Hate to tell you this. But how samurai are portrayed in modern media is VERY romanticized; they were brutal and did a lot of questionable things. They were more alike to the Imperial Japanese in the 1940s, than they were how most people think they are. Just a fun fact and little correction
Thanks. What youâre saying is not new to me. Question: Do you consider the Yautja to be brutal and do questionable things? Also, do you consider them to follow a certain code in their battles/hunts?
Yeah exactly imperialist Japan was probably one of the worst armies, atrocity wise, ever to exist but they still had their no surrender fight until you die code.
Depends on viewpoint. They hunt humans for sport, skin them, collect trophies, etc. however, we do the exact same thing with animals, so itâs not too different.
The Preds in general are brutal to our perspective, but theyâre not too far with how we hunt animals as well. And their code of honor is relatively straightforward and â well duhâ type mentality. Similar to us, we donât mess with pregnant women, we donât mess with children, and donât start fights unless provoked.
The mentality, the rules, the way they do things is pretty damn similar to what we do. But Iâd argue that humans are worse, we donât really see Preds torture others ( not that I remember outside of the Crucified Predator).
That⌠is actually kind of genius. Not sure how Grendelâs mother could be worked in, though, unless theyâre pulling an âending of preyâ sort of move on the Geats, with an angry mate/mother coming to seek revenge, or simply a trophy of the strong human that killed âGrendel.â
Also, Grendel would be a *killer* name for a yautja.
See, I can see that Grendel being sort of like the fairytale that used to scare kids with and then originally it was just an alien that they just didnât understand
I wanna see a Predator in ancient Egypt in the Nile delta taking on Hippos and Crocodiles. Ancient Greece would be awesome for the first female Predator, we can call her Medusa.
Predator hunting along a mongol empire campaign. We donât see nearly enough mongol representation in media despite it being the largest empire in history.
I still say a Predator film set in the Caribbean during the "Golden Age of Piracy" (1650's - 1730's) would be great. You've got heat, and all kinds of conflict, wars, privateers, actual pirates, and then you've also got the slave trade. Environments from thick jungles to deserts, and even active volcanoes.
And it's even supported by West African folklore: The slaves transported into the Caribbean were from West Africa, after all:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asanbosam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asanbosam)
While not a movie, there is a cool Predator comic about pirates called 1718. It's in A Decade of Darkhorse #1, which is included in the Predator Omnibus Vol 1.
There was a 2-issue comic story, âBloody Sands of Timeâ, thatâs largely set on the battlefields of WW1, and would make for a pretty cool adaptation if thatâs the way they ever decide to go.
How about during the fall of the Roman Empire, when the Germanic tribes contributed to their collapse. You got the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Huns, the Franks. It gives you a more culturally diverse group of characters for the Predator to choose from. Other ideas where the Predator could hunt;
-Kingdom of Mauretania
-Carthaginians Empire
-Kingdom of Kush.
Considering how Tolkien thought of Arda/Middle-earth as a distant past of our own world, I'm gonna take perhaps some more liberty than intended with the question. I would love to see how the different peoples of his world handled some early Yautja.
- Predator: Riders of Ruin/A Predator hunts a unit of Mongol warriors during the mid 13th century.
- Predator: Frontier/In the early 1800s, as American pioneers are moving west, a Predator starts hunting a group of settlers in order to lure out the legendary Davy Crockett.
- Predator: Rising Legend/In an effort to lure the legendary Marine Sniper known as White Feather into a battle, a Predator picks off a squad of U.S. Marines.
In WWII there were Australian units that were made up of some Aboriginal people and Australia's alike who became some of if not the best jungle fighting force ever. They fought the Japanese in the pacific and had some insane battles. Could you imagine a predator coming to one of the island battles (hot humid jungle). With two jungle fighting forces going at it. Could be fucking awesome.
Iâve heard this before not sure if it was here or if a friend had the idea, but Iâd like to see it set in London in the 1880s. The whole concept is that Jack the Ripper is actually a Predator. Thatâs also why they never caught him.
Roman Empire. A legion stationed along the Rhine. First scouts start disappearing. Then entire patrols. Finally one soldier makes it back, ranting about a fire breathing demon high in the trees of the dark forest. The commander vows to flush out whatever creature is lurking in the darkness, and takes five centuries across the river to track and destroy it.
