Red Harlow Easter Eggs Explained (Red Dead Redemption 2)

[@bigblueboyscout4795]

“I’m gonna fill you so full of holes you’ll whistle when the wind blows”

[@eltipodepan6373]

Big Blue Boy Scout that’s like the best lines I’ve ever heard red said

[@alextorres4667]

@@eltipodepan6373 that the best line ever.

[@eltipodepan6373]

Alex Torres. Tomato potato, I’m using my phone

[@hmuz8388]

Bonolenov

[@Anonymouscomment691]

That’s pretty gnarly

[@ANon_645]

Courious fact: In RDR1 everytime campers mention Red Harlow's name the background music guitar plays in the distance

[@shanemc9947]

That only happened once in this video and it was because of the Jackalope

[@sammyhiggs4202]

I played RDR 1 so many times and didn't know that.

[@dragongamer9187]

@Mark Leviathan r

[@reddeadrex9976]

That’s cool! 🤠

[@ANon_645]

Shane McGreevy but have you played the game?

[@blakeb4490]

"man who watched his parents get murdered in front of him as a boy who uses that pain to become a better man and ultimately to wreak his vengeance" Red Harlow is Batman confirmed

[@lucasmartinez5703]

He's Wild West Batman, that doesn't give a shit about killing.

[@stanstanstan2597]

Harlow was just a pseudonym, his real last name was Wayne

[@madcat97]

Red was just a title, his real name was Bruce

[@WestLinn4002]

Batman is Uncle

[@JoeChard]

@Rage Conquers All he’s shit at the game because he uses john? Bro what💀

[@averyaustin1]

I’ve heard theories that Revolver’s events and Harlow himself do exist in RDR, but the events we play in Revolver are just the exaggerated, legendary re-telling of the events of that story while the actual events are more close to reality. The reason Revolver’s tale is more cartoonish is due to the retelling being more ridiculous the more it’s passed from person to person.

[@liamjensen7775]

Kifflom Dolphin like telephone

[@yeahright6376]

Yeah the story of Revolver isn't told by Red Harlow its actually told by a Sheriff.

[@shane4429]

So the main story was actually true but all the supernatural stuff was from the story being twisted every time it was passed down.

[@ay6033]

There’s a popular fan theory about Uncle being Red Harlow himself

[@shane4429]

Skorpion timelines don’t match up, it’s wrong.

[@TheR3verse57]

That moment when rockstar has the time to model Red Harlow’s house but doesn’t have the time to model the black water train station that is referenced by John in a cutscene in rdr2

[@monkey_gamer6406]

true

[@andrewmassino5536]

i just pretend blackwater was still devoloping into a major city and the train station won't be complete until 1908 or something haha

[@wodekw6862]

And rdr2 ended in 1904?

[@andrewmassino5536]

@@wodekw6862 1907

[@professionalgamer6522]

What cutscene was it?

[@Crashpng]

i hope one day possibly in RDR3 we hear stories about Arthur and john at camp fires.

[@TheColtster933]

After you beat red dead 1 you can hear stories about John at camp fires

[@obiwanfisher537]

Um... Rdr3, set in 1920 or what?

[@Crashpng]

@@josephiamdumb627 theres always one...

[@killerphoenix1313]

I think Red dead 3 will be Dutch's story before the gangs story. Well meet young Arthur and Hosea. Red deads wild west timeline stops at rdr1 so any sequel we get is going to work backwards.

[@rigel9228]

@@killerphoenix1313 Honestly, a game set right in the midst of the wild west period would be really awesome.

[@Alfreder28272]

Uncle can’t be red Harlow cause uncle was a god in Africa before red Harlow wasn’t

[@akaurmom6944]

😂😂 yes i heard him saying that at the camp's firesite

[@courier6960]

Cleet He could have been lying or exaggerating for a good story Or it could have been a chapter of his life we haven’t seen

[@MrBlack252]

Uncle is too much of a lazy coward to be Red Harlow

[@courier6960]

Mr. Black Time changes people in mysterious ways, I don’t think it’s an insane theory (likes others that float around in this game)

[@Diamond_2403]

@@courier6960 This is true. I mean, look at Victor Vance from Vice City Stories.

[@gogetterkidsgaming9207]

THAT RABBIT HAS ANTLERS WHEN THEY ARE TALKING BOUT RED IN RDR1

[@deathboyinc]

Yea rare Animal

[@TheSlickoify]

It's called Jackalope

[@Justme-pt1ld]

Jackalope. It's a rare animal that can be hunted and used for a special outfit. Very hard to find!

[@Justme-pt1ld]

@Reido Dorito It isn't? Oh. I apologise for the false information. I was just told that. I'll edit the comment. No harm done.

[@RequineAZ]

@@Justme-pt1ld they're considered rare but when i played rdr1 I found them more often than normal rabbits

[@fadhelfarras1175]

after all this years, I just realize that Red Harlow's backstory basically Bruce Wayne's backstory

[@tacituskilgore8859]

clickbait-KZbinr: I fOuNd BaTmAn iN tHe ReD dEaD uNiVeRse!1!1!

[@OMGitsTerasu]

Basically

[@obiwanfisher537]

Pretty much the backstory to 65% of all western movies...

[@Heyhowareya97]

More like a clint Eastwood movie plot

[@bigfistdante3483]

He's basically cowboy batman

[@curtisholmes9988]

Red Harlow has the same voice of Steve Haines off gta

[@coolguyharrison9949]

They both are voice by the same actor

[@koshyarrashidzadeh7335]

@@coolguyharrison9949 Didn't knew.

