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Washington Liberation Front (WLF) a.k.a. the Wolves

In General

A paramilitary organization based out of Seattle who wrestled control of a large swath of the metro area from the military a decade before the events of the story.

Animal Motif: Wolves. They use wolf imagery on their uniforms and bases, their acronym sounds like wolf and they call themselves Wolves as well. Many of them even use guard dogs, making the canid theming even more clear.
Armies Are Evil: They're a well-organized army of professional soldiers with a severely damaged moral compass.
Asshole Victim: Ellie, Tommy, Dina and Jesse mow through the group but it's hard to feel sorry for them since notes scattered around show that they became incredibly oppressive once they took over, even executing someone for some graffiti. This becomes doubly true when they turn against Abby for refusing to give Lev over, making them lose any sympathy they may have gathered during her story.
Bare-Fisted Monk: Played with. Their soldiers primarily use guns or other weapons to fight, but they also have at least somewhat formal hand-to-hand combat training (going by Abby's own skills as well as some brief sparring seen in the WLF gym), which is unusual for the setting.
Equal-Opportunity Evil: For a genocidal organization, the WLFs don't seem to have a problem with letting women and non-whites be members of their armies. They even have a black man as their leader. Judging by some of the dialogue between the NPCs, they are also tolerant of same-sex couples.
Full-Circle Revolution: After overthrowing the military government that had been oppressing and abusing people in the Seattle QZ, they ended up encountering the exact same problems and adopted the same methods of control. Lampshaded when Ellie and Dina remark how Seattle traded "one shitty ruler for another."
Fun with Acronyms: WLF is only one letter off from Wolf.
He Who Fights Monsters: Despite having overthrown the military that formerly controlled their area, it's incredibly obvious just from the way they work that they accommodated all of the military slang, gear and style into their lives, essentially becoming a replacement paramilitary themselves. So naturally once they start moving to genocide and kill anything that they deem a threat under their own equivalent of executing martial law against potential threats, they're no better than the military they despised to begin with.
Home Base: Their HQ is the disused CenturyLink Field complex, which has been converted into a small fortified city.
Keystone Army: WLF launches a massive invasion to the Seraphites' island with the intention to annihilate the entire population. Isaac's death, however, leads to disarray within WLF's ranks and, as revealed via radio chatter in the theater, the Seraphites completely rout and decimate the entire invasion force.
Leave No Survivors: As Abby, Lev, and Yara start to escape the Seraphite island, executed Seraphites can be seen lying on the street and WLF soldiers can be overheard stating that they had orders to clean out the villages.
A Lighter Shade of Black: They're a ruthless militia, but they have much more respect for their own members than the Seraphites. The Enemy Chatter, especially the berserk rage they go into when you start picking off members, makes it clear they also care deeply about each other.
Moral Myopia: Almost all of them suffer from this. On the surface, they seem like a benevolent militia who cares for their own. However, when Abby and her friends hunt down Joel (with the entire militia's blessing) none of them bother to think of him as anything other than a monster deserving of deadly retribution, with Abby not even changing her stance when Joel saves her life from a horde of the infected. Furthermore, most of them don't see the Seraphites as anything more than vile cultists that Seattle would be better off without, and even turn against Abby when she tries to protect two apostates of the cult. Isaac, their leader, has no reservations about Cold-Blooded Torture or ruthlessly executing troublemakers despite presenting himself as A Father to His Men. In the end, this myopia ends up being their undoing as the attacks from Ellie's group, Abby's defection, and their doomed war with the Seraphites pretty much annihilate them all.
Pay Evil unto Evil: How the Salt Lake Crew sees Abby murdering Joel. While some members have expressed discomfort with how brutal it was, they all think the victim deserved it.
Savage Wolves: They play into the trope by being absolutely ruthless towards outsiders of any kind, willing to murder people just for being in their path, and even being willing to turn on their own if they're insubordinate.
Share Phrase: They have a set of common parting phrases: "May your survival be long," with the response "May your death be swift." The phrases are combined sometimes, such as at the end of a letter.
Sympathetic P.O.V.: Subverted. When the game switches to Abby's perspective, we get to see the WLF as allies who care for their own, and many of them, especially those close to Abby, are shown to have sympathetic qualities. However, those of the WLF not killed off by the Seraphites or Ellie's Roaring Rampage of Revenge eventually turn against Abby when she insists on protecting Lev, proving to be no better than their enemies.
They Have the Scent!: The Wolves have dogs that they later use to track Ellie.
Uncertain Doom: While it’s unclear what exactly becomes of them after both Abby and Ellie depart Seattle, the last we see from them is of a severely depleted army that just 1. Lost essentially all its direction and motivation due to the death of Isaac, 2. Lost their top “Scar-killer” in Abby, and 3. Saw most of their soldiers slaughtered between their failed invasion of Seraphites’ island and Ellie’s Roaring Rampage of Revenge. In other words, their home base is left extremely vulnerable to the Seraphites/outsiders and no relief appears to be on the horizon.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: They overthrew the military martial law and seek to deal with any hostile threats like the Seraphites, something that doesn't seem too out of place. Problem is as Abby finds out the hard way when they turn on her for daring to protect Lev, they're willing to wipe out entire places down to the last child with both extreme and genuine prejudice, and kill anyone that at all goes against their orders or resists them in any fashion.

Leadership

Isaac

Isaac Dixon

"It has to be all of them."

Voiced by: Jeffrey Wright (English)^note

One of the leaders of the WLF.

All There in the Manual: According to the artbook he once served in the US Marine Corps, which serves to explain where his knowledge of military tactics come from.
Big Bad: Isaac is the closest thing Part II has to a main antagonist since he’s the one who allows Abby and her crew to leave Seattle in search of Joel, thus kickstarting the whole plot. He would eventually become a villain in Abby’s story when she chooses to protect Lev from Isaac and the WLF deems Abby a traitor.
Big Bad Ensemble: Isaac and Ellie are this for Abby's story, with Isaac being Abby's boss who turns on her when Abby tries protecting Lev from him and Ellie traveling to Seattle to kill Abby and her allies for their role in killing Joel.
Character Death: He is shot dead by a dying Yara, allowing Abby and Lev to escape.
Disc-One Final Boss: Isaac may be the closest thing Part II has to a Big Bad, but he gets killed two-thirds into Abby’s story and doesn’t even get to meet Ellie. The final enemies that both Abby and Ellie must face after Isaac's death are the remnants of the Seraphites and WLF, the Rattlers, and eventually each other.
Don't Make Me Destroy You: When he ultimately confronts Abby and Lev, he does warn Abby several times to get out of the way despite her trying to talk him down. When she refuses, he hesitates slightly as he goes to shoot the pair before Yara kills him.
Early-Bird Cameo: There are wanted posters scattered throughout Seattle shortly after Ellie and Dina arrive there. If one takes a close enough look on some of the posters, Isaac's mugshot can be seen long before he physically appears.
Evil Old Folks: One of the oldest and most repulsive characters to appear in Part II.
Faux Affably Evil: For all his supposed respect for his men, he is in fact a person who relishes in torture and brutality. In addition to torturing prisoners in the FOB, he plans an all-out invasion into the Seraphite's island to erase them from the face of Seattle. He also has no problems killing children, as seen when he tries to kill Lev and Abby.
Final Solution: His planned endgame turns out to be this. He requests Abby and Manny to choose squads to lead into the Seraphite's island, with the full intent of annihilating their entire population and burning the settlements to the ground.
General Ripper: As a leader of the WLF, Isaac's leadership and tactics are pivotal to the success of their paramilitary units. He is also obsessed with eradicating the Seraphites, and he is willing to do anything to ensure their destruction. This ranges from torturing prisoners to organizing an all-out invasion using every unit available to the WLF to commit genocide on the Seraphites' island.
Greater-Scope Villain: He is one of the leaders of the WLF, and so is one of the people who helps to arm Abby and her group, making him effectively this for Ellie's side of the story in Part II. Not only that, but Abby implies that Isaac had his own score to settle with Joel and gave Abby and her group the go-ahead to go hunt him down in Jackson.
Hate Sink: Whereas Ellie and even Abby both have sympathetic reasons for the brutal actions they take, Isaac is a cruel and sadistic General Ripper who is willing to kill Lev for being an ex-Seraphite.
He Who Fights Monsters: Fought against the authoritarian FEDRA only to become just as bad as them.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He instigated most of the problems with the Seraphite cult, first by killing their leader, and then by breaking their truce by killing a bunch of kids. His insistence on killing Yara and Lev, even though they're children and actually defectors from the cult, ultimately leads to his demise, which leads to the failure of the invasion.
In the Back: He's killed when Yara shoots him from behind to stop him from killing her little brother and Abby.
Kick the Morality Pet: Abby is the only person Isaac seems to have some genuine affection for but when he finds her protecting a Seraphite child, he threatens to shoot her if she doesn't stand aside and let him kill the boy. When Abby makes it clear she isn't moving, Isaac looks visibly conflicted before seemingly deciding to shoot her. Yara stops him with a bullet in the back.
Scary Black Man: Though older and not as physically imposing as other examples, Isaac is Black, has a menacing presence, and is shown to be a ruthless leader who inspires obedience through fear and by being merciless towards deserters and prisoners.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- He becomes this to the WLF of all things. His genocidal invasion of the Seraphites' island required the use of every available unit in the WLF. The WLF forces, however, are heavily reliant on his leadership and tactics. Thus, when Yara killed him, the forces became demoralized and disorganized. This led to the invasion forces being wiped out, leaving every single territory held by the WLF (up to, and including, the Home Base) completely vulnerable to a Seraphite counterattack (well if there's any left after the raid that is). Oh, the irony.
- His decision to give Abby and her group the go-ahead to go and hunt down Joel in Jackson resulted in Ellie and Tommy (along with Dina and Jesse) coming to Seattle and start slaughtering his forces by the dozens during their Roaring Rampage of Revenge, which more than probably precipitated the WLF's downfall.
- He killed the Seraphite prophet in the hopes of decapitating the cult. Instead, it made her into a martyr, and without her leadership the cult swiftly spiraled into more and more extreme and depraved practices.
Wasteland Warlord: Since he's the leader of a militarized faction in a post-apocalyptic world.
With Us or Against Us: He does not brook dissent, with the price often being imprisonment if not execution.
Would Hurt a Child: As a leader of a paramilitary organization that is in an all-out war against the Seraphites, he shows no qualms in killing children. This is seen when he asks Abby to move away from Lev, before he prepares to kill them both when Abby refuses.
You Are in Command Now: Was voted leader of the WLF after the Patterson siblings, the original founders, were killed by FEDRA, despite misgivings by some regarding his summary execution of FEDRA prisoners.

