Ellie is not important in Gamereactor Sweden's The Last of Us magazine cover.

[badgenome]

That is a reasonable explanation. It's kind of like if they had drawn dicks all over the picture Naughty Dog sent them, and then said, "Well, if you didn't want us to draw dicks on it then you shouldn't have sent an image with the possibility of us drawing dicks on it." It's your fault, Naughty!