EVERY Stage Of The Cordyceps Infection In THE LAST OF US Explained
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- I review, breakdown and explain The Last Of Us Episode 5 'Endure And Survive'. I discuss the Cordyceps Infection and the different types of infected people. Such as Runners, Stalkers, Clickers, Bloaters and The Rat King. I also give my theories and predictions for episode 6.
00:00 Intro
00:41 The Origin Of Cordyceps
01:13 Runners
02:30 Stalkers
03:42 Clickers
05:03 Bloaters
06:34 The Rat King
07:13 The Future Of The Show
07:25 Outro
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Which stage of the infected would you be the most afraid of? Comment your thoughts below!
Clickers ,and bloater are scary I died a good amount of times against them or group.
Most definitely clickers, because they dont die one shot like the runners, shooting them would give away your location, but a huge horde of runners, and you're dead.
In real life, stalkers (game version), because, unlike every other stage, they seem to be able to actually think, and have no obvious weaknesses.
Definitely bloaters due to their hard body armour making it harder to kill them plus they can rip your whole head off.
Scared of ALL of them, but Bloaters are the worse so far!
I used to think the Rat King was the last stage of the infection but I heard that the only reason that monstrosity happened was because all the original infected were grouped up together in one room. So in other words, the Rat King is not a normal stage for the infected.
Yeah bloater is final stage and then the host dies
I think the situation that created the Rat King could be something that happened more than once. Especially in larger cities. So I imagine that there are rat kings in bigger cities' hospitals, trapped in collapsed buildings, underground like in the show, or maybe even some cramped caves where hordes passed through.
@@noelvillasenor3671maybe a type that is like smarter than a stalker and uses Audio to lure the humans and attacks like a stalker and a fight like a clicker
The easiest way to defeat the Rat King is call the Ninja Turtles and have them file an injunction.
@@noelvillasenor3671 I mean it is cordyceps and that makes sense there could be like army of ants that want to eat you
Or a bear with armor of a bloater but can’t hear
I’m not going to lie...... the infected make my skin crawl 😖They did a good job with the costumes. 🤢
They definitely did!
Yessss, it's the clickers for me especially that fungus make them blind and their jaws messed up like that 😬😱🤢🤮🧟♀️🧟♂️🦠🍄
@@koragray4794 I agree... I get goosebumps looking at them. F&*kin gross 😖
@@adiaj9228 Ikr, and I feel sorry of almost the half of people in the show who got infected of the virus though
The way the girl flipped over in the back seat of the car wigged me the hell out
This was a very good episode, the truck explosion scene with all those infected was nuts. RIP Henry and sam. 😣
where are u watching it
HBO Max?
Yeah....
I didn't hear that one coming...tss
@@dc_kdart19 Sky Atlantic
Henry and Sam's death were tragic but necessary. Realistically they wouldve been shot by Kathleen if it werent for the temporary plot armor
the child clicker wigged me out, there were no child clickers in the game and it disturbed me a bit
The movements were haunting!
Yeah whoever’s child played that role was great creeped me out
We really haven't gotten to see Stalkers in the show and the description in the video only describes them from the show. Stalkers are rare and tend to hide in poorly lit areas. They ambush people unlike Runners or Clickers. They are appear more in Part 2.
We saw a stalker in episode 2 in the cellar
@@ayeskidman9269 PS5 and Xbox one
@@ayeskidman9269 wasn’t much of a stalker though lol it was trapped under debris
It was a stalker that give Tess the kiss of death inside the capitol building.
@@russelldeck4168 I think people are not realizing what I'm saying. We have seen Stalkers in the show, but they do not act like Stalkers in the game. Stalkers only hide, hence the name.
I hope the Bloaters will keep their status of "If you see one you run' because these things can only be dispatched I'd say with LOTS of fire or a gigantic ammount of firepower only pre outbreak millitary had
I think the shambler is a version of a bloater that evolved in wet areas.
Yeah that’s right!
Thanks for the info ☺️
I don't believe so, I think they evolved from stalkers. A shambler has it's face near intact. If it was just a version of bloater, it wouldn't have such an intact face. Stalkers are the last stage of infected with a more intact looking face, whereas when clickers come about, their faces have been split open and split apart by the fungus, and as such so are the bloaters. That said, it's kinda unknown where shamblers come from, I think they're just another infected. It was theorized about the wet areas, but we see them in super dry climates as well (santa barbara).
