History NightmareFuel / TheLastOfUsPartII

* Abby and Lev trying to flee from the Seraphites island. The whole chapter is just one big escalation as the WLF and the Seraphites go to war with each other with the pair trying desperately to stay out of both groups' way, culminating in having to ride through the colony while it burns around them. The series was always known for showing the worst of the humanity during an era of lawlessness, but compared to the first game which just kept it down to depraved scavengers and cannibals, this game makes that look like child's play. What's worst, is just after the pair escape they head back to meet with Abby's friends...only to find them slaughtered, leading into the fight with Ellie above.

* The conclusion of Ellie's encounter with Nora. Bathed in red lights, she [[TheSlowWalk slowly walks toward the]] [[ExploitedImmunity infected woman]], [[TranquilFury coldly asks where Abby is]], and, under player control, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly beats Nora to death with a pipe, effectively torturing her to death]] [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique until she gives up Abby's location]]. The camera angle shows the latter from Nora's relative perspective, showcasing how far [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Ellie has fallen]]. The event is played out not unlike [[NotSoDifferent Abby's slow murder of Joel]]. In the end, even Ellie is traumatized on coming back to her base of operations, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled her voice and hands shaking severely]].

* In the trailer, we see Ellie, alone, in a house full of dead bodies playing a guitar and singing. The song is basically a ThenLetMeBeEvil song about choosing evil over good. Then Joel enters and asks her what she's doing and if she really wanted to go through with her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Her response? "I'm gonna find... and I'm gonna kill... Every. Last. One of them." The look in her eyes shows a cold, remorseless killer. It seems the cheerful, kindhearted Ellie we knew from the last game is long gone...

** As bad as the Rat King is, it could have been a ''lot worse''; one piece of concept art shows what looks like [[EldritchAbomination a horrific, spore-spewing blob]] that bears more than a passing resemblance to [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Birkin's final form]].

* In the trailer, we see Ellie, alone, in a house full of dead bodies playing a guitar and singing. The song is basically a ThenLetMeBeEvil song about choosing evil over good. Then Joel enters and asks her what she's doing and if she really wanted to go through with her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Her response? "I'm going to find them, and I'm going to kill...every. Last. One of them." The look in her eyes shows a cold, remorseless killer. It seems the cheerful, kindhearted Ellie we knew from the last game is long gone...

It's a post-zombie-apocalypse game, so of course it will be full of this. Some are [[UpToEleven downright traumatizing, though...]]

It's a post-zombie-apocalypse game so of course it will be full of this. Some are [[UpToEleven downright traumatizing, though...]]

* In the climax of the game, Ellie finds out that Abby was captured by a group of scavengers holed up in one of the mansions in Santa Monica. Naturally the group are a sick bunch, when Ellie enters their area, she's snagged by a snare trap that slams her into a ''spike'' on the side of her body and barely is able avoid capture when one of the scavengers, who've come to check the traps, get mad at her when she mocks him and tries to get her bitten by one the infected they captured only for her to turn the tables. As Ellie continues on, sees an escapee get cornered by some of the group and takes his own life rather then be captured, then hearing the crowd mention something about "The Pool". As you fight your way inside, you see that they've captured a few of the infected and chained them up like rabid dogs, including two in said pool giving a good idea what these bastards were doing with any survivors not their own. Eventually Ellie frees some prisoners who point her to where Abby and Lev are: tied to some poles near the beach and left to die of heat and starvation. You see a few fresh bodies there, but a few rotted corpses as well. Just, damn. If Ellie hadn't wanted to settle things mano-a-mano with Abby, she could've just let her stay there or shot her right then and there.

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* The climax of the ending, where Ellie still wants to kill Abby to avenge Joel's death. Abby wants no part of it, she's weakened and broken, having been starved and tortured for months, and all she wants to do is leave with Lev to Catalina Island, but Ellie threatens to kill Lev if Abby doesn't agree to fight her. She does so only out of obligation and not any real desire to want to do anything with Ellie at this point. It's very realistic and very brutal: Ellie and Abby both deliver equally powerful beatings towards each other, Ellie slashes Abby with her switchblade (which she then loses), Abby bites off one of Ellie's fingers and maims the other one which Ellie is forced to amputate offscreen. The scariest part is when Ellie lets her rage overtake her and tries to drown Abby. It isn't quick or "clean" like a lot of drownings are in media. You actually see Abby struggling to get her head above the surface to breathe, she thrashes around trying to pry Ellie off of her and Ellie even slams her knee down on Abby's leg to stop her from moving, until she changes her mind at the last second and lets her go with Lev. If you look at Abby after she comes up for air, you can see her vomiting up water. The voice acting by Laura Bailey throughout the entire attempted-drowning sequence is incredibly realistic and disturbing at the same time.

* Joel's death, which starts with him recieving a shotgun to the knee that leaves his leg barely holding together. He's then held in place as Abby thrashes his skull with a golf club repeately, and by the time Ellie arrives and tries to intervene, she's held down and forced to watch Abby delivers the killing blow.

* During Ellie's birthday in a flashback, it starts nice enough, but eventually players come across the fact that someone has turned the museum visited into a relatively low-key RoomFullOfCrazy with an ApocalypticLog written on the walls of an apparent former Firefly who has long since had a HeelRealization at the end, there is a skeleton with a Suicide note and a bloody smear behind the head, making [[AteHisGun what happened]] obvious. It gets steadily worse and creepier as it goes on until the very end that luckily has just a corpse instead of a living psychopath.

* A dying Yara, who is barely an adult, is [[WouldHurtAChild mercilessly gunned down by the WLF]] while she sacrifies herself to shoot down Isaac before he killes Abby and Lev.