The Salt Lake Crew

Abby

Abigail "Abby" Anderson

"You don't think Joel deserved what he got?"

Voiced by: Laura Bailey (English)^note

"You stupid old man... you don't get to rush this."

The leader of the Salt Lake Crew, she's a former Firefly who joined the WLF and became one of their top soldiers.

The Ace: She is one of Isaac's best soldiers and has a reputation of being better than most people at any assignment given to her. Also considered the "top Scar killer" at the WLF.
Action Girl: She's highly trained in marksmanship and other general survival skills plus has an above-average level of hand-to-hand combat training for the setting. Her playable sections and skills are meant for direct combat and action-packed encounters, as well as she is the character that has the most boss sequences; Ellie only faces off against a Bloater towards the end of Day 3 and in her flashback, whereas Abby goes against a Bloater and the Rat King in the same day no less, and Tommy, a Seraphite brute, and Ellie in Day 3.
Alliterative Name: Abigail Anderson.
Ambiguously Absent Parent: Her mother is never mentioned.
Anti-Villain: As ruthless as she is, she cares very deeply about her friends and is willing to listen to moral advice from Lev.
Arch-Enemy: She becomes this for Ellie after she murders Joel and the entire game circles around their Cycle of Revenge against each other.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
- While she's cold towards him and doesn't take kindly to his criticisms, Abby remains fond of her ex-boyfriend Owen. She sleeps with him after they reunite, and finding him dead motivates her to go after Ellie in revenge.
- Despite the vitriol between them, Abby does care about Mel, and is interested in mending their frayed friendship. Mel's ruthlessly accurate teardown of Abby leaves her in tears, and she's horrified by Mel's death.
Badass and Child Duo: She becomes this with Lev, who is thirteen. She is more adept at fighting in general, having both melee and gun combat options while he is an archer. Their relationship is a clear foil to Joel and Ellie's from the first game.
Badass Bookworm: Abby is a highly capable soldier, "strong as an ox," and is shown to be an avid reader. Her apartment has a whole bunk filled with stacked books and there's an optional dialogue she can have with a grunt asking if the latter is finished with Monte Cristo yet.
Bait the Dog: When players first meet her, she seems to be a decent person. Joel saves her life, and she, he, and Tommy fight together to survive. She then pays back their kindness by having Tommy beaten to unconsciousness and viciously torturing Joel to death in a vengeful rage, in front of a helpless Ellie who begs her to stop.
Best Served Cold: Abby took her revenge on Joel for killing her father at least five years after the deed.
Big Bad: The main antagonist of Ellie's side of the story in The Last of Us Part II. As her character and motivations start being revealed, Abby becomes a subversion of the trope.
Big Sister Instinct: After Yara's death, Abby becomes Lev's surrogate sister, and becomes just as fiercely protective of him. When they're ambushed by Rattlers when they arrive in Santa Barbara, she's absolutely livid when Lev gets knocked out.
Boyish Short Hair: The Rattlers that capture her had her hair forcibly cut short. Coupled with her muscular build, it makes her look less feminine and more masculine.
Braids of Action: Abby sports a braided ponytail and happens to be one of the WLF's most valued sergeants.
Brawn Hilda: She's buff and plain compared to Ellie.
Broken Bird: She lost her father as a child, becoming a vengeful adult.
Character Development: When the audience is introduced to Abby, she's a cold-hearted, selfish person willing to risk herself and the lives of her friends just to exact her revenge. In the immediate aftermath of killing Joel, the expression on her face gives away that she thought she would instantly feel better but instead, she regrets it and it doesn't bring her peace. Additionally, her nightmares have not gone away, letting her relive her father's death over and over. She latches onto Lev and Yara quickly, which allows her to rebuild her empathy, and finds that helping them is what is bringing her closure. Towards the end of the game, she spares Ellie due to Lev's interruption, showing that she's starting to value the input of her friends. The biggest show of character growth for Abby was being immediately concerned for Lev's well-being after being rescued, in stark contrast to her repaying Joel's kindness in saving her by killing him.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
- To David, in terms of antagonists in Ellie's character arc. David is a rather skinny man while Abby is a buff woman. He is implied to be religious while she is a confirmed atheist. He acts affable and soft-spoken but is wicked and irredeemable- while she is blunt and openly aggressive though ultimately sympathetic. David gets brutally murdered by Ellie while Abby is ultimately let go.
- To Marlene. Both are/were members of the Fireflies, both serve as Parental Substitutes to a young child, and both start out as allies to Joel before becoming enemies. However, while Marlene is black and skinny, Abby is white and buff. Marlene ultimately decides to sacrifice Ellie to potentially save humanity, while Abby ultimately decides to betray the WLF to protect Lev. Finally while Marlene is killed by Joel, Joel is killed by Abby.
Create Your Own Villain: Abby's brutal murder of Joel near the start of The Last of Us Part II leads Ellie on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against her and her group that leaves almost all of her friends dead.
Deadpan Snarker: She's normally serious but is prone to making wry comments to herself and others.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the antihero and the Heroic Wannabe, Abby meets the criteria of the hero who witnesses the death of their loved one and grows up into the warrior who returns to the villain for revenge. All her life, Abby believed she was on the right side of history because she was part of the fireflies and the daughter of the surgeon who wanted to end the apocalypse. However, Joel ruined her life by killing her father and she devotes the rest of her life to training to be the best soldier in the WLF. Years later, she accidentally runs into Joel Miller and cripples him after learning his identity. Hoping Joel would remember her, she asks if he knows who she is but Joel honestly doesn't remember and defiantly tells her to get it over with. Afterwards, her friends believe she went too far in how she killed Joel, refuse to condone her behaviour, and it makes Abby realise that Joel's death didn't accomplish anything as her father is still dead. Worse still, Abby's lust for revenge triggered the same revenge quest in Ellie, who saw Joel as her surrogate father and it lead to the deaths of all of Abby's friends.
Decoy Protagonist: Her journey is initially more important than Ellie’s journey and her section of the game portrays her as the true protagonist, but the last section of the game makes it clear that this is Ellie’s story, not Abby’s.
Defector from Decadence: Inspired by Owen's own distaste with the WLF, subsequent desertion and her newfound bond with Yara and Lev, she too leaves to start a new life with him, making enemies of her former allies along the way.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Abby starts the game as an abrasive woman, but gradually becomes warmer when she bonds with Yara and especially Lev. While they travel to Santa Barbara, she's a downright doting sister to the boy.
Dented Iron: By the end of Part II, after being stuck practically crucified to a Pillar for an extended period of time, she's left suffering from the effects of exposure and starvation. She still puts up a tough fight against Ellie in their final showdown (even managing to bite off one of her fingers in the process), but she takes additional damage in the form of numerous stabs, slashes, and punches, and her efforts would not have been enough to keep her alive had Ellie not opted to spare her at the very end.
Deuteragonist: Part II's story is as much her story as it is Ellie's, as the two of them are locked in a Cycle of Revenge. Her being playable at several points in the story hammers this home.
Didn't Think This Through: Sparing Ellie and Tommy, while merciful, if only by Abby's own skewed standards, proved to be dramatically short-sighted; Abby never considered for a moment that they might be just as vengeful as she is, and she's completely blindsided when Ellie and Tommy attack her and her friends in Seattle. On a related note, it never seemed to occur to Abby that, while she sees Joel's death as richly deserved karma, he might have friends and loved ones who would want to avenge him (a mistake that, ironically enough, Joel made when he killed Abby's father in the first place).
The Dragon: She's known as Isaac's "top Scar killer", and he intended her and Manny to lead the first wave during the planned invasion of the Seraphites' island.
