As the Predator as seen in Predator (1987)Also known asYautjaHish-Qu-TenFirst appearance(1987)Last appearance(2018)Created byInformationHome worldYautja PrimeTypeTribal extraterrestrialThe Predator (also known as Yautja ( ) or Hish-Qu-Ten) is a fictional featured in the, characterized by its of other species for sport. First introduced in 1987 as the main of the film, the Predator creatures returned in the sequels (1990), (2010) and (2018), as well as the films (2004) and (2007).The Predator has been the subject of numerous novels, video games and comic books, both on their own and as part of the crossover imprint. Although a definitive name for the species is not given in the films, the names Predators, Yautja, and Hish-qu-Ten have been alternatively used in the expanded universe. Created by brothers and, the Predators are depicted as large, and creatures who possess advanced technology, such as,.

Both the Yautja and the Hish-Qu-Ten compete for a chance to enter the ritual of becoming 'Blooded', a rank given to predators that have killed prey that has been deemed worthy. Early Predator design concepts byThe Predator design is credited to special effects artist. While flying to Japan with director, Winston, who had been hired to design the Predator, was doing concept art on the flight. Cameron saw what he was drawing and said, 'I always wanted to see something with.' Winston then included them in his designs. Stan Winston's studio created all of the physical effects for and, creating the body suit for actor and the mechanical facial effects. The studio was hired after attempts to create a convincing monster (including wearing a much different body suit) had failed.

Recommended Winston after his experience working on.The Predator was originally designed with a long neck, a dog-like head, and a single eye. This design was abandoned when it became apparent that the jungle locations would make shooting the complex design too difficult. Originally, the studio contracted the makeup effects for the alien from 's Boss Film Creature Shop. However, problems filming the alien in Mexico led the makeup effects responsibilities to be given to Stan Winston. According to former Boss Films make-up supervisor Steve Johnson, the makeup failed because of an impractical design by McTiernan that included 12-inch leg extensions that gave the Predator a -leg.

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The design did not work in jungle locations. After six weeks of shooting in the jungles of Palenque, Mexico, the production had to shut down so that Winston could make a new Predator. This took eight months and then filming resumed for five weeks, ending in February 1987. Film portrayals was originally cast as the Predator; the idea was that the star's abilities in martial arts would make the Predator an agile, -esque hunter.

When compared with Schwarzenegger, and, actors known for their bodybuilding regimens, it became apparent that a more physically imposing man was needed to make the creature appear threatening. Eventually, Van Damme was removed from the film and replaced by actor. Hall, standing at an imposing height of 7 feet 2 inches (2.18 m), had just finished work as a in.Hall played the Predator in the first and second movies. Having been trained in the art of mime, he used many tribal dance moves in his performance, such as during the fight between Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Predator at the end of the first movie. In, according to a 'making of' featurette, suggested the to be the other Predators, because Glover was a big fan.

Hall persuaded some of the Lakers to play background Predators, because they couldn't find anyone on short notice. Hall died not long after Predator 2 was released in theaters.In, actor, standing at 7 feet 1 inch (2.16 m) and a fan of the Predator comics and movies, took over as the man in the Predator suits, such as portraying the 'Celtic' Predator during its fight with an. Whyte returned to portray the 'Wolf' Predator in.In, actors and Carey Jones both portrayed a new breed of Predator known as the 'Black Super Predators,' who have been dropping humans on their planet for many years to play a survival game against them. In a nod to the first film, played the Predator as the creature appeared in the original, dubbed the 'Classic Predator.' In, stuntman and parkour athlete Brian A.

Prince, standing 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m), portrays the title character, as a 'standard' Predator that escapes to earth after stealing a weapon called 'Predator Killer', and that is being hunted down by a far larger genetically enhanced predator. The enhanced Predator is mostly. However, 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) Canadian actor Kyle Strauts and Brian Prince served as stand-in for the character on set.Special and make-up effects. Main article:First appearing in the 1987 film Predator, the eponymous character arrives on Earth via to 'hunt' armed and dangerous human quarry. Having landed in a Central American jungle that has had prior visitations, the creature has already killed a squad of U.S. Special Forces soldiers before beginning to hunt an elite paramilitary team sent to rescue what they were told are presidential kidnapped by forces. The Predator dispatches the team members one by one with its array of weaponry until Major 'Dutch' is the last one alive.

Dutch eventually confronts the creature, covering himself in mud to hide his heat signature from the Predator's, and setting up numerous. Though he manages to disable the Predator's cloaking ability, the Predator manages to capture him, and then, in a display of, discards his mask and electronic weaponry before challenging Dutch to a final duel. Physically outmatched, Dutch eventually gets it into a position allowing him to set off one of his traps, which crushes and mortally wounds the creature. After being asked what he is by Dutch, the Predator simply mimics his question and sets off his self-destruct device before laughing maniacally, though Dutch manages to escape the explosion. Predator 2.

