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Predator (character)
Predator
Series Predator (series)
Age Thousands upon thousands of years
Birthday Unknown
Sex Varies
Species Yautja
Height 7'+
Weight 520lbs
Alignment Chaotic Neutral

The Yautja, more popularly known as the Predators, are an alien race and the main antagonists of the Predator film franchise. They also appear as anti-heroes in the Aliens vs. Predator series.

“ You're one ugly motherf*****. „
~ Almost everyone who faces the Predators.

Background[]

The Yautja, more commonly known as "Predators", are an extraterrestrial race of warriors and hunters who travel the galaxy seeking dangerous quarry to hunt for sport and honor. While they live in nomadic tribes, they are highly advanced and possess highly dangerous technology to help them in their hunts. They stalk their prey by using their technology, before killing them and ritualistically mutilating them, usually claiming a trophy as well. They have hunted on Earth for centuries, and deliberately bred Xenomorphs in order to hunt them.

Powers and Abilities[]

  • Enhanced Strength: Predators are incredibly strong, easily capable of outmatching a conditioned adult human male in unarmed combat and able to land blows that can shatter solid concrete. They are capable of tearing a human's head and spine from the body with little effort, while some larger specimens have even been seen to tear a human body in half using only their bare hands. This strength evidently extends to their lower bodies as well, as Predators have been seen to jump up to three times their own height, and are capable of falling up to ten times their height and landing safely on their feet.
  • Enhanced Speed: Predators can move faster than the human eye can follow, keep up with Xenomorphs, which can move too quickly to be recorded by advanced camera systems, and casually keep pace with a speeding car.
  • Enhanced Durability: Predators are highly resilient to physical damage, capable of recovering from multiple gunshot wounds with minimal or even no medical attention and surviving radiation doses which would be fatal to humans. They are also highly resilient to most bacteria and viruses.
  • Hunting Skills: Yautja culture itself centers on the ritualistic hunting of other dangerous lifeforms. They will travel even the span of entire galaxies in order to face human opponents. Once their prey has been silenced, the Predators collect their skulls as trophies.
  • Intelligence: Yautja possess far higher mental capabilities than humans. They created tech far more advanced than the likes of the Colonial Marines Corps and Weyland-Yutani industries, and have made starships capable of interstellar travel. The Predators also made their own martial art.
  • Code of Honor: Despite the ferocity and brutality with which Predators hunt and kill their prey, they seemingly adhere to a code of honor. This code of honor strictly forbids them from killing children, unarmed adults, those who are pregnant or the elderly. Should a target challenge a Predator to a fair hand to hand fight, the Predator will often abide, and strip themselves of any advanced technology, bar their wrist gauntlet, to challenge them.

Equipment[]

