Quote from: HuDaFuK on May 17, 2022, 04:20:52 PMI am f**king loving all the people complaining that the idea of defeating a Predator with bows and arrows is stupid... even though that's exactly what Arnie did in the first film they revere so much 
This has been pissing me off with frustration for a long while. There's a very testosterone-driven dude-bro attitude in relation to this fandom.
What's weird is that a good proportion of them get nostalgia hype whenever Machiko is mentioned and she actually had a
fist-
fight with one in her first sequel. Her narrated prose outlined her style and solution just fine: Get close and you're dead. Use their weight and inertia against them.
Add that to a character whose entire
life would have revolved around gaining tracking skills at least as advanced as Billy's, if not more so... This character has decent odds of surviving.
The closest we ever came to a depiction of Chad McBeefstick trying to punch a Predator to death was the first one and Dutch quickly realised, "Bad idea..." The retaliation was so vicious, so brutal, he almost died from it.
Harrigan won because he played dead and used a Predator's own weapon against it - and nobody in their right mind is going to say he was fitter than 1980s Arnold did. But nobody's crying foul about how he won the day, either.
Absolutely nothing is preventing this character from setting traps, using the environment/local wildlife to her advantage or exploiting discarded Predator tools. Most of a Predator's body isn't even typically armoured and pretty exposed if you've got a decent weapon.
If you can think up a way for a tribesperson to kill a bear, then you can think up a way for one to kill a Predator, too. Or at least f**k one up sufficiently that it admits defeat and accepts you're too much trouble to continue with.
