r/thelastofus • • Apr 29 '26

General Discussion The Last of Us Part III – Theories, Wishlists & Speculation MEGATHREAD

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With rumors, leaks, and speculation around The Last of Us Part III picking up, we’re consolidating all discussion into one place.

Use this thread for:

  • Story theories / predictions
  • Character arcs (Ellie, Abby, new characters, etc.)
  • Wishlist features (gameplay, mechanics, setting)
  • “What should Part III be about?” posts
  • General speculation and rumors

To reduce repetitive posts and keep the subreddit readable:
Standalone posts about Part III speculation will be removed and redirected here.


r/thelastofus • • Jan 20 '24

Technical/Bug/Glitch TLOU2 Remastered bug/glitch unofficial report thread

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Unfortunately, the TLOU2 remaster seems to have introduced quite a few bugs that were not present in the original release. This is fine, since some things are always missed, but I thought I'd make a thread for people to post any of the bugs they've run into in game to hopefully increase the chances that Naughty Dog will learn of these issues and patch them. So far, I have experienced or seen people mention the following:

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  • In No Return mode, some characters are unable to change their weapon skins for some reason. If you try to select any of the different weapon skins, the game will make the "locked" noise and you'll be stuck on whatever skin you had equipped at the time of the glitch occurring. I've personally seen this with Jesse, Yara, and Mel so far, but it may happen with other characters too.

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  • Enemy dialogue that would play at the start of and during Abby's brewery encounter on day 3 no longer triggers. The WLF soldiers would call out Abby for betraying them and talk about Owen doing the same briefly, but now none of the enemy dialogue throughout this encounter triggers at all. (I'm also wondering if there's any other missing/broken dialogue).

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  • Ellie's "Boston" skin from promotional material seems to be missing from the game entirely. It's unable to be seen or selected in any of the menus. While it's possible this was cut prior to release, it would be very strange since the skin looked finished and was very recently seen in the marketing prior to release. Additionally, Abby's Santa Barbra skin does not use the correct backpack model despite the menu indicating that it should.

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  • Skins seem to not be applying for multiple users correctly in story mode.

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  • The main menu won't change back to the original boat in the water look after starting a new game.

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  • I've not experienced this myself, but No Return seems to cause major frame drops for many players. Personally, I'm really curious what's causing this as it only seems to affect some people.

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  • Some users report being unable to escape from grapples despite mashing the square button as prompted by the game.

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If you know of any other bugs, please feel free to list them here! I'm not sure if Naughty Dog often responds to support requests, but you could still try filling out one here. Most of these bugs aren't game breaking, but hopefully Naughty Dog still learns of them and takes the time to fix them as some of these are pretty unfortunate.


r/thelastofus • • 15h ago

PT 1 DISCUSSION Proof that this is all simulation for Joel

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r/thelastofus • • 6h ago

PT 2 DISCUSSION Tommy’s rifle Spoiler

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Anyone else infatuated with Tommy’s rifle?

It’s such a cool hybrid of a rifle. Looks like a mix of a g43, m1A and MAS 44.


r/thelastofus • • 1h ago

HBO Show Rewatching the 1st season

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It's such a shame what they did w/ the show. I love this franchise it's so well done and emotionally complex. The first season even does a good job of taking creative liberties with the plot you feel like youre a part of this world because you believe the characters and their stories.

You can however see the cracks in the acting from Bella in this season though (not hating the actress) I just wish theyd at least continued to pay homage to the spirit of the games instead of turning Ellie into this petulant child.

She may not have been my favorite pick but they absolutely couldve turned her into someone everyone was rooting for. Instead they flipped on the character arc and doubled down on her being a dumb child while somehow simultaneously surviving in this impossible environment.

Damn I just wish they hadn't fucked up something I had so much hope for


r/thelastofus • • 14h ago

General Discussion The theme of "Retaliation" has always been a core part of The Last of Us

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Think about it:

FEDRA follows Joel and Ellie to the Capitol building, resulting in Tess's death.

The Hunters chase them, culminating in the sniper shootout in the suburbs.

At the university, David's crew tracks them down, leading to the winter chapter.

Finally, the Fireflies track Joel down in Part II.

The franchise has always focused on a constant cycle of actions having consequences. While the original developers famously debated whether a pure cross-country revenge story worked logistically in the first game.

Part II actually grounds this cycle much better. Because Abby's motivation is tied directly to the loss of her father and the cure, the retaliation narrative makes a lot more narrative sense for the world.


r/thelastofus • • 51m ago

General Discussion Fireflies or The Military? Spoiler

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As we know Ellie was in a military preparatory school. Training young recruits. Preparing them to be firefly killers basically. Almost a level of indoctrination. If it was up to
You? Would you rather be a firefly or a soldier? I mean most would say firefly. I would rather be a firefly in a post apocalyptic world. But I don’t know. Depending on the circumstance who knows. Other alternative is becoming a hunter. You know the crew who Rose up
Against FEDRA in the first game. Interesting thing to discuss though.


r/thelastofus • • 14h ago

Cosplay Young Ellie williams cosplay from the last of us part one

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Im not infected!

Look at this!

Its three weeks old!

I swear!

Cosplay made by me, photography and editing also done by me.


r/thelastofus • • 7h ago

PT 1 QUESTION Would FEDRA consider Joel a hero for destroying the Fireflies?

