List of Predator (franchise) characters
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This article lists characters and actors in the Predator franchise. The original series consists of five films, Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990), Predators (2010), The Predator (2018), and Prey (2022), as well as the video games Predator: Concrete Jungle (2005) and Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020). The series revolves around mankind's deadly encounters with the Predators (Yautja).
Overview
This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in the film series.
- An empty, dark grey cell indicates the character was not in the film, or that the character's official presence has not yet been confirmed.
- C indicates a cameo role.
- U indicates an uncredited appearance.
- V indicates a voice-only role.
Characters | Films | Video games | |||||
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Predator | Predator 2 | Predators | The Predator | Prey | Predator: Concrete Jungle |
Predator: Hunting Grounds | |
1987 | 1990 | 2010 | 2018 | 2022 | 2005 | 2020 | |
Recurring cast and characters | |||||||
Predators | Kevin Peter Hall | Derek Mears (classic) |
Brian A. Prince (fugitive) |
Dane DiLiegro | Aimée LeighV | Antonio AlvarezV | |
Peter CullenV | Hal RayleV | Brian Steele (Falconer and Berserker) |
Brian A. Prince (ultimate) Juan PachecoV |
Sarah BrownV | |||
Carey L. Jones (tracker) | |||||||
Alan "Dutch" Schaefer | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Mentioned | Arnold SchwarzeneggerV | ||||
Anna Gonsalves | Elpidia Carrillo | Elpidia CarrilloC | |||||
El Scorpio / Guerilla | Henry KingiU | Henry Kingi | |||||
King Willie | Calvin Lockhart | Arthur BurghardtV | |||||
Isabelle | Alice Braga | Alice BragaV | |||||
Sean H. Keyes | Jake Busey | Jake BuseyV | |||||
Raphael Adolini | Mentioned | Bennett Taylor | |||||
Scarface
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Jan JohnsV | ||||||
Introduced in Predator | |||||||
Al Dillon | Carl Weathers | Mentioned | |||||
Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez | Richard Chaves | ||||||
Mac Eliot | Bill Duke | ||||||
Blain Cooper | Jesse Ventura | ||||||
Billy Sole | Sonny Landham | ||||||
Rick Hawkins | Shane Black | ||||||
Homer L. Phillips | R. G. Armstrong | ||||||
Introduced in Predator 2 | |||||||
Michael "Mike" R. Harrigan | Danny Glover | Mentioned | |||||
Peter Jacob Keyes | Gary Busey | ||||||
Danny "Danny Boy" Archuleta | Rubén Blades | ||||||
Leona Cantrell | María Conchita Alonso | ||||||
Garber | Adam Baldwin | ||||||
Jerry Lambert | Bill Paxton | ||||||
Anthony "Tony" Pope | Morton Downey Jr. | ||||||
Phil Heinemann | Robert Davi | ||||||
Captain B. Pilgrim | Kent McCord | ||||||
Introduced in Predators | |||||||
Royce | Adrien Brody | Mentioned | |||||
Edwin | Topher Grace | ||||||
Walter Stans | Walton Goggins | ||||||
Nikolai Mikhalovich Fedorov | Oleg Taktarov | ||||||
Hanzo Kamakami | Louis Ozawa Changchien | ||||||
Mombasa | Mahershala Ali | ||||||
Cuchillo | Danny Trejo | ||||||
Ronald Noland | Laurence Fishburne | ||||||
Introduced in The Predator | |||||||
Cullen Yutani | Françoise Yip | Mentioned | |||||
Quinn McKenna | Boyd Holbrook | ||||||
Casey Bracket | Olivia Munn | ||||||
Will Traeger | Sterling K. Brown | ||||||
Gaylord "Nebraska" Williams | Trevante Rhodes | ||||||
Rory McKenna | Jacob Tremblay | ||||||
Coyle | Keegan-Michael Key | ||||||
Lynch | Alfie Allen | ||||||
Nettles | Augusto Aguilera | ||||||
Baxley | Thomas Jane | ||||||
Emma McKenna | Yvonne Strahovski | ||||||
Introduced in Prey | |||||||
Naru | Amber Midthunder | ||||||
Taabe | Dakota Beavers | ||||||
Aruka | Michelle Thrush | ||||||
Wasape | Stormee Kipp | ||||||
Introduced in Predator: Concrete Jungle | |||||||
Isabella Borgia MOTHER |
Tasia ValenzaV | ||||||
Lucretia Borgia | Giselle LorenV | ||||||
Bruno Borgia | Fred TatascioreV | ||||||
