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| Leopold Strauss | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Real name | Leopold Wilhelm Strauss |
| Also known as | Leo, Mr. Strauss, Herr Strauss, Strah, bro, Snake, Teh Traiter, Milt's guy, banker, loan-shark, Debt Creator, parasite, rat, "Zee" Devil, Verräter, Ubermensch, Supreman, Austro-Hungary, Ostrich, Money Man, Straw |
| Nationality |  Austrian
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| Born | 15th of April, 1823 (originally), resurrected in 22 AH |
| Age | 68 |
| Status | Alive |
| Physical description | |
| Eye colour | Blue |
| Hair colour | Grey (formerly orange) |
| Ethnicity | Germanic-Aryan |
| Height | Actual Height: 5'6” (167 cm)
Peak Height: 5'7" (170 cm) |
| Weight | 132 lbs (60 kg) |
| Blood type | B- |
| Gender |  Male
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| Career, affiliations and family information | |
| Affiliation(s) | Dutch's Gang (former), Dutch van der Linde (former), Gicov Bell, Larry Milton,  Pinkerton Detective Agency, Gicov's Gang, Arthur Morgan (former),  9-Man Clan, Queen Almeida, Victor Barzini (former), Gary Bluechart (former), Bruno Tattaglia,  Tattaglia Family, Marco the Clopper (former),  Barzini Family (former),  NYPD, Shao Kahn, Red Harlow, Queen Almeida, Collin,  GenSec,  Special Forces
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| Enemies | Entire Dutch's gang, safe for Dutch and Bell, Gary Bluechart, 9-Man Clan, Kotal Kahn, Kitana, Jade, the Barzinis, Leviticus Cornwall |
| Occupation(s) | Bookkeeper, loanshark, financial adviser, former Spy, Tattaglia mole |
| Notable family members | Unnamed parents, unnamed sister (fake), unnamed brother (possibly also fake) |
| Video Games, Movies and Cartoons information | |
| Main appearance(s) (Video Games) | Red Dead Redemption 2, New Era events, MK 12 |
| Voiced by (English) | Howard Pinhasik |
- "Ahh... yes... Yes... Ja... A sneaky und manipulative betrayal, indeed... Dutch lacks zee brains to ever find out what we're doing. But now, I have a little task for you: There is a Polish man living down in zee cabin of Painted Sky... he hadn't pay me in weeks. I want you to go there and... I don't know, grind him up, pump him up, rip him up to zee bits und pieces - Just make him pay the money he owes! It iz after all your duty, your errand, to do exactly as I say and get me zee money we need to strategise our benevolent plan to bring down zee Dutch and his "kameraden". But remember: he must think its all for his "masterplan", ja. Keep admiring him. Little does he know we have even a far better plan of our own."
- — Strauss agrees with Gicov about their vicious, destructive plan and also orders him to get him the money back from a Polish immigrant
Leopold Strauss is a major or supporting character who serves as a supporting antagonist in Rootin' Tootin', Cowboy Shootin'. He is also a minor or supportive character in the New Era events, cooked up by Queen Almeida, but without his main man Gicov Bell until Gicov is also resurrected. He used to be a former financial adviser and spy for the Barzini Family until his betrayal to the Tattaglia Family.
Biography[]
According to himself, Strauss was born on April in 1823/177 BH in a poverty of a place in Vienna, Austrian Empire. By the age of fourteen, his brother was already a petty crook beating up even poorer people for some food under the orders of the town's watchmen. Strauss' father sold his own daughter, a nine-year-old girl, away into slavery and rape before belting and bruising her across the face himself in order to provide for the rest of the family, breaking her brother's heart while Strauss almost laughed himself to tears.