@@zerodawn0994 I agree. In one of the notes you can find, the author details the shambler as “something [that] made it halfway to a bloater and took a turn”. I think it definitely evolves after a stalker through very specific physical/environmental conditions.
"They tend to stick together when attacking due to them usually attacking in a group"
Sweet, got it lol
They tend to stick together when attacking so they can stick together when they attack so they can attack together while sticking in a group together to attack as a group
Does that explain it better?
Stalkers are the ones that scare me the most. I hate them but they’re also some of the best parts of the games; specifically in part 2
The part where the stalkers chased you in the forest was nightmare
I am hopeful that the show will focus more on the conflict with cordyceps zombies rather than going the Walking Dead route and focusing mostly on dysfunctional remnant human societies.
I just had a thought that a person could wear a costume that gives them a Square or rectangle shape to avoid clickers
I don't think that would work, there are many ways to identify humans besides basic outline
The bloater is so weird to me. Its way of killing seems so counterintuitive to the goals of the fungus? Just rip someone's head off so they can't be a vector of infection?
Bio mass
The mouth is so small that it’s useless, and even if it tried to bite someone it would break its fungal plating on the head severely weakening it
The body can be used as a breading ground for the fungus to release spores
@@JaydenTrafford but there are no spores in the show
Great vid amazing content ,and very educational about the infected mutant cordyceps ,and the difference type 👏🏾👏🏾.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video!
And then we got Shamblers! Pretty much a bloater but instead of throwing spores at you it explodes spores from its body. Most likely a mutation from the wet climate of Seattle (Spoiler alert: Seattle has been bombed to kingdom come and now has a river running through the city)
bombed to kingdom come is a understatement. one of the buildings in last of us part 2 has a hole straight through the middle of it
@@levirauch4904Have to wonder how that happened. Bombs aren't usually that precise. And any sane government would have started using nukes when it got to this point
The added details of the fungus out of the mouths really brought them to life. I’ve begun to replay the game for the 6th or so time 😊
Bloaters ain’t zombies. They’re officially monsters
Watch some interviews with the developers of the original game, from 10 years ago.
The developers don't call them zombies.
Aside from the germination stage where infected find a corner to die and spread spores, there's really only 4 main stages. But it's possible to have variations and mutations based on environment
So there's runners, stalkers, clickers. If the infected is not exceptional, they find a place to die and germinate. If not, they may become shamblers or bloaters. Then there are special circumstances like the rat king.
The 7th stage reminds me of the alien fungus Kane turns into from annihilation.
Thanks Much !
Bro the rat king is gonna be scary as hell in the show if they even put it in
I love how he uses the same scenes over and over and over.
This episode saved the show that zombie scene what we needed
Yeah it was great to see them all on screen!
There is a fifth stage of the infected from the last of us that also appeared in the second game just like this last stage the rat king the fifth stage is called a shambler which is zombie, which has been for I think 20 or different years when the zombies die, they explode, and they’re only killed by explosives and fire by using fire weapons
You forgot about “shamblers” (a stage between clickers and bloaters that can secrete acidic spores) they are from the second game lol
Would somebody please tell me how the infected can last more than a few days before dying? What do they eat? What do they drink?
Does the fungus prevent aging? Because the clicker girl was wearing a Blues Clues shirt, was she stuck as a child for 20 years?
Yes I heard that the fungus forces changes into the body from a different normal way focusing more on making the infection stronger instead.
There are also Shamblers that are a powerful infected that form in wet moist environments as seen in The Last of Us Part 2
If echo-location is their MO, wouldn't a device that overwhelmed that sense disable them? Maybe instead of being really quiet, you need something that's very, very loud and emits sounds of different pitches all at once. Projecting (narrowcasting) such sounds off buildings or other sound-reflective objects like sheet metal or water should confuse and distract the clickers into virtual immobility, rendering them easy to destroy. A belt of 50-100 firecrackers would also do the trick.
That clicker was not blind at all
Since you tackled "Ratking" from TLOU2, can you also describe the difference between "Bloater" and "Shambler"? Or are they just the same with different name?
A shambler is a bloater but just from a moist/wet enviorment
This was literally the best episode so far
Yeah it was incredible wasn’t it!
Was it literally the best episode, or was it just the best episode?
@@jakeg3733 literally 😉
@@moneymakerhbd4710 Well I'm glad we've clarified this. I shall write it into the literature (in Latin of course) to commemorate this momentous event in television history for all time
The rat king most definitely most horrific
Definitely! It will be pretty epic when it does appear!
