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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're diving deep into the brutal, emotional, and unforgettable post-apocalyptic world of The Last of Us. And we're starting by piecing together its timeline.

My best friend was there. And she got bit too.

The Last of Us released in 2013 and almost immediately began earning praise.

Players loved the morally grey journey of Joel and Ellie. While the world had been ravaged by the game's terrifying infected, the purpose of the story was in its title.

Naughty Dog and Sony expertly explored the lengths to which people will go to to protect those they love, as well as what horrors they'd commit against their fellow man to survive.

Oh god, uh, just take the girl and leave, okay?

But how did we get here? Both games in the series use environmental storytelling and exposition to chart the descent of humanity in the 20 years before they take place.

Welcome to WatchMojo, and this is The Last of Us Timeline Explained.

There's a crew of fireflies that'll meet you at the Capitol building.

Before we begin, it's important to note that The Last of Us TV adaptation features a different timeline than the games.

While the show's events begin in 2003, the first entry starts in the same year it released, 2013. It opens on September 26th, the day that would forever be known as Outbreak Day.

This was when the Cordyceps Brain Infection, or CBI, reached critical mass.

The origins of the mutated fungus aren't explicitly stated.

What we know is that it made its way from South America through infected crops, though Mexico and Central America were also warned against by the FDA.

Regardless, by the time the game opens, hospital admittance has raised by 300% in Texas alone.

In the early hours of September 27th, the U.S. military tried to contain the spread with disastrous results for many.

At first, it seemed humanity was more than willing to fight back.

Major cities were turned into quarantine zones by the Federal Disaster Response Agency, or FEDRA, which also authorized rescue missions to smaller, more secluded areas.

In one such area, close to the Seattle QZ, they came across a woman who had kept her entire community alive while others around them fell. She claims to have had a vision about the infection being God's wrath and strove to lead a simpler, sin-free existence. Her followers would later refer to her as the Prophet and themselves the Seraphites. However, they were far from the only group to form in response to their current situation. Not long after the Prophet's community was discovered, FEDRA ceased issuing search and rescue missions. Only a few months into 2014, and 60% of the world's population was either dead or infected. Even worse, it issued martial law and turned every quarantine zone into a police state. The Fireflies were founded in opposition to this, fighting to overthrow FEDRA, restore the original government, and find a cure for CBI.

While we don't know who the group's founders were, Marlene is shown to be the strong-willed leader during the events of the games. The Fireflies would consistently cause trouble over the years to come, giving ordinary people the strength to overtake quarantine zones like those in Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City. Despite everything, life continued on in its own way. Two vital characters to the series, Ellie Williams and Abby Anderson, were born in the late 2010s. As Ellie's mother died shortly after, she was given to Marlene for safekeeping. But the Firefly lifestyle is a dangerous one, and so with no other choice, Ellie was given to FEDRA. During the first years of Ellie's life, another important group was formed. Just as they had in many other quarantine zones, FEDRA ruled over Seattle with little to no mercy. With no Fireflies to rely on, Jason and Emma Patterson founded the Washington Liberation Front in the mid-2020s, along with Isaac Dixon.

However, they had no plans for restoring the old world, and simply wanted FEDRA out of their lives.

Branded as terrorists, the Pattersons were eventually killed, resulting in a major conflict between the two factions that saw the WLF eventually victorious. Unfortunately, that wouldn't be its last. The WLF, or Wolves, would turn Seattle into an impressive community, but not without violent conflicts with the Seraphites, which lasted for years.

Other than these big groups and organizations, regular people found different ways of getting by outside the QZs. Unfortunately, the majority of them still chose violence over compassion.

We've seen those known as Hunters, who trap and rob unsuspecting travelers of their gear before killing them. The Seconds Game introduced Rattlers, a group that kidnapped people and used them for slave labor. Some desperate survivors would even turn to cannibalism. Not every community was founded with evil intentions, though. Some, like Tommy and Maria's commune in Jackson, Wyoming, were simply born out of a desire to live peacefully. While war waged between the WLF and Seraphites on one coast, Ellie grew up restlessly on the other. Her time attending

FEDRA schools was lonely, save for her friendship with Riley Abel, a fellow student with dreams of joining the Fireflies. Through a misadventure with her, Ellie would finally meet Marlene,

Queen Firefly herself. And through a second, more tragic misadventure, she'd find out she was the one human alive, immune to CBI.

Ellie's immunization realization is the last major event before the central story takes place.

With FEDRA's militaristic response, the people of The Last of Us were primed not to trust anyone outside their community. This mistrust continued and grew stronger, creating a perfect cocktail for the last of humanity to turn on each other quicker than the vicious infected.

By piercing together the history of its world, we can see how the state and outcome of the games were inevitable. It's three weeks old. No, everyone turns within two days, so you stop bullshitting. It's three weeks, I swear. Why would she set you up?

