The Origins Of Every Van Der Linde Gang Member

[@iamswaggyy]

the backstories make the ending so much sadder. Dutch trusted a man he met 6 months ago more than his two sons he raised. also heartbreaking that dutch left arthur and john for dead.

[@KimberlyPitt]

I was so pissed off that Dutch picked Micha over Arthur and John

[@TheDenssy]

Dutch has a desperated and broken man, he had this grandiose imagine oh himself as this anarchist messiah of the wild west but the world he knew extinguished in front of his very own eyes, the dude just went totally insane, that if he was ever a sane person. rdr2 takes place in 1899, 15 years more and they would have seen the first world war, by the time of the game a band of outlaws cowboys was just an anachronism.

[@Zadae99]

P​@@KimberlyPitt

[@Zadae99]

​@@KimberlyPitt😊😊

[@batknight360-c8v]

i think after trying to go to tahiti i think the mental decline of dutch started like you can tell like for example when they were in that cave on that island he could have knoked her out but instead hi choked her

[@ninzietche]

Micahs brother (Amos) left the Outlaw life as well as becoming a preacher, and you can find a letter he sends to micah telling him to stop sending letters. Amos is a W.

[@ReddeadHamburger]

Where/How do you find the letter?

[@HenkBanaan-uh5pu]

@@ReddeadHamburgerChapter 4 behind camp somewhere

[@BKAngmar]

​@@ReddeadHamburgerit's where Strauss stays behind Shady Belle

[@raeleenelley5667]

Arthur also had a pet dog called Copper whom he took baths with. He keeps Copper's picture by his bed. Arthur slept with a 19 year old waitress called Eliza who birth his son Isaac. He would come every few months and stay a couple days until one day when he showed up, he discovered they were both killed by robbers for $10. This hardened Arthur's heart and he never fully coped with the pain. He stayed with the expectation that as long as he remained an outlaw, nothing good could be expected to happen to him.

[@Sophias_not_a_sandwich]

I know Arthur was just broken, every time I play rdr2 I cry more and more because how could they have done Arthur so bad like that like he was just broken and needed someone 😭

[@samuraidoggy]

Meh. Lies.

[@cracked_davud5031]

​@@samuraidoggy what?

[@samuraidoggy]

@@cracked_davud5031 You have a problem in hearing, boy?

[@cracked_davud5031]

@@samuraidoggy hearing? You haven't said anything big man. You just called facts from the game and called them lies.

[@Terminatorvini12]

"PUT YOU HANDS UP, GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY!" "Woooow relax feller, want to join my gang?"

[@aaliyah7996]

Off topic but your comment reminds of Boney M's Ma Baker

[@GooseWinks]

“Yes that is exactly what I want”

[@mothertongue8639]

@@aaliyah7996 Ma ma ma maaaaaa

[@aaliyah7996]

​@@mothertongue8639 ma baker she taught her four sons

[@Apryias]

Charisma, son, Charisma!

[@Adam_X78]

Biggest Dutch L is him cheating on Molly.

[@bk_nreynolds3278]

Ong she was bad as hell

[@Adam_X78]

@@bk_nreynolds3278 Based, it’s good to see others who have taste.

[@bk_nreynolds3278]

@@Adam_X78 Mary Beth always gonna be my number one tho

[@Adam_X78]

@@bk_nreynolds3278 I respect it.

[@MeepmcarthurtheSECOND]

​@@bk_nreynolds3278dutch really passed on that 🔥

[@chancellor1055]

John also killed his first person at 11 a year before joining the gang

[@thattransformersguy10]

He’s a real one

[@Wowkanye]

Fun fact: Javier’s voice actor wanted to side with Arthur in “Red Dead Redemption” but because John kills Javier in RDR1, Javier sides with Dutch

[@gabesmith2112]

If you notice on the last mission he also pointed his gun at the sky not at John and Arthur.

[@Thebroshow13]

I don’t believe that Molly rated on the gang , she was clearly drunk in that moment .

[@draydengeorge7853]

Milton said she never talked, she was obviously drunk n didn't think saying she ratted would get her shot, just that it would hurt dutch.

[@nervosadustbolt9642]

@@draydengeorge7853 Yes.. And, this is why.. We use Logic over Emotions to rule our decisions.

[@UnlikedCowpoke]

That is true but also Milton could have planted the seed that Micah rated, but also when Arthur even confronted Micah he reacted to fast

[@VNM-252-g7h]

she was desperate to maintain her position within the gang and gain his attention, even if it meant resorting to deception; she felt increasingly neglected by Dutch and saw informing the Pinkertons as a way to potentially regain his favor, while also trying to secure her own safety in a rapidly deteriorating situation.

