Residents of Jackson, Wyoming
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Maria
Maria Miller
"[Shooting you] would've been embarrassing, considering you're my brother-in-law."
Voiced By: Ashley Scott (English)note
Leader of the survivors' community in Jackson, Wyoming and the wife of Tommy.
- Action Girl: When her community comes under attack, she grabs a gun like anyone else and shoots back.
- Age-Gap Romance: While their exact ages are unknown, she looks at least a decade younger than Tommy.
- Alliterative Name: As Part II reveals (or makes canon, rather), her full name is Maria Miller.
- Battle Couple: She and Tommy spend much time fighting off Bandits and the occasional Infected.
- Big Sister Instinct: Like Tess, she bonds with Ellie almost immediately upon meeting her, offering her food and taking her horseback riding.
- Good Is Not Soft: But she is extremely protective of said community. Upon initially meeting Joel and Ellie, she assumes they are hostile and greets them at gunpoint, threatening to shoot unless they leave immediately. It is only after Tommy recognizes Joel and explains who they are that she warms up and becomes friendly.
- Happily Married: With Tommy. During the Time Skip in Part II, they had a falling out.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She’s one of the few blonde characters in the game and she proves to be a nice woman when she’s not defending her home. Once she learns that Joel and Ellie aren’t her enemy, she becomes quite nice and shows her protective side when the plant gets raided. She also cares a lot about her husband who originally agreed to take Ellie to the Fireflies and threatens Joel if anything bad happens to him.
- Iron Lady: Functions as a generally benevolent leader of the Jackson community, one of the few in the game to be self-sufficient and not ruled by martial law.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite her reservations about it, she willingly lets Ellie go after Joel's killers, figuring that it's better to be helpful and have her go prepared with guns, ammo, supplies and transportation, than try and stop her from going just for her to head off with just the bare minimum.
- Secret-Keeper: She’s one of two other people that know Ellie is immune to the virus.
- Tsundere: During Part II, her marriage to Tommy is starting to show some cracks. However, the second she finds out Ellie talked him into a revenge quest to avenge Joel, she gets on her ass about it. All she can end up saying as a final word is a request of Ellie to bring her "dumbass" husband back home safe.
- Unkempt Beauty: Like Tess, she doesn't look bad for having lived in a post-apocalyptic world for the past twenty years.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Implied. After Tommy tells her he has made up his mind to take Ellie the rest of the way to the Fireflies, she bitterly warns Joel "If anything, anything at all happens to him, it's on you." Joel later jokingly states that the reason he decides to take Ellie to the Fireflies himself is because Maria "kinda scares me" and he would rather not face her potential wrath. She similarly gets pissed at Ellie for talking him into avenging Joel on a suicide mission. Notably, this is even as their marriage is on the rocks.
Tommy
Tommy Miller
Voiced By: Jeffrey Pierce (English)note
Joel's younger brother. They've split up some time after the outbreak due to ideological differences.
- Age-Gap Romance: While their exact ages are unknown, Tommy looks to be at least a decade older than Maria.
- Ascended Extra: Plays a minor supporting role in the prologue and some of the later chapters of Part I but has a far larger role in Part II.
- The Atoner: His decision to take Ellie and embark on what amounts to a suicide mission is implied to be motivated by a desire to assuage his guilty conscience over being unable to save Sarah at the beginning of the outbreak. It's also implied that he has serious regrets from both doing what had to be done to survive in the early years of the outbreak and his involvement with the Fireflies.
- Bait-and-Switch: When he is revealed to be the sniper who Abby and Manny are getting shot by. For the majority of the fight, you only see the glint of a sniper scope and a silhouette behind it, and they assume its just some random trespasser. As you draw closer and closer to him however, you realize the figure in the distance looks familiar. The twist is finally revealed after Tommy slams a door into Abby's head and reveals himself.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Part II shows us just what Tommy is capable of when he pursues his brother's killers, leaving behind some horrendously mutilated corpses in his wake. He turns out to be just as badass and coldhearted as Joel was back in the day when he puts his mind to it.
- Big Damn Heroes: Tragically half-and-half in the prologue. He manages to save Joel from being gunned down by a soldier ordered to kill him but is too late to save Sarah.
- Boom, Headshot!: Abby shoots him in the face. Luckily he survives, but his eye has been blown out and he possibly suffered minor brain damage from it.
