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''Predator'' is a franchise of films and comic books that detail individual encounters with an impossibly cool alien species with advanced technology, including a personal invisibility field. Although the human characters of the first two ''Predator'' films don't realize it, the creature likes to hunt aggressive members of other species for sport -- [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|and humans fit quite well in this category]]...

* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]: Both ''Predator'' and ''Predators'' spent quite a long time with only the humans.

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Subverted in the first movie, where Hawkins' explanation of his joke is the punchline.

** [[Late to The Punchline|Billy laughs seconds later.]]

* [[Egomaniac Hunter]]: For all their vaunted honor code, this is what the Predators really are when you boil it down; a race whose sole drive is to explore the galaxy, find the nastiest critters they can, then kill them to prove their own toughness and be able to brag about what [[Badass|Badasses]] they are.

* [[All-Star Cast]]: It reads like an '80s action fan's wet dream.

* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: Despite being a mercenary, Dutch doesn't think so and turned down numerous high-profile jobs for this reason.

* [[Badass Boast]]:

** Mac's threat to Dillon:

** Before Dillon goes to fight the Predator:

'''Dillon:''' Maybe I can get even. }}

* [[Badass Native]]: Billy Bear

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: An Arnie staple.

* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: Hawkins

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Applicable to all Ah-nold movies, in fact.

* [[Cat Scare]]: Blain's death, and again when a warthog "attacks" Mac.

* [[Ironic Echo]]

** Dutch confronting the Predator:

'''Predator:''' What the hell are '''you'''? }}

** Also between Dutch and Dillon:

'''Dutch:''' Bullshit. You're just like the rest of us. }}

* [[Magical Native American]]: Billy senses the presence of the alien long before anyone else does. Justified as he ''is'' after all their scout, but Billy's reactions are very different from what you'd expect if an ordinary human enemy was stalking them, indicating that he somehow understands the otherworldly nature of their foe.

'''Billy:''' There's something out there waiting for us. And it ain't no man. ''(cocks his gun)'' We're all gonna die. }}

* [[The Mockbuster]]: ''Robowar'', starring Reb Brown of ''[[Space Mutiny]]'' fame. Oddly, while copying the film almost entirely in visual style and rough plot, it replaced the alien predator with a cyborg [[The Government]] had made from Brown's character's war casualty friend, self-loathing but suffering from [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]. Which one could argue in the hands of a proper studio and writers could actually have been ''better''.

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Averted and played straight at the same time as Harrigan is one of the few survivors, and the only survivor that the Predator had actually been trying to kill.At the same time the first person killed on screen by the Predator is a Black Jamaican Gangster.Also When the Predator attacks a train with Jerry Lambert and Leona and five gang bangers including a single black one as the only armed people on board apart from a white business man. No prize for guessing who the Predator kills first.

* [[Blatant Lies]]:

* [[The Cameo]]: A Xenomorph skull can be seen in the predator ship.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "______ is my speciality!"

** Jerry Lambert too -- at his old precinct he was even nicknamed "The Lone Ranger".

* [[Continuity Nod]]:

'''Predator:''' ''([[Not Quite Dead|grabs his neck]])'' Motherfucker! }}

* [[Deadly Disc]]: The disc weapon.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Though if it were "no women, no children", both movies would qualify. The Predator doesn't go after "unsporting" or innocent targets.

* [[Infrared X Ray Camera]]: The Predator is able to see a fetus inside a pregnant woman's womb, making him spare her life.

* [[Ironic Echo]]

** The Predator hears a Yardie say "Shit happens!" Later, {{spoiler|when it's about to activate it's self-destruct weapon, it tells Harrigan "Shit happens!"}}

* [[Rooftop Confrontation]]: Lieutenant Harrigan fights the Predator on the roof of a building as part of a running battle with it.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: The reporter in the beginning.

* [[Sensor Suspense]]: While the capture team is in the warehouse, the support team outside keeps track of the team and the Predator inside the warehouse using symbols on a screen. The suspense increases when the creature's movements indicate it can see the capture team and is about to attack them.

* [[Shout-Out]]

** Before the ''Aliens vs. Predator'' films, ''Predator 2'' had a rack of trophy skulls in the Predator ship, including one from a xenomorph.

** A rather obvious one from Keyes:

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: Harrigan, crawling on a ledge high above the ground mutters, "You can do it. Like falling off a log." He quickly realizes those weren't the words he was looking for.

* [[Title Drop]]: Keyes says "Well, we've prepared a trap for this predator."