History RedDeadRedemption2 / TropesAToL

* CameraScrew: Cougar and Wolf attacks cause the camera to follow them for a few seconds. Unfortunately, it overrides all other camera control (at least in free aim mode), so before you get the chance to fire back you'll probably be mauled by said animal or it's friends.

* HasTwoMommies: Gender inversion. After the deaths of his biological parents, Arthur was a street urchin scooped up by Dutch and Hosea who raised him together before they started their gang. Even twenty years on, Arthur still [[ParentalSubstitute sees them as his family]], and writes in his journal that he loves both of them dearly. They are explicitly called his parents a couple times in the game.

** During one mission, the protagonist has to fight a wildcat in a pitch-black cave. The only apparent options are for the player to either have Arthur hold a lantern in one hand (which prevents him from using a rifle on the cougar, since those guns require two hands, and restricts him to weaker, one-handed guns), or standing in one specific spot where there's a lantern on the ground (and thus being a sitting target). Unless, of course, the player already went to the one location in the game where a miner's helmet can be found lying around. The helmet produces light by itself and allows the player to move around and wield a rifle while still being able to see what's going on. It makes the fight much easier, but absolutely nothing indicates where the miner's helmet is (or that it even exists), meaning the only ways to find it are by using a guide or just stumbling across it.

** The KKK can be encountered, but the original incarnation of the Klan had died out in the early 1870s, long before the game starts in 1899, and wouldn't be revived until the release of Film/TheBirthOfANation1915.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Pearson is a former Navy cook and will make complaints to this effect in his camp dialogue. Bill Williamson can also be heard grousing about his time in the military on occasion.

** [[spoiler:Lenny]] is simply shot dead during a botched heist. No build up, no sad last words, just...shot dead.

** The Evans Repeater's reload animation sees the wielder cycling the action every time a round is loaded into the magazine. This is correct as the weapon's helical magazine does not have a spring follower, and feeding/advancing of rounds is done by cycling the action. However, this fails to take into account scenarios where some, but not all, of the rounds in the magazine are fired. Trying to top up the magazine in this instance would result in a live round being ejected from the weapon every time the action is cycled to advance the magazine after loading a round, and would repeat until all of the existing rounds in the magazine ahead of the rounds being added in were emptied out. This is best explained in [[https://youtu.be/VSPBIHRLYr4?t=570 this video]].

** The KKK is active throughout the game but had been dismantled by the Grant Administration in the early 1870s in real life and wouldn’t be active in large numbers until about fifteen years later when the film ''Birth of the Nation'' was released.

** The Guarma segment is an odd case. The 2016 map shows it was not a late addition, but appears to have been ''heavily'' castrated from what was originally planned. Unused coding suggests it was meant to act as a small second hub -- coding suggests you could return to it in the epilogue and turning off the snipers reveals the area is much larger than it seems, with an entire unseen second bay down an inaccessible path. The mansion seems to also have neen plot-relevant. Rewrites turned the location into a linear, limiting, and temporary experience.

* Beat: In one mission, Arthur and John take a moment to have a smoke, only to both realize the cart they’re sitting on is full of dynamite they plan to use, and quickly put their cigarettes out.

* DeterminedWidow:
** Sadie. Her homestead was attacked and her husband killed by the O'Driscoll gang, and she only survived because the Van der Linde gang saved her and took her in. Over the course of the story, Sadie becomes a [[ActionGirl badass gunslinger]] in her own right who seeks violent retribution against the O'Driscolls, though other characters note how much the violence has changed her, calling her a "ghost" at one point. By the epilogue, [[spoiler:Sadie has become a well-regarded bounty hunter, but has become so hollow that she casually tells another character she "wants to die"]].
** Charlotte Balfour, the widow of Willard's Rest, is a slightly more traditional example. She and her husband were wealthy folks from the city who decided to try their hand at rural life, only to find it harder than they expected. After the husband's death, Charlotte expects to starve and die herself, but Arthur teaches her a few tips on surviving in the wilderness and eventually she settles into a not-unhappy rural life. It even seems for a moment like she has romantic feelings for Arthur, [[spoiler:but Arthur's impending death from tuberculosis]] puts a dampener on things.

** The Bolt Action Rifle (based on the Springfield Model 1892) should be the most powerful rifle, as it fired the highest velocity rounds of the four. Instead, it's the single-shot Rolling Block rifle (based on the Remington Model 1871) which is treated exclusively as a sniper rifle.

** Thaddeus Waxman, in place of UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt. Like TR, Waxman is noted to be a crusading reformer and expander of industry, a strong proponent of national defense, and a celebrated Navy veteran (having been a Colonel in the Rough Riders), who almost immediately eclipses his predecessor in public approval; the only difference is that he served as a Senator, not a Governor as Roosevelt had. This is also a {{Retcon}}, as Roosevelt had already been fleetingly mentioned as the President at the time of ''Red Dead Redemption''.