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Dutch
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
Played By: Arnold Schwarzenegger Other Languages
"We're a rescue team. Not assassins."
A former Green Beret and paramilitary rescue team leader.
- The Ace: His skills as a soldier is constantly hyped by other characters.
- Adaptational Skimpiness: In the novelisation, he loses his clothes as well as his equipment in the waterfall, and consequently spends the entire final act of the story naked.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's noted in the novelization to Predator 2 that Dutch mysteriously disappeared after being debriefed over his encounter with the Jungle Hunter. His absence from the sequels was notable enough that it served as a backdrop to a series of comics that focused on his brother searching for him. Predator: Hunting Grounds finally brings him back to the series and reveals he went low-profile to hunt Predators for the OWLF program.
- Badass Boast: One of the most famous boasts in film history."If it bleeds, we can kill it."
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: His eventual tactic for fighting the Predator. However, it's only enough to prolong the final battle with the Predator, and it's only when the Predator willingly removes most of its high-tech gear aside from its blades to fight hand-to-hand does Dutch stand a chance of winning.
- Clifftop Caterwauling: To attract the Predator for a one-on-one showdown. Predator: Hunting Grounds reveals he started using their own spears against them while hunting them down.
- Crushing Handshake: He has a mutual one with Dillon, which he wins.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- On the delivering end against the guerrillas early in the film.
- On the receiving end of one when the Predator fights him hand to hand.
- David Versus Goliath: The David in the climax of the film against the Predator. Dutch's gun is broken, and he knows he can't beat the alien head on, so he resorts to a number of traps and covering himself in mud so the Predator can't see him while using its own tricks against it. That said, it's only when the Predator willingly handicaps itself does Dutch stand a chance of actually winning.
- A Father to His Men: His men are not expendable.
- Genius Bruiser: He's a very muscular man, but what allows him to take on the Predator is relying on his wits.
- Grenade Launcher: As an underbarrel attachment to his AR15 rifle.
- Guile Hero: What he becomes in the finale out of necessity due to being completely outclassed physically against the Predator. Lampshaded early on when he puts C4 into a truck and sends it towards the guerrilla encampment.
- Majorly Awesome: He's a major, and he's an Arnold Schwarzenegger character. That should tell you everything.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Dutch is a huge, muscular man, a prime specimen of humanity at its physical peak. The Predator towers over him, shrugs off his best blows, and hurls him around like a rag doll.
- A Real Man Is a Killer: He doesn't believe in this, and he only kills out of necessity. And this is also why Dillon lied to him and his team about the true purpose of the mission."We're a rescue team: not assassins."
- Sole Survivor: He's the only one of his team to make it alive. In Predator: Hunting Grounds, it happens again a good 20+ years later when his team is picked off one by one by a Female Predator.
- Sports Hero Backstory: The novelisation reveals that he was a football star in college.
- Survival Mantra: Dutch repeatedly telling everyone that they're going to "get to the chopper".
- Thousand-Yard Stare: By the end, he has one — justifiably so, given the deaths of his entire squad save for him.
- Trap Master: How he takes on the Predator. Also ties into Beat Them at Their Own Game.
- Vine Swing: Dutch gets one in the climax, and it's fun.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: In the climax.
- Worthy Opponent: The Predator clearly regards him as one in the end, as it throws away its own high-tech weaponry when it could easily kill him from a distance after cornering him to fight him with blade and muscle alone.
Poncho
Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez
"Not a thing. Not a fucking trace. No blood. No bodies. We hit nothing!"
Played By: Richard Chaves
"She says... the jungle came alive and took him."
A Chicano fluent in Spanish who translates initially for Anna.
- Butt-Monkey: Out of the entire group, poor Poncho gets the worst of it. He gets whacked in the head by Anna (and her subsequent escape attempt leads to Hawkins' death), struck in the stomach by a heavy log and has to be carried by the rest of the squad for the rest of his time in the movie, and, though he is the last to die, there's nothing memorable about his death, compared to Mac, Dillon, and Billy.
- Completely Unnecessary Translator: It turns out Anna speaks fluent English, so his Spanish-speaking skills are superfluous in this particular situation.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.Blain: I ain't got time to bleed.
