History Characters / TheLastOfUsEllie

* DeathOfAChild: Just 14 years old, but if you fail to protect her, the game's not afraid to show her being ripped to shreds by Infected, shot, stabbed, or beat to death by enemies no different from Joel.

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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AshleyJohnson (English)[[note]]'''Other languages''': Creator/MegumiHan (Japanese), Mariela Centurión (Latin American Spanish), María Blanco (European Spanish), Eliza Martirosova (Russian), Anna Cieślak (Polish), Creator/AdelineChetail (French)[[/note]]

* ActionMom: [[spoiler: In Part II, she becomes a second mom to JJ, Dina and Jesse's biological child. Santa Barbara chapter proves she can still kick ass.]]

** At the end of the first game, [[spoiler: Joel takes her from the Fireflies, murdering the only person who knew how to create a cure for Cordyceps in the process, thus destroying what is probably the last chance of humanity being saved and making their whole trip ultimately pointless, which is exactly what Ellie didn't want. Downplayed in that at least Ellie and Joel got their surrogate father-daughter relationship out of it.]]
** At the end of ''Part II'', [[spoiler: her quest for revenge yields nothing as she can't even bring herself to kill Abby when she finally has her at her mercy. Her revenge quest also gets Jesse killed and Tommy severely injured. What's more, Dina leaves her, along with JJ, and the fight cost her two of her fingers, preventing her from playing the guitar anymore, the only link to Joel she has left.]]

* BadassAdorable: She may look like an absolutely cute girl turned to a beautiful woman in Part II, but it doesn't mean she can't fight on her own.

* BrokenBird: By Part II, loses all of her innocence especially following [[spoiler:Joel's murder, sending her into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. By the end she's lost almost everything, failing to even avenge Joel.]]

* ButchLesbian: Downplayed in the sequel. Her hair is [[TomboyishPonytail tied into a bun behind her head]] and her clothes are loose and maybe a bit too big for her. However, the whole ZombieApocalypse thing means that getting haircuts and new, fitting clothes isn't necessarily easy and definitely not a priority, and she's still far from the stereotypical butch. [[spoiler: Albeit she does have her hair short and wears a tight-sitting masculine T-Shirt towards the final moments of ''Part II'', which makes her look closer to the typical examples of the trope.]]

** In Part I, Ellie starts off as brash and inexperienced to the outside world. By the end, she's become self-sufficient and capable enough to protect herself and Joel.
** In Part II, towards the "character gets worse over time" spectrum. It started off proper when [[spoiler: Joel finally reveals that he lied to her about the circumstances with her rescue in the last game. She was a spunky girl with an optimistic outlook, but afterwards Joel's reveal, it's indicated that she no longer thought her life was meaningful and became somewhat jaded. Joel's death emotionally wrecks her, and she becomes a hardened murderer who ignored her friend's advice and well-being just to satisfy her need for revenge. That said, there are some peeks of her old personality that surface throughout; she is rocked by killing Nora and Mel and she spares Abby after she gains the upper hand in their fight. Despite losing everything in the end, it appears that her true self is starting to shine through again.]]

* TheCutie: She's not sweet exactly, but is very lovable and produces most of the comic relief in the story. Downplayed in Part II as she goes through ''multiple'' tough scenarios but still maintains her cute looks.

* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Part II advertises her as the main protagonist but she ends up being overshadowed by Abby in the second half of the game… and then it’s [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] at the last chapter of the game where it’s made clear everything that happened was still Ellie’s story not Abby’s]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: [[spoiler: During her time with Dina and JJ in the farm in ''Part II'', Ellie has her hair much shorter. This comes after an (unfinished) journey of hatred, vengeance and traumas, which still persist until the end of the game.]]

