The Final of Us present had a fairly ugly episode this week. The Winter part has lengthy been considered the unique recreation’s darkest part, reckoning with its most villainous figures and horrifying realities of the post-apocalypse. Due to that, it’s maybe merciful on the showrunner’s half that the present omits essentially the most heartbreaking loss of life of the collection: the rabbit that Ellie shot lifeless within the recreation.
[Spoilers for The Last of Us game and show follow]
The winter part begins with a chilly (sorry, sorry) open of a small rabbit rising from a gap surrounded by contemporary snow. It sniffs about because it assesses its environment. Then, simply as we’ve had lengthy sufficient to get connected to the lovable little fella, an arrow pierces its neck, pinning it to the bottom.
As its eyes go white, we then discover out the arrow got here from none aside from Ellie. She’s attempting to find meals, and this little man simply occurred to scamper out into her sight line. Happily for us, it is a cutscene slightly than a playable phase. So when you had your scruples about capturing the rabbit, that was fortunately taken out of our palms. Nonetheless, the identical can’t be stated for a deer that Ellie sees shortly after, which acts as a tutorial to reintroduce the video games’ mechanics after it switches the participant from Joel’s perspective to Ellie’s.
The rabbit scene has taken on a brand new life years after The Final of Us launched in 2013. That is primarily due to streamer Negaoryx, whose response to Ellie’s killing shot turned a meme in its personal proper again in 2019.
Now, Negaoryx’s response has been used as an overlay for loads of different viral movies. Because it seems, loads of different media deserves a jarring shift from adoration to rapid shock and unhappiness.
A rabbit does nonetheless make a fast look within the episode, as Ellie sees it earlier than the deer. Whereas she was able to shoot it along with her rifle, it manages to run away earlier than Ellie can get a transparent shot. This seems like a figuring out nod to followers, nevertheless it’s simple to think about a model of this phase the place Ellie did shoot the rabbit that was minimize for time’s sake. However anybody who’s performed The Final of Us Half II is aware of Ellie will go looking once more, and there could also be one other probability for HBO to recreate this scene subsequent season.
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Whereas the rabbit scene doesn’t occur within the present, Ellie nonetheless goes looking in episode 8, although she makes use of the rifle we noticed Joel train her to make use of as an alternative of a bow. Sadly, the deer she kills does put her within the path of David, who’s simply as a lot of an terrible bastard as he’s within the recreation, if not worse.