Dramatic Irony: She spent five years planning her revenge against Joel for killing her father. When she accomplishes her goal, Joel’s brother and adoptive daughter come after her. When she confronts Ellie in the theatre, she fails to understand why Ellie and Tommy would come after her and her friends.
Everyone Has Standards:
- Despite Abby brutally and cruelly killing Joel, she ultimately sides with Owen when he argues for Ellie and Tommy to be spared.
- Abby is no stranger to heinous actions and serves as the main antagonist of Ellie's side of the story. She is also horrified by the destruction of Haven and the genocidal invasion Isaac launches. Moreover, she flat-out refuses to allow Isaac to kill Lev and abandons the WLF altogether so she and Lev could find the Fireflies in Catalina Island.
- Despite her disdain for the Seraphites as a whole, Abby is disgusted by their treatment of Lev, and is visibly uncomfortable to hear them use the boy's deadname.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Abby's justifications for her actions are to compare herself to Joel Miller, the man who killed her father and that she's better than him by default. However, when Ellie kills all of Abby's friends and confronts her with Tommy, Abby simply believes Ellie and Tommy are ungrateful for being spared and not angry over the fact that Abby killed Ellie's surrogate father and Tommy's brother.
Abby: We let you both live, and you wasted it!
Final Boss: Of The Last of Us Part II.
Fingore: Inflicts this on Ellie during their final confrontation by biting two of her fingers while Ellie tries to hold her head underwater. She bites one finger clean off, and it's implied the second is so damaged that Ellie ends up amputating it.
Fire-Forged Friends: Her friendship with Yara and Lev begins when they rescue her from being killed by the Seraphites and then try to escape- even though they are technically enemies since Abby is with the WLF.
Foil:
- Abby serves as one to Ellie, with the ending showing that Ellie has become just as bad, if not worse, than Abby in her own pursuit to avenge Joel.
- She also serves as one to Joel:
  - Joel lost his daughter, while Abby lost her father.
  - Joel killed Abby's father to save his surrogate daughter, while Abby kills Ellie's surrogate father to avenge her own father.
  - Finally, while Joel receives no mercy from Abby for what he did to her father, Abby is ultimately spared by Ellie after the latter decides that avenging him isn't worth it.
Force and Finesse: She is the Force to Ellie's Finesse. Abby's skill tree focuses primarily on health and direct combat, she gets more consistent ammo drops throughout her story, and her Infinity +1 Sword is a flamethrower, while Ellie's skill tree focuses primarily on stealth, she gets an infinite-use switchblade for silently killing Clickers, and her Infinity +1 Sword is a silenced SMG.
Friend to All Living Things: Implied. A flashback with her and their father has her helping him in a freeing a trapped zebra the two came across. Also, Abby is fond of dogs and is playful with her pet Alice. It even gives her more reason to hate Ellie when she finds out she killed the dog.
Going Native: Subtle example. While Abby claims she doesn't believe in any type of God or Prophet during her traveling with Lev, she learns that many of their teachings are similar to the ones her father gave her about life. She begins taking some of it to heart, strengthening her bond with Lev and Yara.
Good Old Fisticuffs: Like Joel in the first game, her melee combat is done primarily by a series of punches and kicks. Unique to her playing style, however, Abby goes through Fisticuffs Boss battles in the game where it's her only means of combat.
Golf Clubbing: After learning Joel's identity, Abby cripples him with a shotgun and then executes him by beating him to death with a golf club, dealing the final blow while Ellie is Forced to Watch.
Heel Realization: After bring back the tools and medicine that Yara needed and bonding with Lev, she wonders what happened to her.
Hero Killer: And how. Not only is she responsible for the deaths of Joel and Jesse, she also gravely wounds Tommy and unleashes a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to both Ellie and later Dina in the theatre. That's not even getting to the fact that she was the top Scar killer for the WLF prior to her meeting Yara and Lev.
Hidden Heart of Gold: After her father was killed by Joel, it's implied that she started working on becoming a better soldier, transforming her body into a killing machine and adopting a cold, gruff jerkass facade while becoming a top Seraphite killer. Only Owen, then later Lev and Yara brought out the her softer side and after her Heel Realization, her true nature, the one she buried years ago, was brought out. Further demonstrated when after she killed Jesse and was about to kill Dina, the sight of Lev brought her to her senses and she leaves them be.
Hypocrite: Gets called out on being one. When Owen told Abby his plans to find a group of Fireflies, Abby accused him of being stuck in the past. Owen's initial response was a rather subtle Death Glare, prompting her to sarcastically apologize for "growing up". He responded by brutally calling her out on killing Joel in a very sadistic fashion because she could not let go of her father's death and spending five years before that obsessing over getting revenge and doing so with very little care for the well-being of her friends. Abby's only response was to grapple Owen.
Ignored Epiphany: Even though she goes through Character Development, realizing her vengeance felt empty, she continues to act ruthlessly towards Ellie, not realiziing the latter's pain caused by the Ellie being forced to watch the torture and murder of her own father figure. This changes after Lev convinced her to spare Ellie and Dina, as once Ellie tracks her down and frees her from the Rattlers, Abby's only concern is escaping the place with Lev, and she has no interest in continuing her feud with Ellie.
In-Series Nickname: Abby is called "Abs" by her father and her friends.
It's All About Me: Even more than Joel, Abby puts her own self-interests before anyone, and it rips apart her two closest relationships with Owen and Mel. It isn't until she meets Lev and Yara when she starts to care about others more than herself. After she's rescued by Ellie towards the end of the game, her immediate thought is to save Lev.
It's Personal with the Dragon: While Abby is only Isaac’s right-hand woman, she is the one who becomes Ellie’s Arch-Enemy after she kills Joel, while Ellie has never met Isaac or even knows who he is, thus she doesn’t have any personal connection with him.
It Doesn't Mean Anything: Says this to Owen after the two had sex, making it clear she won't take him back. Mainly, because he is with Mel and she is pregnant with their child.
Jerkass Has a Point: While Lev does speak of the positive aspects of the Seraphites' beliefs, he can't and doesn't argue with Abby's criticisms of the cult, even agreeing when, after a fight with some of them, Abby says "fuck these Scars".
Jerkass Realization: Abby realizes how badly she screwed up her relationships in the pursuit of revenge when Mel calls her out on her selfishness and her friends getting killed off.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may be introduced to torturing then killing Joel, and can be a cold, hypocritical, self-interested person. But all her interactions with her friends, including Lev and Yara, prove she isn't heartless, especially with Lev, being nothing but respectful and understanding of his gender identity.
Knight of Cerebus: Her brutal murder of Joel is what firmly establishes the sequel's bleaker tone.
Lack of Empathy:
- She beats Joel to death in front of Ellie, despite knowing the pain of losing her own father as well. She also fails to comprehend why Ellie may want revenge for what Abby did.
- During a fight with Ellie and her group, she eventually gains the upper hand and almost kills Dina in front of Ellie. When Ellie tells her to stop since Dina's pregnant, Abby, enraged over the death of Mel, responds by saying, "Good". Even worse is that this is after she killed Jesse, who was her ex-boyfriend and the father of her child. She only relents when Lev tells her to.
- Before she meets Lev and Yara, she shows support for murdering the children of the Seraphites.
Leitmotif: "Longing" serves as this for Abby. The track recurs whenever Abby experiences a flashback or a traumatic event.
Made of Iron: She ends up winning her first fight against both Ellie and Dina despite suffering numerous knife slashes, a couple decently far ceiling collapses, at least one stab wound, and even a bite. Furthermore, in the climax of the game, she somehow survives an absolutely grueling beating from Ellie despite having spent months being worked to the bone as a slave to the Ratlers and then presumably days being essentially crucified in the burning sun.