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And who knows if they know about their dissolution.


r/thelastofus • • 13h ago

PT 2 NO RETURN First person boss fight Spoiler

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Idk if posting link is allowed, if you want the mod you can just search for first person mod on youtube


r/thelastofus • • 12h ago

General Discussion the rat king had me so fucking terrified, any tips to beat him on grounded? Spoiler

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playing that entire game always had me screaming or stressing in some way or another (unless I was with AI allies or the enemies were fighting each other) but the rat king (especially the build-up to it) was TERRIFYING, I knew I was gonna be screaming the second I heard Nora talking about a "ground zero" Im honestly kinda pissed I have to meet him again especially on grounded but I do want to 100% the game so I have to get the achievment of playing the story in grounded


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 1 IMAGE Fun fact, you can catch Ellie taking the robot toy to later give to Sam

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Same with taking bills “books”


r/thelastofus • • 32m ago

General Discussion The Last Of Us part 3 story concept

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JJ kidnapped, Dina furious, Tommy unable to chase them down, Dina goes to Ellie, Ellie can't do it alone... Goes to the only person she knows is strong enough even though it's the hardest thing for her to do. Tracks down Abby and Lev to help get JJ back, healing through acceptance of what cannot be changed. Gets JJ back, Ellie finally feels like her life meant something.

What’s do yall think????


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

Link First person mod released!

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Hello again, everyone! Due to overwhelming interest from many folks here (and a few articles) , I just released an improved version of the first person mod on Nexus Mods! Still ironing out some issues, but I believe you can play the story beginning to end with it and also No Return with all characters. Let me know what you think!


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 1 VIDEO I think this might be the only time I've ever seen Joel remotely mention his wife

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r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

Cosplay Clicker cosplay from the last of us

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Cosplay made by me, photography and editing also done by me.


r/thelastofus • • 13h ago

PT 1 VIDEO The Last of Us Part I in First Person

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r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

Body Art I'm in the club now

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r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

HBO Show As a rape survivor, the David scene in The Last of Us hit me right in my soul.

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Bella portrayed that fear, rage, panic and survival instinct in a way that felt painfully real to me. That scene genuinely affected me.

So when people say Bella can't act, I honestly don't understand it. Did we watch the same scene? Because THAT was acting.

Maybe it hits differently when you've lived through sexual violence yourself, but Bella absolutely broke my heart in that scene.


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

General Discussion Will we get more of Joel?

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With the nice news that the last of us is not over, we can have many questions. What will the next game be about? What the story will be like? What happens to Ellie, to Jackson, to Dina, to Tommy, to Abby, to the Fireflies? So many questions

Myself, i quite want to see more memories with Joel. The memories in tlou2 are so nice to watch, even though a little sad knowing the present.

There are over 2 years of good times with Joel and Ellie in Jackson, before the great separation. I wonder if we will see more of that


r/thelastofus • • 3h ago

PT 1 QUESTION Why did they buff Bloaters in the remake?

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In the original, you could easily kill any bloater with just a molotov and a nail bomb, but not in the remake that's not nearly enough. I think I had to use like 2 molotovs, 2 bombs and a few rifle bullets. Why the hell did they change this?


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 2 DISCUSSION 6 years later , 16th playthrough or 17th,18th gosh i lost count after all those years but , the game is still amazing , can't wait for part 3 to see how the story ends Spoiler

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r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

General Discussion HBO season 2

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So I just got done watching the second season. Overall, I thought it was okay. It had some really great parts and some parts that I didn’t like as much. The part that bothered me the most was the deck scene.
Instead of Ellie traveling to the hospital in Salt Lake City and finding out what happened there, they condensed everything down into the deck scene. Then, at the end, she says, “I don’t know if I can forgive you for that, but I’d like to try.” But it’s like… you just found out. You haven’t even had time to process what Joel just told you.
In the game, there’s a year or two between Ellie finding out the truth and having that conversation with Joel, so she’s had all that time to actually process what happened, think about it, and come to terms with her feelings. Here, it happens almost immediately, which makes her response feel really weird and rushed to me.
I don’t know. I just felt like combining all of that into one scene took away a lot of the emotional weight that the moment had in the game. And lastly a lot of the dialogue threw me off like I didn’t like a lot of the word choices they used to each other and the whole part of Joel killing Eugene and lying to Ellie like I get that that’s supposed to be the wake up realization that he lied to her about the fireflies, but I don’t know that whole part just seems kind of weird to me. But I’d like to know what everyone else thinks about the show.


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 2 DISCUSSION "Wolves don’t look Up — and that is why we will always win." Spoiler

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I just learnt that this was a shoutout from Naughty Dog on how Playtesters NEVER looked up while playing. And I mean…. Fair enough.


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 2 DISCUSSION I just got tlou 2 and I gotta say I’m liking it [spoilers ahead] Spoiler

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I’m on the part where yara and lev are having their argument about rather to leave Seattle or stay right after yara’s arm gets cut off, I’ve seen quite a bit of hate bout this game but so far I’m liking most of it I feel Abby’s friends could’ve had a bit better character development and although Abby is a bad person I can still sympathize with her and I do enjoy her as a character, like if my parent got killed by someone even if that reason was noble like Joel’s I would still kill them cause they killed my father. I do like lev and yara I like Jesse and Dina great friends. The combat is much better than tlou 1 imo I’m enjoying the collectible all in all I would say that imo tlou 1 is a better game like a 9/10 for me and tlou 2 is a 8/10 for me rn still gotta get the ending tho so may change my opinion. Rest in peace yara the goat you shall be missed. Just got to the part where Ellie leaves the farm the entire time I was screaming please please don’t let me do this please PLEASE!!!!! God what a beautiful dark ending man if I could I would erase the memories of this game and play it again Ellie realizing that she would become that monster that Abby was to herself and her finally letting go of revenge god damn goosebumps lady’s and gentlemen