Awesome / Predator 2

• The Predator cleaning the Colombian gangsters at the start of the film.
  Danny: Whoever did this waited until the last minute, and then took out four men armed with machine guns by hand. Ha, and then got by us. Maybe we should give him a job. Put him on the payroll.
• Jerry's Heroic Sacrifice:
  Jerry: Come on, motherfucker... LET'S DANCE!!
• After Jerry is killed, Pope (Morton Downey, Jr.), the obnoxious reporter who has been following Harrigan around, finally gets what's coming to him:
  Pope: Hey, Harrigan! More victims! More mutilations!
  Harrigan: [punching him right in the face] FUCK YOU!!!
  • His camera shows him unconscious, with his coworker calling for him.
• Harrigan single-handedly takes down the AUG-and-grenade launcher-armed Colombians with his car and an old shotgun. The Predator itself is impressed after it witnesses this.
  • What really makes the City Hunter decide Harrigan is the worthiest trophy of its hunt? Later in the film, on the roof of the Colombian stronghold, Harrigan suddenly whirls and trains his gun right on the cloaked Predator. Harrigan didn't hear it, still can't really see it, and has no idea he's being stalked by an invisible extraterrestrial, but his instincts are still sharp enough to warn him. You can actually see the Predator freeze in shock.
• One thing the City Hunter has that the Jungle Hunter didn't? Multiple vision modes!
• The ending certainly qualifies. Multiple Predators decloak and surround Harrigan after he has just killed the City Hunter. It also qualifies in a real life sense given the scene involved nine men in Predator suits, which made it the single most expensive scene to make in the whole film.
  Harrigan: Okay, who's next?
  • Harrigan's trophy, in addition to being an awesome show of respect that shows just how long Yautja have been coming to Earth, almost qualifies as a Heartwarming Moment as well.
  • Additionally, the Trophy Room scene is a great example of exposition done right. A glance at an old Flintlock and the Predators' various trophies tells you everything you need to know about Predator society.
• The mere fact that Harrigan is just a cop, and not some Super-Soldier leading a Badass Crew like Dutch and his men in the first movie, and he still manages to win.
  • Not to mention, he manages to succeed where Dutch failed by beating a Predator in combat.^note Not to diminish the accomplishment, but Word of God is that Dutch was stuck with playing on hard mode, so to speak, as he was facing off against an older, tougher, and much more experienced hunter than the one Harrigan defeats here, while armed only with his wits.
  • Harrigan is so formidable that the Predator eventually just gives up fighting and decides to prioritize escape. Even if we don't see its reaction, there's no doubt the alien is scared out of its mind when Harrigan actually follows him back to his ship.
• While on the subway, some thugs are harassing some poor sap... who proceeds to pull out a gun to defend himself. When one of the thugs pulls an even bigger gun, five more people, including an old lady, pull out handguns too. Then Jerry and Leona show up, and the thugs immediately surrender.
• After realizing just how screwed Keyes and his men are, Harrigan proceeds to steal his gun back from the federal agents who are trying to stop him from intervening. He gets them to let him go by dropping down onto one of them and holding him at gunpoint. Harrigan then goes to his car and loads up on pretty much all the weapons in the trunk, blows down the door to the warehouse with a grenade round, and makes a Badass Boast to call out the Predator.
  Harrigan: You want me? HERE I AM!
  • The ensuring warehouse fight that follows with Harrigan and the City Hunter using their respective weapons in a firefight before they engage in close quarters combat. This causes the Predator to retreat with Harrigan chasing after him.
  • Then in the fight on the roof, Harrigan ends up slicing the City Hunter's arm off with the alien's disc weapon before the Yautja ends up crashing into an apartment complex and is forced to heal himself. And did we still mention that Harrigan is constantly chasing after the Predator until the final fight in the Yautja space ship?
• King Willie doesn't survive his encounter with the Predator, but given that he was decapitated and his skull claimed as a trophy, it's a safe bet that Willie was able to put up one hell of a fight.
• Another argument could be made for Keyes' surprise return after being blasted in the face by a plasma bolt. Just when you think the Predator's got Harrigan cornered, Keyes jumps out, half of his face burnt off, and entering full on Gary Busey mode, starts laughing like a psychopath while blasting the Predator with liquid nitrogen.
  Keyes: Guess who's back! Too late to go home now!
• An off-screen one for the City Hunter. It's got the skull of a Xenomorph in its ship. In addition to launching a whole new franchise, this also shows how badass it is to have killed something on its own that usually requires a full marine squad with 22nd-century weapons.
  • It's a strong possibility that the Xenomorph trophy belongs to another Predator and not the City Hunter, as the ship houses several more Predators, who show up at the very end.
• The ending to the film has a sense of closure, as Harrigan lives to tell about his encounter with a Predator, and Garber, one of the government agents under Keyes, asks with a hint of disbelief what happened. While this is happening, this Alan Silvestri composition plays: Came So Close / End Credits.
  Garber: Harrigan?! What the fuck happened in there, huh!? [shoves Harrigan with his assault rifle]
  Harrigan: [effortlessly shoves the rifle down and away, giving a clear "fuck off, son" glare]
  Garber: Goddamnit, we came so close.
  Harrigan: [as Garber goes to join the team investigating the site] Don't worry, asshole, you'll get another chance.

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