Mama Bear: She grows to be highly protective of Lev and Yara as they bond, culminating in her physically interposing herself between him and Isaac when Isaac intends to shoot him and searching for medicine and medical tools to save Yara's life. She refuses to move even when Isaac threatens to shoot her too, and ends up fighting her way through an army of her own former allies just to get Lev to safety. This behavior continues post-timeskip, as even when the Rattlers are wrestling her to the ground she's furiously screaming for them not to touch Lev.
Man Bites Man:
- She bites off the ear of a Seraphite woman during a struggle.
- Later, in her final fight with Ellie, she bites two of Ellie's fingers, removing one outright and damaging the other so badly Ellie later amputates it offscreen.
The Man They Couldn't Hang: Yara and Lev save her from being hanged by the Seraphites.
Meaningful Name: "Abby" is short for "Abigail," which means "my father is joy" in Hebrew. Abby's revenge is motivated by Joel murdering her father.
Mercy Rewarded: Zigzagged before ultimately being played straight when she refuses to kill Ellie and Dina in the theater. The two depart Seattle and spend several months living in peace, but Tommy goads Ellie into pursuing Abby to California to finally exact their revenge. Then Ellie finds Abby having been captured, starved, and tortured by the Rattlers, and rescues her. Then Ellie threatens Lev's life so she can force a final showdown. Ellie beats the shit out of Abby and nearly drowns her, but ultimately cannot go through with killing her and allows Abby to flee to safety with Lev.
Mirror Character:
- Abby realizes that she was just as driven by hate and revenge for her own father as Ellie was, which is one of the reasons Abby decides that Ellie is Not Worth Killing.
- Abby spent the last five years hating Joel for killing her father, only to go though the same Character Development Joel did in The Last of Us: she becomes a less emotional person, drives away anyone close to her, commits some serious sins, only to have her tough, hardened exterior melted down by a child companion.
Moral Myopia: She suffers from this a lot.
- After Ellie, Dina, Jesse and Tommy kill her fellow WLF members looking for her, Abby finds them at their hideout where she guns down Jesse, almost kills Tommy and displays no hesitance in trying to kill Dina even after learning she's pregnant. This is in spite of the fact that Tommy and Ellie (as well as Dina and Jesse) wouldn't be after her in the first place if she didn't kill Joel, quite brutally at that, believing the fact that she didn't kill her and Tommy when she had the chance is enough reason for them to let her get away with it. There's also the fact that most of Ellie's kills, with the exception of Nora, were in self-defense, and even in Nora's case, the only reason her death counts as a murder instead of self-defense is because she purposefully bullied and fought Ellie into a corner, forcing Ellie to infect her, corner her and cripple her in return, thus leaving Nora helpless to defend herself when Ellie's patience ran out and she beat her to death. To be fair, Abby probably wasn't aware that her friends were killed in self-defense, mostly because she was never there to witness it.
- She's very dismissive of the Seraphites, considering them just crazy cultists at first. Her only reaction to Owen pointing out that the Fireflies were seen similarly by the US government is to dismiss him as not being the same.
Murderous Thighs: While in the process of being hanged, she grabs a distracted Emily with her legs and holds her so that Yara can kill her.
Muscles Are Meaningful: She's more of a physical fighter compared to the more agile Ellie and is considerably muscular; this is also reflected in their health-related upgrades, as Abby can gain 25% health twice, but Ellie can only gain 25% health once followed by a "one instance of lethal damage only leaves you at low health" ability. Justified as one of her conversations with Owen has her saying that she lifts weights, and was able to lift a hundred and eighty pounds a couple of years before she reached her peak strength during the game's present day. She loses a lot of muscle mass during her captivity by the Rattlers, and consequently she and Ellie end up on much more level ground during their final fight. Even then, Abby's still slightly larger than Ellie, and just about as strong.
Neck Snap:
- Victims of her stealth takedowns suffer such a fate.
- If you lose the final battle with her, one of her finishing moves is to snap Ellie's neck.
Never My Fault: Abby has a bad habit of tribalism; she never admits the faults of whatever faction she's a part of. For an example, she rationalizes the WLF for shooting a group of Seraphite children, saying "their deaths on them." Another one is Owen pointing out that the Fireflies weren't angels compared to the Seraphites, with her saying "[they] were naive" and aren't a death cult. She lightens up on this a lot after saving Yara and Lev.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
- Much like Joel, her form of melee combat is a string of punches and kicks that may follow into absolutely brutal finishers, which include but are not limited to bashing an opponent's head against a wall, kneeing them in the face, or stomping their head into mush. The only major difference between Joel and Abby's melee and hand-to-hand game is that Abby has the ability to dodge like Ellie does.
- This is how she kills Joel, when she beats him to death with a golf club.
- She deals out one apiece to both Ellie and Dina at the theater.
Not Worth Killing: On both ends of the trope.
- After discovering that Ellie murdered her friends at WLF (Nora, Owen and Mel) and even her dog Alice, Abby gains the motivation to hate her... but refrains from killing her after their confrontation at the theatre (even though she killed Jesse and almost killed Tommy and Dina beforehand), stating that she doesn't want to see her again. Even when Ellie confronts her again at the end of the game, Abby refuses to fight her at first, only obliging when she threatens to kill Lev.
- After everything Abby and Ellie went through to destroy the other, Ellie decides to let Abby walk away since killing her won't change anything and Ellie's rage enabled her to justify her own atrocities.
Oh, Crap!: Her reaction upon meeting the Rat King. The immediate few moments afterwards are spent frantically running away and, after several narrow escapes, eventually manages to kill it after luring it into a more open area.
One-Woman Army: She’s renowned around the W.L.F camps as “Isaac’s top Scar killer”, and it shows when the story shifts to her perspective and you take control of her for several chapters; naturally, being a playable character and all, she’s just as dangerous as Joel or Ellie and can mow down dozens of soldiers and infected all by herself.
Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Her conversation with Mel at the stadium is rather passive-aggressive, such as when she asks Mel if Owen's okay with her going out on a mission despite being pregnant, which seems to be a dig at Mel being with Abby's ex-boyfriend. Manny, who wants Abby to get along better with Mel, tells her to "Do better."
Pay Evil unto Evil: Not only she kills Joel in revenge for him having killed her father, there is also possibly the specific example of killing Jesse and her eagerness to kill Dina knowing she's pregnant: as she had just found the corpses of her pregnant ally Mel and her partner Owen who were murdered by Ellie, Abby wants to return the favour and she partly does so with her killing of Jesse who (unbeknownst to her) was the father of Dina's child. This is subverted, however, as she doesn't go through with it because of Lev.
Pet the Dog: Her respect of Lev and willingness to believe him when he claims he's defected, notably respecting his autonomy and transgender status and steadfastly refusing to deadname him, show she's more than just a vengeful berserker of a woman.
Plagued by Nightmares: She has recurring nightmares of finding her father's corpse. It's only once she saves Yara that she has a peaceful dream of her father alive.
Politically Correct Villain: For all her faults, she treats Lev with respect even upon learning he's transgender.
Pyrrhic Victory: She avenges her father and Ellie spares her and Lev, but Ellie's revenge killed her dog and all of Abby's friends, and Abby's revenge didn't provide the closure she was expecting.
Revenge: Abby's driving force at the start of the story and a central theme to her character arc. Joel killed her father during his rescue of Ellie at the end of the first game, and Abby has spent the interim years training obsessively to take revenge, finally succeeding after finding Joel outside Jackson. Although she finds no solace in Joel's death, Abby's vengefulness comes up again after she finds Owen and Mel dead by Ellie's hands, going after her and even being willing to kill the pregnant Dina to avenge the also pregnant Mel. At Lev's insistence, however, Abby lets go of her anger and simply demands that she never see Ellie again. Even when they do meet again a year later, Abby has no interest at all in fighting her, whereas Ellie is willing to threaten the innocent Lev to get her revenge on Abby.
