The Last of Us - Tess's Death

[@themevrouwdewi]

I like how this game doesn't just forget her. It's a shame we didn't see her final moments, but later in the game you can hear one of the soldiers talking about how Tess took down two of their men before she died. A fighter until the end.

[@Montesama314]

In the rest of the game, too, Ellie continually brings up Tess's death to talk about with Joel. He keeps brushing it off, but you can just tell it's eating him up inside. Months after her death, and the character still has some lasting impact. THAT is how a death of a secondary character is supposed to be portrayed. She wasn't just some throwaway role, she was a character that did something and meant something.

[@themevrouwdewi]

Montesama314 Exactly. I can't tell you how many times I've had to sit through a character death that was only good for some manpain, but Naughty Dog really did her justice by continuously bringing her up and showing the struggle that both Ellie and Joel had after losing her. Still too bad, but I suppose accidents happen in an apocalypse.

[@peterwyatt5702]

+Dewi Asmawidjaja (mevrouwdewi) "Things happen, and then we move on." - Joel (to Ellie)

[@gendoruwo6322]

Tess is a true heroine, a true strong female character. definitely not a MaRey Sue.

[@stealthyarcher1382]

U can see it if you make it up there before they shoot then you could see her fight a little bit

[@thomaslinssen1426]

I forgot that Tess had such a huge impact on the story by convincing Joel to smuggle Ellie.

[@lidaaletap2646]

Oh yeah, that's kinda true now that we look back

[@lidaaletap2646]

@JL-CptAtom Hello again, I remember you lol

[@lorenende7661]

JL-CptAtom incel spotted

[@navalyzes.1443]

@@lorenende7661 brainlet

[@korinlovees]

@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese it’s literally an apocalypse video game shut the fuck up

[@breakingbenjaminguy]

IT IS OVER, TESS! The voice acting in this was amazing.

[@kobron1559]

Indeed it was..just like a movie

[@profjf]

+breakingbenjaminguy I got chills when I first heard it and it still happens every time I hear it.

[@CBMgoonerComps]

One of my favourite scenes because of how well performed this is. Everything from the voice acting to the animation was beautiful.

[@Chubs.]

he sounds like JK Simmons when he said that line

[@Mari-zl3sg]

kobron1559 A video game being just like a movie sounds terrible

[@ThePokestopPapi]

Joel is very humble so his reaction to Tess's bite mark is obviously reasonable. Joel is clearly a hardened and almost non-emotional man so an "omgggg Tess noo!" type of reaction would have just been unreasonable and non-fitting of his personality. His reaction was perfect in my opinion.

[@annihilationnation1129]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[@robertbaur3145]

things HAPPEN...then we move on

[@syafiq7026]

ThePokestopPapi He had seen worst during 20 years surviving in that world.

[@scottyj8655]

He goes through the 5 stages of grief

[@happymogu6772]

he is just hiding his pain inside. Ellie keep mentioning Tess in the later of the game and you can see Joel is actually feeling sad about Tess' death From his experience of surviving he just knows that emotion are something that you are not supposed to show to others Your decisions should not be affected by your emotions . (expect the ending)

[@inflationrisk]

2:58 "I can fight" That just tears you up inside, doesn't it?

[@robertbaur3145]

No just go! just fucking go

[@faris.R56]

Pity Tess... She's such a good character i must say

[@kevsdigitalartsmore3743]

Inflation Risk I wish he fought with her

[@xylashood6875]

But not against a golf club

[@mohammedrizwansadik6977]

@@xylashood6875 it was a suprise attack

[@kobron1559]

Did anyone catch how she paused before she looked at Joel at 1:45 ..that's just genius..just shows she couldn't even look at him because she was ashamed she got bit..like she was sorry she wasn't able to hang on long enough :/

[@ELFanatic]

That was acting. Guarantee you that was in her performance. They were keen on keeping the actor's performance, besides, that's a moment you feel.

[@warofdeat]

I love that acting

[@mDelto]

Looking back at it, this whole game was based off a promise he made to Tess (at least until the ending). Goes to show how powerful a side character can be without them being a huge part of the story. This game’s storytelling was legendary.

[@jzuniga633]

Hopefully the new HBO show will be just as good. 1st episode was good

[@SirAmicVarze]

It was awful to see her go out so early. She was a fantastic character.

[@adamdanieladventures]

1st reply!🥇

[@warofdeat]

IKR

[@supanova64]

How could anyone ever hate this game?

[@shlakenjake]

Vojtěch Růžek Have you ever played any game, ever?

[@shlakenjake]

There was never a guarantee that the cure would be found, and even if it were, how would they distribute it? And then what would they do with all of the currently infected. The truth is that the cure wouldn't do anything. So saying you hate the game because of a plot twist in the ending is silly.

[@shlakenjake]

Vojtěch Růžek Never played it.

[@Cassandra_Solidor]

Vojtěch Růžek Mass Effect 3 used a Deus ex Machina and introduced its main villain in the last ten minutes. Not only that, but the ending made little sense. Trying to draw a parallel between it and Last of Us is beyond a stretch.

[@EmmanuelStalling]

Brad Montague That's nonsense. The "intelligence" was not the main villain. It was the Leviathan, who created the Catalyst a billion years ago, which in turn created the Reapers, who was the main villain. You are still going by the ending presented by the original cut, but the Extended Cut and Leviathan DLC clears up all that. Yeah, I know that's cheap compared to the masterful storytelling of this game, but the ME series is one of the best stories in gaming history if you absorb it all.

