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I found a Youtube video the other day that has "It Has To Be This Way" from Metal Gear Rising playing over the Abby VS Ellie boss fights, and although it's obviously a meme video made because of the Senator Armstrong comparisons, I did think that the song's lyrics fit the context of this game's story and the relationship between Ellie and Abby unironically. In particular, "Violence breeds violence, but in the end it has to be this way", ties into the cycle of revenge where both characters may recognize that they should move on, they can't bring themselves to do it, until they've lost almost everything, and there are other lyrics that highlight how Ellie and Abby aren't so different after all, and despite their hatred of each other, they have a lot in common.