Revenge Before Reason:
- In her first scene, she runs off into the middle of a blizzard instead of going back to camp with Owen to wait until and plan until the next day because she isn't going to let any time go by before she can kill Joel Miller. This ends up getting her chased by a large horde of Runners and Clickers, and nearly killed, due to being both lost and lacking any support.
- Even after Joel saves her and she learns that he has a brother (Tommy) and what appears to be a surrogate daughter (Ellie), she still kills him while never considering the possibility that they would do what she did and come after her. Surprise surprise, they come after her and kill several of her friends along the way.
Revenge Is Not Justice: Abby's arc of the story is accepting that Joel's death didn't bring the justice she wanted and instead brought more death upon herself since sparing Ellie only gave her the drive to avenge Joel by killing everyone in Abby's group before killing her last.
Sadist: Shows this tendency when she's at her most vicious and bloodthirsty. It's most apparent when she murders Joel, deliberately drawing it out as much as she can, to the point of ordering her friends to tourniquet his leg that she just shot, and getting upset when Ellie's intervention forces her to end her torture early. Her sadism also shows itself when she has Dina at her mercy after killing Jesse and gravely injuring Tommy. When Ellie pleads for mercy and reveals that Dina is pregnant, Abby says "Good.", but this time Lev talks her out of it. In a subtle case of Character Development, however, this tendency is gone by the time of her final fight with Ellie, with her not even wanting to fight at the start, and taking absolutely no joy in the violence when Ellie forces her hand.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She seems especially attracted to Owen due to his friendly, optimistic streak, showing more than once in flashbacks that he has a knack for pulling her out of her spats of gloominess. Unfortunately for her though, her obsessive drive for revenge against Joel eventually pushes even him away, and she seems to have mostly given up the idea of pursuing love.
Sleeves Are for Wimps: She wears a tank top and is considerably buff.
The Stoic: As an experienced soldier of the WLF, she's hardened and blunt. However, this came the cost of her emotionally closing herself off from her friends, especially Owen and Mel. But, whenever she's with those she cares about, she shows her more affable side and her stoicism slowly disappears after she saves Yara and Lev.
Strong and Skilled: She's more muscular and stronger than Ellie, and also seems to have at least somewhat formal grappling and striking skills.
Tank-Top Tomboy: A recurring outfit Abby, a considerably tough soldier, sports is a gray tank-top which shows off her muscular arms.
Tears of Remorse: After Mel tells Abby off for her selfish actions and suspected hypocrisy, Abby silently tears up alone, her efforts with bonding with the former a couple days ago out the window.
This Is Gonna Suck: Her reaction as she is forced to cross a series of, increasingly narrower, bridges suspended between a series of skyscrapers. It doesn't help that Abby's acrophobic^NoteAfraid of heights to boot.
Abby: [upon seeing the narrow walkway she has to crawl along] Oh fuck! Oh fuck!
Took a Level in Kindness: Thanks to Lev's influence, she gradually becomes a less violent and more caring individual. After she's saved by Ellie from the Rattlers, she shows no interest in fighting her, only agreeing to after the latter threatens Lev.
Toxic Friend Influence: Her polarizing actions ultimately drive a wedge in her friendship with Owen and Mel, who think she is a nasty person to be around. She can't really force herself to deny that. She quickly tries to change the subject when Lev asks if she's killed and tortured Seraphites. It only hurts her more when Yara believes she has seen enough of Abby's character to think she is a very nice person, despite the fact Abby never tells her or Lev about her murdering Joel so gruesomely.
Traumatic Haircut: The Rattlers that capture her towards the end forcibly cut her hair very short, as Ellie finds out.
Ungrateful Bitch: Joel and Tommy rescuing her from a horde of infected, which puts them at risk themselves, did not stop her from going through with killing the former and having her allies knock out the latter. Despite the fact Joel did kill her father, she doesn't even hesitate to take her brutal revenge on him even though it weren't for him and Tommy she wouldn't have lived long enough to realize he was the man she was searching for.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was this until Joel murdered her father. Cue the little girl turning into a buff soldier no-nonsense lady in the present.
Vasquez Always Dies: Averted. Abby is easily the toughest looking and most skilled of the named female characters in the WLF and in the overall story but she survives. In contrast, the more feminine and less capable Mel and Nora end up dying.
Vengeance Feels Empty: Part II makes it a point to show that killing Joel did not make Abby feel any better. This is further compounded from the additional losses she faces throughout the game. It's only when she helps Yara and Lev that Abby finds any measure of peace.
Villain Protagonist: The main villain of Ellie's story, yet playable for about half of it.
Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Has shades of this dynamic with her father during the flashback in Utah. Throughout the chapter she's tries to reign in her father to come back to the Firefly lab while he's wandering through the forest, to her frustration.
Walking Spoiler: Her role in the story affects Part II significantly.
Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: After reuniting with Ellie, Abby makes the poor argument that she's better than Joel because she only killed one person instead of three people. Trying to negate her own evil actions by saying she spared Ellie when she had the chance.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Suffers from acrophobia, and is constantly forced into situations that occur high above ground.
Why Won't You Die?: As she battles the Rat King in the abandoned hospital, just before it splits into two she screams at it to "Die, damn it!" Considering that Abby, and by extension the player, at this point would have gone to town on it with absolutely everything in their arsenal, it's a feeling that can be sympathized with.
Worf Had the Flu: Both times she fights Ellie count. The first time, she's physically healthy enough, but has lost her bag of weapons while Ellie is fully outfitted for battle. The second time, she's spent months as a slave to the Rattlers and days being tied to a pole and left to die in the elements, and has lost all of her muscle mass (in addition to again having no weapons, though Ellie sticks with just her knife this time). The latter time is Downplayed, however, as Ellie herself isn't in the best shape, having suffered a brutal impalement before fighting through the Rattlers' base.
Would Hurt a Child: After killing Jesse and almost killing Tommy, she eagerly tries to kill Dina and her unborn child even after Ellie told her that Dina was pregnant, seeking revenge after Ellie killed the pregnant Mel (unaware that Ellie didn't know about Mel's pregnancy until it was too late). The only thing that stops Abby is Lev talking her down.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Abby sees herself as The Hero, who needs to train obsessively in order to take down Joel, the man who killed her father and the Fireflies. Their big showdown doesn't go as she wanted it to; Joel saves her from a horde of Runners and then after wounding him, she thinks that he certainly will know who she is and why she's doing this — which he doesn't. At all. Clearly disappointed, Abby then takes to beating Joel to death, possibly in anger due to Joel not even knowing how much he impacted her life. She also tries to play the role of the hero who saved the victims from their abuser and believed that she would be thanked for only killing one man instead of three people. Forgetting that by sparing Ellie and Tommy, she inspired the same revenge quest in Ellie that led to Abby killing Joel. Abby also never learned of Joel's redemption, believing that nobody should miss Joel, the man who killed her father and ruined countless lives.
You Killed My Father: Her father was the Firefly surgeon who Joel kills to rescue Ellie. Early in the story, she brutally kills Joel in revenge. Though it's ambiguous whether or not Abby told Joel who she was.
Younger Than They Look: She's roughly Ellie's age and yet to hit 25, but could plausibly pass for a woman in her early 30s. She looks closer to 40 after her severe weight loss and Traumatic Haircut in Rattler captivity. Her voice actor was 39 at the time.

