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* NightVisionGoggles: Of course, given that the original movie popularized the imagery. The typical method of countering it is inverted, [[spoiler: instead of smearing himself with mud, Royce fights off the Berserker by starting a raging fire, which makes his body heat signature lost among the background noise]].
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* AmazonChaser: Isabelle's tough as nails, and the guys explicitly find her attractive for it.
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* HotAmazon: Isabella.
--> '''Stans:''' Your ass is ''awesome.''
--> '''Stans:''' Your ass is ''awesome.''
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''Predators'' is an action film released in 2010. It was intended to serve as the true spiritual successor a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/{{Predator}}'', a task which it succeeds at in many ways it succeeds.
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* BilingualBonus: [[spoiler:Nikolai's final line, spoken in Russian as he blows himself and the Predator to bits, means "Some face you've got there!", a MythologyGag reference to Schwarzenegger's famous "ugly motherfucker" line from the original movie]].
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* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:When the classic Predator faces the black Predator it has been tied up for a while and has poorly maintained equipment which are the main reasons why it loses. Despite this he puts up a fight and hurts him which may have given him the flu when he fights Royce.]]
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* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:When the classic Predator faces the black Predator it has been tied up for a while and has poorly maintained equipment which are the main reasons why it loses. Despite this he puts up a fight.]]
** [[spoiler:When the black Predator faces Royce he has been stabbed, had a fistfight with another Predator and had a ring of grenades explode in his face. When Royce stops to catch his breath the fightand hurts him which may have given him the flu when he fights Royce.]]goes as well as it normally would]]
** [[spoiler:When the black Predator faces Royce he has been stabbed, had a fistfight with another Predator and had a ring of grenades explode in his face. When Royce stops to catch his breath the fight
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RobertRodriguez had put together a script for the film way back in 1994 before Fox finally greenlit the project 16 years later. Directed by Nimród Antal, it stars Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Oleg Taktarov & Danny Trejo. It was co-produced out of 20th Century Fox by Robert Rodriguez, who is [[DirectorDisplacement frequently misidentified as the director]].
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RobertRodriguez had put together a script for the film way back in 1994 before Fox finally greenlit the project 16 years later. Directed by Nimród Antal, it stars Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Oleg Taktarov & Danny Trejo. It was co-produced out of 20th Century Fox by Robert Rodriguez, who is [[DirectorDisplacement frequently misidentified as the director]].
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* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted. Whilst the main character's blasting in the first few scenes might lead one to believe this trope is being played straight, there's the "shell count" scene establishing their limited resources almost halfway through.
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-->'''Stans''':You know what? This is bullshit! I want a fucking gun! [to Cuchillo] Come on man, give me a gun! You got two fucking guns! [to Nikolai] Come on Russian, you got a big fucking gun!
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-->'''Stans''':You know what? This is bullshit! I want a fucking gun! [to Cuchillo] Come on man, give me a gun! You got two fucking guns! [to Nikolai] Come on Russian, you got a big fucking gun! gun!
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* FriendlySniper: Isabella, who is noticeably the most compassionate.
* GenreSavvy: The entire cast, by and large. The predators themselves get a special mention, though: the remote self-destruct on their ships seems to involve two or three button presses and involves no dramatic countdown or confirmation.
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* FriendlySniper: Isabella, who is noticeably the most compassionate.
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* GenreSavvy: The entire cast, by and large. The predators themselves get a special mention, though: the remote self-destruct on their ships seems to involve two or three button presses and involves no dramatic countdown or confirmation.
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* HonorBeforeReason: The Predators always try to fight fair when possible, and play with their prey before killing it, much to their detriment.
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** Numerous to the earlier ''Predator'' films, from the entire plots itself, the Marine who set traps and the discovery of dead Special Forces surrounded by ammo casings, the references to the first films plot, Laurence Fishburne's character, the lighting used in the Predator ship and the flares (it mirrors shots and lighting in ''Film/{{Alien}}s''), among numerous others.
** Numerous to the earlier ''Predator'' films, from the entire plots itself, the Marine who set traps and the discovery of dead Special Forces surrounded by ammo casings, the references to the first films plot, Laurence Fishburne's character, the lighting used in the Predator ship and the flares (it mirrors shots and lighting in ''Film/{{Alien}}s''), among numerous others.
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** Numerous to the earlier ''Predator'' films, from the entire plots itself, the Marine who set traps and the discovery of dead Special Forces surrounded by ammo casings, the references to the first films plot, Laurence Fishburne's character, the lighting used in the Predator ship and the flares (it mirrors shots and lighting in ''Film/{{Alien}}s''), among numerous others.
** Numerous to the earlier ''Predator'' films, from the entire plots itself, the Marine who set traps and the discovery of dead Special Forces surrounded by ammo casings, the references to the first films plot, Laurence Fishburne's character, the lighting used in the Predator ship and the flares (it mirrors shots and lighting in ''Film/{{Alien}}s''), among numerous others.
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* MultinationalTeam: American (including the poor Army sod at the beginning), Mexican, Sierra Leonean, Russian, Japanese, Israeli.
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** Adrien Brody, known for being lean and playing nice guys, plays Royce, the ripped badass loner. WordOfGod is that they went with smaller guy because while real-life soldiers are in great shape, most aren't huge, burly guys like ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
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** Adrien Brody, known for being lean and playing nice guys, plays Royce, the ripped badass loner. WordOfGod is that they went with smaller guy because while real-life soldiers are in great shape, most aren't huge, burly guys like ArnoldSchwarzenegger.Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
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* RatedMForManly: An entire cast of [[{{BadAss}} Badasses]]. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Topher Grace]].
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** Noland [[OneSceneWonder steals the show]] in no small part due to {{Laurence Fishburne}}'s acting chops, but add in the HeyItsThatGuy factor, along with the ''ApocalypseNow'' shout out, and it's a perfect storm of "interesting things in that scene to talk about with other movie buffs."
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** Noland [[OneSceneWonder steals the show]] in no small part due to {{Laurence Fishburne}}'s LaurenceFishburne's acting chops, but add in the HeyItsThatGuy factor, along with the ''ApocalypseNow'' shout out, and it's a perfect storm of "interesting things in that scene to talk about with other movie buffs."
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* AliensAreBastards: For the first time The Predators, who abduct humans and take them to a "hunting preserve" on film, we get to see Predators that actually [[CompleteMonster deserve to die]].a different world.
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** The characters spend the first half of the movie just trying to figure out where they are and how they got there, while the audience already knows all that, the identity of the hunters, and a good portion of the [[{{Predator}} Predator's history with humanity]] to boot.
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** When Royce frees the Classic Predator from the totem and it does its [[NeckLift neck grab on him]] it turns his head to one side much the same way [[{{Predator}} the Jungle Hunter did with Dutch Schaeffer.]]
** Just like in the original ''{{Predator}}'':
** Just like in the original ''{{Predator}}'':
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** When Royce frees the Classic Predator from the totem and it does its [[NeckLift neck grab on him]] it turns his head to one side much the same way [[{{Predator}} [[Film/{{Predator}} the Jungle Hunter did with Dutch Schaeffer.]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Laurence Fishburne's character, Noland, was originally supposed to be played by Danny Glover, which would have been the perfect way to tie the film to {{Predator}} 2 as well as 1. Though whether Glover would've been playing the same character or not is unclear.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Laurence Fishburne's character, Noland, was originally supposed to be played by Danny Glover, which would have been the perfect way to tie the film to {{Predator}} 2 ''{{Predator 2}}'' as well as 1. Though whether Glover would've been playing the same character or not is unclear.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The Predators. Noland describes the two types as "dogs and wolves", with the more honorable "classic" Predators being smaller and with lighter equipment, while the new and more villainous Predators are taller with dark helmets.
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* MadeOfIron: The last of the Predators. [[spoiler: In a short span of time it's stabbed repeatedly by Stans, stabbed and wounded further by the classic Predator, blasted by a multitude of grenades point-blank, suffers multiple blows to the head from a wrench, shot by Isabella's sniper rifle, and torn up when Royce uses an axe on it.]] In spite of all that, it had enough life left in it to necessitate [[spoiler: Royce systematically hacking it apart with that axe.]]
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* GenreSavvy: The entire cast, by and large. The predators themselves get a special mention, though: the remote self-destruct on their ships seems to involve two or three button presses and involves no dramatic countdown or confirmation.
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* HollywoodTactics: For all the talk about how good Predators had been getting at hunting people, they really don't show it.
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** IT could also be another indication of how long he's been there. [[spoiler:Rather than toy with Noland the Predator just kills him because there is no longer any sport in it. Quite frankly, the Predator is sick of hunting him.]]
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** A subtle one. When the group first meets Nolan, Royce asks him, "What the fuck are you?" and Nolan answers, "I'm alive." Nolan later shows part of the reason why, [[spoiler:he's not above murder when it's for his own benefit. He gets the group to trust him then tries to kill them for their weapons, and it's implied he's done it before. Later, when Royce is showing a similar inhuman disregard for the life of Edwin, Isabelle asks him, "What are you?" and Royce replies, "I'm alive."]]
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** A subtle one. When the group first meets Nolan, Royce asks him, "What the fuck are you?" and Nolan answers, "I'm alive." Nolan later shows part of the reason why, [[spoiler:he's not above murder when it's for his own benefit. He gets the group to trust him then tries to kill them for their weapons, and it's implied he's done it before. Later, when Royce is showing a similar inhuman disregard for the life of Edwin, Edwin (whose death would benefit him), Isabelle asks him, "What are you?" and Royce replies, "I'm alive."]]