Poncho: [fires grenade at guerrilla above them] You got time to duck? - Honor Before Reason: A downplayed example, but Dutch observes the Predator only targets those who are carrying weapons. Poncho is still carrying his weapon after being badly wounded. It makes him heroic, but it also makes him an easy target...
- Made of Iron: The fact that he's still alive after getting hit in the stomach by a tree qualifies him as such.
- Pretty Little Headshots: A surprising bloodless death compared to Mac's.
- Religious Bruiser: Downplayed example; he silently makes the sign of the cross upon seeing the flayed bodies of Hopper and his men.
- The Smart Guy: He's fluent in Spanish and is generally pretty quick-witted.
Mac
Mac Eliot
"Anytime..."
Played By: Bill Duke
"I don't know, goddamn it. I saw something"
A close friend of Blain's who served with him in Vietnam.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: How he arrives in Guatemala.
- Bash Brothers: With Blain.
- Blade Enthusiast: Mac seems to really like sharp things. He has the famous Stab the Scorpion scene, and is seen shaving with a razor several times throughout the movie, without shaving cream. Additionally, when Dillon finds Mac's discarded gear, one can see a throwing knife tucked away in the vest.
- Boom, Headshot!: Arguably the most graphic Predator kill as well.
- Despair Event Horizon: Mac never quite recovers after Blain is killed.
- Expy: basically a heroic recreation of his villainous ex-Green Beret character from 'Commando', right down to their suits.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: After being the first of the team to see the Predator.
- Heroic BSoD: He winds up completely losing it, with a Madness Mantra thrown in.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Blain. They've been comrades for a long time.
- Machete Mayhem: Aside from his liking for knives, Mac also carries a machete, which he uses to cut down the flayed corpses of Hopper and his men.
- Madness Mantra:
- When he is asked about what killed Blaine, Mac just says "I saw it".
- When he thinks he has caught the alien (when he killed the boar, and when he chased the alien into the jungle), Mac repeatedly says "I got you!"
- "I'm gonna have me some fun..."
- Oh, Crap!: Right before his Boom, Headshot!.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: "If this guy's a cabinet minister then I'm a goddamn Chinaman."
- The Quiet One: Which makes his breakdown all the more scary.
- Race Lift: In the novelization, based on an early draft of the film, he's Caucasian.
- Sanity Slippage: Throughout the film after Blain's death, which isn't prominent until he tries and fails to kill the Predator.
- Scary Black Man: He takes this role for much of the film as a knife nut soldier, but it's double subverted in that he becomes scared shitless when the Predator shows up, but descends right into this with his Madness Mantra.
Blain
Blain Cooper
"Ol' Painless is waiting."
Played By: Jesse Ventura
"This place makes Cambodia look like Kansas."
A close friend of Mac who fought alongside him in the Vietnam War.
- Badass Boast: "I ain't got time to bleed."
- Bash Brothers: With Mac.
- Beneath the Mask: Blain is all bluster and braggadochio, but he reveals his vulnerable side only when he's with Mac. It's Mac who knows that Blain is afraid of the jungle.
- The Big Guy: With the exception of Dutch and Mac, Blain is the physically largest member of the squad and most imposing. He also has a huge gun.
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: He's not the first to die (that being comedic-relief Hawkins), but his death is when the team realizes just how in over their heads they are against the Predator.
- Gatling Good: Practically a Trope Codifier. Blain was the first character in media, ever, to wield a minigun in hand.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Mac.
- I Call It "Vera": Blain's handheld gatling gun "Ol' Painless".
- In the Back: The Predator shoots him through the back with his plasma caster.
- Jaw Drop: When Dutch deadlifts the truck.
- Lantern Jaw of Justice: Courtesy of his actor, Jesse Ventura.
- Must Have Nicotine: Unlike most examples of this trope, Blain gets his nicotine via chewing tobacco, and claims it's made him "a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus".
- Politically Incorrect Hero: He makes a homophobic remark, specifically referring to the rest of the squad as "a bunch of slack-jawed faggots" when they decline to share his chaw.
- Rated M for Manly: Blain's masculine posturing rubs Poncho the wrong way.
- Sacrificial Lion: Most were probably expecting Hawkins to bow out soon, but Blain "I ain't got time to bleed" Cooper? His early death really establishes the Predator as a terrifying threat.
