Ranking Every Van Der Linde Gang Member in Red Dead Redemption II

Ignore the random ass spellings of names in the time markers. That’s YouTube’s AI, not me lmao

Poor Kieran, how many times must he say it: he is not an O'driscoll!

Strauss was loyal. Even after being kicked out and then arrested and beaten he refused to talk to the Pinkertons or police

I fuckin love Charles, he’s literally never not an absolute g. Always helping with whatever needs doing, not procrastinating or lazing around, he does what needs to be done. Even in the Epilogue, he sees John who he thought was dead he agrees to help him build an entire goddamn house, works on John’s farm for absolutely nothing in return and then he goes off to Canada (I think it was) to try and live a normal life and start a family. What a guy

I absolutely adore Trelawny, just a fancy, amusing, charming flirty magician, helping the gang. He's def loyal, and considering the fact he literally has a wife and kids in saint denis and still helps the gang, he's great

Before I even watch, Arthur’s # 1 for me. My all-time favorite fictional character

I actually like mary beth she was the only member that understood arthur at a personal level,and her encounter from each of the gang camp tells you that she genuinely cares about him she knows that he's an outlaw but he's got a heart, but as for lenny he's actually my favorite member in the gang his bar mission was just hilarious and has a meme reputation so much so that there's clips of Roger clark screaming lenny, he was like a younger brother to arthur and seeing him die at such a young age is heartbreaking.

After Arthur, Charles is by far my favorite. He actually always does the righteous thing, he stayed loyal to Arthur for the very end, and i loved how he returned in the epilogue. He was also the strongest man and the best melee fighter in the gang.

Dutch and his fall is so expertly crafted, that you forget how he was at the start of the game I went back to start a new playthrough after beating the game for the first time, and felt total whiplash seeing Dutch putting his neck on the chopping block to look for John and Micah. Burning through the Braithwaite manor to get Jack back, and generally being an actual caring leader

Charles is one of the absolute best in my opinion. I have a lot of favorites but Charles peaks up there with Arthur. He's such a wonderful character and his loyalty towards Arthur is just amazing and how it carries on to the epilogue with John. I just finished my second playthrough and I loved every second I got to spend with Charles in the missons. He's such a genuine caring character, he's big hearted while still being cold and hard when he needs to. I wish he had stuck around in the epilogue but I'm glad it was him, Sadie and uncle we found and not some of the other member's.

Bro forgot about Kieran💀

Sadie Adler is the definition of amazing character development

Ending gave me chills. All these edits do. I love Arthur he’s the greatest fictional character of all time. Also gotta appreciate the beautiful music of RDR2 (and Henry’s singing)

They play Strauss so good, you know he's bad, but his disbelief at you "his friend" kicking him out is still kind of rough.

On my last playthrough it really hit me harder realizing that literally all of the gang members who died would've taken Arthur's side in the end. Also I really loved what you had to say about Molly and John with their fan backlash in this game. Couldn't have been any more correct.

Dutch's gang broke one of the cardinal rules of visiting the south: never assume a thick accent means they're stupid...or your the one who'll get swindled. Catherine saw right thru them from the start and used them to wage a proxy war with the Grays. And the Grays never fully trusted them. Hosea and Dutch assumed the surviving southern families were just dumb rasict hicks...until they realized they were being played by both sides, Sean died, and Jack was kidnapped. Really, everthing from ch3 onward seems to be Dutch biting off more than he can chew. Hes def full of ideals and moxie, but hes not as smart as he thinks he is.

I was so glad cause I thought you would put Kieran top 5 but then I realized you didn’t put him on the list. Don’t ever forget my favorite side character!

0:31 Leopold Strauss 1:22 Tilly Jackson 2:10 Karen Jones 2:54 Simon Pearson 3:49 Marry-Beth Gaskill 4:40 Reverend Swanson 5:18 Molly O'Shea {Mentioned in comment} Kieran Duffy 6:54 Josiah Trelawny (I would consider him a half-member of some sorts, still needs to be on the list just not a full member of the gang. Think of it like a UN observer state or something.) 7:37 Marion ''Bill'' Williamson 8:38 Javier Escuela 9:36 Jack Marston 10:35 Abigail Roberts (Abigail Marston after the Epilogue) 11:33 Susan Grimshaw 12:18 ''Uncle'' 12:56 Sean Macguire 13:50 Lenny Summers 14:34 Micah Bell III 15:50 Hosea Matthews (I don't think the decisions you mentioned are wrong on Hosea's part, can't write too much but I will say that, we don't know the whole story behind the bank robbery) 17:30 Charles Smith 18:25 Sadie Adler 19:27 John Marston 21:00 Dutch Van Der Linde 22:40 Arthur Morgan (cliché) You totally forgot Cain the dog, just kidding.

I honestly really agree with this list. Some really good points about Molly and other characters. I feel like this list really got a lot of points other lists don't. Good video man!also would love a video about arthur. Truely one of a kind character

Charles is definitely my favorite of the gang members, partly due to being black & native myself. Abigail is also amazing and I do love how her main priorities are taking care of Jack and trying to “fix” John.