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** A subtle one. When the group first meets Nolan, Royce asks him, "What the fuck are you?" and Nolan answers, "I'm alive." Nolan later shows part of the reason why, [[spoiler:he's not above murder when it's for his own benefit. He gets the group to trust him then tries to kill them for their weapons, and it's implied he's done it before. Later, when Royce is showing a similar inhuman disregard for the life of Edwin, Isabelle asks him, "What are you?" and Royce replies, "I'm alive."]]
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* TheBerserker: Stans goes KnifeNut on the black predator - ironically, the predator's named "Berserker" in the script. This shows why he was chosen.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stans--the convicted, psychotic mass murderer and rapist--''yells'' at Royce for leading them into a trap and getting a man killed.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stans--the convicted, psychotic mass murderer and rapist--''yells'' at Royce for leading them into a trap and getting a man [[spoiler:Mombasa]] killed.
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'''Stans''': A man is dead becausethe dead man could have been ''him'', so of that.\\
'''Royce''': This morning you were ready to kill him.\\
'''Stans''': Well itmight be selfish.ain't this goddamn morning!
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* TheSmartGuy: Edwin, the otherwise hapless medical doctor, is able to identify alien plants and their various effects. GenreSavvy as they all are, the others quickly assume he's there in the capacity of TheMedic.
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* [[TooDumbToLive Too Shortsighted To Live]]: [[spoiler:Edwin is dangerous is a way, but not to heavily armed soldiers or the even more physically imposing aliens. Even if Royce has left them, Edwin stands a ''much'' better chance of survival with Isabelle than wearing her scalp as a hat or whatever he had in mind. However, it's {{justified}} by his nature as a serial killer, as such individuals rarely operate on a rational basis. As proof of his skewed perception, he expresses the belief that the Predators will accept him when they see he is a hunter like them; in truth, his method of hunting resembles theirs not at all.]]
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* InnocentBystander: While the other abducted humans are military, {{Yakuza}}, criminals, or the like, Edwin is just some poor shmuck doctor snatched from his way to work.
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* InnocentBystander: While the other abducted humans are military, {{Yakuza}}, criminals, or the like, Edwin is just some poor shmuck doctor snatched from his way to work. [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes Or so it seems.]]]]
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* MaleGaze: The camera follows Stans' line of sight for about fifteen seconds. When Isabelle turns around, he just words it out: "[[BabyGotBack Your ass is awesome]]"
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* MaleGaze: The camera follows Stans' line of sight for about fifteen seconds. When Isabelle turns around, he just words it out: "[[BabyGotBack Your "Your ass is awesome]]"awesome"
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* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: All the characters are seasoned killers, except for the doctor. Royce even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.
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* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: All the characters are seasoned killers, except for the doctor. Royce even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it. [[spoiler: In the end it turns out the doctor's a seasoned killer too.]]
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* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: All the characters are seasoned killers, except for the doctor. Royce even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.
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* TheBerserker: Stans goes KnifeNut on the black predator--ironically, the predator's named "Berserker" in the script.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: All the edged weapons in this movie seem to dismember and decapitate with one blow. Except the Katana, which just leaves a gash on Pred skin, and Stans' shiv, which does nada. Justified in most instances because they're blades made by Predators, who even make their metal ''nets'' mono-molecular. Royce apparently sharpens his machete like crazy, too, since he decapitates a hunting dog in one hit.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: All the edged weapons in this movie seem to dismember and decapitate with one blow. Except the Katana, which just leaves a gash on Pred skin, and Stans' shiv, which does nada. Justified in most instances because they're blades made by Predators, who even make their metal ''nets'' mono-molecular. Royce apparently sharpens his machete like crazy, too, since he decapitates a hunting dog in one hit.
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* HumansAreBastards: Our heroes are not nice people. Predators are bastards to each other, too. The Preds picked these Royce and the others because no one would miss them (being soldiers guilty of genocide, mercenaries, criminals, et cetera).
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[[caption-width-right:237:Fear is reborn...]]
->"It wants us to run. That's how it hunts. This is its jungle, its game, its rules."
--> -- '''Royce'''
''Predators'' is an action film released in 2010. It was intended as the true spiritual successor to ''{{Predator}}'', a task which in many ways it succeeds.
An American mercenary, Royce, wakes to find himself free falling toward a jungle below, with no clue why he's hurtling towards the ground at an alarming rate, or why there's a parachute on him that deploys automatically. Soon after landing, he encounters others who have arrived the exact same way. All they have in common is that each is a deadly killer and they band together for strength in numbers. Soon they realize that not only are they not in Kansas anymore, they're on a gigantic game reserve....
RobertRodriguez had put together a script for the film way back in 1994 before Fox finally greenlit the project 16 years later. Directed by Nimród Antal, it stars Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Oleg Taktarov & Danny Trejo. It was co-produced out of 20th Century Fox by Robert Rodriguez, who is [[DirectorDisplacement frequently misidentified as the director]].
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: All the edged weapons in this movie seem to dismember and decapitate with one blow. Except the Katana, which just leaves a gash on Pred skin, and Stans' shiv, which does nada. Justified in most instances because they're blades made by Predators, who even make their metal ''nets'' mono-molecular. Royce apparently sharpens his machete like crazy, too, since he decapitates a hunting dog in one hit.
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Isabelle punches Royce in the face and only gets glared at in return. This is either because he's MadeOfIron, he's a chauvinist, or he's tacitly admitting [[{{Jerkass}} he deserved it]]. Or all three.
* ActorAllusion: Noland (Laurence Fishburne) says he was Air Cavalry, was yanked from Earth in the sixties, and hums a few bars of [[ApocalypseNow "The Ride of the Valkyries"]].
* AlienSky: A very impressive one. They all look like they're about to crack open and spill into space as massive clouds of broken rock and dust. Beautiful.
* AliensAreBastards: For the first time on film, we get to see Predators that actually [[CompleteMonster deserve to die]].
* AllThereInTheScript: Only Royce, Isabelle, Nikolai and Noland give their names on-screen.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: It must be a spinal reflex for Royce. When he has time to think about it, he'll leave Isabelle without a second glance; but when under fire, he invariably dives back into the fray to save her.
* AssholeVictim: Since many of the humans are pretty unpleasant people, this comes up a lot.
** Stans is the most obvious. The movie even plays with this trope a bit -- at first you think he's obviously evil, then you think he's not that bad when he [[WhatTheHellHero calls out]] Royce on his [[ShootTheDog dog shooting]]... and then he makes his [[DeadBabyComedy "rapin' bitches"]] comment.
** If you know anything about the RUF, you'll realize that Mombasa is probably one of the worst person out of the entire group.
** One of the first things Cuchillo talks about once they figure out what's going on is to casually mention that he kidnaps and burns people alive for crime syndicates in Mexico.
* TheAtoner: Turns out the reason Isabelle acts so tenderhearted is survivor's guilt. Of course, when [[CombatPragmatist Royce]] hears the story, he [[AngstWhatAngst all but shrugs]] and says "[[IDidWhatIHadToDo You do what you have to do]] to survive."
* AudibleSharpness:
** The katana Hanzo finds makes a noise as it is unsheathed, and then another when he moves it slowly through the air.
** Even Edwin's scalpel produces a slight noise as he pulls it from its case.
* BackToBackBadasses - Several, usually with Royce, Isabella, and a third person.
* {{Badass}}: [[WorldOfBadass Every single character]] except for the doctor can be considered one, to greater or lesser extents. Special mention goes to Hanzo, who is the only character to fight an unweakened Predator in a one-on-one battle [[spoiler:and get a draw]]. With [[KatanasAreJustBetter a katana]], no less.
* BaldOfAwesome[=/=]BaldOfEvil: Hanzo.
* BattleStrip: Hanzo and Royce both remove their shirts for their respective final battles.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Royce and Isabelle start out hating each other, but it quickly turns into a complicated and slightly sociopathic mating dance.
* TheBerserker: Stans goes KnifeNut on the black predator--ironically, the predator's named "Berserker" in the script.
--> "Die, you space faggot!" STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Isabelle demonstrates this belief. Twice.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:The doctor turns out to be a SerialKiller, which is why he was chosen for the hunt.]]
* {{BFG}}: Nikolai's minigun. Even referred to as such by Stans:
-->"Come on, Russian, you got a big fucking gun!"
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Nikolai saves Edwin from a Predator, just when it seems he's done for.
** Despite Royce swearing up and down that he's a bad, bad man who doesn't care about anyone--and proving it when he trots off without a second look at dead or dying teammates--he doubles back under fire at least twice to rescue a comrade.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Isabella and Royce are the lone survivors, both wounded and out of ammo and with no way home, only for more monsters and humans to get airdropped in, about to repeat the events of the film. This means Predators, which means there's another ship to hijack, and more allies to help them out...]] Of course, this is an obvious SequelHook.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: While technically the second to die, he is the first to be killed during combat with a Predator. The ''hispanic'' dude dies first.
* BloodKnight: The Predators themselves are obvious examples. In addition, Royce repeatedly states that the main reason he worked as a mercenary is because he likes the thrill of combat. The subtext suggests that all of the characters are, and furthermore, it's why they were chosen.
* BondOneLiner: "You really ''are'' a good man." [[spoiler:"No, I'm not... ''but I'm fast''."]]
* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted. Whilst the main character's blasting in the first few scenes might lead one to believe this trope is being played straight, there's the "shell count" scene establishing their limited resources almost halfway through.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Stans has two great moments of this. First he talks about doing a whole bunch of cocaine, which Edwin finds funny. Then Stans starts talking about rape, which Edwin finds [[SarcasmMode somewhat less funny]]. The second is when he shows off his tattoo, leading to...
* BrotherSisterIncest: When the gang sees that Stans has a tattoo of a bare-breasted woman on his chest (and even plays with it), another character asks, "Your girlfriend?" Stans says, "No, my sister." Edwin's face is priceless.
* ChekhovsGun
** The neurotoxin-filled plant that the doctor saves Nikolai from, and not used until the very end. If you didn't see this coming, then TVTropes [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife hasn't yet ruined your life]].
** The somewhat offhanded mention of Dutch's defeat of the first Predator [[spoiler:by covering himself in mud]].
* CanonDiscontinuity: This film ignores the two "Alien Vs. Predator" movies, although WordOfGod is unclear if it disregarded Predator 2 as well (Isabelle doesn't mention the events of the second movie, for what it's worth, but there are some minor nods to it).
* CaptainErsatz: Nikolai is a beefy, somewhat slow Russian with a minigun who makes friends with a bespectacled doctor - and one of his sons is named Sasha. [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 He is Heavy Weapons Guy.]] He even screams while firing wildly at one point.
* CloserToEarth: Lone woman Isabella is the most compassionate character (though several of the men have their moments). Yes, ''the sniper'' is the most compassionate, and is thoroughly disgusted at Royce's attempts to leave the group or use them for his own gain.
* ClusterFBomb
* CombatPragmatist: The Berserker demonstrates this during his duel with the Classic Predator. As soon as Classic starts landing a few good hits in the fight, Berserker introduces his plasma caster to it.
* ContinuityNod: Isabelle is the only human who knows about the Predators, because she's read the reports detailing events of the original movie.
* CoolVersusAwesome: A Yakuza Enforcer with a katana dueling with a Predator.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover art for the single-disc DVD seen above would lead you to believe that Laurence Fishburne and Danny Trejo play much larger roles than they actually do.
* CrazySurvivalist: Former U.S. Air Cavalryman Noland, with real emphasis on both crazy (he talks to an imaginary friend), and given the planet, survivalist –- having survived ten "seasons," though how long this is is a bit...vague, seeing as a new batch of humans was being dropped in just a few days after the first. [[spoiler:He attempts to kill the team to get their gear and because they're dead weight for him, on the suggestion of his imaginary friend, and it's heavily implied he's done it before.]]
* CulturedBadass: Royce quotes Hemingway when describing his mercenary work - he likes the feeling of killing other men.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Royce makes a number of very smart decisions regarding the plot of the movie. He's the first one to figure out that they are being sent to the planet to be hunted, recognizes a booby-trapped body when he sees one, and uses his team as bait to lure the Predators out of hiding and figure out more about their size, shape, and technology, and his tactics against the aliens later play off of various franchise tropes.
* DeathByPragmatism: [[spoiler: Noland.]]
* DeathTrap: The first action sequence is a result of a huge number of traps set up by a long-dead Special Forces member, in a callback to the first film. One of the characters notes that the Predator bypassed all those traps and ripped him apart.
* DeathWorld: The setting of the film is designed to be incredibly hostile to survival.
* DebutQueue: The five main characters appear one by one, seconds or a few minutes after each other.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: The Predators don't make an appearance proper until after the group gets acquainted with each other and where they are.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: It appears that the writers for Isabelle's backstory comic forgot to read up on her character. It's not ''impossible'' that an Israeli girl went to Catholic school at some point, but it [[PlotHole certainly begs for an explanation]].
* DramaticIrony:
** The characters spend the first half of the movie just trying to figure out where they are and how they got there, while the audience already knows all that, the identity of the hunters, and a good portion of the [[{{Predator}} Predator's history with humanity]] to boot.
** Royce runs for the ship, unaware that his Predator ally has been defeated by the Black Predator, who then [[spoiler: commands the ship to self-destruct]]. It's doubly ironic, because BP doesn't know [[spoiler:Royce isn't on the ship]].
** As Royce tends to a paralyzed Isabelle, the audience cringes to see the traitor behind him, talking casually, and the desperation in Isabelle's eyes--as she can see and hear, but not speak or move--only adds to the tension.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Laurence Fishburne's character uses a helmet from one of the Predators he’s presumably killed to detect other humans' presence.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Noland gets blown up seconds after he runs into a Predator, after having been established as a highly-skilled (if demented) survivor.]]
* DwindlingParty: In effect throughout the entire film.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Nikolai, Stans, and Hanzo.]]
* EnemyCivilWar: Noland reveals there's a blood feud between two Predator Clans. Unsurprisingly, this becomes a plot point.
* EnemyMine:
** Someone eventually gets the idea of exploiting the EnemyCivilWar to their advantage.
** Lampshaded in a moment from a trailer (apparently removed from the movie) when Isabelle says that everyone needs to work together, another character responds, "Does this look like a team orientated group of individuals to you?"
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stans--the convicted, psychotic mass murderer and rapist--''yells'' at Royce for leading them into a trap and getting a man killed.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: In-universe: invoked and discussed right in the first scene, when Cuchillo assumes they are all in Hell, and Nikolai speculates it's a military psyche experiment. But it's immediately pointed out that you don't need a parachute to get there, and why would a military go to great lengths to construct a piecemeal jungle and slam together criminals, mercenaries, and soldiers?
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Including a HungryJungle, the Predators, their dogs, the other "prey" animals, and [[HumansAreBastards your fellow man]].
* EvillyAffable: Stans may be a [[TheSociopath sociopath]], but most of his lines are pure gold. Take, for example, his rant against the rest of the group after brandishing his shiv:
-->'''Stans''':You know what? This is bullshit! I want a fucking gun! [to Cuchillo] Come on man, give me a gun! You got two fucking guns! [to Nikolai] Come on Russian, you got a big fucking gun!
* FaceNodAction: The Yakuza assassin simply stops walking in a field while the Predators chase them down. Royce, Edwin and Isabelle stop as well and look at the assassin, who simply looks at Royce and nods at him. Royce nods back and starts walking away again.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner:
** [[spoiler: Noland - "Finally found me, huh big dawg? Well, what took you so long?" ]]
** [[spoiler: Nikolai - "[[MythologyGag You're one UGLY motherfucker.]]"]]...with a side order of BilingualBonus
* FakeNationality: The Russian, Mexican, and African actors match their character's ethnicity, but are American, and the Israeli is Brazilian.
* FantasticRacism: There's an ongoing blood feud between the "classic" predators and the bigger, nastier "black" predators.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler:Nikolai.]]
* FiveManBand: Royce the hero, Stan the Lancer, Isabelle the Chick, Nick the Big Guy, Edwin the Smart Guy
* FootFocus: When Hanzo's loafers get sucked into the muck, a rather long close-up shows him slipping out of his shoes and planting his bare feet stoically in the mud, squishing some through his toes for extra effect.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When Royce figures out that one of their team members is being used as bait and says to leave him, the others leave in order according to how monstrous and/or noble they prove themselves to be over the course of the movie.
** Attentive viewers will know something's up when Edwin pulls out a photo of ''Nikolai's'' kids. Heck, [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife tropers will probably know]] there's something up when [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers he's introduced]].
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* FriendlySniper: Isabella, who is noticeably the most compassionate.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Everyone chosen to be "hunted," with the exception of the doctor, are hardened killers, which means that all of them are unsavory one way or another.
* GunPorn: Many of the guns get their own close ups, long and lovingly enough that firearm aficionados can read "Surefire" on the grip of Royce's automatic shotgun and "elcan" on Isabelle's scope, enjoy the sheen of Hanzo's pearl-gripped Beretta...etc.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** After being freed by Royce, a Predator from an opposing clan sides with him (a good deed for a good deed, after all).
** Meta-example: Stans shows remorse at a character's death, even though he was fighting with him and had tried to kill him earlier.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler:Nikolai blows himself up in order to both take out the Predator he's facing down and save his group.]]
** Also, [[spoiler:Stans playing dead to jump on a Predator's back and stab the hell out of it giving his teammates time to escape]], and [[spoiler:Hanzo]], pulling a YouShallNotPass moment and taking another one down.
* HeroicSociopath: Stans and...well, everyone. Some just hide it better than others.
* {{Homage}}:
** A guy called Hanzo gets a katana and fights in a field of tall grass. [[KillBill Quentin Tarantino must have loved that part.]]
** There's also a Mexican KnifeNut [[TypeCasting played by]] [[{{Desperado}} Danny]] [[{{Machete}} Trejo]], and his name is [[ForAFewDollarsMore Cuchillo]]...
* HonorBeforeReason: The Predators always try to fight fair when possible, and play with their prey before killing it, much to their detriment.
** Incidentally, the only reason the Black Predators seem to fight fair is because they enjoy the hunt so much, and want to make it last. They don't follow very honorable standards the rest of the time, unlike their jungle cousins. For example, multiple Predators hunting at once instead of only one, taking prey to their own turf, and using hunting dog-like creatures to flush out their prey.
* HotAmazon: Isabella.
--> '''Stans:''' Your ass is ''awesome.''
* HumansAreBastards: Our heroes are not nice people. Predators are bastards to each other, too. The Preds picked these Royce and the others because no one would miss them (being soldiers guilty of genocide, mercenaries, criminals, et cetera).
* HumansAreWarriors: Well, these guys are. Edwin is a noted exception.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The entire plot.