[@MrBlack252]

Not the original voice actor only for rdr1

[@coolguyharrison9949]

Yep

[@coolguyharrison9949]

Im not talking about rdr1

[@delabuse]

"...keeping Redemption's serious storytelling from Revolver's cartoonish tale." *Ku Klux Klan reunions flashbacks*

[@EldenLion]

Lol

[@TheBigBossMG4]

Plus the ghost lady! lol

[@yurgenization]

chasing a little man that has teleporting smoke bombs after finding rock carvings for a time traveler

[@SkullOfTheRaven]

@@yurgenization That dude is just like the snake oil guy Jack Swift fights in Revolver too lol, they both literally teleport with smoke bombs

[@loveshork77]

serious storytelling in rockstar style, which means with a bit of crazy stuff

[@validore1]

2:10 casual legendary Jackalope hops through frame. Spent ages hunting that legend of the west down.

[@arthurmorgan7049]

I never knew it even existed until one day I was shooting up Armadillo and shot it in front of the sheriff's building.

[@rounded_tank2907]

bruh first night in rdr and i just found it thinking it was a common animal and i was so confused lol

[@sophwxd655]

I literally opened my phone just to comment this currently watching the vid and I see it and I though how can he just let it get away

[@CranialExtractor]

I played rdr1 few months ago and I don't even remember seeing one LOL hundreds of wolves though.

[@jose_n_05]

I was js abt to comment that lol

[@LotanLevant]

If Rockstar should remaster something, it should be Red Dead Revolver

[@dijondastardly]

It should be a complete remake of RDR1 into RDR2. Story DLC for the ones who want it, continuing Johns story in full glorious hi-def and adding Mexico to RDO, so R* can get more whale money.

[@joshuabrackenbury5357]

Honestly I’d love a bully remaster more

[@paulobriffikado1704]

@@joshuabrackenbury5357 i think anything related to bullying became too much of a hot topic nowadays for r* to touch it again

[@LotanLevant]

@@paulobriffikado1704 can't have another Bully in this fruitcake generation.. but a manhunt 3?

[@paulobriffikado1704]

@@LotanLevant violence is so common that i doubt many people would bat an eye, see postal 2 vs the new postal 4 for reference. I would love both bully and manhunt with a new midnight club in the mix, but with the current state of r* i can only dream

[@powderedwater67]

Uncle: "Well, in my youth, I used to be known as the "one-shot-kid." Also Uncle: A damned liar. And that's why we love him.

[@doughboywhine]

probably because he would pass out after a single shot

[@SandmanTheTerrible]

Well he used a picture from the original rdr, if you look at rdr2 it looks like uncle has those scars just more faded

[@theaveragecrusader9590]

@@SandmanTheTerrible no the picture he looked at is rdr2

[@dentinbond2110]

but they said that revolver was canon but overly exaggerated so it definitely sounds like uncle and his stories to me but he was red harlow

[@theaveragecrusader9590]

@@dentinbond2110 no his facial structure is different and he doesn’t have scars

[@wrongtime9097]

I remember playing Red Dead Revolver a LOT when I was young, and I was really confused at first when I found out RDR1 was an open-world game and had absolutely nothing to do with the original Red Dead. It still makes me smile knowing that Rockstar didn’t forget about the original cowboy

[@x740Reaper]

I really feel like John is red Harlow, and since it's a lot of journal entries and John uses different aliases I feel like someone just wrote about John as best they could bring the old west and all, which is why the beginning of the game you pick through a book to the story and the events are kinda cartoonish and outlandish. The scars and story of actual John are too close maybe just changed when being put in the actual book since the person who wrote it didn't know John possibly

[@fire.walk.with.me.430]

​@x740Reaper its just like the stories jack reads to abigal in rdr2 epilogue

[@positiveornegative2807]

Red Harlow was a real man. His tales were passed down through generations and just like other tales it was altered and thrown around(Theory)

[@NotRJ001]

That was proven already to true

[@NotRJ001]

@Mark Leviathan he's real his stories happened but in a different way. For example...the movie Logan He tells Laura that the events that happened in The X-Men comics were true but they altered the story. So they story we see in Red Dead Revolver that we here in RDR2 and RDR1 are embellished but it did happen in a different way

[@dannyboidee]

@Mark Leviathan The hell is your problem buddy.

[@NotRJ001]

@@dannyboidee facts

[@NotRJ001]

@Mark Leviathan why the hell are you angry? Just because he's not in the game doesn't mean he wasn't real

[@EseHommieChuy]

I always considered RD Revolver as urban legends in the RDR universe just stories passed on and exaggerated. Good way to reference the first game.

[@ruaridhnewton2026]

Same here

[@jackj9816]

Would be good to get a remake and have the more grounded tale

[@shiningmissingno.8788]

@@jackj9816 if they touch revolver i hope they dont change what it was, it was the original red dead and redemption just took the name, the development team isnt even the same, so it would be insulting to change someone elses work like that

[@jackj9816]

@@shiningmissingno.8788 I can get what you mean but after playing the resident evil 2 remake I know they can work if done right

[@shiningmissingno.8788]

@@jackj9816 I loved resident evil 2 and 3 back on the ps1, in my opinion the remakes ruined them

[@lieutenantlaceyakajohntheb4948]

Saddens me that a lot of people don’t know about red dead revolver and the fact they won’t make another one

[@TheKrislaf]

they did make another one. It's called Red Dead REDEMPTION.

[@therealdyl4167]

@@TheKrislaf They made Red Dead Redemption 2, why not Red Dead Revolver 2?

[@thedustyredneck]

@@TheKrislaf red dead redemption is a separate story entirely, and not a sequel, its a spin off.

[@mrcritical6751]

A spin-off that has completely overtaken the original game within pop culture

[@thedustyredneck]

@@mrcritical6751 and the original game was good in its own rights. I remember being addicted to it, then shortly after Gun came out.

