When I heard the first AvP movie was coming out I was stoked because I'm a long-time fan of both of the species. Even after blooding a human, they would still have no problem hunting humans. Predators are never quite "good guys," nor will they ever be. This is (I assume) why they are doing things in this movie such as killing indiscriminately.
Normally, if one adheres to the fiction, this would put a hunting party of Predators into "War Mode." That's not actually what it's called, but basically it's the point at which they lay their code of honor aside and do anything and everything necessary to prevent their technology from falling into the hands of others. It appears that in this movie, the Predator ship crash lands on Earth (presumably due to the predator-alien hybrid that was born at the end of AVP1), meaning you now have a stranded Yautja ship crawling with human "rescuers" and Xenomorphs that broke out of their stasis cells and such. which you saw in the end of the original Predator. Predators are equipped with personal nuclear weapons for the soul purpose of denying an enemy their hunting technology. honorable though the Yautja may be, they are still fiercely protective of their identity and technology. You see this, sort of, in the end of AVP1 when the Yautja "bloods" the lead female protagonist on the cheek.Īnyway.
After doing so, a single finger is cracked off of the Xenomorph and used on the Yautja's forehead to "brand" him as a member of his tribe to inscribing the tribal glyph with acid blood. In order to become a fully "blooded" hunter/warrior in their society, one must kill a Xenomorph using ritual weapons. Humans are one such "dangerous species" to the Predators. In the hunters' caste, that means hunting big game and taking trophies from dangerous species. They are semi-spiritual hunters and warriors who earn their ranks, titles, and privileges through combat. Predators (who in the fiction call themselves Yautja) operate on a simple caste system. I'm not terribly interested in casting myself in a "fanboy" light, but unfortunately that's the only way your question can be answered. Would be nice to see them actually do something redeeming of the genre this time, so here's hoping! Again, I just wish they were putting it in a future setting rather than "modern American backwoods yokels versus monsters." Allegedly Fox was actually hesitant to do so until recently.
Predator comic book / novel series and video games that have been coming out for the past 15-20 years. Based on what I have heard through community insiders, this is actually something that the fan base has wanted for a while in the wake of the very-popular Aliens Vs. I'm sure a lot of fans remember the placement of the Xenomorph skull on the trophy wall at the end of Predator 2. bother me, but that's only because of the trend of the Aliens and Predator franchises over the past decade. after AVP1 and Alien Resurrection, I can't blame anyone for skepticism!Īs far as putting the two races together, it doesn't.
Though playing my own Devil's Advocate, heh. I just feel it may be a bit too early to judge. how many here remember the original Alien trailer? The one that was just a freight train of visceral, terrifying images / music? Again, I fully understand the hesitance about it. I'm not terribly optimistic about the acting quality based on what we have seen of the trailer.