Micah Bell

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## Complete Nightmare

### Alias

Micah
Mr. Bell
The Rat
Hothead
Snake
Cowpoke
Traitor
Sickness

### Allies

Micah Bell Jr. (father)
Amos Bell (brother)
Dutch van der Linde
Van der Linde gang
Cleet and Joe (all formerly except for Joe)
His gang
Pinkertons

### Resources

Very high intelligence
Expert marksmanship
Knife proficiency
Manipulative charm
Persuasion
Intimidation
Strength
Combat skills
Deception
Leadership
Endurance
Durability
High pain tolerance
Decent agility

### Goals

Escape the United States by any means necessary (failed).
Retrieve the money from the Blackwater robbery.
Manipulate Dutch van der Linde (both succeeded until his death).
Destroy the Van der Linde gang (succeeded).
Kill Arthur Morgan (succeeded in *Low Honor* endings; abandoned in *High Honor* endings).
Kill John Marston and Sadie Adler (failed).

### What Makes Them Ridiculous

Helping his father to kill 2 people at the age of 17.
Betraying and manipulating his entire gang.
Shooting up half of a town just to get his weapons and resources back.
Corrupting Dutch and turning him into a psychopath.

### Cool/Complex/Good Qualities

His competence in combat may be creepy, but it also makes him a skilled tactician.
Peter Blomquist's entertaining performance.
His defeat was somewhat comical, but it doesn't detract from his villainy.

### Most Evil Crimes

Mass murder (inc. child murder)
Armed robbery
Conspiracy
Treason
Assault and battery
Mutilation
Vandalism
Torture
Arson
Kidnapping
Terrorism
Jailbreak
Corruption
Rape (heavily implied)

### Type of CN

Traitorous Outlaw

**Micah Bell** is the main antagonist of the video game *Red Dead Redemption II*, the second instalment in the *Red Dead Redemption* duology.

From Chapter 1 to 5, Micah is a major character since he's the member of the Van der Linde gang where he helps Dutch, Arthur and their allies get the job done. At the end of Chapter 6, Micah betrays Arthur, Dutch and the Van der Linde gang by becoming an informant of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and becomes the main antagonist.

He was portrayed by Peter Blomquist through motion capture.

## What Make Him a Complete Nightmare?

* When he was seventeen years old, he and his father worked together to murder two people by slitting their throats and hanging them on the rafters, proving that he was always evil even at a young age.
* He constantly teases and intimidates the other members of the gang for his amusement. He even holds racist and sexist views against all the members.
* He kills half the town of Strawberry just to get their weapons back.
* When Dutch starts to lose his mind, Micah begins manipulating him into plans that are detrimental to the gang.
* When Arthur begins to weaken from his Tuberculosis, Micah taunts him and calls him "Black Lung".
* In the end, it is revealed that Micah had betrayed the gang, by selling information to the Pinkertons about their movements.
* He brutally beats Arthur, weakened and on the verge of death from his Tuberculosis.
* He murders, or at least tries to murder Arthur. Afterwards, he laughs and spits on his corpse.
* He raped Jenny and complains that none of the women would have sex with him even with a gun pointed at their head, but then goes on to brag about how he would have Jenny.
* 8 years after Arthur's death, Micah had become increasingly unhinged, killing even a young girl before threatening to go after Abigail and Jack after killing John.
* Even in death, Micah would end up being responsible for the death of John, as well as the rest of the gang, since his death was what led Edgar Ross to discover John's whereabouts, thus initiating the events of the first game.
* While some members of the gang have sympathetic or likable qualities, Micah has none of that, enjoys killing and loves making people suffer, and only cares about himself. Even worse, his father never mentioned him again.

## Trivia

* To help drive the point of Micah being a Complete Nightmare home, there's even a subreddit solely dedicated to criticising him called "r/FuckMicah", which currently has over 16,000 subscribers.
* Micah is widely regarded as the single most disgusting and vile Rockstar villain out there.
* Micah is so cruel that even his voice actor, Peter Blomquist voiced his contempt for him and was shocked when Micah managed to kill Arthur, and he thanked a fan when he mentioned to him that Micah was a villain who was really easy to punch in the face.