J03L

> "Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Zebras"
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**J03L**, sometimes called **Joelbot**, formerly known as **Joel Miller**, was the main protagonist of *The Last of Us*, and a supporting character in *The Last of Us Part II*, before his death at the hands of Abby Anderson, after which he was resurrected as a cyborg by the name of **J03L** offscreen. He is responsible for every single death after the events of *The Last of Us*, as well every other death throughout history.

## History

### *The Last of Us*

Joel Miller lost his daughter at the beginning of the zombie outbreak in *The Last of Us*, which left him traumatized and severely emotionally closed off in the years that followed. Twenty years into the zombie outbreak, Joel was tasked with escorting a girl named Ellie, who was immune to bites from the infected and likely the key to finding a cure, to safety in the hands of the Fireflies, and despite initially seeing this as just another job, their experiences together led to him viewing her as a daughter figure. When Joel learned that the Fireflies intended to kill Ellie in an attempt to extract a cure from her, he killed the Fireflies and took Ellie with him, telling her when she woke up that there were already more like her and that the attempts to find a cure had been fruitless.

### *The Last of Us Part II*

A few years after the end of *The Last of Us*, Ellie becomes upset at Joel for saving her life rather than let her be used for a cure, and rather than explain to her the shaky grounds on which the Fireflies based their conclusions, instead just does not do that. This leads to Ellie harboring a grudge against Joel, going so far as to get upset at him for defending her against a homophobic attack. One day, Joel ran into Abby Anderson, who the previously very cautious and suspicious Joel welcomed inside with open arms and told his real name to. Abby turned out to be the daughter of the (zebra-saving) doctor Joel killed to save Ellie, and she beat him to death with a golf club in front of Ellie, who she left alive. Ellie later attempted to kill Abby, but suddenly remembered Joel playing the guitar, which made her not want to avenge his death anymore.

### Resurrection as a Cyborg

Joel is expected to return in *The Last of Us Part III*, having been resurrected as a cyborg, as theorized by HeelVsBabyface.

### The Embodiment of Death

> "Literally every death that happens after the first game is Joel's fault."
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Several people stepped forward to defend Abby's actions, and in the process demonize Joel. One of those people was Just Write, who claimed Joel's death was not worth avenging because every death that occurred after Joel saved Ellie was Joel's fault. This led the EFAP gang to go over all of the non-infection-related deaths that Joel would have had to have been caused by him in order for that to be true. Joel - or rather, J03L, the Destroyer of Zebras - has caused every murder, every fatal wound from a zombie, every mauling by animals, every starvation, every death by sickness, drowning, freezing, fall from large heights, and of course the death of every zebra - anything that was not caused by spores or infectious bites, which have likely caused almost all of the damage that they already could in the twenty years since the outbreak, and are not the cause of most of the deaths and danger experienced in the two games. J03L is a being that exists solely to cause death, for death's sake. From there it became apparent that J03L was responsible for even more than had originally been thought - J03L did 9/11, J03L caused Amelia Earhart's plane to crash, J03L led the droid attack on the Wookiees, and J03Lstein did in fact kill himself. How J03L was able to influence events that took place before his own creation is unknown.