1300s
– Li Yat Sen, a charlatan, liar and thief is beaten and expelled from his village and is the sole witness to the crash of a mostly intact Predator ship in the mountains. Starving and near death, he eats the remains of the Predators inside, which heals him and gives him unnaturally long life. He would go on to use the technology within to make himself rich.
(AVP ETERNAL)
1700s
– A Predator hunts pirates on the 18th Century and retrieves a pistol with “Raphael Adolini 1715” written on it as a token after a successful hunt.
(PREDATOR 2)
1730s
A Predator ship arrives on the planet that would be known in the future by humans as LV-1201.
A lone Ancient Predator leaves the ship on an average hunt hoping to explore and hunt game on the planet, encountering a verdant world, full of dangerous prey including carnivorous, moose-like creatures; hulking, bipedal reptiles capable of disguising themselves as part of the terrain; and wormlike organisms that attack from underground. During the hunt the Ancient Predator comes across Aliens, the Predator fights them and follows the creatures deeper into their Hive, discovering it builded around ruins of an ancient civilization, finding a strange object built by those Pilots.
The Artifact is currently disabled when he gets to the Artifact Chamber so he looks for a way to activate it. After killing the aliens guarding the Artifact Activation Device, he presses a few buttons and pulls levers and the Artifact is energized.
Just as the Artifact is enabled, an invisible force-field is also activated, preventing Aliens from coming anywhere near it and killing those that do.
Eight months later, the Predators have built a hunting base camp around the Artifact from which they launch hunts deeper into the Hive.
The Predator descends, with some clan mates, deeper into the Hive, in search of the Xenomorph Queen. However, an alarm from the facility cuts their hunt short. The Predators return to the facility to find it overrun by Xenomorphs; the Artifact has been powered down, allowing them access.
The Ancient Predator fights through hordes of Xenomorphs, hoping to restores power to the Artifact by activating the stasis fields, areas constructed by the Pilots to keep bays of Xenomorph Eggs from hatching, while the surviving Predators attempts to fight through the facility. He is able to activate two stasis fields from the upper computer and the last one is damaged, forcing him to manually repair one field generator from bellow.
Just after fixing the generator, the Ancient Predator is attacked by a Facehugger, and both are trapped in the newly-activated field. The artifact is reactivated and the area is eventually abandoned by both Aliens and Predators, the Aliens becoming unable to reach it due to the force-field and all the Predators involved in the battle die.
(AVP2 PRIMAL HUNT)
– 1800s
Sheriff Johnny Anderson goes out on patrol around the small Oregon town of Coyote Creek and bumps into Wallace McBurnie and his gang; Anderson had once been a member of the gang of outlaws, but left to pursue a more honest life when he became tired of McBurnie’s violence. McBurnie reveals that he has come to town to recruit Anderson, the best safe-cracker he knows, for a job he has planned in Malheur County. Anderson refuses, making it clear he is prepared to use his gun if McBurnie does not like his answer, but the gang leaves, McBurnie telling Anderson he will give him “some time to think on that”.
Concerned that incident is not over, Anderson goes to seek the advice of Lars Nielssen, an ageing rancher and sheriff’s deputy who had been the first to give Anderson lawful employment upon his leaving McBurnie’s gang. Agreeing the gang will likely be back, Lars accompanies Anderson back to town as backup. However, upon returning to Coyote Creek, they find that McBurnie’s men have returned in their absence and kidnapped Anderson’s daughter, Mina.
Anderson and Lars track McBurnie’s men to their camp, set up on a readily defensible spit of land surrounded on three sides by a creek. As the pair withdraw to plan their assault, they hear a scream from the camp, followed by much shooting and commotion. They see strange flashes of blue light and men running in terror, and the pair quickly become separated in the chaos. Anderson moves towards his daughter, reaching her just in time to see her and McBurnie become caught in some kind of net and get hauled away across the creek.
Surveying the carnage in the aftermath of the confrontation, Anderson finds damage apparently caused by the flashes of light he saw, including one that has drilled clean through Lars and the man he had been grappling with, killing them both. Anderson also finds that one of McBurnie’s men, a young Native American named Billy Novak, has survived the slaughter. Realizing Novak is an expert tracker and disillusioned with McBurnie’s tyranny just as he had been, Anderson offers to pay him to help track and find his daughter. Reluctantly, Novak agrees. As they leave, they find another of McBurnie’s men, mortally wounded, who lives just long enough to tell them he was attacked by a “ghost”.
Following the trail left by the net, the pair find the huge footprints of whatever was responsible for the abduction, noticing it was too large to be human. As they press on, Anderson realizes their target is heading straight for the Nielssen ranch, where Lars’ family will be driving their cattle later that day. Upon reaching the Nielssens’ property, they see Eva riding towards them. She suddenly disappears from sight, but before Anderson can make sense of it, he runs into an invisible object and knockes himself unconscious.
