History Characters / RedDeadRedemption2StrangersAndOtherMinorCharacters

An apparent Union Army veteran who has yet to realize that the Civil War is over.

* NPCAmnesia: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. No matter how many times the player reencounters him, he will never remember whether Arthur/[[spoiler:John]] claimed to be from the North or the South, which makes sense if he has anterograde amnesia specifically: he can't form new memories.

* NPCAmnesia: {{Justified}}. No matter how many times the player reencounters him, he will never remember whether Arthur/[[spoiler:John]] claimed to be from the North or the South, which makes sense if he has anterograde amnesia specifically: he can't form new memories.

[[folder:Hector Fellowes]]
!!Hector Fellowes

-->'''Voiced by:''' Paul Niebanck

A newspaper publisher who tries to back out of a promise to fund a library in Saint Denis.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Rich enough to fund a library but cheap enough to try to weasal out.
* WealthyPhilanthropist: He becomes this after the protagonist threatens him.

[[folder:Heidi [=McCourt=]]]
!!Heidi [=McCourt=]

A woman who died in the Blackwater disaster.

* AmbiguousSituation: What exactly were the circumstances of her shooting, and how deliberate was it on Dutch's part? John claims in ''II'' that Micah encouraged it, but doesn't elaborate; Javier offers the excuse that she was killed "in a bad way, but it was a bad situation". The Strange Man's description of her dead body implies that, like Muriel Scranton at the bank, Dutch may have shot her in the back of the head during a hostage situation or struggle.
-->'''Strange Man:''' Pretty girl -- until her eye was hanging out by a thread of tendon, and her brain was plastered over a wall.
* MinorRoleMajorImpact: Possibly, assuming if the interpretation that her death triggered the Blackwater Massacre is true. She never appears and almost nothing is known about her, but her death at Dutch's hands allegedly starts the Blackwater massacre and forces Dutch's gang to flee, leading to the events of the other games in the Redemption series. If Dutch simply hadn't shot her, it's possible they would have gotten away with the Blackwater heist and none of the events in the games would have happened.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: More directly for this game but also for ''I'' by proxy. If she hadn't been killed, the events of both games probably wouldn't have happened.
* PosthumousCharacter: She dies before the game starts.

[[folder:Henri Lemieux]]
!!Henri Lemieux

-->'''Voiced by:''' Simon Jutras

The mayor of Saint Denis.

[[folder:Hector Fellowes]]
!!Hector Fellowes

-->'''Voiced by:''' Paul Niebanck

A newspaper publisher who tries to back out of a promise to fund a library in Saint Denis.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Rich enough to fund a library but cheap enough to try to weasal out.
* WealthyPhilanthropist: He becomes this after the protagonist threatens him.

[[folder:Heidi [=McCourt=]]]
!!Heidi [=McCourt=]

A woman who died in the Blackwater disaster.

* AmbiguousSituation: What exactly were the circumstances of her shooting, and how deliberate was it on Dutch's part? John claims in ''II'' that Micah encouraged it, but doesn't elaborate; Javier offers the excuse that she was killed "in a bad way, but it was a bad situation". The Strange Man's description of her dead body implies that, like Muriel Scranton at the bank, Dutch may have shot her in the back of the head during a hostage situation or struggle.
-->'''Strange Man:''' Pretty girl -- until her eye was hanging out by a thread of tendon, and her brain was plastered over a wall.
* MinorRoleMajorImpact: Possibly, assuming if the interpretation that her death triggered the Blackwater Massacre is true. She never appears and almost nothing is known about her, but her death at Dutch's hands allegedly starts the Blackwater massacre and forces Dutch's gang to flee, leading to the events of the other games in the Redemption series. If Dutch simply hadn't shot her, it's possible they would have gotten away with the Blackwater heist and none of the events in the games would have happened.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: More directly for this game but also for ''I'' by proxy. If she hadn't been killed, the events of both games probably wouldn't have happened.
* PosthumousCharacter: She dies before the game starts.

[[folder:Henri Lemieux]]
!!Henri Lemieux

-->'''Voiced by:''' Simon Jutras

The mayor of Saint Denis.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: She says that once women get the right to vote, they’ll elect a woman president within ten years. She’s right in that that a woman became president during that time but she wasn’t elected. Right after the 19th Amendment was ratified by the states in 1919, UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson suffered a stroke that left him unable to do the job. His wife, Edith, stepped up and essentially did the job for about a year and a half in his stead (the 25th Amendment which set up a protocol for what would happen if a president was rendered incapacitated wasn’t ratified until 1967). By the time his term ended, he was well enough for her to take a step back. She wasn’t elected but Mrs Wilson was for all intents and purposes the first female president and it happened right after women gained the right to vote.

* Foreshadowing: He claims that the Grays spied for the Union during the war. [[spoiler: This experience in espionage could explain how they saw through Dutch's attempt at PlayingBothSides.]]

* Foreshadowing: He claims that the Grays spied for the Union during the war. [[Spoiler: This experience in espionage could explain how they saw through Dutch's attempt to PlayBothSides.]]

