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Evil-doer

Full Name

Micah Bell III

Alias

Mr. Bell

Rat
Snake (both by Arthur)
Sickness
Turncoat (by John Marston)

Origin

Red Dead Redemption II

Occupation

Hitman for the Van der Linde gang (formerly)

Informant for the Pinkerton Detective Agency
Leader of a gang of criminals

Powers / Skills

Expert marksmanship

Knife proficiency
Manipulation
Novice fighting skills
Extremely durable pain tolerance

Hobby

Playing Five-Finger Fillet.

Drinking.
Smoking.
Bullying and antagonising his fellow gang members.
Flirting with the girls at camp.
Cleaning his prized guns.
Killing and robbing people.

Goals

Retrieve the money from the Blackwater robbery.

Escape the United States by any means (both failed).
Manipulate Dutch van der Linde (succeeded, until his death).
Kill Arthur Morgan (succeeded in low honor endings).
Kill John Marston (failed).

Crimes

Mass murder

Robbery
Conspiracy
Theft
Abuse
Sexual harassment
Cheating
Corruption
Animal cruelty
Canicide (implied)
Hostage taking

Type of Villain

Sociopathic Traitor

“	I'm a... survivor, Black Lung... a survivor. That's all there is... living and dying.	„
	~ Micah Bell to Arthur Morgan when confronted with his treachery.

“	You shot me...you shot me pretty good...	„
	~ Micah's last words to Dutch before his death.

Micah Bell III is the central antagonist later main antagonist (after Agent Milton's death and in the epilogue) of the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption II. He is a former member of the Van der Linde gang before becoming a mole for the Pinkertons. His death also serves as the catalyst for the events of the original game.

He was voiced by Peter Blomquist in motion capture, who also played Harlen J. Fontaine in L.A. Noire.

Biography

In 1899, Micah had only been a member of the Van der Linde gang for 5 months before a robbery in Blackwater goes horribly wrong, forcing the gang to hide out in Colter in the Western Grizzlies, although not soon after travelling into the state of New Hanover, Micah was caught by the law for murder and taken to jail in Strawberry.

He is broken out days later by Arthur Morgan, before they go on a shooting spree in the town before heading back to Dutch. After a botched robbery in Saint Denis, Micah, along with Dutch, Arthur, Bill Williamson, and Javier Escuella are washed ashore on the island of Guarma before eventually making their way back to the United States.

Eventually, he ends up working as a mole for Andrew Milton and the Pinkerton Detective Agency which (coupled with Dutch's own instability) causes the Van der Linde gang to fall apart. After Arthur and John Marston confront him at the camp, a standoff ensues, resulting in Micah shooting Susan Grimshaw dead. However, before the situation between them could escalate any further, Pinkerton agents discover the gang's location, forcing them all to flee.

Arthur and John head to a nearby mountain before parting ways, leaving Arthur to fight off agents until Micah soon reappears to kill him. A brawl then commences between the pair which ultimately ends with Arthur's death.

8 years later, former Van der Linde gang member Sadie Adler discovers Micah has formed his own gang and they were hiding out on Mount Hagen. Wishing to avenge Arthur, John and Charles Smith travel with her to hunt him down.

However, after finding Micah, he manages to take Sadie hostage and reveals he has partnered up with Dutch who emerges from the nearby dwelling. John makes one last attempt to reach out to Dutch during a brief standoff, which results in Dutch shooting Micah and allowing John to gun him down. Later, Micah's corpse is found by Edgar Ross who was on the trail of John and his family, setting up the events of the first Red Dead Redemption.

Personality

Wild, ruthless and unpredictable. Micah is undoubtedly the most unprincipled and chaotic of the Van der Linde gang, even by the gang's standards, he tends to cross many lines that the others normally wouldn't. Micah is a mocking, hurtful, callous and sadistic outlaw who has absolutely no qualm in killing others with a barbaric glee. This is shown when he caused a shootout in the town called Strawberry and killed a former acquaintance and his wife only to reclaim his prized revolvers, and doing this all after Arthur saved him from being hanged. Even towards his fellow gang-members, Micah is very insulting and tends to bully and antagonise most of them, as he punched Bill Williamson across the face after being offended by a mere joke. The only exception to this is Dutch van der Linde, who Micah shows a devoted loyalty to, and Dutch respects him in return. Micah also tries to gain Arthur's approval, although Arthur doesn't trust him for good reason.

