#prey 2022

i know it seems like a small thing, but they have dedicated med kits that they whip out even for small abrasions and cuts. they clean and dress the wounds and close them with that little glue gun looking thing. the movies go out of their way to show the yautja healing themselves.

in a lot of action movies, the protagonist just push through or straight up ignore their wounds, at best they might splash some alcohol on it as a disinfectant or tie it off or wad it up with a filthy rag that they tore from their own clothes. not yautja.

even if for some reason they don't have a med kit or lack the supplies, they will MAKE their own dressing. like in Predator 2, the city hunter made that medicinal paste out of fucking dry wall for his arm, or in Predator Badlands, Dek cleaned his cut by a river and found and identified a plant with medicinal properties that he applied to his wound.

i don't really know where im going with this exactly. i just think that for a fictional alien species that are lauded for their overt masculinity in a lot of the more toxic side of the fandom, the fact that in small ways they break away from the toxic fictionalised depictions of the pinnacle of "male performance" is something truly special.