Which Reacher villains would you most want to see analyzed?
The Kliners would be the top choice, because that whole family is rotten. Kliner Sr.'s dialogue when Reacher and Finlay interview him at his office says it all about his smug, self-righteous mindset under the guise of 'contributing to the town of Margrave'. During the climax, Kliner Jr. is projecting his own sentiments onto the rhino he boasted about hunting and tried doing the same to Reacher, before facing his due comeuppance.
Paul Van Hoven and Xavier Quinn come in second, particularly because the novel version of the former is much more diabolical than on-screen. Paulie meets the common profile of a criminal who dealt with child abuse and tried to shed his feelings of inadequacy by abusing steroids. Quinn/McCabe had a sealed juvy record which caused him to slip through the cracks when getting picked for a job in military intelligence. He suffered antisocial personality disorder, tortured animals as a child and did the same to Dominique.
Azhari Mahmoud and Shane Langston don't have as much depth as the other villains seen so far, at least at first glance. But if there's more to it than meets the eye, it could work.
