Rat King (The Last of Us)

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The Rat King is a monster in the 2020 video game The Last of Us Part II. It is an amalgamation of multiple zombie-like infected monsters, inspired by a real rat king, which is formed when rats become entangled by their tails. The concept of two infected stuck together was conceived during the development of the first game, The Last of Us (2013), but the developers struggled to find an appropriate location within the story. The concept returned for the second game as the team sought an intense sequence for protagonist Abby. The development team had several inspirations when creating the creature and boss fight, including the video games Inside (2016) and God of War (2018) and the films Zygote (2017) and Annihilation (2018). The creature's movements were performed by multiple motion-capture actors using a cage on large caster wheels, while its sounds include several layered animal noises. Critics found the boss fight terrifying, and some academics felt it symbolized elements of the characters...

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