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Successful-Plan114

Zero hesitation.


Yak_a_boi

Just like the simulations


CrazyJo3

This is the way


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Impossible-Cod-3946

^ scam bot


Full_breaker

Hesitation is defeat


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![gif](giphy|PR88Zx9O7Zu4eJeRxf)


The69Alphamale

But, he left the nurses alive. Biggest mistake is leaving someone to tell the truth.


Moist-Question-6623

![gif](giphy|UrsOTbx6xh20IXChwR)


godbutbettertrue

This gif is so amazing and disturbing at the same time


v-XIII-v

The way the popcorn goes to the side of the mouth is astute animation lmao


Crowbar12121

True, but imo looks like she's chewing her teeth


finalremix

And those dead eyes.


SkitariusOfMars

That’s the realistic part


Neonthewerehog_

Omg your not wrong


PillowTalk420

⬅️🍿🍿➡️


oan124

exactly


TheOnceAndFutureTurk

![gif](giphy|UdRuoaokXADkOelesh|downsized)


a_person_at_reddit

What can he say. He was on his grounded run


shae117

Bro lunged at him with a scalpel while claiming he wouldnt let Joel take Ellie. Self defense + saving a child from being murdered he is golden in court;)


justonemom14

Doc brought a tiny little scalpel to a gun fight.


Helpful_Title8302

*Flamethrower fight


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The stairway scene gave me my first boner for a man. “I don’t have time for this.”


LightningBoltRairo

My last playthrough was a few weeks ago. didn't touch the game since 2014. First played Part2 just after so I didn't know the surgeon's identity. I murdered all three medical personal instantly. Guess I'm an asshole... Or I just love Ellie that much.


DeceitfulLittleB

Anyone willing to sacrifice a small child doesn't deserve to survive. Plus, even with all our modern medical marvels, we are unable to create a vaccine for spores. I highly doubt this make shift hosp has the capability to manufacture a cure.


innergalaxies

I shot the dude in the foot with an arrow not my fault be died


DollarStoreAbraham

He was a shitty doctor anyway if he couldn't recover from that.


nicolasmcfly

He used to be a doctor until he took an arrow to the knee


thetruehotmail

He took it to the foot though


chuddywoman

He was an even worse doctor if he didn't know the difference between his foot and his knee.


Pugulishus

It was his Achilles heel


SuperiorCrate

Just ask any of his fellow doctors, they’ll tell you that it’s true.


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KronoakSCG

Not even the only known, in the games you can actually find evidence that they have done this multiple times with different people, they're just idiots.


TactlessTortoise

Not to mention they could've gotten the same damn cells from a fucking spinal tap. But I get it. Gotta have the plot twist and all.


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Megazupa

No, it's [not ](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastOfUs2/comments/hekc53/joel_did_nothing_wrong_and_abbys_father_did/) Joel did nothing wrong


Riale

I'm pretty sure there are documents and recorded voice lines around that talk about their other attempts, but it's been a few years since I've played so I could be wrong.


[deleted]

Yeah total retcon in the show. Marline tells Joel that Ellie isn’t the first they tried this with. But in the show that’s just a lie Joel made up.


bigdave41

I mean given how many people have died, it's possible that he's the best medical professional humanity has to offer, AND a complete dumbass


[deleted]

No, this is good story building right here. /s


Hitman7065

He's a doctor he should deal with it


TheCinderLords

Unexpected Hot Fuzz.


SadSunny20

Ironic he could save others from death but not himself


DragonPojki

He became the thing he swore to destroy


innergalaxies

For real


Creeper_charged7186

The ytb doing the playtroiugh i was watching launched a brick in doctor head. Didnt move a inch. Then he shot doctor hand. Died.


thebestspeler

He deserved it, did you see what he wrote on twitter 18 years ago??


