History Awesome / JackReacher

*** In the same book, on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge to avenge [[spoiler:the murder of his older brother Joe]], he visits all kinds of pain on the villains, including throat-slitting (to the point of decapitation) and blasts with a .44 Desert Eagle loaded with soft-nosed shells. (Note that soft-nosed .44 slugs blow holes in people the size of garbage cans). Another he drowns in a pool. Yet another he shoots with the .44 pistol.

* ''The Hard Way'': After being asked to help by a man whose wife and child are being held hostage, Reacher discovers that [[spoiler: the man is a complete piece of shit, and he killed his previous wife himself. By the end of the book, the man is dead and his ex-wife and child are just fine.]]

* ''Running Blind/The Visitor'': Just before the [[spoiler: DirtyCop FBI profiler]] could fully hypnotize her sixth victim to suffocate herself, Reacher barges in, grabs her back, and flat-fuck kills her in one punch.

** Reacher also manages to successfully talk his way out of [[spoiler: the profiler's coworkers]] trying to pin the crimes on him to avoid having to admit that their coworker was a serial killer.
* Any of the times in ''Echo Burning'' where he's able to display his absolute contempt for the racist Greer family. This includes telling the matriarch that it would be easy and a pleasure to snap her spine, and [[spoiler:when their house ends up burning down, turning the rhetoric around on them with "Go live in the barn. It's where people like you belong."]]
* As a villainous CMOA, any henchman who actually gives Reacher a good fight is worth mentioning. Special attention goes to Hackett, a random thug in ''Make Me'' who [[spoiler: not only survives his fight with Reacher, but gives him a brain injury which handicaps him for the rest of the book.]]

* Reacher nailing [[spoiler:[[TheMole Emerson]]]], who had taken Helen Rodin as a human shield. He was sitting behind her, with only his right eye visible past her head. Reacher takes him out with a single shot to the head, using iron sights on a rifle that hadn't been fired - and the movie established earlier that the first shot (a cold shot) is always the least accurate, so you want to use it on an easy target.

*** The BigBad Beau Borken hears that Reacher once won the Wimbledon (not the tennis tournament, a Marine sniping competition). So he proposes a sniping competition with .50 Barret Rifles, six shots each shooting from 600 yards. Beau only hits with one shot. Reacher [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt seems to have missed all six shots... until they walk down the range and discover he drilled a capital B in a tree from 1000 yards with a surface area around the same of Beau's face]]. ZING!

** In ''Gone Tomorrow'' Reacher takes on Al Queda itself in New York. First beating two knuckleduster-armed thugs in a fistfight, then escaping FBI custody with two other people completely unequipped. Evades the FBI ''again'' by climbing onto the outside of a train as it goes through a subway station. Sets up seven Al Queda guys for a sting, then singlehandedly raids their base of operations with an MP5SD, nailing the last one in the head with [[OneBuwwetWeft the last bullet in the magazine]] with his left hand. Then, since he's confronted by two knife-wielding women and no bullets, he pulls out his knife and after a knife fight where he sustains a serious cut to the stomach he cuts one throat and strangles the other.

* As a villainous CMOA, any henchman who actually gives Reacher a good fight is worth mentioning. Special attention goes to Hackett, a random thug in ''Make Me'' who [[spoilers: not only survives his fight with Reacher, but gives him a brain injury which handicaps him for the rest of the book.]]

* Reacher fighting off two men with baseball bats [[FunnyMoments although the men keep missing with every hit due to how small the room is]]. Reacher takes one blow to the back of the head, which was mitigated by the cudgel hitting him mostly hitting the door frame. He just rolls into the tub and lets the two thugs fall over themselves after him.

** Earlier in the novel, the man in question tries to intimidate Reacher, referencing the fact that his henchman are all Special Forces veterans. Reacher responds with a BadassBoast, stating that he could beat them all hand-to-hand if he had to. None of them voice disagreement.

** ''Killing Floor'': After being sent to prison with businessman Paul Hubble, an inmate crushes Hubbles glasses and tries to make Hubble his bitch. Reacher headbutts the guy hard enough to break most of the bones in his face and then intimidates one of the others to give Hubble ''his own glasses'' as replacements.
*** In the same book, on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge to avenge [[spoiler:the murder of his older brother Joe]], he visits all kinds of pain on the villains, including throat-slitting and blasts with a .44 Desert Eagle loaded with soft-nosed shells. (Note that soft-nosed .44 slugs blow holes in people the size of garbage cans). Another he drowns in a pool. Yet another he shoots with the .44 and then sets on fire.

** ''Killing Floor'': After being sent to prison with businessman Paul Hubble, an inmate crushes Hubbles glasses and tries to make Hubble his bitch. Reacher headbutts the guy hard enough to break most of the bones in his face and then intimidates one of the others to give hubble ''his own glasses'' as replacements.

* He survives the ignition of an absolutely massive tank of jet fuel in 61 Hours by climbing up a stairwell that's feeding the flames (which are shooting up as massive geysers from the tops of the adjacent ventilation shafts) with fresh oxygen. This means he makes the entire climb against a constant, hurricane-force wind.

*** The BigBad Beau Borker hears that Reacher once won the Wimbledon (not the tennis tournament, a Marine sniping competition). So he proposes a sniping competition with .50 Barret Rifles, six shots each shooting from 600 yards. Beau only hits with one shot. Reacher [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt seems to have missed all six shots... until they walk down the range and discover he drilled a capital B in a tree from 1000 yards with a surface area around the same of Beau's face]]. ZING!

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* ''RunningBlind'': Just before the DirtyCop FBI profiler could fully hypnotize her sixth victim to suffocate herself, Reacher barges in, grabs her back, and flat-fuck kills her in one punch.

* Reacher fighting off two men with baseball bats [[FunnyMoments although the men keep missing with every hit due to how small the room is]].
* The car chase between Reacher, the bad guys, and the police.

* He survives being blown up in Sixty One Hours by standing out of the way of the explosion and holding on to a pole anchored in the floor so the blast wave narrowly misses him.

* TheMovie has several awesome moments:
** Reacher fighting off two men with baseball bats [[FunnyMoments although the men keep missing with every hit due to how small the room is]].
** The car chase between Reacher, the bad guys, and the police.
** The final battle at the construction site, all of which [[BattleInTheRain took place in the midst of a rainstorm]].
** Reacher nailing [[spoiler:[[TheMole Emerson]]]], who had taken Helen Rodin as a human shield. He was sitting behind her, with only his right eye visible past her head. Reacher takes him out with a single shot to the head, using iron sights on a rifle that hadn't been fired - and the movie established earlier that the first shot (a cold shot) is always the least accurate, so you want to use it on an easy target.

** Reacher nailing the [[spoiler: Emerson]], who had taken Helen Rodin as a human shield. He was sitting behind her, with only his right eye visible past her head. Reacher takes him out with a single shot to the head, using iron sights on a rifle that hadn't been fired - and the movie established earlier that the first shot (a cold shot) is always the least accurate, so you want to use it on an easy target.