EllIe's story didn't have many main characters. Ellie pleads for them to let Joel go, watching helplessly as Abby finishes Joel off by smashing his head with a golf club. They are teleported to an open field within the woods where Ellie holds a gun to her head. Ellie notices a way out but Riley refuses to leave and runs for a gun near one of the men. Her stealth capabilities are similar to Joel's, and she even has a less-honed version of the listening mode that Joel has. Entering, the two fool around with the machine's settings and are confused by the prompt soliciting Facebook.com. if an enemy is to the left of Joel. She admits she knows how to take the safety off, ensuring Joel she will be "careful". Riley disappears from the school and Ellie assumes that her friend has been killed when she doesn't return. When Ellie reacts with rage and disgust, he tries to calm her down like he was talking to a wild animal. [40] After his group captures Ellie, he offers her a place with them. However, she manages to maintain a particular innocence as she has yet to see the darkest sides of human nature, and retains a palpable trust in people. [30], For The Last of Us, Ellie's artificial intelligence (AI) required significant overhauling of the game engine. Elle Driver is the Darryl Hannah character in Kill Bill, Elle Bishop was Kristen Bell's in . The strength and complexity of her character, and its subversion of the damsel in distress stereotype, have also been commended. [63] The Washington Post's Elise Favis praised the game's depiction of Ellie coming out to Joel, comparing it to her own experience and the difficulty of approaching the topic with her father. [56], Ellie once described Marlene as "just a friend, I guess." After the Rattler points out the base's location to Ellie, she executes him. [57], Ellie seizes the chance to grab Jesse's gun and escape into the theater, with Abby giving chase while Lev watches the exits. Ellie warms back, pleased Joel is start to bond with her. While making their way through a block full of infected, Ellie proves to be useful when she can fit through small gaps in doors and over railings. [38], David, having let Ellie leave, has his men track her down. There, Ellie hesitates and admits to being aware of Rileys attempts to win her back. [50], Dina insisted on joining Ellie's journey to Seattle in the latter's pursuit of vengeance against Joel's murderers, displaying high loyalty to her. Further, if the player stands idle or wastes ammunition and supplies during non-combat moments, Ellie will comment on the actions. [5] Ellie has bright green eyes, fair skin with freckles, a scar bisecting her right eyebrow, a thin stature, and tends to wear red colored clothes. However, when Ellie and Dina walked away, Seth made a homophobic remark, causing Ellie to round on him. Nora tries to defend herself from Ellie with a pipe, but she is too weak to fight, and Ellie catches the pipe and hits her with it. [35] During the winter segment of The Last of Us, players assume control of Ellie. Ellie is initially annoyed by Joel's surliness, but they develop a bond. Ellie's map is left behind in Owen's blood. [11], Ellie appears to be irreligious, as seen when she claims that she goes "back and forth" when asked by Sam if she believes in an afterlife. [53] Ellie's physical resilience was displayed at its peak in Santa Barbara when she was impaled on a broken tree branch, passing out and waking up several hours later. This serves as the juxtaposition to Joel's wary, morose, and cynical outlook on post-pandemic life. [35] Furthering this, Ellie feared Joel would abandon her like in Pittsburgh; she was unable to wait by herself for him in case he "got in to trouble". Ellie avoids answering why she is being smuggled but does inform Joel that her parents died and that she's 14. He makes use of broken plates on the floor throughout the building to find Ellie if she steps on them. Though she knows she can't swim, Ellie recklessly jumps off of the bridge, causing Joel to do likewise. Suddenly, she is knocked out as she is kicked across the face. In Seattle, Ellie was noticeably more aggressive and violent, and her thirst for revenge began to cloud her judgement, culminating in her decision to continue hunting Abby rather than help Tommy. Dina takes Ellie to the theater dressing room to calm her down and tend to her wounds. [77] Oli Welsh of Eurogamer found Johnson's performance to be "standout" due to her depiction of "rawness, vulnerability, and rage". Their first encounter was Abby's murder of Joel, with Ellie being forced to watch. [72] IGN's Luke Karmali questioned Naughty Dog's motivation behind the kiss, noting the "bait-and-switch" in which they made players care for the character before revealing her sexuality, but ultimately dismissed this and commended the handling of Ellie's sexuality and the subtlety of the writing. [7] Druckmann designed Ellie as a counterpart to Joel, the main playable character of The Last of Us. Heading into the back of the mall, Riley explains that the military lied about the power in the city and that there was still power inside the mall. [50] Ellie also mentioned that neither the infection and immunity can be transferred to others though.