Its already been almost two years since the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 by Rockstar Games. The second entry in the Red Dead Redemption franchise won numerous awards for its storytelling, game design, soundtrack, writing, and much more. Though Arthur Morgan and John Marston were the focus of the game, plenty of fans fell in love with the numerous side characters. One of them, Sadie Adler, became a fan favorite due to her character growth and relationship with Arthur. Let's now look at 5 things wrong with Sadie Adler's story and 5 reasons why she's the best.

10 Wrong: Immediate Widow

It's amazing that 15 minutes into the game, players are left dealing with a widow who just witnessed her husband being murdered in cold blood. Normally the story-telling trope would have had Arthur Morgan's gang befriend the married couple for days. This friendship would lead the O'Driscoll gang to attack as a sign of spiteful revenge. The event itself ends up feeling like a setup to get the conflict between the Van Der Linde and O'Driscoll gangs up to a fever pitch in terms of anger towards one another.

9 Best: Insignificant To Irreplaceable

One of the tougher feats in game writing, and writing in general, is taking a character that's initially introduced as insignificant and making them important to the audience. Sadie's story happens to nail this as she starts as a widow that Arthur's gang takes in as one of their own and she grows into an entirely different person. Humans are adaptive creatures and you never know how someone will respond to trauma. Players get to engage with Sadie along her journey and she quickly becomes a fan favorite.

8 Wrong: Overwhelming Sadness

For a video game franchise centered on the theme of redemption, many of the more prominent characters never experience it in any real way. Sadie isn't a terrible person who's done unspeakable acts, but that doesn't mean she's without the possibility of redemption.

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For her, redemption would mean finding a life of happiness and normalcy. She had that taken away from her in a blink of an eye and the breakneck pace of the Van Der Linde gang's situation never gave her the time to reflect and properly heal emotionally.

7 Best: Reinvention

Arthur and Sadie looking ahead with serious expressions, Sadie leaning a rifle on her shoulder.

People often talk about the "fight or flight" response that overtakes humans when a sense of fear, anxiety, or circumstance overcomes them. What's rarely talked about is how different humans respond to trauma in their lives and what they gain and lose from it when it is all said and done. For Sadie, she completely reinvents herself throughout the game. She started as a housewife turned widow who had her life turned upside down and grows into an intimidating and formidable bounty hunter driven by vengeance.

6 Wrong: No Return Home

The best storytelling is often cyclical and has the storyteller leading the audience back to areas of past events as a way to grow the characters and let them reflect on how far they've come. A neat side mission that could have gone a long way for Sadie would have been one in which she and Arthur visit her old home up in the moments. It was a pivotal point in Sadie's life and Arthur was the catalyst for what transpired throughout the rest of the game. Sadly, there was no return home for Sadie throughout the entirety of the game.

5 Best: Justified

Justification is always a tough argument as it relies on evidence pointing towards reasoning in which the person's actions are allowed based upon circumstances. Those who disliked Sadie talked about her always being on-edge and angry and they didn't understand how she could carry so much hate for so long.

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It shouldn't be hard to understand that a woman whose entire life was taken from her in the blink of a winter night, now resents the world and everyone in it. If it wasn't for Arthur, Sadie might have had a much darker character trajectory.

4 Wrong: Hate

Whether you believe hate or indifference is the opposite of love, they all carry the same emotional implications. You'll often find that hate is one of the most useful motivational tools for people and the world oddly benefits from it more often than it should. Sadie's a character whose hate is justified, and players quickly accept her and her flaws because they know what she's been through. Who wouldn't feel hate towards a world that took everything away from them? She could have turned out a lot worse, but thankfully bounty hunting caught her attention.

3 Best: Flawed

The best characters in fiction tend to be the flawed ones, as that's the natural state of humans. No one's perfect and the ones who try the hardest to make it seem that way are often masking the worst flaws of them all. Sadie became a fan favorite character because she's inherently flawed, but most of it is due to an event she had no control over. She may be driven by spite and hate, but people find their purpose and inspiration in different ways. Sadie's not perfect, but could you blame her?

2 Wrong: Vengeance

Close up of Sadie Adler

Some people go their entire lives trying to search for purpose. The moment her normal life was taken from her, it seems Sadie understood what she must do. As she grew into a capable member of the gang you could see that revenge and vengeance were her driving factors.

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Even when she becomes a bounty hunter you can tell she's doing it because it brings her a true feeling of control. It's a shame that it still centers on her trying to find solace among the danger, but she feels the world still owes her for what it took away.

1 Best: Character Growth

Sadie Adler in Red Dead Redemption 2

It's hard to argue with the fact that Arthur experiences tremendous character growth throughout Red Dead Redemption 2. His growth was about redeeming his character and showing the world how good of a man he truly was. For Sadie, as mentioned before, she began as a frail and defenseless widow and transformed into a formidable outlaw. Like Arthur, she was morally aligned and eventually turned into a bounty hunter. She's not perfect and stuck to many of her spiteful tendencies, but it's as though she's lived two separate lives.

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