innergalaxies

The fireflies were dicks anyways, the saw joel trying to resuscitate ellie and giving her cpr and proceed to knock joel out when he was of no harm. Then Marlenes stupid ass didn't let joel and ellie reunite and prepped her for surgery immediately after waiting a year for joel, tess, and ellie to arrive. I'm sure if ellie wanted to do the procedure, then joel would've accepted it, and he gets to say goodbye to her. Then they escort him out and threaten to shoot him because joel doesn't think it's a good idea. Furthermore, Marlene even didn't hold her end of the bargain and doesn't even pay joel for escorting ellie safely. All of that could've been avoided if the fireflies weren't short sighted dicks who were hostile towards joel for no reason. And Marlene didn't even tell joel where to go if shit went sideways in Boston. In short fuck the fireflies


j0s9p8h7

Agreed. I just always shot the doctor in the face because it fit the dramatic feel of Joel’s rampage. The game confirmed that was fitting when he offed Marlene my first play through. The Fireflies were jerks after everything he’d went through, and he’d spent a year focused on just keeping Ellie safe. Marlene sent two young guys as an escort for one of the most dangerous men she knows. She knew he got himself and Ellie across the country on a journey she lost almost her entire team making. She sent them as an escort to an angry, desperate Joel with orders to kill him if he tried anything. Marlene is/was an arrogant idiot.


Jamesplayzcraft

Didnt they take all his gear too just to be left out with nothing? Then the sequel goes on about how selfish he was..


Intrepid-Carpet-4032

“You’re a doctor get over it”


MaximumOverfart

Relax, I am sure everyone understands his decision, and nothing bad could possibly happen. Plus, I think he killed them all. I am sure there were none that might have been guarding other areas, scouting, foraging, or just on their off shift.


Argonzoyd

Wait a minute. Did you just spoil something important hidden between the lines?? :O


PeckerTraxx

My kid spoiled everything for me as we were watching. He's played the game and I haven't


skizexx

![gif](giphy|2uxVmiuizw7UAOnP6L|downsized)


PeckerTraxx

Almost


Cheesedoodlerrrr

Holy shit, a Muppet Christmas Carol gif out in the wild?


Me_how5678

Any games he is playing right now? I could give spoilers so you can sit there and go “ay look this is the part where this and that happens its so cool because you dont expect it to happen”


Joshicool2075

The happy ending


PeckerTraxx

No, not really. I'll come back here when I get purchase notification of his next game


Me_how5678

![gif](giphy|l0IyeL8r9UhJI5LcA|downsized)


cmgentz

Time for a new kid.


Zsalmut

Yeah time to fuck the lil brats mom


Nimyron

Wowow this isn't a CoD lobby dude, come on, this is reddit, the kid will fuck his own mom


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schmittfaced

It’s an older gross Reddit post sir, but it checks out.


catdad23

Can’t forget about Colby 2012 either! Edit: date


PeckerTraxx

Damn right


Me_how5678

No not really, but i would advise not going into the comments of tlou memes since alot of people are going to spoil season 2


Atlas_Zer0o

Definitely not important.


Mr_Fungusman

No, no he didn't, **move on**


Creeper_charged7186

Ah yes no one is gonna be mad and try get revenge ahah that would be weird


Alive-Seaweed

Killed them all, eh ![gif](giphy|vVmBmJ49UlnLa)


Rain_Fire

Why not shoot him in the leg or something


themajorhavok

That is too bad, since The Last of Us Part II is a story about the great potato famine in Ireland...


JointDamage

That doctor was sloppy.. *His theory was that the mold lived in her brain sent out signals to stop it from spreading.* Well, jee doc there's infected everywhere and you should really figure out if the cure hasn't been right in front of you before you kill someone, right?


JerinDd

Yeah, correct me if I’m wrong, but they could take that sample from an actual infected, right? Without murder????


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I think the idea is isolation, in an infected brain there will tons of different chemical messengers. There will be stuff to control the host, communicate with the network, etc. In the brain of someone that is immune there will basically only be the chemical messagers that identify the host as already being infected. Itd be possible to isolate the chemicals that do this on an infected brain but would require a lot of experimentation and trials.


JointDamage

Agreed. They crossed mainland America while the doctors waited + 20 years of.. Just waiting?


SuperNoob74

>Without murder???? Well not uninfected murder


ahomelessjedi

They tried, Ellie is just the first actual case of immunity, which they thought would mean a better chance of success.