- Spiteful Spit: He spits on Dillon's boot during the chopper ride. Keep in mind this is before Dillon is outed as having lied to them, so he does this to the man in charge of the mission apparently solely out of some dislike for bureaucrats.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Via a shot from the Predator's Plasma Caster.
- With Catlike Tread: Dutch instructs the squad to spread out and make no sound. Blain responds by pulling out Ol' Painless
Billy
Billy Sole
"There's something out there waiting for us... and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die."
Played By: Sonny Landham
"There's something in those trees..."
A Native American tracker.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: In the novelisation, he's said to possess genuine psychic powers, and is able to access the memories of his Sioux ancestors and telepathically connect with the Predator itself, although he doesn't realise these abilities until after the assault on the guerrilla camp. While he certainly has something of a sixth sense in the film, it is never suggested that it is overtly supernatural.
- Badass Native: Pretty much his entire role.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He takes on the Predator by himself to give the team time to escape.
- Machete Mayhem: He carries one on his person. He draws it for his (futile) Last Stand against the Predator.
- Magical Native American: Billy seems to have a preternatural sense of what the Predator is from the beginning. To accentuate this, he also wears what is likely meant to be a medicine pouch around his neck.
- Not So Stoic: He actually laughs at one of Hawkins' jokes, though it takes him a while to get it. He also laughs not once, but twice at Poncho's quips.
- Offscreen Inertia: In the theatrical version, Billy is last seen standing on a log, waiting for the Predator. Averted in the uncut version, where we get to see what the Predator does to him.
- Off with His Head!: While the Predator does this to its victims as a general rule, Billy is the only person we see this happen to, posthumously.
- Oh, Crap!: When he finds what's left of Hopper and his men.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:Billy: I'm scared, Poncho.
Poncho: Bullshit. You ain't afraid of no man.
Billy: There's something out there, hunting us... and it ain't no man. - The Quiet One: He says next to nothing.
- Senseless Sacrifice: Moments after he is killed, the Predator immediately catches up to the remaining survivors, killing Poncho.
- Shirtless Scene: He removes his shirt before challenging the Predator.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: He's the only one of the group who carries a shotgun, albeit as an underbarrel attachment.
- This Means Warpaint: During the infiltration flight, Billy is shown applying his facial camouflage in the manner of Tribal Face Paint.
- You Shall Not Pass!: He tries to pull one off against the Predator. It doesn't work.
Hawkins
Rick Hawkins
"Hey, Billy. Billy! The other day, I went up to my girlfriend, I said, 'Y'know, I'd like a little pussy.' She said, 'Me too, mine's as big as a house!'"
Played By: Shane Black
"Billy. Billy! The other day, I was going down on my girlfriend, I said to her, "Jeez, you got a big pussy. Jeez, you got a big pussy." She said, "Why did you say that twice?" I said, "I didn't." See, 'cause of the echo."
The team's radio operator and technical expert.
- Badass Bookworm: Don't let his nerdy appearance fool you. He can dish out just as much death as any other member of the squad.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: He's very bad at it. Only Billy seems to get one of his jokes, but is still Late to the Punchline.
- Dead Guy on Display: The Predator strings his body up high in the trees somewhere in the jungle.
- Gutted Like a Fish: All that Poncho can find of him is his guts.
- Nerd Glasses: Shane Black wanted to wear authentic military-issue ballistic glasses, of the kind worn by actual troops in the field, but John McTiernan wanted him to look as geeky as possible.
- Never Found the Body: The team tries and fails to find his corpse after the Predator kills him.
- Plucky Comic Relief: He tries to be.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He's humorous due to his horrible jokes, but this doesn't prevent the Predator from killing him.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: The movie gets much more serious after the Predator kills him.
- The Smart Guy: He shares this role with Poncho as the technical expert.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He doesn't have much characterization as his other brothers in arms, merely being the funnyman and a comical nerd.
Other Characters
Dillon
Colonel George Dillon
"You're an asset. An expendable asset and I used you to get the job done, got it?"
Played By: Carl Weathers Other Languages
"I woke up. Why don't you? You're an asset, an expendable asset and I used you to get the job done. Got it?"
A former teammate of Dutch and current corrupt CIA agent, sent along with Dutch's team to supervise the mission.