El Hongo | Armando Valdes-KennedyV | ||||||
Hunter Borgia | David SobolovV | ||||||
Introduced in Predator: Hunting Grounds | |||||||
Soldier | James WillemsV |
Introduced in Predator (1987)
Dutch
Dutch Schaefer | |
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First appearance | Austrian-American |
Title | Major |
Affiliation | US Army (formerly) Alan Schaefer's private military team |
Birth date | January 13, 1948 |
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (
Dillon
Alan "Al" Dillon (
Anna
Anna Gonsalves (
Poncho
Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez (Richard Chaves) is a Chicano. He speaks fluent Spanish, for he can translate to his group for Anna when she speaks. Though not as physically imposing as his teammates, he is a competent and intelligent soldier with a sarcastic sense of humour, although his composure begins to crumble as the attacks increase. Poncho is the first to find Hawkins' remains. He is badly wounded when the Predator inadvertently uses one of the traps set by the commandos against them and a tree trunk slams into his waist after the Predator shot it to swing right at him. Poncho is the last victim of the Predator, shot in the neck as Anna and Dutch attempted to carry him to the helicopter. His weapon of choice is a grenade launcher.
Billy
Billy Sole (Sonny Landham), is a Native American. Billy is the first one to notice the Predator is hunting them. Throughout the film, it is alluded that Billy has a strong jungle sense. At several points during the film he feels the presence of the Predator and becomes spooked. Billy dies shortly after presenting a formal knife fight challenge to the Predator (he discarded all of his equipment before doing so), in order to buy Dutch, Poncho, and Anna more time to escape. The manner in which he is killed is unknown, but the Predator is later seen dragging Billy's body up a tree and placing him on a branch before removing his spine and skull as a trophy. Billy's laughter is mimicked in the Predator's dying scene as it activates its self-destruct device.
In August 2022, Bennett Taylor confirmed that the script for Prey revealed Billy to be the reincarnation of Taabe, a Comanche war chief and older brother of Naru who is ultimately killed by a Predator, portrayed by Dakota Beavers, reframing Billy's "last stand" with the Predator as being due to subconscious memories of a past life.[3][4]
Blain
Blain Cooper (
Hawkins
Rick Hawkins (Shane Black) is the team's radio operator and technical expert. He tells sexual jokes (often badly to the point that he has to explain the punchline) and reads comic books. He uses a submachine gun as his main weapon. As he captures Anna trying to escape, Hawkins becomes the first on-screen victim of the Predator, presumably slashed to death by its blade. Apparently, the Predator eviscerates him in one swift motion, leaving behind a pile of his organs. The Predator takes his body, but leaves his pack and weapon, giving Dutch the first indication that what's following them isn't the rebels of the area.
Mac
Sergeant "Mac" Eliot (Bill Duke) is a close friend of Blain's; they served in Vietnam together and were the only two members of their platoon to make it out alive after a night-long battle. Both he and Blain are unfriendly towards Dillon. After Dillon lags behind and potentially makes their presence known, Mac threatens to kill him. He is the first to harm the Predator, by shooting him in revenge after Blain's death. He is also the first of the team to see the Predator (albeit in its camouflaged state). Enraged and saddened by the murder of Blain, he swears that he will avenge Blain's death. Later Mac and Dillon go after the Predator together, which kills Mac by shooting him in the head with its plasma caster. His lines, "Over here", "Turn around" and "Anytime" are mimicked by the Predator throughout the film, in a mocking fashion.
