Every time I kill fireteam I feel I’m saving the planet. Bunch of meat head capitalist douchebags die by the Predators hand and the world is a better place. PLM. Predators lives matter. #WOKE ALIENS
Why fight?
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My predator identifies as a Fireteam member. Don’t discriminate
There’s a reason why we don’t use a bow anymore. Yes some people do use a bow but some people still use a gun which gives you much better range than a bow. You can’t hunt at night because deer are nocturnal and it would be more efficient and so they made it illegal.
Sounds like hunting to me.
Yes we are. Not a lot of us can actually do it but any human has the capacity to kill a Predator. Predators are strong but not durable. They still die to a sniper shot.
Sloane killed 2, 3 preds with a sniper rifle. Without them even knowing. Not to mention the Predator hunters comics. I mean Jaya literally hunts Predators. Her ancestor literally killed one in hand to hand combat I believe. The movies are not the best example because Hollywood.
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Here’s a thought if humans didn’t own weapons, Predators wouldn’t hunt us lol 😂
I’m afraid I have to take issue with this. The comics are not really cannon - Do we site Archie and Batman beating Predator?
As bad/average as many of the movies are, they have at least avoided adding goofy* shit like 4-armed Predators.
The Predator IP simply isn’t popular enough to have a coherent history and mythos. Predator is primarily a movie franchise, and since only the first movie is considered anywhere near being a classic (it’s down to the popularity of that movie that the Predator is now part of pop culture and recognisable to non fans) film studios will not worry too much about following continuity, and will instead focus on trying to recapture the success of the first movie.
*of course we got close with the ‘Predator Killer’ suit. But then, look at how everyone hated that movie because it had shit like that - nobody makes a real fuss about ‘Archie vs Predator’ because nobody really takes the comics seriously as they’re a side-show, and more like merchandise.
No we don’t. That doesn’t mean we throw it all away though.
No argument I’ve heard actauly questions the authenticity of the canon and just goes “comics are beneath canon”
Laughs in The Predator.
Not to mention Predators was originally going to go for genetic preds. And that’s before the script which had Arnold going to a Yautja space collusym.
Bruh the comics have been going on for years. In fact two Predator movies have been based off of comics.
So.
A. That’s called bad writing.
B. So that just means all comics are non canon? That’s quit a leap.
Yes the comics are not as popular. But again that doesn’t change canon.
Where are the arguments that question the validity of comics canon?
Again your argument is
“Comics are beneath canon”
Like really?
First movie had Arnie’s groan-worthy puns (“Stick around”) and Hawkins’s literally jokes. Again, ‘The Predator’ was near-universally hated because of the ridiculous elements - the kind of elements many of the comics do as standard. And yes, there’s a reason that ‘Arnie in space’ concept never made it to screen.
I know - I first started reading them back in the 90s, and stopped when I realized they were getting worse and worse and were just treating the Pred as a sort of macguffin to insert into increasingly stupid scenarios and stories.
Neither of the AVP movies remotely follow any comic storyline, and the fact they even got made is more to do with the easter egg in Predator 2 and Fox owning the rights to both IPs.
So the comics, which have never remotely made anywhere near as much money as even the bad movies are not really seen as canon, and at most are cherry-picked for ideas, or ignored completely for future movies.
A: I’m afraid it’s just called the reality of Pred not being as popular as the likes of Star Wars. There’s no real overarching story to the Pred universe - it is at the end of the day about a race of Alien Hunters who like to hunt humans. We’re not exactly talking hi-brow here. It’s certainly not the sort of thing that is going to attract great writers to create a ‘Citizen Kane’ of Pred movies (the original film is as close to a ‘Citizen Kane’ of Pred movies as we’ll ever get and always will be, if only because it’s the film that introduced Pred in the first place)
B. The point is there isn’t really any coherent cannon for an IP like Predator. It’s not as tightly managed, interconnected, or respected as say, the Harry Potter universe. Even my previous example (Star Wars) had a whole chunky of its comics disregarded from the timeline not so long back: https://mashable.com/2014/04/25/star-wars-expanded-universe-gone/?europe=true
Again, see my answer to ‘point B’ above. It’s not that I see them ‘beneath’ (some of the comics are genuinely good, but there are also a lot of really bad/bland/stupid ones). My essential point is there isn’t any sort of cannon for the Pred IP - it will always be a mess, but the central tenets of what a Predator story should be will always be drawn from the first movie - as that was the starting point and the original major success story.
Anyway, I’ve spent far too much time writing this (perhaps more time than was spent on the script for AVPR and The Predator). I guess we’ll have to just agree to disagree on this one.