing the people she loves
• Abby Anderson — A WLF soldier who killed Joel to avenge her father — and spent the rest of Part II discovering that vengeance is a door that opens into a room with no
• Tess — Joel's smuggling partner — a hard woman who kept him functional for twenty years and who chose to die fighting so he'd have a reason to keep going.
• Tommy Miller — Joel's younger brother — a former Firefly who built Jackson into a functioning community and who, after Joel's death, was consumed by the same vengean
• Marlene — The leader of the Fireflies — the woman who was going to sacrifice one girl to save the world, and who Joel killed to make sure she couldn't.
• Bill — A paranoid survivalist who booby-trapped an entire town and lived alone with his demons until a partner (and the HBO version's love story) gave him so
• Henry — A young man in Pittsburgh who sold out a resistance leader to save his little brother Sam — and killed himself when saving Sam turned out to be tempor
• Sarah Miller — Joel's daughter — twelve years old on Outbreak Day, dead before the opening credits, and the ghost that haunts every decision Joel makes for the next
• Sam — Henry's deaf little brother — a child who showed Ellie her worst fear: that the infection could take someone right next to you overnight, and immunity
• David — A charismatic preacher leading a settlement in Colorado — who is also a cannibal, a predator, and the person Ellie kills with a machete in the series'
• Riley Abel — Ellie's first love — the Firefly girl who took her to a mall, danced with her, and was bitten on the same night Ellie was, except Riley wasn't immune.
• Maria Miller — Tommy's wife and Jackson's practical leader — the woman who built a functioning community in the apocalypse through sheer organizational competence an
• Jerry Anderson — The Firefly surgeon who was going to make the vaccine — Abby's father, killed by Joel, and the ghost whose death launches Part II's entire revenge cyc
• Dina — Ellie's partner — warm, brave, and the person who gave Ellie the closest thing to a normal life before Ellie chose revenge over the family they'd buil
• Jesse — Ellie and Dina's friend — a Jackson patrol leader who followed them to Seattle because he couldn't let his friends go alone, and died for it.
• Owen Moore — A WLF soldier and Abby's ex — the man who wanted to find the Fireflies again because he couldn't stomach what the Wolves were becoming.
• Mel — A WLF medic — pregnant, principled, and unable to forgive Abby for the violence she witnessed in Jackson.
• Manny Alvarez — Abby's best friend in the WLF — the one who made terrible situations bearable through humor and loyalty until Tommy put a bullet through his head.
• Nora Harris — A WLF medic who Ellie tortured for information about Abby — the moment the player realizes Ellie might be the villain of her own story.
• Yara — A Seraphite apostate who saved Abby from her own people — a young woman who chose compassion across enemy lines and died for it.
• Lev — A Seraphite apostate — Abby's Ellie. A transgender boy who fled a community that would kill him for existing, and who gave Abby something to protect b
• Anna — Ellie's mother — a Firefly who was bitten while giving birth, and whose connection to the Cordyceps at the moment of delivery may be the reason Ellie
• Frank — Bill's partner — in the game, a body on a rope. In the HBO show, a love story that proved two people can build a beautiful life in the ruins of the wo
• Kathleen — An HBO-original character — a resistance leader in Kansas City hunting Henry for betraying her brother, proving that justified anger makes the worst l
• Fireflies — The resistance — a rebel militia fighting FEDRA's military rule across America, seeking a cure for Cordyceps and willing to sacrifice anything to get

Locations

• Boston Quarantine Zone — One of the last FEDRA-controlled zones — a walled section of Boston where martial law, ration lines, and smuggling are the only things that work.
• Jackson — The closest thing to civilization left — a walled town in Wyoming powered by a hydroelectric dam, where three hundred people have built something wort
• Pittsburgh — A city overrun by Hunters — survivors who kill travelers for their supplies, turning an American city into a trap that Joel and Ellie barely escape.
• Salt Lake City — The Firefly stronghold — where the vaccine was going to be made, where Joel chose Ellie over humanity, and where the entire series' moral question was
• Seattle — Part II's war zone — a city split between the WLF and the Seraphites, where Ellie hunts Abby and Abby discovers that the enemy of her enemy is a child
• Santa Barbara — The final destination — where Abby was captured by the Rattlers, where Ellie came to finish her revenge, and where she chose to stop.
• Lincoln — Bill's town — an entire Massachusetts town fortified by one paranoid man with an unlimited supply of traps, an empty church, and a partner who couldn'
• The Farm — Ellie and Dina's home after Seattle — a farmhouse in Wyoming where they almost built a life, and which Ellie left empty to chase revenge one more time

Items

• Cordyceps Brain Infection — The fungal pandemic that ended civilization — a mutated Cordyceps that hijacks human brains, spreads through bites and spores, and turns people into m
• Clicker — The series' most iconic infected — blind, armored in fungal plates, hunting by echolocation, and killing with one bite. The clicking sound is the last
• Bloater — A walking fortress of fungal armor — years of Cordyceps growth covering a human body in thick plates, making it nearly invulnerable and capable of thr

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