Micah is also extremely derisive and racist, treating Lenny, Charles and Javier with open contempt solely because they are not white. He bullies Reverend Swanson for his alcohol and morphine addiction, as well as the pastor's lack of contribution towards the camp. It is also believed that he killed Jack Marston's dog Cain, and was shown kicking the dog beforehand. Micah also creepily flirts with the girls at camp, and is implied to have sexually harassed Sadie Adler when they first met. He refers to this behaviour as "the merry dance of the sexes", although Arthur rightfully proclaims him as a creep.

After returning from Guarma, Micah secretly begins to work as a mole for the Pinkertons, as revealed by Agent Milton. Micah soon begins to manipulates Dutch into thinking there's a traitor and takes full advantage of his leader's sanity slippage. He also starts to undermine Arthur and ridicules his tuberculosis by calling him "Black Lung". After his betrayal is discovered by Arthur, Micah maintains Dutch's belief in him and succeeds in turning what's left of the gang against Arthur and John. Micah later reveals that all that matters to him is surviving, and that he is loyal to nobody. Although at the same time, he expresses his anger at Arthur knowing of his treachery and sadistically fights the outlaw who is approaching death from his TB. All of this makes Micah a murderous and manipulative traitor, who will do whatever it takes to turn the tides in his favour.

Despite being irredeemably evil and malicious, one hidden encounter in camp where he threatened Leopold Strauss suggests that Micah despises loansharking as much as Arthur, calling it unseemly and not a man's game. At the same time however, this scene also foreshadows Micah's treacherous nature and how willingly he would betray someone who sees him as an ally.

Gallery

Images

Videos

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Saving Micah From Jail & Destroying Whole Town (RDR2 2018) PS4 Pro

Red Dead Redemption 2 All of Micah's Racist Actions Compilation

Micah Killed Jack's Dog Cain Hidden Dialogue Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Arthur Reveals Who Betrayed The Gang Cutscene

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Micah Final Boss & Good Ending (Go For Money With High Honor) RDR2 2018

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Arthur Morgan vs Micah Bell (Honorable Ending)

Red Dead Redemption 2 - TRUE ENDING (Epilogue End & Micah Death)

External Links

Micah on Pure Evil wiki

Micah on Red Dead wiki

Trivia

Depending on Arthur's honor level and ending, Micah's actions will change, by either kill Arthur Morgan or leave him to die.
- In the "Go with John" decision, if Arthur's honor is high, Micah will simply leave Arthur to die of his TBC after failing to persuade Dutch to join him in escaping the chaos. If his honor level is low, Micah will proceed to execute him by shooting him in the head after a short hostile chat with him.
- In the "Go for the Money" decision, if Arthur's honor level is high, Arthur will be victorious in the knife fight against Micah, permanently damaging his left eye by slashing it with his knife and Micah will simply leave Arthur to die of his TBC while he retrieves the bag of money that Arthur attempted to steal. If Arthur's honor level is low, Micah will be victorious against Arthur, stabbing him in the chest and later on stabbing him in the back, ultimately killing Arthur.
  - If Arthur went for the money with high honor, when John meets Micah again, Micah will be sporting a large scar across his left closed eye, hence the damage given to him by Arthur.
The fact that Micah actually spares Arthur if he has high honor suggest that Micah has an honorable side (unlikely as it is). If the player has low honor, Micah remarks "you're no better that me" before killing him.
- Though one could make the argument that Micah only spared him to avoid the incoming lawmen.
Micah shares some similarities with Dimitri Rascalov, another main antagonist of the Rockstar Games franchise. However, unlike Dimitri, Micah was debateably slightly more evil than Dimitri.
- Both characters see betraying everyone as 'Survival of the Fittest'.
- Both were thought to be allies to the main character at the start of the game.
- Both are more or less loyal to only one person, with Micah being loyal only to Dutch van der Linde while Dimitri was loyal only to Ray Bulgarin. However, Micah had to betray Dutch in order to manipulate Dutch that his fellow gang members were traitors.
- Both have blond hair and blue eyes.
- Both betray their bosses at some point with Micah betraying Dutch while Dimitri betrayed Mikhail Faustin.
- Both killed a hero character only to be killed by the hero's close one in return with Micah killing Arthur Morgan while Dimitri killed Roman Bellic. Also, both of the heroes' deaths are optional. However, Roman Bellic was not a playable character whereas Arthur Morgan is.
Micah Bell is often considered to be the most hated character created by Rockstar and overall one of the most hated characters in video game history due to him betraying the gang, manipulating Dutch and having such a nasty personality.

