10 Video Game Villains Who Were Right All Along

Joel travels across Clicker-filled USA to get Ellie to the Fireflies; an underground movement determined to find a cure for the fungus that plagues humanity. Having previously lost his daughter, he forms a surrogate father-daughter bond with Ellie, saving her life countless times and nearly dying in the process.

Only it turns out the only way to investigate if a cure might be possible is to dissect Ellie's brain. Joel, fearing his last lifeline to humanity being threatened, goes on a murderous rampage through the base-cum-hospital, taking out soldiers and doctors in his wake. He escapes with the still unconscious Ellie and retreats to safety.

Now, no one is saying those doctors definitely would have found a cure had they killed Ellie – but at least they were trying – and determined to keep trying.

Meanwhile, the 'normal' world has given up and is living under a strict military curfew. No one else, as far as we know, has the resources to develop a cure, and judging by Joel and Tess' initial reaction to Ellie, immune humans are few and far between.

It may have been small, but Joel just murdered humanity's only hope of a cure to the apocalypse.