Quote from: AliceApocalypse on Apr 22, 2021, 12:08:03 PM
Mirrored combat technique makes for a better sport possibly?
Jungle Hunter & Dutch = guerilla type warfare
City Hunter & Harrigan = gangster fights
Falconer & Hanzo = samurai style
Not all of them exhibit this behavior, however many seem to highlight a pattern.
Hmm. Interesting perspective AA!
To me, I don't really see most of this as Predators mirroring styles of combat in Predator and Predator 2, but rather just situational to their environment, their prey and a dash of personality.
For instance, in Predator 87, for what we see on screen, I don't believe overall that we see from Dutch's team
or their enemy combatants is anything that really equates much to guerilla warfare. The Jungle Hunter's assassinate & move tactic, this
strike - retreat - strike again isn't any emulation that I can see, but rather just a case of the Jungle Hunter not being able to match them as a whole, all at once, especially with those weapons! It also seems to be a hunting tactic used again in Predator 2.
In Predator 2, the City Hunter was much more brash. Granted, he was hunting prey with lesser weapons mostly (at least with the cops, and maybe Goldtooth's gang, but El Scorpio's buddies were armed to the max - but closed quarters certainly didn't help the Columbians.) But I digress. You can't do much
strike - retreat - strike again in a Subway that cocky bastard, but the City Hunter did use some of that assassinate & move tactic both in the Penthouse and the Slaughterhouse, but just at a faster pace. And like the Jungle Hunter, it also surveyed, stalked, and waited to strike, which none of it correlated (at least to me) with gangster fights.