[@daddyalex6068]

When you save jack from Angelo bronte and return him back to camp after the gang has finished partying in the camp fire hosea tells a story about him stealing a chicken and that the whole town wanted him to get hanged for it but when he said that a random guy shot the rope for him to live he said that he has never seen the man before some speculated that it was red Harlow that freed hosea

[@tamedpassions9523]

I think that's a reference to the good, the bad and the ugly

[@vao5399]

@@tamedpassions9523 definitely a reference to The Good The Bad and The Ugly

[@etdrwho8328]

@@vao5399 Nice to know that some people thought the same

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

Bruh thats some weird fanfiction unless its a reference

[@thegreeter7027]

It could’ve also been the Strange Man

[@l0mad642]

The only reason I wished these were voiced is so I could listen to them while I work

[@Apuyina]

lol yeah I had one of his videos on as I was trying to go to sleep and it was just the creepy music so I put something else

[@krustedkody8254]

Yeah this is what I was thinking

[@keelanmurphy9941]

Was surprised Red wasn't on one of the gunslinger cigarette cards. I definitely think he exists in the Red Dead universe, but his stories, like those surrounding Jim Calloway, are overblown and sometimes downright farcical in the retelling, and that's the Watsonian explanation for why Red Dead Revolver is nothing like as grounded as the other games.

[@Benjamin-mj9pd]

They probably weren’t sure if he was real.

[@chriscormac231]

Red's story is most likely toned down in actuallity like in Payday, how canonically they killed the fewest amount of people, while the gameplay is a horde shooter that puts the kill count in the ranks of Warhammer 40k level of lethality

[@proto4747]

1000 cops per clown souds about right

[@jackj9816]

Be cool to have a remake

[@AkstekizeHyperyze]

11:20 Here you have a nice cinematic shot and then you look to the right and there’s just a guy either unconscious or dead lying in the trail lol.

[@damondgreen2239]

He probably hurt his horse, you’d be surprised of how many people have died for that.

[@chandleralbers7253]

Nah he's taking a nap

[@sethmiller2532]

The thing with Uncle not having the right scars, to me, can be answered by the fact that everything in Revolver is exaggerated and cartoonish. Compared to having to fight a guy who replaced his arm with a cannon, I think someone adding some nonexistent scars to Red's character description at some point is very likely. As such, I still subscribe to the hypothesis that Uncle was Red and he just didn't have nearly as exciting of a life as the now ridiculous stories would suggest.

[@bry756]

The fact that the stories are ridiculous and the hero so friggin powerful sounds an awful lot like Chicago being on the way to Australia

[@jamescartier8728]

Especially considering Red Dead Revolver has the POV of a mid-20th century Western film, that would have been about 80 years after Uncle's youth

[@degew9367]

At that point why not just say red Harlow is Arthur, or Hosea, or Lenny

[@spawnglance6720]

@@degew9367 Because their backstories are told in-depth during the game lmao

[@spawnglance6720]

All we need to do is look at what REALLY happened IRL with Levin's book on Jim "Boy" Calloway to see that this isn't just possible but likely

[@deadgambler879]

In Rdr1 they only talk about red in the beggining of the game. After a while they start only to talk about stuff Jonh has done (this is a edit... Jeez 2 accounts, probably same guy, are real harassers lol)

[@MrBump2]

John's "Fame" meter is secretly siphoning from Red's

[@sammyhiggs4202]

I thought John was Red at first lol but I do wonder sometimes if John was at one point Red because of the scars. What I mean is Revolver wasn't originally being made by Rockstar but Rockstar got the rights. So I have wondered if John was the spiritual successor of Red since the Redemption arc of the Red Dead series was created by Rockstar. Revolver was not created by Rockstar but they took over the game and tuned it up.

[@lincolnclay898]

John

[@Justme-pt1ld]

@@UAGoWSuplexer Hey now! That's uncalled for!

[@thenewcaliph766]

@@UAGoWSuplexer Wow. Namecalling someone for expressing his opinion and voicing his speculations and thoughts. We can see here who the 'dumb kid' really is. You should go back to Fortnite and come back here after you've grown up and matured a bit.

[@nemesistim371]

"It never was about the money" -Legendary bounty hunter "We just need more MunEh" -Plan guy

[@ParanointDE]

Yep

[@pogggaming4470]

So that’s how Dutch dies

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

It’s about the gold Do you have some

[@__Jp]

good points

[@wajajan697]

The virgin Mr. Mangoes VS the CHAD Red Harlow

[@dominicelijahh5778]

I feel like Harlow was supposed to be John Marston but they decided to let him be named Red and kept john as another character

[@kingf6766]

Yeah even the scars was identical.

[@dominicelijahh5778]

@@GlitchedRebellion literally rockstar games created/made the game wym 💀

[@kennethleo4471]

@@dominicelijahh5778 GVMERS did an excellent job talking about the development of Revolver if you want to know more. But the short of it is that Rockstar basically only published the title. By the time Rockstar got to it the game was pretty well underway. But honestly it's a miracle Revolver came out at all.

[@soratos9785]

Not at all .

[@lunadashie4642]

I'm not sure if this is true, but I remember reading somewhere that in the early stage of Red Dead Redemption's development, Red Harlow was meant to be John's dad but the idea was scrapped

[@paje]

if uncle is Red Harlow, Arthur with a mustache is the strange man

[@pinkerton_agent]

No, Trelawney with a deeper voice is the strange man

[@moisesvides6747]

@@pinkerton_agent he is the strange man, some of the conversations at the camp suggest that heis more than a magician

[@herredward9277]

@@moisesvides6747 Well, no, he's just a dude that keeps birds in his pockets and has a huge charisma. This is why Arthur didn't recognise the Strange Man as Trelawny when he saw him in the distance.

[@damiget2831]

Herr Edward Arthur notices the strange man ?

