Name: Top 10 Differences Between The Last of Us Game and Show
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You think the whole world revolves around him?

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 differences between The Last of Us game and the show.

Well, it's a little bit different in the water.

For this list, we're looking at the biggest changes HBO made when adapting this beloved PlayStation title.

If you haven't seen the show and played the games, beware of huge spoilers ahead.

Know of any other big differences we missed?

And how do you feel about the show overall?

On the show, Joel wants to go on a cross-country journey after he loses contact with his sibling.

Truck's no good without one, and if I don't get to Tommy soon, he's gonna die out there.

He needs a car battery so he can reach his lost brother.

After a survivor named Robert fails to deliver the battery,

Joel and his ally Tess make a deal to transport Ellie in exchange for a new one.

Things aren't quite as wholesome in the source material.

In the game, Joel and Tess agree to take Ellie if the Fireflies give them the guns that Robert promised them.

You hand her off, come back, the weapons are yours.

Tommy only comes in when he becomes the best chance they have of finding out where Ellie needs to go.

By contrast, the show makes it clear that Tommy is much more important to Joel.

The timeline and cause of the Cordyceps outbreak.

So the tainted food all hits the store shelves around the same time Thursday.

People bought it, ate some Thursday night or Friday morning.

One of the biggest differences between the TV series and game comes almost immediately after the show begins.

We learn that the Cordyceps outbreak occurred in 2003.

In the source material, the apocalypse started in the same year the game was released, 2013.

The change was suggested by co-creator Craig Mazin so the series could take place the same year as the show premiered.

He believed this change would make the events more personal to viewers.

A different format also awarded the showrunners more room to expand on how the outbreak occurred.

Cordyceps, Astragalus, any one of them could become capable of burrowing into our brains and taking control not of millions of us, but billions of us.

An epidemiologist explains how Cordyceps function in the premiere.

The second episode also moved the outbreak's main point of origin from somewhere vaguely in South America to Jakarta, Indonesia.

At the Tepun and Gaba factories in the west of the city.

Citizens are required to carry their ID card at all times.

There were a number of minor changes made between the digital Left Behind story expansion and its namesake episode on the series.

While Ellie was remembering her past in the game, she also had to combat enemies in the present.

The reason why she isn't fighting leads to the biggest change to this section of the story.

In the game, Ellie searches an empty mall for any medical supplies while Joel is injured.

Her quest through the building makes her think about the last moments she spent with Riley in another mall.

On the show, the flashback is kicked off after an injured Joel tells her to abandon him.

After remembering that she couldn't stop Riley's death, Ellie becomes more determined to save Joel's life.

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In episode 6, Joel finally made it to Tommy, and honestly, things couldn't be going better.

Tommy revealed that he lives in a successful commune and is married to a woman named Maria.

To top it all off, he also has a baby on the way.

But I don't know, I feel like I'd be a good dad.

This brotherly reunion plays out differently in the game.

While Tommy is still married to Maria, she isn't pregnant.

Joel also met up with his sibling within the nice commune on the show.

But in the game, he finds his brother near a hydroelectric dam working to restore electricity.

What the hell are you doing here? I thought I'd find you in Jackson.

We're trying to bring the plant back to life.

We had it working before, but one of the turbines went south.

In fact, players had to wait until part 2 to see the inside of the community that Tommy was working so hard for.

After Joel and Ellie arrive in Salt Lake City, the Fireflies catch the duo off guard in both the show and the video game.

However, the moment they pick up the protagonists is altered between mediums.

The game features a section where Ellie and Joel attempt to cross a body of water and accidentally end up submerged.

Although the duo makes it to the surface, the immune survivor nearly drowns.

As Joel tries to revive Ellie, Fireflies arrive and knock him out.

Instead, the Fireflies drop smoke grenades before rendering Joel unconscious and capturing Ellie.

In both mediums, the soldiers wouldn't have to get violent if they just asked a couple of questions before pouncing on the protagonists.

Tess is a strong-willed ally that we're sad to lose in every medium.

In both the game and show, she's bitten while the group tries to get through a museum encounter.

Tess eventually sacrifices herself so Joel and Ellie can make it to safety.

But her sacrifice is far more disturbing in live-action.

In the game, she stands up to FEDRA officers to buy Joel and Ellie time and goes out in a blaze of gunfire.

However, a large group of infected people, including one obsessed with PDA, storm the building on the show.