[@ArrowNinja7-157]

@@VNM-252-g7h def bro

[@johnjim1250]

2:08 Mary Beth’s mother died from typhoid

[@RedDeadTierLists]

You're right, didn't notice that in my research

[@justasomebody5019]

But Mary Beth was kidnapped by a man that tormented her. She got her revenge by slitting his neck and tried to find her mother, but she had already passed.

[@lindseytaylor3793]

good catch! i would have completely forgotten about that if i didn't see this comment

[@J10969]

I was looking for this comment so I wouldn’t have to make it. 😅😂

[@MyNameIsElijah]

I’m not Christian, so even though I started playing the game in 2019, I’m just realizing after half a decade that “Reverend” was a title and not Swanson’s name.

[@saraisabigboy]

thats not his name???

[@Finnegan_the_Minstrel1]

​@saraisabigboy yeah a reverend is a priest

[@MattHobson-cr6xk]

Legit 😂 I mean it was pretty clear he has the bible with his stash in it

[@ramerefauntleroy4881]

A preacher ​@@Finnegan_the_Minstrel1

[@SadPieceOfToast]

As a Christian, I didn’t know that either until now 😭

[@donnie1774]

I was unaware the entire gang had these backstories it’s very interesting

[@Conky88]

You ever play the game?

[@donnie1774]

@@Conky88 yes, but certain members are like very obviously background people that some of us won’t pay attention to

[@trrk-]

@@donnie1774don’t think most people thought that

[@mosalacommodore6993]

Lol uncle supposedly being "John Frum" is hilarious. If no one knows the story, there's a tribe in either Africa or South America (I forget which, sorry) who basically worship this soldier who came there during a war and showed them all these crazy things they never saw before (guns, lighters, etc) so they thought he was a God and started worshiping him once he left hoping he'd return one day with more gifts. The name John Frum is thought to just be shorthand for John From America.

[@prxda5175]

This happened in Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean relatively close to Tahiti funnily enough

[@mosalacommodore6993]

@@prxda5175 that makes it 10x funnier!

[@M1N1molo]

@@prxda5175WE’RE GOING TO TAHITI!! *Uncle gulps*

[@FozzQuaker]

That also sounds like the Prince Philip Movement in Vanuatu, who look at the late consort of the late Queen Elizabeth as a God in there eyes...how it even started I don't know, I just find it funny

[@bk_nreynolds3278]

Thumbnail had me in tears😭

[@sunofgun07]

new meme format

[@VergilDMC]

Okbuddyblacklung got a new image.

[@kingman-fm4dq]

NOT THE BUDDY 💀

[@BellyChuggy]

Glad I wasn’t only one shit made me spit out my tea

[@samuraidoggy]

wtf, why?

[@georgewilson8025]

Pov you get saved by dutch ( he now owns your life you have ti join the gang ir die )

[@Inkypencil22]

charles' backstory sounds like it could be a cool game. reminds me of the kid from blood meridian

[@pablo_giustiniani]

Good to know I wasn't the only one! Good catch!

[@Fighterx356]

We don’t get the origins of Uncle’s Lumbago? 😭

[@DevaDragon911]

correct me if i am wrong but i am pretty sure uncle got his lumbago after the event of chapter 6

[@alkhoaja]

@@DevaDragon911hm fair enough

[@whfvlogz1296]

@@DevaDragon911No he said he had Lumengo go all the way back in chapter 2

[@ReddeadHamburger]

I know this is a joke so if you don't want your story ruined, dont click "read more" below But Uncle's lumbago was just some bullshit he founded up because he was lazy AF and didn't want contribute to the gang.

[@gru2406]

Lumbago isn’t really that bad it’s just very minor back pain something literally everyone gets

[@Klausinator451]

11:56 should've made him super tiny somehow. "I got a PLAN mom! BYE!"

[@him5903]

INSANE thumbnail choice

[@noahnoah572]

right 😭😭😭

[@nocreativity2717]

No one mentioning Javiers chapter being called “Javier Garcia”

[@grindory]

I'm an idiot so explain what it's supposed to mean isn't his last name Escuella?

[@JohnJackson-04]

​@@grindoryJavier Garcia is a character from twd new frontier

[@aovierlia]

I saw multiple characters being misspelled here and I am confused. Is it author's jokes or is it robot's attempt to name the chapters based on recognizing what it hears?