[@markrodriguez6907]

"There's enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me" :'(

[@NightWolf3342]

I swear Tess and Joel would have a kiss at this moment, if Tess wasn't inflected, or Joel could be immune as Ellie

[@TheHouseOffice]

I think she needed to show him she was angry / decided so he would leave and know she was determined. If she kissed him, it may have made him more emotional and he would have wanted to stay and protect her.. then they all would have died.

[@StopTheSequel]

@@TheHouseOffice i thought it would just be weird. Despite their great relationship, joel is like, 45 and tess looks no older than 32.

[@InfamyTrip]

Call Me Pocket Joel is mid/late 40s and Tess is mid/late 30s, how is it weird, they only have a maximum 10 year gap.

[@StopTheSequel]

@@InfamyTrip idk, it just felt weird. Plus he had already been married so maybe he this he would of disrespected his wife?

[@ambrosiaaa9064]

Tess May have died early, but she’s the reason why Joel stayed committed in taking care of Ellie. I’m glad Naughty Dog didn’t just forget about her as well as she was always mentioned throughout the game

[@playertwowithjamesandjohn7944]

Unlike Jesse in The Last Of Us 2 who gets one shotted and quickly forgotten about.

[@kuro_kishi]

Really love how Tess is the only character in the game who was able to fulfill her own death wish. Other characters such as Sarah, Sam, and Marlene have died very quick and sudden, but the last thing Tess did was to make her own death meaningful, by letting Joel and Ellie escape, and dying without becoming an Infected.

[@knifeofdunwall]

Meant nothing in the end after what Joel did...

[@Orangecatenergy]

@@knifeofdunwall Hm, I don't think the fireflies, with how incapable they are, would've been able to create a cure or to distribute it in enough numbers to vaccinate the world ... They also wouldn't have done it because they're good hearted... They would've played it as their trump card, getting people to rebel against the military even more, huge war.

[@cherring4289]

The pain on his face when Tess shows him the bite is just so palpable... D:

[@TheHouseOffice]

He acts like he got punched in the stomach.

[@LoadedGunn47]

I think it's pretty obvious that him and Tess had a romantic relationship or at the very least, feelings for each other. Dude's not really that hard to read.

[@cassietad3178]

goddammit i wish they kissed just once

[@natashaelrick394]

they seemed more like good friends honestly. not every male and female relationship needs to be romantic.

[@VAZTheGR81995]

+SmirkingRevenge chili dude.

[@onepunch2310]

“You always push me away” and I think Tess replied something like “maybe I won’t this time”

[@Xxsorafan]

Cassie Tad if they kissed he would have been infected too unfortunately.

[@VarietyMusicLover]

3:17 her facial expression said it all

[@mattapocalypse7473]

VarietyMusicLover so fucking realll!!!!

[@mountainpepsi9991]

Yeah, it's perfect. A mixture of "farewell" and "sorry old friend"

[@MeTaLISaWeSoMe95]

So when I saw Tess on the ground dead I immediately turned around and killed all the guys on the bottom floor... just me or did anyone else do this too?

[@ingamingpc1634]

yes your not the only one who turned them to swiss cheese

[@MeTaLISaWeSoMe95]

josue betances Good to know. Every lets play I've seen people just kept walking...

[@ingamingpc1634]

***** that is cold but understandable to not waste bullets

[@TJMLG]

***** Just throw them a molotov.

[@MeTaLISaWeSoMe95]

TJ MLG There we go...

[@nathanb5579]

It sucked to see Tess go, she was a cool character and you could tell she was a good partner to have by your side. I liked the look of her and how strong she was. I would've liked for there to have been a high quality cutscene for her last stand instead of what we got though, nothing over the top but something at least.

[@MrMoon360]

Anything more and it would have been too much, in my opinion.

[@teekydeeky]

Well, I like how it shows an important person can die in a 10 seconds battle... if even. It's realistic, gritty, and the game almost portrays it as if it's insignificant even though the character obviuously had a major impact. I like it. Not everything is super dramatic or scenic... sometimes... it's short and unrewarding. Such is death.

[@gendoruwo6322]

To me, Tess is the true heroine of the story, the better of the two.

[@saimcheeda93]

She had to die because she was already motherly toward Ellie and Joel would never have gotten close to her had Tess survived

[@andrewstariha3362]

I think 3:07 is the first time Joel actually calls Ellie by her name, or even says her name out loud. Before this he's either called her "kid" or ignored her entirely. A pretty important milestone in their relationship that I totally missed in my first 6+ playthroughs

[@abstract5249]

*Joel: What are we doing here? This is NOT us.* Tess: What do you know about us? *Joel: I know that this is the Last of Us*

[@Ray-The-Fox]

roll credits

[@emmanuelpuente6265]

Says The Big Bear savage

[@gendoruwo6322]

Tess: "no, this is the last of me."

[@dawsond4123]

*laugh track, Hanna-Barbara noises*

[@ScreamMario]

Lol 😂😂😂.

[@MattDoesLife539]

A badass, to the end.

[@TheProtagonist2020]

Rest In Peace, Annie Wersching. You did a great job for playing Tess.

[@Thecharliesruiz]

This is shocking news and sad😢

[@SuperDBZz]

Yeah this is truly sad, I just started to watch the Last of Us TV show and wanted to compare Tess death from the game to the TV show. I didn't expect to find out her VA had died, this is truly a sad world we living in, may she rest in peace.

[@MeatSim64]

Damn I didn't know about this. Shit...my prayers go out to her friends and family. 😢

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

I want a prequel about Joel, Tess, Tommy and Bill.

