Bare your fangs: How Isaac and the WLF rose to power

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The story of the Washington Liberation Front and its leader Isaac - how they overthrew FEDRA, how Isaac took over as leader, and the war that was their downfall.
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@miguelg51 Ай бұрын

Issac was so underrated in the game,wish he had more of a leading role besides cutscenes. Hopefully the live action tv show could display more of his leadership role.

@Djalexander0521 Ай бұрын

Was he underrated or underutilized?

@miguelg51 Ай бұрын

@@Djalexander0521Definetly underutilized

@hsd287 Ай бұрын

@@miguelg51 there really wasn't much scope for having Issac around though considering the story is shown from the perspective of Ellie and Abby Issac only appears when Abby needed to meet him and she starts immediately rebelling against Issac over the Danny situation and then the Seraphite war happens the next day

@msampson2286 Ай бұрын

i strongly believe were gonna get a whole plotline with him in the show, set photos show him in completely different clothing then we see in the game plus theyd be kinda dumb to waste a talent like jeffery wright by not expanding on his character

@StillSevered Ай бұрын

I’m absolutely amazed at how much information and lore and story There is to every single character, including characters that you barely see on the screen, have a story of their own full of hatred, evil, love and grudges, absolutely one of my most favorite games if not my most

@hsd287 Ай бұрын

The game is mostly about Ellie and Abby but they have made sure to include stuff about the other characters through the items around u

@therealdirtenjoyer Ай бұрын

I really like these videos that analyze the story below surface level. I’ve never realized how much of the story outside of Ellie and Abby that I’d missed, what a great explanation considering how most of this is hidden in random notes and other missable details

@hsd287 Ай бұрын

The major part of the gamed is exploring the past of dead bodies tbh 😂

@blackwolf4653 Ай бұрын

Doesn‘t make sense that Isaac showed up himself on that island. Why would the head of the W.L.F risk his life like that😅😂

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

This was all or nothing in a war they were likely losing.

@blackwolf4653 Ай бұрын

@@AKblackandredYT It‘s like Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and Hitler went to the front themselves because that also was an all or nothing war.

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

@@blackwolf4653 bit smaller scale. Isaac is the leader of a militia, not a country.

@hsd287 Ай бұрын

@@blackwolf4653 I think he went because it was the ultimate war against the scars with the aim of destroying them for good he was pissed off at Abby and Owen for what they did and maybe didn't trust the others when u enter the WLF tent and morgue u really see what the scars did to the WLF soldiers they injured and killed 😓

@blackwolf4653 Ай бұрын

@@hsd287 We know that there were people left behind in the Stadium and probably some outposts. Because we can hear from the radio how the WLF talks with homebase. That‘s why i think it‘s weird Isaac went with them. I just thought he would be smarter than that. But then again the writing in Part 2 wasn‘t as good and thought out as in the first game.

@user-DarkXY Ай бұрын

Isaac should have worn body armor, what an idiot.

@PharrellSang Ай бұрын

You should make a lore video on the rattlers

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

Good shout. I'll add it to the list!

@lazerpeabody8062 Ай бұрын

I wish the rattlers had more screen time in the last of us 2 rather than just an end bosses btw they stood no chance against ellie's anger

@hsd287 Ай бұрын

They actually were quite ruthless they had to taken down by the slaves because Ellie didn't want them to suffer

@hsd287 Ай бұрын

@@lazerpeabody8062 they appear in the Santa Barbara part mainly because Abby was searching for fireflies they weren't present in Seattle

@lazerpeabody8062 Ай бұрын

@@hsd287 oh my mistake I assumed the were originally meant to appear in Seattle its been 4 years since I watched any gameplay or coverage

@melanievigueria Ай бұрын

cant wait to see more of Isaac and the WLF in the show!!

@ian7064 Ай бұрын

Outside of Jackson which developed independently, I think it's funny how the games show us that the rebel groups who overthrew FEDRA ended up ushering in new regimes that were either worse than FEDRA (ie Pittsburgh) or identical to them (like the WLF). I suppose the idea of managing a QZ is a far cry from the actual responsibilities that come with it

@henrikfitch4017 22 күн бұрын

Also something that typically happens with regimes. They already have the infrastructure, institutions, contacts, supply lines, culture etc.. for their regime. It's much easier to run the country by simply taking over that infrastructure as opposed to tearing it down and restarting, which could just as easily turn to a dictatorship as you quickly need an effective way of running the country unopposed

@danyule21 Ай бұрын

Great video Phil, love how you pulled all the puzzle pieces of information from the game and organized them into a coherent timeline, filling in the blanks with your own observations from the game's worldbuilding. I learned a lot of new things. This must have taken a lot of work! Well done!

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

Thanks. It was a lot of fun to do. There's a few more in the pipeline too.