Owen

Owen Moore

"We're allowed to be happy."

Voiced by: Patrick Fugit (English)^note

Abby's ex-boyfriend and Mel's current boyfriend.

Armor-Piercing Response: After Abby tells Owen to grow up and stop chasing the Fireflies, Owen retorts that Abby's method of "growing up" was finding and torturing Joel to death. Abby’s only response is to try to assault him, and they get into a tussle... which leads to them having sex.
Covered in Scars: When his back is seen at the end of Seattle Day 1, it's covererd in numerous cut scars, and most of the right side is healed burns.
Ironic Echo: When Abby finds a lead on where to find Joel, he's apprehensive and tries to talk her out of it, but she state "It's a lead, I gotta follow through on it". Years later, when he talks about defecting from the WLF and trying to follow a lead on a supposed Fireflies revival, Abby, not wanting him to get in trouble with Isaac, tries to dissuade him, only for Owen to throw back her earlier statement at her.
It Never Gets Any Easier: When Abby finds him and tries to get him to come back to WLF HQ, he refuses due to all the killing against the Scars finally getting to him, culminating when he confronted an elderly Seraphite who had refused to fight back despite being near a weapon and more than ready to die, followed by Danny trying to force Owen to follow through with it, holding him at gunpoint and Owen accidentally killing him in a gun struggle Owen decides to defect from the WLF to chase a rumor that the Fireflies are regrouping in Santa Barbara.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Zig-zagged. While he supports Abby getting revenge on Joel, he realizes how high the risk is when it turns out that Joel belongs to a huge community of people and plans to turn back, expressing that most of the others will want to do the same. He goes along with Joel's murder when the latter basically stumbles into them, but when Ellie interrupts things, he again wants to leave immediately, expecting that all of Jackson already knows and will be after his crew.
Love Cannot Overcome: Despite moving on to Mel, it's obvious that he still has feelings for Abby but he cannot deal with her wanting revenge against Joel and then brutal way she took him out, as well as her continuing to kill for the WLF.
Morality Pet: Along with Lev, he's there to flesh out Abby's backstory and show that at one time, she was a good person.
Nice Guy: Owen is jovial and friendly, shown to be quite the artist, and optimistic. While he does end up going with Abby to track down Joel, flashbacks show that he was clearly put off by Abby's revenge quest and in then in Jackson, he points out the security the town has — his way of trying to dissuade Abby from following through with killing Joel. After the events of Jackson, he can barely even talk to her due to his guilt and what she's become. His last act before he's killed by Ellie is to tell Abby that it's not too late for her to change.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His decision to spare Ellie and Tommy, even going against his friends for it, ends up screwing him over in the end. He chooses to spare them despite knowing that they're loose ends, and thus pose a risk. The end result? He, and all his friends barring Abby, end up getting killed by the two of them.
On the Rebound: It's strongly implied that his relationship with Mel is this. A flashback shows that he's only been dating Mel for a year and in the game proper after Owen has sex with Abby, he's interested in getting back together with her.
Only Sane Man: Owen is sick of revenge, fighting and killing that he's done over the years and simply wants to do something to help humanity. Thus why he defects from the WLF and wants to look for the Fireflies in the hopes of doing some good in the world. Abby's flashbacks show that he's the only one of the group that was fine with leaving Joel alone.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He defects from the WLF after accidentally shooting Danny, realizing he's tired of fighting over land he doesn't care about.
Sex with the Ex: He and Abby have a passionate one-night stand after she tracks him down.
Token Good Teammate: While he agrees to Abby's revenge, he is disturbed by the extended beatdown she gave Joel, and he's shown among Abby's friends to be the most regretful about the whole affair. He also argues against killing Ellie and Tommy since they'd done nothing to them.
Understanding Boyfriend: Played With. He and Abby were dating five years ago, but have since broken up (implied either by Abby being reminded of her father since Owen was there when she found his body, or him being scared off by Abby's determination to exact her revenge). He still cares for her, and understands her wanting to kill Joel, but subtly tries to talk her out of it at least twice, and then stops her from doing further harm by killing Ellie and Tommy.

Manny

Emanuel "Manny" Alvarez

Voiced by: Alejandro Edda (English)^note

A member of the WLF and friend of Abby.

Asshole Victim: He had a hand in Joel's brutal murder, disrespected his corpse, and showed no remorse over any of it. The game tries to downplay it from Abby's perspective at least, he wasn't that bad of a guy to his friends. However, he also was ready to murder Ellie who hadn't done anything to them yet. As such, his death does not come as nearly as tragic.
Bilingual Bonus: A lot of his dialogue is in untranslated Spanish.
Boom, Headshot!: How he dies, courtesy of Tommy.
Dashing Hispanic: This explains why he beds so many women.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Aside from his friends at the WLF, Manny is also caring for his father, who suffers from a degenerative nervous disease.
The Extremist Was Right: He immediately goes for Ellie and Tommy after Joel is killed, only being stopped because of Owen's protests. In hindsight, his decision to "clean up" would have left him and his friends better off.
Foil: To Jesse, both being Token Minority sidekicks to the respective protagonists, and being sought after by the women of their communities. Jesse doesn’t seem to chase it despite the attention he gets, whereas Manny whores around every chance he has. They also die by being abruptly shot through the head while next to the protagonist.
Gratuitous Spanish: One of the first phrases out of his mouth is "Burn in hell, pendejo" ("asshole") as he spits on Joel's corpse. A good portion of his dialogue is in Spanish, usually swears.
Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Played for Laughs when Abby discovers one of his sex dens and he pretends to not understand English.
Ink-Suit Actor: Resembles Alejandro Edda, his actor.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While taking part in the brutal murder of Joel- complete with spitting on his corpse and telling him to "burn in hell"- he is shown to be friendly and supportive to his fellow WLF members. He even tries to help repair Mel and Abby's friendship.
Karmic Death: He was very gung-ho about killing Joel and Ellie, so it makes sense that he faces about as much mercy as he shows from Joel's brother.
Killed Mid-Sentence: By Tommy.
"Screw it, let's just-"
Occidental Otaku: One throwaway line of dialogue has him implied to be a fan of anime.
Really Gets Around: Abby lets him use their apartment so he can sleep around, and Abby claims he has sex dens across the Seattle QZ.
Secret-Keeper: He helps Abby defect from the WLF and keeps it a secret from the other members.
Spiteful Spit: He spits on Joel's corpse after Abby is done with him.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: Downplayed. It happens in the middle of a fighting sequence, so it's not completely surprising, but he's suddenly killed by Tommy with a shot to the head while he and Abby are trying to open a door.
Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Abby often snark at each other, but they're still friends with each other.
With Us or Against Us: Manny doesn't seem to care about the morality of actions taken if it protects people he loves as shown when he's nonchalant when Mel brings up the time the WLF killed children in self-defense, saying he'd rather protect their men than be merciful to children that attacked them.

Mel

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Voiced by: Ashly Burch (English)^note

A former Firefly and member of the WLF. She's their medic as well as Owen's current girlfriend.