When Anderson comes around, the group discovers the cause for the event: there is an invisible ship in the field, and the tracks that Novak had been following seemingly disappear into it. Unable to deduce a way into the invisible vessel, Novak comes up with the idea of stampeding Eva’s cattle into it, hoping to knock it over and thereby damage it and render it visible. With no better plan, they drive the cattle into the ship by setting a fire, the stampede damaging its cloak and making it visible. The Predator pilot inside emerges and opens fire on the cattle with its energy weapon.
Rushing inside the vessel through the open hatch, Anderson and Novak discover bloody human trophies, including skulls and spines torn cleanly from their victims, and soon locate McBurnie trapped inside a crate. As he begs them for help, Anderson finds his scared but unharmed daughter hiding in a dark corner. At that moment, the Predator returns, climbing aboard but seemingly failing to notice them hiding in the cargo hold. As soon as the exit is clear, Anderson, Novak and Mina flee the ship, leaving McBurnie to his fate.
They escape moments before the vessel blasts off and disappears. Reunited with Eva outside, Anderson considers the events he has experienced but resolves simply that he is glad he and his daughter have survived. Considering Novak’s future, he offers the young man a job as his deputy.
(PREDATOR: IF IT BLEEDS)
1900s
1904
A Predator clan returns to Earth and uses an ancient underground pyramid on Bouvetoya to perform ones of their manhood rite of passage, causing the disappearance of the local population by using them as hosts for the Xenomorphs. One whaler, Karl Johanssen witnesses a Predator fighting an Alien before dying of hypothermia.
(AVP 2004)
August/1926
– As an escaped prisoner runs into the woods while being pursued by three guards on the Florida Everglades, they are attacked by a Predator, who kills the armed guards leaving the unarmed prisoner alive.
(PREDATOR: GOD’S TRUTH)
1930
– A Predator hunts in New Way City, during his hunt he sets his eyes on Bruno Borgia, a man known as the God of Gangsters and the most powerful criminal in the city. With the help of corrupt cops Bruno decides to wage a war against his rivals, the Irish Mob, to kill all his enemies and take total control of the city.
The Predator, then known as the New Way Devil, follows Bruno to a museum in the city, which Bruno took his wife Isabella that was heavily pregnant with his son and to give birth there, after slaughtering various members of his Mafia the Predator finds Bruno killing him in close quarters combat;
He takes Bruno’s head and shows to his wife that just gave birth; the predator removes his mask and Isabella seizes the opportunity and drew her gun. The Predator notices but in a fraction of a second too late. She shots him in the face, destroying the Predator’s left eye, making him known as Scarface.
His blood sprays on her and the baby, who would be called Hunter, the remains of Bruno’s men arrive and start to shoot at Scarface, who suprised quickly flees leaving ,leaving his Bio-Mask, Plasmacaster and Glaive behind in the process.
Injured, Scarface attempts to return to his ship, on his way back to his ship, the New Way Devil encountered a street war between the police, Borgia’s mafia and the Irish mob; despite his wounds, the New Way Devil took the opportunity to kill Broken-Face Finlay, the leader of the Irish mob.
As he continued to his ship, the Predator fell into a burning building. Injured, trapped and having revealed himself to his prey, Scarface decides to set the Self-Destruct Device on his ship, hoping to die due to the hunt’s failure.
Suprisily he survives the explosion, as his Mothership arrives, the Predator climbs out of the rubble and drops to his knees in front of his clan Elder, awaiting what was surely an execution for his failure in surviving the explosion and letting the become aware of their existence.
Instead, the Elder banishes him into a hostile world where he would have to fight for his survival against the extremely dangerous native creatures with only a Glaive and his Wrist Blades for defense.
(PREDATOR CONCRETE JUNGLE)
1933
Tommy Warrington and his twin sister Annie live with their aunt Mary and uncle Jack on their ranch in Montana, having been orphaned at a young age. Their adoptive parents are harsh and overbearing, Tommy is frequently the target of Mary’s abuse and Jacks’ beatings, and he worries for his sister.
He is called by Mary who tells him that his uncle is an hour late returning from the far pasture where he has been working. As he heads out into the approaching night, he is joined by Annie, who has snuck out of the house. She tells him she hopes to find the shooting star she saw fall from the sky two days previously. Tommy agrees and the pair make for the pasture where their uncle has been working.
Not long after setting off, they discover the mutilated body of a cougar, disemboweled and decapitated, its head nowhere to be found. They also find several rattlesnakes that have been similarly cut open and beheaded. As if on cue, they hear a roar in the night, and, fearing it may be whatever is responsible for the slaughtered animals, rush to find their uncle, who they know carries a rifle whenever he is out in the pastures.
