{"id":113295,"date":"2016-12-06T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T14:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113295"},"modified":"2016-12-06T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T14:54:18","slug":"the-very-plausible-last-of-us-2-plot-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/113295-the-very-plausible-last-of-us-2-plot-theory","title":{"rendered":"The very plausible Last of Us 2 plot theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last of Us series fans have come up with a very plausible theory that could already explain the plot of the second game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning some plot spoilers for the original The Last of Us below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fans posit that in the teaser trailer shown, Joel has been killed by the Fireflies and now Ellie is out for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Joel&#8221; that walks in towards the end of the trailer is in fact not real, but rather a figment\u00a0of Ellie&#8217;s imagination.<\/p>\n<p>This would make sense with regards to the ending of the first game and would explain exactly why Ellie seems so angry and looking for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>It also matches up with previous comments made by Game Director Neil Druckmann in which he noted that the &#8220;tone of the (second) game would be even darker than the first&#8221; and that &#8220;while the first game focused on love and loss, the sequel is a counter to that \u2013 it focuses on hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course &#8220;he&#8217;s been dead the whole time&#8221; has been a long-running trope since before even the Sixth Sense, but it still does fit rather neatly given how little plot details we actually have.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wztdA-V18vs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Plot twist: Joel is dead the whole way through TLOU2 and Ellie is imagining him while she hunts down his killers<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marianne Craven \u2744? (@miss_mariii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miss_mariii\/status\/805437152926560256\">December 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On top of it, Joel walked into the house appearing as&#8230; well, a ghost kinda.<\/p>\n<p>Joel is more than likely dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alpha \u30e9\u30a4\u30a2\u30f3 (@AlphaFoxWarfare) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaFoxWarfare\/status\/805406683988168704\">December 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to The 10 most talked about TV shows right now\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113277-the-10-most-talked-about-tv-shows-right-now.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The 10 most talked about TV shows right now<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of The Last of Us may have already unveiled the game&#8217;s plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":113297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[31,11450,1560,23685,10569],"class_list":["post-113295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-fan","tag-last-of-us","tag-plot","tag-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113299,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113295\/revisions\/113299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}