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** Dilly-dally too long about doing "Money Lending and Other Sins II" in the knowledge that it's the mission where [[spoiler:Arthur catches tuberculosis]], and the game will lure you back to camp with a letter from Mary Linton for Arthur to read; after being done looking over it, Strauss interrupts and asks Arthur for the final time to collect the Downes family debt. It becomes a mandatory mission from which the player cannot deviate by performing camp interactions.
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* ShoutOut:
** The presence of seven figures in promotional material is likely in reference to ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|1960}}'', while the silhouettes illuminated dimly resembles ''Film/TheWildBunch''.
** In the mission "Welcome to the New World", Dutch uses the alias [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV Aiden O'Malley]].
** Chapter 3's story arc consists of the gang traveling to a town run by two enemy factions, playing both sides again each other and profiting from the chaos. [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars Sound familiar?]]
*** There's also a pair of star-crossed lovers who are specifically compared, in-story, to "an inbred Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet".
** One of the customization options for pistols is a carving of [[Film/DollarsTrilogy a snake on the grip]].
** Another customization option for the pistol's carving is a [[VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver scorpion]].
** A side mission in Rhodes involves helping a pair of inmates who escaped from a chain gang. [[Film/TheDefiantOnes One is black, the other is white, they're chained together and both hate each other at first.]] You can also overhear citizens in the street mention that the man who presided over their case was [[Literature/BloodMeridian a corrupt judge named Holden]].
** The train robbery in "Pouring Forth Oil IV" is almost a scene-by-scene reenactment of the train robbery scene from ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord'', up to the point where the gang boards the train.
** In "Favored Sons", the scene where Dutch and Arthur are cornered by the U.S. Army and escape by jumping off a cliff into the river below is a nod to ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'', where the titular protagonists do the same to escape the authorities (and both scenes are nearly identical frame-for-frame).
** During the legendary duelists side mission, [[spoiler:Jim "Boy" Calloway's Schofield revolver has "[[VideoGame/{{Bully}} Canis Canem Edit]]" carved into it.]]
** The unfinished "Man-made mutant" is a humanoid made out of boar and bear parts. In short, it's a [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark ManBearPig]].
** There's a hobbit house from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' located on a pond just north of the second "N" in "New Hanover". [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz84BcMWkAUfqnY?format=jpg&name=large]]
** The Watson outlaw gang is a group of [[ComicBook/LuckyLuke four incompetent brothers led by their elderly mother]].
** The RunningGag of a man calling for Gavin is considered to be both this and an InJoke, as Rockstar wanted Geoff, Jack and Gavin of ''Creator/AchievementHunter'' to make cameos in the game but Gavin never showed up to record his lines.
** Dutch jokingly compares getting dressed up for the social party in "The Gilded Cage" to ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}''.
** Place names in the heavily SouthernGothic-flavoured State of Lemoyne include Clemens Point (after author Sam Clemens, better known by his pen name of Creator/MarkTwain), Radley's Pasture (for Boo Radley, the MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''), and Compson's Stead (after the Compson family from ''Literature/TheSoundAndTheFury''). The state's name itself is French for "The Monk", which is likely a reference to the GothicHorror novel [[Literature/TheMonk of the same name]] by Matthew Lewis, as well as to Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the founder of New Orleans. A major NPC in Lemoyne's capital, [[TheBigEasy St. Denis]], has the surname of Bronte (presumably for [[Creator/CharlotteBronte Charlotte]], [[Creator/EmilyBronte Emily]], and [[Creator/AnneBronte Anne]] Bronte.)
** During the mission after [[spoiler:Jack]] is kidnapped, Arthur will tell a grieving John not to "[[Literature/AliceInWonderland go down the rabbit hole]]".
** The gang's kidnapping of Angelo Bronte in "Revenge is a Dish Best Eaten" heavily resembles Trevor's kidnapping of [[spoiler:Devin Weston]] in [[spoiler:Ending C]] of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
** Lagras is a Creole village in the middle of a gator-infested swamp next door to an abandoned voodoo lair (Lakay) and surrounded by the ambiguously human Night Folk. Fitting for a place named after Inspector Lagrasse from the ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu''.
** Though it's wildly unlikely to have been the devs' intention, this game features [[Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree a couple named Jake and Sadie, of whom one dies tragically]].
** The first epilogue's plot is broadly similiar to that of the classic western movie ''Film/{{Shane}}'' - a capable ranchhand with a troubled past saves his employers from their violent, unfriendly neighbours, [[ButNowIMustGo but then has to leave]].