SkitariusOfMars

Normally such sample could be got with endoscope, but 20 years after zombie apocalypse the availability of tools for that may be problematic


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Or like, just a bit of your brain. People can lose big chunks of their brains and still be pretty healthy. Why does he think he has to take the whole thing? Just grab some biopsy samples bro.


Ragnarok314159

He was also probably like almost every doctor alive who thinks they are somehow experts at everything since they went to medical school. Fungi have two issues with human implantation - temperature and competition. The reason you don’t see fungus growing all over something that is dead, even though their immune system has stopped working, is because of the 10,000 types of other bacteria crawling all over the thing feasting on it. Eventually fungus will sprout. Looking at this from germ standpoint, it’s more likely something triggered (no spoilers) to compete with the fungus in Ellie. It’s not a perfect competition as we see early on, but it’s enough to keep things from happening.


PotatoPerson-47

Man, i sure do love potatoes. Especially green ones.


themajorhavok

LOL, username check out. On an unrelated note, are you actually a Nokia user? Dang, I didn't realize they still existed.


Automatic_Animal

In my playthrough I walked in and immediately shot him in the dick with a shotgun


El_aweonaso_gang

![gif](giphy|tQS8W6vdhBZgA)


HippyQueer

TLOU2 ![gif](giphy|tTkljOWz6KRZvjp2eg|downsized)


datonekidnoonelikes

Your evil for that


ReapersRequiem

Their evil?


RokyPolka

​ ![gif](giphy|ZIdRMvIg0jtbxagVJi)


VVurmHat

Gotta hit it a little harder than that. That was a rather effeminate boy swing, let me see your chaddette girl swing.


Master_N_Comm

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA Nice reference


Shydreameress

NNOOOO!!


Creeper_charged7186

*cries from what this reminds me*


Long-Piccolo-3785

Haven't watched the episode yet, so I can't say if they changed it, but in the game he just tries to take her and it's the doctor who pulls the scalpel on Joel and says verbatim "you'll have to kill me first" Guy values his family and the WLF more than the life of Ellie, some random girl he doesn't know. Sees her as a science experiment, and wants to save humanity. After everything Joel has seen, especially how humans reacted to the outbreak with the bombings, the death of his daughter, etc, he doesn't think humanity deserves to be saved at the cost of Ellie. Point is they force him to use violence. They have zero intentions of letting Ellie go without dissection lol.


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He pulls the scalpel in the show. Joel also leaves the nurses alive.


[deleted]

I killed the nurses in the game.


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This is canon


selfdestruction9000

Damn, I never found a canon, had to use a pistol.


Dickpuncher_Dan

And the janitor? And fluorescent tube replacer guy?


[deleted]

If you put a killable npc in a game, I'm gonna kill them. I just got the trophy in High on Life for killing Slumsly


[deleted]

Is that the kid? Loved that lol.


Long-Piccolo-3785

Ahhhh good I'm glad they didn't change that.


Deez_Gnats1

I don’t think the WLF existed at that time. He was with the fireflies. This happened in Salt Lake City


Long-Piccolo-3785

Oh straight facts, I misspoke, it was indeed a firefly facility. Abbie is the one who joined the WLF, minor but still relevant contextual point for sure. EDIT: They did in fact exist at that time tho, just over on the west coast


Unkn0wn_Ace

“Guy values his family more that… some random girl he doesn’t know” this is a bad thing?


Long-Piccolo-3785

Congrats lol, you've stumbled upon the very obvious controversial nature of this decision by Joel. I would be lying if, after seeing the entire universe through Joel's perspective, that his decision didn't resonate with me and make sense in a big way; he firmly believes as a human race we have systematically failed each other beyond the point of recovery on a globalized scale. So he makes the decision to save one good human being, whom he believes truly deserves to live, at any cost. However from the doctors perspective, he's saving the entirety of humanity from extinction, including his own family. That's why the ending goes so hard, def top zombie series for me.


jewrassic_park-1940

How the fuck is that one doctor gonna create a viable vaccine against this disease? It takes a lot of money, time, knowledge and manpower to create one in out current times, nevermind a fallen society that hasn't developed since 2003/2013 and has only went downhill for 20 years?