Reaching the boundary fence, Tommy and Annie discover their uncle suffered a similar fate as the animals they came across. Fearing whatever was responsible and dreading what his aunt will do to him now that his uncle is dead, Tommy considers fleeing with his sister, but at that moment she sees her shooting star, a glowing object lying in the scrub nearby. Before he can stop her, she runs over to it. Tommy follows, and they are confronted by a Predator and see the severed heads of Jack and the cougar clutched in its hand, believing to be The Devil himself.
As the Devil stares down at them, Tommy steps between it and his sister, hoping to save her; when the monstrous figure does not attack, Tommy realizes it has no interest in killing them because: unlike the cougar, the snakes and the armed uncle Jack; they are not dangerous and pose no threat.
Tommy tells his sister to run back to the house, before grabbing the mysterious glowing object on the ground and running after her. The Devil immediately sets off in pursuit. The two children manage to beat it back to the farm, Annie heading straight for the barn to hide. Tommy does not follow, but instead bursts into the house, startling his aunt. Ignoring her demands for an explanation, he hurls the strange device he carries at her, then dives beneath the table for shelter. Before Mary can reach him, the Devil enters the room. As Tommy hides, he hears Mary fire at it with the shotgun kept by the fireplace, then screaming, and finally silence.
When Tommy dares to look, his aunt is dead, and the Devil is standing over him, kicking the shotgun on his direction for him to use against it. When he makes no attempt to move or attack the Predator, it mutters to him in an its language, then left. When he reunites with his sister, Tommy is relieved that they are now free of their abusive aunt and uncle, but acknowledges the fact that he is just as responsible for Mary’s death as the creature that butchered her. He also realizes the Devil now knows he is a sinner, just like his aunt and uncle, and may well return for him one day.
(PREDATOR: IF IT BLEEDS)
August 20th, 1936
A Predator hunts on Kenya, killing animal hunters on the area, scaring local villages. A hunter, two park rangers and their African assistant meet the villagers and decide to track down and fight what the locals call a ‘demon of the forest’ that is said to appear only when the ‘hunting star’ crosses the sky. They find a several bodies on the forest and are attacked by surprise by the Predator, who easily kills all but one of the park rangers.
The man runs for his life eventually reaching a river as the Predator follows, two alligators attack the Predator. He is able to kill but loses an arm, angered the Predator uses the plasma caster to blow anything on his way, still pursuing the man. For hours this continues with the Park Ranger trying his best to hide from the Predator at night, a group of hyenas and then later lions attack the Predator, he kills them but is hurt. Tired and injured the Predator walks under a lake to enter his ship and leave the planet.
(PREDATOR: THE PRIDE AT NGHASA)
1940s
– A group of National Socialists attack a village in Central America, leaving only a young boy alive to serve as their guide forcing him to lead to the location of a hidden Inca treasure. When they locate and enter the cave holding the treasures they hoped to steal, they are attacked by a Predator, who kills all expect for the boy.
(PREDATOR: DEMON’S GOLD)
– A predator hunts on the Old West, taking advantage of a fight between American natives and settlers, he kills most of them, eventually retreating as more humans arrive.
(PREDATOR: BLOOD ON TWO-WITCH MESA)
1943
– A predator hunts in Stalingrad.
(PREDATOR: INCURSION)
1968
In response to persistent rumors of a Viet Cong POW camp somewhere in the jungles of Quảng Trị Province, a Marine Corps Force Recon squad is dispatched to sweep the area for signs of enemy activity. The five-man squad consists of Lieutenant Matthew Byrne, Sergeant Daniel Roland, Lance Corporal Scott Pearson, John Coffren and Bill Leisner.
36 hours into their two-day patrol, the group is ambushed by a much larger Viet Cong force; in the midst of the ferocious firefight, Pearson is killed by a strange energy bolt. The remaining Marines overhear the Vietnamese likewise coming under attack, before the VC retreat and the jungle falls silent once more. In the aftermath, the Marines discover Byrne has also been killed, his skull and spine torn from his body.
As the Force Recon squad come to terms with the horrific and baffling events, they are watched from the treetops by Nk’mecci, a Blooded Predator dispatched to Earth to determine whether humans would make for suitably challenging prey. While his mission is primarily to observe and report, he has gladly taken the opportunity to hunt when he can, although the most recent confrontation has left him wounded and destroyed his Cloak. Nonetheless, he considers the slaying of both the American and Viet Cong commanders a worthy action, as it will now offer him a chance to see how the survivors adapt to the loss of their leadership. To this end, Roland takes charge of the Force Recon Marines. During a quick search of their fallen enemies, they discover plans for a major, seemingly nationwide upcoming offensive; while they do not understand the coded papers, they recognize their obvious importance and take them with them as the head to their prearranged helicopter extraction point.
