History Characters / TheLastOfUs

* BenevolentBoss: Downplayed. But the large Rattler(who seems to have the most authority) is a decent boss, making sure to look after his subordinates.

* TooDumbToLive: The Rattler that gets provoked by Ellie when she laughs at him for nearly getting bitten by a Clicker. He grabs Ellie and holds her arm out to it with the intention of letting it bite her, only for Ellie to push ''him'' into it and definitely get bitten and killed that time.

A religious [[{{Cult}} cult]] practicing HumanSacrifice in ''Part II'', founded by a woman known as the Prophet and currently led by the Elders. They’re in a long running war with the WLF and live on an island known as Haven which is the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle that’s been flooded out in the ensuing years.

* FunWithSubtitles: When using subtitles during the Ellie part of the game, their whistles are subtitled as "Whistling", while in the Abby part their Whistles are being described as Abby has learnt them. The most ocuring is "The Call Whistle" and "The Answer Whistle", the former one is the one Yara threw against Lev in the Aquarium.

->'''Isaiah 6.2-6.4:'''Seraph angels stood around him. Each angel had six wings. They used two wings to cover their faces, two wings to cover their bodies, and two wings to fly. The angels were calling to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord All-Powerful. His Glory fills the whole earth.” The sound was so loud that it caused the frame around the door to shake, and the Temple was filled with smoke.

* HeWhoFightMonsters: In the beginning, they are survivors of the Pittsburg QZ overthrowing whom they thought to be corrupted. After the military left, they then turned on their Firefly allies as they do not want any other groups but themselves to control of their city. Eventually, the new government becomes even worse than their oppressors, becoming hunters who kill any "tourists" that wander into their city for their supplies and any insubordination from their own would not be tolerated.

* WouldHurtAChild: They have no problem attacking Ellie, especially if she's armed.

* WouldHurtAChild: They have no problem attacking Ellie, especially if she's armed. When you play as Ellie you get to see all the horrifying death scenes she's subjected to if they kill her. They apparently have no qualms about eating a fourteen-year-old girl either, given David and James trying to chop her up for food.

* ParentalSubstitute: Due to all the ordeals they had to face in the post-pandemic world, Henry's relationship with his 12-year-old brother Sam is comparable to that of a strict father and a very young kid. They rarely display fraternal affection towards each other, with the former caring less about bonding and more about getting his brother out of harm's way; and the latter expressing that he never feels he can please his older brother.

* BreakTheCutie: Sam is one of the most innocent members of the cast, as he is a 12-year-old boy who never learned to defend himself and still clings to toys. At the end of the Summer chapter, he [[spoiler:is infected by a Runner and spends his last night alone with his sorrow]].

* ParentalSubstitute: Due to all the ordeals they had to face in the post-pandemic world, Henry's relationship with his 14-year-old brother Sam is comparable to that of a strict father and a very young kid. They rarely display fraternal affection towards each other, with the former caring less about bonding and more about getting his brother out of harm's way; and the latter expressing that he never feels he can please his older brother.

* BreakTheCutie: Sam is one of the most innocent members of the cast, as he is a 14-year-old boy who never learned to defend himself and still clings to toys. At the end of the Summer chapter, he [[spoiler:is infected by a Runner and spends his last night alone with his sorrow]].
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:He's 14-years-old and is put down by his own brother after turning into a Runner]].

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Forced to kill his Infected brother to protect Ellie. Consequently is DrivenToSuicide promptly after.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: As a result of his inability to defend himself, he gets infected.

* KillTheCutie: The poor guy got infected, and the truth hurt him so much that he didn't tell anyone to kill him while he was still "alive". In the following morning, the fungus transforms Sam into a Runner, forcing his beloved brother to end his life.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: After Ellie gives him a robot toy he wanted earlier, instead of being happy about it, he throws it to the ground in anger after she leaves and checks on his leg bite.]]

* TragicMonster: He is bitten by an infected and is scared and confused about how to handle it. He doesn't tell the others and ends up being killed by Henry once he turns.

* ZombieInfectee: He gets bitten in the leg, which he fails to mention.

** And the final nail in the coffin: Even if none of the above problems occurred, changing the leadership from the POTUS to a military government would not have a real positive change to the fight against the infection while the infection is already underway. The president no longer being in charge would not magically make the army or navy fight more effectively or receive better orders, as it would be the same army, same commanders, and same generals, just without a single unifying commander-in-chief at the very top. If the army was already losing the fight against the infected, removing the civilian government would not do anything to positively impact anything, even if none of the above negative impacts were to occur. A sudden military dictatorship taking over a country is not a magic wand that will make the army fight ten times better. Further, a government bureaucracy would do far more to help in a situation like the one the USA finds itself in than a military takeover, [[CrazyPrepared since said bureaucracy has protocols and procedures to follow in case of emergencies and disasters (up to and including a zombie apocalypse scenario,]] and the military's own rulebook for this kind of situation would have been written with the assumption that the military and bureaucracy would be working hand-in-hand, not fighting each other over who has control.

