Biology of Bloaters (The Last of Us)

[samwill]

As someone who's suffered with jaw and TMJ issues my whole life, the most horrific part of Last of Us monsters is the split jaws. I mean GOD do you know how much that would hurt?

[kingdt]

”blotters are arguably the most horrific stages “

The Rat king: I’m a joke to you?

[Goku_blackfan]

Technically there is no final stage of this fungal infection, as long as the host remains uninterrupted they will continue to become stronger, more infested and bigger.

[outdoorscholar]

I hope that one of these days we get a scene where a bloater gets cut in half or crushed so we get to see what, or rather who, is under the fungal growth

[Lemonbaker]

Can wait for new videos! Seriously love this channel!

[jennyfeare]

what a THICCCC boi! Will you be covering the Rat King too, and mention the mycelium network shown in the show that could alert and awaken the infected if disturbed by potential prey?

[sleepycatz]

Dude this is awesome. It's a good way to explain each stage of Infection in a short but informative manner. Can't wait for you to release more about the stalker, shambler and even the mighty rat king.

[Coolahejqn]

The rat king laughs menacingly in the corner

[ShannonMichelle]

This narration is so descriptive and poetic, I love the opening line! You’re an awesome writer. This is disturbing AF. I love this show and never played the game, thank you for this!

[doggz]

That hospital in Seattle is ground zero for seattle, most of the first infections in the city where put in the lower parts of the hospital to die, be infected, and quarantine away from most of the other “healthy” civilians. By the time Abby in down there looking for supplies for lev, it’s already been 25 years of the infected being developed. With that being said Ratking isn’t another stage of the infection, it is a mutation. It’s a bloater aka stage 4, mixed with a stage 2 aka stalker and ive also heard there is a clicker mixed in there. It isn’t a stage because one entity on its own cannot turn into ratking hence the information behind the word “ratking”. If you check the nest out for the ratking you can see that thing has been sitting for while with many corpses, fungi, and spores are mixed in for almost 25 years. The fungi mushed and plated those entities all together, it’s why when you damage the ratking enough, the stalker will rip itself off of the original mass that is “ratking”. That stalker is also mutated as it’s the only known stalker ever to be able to throw spores like bloaters or shamblers. This isn’t a stage of mutation for a single entity, but what this does mean in the right conditions(enough years for development& and enough infected for mutation) there are more infected just like ratking out there. TLOU3 explores this I hope, just a little lore for those interested in this amazing series I’ve fell inlove with since younger

[mandraslopez]

The reinforcement of muscles by the fungus is something I haven’t heard yet, that would perfectly explain why the bloaters, and even clickers, seem to be so much stronger than uninfected people. I always just thought that they could exert themselves more due to elevated pain tolerance or something like that

[Handsomeguy-kjjg]

Bloaters should have a reason why they are huge as hell. Maybe only a large body with a lot of body mass can take the burden of so much fungal growth.
They could also use this as an opportunity to to make a new enemy type. So more average body size would mean less fungus growth and more mobility. Maybe it would act like a more armored clicker and have some spore attacks.

[homelessgenie]

Bloater is no longer the scariest thing

[tonyrobles]

“Most horrific stage”
Rat king: hold my water

[TelfordMan-ibmf]

ellie was boutta get a mind opening experience

[castratiikrn]

"bloaters are the most horrific stage" as if the rat king doesn't exist

[Superman_]

I just got past the first bloater yesterday and it took me forever damn they're a pain in the ass to beat.

[PBallard]

I’d like to see the process of a clicker turning into a booster like maybe seeing a half plate covered clicker

[gabrieljude]

Just the amount of indepth information on this mutated humans is enough to make you believe this is real and that can be scary.

[Its_Tuff]

While Squealer are fast. These are just nearly Unkillable if not using a Heavy weapon, or a moly