Can we just forget about the Predator Hierarchy?

[OpenMaw]

CH and JH are hunters.

The three stooges are like poachers.

[skull-splitter]

Sort of, yes.

[Master]

CH and JH are hunters.

The three stooges are like poachers.

Yep, this is exact analogy I used in 2010

[The Cruentus]

Indeed. Another addition to the Predators is temperament, just like most species, they would have an individual personality, so regardless of hunting rules, they can't always be generalized by the actions of one or two. Some Predators might be more sporting and even merciful, others might be just dicks. While others just indifferent.

Technically speaking, we can't really place or compare our morality, rules and sense of honor on to them because just like real life, different cultures of humans have their own society, rules and morality. Like we generally don't don't really care about eating cows and pigs, and we dislike other countries eating dogs and dolphins, but to some other countries, our eating of cows and pigs is considered horrible and atrocious.

[yautjapet]

Indeed. Another addition to the Predators is temperament, just like most species, they would have an individual personality, so regardless of hunting rules, they can't always be generalized by the actions of one or two. Some Predators might be more sporting and even merciful, others might be just dicks. While others just indifferent.

Technically speaking, we can't really place or compare our morality, rules and sense of honor on to them because just like real life, different cultures of humans have their own society, rules and morality. Like we generally don't don't really care about eating cows and pigs, and we dislike other countries eating dogs and dolphins, but to some other countries, our eating of cows and pigs is considered horrible and atrocious.

Agreed with all of this, great points. I definitely think there's a lot of room for variation among predators, both due to differing cultures (I always liked the "clans" thing) and their unique personalities and preferences.

[skull-splitter]

Indeed. Another addition to the Predators is temperament, just like most species, they would have an individual personality, so regardless of hunting rules, they can't always be generalized by the actions of one or two. Some Predators might be more sporting and even merciful, others might be just dicks. While others just indifferent.

Technically speaking, we can't really place or compare our morality, rules and sense of honor on to them because just like real life, different cultures of humans have their own society, rules and morality. Like we generally don't don't really care about eating cows and pigs, and we dislike other countries eating dogs and dolphins, but to some other countries, our eating of cows and pigs is considered horrible and atrocious.

Agreed with all of this, great points. I definitely think there's a lot of room for variation among predators, both due to differing cultures (I always liked the "clans" thing) and their unique personalities and preferences.

Enter diversity. Which I really would use in order to explain all the different predators by now.

[PredBabe]

Which I think is what this movie is going for so we's on the right track!

[OpenMaw]

I don't think anyone really has an issue with diversity, indeed I welcome it and it's one of the fun aspects of the Predator species. Just visually alone you can do a lot of stuff. It's a great deal of fun just to go on figure realm or youtube and see some of the custom Predator figures people have come up with.


https://www.figurerealm.com/customfigure?action=view&id=89866


https://www.figurerealm.com/customfigure?action=view&id=81733


https://www.figurerealm.com/customfigure?action=view&id=67974


https://www.figurerealm.com/customfigure?action=view&id=66192


The big issue is in portrayal. When it becomes what "they" do, for example. "They" have strict honor or "they" are modifying themselves with our DNA, etc...

[Wysps]

Those first two figures are pretty awesome - especially the second.

Indeed. Another addition to the Predators is temperament, just like most species, they would have an individual personality, so regardless of hunting rules, they can't always be generalized by the actions of one or two. Some Predators might be more sporting and even merciful, others might be just dicks. While others just indifferent.

Technically speaking, we can't really place or compare our morality, rules and sense of honor on to them because just like real life, different cultures of humans have their own society, rules and morality. Like we generally don't don't really care about eating cows and pigs, and we dislike other countries eating dogs and dolphins, but to some other countries, our eating of cows and pigs is considered horrible and atrocious.

Agreed with all of this, great points. I definitely think there's a lot of room for variation among predators, both due to differing cultures (I always liked the "clans" thing) and their unique personalities and preferences.

Differing cultures, personalities and preferences. This is what I'd like to see going forward in the franchise. A move away from focusing solely on the humans, maybe make a Predator a legitimate "main" and survive the ordeal. There's just so much more that could be done with the Predators without even encroaching on their "culture/customs/etc."

[OpenMaw]

it speaks to the good writing in Prey, the comic, and Briggs' script that Broken Tusk is a Predator you want to see live.

[PredBabe]

Agreed, I'd like to see a movie where one actually survives.
They probably could have worked this out for Captured but no, oomans have to save the day.


In regards to the differing Predator personalities, I find it funny how Shane describes The Predator to be similar to a western. We literally have "the good, the bad, and the ugly" Predators running around.

[The Old One]

Dirty oomans.