That clicker kid is nightmare fuel
Totally agree!
The runners and stalkers are so much more terrifying in the game. I feel like the show didn't do them justice
The fact the infected crawled out of the fire 😭
Environment really shapes the way infected types developed. Moisture and humidity forms the shamblers that you missed and I believe other farm’s exist throughout the world.
Doesn’t a Bloater go against the fungus’s main purpose of spreading if it just destroys a potential host.
Breeding ground
Everything isn't perfect
For example, in the human there are parts that is a downside to the body but it is still there
I can see the same thing happening to the bloater, especially when the body is messed up
I love it.
IIRC the infected per episode 5 only had been confined underground a few weeks. Otherwise if they had been underground for years their human form would essentially be dead from starvation.
The fungus network will share the water and nutrition among the infected and we know from first episode that the fungi won't let the hosts die or decompose from within according to the interview opener, even that hasn't explained the fungus network back then.
The one from Museum (Episode 2) hasn't able to sustain and survive probably for few years indeed, because it's inside a building and eventually died out. The ones that burrowed underground can live forever as long there are rain pouring down there.
I am more interested how FEDRA in Kansas City manage to lure most of the infected beneath the ground and seal up the entrances. They would have continued to do so if it wasn't for the revolution of the civilians and they too are concerned about this, but the leader of the revolution has to be so hellbent on revenge while her brother is all about forgiveness.
Does that last part seems familiar to you? The second game's moral of the story of Hate and Forgiveness. The first game about Love and Indifference.
@@Frostwolf_103 I believe the fungi replaces cells of the host with its own fungal cells and flesh until there's almost no meat left
Im curious how the Rat King and the Shambler will Look like, this is getting intresting 😊
The costumes are amazing
Yeah they've made the infected look so good!
“Because what I didn’t want to end up with in this movie was a guy in a suit. See I grew up as a kid watching science fiction and monster movies and it was always a guy in a suit…and my fear was ‘they’ll laugh at us’.
-John Carpenter
Love how you just didn’t mention a shambler
Damn that Gluten!!!
They couldn't have thought of a grosser affliction... it's really well done though. Visceral.
okay but how often do you wanna show us the stalker kissing scene?
I WANNA SEE THE RAT KING, THAT SHIT WILL BE CRAZY
What i still don't understand is where did the infected come from in that episode.
It was stated that the infected where forced underground. But they were then all cleared out and we get proof of that when the main characters use the tunnels. So why did the infected come out from the ground.
Bloaters for sure...😱😱😱
The Rat King is an anomoly not a stage of inflection. Also you forgot the shambler from the second game.
If I had a dollar for every time he showed Tess getting infected by the kiss I would buy the entire series and turn it into a Dora the explorer ripoff
Gonna be honest: the advanced forms of infected make sense in a video game, but they seem silly in a TV show.
How do they get enough to eat? They eat other infected?
Is it just me that has this urge to pluck off the fungus out of their faces (Clickers)? Lmao. 😂
They better not kill Joel in season 2 like they did in the game. Or you will have the same kind of backlash from the watchers of the show that didnt play the games.
Bro, would you stop doing spoilers ?
Get over it already. Main characters die all the time.
@@Reupload-Kanal-Von-Lukas-Heil shows based on the game
There’s already spoilers lmfao
@@Reupload-Kanal-Von-Lukas-Heil Right???
Rat king is just a mutated bloater (not a different stage) that combined its self with other stalkers and clickers
I'd be afraid of all of them they are all terrifying
Cordycepys infection to human feels like has more possibility to happen in real life as it already happens in some insects.
Imagine in TLOU3 they have to create a huge like 8km+ diameter creature just like in real life to top the part 2. That thing probably will require nukes to kill it.
You are completely forgetting about the shambler which is shown in game 2 with Abby going after a military group
And there is one more stage that we are maybe going to see in season 2 is shamblers
Another channel is putting forth the idea that the infected cannot tell if another individual is infected. But, following from your description in this video, that would mean that in large numbers they would be as likely to attack each other as an uninfected individual. Could you comment on this?
Both versions tend to happen. The larger the groups the more often friendly fire happens because they tend to attack whatever they can partially see or echo-locate but they will also attack whatever else is in the area because the fungus's mission is to spread to whatever it can no matter the target.
@@newelljoseph5060 I would think, in a crowded situation, this indiscriminate targeting would increase chances of escape for individuals on the edges of the swarm. If you're somewhere in the middle, you're toast. I'm wondering if the use of echo location would trigger diminished response from other infected and could this be used as a shield, by generating the same sound in some manner?