** Interestingly, her ped model is listed as male in the game files. It is somewhat ambiguous whether her name really is "Chester" or she's just going by her husband's name. (This was a common occurrence in the time period, where married women would sometimes be called by their husband's name rather than their own.)

** Considering the time period and the fact she's a Mrs and not a Miss, it's possible she's just going by her husband's name. Back in those days, if Jane Jones married one John Smith, she would sometimes be called 'Mrs John Smith' instead of, y'know, her actual name.

Leader of a religious sect which managed to ensnare Mary Linton's younger brother Jamie.

** In the epilogue, the Chelonian street preacher in Saint Denis will inform you that there is a new Master. If you investigate their location, the new Master (who looks noticably more unhinged than the first, dressed in a crude turtle costume) actively leads his disciples to jump off the cliff. Amusingly, [[spoiler:John]] can follow them off the cliff, joining their death cry of "Chelonia!"

* {{Hypocrite}}: Downplayed. Despite writing about the wonders of nature and dangers of civilization, he led a privileged life and didn't really follow the idealized life he wrote in his books. [[spoiler:Upon realizing this, he moves to a remote cabin in West Elizabeth to better follow the lifestyle he praises in his writings.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He is the one that introduces Arthur to Rains Fall and Eagle Flies and isn't seen again. John Marston can find him later in the mountains.

* HiddenDepths: It turns out he ran away from his former home after falling love with a professor.

[[folder:Gen. Quincy T. Harris]]
!! General Quincy T. Harris

A Confederate leader hailed as the war hero of the state of Lemoyne, though surviving documents, veterans, and the ghosts of battles past paint a different story.

* FeetOfClay: The collective supplemental material shows him as a far less noble and much more flawed figure than he's credited as. While his men ''were'' able to repel the Union forces at Bolger Glade, suffering heavy casualties, it was because Harris, upset that the other brass considered him a coward, refused to back down from a hopeless fight, and later proved them right by [[SoldiersAtTheRear moving "[his] command post back significantly", all while insisting he wasn't retreating]]. Confidence in his abilities just before the battle was abysmal, with his junior officers mocking him behind his back, and vets hated him so much that they even claimed he sold secrets to the Union. The only reason the "conflicting accounts" of his bravery aren't given wider credence is that the old Southern gentry doesn't seem to want to believe that their hero was an incompetent glory-seeker.
* {{Foil}}: To Colonel Henry Favours. Favours earned the nicknames "High-Tail" and "The Man who Missed a Battle" for presumed cowardice / inefficacy while leading the Union Army during the Civil War (either personal retreat or failure to provide reinforcements), and seeks to restore his tarnished reputation by sparking a rebellion among the Wapiti, so he can massacre them and be hailed as a hero for it; meanwhile, Harris is a celebrated Confederate general in the South under the perception that he dug in his heels and held the line out of valor, when in fact he just sacrificed his men's lives to shed his own cowardly reputation, and personally withdrew from the battle when he feared he was in danger.
* GeneralRipper: A petty, bloodthirsty, craven man.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He orders that any deserters will be punished by death, but when the war finally comes, he turns tails and flees the field, and leaves his men to die.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: In terms of his close ties to the state of Lemoyne and his statue in Saint Denis (which has been defaced with "COWARD"), he most resembles Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, long associated with Louisiana and whose increasingly controversial statue in New Orleans was eventually taken down in 2015. His massacre of the troops at Fort Brennand is likely inspired by Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's atrocities at the Battle of Fort Pillow; his personal cowardice and desertion of duty, meanwhile, is reminiscent of the deeply incompetent Brig. Gen. Gideon Pillow (the fort's namesake), who retreated from an advance to hold Fort Donelson, then personally snuck away in the night, leaving his underling Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner to surrender to Grant.

[[folder:Sally Nash]]
!!Sally Nash

-->'''Voiced by:''' Sydney Shepherd

Margaret's assistant.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Somehow deluded herself into thinking that the zoo's feral wildcat is 'friends' with the dog that was dressed up as a tiger. Consequently, she releases the dog to help find the wildcat, only for the wildcat to kill and eat the dog.

* ScoobyDooHoax: The shaman preaches that a curse on the land has summoned demons to torment the town. In reality, the Roanoke Fuel Company's toxic mine runoff "cursed" Butcher Creek by poisoning their water source, causing the townspeople to become sick and wild dog to turn rabid; the "shaman" is just a charlatan working on behalf of the company to scare the townspeople and trick them into signing a waiver that would free the RFC from any legal responsibility. When Arthur/[[spoiler:John]] gets too close to the truth, the shaman tries to engineer a cave-in to bury him, to no avail.

A resident of the Bayou Nwa swamp who invites male passerby into his cabin with the promise of food. This tends to go badly for the passerby.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: [[spoiler:Arthur/John defeats and kills most of Calloway's old associates, and then Calloway himself, in a series of quick-draw duels. However, Arthur/John isn't interested in being credited and hadn't even shared their name, and so Theodore is inspired to write a completely fictional and romanticized account, attributing Calloway's death as a MutualKill with his last nemesis. In a letter sent back to the player afterwards, Levin muses that Arthur/John gets to have "the satisfaction of knowing the truth behind a famous lie".]]

