Analyzing Evil: Micah Bell From Red Dead Redemption

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  @whoismarkk · 2 years ago

  Micah is like the only character who truly acts like a 1800s outlaw with zero romanticization

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  @fawaz2771 · 2 years ago

  Say what you want about micah, but his voice actor is phenomenal<br><br>&quot;Im a surviver black lung, a surviver&quot;

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  @WantedPhoenix97 · 2 years ago

  Micah says in a chapter 4 camp fire scene that he doesn’t believe in good or evil. He thinks from the time your born to the time you die you just do “things” that ether make you feel good or sad.<br><br>He also mentions he doesn’t believe in God or going to heaven, but he believes their is damnation. He says that “he knows what it’ll be like”, &amp; that he’ll “be right at home there.” Very creepy dialogue but good insight into his character and thoughts.

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  @ImEmpathyTV · 2 years ago

  There&apos;s a legendary animal that you can kill in the game that&apos;s exclusively tied to a story mission. The Legendary Rat is on top of Mount Hagen in the level American Venom.

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  @pancakes8670 · 2 years ago

  Good note to end on. Dutch would have imploded the gang regardless. Micah merely accelerated it.

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  @bradydevergilio7478 · 2 years ago

  Rule #1 - always antagonize Micah when given the opportunity

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  @SpikeRazzor · 2 years ago

  A &quot;rat&quot; is a traitor, a conceiver, planner, or physical participator<br>He doesn&apos;t sell secrets for power or cash, he betrays the trust of his team or his family hoping to save his own cowardly ass.

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  @JesusChristMarie · 2 years ago

  I feel like a small part of Micah actually wants to be liked. Sure, he’s an opportunistic sycophant, but there are a lot of interactions he has that are not meant to benefit his standing, but instead are him trying to make friends or companions. This is seen when he tries to dance with Mary Beth, or, at the end of the story, when he sticks with Dutch, despite Dutch not offering any strategic benefit with his gang being disbanded. Micah stuck around Dutch because Dutch saw him as a truly loyal member of the gang, and Micah wanted someone resembling a friend. We see in Micah’s letter from his brother that he tried to reach out to his apparent only family, and was rejected by his brother, who has reformed and is now dedicated to raising his daughters, with his brother threatening to kill Micah if he ever comes near him. It sounds crazy, but I think a lot of Micah’s interactions were him trying to be friendly with a gang that he hoped was as violent as he was, while simultaneously talking with Pinkertons in secret in case things turned out bad. Micah was a violent, bigoted turncoat, but I think a lot of his actions were desperate attempts to make friends.

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  @eddieguerrerofantasy · 2 years ago

  Personaly Micah is one of the best villains in video game in general.<br>Micah is a true rapresentation of the dark side of the far west.<br>Cruel,sadistic, Savage and greedy incarnate

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  @sandino27 · 2 years ago

  Micah is what i like to think the personification of &nbsp;what a &quot;Turncoat&quot; is. A self serving coward with no allegiance to anything or anyone but himself.

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  @conormcginn3312 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I’m glad others also believe Micah was in cohesion with the law long before coming back from Guarma. It seemed too coincidental that only a month after Micah joined the gang, they were faced with the worst ambush of law enforcement they ever experienced, all by Micah’s urging

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  @ayoua6127 · 2 years ago

  Micah was an incredibly intelligent villain. He knew Arthur was the primary threat from the get-go. Sure, Micah may not have ratted to The Pinkertons until after Guarma, but you’d be stupid to think that Micah wasn’t trying to get that Blackwater money from the moment that Blackwater heist took place. He knew the only way to get that money was to break the gang up from internal strife or casualties, and Arthur was the only one who could keep everybody together and united regardless. But because Micah knew that Dutch saw the feud between him and Arthur, and that he wasn’t really “in” the gang like a lot of the longer-standing members, Micah couldn’t outright take out Arthur, or it would seem incredibly suspicious at minimum. So he had to try systematically eliminating the gang members who would side with Arthur and would also have seemingly died from normal circumstances, like Hosea, Lenny (Setup Bank Job) and Mrs. Grimshaw (Once he was outright challenged alongside Arthur), so that when the time came, Micah would be able to override Arthur’s support within the gang. <br> <br>People think Micah was just a two-faced little shit who managed to trick Dutch because he and Arthur’s relationship deteriorated. Micah was much more of an evil mastermind then people liked to give him credit for. Knowing this; It also makes Dutch killing Micah in 1907 much, much more satisfying, knowing that riiight as Micah’s dreams of stealing that Blackwater money, that he planned 8+ years to take, were right there in front of him; The one man who Micah didn’t plan on stopping him, stopped him: Dutch Van Der Linde. In my mind, it also squared Dutch for his betrayal of Arthur, because Dutch (by killing Micah) ultimately helped John get the money that Arthur wanted John to have.

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