  • Bio-Mask: The distinctive mask of a Predator, which provides a number of functions besides basic protection, such as a breathing apparatus, translation and voice mimicry systems, audio and visual recorders, the ability to zoom in on distant objects and targets, and the Plasmacaster's targeting systems. Of these systems, the best known and most used are their imaging systems, which allow Predators enhanced sight through a number of different settings, such as thermal and ultraviolet vision, electromagnetism-based sight specialized for tracking Xenomorphs, tech vision that allows them to spot and analyze mechanical systems, and neuro vision allowing for the analysis of a target's emotional state, among many others that have not yet been fully demonstrated.
  • Plate Armor: Though it covers very little, their Plate Armor is made out of Delx; a metal harder and lighter than anything on earth. And increases their durability substantially. Reflecting automatic fire, withstood the acidic blood of a Xenomorph, and is said that no known human weapon can damage/pierce it... unless exposed to radiation.
  • Wrist Gauntlet: A vital part of a Predator's equipment, their Wrist Gauntlet houses several different features, including the Sat-Com, a holographic projector that can scan and map out a Predator's surroundings. It also contains their Self-Destruct Device and controls for their cloaking.
    • Cloaking Device: An advanced piece of Predator technology that can be used to render the user invisible, or nearly so, allowing them to stalk and kill prey undetected by warping light around them. This system is not perfect, leaving a slight distortion in the light as a sign of the Predator's presence, and it has been known to temporarily short-circuit when exposed to water.
    • Wrist Blades: The most basic of a Predator's weapons, these take the form of two (sometimes more or less) retractable serrated blades built into the Wrist Gauntlet. Ranging from 16 to 18 inches in length, these blades have been stated to be harder than diamond and are sharp enough to cut through tank armor.
    • Sat-Com:
    • Charge Emitter: An add-on to the Wrist Gauntlet that can be used to release bursts of high-power electricity that can short out electrical devices.
    • Energy Flechette: An energy-based weapon built into the Wrist Gauntlets of some Predators. Similar to a Plasmacaster, the weapon is weaker than its shoulder-mounted kin, lacking its tracking capabilities, though some have shown rapid-fire capabilities.
    • Power Punch Glove: A Predator device that connects their Wrist Gauntlet to "brass knuckles" worn on their hand. A rare sight, it can be used to greatly reinforce a Predator's striking strength.
    • Self-Destruct Device: An extremely powerful explosive device built into a Predator's Wrist Gauntlet, the Self-Destruct Device is used as a last resort in the event that they are defeated as an act of honorable suicide that erases their technology and all signs of their presence. The size of the ensuing explosion can apparently be controlled by the Predator, peaking at large enough to wipe out 300 city blocks of a rainforest. While most often used for ritual suicide, in serious situations a Predator can detach the Device to use it offensively.
  • Combistick: A spear-like weapon that is one of the weapons most used by Predators. Thanks to its telescopic construction, it can be easily stored before being extended to its full length in combat, and can be thrown like a spear.
  • Net Launcher: A weapon that fires a bundled wire net that expands as it exits the barrel to trap an opponent, often pinning them against a wall. Once attached to a surface, the net will begin to tighten, slowly crushing its victim within.
  • Plasma Caster: A long-range, shoulder-mounted weapon that fires bolts of concentrated plasma at targets, aided by a complex targeting system contained in the user's Bio-Mask. Among the most powerful weapons at a Predator's disposal, they are often viewed as dishonorable and discarded when a Predator enters into single combat with a foe that thy deem worthy. Their power can be modified for weaker discharges, and if they are badly damaged or disconnected they can be modified to be used as a hand-held Plasma Pistol.
  • Smart Disc: A discus-shaped weapon that, though it is sometimes used in hand-to-hand combat, is generally thrown at targets. Thanks to computer-controlled gyros within the Smart Disc, it always returns to its user's hand after being thrown, and they can track a target by their heat signature.
  • Medi-Kit: Used to treat wounds when on a hunt, visible contents are:
    • Powder
    • Shrapnel Extractor
    • Wound Clamps
    • Stimulant Shot
    • Antiseptic
  • Shuriken: Extremely similar to the Smart Discs, they can be used as a handheld slashing weapon. They can cut through a single Xenomorph without slowing down, can life and pin a grown human to a wall, and are strong enough to break a Xenomorph Queen's hardened head armor.
  • Razor Whip: Capable of slicing through people and Xenomorph alike, they can easily slice through a Xenomorph's skull.
  • Bow:
  • Electroshock Bolas:
  • Flamethrower:
  • Axe:
  • Proximity Mines: Several types and variations, used by the Predator to aid in the hunt:
    • Laser Mines: Used to trap foes.
    • Fire Mines: Set victims alight.
    • EMP Mines: Temporarily disable machines.
    • Plasma Mines: Envelop the target in a burst of plasma energy.
    • Sonic Mines: Temporarily disable prey with subsonic sound waves.
  • Spear Gun: Launches a spike of razor-sharp metal at a target, the spike hits with enough force to shatter concrete. A single dart has been stated to cut at a molecular level. They can fire a single shot or multi shot, ranging from Gauntlet-mounted devices to full-sized rifles. The Spear Gun Rifle is powerful enough to decapitate humans.
  • Plasma Scythe:
  • Scout Ship:

Feats[]

Strength[]