[@AlexSmith-th3ht]

Well Charles Smiths chapter was called General Charles Smith

[@metroraddy]

Josiah’s is Josiah tranni💀

[@MR_Peter_Ap]

Sadies husband looks like metroman from megamind when he is in hiding

[@Mischa_m23]

😂😂😂

[@lolspotifyfree1-ff9ld]

2:35 bro i dont know what typa uncles you got bro wtff 💀💀🙏

[@FentonCalinhan]

7:05 Arthur was before grimshaw since Dutch says “before all of them there was us” in the first mission of chapter 3

[@RedDeadTierLists]

I think you're right, Arthur might've officially joined the gang before Grimshaw, but Dutch and Hosea met Grimshaw and Arthur at the same time.

[@zaydzayyad8029]

Touched by his uncle 💀

[@bindogaming791]

Origins of every uncle

[@Barbraphillips3728]

@@bindogaming791the cycle continues with every generation

[@bajonett889]

Thats why Abigail has to constantly watch over Jack

[@kamemesg2083]

in ohio

[@eltonxhani9288]

​@@kamemesg2083 its 2024 💀🙏

[@america2793]

I love how much backstory these characters have

[@0utL4w_J]

"Uncle was born in ohio".

[@alkhoaja]

Yeah that’s what he said

[@0utL4w_J]

Really!?

[@scootersickles6389]

It all makes sense now….

[@alkhoaja]

@@scootersickles6389 for this snake!

[@frej7422]

Oh my gyatt

[@jd9999]

I love the visual back story representation on each character, super sick.

[@Drexzzz4]

Not gonna lie Arthur definitely had the hardest life he wasn't sent to a orphanage and also had a farther abuse him

[@aidenginger4522]

Idk man, I think Tilly, John, Lenny, Charles, Javier, and Abigail all had it just as bad if not worse

[@Drexzzz4]

@@aidenginger4522 nah man go back and read Arthur backstory I'm sorry Arthur and John probably had it the worst

[@agentx9665]

Mary Beth joined cuz her mom got typhoid and died, its mentioned in the start of the saving Tilly mission

[@magules13]

These animations kill me 😂 Also, Mary Beth mentions in the game that her mother died of typhoid and Abigail was raised playing piano in a cathouse.

[@nightmarepegasus4141]

John had a drunk and violent father (probably meaning violent also with john), gambler who lost view in a fight at some point and died in another bar fight And to precise, i like the idea that john used to be a violent outlaw, had tendency to drink and was near to loose view after the wolf attack. Basically, john always had a low opinion about himself, but the fact he was afraid to be an aweful husband and father could also come to the fact he had some similarities with his aweful father. And john never really had a good parental figure (no mother, aweful father, dutch being kinda good but during rdr2 john was doubting him and dutch always was manipulative, sometimes going extreme..., maybe hadn't hosea as a figure cause hosea left the gang to live with his wife for years but we don't really know when)

[@whitetrash9820]

Tilly carrying the vampire dagger lol

[@Archi.x002]

Charles smith reminds me of Connor AC3

[@deadshot4245]

Got those same vibes too

[@Reddeaddreams]

Thanks For credits man and you edited and naratted it so well that this video really explains it so well.

[@dogqueen1247]

The cutscene of Sean riding on a horse into camp then his head rolling off his neck and onto the ground will forever haunt me

[@Maxxymane]

That's Kieran, not sean

[@dogqueen1247]

@@Maxxymane oh thanks

[@katelynnmarsh2823]

Yeah also he was holding his head in his hands which was infinitely worse than it just falling off his neck

[@siimplyizuku]

14:20 I knew bill was gay! He flirted with Micah a bit throughout the story

[@MemeEnergy-hh1tz]

Red Dead Redemption 3 has to be a prequel to a prequel starting with Dutch and Hosea and expanding the gang as chapters go by, I think the gang should end with the Blackwater Massacre. Maybe the main character can be Dutch or one of the Callander brothers

[@Channelnamehere-j4m]

“ YOU EAT BABYS” -John Marston

[@siimplyizuku]

Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan) said that actually 😭

[@SapphireSandwichBoys]

16:43 I've been watching a lot of red dead videos recently and the amount of people that seem so comfortable calling Rockstar "lazy" when it comes to this game blows my mind. This game was in development for years and years. The acting was all done with full motion capture and the animations that you can do out of cutscenes were done the same way. The game world was crafted so meticulously that people are still finding stuff years later that didn't know about even after multiple play throughs. There's side dialogue and character interactions that change depending on what the player does , says, or even what they look like on occasions. The game has four different endings that, again, were fully acted using motion capture. The writing is universally praised, the music is done extremely well and songs are placed at great moments to add to the emotion. This game is not perfect, but "laziness" is certainly not a reason why.