Nk’mecci follows the Marines, watching as they walk directly towards another VC ambush, unseen in the dense jungle. However, the branch on which he is perched suddenly breaks under his weight, revealing his position to the VC before they have engaged the Marines. In the ensuing three-way confrontation, the Marines and the Hunter wipe out the VC force, while Leisner is killed by Nk’mecci, who in turn is hit in the chest by a buckshot round fired by Roland from the squad’s M79 grenade launcher. Grievously wounded, the Predator retreats, while Roland and Coffren make for the clearing from which they are due to be extracted, having heard the helicopters approaching. Considering his options, Nk’mecci realizes he needs to return to his ship to treat his wounds, but doing so would deny him the chance to hunt the two surviving Marines. Feeling that to stop the hunt now would be shameful he takes a stimulant to keep his pain at bay and sets off after the Marines.
As the two Hueys approach the clearing where the pick up is to be made, Roland and Coffren make a break for the choppers. However, Nk’mecci emerges from the jungle and opens fire on them, killing Coffren before destroying both helicopters. Roland wounds the rampaging creature once again with a grenade fired from the M79, before he is forced to take cover from one of the exploding helicopters. When he looks up, he sees the Predator standing over him and dies as the creature takes his head.
Nk’mecci later departs Earth in his ship, but realizes that he is dying from his many wounds. Despite this, he takes pride in the fact his mission is complete, satisfied that the information he has gathered will safely reach home, informing others that Earth remains a fruitful hunting ground. As he awaits death, he admires Roland’s skull, sitting cleaned and polished atop the control console in his vessel, inwardly commending his adversary’s worth.
(PREDATOR: IF IT BLEEDS)
1974
– During the Vietnam War Roger Elliot, while training a group of Vietnamese locals in making terrorist explosives, discovers a skinned body which had frightened the locals into leaving the vicinity. Roger reports this discovery to his commanding officer in Saigon, who then orders him and his men to stay in the area.
Within the following days, all of Roger’s men are slain by a Predator, when he is about to get killed by the creature, he is able to make it fall on claymore mines traps, the Predator is heavily injured and retreats to his spaceship, leaving Earth. Roger is traumatized by the experience and develops PTSD.
(THE PREDATOR: HUNTERS AND HUNTED)
1987
– A Predator spacecraft flies near Earth and releases a ship which enters the planet’s atmosphere, landing on Guatemala. The country is currently finding itself combating an insurgency led by Communist guerrillas, who were being covertly backed by the Soviet Union; Soviet assistance included a number of military advisors. CIA agent Al Dillon is tasked with stopping the insurgency, which also threatens neighboring countries, and to this end he tasks Jim Hopper’s special forces team to eliminate the main rebel base of operations. Hopper and his men vanish, having been killed in the jungles of by a Predator. Without other options, Dillon devices a plan to convince his old friend Dutch and his team to stop the insurgency.
– Sometime later, U.S. Army Special Forces Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer and his elite military rescue team, Mac, Billy, Blain, Poncho, and Hawkins, are deployed to Guatemala in Central America, meeting there with Al Dillon.
Dillon and General Philips inform the team of a mission to rescue a Guatemalan cabinet minister and his aide, who had been kidnapped by guerrilla forces according to Dillon, who is assigned to accompany and supervise the team, despite Dutch’s objections.
After being inserted into the location aboard Redbird Two Two, Dutch’s team quickly discovered the wreckage of the helicopter that had been carrying the captured cabinet ministers and, later, several US Army Special Forces soldiers, who had been skinned alive and hung from the trees; one of the dead men was Dutch’s old friend Jim Hopper. Dutch and his men press on to the guerrilla camp where the hostages were being held, arriving just in time to witness a Soviet military advisor execute a hostage. Dutch’s team launch their attack, while a Predator watches, wiping out the camp in short order, although they found that the other hostages were also already dead.
Dutch and his men quickly deduce that the “cabinet ministers” had actually been CIA agents, and, after confronting Dillon, he learns the mission had been a set-up from the beginning, the agents had been captured reconnoitering for an attack and, after Hopper’s team vanished while attempting to rescue them, Dillon created the cabinet minister story to manipulate Dutch into destroying the guerrillas. Infuriated that a once close friend had betrayed him, Dutch and his men made for their extraction point, with Dillon ordering them to take along the sole surviving guerrilla, Anna, as a prisoner.
As the team makes their way to the extraction point, they are observed from afar by the Predator. Billy notices there is something with them, and begins to shows signs of being disturbed, while questioned by Dutch he says there is something in the trees, without proof Billy says it must be nothing.
Anna escapes and is chased by Hawkins, while distracted he is attacked and killed by the Predator, who takes his body with it. The others arrive soon after and question Anna on what happened, she responds by saying the jungle came alive and took him, noticing the blood and Hawkins disappearance Dutch organizes a manhunt during which Blain is shot by the creature’s plasma weapon.
