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** I always just assumed that it was overcast, and they couldn't see them. But, hey, it added to the mystery when first seeing the movie.
*** My assumption is that as the sky is a cgi effect they had no idea what they would be seeing until post production. The scenes in the clearing had been shot and dusted and they were then committed to keeping them.
*** However making it look good will make the audience forget how idiotic such a noticable sky is.
* Schwarzenegger smears some mud on himself and somehow that covers up all his body heat and he's blind to the predator? Badass, but still, come on.
** I have to admit, this is a legitimate argument. The mud might mask his body heat for a while, but eventually it's going to warm up to body temperature. It's logical the first time, when he has just crawled out of a cold river and is covered with fresh, cold mud, but not in the later scene where he has painted himself with mud that has had time to dry.
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** Who says it's a laser sight the way we know it? Maybe it's something completely different that just coincidentally happens to be red.
** This is also a good time to point out that in real life, you do not see the beam from a laser targeter unless there is a significant amount of dust or other particulate matter in the air to scatter the light. Normally, you only see the little red dot where it reflects off the target. Of course, the director always contrives for us to be able to see the beam because of [[Rule of Cool]].
*** Considering that there are scenes where we ''do'' only see the dots,
** Actually, most military grade laser sights are not in the visible spectrum - you only see them with special equipment. Maybe red isn't in the predator's visible spectrum at all, and as far as they know its invisible to the naked eye.
* Uh, yeah, new ''Predators'' movie? Pretty sure planets that big can't be that close to one another, especially if one of them is a gas giant.
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** The head Pred may have never actually seen or hunted Noland before, since Noland has apparently gotten good at going undetected. The Predators in the film may not be the ones who brought him to the planet, but I haven't read the prequel comics so someone needs to verify that.
** He had gotten hold of a lot of Predator tech, which is a no-no in Predator society. Also, he's killed at least two Predators- maybe he was considered the equivalent of a rogue elephant or man-eater on Earth- too dangerous to take chances with.
* Why did the Predators kidnap Eric from [[That '70s Show]]? I mean, yeah, he's {{spoiler|a psycho killer and all}}, but he's still not good at one on one combat, and is virtually defenseless against them. No matter what kind of person he is, he still isn't a survivalist or a real hunter or even any kind of challenge for a Predator to defeat. Also, he's virtually unarmed except for some tiny scalpels. Aren't Predators supposed to ignore unarmed targets? It just doesn't seem sporting to me.
** The only explanation I can think of is that these Super Preds are a lot more sadistic and less honorable than the classic ones, and probably threw him into the group for shits n' giggles. What makes these new Predators different from the old ones is that they really like to test and toy with their prey. They probably weren't intending to hunt Edwin in the first place.
** Or maybe they rate prey as dangerous the same way they rate their own status- by number of kills? He might be very, very good at what he does.
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** Since Preds naturally see heat instead of color, it can be assumed that they come from a planet where other creatures see that way too. That means that in their original habitat where they evolved it didn't make them any more visible.
** It has also been established that they breathe a different atmospheric mix than we do. The expanded universe establishes that they are methane breathers (but at the same time, it also establishes that they CAN breathe our air for about 30 minutes before it causes irreversible damage to their lungs). Maybe in their natural atmosphere, their blood ''doesn't'' glow... maybe the glow is the result of something in their blood reacting with some trace gas in our atmosphere.
*** That's absurd. A methane breather couldn't survive in oxygen-hydrogen atmosphere any more than a human could survive in one made of carbonmonoxide. It would make much more sense for them to simply have an atmosphere with ''more'' oxygen, requiring the use of a breather to avoid getting out of breath.
** It could be that [[Re-Animator|Herbert West]] had, at some point in time, [[Wild Mass Guessing|discovered and exploited the blood of a Predator]] because of its [[Our Zombies Are Different|special properties.]]
** Just because they've been canonically linked, there's no reason for them to have anything in common physiologically.
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