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| “ | Ellie: I'm still waiting for my turn. Joel: Ellie. Ellie: Her name was Riley and she was the first to die, then Tess, and then Sam. Joel: None of that is on you. Ellie: No you don't understand. Joel: I struggled for a long time with survivin. And you. No matter what you keep finding something to fight for now I know that's not what you want to hear. Ellie: Swear to me. Swear to me that everything you have said about the Fireflies is true. Joel: I swear. Ellie: (pauses then nods) Ok. |
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| ~ Joel and Ellie's last words before the game ends. |
Joel Miller is the main protagonist of the 2013 game The Last of Us and the overarching protagonist of its 2020 sequel The Last of Us Part 2. He was previously a smuggler with a woman named Tess, however one day he met a 14-year-old girl named Ellie Williams who would remind him of his deceased daughter, Sarah Miller and so Joel began to care for Ellie throughout the game, until he finally accepted her as his new adopted daughter.
He is voiced and motion captured by Troy Baker, who also portrayed Booker DeWitt in Bioshock Infinite, Delsin Rowe in inFamous: Second Son, Pagan Min from Far Cry 4 and Vincent Brooks from Catherine.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
- He cared about Sarah deeply as he tried his hardest to protect her when the infection started by shooting his neighbour who attempted to go for the two of them and when a soldier shot at the two of them, Joel turned around so he would take the bullets instead of Sarah. Unfortunately, Sarah still got shot in her stomach and bled to death shortly after, causing Joel to become a misanthropic survivor who did whatever it took to survive.
- He honours Tess's dying wish of getting Ellie to Jackson so his brother Tommy Miller can take Ellie to the fireflies despite him and Ellie not getting along too well at first. He also wanted to stay with Tess and help her fight the oncoming soldiers, but Tess refused, wanting to give him and Ellie a chance to escape.
- Despite Henry leaving him and Ellie to die, he still had enough self-control to not shoot him out of anger when he saved the two of them after they were knocked out by a rock in the sea.
- When he and Sam are separated from Henry and Ellie in the sewers, Joel keeps him safe until they reunite with each other.
- He covers Ellie, Henry and Sam when they get ambushed by hunters after taking control of the military sniper, saving them from both hunters and infected.
- When Sam gets infected and attempts to infect Ellie, Joel takes out his revolver and attempts to save her, before Henry kills Sam himself.
- He then attempted to take the gun off Henry so he wouldn't kill himself.
- When raiders attack Tommy and Maria's dam, he helps Tommy and his men defend it.
- He decides to let Ellie stay with him after realizing how much safer she felt around him compared to others.
- After recovering from his near death experience thanks to Ellie, Joel's first thought is to go and make sure she is ok and kills a bunch of cannibals who he believes have taken her away.
- He calms Ellie down after she is traumatized by David threatening to rape her while she was unconscious.
- When Ellie drowns after falling off a bus into a river, Joel performs CPR on her in an attempt to resuscitate her.
- Despite this being one of his worst actions Joel does save Ellie from being killed by the fireflies for the sake of the cure as the fireflies didn't give her a choice as they decided to do it while she was still knocked out after drowning. Joel did this because he cared about Ellie deeply too as he told Ellie if the Lord gave him a second chance, he would do it all over again.
- He saves Abby from a pack of infected out of the kindness of his heart.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Joel is a grey zoned character who does villainous and heroic things throughout the first game as almost no one in The Last of Us are portrayed as true heroes or villains and instead, people who are just doing whatever it takes to survive.
- Joel is extremely lethal as he racks up a massive kill count in just the first game alone and is implied to have done more with Tommy when they were both Hunters. And some of Joel's methods can be cruel and over the top at times such as him nearly popping the knee of a cannibal with a knife then snapping his neck and also killing his friend by bruising his face with punches then smashing his skull in with a pipe.
- Joel has many selfish moments throughout the first game, such as him leaving a family to die because he thinks "someone else will come along" although this is rendered moot as both Sarah and Tommy said they should have helped the family, Joel dooming all of humanity so he can have a daughter again in the form of Ellie, lying about the Fireflies stopping looking for a cure so he wouldn't lose Ellie until she found out herself that Joel had lied, and him killing the surgeons in the hospital including Abby's father Jerry Anderson making him responsible for Abby's descent into villainy and Joel himself knows that a lot of people hate him for the terrible things he has done.
External Links[]
- Joel Miller on the Heroes Wiki.
- Joel Miller on the Villains Wiki.
- Joel Miller on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki.
- Joel Miller on the Last of Us Wiki.
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