Main article:Set in 1997, ten years after the events of the first film, the 1990 sequel follows a new Predator who sets his sights on Los Angeles during the summer due to the heat and fierce, deadly drug wars between Jamaican and Colombian cartels, as well as the attempting to fight both gangs. (Promotional material for the film said that this Predator was younger, and chose a densely populated urban area for a more ambitious hunt.) Eliminating gang members from enforcers to leaders, the Predator also targets the L.A.P.D.

Officers attempting to investigate his handiwork, specifically Lieutenant Michael Harrigan and his three partners (, and ). Special agent Peter Keyes , purportedly sent by the to investigate cartels, but actually leading the secretive Outworld Life Forms task force, attempts to capture the Predator alive for government study, but he and most of his OWLF team are outsmarted and slaughtered by their quarry. Towards the end of the movie, the Predator is ultimately confronted by Harrigan in his own ship and killed when Harrigan uses one of his own weapons against him. The Predator's clan-mates de-cloak and carry away the dead Predator's body and give Harrigan a dating from 1715 as a sign of respect. The film also makes a reference to the films, as shown in the Predators' trophy room, which has a skull closely resembling that of an.

Predator (2004). Main article:In 2004, a buried on, an island about one thousand miles north of, giving off a 'heat bloom', attracts a group of explorers led by billionaire and self-taught engineer Charles Bishop Weyland , the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries.

Their investigation unknowingly activates an Alien egg production line as a hibernating Alien Queen is awakened within the pyramid. These events have all been orchestrated by Predators on a Predator mothership arriving in orbit, as the pyramid is an ancient Predator training ground, where three Predators are to now fulfill a rite of passage. Descending down to the planet and entering the structure, they kill all humans in their way with the intention of hunting the newly-formed Aliens, while the explorers in the pyramid are scattered, those who aren't killed by the Predators being captured alive by Aliens and implanted with embryos.

Two of the Predators die in the ensuing battle with an Alien. As the Aliens threaten to breed out of control, the remaining Predator allies itself with the lone surviving human, Alexa 'Lex' Woods , while in their way out of the pyramid as it is destroyed by the Predator's wrist bomb. On the surface, they find the Alien Queen has survived and escaped, and are forced to battle against her. They defeat the Queen by chaining her to a water tower that is toppled into the ocean, dragging her down into the dark depths of the frozen sea, but not before she fatally wounds the last Predator. The Predator mothership uncloaks and the crew retrieves the fallen Predator. A Predator elder gives Lex a spear as a sign of respect, and then departs.

Once in orbit it is revealed that an Alien was present within the corpse, thus a Predalien hybrid is born.Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). Main article:Set immediately after the events of the previous film, the hybrid aboard the Predator scout ship, having just separated from the mothership shown in the previous film, has grown to full adult size and sets about killing the Predators aboard the ship, causing it to crash in the small town of. The last surviving Predator activates a distress beacon containing a video recording of the Predalien, which is received by a Predator on the Predator homeworld, who sets off towards Earth to 'clean up' the infestation. When it arrives, the Predator tracks the Aliens into a section of the sewer below the town. He removes evidence of their presence as he moves along using a corrosive blue liquid and uses a laser net to try to contain the creatures in the sewer, but the Aliens still manage to escape into the town above, and the Predalien finds an opportunity to breed more drones at a hospital.

The Predator hunts Aliens all across town, accidentally cutting the power to the town in the process. Over the course of several confrontations with Aliens and subsequently human survivors, the Predator ends up with one working plasma caster that cannot be fired. The Predator fixes this by fashioning it into a plasma pistol before losing it, after which human survivors find and use it to help them escape. The Predator then fights the Predalien singlehandedly, and the two mortally wound one another just as the US air force drops a tactical nuclear bomb on the town, incinerating both combatants along with the Predalien's warriors and hive, as well as the few remaining humans in the town. The salvaged plasma pistol is then taken to a Ms. Yutani of the Yutani Corporation, foreshadowing an advancement in technology leading to the future events of the Alien films.Predators (2010).

Main article:In Predators (which deliberately distances itself from the prior Alien vs. Predator films), it is revealed that there are two warring Predator tribes: one group uses quadrupedal hunting beasts and elaborate traps to hunt, and the other hunts traditionally.

An international group of soldiers and dangerous criminals from different locations from Earth are dropped onto a forested planet used as a Predator game reserve. After numerous skirmishes resulting in the deaths of two Predators and all but two of the captured humans, the last Predator manages to kill another member of his kind from a rival tribe, but is defeated in combat by the human survivors. The survivors then head off to seek a way back to their home, just in time to witness more people be dropped.The Predator (2018). Main article:In June 2014, Fox announced a sequel which in will direct and co-write with, and will produce.

