During the trip, she practices her guitar, with Joel encouraging her and insisting she will get better once she develops calluses on her fingertips to make playing less strenuous. While making their way there, Joel asks where her parents are and why Marlene is so fixated on her, among other things. Ellie's map is left behind in Owen's blood. She admits she knows how to take the safety off, ensuring Joel she will be "careful". [34], The pair bonded, with Maria disclosing Joel's daughter and her death to Ellie. As they walk, Ellie tries to explain why she ignored his order but just gets more frustrated at Joel's response. Just as Ellie leaves the offices, a stalker ambushes her and pushes her through a window, causing them to fall into the waters below and be carried downstream towards the sewers. Joel says, dramatizing his Texan accent. Ellie struggles to keep up with Riley as she leads her across the rooftops. Bill even remarks that "maybe [they] should have given her a gun". [53] Joel gifts Ellie a guitar, fulfilling his promise to teach her how to play. Ellie eventually returns to the Firefly hospital and discovers the truth. She manages to elude David and stabs him two more times, causing him to panic and bash her into a table behind him before grabbing her hair and throwing her to the floor. The relationship between the two is strained. Traveling through the building, Ellie asks how Riley found the Fireflies. Ellie Moore is the younger half-sister of Loren Hale and Willow Moore. [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. Joel coaxes her to leave and forget about the group.[52]. Joel makes to leave, but Ellie stops him as he reaches the door, asking if he remembered the joke. Ellie says that she's "just a girl" to which Dina kisses her passionately, claiming that they should be terrified of her. [18][19] Later, in the Capitol Building, Tess expressed her complete belief that Ellie is immune, having compared how her bite was worse (despite only being an hour old) to Ellie's three-week-old (but healed) bite to Joel.[21]. [42] David meets his demise when he was violently hacked on the head with a machete by Ellie after he attempts to strangle her. He's a thoughtful teenager who tells the story from a first-person perspective. Joel chuckles and says he will take what he can get. Before they leave, Marlene gives Ellie a switchblade and tells her that it was her mother's. She looks down and warns Ellie to never cross paths with her again. [53] However, witnessing Joel's death at the hands of Abby's group proved a traumatic and damaging experience. Tommy continued to serve as a bridge between the two. When they first meet, David offers to exchange supplies for a share of the meat from the deer that Ellie had tracked and killed, saying that his group needed the meat because they had many women and children to feed. He emphasizes the phrase "many women and children" several times in the hopes that Ellie, being a young girl, would feel sympathy for them. Listening to every optional conversation where Ellie reads from the book while in Pittsburgh will unlock the, For an alternate version of these events, see, The Last of Us 2 ending explained: A spoiler filled look at what it all means, The Last of Us 2 players spot tiny detail that presents massive implications for the ending, According to Game Designer Rodney Reece on, Neil Druckmann on Twitter: "Fun fact: Eliie's [, E3 2018 - Exclusive Interview with Neil Druckmann, - Halley Gross interview about Ellie's tattoo, Exclusive First In-Game Screenshots Of The Last Of Us, The Last of Us Part II - E3 Gameplay Demo, The Last of Us - The Truck Ambush Trailer, Is Ellie Gay? Elizabeth is well-educated and more serious than some of her . Riley disappears from the school and Ellie assumes that her friend has been killed when she doesn't return. [20] Kotaku observed that some players would likely confuse the characters. Dina notices Ellie's cracked mask and attempts to give her own mask to Ellie but Ellie stops her from doing so. Climbing from the pool, she heads inside with Joel and the two look around at all the other dinosaur statues. [73] Polygon's Colin Campbell named Ellie and Riley among the best video game characters of the 2010s, citing their differences and eventual closeness. [63] She shares a kiss with Riley,[13] and she is romantically involved with Dina, and prior to the events of the game, was with a girl named Cat. Ellie confirms that she is. Seeing a friend named Jesse die at the hands of Abby gnaws at Ellie, mingling with the pain . She considered Henry (and by extension Henry's brother, Sam) allies and always managed to persuade Joel to trust them. Upon reaching the Fireflies in Salt Lake City, Joel learned that only killing Ellie could create the cure. Marlene refuses, explaining that there is no one else and no other choice, and it has to be done to save humanity. Character List. He turns his attention to Ellie and while he does so, Riley grabs the gun and shoots him, knocking him to the ground. [45] While Joel is performing CPR to save Ellie, Fireflies arrive and, after demanding his surrender, knock him unconscious. She was filled with guilt for not mending their relationship sooner and swore to murder Abby and her friends to avenge Joel. Fictional Characters Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 