[@JagoShogun]

I subbed, I love how the gameplay has little machinimas to enhance the story telling. Even seeing young models of classic characters is hilarious.

[@HarajukuBarbie504]

The character who’s supposed to be Lenny’s dad is crazy funny.

[@BlaydeYT]

1:27 alchoholism 3:37 epic voice crack

[@cheeplethebulldog1420]

Never really thought about it: but some of the characters who have done petty things (or even honorable things) have ended up making it out of the criminal life. (Simon Pearson especially. I feel like he made it out and succeeded in his own way.)

[@IlikeButter_07]

Keiran is the most unlucky

[@napsphantomkp6077]

"Jack Marston joined the gang right out of the womb as Abigail birthed him" 😭😭

[@mr.coffee5220]

This is the only video I don’t hate you for making.

[@eduardoribeiro6734]

I think uncle joining the gang at around 1894 is wrong. In the first game John tells Jack that uncle was already old when he himself was a kid, and during the game when you antagonize him Arthur says that he ‘should have broken his neck long ago’ so I guess Uncle is one of the first members of the gang.

[@JoKiR90]

Man. I’d really love a movie showing the formation and rise of the Van Der Linde gang.

[@Trustyourclosestenemies]

Might be Red Dead Redemption 3

[@hextallfan]

Arthur's dad was a drunkard and gambled a lot too

[@qwerty.44]

Uncle’s backstory should’ve just been Red Harlow’s.

[@tf2lover105]

The only thing I got out of this is that most members joined because you can't con a con man

[@xxcensorxx9724]

The sad thing about Sadie I’m pretty sure it’s canon that the o Driscolls um well did stuff to her unfortunately I don’t know if it’s true tho correct me if I’m wrong pls

[@RedDeadTierLists]

I think they tried to but couldn't and that's why she attacked Micah

[@kamemesg2083]

Its implied but not confirmed.

[@dillongattis4443]

Btw her husband Jake died before Dutch, Arthur, and Micah arrived

[@aidenginger4522]

I don't think they knew she was hiding in the cellar

[@Luka2000_]

After all the things that happened in their lives Arthur and John turned out pretty good

[@ethangilbert4896]

Dutch and Tilly playing rock paper scissors is not something i expected to see

[@ReidoCheedo]

Uncle feels like a character where he never grown up and he will never get older. He was here at the beginning of time and he just ageless like he’s always been that old it is just incapable for me to imagine uncle being nine years old

[@ventsudouestfan]

2:57 thats actually a fake story that Uncle can say around the fire which is not meant to be taken seriously as hes always bragging and lying like when he says he was called the one-shot kid to Arthur, but good vid 👍

[@isaiahcollins3451]

Hearing all these gang members troubled back stories with pokemon music in the background is a weird but nice combo.

[@UnlikedCowpoke]

If Dutch met Micah in 1989 it must have been November-December in 1989

[@Mazii0_0]

1898*

[@FozzQuaker]

I find it funny when Arthur trolls Jack by saying 'You dont look like a Marston...Maybe a Williamson or an Escuela :😂

[@djpudgypanda8931]

you deserve mpre subs! amazing video, keep it up!

[@frigolo1279]

Reverend Swanson took a turn for the worst when he realised he was part of a simulation

[@James-vm1hq]

Most of these are someone gets caught stealing and is saved by the Vanden gang or their father dies in a bar fight and they have nowhere else to go

[@israelwilson4022]

Dang this channels pretty great A lot of videos I’d like to see here, love it 👍

[@LemonadeLOL20]

I’m actually glad someone Else Understands how she hid from them to not get killed

[@voidicangeldust9988]

i made a deal with a friend and i shouted LENNAYY about 20 times and got a noise complaint from a neighbor.... worth it

[@raulgonzalez7108]

17:57 is talking about the New York Draft Riots of 1863. A representation of these riots can be seen in the film Gangs of New York.

[@NotchTreys]

Great video, great custom footage, good editing, and interesting content. With all due respect, I feel that the pacing does need a little work. Sometimes I feel like you’re talking too fast and some of the transitions between each character’s backstory feel rushed.

[@PIGEON5265]

thank you for amazing video!! 😀

[@omegacreator4680]

Dutch: PLAN Red Dead Tier Lists: GANG

[@Supernaut710]

Damn, Mr.Marston married a 304😱

[@scratchy9874]

17:33 Dutch actually says he met Strauss not long after he arrived in america and he complained he couldn't find work. Dutch needed someone to do accounting for the gang's profits and kinda brought him on. He later would come up with the idea of loan sharking, but he initially was just the accountant. How they actually met or if he was a criminal beforehand is kinda up in the air though.