- Agent Scully: Dillon doesn't believe the Predator is what the team says it is."You saying that Blain and Hawkins were killed by a fucking lizard? That's a bullshit psyche job. There's two to three men out there at the most. Fucking lizard."
- An Arm and a Leg: He gets his arm shot off by the Predator before he dies.
- Asshole Victim: Downplayed. He's a shady government agent who tricked his former best friend and his team into going on an assassination mission, but on the other hand both Dutch and Dillon are willing to put aside their differences to stop and kill the Predator, even if it means sacrificing his own life for the squad he views as "expendable assets".
- Badass Bureaucrat: Dillon may be pushing pencils for the CIA and is rusty on fieldcraft (giving away the team's position early on), but that doesn't mean he doesn't pull his weight with Dutch's team.
- Big Bad Wannabe: When his hidden motive is revealed, he appears to be the antagonist of a Cold War Conspiracy Thriller action movie. However, this is all thrown out of the window when the Predator shows up.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: A lighter case. His ulterior motive for accompanying the team is to use them to eliminate the guerrillas under the context of a rescue mission.
- Commander Contrarian: He constantly refuses to believes that the team is fighting an alien until the evidence is (literally) staring him in the face.
- Corrupt Bureaucrat: Well, he did trick Dutch and his rescue team into doing an assassination mission when Dutch specifically only goes on rescues.
- Crushing Handshake: With Dutch, which he loses.
- Defiant to the End: He only takes a moment or two to scream at getting his arm blown off, then tracks the Predator with line of sight, unstraps the second gun he brought, and attempts to shoot the Predator as it closes in.
- Enemy Mine: He works with Dutch and his team despite the revelation of his actual mission, knowing that escaping the jungle alive is more important than political squabbles.
- Fallen Hero: He's a former best friend of Dutch who has become a crooked, pencil-pushing and deceitful CIA agent.
- A Father to His Men: It's subtle, but his angry retort to Dutch — "My men were in that chopper when it got hit!" — and that Hopper's team went in to get his agents indicates that he wasn't totally lying about the "rescue mission" story (even if wiping out the guerrilla camp was the top priority).
- Guns Akimbo: When he follows Mac after the Predator.
- Hate Sink: Downplayed, but he is the in-universe The Scrappy amongst the team, and the fact he tricked Dutch and his mates into a mission to wipe out a guerrilla unit that leads to them all facing the Predator and dying one by one, including Dillon himself, only makes his status as this worse. The fact that he also sent Dutch's friend Jim Hopper and his team to do the same mission –- and got them horrifically killed by the Predator in the process –- does not win him any more approval. All together, he is indirectly responsible for all of the deaths caused by the Predator... although to be fair, nobody could have seen that coming.
- I Did What I Had to Do: This is how he feels about deceiving Dutch and his team in order to carry out his job as a CIA agent, no matter how shady and crooked his methods are. Of course, he wouldn't have had to if the Predator hadn't shown up and killed Hopper's team, who were originally tasked to carry out the mission.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After the Predator blows off his arm, this is how it puts him down.
- Jerkass: He's a shady CIA agent, and generally at odds with every member of the squad.
- The Lancer: To Dutch, if grudgingly.
- The Neidermeyer: He is a CIA colonel, but is loathed by his teammates due to his inexperience in the field, and views them in return as expendable assets for his hidden assassination mission.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: First he deceives Dutch into doing a mission he would never accept, then he has the nerve to deny that they are being stalked and hunted down by an inhuman monster. What kind of incompetent CIA agent is he?
- In fairness to Dillon, the latter is an understandable error. The evidence in favor of an alien hunter instead of human enemies isn't clear-cut until after the Predator reveals itself to the team when Dutch's trap goes awry.
- Redemption Equals Death: Despite everything, he and Dutch do seem to make their peace with each other before he goes off to challenge the Predator.
- Senseless Sacrifice: When he goes to fight the Predator with Mac. Lampshaded by Dutch before he does so.Dutch: You can't win this one, Dillon.
Dillon: I know, but maybe I can get even. - Token Evil Teammate: He's a crooked CIA agent who's despised by his comrades for his shady nature.
- Villainous Breakdown: He acts as the film's secondary antagonist of sorts, and has one after getting his arm shot off.