2. [16] She also worried for her safety, asking Tess if Marlene was okay and even asks Joel about her from time to time. Ignoring the question, Riley asks if Ellie ever thinks about her future. Popularity: Ellie is a very popular name in the United States and the United Kingdom. She is at first armed with a bow, which she uses well. Ellie wants to help but still thinks Joel will not let her. [18] Straley said that, following the comparisons, Naughty Dog revised Ellie's appearance because "we want our characters to stand on their own two feet". Her joy is cut short when her and the others are captured by a military patrol. Ellen is a variation of Helen (a Greek name meaning "light," which gives Ellie its meaning), and Eleanor is the English version of the name Alienor from southern France. Along with Eliezer, they make a plan to move to Palestine after the war. Before she can grab it, he pulls her back by her hood. She can also provide him with ammunition or health kits/[20] She can also fight alongside him, attacking hostile survivors with her switchblade who grapple with Joel (both infected and human) and occasionally dazes the latter by throwing bricks and bottles at them to give Joel an advantage. Their first encounter was Abby's murder of Joel, with Ellie being forced to watch. Throughout the following series of events, Ellie laughs at the psychological torture the girls go through afterwards. [9], Riley reveals her desires of a future beyond the zone with the Fireflies. She suffers from PTSD,[58] which leads her to also having difficulty eating, insomnia, panic attacks, and flashbacks of her failing to save Joel's life. Ellie and Joel initially have a rocky relationship. It can also be a short form of Elena, Michelle, Elnaz, Elham, Elaheh, Eliana, Eloise, Emelia, Elisa, Ellisha, Elisha, Elesha, Shelly, Eleni, or Petronella and as a masculine name of Eleazer, Elliot, Elron, or Elston. He even called her "baby girl" just like he did with Sarah. Her character is named Kathleen and is a ruthless leader of a revolutionary group in Kansas City. [32], With Tommy's direction, Joel and Ellie reach a university where the Fireflies are thought to reside. Ellie does not see much of a future for herself and Riley says that her mentality is exactly how the quarantine zone's authority figures want people to think. He strikes Ellie again and pins her down while grabbing her firmly by the throat and nearly strangles her to death. Ellie, safe on the ledge, tries to climb down to Joel but he makes her stay put, wanting to make his own way to her. Sarah then dies in Joel's arms. However, Ellie quickly warns Joel not to get in her way, saying she doesn't need him to defend her or harass Jesse about patrols just because she goes on them with him. He ignores the fact that Ellie doesn't like him and tries to touch Ellie, calling her special. She has been utterly sensational with her performances in Snog Marry Avoid? Their interactions are expectedly hostile, with both attempting to kill eachother the moment Nora deduces Ellie had malicious intentions. You follow two main characters, an older man named Joel and a 14-year-old girl named Ellie. When he opens his eyes, Marlene has a gun pointed in his face and shoots. Ellie claims she is fine but stares at a Firefly insignia on the wall with the word "Liars" written below it. Ellie asks Joel why he is visiting, and Joel says he is just checking in. A character named Ellie has comically large breasts with little cleavage shown. At age 19, she's cropped her hair to a bob, styled half-up/half-down. A wounded Ellie then proceeds outside to the beach as the prisoners launch their attack on the Rattlers. Ellie then kisses Riley. Climbing over the fence, Ellie asks how the girl knew her name. She asks Ellie if she has ever ridden a horse before and Ellie tells her no." [55] Eurogamer's Ellie Gibson commended the character's strength and vulnerability, praising the game's subversion of the damsel in distress clich. Three weeks later, around the time Marlene and Ellie planned to leave Boston for Salt Lake City - Marlene is injured during her search for the smuggler Robert, a man she had initially hired to escort Ellie out of Boston. Becoming worried and impatient, Ellie makes her way through the hotel, going back down to try to find Joel. She is married to caring husband and has a baby too. The two return to the lookout at the lodge where Joel is playing Ellie's guitar. Joel detours into the city itself, but are ambushed by a group of hunters. Conceding, Abby tosses Dina aside and walks over to the beaten Ellie. Her name comes from the first part of the word elephant. [53], Ellie wakes up the next day and leaves the dressing room. Abby bites off two of Ellie's fingers, but Ellie overpowers and starts drowning her; she ultimately lets Abby go after experiencing a happier memory of Joel. He turns to Joel, stating she will get him killed.[23]. Dina and Ellie attempt to sneak out of the building but the arriving WLF patrol ambush them. She gained the scar before American Dreams, Left Behind, and The Last of Us took place. Although Ellie insists she's staying with Marlene, the Firefly refuses, hoping that Joel will live up to Tommy's recommendation.