* HuskyRusskie: Nikolai.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Frequently brought up throughout the movie. The Predators will use any means available to weaken or kill the main characters, which means the humans will have to make some "hard choices" if they want to survive.
* IHaveAFamily: Edwin tries this, even though he ''doesn't''.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* InfernalRetaliation: [[spoiler: In conjunction with hiding from infrared using mud, Royce hides from the Predator by surrounding himself with fire.]]
* InnocentBystander: While the other abducted humans are military, {{Yakuza}}, criminals, or the like, Edwin is just some poor shmuck doctor snatched from his way to work.
* IronicEcho:
** When Edwin is injured, Royce wants to leave him behind, but Isabella protests that "He's one of us". Later, Edwin will argue "Please, I'm one of you," in very different circumstances.
** Stans mocks Mombasa after the latter dives into the detritus to avoid a deadfall with "Looking good, boss." Later, when Stans is lying on the ground covered in dirt and alien dog blood, Mombasa parrots the line back at him.
* InternalHomage:
** Numerous to the earlier ''Predator'' films, from the entire plots itself, the Marine who set traps and the discovery of dead Special Forces surrounded by ammo casings, the references to the first films plot, Laurence Fishburne's character, the lighting used in the Predator ship and the flares (it mirrors shots and lighting in ''Film/{{Alien}}s''), among numerous others.
** [[AliensVsPredator The Enemy of my Enemy... is]] [[TakeThat NOT my friend.]]
*** Also, Predators hunt in threes.
** "You're one... ugly... motherfucker." ([[BilingualBonus In Russian, though]].)
** [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The big one's called Sascha.]] In addition, giant Russian with the minigun (who says aforementioned quote) pals around with the Doctor. May be a coincidence, though...
** The lead Predator has an [[{{Aliens}} Alien's jaw]] attached to his helmet as a trophy.
** There is a burning [[{{Aliens}} Alien's Head]] strung up in the Predators camp.
** Noland tells the others that every season, a new batch of prey is dropped in, "shit you wouldn't believe." He turns and giggles conspiratorially with his ImaginaryFriend, but does seem to glance meaningfully at what looks like [[{{Alien}} an acid burn on the wall behind him.]]
** When Noland first approaches the group, his whispers of "Over here, over here," and "Turn around, turn around," are much like Mac's whispers in the first film.
** Royce also does a word-for-word repetition of Arnold's "Come on, do it, kill me!" line from the original film during his final battle with the Predator.
** When Royce frees the Classic Predator from the totem and it does its [[NeckLift neck grab on him]] it turns his head to one side much the same way [[{{Predator}} the Jungle Hunter did with Dutch Schaeffer.]]
** Just like in the original ''{{Predator}}'':
*** A character stares intensely into the trees, and doesn't respond when a teammate asks what's up.
*** A blade-wielding character suddenly stops fleeing in order to face the pursuing Predator, mano-a-mano.
*** Characters fall uncontrollably down a hill and right into a river.
*** A subtle one: A giant bug is impaled on a knife.
*** A character unloads with a giant minigun into the forest. Later, every gun-toting character unloads into the trees.
*** A character's weapon is blown in two by the Predator's weapon.
*** Moments before death, a character's arm is severed. It was Dillon's in the first film, and the [[spoiler:last Predator]]'s in this film.
* IOweYouMyLife: Never said, but rather obviously how Nikolai and Edwin became friends and how Stans and Mombasa stopped trying to off the other.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Royce for sure. Like your typical mercenary, he doesn't seem to care for the group in any real way. But of course, he has a change of heart by the end.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Stans, a convicted mass murderer, dies sacrificing himself for the team to get away, impaled and having his spine and skull torn out. Ironically, he was supposed to be executed in two days before the Predators selected him. The Doctor, after revealing he's a serial killer wacko type, is impaled, dragged through the mud while he pathetically begs for his life, and used as a grenade DeathTrap to injure a Predator.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Completely justified. They're a hell of a lot better than a pistol that's out of ammo.
* KnifeNut: Stans, in part because none of the others give him a gun, but he certainly seems competent with it. [[spoiler:He slows down a Predator long enough with it, but not enough to do any real damage.]]
* LudicrousGibs:
** [[spoiler: Noland]] goes out like this.
** One of the dogs dodges [[ATeamFiring the entire team's concentrated fire]] until it gets within about ten yards; then it dies in a literal explosion of gore.
* MaleGaze: The camera follows Stans' line of sight for about fifteen seconds. When Isabelle turns around, he just words it out: "[[BabyGotBack Your ass is awesome]]"
* MaybeEverAfter: Movie convention would seem to force Royce and Isabella together, but their circumstances and his personality leave the coupling in question.
* MexicanStandoff: Subveted. Stans puts his shiv to Mombasa's throat and demands a gun. Mombasa calmly but firmly jams a handgun under Stans' chin. Cue OhCrap expression on Stans' face.
* MoodWhiplash: Halfway through the film, Stans says that he's going to do ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny so]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny much cocaine]] when they escape -- and then says he's going to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape some bitches]]. It then swerves back into funny when Edwin [[DeadpanSnarker unenthusiastically agrees]].
* MrExposition: Noland's role is essentially to show up and clue the other characters (and audience) in.
* MultinationalTeam: American (including the poor Army sod at the beginning), Mexican, Sierra Leonean, Russian, Japanese, Israeli.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Hanzo and the second Predator, Nikolai and the first Predator.]]
* MythologyGag: The creature that chases Edwin in the jungle resembles [[http://screenshots.filesnetwork.com/2/potd/1222215738_15.jpg the original design for the Predator.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer:
** One trailer (and the page image) shows Royce's upper body being ''covered'' in the iconic Predator three-dot laser, implying that there's a considerable number of Predators on the planet. In reality, there's only three, four Predators max. In the actual scene, it's only one target.
** [[spoiler: Noland appears in the same scene, despite being killed soon after being introduced in the actual film.]]
* NeutralFemale: Ultimately subverted, although it's a close call.
* NightVisionGoggles: Of course, given that the original movie popularized the imagery. The typical method of countering it is inverted, [[spoiler: instead of smearing himself with mud, Royce fights off the Berserker by starting a raging fire, which makes his body heat signature lost among the background noise]].
* NoNameGiven: For ninety-nine percent of the movie, the only one with a name is Nikolai. Isabelle and Royce introduce themselves in the penultimate scene, while the rest are named only in the script.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Royce does not subscribe to this, always prompting others to move on with "He's done." The first time, Isabella listens, but she refuses the second time, citing the risk of HeWhoFightsMonsters, and that if they give up their humanity to survive they’ve already lost.
* NotSoDifferent: Royce says this almost verbatim to Isabelle, then taunts her with
--> "You do it for your country so you don't have to admit you like it."
* ObviousTrap: The Predators set one with the cartel member. The team doesn’t fall for it.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Two Predators and Stans get their heads sliced off... or ripped off, in Stans' case.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Edwin comes off as this, ''especially'' compared to Cuchillo and Stans. This makes sense since most of the others are a PsychoForHire. [[spoiler: Subverted, he's by far the craziest.]]
* OhCrap: "Nice shot!" "...I missed." And they realize that they are ''so'' incredibly boned.
** Edwin's face, before that (he was used as bait to lure whatever was stalking them out).
* OntologicalMystery: Our main characters awaken in mid-drop into a strange jungle, armed with weapons, and no memory of how they got into this situation. Lampshaded when the characters discuss their situation and point out every single most used solution to the mystery: from a military training scenario to gauge stress reactions, to [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Hell]]. Later solved when they find out they're on a completely different planet.
* OneSceneWonder: Maybe not quite one scene, but come on, Laurence Fishburne as Noland was easily one of the best bits of the film.
** Especially one of his first lines. Royce asks what the hell he is, and he simply whispers, ''"I'm aliiiiive."''
* OutrunTheFireball: The characters try to escape the derelict ship before the explosion from Nikolai's claymores catches up to them.
* ParachuteInATree: This is how the other characters encounter Edwin.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Adrien Brody, known for being lean and playing nice guys, plays Royce, the ripped badass loner. WordOfGod is that they went with smaller guy because while real-life soldiers are in great shape, most aren't huge, burly guys like ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
** [[That70sShow Topher Grace]] in a [[RatedMForManly hardcore]] action movie [[spoiler: and turning out to be a CompleteMonster]].
* PrecisionFStrike:
** ''''''"FUCK! All of you!"''''''
** So I can find out who threw me out of a '''fuckin airplane'''.
* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler: Nikolai gets one. In Russian, naturally: "You're one ugly motherfucker."]]
* PsychoForHire: Royce and Cuchillo, maybe Mombasa. The other members are either too honorable to be psycho; or are too psycho to be for hire.
* TheQuietOne: Hanzo, the Yakuza assassin. He lost two fingers on his left hand (and needs to use prosthetics) in the past because he "talked too much." Despite having a mere handful of lines, he has more presence than most of the rest of the cast combined, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome one of the best scenes in the film]].
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Everyone knows Stans is a murderer, but Edwin doesn't get discomfited until he starts talking about all the "fine bitches" he's going to rape when he gets home.
* RatedMForManly: An entire cast of [[{{BadAss}} Badasses]]. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Topher Grace]].
* RealityEnsues: With the guns, at any rate.
** Royce's automatic shotgun blows through ammo like a hooker through coke, and Hanzo's Beretta only holds fifteen rounds. Both run out of ammo about when they should, and the characters are forced to improvise.