A Scottish gentleman and scientist that proclaims himself to be a Doctor, he has established himself in the town of Annesburg in order to promote his latest book entitle, "Hopes For The Future." He preaches surprisingly progressive viewpoints on environmentalism in his constant warnings of how pollution being created by businesses and machines will slowly destroy The Earth.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler: In the mission where Sadie and Arthur break John out of prison, Arthur releases Milliken in exchange for John's release, after humiliating him and having held him at gun point. Once Milliken is released, the rest of the guards start to open fire. You can choose to kill Milliken at this point and doing so will result in a large drop in honor.]]

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: In his appearance, views, and elaborate name, Forsythe is a scathing parody of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothrop_Stoddard 20th-century "racial scientist" and eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard]]. Stoddard's hateful writing on the "rising tide" of non-white peoples was accepted by the scientific establishment of the day and widely disseminated during his career, being required reading in the revived Ku Klux Klan and even inspiring Nazi ''Untermenschen'' rhetoric; his counterpart, however, is relegated to a crank and public nuisance, hawking self-printed pamphlets on the sidewalk. One document looted from a Klan leader mention that they all love Norris's work, but haven't actually read it yet.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Despite his credulity, he derails the gas company's plot to trick the villagers by simply reading the contract he was asked to sign. Apparently the gas company hadn't expected that he or any of his fellow villagers [[NeverLearnedToRead could actually read]].

* SuperStrength: The fact his melee attacks are a OneHitKill (even if he lands a hit with his fist rather than his knife) and that he seemingly tears his victims to pieces without any sort of tools potentially implies he has this, in keeping with his Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane status.

* CreepySouvenir: When you encounter him while playing as John, he'll invite you inside his cabin, asking if you want to see his "collection of skulls."

* HairTriggerTemper: Exaggerated example, and even lampshaded by Arthur, who declares him the angriest man in the world, even angrier than him.

* OneHitKill: His collectible Rare Shotgun is one of the few attacks capable of consistently insta-killing Arthur, no matter where/how far away it hits him.

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When Arthur/[[spoiler:John]] finds out that [[spoiler:he's a slave trafficker, he holds nothing but absolute contempt for Compson.]]
* TheUntwist: Discovering Jeremiah was a slave trafficker is pretty easy to figure out by the fact he's a former gentleman in Lemoyne even before the "revelation."

* BaitAndSwitch: Rather humorously, it happens twice. The first occurs when he tasks Arthur with tracking down his "zebra", [[spoiler: only for it to turn out to be a mule with painted stripes]]. The second time, after Arthur has tracked down his “tiger” [[spoiler: (actually a cougar)]], and one of his “lions” [[spoiler: (a dog)]], he’s asked to track down the second “lion”. [[spoiler: Except this time it really is a lion]].

* MovingTheGoalposts: When Arthur/[[spoiler:John]] clears away the rabid dogs attacking Butcher Creek, the shaman declares that the "curse" has moved into the form of dreamcatchers. Thus, he says, they need to be destroyed. Once Arthur/[[spoiler:John]] destroys the dreamcatchers, the Butcher Creek people are overjoyed, but the shaman immediately declares that destroying the dreamcatchers only made things worse, not better. The protagonist even calls him out on changing his tune so quickly.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: [[spoiler:Arthur or John defeats and kills most of Calloway's old associates, and then Calloway himself, in a series of quick-draw duels. However, Arthur/John isn't interested in being credited and hadn't even shared their name, and so Theodore is inspired to write a completely fictional and romanticized account, attributing Calloway's death as a MutualKill with his last nemesis. In a letter sent back to the player afterwards, Levin muses that Arthur/John gets to have "the satisfaction of knowing the truth behind a famous lie".]]

* {{Gonk}}: With some justification - even taking into account that she may be younger than she looks, she's solidly past the sixties benchmark (this ISN'T to suggest that [[UnfortunateImplications old age is automatically a direct indication of unattractiveness]], mind), and being a decades-long local inhabitant of an island dictated through indentured servitude means she [[{{Understatement}} probably]] hasn't led a charmed life.

* {{Gonk}}: With some justification - even taking into account that she may be younger than she looks, she's solidly past the sixties benchmark (this ISN'T to suggest that [[UnfortunateImplications old age is a direct indication of unattractiveness]], mind), and being a decades-long local inhabitant of an island dictated through indentured servitude means she [[{{Understatement}} probably]] hasn't led a charmed life.

* {{Gonk}}: With some justification - even taking into account that she may be younger than she looks, she's solidly within the sixties benchmark, and being a decades-long local inhabitant of an island dictated through indentured servitude means she [[{{Understatement}} probably]] hasn't led a charmed life.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: His fate, whatever it is, is the subject of a limmerick in the Strange Man's cabin. Whether the Strange Man is connected to him, or if he is him, or is simply an observer, is anyone's guess.