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Another insight concerns the franchise rules that are often violated in the name of diversity, "progress," or creative reinvention. The original Predator was a creature of myth and horror—an unstoppable force—and that mystique is key. When recent movies break these rules—over-explaining, anthropomorphizing, or humanizing the predator—they diminish what made the original movies great. The panel jokes about how even deteriorating story logic, like rendering the predator as a "kindly" hunter, destroys the defining appeal of the series.