I think Bronte needed to, for the possible success of the bank robbery. Cornwall could have been avoided, had Dutch left him alone, but that was never going to happen.

What I always found kinda sad but also poetic. Is if Dutch and the gang had let Colm rob Cornwalls train at the start, it would've been the O'Driscolls he hunted down. The gang could get away while they were busy going after Colm

I love the detail when you come into Saint Denis in the epilogue. The building that read “cornwall” becomes “mcknight”

"I had a good damn plan!" Dutch van der Linde

Neither

I believe Bronte should have been left alone but Cornwall needed to die for the Pinkerton to stop following the gang.

The way Dutch killed Cornwall was actually bad ass 😂

I'm gonna go insane if i hear "saduh-ee" one more time.

That mission in valentine where Cornwall calls him out and then just leaves makes no sense whatsoever. Why would he just take off. They couldn't ended things there

Bro finally improved his microphone quality

Dutch: “MONEYYY ARTHURR. WE JUST NEED MONEY”

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Watching the video rn. Cornwall is debatable. He was the main funding for the pinkertons, but just because cornwall is dead doesn't mean his money is gone as well. As for Bronte, the entire mansion raid was pointless because Dutch just killed him in the end. Why??? I feel like if Dutch REALLY wanted to leave the US, he could have held him ransom for a large sum of money, or held Bronte hostage till he gave them safe passage out of the US.

“You made me look stupid”

This reminds me of what Dutch said about the government before he died that they would just find another monster when he died, that was Dutch he’s always go find another monster he just couldn’t stop fighting

I think Bronte is debatable, if the gang had just left Saint Denis, that probably would’ve been the end of it, but they needed the bank robbery, Cornwall had to go cause his ego was never going to let him stop hunting the gang, but ultimately because of Dutch’s ego, both had to die cause Dutch was never going to leave either of them alone

When it came to Bronte, I would say it was Dutch's ego that got the best of him on that. Considering Bronte was a powerful man i Saint Denis, there was no reason for Dutch to even try to outright trust him, especially with how the gang encountered Bronte due to the situation with the Braithwaite and getting Jack back. It seem like Dutch was really desperate in getting money, but was very careless with the Trolley Station, and when he found out that there wasn't anything to be gained, his ego was really bruised by someone he thought he had an understanding with especially when you escape the city and Dutch says, "What did I do to him?" Dutch was going to have his revenge either way on Bronte one way or another.

If Dutch instead of killing Bronte, kept him captured, he would have something to bargain when Hosea got caught.

I don't quite see how him killing Cornwall is really "avoidable" other than them choosing the disappear option. One way or another, Cornwall is bankrolling a huge operation to hunt Dutch down like a dog and kill him. While I think Dutches offer for peace with Cornwall isn't really just, he does offer a peaceful solution to which Cornwall rejects and declares his men to attack on it. That being said, I agree that this was Dutches preferred outcome (as he says) he wanted to kill Cornwall, but Cornwall was coming for him no matter what, and he would throw any amount of resources at that.

Both men were bad, and there were positives from their removal, but these ends do not meaningfully help the gang.