Affectionate Nickname: Manny calls her "Melon" when he and Abby check up on her after arriving at the FOB.
Beware the Nice Ones: Out of all the Salt Lake City crew, Mel is the most approachable and nicest of them. However, because of the world they live in, she's just as capable of killing as any hardened survivor. Notably, she argues that they "leave no loose ends" and dispose of Ellie and Tommy after Joel's killed.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Mel and Abby's friendship is somewhat tense because Owen used to date Abby before getting with her. Considering Owen and Abby slept together when Abby found him, she has every right to be suspicious.
Foil: She serves as Dina's counterpart among the WLF, being a Pregnant Badass who's in a relationship with one of the other, and whose relationship with the Player Character in the faction is strained over the latter's desire for revenge. However, while Dina is in love with Ellie, Mel is jealous of Abby, and unlike Dina, who chose Ellie over Jesse, Owen got together with Mel while on the rebound from Abby.
Friendship Moment: Despite her not being on good terms with Abby, their time in the boat hangar has them work relatively well together and getting along, although things get awkward again when the conversation shifts to Jackson.
Imperiled in Pregnancy: Owen reveals to Abby early on that Mel is pregnant, and is visibly so back in Seattle; despite this, she still goes out on patrols. Owen also points it out to Ellie with his dying breath, after she already stabbed Mel in the throat.
Inksuit Actor: Bears a resemblance to her actress, Ashly Burch.
Jerkass Has a Point:
- Her "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Abby at the start of Day 3 is on-point in a few regards. Abby is clearly not the best person, and it seems strange that she'd develop a conscience when it comes to Yara and Lev after she's killed so many of their people. It's implied Abby takes it to heart, since she has no rebuttal.
- Mel was in favor of killing Tommy and Ellie in the aftermath of Joel's execution, stating that they were "loose ends". In the end, Mel and most of her friends lost their lives to the pair who they chose to spare.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Mel is more than willing to tell a visibly angry and vengeful Ellie where Abby is, partly because she thought Abby was already dead at that point. And then Owen intervened.
The Medic: Of Abby's group. She studied under Abby's dad.
Pregnant Badass: Goes on a mission with Abby and Manny while pregnant, even though she could've used it as an excuse to stay behind, and she's just as much of an Action Girl as Abby when dealing Scars and Infected.
Properly Paranoid: Even though she is in a relationship Owen and is pregnant by him, she still believes Owen is still in love with Abby, despite their messy past. She was right.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gives one to Abby after getting fed up with her selfish actions over the years, her suspecting that Owen still wants her, and her losing respect for Abby because of how cruelly she killed Joel, even though she agreed he should be punished for what he did like everyone else. Saying that Abby's a shitty person, has always been a shitty person, and the best thing she can do for Yara and Lev is stay out of their lives before she messes it up.
Romantic Runner-Up: Despite being with Owen and pregnant with his baby, there was no denying that she was going to come up second in Owen's eyes to Abby.
Token Good Teammate: Subverted, the others treat her as such since she is the medic and doesn't like brutality but she advocated killing Tommy and Ellie to avoid loose ends. She is fine with most of the violence the WLF does as long as she doesn't witness it first hand.
Too Dumb to Live: While proof of her loyalty to her friends, willingly fighting on the front lines while pregnant obviously is just a bad call all around with even her friends and Owen (her child's father) urging her to stay behind for the sake of her child, let alone running the risk of breaking water on the field. And then there's her attack on Ellie in the aquarium while the latter a) has every advantage over her in a fight and b) probably would have let her live.
We Used to Be Friends: A journal entry Abby wrote right before her father was killed indicates that she was tight with both Owen and Mel, and is grateful to Abby for putting a good word in with Jerry. Five years later, it seems as if Mel and Abby drifted apart, due to Abby getting more sadistic and ruthless with killing Seraphites. Despite agreeing that Joel deserved to die, she was completely shaken by how far Abby took it in Jackson, leading her to avoid Abby. She then later calls her a "piece of shit" and tells her that she can't change. This possibly due in part to her suspicions that Owen and Abby still love each other.
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: She is uncomfortable with the WLF killing children.

Nora

Nora Harris

Voiced by: Chelsea Tavares (English)^note

A former Firefly and member of the WLF.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Ellie corners her at the edge of a precipice that falls into the lower levels of the hospital, overrun with infected, Nora begs Ellie not to throw her down there. When grabbed as a hostage when other WLF troops arrive, Nora tries to tell Ellie she can walk away. Ellie doesn't buy it.
Asshole Victim: She tells Ellie she can still hear Joel's screams every night... right before bragging he was a bitch who deserved it and making a break for it while ordering her mooks to kill Ellie. She also brutally knocked Tommy out after his brother Joel got shot in the leg by Abby. As with David's death, only the impact her murder has on Ellie is upsetting rather than Nora's death itself.
Bait-and-Switch Comment: At gunpoint, she asks Ellie if she still hears Joel's screams as he died. It seems like she might be admitting guilt over the predicament, and Ellie visibly lets her guard down slightly, until she quickly follows it up by saying he deserved it. This makes Ellie try to Pistol Whip her, allowing her to escape.
Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. Despite other people who were directly involved in Joel’s death being killed before her, she is the first person Ellie tortures to death for the sake of extracting information/revenge.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Ellie weaponizes her own immunity, pulling Nora into a spore-filled room. Nora escapes, but doesn't make it far thanks to the spores. Ellie then brutally interrogates her and beats her with a pipe. She may have had a quick death after giving up Abby’s location, since Ellie said she could make it quick if Nora gave Abby up, but it’s not known for certain.
Defiant to the End: She refuses to give up anything to Ellie, sweet-talking and escaping multiple times. Until Ellie beats her with a pipe.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Evil is going too far but based on Leah's photographs, she and fellow WLF soldier Nick are in a relationship. The game does not expand further on this in any way beyond that.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: Ellie kills her with the same pipe she attacked Ellie with.
Hypocrite: When Ellie finally has her at her mercy, she attempts to talk Ellie out of beating her to death and going after Abby by trying to get Ellie to consider how many people Joel has killed. This is in spite of the fact that she's working for a militant group that are implied to have killed multiple people just for entering their territory and other minor crimes like doing graffiti and are planning on enacting mass genocide on a whole other group of survivors (a crazy cult to be fair, but still).
Ink-Suit Actor: She looks like her actress, Chelsea Tavares.
Karmic Death: Nora took a long journey for the purpose of torturing Joel to death, so it's nicely cathartic that Ellie beats her to death in much the same manner.
Killed Offscreen: Only the beginning of Nora's torture and death is shown; after Ellie's first swing of the pipe, the scene cuts away to a deeply shaken Ellie, leaving the details of Nora's interrogation and execution to the player's imagination.
Lack of Empathy: She has no qualms with insulting Joel's death right to Ellie’s face. Like Abby, she also fails to understand why Ellie could be so mad at Abby for killing Joel.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Ellie beats her to death with a pipe after she refuses to talk.
Pet the Dog: As shown during Abby's story. She knowingly covers for Abby while she's looking for medical supplies, even though the WLF has been ordered to detain her for going AWOL. As a result, Nora is indirectly responsible for saving Yara's life.
Shut Up, Kirk!: When she's finally cornered, she begs Ellie to think about the many, many people Joel killed. Ellie has none of it and continues to demand where Abby is.
Too Dumb to Live: When a person is holding you at gunpoint because you participated in the vicious murder of her father-figure, it is most certainly not a good idea to taunt them about it.
Torture Always Works: While she's adamant about not betraying her friends, Ellie manages to bludgeon the truth out of her.
Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: When initially interrogated by Ellie, she tries to appeal to Ellie by saying that Nora and her friends could have killed her after Abby killed Joel, showing that she doesn’t understand why Ellie is looking for revenge against Abby.

Jordan

Voiced by: Chase Austin (English)^note

A former Firefly and member of the WLF.