Hopper
James "Jim" Hopper was an old friend of Dutch. He was the leader of an experienced and well-armed unit of Green Berets. They were the first team sent to raid the rebel encampment, but were waylaid by the Predator. Dutch and his men find them hanging from trees with their skin ripped off and can only identify them by their dog tags. The novelization states that Hopper served with Dutch in
General Phillips
Major General Homer Phillips (
The "Jungle Hunter" Predator
The titular humanoid extraterrestrial (Kevin Peter Hall) is a member of a monster warrior race, the Yautja, which hunts aggressive members of other species for sport, uses active camouflage, a plasma weapon and can see in the infrared spectrum. It eventually kills every member of Dutch's team and then engages Dutch in a hand-to-hand fight, nearly killing him until Dutch traps it under a log. The Predator, however, commits suicide with a self-destruct device, though Dutch escapes the explosion.
Introduced in Predator 2 (1990)
Mike Harrigan
Lieutenant Michael R. "Mike" Harrigan (
Harrigan appears again in the short story Drug War from the short story collection Predator: If It Bleeds. By 2022, Harrigan has retired and now serves as an advisor on gang violence for urban police forces across the world. in Rio de Janeiro, Harrigan is caught up in a rogue Predator's hunt, similar to the one he had been involved with. Harrigan and the local police injure the Predator, which is then taken by a group of other Predators to receive punishment for an unknown crime.
Danny Archuleta
Sergeant Danny "Danny Boy" Archuleta (Rubén Blades) is a part of Harrigan's team; he is apparently the long-time friend of Harrigan. He is later killed by the Predator while retrieving a suspicious spear tip the Predator left behind during a penthouse slaughter, being dragged into an air vent and gutted. The Predator later returns his collar (which he took as a trophy) to Harrigan as a symbol of respect.
Leona Cantrell
Detective Leona Cantrell (María Conchita Alonso) is an LAPD cop involved in the Jamaican-Colombian Gang wars. Along the way to meeting Harrigan via subway train, they notice a man being threatened to be killed by a group of thugs. Lambert and Leona draw their weapons, only to notice all the doors have been shut tight, and the Predator which was on the roof of the train is now inside, killing the thugs and other armed citizens. After being ordered by Jerry to evacuate the people, she heads back only to find Jerry dead. The Predator attacks her, but just as it's about to kill her, it notices that she's pregnant. Seeing this, the Predator spares Leona, allowing her to live, though the shock of the event causes her to pass out.
Peter Keyes
Special Agent Peter J. Keyes (
Garber
Garber (Adam Baldwin) is a member of Keyes' task force investigating a supposed drug conspiracy; this is only a cover for his attempts to capture the Predator. His entire team is killed by the Predator while they are attempting to freeze him for study in a slaughterhouse. He is one of the only four survivors of the team.
Garber appears again in the short story Drug War, from the short story collection Predator: If It Bleeds. By 2022, Garber has retired and now sells high tech weaponry. Garber engages a rogue Predator in a firefight with this weaponry, and is blown apart by the Predator's plasma-caster.
Jerry Lambert
Detective Jerry "The Lone Ranger" Lambert (Bill Paxton) is an LAPD cop, eventually transferred from another precinct into Metro Command. He is a comedic member of the team often telling bad jokes with Leona. During the Predator fight in the subway, he makes a stand by allowing other civilians as well as Leona to escape. He attacks the Predator, but the Predator quickly kills Lambert, and takes his skull as a trophy.
He was played by actor Bill Paxton, who also played William Hudson in the 1986 film, Aliens. This makes Paxton one of only 2 actors to portray two different characters from the Alien and the Predator franchises, respectively. The other being Lance Henriksen who played the android Executive Officer Bishop from Aliens; and who also appeared as Charles Bishop Weyland in Alien vs. Predator (2004).