- With Catlike Tread: Dillon was chewed out by Mac for being clumsy while they are sneaking toward the enemy base.Mac: "You're ghosting us, motherfucker! I don't care who you are back in the world. You give away our position one more time, I'll bleed you real quiet and leave you here. Got that?"
Anna
Anna Gonsalves
Played By: Elpidia Carrillo
"I don't know what it was..."
A guerrilla captured by Dutch's troops following a battle with the rebels.
- Ambiguously Evil: She is on the side of the insurgents but given that Dillon and the CIA don't exactly get played as the good guys in the movie it's unclear if she's actually a bad person.
- Big Bad Wannabe: She tries to be a Poisonous Captive antagonist for Dutch and his team, when it initially seems that they are still in a typical mundane Cold War action flick, but quickly gives that all up after being traumatized by witnessing Hawkins' death right in front of her.
- Break the Haughty: When the Predator kills Hawkins in front of her and she gets covered in his blood.
- Chummy Commies: After forming an Enemy Mine relationship with Dutch and his team.
- Dark Action Girl: She is a Dirty Communist guerrilla.
- Dirty Communists: She's a guerrilla serving in a Communist insurgent unit.
- Enemy Mine: With Dutch's team, so Dutch cuts off the restraints on her wrists, despite Dillon's protests, to have as much help as possible fending off the Predator.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even Anna, a Dirty Communist POW, is absolutely horrified of the Predator and what it does, as she's been hearing stories of its activities since she was a child.
- The Load: She isn't attacked by the Predator because she's unarmed. She survives because Dutch tells her to invoke this.
- Ms. Exposition: She delivers information about the Predator and its place in local legends to the team.
- The Not-Love Interest: She's the film's female protagonist to Dutch's male protagonist, but is decidedly not the stereotypical romantic partner that so many female main characters in a male-demographic-focused action movie become.
- Poisonous Captive: Initially, when she makes an escape attempt before Hawkins catches up to her.
- Punch-Clock Villain: She initially seems to be a My Country, Right or Wrong type, but is willing to set aside her differences with Dutch's team and cooperate with them to survive the Predator's rampage.
- Redemption Earns Life: She goes from being a Dirty Communist Poisonous Captive to the second survivor of the Predator besides Dutch at the end of the film after becoming an Enemy Mine with him.
- Redemption Equals Death: She attempts to do this to protect her former captor Dutch from the Predator, but Dutch instead encourages her to live and run to the helicopter for her own protection as he lures the Predator away.
- The Sixth Ranger: She has no prior connection to the team, and is brought along as a prisoner for a while before becoming Enemy Mine.
- Switch to English: She only speaks her native language for the first half of the movie. Dutch somehow knows she can understand and speak English, as he demands some answers from her in English later on.Dutch: Yesterday, what did you see?
Dillon: You're wasting your time, Major.
Dutch: No more games.
Anna: I... I don't know what it was. - Token Evil Teammate: A Dirty Communist POW who forms an Enemy Mine with her captors.
- Villain of Another Story: She and her comrades were Communist rebel guerrillas, and their activities attracted the CIA's attention to stop them.
Hopper
Jim Hopper
Billy: "There's no sign, sir. They never left here. Hell, it's like they just disappeared..."
Jim Hopper was the leader of a squad of Green Berets on a secret mission. When they vanished, Dutch and his team were brought in.
- Adaptational Name Change: His counterpart in the novel was named J.S. Davis.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Hopper and some of his men were skinned by the rebels after being killed. Mac says that it's no way for a soldier to die.
- Dead Guy on Display: Hopper and some of his men were skinned by the rebels and left to rot as a warning to intruders.
- Finally Found the Body: Hopper and his squad vanished while rescuing Dillon's men but they were slaughtered by the rebels and then finished off by the Predator.
- Hero of Another Story: Hopper's secret mission reminds Poncho and Dutch of a similar situation they encountered in Afghanistan.
- Never Found the Body: The survivors of Hopper's squad were most likely hunted down by the Predator.
- Posthumous Character: Hopper was an old friend of Dutch.
- Sacrificial Lion: Hopper and his squad were no pushovers, so it is a surprise that they were slaughtered with no problem.
