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I was the fastest in my time. I must've been - I'm the only one left.
~ Landon Ricketts to John Marston.

Landon Ricketts is a major character in the 2010 action-adventure video game Red Dead Redemption and a minor character in its 2018 prequel Red Dead Redemption II.

He is an infamous outlaw who was across the states more than twenty-five years, and he eventually moves to Mexico in order to live a quiet life and abandon the outlaw life, where he serves as an unofficial marshal and leader figure to the Mexican rebels.

He was voiced by Ross Hagen.

What Makes Him Magnificent?[]

  • Landon Ricketts is a famous and legendary gunslinger who spent over twenty-five years as an outlaw during the height of the American West, whose stories of his adventures and fights were constantly told and known by the other outlaws, especially during John Marston's childhoold.
  • His fame as an outlaw is even subjected to the in-universe literary books, such as Wild West Heroes, No. 132: Mexican Ballad of Blood, in which he is presented as a competent gunman. He is also depicted in one of the cards of Famous Gunslingers cigarette card set.
  • As much as being famous, he is also an exceptionally competent gunman, who is known as the fastest one on his term, and regularly referenced by other outlaws as the benchmark of outlaw life, such as when Arthur Morgan facetiously compares Sadie Adler - who becomes a fierce gunwoman - to Ricketts.
  • After spending long years as a gunslinger where he involves multiple actions such as killing the Butcher Brothers and implicatively partaking in the Blackwater Massacre in some capacity, he eventually decided moving to Chuparosa for a more "quiet" lifestyle, where he acts as an unofficial lawman and vigilante for the town.
  • Upon meeting John Marston and seeing his abilities as a gunman, he gives him his powerful Schofield Revolver and teaches him third level of Dead Eye, in which John becomes able to mark enemies manually.
  • In Nuevo Paraiso, Ricketts uses his abilities and influence to protect the townsfolk and fight the local bandits, such as retrieving a wagon stolen from the bank by bandits and rescuing a hostage.
  • He effectively uses dynamites to rig the locked door of the government jail where Luisa Fortuna, showing his skills on another weapons for an honorable action of retrieving her.
  • He is also heavily opposed to the brutal dictator Agustin Allende and helps local rebels to overthrow him, as him ambushing Mexican soldiers to save innocent townsfolk who are sentenced to death by Allende.
  • With the revelation that he passed away quietly in his sleep as he wants, he ultimately avoids being arrested or killed despite his infamy, with the fulfillment of accomplishing his intentions to protect the Mexican people.
    • To make this even more impressive, he died of old age. Something not a lot of gunslingers can do.
  • While not canon to the main continuity, he is shown to be single-handedly protecting the Casa Madrugada town from the zombies in the Undead Nightmare expansion, showing his tough and competent personality as a gunman.

What Makes Him a Baddie?[]

  • Generally, he was a long-time outlaw who committed multiple counts of murder and allegedly involved some massacres, the case which also infamously inspired the other outlaws during the Wild West period.

Trivia[]

  • Landon Ricketts is the only Red Dead MB to come from the original Red Dead Redemption.

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