@adam_19855 Ай бұрын

Love these in depth breakdowns of the different factions in tlou please keep doing them.

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

Thanks. More are definitely planned.

@thedevilsreaper6590 Ай бұрын

You do realize he’s just making stuff up right?

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

@@thedevilsreaper6590 this is all drawn from artefacts in the game. It's not fan fiction.

@damanisincere Ай бұрын

Very good video man. I’ve wondered about something like this, but never was willing to put the pieces together myself. Thanks for this :)

@Jimmyzapata193 Ай бұрын

Isaac ate shit, it was wild!

@boisboisandbois3241 Ай бұрын

We should have seen more of isac, the second I saw baby was scared of him I knew something was up with this man. We're talking a woman who has killed many including Joel Miller and at least one of each infected including the rat King but isac makes her worry. Then boom he's dead. All the intrigue and mystery was gone. I wish he was in the game longer

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

It's probably hard to do that in a game where we can't just constantly skip to events the playable character can't see, and he isn't the main story. But I hope the show takes advantage of being more easily able to show more perspectives.

@hsd287 Ай бұрын

Issac was the leader of the WLF and he could have Abby killed easily which was the reason she was scared of him but he wanted to kill Owen and Lev and Yara which made it impossible to show him more onscreen alongside Abby and that's the main reason Abby almost died because she had to fight the Seraphites off alongside the WLF ppl then Ellies group and then Rattlers

@ceougin20 Ай бұрын

That was a dope video. His reveal… subverted my expectations in a great way. Before people kept talking about him like he was this big military Jorgen Von Strangle type but no. It’s f*cking Jeffrey Wright! An actor I’m falling in love with the more I see him. I hope they go the Marlene route and cast him as Isaac. That be dope as shit.

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

They have! He'll be in the show!

@ceougin20 Ай бұрын

@@AKblackandredYT yeah… I looked it up shortly after this comment. Just goes to show there are certain characters you just can’t recast because of the lasting impact they leave on stories.

@hsd287 Ай бұрын

When u explore Seattle as Ellie u see posters of Issac all around he was extremely dangerous as a terrorist I wonder who finally killed him on that island was it Yara or someone else 😅

@Phriffo 29 күн бұрын

They could have made the story more about the WLF trying to kill Joel mixed with some other things, rather than them killing him in the beginning. Also, we could have had more gameplay either way Ellie and Joel as they promised in the trailers. There was much potential within the game, but people think that we hate it because they killed Joel. No, it was because how and when he was killed and the bad writing.

@bilalashraf1611 Ай бұрын

Is the the wlf vs seraphite war supposed to be an allegory of what’s going on in palestine?

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

Essentially, yeah. That's what inspired it from Neil Druckmann's side. I'd say it's not a great allegory since it puts the Seraphites (Palestine) on the offensive and WLF (Israel) in the position of fighting to preserve shrinking territory despite the truth being the opposite way around, but it does have some telling things in there, like Isaac seeing genocide as the only way to peace, the Seraphites being completely dehumanised by the Wolves, the WLF breaking the truce by killing kids who threw stones at them, those like Owen who are tired of killing being pariahs, etc. I've been debating doing a video specifically on that, but that would be a tough one to write.

@bilalashraf1611 Ай бұрын

@@AKblackandredYT yeah, I notice that when Abby fights, her animations are like that of an isreali solder using Krav Maga. She’ll use leg kicks, groin strikes, etc. And I guess since Neil lived in the West Bank (occupied territory) he probably knew what he was seeing was wrong. So maybe Abby supposed to be an idf soldier feeling guilt. Many idf soldiers are from other countries (Abby is a displaced firefly), and so many of them may be going through similar realizing they’re killing kids for land they don’t care about.

@bilalashraf1611 Ай бұрын

@@AKblackandredYT also, I never thought of the WLF as the good guys, they weren’t as bad as the rattlers but they don’t seem like the ones to root for.

@eugeniamontenegro8973 Ай бұрын

so i know this part of the story is quite controversial because of what is apparently based on (israel/palestine) i had surface level knowledge about it tho since i didn't play the game and i was worried about how it was going to be portrayed on the show but i think this is a pretty fair and rational representation of the conflict? i really thought this was outright idf propaganda but they're straight up treating the wlf (based on the idf i suppose) as perverse genocidal fanatics, i think it's pretty spot on. if anything this mostly feels, i would never say pro palestine, almost kind of sort of anti israel? i might be wrong i don't know. i hope they stick to the original game story for the series

@AKblackandredYT Ай бұрын

Yeah I don't think it's intended to portray the Palestine/Seraphites in a good light, but ends up portraying the WLF/IDF in a bad light inadvertently. Which is interesting given that there's more nuance in Neil Druckmann's writing here than in his postings on real life politics, almost as if he *wants* his politics to be better than they *actually are*. That is probably a whole video essay in and of itself though.