Mac notices it and arrives near Blain’s dead body, the Predator “eye flash” to scare him, before running from the area. Enraged, Mac initiates a firefight in which the creature is wounded, revealing luminescent green blood. The unit regroups and realizes that something in the jungle is stalking them. Dillon believes more guerrillas are responsible, but Billy is adamant that the perpetrator is not human and that they will all die. The team makes camp for the night, setting traps in all directions.
At night the traps are set off, and Mac kills a wild pig, mistaking it for the creature. In the confusion, the creature steals Blain’s body and Dutch realizes that their enemy uses the trees to travel, stalking them like a Predator. They attempt to set trap all across the nearby trees to catch the creature, Dutch uses himself as bait, the creature attacks but the trap fails and Poncho is injured.
Mac and Dillon pursue the alien, locating it and device a plan together to ambush the Predator. On his way Mac is surprised and shot in the head by the Predator, Dillon soon notices something is wrong and sees Mac’s body, the Predator reveals his presence to the soldier.
Before Dillon can shoot, the Predator shoots the arm holding the weapon, while trying to get his other gun with his remaining arm the Predator closes the distance and kills him with its wristblades.
After hearing Dillon’s scream, Billy decides to stay behind and fight the Predator only with his machete, throwing his weapons off a cliff. Dutch and Anna continue to move towards the chopper while carrying Poncho, but they stop when they hear Billy’s scream.
They realize the Predator is on a tree too late, Poncho is killed and Dutch is wounded. Realizing the creature only kills those who are armed, the wounded Dutch sends Anna to the extraction point unarmed while he holds the creature off.
Dutch accidentally falls over a cliff and down a waterfall during a desperate escape, he crawls out of the water, through the mud when he realizes the Predator followed him into it.
By accidentally covering himself in mud, which masks the infra-red heat signature coming from his body that the creature sees, the Predator isn’t able to locate despite him being right in front of him.
Despite having lost most of his weapons, Dutch decides to confront the creature one last time, using the mud as camouflage and constructing improvised traps and weapons, including a bow, spears, incendiary grenades and several explosive arrowheads. Though the creature falls victim to a number of Dutch’s traps, destroying his cloaking device and wounding it, still they fail to kill it. .
The situation deteriorates when Dutch falls into a pool of water during the confrontation, stripping him of his camouflage, and leaving him vulnerable to the Predator, who grabs him
Instead of killing him right away the creature removes its advanced weaponry and mask, unveiling its face and challenges Dutch to a final duel in hand-to-hand combat. Dutch is no match and receives a brutal beating. Cornered and with the Predator recognizing and avoiding his final trap, Dutch triggers the trap himself, causing the log counterweight to drop onto the creature, crushing it.
Standing over the mortally wounded alien, Dutch questions out loud what it is. The creature eerily mimics his words and then activates a time bomb on its wrist device while laughing maniacally. Dutch runs for cover as a massive explosion ignite the jungle. The following day, Anna returns aboard a rescue helicopter to find Dutch, having barely survived the blast, they pick him up before heading back to base.
(PREDATOR)
After the death of the Predator, its ship was automatically programed to return to his species’ home-world, bringing the record of its hunt from its battle helmet computer. The records showed to the Predator species the first defeat of one of their own by the human species, bringing more interest in Earth due to humanity’s increased challenge, causing an bigger number of Predators to visit Earth on the following decades.
After being rescued from Guatemala, Dutch spent weeks on shock, unable to talk about what happened, he begins experiencing adverse health effects akin to radiation sickness, apparently from exposure to the explosion of the Predator’s Self-Destruct Device. While hospitalized, he is interviewed by Peter Keyes of the OWLF regarding what had happened in the jungle. Dutch subsequently escaped from hospital after overcoming several employees, steals a car and then disappears.
(PREDATOR 2 NOVELIZATION)
1997
August/1997
Due to the death of a Predator on 1987 by the hands of Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer, another Predator is motivated to come hunt on Earth, after having watched the recordings of the failed hunt back on their home-world. He and his clan arrive on the planet with their ship heading towards for Guatemala before veering north and flying over Mexico and towards Los Angeles.
September/1997
Los Angeles is suffering from both a heat wave and a turf war between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. A Predator watches as a shootout between the police, Jamaicans and Colombians develops, observing as Lieutenant Michael R. Harrigan charges into the firefight to rescue two wounded officers and drive the Colombians back into their hideout.
The Predator assaults the Colombians causing a disturbance that prompts Harrigan and his police detectives Leona Cantrell and Danny Archuleta to defy orders and enter the hideout. They find the Colombians have been slaughtered. Harrigan shoots the crazed gang leader on the roof. He catches a glimpse of the camouflaged Predator but dismisses it as an effect of the extreme heat and his acrophobia. At the station, Harrigan is reprimanded by his superiors for his disobedience. He is introduced to Special Agent Peter Keyes, leader of the task force investigating the cartels, and Detective Jerry Lambert, the newest member of Harrigan’s team.
