History Characters / TheLastOfUs2023

* ProperlyParanoid: He posits his hypothesis of the danger of a fungal outbreak 35 years before that fear becomes a reality. He also predicts the danger of global warming half a century before it became a major issue, due to it making the threat of fungi much more likely..

* ProperlyParanoid: He posits his hypothesis of the danger of a fungal outbreak 35 years before that fear becomes a reality.

->'''Played By:''' Nico Parker

->'''Played By:''' Brad Leland (Danny), Marcia Bennett (Connie), Wendy Gorling (Nana)

->'''Played By:''' Caitlin Howden

->'''Played By:''' Haysam Kadri (Nasir), Sarah Himadeh (Tahira)

->'''Played By:''' Jerry Wasserman

->'''Played By:''' Christine Hakim

* TheStarscream: Ultimately averted. He's skeptical about a lot of David's decisions, openly questioning him, and David says he senses "doubt" in him, but in the end he sticks by David's side [[spoiler:and gets a meat cleaver in the neck for it]].

* SteelEardrums: Averted. He is partially deaf in his right ear due to too much shooting without ear protection.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The game's David was already a nasty excuse for a human being, but his series counterpart manages to be ''even worse''. Here he is much more abusive and authoritharian towards his followers than in the game, such as slapping a teenage girl in public for speaking out of turn, deliberately intimidating his guards into submission, eating a full plate of stew while the others eat measly bowls and even feeding his unknowing followers their own loved ones. That is on top of making his pedophilic tendencies towards Ellie far more explicit and heavily suggesting she wasn't her first victim even before the outbreak.

* ChildrenForcedToKill: Ellie admits that she has killed someone (later confirmed by her to be [[spoiler: Riley]]) even before the series started, and is forced to shoot a Hunter in the back when he is about to kill Joel. Joel finishes the man off in an attempt to spare Ellie technically being a killer. [[spoiler:Her first on-screen kill was [[PedophilePriest David]], as she grabbed his cleaver and hacked his face apart right before he was about to sexually assault her.]]

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Sometimes you can hear Bella Ramsey's English accent peek through very slightly on occasion, such as during her conversation with Marlene.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: It's subtle, but he is shown to be much more pleasant than his video game counterpart. He looks ashamed about having to kill and eat Alec for food and having to lie to Hannah. He is also much less abrasive of a person, even towards Ellie, and is implied to be against David's unsavory reasons for keeping Ellie alive.

* DisabledLoveInterest: [[spoiler: He becomes this to Bill after he gets sick with an unknown disease that makes him wheelchair-bound.]]

* AgeLift: The original games and their [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] established that Joel was born in 1981 and therefore his birthday would have been his 22nd. In the show, he was celebrating his 36th birthday in 2003, moving his birth year back to 1967 and making him a few years older than in the game when the pandemic happened. Similarly, Tommy was born sometime after that, but no later than 1974 given that he served in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. [[note]]The minimum age to serve in the US Army is 17.[[/note]]

* AgeLift: The original games and their [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] established that Joel was born in 1981 and therefore his birthday would have been his 32nd. In the show, he was celebrating his 36th birthday in 2003, moving his birth year back to 1967 and making him a few years older than in the game when the pandemic happened. Similarly, Tommy was born sometime after that, but no later than 1974 given that he served in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. [[note]]The minimum age to serve in the US Army is 17.[[/note]]

* AdaptationalWimp: Joel suffers from hearing loss and is overall slower and weaker than he is in the game. Episode six has him admit that he sincerely fears that he isn't strong enough to protect Ellie.

* AdaptionalNiceGirl: PlayedWith. Marlene starts off as more irritable than her game counterpart when she’s first introduced. But once Joel arrives at Salt Lake City, and tries to break the news to Joel that Ellie will have to die for a potential cure to be made, she’s far more apologetic than in the game, whereas she was more-or-less patronizing towards Joel regarding how they take Ellie’s sacrifice. She’s also more fair in regards to letting Joel go, allowing him to take his backpack filled with supplies needed to survive.

* TeensAreShort: Part of what helps Ramsay pass as [[DawsonCasting playing a younger character]] is that she's only 5'1". Pascal, who's slightly taller than average at 5'10" towers over her. This is also present to a certain extent in the games' universe, as Ellie grew substantially between the first and second, even though she was fifteen by the end of the former and girls are usually fully grown by then.

* NoSocialSkills: Due to being so paranoid and cynical, Bill doesn't really know how to function well in social situations and is always guarded and tense when in one.

* AmbiguousSituation: Did he take Ratna's advice to bomb Jakarta to dust? Was he allowed to make such a call? We don't get an answer either way, aside from Joel asking Sarah about Jakarta three days later, having heard something about it in the news.

* AllForNothing: Their revolution is rendered moot when Kathleen's poor decision-making results in [[spoiler: a ''massive'' horde of infected emerges from the ground and instantly wipes out the Kansas City militia, effectively dooming the city's population]].