The Jungle Hunter
The Predator
Played By: Kevin Peter Hall
Voiced By: Peter Cullen
"Only in the hottest years this happens. And this year, it grows hot. We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... and sometimes much, much worse. 'El que hace trofeos de los hombres' means 'the demon who makes trophies of men.'"
— Anna
A member of an alien race which travels the galaxy hunting members of other species for sport. It uses active camouflage, bladed weapons, a shoulder-mounted plasma weapon, and can see in the infrared spectrum via sensors built into its facemask.
- Big Bad: The titular main antagonist of the film.
- Blood Knight: It hunts Dutch's team for sport, and even ditches all its high-tech gear to have a fair fight with Dutch in the climax.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality:
- It'll brutally murder anyone... as long as they seem like they'll put up a fight, such as by having weaponry.
- It'll give its opponent a fighting chance by getting rid of most of its high-tech gear, but upon defeat it will still launch a self-destruct mechanism from its wrist-computer to take its prey with it.
- Chameleon Camouflage: Its cloaking system works as this — when it moves, the ripple of light playing across its figure makes it visible if one is watching carefully.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: When it catches Dutch without the mud he was covering himself with, it has the chance to kill him on the spot, but appears to give him a fighting chance. It isn't much of one, though as Dutch only manages to hit it with a thick branch, which breaks against the Predator, and land one punch on its face, which also does nothing. He spends the rest of the fight getting pummeled.
- Egomaniac Hunter: Although it's an alien which doesn't speak English, the Jungle Hunter gives a surprisingly accurate portrait.
- Evil Is Bigger: When it comes face-to-face with Dutch in the finale, you finally get a good sense of just how big the Predator is compared to him (complete with a lingering shot of the beast holding Dutch against a tree with his feet helplessly dangling at least a foot off the ground).note
- Evil Laugh: The Predator gives one hell of a menacing cackle before it dies, especially since its laugh is a hideously distorted mimic of Billy's laughter.
- Fair-Play Villain: Once Dutch has suitably impressed it, it removes all of its advanced technology for a more even fight.
- Genius Bruiser: The Predator is huge (making Arnold Schwarzenegger look small is an impressive feat), completely no-sells Dutch in hand-to-hand combat, and is remarkably good at detecting and avoiding traps and ambushes (while simultaneously setting up ambushes and traps of its own).
- Hero Killer: It murders Dutch's entire squad (a Badass Crew where most of its members could qualify as One-Man Army) with ease, and very nearly kills Dutch.
- It Can Think: The turning point for the crew is when Billy surmises that the beast tracking them isn’t mindless given its use of cover and noises to confuse them. Once Anna fills them in on her own troubles with the creature, Dutch realizes that it isn’t simply attacking them… it’s hunting them.
- Knight of Cerebus: The film plays out as a standard action movie at first. Then the Predator shows up, and the tone becomes much darker, as it kills almost the entire cast in a shift to a sci-fi slasher.
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Overlapping with Proud Warrior Race Guy, its main impetus to disarm itself of its own advanced weaponry to engage Dutch in hand-to-hand combat instead is this.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: It inflicts one on Dutch in the climax, almost killing him.
- No-Sell: Dutch tries hitting it with a branch nearly as thick around as his own arm, and it deflects it with its own forearm, causing the branch to shatter into pieces. Dutch manages to get off one hit on its face, which also does nothing.
- One-Man Army: Took down a team of Green Berets singlehandedly before the story started.
- Outside-Context Problem: Let's just say that Dutch and company weren't expecting an interplanetary hunter to show up on what was supposed to be a POW rescue mission into the Central American jungle.
- Reminiscing About Your Victims: Wordlessly, during a montage of its and Dutch's preparations for the final combat, it pulls a prized skull out of its possessions and caresses it almost tenderly.
- Voice Changeling: The Predator is an uncanny mimic, using this ability a couple of times to lure its prey into sniping positions. This is especially creepy at the film's end, when it repeats Dutch's question of "What the hell are you?" after being mortally wounded, then descends into a vile cackle that is a twisted echo of Billy's laughter as it engages a self-destruct mechanism.
- Worthy Opponent: After Dutch manages to injure it using primitive weapons, the Predator removes its plasma caster and mask before challenging him to hand-to-hand combat.