[@ppabai8069]

Fr tho. Maybe it can be TLOU 2 DLC but I have my doubts.

[@johncapada5076]

My gosh yes

[@ismolboii2511]

Yes dlc pls

[@dfghdfggfdgfdDD]

im writing fan fic about it rn

[@jerryt595]

Yesssss

[@DraconisV2]

I agree with the others, the dialogue here is 100% better than in the series. The emotions they showed here makes it feel more real especially Tess's desperation and Joel's reluctance to continue the journey. While I see replacing the military with the infected horde as a better change, I still wish they had kept the same dialogue and the delivery of it between Joel and Tess when they reached this point in the show.

[@peoduction6068]

Exactly, i think the same. Horde better than FEDRA, but the dialogue is so fucking real here in the game.

[@kingoceanmangaming6038]

Rest in Peace to Annie Wersching. Much love, and much respect came to this actress and her character.

[@chinese_bot]

Her death in the game is so much more sad because of how much time you’ve spent with her, her sacrifice comes off much more important. I’m sure they knew that when making the series that her death wouldn’t have been as impactful since two hours of a show is different than the four or five you’ve spent up to this point, and my god am I glad they changed it so she’d go out with a bang instead. God im so glad this show exists. Seeing video games and television merge so masterfully is something I’ve wanted ever since beating metal gear solid 2 as a kid and understanding that video games are so much more than just a “toy”.

[@XxKurosaki15xX]

Did you know that if you reach Tess’s body up close a sad theme starts playing?

[@agente9988]

This scene hits different after finding out that Tess’ actress has passed away at 45 due to cancer.

[@edrius154]

Not even ABBY comes close to even a fraction of TESS'S badass-ness

[@thewintersoldier8387]

Preach brotha

[@Rey40151]

Abby is nothing compared to TESS

[@eliasbonafe9236]

@@Rey40151 pf. I don't agree. She has the best character development of TLOU2, and probably with Ellie adn Joel the most interesting char in both games.

[@margarethmichelina5146]

Yes, back when Neil Druckmann didn't play an SJW card and had a better writing. 7 years to make the second game and he gave us a crazy buff chick who wants revenge to the protagonists just because he killed her dad who is a random NPC? I think he's joining along with David Benioff, DB Weiss, and JJ Abrams in the club of "The Men of SJW in writing"

[@Rey40151]

margareth michelina jeez, these people really brought so much catastrophe to fans

[@gus4281]

Tess being a NPC caused more impact in the players than playing 10hrs with abby

[@terencefletcher5139]

Tess was basically dina except she’s a killing machine

[@thedarkknight646]

Bald Sword ew dina was annoying and pointless other than to be ellie’s dry love interest. Tess is the one female character (besides ellie) I actually wouldn’t have minded playing as either as an alley or even as the main antagonist of the first game which she originally was intended to be. Imagine if she were still alive in part 2 between her and tommy if Ellie wouldn’t finish abby off Tess definitely would and wouldn’t think twice about it. I feel like Tess is what they tried to make Ellie be in part 2 as well. Like this super bad ass woman that will give even the most hardened men a run for their money

[@captainmac1005]

@@terencefletcher5139 Whoa? Tess had more to her character. The fact that people still theorized that she may have had a romantic past with Joel speaks volumes about how well she was written... Dina is Ellie girlfriend... that's basically all there is to her. Jessie was the most interesting on Ellie's side.. til they killed him and he wasn't mentioned ever again.

[@terencefletcher5139]

The Koi & The Dragon im talking about the gameplay so when you play with dina she helps you like tess at the beginning im not saying that they were both the same value

[@terencefletcher5139]

Tess is better at killing tho

[@MediEvilFan147]

Tess was awesome. I can't believe she died. :O

[@MrYungReggie]

She's not dead.

[@Sieztt]

Yeah she is, if you go and see her corpse you see blood all over.

[@MrYungReggie]

Rouge Requiem She's pretending. You'll believe me when the sequel comes out.

[@TrashF_F2]

+Yung Reggie you're such an idiot, lmao. You can clearly shot her body. AND see a bullet in her damn head. Also there is NO reason for her to fake it,

[@MrYungReggie]

_Flashing_force _ That's what she wants you to think. If Joel believes that Tess is dead, there's no way that Joel will be able to get treasure. Tess was paid by Marlowe. It was all just an act.

[@geddoe316]

i remember this scene and getting pissed. i had a molotov and like three of the dudes came right through the entryway on the second floor and bam,i roasted those sons of bitches. god that felt good.

[@Ziaotic]

@NPC# 0117 action man stan with the plan , ready to throw *hands*

[@Hossak]

This was amongst the most touching scenes of the first game. The intensity in her as she pleads with Joel to do as she asks - "there's enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me" - that line was just wow. Talk about masterful.

[@4skintim962]

I’m so glad that they didn’t make a sequel to this masterpiece

[@anttimaenpaa576]

oh well...

[@Sir_Noel]

I know, right? It doesn't really need one anyway. At this point the only thing that could shock us is, I don't know... them KILLING JOEL OFF LMAOOO im kidding ofc no one would be that stupid :^)

[@Yes-vm8og]

Same

[@normy6801]

True, it must be terrible if they make a sequel since this already becomes the best game that no one can achieve.

[@P4boot]

@@Sir_Noel asshole! 😂 😂

[@philly_sports1558]

RIP Annie Wersching. You had one of my favorite performances in video game history. Prayers for her husband and her children.