Due to his "wicked ways", Strauss jumped off the ship he was on with his parents to the United States, landing right into Texas instead of Arizona. Many decades had past while Leopold was living in many countries of southern America where he worked as a bookkeeper, debt collector, amongst other sorts. But while on the run after robbing a general store, Leopold had to flee all the way to Louisiana on all: Foot, horse and even stagecoach. After coming to the unfamiliar Frenchy land, Leopold took a poor, lost, fatherless Gicov Bell as his own son, and both of them later got inducted into Dutch's Gang, where Leo became the group's accountant, along with handling Dutch van der Linde's loan-sharking businesses.
Unfortunately for Dutch however, taking in Strauss and Bell was the worst mistake he could have ever made.
It was later found out that most of what Strauss said about his background was a mere facade to make him seem "cooler" or "edgier", and it is still unknown today if he ever had a sister or a brother at all according to some of the FBI files. It is also noted that he apparently killed his own grandmother in her sleep when he was thirteen as she "disrespected him".
Interactions[]
Soon after Dutch's Gang arrives at Horseshoe Overlook from a snowy mountain camp, Strauss starts up his loan-sharking business, with almost black demonic-like saliva dripping from his mouth; He can't wait to bully someone into taking a loan. He then asks his homeboi, Gicov Bell, to collect money from debtors like Chuck Matthew, Wróbel, and Lilly Waterbury. Lastly, Strauss asks Arthur Morgan to get him the money from one last debtor: Thomas Downes. It was during this confrontation with Downes that Arthur contracted Tuberculosis, which would plague him and make him cough like whole hell until his death.
Leopold, along with John Marston is briefly seen drinking in a saloon in Valentine Village until both men are taken hostage by Leviticus Cornwall's army, who want Dutch (who was also in the saloon) dead for robbing their master's train. In the ensuing gunfight, Leopold is shot in the leg and has to be carried to safety by John and then back to Horseshoes'.
After the gang arrives at a new camp location of Clemens' Point, Strauss then gives Arthur and later Bell each one more mission of collecting money from debtors. Gicov is tasked with getting all the mula back from Winston Holmes, who lives in a camp located north of Strawberry Town while Arthur is ordered to make Guy Hughes pay his debts. While the results of Bell's mission are unknown, Arthur successfully convinces Guy to return Strauss the money he owes after a couple of punches in the nutsack. However, after giving the money back to Strauss at the camp, Leo greets Morgan with only a couple of scolds and mere insults, assuring him the "debt has long been paid.", leaving Morgan confused as all hell.
After the gang moves to Shady Belle, Strauss asks Arthur kindly to collect him the money from Algernon Davidson. Algie tells Arthur he doesn't have the money, leaving Arthur no other choice but to kill him in "self-defence". After getting rid of Algie's stinking body, Morgan loots his house and finds some money in a chest to return to Strauss.
Strauss then joins the gang in robbing a wealthy businessman and gambler Desmond Bittler on a Grand Korrigan riverboat. However, the parasite doesn't assist the gang at all during the robbery, more or less only joining it for the fortune he can get out of it. He lastly escapes the ship with Arthur, Javier Escuella, and Josiah Trelawny after getting all the money and jewellery they needed.
When Dutch and his gang arrive at Beaver Hollow, Zee Ubermensch gives Bell one more money lender to collect from. The debtor being poor o' John Weathers, a deserter from Fort Mercer. Bell found him west of the gang's campsite, trying to fix a broken wagon, but fails. Weathers begs Gicov to spare him as he can't pay off the debt in money, but Bell and Straw can have some of his jewels instead. Bell takes the jewels, claiming they will save Weathers from a torturous death as would money, and then rides off to give them to Strauss.
Nearing the end of Dutch's gang fragile stability and concerning Morgan's doubts about it, Agent Larry Milton reveals to Arthur that the moles who were ratting out Dutch and his bunch to the Pinkertons were actually Strauss and Gicov all along, not Molly O'Shea. Arthur presents this information later at the camp (where Leo is absent) to a stressful Dutch van der Linde, but Gicov denies it and Dutch believes Bell with full will. This was the final straw for Arthur, and a betrayal, as Dutch raised Arthur as his own and he has been loyal to him for decades, whereas Gicov and Strauss had only been with the gang for mere months.