[@wassabii2810]

And why would John not remember Trelawney? He is a very important character in the gang

[@MrBlack252]

My theory is still this, the events of Red Dead Revolver happened, but the way we see them play out in the game is greatly exaggerated. That's why every cutscene in red dead Revolver looks like an old movie scene. I think they existed but it's almost like back in the old days when John Wayne movies came out some people would sit around and talk about it like it really happened.

[@bobbyjohnson159]

This is the 1st time the strange man was a little off, your explanation is quick simple and too the point.

[@vietcongwarlord6931]

They didn't tho because it's been confirmed by Rockstar that Red Dead Revolver takes place in a different universe than Red Dead Redemption

[@Vanerov]

@@vietcongwarlord6931 They don't take place in a different universe if they did, Red and his entire story wouldn't have even had a reference in any of the Redemption games.

[@vietcongwarlord6931]

@@Vanerov It has been stated by Rockstar themselves. The Red in Red Dead Redemption is a different person than the Red from Red Dead Revolver

[@Vanerov]

@@vietcongwarlord6931 No they aren't? The story described in Redemption is relatively the same we saw in Revolver? They even said characters from Revolver, I would believe that these characters DO EXIST, but were exaggerated, hell maybe they were the real events because, in RDR 2, we have The Strange Man who is Death himself by the evidence, ghost lady, ghosts, a UFO... Point is both games feature the Supernatural like Revolver did.

[@Cryptomaniac626]

Getting flashbacks to that one newspaper kid in Red dead revolver saying "B A T T L E R O Y A L E" everytime I come into that brimstone town.

[@KyleKringle]

I think it's safe to assume that the burned house in Red Dead Redemption is the real Red Harlow's home. Twin Rocks looks significantly different from Revolver in Redemption, perhaps a different interpretation given the graphic capacity and stylistic differences. So, I think the differences in Red's house and Two Crows are mostly adaptation differences as the similarities are too close As for the donkey lady? Could be RDR2 trying to make Two Crows more interesting with a glitch reference from RDR1, but I don't have a good answer for that.

[@cavaschilli8549]

What is the glitch reference for? I never heard of it.

[@Dat_Doggo]

Pretty much in rdr1 there was a lady u can ride as if she were a donkey. It was a glitch that got popular enough that it got its own reference in rdr2 but still don't know why its there at two crows.

[@cavaschilli8549]

@@Dat_Doggo cool. Thanks!

[@SammEater]

@@cavaschilli8549 Yeah, the glitch was called manimal, when an animal npc would spawn with a human model, the donkey lady was one but there was other too, like old man birds.

[@Dolthra]

I'm guessing they just put the donkey lady there because it is a location referencing something from an old game no longer present in RDR2. Both Red Harlow and the donkey lady glitch are absent, so they're both at that location.

[@andytothesky]

2:10 what was that, a jackalope?

[@FreeAimDog]

yeah in the original red dead redemption i think you needed it to make the hunter outfit to get 2 skins. almost like the trinkets in red dead online that give you 2x wild mint.

[@whog0esther3]

Yes it’s one of the rarest animals in the game

[@Jarl3169]

Yeah supposably it's rare but I used to fine one like every 20 minutes so they aren't that rare.

[@revolverocelot8106]

@@Jarl3169 I think it only spawns when you are doing the hunter challenges

[@Jarl3169]

@@revolverocelot8106 Well I found one in the first mission so I don't think that that is true

[@Xenosaurian]

8:15 Actually, everything points to this being Uncle Harlow's actual house. I mean come on, it's his house, plain and simple. The property being larger doesn't matter because that's what you got to expect after ten to twenty years between games with updated graphics and designs. The current design is the current canon. Also, that Donkey Lady could very well be a leftover from the Two Crows Boys bandits that took over the site before Marshall Johnson killed them off. Rockstar also did NOT state that Revolver isn't "canon" to RDR1 and RDR2, at least not in the way people would normally think, because the context in which they said it was clearly different from the common concept of canon, and actually meant it was something like a different world even though it takes place in the same universe and has actual ties to the latter games. Rockstar in fact described their Red Dead universe as something like stories or worlds colliding with each other.

[@optiplanetomatosoup]

the developers said the house is an easter egg and nothing more, take that however you want

[@Xenosaurian]

@@optiplanetomatosoup Um, what is that supposed to mean? Are you implying that easter eggs equals non-canon? Because that logic doesn't hold. It's clearly an easter egg, everybody can see that, just as Arthur's name being on a building is an easter egg, but it's still canon. If it's in the game, then it's in the game. There is no getting around that.

[@optiplanetomatosoup]

@@Xenosaurian no i mean they said it’s not actually his house, it’s solely an easter egg *of* his house, not his real one

[@optiplanetomatosoup]

@@Xenosaurian also are you referring to the extension of the homeless housing in saint denis? i thought it might be after the epilogue but didn’t get to check it out yet

[@Xenosaurian]

@@optiplanetomatosoup I don't know where you've heard this. It's clearly his house.

[@llcooljoe001]

Theory: Red went back home after raiding the manor, rebuilt the house, kept the farm going for a while found the donkey lady, felt sorry for her and took her with him, let her work at his ranch and got raided himself by the army for killing griffon, just like ol' Marston

[@BruceWayne-gm5dz]

So why is is house burnt if he rebuilt it?

[@kristijanoros7208]

@@BruceWayne-gm5dz maybe the raiders burned it

[@lewisfraser4153]

Yes. I choose to accept this.

[@lewisfraser4153]

Yes. I choose to accept this.

[@bobross6426]

what do

[@lyras.9161]

Red is an oddity in the series. R* says Revolver is not canon to Redemption, but he gets mentioned and referenced a TON in both games.