King Willie
King Willie (
A similarly named character appears in
Tony Pope
Tony Pope (
El Scorpio
El Scorpio (Henry Kingi) is a member of the Colombian Scorpions, in a gang war with the Jamaican Voodoo posse. While in a firefight with the police, El Scorpio and other gang members take refuge inside an adjacent building containing a hidden armory. However, the Predator arrives and kills most of the gang, though El Scorpio escapes to the building's roof. He is then confronted by Harrigan, who shoots El Scorpio in his bullet-proof vest, causing him to fall from the building to his death.
Kingi had previously portrayed a guerrilla in the first film, later retroactively established to have been a younger El Scorpio.
The "City Hunter" Predator
Another
This Predator was designed to look more urban and hip than its predecessor. Design changes included tribal ornamentation on the forehead, which was made steeper and shallower, brighter skin colouration and a greater number of fangs.[5]
Introduced in Predator: Concrete Jungle (2005)
Scarface
Isabella Borgia / MOTHER
Isabella Borgia / MOTHER (Tasia Valenza) is the system that runs the city of Neonopolis, formerly the queenpin of the Borgia crime family.
Lucretia Borgia
Lucretia Borgia (Giselle Loren) is the CEO of the Borgia Corporation and heir to the Borgia crime family.
Bruno Borgia
Bruno Borgia (Fred Tatasciore) is the one-time boss of the Borgia crime family in 1930s New Way City.
El Hongo
El Hongo (Armando Valdes-Kennedy) is a drug cartel leader working for the Borgia crime family.
Hunter Borgia
Hunter Borgia (David Sobolov) is the genetically altered son of Bruno and Isabella Borgia, changed by the blood of Scarface.
Ronin
Ronin is the silent honorable bodyguard of Lucretia Borgia, who with their two brethren allies themselves with Scarface after Lucretia is killed by her father.
Introduced in Predators (2010)
Royce
Royce (
Isabelle
Isabelle (
Edwin
Edwin (
Stans
Walter Stans (
Nikolai
Nikolai Mikhalov Fedorav (
Hanzo
Hanzo Kawakami (Louis Ozawa Changchien) is an Inagawa-kai Yakuza enforcer, wielding a pistol and later a samurai katana that he later finds in Noland's hideout. Hanzo does not speak much throughout the film, and when asked why, he responds, "Because I talk too much" and showed that he is missing the ring and pinkie fingers of his left hand, revealing he had committed yubitsume. Hanzo engages the Falconer Predator in single combat towards the end of the film, resulting in both of their deaths.
He is mentioned by his brother Eiji Kawakami in the crossover audiobook series Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey.[6]
Mombasa
Mombasa (Mahershala Ali) is a Sierra Leone RUF death squad officer who uses an AK-47 and a pistol. Stans and he are shown having a dislike for each other throughout the film. Mombasa is the first one to notice that the Predators are hunting them. He is killed when he is stabbed through the chest by the Predators' trap while in their camp.
Cuchillo
Cuchillo (Danny Trejo) is the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel enforcer armed with two sub machine guns and a pistol. After he and the other members engaged in a battle with the Hell-Hounds, he became cornered and killed. His body is later used unsuccessfully as bait by the Predators.
Noland
Ronald Noland (
River Ghost
River Ghost (Carey Jones) is a humanoid-like alien creature, which, like humans, are hunted by the Super Predators on the Game Preserve Planet. It is later killed by Noland, wearing scavenged Predator equipment.
The design of the creature was inspired by the original, unused design of the Predator that was created for the first movie: a cyclops-like being with the ability to become invisible.
Hell-Hounds
Hell-Hounds, also known as Predator Hounds or Predator Dogs, are dog-like alien creatures controlled by the Tracker Predator to flush out the prey, the same way as a hunter would use dogs to flush out their quarry. The Tracker Predator has a whistle device that is used to call the hounds back to their master to prevent them from doing too much damage and killing the prey.