[@mackenziejones7127]

her scream was heartbreaking

[@TheStapleGunKid]

It's a shame we never got any backstory on Tess. I would have loved to know how she met Joel, if their relationship was more than merely business, and what she did before the outbreak.

[@willowandluka5302]

It’s clear that they had some romantic involvement at some point

[@TheStapleGunKid]

@@willowandluka5302 It's possible, but not certain. Either way it would have been nice if we got to find out.

[@KenoSNeal]

This is an example of a strong female character who contributes to the story. Didn't need huge muscular arms, but was just as convincing by the way that she carried herself.

[@laracroftvideos]

Amen. Also, in spite of being flawed and hardened by years of surviving in a world where you can die anytime Tess still feels so relatable and human. Like, I can imagine what her life and personality were like before the pandemic without having to have a flashback moment where I'm forced to play as her for 5 hours straight to see she was once an ordinary person with dreams and some people she cared for. *THAT'S WHAT A WELL WRITTEN CHARACTER IS LIKE* -- Abby is boring, and I felt zero investment in her character during the parts of the game where you're forced to suffer through her side of the story. Her entire existence is just so the game can preach its moral lesson about why revenge is bad.

[@KenoSNeal]

@@laracroftvideos Exactly. The second game just feels like it has lost its own point. I said this in a review, and it is that tlou part one was a character driven game that was bias. The game worked that way. Telling a two sided story in this installment wasn't a good idea in my opinion. Because it feels like the developers were trying to make tlou part two Abby's game. It just makes no sense at all when all the advertising and build up from the first installment focused on Joel and Ellie. No one gives a damn about Abby. Her decisions in the game were understandable yes, but that doesn't make her likable. We haven't had time to invest in her character. There are so many things wrong with the game. All of the forced messages that could have easily been sumed into the story if it was written well, all the corny dialog, the boring scenes, the story structure was all a mess. But like you said, good writing could have saved this game. Everyday I think of ways they could have changed the story. Oh well. Just another failed sequel unfortunately.

[@MS-hb3ol]

And btw if someone ever says "why can't a woman have a strong natural body like that instead of a hypersexual body" note that Abby was designed based of off a female crossfitter who as we all know are neck deep in steroids and PEDs. So no it isn't natural

[@weaverquest]

@@KenoSNeal None of the characters in TLOU are "likeable" that's not the point of the game. Both Joel and Tess were cynical shitty people and the way they were living their life smuggling crap for money is completely uninteresting to the audience. It really is up for debate whether Tess is a "strong female character" at all. She is a capable survivor but that's mostly it. If she didn't get the death sentence from the bite, she and Joel might or might not have cancelled the deal and turned back home deeming the job too dangerous despite the high payment. The reason we like Joel and Tess here is because they are compelling and realistic characters and the best creative decision about Tess is that she didn't overstay her welcome by dying off early and the bite made her "sacrifice" more believable. In contrast Abby was integral the core of the story in Part II and I actually enjoyed my time playing as Abby (not least because her gameplay is really fun and her part of the story had some incredible set pieces). Reflecting back on the story months later, I appreciate it even more. I started off despising Abby and rooting for Ellie to kill her and all.her friends one by one but during her part seeing how she was being haunted by nightmares of the day Joel killed her father and all the other fireflies made me understand her struggle and realise she was in the same boat Ellie was in, the characters I was rooting for. Part II does an incredible job testing players' biases and how well they can see the other side of the conflict. But the best part of the story is that it is a "revenge is bad" story only on the very surface level. It is a story mostly about how you deal with loss and that goes for both Ellie and Abby. When Tommy said Joel wouldn't go after WLF if the places were switched he was probably right as Joel never tried to go after the people who ordered to kill Sarah. Such a devastating loss probably made him the cynical and ruthless man he was at the beginning of TLOU 1 but he found his humanity 20 years later by taking care of Ellie. Abby was being haunted by nightmares about the day Joel killed her father and all the fireflies and she thought taking revenge on Joel would be the answer but it didn't stop her nightmares. It made everything worse as Tommy and Ellie killed all her close friends one by one trying to reach her. In the game you can see however that Abby's nightmares stopped after she saved Yara and Lev and she found hope again which was a similar arc Joel went through. To me the themes go much deeper than just "revenge is bad" for these reasons. Ellie also lost almost everything in the pursuit of revenge and the ending of the game was rather depressing as hell but that's what I really like about the game. Most revenge stories reach its conclusion when the main character kills the antagonist in the most satisfying way possible to the audience but instead, TLOU Part II instead leaves the player depressed and hopeless. Personally I really like the story of both but Part II is a much more though provoking game and even more of an emotional rollercoaster imo.

[@asian_sensation_6998]

@@weaverquest yessir

[@ALGOChannel]

A secondary character's death that was treated with more respect than any of the deaths in the sequel

[@treemane0]

She's litteraly a better character than Abby

[@treemane0]

@Jai Kundicevic faxxx

[@bulletproofman323]

Well put.

[@enriquejackson6722]

Yeahh... It is called "Good Writing"

[@babyragegekyume4132]

what sequel?

[@fantasticbeck3938]

RIP Annie. Thank you for bringing Tess to life. Thinking of her loved ones.

[@MR-uu7tq]

Losing Tess in the game was a emotional hit not going to lie than the brought her death to life in the series and now the voice of Tess Annie wersching passed away may she rest in peace.

[@kanube2]

he should've at least gave Tessa a kiss on the cheek. he wouldn't have gotten infected by it lol

[@Gimtakashi]

bruhhhh I would smash tess. Don't matter if I get infected or not that would be worth it and would do it a thousand times over. nice streams btw

[@4Queijos1234]

Jiles Ooka Mannn you fucked up

[@edwardhernandez6668]

Kanube Someone like you should never be allowed to write anything in fiction. You can't stand the sutblety of this situation.