Later that evening, Jamaicans enter the Colombian drug lord’s penthouse and murder him, but they are soon slaughtered by the Predator. Harrigan’s team find the drug lords body and Jamaicans’ skinned corpses suspended from the rafters, noting the similarity to the earlier Colombian massacre. Keyes arrives and kicks Harrigan’s team out. Archuleta later returns to continue investigating. After he finds one of the Predator’s speartip weapons in an air conditioning vent, the lurking Predator kills him. Harrigan vows to bring down Danny’s killer, believing they are dealing with an assassin. Forensic analysis reveals the speartip is not composed of any known element on the periodic table.
Seeking answers, Harrigan meets with Jamaican drug lord King Willie, a voodoo practitioner, in an alley. King Willie tells Harrigan that the killer is supernatural, and that he should prepare himself for battle against him. Harrigan, even more puzzled, leaves before the Predator kills King Willie, taking his head as a trophy.
Tracing a lead indicating Danny’s killer had recently been in a slaughterhouse, Harrigan arranges to meet his team at a warehouse district to investigate. Cantrell and Lambert take the subway to the rendezvous when the Predator, hunting Harrigan’s subordinates, suddenly attacks. Lambert faces off against the Predator and is killed. Cantrell is spared after the Predator’s scan of her body reveals that she is pregnant. Arriving on the scene to find numerous armed civilians dead in addition to Cantrell, Harrigan chases the fleeing Predator but is intercepted by Keyes’ men.
Keyes reveals that the killer is an extraterrestrial hunter with infrared vision that uses active camouflage and has been hunting humans for sport throughout armed conflicts, most recently in Central America. Keyes and his team are part of the OWLF (Other Worldly Life Forms Program) a top-secret CIA program tasked with investigating the creatures’ incursions on Earth. One of its key aims was the live capture of a Predator specimen for study. Specifically, the OWLF hopes to gain access to the Predator’s advanced technology and weaponry. They have set a trap in a nearby slaughterhouse, using thermally insulated suits and cryogenic weapons to capture it for study.
When the Predator arrives, the trap is sprung. However, the Predator realizes something is wrong, by not being able to see anyone despite hearing their footsteps, it starts to change its mask’s vision modes, eventually reaching a mode that can scan through various electromagnetic wavelengths, identifying and locating the light from the team’s torches. The creature easily outmaneuvers and slaughters the men before wounding Keyes.
Harrigan then attacks the Predator, badly wounding it before it rallies, destroys his weapon and closes in. Harrigan is saved by the sudden reappearance of Keyes who tries to freeze the alien but is soon decapitated by its throwing disc. The Predator chases Harrigan to a roof and the two foes clash, leaving them hanging from a ledge. The alien activates a self-destruct device on its forearm which Harrigan then severs using the throwing disc, rendering the device harmless.
The Predator falls through an apartment window, treats its wounds and flees through the building. Harrigan follows it down an elevator shaft and finds a spacecraft in an underground chamber.
Inside the ship, after briefly showing a trophy room with different skulls including a Xenomorph, the two face off in a final duel and Harrigan finally kills the Predator using the throwing disc.
Several other Predators suddenly appear, collecting their dead comrade, and one of them presents Harrigan with an antique flintlock pistol as a trophy. Harrigan escapes from the ship as it takes off.
He reaches the surface just as the remainder of Keyes’ team arrives. As Keyes’ subordinate Garber curses their lost opportunity to capture the alien, Harrigan privately muses that he shouldn’t worry as the creatures will return.
(PREDATOR 2)
1997-2000
– Several miles from one of the archipelagos that make up the South Chillean Coast, a Chillean fishing vessel witnesses a Predator ship landing in the ocean in the midst of a violent thunderstorm. The captain radios the Chillean Coast Guard who do a surface inspection and find nothing. An agent in the coast guard forwards the captain’s report to an unnamed secret “Organization”, headed by “the directors”, with a past history of trying to deal with the Predators, they realize what the incident is.
The organization assigns one of its top agents, Captain Rafe Cromartie of Special Operations and his team to investigate, capture an alien or alien technology. The Chillean authorities grant the organization a two-day window of opportunity, before sending in the Chillean Navy, the U.S. Military, the CIA and others will probably follow. One of the team receives top secret deep cover emergency training based on the organization’s cumulative knowledge of the aliens.
The Predator, attracted by a volcanic rift that has caused unnaturally warm waters and opened up a fissure into an undersea, underground world of new life and new creatures to hunt, takes to hunting Cromartie’s team, as well.
