


Neil Druckmann explained to Polygon: “If we wanted to treat it realistically, and there are spores near, characters would wear gas masks all the time. The airborne spores that required gas masks to navigate are gone and instead, we have tendrils (which, by the way, will make your skin crawl from a visual perspective), potentially given the real-life COVID pandemic wherein a mask helps slow transmission. The show has deviated from the game in that regard. The infection spreads either by being bitten by someone already infected or by inhaling airborne spores from dead infected that would fill the air. People ate food with enough traces of cordyceps to become infected and lost their minds to it. In the video games, it was primarily caused by crops contaminated with fungus. In the prologue to The Last of Us: Part I, you can find a newspaper that outlines the cause of the outbreak.

How did The Last of Us outbreak start? The disease that wipes out most of humanity in The Last of Us is a fungus-a mutated microorganism known as cordyceps, which actually does exist in real life, but it can’t infect humans. Bella Ramsey is Ellie, a 14-year-old who’s miraculously developed an immunity to the microbes that quickly eat away at its human host’s brain and “turn” them into what’s known as The Infected in a matter of days. Pedro Pascal plays Joel, a weapons smuggler, who lost his daughter Sarah in the madness when the outbreak began. If you’re feeling left out with all the chatter that happens on a Sunday night about HBO’s latest smash show, you might be wondering how to watch The Last of Us-the critically acclaimed, fan-lauded video game adaptation to ever grace our screens.īased on the Naughty Dog/PlayStation exclusive from 2013 and brought to life on the screen by Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann and Chornobyl creator Craig Mazin, The Last of Us is set 20 years after a deadly fungal infection wipes out much of humanity. However, StyleCaster may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors.
