History TheLastOfUs / TropesKToN

* NotUsingTheZWord: They were once human but are now mindless, bloodthirsty monsters. They're formed via infection. Their spread caused an apocalypse. Most of them have a clumsy, [[ZombieGait staggering gait]]. They resemble corpses. A single bite from them will cause you to turn. [[DistinctionWithoutADifference But they're most definitely not zombies]]; they're [[InsistentTerminology infected]]. Even the developers insist this.

** Starting a new playthrough allows you to carry over Joel's stats from a previous playthrough. Previous weapon upgrades will also be in effect, once you reach the point in the game where you acquire the weapon (although it would be ''awesome'' to go through the entire game with a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]].) In the ''Part I''remake, you do in fact start the new playthrough with all previously obtained weapons.

* NoFullNameGiven: The entirety of the main cast. Joel, Ellie, Tess and others are always referred to by their first names, with no surnames ever given or seen during the campaign. In [[AllThereInTheManual the Japanese version of the manual,]] Joel, Sarah, and Tommy are all given the surname of Miller, while Ellie's is supposedly Williams. Joel's surname would be officially canonized in the sequel, while Ellie's was confirmed via a tweet from WordOfGod. The ''Part I'' remake lists Tess' real name as Theresa Servopoulos on her I.D.

* NoFullNameGiven: The entirety of the main cast. Joel, Ellie, Tess and others are always referred to by their first names, with no surnames ever given or seen during the campaign. In [[AllThereInTheManual the Japanese version of the manual,]] Joel, Sarah, and Tommy are all given the surname of [[spoiler:Miller]], while Ellie's is supposedly [[spoiler:Williams.]]

** Starting a new playthrough allows you to carry over Joel's stats from a previous playthrough. Previous weapon upgrades will also be in effect, once you reach the point in the game where you acquire the weapon (although it would be ''awesome'' to go through the entire game with a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]]).

* MaleGaze: There is quite a few shots of Tess' butt. They largely stop when Ellie shows up, though [[spoiler:the camera is half covered by Ellie's butt when she is crawling towards David's machete.]]

* KillItWithFire: Molotovs and a flamethrower are available and are quite efficient at killing anything you can come across, be it humans or the [[InsistentTerminology Infected]]. Burning enemies are unable to attack and [[OneHitKill rapidly lose health until they die]], and only the game's hardiest enemy, the bloater, can barely survive a molotov. A burning enemy can also set others on fire while running around screaming, so a single molotov can potentially take out a whole hunter squad if you're lucky[[note]]this usually doesn't work on Easy and Normal where enemies die pretty much instantly when set on fire, giving them no opportunity to run around[[/note]].
* KillTheCutie: Sarah, right at the beginning.

** PlayedWith. Joel maintains a HyperspaceArsenal of weapons in his pack (including a bow, multiple handguns, two types of rifles and three types of bombs) and he is limited to a handful of active weapons, but he can also carry breakable weapons (which can be seen attached to Joel's pack when not in use).
** You start out one long gun holster and one pistol holster, forcing you to keep other weapons in your backpack. An additional holster for each type of weapon can be crafted to reduce instances of having to rummage through your backpack for your other weapons.
%%* LittleMissBadass: Ellie.
* TheLoad: Joel's initial reaction to Ellie is to treat her as this, [[spoiler:which gets very pronounced after Tess' death]]. Gradually, his attitude turns around, until during the Pittsburgh chapters he accepts her as more or less an equal partner who has his back.

* MarathonLevel: "Pittsburgh" is really long compared to other chapters in the game, on higher difficulties it can take upwards of at least a couple of hours to get through it.

** A sound-based one. When you play as Ellie in the winter chapter and is fighting your way through the last cabin and reach the exit (before Ellie's caught), listen closely and you'll hear some bottles being knocked over in the far background. That's David sneaking up on her. (Of course if you turn around to check out the place, he's nowhere to be seen.)

** Joel has this -- with a bit of [[PropheticNames prophetic]] bonus -- seeing as he's named after a (rather bleak) Biblical apocalyptic prophet.
** Ellie means "noble" or "shining light" which works as great fridge brilliance; the Fireflies' motto is "When you're lost in the darkness, look for the light." She works as both the Fireflies' "light" in that she's the supposed cure they want, while she's also Joel's "light" that pulls him out of his dark world by becoming someone he cares about and is willing to fight for.
** David is the leader of his group. [[spoiler:He also implicitly desires a woman -- or, rather, teenage girl -- who is with another man. Unlike Bathsheba, Ellie turns him down. Repeatedly.]]

** In multiplayer, teams will usually consist of three men and one woman, as you can customize what items your character wears, but their model is randomly assigned each game.
** It is possible, though rarer, to get a team with [[SubvertedTrope two women and two men or even three women and one man]].

* NotUsingTheZWord: They were once human but are now mindless, bloodthirsty monsters. They're formed by infection. Their spread caused an apocalypse. Most of them have a clumsy, [[ZombieGait staggering gait]]. They resemble corpses. A single bite from them will cause you to turn. [[DistinctionWithoutADifference But they're most definitely not zombies]]; they're [[InsistentTerminology Infected]]. Even the developers insist this.

** You start out with two holsters forcing you to keep other weapons in your backpack. Though you can craft more holsters to increase the amount you can access easily.

