Damn, this is a long debate about honor, helmets, and Alien comparisons. It's pretty much all a matter of opinion or best guesses when it comes to these issuses. So i'll offer mine for poops and giggles. Honor and Predators: I don't think it matters as to how we look at them. It's what the Predators think of themselves. They prefer to hunt with some tactics we find pathetic, while other methods you might say admirable. For they're not so prized targets, they seem to go with the element of surprise. Snipering from a distance or jumping into a moving subway train or slaughter house while it's all dark and everyon'e confused. Then he gets man to man, and that's when it gets honorable. When he fights someone or something that won't give up the fight till either one of them falls. They honor themselves with pride. The trophy cases speak for themselves. Now the end of Predator 2 is debatible. You could say the dragging of the dead pred was in some honorable ceremonial fashion. But you could also say that well, maybe those 2 that carried the body away were close friends of the fallen. We can't really know until we actually see what goes on in a Predator society. Predator Helmets: It could be an indication of rank, could also be a self esteem boost. They might think, "well my mask is better cause it stunned this many people i was killing than yours did." Ha yeah right. Well there's definately an indication that some Predators can be creative, probably designing their own masks if they just wanted to. I mean how many of you guys try to alter their appearance if all of you were wearing the same damn thing as everybody else? So it could just very well be the Predators are their own individuals, and the masks distinctly shows it. Aliens: They never stay with the same design thru the years do they? You know, it doesn't really bother me how much they change, just as long as they remain scary. Aliens and Predator both go for the element of surprise. That's what makes these 2 creatures worth watching. You know they're there. You know they want to kill you. You just don't know when they'll strike.