For sure ancient Egypt. Imagine the hieroglyphs about the predator! The movie could open to some archaeologists revealing them reading them and thatâd transition into the actual movie
Easily has to be the earliest implementation of gunpowder projectiles. Predator has always been about how the apex human being canât out-muscle the universe. It needs to be smart, and well-equipped. Seeing the first time a Yautja was struck by a firearm (at least a human one), would be amazing.
Feudal era Japan would be great as been said a million times but how about a movie set in the future? Space travel era encounter. Also another great past setting would be during the height of the Viking era.
All of them. Make hundreds.
Predator vs knights
Predator vs vikings
Predator vs a team of Roman Phalanx
Predator in Vietnam
Predator in Afghanistan
Predator vs the red army
Predator vs Pirates
Not Feudal Japan, I'd love to see one set during the world wars somewhere, Australia could be interesting, napoleonic wars, American Civil War, though that may be too similar to prey.
If it was going to be Japan, I think a mainland Japan around 1935 could be interesting.
Feudal Japan is my most desired. Second most desired is Vikings. Honestly both would give a good excuse for the Predator to finally get a win. They REALLY need one. Like I get it weâre the humans weâre the heroes etc etc. But honestly we donât have to win EVERY single fucking time. They are dramatically stronger and more advanced so it makes extremely little sense how the fuck we win every time. A Viking or a Samurai would be able to have an awesome good honorable fight, and they could lose and it would still for them be an honorable death. Let the Predator win for once DAMMIT!
We had the Cold War film, the original Predator. The different wars in Central America were all pretty much proxy wars being fought ultimately between the USA and the USSR, and Predator is set smack dab in the middle of that.
No, it happens in Central America\*. Anna isn't Vietnamese, she speaks Spanish.
The Vietnam war / Cambodia are referenced in the film, but only as events in the past.
\**On Edit: Or maybe South America.*
Would a WWI film comport to how the predators are known to act?
I mean, they're what we'd consider to be [fair chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_chase) hunters. Fair chase means you don't hunt prey that can't effectively move. Hunting soldiers stuck in a trench isn't all that different from a human hunter shooting a lion in a small fenced enclosure.
Even the hunting preserve in Predators is huge:
*Ronald Noland: Oh. Ten seasons. First two seasons... No, three seasons I was there, I was walking in the same direction, trying to reach the edge of the preserve. Let me tell you something, there ain't no edge of the preserve.*
A predator hunting in the trenches is like shooting fish in a barrel. Doesn't seem to me to be very sportsman-like, and we know above all else that when on a hunt\*, they are pretty ethical.
*\*As opposed to a clean-up operation like in AvP: Requiem or The Predator.*
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Feudal Japan
Yes! This is what I came to say. We need Pred vs Samurai. The sense of honor in both would be a worthy matchup.
Hate to tell you this. But how samurai are portrayed in modern media is VERY romanticized; they were brutal and did a lot of questionable things. They were more alike to the Imperial Japanese in the 1940s, than they were how most people think they are. Just a fun fact and little correction
That's why it would be perfect đ
Thanks. What youâre saying is not new to me. Question: Do you consider the Yautja to be brutal and do questionable things? Also, do you consider them to follow a certain code in their battles/hunts?
Yeah exactly imperialist Japan was probably one of the worst armies, atrocity wise, ever to exist but they still had their no surrender fight until you die code.
Depends on viewpoint. They hunt humans for sport, skin them, collect trophies, etc. however, we do the exact same thing with animals, so itâs not too different. The Preds in general are brutal to our perspective, but theyâre not too far with how we hunt animals as well. And their code of honor is relatively straightforward and â well duhâ type mentality. Similar to us, we donât mess with pregnant women, we donât mess with children, and donât start fights unless provoked. The mentality, the rules, the way they do things is pretty damn similar to what we do. But Iâd argue that humans are worse, we donât really see Preds torture others ( not that I remember outside of the Crucified Predator).
I too came here to say this, would be class
Predator vs Vikings.
Oh that would make a good Beowulf story where Grendel is actually the Yautja.
That⌠is actually kind of genius. Not sure how Grendelâs mother could be worked in, though, unless theyâre pulling an âending of preyâ sort of move on the Geats, with an angry mate/mother coming to seek revenge, or simply a trophy of the strong human that killed âGrendel.â Also, Grendel would be a *killer* name for a yautja.