%%** While probably unintentional, one of the ways you can call your horse (which is common with horse training) is [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Yip Yip]].

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* ShoutOut:
** The presence of seven figures in promotional material is likely in reference to ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|1960}}'', while the silhouettes illuminated dimly resembles ''Film/TheWildBunch''.
** In the mission "Welcome to the New World", Dutch uses the alias [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV Aiden O'Malley]].
** Chapter 3's story arc consists of the gang traveling to a town run by two enemy factions, playing both sides again each other and profiting from the chaos. [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars Sound familiar?]]
*** There's also a pair of star-crossed lovers who are specifically compared, in-story, to "an inbred Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet".
** One of the customization options for pistols is a carving of [[Film/DollarsTrilogy a snake on the grip]].
** Another customization option for the pistol's carving is a [[VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver scorpion]].
** A side mission in Rhodes involves helping a pair of inmates who escaped from a chain gang. [[Film/TheDefiantOnes One is black, the other is white, they're chained together and both hate each other at first.]] You can also overhear citizens in the street mention that the man who presided over their case was [[Literature/BloodMeridian a corrupt judge named Holden]].
** The train robbery in "Pouring Forth Oil IV" is almost a scene-by-scene reenactment of the train robbery scene from ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord'', up to the point where the gang boards the train.
** In "Favored Sons", the scene where Dutch and Arthur are cornered by the U.S. Army and escape by jumping off a cliff into the river below is a nod to ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'', where the titular protagonists do the same to escape the authorities (and both scenes are nearly identical frame-for-frame).
** During the legendary duelists side mission, [[spoiler:Jim "Boy" Calloway's Schofield revolver has "[[VideoGame/{{Bully}} Canis Canem Edit]]" carved into it.]]
** The unfinished "Man-made mutant" is a humanoid made out of boar and bear parts. In short, it's a [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark ManBearPig]].
** There's a hobbit house from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' located on a pond just north of the second "N" in "New Hanover". [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz84BcMWkAUfqnY?format=jpg&name=large]]
** The Watson outlaw gang is a group of [[ComicBook/LuckyLuke four incompetent brothers led by their elderly mother]].
** The RunningGag of a man calling for Gavin is considered to be both this and an InJoke, as Rockstar wanted Geoff, Jack and Gavin of ''Creator/AchievementHunter'' to make cameos in the game but Gavin never showed up to record his lines.
** Dutch jokingly compares getting dressed up for the social party in "The Gilded Cage" to ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}''.
** Place names in the heavily SouthernGothic-flavoured State of Lemoyne include Clemens Point (after author Sam Clemens, better known by his pen name of Creator/MarkTwain), Radley's Pasture (for Boo Radley, the MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''), and Compson's Stead (after the Compson family from ''Literature/TheSoundAndTheFury''). The state's name itself is French for "The Monk", which is likely a reference to the GothicHorror novel [[Literature/TheMonk of the same name]] by Matthew Lewis, as well as to Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the founder of New Orleans. A major NPC in Lemoyne's capital, [[TheBigEasy St. Denis]], has the surname of Bronte (presumably for [[Creator/CharlotteBronte Charlotte]], [[Creator/EmilyBronte Emily]], and [[Creator/AnneBronte Anne]] Bronte.)
** During the mission after [[spoiler:Jack]] is kidnapped, Arthur will tell a grieving John not to "[[Literature/AliceInWonderland go down the rabbit hole]]".
** The gang's kidnapping of Angelo Bronte in "Revenge is a Dish Best Eaten" heavily resembles Trevor's kidnapping of [[spoiler:Devin Weston]] in [[spoiler:Ending C]] of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
** Lagras is a Creole village in the middle of a gator-infested swamp next door to an abandoned voodoo lair (Lakay) and surrounded by the ambiguously human Night Folk. Fitting for a place named after Inspector Lagrasse from the ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu''.
** Though it's wildly unlikely to have been the devs' intention, this game features [[Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree a couple named Jake and Sadie, of whom one dies tragically]].
** The first epilogue's plot is broadly similiar to that of the classic western movie ''Film/{{Shane}}'' - a capable ranchhand with a troubled past saves his employers from their violent, unfriendly neighbours, [[ButNowIMustGo but then has to leave]].
%%** While probably unintentional, one of the ways you can call your horse (which is common with horse training) is [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Yip Yip]].
ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/RedDeadRedemption2 Has its own page.]]

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