** Isabelle's finely-calibrated--and thus finicky--sniper rifle jams in the midst of a fast-paced gun fight. Highly likely in the dirty, humid jungle environment they were in.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Royce quickly deduces they are on an alien planet. Anyone going through the survival checklist a highly trained soldier would be familiar with would do the same.
* TheReveal: The humans are trying to figure out where they've been dropped. Cue the multiple moons and the gas giant in the sky!
* RousseauWasRight: Despite being remorseless killers and insisting on being bad men, Royce, Stans, Nikolai, and Hanzo all act for the benefit of others at different points throughout the film, and chew each other out for not helping the group from time to time.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Subverted. His actual on-screen suffering isn't nearly as bad as any of the others, but since he has a family back home, Nikolai certainly has the most to lose.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The ending has Royce and Isabelle still stuck on planet as a number of newbies are parachute-dropped in...]].
* [[spoiler:SerialKiller: Edwin.]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Well, sort of, and thankfully not of the main plot. [[spoiler:Nikolai sacrificed himself for Edwin, who turns out to be a serial killer hell-bent on staying, but he ''did'' manage to take out one of the Predators and ultimately save Royce and Isabelle.]]
* SherlockScan: Royce identifies the various groups within an hour.
* ShoutOut: See also InternalHomage, above.
** The music that plays during the end credits is "Long Tall Sally," the same music Dutch and his team are listening to as they're about to go into the jungle. Also a bit of SoundtrackDissonance, given the BittersweetEnding just before it.
** The title of the film is a reference to the title of the second film in the Alien franchise, Aliens.
* SingleStrokeBattle: The fight between Hanzo and the Predator.
* SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes: Royce slides all around the scale like butter on a hot skillet, but the rest fall under their categories pretty neatly:
** Type III: Nikolai, Isabelle.
** Type IV: Mombasa
** Type V: Stans,Cuchillo; and they would be {{Villain Protagonist}}s in any other story.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Isabelle.
* TheSmartGuy: Edwin, the otherwise hapless medical doctor, is able to identify alien plants and their various effects. GenreSavvy as they all are, the others quickly assume he's there in the capacity of TheMedic.
* SoundtrackDissonance: An upbeat LittleRichard song plays over the end credits. See ShoutOut above.
* SpikesOfVillainy: The alien hunting dogs have more tusks, horns and antlers than anything ought to, but it sure makes them look wicked awesome.
* StuntCasting: Used quite a but, but subverted, in that it's not the actor's fame that makes their appearance noteworthy, but their previous body of work.
** Noland [[OneSceneWonder steals the show]] in no small part due to {{Laurence Fishburne}}'s acting chops, but add in the HeyItsThatGuy factor, along with the ''ApocalypseNow'' shout out, and it's a perfect storm of "interesting things in that scene to talk about with other movie buffs."
** TopherGrace is cast so far against type it almost shocking to see his face in this movie.
** DannyTrejo is so very ''with'' type it's almost a [[AdamWesting nudge-nudge-wink in-joke]] with the audience--especially Robert Rodriguez fans.
* SummonBiggerFish: Royce attracts the Predators with an explosion.
* SurveillanceDrone: One of the Predators has a mobile scout that flies around and attaches to his shoulder. He's even called the Falconer.
* SurvivorGuilt: It's Isabelle's main motivation; it's also notably lacking in Royce and the others.
* RareGuns: The Atchisson Assault Shotgun (AA-12) makes its second appearance on the big screen.
* TakingYouWithMe: How one unfortunate merc takes care of a Predator.
* ThatsWhatIWouldDo:
** Royce says this word for word when they are attacked by the alien dogs.
** Mombasa takes it one step further, giving a detailed description of a sadistic trap for human prey, then saying, "I know because I have done this."
** While they are all mulling over their OntologicalMystery, Tijujana gangster Cuchillo suggests they may have been taken for ransom, and goes on to describe the awful things they do to their victims.
* TheCastShowOff: Lewis Ozawa Changchien has practiced kendo since he was five years old, and insisted on using that style in Hanzo's fight.
* TitleDrop: Isabelle says to Royce that they were chosen for the hunt because "we are predators. Just like them. We're the monsters of our own world."
* TokenGoodTeammate: In a band of mercenaries, gangsters, and killers, many of whom lack a clear conscience, Isabelle is clearly the only one who believes in doing the right thing.
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Shortsighted To Live]]: [[spoiler:Edwin is dangerous is a way, but not to heavily armed soldiers or the even more physically imposing aliens. Even if Royce has left them, Edwin stands a ''much'' better chance of survival with Isabelle than wearing her scalp as a hat or whatever he had in mind. However, it's {{justified}} by his nature as a serial killer, as such individuals rarely operate on a rational basis. As proof of his skewed perception, he expresses the belief that the Predators will accept him when they see he is a hunter like them; in truth, his method of hunting resembles theirs not at all.]]
* TheUnfettered: Royce is seemingly this trope personified. He's called on it by Isabelle and [[EvenEvilHasStandards Stans.]]
* UnflinchingWalk: A Predator walks away casually without even looking at his own ship he's just detonated.
* [[WakingUpElsewhere Waking Up]] ''[[WakingUpElsewhere In Freefall]]''
* WeHaveReserves: Royce uses the rest of the team to set off a trap, disappearing to observe how the Predators operate. Needless to say, Isabella's pissed at him in the aftermath.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Laurence Fishburne's character, Noland, was originally supposed to be played by Danny Glover, which would have been the perfect way to tie the film to {{Predator}} 2 as well as 1. Though whether Glover would've been playing the same character or not is unclear.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Isabelle calls out Royce constantly, mostly because he's a large fan of [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what he 'has to']] to survive. Isabelle asks him if survival at any cost [[WasItReallyWorthIt is worth it]].
** Stans does it too, calling Royce out on getting [[spoiler:Mombasa]] (who had saved Stans' life) killed.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Where the whole planet is "the dark." Mostly, [[RousseauWasRight they pass the test]], though a couple characters prove they're too selfish or crazy.
* WithThisHerring: Everyone starts out with whatever they were carrying before, so two of the characters only have knives. Lampshaded by Stans, who demands to be given a gun and nearly kills Mombasa for his, since all he has is a prison shiv.
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:When the classic Predator faces the black Predator it has been tied up for a while and has poorly maintained equipment which are the main reasons why it loses. Despite this he puts up a fight and hurts him which may have given him the flu when he fights Royce.]]
* WorldOfBadass: The deadliest hunters in the galaxy created a game preserve on a DeathWorld by stocking it with the most lethal predators of Earth.
* {{Yakuza}}: Hanzo's an enforcer for them.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler: The vessel going back to Earth is self-destructed after the Black Predator kills the Classic Predator.]]
* {{Yubitsume}}: Hanzo turns out to have two fingers sliced off because he "talked too much."
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[[caption-width-right:237:Fear is reborn...]]
->"It wants us to run. That's how it hunts. This is its jungle, its game, its rules."
--> -- '''Royce'''
''Predators'' is an action film released in 2010. It was intended as the true spiritual successor to ''{{Predator}}'', a task which in many ways it succeeds.
An American mercenary, Royce, wakes to find himself free falling toward a jungle below, with no clue why he's hurtling towards the ground at an alarming rate, or why there's a parachute on him that deploys automatically. Soon after landing, he encounters others who have arrived the exact same way. All they have in common is that each is a deadly killer and they band together for strength in numbers. Soon they realize that not only are they not in Kansas anymore, they're on a gigantic game reserve....
RobertRodriguez had put together a script for the film way back in 1994 before Fox finally greenlit the project 16 years later. Directed by Nimród Antal, it stars Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Oleg Taktarov & Danny Trejo. It was co-produced out of 20th Century Fox by Robert Rodriguez, who is [[DirectorDisplacement frequently misidentified as the director]].
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: All the edged weapons in this movie seem to dismember and decapitate with one blow. Except the Katana, which just leaves a gash on Pred skin, and Stans' shiv, which does nada. Justified in most instances because they're blades made by Predators, who even make their metal ''nets'' mono-molecular. Royce apparently sharpens his machete like crazy, too, since he decapitates a hunting dog in one hit.
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Isabelle punches Royce in the face and only gets glared at in return. This is either because he's MadeOfIron, he's a chauvinist, or he's tacitly admitting [[{{Jerkass}} he deserved it]]. Or all three.
* ActorAllusion: Noland (Laurence Fishburne) says he was Air Cavalry, was yanked from Earth in the sixties, and hums a few bars of [[ApocalypseNow "The Ride of the Valkyries"]].
* AlienSky: A very impressive one. They all look like they're about to crack open and spill into space as massive clouds of broken rock and dust. Beautiful.
* AliensAreBastards: For the first time on film, we get to see Predators that actually [[CompleteMonster deserve to die]].
* AllThereInTheScript: Only Royce, Isabelle, Nikolai and Noland give their names on-screen.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: It must be a spinal reflex for Royce. When he has time to think about it, he'll leave Isabelle without a second glance; but when under fire, he invariably dives back into the fray to save her.
* AssholeVictim: Since many of the humans are pretty unpleasant people, this comes up a lot.
** Stans is the most obvious. The movie even plays with this trope a bit -- at first you think he's obviously evil, then you think he's not that bad when he [[WhatTheHellHero calls out]] Royce on his [[ShootTheDog dog shooting]]... and then he makes his [[DeadBabyComedy "rapin' bitches"]] comment.
** If you know anything about the RUF, you'll realize that Mombasa is probably one of the worst person out of the entire group.
** One of the first things Cuchillo talks about once they figure out what's going on is to casually mention that he kidnaps and burns people alive for crime syndicates in Mexico.
