Predator/YMMV

• Contested Sequel: All of the sequels, especially 2 and Predators.
• Crazy Awesome: Several examples, but special mention goes to Billy, who takes on the Predator with just a knife. And then there’s King Willy, Jerry, and Keyes.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Blain and Mac.
  • Jerry “the Lone Ranger” Lambert from the second film, for being a good comic relief yet genuinely competent and badass, and Expy of another Ensemble Darkhorse, Hudson, being played by the same actor.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Of course, any movie with Arnie and Jesse Ventura is funnier because of their subsequent political careers, but lesser known is that Sonny Landham (Billy) also tried to run for Kentucky Governor and Senator. For more context on Landham, since he isn't nearly as well-known as his co-stars, he was rejected for being too much of a right-wing nut by the Libertarian Party — meaning that, however dimly you might think of Ventura or Schwarzenegger, neither of them can fairly be called the worst gubernatorial candidate in the cast of Predator.
  • Carl Weathers later mocked this with a spoof campaign commercial: "Vote for me. I was in Predator!"
  • See Ironic Echo on the main page. Arnold would later star in The Expendables.
• Hype Backlash/Sequelitis: The Reveal that The Predator would be directed and written by Shane Black, who played Hawkins in the first movie, excited many people, even moreso since his previous film, The Nice Guys, was a critical success. But when the film came out, it was met with largely negative reception from both critics and fans.
• Memetic Mutation: Some of the one-liners are downright legendary.

Blain: Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here, this stuff'll make you a Goddamn sexual Tyrannosaurus - just like me! Blain: "I ain't got time to bleed." Hawkins: "... it was 'cause of the echo." Dutch: "If it bleeds, we can kill it." Mac: "OH BABY, OH BABY, I'M GONNA HAVE ME SOME FUN, I'M GONNA HAVE ME SOME FUN, I'M GONNA HAVE ME SOME FUN...." Dutch: "Ruuuuun! Goooooo! Get to da choppa!" Dutch: "You're one ugly motherfucker."

• • A smaller example: After KONY 2012 came out, Trolls on Facebook and the like started posting pictures of Dillon (who - with his mustache and outfit - looks a lot like Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, the target of KONY 2012) saying nothing but variations of "This guy's awesome", to see how many people they could rile up. It worked.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The world as seen through the Predator's heat vision. Also the distorted recordings of Billy's laugh and Mac's voice ("Over here", "turn around", "anytime")
  • The part where Dillion looks around the jungle after hearing "anytime" and the Predator's cackles. As he looks around (we see from his point of view), you can clearly see him standing on the branch.
  • The Killers over in the comics, take a Predator and remove all forms of honor like not killing those that can't fight back and limiting their tech to make things even, they also use Aliens as hunting dogs.
  • In a strange real life example, according to P.W. Singer's Wired for War during the 2004 battles for Fallujah the U.S military set up a system to broadcast the Predator's laugh throughout the city in an effort to intimidate the insurgents. It worked so well that a marine scout team had to request it be turned off because it was freaking them out.
  • The Predator in general. In can camouflage itself and making itself near invisible (unless water comes into play), can mimic human voices to lure victims, collects human skulls and spines as trophies, etc.
  • "Want some candy?"
  • The second film has several, such as Danny’s death. But what takes the cake is the subway scene, where the Predator kills almost everyone in a subway car in utter darkness. Especially the aftermath. Poor Jerry...
• Tear Jerker: As Mac affectionately lays a whisky flask on Blain's body to Alan Silvestri's mournful yet warm and gentle trumpets.

Mac: Goodbye, bro.

• • Later that night, Mac is on guard and looking at the stars whilst going over Vietnam memories with Blain. Throughout this sequence, he's chewing tobacco - tobacco that everyone refused when Blain offered it to them in the helicopter.
• What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: A camouflaged biped uses endurance, superior tech and stalking to kill targets, not for food but sport.