Quote from: EVILthePREDATOR on Oct 28, 2019, 12:57:22 PM
@voodoo...
" And the viewed purpose of detonation is to remove all trace of the Predator and their tech."
Personally I think that's speculative. It wasn't really explained. It could very well of been but hurt that it lost a fair fight and tried to take Dutch with him.
In Predator 2, when Mike Harrigan killed the City Hunter, not only did the other Predators let Mike live, they actually rewarded Mike for killing one of their own with a flintlock.
Considering
both movies were written by the Predator creators the Thomas Brothers, and the Thomas Brothers indicated Predator 2 has all the aspects of the Predator they didn't get an opportunity to explain in the first movie, I think it's safe to say revenge killing isn't their normal way.
QuoteI think predator being sadistic fits far better with what it actually is, which is a space killing high tech alien from the far reaches of space.
Than some sort of anti hero.
That's cool that you feel that way, but it's not how the Thomas brothers conceptualized it. They've equated them to a "sports hunter" from outter space.
QuoteFor example the "mwahahahahaha" laugh he makes while taunting his victims can hardly be classed as honorable.
It wasn't the Predator's laugh, it was Billy's laugh repeated, but true, the end result gives a "muhahah" effect that worked great for the movie.
QuoteHe clearly took pleasure in bringing death on his prey. I.e sadistic. Just like when a cat catches a mouse and wants to f*ck with it for a bit before it kills it. It's clearly doing it for self satisfaction. The very fact it takes trophies is very similar to mass murderers taking trophies from their victims, which is a common theme amongst psychopaths.
Yeah, sorry, but the Predators are not pyscopaths. I know you really want them to be, I can tell, but the Thomas Brothers wrote them as a hunters collecting trophies. "Sports hunters". That's their quote, not mine. And they have a honor code that allowed them to let Mike live, Leona live, Anna live, Ramon's girlfriend live, the kid at the cemetary live, and so on.