History Awesome / Prey2022

*** Bears have won such fights in the comics.

* Taabe gets a moment of this early on where, after Naru jokingly tunes out to his hunting story, he quickly draws an arrow and shoots a hawk out of the sky.
* An understated moment of awesome, but awesome nevertheless. When the Comanche party finds the missing hunter taken by the mountain lion, as Naru applies medicine to keep him stable the other hunters immediately set about constructing a litter to carry him back to camp. They do this with such clarity and efficiency the whole montage is fascinating to watch, from cutting limbs to size to weaving ropes to one of the hunters stepping on the netting to make sure it will hold the man's weight for the duration. And as a result of everyone's work, the hunter lives to hunt another day.

** It's introduced to Naru by wrestling with a bear. How does the fight end? With the Predator ''punching the bear in the face'' while it's charging, '''killing it''' in one hit. Followed by the alien gutting and deadlifting the bear's carcass, showering its blood over its invisible form with a triumphant roar.

*** The trackers try to ensnare it using bear traps, but the Predator simply brushes those off in short while and even throws one at a hunter's head! Not to mention it uses its netgun to pin one unlucky fellow against a log and turn him into nothing but chunks of meat.
*** On the bear traps: they didn't even slow the Predator down. It did have to cut the one on his leg off, but the one on his arm? It just hung off his wrist gauntlet until he used it as a weapon against the people who'd deployed it. Predators don't wear much armor, but what they ''do'' wear is fucking indestructible.
*** The Predator then goes on to mow down tracker after tracker until it starts leaping through the trees to dodge gunfire. After that, it activates its gauntlet in what seems like a move from the [[Film/{{Predator}} original]], only for it to unleash three devices that pretty much cut down the entire French hunting party.
*** [[AssholeVictim Assholes though they be]], a few of the trappers attempt moments of badassery. One draws his knife and tries challenging the Predator. It however just launches one of the hunter’s bear traps against him. Another tries to save his comrade with a hatchet swing only to end up with his own hatchet in his skull instead. Points for trying.

* Taabe gets a few more moments of awesome after the Predator finishes off the Frenchmen. A notable one is he leaps off his horse and stabs the Predator in the chest with its own spear before launching some arrows at it. As the two fight, he rips out his arrows from the Predator and shoots him again before the Predator cloaks.
** Even after being stabbed in the chest he tries once more to fight the Predator, stabbing it in the leg to give Naru the time to flee [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of his own life.]] A warrior to the end.
* At the end, Naru completes her transition into full-blown ActionGirl by using the abusive and murderous French tracker captain as bait, monologuing to him for a good while before the Predator arrives. She ingests an orange flower, previously established to mask one's thermal image, and steps back to let the hunter kill the gun-wielding Frenchman before then using a flintlock pistol to shoot the Predator [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange point-blank]] [[BoomHeadshot in the head]] [[EnemyRisingBehind from behind]] and [[OutsideTheBoxTactic dislodge and steal the Predator's bone-covered dart-controlling heads up display mask]].