[@MrMah-zf6jk]

@Jashard Wallington GTA IV is in the same universe as GTA V. CJ references are just for fan service. And CJ could technically exist as a person in the HD GTA universe, but he wouldn't be the CJ we know from SA.

[@MrSmilingDeath]

Red Dead Revolver and it's events aren't considered canon by R*, but the characters (the main protagonists and a few antagonists anyway) are considered canon. Essentially, when you're playing Red Dead Revolver, you're just playing the "legend" of Red Harlow, not necessarily the actual events of his life.

[@SammEater]

Basically the events of Revolver might have actually happen within the Redemption setting but with all the paranormal stuff and more cartoonish side of the story removed or explained in-universe as tales told by people that never met the actual cast of the first game. Like a game of telephone.

[@MrSmilingDeath]

@@SammEater Essentially. In Red Dead Revolver, you're pretty much playing the "campfire story" of Red Harlow.

[@lucasmartinez5703]

+MrSmilingDeath Yeah pretty much.

[@chancepeterson6346]

“It’s confirmed that Harlow exists in some way in RDR2” Sleeping Uncle: *scratches his ass and sniffs*

[@BruceWayne-gm5dz]

So Red Dead Revolver game is the stories campers talk about in RDR? This reminds me of the ‘Red Dead Redemption’ is a book in the GTA universe theory. Great vid!

[@GrownUpKid94]

I think all the R* games are connected except LA Noire/Midnight Club/Table Tennis.

[@juice6199]

That's not a theory lol it's real, there is a book on certain shelves in GTA V called Read Dead Redemption" and it's written by J. Marston.

[@eucalyptustea8236]

Braven Carlsen You can find John Marstons hat in a Garbage Can in L.A. Noire

[@ambrosaur3646]

@@GrownUpKid94 idk if Max Payne 3 is connected but in some chapter there's a Liberty City map.

[@herrfantastisch7489]

@@juice6199 I don't think GTA and Red Dead are connected though. Biggest factor is the sole fact that GTA is more fictional with made-up cities and organizations, like the FIB. The Pinkertons are still around to this day, and in Red Dead, they reference real life places like New York and Paris. In GTA, Liberty City is pretty much New York.

[@dijonmustard2249]

Never clicked on a video so fast

[@Kden21]

the fastest mouse in the west

[@dijonmustard2249]

@@Kden21 lol

[@Justme-pt1ld]

@@Kden21 I thought that was Micah.

[@dimostychalas9716]

Revolver is like a spagetti western, while Redemption is more hollywood western

[@jamesmaxwell1940]

You have that completely backwards, Redemption is the gritty, grim spaghetti western and Revolver is the cartoonish John Wayne cowboy movie.

[@dimostychalas9716]

@@jamesmaxwell1940 In Revolver the character is this mythical lonely desperado while in Redemption he is a family american hero kind of guy. In Revolver the atmosphere is more washed out while Redemption is much more lively.

[@shiningmissingno.8788]

@@jamesmaxwell1940 not even close, revolver was 100% based on spaghetti westerns, the soundtrack is made up of songs that were created for many famous spaghetti western movies even.

[@Jar3xe]

Tbh, Redemption it's rightly to be called Spaghetti western due to its morally ambigious character and soundtrack aswell.

[@gordonpeterson678]

​@@Jar3xeNah, Redemption is liberal propaganda.

[@nowayitsliam9531]

Could you explain how the pirate sword ended up in the swamp area outside of Saint Denis?

[@ryanwilson5936]

A pirate left it there.

[@bobsnow6242]

It's probably a nod to the real-life history of Jean Lafitte, who was a pirate that lived in the swamps around New Orleans (which Saint Denis is heavily based on).

[@Wasssup360]

Probably in a tropical storm. Stuff like that happens in Florida all the time.

[@gengoosekhan]

@@bobsnow6242 Good movie based on Jean Laffite was The Buccaneer with Yul Brenner.

[@ZacCoxTV]

Love your channel and the quality! The Strange Man has always been my favorite R* character.

[@revanseyfullayev7137]

Hello man love you videos

[@_giovannisanchez6032]

Big fan of your channel

[@ZacCoxTV]

Giovanni Sanchez Thank you for the kind words!

[@ZacCoxTV]

Revan seyfullayev Hi! Thank you.

[@equiaux]

Except that this is a hidden Gem❤️

[@senseweaver01]

The craziest thing I learned from this was that Red Dead Redemption had a multiplayer mode

[@tsukuyomi3511]

It's been 2 years since it has an online mode

[@playedagus]

@@tsukuyomi3511 nope, he meant rdr1 multiplayer mode

[@tsukuyomi3511]

@@playedagus oh ok

[@VegasPanhandlers]

Really? One of the best multiplayer modes in history. I actually played multiplayer before i played story in RDR1 lol. Got hooked for months, then finally got bored and played thru story.

[@Zysstix]

I remember playing it on my Xbox 360 when I was just a young teen. Probably my favorite memories. One of my friends I’ll never speak to again got a Zebra Donkey mount and I had no idea you could get it (it was the fastest mount in the game). I remember standing by the water with a couple of other friends and out of nowhere he screams “ZEBRA DONKEY” and couldn’t stop in time and flies into the water. Probably the funniest shit I’ve ever seen.

[@basshunter7077]

its always just amazing how many details rockstar put into this game... thats why for me it is the game of the year 2018

[@vodago]

game of the decade

[@kichi2529]

You know is going to be a great day when the Strange man post a new video . . . Pd: Man the theory about Uncle being Red Harlow is my favorite :(

[@ICrawlAtNight]

I doubt he’s uncle but I see were your coming from

[@fostagade3602]

Same here...

[@juice6199]

Oof.. sorry lol I hope you change your mind though.

[@herredward9277]

@@juice6199 Didn't said he believed it, just said he liked it.

