Placidity
Chief Executive Officer
Originally posted by KingD19
Whoa now. You're acting like Riddick isn't a master of stealth or able to cut down 20 Elite Necromongers in a heartbeat.If Arnold and Danny Glover can survive Predator's chasing them for prolonged periods of time, Riddick at least can.
And going by the only time we see Predator's work together in AvP and Predator's, we see that while they work together, they don't necessarily stay in a group. All eight of them aren't going to just plasmacast from the beginning. There's no sport or honor in it.
They'll try to hunt them down.
It depends which Predators you are using as a reference. If you think of an "Elite" Predator as Wolf, then eight "Wolf"'s would take this fight handily.
If you are using the Danny Glover Predator, then I would agree with you. But I don't think he counts as "elite".
The Predators in AvP were said to be rookies trying to gain their rite of passage. But even Scar was a complete badass, he would certainly take Batman or Riddick in a 1v1 if you give him full equipment, let alone 2 of him.
If they send rookies to take on Xenomorphs, then I would have to assume the Arnold / Danny Predator weren't elite either. The Danny Predator also has outstandingly bad moments, so he is an outlier.
As for Arnold / Glover surviving for long, that's because the Predator was stalking others first for most of the movie, and it was toying with them.
You are right they won't go mental on the plasma cannon right at the start, but it is not out of character for them to take out one or two with it to start off the fight. We see this in the first Predator movie. Also, it depends if they view the team as game or as a threat. When Predators recognize threats like Xenomorphs, they don't mess around, rapid fire plasma cannons are on the menu, and they won't hesitate to use it as we see in AvP and AvPR. The only time in the history of any Predator movie where the Predator disarms himself to play fisticuffs is when it is a one vs one, and the opponent is unarmed. And if the opponent is armed with a melee weapon, the Predator will engage with his wrist/arm blade.
I agree they haven't shown any good teamwork, but if one Predator dies, the others will definitely follow up on it immediately.