How The Last of Us Would Be Different Had Joel Made A Different Choice
Warning — This article delves deep into some of the main plot points of The Last of Us.At its core, The Last of Us is a franchise in which characters are forced to make tough decisions. Set in the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic world overrun by Infected and desperate humans, players are shown just how far people will go to survive. Joel and Ellie, the main protagonists of The Last of Us, are no exception. On their journey across America, the two are constantly besieged by the world and its inhabitants into situations that are morally ambiguous and taxing on the conscience.
Quite possibly the most taxing choice Joel has to make comes at the end of the first game. When faced with the possibility of a cure for the human-inflicting Cordyceps fungus, Joel instead turns his back on the world and decides to save Ellie. The young girl's immunity does in fact hold the key to a cure that can end the nightmare that has afflicted the world for 20 years, but just as Joel's decision to save Ellie has consequences, so too would a hypothetical alternate choice to save the world.
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The first and most obvious outcome if Joel chose to save mankind would be that Ellie would die. As the Cordyceps fungus grows around the victim's brain, extracting it from Ellie would surely result in her death. It was because of the bond Joel shared with Ellie that the former decided to take on the daunting task of eliminating a vast majority of the Fireflies in St. Mary's Hospital. But should that bond not have proven strong enough to counteract Joel's conscience (or what little is left of it), Ellie may have well been dissected for study.
The people closest to Ellie would be most affected by her
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