* KillItWithFire: Molotovs and a flamethrower are available and are quite efficient at killing anything you can come across, be it humans or the [[InsistentTerminology Infected]]. Burning enemies are unable to attack and [[OneHitKill rapidly lose health until they die]], and only the game's hardiest enemy, the bloater, can barely survive a molotov. A burning enemy can also set others on fire while running around screaming, so a single molotov can potentially take out a whole hunter squad if you're lucky.

* KillItWithFire: Molotovs and a flamethrower are available and are quite efficient at killing the [[InsistentTerminology Infected]].

* MadeOfPlasticine: The cordyceps infection appears to soften the carrier's bones quite a bit. When Joel stomps on a human's head, the victim dies but remains mostly intact. When he does the same to an infected, its entire head bursts like a melon.

'''Joel:''' Actually, Bill, they are.

* MagicalAntibiotics: After [[spoiler:Joel is impaled by rubble in a fight at the Science Lab in Colorado]], Ellie asks David for some medicine to treat the wounds. David sends his accomplice back to their camp to gather some penicillin which, when administered [[spoiler: to Joel]], seems to work overnight, despite Ellie not knowing what kind of infection might be going on in the wound. [[note]]Also an interesting coincidence in that penicillin is derived from a fungus, just not the same kind as the ones causing the outbreak.[[/note]]

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: A ''lot'' of nasty ways to get killed in this game. You can be shot, beaten to death, eaten alive or have your jaw torn apart, and that's just a few examples among others.

** ZigZagged. You will fight female Infected, but any non-Infected enemy you encounter will be exclusively male (the exception being a single female who the player can kill in contrast to the dozens of men). However, the Boston Militia is co-ed, and Tommy's group has plenty of armed female members. Whether it's a case of time constraints, InUniverse misogyny, or simply a desire to save money by not hiring female voice actors for the mook dialogue, is hard to say, considering that while there are most definitely women in the group of enemies you face during Winter, they seem to have more [[StayInTheKitchen domestic]] responsibilities. Also subverted in relation to the main characters: [[spoiler: Joel is horrifically wounded and neutralized during the ending of Fall and most of Winter, and since the Laconic for the trope describes itself as "Male suffering is less meaningful than female suffering"…]]

--> '''Ellie''': What happened?
--> '''Joel''': OK.
--> '''Ellie''': Too much?
--> '''Joel''': Too much.

-->'''Ellie''': An ''ice-cream'' truck?\\
'''Sam''': Yeah, Henry told me about these. They'd sell ice-cream out of the truck.\\
'''Ellie''': What? No way. Joel?\\
'''Joel''': It's true. This thing would drive around and play real loud creepy music and kids would come running out to buy ice-cream.\\
'''Ellie''': You're totally fucking with me. Man, you lived in a strange time.

** [[spoiler: At the end, Marlene gives Joel the chance to leave the Firefly base alive, instead of immediately putting a bullet in his head once he makes it perfectly clear that he's completely opposed to their plan to kill Ellie for the potential cure and absolutely willing to kill them all without hesitation. (A journal left behind by her reveals that the other Fireflies wanted to kill him, but she overruled them.) This, of course, gets them all killed.]]

--->'''Bill''': Whatever favors you think I owe ya, it ain't worth that much.
--->'''Joel''': Actually, Bill, they are.

** Though this ''is'' OSHA standard, military testing from outside the US has shown no significant effect of a beard on a gas mask seal, such as in the Israeli Defense Forces, which have many religiously bearded members and no issues with gas mask seal integrity in training or practical use.

* NoFEMAResponse: Averted. There ''was'' a response, even going so extreme as to shoot a potential threat and his young daughter on sight. Twenty years later, there's martial law in place all over the world, with no civilian government unless one is built up from scratch, in a remote area. However, the quarantine zones appear to crumbling almost without exception, suggesting the military is not even remotely as good at governing things as they are at shooting them.

** ZigZagged. You will fight female Infected, but any non-Infected enemy you encounter will be exclusively male (the exception being a single female who the player can kill in contrast to the dozens of men). However, the Boston Militia is co-ed, and Tommy's group has plenty of armed female members. Whether it's a case of time constraints, InUniverse misogyny, or simply a desire to save money by not hiring female voice actors for the mook dialogue, is hard to say, considering that while there are most definitely women in the group of enemies you face during Winter, they to have more [[StayInTheKitchen domestic]] responsibilities. Also subverted in relation to the main characters: [[spoiler: Joel is horrifically wounded and neutralized during the ending of Fall and most of Winter, and since the Laconic for the trope describes itself as "Male suffering is less meaningful than female suffering"…]]

** ZigZagged. You will fight female Infected, but any non-Infected enemy you encounter will be exclusively male (the exception being a single female who the player can kill in contrast to the dozens of men). However, the Boston Militia is co-ed, and Tommy's group has plenty of armed female members. Whether it's a case of time constraints or InUniverse misogyny is hard to say, considering that while there are most definitely women in the group of enemies you face during Winter, they to have more [[StayInTheKitchen domestic]] responsibilities. Also subverted in relation to the main characters: [[spoiler: Joel is horrifically wounded and neutralized during the ending of Fall and most of Winter, and since the Laconic for the trope describes itself as "Male suffering is less meaningful than female suffering"…]]

* MeaningfulName: Let's just say there's a very good reason the bandit group is called the Hunters.

** A sound-based one. When you play as Ellie in the winter chapter and is fighting your way through the last cabin (before Ellie's caught), listen closely and you'll hear some bottles being knocked over in the far background. That's David sneaking up on her. (Of course if you turn around to check out the place, he's nowhere to be seen.)