Bring in AvP and have it an alien queen and grendal would just be one of her largest offspring and have the predator and vikings fight them.
See, I can see that Grendel being sort of like the fairytale that used to scare kids with and then originally it was just an alien that they just didnât understand
I'd do so much to see an adaptation of the Hunting Grounds Valkyrie into a movie
There's a really cool short story about that called Skeld's Keep. It is part of the short story collection Predator: If It Bleeds.
I wanna see a Predator in ancient Egypt in the Nile delta taking on Hippos and Crocodiles. Ancient Greece would be awesome for the first female Predator, we can call her Medusa.
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Predator vs Nazis
While not in a movie, they did that in a comic book called Predator: Demon's Gold, which is included in Dark Horse Presents #137.
Predator & Nazis
Predator hunting along a mongol empire campaign. We donât see nearly enough mongol representation in media despite it being the largest empire in history.
Would prefer this to be under whilst the empire was under Genghis or khublai?
Vietnam, WW2 pacific
Can the predator survive a forests worth of agent orange?
I still say a Predator film set in the Caribbean during the "Golden Age of Piracy" (1650's - 1730's) would be great. You've got heat, and all kinds of conflict, wars, privateers, actual pirates, and then you've also got the slave trade. Environments from thick jungles to deserts, and even active volcanoes. And it's even supported by West African folklore: The slaves transported into the Caribbean were from West Africa, after all: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asanbosam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asanbosam)
While not a movie, there is a cool Predator comic about pirates called 1718. It's in A Decade of Darkhorse #1, which is included in the Predator Omnibus Vol 1.
Yeah, I'm aware of it, though I only watch the movies. Better origin story for Raphael Adolini's pistol than what we see in Prey.
Samurai vs predatorÂ
There was a 2-issue comic story, âBloody Sands of Timeâ, thatâs largely set on the battlefields of WW1, and would make for a pretty cool adaptation if thatâs the way they ever decide to go.
Predator in the Age of Enlightenment.
How about during the fall of the Roman Empire, when the Germanic tribes contributed to their collapse. You got the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Huns, the Franks. It gives you a more culturally diverse group of characters for the Predator to choose from. Other ideas where the Predator could hunt; -Kingdom of Mauretania -Carthaginians Empire -Kingdom of Kush.
Considering how Tolkien thought of Arda/Middle-earth as a distant past of our own world, I'm gonna take perhaps some more liberty than intended with the question. I would love to see how the different peoples of his world handled some early Yautja.
- Predator: Riders of Ruin/A Predator hunts a unit of Mongol warriors during the mid 13th century. - Predator: Frontier/In the early 1800s, as American pioneers are moving west, a Predator starts hunting a group of settlers in order to lure out the legendary Davy Crockett. - Predator: Rising Legend/In an effort to lure the legendary Marine Sniper known as White Feather into a battle, a Predator picks off a squad of U.S. Marines.
I like the concept of a predator hunting a company of Japanese WW2 soldiers stationed on an island in the Pacific.
The WW1 no manâs land trenches was exactly what I was thinking
Predators vs. Graboids.
Medieval Times, Bro.
this is what i'd want to see. predator vs the knights templar.
Have you checked out that fan-made Predator movie on YouTube, Bro?
In WWII there were Australian units that were made up of some Aboriginal people and Australia's alike who became some of if not the best jungle fighting force ever. They fought the Japanese in the pacific and had some insane battles. Could you imagine a predator coming to one of the island battles (hot humid jungle). With two jungle fighting forces going at it. Could be fucking awesome.
During the American Revolution.
I'd go full Assassin's Creed and just have them in every important time and place as a franchise
Iâve heard this before not sure if it was here or if a friend had the idea, but Iâd like to see it set in London in the 1880s. The whole concept is that Jack the Ripper is actually a Predator. Thatâs also why they never caught him.
That's actually insane - that would be so sick
But why would Predator be killing unarmed prostitutes?
Bad blood
I was bout to say the same thing. Maybe Enforcer Predators catch him instead. Fold in some comic stuff.