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 |alias = Mr. Bell<br>
 Rat<br>
-Snake <small>(by Arthur)</small><br>
+Snake <small>(both by Arthur)</small><br>
-Sickness
+Sickness<br>
+Turncoat <small>(by John Marston)</small>
 |origin = ''Red Dead Redemption II''
 |occupation = Hitman for the Van der Linde gang <small>(formerly)</small><br>
 Informant for the Pinkerton Detective Agency<br>
 Leader of a gang of criminals
-|skills = Proficient with firearms<br>
+|skills = Expert marksmanship<br>
+Knife proficiency<br>
 Manipulation<br>
 Novice fighting skills<br>
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 |hobby = Playing Five-Finger Fillet.<br>
 Drinking.<br>
+Smoking.<br>
 Bullying and antagonising his fellow gang members.<br>
+Flirting with the girls at camp.<br>
+Cleaning his prized guns.<br>
 Killing and robbing people.
-|goals = Retrieve the money from the Blackwater robbery <small>(failed)</small>.<br>
+|goals = Retrieve the money from the Blackwater robbery.<br>
-Escape the United States by any means.<br>
+Escape the United States by any means <small>(both failed)</small>.<br>
 Manipulate Dutch van der Linde <small>(succeeded, until his death)</small>.<br>
-Kill Arthur Morgan <small>(determinant)</small>.<br>
+Kill Arthur Morgan <small>(succeeded in low honor endings)</small>.<br>
 Kill John Marston <small>(failed)</small>.
-|crimes = Murder<br>
+|crimes = Mass murder<br>
 Robbery<br>
-Conspiracy
+Conspiracy<br>
+Theft<br>
-|type of villain = Traitorous Sociopath}}
+Abuse<br>
-{{Quote|I'm a... survivor, Black Lung... a survivor. That's all there is... living and dying.|Micah Bell to Arthur Morgan when confronted with his treachery.}}
+Sexual harassment<br>
+Cheating<br>
+Corruption<br>
+Animal cruelty<br>
+Canicide <small>(implied)</small><br>
+Hostage taking
+|type of villain = Sociopathic Traitor}}
+{{Quote|I'm a... survivor, Black Lung... a survivor. That's all there is... living and dying.|Micah Bell to Arthur Morgan when confronted with his treachery.}}
+{{Quote|You shot me...you shot me pretty good...|Micah's last words to Dutch before his death.}}
-'''Micah Bell''' is the main antagonist of the 2018 video game ''Red Dead Redemption II''. He is a former member of the Van der Linde gang before becoming a mole for the Pinkertons.
+'''Micah Bell III''' is the central antagonist later main antagonist (after [[w:c:villains:Andrew Milton|Agent Milton's]] death and in the epilogue) of the 2018 video game ''Red Dead Redemption II''. He is a former member of the Van der Linde gang before becoming a mole for the Pinkertons. His death also serves as the catalyst for the events of the original game.
-He was voiced by Peter Blomquist, who also played [[Harlan J. Fontaine|Harlan Fontaine]] in ''L.A. Noire''.
+He was voiced by Peter Blomquist in motion capture, who also played [[Harlen J. Fontaine]] in ''L.A. Noire''.
 ==Biography==
-years ago in 1899, Micah had only been a member of the Van der Linde gang for five months before a robbery in Blackwater goes horribly wrong, forcing the gang to hide out in Colter in the Western Grizzlies while Micah was caught by the law and taken to jail in Strawberry.
+In 1899, Micah had only been a member of the Van der Linde gang for 5 months before a robbery in Blackwater goes horribly wrong, forcing the gang to hide out in Colter in the Western Grizzlies, although not soon after travelling into the state of New Hanover, Micah was caught by the law for murder and taken to jail in Strawberry.
 He is broken out days later by Arthur Morgan, before they go on a shooting spree in the town before heading back to [[Dutch van der Linde|Dutch]]. After a botched robbery in Saint Denis, Micah, along with Dutch, Arthur, [[Bill Williamson]], and [[Javier Escuella]] are washed ashore on the island of Guarma before eventually making their way back to the United States.
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 Arthur and John head to a nearby mountain before parting ways, leaving Arthur to fight off agents until Micah soon reappears to kill him. A brawl then commences between the pair which ultimately ends with Arthur's death.