[@axb3542]

It would look kinda akward Joel giving kiss to Tess on the cheek

[@gendoruwo6322]

"Come on, make this easy for me." Tess specifically asks this. A kiss is won't help with that. unless it's a cheap drama. But Last of Us is not.

[@solortus]

When character deaths matter and you don't just get shot in the face

[@eliasbonafe9236]

? So we should criticize every quick death of every film and videogame?... cmon.

[@emergency.jergens]

I miss jesse

[@hugsfordrugs4563]

Jesse :

[@JakesNotDrinking]

The writing in this scene is just SO good.

[@blackeviledwolf3513]

@Mr602 Wait wut really??? There were other creaters of naughty dog and almost all of them left??? That's why tlou2 do be quite messed up!! 🤔😐

[@blackeviledwolf3513]

@Mr602 oh woe I didn't know about this till now I'm glad you me this information!! Explains how tlou2 is different from tlou1!! 🤨

[@IsaacRM92]

Obviously Tess and Joel had some sort of relationship, more than friends I presume, but Tess had a very stoich personality, so much so like Joel, so they didn't show much affection to each other due to the circumstances and everything they went through individually, despite of all that, they indeed had feelings for each other

[@Jose-se9pu]

Pretty clear they had history, but both of them were broken, so it probably didnt work...most of us forget Joel regain some of his humanity after spending months with Ellie, but he was an asshole at the beginning of the game.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@Jose-se9pu He wasn't an asshole. He was just careful.

[@rolandsmash]

The way Tess says “as far as it needs to go” wrecks my heart every time.

[@LeaderOfMischief]

RIP Annie Wersching. Thank you for giving us an incredible Tess

[@Tythecodeguy]

And they expect me to believe that Joel would just trust strangers in the last of us 2. Fuck that game

[@rickrossstagedive3490]

I think TLOU2 had a lot of potential for its storyline but damn it was just horribly executed with bad writing, uninteresting and cringy dialogue, uninteresting characters, and most importantly it didn’t carry the same emotional potency and value this game did

[@090-v3g]

RIP Tess, we loved you

[@Sophie-dm6bo]

And THIS is how you kill an important character. At least she went out fighting. I’m just gonna pretend part 2 never happened...

[@kei7540]

Facts Joel was gonna die but he should've died like tess saving Ellie or something

[@bastardjustice]

The original play was Tess was supposed to be a villain but they changed it.

[@michaelwashington2519]

@@bastardjustice turns out joel was supposed to die in the first game but he was supposed to go out like how he was in the second game and Ellie was getting beat up watching joel die but guess what they didn't like the idea

[@lidaaletap2646]

There is no such thing as a 'this is how someone should die' thing for characters, where does this thing come from? Joel's luck ran out and he got killed just like anybody else, why do y'all want him to die in such a specific way? I dont get it.

[@Whovian1029]

Huh, maybe it's like the deaths had different purposes or something. Tess's death was there to motivate Joel to carry on her dying wish, while Joel's death was there to motivate Ellie to go after the people that killed him.

[@crypto2633]

look here's how a main character dies. They sacrifice themselves and go out fighting.

[@MirrenTheDragonKnight]

You are not owed a heroic sacrifice just because you are a main character. In addition, male characters almost always get heroic sacrifices while females are mainly already died or died/are killed passively (Sarah from the very same game is an example). It is about time that was reversed more. Yes, I know I sound like a feminist, but I am just sick to death of the people demanding Joel should have gone out in what would have been such a cliche, trite way for a character like him. It is still bullshit how he died though, as they made him (and Tommy) into OOC idiots to do so.

[@MirrenTheDragonKnight]

@Ghajini 3000 I only responded to two comments, hun. And regardless Tess? And? She is a rare exception in a sea of fridge'd females and already dead mothers. I never said they had to. That is why I write my own stories. And how the fuck does my criticism of fiction make a Karen? Hell, I don't even look like one, never mind speak/act like them.

[@χορήγηση]

NaokoTheDragonKnight Joel deserved better that’s all.

[@MirrenTheDragonKnight]

@@χορήγηση I agree.

[@kei7540]

@@MirrenTheDragonKnight I'd take a cliche death over the trash they did everything conveniently happening just to get some plot going

[@dreamer518]

I think, when Tess got butten, she remembered that Ellie was immune, and that she mught have been a cure, so she kept on going until they found the bodies, then gave up

[@assassindancer914]

Cindy Dreamer she saw a way out that she could liked, she didn't want to die by the infection

[@oni5909]

you didn’t fail us Troy Baker you were amazing as usual, Naughty Dog did :(

[@oni5909]

@Leotis Bennett wym? what did he say

[@TheChosennn]

Sathu I think he was pissed at the director for the writing and apparently Joel originally wasn’t supposed to die so early so Troy got pissed at the director

[@oni5909]

Brendan ODonnell well deserved

[@mitchellbenford3896]

Tlou2 is not that bad

[@shilohwhiloh9636]

He tried to save it

[@peaaanuuutz]

Now I want a Last of Us prequel, about Joel and Tommy's, and how Joel met Tess.

[@cheezybitz7353]

dlc

[@nopoint2427]

I don't even want even that anymore, after how tone deaf Naughty Dog has been I don't want them to smear their shit on Tess as well.

