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| “ | Run, little rabbit, run. | „ |
| ~ David's scary line during Ellie's boss fight with him. |
David is the secondary antagonist of Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic survival horror video game The Last of Us, serving as the main antagonist of the Winter chapter and a posthumous antagonist for the remainder of the game.
He's a survivalist and cannibal leader residing in a small town in post-apocalyptic America.
He was voiced by Nolan North, who also voiced Dr. Branden Moses in Generator Rex, Marcus Octavius in Highlander: The Search for Vengeance and Frederick DeLamb in Young Justice.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- While hardly anyone in the game is a saint (as it illustrates that in an extreme crisis people can decide it’s every person for themselves), David still stands out as one of the worst human beings there is to offer with wholly no redeeming qualities.
- He's a cannibal who leads a group of other like-minded survivors, women and children included.
- Speaking of which, while it may not have been David's intention, his group was still responsible for impaling Joel on a rebar in Colorado as they were looking for food there. This event, much like most of the game, is played for a tearjerker.
- Davids group then later on try to find and kill Joel and Ellie after the two bunker down in a mall for a short while so Ellie can find medical supplies for Joel's wounds.
- Before Ellie meets him, David and his group had already killed and cannibalised a sizeable amount of people, as evident by him and his men taking souvenirs from their victims, hanging some of their corpses in a warehouse and a list detailing the amount of "meat" they got on a hunt to find food.
- Sends his group out to try and find Joel in order to kill him, forcing Ellie to have to drive them away, which does succeed, but results in David capturing her and taking her prisoner.
- After Ellie tries to escape by breaking his finger and stealing the keys, David threatens to chop her up into little pieces later on, which he tries to do exactly that when he and James take Ellie out of her cell.
- One of David's men refers to Ellie as "David's newest pet", implying that he victimized and preyed on several other teenage girls in the past.
- Taunts Ellie about the death of her horse Callus (who got shot by his men), promising not to waste any of the meat.
- Thanks Ellie for killing a large number of his men, stating it'll just make his group stronger by providing fewer mouths to feed.
- After the two are knocked out, Ellie's "he tried to..." line plus the fact that she gets choked into unconsciousness rather than death if she fails the QTE, implies that David would've raped and murdered her right then and there had she not grabbed his machete or Joel had not intervened. These events ultimately gave her PTSD that still gets her in the springtime.
Trivia[]
- In an interview with IGN, Nolan North expressed his opinion that David has actually some good on him and that he was intending to keep Ellie alive so he could impregnate her to repopulate the Earth, as few women talented in survival still remain, which means that David actually cares for humanity. If this was confirmed, it would strip David from his Pure Evil status, however this idea is likely abandoned. Plus, it would've been inhumane to get Ellie pregnant as it would've constituted as rape, especially given his sinister nature along with his high number of atrocities committed.
- He is one of the only Pure Evil villains across the Last of Us franchise, alongside his HBO counterpart.
External Links[]
- David on the Villains Wiki
- David on the The Last of Us Wiki
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 Pure Evils
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