The Predator kills part of the survey team and kidnaps one of them to bait the remaining team deeper underground, in order to observe how one of the new unknown life-forms behaves on action before hunting it.
The Predator comes close to killing Rafe and his teammate Maria but is attacked by the unknown lifeform before finishing them, Rafe and Maria take advantage of the Predator distraction as he defeats the creature to ambush him.
As the Predator is damaged by the two, he is grabbed from behind by another ones of the lifeforms and is dragged underwater. Cromartie files a report stating that current policies concerning interception and investigation of the Predators are totally inadequate and that the mode of operations should be changed or it will only cause the death of more agents. He resigns his command.
(PREDATOR: HELL AND HOT WATER)
– A Predator, referred to by local Navajo Indians as an Adilgashi, terrorizes the town of Agate and the surrounding area by hunting animals and humans. Stationed at the Cole Army Base in Cibola County, New Mexico, Corporal Nakai and his friend Dietl go out on a patrol, the Predator ambushes them and kills Dietl with an energy blast.
Enoch rushes back to base, which had just recently discovered a crashed alien spacecraft, believing to have witnessed an “Adilgashii”, (Witch). Nakai explained his experience to his superiors who advise him to keep what he saw to himself.
His superiors tell Nakai that his claim has been validated; the ship army discovered was confirmed to be a combat vessel and that Enoch more than likely had a run in with its pilot. Enoch is granted his three-day leave, despite protesting. The predator ship that was found by members of the Cole Army Base, starts being to studied on, the Predator discovering what happened to his ship activate its self-destruction.
Enoch find out about what happened to his base on the next day, watching the newsflash detailing that Cole Army Base had been destroyed by a nuclear explosion. He discovers that a sheriff and his deputy were murdered, and that the herder’s son told the news that they were killed by “blue fire”. Nakai, realizing that this was the work of the same creature that killed Dietl.
As night falls, Enoch travels through the prairies of New Mexico to Cole. He later finds a faint fire in the horizon with a figure sitting by it. He slowly approaches it, unseen, only to discover that the alien Predator is revealed to be the figure. Nakai manages to hide before it notices him. As the Predator becomes suspicious, it is suddenly attacked by a mountain Lion, giving Nakai enough time to flee to a nearby military camp, informing the camps Colonel Trench of the Predator’s whereabouts.
The city is evacuated and the military takes over, Army Corporal Enoch Nakai and a military unit lead by Colonel Trench and his second in command Major Amblin is sent to deal with the creature. In the town of Agate, New Mexico, the Predator claims it’s latest trophy before it is intercepted by Enoch in a military jeep with a rocket launcher. A small firefight ensues as the hunter manages to escape, with Major Amblin being ordered by Colonel Trench to pursue it. Enoch is ordered to stay at Agate as part of the occupying force.
During his patrol, he meets Dan Tilden, who wonders why the Predator didn’t use its “ray gun” after the ambush. Enoch suddenly realizes that the Predator may have a special camp where he is storing his equipment and rushes to inform colonel Trench. Trench is despondent to Nakai’s claims to call off the search party looking for the hunter and instead says he’ll order major Amblin to send out a scout for a camp.
Frustrated with his rejection, Nakai decides to steal a jeep and ride off and look for Amblin’s squad. Nakai manages to find Amblin and his men just before the Predator ambushes and slaughters them all, including Amblin. Nakai manages to escape into the bushes without being seen, slipping from the Adilgashii’s grasp once again.
The next day, Nakai traverses a massive volcanic formation in El Malpais, ready to get back at the Predator armed with an M60. Nakai rushes through the jungle towards the Predator’s position but is suddenly intercepted by a booby-trap and has his right arm impaled and seriously wounded. The Predator hears the noise and attacks. Enoch manages to briefly fend off the attacker with his M60 before it intercepts him and destroys the weapon. Enoch flees while the creature pursues him on the trees before a branch snaps and the hunter falls to the ground, allowing Nakai to escape. He deduces that the hunter did not chase after him because he was recuperating from previous injuries and hadn’t fully recovered.
He figures that he may be able to lure the Predator into falling into the sixty foot hole, killing it once and for all. Nakai decides to set the forest on fire to draw it out to his position. His plan was a success and the Predator comes rushing out of the trees, unloading it’s Plasmacaster into Nakai’s direction. The hunter takes the bait and follows Nakai up to the formation where he suddenly falls into the trap hole. Nakai cautiously grabs his pistol and walks over to the hole to which the Predator lunges out from the hole and grabs Nakai, overpowering him. As the Predator prepares to go in for the kill, gunshots from a distance distracts the Predator caused by the forest fire igniting the shells from Nakai’s M60, giving Nakai enough time to grab his handgun and kill the Predator.
