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When did Ellie ever establish she would die if she had to for the cure? because I don't remember that. She certainly didn't think she was going to have to die from it, given she and Joel make plans for immediately after they finish.

Its a big part of her character that she wants her whole experience to be "for something" but that doesn't mean she'd willingly die for it.

UnfairRepresent posted...

No one honest can deny Joel's actions are evil. Joel can't even deny it.

Well yeah. Joel isn't a good character. Its made abundantly clear that Joel makes a selfish and dangerous decision, that he makes a terrible one by lying to Ellie, and possibly destroys his relationship with her when she sees straight through his shit.

But its also not as basic a choice being made as "kill Ellie or save everyone" its "kill Ellie and let these bumbling idiots maybe have a chance at saving everyone (when there's no proof they have any idea what they're doing), but even if it works its also well too late since civilization has already collapsed" making Ellie have effectively died for nothing.