Deformed Penny Makes Abraham Lincoln Look Like Clicker from The Last of Us
The Last of Us’ action-adventure is much more than a simple post-apocalyptic story, but it is still comparable to others that also feature a viral outbreak that produces hostile monsters. In The Last of Us, however, the prototypical zombie is substituted with individuals who suffer the Cordyceps brain infection.
Even if the Cordyceps brain infection is a backdrop to the more emotionally wrought narrative beats in The Last of Us, it is still perhaps what makes it unique with regard to the iconography and design of those that are infected. Infected enemies include runners, stalkers, clickers, bloaters, and The Last of Us 2’s shamblers. The infected are so distinctly misshapen, in fact, that fans have found a coincidental reference to a clicker in an unsuspecting real-world item.
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Redditor DirectAd5936 had originally shared a photograph of a particular 1959-D Abraham Lincoln penny, asking the community if they could discern what the cause of a strange deformation is that has disfigured Lincoln’s likeness on the copper coin. The community has since shared what they believe to be the cause, but the image itself has since been shared to The Last of Us fans due how closely the coin’s deformation resembles an infected clicker. Indeed, this coin looks as if Lincoln himself had developed fungal plates that erupted through his face.
Clickers depict a stage in the infection that succeeds runners, who are still facially distinguishable and lack the worsened physical characteristics that develop later on. Rather, clickers are blind and adapt to echolocation because the fungi that has grown on their brains protrudes out from their faces, completely disfiguring them as they also become more rabid. But
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