10 Things You Somehow Missed In The Last Of Us

10. The Workbench

The workbenches featured within The Last of Us number amongst the games' most iconic attributes.

These makeshift design stations were a veritable gold mine of resources for players, providing them with the opportunity to enhance their armory with the addition of scopes, grips and various other murderous implements.

Thankfully so, as the weaponry attained at the beginning of the game is notoriously unreliable, in an attempt to replicate the condition that most firearms would be in 20 years after an extinction level event. As such, the benches always came in handy when preparing to fight off hordes of infected or murderous hunters.

With that being said, the application for such a concept is limited in a live action adaptation - consistent appearances from the workbench simply wouldn't add anything of legitimate value to the overall viewing experience. However, Mazin and Druckmann clearly recognized the emotional significance of such an iconic element amongst gamers, choosing to include it in an affectionate tip of a hat to the mechanic in Episode 8.

In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it instance, one of the infamous workbenches can actually be seen in the background as Joel infiltrates Silver Lake in search of Ellie. It's just a shame that he doesn't utilize it in order to inflict even more damage on David's loathsome group of cannibals.