* TheAtoner: Turns out the reason Isabelle acts so tenderhearted is survivor's guilt. Of course, when [[CombatPragmatist Royce]] hears the story, he [[AngstWhatAngst all but shrugs]] and says "[[IDidWhatIHadToDo You do what you have to do]] to survive."
* AudibleSharpness:
** The katana Hanzo finds makes a noise as it is unsheathed, and then another when he moves it slowly through the air.
** Even Edwin's scalpel produces a slight noise as he pulls it from its case.
* BackToBackBadasses - Several, usually with Royce, Isabella, and a third person.
* {{Badass}}: [[WorldOfBadass Every single character]] except for the doctor can be considered one, to greater or lesser extents. Special mention goes to Hanzo, who is the only character to fight an unweakened Predator in a one-on-one battle [[spoiler:and get a draw]]. With [[KatanasAreJustBetter a katana]], no less.
* BaldOfAwesome[=/=]BaldOfEvil: Hanzo.
* BattleStrip: Hanzo and Royce both remove their shirts for their respective final battles.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Royce and Isabelle start out hating each other, but it quickly turns into a complicated and slightly sociopathic mating dance.
* TheBerserker: Stans goes KnifeNut on the black predator--ironically, the predator's named "Berserker" in the script.
--> "Die, you space faggot!" STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB STAB.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Isabelle demonstrates this belief. Twice.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:The doctor turns out to be a SerialKiller, which is why he was chosen for the hunt.]]
* {{BFG}}: Nikolai's minigun. Even referred to as such by Stans:
-->"Come on, Russian, you got a big fucking gun!"
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Nikolai saves Edwin from a Predator, just when it seems he's done for.
** Despite Royce swearing up and down that he's a bad, bad man who doesn't care about anyone--and proving it when he trots off without a second look at dead or dying teammates--he doubles back under fire at least twice to rescue a comrade.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Isabella and Royce are the lone survivors, both wounded and out of ammo and with no way home, only for more monsters and humans to get airdropped in, about to repeat the events of the film. This means Predators, which means there's another ship to hijack, and more allies to help them out...]] Of course, this is an obvious SequelHook.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: While technically the second to die, he is the first to be killed during combat with a Predator. The ''hispanic'' dude dies first.
* BloodKnight: The Predators themselves are obvious examples. In addition, Royce repeatedly states that the main reason he worked as a mercenary is because he likes the thrill of combat. The subtext suggests that all of the characters are, and furthermore, it's why they were chosen.
* BondOneLiner: "You really ''are'' a good man." [[spoiler:"No, I'm not... ''but I'm fast''."]]
* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted. Whilst the main character's blasting in the first few scenes might lead one to believe this trope is being played straight, there's the "shell count" scene establishing their limited resources almost halfway through.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Stans has two great moments of this. First he talks about doing a whole bunch of cocaine, which Edwin finds funny. Then Stans starts talking about rape, which Edwin finds [[SarcasmMode somewhat less funny]]. The second is when he shows off his tattoo, leading to...
* BrotherSisterIncest: When the gang sees that Stans has a tattoo of a bare-breasted woman on his chest (and even plays with it), another character asks, "Your girlfriend?" Stans says, "No, my sister." Edwin's face is priceless.
* ChekhovsGun
** The neurotoxin-filled plant that the doctor saves Nikolai from, and not used until the very end. If you didn't see this coming, then TVTropes [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife hasn't yet ruined your life]].
** The somewhat offhanded mention of Dutch's defeat of the first Predator [[spoiler:by covering himself in mud]].
* CanonDiscontinuity: This film ignores the two "Alien Vs. Predator" movies, although WordOfGod is unclear if it disregarded Predator 2 as well (Isabelle doesn't mention the events of the second movie, for what it's worth, but there are some minor nods to it).
* CaptainErsatz: Nikolai is a beefy, somewhat slow Russian with a minigun who makes friends with a bespectacled doctor - and one of his sons is named Sasha. [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 He is Heavy Weapons Guy.]] He even screams while firing wildly at one point.
* CloserToEarth: Lone woman Isabella is the most compassionate character (though several of the men have their moments). Yes, ''the sniper'' is the most compassionate, and is thoroughly disgusted at Royce's attempts to leave the group or use them for his own gain.
* ClusterFBomb
* CombatPragmatist: The Berserker demonstrates this during his duel with the Classic Predator. As soon as Classic starts landing a few good hits in the fight, Berserker introduces his plasma caster to it.
* ContinuityNod: Isabelle is the only human who knows about the Predators, because she's read the reports detailing events of the original movie.
* CoolVersusAwesome: A Yakuza Enforcer with a katana dueling with a Predator.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover art for the single-disc DVD seen above would lead you to believe that Laurence Fishburne and Danny Trejo play much larger roles than they actually do.
* CrazySurvivalist: Former U.S. Air Cavalryman Noland, with real emphasis on both crazy (he talks to an imaginary friend), and given the planet, survivalist –- having survived ten "seasons," though how long this is is a bit...vague, seeing as a new batch of humans was being dropped in just a few days after the first. [[spoiler:He attempts to kill the team to get their gear and because they're dead weight for him, on the suggestion of his imaginary friend, and it's heavily implied he's done it before.]]
* CulturedBadass: Royce quotes Hemingway when describing his mercenary work - he likes the feeling of killing other men.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Royce makes a number of very smart decisions regarding the plot of the movie. He's the first one to figure out that they are being sent to the planet to be hunted, recognizes a booby-trapped body when he sees one, and uses his team as bait to lure the Predators out of hiding and figure out more about their size, shape, and technology, and his tactics against the aliens later play off of various franchise tropes.
* DeathByPragmatism: [[spoiler: Noland.]]
* DeathTrap: The first action sequence is a result of a huge number of traps set up by a long-dead Special Forces member, in a callback to the first film. One of the characters notes that the Predator bypassed all those traps and ripped him apart.
* DeathWorld: The setting of the film is designed to be incredibly hostile to survival.
* DebutQueue: The five main characters appear one by one, seconds or a few minutes after each other.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: The Predators don't make an appearance proper until after the group gets acquainted with each other and where they are.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: It appears that the writers for Isabelle's backstory comic forgot to read up on her character. It's not ''impossible'' that an Israeli girl went to Catholic school at some point, but it [[PlotHole certainly begs for an explanation]].
* DramaticIrony:
** The characters spend the first half of the movie just trying to figure out where they are and how they got there, while the audience already knows all that, the identity of the hunters, and a good portion of the [[{{Predator}} Predator's history with humanity]] to boot.
** Royce runs for the ship, unaware that his Predator ally has been defeated by the Black Predator, who then [[spoiler: commands the ship to self-destruct]]. It's doubly ironic, because BP doesn't know [[spoiler:Royce isn't on the ship]].
** As Royce tends to a paralyzed Isabelle, the audience cringes to see the traitor behind him, talking casually, and the desperation in Isabelle's eyes--as she can see and hear, but not speak or move--only adds to the tension.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Laurence Fishburne's character uses a helmet from one of the Predators he’s presumably killed to detect other humans' presence.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Noland gets blown up seconds after he runs into a Predator, after having been established as a highly-skilled (if demented) survivor.]]
* DwindlingParty: In effect throughout the entire film.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Nikolai, Stans, and Hanzo.]]
* EnemyCivilWar: Noland reveals there's a blood feud between two Predator Clans. Unsurprisingly, this becomes a plot point.
* EnemyMine:
** Someone eventually gets the idea of exploiting the EnemyCivilWar to their advantage.
** Lampshaded in a moment from a trailer (apparently removed from the movie) when Isabelle says that everyone needs to work together, another character responds, "Does this look like a team orientated group of individuals to you?"
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Stans--the convicted, psychotic mass murderer and rapist--''yells'' at Royce for leading them into a trap and getting a man killed.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: In-universe: invoked and discussed right in the first scene, when Cuchillo assumes they are all in Hell, and Nikolai speculates it's a military psyche experiment. But it's immediately pointed out that you don't need a parachute to get there, and why would a military go to great lengths to construct a piecemeal jungle and slam together criminals, mercenaries, and soldiers?
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Including a HungryJungle, the Predators, their dogs, the other "prey" animals, and [[HumansAreBastards your fellow man]].
* EvillyAffable: Stans may be a [[TheSociopath sociopath]], but most of his lines are pure gold. Take, for example, his rant against the rest of the group after brandishing his shiv:
-->'''Stans''':You know what? This is bullshit! I want a fucking gun! [to Cuchillo] Come on man, give me a gun! You got two fucking guns! [to Nikolai] Come on Russian, you got a big fucking gun!
* FaceNodAction: The Yakuza assassin simply stops walking in a field while the Predators chase them down. Royce, Edwin and Isabelle stop as well and look at the assassin, who simply looks at Royce and nods at him. Royce nods back and starts walking away again.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner:
** [[spoiler: Noland - "Finally found me, huh big dawg? Well, what took you so long?" ]]
** [[spoiler: Nikolai - "[[MythologyGag You're one UGLY motherfucker.]]"]]...with a side order of BilingualBonus
* FakeNationality: The Russian, Mexican, and African actors match their character's ethnicity, but are American, and the Israeli is Brazilian.
* FantasticRacism: There's an ongoing blood feud between the "classic" predators and the bigger, nastier "black" predators.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler:Nikolai.]]
