Headscratchers / The Predator

• If the fugitive Predator was helping humanity defend itself from other Predators, then why is it attacking the humans then?
  • Everything the fugitive Predator did was in self-defense.
    • True. How would you feel if you went to help someone, only to wake up strapped down to a table and bare-ass naked?
    • That’s just a particularly rowdy Saturday night for this troper
    • That doesn't explain the fugitive's actions in the beginning of the film. You might injure or kill someone in self-defence but skinning them and hanging them from a tree?
    • Old habits die hard?
  • We don't really know his mindset, after all he's, well, alien. He comes from a completely different culture and his mind is totally inhuman so his action can be incomprehensible to us. Now, even so, especulating a little he could be the equivalent of a conservationist or animal rights activist in his culture, but he still considers humans to be primitive savage things that are way inferior to him. Using the conservationist analogy again, a man can be bent of protecting some rain forest or natural area and still going to it well armed, and if he wakes up surrounded by angry chimps doing things to him he probably will react killing them even if he's trying to save and help them (as a species).

• When Baxley's Tourette's made him say "Eat your Pussy," why didn't the others simply explain to her that he has Tourette's?
  • To be fair, there was noticeable nervous tension from the more not so stable members of the group. Explaining Baxley had Tourettes probably wouldn't have made the situation any less difficult, let alone giving them a chance to come up with the thought of "hey, we should tell her he has Tourette's." Besides, for all they knew, she probably wouldn't have believed him then and there (but may have later on after observing him more). Also, Nebraska, considering how he is, he's just an asshole and probably enjoyed watching Baxley squirm just for kicks.

• A big deal is done about how the alien is not a predator but a hunter, yet he's clearly carnivorous thus the term is still well applied. Humans are predators even if we practice sport hunting, that doesn't de-predatize us.
  • They may be drawing a distinction in that he doesn't explicitly hunt to eat his prey but more to claim a trophy.

• Why didn't the guy who found the Predator's technology use the invisibility device to escape the authorities that arrested him?