[@kurisu7885]

Makes sense how Ms Grimshaw came in. I remember a cutscene I got where I got Arthur into camp and she got on his case about how dirty he was and marched him over to a water barrel to clean off. She's definitely the gang mama.

[@ryanswaynow]

Damn the theory that Mary-Beth is Princess IKZ kinda fits perfectly into her backstory…

[@ArrowNinja7-157]

So basically, every gang member summery. There parents died and at 12 they found Dutch

[@KimberlyPitt]

We don’t get the story or origin of Uncle’s Lumbago??!!!!!!!!!!?????????????😢😢😢😢

[@Alman117]

God I love these animation things. They are accurate yet funny.

[@HardLiving-t6n]

There’s a lot of evidence that Uncle is most likely Red Harlow

[@amandabush1486]

Mary Beth was a thief that Arthur and Dutch found because she was being chased and when Dutch and Arthur found her she had many wallets and watches. Her mother died from Typhoid fever. She was so thankful to be part of the gang this way she felt she had a purpose. she had lived the life of not having any kind of prospect of a good life.

[@Sunglasses.commander9623]

Forgot Mac Davey Jenny cleet and Joe

[@AirTheHead]

“Javier Garcia” WTF

[@CharlieVines-b3z]

pearson became the whale not the hunter

[@wizkid8422]

Mary Beth joined the Vanderlin gang shortly after her mother got typhoid an died which orphaned her an she was a petty pick pocket an was in the middle of robbing someone but got caught an Dutch an the gang pretty much took her in

[@Badcheetah526]

How did you play as the other characters besides Arthur and John?

[@JACKRIDERPLAYZ]

Mods

[@BellyChuggy]

Thumbnail is very lore accurate

[@moguy100]

Thumbnail is nuts my guy didn’t even watch the vid just came here to say that

[@Kaysanmalik901]

They thought John everything except how to swim😂

[@marlyiaa]

Love how we don’t know whos Jack father is actually is he’s basically whole group project of whole gang but lemme tell you Jack in Rdr looks like Javier

[@Idkisayrandomshitforlikes]

He doesn't, for christ's sake, it's a mustache and he's john son biologically and relationship whise

[@demo_1466]

Dude, wtf happened to arthur? 5:34

[@nbp92]

It's from the multiplayer. You can see that the character doesn't talk, only Trelawny does. Also that's why the character looks like Arthur but not really.

[@ortikemmais6775]

It's not Arthur. He's from Red Dead Online

[@HyenaSheep]

javiers background is so underrated tbh. Like ofc hes going to stick to Dutch because he's treating him like a son even if the relationship is manipulative and abusive. Javier knows that without Dutch he has literally nothing which turned out to be true after everything went downhill

[@Ddmaiden]

Thumbnail reminds me of the brain injury thumbnail

[@Jaylon-m6j]

Fun fact Arthur was found in blackwater

[@snail_from_contentwarning]

He forgot about the time uncle got lumbago

[@theriffwriter2194]

I really get a kick of seeing what outfits other people put together in rdr2. Like the thumbnail. I never would've thought of that combo. With me it's mostly just variations of red and black or just all black with one mountain man with a bunch of skins thrown in on the final slot.

[@weaponizedknight7316]

You missed out Copper the Dogs story

[@jakenbake4555]

For final clarification, uncle is and will never be red Harlow. He was a completely separate character that was cut content sadly. I wish he was too for the longest time but the truth is more important than blissful ignorance.

[@RajKumar-mv6om]

Bro how did you got all this clips from the game?????

[@lucy1944]

Replay missions

[@RajKumar-mv6om]

@@lucy1944 but still how did he got the clips that are not even in the game

[@lucy1944]

@@RajKumar-mv6om maybe rdro

[@aidenginger4522]

He modded the game to change his character or to make certain interactions between characters happen

[@Daniel_Gaines]

Great to know more about the gang🙏

[@Nick-fw6vr]

Back when people were married to native American wives some husbands that were scumbags would sell their wives away for almost nothing. That could have been the case with Charles, he didn't mention how bad of a father he had.

[@kidnothing9837]

4:19 goofy ahh crying

[@Wertyber]

"father beat him"

[@therecreationalguru7323]

I wish I never played red dead 1 until after part 2. The sequence of playing part 2 then 1 is the best thing to happen to video game history ever