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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8964189" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Agreed. It's about how everyone is the protagonist and the hero from that person's perspective.Really the end of the TV show was basically the exact plot of the movies Taken or Commando.Hero saves daughter from captors, murdering a ton of people on the way.We're used to seeing the above from the 'Hero's' perspective and viewing massacres and mass killings of faceless goons uncritically.I always ask people to look at TLOU (game or TV series) from Marlenes perspective. She's trying to save the world from the Zombie Apocalypse, and fight against a tyrannical Fascist State, making huge personal sacrifices to get there, and losing lots of people along the way (both to the Zombies and to the Fascists).Finally, after decades of struggle, she's presented with a likely vaccine for the infection, and a means to end both the Infected and the Fascists for good in one fell swoop.The key is the daughter of her best friend (a friend who she reluctantly had to shoot after becoming infected herself, in tragic circumstances). The experts tell her that the daughter (Ellie, 14) will not survive the operation to extract the vaccine.Knowing that Ellie would volunteer to sacrifice herself for the future of humanity, she reluctantly opts to allow the surgery to be performed on Ellie while she is unconscious and unaware of her impending death, to spare her the pain or suffering of having to make it.Nek Minute, some crazed gunman kills her entire operation, slitting the throats of incapacitated freedom fighters and people who have surrendered, murders the one remaining Doctor who knows how to actually make the vaccine, abducts and hides the only cure, and despite Marlene offering the gunman a chance at redemption, nonetheless blows Marlenes brains out as she begs for mercy.It's all a matter of perspective, as the second game tries to show us. Which of course makes the angry reactions to it from incel edgelords all the more hilarious.</blockquote>

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