History Headscratchers / Predators

* Also, how did the Predators who collected the humans for their hunting ground know that [[spoiler: Edwin was a serial killer]]?

*** But why watch ''him'', specifically? The other prey were all actively involved in large-scale violent activities, either military or criminal, so could be identified as killers simply by their participation in violent enterprises. [[spoiler: Edwin]] was a ''solitary'' killer, who doesn't seem to have been identified as such by the police or anyone else, and who'd successfully covered up his crimes. By all outward appearances, he's just a harmless civilian. So how did the Black Predators come to notice the guy in the first place?

*** The fact that a toxic plant which [[spoiler: Edwin]] ''knew how to use'' just happened to be growing in the jungle, close to where he was dropped, may not have been a coincidence. The Black Predators surely chose which Earth plants to seed their hunting preserve with, and they'd have wanted to make sure each and every one of the "prey" posed a challenge: they made sure [[spoiler: Edwin]] would have a weapon, even if he had to come up with a means of delivering it to a Predator.

*** Why wouldn't he? As you note, it was a real plant, and for someone who [[spoiler: paralyzes people with toxins in order to kill them, researching plant life that could do just that seems like a useful hobby.]]

** Maybe [[spoiler: the doctor had actually been in the hunting ground a lot longer than he claimed, and has had time to ''test'' the poison on previous groups of "prey"? He could've faked being a new arrival to get the others off-guard.]]

* Why did the Predators kidnap Eric from ''Series/That70sShow''? I mean, yeah, he's [[spoiler:a psycho killer and all]], but he's still not good at one on one combat, and is virtually defenseless against them. No matter what kind of person he is, he still isn't a survivalist or a real hunter or even any kind of challenge for a Predator to defeat. Also, he's virtually unarmed except for some tiny scalpels. Aren't Predators supposed to ignore unarmed targets? It just doesn't seem sporting to me.

*** Or he scrounged it off a corpse in the jungle shortly before running into the other group members. Which would certainly account for him having trouble with the weapon when he first encounters the others.

*** Or he scrounged it off a corpse in the jungle shortly before running into the other group members.