Predators
Berserker
The Berserker Predator (Brian Steele) is a large, black Super Predator with an Alien's jawbone built onto its mask. Steele was nicknamed "Mr. Black" by the film crew. This Predator is the leader of the group and the main antagonist of the 2010 film. He likes to run and bash through forces, such as in the scene where he is being shot at, he runs straight through the shots. Also, unlike many Predators, he has no sense of honor and instead takes immense pleasure in killing unarmed or sick prey, something which normal Predators find dishonorable and unsportsmanlike. He likes to appear right in front of his prey. Upon finding out the captive Predator has been freed by Royce and is collaborating with him, he fights the freed Predator and decapitates him. After this, he immediately destroys the spaceship heading for Earth. Berserker is decapitated by Royce after having its mask smashed and being repeatedly slashed by an axe Royce acquires.
Tracker
The Tracker Predator (Carey Jones) has tusks attached to his helmet. This Predator controls the Predator Hounds. In a scene where he tries to kill Edwin, he quits and concentrates on killing Nikolai, stabbing him and lifting him off the ground with his wrist blade, but dies when Nikolai detonates an explosive.
Falconer
The Falconer Predator (Carey Jones) is the youngest of the three super-breed Predators. The Falconer has an angular mask, as opposed to other Predators' more organic, rounder looking masks. His skill is to learn and acquire tactics from his foes. The name comes from using a biomechanical bird creature to track the humans. He engages in a duel with Hanzo, which results with his and the human's death.
Classic Predator
The Classic Predator (Derek Mears) is a Predator from the Jungle Hunter Clan that is held prisoner by the three Super Predators. This Predator is named Classic because its design resembles the Predator from the 1987 film. He is later released by Royce with the agreement to send Royce back to Earth by hacking into the Super Predators' ship. The Berserker Predator sees the freed Classic Predator and becomes enraged. The two Predators then engage in a vicious duel; the Berserker eventually overpowers the weakened Classic Predator and cuts his head off, killing him.
Introduced in The Predator (2018)
Quinn McKenna
Quinn McKenna (
Will Traeger
Will Traeger (Sterling K. Brown) a ruthless and corrupt government agent who tracks down Predators who come to Earth. He's Predator 2018's main villain. He tried to fabricate false charges to have Quinn locked up in the asylum and was willing to order to have Quinn's son killed. He teams up with Quinn to stop the newly arrived Apex Predator, but accidentally kills himself with his reverse-engineered plasma-caster.
Rory McKenna
Rory McKenna (Jacob Tremblay) Quinn's autistic son who can decipher and read other languages with remarkable ease. Early in the film he is bullied at school because of his autism and is later abducted by the Apex Predator, who wishes to utilize Rory's intelligence for Predator hybridization.
Gaylord “Nebraska” Williams
Gaylord “Nebraska” Williams (Trevante Rhodes) is a former U.S. Marine officer. He is on the bus with other military psych patients (Baxley, Coyle, Lynch and Nettles) when he meets Quinn McKenna, whom he immediately befriends. He claims that he was put on the bus because he shot a Commanding Officer. He later reveals that he was talking about himself as he shows a scar on the side of his head. He is the only one who stays by Quinn's side when he chooses to go after the Apex Predator; having to convince the others to come along as well. Later, he takes part in hunting the Apex Predator. When the Apex Predator tries to make off with Quinn's son, Rory, he, Quinn and Nettles hop onto the ship to stop him. Nettles is killed by the ship's shield while Quinn is trapped underneath. Hanging outside the shield, Nebraska coughs up blood, implying the reason for trying to kill himself was from having lung cancer (he is seen smoking throughout the film). He jumps into the intake of the ship's port engine, sacrificing himself, and successfully brings the ship down.
Casey Bracket
Casey Bracket (Olivia Munn) is a biologist who is recruited by Traeger to learn more about Predators, she was spared by the Fugitive Predator and teams up with Quinn's team to hunt and kill the newly arrived Apex Predator.
