The enduring guardian, Joel, is an old dog that had to learn some new🙈 tricks. Torn away from his family and thrown into the madness that is the new world, he uses his survival skills and wavering moral compass to get him and Ellie through. It's a lot of the reason players will spend most of their time as Joel during the original game, personal security is a 24/7 job with no breaks in the new age.
For the amount of time players will spend as the grizzled survivalist, the amount of information on his past is scarce in the actual text of both installments of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us. Coming in obscure tidbits and subtle hints at best, it can be puzzling trying to pin down the exact story while maneuver🌺ing the landscape. From hometowns to hobbies, Joel turns out to be a lot more than meets the eye.
10 ꧑ 💃 His Was Based On A Josh Brolin Character
The genesis of the Joel was based on the Llewelyn Moss (portrayed by Josh Brolin) in No Country For Old Men. Describing him as calm under pressure and a quiet man, Druckmann's original p⛄lans the character were a lot more stoic.
After the story was fleshed they obviously put a lot more li🔥fe into Joel, making him a deeply caring and tortured soul. Though he was always supposed to fill the role of trustworthy and genuine through a rural American filter, the fi♔nal result gives players much more of an insight into mind of the broken hero.
9 He♉ Loves The Rhythm & Blues 𓄧
If players were paying attention, made a remark in the smattering of conversation that he used to want to be a singer. Whether he was still pursuing this on the side i🌳s unknown, but he did own a guitar with a big rack of vinyl hanging in his hous❀e.
While being an entertainer is definitely one of the professions that died along with the occurrence of the Cordyceps brain infection, it's hi🔯nted that Ellie grabbed onto this passion as she's seen singing in the opening sequence. Though players don't see it, this probably means that he continues the hobby in private, a subtle way of revealing the working of Joel.
8 𓆉 He Was (Probably) Born & Raised In Texas
It's never stated where exactly Joel is from, which isn't surprising seeing as a lot of backstory remains unrevealed. Besides the obvious beginning of the series being in Austin, there ar🅷e many hints pointing towards Texas as his home state.
If players delve into every piece of content the game provides, they'll hear him saying things like '' Go Bighorns!'' as a reference to the Au🧔stin universities team. His brother, Tommy, even says calls it their home in reference to their childhood.
7 ও His🌄 Namesake Is A Famous Director
Even Joel's name is from No Country For Old Men, albeit it's taken from the director rather than someone in the story. This keeps the theme steady for most of Joel's character. There's often a lot o☂f Easter Eggs and shout outs but rarely is it so big that it influences one of the main characters' desig🅷n.
Joel Coen, the na♚mesake of the character, seems to have played a huge part in the development of Joel as far as inspiration goes. Most players have no clue who it is for someone that played such a big role in the game, inspiration has never been so unglorified.
6 ♔ He Was A Hunte🌠r Before The Post-Apocalypse
In both his previous life and the new one he was thrust into,🙈 Joel seems to have enjoyed hunting as hobby. This is something that slowly morphed into a necessity, especially in the post-apocalyptic world they inhabit now. It seems that he went from hunting animals to the straggling survivors that trespassed on his territory.
This is shown in the picture of a deer that hung above his bed in the house, which makes sense as to why his house was on the outskirts of the city.ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ In the midst of the infection, Joel knew the hunter's tactics and it was even stated in an unused audio file for the game.
5 He's An Expert Carpenter &am🎃p; Craftsman
After Joel has set up shop in Missippi to find his brother, he apparently takes up the hobby of extensive woodwor🎉king. This is shown by the huge collection of his own projects that lay around his residence. Not only that, but hi💦s masonry carried over into his musical ambitions, seen in the number of guitars he made.
This shoul🌠dn't be a shock as his previous profession waꦯs carpentry on a more residential scale with his brother Tommy. This is complimentary to his other plethora of skills in the new world, which is probably the reason he'd managed to survive for so long.
4 T♚roy Baker Almost Abandoned The Role🍎
Troy Baker, the actor behind Joel, very nearly walked out of the audition room after seeing the competition he was up against. Apparently, the other actors who were there were much more suited physically to voice the charact🌃er, being closer in age and stature.
Eventually, Troy decided to give it a shot after having a talk with his agent, leading to his acquisition of the role after a seemingly impressive audition. Fans we🦋re very nearly subjected to a completely different voice that would have changed the atmosphere🎃 of the character.
3 🐟 Both He &am🐬p; Ellie Fall For The Same Trap
Both 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Joel and Ellie get caught in the same trap at separate ends of the story. Joel gets caught outside of Bill's house after stumbling upon one𝓰 of his traps, and he's s♌ent hanging into the air. Ellie has to release him from the trap while the player is viewing through an upside-down lens.
In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last Of Us 2, Ellie is now the one to be caught in a rattler trap andꦉ gets injured in the process. The duplicity in🦩 the two scenes isn't shoved in fan's faces but those who pay extra attention will notice the reference. A passing of the hanging torch, if you will.
2 ✤ He Taught Ellie How To Swim
In the first games, it visibly grinds Joel's gears that Ellie isn't able to swim, hindering them in terms of travelཧ and combat ability. Though it is never shown in the previous game, later in the sequel Ellie is seen swimming, something that Joel would have probably taught her.
While it ꦗmight not seem like a big deal, the sequel's gameplay includes trekking a flooded city. This is something E𒀰llie never would have been able to navigate by herself back in the old wooden pallet days.
1 ♔ He Struggled With Suicidal Thoughts
One of the best things about The Last of Us is that it never veers away from the darker sides of things when necessary, especially in the second game. Case in point, hints about Joel's mental health were𝔉 made in the original game when he and Ellie stumble across the bodies of suicide victims.
Ellie makes comments about the scene, which leads Joel to explain how hard it can be when you're down. This is obvious to his char🐈acter as he lost his daughter not too long ago and tells how it was ''hard to stay alive."Obviously he wasn't just referring to surviving in the post-apocalypse. This all but suggests that he had his own share of doubts about what path to take.