All right, gamers, get ready because this next one's for you.

That's because we're highlighting all the Easter eggs that hardcore fans geeked out over the most.

You want a petter? Yeah, what's your name? Simmer.

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 Easter eggs in

The Last of Us Season 1 that only gamers got. Her name is Ellie.

For this list, we're looking at the best references and callbacks to the source material that immediately stuck out to fans who played through the story. If you haven't seen the show or played the games, beware of spoilers ahead. What was your favorite Last of Us gaming Easter egg?

Number 10. A Rabbit's End and the Dawn of the Wolf

Gamers braced themselves in Episode 8 because they knew Ellie hurt a cute rabbit at the same point in the story. But to their surprise, the animal got away free on the show because she tripped. Players who were happy the creators left that part out were likely equally happy to see a reference to the Dawn of the Wolf Part 2.

I saw this, not before the outbreak. You did?

Did he totally gut her by the end? Nobody gets gutted. It's a dumb teen movie.

Within the game, Joel revealed that he had taken his daughter to see that teen drama in the past.

While that backstory isn't covered in the show, a poster for the movie is still seen in the mall during Ellie's flashback. It was great to see the show nod to those animal Easter eggs and more in a variety of ways. It was also great to see Joel's daughter in the game.

What are you doing? It's all right. Come here, hurry up.

Number 9. Ellie fleshes out the infected enemy types.

Everyone said the open city was crazy. Like swarms of infected running around everywhere.

Not exactly like that. You know people like to tell stories.

While the infected are just as terrifying on the show as they are in the game, there are several subtle differences between the two.

People who have played through The Last of Us tend to run into a lot more enemies during the journey.

Additionally, the bloater enemy types are able to throw their own spores for extra damage.

Even though the show didn't exactly follow that blueprint, they still hinted at it with one clever exchange.

While Ellie is with Joel and Tess, she makes several references to the way the enemies act and present themselves in the game. So there aren't super infected that have exploded in the open city? No, there aren't.

So there aren't super infected that explode fungus spores on you?

This conversation was a clever way to acknowledge the trials gamers went through as they waded through a sea of clickers.

Number 8. Showing us one of Ellie's off-screen accomplishments.

Hey, just think it's a budget, man. Just go, get out of here.

During the period of the game where Joel and Ellie are traveling with Henry and Sam, the two lead characters get separated when a bunch of infected show up.

Fortunately, they reunite shortly after without much of an issue.

Ellie even boasts about the fact that she took down a couple of infected off-screen.

When I was with Henry, I took out a couple of infected by myself.

Instead of having her just talk about her fighting skills, the show went the extra mile and showed us. When Henry and Sam are traveling with the main heroes, a bunch of infected swarm the group. Ellie saves the brotherly duo from danger by taking down two enemies. Turning the gaming dialogue into an actual scene was a great way to show how capable she truly is.

The primates that Joel and Ellie run into on the show are relatively chill.

However, gamers may have seen them in a completely different light.

In the source material, you run into a few monkeys along your journey.

But you also uncover an audio log that details what happened when a scientist had an encounter with an infected primate. Oh, no. It bit me. Oh, my God.

Anyone who played the game was likely relieved that the monkeys didn't get too close to our heroes.

Flickers, harsh weather, and sinister humans are all big problems already.

The last thing our heroes need to worry about in the apocalypse are monkeys with bad intentions.

I'm not a threat. If I am, then I guess you can kill me.

Number 6. An Accurate Mortal Kombat Fatality

It's been awesome to see the Mortal Kombat franchise get so many shout-outs in the TV series.

Ellie had a poster in her room that we were extremely jealous of.

And when she found a broken Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet, she was disappointed that she couldn't test her might.

There's this one character named Melina who takes off her mask, and she has monster teeth, and then she swallows you whole and barfs out your bones.

But the best reference to the franchise fittingly came in the episode where she does get to fight.

After losing the first round, Ellie figures out how to win a match against Riley with Baraka.

As an added bonus, she gets to execute a fatality.

Riley's instructions on how to pull off the gruesome finishing move are entirely accurate.

More than a few audience members were probably happy the writers did their gaming research.

Throughout the first Last of Us game, the Savage Starlight comics stood out as the best collectibles.

The detailed story summaries and vivid illustrations made it clear that the designers really loved the idea of this running series.

So, it wasn't surprising that Ellie's love for the Savage Starlight franchise made it into the show.

She's seen reading various issues of the comic during Season 1.

In one case, the in-universe story even mirrored the plot.

Ellie reads the accretion issue of Savage Starlight in Episode 6.

After reading about comic characters being forced to fight each other, she sends off an attack from her infected friend Sam.

Only those who collected Savage Starlight caught on to that dark piece of foreshadowing and more.