-Eight years later, former Van der Linde gang member Sadie Adler discovers Micah has formed his own gang and they were hiding out on Mount Hagen. Wishing to avenge Arthur, John and Charles Smith travel with her to hunt him down. However, after finding Micah, he manages to take Sadie hostage and reveals he has partnered up with Dutch who emerges from the nearby dwelling. John makes one last attempt to reach out to Dutch during a brief standoff, which results in Dutch shooting Micah and allowing John to gun him down. Later, Micah's corpse is found by [[Edgar Ross]] who was on the trail of John and his family, setting up the events of the first ''Red Dead Redemption''.
+years later, former Van der Linde gang member Sadie Adler discovers Micah has formed his own gang and they were hiding out on Mount Hagen. Wishing to avenge Arthur, John and Charles Smith travel with her to hunt him down.
+However, after finding Micah, he manages to take Sadie hostage and reveals he has partnered up with Dutch who emerges from the nearby dwelling. John makes one last attempt to reach out to Dutch during a brief standoff, which results in Dutch shooting Micah and allowing John to gun him down. Later, Micah's corpse is found by [[Edgar Ross]] who was on the trail of John and his family, setting up the events of the first ''Red Dead Redemption''.
+==Personality==
+Wild, ruthless and unpredictable. Micah is undoubtedly the most unprincipled and chaotic of the Van der Linde gang, even by the gang's standards, he tends to cross many lines that the others normally wouldn't. Micah is a mocking, hurtful, callous and sadistic outlaw who has absolutely no qualm in killing others with a barbaric glee. This is shown when he caused a shootout in the town called Strawberry and killed a former acquaintance and his wife only to reclaim his prized revolvers, and doing this all after [[Arthur Morgan|Arthur]] saved him from being hanged. Even towards his fellow gang-members, Micah is very insulting and tends to bully and antagonise most of them, as he punched Bill Williamson across the face after being offended by a mere joke. The only exception to this is [[Dutch van der Linde]], who Micah shows a devoted loyalty to, and Dutch respects him in return. Micah also tries to gain Arthur's approval, although Arthur doesn't trust him for good reason.
+Micah is also extremely derisive and racist, treating Lenny, Charles and [[Javier Escuella|Javier]] with open contempt solely because they are not white. He bullies Reverend Swanson for his alcohol and morphine addiction, as well as the pastor's lack of contribution towards the camp. It is also believed that he killed Jack Marston's dog Cain, and was shown kicking the dog beforehand. Micah also creepily flirts with the girls at camp, and is implied to have sexually harassed Sadie Adler when they first met. He refers to this behaviour as "the merry dance of the sexes", although Arthur rightfully proclaims him as a creep.
+After returning from Guarma, Micah secretly begins to work as a mole for the Pinkertons, as revealed by [[Andrew Milton|Agent Milton]]. Micah soon begins to manipulates Dutch into thinking there's a traitor and takes full advantage of his leader's sanity slippage. He also starts to undermine Arthur and ridicules his tuberculosis by calling him "Black Lung". After his betrayal is discovered by Arthur, Micah maintains Dutch's belief in him and succeeds in turning what's left of the gang against Arthur and John. Micah later reveals that all that matters to him is surviving, and that he is loyal to nobody. Although at the same time, he expresses his anger at Arthur knowing of his treachery and sadistically fights the outlaw who is approaching death from his TB. All of this makes Micah a murderous and manipulative traitor, who will do whatever it takes to turn the tides in his favour.
+Despite being irredeemably evil and malicious, one hidden encounter in camp where he threatened [[Leopold Strauss]] suggests that Micah despises loansharking as much as Arthur, calling it unseemly and not a man's game. At the same time however, this scene also foreshadows Micah's treacherous nature and how willingly he would betray someone who sees him as an ally.
 ==Gallery==
 ===Images===
