Funny / Prey (2022)

• Taabe is telling Naru about his kühtaamia while she aims at a hawk. She fakes falling asleep, and Taabe quickly fires an arrow, hitting the hawk. Naru says that she was waiting for the hawk to circle back before shooting it, and now Taabe has to cross the river to retrieve it.
  • Later, when he complains to their mother that Naru wasn't listening to his story, she says that they didn't have time for a nap. Their mother laughs pretty hard at the joke, implying that Taabe tells the story quite often.
• A Comanche hunter telling Naru about how fearsome mountain lions are, that she'll never be as good a hunter as him or her brother, and that they'll be the ones to kill it... right before he's grabbed by the lion and mauled.
• Naru, while tracking the Predator, hunts a few rabbits for dinner. She cooks them over a fire, tears a strip of meat for Sarii, and hands it to him. The dog starts gobbling it up, then Naru says "Next time, you're cooking." Sarii pauses, tilts his head, and whines, as if pointing out that he can't cook.
• While Naru and Taabe are tied up as bait, Naru tells a story about seeing a beaver make a Life-or-Limb Decision, hinting she's about to do the same thing. Taabe begs her not to... right before she escapes unharmed.
  Naru: I'm smarter than a beaver.
• The Predator's massacre of the French trackers is equal parts awesome and nightmarish, but it also contains some delightful Black Comedy:
  • Four of the hunters nab the Predator with a bear trap and pull it down with a large net. One of them is bragging in triumph before the Predator jams its blades into his jaw through his entire skull.
  • Boneface encounters one particular hunter who just stands there with his gun aimed at the alien's head. Rather than quickly kill him, the Predator slowly walks up to the poor sap as if to goad him on before the hunter finally fires. His bullet ends up deflecting off the Predator's helmet and hitting him right back in the face. Even the Predator seems to pause for a moment.
  • One tracker gets the bright idea to pull a small knife on the inhuman hunter and beckon it for a fight. Instead, the Predator tears off the bear trap enclosed on its wrist, resets the bear trap by banging it against a tree, and throws it toward the hunter's head.
  • Three of the hunters fire at the Predator, who blocks all their shots with its shield. After a Beat they all start awkwardly and arduously reloading, during which time the Predator slowly lowers its shield and stares at them, as if thinking "Really?" You later hear their screams as the point of view shifts to the Comanche siblings.
  • As the Predator pins one hunter to a tree, another hunter tries to get at it with an axe, only for it to catch the axe in its wristblades, wrench it into the air, and bring it down on the poor schmuck's face. Seeing what it did to his buddy, the hunter pinned to the tree threatens the Predator with a (very, very small) knife. The Predator just looks at the knife, gives the idiot a "seriously?" look, and then uses its shield to slice the poor sod's head off.
    • Made better by the Beat as the Predator stares at the spot the decapitated man was with a Quizzical Tilt, then walks off with a subtle shake of the head, as if even IT'S saying, "You're the most advanced hunters on this rock?"
    • Considering that the shield not only decapitated the trapper, but cut through the whole damn tree, the Predator may be pausing to admire how badass that moment looked. Like it's thinking "Fuck yeah, I'M AWESOME!"
• Naru gives Raphael a patch of orange herb for him to eat to stop the bleeding. He hesitates, asking what the herb is for, so Naru just grabs his hand and makes him shove the herbs down his mouth.
  • Later, noticing the Predator approaching, Raphael flops dead like a fish in the most comedic way possible, eyes wide open and a look of glassy eyed "please don't notice me" on his face.
  • In what just has to be Black Comedy, Raphael meets his end when the Predator (not knowing that he's alive due to Naru's medicine masking his heat signature) steps on his missing leg, causing him to yell in pain, followed by the Predator immediately stabbing him. Yes, the Predator was startled.
• Near the end of the film, after Naru successfully goads the Predator into firing a spear gun with the sights secretly aimed at its head. After the projectile curves and misses Naru, the Predator follows its path until it finds itself staring at the sights on its helmet, aimed at it. Cue the head tilt and what can only be interpreted as the Yautja version of "Oh come on!" before it's killed by its own weapon.

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