[@kei7540]

I'm good I don't wanna see shit from ND for a long time

[@captainmac1005]

Well ND has actually come out and said that they've had nothing planned in terms of DLC for TLOU2.

[@throwaway3005]

@@nopoint2427 ... honestly

[@delvalyahir2852]

rest in peace Annie Wersching, You were always Great...Tess

[@chomosuke0720]

TLOU 1: Heart-wrenching and meaningful deaths, as well as sudden and realistic ones that haunts the surviving characters throughout the entire game TLOU 2: pEnDeJO

[@ElectrikStatik900]

*sPiT*

[@frosty0775]

Hehe golf club go brrr

[@falahakmal7905]

@@frosty0775 lol

[@mitchellbenford3896]

TLOU is a better zombie take than the walking dead tv show

[@mitchellbenford3896]

I don't think TLOU2 was that bad. It showed Ellie's descent into darkness and how Joel's death made her vindictive and made her do things that she regretted and made her horrified. She let Abby go because she realized she killed so many people just for one person and realized that vengeance cost more than the rewards. Ellie lost her girlfriend, her friends, her son, and most importantly, her humanity because of it. She let Abby go not because it was right, but because it was what she needed to do to start healing. People say Mel was stupid for going between Ellie and Owen, but her boyfriend was dying and she was not thinking. Ellie did regret killing her because she was pregnant. Nora's death was the one that made her really question her actions because Abby is gone and her friends love her enough. I think when Ellie told Abby Dina was pregnant, she was reminded of Mel and wanted to fix her bad deed. I think Naughty Dog did a great job because they never used plot armor and showed characters their humanity and showed the prices we pay for revenge.

[@RobertHDaGod]

How can we feel more for Tess in 2 hours than we felt for Abby in 10 hours?

[@kei7540]

Good writing

[@jackspedicy]

甲斐 it was just so ironic that Neil wrote this too but still managed to fuck up in the second.

[@captainmac1005]

Well she wasn't introduced by killing a fan favorite character.. THEN after 20 hours we get to see that hey.. she's a person too.. let's develop her character NOW.

[@thespiritofjonathanjoestar6805]

@@jackspedicy Something happened to him between 2013 and 2016/17 while writing the game

[@enriquejackson6722]

@iamtheyack yeahhh all Neil Druckmann alone. Bruce Stranley left Naughty Dog after 2016

[@mandrincroxley9215]

Tess's death has more meaning then any of the side characters deaths in Part 2 put together

[@irishpanda7453]

Mandrin Croxley (SPOILERS) every death in game had weight like tess, Sam, Henry, David and Marlene in pt 2 every death felt so empty and unfulfilling like they literally kill Jesse like he’s some Npc

[@willcotterill8598]

Irishpanda745 it’s because the second hand shows the brutal consequences of having an obsession over revenge and what the path can do to you and others are mound you whereas the first game is more about survival and building a bond

[@willcotterill8598]

@David Mutchler mature aren’t you?

[@slicksouthpaw1350]

Tess' death had more emotional depth than Joel's death and she only was alive for a couple hours. Think about that for a second.

[@χορήγηση]

Gay of Us Golf Club Edition

[@bryanlucas2710]

Tess was a better caracter than Abby.

[@maestroacog3566]

The story of this game is so bad, tess wouldn’t get bitten in such a stupid way after 20 years of survival, she was such a badass earlier in the game. Trash game 0/10 (/s)

[@fauzanadrian1593]

back then when naughty dog still have their brain cell intact

[@AlexyalanAlexyalan]

Maestro Acog your talking about the second one right?🤦🏻‍♂️🤔

[@beetay2732]

My favorite thing about this game was how it showed in a time of apocalypse and infected zombie killer creatures; it shows that humanity can become the worst Monster of all. Like how we all turned on each other, predators of the living, stealing, killing, and disregarding life in the struggle to survive. What makes "Us" scarier then the infected was the fact that we did these atrocities with free will and conscious in tack... While on the other hand, "the infected" had no control over what they did and became.. Its a striking commentary on human morality in crisis. The Last of Us was very ironic in that way. And "The Last of Us" can be found in what Tommy's group was trying to do at the damn... trying to preserve the Last of Our moralities, and what we once had and were as human beings. IMHO, this game is a masterpiece in storytelling. LoU2 will have a lot to live up to.

[@mitchellbenford3896]

And so much better than Twd tv show. Twd was too one dimensional and had too many cookie-cutter plotlines. I stopped watching it after a few episodes of season 6. I also sometimes feel like Rick and his group are the bad guys.

[@struggler8532]

Lol TLOU2 just shat all over that

[@Floristini]

Joe How so?

[@atomicpower2438]

@@mitchellbenford3896 i personally can’t stand the walking dead the story is just so boring that it makes you want to watch it without even using your brain

[@mitchellbenford3896]

@@atomicpower2438 same here

[@Bartholinn]

Here after the tv series... Both game and tv series did an amazing job on tess's death...

[@Shroop]

At least Joel can See Tess in the After life

[@user-kt9ul5kq6x]

RIP Annie 💙 Tess wouldn’t be as memorable if it wasn’t for your breathtaking performance.

[@Stefan-ji2ek]

Everyone who helped make this game should be proud of what they accomplished.

[@gengar807]

If I think of any sort of strong independent woman, I think of Tess

[@χορήγηση]

yep not that steroid user Debbie

[@lidaaletap2646]

@@χορήγηση Abby*

[@χορήγηση]

Lidaa letap Debbie*

[@lidaaletap2646]

@@χορήγηση whatever floats your boat

[@χορήγηση]

Lidaa letap u must not watch PewDiePie. He calls Abby and Jesse in different names: Debbie and Eugene

[@brotherbrod]

“IT IS OVER TESS!” i remember hearing that in the trailer all the way back in 2013 before the game came out.... sent shivers down 15 year old me’s spine let me tell you.

