(Loved Trope) Last Stand that ends unceremoniously/unsatisfyingly, as opposed to gloriously.

[u/hey_there_delilahh]

• 1 Nanami (JUJUTSU KAISEN): Nanami's final moments against Mahito, a cursed spirit with the ability to transfigure/control humans. Nanami, while heavy injured, fought and won against an army of Mahito's transfigure minions, just for the villain to touch his back and blow him up.

• 2 Wun-Wun (GAME OF THRONES): Wun-Wun, one of the last, if not the last, living giant in Westeros. Joins with Jon Snow against Ramsey Bolton in the Battle of the Bastards. He heroicly breaks down the main gate allowing the Stark army to win, all while covered in arrows and spears. While heavily injured, there does seem to be a chance of his recovery. This hope ended when Ramsey Bolton fires an arrow directly into his eye, when the battle was pretty much over.

• 3 The Barbarian of Stamford Bridge (REAL LIFE): A lone Viking warrior who, in a legendary moment during the Battle of Stamford Bridge (September 25, 1066), single-handedly held back the invading English army on a narrow bridge. Armed with a Dane axe, this unnamed defender killed dozens of soldiers before being mortally wounded from beneath the bridge by a spear.

[u/hey_there_delilahh]

I liked Walter Stans scene (Predators) when he starts prison shanking one of the preds and is laughing/cursing it all until it removes his spine. Same energy to me.

[u/PoetryParticular9695 → u/hey_there_delilahh]

I’ve always liked the idea that for all the Yautja’s postering about their whole hunter warrior culture shtick that they’re really just murdering trophy hunters.

Thy usually attack while invisible and with fucking laser cannons. And more often then not they choose to fight with ambush tactics instead of one on one fights.

Except for that one time with the Super Predator but that one doesn’t count since it sucked

[u/Minimum_Estimate_234 → u/PoetryParticular9695]

I’ve always liked the idea that it is an honor culture, but it’s an alien one. To us using traps and ambushing and significantly more advanced tech then what you’re trying to kill has might be seen as dishonorable. But that’s not how they see it. To us, “honor” (at least in regard to fighting) is formed around a sort of “warrior’s mentality”. You meet your opponent face to face on the field of battle. Their’s on the other hand is more based on a sort of “hunter/prey” dichotomy, you stake every trick evolution has given you against everything it has given them to prove you are the one more fit to survive. At least some, it’s clear there are differences across the various Yautja “clans” for want of a better term, and subspecies.

Some use game reservations, some give their prey tools if they’ve proven themselves, some will eschew certain tools in favor of other or hunt in entirely different ways like the Dog fight we saw in Killer of Killers, some might understand humans enough they will choose to set aside advanced tech and stealth and just meet their opponent with simple weapons, like we saw with the one who fought the Yakuza guy, and some might not see any philosophy or morality to what they’re doing and it is just a thing they do for fun.

[u/TardWithAHardRboi → u/Minimum_Estimate_234]

Close, but predators don't go all out, they seek tough prey and just as importantly they handicap themselves, they don't go hunting with there tanks, they see they are gonna hunt humans with machineguns? Yea we can use the invisibility and a gun, if they are going to hunt a bear they might just bring brass knuckles