- Boss Battle: He is one of the three unique bosses in the second game, along with the Rat King and Ellie.
- Cold Sniper: If you're his enemy. As Part II shows us, the man is extremely deadly with his sniper rifle and will torture whoever hurts the ones he loves to death.
- Cool Uncle: He was this to Sarah, risking life and limb to keep her safe alongside Joel, and he too felt a great loss with her death. Part II has him being a supportive surrogate uncle to Ellie, teaching her to use a sniper rifle, but their relationship sours after she initially refuses to pursue revenge against Abby
- Expository Hairstyle Change: He had short hair during the Outbreak, but it grew shoulder-length 20 years later. And then even further five years later in Part II, with Tommy now wearing his hair in a ponytail.
- Eye Scream: He loses his sight in the right eye after being shot in the head by Abby.
- Friendly Sniper: Part II shows him to be skilled with a sniper rifle, and he teaches Ellie to use it during a flashback to her 16th birthday. But he's also a Cold Sniper against the WLF members involved in Joel's murder, as you find out when playing as Abby.
- Get Out!: Basically his last words to Joel in-between the Time Skip. By the time they meet again a few years later, he's happy to see Joel, but it's clear that their relationship is strained over what he and Joel did during the outbreak.
- Good Is Not Soft: That being said, he's also not afraid to kill anyone who threatens those he cares about.
- Happily Married: With Maria, leader of the survivors occupying the power plant near Jackson, Wyoming. During the Time Skip in Part II, they had a falling out but still care about each other.
- Hero of Another Story: Well, "hero" is stretching it given the implications that he's not proud of some things he'd done in the past, but it's implied that he's damn capable in his own right like his brother thanks to his accomplishments and skills. In Part II, he's this to Ellie as he's effectively wiping out entire swaths of the WLF singlehandedly while she follows his trails of carnage, though he also doubles as a direct antagonist to Abby by comparison because he's hunting for her.
- Made of Iron: In Part II, he survives being pistol-whipped in the face several times, stabbed in the lower back, falling off a pier, hit in the leg with an arrow, and even being shot in the head. He does suffer the after-effects of all this, losing his right eye, painfully hobbling on his left leg and possibly suffering from brain damage when he visits Ellie after their revenge mission.
- My God, You Are Serious!: An entirely non-comedic version at the beginning of Part II as Joel explains his wiping out the Fireflies to save Ellie. He has to think on it for a good bit afterwards in stupefied shock, but ultimately agrees he'd probably have done the same in Joel's shoes.
- Nice Guy: Out of all the named characters, he's by far the most selfless. In the prologue, he wants to pull over their car to help a couple and their child (Joel stops him, though Sarah thinks he should've helped them anyway) and he almost sacrifices himself blocking a door being pounded by Infected to get Joel and Sarah to safety. When you meet him in the game, not only has he helped establish a community free from martial law, murderous hunters and Infected, but he's willing to defend this community with his life and then ready to embark on a suicide mission with only a bit of prompting from his brother.
- Noodle Incident: Whatever happened between Tommy and Joel that led to them breaking apart and not seeing each other for years. It's implied that Tommy became a Defector from Decadence, unable to continue living his brother's brutal lifestyle, but never confirmed.
- One-Man Army: Piledrives his way through the Wolves to get recompense for his brother’s murder, and is about to kill or at least severely injure Abby until Yara stabs him, allowing Abby to briefly take him out of the equation by knocking him into the water under the pier they were fighting on.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: In Part II while he also wants to avenge Joel, he's still sensible enough to listen to Maria's worries that hunting the people that killed Joel will leave Jackson unguarded as well as the fact they don't even know anything about them. He decides that he can't risk Jackson for revenge so he decides to avenge Joel himself and asks that Maria keep Ellie from following him.
- Retired Monster: He and Joel cut a swathe of bloodshed through the apocalyptic wasteland when they were younger, but by the time of Part I Tommy has settled down, gotten a wife, and (as Dina points out) it's hard to imagine him being anything more than a friendly, kind-hearted man. Then, in Part II, he comes out of retirement...