* GoodGirlGoneBad: In ''Part II''. In the first game she was a [[BewareTheNiceOnes tough]] but friendly and good-humored fourteen year old girl; even though her horrific experiences during the ZombieApocalypse have hardened her, five years later she's still a mostly well-meaning young woman who looks out for her loved ones. Then she watches [[spoiler: Joel, her ParentalSubstitute, brutally beaten to death]] in front of her and she goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, maiming and killing dozens of people in an increasingly vicious and callous manner, [[TheUnfettered unwilling to let anyone or anything stand between her and vengeance]]. By the end, she [[spoiler: does give up on the idea of getting revenge, realizing it doesn't solve anything and only perpetuates more violence, but by this point she has a lot of blood on her hands and her life is in ruins]].

* HatesBeingAlone: She admits to Sam that this is her worst fear. [[spoiler: And by the end of ''Part II'', she does end up alone. [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe.]]]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: By Part II she becomes almost as bad as the ones she hunts down in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[spoiler:Barely stops herself on the brink of the MoralEventHorizon at the end when she spares Abby.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Has one after killing David. It takes some time for her to recover. In Part II, the various traumatic situations Ellie undergoes catch up to her and she writes about her PTSD symptoms in her journal.

* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: In Part II, her journal outright states that Ellie was too scared to act on her feelings for Dina in fear of messing up their friendship.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While in Part II she does become more cynical and amoral, her interactions with Dina [[spoiler:and Jesse]] show that she’s still the same Ellie at heart and deeply cares about her friends.

* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Offers one to Nora in ''Part II'' as Nora had already breathed in spores and would've had to endure the slow painful process of becoming an infected and being stuck in a living hell (until someone else killed her). So Ellie promises to make her death quick in exchange for telling her where Abby is. When Nora refuses, [[SubvertedTrope Ellie interrogates her the hard way]]]].
* MessianicArchetype: [[spoiler: The method that would be used to make a cure from her would end up killing her. Subverted when Joel decides to doom humanity just to save her]].

** [[spoiler: She's extremely shaken when she returns to the her and Dina's hideout after she delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Nora to make her reveal Abbey's location.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Letting Joel die, the day after they had begun to reconcile after not speaking for two years.]]

* NiceGirl: Ellie throughout most of the first game. Not so much during the second game.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: After killing Mel and Owen, she drops the map she was using to get around Seattle that she had marked during her journey. Abby would later find it after escaping from Haven with Lev and use that to track Ellie's group back to the theatre they were hiding out in, which results in the death of Jesse, Tommy and Dina almost dying and herself and Dina brutally beaten. If Ellie had thought to pick it up, her group would've went back to Jackson that morning without incident and Jesse would still be alive.]]

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Justified, in that the infection preceded her birth by six years, and downplayed. She has a smattering of knowledge on the old world comics and even video-game characters but doesn't know what a pizza, ice-cream truck or Bobby Fisher is. The scene with the cassette player also suggests she understandably can't connect music genres to their respective decades. Also, the scene at the university where Joel is explaining the rules of football to her. In Part II, although Ellie is lesbian and Dina is bi, neither of them understand the LGBT connotation of rainbows upon seeing a few of them in Seattle, including the pride flag itself inside a gay and lesbian bookstore.

* RebuiltPedestal: Despite [[spoiler: losing almost everything in her pursuit of revenge against Abby, Ellie is at least able to forgive herself for her guilt, and at very least understand Joel's perspective on why he saved her from the Fireflies. It's with that when she's finally able to metaphorically put him to rest.]]

* TankTopTomboy: [[spoiler: Her outfit when chasing Abby for the last time in ''Part II'' is a tight tank top. Coupled with her now short hair, it makes her look more tomboyish than she already is.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ellie ''exponentially'' becomes more violent and cold throughout ''Part II'' [[spoiler: after witnessing Joel's death.]] She leaves enemies without any mercy, even if she's doing it for self-defense or not. Her quest for revenge certainly changes her for the worse [[spoiler: until the very last minute when she almost drowns Abby to death.]]

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler: At the end of ''Part II'', she ultimately decides to spare Abby's life, realizing that she wasn't going to feel any better taking revenge for the death of Joel. Glimpses of it can be foreshadowed with her freak-outs whenever she murdered other WLF members during her quest- such as Nora and Mel.]]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/BellaRamsay (TV series)