The outrage from some corners of the The Last of Us 2 fandom has died down significantly since the game released this June, or it's at least become less vocal. Still, some fans won't forget the homophobic comments about Ellie and a certain character death that led to the TLOU2 review bombing on Metacritic, the death threats to Abby's VA, and the criticisms over Abby's body type. Although The Last of Us 2 was critically lauded and appreciated by a lot of fans, the controversy was intense.

The Last of Us 2 fans recently celebrated The Last of Us Day, formerly known as Outbreak Day before being changed due to the current global pandemic. Naughty Dog released a free PS4 theme, figurines of Joel and Ellie, a cosplay guide, and more to celebrate both the recently-released TLOU2 and the original game, which was released about seven years ago. Naughty Dog's VP and The Last of Us 2's head writer, Neil Druckmann, took to Twitter the day after The Last of Us Day to voice his thoughts about certain TLOU2 critics.

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Twitter user @KharloKong posed an open question in a tweet in the form of an image of a screenshot from the popular Disney movie Tangled, where one character voices his opinion during a musical number and his thoughts are so unpopular that over a dozen people point swords at his throat. The Twitter user accompanied the image with text that asked what video games opinion drew that sort of reaction from certain people, with the implication clear due to Tangled's widespread popularity.

Druckmann's response to the original tweet also requires basic knowledge of pop culture and of the entire The Last of Us 2 controversy, but one huge implication is clear from the phrase "That female characters can be muscular?" and an image of Joel putting his head in his hands. The implication is clearly that Druckmann believes Abby's muscular physique is very unpopular, but that he stands by the opinion despite the negative backlash, and his use of Joel's facepalm conveys his disappointment in fans' vitriol.

Of course, many people have pointed out that in a post-apocalyptic world, it would make sense for characters to be physically built, especially aggressive people like Abby, and that there is no similar backlash against extremely muscular male characters in video games. At the end of the day, video games are fiction and fantasy, and Druckmann is one of many who's clearly still exasperated that so many people are offended by a computer-animated person has a certain body type.

Abby is a divisive character, just as The Last of Us 2 is a divisive game, but Druckmann doesn't appear to regret the controversial artistic decisions he and the other devs made, but wishes that parts of fandom weren't so intent on attacking creative decisions that don't have a real impact on gameplay.

The Last of Us 2 is available now on PS4.

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