Here’s Whether Ellie Gets Her Revenge in The Last Of Us Video Game & What We Can Expect in the Show
Warning. Major spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 and The Last of Us: Part II game. The Last of Us Season 2 has just done the one thing fans were hoping they wouldn’t do: killed off Pedro Pascal’s Joel just as The Last of Us: Part II famously did. The HBO show delivered the devastating twist in the second episode of the second season, with Ellie there to watch as Abby, the daughter of the doctor Joel killed to save Ellie at the end of Season 1, took her revenge on Joel. But it wasn’t just revenge, it was a cruel twist of fate in the way it was delivered.
Abby, alongside her crew, composed of Owen, Manny, Nora, and Mel, are staying up at a lodge where they can keep an eye on Jackson, and when they wake up in the morning, it seems like they will have to head back home without their revenge. The weather is bad, and they’ve just realized the size of the town and how unlikely it is they’ll find Joel. Then, Abby goes on patrol and just so happens to run into Joel and convinces him and Dina to come back to the lodge.
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The rest is torture, pure and simple. Dina is drugged. Ellie comes as they’re torturing Joel, and manages to witness his last moments and swear her own revenge on Abby and her crew. But does that promise come true in the game? Does Ellie kill Abby and her friends in The Last of Us video game?
Does Ellie kill Abby and her friends in The Last of Us video game?
The answer is yes, and no. Ellie goes on a revenge quest after Joel’s death, essentially hunting Abby. But she gets to Abby’s friends first, and they end up paying the price. The only one of Abby’s friends she doesn’t kill personally in the game is Manny, who dies at the hands of Tommy. But in the game, Ellie does kill the rest of Abby’s crew who were with Abby in the lodge when Abby kills Joel, even if in the show, we see them all react with varying levels of acceptance to what Abby is doing to Joel.
Ellie kills all of them in the games, however. Nora, first, and she perhaps gets the worst of it, as Ellie beats Nora to death with a pipe to extract information about Abby, with the games going out of their way to show Ellie struggling with her guilt afterwards. She meets Owen and Mel together, and after fighting them shoots Owen in the chest and stabs Mel in the neck. Owen informs Ellie, as he’s dying, that Mel is pregnant, which adds to Ellie’s guilt.
But when it comes time to get revenge on Abby, things get a little more complicated. The Last of Us: Part II video game forces you to play the second half of the game from Abby’s POV, cementing her redemption and forcing you to understand her POV. And that starts with a kid called Lev, a Seraphite kid, who stops Abby when she’s about to finish off Ellie and Dina in Seattle.
Ellie and Dina live, go on with their lives, and settle down, but the idea of revenge never really leaves Ellie, and she decides to track down Abby again at the urging of Tommy. And she does find Abby, fights her, gains the upper hand, and in the last moment, after she has Abby begging for her life, she realizes that killing Abby won’t bring back Joel. It won’t fill the void left by him. Nothing will. So, Ellie doesn’t kill Abby, she lets Abby go with Lev and returns to the farm she was living on with Dina. Dina is no longer there waiting for her, but Ellie is seen walking away from the farm, presumably to look for her, leaving Joel’s guitar behind, taking a step towards the future for the first time.
That’s a lot of story still to come, which at the very least, explains why there are rumors The Last of Us might even extend to Season 4.
