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* GenreShift: The film starts off as the usual UsefulNotes/ColdWar military shoot-em-up action flick with hostages and CIA spooks, but morphs into sci-fi action/horror halfway through.
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* GenreShift: The film starts off as the usual UsefulNotes/ColdWar military shoot-em-up action flick with hostages and CIA spooks, but morphs into sci-fi action/horror halfway through. The moment the Predator takes his place as the antagonist of the film, almost all traces of the initial action film premise are gone, and the characters take a minute to realize it.
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* NoSell: In the final fight, Dutch tries punching the Predator in the face. It doesn't phase it one bit, and responds by giving Dutch three more punches.
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* NoSell: In the final fight, Dutch tries punching the Predator in the face. It doesn't phase faze it one bit, and responds by giving Dutch three more punches.
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* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: When they find evidence that the titular Predator didn't escape their barrage of gunfire ''completely'' unscathed, the soldiers realize they're not dealing with an invincible supernatural threat, just a very, very dangerous mortal one. Cue one of the film's more famous quotes:
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* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: When they find evidence that the titular title Predator didn't escape their barrage of gunfire ''completely'' unscathed, the soldiers realize they're not dealing with an invincible supernatural threat, just a very, very dangerous mortal one. Cue one of the film's more famous quotes:
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** This is also his reaction when he realizes that those strange displays on Predator's wrist-mounted computer are actually a ''countdown timer''.
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** This is also his Dutch's reaction when he realizes that those strange displays on the Predator's wrist-mounted computer are actually a ''countdown timer''.
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* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Finding himself physically outmatched by the titular antagonist, Dutch tries to goad it into a spiked trap he'd earlier set up. When the alien hunter proves to be too smart to fall for the ruse, a quick-thinking Dutch [[spoiler:instead cuts the rope holding up the trap's heavy counterweight, dropping it on his adversary's head]].
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* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Finding himself physically outmatched by the titular title antagonist, Dutch tries to goad it into a spiked trap he'd earlier set up. When the alien hunter proves to be too smart to fall for the ruse, a quick-thinking Dutch [[spoiler:instead cuts the rope holding up the trap's heavy counterweight, dropping it on his adversary's head]].
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--->'''Dutch:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck ... Bad idea.]]
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--->'''Dutch:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck ... Bad idea.]]idea.
** This is also his reaction when he realizes that those strange displays on Predator's wrist-mounted computer are actually a ''countdown timer''.
** This is also his reaction when he realizes that those strange displays on Predator's wrist-mounted computer are actually a ''countdown timer''.
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%%* SacrificialLamb: Hawkins.
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* WreckedWeapon: The Predator shoots Dutch's rifle, blowing it in half.
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* DoomedPredecessor: Shortly after landing and finding a downed helicopter, the team discovers the disemboweled and flayed remains of another team of Green Berets who had also been sent to take down the guerillas.