  • A Clan Leader managed to overpower a Xenomorph Queen.
    • The Xenomorph Queen was able to flip a trailer truck and the vehicle attached to it with one hand.
      • The trucks were nearly the size of tanks since they were designed for hefty transportation of large elephant like cattle.
      • An Alien Queen was also able to crush an entire house with it's weight alone.
  • Easily smashed a shotgun to pieces.
  • Capable of tearing off a human spine with one hand.
  • Ripped a reinforced steel door off its hinges.
  • Has plowed through solid stone walls with the mildest form of effort.
  • Clan Leaders can slaughter Alien Queens far larger than the ones in the movie.
  • Has shown enough strength to pierce it's Combi-Stick through a solid stone wall.
  • Smashed a Xenomorph against a stone wall, crushing it in the process.
  • Overpowered the locks of a large multi-ton maximum security gates with ease.
  • Can punch through concrete and steel.
  • While grievously injured, tossed aside a nearly 300 lb log.
  • Has often been displayed as the Xenomorph's physical superior.
    • A Xenomorph can break down inches thick steel doors and burst through explosion proof bunkers.
  • Snapped the spine of a Xenomorph without difficulty.
  • Implied to have removed the heads of dinosaurs as trophies.
    • A Predator only puts something on its Trophy Room after it had beaten it in hand to hand combat.
  • Overpowered the strength of six trained men.
  • Can rip futuristic and armored men from the waist.
  • Was able to break and destroy a helicopter with several blows.
  • Predators have even shown to rip humans in half.
  • Can take down Engineers and rip their heads off.
    • Engineers can trade blows with an Alien Queen and be tough enough to take a standard Plasmacaster shot.
  • Kicked away a Xenomorph easily.
  • Has ripped off the heads of Predators with cybernetic implants.
  • Ripped off the arm of a man wearing reverse-engineered heavy armor based on Yautja technology.
  • Has crumbled car roofs due to its sheer weight.
  • Can casually destroy skulls just by stomping on them.
  • Even after being tortured and lack of food, water, or other necessities, the Classic Predator knocked down the Berserker Predator.
  • Has shown enough strength to puncture futuristic tank armor.
  • Punched and flipped over a military truck.
  • Easily punched through man's chest covered in micro-Kevlar suit.
  • The Wolf Predator has restrained and held down two Xenomorphs with each hand.
  • Threw a wooden spear through a reinforced glass helmet.
  • Punched through really thick pillars of stone with ease.
  • Breaks and rips human bones with ease.
  • The Predator in the first movie was able to easily hold up Dutch Schaefer with one hand.
  • Simple backhands from them send trained and beefy soldiers flying.
  • Has swung a Xenomorph strong enough to shatter concrete pillars.
  • Has shattered a pistol.
  • A weakened Unblooded Predator was able to bend two steel doors with each hand without trouble.
  • Backbreaked a Xenomorph, shattering its spine with ease.
  • Was able to throw an entire buffalo over its shoulder.
  • Can tear off a combat android's head with ease.
  • Overcame a futuristic lock with pure pressure.
  • Easily backhanded a helmeted soldier to death.
  • Strength also applies to its legs as they can jump 3 times their height.
  • An Unblooded Predator easily crushed a human skull.
  • Casually tears the skull and spines out of humans and aliens alike
  • Casually broke through concrete and stone
  • Ripped through 2 inches of steel
  • Lifted up a large metal gate
  • Can pull a metal door off its hinges
  • Tossed around a metal surgery table
  • Can wrestle with lions
  • Can slice people apart with their claws
  • Plasma Grenade can destroy a tank and wreck parts of a surrounding town
  • Blew up a futuristic helicopter and a modern day helicopter with Plasmacaster
  • Reduce 2 people to char with Plasmacaster (0.124 tons of TNT)  
  • Blew up a spaceship with its laser cannon
  • Blew up entire spaceship with its Plasmacaster (6.37 - 72.32 tons of TNT)
  • Plasma Casters similar to the one the Predator uses can breach a spaceship hull
  • Can tear apart Synths with their weapons who can crush Facehuggers with their hands
  • Stronger than Drake who can swat back Plasmacaster shots with a Combistick
  • Can trade blows with an Elden and Magnus
  • Self destruct bomb can:

Speed[]