* As Abby, you have to explore the hospital's lower levels for supplies. You reach the Trauma door, only to find it blocked followed by a low guttural growl. Creepy, right? Go ahead and turn on Listen Mode right after and point it at that door.

** The hospital area also has an ApocalypticLog of a man slowing being taken over by the cordyceps infection, Creator/NaughtyDog's own take on ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'''s "Itchy...tasty..." note. It starts off legible, but starts looking more and more like a crazy's person scrawl. As the man is writing a note demanding to see his wife as he's being quarantined, it's combined with TearJerker.
->-You cannot treat us like this. I understand that many people are sick, but getting shoved in here and separated from my wife is unacceptable. I've been sitting here for over three hours without an update. The doctor put some ointment on my bite mark and then vanished. This thing hurts and seems to be getting worse.
->Please deliver this note to your supervisor immediately.
-->Sincerely,
-->Don Carter
->-Woke up starving, but can't keep anything down. Not even water. [[OhCrap My head is fucking pounding]]. The screaming outside doesn't help. Why did you lock me in here? Someone needs to come. I want to see Sasha. I want my wife.
->-[[SanitySlippage sAsha, HELp! Can'T keEP mY ThouGhTs. BaREly wrITE thIS. CAN't sLEEp, too hunGRy. geT Me oUT!]]
->-[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie hUNGRY. EYeS huRT. SAshA.]]
* A dying Yara, who is barely an adult, is [[WouldHurtAChild mercilessly gunned down by the WLF]] while she sacrifies herself to shoot down Isaac before he killes Abby and Lev.

* Some of the letters you find are downright chilling, particularly the ones you find on an abandoned ship which detail how after a crew member was thought to be seasick turned out to be infected, someone killed a dozen more seasick crew members in their sleep out of paranoia, except it turned out the crew members weren't infected at all. Another in the hospital section tells of a man who got bitten and was held in a room demanding to see his wife. However hours later, he comes down with a splitting headache and can barely keep his thoughts. The last of the note barely has coherent sentences and ends with talk about hunger, giving you a good insight to what those infected go through.

** Near the end of the game when it had appeared that Ellie is moving on from her revenge quest with Dina in a farm, she suffers a PTSD episode when a falling shovel [[JumpScare suddenly cuts to a vision of Joel screaming with blood on his face as he's bludgeoned to death]].

** Right before the finale after freeing Abby, a shellshocked Ellie looks as if she's ready to move on... And then the game cuts to a close up shot of Joel's head, smashed in with a golf club. Not a flash, a full on couple of seconds of him, letting you marvel at the damage. And you know that Ellie isn't going to let this slide after all.

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** Near the end of the game when it had appeared that Ellie is moving on from her revenge quest with Dina in a farm, she suffers a PTSD episode when a falling shovel [[JumpScare suddenly cuts to a vision of Joel screaming with blood on his face]].
** After the JumpScare, Ellie tries to pull herself together, only for the barn door to slam close and leave her and JJ in darkness. Ellie has a hallucination of herself in a dark, barren staircase with a locked door--Joel is on the other side, calling for help. Considering how well-composed Joel always was, even while he [[FaceDeathWithDignity was about to be killed]], hearing him ''scream'' is just bone-chilling.
** Right before the finale after freeing Abby, a shellshocked Ellie looks as if she's ready to move on... And then the game cuts to a close up shot of Joel's head, smashed in with a golf club. Not a flash, a full on couple of seconds of him, letting you marvel at the damage. And you know that Ellie isn't going to let this slide after all.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Holy fuck! Holy fucking fuck!"]]

* The lead up to the Rat King itself: A section of a hospital the WLF have yet to clear out and was said to have been ground zero for the infection concerning Seattle. It's dark, foreboding, a good majority covered in spore growth that likewise hide a few Clicker who come out the walls to attack, and a few corpses of infected victims and FEDRA agents who were trying to destroy the place. As you get near the parking lot, you see some of the doors have been ''ripped'' off making Abby nervous to what can even do that. And then you reach the ambulance and the monstrosity appears in all it's BodyHorror glory. Abby absolutely "nopes" the heck out of there leading into a chase sequence with the beast right on your ass (yes, despite it's size, it's ''surprisingly fast'') and crashing through walls to get to you. Eventually once you're forced to fight it, do enough damage and a Stalker actually ''splits off from it'' (in a rather gruesomely painful manner too, its leg and arm are ''skinned off'' during this) to likewise attack you. After finally putting it down, if you haven't killed the Stalker yet, it'll ambush you in the vents right near the exit of the area and takes some doing to put down. Just, yeesh all around.

* The lead up to the Rat King itself: A section of a hospital the WLF have yet to clear out and was said to have been ground zero for the infection concerning Seattle. It's dark, foreboding, a good majority covered in spore growth that likewise hide a few Clicker who come out the walls to attack, and a few corpses of infected victims and FEDRA agents who were trying to destroy the place. As you get near the parking lot, you see some of the doors have been ''ripped'' off making Abby nervous to what can even do that. And then you reach the ambulance and the monstrosity appears in all it's BodyHorror glory. Abby absolutely "nopes" the heck out of there leading into a chase sequence with the beast right on your ass (yes, despite it's size, it's ''surprisingly fast'') and crashing through walls to get to you. Eventually your forced to fight it, do enough damage and a Stalker actually ''splits off from it'' (in a rather gruesomely painful manner too, it's leg and arm are ''skinned off'' during this) to likewise attack you. After finally putting it down, if you haven't killed the Stalker yet, it'll ambush you in the vents right near the exit of the area and takes some doing to put down. Just, yeesh all around.