Summary

The Last of Usdoesn’t shy away from killing off prominent characters . Its post - epidemic world is saturate with violence , and even its central and most important graphic symbol are n’t immune to an ill-timed demise . Through the two game in Naughty Dog ’s series , friend and foe alike have exited the narrative in unexpected and troubling shipway . In both gameplay and cutscenes , an almost countless number of mass are killed , and even more off - screen , but a prize few suffer out as truly shocking in compare .

[ admonition : The following article contains spoilers for The Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2 . ]

Taken in bicycle-built-for-two , The Last of Us Part 1andThe Last of Us Part 2primarily tell the saga of Ellie , a fille immune to the Cordyceps brainpower infection . The first biz centre around her condition , and her journey across the scourge United States to potentially help synthesize a remedy impart deal of death in its wake . Its sequel arguably features even more prominent characters being drink down off , since violence itself plays a key persona inTLOU 2.The most shameful deaths of all , listed below , however , are evenly split between the two entries , even with consideration for particular case where major characters give way in straightaway succession .

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10Sarah – TLOU Part 1

Joel’s Daughter

Sarah ’s death at the beginning ofThe Last of Usis the first catgut puncher in a saga full of them . On Outbreak Day , Joel find himself fly infect on metrical foot , carry Sarah . When a soldier kills the infected quest after them , a brief second of relief is quickly smash when he subsequently open flaming on the distich . Sarah ’s end changes the trajectory of Joel ’s living in a world getting turned upside down , and has unbelievable influence on his family relationship with Ellie years later .

9Tess – TLOU Part 1

Joel’s Smuggling Partner

The startle forward in sentence after Sarah ’s death in the prologue introduces a cynical and jaded Joel , who ’s had a long working , and sometimes personal , relationship with another moon-curser name Tess . Tess carries an optimism that Ellie ’s resistance could be the cure the Fireflies are looking for , but getting burn by an infected force her into making the conclusion to sacrifice herself to buy Joel and Ellie clock time to take to the woods a radical of soldiers . Tess does n’t endure exceptionally retentive intoTLOU , but she ’s a major constituent to Joel and Ellie ’s journey , and makes an abrupt exit form the narration .

8Nora – TLOU Part 2

Abby’s Friend & Member Of The Salt Lake Crew

Nora is the first of Abby ’s comrades that Ellie has a fortune to interrogate inTLOU 2 . Her dying itself is n’t necessarily lurid , as Ellie is clearly consumed by vengeance by this point , but the savagery of the trial by ordeal certainly is . Nora is not free-spoken with information on Abby ’s location , prompting Ellie , in the basement of a hospital overproduction with Cordyceps spores , to beat her with a alloy pipework before she succumb to the virus . With the entire cutscene bathed in red light , its a starkly memorable scene , and a distinct turning point in seeing how far Ellie will go to avenge Joel ’s murder .

7Sam & Henry – TLOU Part 1

Survivors From The Hartford Quarantine Zone

Trust is n’t easily given or earned inThe Last of Us , but a significant serving of Joel and Ellie ’s trek through Pittsburgh is in the company of Henry and Sam , a pair of brothers that turn out to be some of the biz ’s best allies . The four ’s time is thin short , however , when Sam , the young brother , becomes infect , force Henry to kill him . surface-to-air missile , ineffective to cope with what he ’s had to do , quickly turn his gunslinger on himself before Joel can quit him . Sam ’s dying is tragic , and his being infect is bring out to the player before the other characters , but Henry ’s response is downright heartbreaking .

6Riley – TLOU Part 1: Left Behind

Ellie’s Best Friend

Riley is only ever seen inLeft Behind , the first game ’s elaboration , so her expiry is n’t alone unexpected , but that does n’t block its suddenness from being scandalous . During what is perhaps Ellie ’s happy moment up to that decimal point , when her friendship with Riley is lead off to evolve into something more , Riley is infected , and Ellie ostensibly so . The latter come through the incident , clearly conduce to Ellie ’s subsister ’s guilty conscience , but Riley either succumbs to the virus completely , or , even more tragically , is killed by Ellie after she turns – Left Behindleaves her ultimate fate ambiguous .

5Yara – TLOU Part 2

Lev’s Older Sister

Familial relationship are hold as almost sanctified throughoutThe Last of UsandThe Last of Us Part 2 , and the sib introduced in the latter are separated swiftly and violently . Yara and Lev abandoned their life and exit their residential district among the Seraphites to pursue a safer life for Lev . Yara survives her limb being amputate , but is after shoot by Washington Liberation Front soldier with no preamble . Yara makes one last effort to save Abby and Lev , but is quickly run by multiple Wolves .

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4Jesse – TLOU Part 2

Ellie’s Friend & Dina’s Ex-Boyfriend

Much like Yara ’s death , Jesse being killed by Abby has practically no unveiling . He divvy up a touching moment with Ellie before the two hear hollo from the other room , and , running through a yoke of double doors , Jesse is see by a bullet to the head . Like Tess , Henry , and Sam in the first game , Jesse is a rarified companion inThe Last of Us Part 2 , and him being the Father of the Church of Dina ’s unborn child make his death even more heartrending .

3Marlene – TLOU Part 1

Leader Of The Fireflies

Marlene is justified in her actions , becomes an resister by condition , and is the net mortal to stand up in the agency of Joel take Ellie from the Fireflies ' facility in Salt Lake City . Joel has already leave immense bloodletting in his wake , but Marlene ’s expiry is a final admonisher of the savagery that dominates the vestiges of human civilization inTLOU . Marlene is incapacitated by a first shot to the abdomen , and begs for her life . Joel is convinced Marlene will search revenge , though , and execute her while she ’s laying on the story of a parking service department in a puddle of her own rip .

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2Mel & Owen – TLOU Part 2

Abby’s Friends & Members Of The Salt Lake Crew

1Joel – TLOU Part 2

Ellie’s De Facto Guardian & Tommy’s Brother

Although it occurs inPart 2 ’s prologue , Joel ’s decease remains the most shocking in the integral serial . Unceremoniously killing the agonist of the first secret plan , especially through Abby ’s stomach - move around usage of a golf club , is both ambitious and enraging so early in the continuation . Joel was by no means an destitute human being , but he ’d made exceeding tread as a sympathetic figure from the smuggler players are introduce to in the Boston Quarantine Zone . Even years after the second game ’s freeing , Joel ’s death is a difficult cutscene to sit through , and is easily the most disgraceful character death inThe Last of Us .

Ellie, Lev, and Abby from The Last of Us Part 2 in front of a green, wooded background.

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A woman with blood running down her face holding some sort of weapon above her head, grimacing downward. In the background is a blurred fight between two people, both emaciated and covered in blood.

Joel holding Sarah at the beginning of The Last of Us, both being illuminated by a flashlight being held by a soldier off-screen.

A bearded man and a woman standing close in discussion. The woman’s face is visible, and she looks distressed. She is pointing to a girl in the background, who is out of focus.

A woman sitting against a door, bathed in red light. Her face is bloody and another figure is in front of her, holding a metal pipe.

A man and a teenager, both wearing backpacks, standing together in dim lighting.

A woman with a deep scar across her cheek is kneeling and consoling a child on the edge of the frame. Another person is standing in the background out of focus in a wooden A-frame building filled with red light.

A man stands next to a theater stage while a woman sits on the edge of it. She has a rifle and arrows strapped to her backpack. They are both looking past the camera.

A woman laying on the ground in a pool of her own blood, holding up one hand a looking at someone whose leg can be seen on the edge of the frame. The second person is holding a pistol.