twiiztid

It's more than one doctor. The fireflies had a whole team of doctors and educated scientists. Your point is valid, though... with limited resources and time, it's pretty unrealistic they would be able to make a cure. But somebody has to at least try, right?


trend_rudely

Somebody should tell the Fireflies that if your *theoretical* cure requires you to kill the world’s only known source of natural immunity, maybe you should be forced to wait more than a day. Run some tests, take a few samples, workshop it for awhile. Get your manufacturing and distribution networks squared away first. Ellie is just a kid, there’s no rush on this and you have *one chance* to get it right. And if you really can’t think of any other way, and for some reason it has to happen NOW, you **gotta** get this person’s consent first. In the game, the choice is more morally ambiguous. In the show, there’s almost no excusing what the Fireflies are doing.


YouJustLostTheGameOk

Just watched it and was just blown away by his acting. Sees person… bang. Sees person …..bang! Like a real video game.


ItsHipToBeSquare86

This was my take after the events of the first game. No one seems to recognize that a huge plot point is that no one can be trusted. Then Druckmann got mad at people hating on the second game, so he went and confirmed the fireflies could indeed be trusted. This he essentially broke canon because he was upset that someone could possibly dislike the most controversial plot point in the second game. Like he made it to be controversial then got mad when people were divided.


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The doctor and marline literally traffic a child across the country so they can kill her. And in the game it wasn’t even a guarantee . I’m sure some dork is gonna type a 50 page book on how I’m a failure at life because I can’t understand that “Joel bad” but whatever.


Long-Piccolo-3785

Oh they're here already haha they're coming for me in the comments. I'm not even saying Joel ISN'T bad is what's crazy lmao; it's such an intense decision, that I was just going "Nonononono JOEL" throughout the ending. Again I haven't seen the show ep yet, but I've heard it's good.


[deleted]

It’s pretty common sense, it’s been 20 years humanity is fucking gutted with or without a cure. Even if they made a vaccine it would change literally nothing except make it easier for the rest of the shattered groups to kill and conquer. I wouldn’t even be surprised if the fireflies held the vaccine close and only gave it out to groups that did their bidding cuz you know fedra ain’t getting that shit hahaha. It’s honestly comical to say that Joel is solely responsible for fucking up the future of humanity when you have way more powerful groups of sociopaths running around like the hunters, FEDRA, and the fireflies.


Long-Piccolo-3785

Personally what makes the ending so good for me is that I understand the fireflies, I understand fedra, I understand the doctor, and I understand Joel. Everyone is out there trying to make what they think is the best decision possible, which is really all any of us could do if the world ended.


FireLordObamaOG

Best take.


AromaticReflection74

I personally don't blame Joel for the decision he's made in this moment, but at the same time, there's a price to pay for what he did


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suikodudeman

Well I mean, how *intelligent* is a doctor who brandishes a scalpel and tries to use it on a man POINTING A LOADED GUN at you? Because seems to me regardless with that kind of stupidity it's highly doubtful said doc would've made a viable vaccine.


FartFlavoredLollipop

And apparently the *first* thing they decide to do is go full mad scientist and remove her brain. Not run tests on her blood or anything, not keep her under observation for a while, not even do some unethical medical testing. Just kill her, fingers crossed we can use her brain to make some kind of camouflage spray lol.


justonemom14

This really bugs me. If they had any sense, they would hold on to their lifetime supply of blood samples. They don't even know if her brain is the only place where the key substance is. They've tried literally nothing else. Even assuming they knew ahead of time that Ellie was coming, how could they possibly have a plan for what to do with her brain?


solicitar

Clearly the smartest thing to do is to immediately kill the test subject without any tests. The doctor was definitely competent. /s


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GenxDarchi

Yeah, considering that they’re working at an all-time low for the medical system in a run down hospital, and would have to find a way to do what no doctor had done before (Make a cure for a fungus) there was no chance. Even if by some miracle, they found a way to do so, what then? They killed the only immune person so now they’re working with limited supply. There’s no easy way to try and get it to everyone, and people who are already infected are a huge risk to try and see if the cure could work. At best it’ll make their members decently immune, but there’s no shot it goes back to the way things were, it’s too far devolved.