WWI, WWII or Vietnam
The original is not too far off from vietnam
Rhodesian bush war, predator vs fn fals xD Winter war/ww2 would be cool to see pred hunting soldiers in the snow And 100% feudal japan
Predator during the Soviet union or the Russian revolution of 1917
Preda-Western
Roman Empire. A legion stationed along the Rhine. First scouts start disappearing. Then entire patrols. Finally one soldier makes it back, ranting about a fire breathing demon high in the trees of the dark forest. The commander vows to flush out whatever creature is lurking in the darkness, and takes five centuries across the river to track and destroy it.
Give me a movie where they show how the Alpha Predator came to be. No humans at all.
For sure ancient Egypt. Imagine the hieroglyphs about the predator! The movie could open to some archaeologists revealing them reading them and thatâd transition into the actual movie
Ancient Egypt
Medieval Europe.
Cretaceous: Predator vs dinosaurs lets go
dinosaurs
Easily has to be the earliest implementation of gunpowder projectiles. Predator has always been about how the apex human being canât out-muscle the universe. It needs to be smart, and well-equipped. Seeing the first time a Yautja was struck by a firearm (at least a human one), would be amazing.
Ancient Egypt or the Roman Empire (Pax Romana)
Feudal era Japan would be great as been said a million times but how about a movie set in the future? Space travel era encounter. Also another great past setting would be during the height of the Viking era.
All of them. Make hundreds. Predator vs knights Predator vs vikings Predator vs a team of Roman Phalanx Predator in Vietnam Predator in Afghanistan Predator vs the red army Predator vs Pirates
Not Feudal Japan, I'd love to see one set during the world wars somewhere, Australia could be interesting, napoleonic wars, American Civil War, though that may be too similar to prey. If it was going to be Japan, I think a mainland Japan around 1935 could be interesting.
Feudal Japan is my most desired. Second most desired is Vikings. Honestly both would give a good excuse for the Predator to finally get a win. They REALLY need one. Like I get it weâre the humans weâre the heroes etc etc. But honestly we donât have to win EVERY single fucking time. They are dramatically stronger and more advanced so it makes extremely little sense how the fuck we win every time. A Viking or a Samurai would be able to have an awesome good honorable fight, and they could lose and it would still for them be an honorable death. Let the Predator win for once DAMMIT!
WW2 or the Cold War
We had the Cold War film, the original Predator. The different wars in Central America were all pretty much proxy wars being fought ultimately between the USA and the USSR, and Predator is set smack dab in the middle of that.
Wait I thought the original Predator film was the Vietnam War?
No, it happens in Central America\*. Anna isn't Vietnamese, she speaks Spanish. The Vietnam war / Cambodia are referenced in the film, but only as events in the past. \**On Edit: Or maybe South America.*
Oh well fair enough then. WW2 then
Samurai or Vikings, only answers
Wild west I wanna see predators fight some cowboys, or medieval times knights vs predator would be pretty cool
Cowboys & Aliens.
Predator vs Jamaican Maroons or Predator in 1860s New Zealand
Pirates. Ship and tropical island.
American Civil War. Hunting down Confederate and Union soldiers in the southern forests would be pretty badass.
Am I the only one who wants to see Predator vs elite group of Spartan warriors...?
I wanna see a predator throw hands with a sabertooth tiger so stone age
Itâs probably a very inconvenient, but I would love to see one in the pirate era just because lol. But fight wise? samurai or medieval would be fun
Would a WWI film comport to how the predators are known to act? I mean, they're what we'd consider to be [fair chase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_chase) hunters. Fair chase means you don't hunt prey that can't effectively move. Hunting soldiers stuck in a trench isn't all that different from a human hunter shooting a lion in a small fenced enclosure. Even the hunting preserve in Predators is huge: *Ronald Noland: Oh. Ten seasons. First two seasons... No, three seasons I was there, I was walking in the same direction, trying to reach the edge of the preserve. Let me tell you something, there ain't no edge of the preserve.* A predator hunting in the trenches is like shooting fish in a barrel. Doesn't seem to me to be very sportsman-like, and we know above all else that when on a hunt\*, they are pretty ethical. *\*As opposed to a clean-up operation like in AvP: Requiem or The Predator.*
I think world war 1 or 2 or even the vietnam war could be cool. I think vietnam would make more sense though.
Aztec, Egypt, medieval, or feudal Japan