[52]. [26] In Left Behind, Ellie and Riley share a kiss; the team considered omitting the kiss from the game, but felt that it was imperative to the story and strengthened the relationship. Ellie reappeared as the playable character in the downloadable content prequel The Last of Us: Left Behind, in which she spends time with her friend Riley. She has been utterly sensational with her performances in Snog Marry Avoid? . Ellie and Dina find Leah dead upstairs and Dina does not find anything worth taking on her corpse. [34], The pair bonded, with Maria disclosing Joel's daughter and her death to Ellie. [49], Ellie's mother, Anna, was forced to give her up shortly after she was born, and she was initially raised by Anna's friend Marlene. She asks Riley for advice on what to do and Riley tells her to lower the gun. By nightfall, she arrives, the trio deciding to commit to embarking outside the zone. The main character and protagonist of the novel. Joel joins her, in awe at all the technology still intact within it. The Anti-Body confronts her and tries to get her to come back with the rest of the group. [49], As such, Ellie becomes precious to Joel, the man using any means possible to protect her and keep her safe. [54] Following their defeat and once again being spared by Abby, Tommy uses his resources and connections to track her down and reminds Ellie that she made him a vow that she would kill Abby for him due to Tommy's injuries not allowing him to be out in the field anymore. She refused to tell Ellie of Abby's whereabouts, resulting in Ellie brutally torturing her with a pipe until she caved in and told her. Tommy then helps Joel chase after her; they eventually find her at an old ranch. "[10], Ellie also cares greatly for Joel, displayed in how she cares for him while he is injured,[39] just as he has cared for and sheltered her throughout their story. [50] During the events of Left Behind, which is set three weeks before The Last of Us, Riley returns after a long absence and tells Ellie that she has joined the Fireflies, a revolutionary militia group. The 17-year-old actress played Young Jane throughout the series. As Ellie admits that she wouldn't have killed herself, Bowie comes to the realization that she's been helping the Slender Man. [75][76] Destructoid's Chris Carter praised her ability to play the character again after many years. The man kept himself distant from her, refusing to disclose personal information about himself. Very sad scene yet one of my. However, Dina awakens and finds her. Riley decides they are wasting time and leaves the arcade. As Ellie follows, she stops to imagine what the arcade would have looked like before the infection hit and immediately after before moving on. The pair then leave to fetch Tommy to help carry the corpses back to their families in Jackson. Ellie finds the infected corpse, and removes his key, along with a picture of the man and his daughter in a photo booth. In the midst of her panic attack, a man shows up from behind her calling her name. [39] She also still possessed the toy while living in Jackson, displaying it on a shelf in her room. Ellie asks Joel why he is visiting, and Joel says he is just checking in. [15][16] Ellie struggled to make him trust her, as Joel believed that she was lying about being immune to the infection. [20] They reach the rendezvous point in the Capitol Building, but they find only bodies of Fireflies and the military closing in. In her last moments, Nora's spiteful references to Joel gives Ellie the wrong idea as to why Abby decided to hunt him down. Relieved, but upset, Ellie asks where her friend has been, having not seen her for six weeks, and Riley reveals that she has become a Firefly. Riley tells her friend that with the Fireflies she is not a soldier like Ellie. Riley tells her to give up on getting them back, but Ellie remains determined to steal them back. Moving on, they attempt to find their way to the other side of the mall, Riley using a metal beam to lift up rubble from the fallen-in roof. Later on, Ellie awakens inside Joel's car on the way out of Salt Lake City, wondering what happened during the time she was unconscious.[48]. Jesse tells Ellie that, while he understands why Ellie came to Seattle, it is not safe for Dina. Ellie asks Dina why she did not tell Jesse about the pregnancy, but Dina responds that it was not the right time. [53] Her reflexes have also improved quite drastically enabling her to swiftly dodge and evade deadly attacks with minimal effort on her part by just barely moving enough of her body out of the way of the attack. Ellie is an Animal Friend in the Donkey Kong franchise whose main appearance is in both Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! [12] Ellie also managed to convince him to then permanently gift her a pistol. [53] Against infected foes, Ellie has a hard time escaping their grasp and several times has been overpowered by them despite her best efforts, notably needing Dina to intervene when a runner tackled her. On one of those pillars, she finds Abby, emaciated, tired and dying, but still alive. Ellie then removes her mask, revealing that she is immune as she does not cough or succumb to the infection. She does not show any other significant reactions to her bite. At Auschwitz's Block 17, he berates himself for being a spoiled child and rejecting his first plate of prison soup. She jumps