-<gallery widths="300" bordercolor="red" captiontextcolor="maroon" position="center">
+<gallery widths="300" bordercolor="red" captiontextcolor="white" position="center">
+Micah_Bell_1stAppearance.png|Micah's first appearance in the game.
-MBell.jpeg
+Micah-1899.jpg|Micah Bell.
-MicahBell.jpeg
+MicahBell.jpeg|Micah in Rhodes.
+MicahBell.png|Micah wielding his revolvers.
+RDR2_HandsOnPreviews_06_ArthurMorgan_MicahBell-2345-1080.jpg|Micah and Arthur.
+Micah_Bell_1906.png|Micah in 1907.
 </gallery>
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 Red Dead Redemption 2 - TRUE ENDING (Epilogue End & Micah Death)
 </gallery>
+==External Links==
+[https://pure-evil-wiki.fandom.com/wiki/Micah_Bell Micah on Pure Evil wiki]
+[https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Micah_Bell Micah on Red Dead wiki]
 ==Trivia==
 *Depending on Arthur's honor level and ending, Micah's actions will change, by either kill Arthur Morgan or leave him to die.
 **In the "Go with John" decision, if Arthur's honor is high, Micah will simply leave Arthur to die of his TBC after failing to persuade Dutch to join him in escaping the chaos. If his honor level is low, Micah will proceed to execute him by shooting him in the head after a short hostile chat with him.
-**In the "Go for the Money" decision, If Arthur's honor level is high, Arthur will be victorious in the knife fight against Micah, permanently damaging his left eye by slashing it with his knife and Micah will simply leave Arthur to die of his TBC while he retrieves the bag of money that Arthur attempted to steal. If Arthur's honor level is low, Micah will be victorious against Arthur, stabbing him in the chest and later on stabbing him in the back, ultimately killing Arthur.
+**In the "Go for the Money" decision, if Arthur's honor level is high, Arthur will be victorious in the knife fight against Micah, permanently damaging his left eye by slashing it with his knife and Micah will simply leave Arthur to die of his TBC while he retrieves the bag of money that Arthur attempted to steal. If Arthur's honor level is low, Micah will be victorious against Arthur, stabbing him in the chest and later on stabbing him in the back, ultimately killing Arthur.
 ***If Arthur went for the money with high honor, when John meets Micah again, Micah will be sporting a large scar across his left closed eye, hence the damage given to him by Arthur.
-*The fact that MIcah only kills Arthur if he has high honor suggest that he has an honorable side. If the player has low honor, Micah shouts: "you're no better that me".
+*The fact that Micah actually spares Arthur if he has high honor suggest that Micah has an honorable side (unlikely as it is). If the player has low honor, Micah remarks "you're no better that me" before killing him.
+**Though one could make the argument that Micah only spared him to avoid the incoming lawmen.
+*Micah shares some similarities with [[Dimitri Rascalov]], another main antagonist of the ''Rockstar Games'' franchise. However, unlike Dimitri, Micah was debateably slightly more evil than Dimitri.
+**Both characters see betraying everyone as 'Survival of the Fittest'.
+**Both were thought to be allies to the main character at the start of the game.
+**Both are more or less loyal to only one person, with Micah being loyal only to [[Dutch van der Linde]] while Dimitri was loyal only to [[Ray Bulgarin]]. However, Micah had to betray Dutch in order to manipulate Dutch that his fellow gang members were traitors.
+**Both have blond hair and blue eyes.
+**Both betray their bosses at some point with Micah betraying Dutch while Dimitri betrayed [[Mikhail Faustin]].
+**Both killed a hero character only to be killed by the hero's close one in return with Micah killing Arthur Morgan while Dimitri killed Roman Bellic. Also, both of the heroes' deaths are optional. However, Roman Bellic was not a playable character whereas Arthur Morgan is.
+*Micah Bell is often considered to be the most hated character created by Rockstar and overall one of the most hated characters in video game history due to him betraying the gang, manipulating Dutch and having such a nasty personality.
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