@@lucusrose That has been used to handle a few at a time cause it'll cause confusion in smaller numbers. It's just more difficult it larger and more crowded areas
Imagine the whole of season 2 is Elle’s story from the last of us 2 and season 3 is abbys story
I'm craving Angel Hair pasta...
What I'm wondering is at what point of the infection the host actually dies.
probably by the clicker stage bc then the shrooms are physically displacing all the brains
Nothing scares me more than the Rat King. 😨
You forgot the Shamblers in TLOU2
man henry and sam reminded me of morgan and duane from walking dead
both interesting characters but sadly they both died
because comic morgan dies
It was such a sad arc wasn't it!
0:14 not the blues clues shirt!!!
I wonder how the show will make the shamblers and The Rat King
Cant be the only one that would rather take on a bloater than the infected little girl that chased ellie in the car
You forgot to mention the shambler 😉. It's a stage before the rat king.
Rat king is not even a stage. It's a special specie of fungus infection.
Shambler is almost similar to Bloater. The same stage, but have some extra mutations.
Well... I'm staying away from flour and pancakes.
You and me both!
I had a friend that you might call a clicker. He was a fungai to hang out with
Clickers are the most terrifying to me…
your forgetting the shamblers. they are a variation of the bloater
You missed out Shamblers
Noooo don't show more of the infected. It takes the freight out of the show if you see them all the time. Once or twice an episode Max. I was so shocked to see them pouring out of the ground, if I saw a bunch prior in the episode I feel like that moment doesn't hit as hard
i agree completely. its not like were playing the games, so its easier to loose fear of them
Cry 😢
They are part of the game lol they are encountered all the time that or the hunters 🤣🤣 I like seeing them makes it more intense
How do they still have cloths if it’s been 20 years. You’ll think with wear and tear or the elements of the world would worn the cloths more than we see.
I find the thumbnail pretty cute
What about The Shamblers? You missed the Shamblers
This scene reminded me of I am legend
Yeah very true - underrated movie!
what about the Shambler?
Would they still age?
For example would that kid clicker still become an adult clicker?
Or could she have been a kid clicker for like a decade?
Nope. Zombies don’t grow,
The fungus hijacks the entire body and repurposed everything. So the functions that makes the body grow and age are rewritten to strengthen the host to be more efficient to spread the fungus. So that kid would not grow physically but I wouldn't say it'd become as big as a Bloater over time, but would be a hard solid target if it's speed & flexibility erodes
I'm immune, so I can't get infected....lol
What happened to the shabler
The show made me realize how freaking nasty those things would be in real life.
Definitely!
I’ve always thought to myself how disgusting the areas brimming with spores must smell. Like Ellie I get that you’re immune but are you sure you don’t want to wear a mask to at least protect your nose???
Ikr just imagine if this shit was to come to life dam ik I ain’t abt the die the hell😂😂😂
you forgot the shambler
You forgot the shambler
U forgot the Shambler
I kinda wish they were just gonna do a single season of the show because my god was the second game terrible. The story should have ended with Joel and Ellie getting back to Tommy’s
TLOU2 was a masterpiece one of the best games ever made cry more🤣
Still dreaming every f***ing day about unaliving abby. Every day.
Bro.. I can't survive something like this 😂💀
shambler: am I a joke to you?
I would be most scared of a clicker
Yeah they're pretty horrific!
Ok for the record the rat king is a mutantion not a stage in the infected life cycle
I stir cordyceps powder into my morning drink every day.
Noooooooo - are you at Clicker stage or are you a Bloater?
Im still confused what is the show about? 🐚🐙🐌
8:50 ripped their *skull
Considering that this is a fungal infection, the final stage will likely be something that hasn't been shown yet in the games, but spreads massive amounts of spores high into the atmosphere, which will infect the remaining surviving humans and animals.
I also expect that the original mutation was not natural but bioengineered.. possibly by an alien race that wanted to remove a future competitor without making it apparent they were involved. Parasites have little reason to eliminate their host species, as it would spell their own demise as well. This is why lethal viruses (like ebola) tend to burn themselves out before spreading too far whereas others, like influenza and corona, tend to be mild with only sporadic occasions of greater lethality. Other viruses will go dormant for years, ideally while remaining infectious, and some will even embed themselves into a species' DNA...
Maybe a bioengineerd bioweapon as a way to make Soldiers more aggresive and better fighters.