You can google epic, I don’t have it up.
Yautja are not honorable - change my mind
Well, hot dang. I stand corrected, mostly happily so. I still think The Predator is a steaming barge of hot garbage, but its nice to see that the Wolf and Celtic have the opportunity to become the real deal. If they make it into the lineup, I’d be satisfied. I appreciate your feedback!
You’re welcome.
Let’s all take a moment to reflect on this MOMENTOUS occasion…Someone…on the internet…admitted they were incorrect AND!..didn’t get shitty about it. Mark it on your calendars, folks, it’ll probably never happen again!
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Everything I write is still a bit mean, so you’ll just have to take my welcome as is.
Nope, I was commenting on how I was mistaken and we didn’t get shitty with each other. A little sardonic, but thats ok (I’ll claim your head in the hunting grounds as a punishment😀). There is hope for the internet yet.
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Of course they are, as the Thomas Brothers intended, the way human hunters see themselves as honorable when they don’t kill the young or pregnant, or they honor their prey after the kill.
Disagreeing with the honor in hunting in general is another thing entirely.
AvP is canon to Predator.
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Laughs manically mashing the self destruct button assuming everyone takes an L.
And p2
runs back to ship with no arm after failing to blow up the city block
They’re still just really salty serial killers with some loose rules & the bushido stuff is way too far. “B-but they don’t want to lose their technology to prey that kills them!” Then why bring it? Why not single your targets out and kill them with your bare hands, or their own weapons, or a crowbar they find laying around? Because its just a random killing spree in an active warzone where they can flex until they’re bored. They don’t kill things quickly either its always some chokehold & plasma is probably an awful way to go. You can argue they only accept knife 1v1s because they’re sadistic. Not because they think they actually have a chance at losing. OP won my vote so far tbh.
Really they could flay people alive and everyone would still be like muh honor. Kind of took the interview out of context & the sadistic honorabru warriors thing just doesn’t work. They’re slasher villains and the duels are a meme. It’s like saying a cat “honored” its prey because it brought the remains of the head over here after it tortured a mouse for 10 mins.
The problem here is your taking the honorable hunting ideology and applying to what you think is honorable. You’re not removing yourself out of your own headspace.
Look, deer hunters today in America wear camouflage, hide in elevated areas and use high powered scoped rifles or compound bows to take out unsuspecting bucks. You might say, where the f*ck is the honor in that?? And I agree. But these human hunters that follow code, don’t shoot fawns (young deer), don’t shoot pregnant hind (females) feel they are honorable hunters… even when using arrows that give the deer a painful death. They also feel they are honoring their kill if they either 1) harvest it for meat, 2) wear its blood on their face, 3) turn their kill into a trophy, or all three. If you were a baby deer and they did this to your father, you’d think it was sadistic too!
Some “honorable” human hunters even hunt with knives versus guns or bows. Brutal.
Again you have to stop reconciling it with what you think is honorable. A fisherman will put a hook in a fish’s mouth, reel it on for 10 minutes, then when they discover the fish has eggs, dehook it and throw it back in the water, thinking they’re doing the honorable thing, the right thing, even though they tortured it for 10 minutes and the fish still might die as a result. Imagine that fish was a relative. That’s the perspective your taking.
Put it in context with human hunters, not how you personally feel about it.
Nope my perspective is that if they were actually trying to challenge themselves, none of their actions add up.
Its not about challenging themselves its just adrenaline junkies fucking around with prey until it dies & occasionally they get killed while doing some stupid flex and blow themselves up as the ultimate salt & that’s basically all that can be deduced from the movies. Targets are not equals they just humor them & play around with them until the fun’s over. Sure they have, or maybe a few particular clans have “guidelines” for what’s prey and what isn’t but it doesn’t matter when they nuke themselves if they lose. The idea of a strict moral code for a slasher villain is pretty laughable but people go crazy with the headcanon. Nothing is “worthy” its just entertainment.
Yikes and since the Predator is “canon” they don’t even care about securing tech at this point considering fugitives head & body were left in a parking lot for stargazer to clean up. That movie alone, despite how awful, means hunting ethics or “honor code” seem to be a fringe thing not a whole racial culture.
We dont talk about powered autistic predator it’s not canon like the rise of the skywalker
AVP is canon.
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👆🏼This reply has all that are needed to be said about the topic.
The End
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Actually you’re the one with the headcanon brother.
Per the Thomas Brothers, the creator and writers of Predator & Predator 2,per Starlog Magazine December 1990:
“Race of hunters and sportsman”
“the creature is not a psychopathic monster and that it’s motives and agenda are pure”.
You don’t have to like it, live in your own headcanon, cool, have at it, but in accurate terms, Predators do have an honorcode. There’s no debating it.
Valid, so where does The Predator come in? Neither of those preds gaf about trophies and both were psychopathic monsters. And these are two major factions.
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“Motives and agenda are pure” I had a good laugh reading that.
I would also not really go with anything “honorable” about them. Yeah, they have a “code” that they live by but I find very little honorable about a species hunting sentient beings for sport.
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Would the same be said of a human serial killer with a type?
Is their killing pure, are they’re motives just or even accomplishing anything useful?
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Apt comparison. And really is a serial killer taking trophies from his kills “honoring” them?
The whole noble warrior race thing doesn’t really work when your pred is mowing down a metro or you die while flaunting your technological superiority then nuke yourself & blow up a city block filled with unarmed civilians. You’re telling me they don’t have rules about hunting in densely populated areas since they despise the murdering of innocents so much?
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I think it adds to the challenge of hunting your prey and making sure you’re not spotted or killing an unarmed person by accident however the whole train scene in Predator 2 makes no sense to me. I watched the film again yesterday and I still have know idea what city hunter was thinking going on a fully packed train anyway. Was he there only for Jerry? Did he know most of the passengers would be armed beforehand? What if none of the other passengers were armed and he was only going for Jerry, wouldn’t he attract so much attention by killing him and would have had several witnesses as result? He can be a Youngblood but that was just far beyond stupid of him.
The Predators in “The Predator” are not all Predators (say that fast 3 times).
Just like the Super Predators are not all Predators.
Interesting enough, the Super Predators (P3) and Upgrade/Assassin Predator (P4) can be conceived from the same blasphemous clan, considering the Super Predators also practiced genetic hybridization in the script, both use single bladed guantlets, both use hunting dogs, plenty of similarities.