[@Pedro_Le_Chef]

The delievery is superb. Joel was such a great character.

[@macdemauro6219]

I cried a lot in that scene, Tess could've been the mother figure of Ellie :)

[@warofdeat]

:(

[@MrKenpachi100]

I really do think that Joel and Tess were sleeping together. Their relationship always seemed intimate to me.

[@DashiellAvery]

Shaquan Beverly ellie might be they daughter

[@goofypineapple1277]

I hope you're joking lol

[@teekydeeky]

They had a relationship in the past. A sexual one, which is heavily implied, but as of the moment in the clip, they're partners, not lovers.

[@MsMRkv]

Shaquan Beverly they're just friends.

[@gendoruwo6322]

they have more than that, too. they're fellow survivors who always fight side by side. a bond forged in battles is truly unique.

[@Kehranii]

''Guess what? We're shitty people joel... It's been that way for a long time." For some reason, this resonates with me in many ways..

[@thevincii-javo5355]

After watching the live adaptation this one is still the best

[@acer1325]

Not at all

[@mithex8414]

this scene was so much better here than in the show

[@animegamelover6368]

Rest In Peace, Annie.

[@Neags]

I had more of a connection with Tess here than Dina, Abby, Mel, Owen, Jesse, Manny, Nora combined

[@DragonPupEclipse]

Jesse and Tess are two best characters. Dina is okay. The rest are just assholes

[@newuser6320]

@@DragonPupEclipse to Abby, ellie and co was assholes lol

[@Lilhajxjk274]

That's your issue not the games

[@silversnail1413]

Tess, Bill, Henry and Sam are all more interesting than any of the new characters in TLOU2. They had a much deeper impact on the story despite having much less screen time. Every side character in The Last Of The Us felt real and fleshed out but the side characters in the sequel are just boring cannon fodder who only exist to be killed off or brutalized in pointlessly grotesque ways.

[@tanyanikolaevagizdova6571]

Dina was a pretty good character

[@Russel_at_whatever]

At this cut scene I said to myself, "oh God, this game is something different" and for the next few days I just kept being amazed

[@Datlil_Gun]

Now that is how you kill off a character

[@yourdoom187]

And make her impact felt throughout the game

[@newuser6320]

@@yourdoom187 joel also had a impact. The whole ellie plot is about getting revenge smh

[@davidmutchler2403]

@@newuser6320 lol nah 😂

[@urnewpapichulo4464]

@@newuser6320 what revenge? Oh you mean the revenge she said “go” too? Is that the revenge you’re talking about? There was jack shit anything good about tlou2 besides the guitar and Joel and Ellie like you deadass think Abby is likable but she isn’t she’s just a wanna be Joel that takes steroids.

[@averyperry7234]

I honestly think her revealing she was bitten was more sad, then Riley’s or Sam’s

[@aboodabood2959]

Nope , sam's unrivaled

[@proximacentauri2684]

Everything about this scene is just brilliant. Joel's "I can fight" just makes it so hard to watch

[@stygames5450]

This hits harder now than it did before.

[@lonelywarrior17]

Who's here after Joel's death? fucking hell that was terrible, he didn't deserve that kind of death.

[@kwamedamuah1838]

I am here. He should never have died

[@howdoichangemyusername9802]

@@kwamedamuah1838 saying he didn’t deserve it is like saying Joel is a flawless hero everyone should aspire to be. He’s isn’t. I’d argue Kratos is a more noble character than Joel. And this isn’t to say I hate him. But people have this misconception that Joel is a good person.

[@howdoichangemyusername9802]

@monocrap whether he’s either one or both, Death was creeping for him. Of all the characters I’ve played as, he probably the weakest one in terms of threat. There’s probably lot more capable survivors than Joel, and his death shows that. He doesn’t get to go out in a shoot out because that’s not the theme Tlou has set.

[@TashaLilac]

Fucking spoiler you ass

[@Jean_Pierre_Wehry]

Fun fact, in the original script Tess was supposed to be the main antagonist in the game, but the development team didn't think it was a good idea, but still gave her a critical role in the game. Sometimes I wonder how the game would have turned out if they went that route, and what Tess' intentions would be. I assume she would be like Marlene.

[@chinogambino9375]

Back when the development team could tell Druckmann his ideas sucked and needed changes. Now look at them with an unopposed fetishist dictating their direction.

[@dabearsguavacados9378]

Tess is one of my favorite characters in the game. Joel had most of his connections in the QZ through her and they made an incredible team. Sad to see the show disrespect her death like that😭

[@javierjesusbalades2155]

I will act like there has never been and never will be a sequel of these masterpiece.

[@VarietyMusicLover]

One of the saddest parts for sure Tess had so much life in her and she knew she was infected and she picked a good time to sacrifice herself to help Joel & Ellie get away Tess was brave to do that for them.

[@ykMasiH]

RIP Tess (my fav character; i love her so much)

[@CH-uk1il]

Really hurts now that Tess' voice actress is now dead.

[@MICROMIXERXD]

it's sad that there's actually people who forget about tess now, they're more focus on joel and ellie more, even though if it wasn' for tess to convince joel to take ellie to tommy, joel woulda just gave up and gave ellie back. tess' may have died so early in the game, but she had a huge part of all of it.