[@James-uu6xs]

Most of his scars are covered by beard. And his nose scar likely healed over the decades.

[@grieverreaver6951]

1:22 Interesting note: The Camper is labeled "REDHARLOW" in the game files.

[@JustAdude291]

I just checked, it's actually U_M_M_STORY_REDHARLOW_01 Not quite REDHARLOW. This is just done to identify specific NPCs. Just like the character that beats on Karen at the Valentine hotel in chapter 2 is named something along the lines of CS_KarensJohn01. Just a way to identify the NPC based on their role in the game, whether it's a cutscene character or a random encounter character, ambient ped, and so on.

[@KC.45]

"You're looking at the Brimstone quick draw champion." -Red Harlow Good work Strange Man.

[@ichigen8944]

5 seconds later... Mrbossf*cktheworld: Hippity Hoppity your content is now my property

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

I love all the references to Red, it's a nice way of paying respects to the first main character of the RD series, the one who started it all. Also that Jackalope really wanted to be in the video-

[@quinnybonow8727]

Every time I watch Strange Man’s videos, it makes me want to play rdr and rdr2 again

[@shiningmissingno.8788]

Which rdr?

[@Quotethe]

What if jack swift comes back as the strange man 🧐

[@alm4264]

I think the red dead revolver was set above new Austin and to the left to west Elizabeth.

[@IMNTV]

I think it was set west of new austin or west of Blackwater and east of tumbleweed

[@ethansmith8813]

Your actually exactly right. State is called High Plains. The redemption mountains in red dead revolver are a shootoff of the grizzlies. North Elizabeth as mentioned in rdr 2 is North Elizabeth (wyoming)

[@IMNTV]

@@ethansmith8813 hmmm that makes sense!

[@zxn666]

I always thought it took place in eastern California and parts of Nevada and West Elizabeth and New Austin

[@noisaidno3520]

So many memories, I used to play Rd revolver at my uncle's house when I was little. I fondly remember the town with the dead people and flies in the wagon, and the train duel, not to mention fighting the big fat guy that's one of the bounties. I can't believe how awesome that game was, my child mind was so easily pleased looking back.

[@wrongtime9097]

Pig Josh was the bane of my existence when I was a kid. I couldn’t figure out how to beat him. Took me literal years of futzing around to be able to beat him myself instead of having my dad do it for me, and even then I don’t remember how.

[@lastmanstanding7155]

Personally I'd like a remake of revolver and to see another version of the legend. So magic and stuff doesn't have to be an involved as its a different version. Not necessarily the true or closest version but just another one.

[@oguzhangulsay2942]

İn Alpha version of Redemption 1 is called Revolver 2.You can see similiars between John Marston-Red Harlow or Annie-Bonnie

[@missnightingale234]

That does make sense, but in a way i still do think uncle is somehow related or is red harlow, yes he doesnt have to scars but john does and hes supposed to be a representation of him.

[@r3mus47]

@@missnightingale234 Hid nose scar is near identical, also r* isn't always 100% accurate on everything. For now it's for the fans to say if it is or not. But maybe theyll make some sort of dlc of uncles past or something like that one day.

[@Spiderman-zg2xe]

r3m us Uncle doesn’t have a nose scar uncles nose is curved.

[@tommytaylor2084]

Imagine if you could find Red Harlow's Navy Revolver in the lock box at Two Crows as one of those rare guns like the rare rolling block & rare double barrel. Sure, maybe it wouldn't actually be Red Harlow's, but it'd still be a pretty cool nod to RD-Revolver AND it'd give us the Navy Revolver in the main story

[@JuandeMariana1994]

The model of Red's Revolver its the Colt Army 1860, not Colt Navy 1851.

[@_i_4m_a_r0b0t_]

@@JuandeMariana1994 do tell us more about guns, fellow party-pooper

[@Mike-oi2th]

i just want to see my old man Landon Ricketts for the future DLC, especially his involvement in the Black Water massacre

[@rhyswaymark1901]

He had involvements in the Black Water massacre?

[@megic1834]

@@rhyswaymark1901 yes

[@Will_kid_cortez]

The only one 2 survive the black water massacre. That would be amazing

[@elfarlaur]

@@rhyswaymark1901 He was a lawman or something

[@alexmason2659]

@@rhyswaymark1901 he was a lawman that survived

[@scottwelling]

I really love the style of editing. Makes every music and clip work together and it like makes you feel like it's a movie or something lol. Like the Strange Man (I know You) videos the music is shady n stuff.

[@andrewcosta5001]

I think the events of Revolver could be easily adapted into a serious setting. Just make all the main villians into events like dead rising psychos. The main events are believable like his parents death, the killing of ugly chris and Co, the train protection, brimstone s quick draw comp, and the storming of the goverors mansion.

[@StrengthOfSamson45]

We're not gonna talk about the rabbit with antlers?

[@brendansutcliffe9168]

Legendary Jackalope. It was a challenge in RDR1

[@mlozanovega14]

Play RDR bro

[@jodima0731]

i wonder if for a red dead 3/spinoff they retell revolvers events in the way they actually happened

[@michaelmcknight3285]

or catch-up with jack Marston or like a story of when Arthur and John first joined the gang when they were 15

[@YungBrough118]

I have a question; does the uploader-strange man go around on his horse in RDR and try to find these campers or does he use commands? If there are commands to spawn these campers it is fine but otherwise I can not fathom this guy starting his game and literally rides his horse for at least 6-7 hours to come across these particular encounters. That is an incredible amount of dedication for just pre-edit phase of making a video.