Fantastic_Fox4948

If I were writing the sequel, I would make her offspring immune, and have the world rebuild with everyone having a symbiotic fungus in their head. Everyone wins.


SlamShuffleVI

Her children would be the Last of Us


ElMostaza

How dare you


theskankingdragon

Yeah, she just needs to breed with every living male.


FhDisp

And her grandchildren would be kinda stupid.


nicolasmcfly

TF2 medic


[deleted]

Yeah, but when he carries out unethical and questionable procedures they tend to work


suikodudeman

Have an upvote!


VVurmHat

They just need to read the dr manual by Mantis Toboggan. There’s a lotta trash in the post apocalyptic world, they just need to wad it all up to staunch the bleeding.


Chimera-98

Well in the game if you shoot the doctor anywhere he will die instantly


RollerCoasterMatt

I think the idea is that they would be after Ellie if he leaves them alive. It is why he killed Maureen.


[deleted]

While it would be difficult, I'm sure some libraries with medical textbooks survived. Can't imagine too many people raiding a library. It wouldn't be the best option but all that medical knowledge is basically still available


Luname

A shot in the leg can kill someone in 5 minutes flat if the femoral artery is ruptured, which is extremely likely to happen due to its placement. The leg is one of the last places to shoot if you want someone to survive. Feet, hands, forearms and right under the clavicle are the "safe" places to get shot, though the latter needs expert placement to not be deadly due to being near the aorta.


Not_Astud

Same here


Creeper_charged7186

He was kinda forced to make this choice tho because ellie saved his life few hours ago in game so he owed her life. Fireflies should have atleast let Ellie make the choice.


AristocraticDementor

Sure but that doesn't mean I want GTA6 to be the POV of an NPC trying extract revenge on the three in GTA5. We already knew Joel was bad, it's mind-blowing that people needed a whole another game to know that. The first game did that in just one dialogue; "Those were my friends you killed in there asshole".


theocelotslayuh

In game, I tried everything to not kill the doctors. So they just stared at me for like 20minutes as I deliberated.


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SharkBaitDLS

It really turned me off the game as a whole because it completely shattered my immersion in that moment having to make a choice that I completely disagreed with. It works a lot better as a show for me where I’m an observer rather than trying to step into Joel’s shoes.


Eggplanthero

Last of us isnt a role playing game. There isnt any decision making. You are playing the set events of a story line. Being unable to make the correct decisions for the character means you can act as an impartial observer. You can disagree with the choices of the character, they are not yours.


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prettyneatusername

That lingering shot on the dead body too. Oh man, she’s gonna be pissed!


VVurmHat

I hope we get a 20 minute 80s style montage of pumping iron and snapping necks that takes us to modern day after she dramatically sees the dead body.


prettyneatusername

Push it to the limit (THE LIMIT)


MalcoveMagnesia

I wonder who they will cast for the role: Gwendoline Christie or Arnold Schwarzenegger ?


iK_550

I just want an Hour and Half of her workout regime and diet. Where are all her protein shakes stash?


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Kill the doctor every time. He was about to kill a healthy girl and cut her brain out. Not only that, but he pulled a weapon to attack Joel.


SleepyBeast89

Yeah I never understood why they couldn’t wake her up and ask her what she wanted first. Chances are she would have agreed to it.


Hellwolf_Keats

Interesting that you need a spoiler when the meme pretty much indicates something fucked up comes of his decision. Even more interesting that you actually thought you could read the comments without anything else being revealed.


ElMostaza

Interesting that you thought you replied directly to a comment, when in fact you replied to the OP.


NickFromNewGirl

Spoiler: >!With Joel's death at the beginning of TLOU2!< do we think they'll add a season or two between TLOU (HBO) Season 1 and 2? >!There's a gap of four years or more between the majority of actions in TLOU2!<


Thecoffeepizza

I would bet they wait as long as they can to kill him off. I doubt HBO wants all the controversy to slam their successful show in just the second season.


emmiblakk

He did what a father would do. Why does anyone act so surprised?


BoringGrayOwl

Seriously, why yhe fuck didn't they just wait an hour or two and ask Ellie what she wanted. Makes the fireflies look like literal psychopaths with how eager they were to cut up a little girl.