  • Has dodged futuristic gunfire at near point blank range.
  • Can dodge advanced helicopter missiles with ease.
  • Easily leaped over heavy machine gun fire.
  • Has fought on par with someone who can reflect sniper rifle fire.
  • While dodging gunfire, blitzed a human and then leaped over an extremely high fence.
  • Blocked a swarm of bullets after they've been fired by using a human shield.
  • Outran an explosion which covered up buildings.
  • Leaped over sustained Pulse Rifle gunfire.
    • Pulse Rifles should be more advanced and faster than the .220 Swift, which can fire bullets at Mach 4.
  • Has blitzed trained soldiers before they can pull the trigger on their guns.
  • Dodged MP5 fire from trained Russian Special Forces soldiers.
  • Ran through the full automatic fire of a heavy machine gun.
  • Speedblitzed and slashed a Xenomorph, which was sneaking up on it, so fast that gravity didn't take immediate effect.
  • Can run fast enough to outpace a speeding sports car.
  • Dodged shots and reacted faster than Dutch Schaefer.
  • Kept pace and even outmatched a Xenomorph in speed.
    • Xenomorphs can dodge Plasma Shots even at close ranges.
  • A weakened Classic Predator was able to outrun and dodge Plasmacaster shots.
  • Has been shown to move as a blur even to the eyes of trained soldiers.
  • The Scar Predator has leaped over automatic fire.
  • Should be far, far faster than Dutch Schaefer.
    • Dutch, by the end of the first movie, ran a safe distance away from the range of the Self Destruct blast.
      • At the time, the blast itself was stated to cover around 300 city blocks.
  • While a leaping Facehugger was mere feet away, a Predator was able to reach in his belt and throw his Smart Disc to kill it.
  • When it was retreating, was able to dodge gunfire from a trained soldier.
  • Has been stated to sidestep bullets almost easily.
  • Schaefer has stated that the Predators can dodge bullets if they see them coming.
  • Can jump up buildings and houses.
  • Dodged a futuristic rifle shot while he had full armor on.
  • Paced and even outmatched a speeding car.
  • Moves faster than human eyes can follow.
  • Dodged a bazooka blast and automatic fire.
  • Easily dodged an entire clip from an automatic rifle.
  • Parry multiple Xenomorphs all at the same time
  • Killed a bunch of soldiers before they could see him
  • Dodged blasts described as "lasers" and firing "flashes of light"
  • Can move in tandem with it’s Sonic Trap, which shoots out multi spectrum light

Durability[]

Skill[]

  • One of the most feared hunters in the galaxy.
  • Fights with the Xenomorphs as a way of life and nature.
  • The Jungle Hunter took down an elite squadron of soldiers and took them all out.
    • Except for Arnold, anyways.
  • The Yautja has created technology far greater than human technology.
  • The Wolf Predator took down the Predalien.
  • In various crossovers it has taken on dinosaurs, colonial marines, Batman, Superman, the Justice League, Judge Dredd, Motorhead, Magnus Robot Fighter, Terminators, Tarzan, Archie, and even members of their own kind!!! (Wait, how come there's no Marvel crossover)
  • Has often hunted down groups of Xenomorphs as sport.
  • The Yautja, in general, have been worshiped as gods and deities.
  • A Kombatant in Mortal Kombat X.
    • Where the ending shows the Predator acquiring the amulet of Shinnok and using it to enhance their technology.
  • Managed to make Arnold Schwarzenegger look like an underdog
  • Became one of the most iconic movie monsters
  • Various Predators have hunted all kinds of species like humans, Engineers and their own species, just to name a few

Weaknesses[]

  • Predators evolved to breathe a slightly different atmosphere than Earth's and often require breathing apparatuses to breathe properly, though these are not necessary for survival.
  • Their blood glows in the dark, making it easy to track them by it in low-light conditions.
  • A Predator's cloaking systems short-circuit when exposed to water.
  • Their code of honor makes many Predators reluctant to fight those that cannot fight back, or those that are ill or pregnant.
  • They dislike using their advanced, high-powered weaponry against worthy prey unless necessary, often handicapping themselves by abandoning their ranged weapons and even armor to better enjoy a hunt or honor a skilled foe, though there are those that lack such morals.
  • Since their Bio-Masks use infrared to see, Predators cannot see things with low temperatures.
  • Is one ugly motherfucker.

Fun Facts[]

  • A Predator appeared in the ninth season of the popular web series DEATH BATTLE! where it fought against Boba Fett and lost.
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