One odd critique of Predator: Killer of Killers that I’m seeing is people upset that the Predators “honor” feels hollow now, since they kidnap winners for future entertainment.
I would like to remind everyone that the Predators entire culture literally dehumanizes their targets. The first movie in the series has this high tech hunter kill people with invisibility, plasma weapons, shooting people in the back, and nuke the jungle when he lost. The second one had him attack an entire subway filled with civilians and slaughter them, and also try to nuke himself for losing. Prey literally compared them to colonizers!
What did y’all think “We kill to live, They live to kill” meant??
Their “honor” was bullshit the entire time. It was the equivalent of a man in tacticool equipment in a humvee talking about the honor of hunting the dangerous lion, while stroking an rpg launcher.
Humans are just a content farm for the Predators entertainment.
Also would love to remind everyone how the Yautja honor code isn’t fit for humane morals, they quite literally used humans as sacrificial cattle for their Rite of Passage, and that is one of their most honorable acts within their culture.
Honor for them was just a step up from becoming lesser prey to themselves, which is why the rank Bad Blood exists.