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Part II, Tommy decides that he can't let Joel's killers go free and decides to hunt them down himself. Ellie and Dina come across two WLF that Tommy interrogated using a method Joel used, snipes and kills innumerable amounts of WLF, he sets off explosions and destroys vehicles when he has to flee from them when they have greater numbers, and he puts a hole in Manny's head when his back is turned.
- Secret-Keeper: He and Maria are the only other people that know Ellie is immune. Part II opens with Joel telling Tommy what he did at the Firefly compound at the end of the first game. Tommy is shocked but promises to take it to his grave.
- Sinister Silhouettes: During the sniper battle between him against Abby and Manny. He is almost entirely seen from the player's perspective as an unknown deadly shadow unloading his sniper rifle on them, until you draw a little closer and realize just who exactly is shooting at them.
- Survivor's Guilt: Like Joel, he was never able to forgive himself for what happened to Sarah.
- Took a Level in Badass:
- Implied when you finally meet him - he's settled down and devotes his energy to protecting a community at a power plant. He was plenty badass even before the timeskip, managing to survive and hold off a group of infected chasing Joel, Sarah and him on the day of the outbreak.
- In Part II to an even greater degree. His time as a former Hunter and Firefly are shown in full force, as he violently mutilates and guns down any Wolves in his path to vengeance for his brother’s brutal murder.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: A notable example after Joel's death in the prologue of Part II. He went to Seattle on his own and murdered several WLF soldiers without any restraint, including Abby's friends. He even guilt-trips Ellie into continuing the pursuit of vengeance against Abby in the epilogue, ruining the life Ellie herself had made when settling down Understandable considering Abby killed his brother and Jesse, almost killed him and now left him crippled, brutally beat Ellie and almost killed Dina but it's still jarring.
- Torture Technician: In Part II, it's shown he picked up several effective methods of torture from him and Joel's time as Hunters over the years, with Ellie and Dina walking in on his handiwork.
- Toxic Friend Influence: For all the good he did for Ellie, it's ultimately he who guilt-trips her into continuing their search for Abby months after Ellie settled down into a happy family life with Dina, due to his being unable to do it himself following his crippling injuries. Dina rightfully tears him a new one for it, but Ellie still heads out against Dina's wishes, shattering their family in the process and resulting directly in Ellie's personal Downer Ending.
- Unexplained Recovery: Tommy is shot in the head by Abby right before she and Ellie battle each other for the first time. It's assumed that he's dead until after the timeskip, where it's revealed that he is miraculously alive with crippling injuries. No mention is made of how he was able to survive a direct gunshot to the head in a post-apocalypse where sophisticated medical treatment is practically nonexistent. Even more baffling is that Jesse was killed earlier by a gunshot to the cheek.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It's unclear how aware he was of the potential fallout, but his insistence on hunting down Abby ends up destroying Ellie's and Dina's relationship, ending whatever happiness Ellie had scrounged together.
- He's also the one who reveals Joel's identity to Abby during a high-stress situation, clueing her to the fact that she has found her father's killer, thus leading to Joel's gruesome murder. Part of the reason he is so eager to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge is due to guilt.
- Vague Age: He's Joel's younger brother, but whether he's just a few years younger or closer to a decade younger is unclear. He was single and childless while Joel had a twelve year old daughter from a previous marriage, he didn't age as much as Joel did during the Time Skip, Joel addresses him as "baby brother" when they reunite, and it's implied that Joel pretty much raised Tommy.
- Verbal Tic: Like his brother, he is fond of saying "goddamn(it)". It must run in the family.
Other Residents
Dina
Dina
"Oh, Ellie... I think they should be terrified of you."
Ellie's current girlfriend and traveling companion.- Action Girl: Dina is shown to be a crack shot and quick draw against the Infected.
- Action Survivor: Dina has been through some rough times, but comes out almost unscathed. She mentions how she thinks this trope extends to the Jewish people after all they have been through.
- Ambiguous Situation: Perhaps unintentionally, it's not completely clear whether Dina's sister Talia is alive. Dina imagines having her sister's murderer in her clutches, but it's never confirmed whether Talia's murder is a part of the hypothetical situation or not.
- Amicable Exes: Despite breaking up with Jesse, she's still on good terms with him. Her reaction to seeing him in Seattle is a warm hug which he returns.
- Badass Adorable: Just like Ellie, she is quite beautiful and a tough woman not to be reckon with but she's also the one of the most sweetest characters in the game.