A year later, Gicov created his own gang, taking Herr Strauss with him and his old buddies, Cleet and Bad Jo. Throughout the months they committed various crimes which resulted in several vicious murders, rapes and other crimes, such as dismemberment. Gicov even murdered a young girl, a pregnant woman and an infant, something Leopold highly approved of. While the gang was hiding out on Mount Harris, Sadie Adler (also a former member of Dutch's gang) catches wind of Gicov and his gang's evil activities, and rounds up Marston and Charles Smiff to assist her in disbanding it.
Death[]
After killing most of Bell's gang members at his hideout, Strauss himself, along with Bad Jo, and two other members, encounter Marston as he makes his way up the mountain. After a brief confrontation and discussion of "the good o' days" in Dutch's gang, John shoots and kills Jo and his allies, before finally killing Leopold after short shootout with the Money Man.
New Era events[]
When the Queen Almeida began preparing to undo the history of man to create the New Era events, Leopold is one of the revived cowboy guys and his mission was to whisk away Shao Kahn's new bunch of allies from Raiden's forces through a portal leading to the Kytinn hive.
At that hive, Leopold and the others watched as Javier Escuella personally swore his loyalty to Shao, but to Leo's dismay, also warned him not to trust Strauss, saying his former boss once did and he sold him to the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Meanwhile, Almeida herself arrives, offering the deposed Emperor a greater empire in her New Era and promises him that he will get his Outworld back with the help of his new pals.
After Shao and his new buddies eliminate most of Tarkatan scum, they arrive back at Kahn's Coliseum where Strauss was waiting and Shao is getting ready to execute Kotal Kahn, but before he can land the fatality, Princess Kitana storms in, leading the remaining Tarkatas and Ponys under one banner to take Outworld once again from Shao, but that failed miserably. After a long battle, Kitana and her minions are defeated, and despite the fact that Kotal was freed from his guillotine, he was no longer the Emperor and was only a minor help in Kitana's rebel assault which failed.
After Shao finally takes his planet back in peace, Strauss and the others are seen in his throne room and then take a portal back to Earth, minus Lord Farquaad and Red Harlow.
The 9-Man Clan[]
Leopold Strauss played a role as an adviser and the brains of the 9-Man Clan back when he was in it before he single-handedly destroyed it by ratting it out to the GenSec.
During one of the Clan's mission in Arizona, they found out they were not alone in the state, as some sort of an Ochanep demon was after them after their recent attack of the place. (The demon was later found out to be none other than the Globgloglabgalab.)
As the team came back with the briefcase, Strauss and Woody noticed that their newly bought French bread from Joey's Baked Goods had tumours. Because of this they believed that they only had five days left to live, so Victor Barzini and Scout arranged a meeting with all of the members, where they would exchange their last wishes before they would rot in the afterlife, whichever may it be.
Woody and Strauss later found out that the team was not suffering from tumours and it was just the bread that was mutated, and that they won't die in a few days and they already got the COVID-19 virus to be worried about anyway. Sarg. Morganson then finally finds out that the demonic presence that's been following them was a large, evil Globgloglabgalab, who planned on eating and killing all of the 9-Man of the Clan. However, Glob couldn't do jack sith as he was shoot all over by all of the team.
Recently JACK, Scout, Drew McIntyre, Woody, Morganson and Strauss had to fight against new foes of Gary Bluechart; the Forletti Family who holds a strong grudge against Gary, but none of that would have transpired as Strauss went and told all of the information of the 9-Man Clan to the GenSec industries and later, the Special Forces. Thanks to that, the two anti-criminal organisations were able to immune Strauss and Barzini (whom Strauss vouched for as an ally) from prison and caught Bluechart into a trap, along with other members of the Clan whom had criminal records.