Back at base, although Trench is thankful towards Enoch, he cannot ignore the amount of times he disobeyed orders and arranges an honorable discharge for him. He is later told by the government to keep everything he has experienced confidential. One night, Enoch’s grandfather, noticing his growing anxiety, decides to comfort him and shares a story of when Enoch’s great-grandfather also witnessed a Predator attack 75 years earlier. Nakai suggests that it could have been the same Predator that attacked him at Cole, and that the government had to cover up the event just as they did now. The next day at the station, Nakai was later approached by the mysterious man calling himself John Smith. When Enoch found out that the feds were mostly interested in the monsters’ gear, he declined their offer to join the hunt.
(PREDATOR: BIG GAME)
A psychopathic Bad Blood Predator hijacks a ship and flees passing close to Earth, after having killed and cannibalized the others Predator on board.
The ship is hit and damaged by a Predator Enforcer spacecraft but is able to escape and ends up crash-landing on the state of New Jersey on Earth, near a paintball range close to a national park being used as a cover by a rogue CIA agent named John Pulnick. The Bad Blood begins killing anyone he comes across, brutally even by Predators standards, attaching their heads to his armor and mutilating their bodies for his enjoyment.
John arrives at his property to find it surrounded by cops drawn by the Bad Blood’s rampage. Shortly afterwards, a CIA taskforce led by Claude Loudermilk arrives in the area, aware of the Predator’s involvement. Claude attempts to remove John and the cops from the area, but John escapes and flees into the wilderness, where he encounters the Bad Blood and the bodies of his victims. Although the Predator almost kills him, he is able to escape.
Meanwhile, an Enforcer Predator arrives in the woods in search of the Bad Blood and begins tracking where the fugitive’s ship crashed. Realizing John has seen the Predator, Claude’s men apprehend him and detain him inside their operating compound, placing the blame for the massacred locals on him.
Claude also reveals that his team plans to capture the Predator and its ship. John is subsequently rescued by his former CIA team, consisting of Agents Philip Smith, Robert Graves and his wife Mandy Graves, who break into the CIA compound and free him. The former agents then decide to take down the Bad Blood themselves.
Several members of Claude’s taskforce locate the Bad Blood’s ship, finding inside the remains of the Predators it killed. However, while accessing the ship’s computers they accidentally trigger a boobytrap set by the Bad Blood — the explosion kills the agents and injuries the Enforcer, who was close by investigating the vessel himself. John and the former agents are alerted by the sound of the explosion but run into a CIA combat team, who attempt to apprehend them once more.
Before the two groups can start shooting, they are attacked by the Bad Blood, who immediately begins slaying the CIA team. The Bad Blood is in turn attacked by the Enforcer, who almost succeeds in impaling the rogue Predator with a spear. Their personal duel is interrupted when the Enforcer is wounded by one of the CIA soldiers, giving the Bad Blood the upper hand. However, the wounded creature is saved when John, having noticed that the Enforcer is only interested in bringing down the Bad Blood and has not harmed any humans, intervenes and shoots the Bad Blood. Wounded, the Bad Blood flees the scene, while the Enforcer also escapes in order to treat its own injuries.
In the aftermath, John and the other the former agents go after the Bad Blood, who gleefully continues his killing spree. John and his colleagues once again run into Claude’s team and a firefight ensues. Elsewhere, the Enforcer and the Bad Blood meet again and resume their battle to death; the Enforcer overpowers its adversary and prepares to land the killing blow, but the Bad Blood removes its spiked Bio-Mask and bludgeons the Enforcer with it, mortally wounding it.
After stealing some of the downed Predator’s equipment, the Bad Blood leaves the scene, drawn to the firefight raging between the groups of opposed human agents. The rogue Predator attacks the humans whilst also attempting to reach the Enforcer’s ship. Meanwhile, Mandy encounters the Enforcer who tells her to where the Bad Blood is going before asking to be put out of its misery.
Claude’s chopper and his remaining soldiers catch up to the Bad Blood as it reaches the spacecraft, but are slaughtered to a man, with the Predator taking Claude’s head as a trophy. John and the other rogue CIA agents arrive and take on the Bad Blood themselves but fare little better — Philip and Robert are slain, leaving only John and Mandy alive.
John is able to land several shots on the Bad Blood but the creature charges him down and quickly overcomes him. It kills him slowly, taking time to savor the moment, but while it is distracted Mandy ambushes the Bad Blood from behind, shooting it several times in the head and finally putting it down.
Afterwards, a group of Predator Enforcers arrive and begin cleaning up after the incident; acknowledging Mandy’s role in the Bad Blood’s defeat, they treat Mandy’s wounds and give her a ceremonial necklace as a gift before leaving the planet. Meanwhile, the CIA team is recalled by acting commander Agent Garvin, their mission a complete failure.
(PREDATOR: BAD BLOOD)
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