I think the biggest legit pushback someone could do about The Last of Us Part II in terms of how the marketing was done versus what was delivered is that the extent to which Ellie’s character was going to diverge from normal character arcs was not really foreshadowed
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I think Naughty Dog’s folks would counter, and they’d be on pretty solid ground IMO, that TLoU1 didn’t provide a straight up traditional arc for Joel, and that we shouldn’t have expected one for Ellie
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But I do think the trailers sold us an expected arc, which was “broken” not just or even primarily by shaking up our expectations of who was going to die and who the enemy was, but by completely removing Ellie’s actions from the “dark avenger hero” context
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Back when it was in vogue to hate on the game because we expected they were going to fridge Dina and use it as an excuse to shoot a paper-thin homophobic cult, we were expecting Ellie’s actions to be the kind of thing that one does in that aforementioned situation
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So people were expecting Ellie to do things like murder a lot of people (she’s singing about it! In the first completely fake trailer that was completely fake!) and torture a lot of people and other things involving inflicting harm on other people’s bodies
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But we didn’t really come in ready for “wow, you’re going to be a dick about your girlfriend being pregnant? Right now?” Bc we weren’t primed for that kind of mundane dickishness Same deal for the casual abandoning of Jesse and Tommy, not the kind of Dark Hero Antics we expected
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Yeah I think the moment where we really learn the lesson of how ugly revenge is in The Prestige is when Hugh Jackman becomes verbally abusive to ScarJo, who's been nothing but worshipfully devoted to him He's so obsessed that other people just don't *matter* to him
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