onto the helicopter, and is relieved to find medicine, embracing the med kit, stating that she's not going to let Joel go. Frustrated, Ellie tells Riley to "go" and Riley decides to investigate the music regardless of Ellie's protests. Shortly after turning 13, Ellie arrives at the Boston quarantine zone on a bus, to the sight of the military scanning a man for infection. They find some fresh weed hidden in a jar, and the two decide to smoke and wait out the storm. Eventually, Nora caves in and tells Ellie that Abby is hiding at the aquarium, as well as the motives for Joel's murder. Reluctant, Ellie gets dressed and follows Riley out of the school. She asks Joel to "swear to me that everything that you said about the Fireflies is true." Her name is a pun on her species. They argue and Ellie reluctantly eats the food that David gives her, claiming that it is venison, nothing more. Gaining an advantage, Ellie proceeds to violently hack at David's head multiple times, seemingly in a state of rage and hysterics, until Joel suddenly arrives and pulls her away from his corpse, embracing and consoling her as she begins to break down in tears. Ellie is disappointed by the fact that the "Turning" gaming cabinet is broken, but Riley helps her visualize how to play the game, by describing the actions and button prompts for the character Angel Knives to fight against her opponent, Blackfang. [13], When Riley tells Ellie that Marlene is having her sent to a group of Fireflies in another city, Ellie tells her friend that she should go and follow what she's always wanted to do. Riley tries to explain that they were the ones who threw the smoke bombs, but is knocked unconscious by one of the members. Riley gets upset and says that all this will give them is another way to die. She also finds numerous hats in the area and tries them on, and makes Joel wear one. . Ellie is a feminine name with a Greek origin that means "Shining light." The name Ellie was a common diminutive for female names like Eleanor, Ellen, or other names beginning with El (meaning God). She asks Ellie to come back to bed and discuss it in the morning but Ellie reveals she had made up her mind, convinced killing Abby will end her trauma. However, Ellie was still upset at Joel and rejected his help, much to his dejection. Ellie assumes she is being facetious and inquires if she means future as seen in science fiction. Ellie " Ellie Williams [7] is the central character of The Last of Us series. [53], Her speed and agility has also greatly increased and is her best asset, easily able to outrun or chase down anyone pursuing or running away from her regardless of the terrain or environment by being able to slide or vault over obstacles with ease. She thinks nothing of it until the scan reads positive and a man is forced to his knees at gunpoint. She then plucks at the strings of her new guitar. She encounters a boar that she chases and slaughters, stabbing it to death with her hunting knife. Ellie tells Riley she doesn't have any more strikes left for sneaking out to the mall, and Riley admits that she's being relocated to another Firefly hideout. Tommy tries to convince Ellie to kill Abby in his place due to his weakened state but Ellie refuses to do so. Ellie tries to help him, but is unsuccessful and almost drowns. She looks and acts like a typical young teen; there's really nothing unnatural about her . After telling him she's an "expert-ish" at sewing wounds, she manages to sew up his wound. Riley asks if she is ready for what is next and Ellie responds in confirmation. Druckmann described the game as a coming of age story for Ellie, in which she adopts the qualities of a survivor. Leslie and Jess become best friends, and the novel centers on their friendship. Ellie and Dina's friendship develops and, along with Jesse, they help other Jackson residents patrol the outskirts to defend against hordes of infected and any wandering marauders that could pose a threat. Now free, Dina warns Ellie that the gunshots have alerted more WLF soldiers but Ellie focusses on taking Jordan's letter and a photo of Leah. While Ellie is dissatisfied with having to let Abby go, she agrees to doing so. The group then steal some weapons from the gun cache and prepare to assault the Rattlers, but Ellie stops them and asks them about Abby. Ellie watches as the two briefly argue before following them towards the outskirts. [54], Ellie navigates the flooded streets as a thunderstorm rises. As Abby and Lev leave, Ellie looks over at Dina, contemplating what her actions have cost her. Ellie, tears in her eyes, denies it. Soon after admitting her fear to Sam, he too, joins the list. Ellie Williams is a lesbian character from The Last of Us. She became so emotionally engaged with the act that she was unable to recognize Joel during and afterwards, displaying her vulnerability and her spiritual devastation, all because of David. and Donkey Kong Land III. [53], Soon after, Ellie returns on her own to St Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City, sneaking out in the middle of the night and leaving a note for Joel. Dina notices Ellie's cracked mask and attempts to give her own mask to Ellie but Ellie stops her from doing so. [33], Years later, the pair get along well. 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