- Battle Couple: She joins Ellie in chasing after Abby, acting as her partner when fighting the Infected and the WLF before she learns she's pregnant.
- Considering that they use to date she may have been one with Jesse as well.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Downplayed. She has some minor facial scarring after Abby's Roaring Rampage of Revenge and a scar on her shoulder from Lev's arrow but still quite beautiful.
- Biblical Motifs: Her name is one letter off from Dinah, a woman in the book of Genesis who was raped by the prince of a nearby city, and in retaliation, her brothers slaughtered every last man in the city.
- Big Damn Heroes: When Ellie gets kidnapped by a fraction of the WLF in while exploring Settle, Dina escapes, finds where they were keeping Ellie, and manages to save her just in time before one of the group is just about to shoot her dead.
- Brick Joke: Shortly after arriving in Seattle she mentions how she'd like to fix up a farm near Jackson and settle down there, which Ellie considers kind of lame. About 20 hours of gameplay later, it turns out that's exactly what they've done after returning to Wyoming.
- Broken Bird: Subverted. Though she has some rather dark things in her past (including having to kill a man at age ten and an older sister who was murdered), Dina seems rather well-adjusted and is generally cheerful and friendly.
- Call to Agriculture: When they first get to Seattle, Dina states she wants to settle down in a farm outside of Jackson. After Abby gets away, Dina and Ellie do exactly that before Ellie decides to chase after Abby again.
- Children Forced to Kill: Dina's first kill was a man who attacked her mom. She was ten years old.
- Chivalrous Pervert: While they're traveling in Capitol Hills, Dina jokingly compares herself and Ellie to a lesbian couple on a steamy romance novel. If Ellie comes back to the shelf she left the book at, it's conveniently disappeared and Dina is shown to have a poorly disguised smile. This also counts as a Call-Back to the first game where Ellie did something similar with a toy she later gives to Sam.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Ellie states that Dina never got along with Ellie's ex Cat which implied on some dialogue and Ellie's journal was because she was jealous.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Dark eyes to complement her black hair.
- Deuteragonist: In Ellie's story, she's the second most important character out of Ellie's allies.
- Friend to All Children: The kids in Jackson love her and get her to have a snow fight with them. They then dogpile her when she and Ellie win.
- Girl Next Door: Though she's shown to be undeniably attractive, few people actually comment on her looks. Instead, it's her warm accessibility and outgoing nature that draws others to her; including Ellie.
- Good Is Not Soft: Dina's a sweet girl (especially for this setting), but she's also incredibly tough. She intervenes on Abby trying to kill Ellie.
- Handicapped Badass: She proves herself a very capable fighter during the first day in Seattle, but when her pregnancy starts making itself known for real, she's forced to lay low and act as Ellie's Mission Control for the rest of their shared adventure.
- Hartman Hips: Dina had a more pronounced curvature to her hips than any other character thus seen in the franchise.
- Informed Judaism: When Ellie and Dina explore a synagogue in Downtown Seattle, Dina reveals to Ellie that she's Jewish, and that survival has always been a thing in her family (persecutions from The Middle Ages all the way to The Holocaust and, since 2013, the fungal plague apocalypse).
- Jerkass Has a Point: She harshly lashes out at Tommy when he tells Ellie about Abby's whereabouts at the farmhouse but considering he's ignoring the possibility of Ellie deciding to forget about Abby since she's clearly settled down it's understandable.
- Kick the Dog: In the flashback at the bar she acted like a dick to her ex Jesse for no reason even though all the guy did was greet her. And then while she led Ellie away to dance with her she rolled her eyes and snarked at him even though he was just reminding her about their patrol shift the next day. Lastly, when Ellie called her out on this she just ignored her.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Used to take care of two cats before she started to live in Jackson and is one of the kindest characters in the whole series.
- Love Cannot Overcome: While she's willing to settle down with Ellie and even seems to enjoy her company, the instant that Ellie decides to purse her unfinished revenge on Abby, Dina decides that enough is enough and leaves with her son without saying goodbye to her.
- Mission Control: Downplayed, Dina focuses on decrypting radio transmissions to keep track of Wolves for much of the time in Seattle due to her pregnancy putting her out of the action. But because Ellie or Dina didn't bring the necessary technology with them, they can't regularly communicate when Ellie's on the go.
