History Awesome / Predator

*** Even more adding to this is that Billy's skull later is collected as a trophy by the Predator which it seems to take better care of. Clearly even the Predator respected his sheer balls to fight him with a melee weapon.[[note]]Considering Billy screamed upon getting killed means the pred probably accepted it and faught him with a melee weapon too like wrist blades, he wouldn't get time to scream on a surprise kill.[[/note]]

!! ''Film/{{Predator}}''

--> '''Jesse Ventura''': I'm the first person in film history to shoot this weapon handheld. Not even Franchise/{{Rambo}} can say that.

-->'''Poncho:''' You're hit. You're bleeding, man.
-->'''Blain:''' ''[not even glancing at the wound]'' I ain't got time to bleed.

** In a wonderful piece of physical acting by Kevin Peter Hall, the Predator looks up, hears the sound, then goes back to what it was doing (heating up his wrist blades with his laser sight), almost as if saying, "Just you wait, buddy, I'm coming for you too."

* The unveiling of [[{{BFG}} Ol']] [[GatlingGood Painless]], and the havoc that Blain unleashes with it.

* The MoreDakka scene after Blain's death, which has the surviving team members unloading their weapons into the jungle after the Predator. They only inflict one minor wound upon it.
** Counts as an awesome moment for director John [=McTiernan=] as well, for making a AnAesop about gun violence that is, dare we say it, ''subtle?!''

** If you look closely, the Predator was already running and bleeding before Mac grabbed the minigun, and before anyone else showed up. Mac injured the Predator with a normal firearm.
*** Though the firearm in question is a M60E3 machine gun firing powerful 7.62 NATO rounds usually used in sniper rifles.

* After losing all his team, Dutch retreats into the jungle, coats himself in mud, fashions some traps and a primitive bow and arrows, and strikes a torch. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIppGLul3Fk Then he throws down the gauntlet with one of the best war cries ever put to film.]]
* Dutch destroying the Predator's cloaking device with exploding spears and arrows.
* The final showdown between Dutch and the Predator, where the Predator [[WorthyOpponent takes off its armour to beat Dutch in a fair one-on-one fight]]... and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats the ever-loving shit out of him]] (an accomplishment, it should be mentioned, that is very rare for villains in a Schwarzenegger flick). Then Dutch tries to lure it into a trap he made, demanding the Predator finish him...only for the Predator to sense the obvious and approach from a different angle... but the Predator happens to stand under the tree stump used as the counterweight, so Dutch triggers the trap anyway and takes the Predator out. Bad. Ass.

*** Though the firearm in question is a [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns M60E3 machine gun]] firing powerful 7.62 NATO rounds usually used in sniper rifles.