* FiveManBand: Royce the hero, Stan the Lancer, Isabelle the Chick, Nick the Big Guy, Edwin the Smart Guy
* FootFocus: When Hanzo's loafers get sucked into the muck, a rather long close-up shows him slipping out of his shoes and planting his bare feet stoically in the mud, squishing some through his toes for extra effect.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When Royce figures out that one of their team members is being used as bait and says to leave him, the others leave in order according to how monstrous and/or noble they prove themselves to be over the course of the movie.
** Attentive viewers will know something's up when Edwin pulls out a photo of ''Nikolai's'' kids. Heck, [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife tropers will probably know]] there's something up when [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers he's introduced]].
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* FriendlySniper: Isabella, who is noticeably the most compassionate.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Everyone chosen to be "hunted," with the exception of the doctor, are hardened killers, which means that all of them are unsavory one way or another.
* GunPorn: Many of the guns get their own close ups, long and lovingly enough that firearm aficionados can read "Surefire" on the grip of Royce's automatic shotgun and "elcan" on Isabelle's scope, enjoy the sheen of Hanzo's pearl-gripped Beretta...etc.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** After being freed by Royce, a Predator from an opposing clan sides with him (a good deed for a good deed, after all).
** Meta-example: Stans shows remorse at a character's death, even though he was fighting with him and had tried to kill him earlier.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler:Nikolai blows himself up in order to both take out the Predator he's facing down and save his group.]]
** Also, [[spoiler:Stans playing dead to jump on a Predator's back and stab the hell out of it giving his teammates time to escape]], and [[spoiler:Hanzo]], pulling a YouShallNotPass moment and taking another one down.
* HeroicSociopath: Stans and...well, everyone. Some just hide it better than others.
* {{Homage}}:
** A guy called Hanzo gets a katana and fights in a field of tall grass. [[KillBill Quentin Tarantino must have loved that part.]]
** There's also a Mexican KnifeNut [[TypeCasting played by]] [[{{Desperado}} Danny]] [[{{Machete}} Trejo]], and his name is [[ForAFewDollarsMore Cuchillo]]...
* HonorBeforeReason: The Predators always try to fight fair when possible, and play with their prey before killing it, much to their detriment.
** Incidentally, the only reason the Black Predators seem to fight fair is because they enjoy the hunt so much, and want to make it last. They don't follow very honorable standards the rest of the time, unlike their jungle cousins. For example, multiple Predators hunting at once instead of only one, taking prey to their own turf, and using hunting dog-like creatures to flush out their prey.
* HotAmazon: Isabella.
--> '''Stans:''' Your ass is ''awesome.''
* HumansAreBastards: Our heroes are not nice people. Predators are bastards to each other, too. The Preds picked these Royce and the others because no one would miss them (being soldiers guilty of genocide, mercenaries, criminals, et cetera).
* HumansAreWarriors: Well, these guys are. Edwin is a noted exception.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The entire plot.
* HuskyRusskie: Nikolai.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Frequently brought up throughout the movie. The Predators will use any means available to weaken or kill the main characters, which means the humans will have to make some "hard choices" if they want to survive.
* IHaveAFamily: Edwin tries this, even though he ''doesn't''.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* InfernalRetaliation: [[spoiler: In conjunction with hiding from infrared using mud, Royce hides from the Predator by surrounding himself with fire.]]
* InnocentBystander: While the other abducted humans are military, {{Yakuza}}, criminals, or the like, Edwin is just some poor shmuck doctor snatched from his way to work.
* IronicEcho:
** When Edwin is injured, Royce wants to leave him behind, but Isabella protests that "He's one of us". Later, Edwin will argue "Please, I'm one of you," in very different circumstances.
** Stans mocks Mombasa after the latter dives into the detritus to avoid a deadfall with "Looking good, boss." Later, when Stans is lying on the ground covered in dirt and alien dog blood, Mombasa parrots the line back at him.
* InternalHomage:
** Numerous to the earlier ''Predator'' films, from the entire plots itself, the Marine who set traps and the discovery of dead Special Forces surrounded by ammo casings, the references to the first films plot, Laurence Fishburne's character, the lighting used in the Predator ship and the flares (it mirrors shots and lighting in ''Film/{{Alien}}s''), among numerous others.
** [[AliensVsPredator The Enemy of my Enemy... is]] [[TakeThat NOT my friend.]]
*** Also, Predators hunt in threes.
** "You're one... ugly... motherfucker." ([[BilingualBonus In Russian, though]].)
** [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The big one's called Sascha.]] In addition, giant Russian with the minigun (who says aforementioned quote) pals around with the Doctor. May be a coincidence, though...
** The lead Predator has an [[{{Aliens}} Alien's jaw]] attached to his helmet as a trophy.
** There is a burning [[{{Aliens}} Alien's Head]] strung up in the Predators camp.
** Noland tells the others that every season, a new batch of prey is dropped in, "shit you wouldn't believe." He turns and giggles conspiratorially with his ImaginaryFriend, but does seem to glance meaningfully at what looks like [[{{Alien}} an acid burn on the wall behind him.]]
** When Noland first approaches the group, his whispers of "Over here, over here," and "Turn around, turn around," are much like Mac's whispers in the first film.
** Royce also does a word-for-word repetition of Arnold's "Come on, do it, kill me!" line from the original film during his final battle with the Predator.
** When Royce frees the Classic Predator from the totem and it does its [[NeckLift neck grab on him]] it turns his head to one side much the same way [[{{Predator}} the Jungle Hunter did with Dutch Schaeffer.]]
** Just like in the original ''{{Predator}}'':
*** A character stares intensely into the trees, and doesn't respond when a teammate asks what's up.
*** A blade-wielding character suddenly stops fleeing in order to face the pursuing Predator, mano-a-mano.
*** Characters fall uncontrollably down a hill and right into a river.
*** A subtle one: A giant bug is impaled on a knife.
*** A character unloads with a giant minigun into the forest. Later, every gun-toting character unloads into the trees.
*** A character's weapon is blown in two by the Predator's weapon.
*** Moments before death, a character's arm is severed. It was Dillon's in the first film, and the [[spoiler:last Predator]]'s in this film.
* IOweYouMyLife: Never said, but rather obviously how Nikolai and Edwin became friends and how Stans and Mombasa stopped trying to off the other.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Royce for sure. Like your typical mercenary, he doesn't seem to care for the group in any real way. But of course, he has a change of heart by the end.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Stans, a convicted mass murderer, dies sacrificing himself for the team to get away, impaled and having his spine and skull torn out. Ironically, he was supposed to be executed in two days before the Predators selected him. The Doctor, after revealing he's a serial killer wacko type, is impaled, dragged through the mud while he pathetically begs for his life, and used as a grenade DeathTrap to injure a Predator.]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Completely justified. They're a hell of a lot better than a pistol that's out of ammo.
* KnifeNut: Stans, in part because none of the others give him a gun, but he certainly seems competent with it. [[spoiler:He slows down a Predator long enough with it, but not enough to do any real damage.]]
* LudicrousGibs:
** [[spoiler: Noland]] goes out like this.
** One of the dogs dodges [[ATeamFiring the entire team's concentrated fire]] until it gets within about ten yards; then it dies in a literal explosion of gore.
* MaleGaze: The camera follows Stans' line of sight for about fifteen seconds. When Isabelle turns around, he just words it out: "[[BabyGotBack Your ass is awesome]]"
* MaybeEverAfter: Movie convention would seem to force Royce and Isabella together, but their circumstances and his personality leave the coupling in question.
* MexicanStandoff: Subveted. Stans puts his shiv to Mombasa's throat and demands a gun. Mombasa calmly but firmly jams a handgun under Stans' chin. Cue OhCrap expression on Stans' face.
* MoodWhiplash: Halfway through the film, Stans says that he's going to do ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny so]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny much cocaine]] when they escape -- and then says he's going to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape some bitches]]. It then swerves back into funny when Edwin [[DeadpanSnarker unenthusiastically agrees]].
* MrExposition: Noland's role is essentially to show up and clue the other characters (and audience) in.
* MultinationalTeam: American (including the poor Army sod at the beginning), Mexican, Sierra Leonean, Russian, Japanese, Israeli.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Hanzo and the second Predator, Nikolai and the first Predator.]]
* MythologyGag: The creature that chases Edwin in the jungle resembles [[http://screenshots.filesnetwork.com/2/potd/1222215738_15.jpg the original design for the Predator.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer:
** One trailer (and the page image) shows Royce's upper body being ''covered'' in the iconic Predator three-dot laser, implying that there's a considerable number of Predators on the planet. In reality, there's only three, four Predators max. In the actual scene, it's only one target.
** [[spoiler: Noland appears in the same scene, despite being killed soon after being introduced in the actual film.]]
* NeutralFemale: Ultimately subverted, although it's a close call.
* NightVisionGoggles: Of course, given that the original movie popularized the imagery. The typical method of countering it is inverted, [[spoiler: instead of smearing himself with mud, Royce fights off the Berserker by starting a raging fire, which makes his body heat signature lost among the background noise]].
* NoNameGiven: For ninety-nine percent of the movie, the only one with a name is Nikolai. Isabelle and Royce introduce themselves in the penultimate scene, while the rest are named only in the script.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Royce does not subscribe to this, always prompting others to move on with "He's done." The first time, Isabella listens, but she refuses the second time, citing the risk of HeWhoFightsMonsters, and that if they give up their humanity to survive they’ve already lost.
* NotSoDifferent: Royce says this almost verbatim to Isabelle, then taunts her with
--> "You do it for your country so you don't have to admit you like it."
