Clickers, The Last of Us
Nothing in Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic adventure is as unsettling as the first time a clicker gets you. You’re stealthing through a crumpled passageway, choking out infected humans left and right, making as little noise as possible as you clamber over verdant yet destroyed obstacles. But whoops, you knocked over some random glass bottle and now it’s there, chasing after you while flailing its arms and making this horrible clicking noise like a cricket or a croaking frog. And once it catches you, it’s curtains. It munches on your neck, presumably tearing your glands apart, and you die and it sucks. Clickers are dreadful! Covered in fungal spores and hardened flesh, they’re super fast, super strong, and super intelligent, using that spine-tingling clicking sound to communicate with other clickers to determine your exact location. Don’t let their overgrown domes fool you. The clickers in The Last of Us want your death, now. —Levi Winslow