[@lucydrop9674]

I also wonder this

[@Aleesh1881]

I was thinking that too 😅. I was just like "Ohh, what about Red from the Revolver" 😄

[@douglasklug7016]

I like the idea of Revolver being the tall-tale version of what really happened with Red Harlow. There’s another game, Call of Juarez-Gunslinger, that shows this during gameplay. The levels are supposed to be the memories of a legendary shootist, but they actually change as he gets called out for bullshitting by his audience. Great work once again, Strange Man!

[@eggboy9126]

Pretty cool to me that Red Dead Revolver is still referenced, its such an oddity, developed by capcom and angel studios, who was eventually bought, along with the game by rockstar because they were looking to do a western game and didn't want the competition. Really fascinating story behind Red Dead Revolver and how it spawned what is essentially the most popular western media in decades, being Red Dead Redemption 2.

[@Somebody_i_used_2_know]

P!ease find Micheal de Santa in game hes voice actor confirmed he is in game Please give heart if you see this.

[@llcooljoe001]

He ain't gonna do things for a rat, you rat! No just kidding I'd like that too!

[@Somebody_i_used_2_know]

@@llcooljoe001 I wasn't rat.Its just winners and losers cowpoke!

[@Somebody_i_used_2_know]

He also hinted it is connected with moonshine the mysterious grocer

[@panchito1384]

❤ thats u heart .. Happy now?

[@Somebody_i_used_2_know]

@@panchito1384 fucking rats!

[@Plush.Hunter]

I'd love to see Harlow make a return to the series. By the way, I like the music you chose for this video!

[@marcusgaming7284]

Imagine of Red Harlow was in the Van Der Linde gang, then they really would've been unstoppable

[@IZZYZIGG]

Screw Rockstar for trying to erase the 3d universe!

[@davycrockett8076]

Every time I get a new notification, I click faster than Arthur does pulling his trigger.

[@cuylermarvin2783]

I was a kid when I got Red Dead Revolver for ps2. Was hella excited when I found out Red was traveling with a dog. When those bastards shot the dog, I was kinda in tears, but it legitimately made me just run around and blast everyone in a frenzy. 🤣😭

[@jupita551]

I just played Revolver today with a friend! I really love the game, it is very underrated, it always stands in the shadow of Rdr1/2, even though you cannot compare them very well. Revolver really feels like playing a Western: a simple, but effective story, memorable cool characters and the AMAZING soundtrack!! The soundtrack is made up of songs from (spaghetti) westerns, by the likes of Bruno Nicolai (and even two songs by Ennio Morricone!), and they all fit so perfectly to whats happening in the story. The gameplay is fun, sure has dated a littlebit but still playable. The Couch-CoOp is TONS of fun with many unique characters. But the singleplayer is where it really shines: Although it's very linear, it never becomes boring. The locations are varried, and the enemies and bosses are unique as well. You play as several characters, at one point even one of the main bad guys, which makes some interesting gameplay. Revolver is no where as complex as Rdr1/2, but it doesn't need to be. It perfectly catches the spirit of spaghetti westerns and it's entertaining as hell!! If you haven't played it, and you like Westerns, consider playing it!! Spread the love for this game!

[@kingovhell6]

Whenever I watch a strange man video I want to play rdr2 again

[@curtishood5407]

Revolver was such a hard game, I could never get passed the point when jack is picking the lock to the mansion and you have to protect him while he does it

[@missfortunez3737]

Finally someone shoots down that theory about uncle being red harlow to many holes in the theory the age isn't right either there's a age gap of 5-10? Years (credit to spiderman 1977 for jogging my memory)

[@Spiderman-zg2xe]

The ages aren’t right either, uncle and red aren’t that older or younger from each other just about 5-10(?) year age gap

[@missfortunez3737]

@@Spiderman-zg2xe after I read your sentence I rechecked on this theory and yea u r right guess my memory is getting worse every year sorry about that I'll edit my sentence thank u for clarifying

[@Spiderman-zg2xe]

missfortune z Your welcome 👍

[@XradicalD]

Red Harlow is certainly one of my favorite character in the Red dead universe. I do wish for him to make a more prominent presence on the current cannon, but I see how the wacky west of revolver doesn't really mix with the current one. However, some people say that the story of Revolver is told by the sheriff, so some details could be overly exaggerated. I do think Red and company were just bad asses.

[@dannymiller3315]

Ricketts was my favorite character

[@IkariMetalSlugger]

Honestly, I wouldn't mind if we went away from the overly serious tone of the Redemption games and go back to the Spaghetti Western direction of Revolver.

[@combatbeatdown]

You would think Rockstar would include Red Harlow more into the stories especially RDR2. I mean, they did name the game after him..

[@travax_2]

ISN'T ANYONE GOING TO MENTION THAT THE ONLY LEGENDARY ANIMAL OF RDR1 (LEGENDARY JACKALOPE) PASSES THROUGH JOHN AT 2:11???

[@KC.45]

The Jackalope its a Mytical animal, there are 4 Legendary Animals in RDR1.

[@keith3819]

How about instead of making Red Dead Redemption 3, they make Red Dead Revolver 2?

[@Mogeko_Ranger]

You forgot to mention the campfire stories in undead nightmare. They're actually kinda hard to find, but they mention the bosses that seemed more towards supernatural in Red Dead Revolver. Like the boss who had a gatling gun in a coffin, and that one circus freak Jack Swift encounters.

[@KC.45]

Mr. Black and Professor Perry.

[@slavko7898]

“ya know, they used to call me The One shot kid”

[@KC.45]

~Lumbago Man

[@stepkickking9868]

I just wanted to say, you’ve quickly become one of my favourite KZbinrs. I love your videos, and keep up the great work!

[@43110clyde]

1:50 didn't know batman was running around in the old West

[@lucasmartinez5703]

No wonder he's so cool.

[@johnsnow272]

The only problem with these videos is... There’s just not enough of them.