- Morning Sickness: Ellie describes in her journal that during their way to Seattle Dina would frequently throw up. During day two, Dina has a suspicion she might be pregnant. The next day, Ellie wakes up and finds her puking into a trashcan while working on a radio.
- Nice Girl: You won't find a sweeter girl in this messed-up world. In fact, you'll be hard-pressed to find a nicer person, period.
- The One That Got Away: She and Ellie settle into a peaceful farmer's life after the events in Seattle, but when Ellie ends up putting her unfulfilled revenge on Abby over the needs of her family, Dina and her son are gone and their house cleaned out by the time she returns. Cue the credits.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Though no taller than Ellie, Dina is shown to be remarkably tough.
- Pregnant Badass: Joins Ellie on her gruesome revenge quest while pregnant with her and Jesse's baby. She hides it at first, but spills the beans at the end of day two.
- Red Herring: Early trailers of the game heavily implied Ellie's Roaring Rampage of Revenge was all because Dina was murdered. It turned out she wasn't murdered, but in fact is a Guest-Star Party Member during the adventure.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After Ellie decides to find Abby against Dina's wishes, Dina, with JJ, leaves their home without leaving a note.
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Almost all of the trailers removed her in gameplay footage or cutscenes from well into the story, as a way to misdirect that Ellie was getting revenge for her instead of Joel.
- Someone to Remember Him By: She's pregnant with her ex boyfriend's, Jesse's, baby. He dies during the course of the game and never even got to see his son.
- Token Religious Teammate: Of all the people Joel and Ellie have paired with, Dina is the only one to show any overt religious inclinations, though even she shows some agnostic leanings. She's not certain God exists, but she still prays, even if only for her own comfort.
- Twofer Token Minority: She is Jewish and bisexual.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Downplayed. During Ellie's gameplay, Dina will occasionally make a worried-sounding comment about the player getting a particularly brutal kill, or killing a surrendering enemy (e.g. "Goddamn..." or "Damn, Ellie."). This never escalates no matter how many times it happens and doesn't affect the story.
Jesse
Jesse
"Think I'd let you do this on your own?"
Voiced By: Stephen Chang (English)note
A friend of Ellie and Dina's on-off boyfriend.
- Amicable Exes: He's been on-and-off with Dina in the past but is still friendly with her.
- Badass Driver: Shown while he and Ellie are escaping from the WLF and infected in a Jeep. He even manages to save Ellie from being grappled from an infected by stabbing it in the face while driving in reverse.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Abby kills him.
- Deadpan Snarker: From time to time he will crack jokes at both his and other people’s expenses.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: As soon as he opens the theater doors to confront Abby, he is swiftly shot in the face by Abby a split-second later.
- Foil: To Manny. They both share similar roles, being the protagonist’s Token Minority sidekick, and being fawned over by the women of their respective communities. Manny sleeps around as much as he can though, while Jesse doesn’t seem to pursue anyone despite their infatuation with him. They both also die in near identical fashion, shot through the face while assisting the protagonist.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Subverted. He feigns jealousy to Ellie and Dina’s relationship, but reveals it as all a joke moments later.
- Kill the Cutie: Extremely rare male example except, in his case, it's more like kill the hottie.
- Nice Guy: He teases Ellie about getting with Dina a week after he and Dina broke up, but holds no grudge against her and even approves of the pairing.
- Shipper on Deck: Despite some minor joking, he's very supportive of Dina and Ellie's relationship.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Abby shoots him through the cheek shortly after they finally reunite with Tommy.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Fits this to a tee, and is pointed out as such by Ellie on their journey to find Tommy, noting “you’re handsome and whatever, but I’m not into your type.” Her being an out lesbian is already knowledge to him, so he sarcastically replies with “what, Asians?”. In fact when heading with Ellie to the bar to get Seth’s apology, multiple women greet him in a shy, admiring tone.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Ties with Dina as possibly the nicest character(s) in the game. He ends up having his brains suddenly blown out by Abby halfway through the game.
- Undying Loyalty: Jesse actually followed Ellie and Dina a day later to help them out saying that his friends' problems are his problems. Sadly he dies shortly afterward.
Cat
Cat
Voiced By: N/A
Ellie's ex and first long-term girlfriend.
