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Nature & Animals influenced The Last of Us
Added by Media Influence Map · 14 October 2026
- Fungi & mycelium
The evidence
The infection is a mutated Cordyceps, the fungus that takes over insects' bodies, which the developers saw in a Planet Earth segment.
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