** And the final nail in the coffin: Even if none of the above problems occurred, changing the leadership from the POTUS to a military government would not have a real positive change to the fight against the infection while the infection is already underway. The president no longer being in charge would not magically make the army or navy fight more effectively or receive better orders, as it would be the same army, same commanders, and same generals, just without a single unifying commander-in-chief at the very top. If the army was already losing the fight against the infected, removing the civilian government would not do anything to positively impact anything, even if none of the above negative impacts were to occur. A sudden military dictatorship taking over a country is not a magic wand that will make the army fight ten times better. Further, a government bureaucracy would do far more to help in a situation like the one the USA finds itself in than a military takeover, since said bureaucracy has protocols and procedures to follow in case of emergencies and disasters, and the military's own rulebook for this kind of situation would have been written with the assumption that the military and bureaucracy would be working hand-in-hand, not fighting each other over who has control.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The military seizing control during the crisis clearly did not help with the resolution of the outbreak scenario, which is only to be expected: A sudden change in leadership in the middle of a major crisis will lead to confusion and misunderstanding as the news spreads, as well as divisions of loyalties regarding those loyal to the new regime and the old fighting one another, a pattern that has repeated itself throughout history. There's also the fact that others would see this chaotic time as their own opportunity to grab power for themselves, as well as groups that would see this sudden seizure of power as an illegal act and would actively resist any attempt by FEDRA to try to render aid in their area. All of this would mean that at a time when humanity's best hope for containing the outbreak was a united front against it, [[WeAreStrugglingTogether everyone would be divided and fighting each other instead of the infection.]] It's no wonder that the USA is in the state it is, given all of the above.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: In both the game and TV adaptation the Soldier is off by himself - ''in the middle of a catastrophic outbreak.'' Soldiers and emergency responders ''never'' operate alone in dangerous environments and are always with at least one partner at all times.

* {{Ephebophile}}: He's heavily implied to be this, just short of being outright stated. He's the only one of the group that wants to keep Ellie alive, and his behavior toward her certainly calls to mind grooming techniques.

* IWantThemAlive: He orders his {{mooks}} to capture Ellie alive, but [[spoiler:James overrides this order, leading David to catch her himself]].

* WeCanRuleTogether: He makes a point of capturing Ellie alive, and repeatedly offers to protect her and talk to the rest of his group into letting her join them. She breaks his finger in response.

%%* TheDragon: To David.

%%* IWorkAlone: See the quote above.

* EyeScream: The fungus first starts manifesting outwardly by growing in and out of the victim's eyes.

While "hunters" is a general term used throughout the post-apocalyptic U.S. to refer to the killers and thieves inhabiting ruined cities, this particular group consists of surviving members of a popular uprising against FEDRA in the Pittsburgh QZ over withheld rations. With the military gone and rations having finally, truly run out, they've turned to banditry to survive.

* FaceHeelTurn: They started out as (admittedly [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters brutal]]) freedom fighters much like the Fireflies, and may have even been a part of the latter's wider network across the country. By the time Joel and Ellie encounter them, they're just another gang of killers.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Like the Fireflies, their revolt against FEDRA was grueling and brutal, escalating to the point of publicly lynching captured soldiers and sending fresh recruits on suicide missions against the entrenched military.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary:
** The military in RealLife actually has contingency plans in place in the event of a real zombie virus (specifically, a mutated form of rabies), and an important part of the plan involves ''rescuing as many civilians as possible''. It's very unlikely that the Soldier would've been given the shoot-on-sight orders in the first place, and if he was, as a soldier he has a legal duty to refuse any orders he finds morally or ethically unsound (like shooting unarmed civilians). In reality, the Soldier and his CO would likely get court-martialed.
** Not to mention, in both the game and TV adaptation the Soldier is off by himself - ''in the middle of a catastrophic outbreak.'' Soldiers and emergency responders ''never'' operate alone in dangerous environments and are always with at least one partner at all times.

* FullCircleRevolution: They revolted against FEDRA's oppressive rule only to become a gang of murderous bandits.

-->'''Bill''': ''You know, as bad as [the Infected] are, at least they're predictable. It's the normal people that scare me''.

While "hunters" is a general term used throughout the post-apocalyptic U.S. to refer to the gangs of thieves inhabiting ruined cities, this particular group consists of surviving members of a popular uprising against FEDRA in the Pittsburgh QZ over withheld rations. With the military gone and rations having finally, truly run out, they've turned to banditry to survive.

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!!Hunters

The surviving members of a popular uprising against FEDRA in the Pittsburgh QZ over withheld rations. They've since turned to banditry to survive, being dubbed "hunters" by outsiders due to their habit of tracking and killing any "tourists" who enter the city's ruins.