The culture of the creatures at the center of the Predator franchise has been well established across various forms of media, and one of the most noteworthy practices of their honor-based hunting culture is their skinning of certain victims. The Predator movie franchise has seen the alien hunters kill across different time periods and on different planets, and over time more information has been revealed about what motivates the species known as the Yautja. Their honor-based culture involves finding, killing. and taking trophies from other organisms that they deem to be worthy, dangerous adversaries.

However, on several occasions in the Predator movies, victims are left skinless and hanging after an encounter with a Predator. The first special forces unit to encounter the alien in Guatemala (before Dutch Schaeffer and his unit ran afoul of it in Predator) were discovered skinned and disemboweled, and hanging from their ankles on display. The...