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A serial killer wouldn't necessarily do well in this situation. They tend to get off on being sneaky and killing people with no way to defend themselves. A combat vet is probably their worst possible choice, which is why it's a popular trope.
Hannibal lecter and true crime make serial killers look like supervillains but really they're just Steven Miller if he was broke.
Seriously Dahmer had a victim RETURNED TO HIM BY THE POLICE. Not a mastermind, a higher intelligence wouldn’t be subverted.
Not only that, there were a bunch of his neighbors telling the police that he was killing people and that his apartment smelled like the literal pile of rotting corpses that it actually was, and the police response was, “You’re black/gay, we don’t care.”
Dahmer was a psychotic, tactless, idiot fucking dumbass that genuinely did not seem to be even trying to hide his actions, and the police were still too fucking stupid, lazy, and bigoted to even notice.
Conspiracy incoming:
The cops knew what Dahmer was doing, they just didn't give a shit. He killed a bunch of people the cops wanted to kill themselves.
Just like Reagan and AIDS!
ICE cold take
I don’t think you would even call that a conspiracy theory, that’s just what was obviously happening.
Documentaries always like to show them as geniuses because it's more exciting than the idea that people are oblivious and law enforcement isn't always effective.
Instead of a serial killer, maybe an obsessive weirdo who can figure out how anything works (and how they can be made to not work) and really, really wants to go home.
The aliens keep trying to find their captive, but parts of the ship keep breaking.
So... McGuyver?
Actually yeah.
I struggled with that show when I was a kid. I didn't understand the point. Because my family is... just like that. Dear old Dad, my uncles, even my mom who made her own wedding dress on a treadle sewing machine.
That just sounds like the original 'Die Hard' with Aliens. he's in the vents!
Yeah but we'd totally watch that.
Oh yeah, absolutely I would!
Let's just make a nice cup of tea in that Nutri-Matic over there ...
Until the combat vet gets triggered by his PTSD, but then we already have Rambo.
What about a serial killer that normally targets combat vets??
There was one fan fiction where the A-Team was abducted by aliens. Let's say they promptly broke out of confinement, locked themselves in a room with a bunch of alien goodies and went underground in a nebula. That was a fun one.
Have you seen Predators? This is directly addressed in that movie.
Why not both? Ever watch criminals minds it's always "ex military"
What about a serial killer that normally targets combat vets??
Okay, so the aliens don't abduct him. They pose as humans, ala They Live or Men In Black. They don't know he knows they're aliens. They're his family, friends, and business partners.
Osiris with Linda Hamilton.
And most combat vets are retired mercenary serial killers.
Not the same kind of "serial killer" referenced here, though.