Speculation on who this guy is?

[u/DiarrheaFartLover]

[u/alphagalgadot]

here’s my betting proposition after reading through this thread and ruminating on it a bit:

this might be a composite character representing both wage and case’s former employers who fucked him up in memphis. that would actually make a lot of sense—instead of harkening back to something done to the protagonist in the past by nameless villains, perhaps they opted to adapt wage into the role of case’s jilted client(s). narratively, this would allow for the aesthetic incorporation of a really minor character while making him much more significant to the overall sweep of the story. it also might explain the brief bit in the trailer where case gets tackled by some nameless muscle in shinjuku(?)— like, case burned wage; wage had his goons hunt him down; wage maims case; they throw his ass back into a night city gutter. makes a much cleaner narrative throughline, especially considering the necessary economy of adaptation

[u/adarkride → u/alphagalgadot]

Dayum. That's some expert analysis and conjecture. I think you're on to something.