Anachronic Order: Due to the game being told out of sequence and from two different character’s perspectives, Abby can meet him alive and well at the WLF stadium, and tells her that he is being sent to the Serevena Hotel. Unbeknownst to him obviously, he is heading to his own impending doom.
Asshole Victim: He was quick to justify killing Ellie simply because she cut his face and nearly chokes Dina to death before Ellie intervenes. No tears are shed when she stabs him in the neck with her switchblade that he had previously confiscated from her.
Bond Villain Stupidity: After Dina kills Mike by shooting him through a ceiling window, Jordan shoots the glass causing her to fall through. After checking himself for wounds, he holsters his pistol, and begins choking Dina to death. Ellie then escapes from her bindings and stabs Jordan to death with her switchblade that he left in arm's reach of her.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Is dating his fellow WLF soldier Leah, and keeps a letter with a suggestive photo from her with him.
Evil Is Petty: While the Wolves debate killing Ellie, he's hasty to justify it because of the fresh cut on his face.
Facial Horror: Downplayed. Ellie scars his face with her knife.
Fatal Family Photo: Again, Leah’s photo and letter. He is not actually seen looking at it, but presumably did before his second (and final) run-in with Ellie, as she strips it off his body after she kills him.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jordan can be both vicious and kind based on who he's talking to. From Ellie's perspective he has a quick to homicide nature because she cut his face but he's a kind friend to Abby in the WLF
Ink-Suit Actor: Looks exactly like his actor, Chase Austin.
Karmic Death: After sadistically trying to maim Ellie, he ends up killed by her.
Lean and Mean: He's a lot skinnier than his fellow male WLF members, and very quick-tempered and violent. He visibly lacks the physical strength to subdue an injured Dina, who had just fallen through a skylight onto her back and head, causing her to be dazed and off balance.
Pragmatic Villainy: Despite being eager to kill Ellie when she cut his face when they first met, he stops Mike from killing Ellie because he wants to interrogate her first after she follows them to Seattle. He averts this after Dina intervenes and kills Mike, as he decides to sadistically make Ellie watch as he chokes an injured Dina to death instead of just shooting them both, giving Ellie an opening to turn the tables and kill him.
Starter Villain: The first of Joel's killers to die at Ellie's hands. Killing him allows Ellie to find the names and locations of the rest of the Salt Lake Crew.
Would Hit a Girl: Beats Ellie after she cuts his face when she walks in on Joel dying.

Leah

Voiced by: N/A

Jordan's girlfriend.

Asshole Victim: She was a willing participant in Joel's torture and murder. No one's shedding many tears for her upon finding her dead body.
Annoying Arrows: Averted. Her corpse is found riddled with arrows from a Seraphite attack.
Fanservice: Invoked on purpose. To keep Jordan motivated to do his job, she sent him a picture of her showing her breast. Dina takes notice and whistles suggestively upon seeing it.
We Hardly Knew Ye: After only a small appearance in Joel's death scene, she's next seen only in a racy photo before Ellie finds her corpse.

Nick

Voiced by: N/A

A former Firefly and Nora's boyfriend.

Asshole Victim: He participated in the torture and murder of Joel, so it's hard to feel sorry for him.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Based on Leah's photos, he and Nora are in a relationship. This is not expanded at all in the game beyond that
Karmic Death: Nick helped Abby torture and kill Joel, so it makes sense that Joel's brother Tommy would torture him to death.
Killed Offscreen: Ellie and Dina find his corpse, after Tommy kills him.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets zero notable dialogue, nor is his character expanded on prior to his offscreen death.

Other Wolves

Mike

Voiced by: Reuben Langdon (English)^note

The Cameo: Due to the Anachronic Order of the game, he reappears in Abby’s storyline at the WLF stadium, seated behind Jordan at the Serevena team cafeteria table. He doesn’t acknowledge her beyond a quick glance, suggesting he’s not familiar with the Salt Lake Crew besides Jordan.
Kick the Dog: Mike kills Shimmer, although considering how wounded the horse was, it might be more of a Mercy Kill. Nevertheless, it was a WLF trap that injured Shimmer in the first place.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: He tries to kill Ellie the second he gets the go-ahead from Isaac, not caring one iota about any information she might have.
Punch-Clock Villain: Mike is ruthless, but he isn't sadistic and comes across as a fairly tired man following orders. He's irritated to find Jordan readying to torture Ellie, and just wants to kill her to get it over with.
Surprisingly Sudden Death: He's a second away from pulling the trigger when Dina gets there first, shooting and killing him outright.
Undying Loyalty: To Isaac Dixon, whose orders he follows without question.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He almost seems to be set up as a possible dragon, but is suddenly killed by Dina.

Danny

Voiced by: N/A

Owen's partner on guard duty. The group considers him annoying.

Asshole Victim: Owen accidentally shoots him in a Gun Struggle. Abby is more upset that she didn't get to kill him herself.
Determinator: As much of a asshole as he is, he did manage to limb himself back to the WLF HQ with a bullet wound and made it as far as the gate before he was found, staying alive long enough to tell Nora and Isaac about Owen before eventually succumbing.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Despite being a WLF member and Owen's partner in guard duty, everyone speaks negatively of him. Upon being told he's dead, Abby only gets upset that she didn't get to kill him with her own hands.
Jerkass: Said to be one by his group and all around unpleasant. This ends up getting him killed when he tried to force Owen to kill an elderly Seraphite who had no desire to fight any further, leading to the aforementioned Gun Struggle and taking a bullet to the stomach.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He's spoken of off-handedly at the start of Abby's chapter in Seattle, but is already dead by the time Abby's group finds him.

Whitney

Whitney Sato

Voiced by: Maggie Macdonald (English)

A WLF soldier who spends her time playing a PS Vita who happens to be friends with Abby.

Beware the Nice Ones: When you see her from Abby's perspective she seems perfectly pleasant, if so engrossed in her gaming that it interferes with her situational awareness, but as her confrontation with Ellie shows she's willing to defend herself if needed.
Gamer Chick: Is always seen playing Hotline Miami on a PS Vita, a rarity in the post-apocalypse. It ends up costing Whitney her life when Ellie gets the drop on her from behind mainly because she plays with earbuds on and the volume presumably all the way up, on top of her playing with her back to the water.
Headphones Equal Isolation: Puts on earbuds that make her unable to hear anything, even when on guard duty. Abby has to call on her twice in order to get her attention, though it's downplayed in that she's not particularly standoffish otherwise and comes off as perfectly friendly outside of a combat situation.
Impromptu Tracheotomy: After Ellie successfully interrogates Whitney for Nora's location, she lowers her switchblade from Whitney's throat out of shock from being so close to one of the accomplices in Joel's murder. Whitney takse the opportunity to try stabbing her with her knife, and in the ensuing struggle Ellie ends up overpowering and stabbing Whitney in the throat in self-defense.
No Name Given: Is listed as "Portable Gamer Girl" in the credits and is denoted as "WLF Soldier" in the game proper, with you only learning her name through either overhearing WLF solders about her in the hospital as Ellie or talking to her directly as Abby in an optional conversation during the Forward Base chapter.
Punch-Clock Villain: Apart from being part of a faction antagonistic to Ellie that is known for being ruthless to its enemies, or even just anyone who gets in their way, she doesn't really appear evil or otherwise malicious at all.
Skewed Priorities: Spends all of her time on guard duty playing video games with her earbuds on and her back turned to the entrance she's supposed to be guarding. Unsurprisingly, she gets a knife to the throat for it. At least one of her fellow Wolves considers it an annoying trait and wishes to smash her "Vista".
Too Dumb to Live: Despite being assigned to guard an entryway, she turns her back to the water, puts on earbuds, and gets lost in her game, making it incredibly easy for Ellie to sneak up on her. When Ellie lowers her blade following interrogating her for Nora's whereabouts, rather than try to escape or otherwise warn her fellow WLF soldiers of an intruder while she's momentarily distracted, Whitney attempts to kill Ellie herself, which only ends in her death.
Ellie: That was dumb.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Not counting Abby's optional conversation with her during Seattle Day 1 she only appears twice, one of those times being her death at Ellie's hands.

Characters / The Last of Us - WLF

Washington Liberation Front (WLF) a.k.a. the Wolves

Leadership

Isaac Dixon

The Salt Lake Crew

Abigail "Abby" Anderson

Owen Moore

Emanuel "Manny" Alvarez

Mel

Nora Harris

Jordan

Leah

Nick

Other Wolves

Mike

Danny

Whitney Sato

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Washington Liberation Front (WLF) a.k.a. the Wolves

Leadership

Isaac Dixon

The Salt Lake Crew

Abigail "Abby" Anderson

Owen Moore

Emanuel "Manny" Alvarez

Mel

Nora Harris

Jordan

Leah

Nick

Other Wolves

Mike

Danny

Whitney Sato

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