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4* ''Awesome/{{Predator 2}}''
5* ''Awesome/{{Predators}}''
6* ''Awesome/ThePredator''
7* ''Awesome/Prey2022''
8* ''Awesome/PredatorConcreteJungle''
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12!!''Film/{{Predator}}''
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14[[caption-width-right:350:'''''COOONTAAAACCCT!!!''''']]
15* In the beginning, when Dillon and Dutch meet up, they greet each other with ''the'' most epic, testosterone-fueled handshake in the history of cinema. The loud, audible smack when their hands connect is badass personified.
16-->'''Dutch:''' Dillon! You son of a bitch!
17* A minor one but while the team is preparing to drop, Poncho gives a smirk and prepares to toss something at Hawkins, who is reading a map. Poncho gives a good toss, but Hawkins catches it [[BadAssBookworm without his eyes ever leaving the map.]]
18* The squad's early assault on the rebel camp. Taking out a well-guarded, heavily fortified base with no casualties or even serious injuries, it positively cements Dutch and his crew as people with whom you do not wish to fuck. Which makes the Predator himself going all [[DwindlingParty ten-little-Indians]] on their ass even more awesome: you know how good these guys are, and the Predator takes almost all of them down without breaking a sweat.
19* Dutch calling the Predator out, right before lighting the bonfire, by letting out a long primal roar that echoes all around the jungle. The Predator definitely got the message.
20** In a wonderful piece of physical acting by Creator/KevinPeterHall, 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."
21* The unveiling of [[{{BFG}} Ol']] [[GatlingGood Painless]], and the havoc that Blain unleashes with it. Jesse Ventura (Blain's actor) even had the audacity to call out another movie franchise in that regard.
22-->'''Jesse Ventura:''' I'm the first person in film history to shoot this weapon handheld. Not even Franchise/{{Rambo}} can say that.
23* This exchange:
24-->'''Poncho:''' You're hit. You're bleeding, man.\
25'''Blain:''' ''[not even glancing at the wound]'' I ain't got time to bleed.
26* The MoreDakka scene after Blain's death, which has the surviving team members unloading their weapons into the jungle after the Predator. The alien hunter manages to score some badass points of its own here. How? After all that Dakka, the mercenaries only managed to inflict one minor wound upon it.
27** Counts as an awesome moment for director John [=McTiernan=] as well, for making AnAesop about gun violence that is, dare we say it, ''subtle?!''
28*** Especially impressive considering the rest of the movie is [[WorldOfHam anything but]].
29** When they're done, there's an entire new clearing in the jungle that wasn't there when they started.
30** And even with how little damage they do, this is the first time [[CurbStompCushion that they harm the Predator at all, proving it vulnerable.]]
31** If you look closely, the Predator was already running and bleeding before Mac grabbed the minigun. Before anyone else showed up, and long before Dutch's solo campaign with explosives and log traps, Mac injured the Predator with a normal firearm.
32*** Although granted, the firearm in question is an [=M60E3=] machine gun firing powerful 7.62 NATO rounds usually equipped by high-powered ''sniper rifles''.
33* Billy, after spending most of the movie terrified of the Predator, pulls a YouShallNotPass moment to buy time for the few remaining team members. It turns out to be a SenselessSacrifice, but it's still unbelievably badass.
34** You might notice Billy nicks himself with the machete as he prepares to face the Predator. That's so the Predator cannot claim first blood in their coming fight. Billy, you were a warrior through and through.
35*** Adding even more to this is that Billy's skull is later collected as a trophy by the Predator which it seems to take better care of. Clearly 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 fought him with a melee weapon too like wrist blades, he wouldn't get time to scream on a surprise kill.[[/note]]
36* 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.]] Loud enough that the Predator hears it from what seems like at least a mile away ''and understands the message loud and clear''.
37* Dutch destroying the Predator's advanced cloaking device with exploding spears and arrows, beginning to level the playing field between hunter and prey.
38* The final showdown between Dutch and the Predator, where the Predator [[WorthyOpponent takes off its armor to give Dutch 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).
39* Towards the end, 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 then ends up standing under the tree stump used as the counterweight, so Dutch triggers the trap anyway and takes the Predator out that way instead. Bad. Ass.
40* After realizing that he has won, Dutch takes a good look at the Predator, and asks it "What the hell are you?" The Predator fires back with "What the hell are ''you?''" and starts fiddling with its wrist-computer, which then starts making strange beeping sounds, followed by the Predator imitating Billy's laugh from earlier in the film in an absolutely demonic manner as Dutch (as well as the audience) [[OhCrap realizes]] that the device is making the tell-tale sounds of a ''self-destruct sequence''. Dutch barely makes it out alive from that one.
41** Just before that, right after the counterweight crushes the Predator, a completely exhausted Dutch falls back into the tree he was leaning on and takes a big gasp of air, sure that the battle is over. However, the moment Dutch hears the faint growls and notices the log is moving, without a second thought he uses all the strength he has left to grab a rock twice the size of his head and approach the Predator ready to strike the finishing blow. He then drops the rock when he sees the Predator has already been mortally wounded by the trap, but that sheer [[{{Determinator}} determination]] shows us why Dutch was able to match the alien hunter.
42* The Predator is just an awesome villain, in general. You've gotta give props to any antagonist that can scare the hell out of an Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger character:
43-->'''Dutch:''' Did you find Hawkins?\
44'''Poncho:''' I... [[{{Gorn}} I can't tell.]]\
45''[cue '''major''' "OhCrap" look from Dutch]''

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