- Flat Character: She was Ellie's first long-term girlfriend, she's a tattoo artist, and... well, that's about it. We aren't even told what she looks like, although you can see a picture of her in Ellie's house and later a drawing Ellie did of her in her journal.
- The Ghost: Mentioned from time to time, but never shows up in person.
- Tattoo as Character Type: Although it's unclear if she's inked herself (unless you figured it out and in a Replay saw her picture in Ellie's home in Jackson), she was the one who did Ellie's tattoo.
- Their First Time: Presumably she was this to Ellie. If you read through Ellie's journal during the sniper training flashback, it described how Cat was the first person to kiss Ellie since Riley and how Ellie freaked out over it, her not being sure if she could infect people this way, and she then stood guard over a sleeping Cat for the rest of the night, and nothing happened with her. And her next note after this is a simple CAT IS THE BEST!!!
- Twofer Token Minority: She is Asian and lesbian/bi.
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Word of God: At first there was
supposed be an interactive part at the dance before the cutscene, and Ellie was able to run into her then ex-girlfriend. Cat was described as Asian, heavily tattooed and Ellie was going to be able to have some "sassy dialogue" with her.
Seth
Seth
Voiced By: Robert Clotworthy (English)note
A bartender in Jackson.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: He claims this as the reason he used a slur against Ellie and Dina.
- The Bartender: Of the bar, he seems to run.
- Freudian Excuse: His wife and eldest son were brutally murdered and his other two children likely starved to death before he made it to Jackson. While this doesn’t justify what he said to Ellie and Dina it does provide somewhat of an understanding as to why he’s a hateful person.
- Hypocrite: He disapproves of Ellie and Dina kissing in public because he considers it inappropriate for children. Apparently a homophobic slur is completely fine for them to hear.
- Jerkass: He's a bigoted and irritable old man.
- Ordered Apology: It doesn't feel like he would've apologized to Ellie without Maria's insistence, which probably plays into Ellie's refusal to accept it.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Although "hero" is a bit too much, he does have a conservative view on homosexuality (he calls Ellie a "dyke", a slur for a homosexual woman), and being drunk has only allowed him to be upfront about it.
- Racist Grandpa: Well Homophobic Grandpa, since he holds a conservative view against Ellie and Dina's romance during a flashback, and being intoxicated at the time probably suggests that it was always there in the low down and has made him upfront about it.
- Rejected Apology: While he did apologize to Ellie for his bigoted behavior, she isn't really particularly forgiving of his bigotry, even if he was drunk at the time. His apology certainly doesn't seem all that sincere.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's only there for a scene at the beginning of the story and in a flashback; not only does his bigoted jackassery shows how Ellie isn't a very forgiving person if being wronged, but also allows Joel to defend her despite their relationship being "over", which encourage Ellie to reconcile with him.
Eugene
Eugene Linden
Voiced By: N/A
A friend of Tommy and a skilled member of his group. Eugene is dead before the game but other characters reminisce about him.
- Cool Old Guy: Dina and the others have nothing but positive things to say about the late Eugene. He was a funny, easy going old man who gave them weed.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Eugene abandoned his family to join the Fireflies where he met Tommy. There are a few mentions of his less than moral actions when he was with the group.
- Death Is Dramatic: Ellie and Dina are interested in the extremely mundane way he died (a stroke). When everyone is fighting for their lives against the Infected or other humans, he simply lived to an old age and passed away peacefully.
- Manly Facial Hair: His photograph shows him with a thick mountain-man beard and the stories about him paint the picture of a tough fighter.
- Porn Stash: Ellie and Dina find a bunch of porn vids on VHS cassettes in his secret weed bunker, much to their amusement. Going by their titles, Eugene was a fan of Rule 34.
- Posthumous Character: He died before the events of Part II from a stroke. Ellie and Dina talk about him during their patrol and the audience is shown a picture of him that they find.
- Skewed Priorities: On the larger scale of things, the massive amount of resources he must've sunk into his secret weed lab probably could've been put to more practical use in Jackson. Said lab is also a fair distance outside of town, meaning he put his life on the line every time he ventured out to look after his plantation.
- The Stoner: He was a user of recreational cannabis. Dina remarks on a bong that he'd left at one of their outposts and she and Ellie later find the room where he grew and irrigated marijuana.