[@WolfieYote]

I kinda wish Uncle was Harlow. Would be kind of epic tbh

[@Spiderman-zg2xe]

No. He’s the even more epic ONE-SHOT KID!!!!

[@valeria262]

He’d be way tougher than Harlow, if it wasn’t for the lumbago.

[@skxlter5747]

So many normies never knew about the existence of Red Dead revolver n Red Dead 1

[@nobid_leon]

1:45 Batman ?

[@zombiewarrior225]

I heard that when the first Redemption was made, John was supposed to be a reimagined Red Harlow who just became a separate character. I would like to think Red Harlow is an actual person in the Redemption games and just retired. Considering exaggerated tales are still alive to this day, I think it would be pretty easy to believe that Red Harlow was real but either retired or died before the redemption games. Probably retired though since he would only be 48 in the Red Dead Redemption 2. Meanwhile Uncle is a lot older

[@justinpues780]

Wtf..i literally looked up who red harlow was about 8 hours ago..and now strange man is posting on it???

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

He's always watching, you know

[@Andrew-yq4vb]

Reds house is actually in rdr2. It's on a ridge between tumbleweed and armadillo. Kinda hard to miss, has the same fenced in trail that leads to and surrounds the house.. it's all by itself up there, not burned down though. But its modeled almost exactly like the house in red dead revolver

[@tryhardrazzy3328]

This content is so STRANGE

[@Justme-pt1ld]

I found something interesting. I'm not entirely sure if it was mentioned here, But in the loading screens for Red Dead Redemption 2, I noticed someone with scars, and a type of bandito outfit while I was loading in the game. The gentleman is up north in Ambarino. It looks like he's behind a settlement, so maybe Colter?

[@woahtherebuddy1623]

I’d love to see the first game remade, be true to the story but add abit of realism so that way it actually fits in the story, like a kinda what really happened instead of just the legends

[@MrBoomxl]

That would be pretty cool, like that scene that was shown here where Perry just disappears when Jack shoots him, but now in the realistic version it turns out to be a mirror or something

[@Darkwaterrebellion]

It's confirmed; Uncle is Red Harlow. He does have the same scars under his beard, and you can faintly see the scar on his nose. Their features are also similar; eyes and face shape, and Red Harlow was once known as the One Shot Kid in his youth, then perhaps chose the name Red Harlow later on. Then once he fleed the country and became a god in Africa, he came back a lazy bustard. Cest le vie, as he lives his best life til his dying days.

[@MrBoomxl]

Red was never known as the One Shot Kid, the only nickname he had was 'bounty hunter'

[@TerribleVA]

It was never confirmed? I don't know where you heard that but the age makes no sense, red Harlow would have to have the worst aging process known to humanity to look like Uncle between the events of revolver and Red Dead 2, Harlow at most looked like he was in his early 30s, considering revolver took place in the 1890s, between that and 1899, Harlow would look nowhere near the way Uncle does.

[@blackkk21]

I love your videos, but there’s one thing you forgot. In rdr one of the campers says he actually met Annie. So if Annie exists of course Red and the other characters do too. Yes it was exaggerated, but if you thing about it rdr and rdr 2 are too. The vampire, the wolf man, the night folks. Even some of the characters designs are similar to revolver, like the murfree brood

[@theOriginalRudeDude]

Well Sheriff Bartlett told an amazing story, but I doubt he’d be able to make that kind of craziness up.

[@aminthemar]

So Revolver to Redemption is like how Terrence & Phillip was to South Park.

[@ShadowGamer300]

I like to think Harlow is a part of Redemption, but his and his companions stories are told in those comics like the ones Jack has, making Revolvers cartoonish story fit better. It could just be the events played out in someones head as they read his stories, based on real people.

[@phrofile3613]

We need a Red Dead Revolver Remake with actual canon story telling now pleaseee

[@deependcuration]

Mannn I remember begging my mom to rent me this game on ps2 in spring of 2004 but she was reluctant cause she thought the cover was violent looking. I was 8 years old playing the mission where you gotta get the cows back in the stable and I remember my cousin commenting on how the game looked so real lol even funnier is that she used to like watching me play games more than having a turn but she wanted a turn on red dead revolver

[@kyan7708]

i know he doesn’t have the scars but damn the voice of red harlow in rdr1 multiplayer sounds like a younger uncle...

[@jeebuz6627]

Actually he has the exact same scars and blemishes. There’s a video on it.

[@Spiderman-zg2xe]

Jeebuz A video isn’t proof he doesn’t have Reds scars those are from shadows, wrinkles, and graphics. Uncle doesn’t have them in RDR2 which is after revolver so even if he does have the scars it’s not related to red since he got them after.

[@kyan7708]

Spiderman 1977 Id rather think Uncle is Red, Different types of scars heal differently. Some stay extremely vivid and some fade completely. Uncle is old, Wrinkly, and has a big bushy beard. All of those could be hiding his face scars that are probably barely visible anyway. And his right hand has signs that it could be red as shown in the video which could be the burn but very faded and old.

[@kyan7708]

Spiderman 1977 Clearly none of us will ever know unless there’s a game that is about reds later days.

[@Spiderman-zg2xe]

Kyan So stop pretending to know. And both of uncles hands are the same, if you bother to check and not go off of a “video” but I guess your right we might never know unless we pick up with Red or look back at uncles past. And The Scar healing thing is bullshit since In RDR2 he has no scars even looking under the beard shows nothing so it’s false doesn’t matter even if he has them in RDR1 it takes place after. So unrelated. End of story if you want to continue the conversation reply to my comment (if you want)

[@MarioKaiba]

I believe that Revolver's events did happen, but they were exaggerated over the years. As it takes place in an unidentified part of the 1880's, the earliest could be 1880 itself. Most stories 5 years or older usually get exaggerated.