* ObviousTrap: The Predators set one with the cartel member. The team doesn’t fall for it.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Two Predators and Stans get their heads sliced off... or ripped off, in Stans' case.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Edwin comes off as this, ''especially'' compared to Cuchillo and Stans. This makes sense since most of the others are a PsychoForHire. [[spoiler: Subverted, he's by far the craziest.]]
* OhCrap: "Nice shot!" "...I missed." And they realize that they are ''so'' incredibly boned.
** Edwin's face, before that (he was used as bait to lure whatever was stalking them out).
* OntologicalMystery: Our main characters awaken in mid-drop into a strange jungle, armed with weapons, and no memory of how they got into this situation. Lampshaded when the characters discuss their situation and point out every single most used solution to the mystery: from a military training scenario to gauge stress reactions, to [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Hell]]. Later solved when they find out they're on a completely different planet.
* OneSceneWonder: Maybe not quite one scene, but come on, Laurence Fishburne as Noland was easily one of the best bits of the film.
** Especially one of his first lines. Royce asks what the hell he is, and he simply whispers, ''"I'm aliiiiive."''
* OutrunTheFireball: The characters try to escape the derelict ship before the explosion from Nikolai's claymores catches up to them.
* ParachuteInATree: This is how the other characters encounter Edwin.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Adrien Brody, known for being lean and playing nice guys, plays Royce, the ripped badass loner. WordOfGod is that they went with smaller guy because while real-life soldiers are in great shape, most aren't huge, burly guys like ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
** [[That70sShow Topher Grace]] in a [[RatedMForManly hardcore]] action movie [[spoiler: and turning out to be a CompleteMonster]].
* PrecisionFStrike:
** ''''''"FUCK! All of you!"''''''
** So I can find out who threw me out of a '''fuckin airplane'''.
* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler: Nikolai gets one. In Russian, naturally: "You're one ugly motherfucker."]]
* PsychoForHire: Royce and Cuchillo, maybe Mombasa. The other members are either too honorable to be psycho; or are too psycho to be for hire.
* TheQuietOne: Hanzo, the Yakuza assassin. He lost two fingers on his left hand (and needs to use prosthetics) in the past because he "talked too much." Despite having a mere handful of lines, he has more presence than most of the rest of the cast combined, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome one of the best scenes in the film]].
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Everyone knows Stans is a murderer, but Edwin doesn't get discomfited until he starts talking about all the "fine bitches" he's going to rape when he gets home.
* RatedMForManly: An entire cast of [[{{BadAss}} Badasses]]. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Topher Grace]].
* RealityEnsues: With the guns, at any rate.
** Royce's automatic shotgun blows through ammo like a hooker through coke, and Hanzo's Beretta only holds fifteen rounds. Both run out of ammo about when they should, and the characters are forced to improvise.
** Isabelle's finely-calibrated--and thus finicky--sniper rifle jams in the midst of a fast-paced gun fight. Highly likely in the dirty, humid jungle environment they were in.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Royce quickly deduces they are on an alien planet. Anyone going through the survival checklist a highly trained soldier would be familiar with would do the same.
* TheReveal: The humans are trying to figure out where they've been dropped. Cue the multiple moons and the gas giant in the sky!
* RousseauWasRight: Despite being remorseless killers and insisting on being bad men, Royce, Stans, Nikolai, and Hanzo all act for the benefit of others at different points throughout the film, and chew each other out for not helping the group from time to time.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Subverted. His actual on-screen suffering isn't nearly as bad as any of the others, but since he has a family back home, Nikolai certainly has the most to lose.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The ending has Royce and Isabelle still stuck on planet as a number of newbies are parachute-dropped in...]].
* [[spoiler:SerialKiller: Edwin.]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Well, sort of, and thankfully not of the main plot. [[spoiler:Nikolai sacrificed himself for Edwin, who turns out to be a serial killer hell-bent on staying, but he ''did'' manage to take out one of the Predators and ultimately save Royce and Isabelle.]]
* SherlockScan: Royce identifies the various groups within an hour.
* ShoutOut: See also InternalHomage, above.
** The music that plays during the end credits is "Long Tall Sally," the same music Dutch and his team are listening to as they're about to go into the jungle. Also a bit of SoundtrackDissonance, given the BittersweetEnding just before it.
** The title of the film is a reference to the title of the second film in the Alien franchise, Aliens.
* SingleStrokeBattle: The fight between Hanzo and the Predator.
* SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes: Royce slides all around the scale like butter on a hot skillet, but the rest fall under their categories pretty neatly:
** Type III: Nikolai, Isabelle.
** Type IV: Mombasa
** Type V: Stans,Cuchillo; and they would be {{Villain Protagonist}}s in any other story.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Isabelle.
* TheSmartGuy: Edwin, the otherwise hapless medical doctor, is able to identify alien plants and their various effects. GenreSavvy as they all are, the others quickly assume he's there in the capacity of TheMedic.
* SoundtrackDissonance: An upbeat LittleRichard song plays over the end credits. See ShoutOut above.
* SpikesOfVillainy: The alien hunting dogs have more tusks, horns and antlers than anything ought to, but it sure makes them look wicked awesome.
* StuntCasting: Used quite a but, but subverted, in that it's not the actor's fame that makes their appearance noteworthy, but their previous body of work.
** Noland [[OneSceneWonder steals the show]] in no small part due to {{Laurence Fishburne}}'s acting chops, but add in the HeyItsThatGuy factor, along with the ''ApocalypseNow'' shout out, and it's a perfect storm of "interesting things in that scene to talk about with other movie buffs."
** TopherGrace is cast so far against type it almost shocking to see his face in this movie.
** DannyTrejo is so very ''with'' type it's almost a [[AdamWesting nudge-nudge-wink in-joke]] with the audience--especially Robert Rodriguez fans.
* SummonBiggerFish: Royce attracts the Predators with an explosion.
* SurveillanceDrone: One of the Predators has a mobile scout that flies around and attaches to his shoulder. He's even called the Falconer.
* SurvivorGuilt: It's Isabelle's main motivation; it's also notably lacking in Royce and the others.
* RareGuns: The Atchisson Assault Shotgun (AA-12) makes its second appearance on the big screen.
* TakingYouWithMe: How one unfortunate merc takes care of a Predator.
* ThatsWhatIWouldDo:
** Royce says this word for word when they are attacked by the alien dogs.
** Mombasa takes it one step further, giving a detailed description of a sadistic trap for human prey, then saying, "I know because I have done this."
** While they are all mulling over their OntologicalMystery, Tijujana gangster Cuchillo suggests they may have been taken for ransom, and goes on to describe the awful things they do to their victims.
* TheCastShowOff: Lewis Ozawa Changchien has practiced kendo since he was five years old, and insisted on using that style in Hanzo's fight.
* TitleDrop: Isabelle says to Royce that they were chosen for the hunt because "we are predators. Just like them. We're the monsters of our own world."
* TokenGoodTeammate: In a band of mercenaries, gangsters, and killers, many of whom lack a clear conscience, Isabelle is clearly the only one who believes in doing the right thing.
* [[TooDumbToLive Too Shortsighted To Live]]: [[spoiler:Edwin is dangerous is a way, but not to heavily armed soldiers or the even more physically imposing aliens. Even if Royce has left them, Edwin stands a ''much'' better chance of survival with Isabelle than wearing her scalp as a hat or whatever he had in mind. However, it's {{justified}} by his nature as a serial killer, as such individuals rarely operate on a rational basis. As proof of his skewed perception, he expresses the belief that the Predators will accept him when they see he is a hunter like them; in truth, his method of hunting resembles theirs not at all.]]
* TheUnfettered: Royce is seemingly this trope personified. He's called on it by Isabelle and [[EvenEvilHasStandards Stans.]]
* UnflinchingWalk: A Predator walks away casually without even looking at his own ship he's just detonated.
* [[WakingUpElsewhere Waking Up]] ''[[WakingUpElsewhere In Freefall]]''
* WeHaveReserves: Royce uses the rest of the team to set off a trap, disappearing to observe how the Predators operate. Needless to say, Isabella's pissed at him in the aftermath.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Laurence Fishburne's character, Noland, was originally supposed to be played by Danny Glover, which would have been the perfect way to tie the film to {{Predator}} 2 as well as 1. Though whether Glover would've been playing the same character or not is unclear.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Isabelle calls out Royce constantly, mostly because he's a large fan of [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doing what he 'has to']] to survive. Isabelle asks him if survival at any cost [[WasItReallyWorthIt is worth it]].
** Stans does it too, calling Royce out on getting [[spoiler:Mombasa]] (who had saved Stans' life) killed.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Where the whole planet is "the dark." Mostly, [[RousseauWasRight they pass the test]], though a couple characters prove they're too selfish or crazy.
* WithThisHerring: Everyone starts out with whatever they were carrying before, so two of the characters only have knives. Lampshaded by Stans, who demands to be given a gun and nearly kills Mombasa for his, since all he has is a prison shiv.
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:When the classic Predator faces the black Predator it has been tied up for a while and has poorly maintained equipment which are the main reasons why it loses. Despite this he puts up a fight and hurts him which may have given him the flu when he fights Royce.]]
* WorldOfBadass: The deadliest hunters in the galaxy created a game preserve on a DeathWorld by stocking it with the most lethal predators of Earth.
* {{Yakuza}}: Hanzo's an enforcer for them.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler: The vessel going back to Earth is self-destructed after the Black Predator kills the Classic Predator.]]
* {{Yubitsume}}: Hanzo turns out to have two fingers sliced off because he "talked too much."
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