Joining the Barzinis[]
Leopold was later employed as an important Spy of the Barzini Family and Don Victor Barzini's trusty associate when Victor moved his mob's dealings and operations to New Jersey as well to expand the territory. His main concern in the family were finances and the "legal" side of businesses, be it chips smuggling or else. He does later give a few missions to Marco the Clopper, an Italian pervert who worked for Barzini as well and was his sexual partner, maybe. Leopold advised Marco not to give too much trust into Adolphe Chaput, claiming he was a sneaky individual, like the Corona virus.
When times get tough for the Barzinis and they lose most of their revenue in New York and even get pressure from their judges, cops and politicians, Strauss sees this as a perfect opportunity to do a good o' stabbing in the back and runs to Bruno Tattaglia and his family which was gaining more and more power in NJ. He then becomes a mob mole for Bruno and exposed a lot of Victor's other rackets and hiding spots, gaining his trust and making the Barzinis vulnerable for more attacks from the Tattaglia Family, who succeeded in sabotaging their latest Canada-New Jersey operations.
A hit is soon organised on Strauss by Victor and given to Marco, who was successful in killing off Thomas Elliot and Tony Jacobs, but failed to kill either Strauss or/and Bruno as their men proved to be too much. Strauss escaped to Virginia, where Barzini had no connections, following his foiled assassination.
Personality and traits[]
- "Just what is Dutch other zan a nasty little snot, desperately clinging on to life with everything he has? We are so much superior zan him. People like him and his little gang live in zheir own free vorld where zee law is lawless. But in reality? Well, they'll all be swinging soon enough."
- — Leopold on Dutch
Strauss can be noted as a serious, sadistic, mean-spirited, commanding, evil and unemotional monster of a man, but those things are what allows him to be effective in his job as a loan-sharking bookkeeper. As expected, like Gicov Bell, he is anything but devoted to the gang he joined, giving them up as soon as possible to the Pinkertons, hoping the gang would be brutally tortured and slaughtered to pieces. He is best known as a 'parasite' for only joining the gang to suck it out dry completely, then leave it behind to die and rot. He does the exact same thing with every other organisation he joins.
Other than that, not much else is known about Leopold's personality, but it's safe to say that there probably isn't much more of it. However, despite all of those negative traits, it is known that Leopold indeed actually cares about Bell and his gang (Bell's own gang).
- Positive Characteristics: Rejects religion, is good at counting and loaning money, is loyal to Gicov Bell
- Negative Characteristics: Betrays almost everyone, rats everyone to the Pinkerton Detective Agency, gives loans to very poor people who can't pay them off, goads Gicov into being a sadistic monster, likes to watch people suffer
- Moral: None
- Stable: Sometimes
- Loyal: Only to one person
- Generous: Not that we know of
- Extrovert: No
- Compassionate: Nope
- IQ: 147
- Hobbies: Counting money, manipulating Dutch van der Linde, giving factual information about the gang to Larry Milton, planning stuff with Gicov, taunting Orville Swanson, sending gang members to go after his debtors
- Bad Habits: Stabbing people in the back
- Phobias: Unknown
- Obsessions: Betraying people
- Favourite Foods: Potato in tomato sauce
Trivia[]
- Strauss speaks in flowery, charismatic eloquence in kind of a similar way as Harlan Fontaine, although without masking his evil and demonic persona, as a villainous tone can still be heard in his words if one emphasises on them correctly.
- Despite his occupation or his entire outlook on life being the direct opposite, Herr Strauss identifies as a socialist, like Dutch van der Linde. It is possible he only does so because he loves to hide his immorality under the false guidance of great, progressive morality.
- Orville Swanson was one of the most picked on victims of bullying by Strauss and Gicov Bell.
- He somewhat resembles Mr. Rogers, but the two of them are NOTHING alike! Looks can be deceiving, folks!
Gallery[]
Denying Swanson[]
Much like how his homeboy, Gicov Bell, bullies Father Swanson around, Strauss refuses to give Orville anymore money. He already owes him a lot. In all honesty, despite Leo's villainous role, this is all clearly Swanson's fault, as was with Gicov.
Red Dead Redemption 2 (free roam) Swansen wants moar money!