History VideoGame / RedDeadRedemption

** The wolves bark a lot and are highly aggressive in this game. In real life, wolves either very rarely bark or never bark at all, and they are shy animals that avoid people most of the time.

!!This game provides examples of:

* AwesomeButImpractical: Bonzo, the bull mount you unlock when you reach level 50 the first time in multiplayer. He loses virtually no speed offroad (and let's face it, he's [[RuleOfCool a bull you can ride around like a horse]])... but he can't jump fences, his top speed is lower than the best horse, and he'll buck your ass off if you so much as think of spurring him when his stamina's at red. These constraints actually apply to all the non-horse mounts in the game (most of which are actually really good), but Bonzo by far has the lowest stamina out of this group, and his health isn't increased much to make up for the speed deficiency.

** Subverted ''hard'' in the final scene when [[spoiler:John Marston gets gunned down by the US Army. The scene--and the bloody, agonizing aftermath--are shown in ''all'' their gory detail.]]

** The achievment 2 Guys 1 coop is possibly a reference to the infamous 2 girls 1 cup video.

** Also useful in Thieves' Landing if you have full honor: EverythingTryingToKillYou the natives won't try to kill you outright.

!! Tropes Used in the Game

* SayMyName: '''[[ThisIsSparta JOHN! MARSTON!]]''' REMEMBER MI NOMBRE!

** Might not fully qualify, but the Flowers for a Lady side mission, [[spoiler:with a man keeping his wife's corpse, talking to it, and refusing to recognise that she's died,]] seemed like a Shout Out to {{Psycho}}.

* VitriolicBestBuds: The Marston's are like this to each other, being a family of DeadpanSnarker]].

** John and West Dickens eventually trangresses into this, though probably a bit more in UndeadNightmare.

** Eventually, John and West Dickens may count.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: At least for Bonnie it is. [[spoiler: She's one of the few characters who survives to the end of the game, and she's been crushing hard on John the entire time. Though in the post-game newspaper, it is revealed that she does eventually marry.]]

* TheUnseen: Ignacio Sanchez, he's the tyrant Reyes was trying to overthrow and whom Allende worked for. We never get to see him though.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Uncle and John, they trade insults at each other most of the time and John gives him more than a few death threats. However,[[spoiler: He willing to die protecting the Martson family. The Martson's are like this to each other too, being a family of DeadpanSnarker]].

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Most of the horse- and horseriding features are. It's very damaging for a horse to run on tarmac, run into a full speed gallop immediately after resting, and in general be kept at full speed for long whiles at a time. And it usually takes years (months at least), to teach one to come at your whistle.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [[spoiler: Despite standing at only about ten paces and being highly trained federal agents and US Army soldiers aiming for his chest, at least two bullets hit John's thighs in the BitterSweetEnding.]]

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [[spoiler: Despite standing at only about ten paces and being highly trained federal agents and US Army soldiers aiming for his chest, at least two bullets hit John's thighs in the BolivianArmyEnding.]]

** Ambiguous? The Colonel refers to him flirting with Barmen.

** Taken BeyondTheImpossible with throwing knives. The player can equip throwing knives, target a flying bird in Dead Eye that's at least 50 yards away while on horseback at full speed, and manage to hit the bird with the knife. Opponents armed with Throwing Knives routinely hit the player from distances over 50 yards.

** The final newspaper issue counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny because it has an article where the writer is clearly shocked at the notion that cocaine ''might actually not be good for your health''.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of [[spoiler: YouKilledMyFather and RoaringRampageOfRevenge. One would think that it's a BittersweetEnding since Jack got his revenge but it's undone when you realize that John's wife, one of the people John started this entire endeavor for, died a few years later, possibly due to the depression of losing him. Meanwhile Jack, in his search for vengeance, has adopted the lifestyle John was trying to protect him from. Many of Jack's gameplay quotes indicate his life is pretty hollow. On top of that, no one other than Jack will ever know the truth about John Marston's redemption and Ross's betrayals. Not only that, but, in the end, the act of vengeance shows that Jack became exactly the man John didn't want him to be, that is, a man like himself - and one of his quotes shows that he gave up on his dream of becoming a writer and lost his idealistic spirit.]]