The Last of Us Season 2 changes to the big death scene

The big death moment has arrived on The Last of Us show adaptation of the video games and there were some differences.

This article has spoilers from The Last of US Part II game and The Last of US Season 2, episode 2.

The dreaded scene that fans of The Last of Us games were waiting for came.

Since the HBO show adaptation first debuted in 2023, fans of the video games have been anticipating and fearing the scene where Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) gets killed by Abby Anderson (Kaitlyn Dever). Abby, an ex-Firefly, has a vendetta against Joel since his massacre of the militia group, Fireflies, in Salt Lake City to save Ellie five years ago, which included her doctor father, Jerry Anderson (Derek Phillips).

In the second episode of the new season, Abby got her revenger in front of poor Ellie Williams (Bella Ramsey) which is similar to the games as Ellie is there to witness Abby strike the final killing blow to Joel. The infamous scene was just as devastating as the game but there were some differences between the two.

The three main differences

In the game, Joel is on patrol with his brother Tommy (portrayed by Jeffrey Pierce in the show) when he ends up saving Abby from an infected horde. After they save Abby and are fleeing for safety, they end up at an old house being used by Abby's group, who are known as the Washington Liberation Front (WLF). Everything was going civil until Joel introduced himself and Abby realized that he is the man she had her eyes set on.

The other members of her group knock out Tommy and Abby and shoot Joel in the leg with a shotgun. Joel asked who Abby and the group are, and Abby doesn't tell him. Joel can sense his demise is coming and tells the group: "Why don’t you say whatever speech you’ve got rehearsed and get this over with." Then Abby beats him to death with a golf club.

Ellie and her love interest Dina (Isabela Merced) go in search of Joel and Tommy. Ellie finds their outpost and before she can attempt to rescue Joel, she is beaten and restrained by the WLF members. As Ellie is held to the ground, she watches Joel's final moments as Abby deals one last fatal hit to his head.

In the show, Joel goes with Dina on the patrol instead. Dina is drugged and left unconscious during the whole ordeal. Tommy, on the other hand, stays in Jackson City) and is assisting the town in defending itself against a horde of the infected. Abby was responsible in accidentally letting loose a mass of the infected in Jackson. In the game, the town does not deal with an attack from a horde of the infected.

Joel also learns who Abby is before his death, unlike the game. During the episode, Abby questions Joel about his massacre of the Fireflies in Salt Lake City. She has a monologue about him killing her father and awaiting revenge. Abby also disclosed that she has been a part of the militia group WLF based in Seattle for the last five years, as she's been looking for Joel.

Joel, at one point, cut Abby's monologuing off to tell her to hurry up and get to it. Abby does beat him with a golf club similarly but this time the head of the golf club breaks up, and Abby instead kills him by stabbing him in the head with the broken golf club.

In the show, viewers see Ellie's reaction to Joe's dead body as she tells Abby and her group, "I'm going to kill you. You're going to die. You're all going to f---ing die." After the group leaves and one of them kicks her in the rib, Ellie crawls to Joel's dead body and hugs his body as he lies motionless while sobbing.

In the game, there is not moment like that as Ellie is knocked out and wakes up from it as Dina and Jesse (played by Young Mazino in the show) came to save her.