Continuing the existence of two Predator species, the film opens with a 'standard' Predator, being pursued through space, coming to Earth. After being forced to land in an escape pod it is captured by a government research division known as 'Operation Stargazer', but soon escapes to find missing parts of its armor that were taken by army sniper Captain Quinn MacKenna, who encountered the Predator when it landed, and was able to mail the items to himself before he was detained by the same government program as part of covering the incident up. When the armor parts are discovered by Quinn's autistic son Rory, Rory is able to figure out how to translate the Predator language, just as MacKenna discovers the Predator has escaped and, finding where the armor pieces are, is now hunting his son. Joining forces with Doctor Casey Bracket- an evolutionary biologist brought in to study the Predator- and a group of soldiers suffering from various PTSD symptoms that he was being escorted with, MacKenna is able to rescue his son, only to discover the first Predator was being pursued when it's pursuer, a larger alien of its own kind, arrives. The subsequent fighting results in the death of the first Predator, most of the Stargazer staff and the other soldiers in MacKenna's makeshift unit, but MacKenna, Rory and Casey are able to kill the giant Predator.

The evidence throughout the film indicates that the Predators are adapting themselves with human DNA and intend to take Earth once humanity dies out through climate change, and that the first Predator was a traitor who came to Earth with a cybernetic suit that would allow humanity to more easily stand up to the Predators.Expanded universe In the novel series (based on the ) by, and, the Predators, known in the series as 'yautja,' are depicted as living in a -based society bearing similarities to a pack mentality whose strongest and most skilled of the group lead. The Predators are portrayed as. The females are larger and stronger than males, and sport more prominent mammary glands (like human females).

Both genders give off a strong to signify aggression, and females can also emit it when in. This musk can be detected by other Predators and, though it is imperceptible to humans. Predators in the Perry novels are not, and it is common for veteran warriors to sire hundreds of offspring (known as sucklings) with multiple mates.

It is also revealed that their blood has the capacity of partially neutralizing the acidity of Alien blood. Their is partially explored in the series, showing that they are, and that their equivalent of the is the so-called 'Black Warrior,' who is seen as an eternal adversary who eventually wins all battles. Predator veterans at a celebratory feast inThough female Predators are occasionally referred to in Steve and Stephani Perry's novel series, one does not make an appearance until the comic book Aliens vs Predator: Deadliest of Species.

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This past Tuesday, Mortal Kombat X released its newest competitor, Predator. Not only do players get to control one of the most feared aliens in thegalaxy, but they're able to use his wide variety of weapons and hunting tricks. Look out Sub-zero, you wont see him coming!

Predator is well-known for his arsenal of sharp and compact weapons for hunting creatures all throughout the galaxy. With the signature cloaking mechanism and twin arm blades, Predator is a force to be reckoned with. But how does he fare against those from the Mortal Kombat universe? Very well, actually..

3 Forms, Same Predator

Like all Mortal Kombat X characters, Predator has 3 forms to choose from: Warrior, Hunter and Hish-Qu-Ten.

His Warrior form is not exactly the same Predator we are all accustomed to, but it's nearly identical. He wears a black mask and has the same weapons, but instead of a plasma cannon on his shoulder, he sports a mine that ties up his opponent and hangs them upside down. This is the same trap laid when Predators hunt and skin their prey alive. Warrior is a decent form to choose, but isn't exactly fun as using Hish-Qu-Ten.

Hish-Qu-Ten is the Predator we all know and love. It's identical to the Warrior class, but swaps out the trap mine for a shoulder plasma cannon and a silver/dark grey mask. This class is way more fun to use, as shooting fighters from a distance with your plasma cannon is fun, and seeing your favorite fighters such as Johnny Cage take on the Predator is a real treat!

Last but not least, there's the Hunter. The Hunter class is basically Predator with no mask, no cannon and virtually no weapons other than spinning blades (which all 3 forms have) and the arm blades (which all 3 forms have). Although all classes are basically identical, this class seems slower and more bulky than the other two, and that is off-putting. Against faster fighters, you will easily get overpowered and not be able to land a hit.

X-Rays and Fatalities

All 3 Predator classes have the exact same x-rays and fatalities. This is not just slightly disappointing, it's outright boring. The only real differences are the brutalities, which are class specific. That definitely makes up for the lack of x-rays, etc. The brutality for the Warrior class is the iconic upside down skinning of his prey. Hunter slices his prey in half, and Hish-Qu-Ten uses his plasma cannons. All very satisfying brutalities.

Verdict..

Predator is an iconic alien in the movie world, and he makes a great addition to the roster - as does Jason Vorhees. But more could have been done for this master hunter. More movement speed, more weapons (i.e. plasma bomb fatality) and more. Overall Predator is a great character to use and is a blast to fight against as well. Predator gets an 8/10.

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