[16]. A year later, Ellie is on patrol with Tommy, lost in thought about the fact that she is dating her friend Cat while wondering about Joel's possible reaction to that and confused how that is affecting her relationship with Dina. Spotting a poster of a water gun, Ellie tells Riley that she attempted to get their water guns from "Corporal Dickhead's" office, but she got caught in the process of escaping. [44] During the first half of the trip, Ellie is still shaken by the events from Winter, remaining distracted and quiet. Suddenly, she is knocked out as she is kicked across the face. Ellie warms back, pleased Joel is start to bond with her. But when Ellie hears that Rick has resurfaced, her nightmares return, and with them, small snippets of memory. A friend of her mother's and the leader of the Fireflies, Marlene, believed that she was the key to reverse engineering a vaccine. Ellie hopes to find medicine, but to her disappointment, it has been picked clean of any useful supplies. Ellie informs him that she is leaving for Seattle, with or without Tommy or anyone else. He proceeds to strangle her. Ellie wishes she could fly into space, prompting Joel to take out a cassette tape. [24] Druckmann was also inspired by wars that took place in Syria and Afghanistan; he felt that, like Ellie, conflict was familiar to the children in those countries. The men become hostile and suddenly attack, with Ellie pulling a frozen Riley away from the firefight. By nightfall, she arrives, the trio deciding to commit to embarking outside the zone. [36] After this encounter, Ellie trusts that Joel will not leave her, evidenced in how she waits with Callus while Joel searches the University. She can also help to attack the enemy by throwing objects to stun them, giving Joel opportunities to attack. Ellie's path is blocked by a security gate, and the chain for the gate is obstructed by a metal beam. [30] Although Henry became closer to Joel as time passed, he still liked the girl, joking about his fantasy of riding a motorbike. She suggests various terrible scenarios that could happen to Ellie if he takes her back out into the world, such as death by being torn to pieces by a pack of clickers, sexual assault, and murder committed by thugs. They exit the back of the mall and head for the illuminated carousel. Ellie watches as WLF soldiers pursue Dina and their platoon leader Mike shoots Shimmer dead. 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[20], If the enemy is behind something and Ellie is able to see them they will be outlined in red, showing their location through walls and such. [42] Whether being selfish, or not wanting to lose another 'daughter' to the whim of another, Joel chose to save Ellie and try and start some semblance of a normal life again. [74], Johnson received acclaim for her performance in The Last of Us Part II. She told him that she thought scorpions were creepy, trying to be reflective, but opened up when she realized how serious Sam was; she admitted she was afraid of ending up alone. His men mention that they are under strict orders from David to keep her alive, but these orders were ignored when they found out from James that Joel slaughtered half of the raiders at the university. [23], The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014) was written to specifically focus on the relationship between Ellie and Riley, and to recount the events that defined their later personalities. Once acquainted with the two, Henry and Sam, they agree to chat at their safe house. She does so, appearing at the last second to save Joel from being drowned by a hunter; shooting the hunter dead. The girl states that she has "her ways" and introduces herself as Riley. [52], The next day, Ellie finds Dina in the radio room vomiting, brought on by morning sickness. When Riley asks if Ellie has made friends with anyone at the school or kept up with her friends, Ellie is evasive, but tells her that she doesnt really talk to anyone since she left. Revealing that she has been infected, Tess insists that Ellie and Joel continue on their own while she buys them some time. [17][20] Even after Tess' death, Joel kept conversation focused only around transporting Ellie to the Fireflies despite her efforts to discuss more personal topics, notably her own history and Joel's own interests. In the HBO TV show, Ellie is portrayed by Bella Ramsey. 45 Episodes 1975. Ellie assumes she is being facetious and inquires if she means future as seen in science fiction. [39] She also still possessed the toy while living in Jackson, displaying it on a shelf in her room. She then has a flashback to Joel's death, and forces Abby into a fight. She recalls her promise to forgive Joel, leaves the guitar, and walks away. She informs Ellie about some boats anchored not far from their location, and walks up to them, with Ellie following her. Riley gives Ellie a werewolf mask and reluctantly Ellie obliges her friend when she demands that she "fucking roar" when she refuses to concede with her antics. In the first game, The Last of Us (2013), Joel Miller is tasked with escorting a 14-year-old Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States in an attempt to create a cure for an infection to which Ellie is immune. Suspecting the trespasser might be Tommy, Ellie decides to go there to help him. She resurfaces and swims the final stretch to the aquarium.[54]. 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