Abby Anderson

The content featured in this article may feature mature subjects or situations that aren't suitable for younger viewers. If you are 18 years or older or if you're comfortable viewing graphic material, feel free to view this page.

## Base Breaking Character

### Alias

AbbyAbs
Wolf
Sweetheart
Traitor

### Powers/Skills

Expert marksmanship
Weapon expertise
Master martial artist
Survival methods
Peak human condition
Brute strength
Durability
Speed
Agility
Stamina
Aggression
Intimidation
Pain tolerance
Intelligence
Tactics
Free-running
Craftsmanship
Stealth

### Family

Jerry Anderson  (father) Owen Moore  (boyfriend; formerly)

### Allies

Owen Moore
Manny Alvarez
Mel
Nora Harris
Jordan
Nick
Leah
Lev
Yara
Jerry Anderson
Alice
The WLF  (formerly)
Isaac Dixon  (formerly)
Joel Miller  (briefly)
Tommy Miller  (briefly)

### Enemies

Ellie Williams  (archenemy; formerly) Joel Miller
Tommy Miller
Dina
Jesse
Seraphites
The WLF
The Rattlers

### Goals

Kill Joel in order to avenge her father's death.  (succeeded) Kill Ellie to avenge her friends' death.  (failed; abandonned)
Find the Fireflies with Lev in Catalina Island.  (ongoing)

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

Killing Joel by beating him to death with a golf club.Killing Jesse, shooting Tommy through the eye, and beating Ellie and Dina to near-death.
Getting away with everyting she did.
Having forced sympathy around her, which annoyed the players and fans.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

Has a compelling and well-written backstory.Has some badass moments.
Her relationship with Lev.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Unintentionnally Unsympathetic Villain

**Abigail "Abby" Anderson** is one of the two protagonists (alongside Ellie Williams) of *The Last of Us Part II,* serving as the main antagonist of Ellie's story. She is a former member of the Fireflies, who leads a small faction of the millitant Washington Liberation Front.

Abby is the daughter of Jerry Anderson, one of the Firefly surgeons attempting to find a cure for the infection. His death at the hands of Joel Miller is what sets her on her quest to avenge her father. When she finally fulfills her mission, she comes into conflict with Ellie, who swears revenge after Joel's death.

She was voiced and mo-capped by Laura Bailey.

## What Makes Her a Base-Breaking Character?

### Why Do People Love Her?

* Some people think that the plot twist of the player finding out Abby was the daughter of the surgeon Joel killed in the hospital is actually genius and well-written.
* Loving or hating the character, everyone agrees that Laura Bailey did an amazing perfomance and deserves the Outstanding Performance award (especially considering the actress unfairly recieved a lot of death threats from angry fans who hated the character).
* A lot of people love her interactions with Yara and Lev, thinking of it as a good way of redeeming the character.
* She has a wholesome moment with Yara and Lev where she protects them from Isaac and the WLF trying to kill them.
* Just like Ellie, she has her fair share of badass moments.
* While a lot of people hated it, a lot of others loved the idea of playing as her who is supposed to be "the bad guy", and having her go against Tommy and Ellie who are supposed to be the "good guys".
* Some people think Abby had the most thrilling moments in the game, which includes fighting the horrifying Rat King and being hunted down by a vengeful Ellie.
* At the end of the game, while a lot of people wanted Ellie to kill Abby and were mad that she didn't, others took time to bond with Abby, and just wanted the cycle of vengeance to stop, and at the end of the day, Ellie and Abby are just broken people who've lost everything.

### Why Do People Hate Her?

* The main issue with Abby is the fact that she killed Joel, who is undeniably loved by everyone. She brutally killed him by shooting him in the leg then beating him to death with a golf club, which angered many fans and is basically the reason why they hate Abby so mush.
	+ Another plot hole with is that Abby didn't even ask for Joel's family name, so some fans started joking that she'd kill everyone named "Joel" on her path.
	+ It's also worth mentionning that Joel and Tommy just rescued her and her group, and that instead of showing a bit of gratitude, she decided to kill Joel without hesitation.
	+ When Joel asks her who she is, she answers "guess", which is dumb considering Joel couldn't even know that Abby was Jerry's daughter. People then started referencing the meme "-You killed my father. -Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?", considering Joel killed hundreds of people and any of them could've been Abby's dad.
* Her detractors think Abby's big muscles are ridiculous and completely uncommon for a woman, and that it's just a way of making "strong women".
* Her sex scene with Owen is found exagerated and even cringe by a lot of her detractors, and it ended up with a lot of meme edits.
* Her detractors hated Abby for killing Jesse, shooting Tommy through the eye, and beating Ellie and Dina to near death, and on top of that having the player do all of that (which resulted in a lot of players purposely getting Abby killed, most of the time at Ellie's hands).
* She hypocritally accused Ellie and Tommy of wasting their "chance" by killing all of her friends, while she's the reason they killed them in the first place by killing Joel (Tommy's brother and Ellie's surrogate father), and didn't even bother trying to find out why they wanted to kill her.
* What her detractors hate the most about her is the fact that she got away with everything and that Ellie never got her revenge on her.
* A lot of her detractors are sick with the "forced sympathy" around the character, thinking that it's not enough to make someone bond with a character who just killed one of your favorites simply by giving them a tragedy and forcing you to spend at least 10 hours with said character.
* While some people liked it, others found dumb the idea of Abby being the daughter of the surgeon Joel killed in the hospital, with some fans joking that the next game's plot is gonna be about Ellie getting killed by the daughter of a random NPC she killed.
* Her detractors think that Neil Druckmann wanted to completely replace Joel with Abby simply out of feminism, and "lied" to everyone by promoting "fake" trailer material where Joel is supposed to spend the majority of the game alive only for him to die at the very beginning, which sickened a lot of fans.

## Trivia

* She is the only Base-Breaking character, and has the largest hatedom than any character in *The Last of Us* (which is ironic considering David, a character meant to be hated, has less haters than Abby).