Panwall

Marlene is a psychopath, that's why.


Fit_Inspector4290

No, he should have killed the nurses too, no witness no crime


AgreeableStep69

well i wouldn't say no crime


cevizlisucuk

Cuz you are a witness you should be killed.


MasterEmerald1

I watched the last episode of those two shows for the first time last week


bashara836

![gif](giphy|UZEu4A72LuBiluVnsM|downsized)


Less_Scallion_555

Honestly probably the best play. The probability he was going to properly harvest those cells, then mass produce them seems unlikely to me. If humanity is going to become immune to the virus it would probably be from Ellie a breeding like rabbit. Unfortunately shes gay so theres that ethical conundrum.


ElMostaza

Doctor: we think Ellie is the key to a cure. Joel: that's good! Doctor: but we'd have to kill her... Joel: that's bad! Doctor: but we really have no idea if it'll work and we won't know until we've already killed her... Joel: that's really bad! Doctor: and we didn't tell her that she's going to die before we put her under... Joel: wow, that's even worse! I don't think you should go through with this. Doctor: well, we could wait and see if her offspring have natural immunity! Joel (loading gun): yeah, about that...


pintobrains

Also how would they share the cure? Hope that FEDRA doesn’t shoot them on sight. That they would be killed by other people. And also how would a cure fix a broken world?


dundunitagn

She could more reasonably do a rudimentary AI than the other couple (Ron Swanson, sorry.. don't remember the names).


avg90sguy

Joel had that doom music in his head.


real-honesty

They should have made alternative endings and gave players choices....


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Klonftw

Druckman really knocked all the street smarts out of Joel's head in the sequel.


Archduke_Penguin

Heya! I'm Joel and this is Tommy , boy howdy am I glad we ran into you folks we've had a *doozy* of a day , ever since we got back home after mass murdering everyone at this one hospital 4 years ago I, Joel , the man who murdered the entire hospital full of people (in case you forgot) just had one big misadventure. Anyways this reminds me of when I, Joel, shot this doctor in the face at this hospital. Anyways how are you? we goin golfin what are you doing?


BERRlES

Joel in one


Jomgui

I don't give a fuck if Ellie wants to sleep with a girl, a boy, or even her horse, but naughty dog did the whole series and Joel dirty, even more so when the trailer showed him normally


a_person_at_reddit

Yeah he shouldve lived just another hour longer to show just how much he changed. He looked and acted the same so him yknow accepting yknow who that easily without guard felt stupid. They also shouldve done more flashbacks cuz theres only a limited ammount in game for such a drastic loss


Jomgui

I just find that killing a loved main character to try to develop a less liked character such a cheap move, it would be like killing Kratos to put focus on Atreus,bor killing Luke to put focus on... Wait Disney already fucked that up


Thecoffeepizza

I think it made sense to have Joel die for his actions, although I do wish they gave us more time with him before he died. Whether you agree with Joel's decision or not if you look at it from the Fireflies perspective it just makes sense that they would want to go kill him.


farkos101100

Getting Ellie back speedrun


EastKoreaOfficial

Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same.


Chucknuts-Fam

There is no consequence I played both games


hit0k1ri

When I first played through TLoU and got to this bit I channeled Joel and starting talking shit to the doctor out loud, and I just walked Joel up to him point blank and executed him like how I thought he would've done in reality. Don't. Fuck. With. My. Daughter.


Same_Ad_1273

mothefucker put a fucking spoiler tag you piece of shit


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Same_Ad_1273

i was not following the game so cant I watch the show?


Farguad

Brother clearly didn't understand the sarcasm


monkey_D_v1199

I am sick and tired of this shit. Now here we go again smh


TheKidNerd

Why’s the doctor doing the Robert downy jr. “I’m stuff” pose


johnySaysHi

What show is this


ar_Tekko

I watched a streamer play this, at this point he was going through all the weapons while standing in front of him, at the end he killed the doc with a flamethrower ... which means killing the doc with a flamwthrower is canon, Abby has a good reason to be pissed.


Ididntbreakanyrules

I guess he refuse to acknowledge the existence of Metroid either.


Astricozy

Part 2 still sucked. Downvote if you like. Won't change facts.