[@jojocarlson52]

kinda crazy how people think the series version is better than this. i know fans will just eat up anything and say everything is better in the series but i just dont see it. dont get me wrong, the series did a great job but this is astronomically clear

[@peoduction6068]

100% agree

[@NW-Ninja]

When Tess has a better death than Joel :(

[@imoanadz]

We love tess

[@RokokoisBased]

why

[@tanyanikolaevagizdova6571]

Joel's death scene was actually done well. The idea and point of his death is debatable but his death scene was well made

[@dmanc85]

How can anyone watch this and not think Joel and Tess had a thing for eachother?!

[@DailyDoseofShortsVideos]

Joel could have died like this but NOOOO he had to be out of character to die

[@Swapmeet421]

That’s how real life is my guy, not everyone gets a heroic death

[@sorar1kukira]

20-30 years of surviving just to go out by trusting a stranger

[@newuser6320]

@@Swapmeet421 amen

[@atomicpower2438]

@@sorar1kukira and a crazy flying golf club

[@phantomhunter7211]

I really felt like there was an unspoken love between Joel and Tess

[@Mysterious-Night]

Unpopular opinion: Tess looks better with this design

[@lucilagianechini155]

seeing this scene and knowing that Annie Wersching passed away hurts me even more 😢💔

[@briansounalath]

This acting and writing is better than the show. They should have just used this dialogue.

[@ds22342]

This is how you create a strong female character,not by placing a woman's head on a male model

[@EddyTee99]

For real though, I'd rather have Tess by my side in a fight any day over that Abby freak XD

[@automaticpower8716]

Strongly agree

[@automaticpower8716]

Ghajini 3000 that’s because she is a transgender

[@zachp3588]

Ghajini 3000 Honestly Bill being fat isn’t that realistic either,food is scarce but he’s pretty fat 20 years later

[@ds22342]

@@zachp3588 probably bad genetics

[@ThePervinca99]

Me, watching Tess' Death: truly sad and almost crying and even after 2636474 times I've watched it still breaks my heart. Me, watching the Death of every secondary character in TLOU2: oh sad. Let's move on now.

[@warofdeat]

same bruh

[@ThePervinca99]

@@warofdeat Gosh I hate that story.

[@ironmaniacxd5658]

If you are reading this.... Im sorry : (

[@Yes-vm8og]

:(

[@praveersharan3775]

:(((

[@WinxClub223]

:( the sequel had so much potential

[@ironmaniacxd5658]

@@WinxClub223 thats what hurts the most... I feel your pain

[@nmelody4414]

7 years bro, all wasted

[@duncanoid4336]

i don't know if it's just me, but have you noticed , after tess sees the dead fireflies and starts searching for something to help them, it kinda mimics the way the infected devour dead people and when she looks up to talk to ellie without any of the desperate searching movement, it looks like when the infected notice someone around and raise their head before going after them, it lampshades the fact that she is infected. if the creators did this on purpose, that's great attention to detail and deepth and just adds an extra point for this game being one of the greatest games of the XXI century and of all time

[@TheChosennn]

I’m so glad they didn’t make a sequel to this legendary game

[@connorbates2756]

R/woooooosh

[@agreed7460]

They did

[@rutheglasses4677]

For me this scene presents a very interesting point, and fans don't always give it the attention it deserves. Tess, infected and about to die, had the opportunity to reflect on her life and what she had become: a cruel, ruthless, selfish, and purposeless person. Taking Ellie to the Fireflies and finding the cure was no longer just a job, it was her last chance at redemption after who knows how many bad deeds in the past. For Tess, turning Ellie over and finding the cure was the only way the last years of her life would have any meaning. The only way that her death would have any meaning. And Ellie I think understood that to some degree, hence her survivor's guilt for Tess's death. And Joel I think also understood it to a certain extent, that his possible ex-or-current lover needed them to find a vaccine for cordyceps so that her death would not be meaningless. That is why she entrusted this mission to Joel, begging him to do it. Joel understood all of that, and yet he put Ellie's life before Tess's dying wishes. That's very, very interesting and I think it adds another layer of gray to Joel. That he would betray the last, dying wishes of a possible lover for the sake of his adopted daughter. And it reminds us again that Ellie was the first and most important thing for him, above everyone, even Tess. Above the entire world.

[@elvivas]

-Rest In Peace Annie Wersching, Your Character Had A Big Impact On Me Despite Your Short Role, Fly High Tess-.

[@asadbashir3199]

Tess had more of a believable and genuine arc in 2 hours than Abby had in 10 hours. Abby feels guilty that she did what she did even though Joel saved her life. That guilt drives her to go back for Yara and Lev because they saved her life but its not like they wronged her the way Joel did...... it just didn't feel genuine. Tess starts out like Joel: jaded, hopeless, always focused, and ruthless. The second she discovers Ellie's immune, we start to see her become emotionally vulnerable as her hope for a cure drives her to get to the Capitol. Even when they find that one Firefly shot in the ally outside the Capitol building, she still holds out hope. The second she sees all the Fireflies dead, she uses that emotional vulnerability to drive Joel to get her to Tommy's. She starts out hopeless and believing in nothing but surviving and goes out hopeful with something to die for. Would love to play a game as Tess but after Part 2 I'm sure they'll just character assassinate her.

[@MR.__G]

If Joel would’ve known that was the daughter of the doctor he killed he would’ve not saved her… btw Abby spared Ellie & Dina after seeing all her friends dead. So obviously she learned after killing Joel, revenge is just going to lead to more revenge & it didn’t make her feel better at all.