Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Difference between revisions

* ''[[You’re Next]]''. The masked intruders are sadistic, brutal killers, hired to murder a family as part of an inheritance scam orchestrated by two of them, Felix and Zee. Obviously, however, these two didn’t know enough about ''their own siblings'' to know that one of them, [[Final Girl| Erin]], is an [[Action Girl]] survivalist trained in a mercenary compound to kill without fear or pity, and her evil brothers and their hired killers are completely unprepared to deal with what is essentially a [[Distaff Counterpart]] to [[Rambo]] out to exact bloody retribution on them.

* When it comes to [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]], few excel at it better than the [[Predator]] - it is [[Planet of Hats| their “hat” as a species]]. But the Predator in the aptly named movie ''[[Prey]]'' seems to have no plan on what to do should the prey try to beat it at its own game. Sure, it slaughters the French voyageurs who are after Naru and Naru's unfortunate brother, but it seems this is because they make the mistake everyone else does when up against a Predator, trying to fight it directly. As a skilled hunter herself, Naru quickly learns that the only way to survive against a monster like this is to use its own strategy against it, and despite the Predator possessing superior technology (the movie takes place in 1719) and hunting skills common of its people, Naru proves the better hunter, outwitting and outsmarting it until she leads it into her own deadly trap.

 

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