Baxley
Baxley (Thomas Jane) is an ex-Marine and Coyle's best friend, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome. After being coaxed by Coyle, Baxley helps in the efforts save Rory from the Apex Predator. Baxley is mortally wounded by the Apex Predator in combat, so he and Coyle, who was mortally wounded seconds after Baxley, shoot each other in a reciprocal mercy killing.
Coyle
Coyle (Keegan-Michael Key) is a former Marine and the best friend of Baxley, he is with him throughout the entire film and teams up with Baxley alone to take on the Apex Predator. Throughout the film he constantly makes jokes in an attempt to hide the past when he fired upon another vehicle of his own platoon (the only survivor being Baxley). He also receives fatal wounds from the Apex Predator, Baxley and Coyle shoot each other out of brotherly love to end the pain.
Lynch
Lynch (Alfie Allen) is a former Marine and sniper who suffers from PTSD. Lynch is mentioned to have once single-handedly wiped out an enemy platoon, something he views with pride. While preparing to snipe Traeger and his men, Lynch's arm is blown off by the Apex Predator. Lynch fires a flare gun to alert the others to the Apex Predator's presence before he is killed.
Sean Keyes
Sean Keyes (Jake Busey) is the son of Peter Keyes (Gary Busey) from Predator 2. Unlike his father, he's shown to be a nice and polite scientist. As he and Bracket were studying the Fugitive Predator, it woke and started killing most of the scientists and guards. Sean survived, but was injured, and was last seen telling Brackett not to let the Fugitive Predator escape. His fate is unknown.
Nettles
Nettles (Augusto Aguilera) is a former U.S. Army Blackhawk pilot who suffers from an unspecified mental illness. Nettles has a crush on Brackett, but his attempts at flirting with her are ruined by his off-putting mannerisms and odd behavior. Nettles is one of the few to survive the Apex Predator's attack on both the Loonies and Traeger and his men, and boards the Apex Predator's ship alongside Quinn and Nebraska. Nettles is killed when the ship's force field activates, severing his legs and causing him to fall to his death.
Sapir
Sapir (Niall Matter) is the right-hand man Will Traeger. Sapir is killed by Quinn McKenna for assisting Traeger in kidnapping his son, Rory.
Emily McKenna
Emily McKenna (Yvonne Strahovski) is the ex-wife of Quinn, and is shown living with their son Rory. Her relationship with Quinn is shown to be strained.
Predators
‘Fugitive’ Predator
The ‘Fugitive’ Predator (Brian A. Prince) is a smaller, lower-class Predator who travels to Earth to gift humanity with a weapon that will aide in the upcoming fight against the ‘Upgrade’ Predators’ design to colonise Earth.
‘Ultimate’ Predator
The ‘Ultimate’ Predator is an upgraded Super Predator Hunter, who was sent to Earth to hunt down the ‘Fugitive’ Predator. Its body is upgraded with an exoskeleton that can withstand heavy fire and be used to heal itself. At 11 feet, he is almost 2x taller than the average Predator. The Predator anticipates that climate change will end their ability to retrieve human DNA for further hybridization, and as such is scrambling to retrieve samples before it is too late.
Introduced in Prey (2022)
Naru
Naru (Amber Midthunder), is a young Comanche medicine woman who wishes to be a hunter. She and her dog, a Carolina Dog named Sarii, encounter the first Predator to come to Earth.
Taabe
Taabe (Dakota Beavers) is the older brother of Naru who is looked up to by the Comanche tribe and supports his sister's endeavors.
In August 2022, Bennett Taylor confirmed that the script for Prey revealed Billy Sole, a Native American tracker and scout portrayed by Sonny Landham in the original Predator (1987), to be a reincarnation of Taabe, reframing his "last stand" with that film's Predator as being due to subconscious memories of a past life.[3][4]
'Feral' Predator / Mupitsl
The "Feral" Predator (Dane DiLiegro) is an aggressive and somewhat primitive Predator who travels to Earth looking for a worthy prey, who is dubbed a Mupitsl by Naru after the Comanche demon of legend. Unlike his future brethren, this one wears a skull helmet and hunts other carnivores as well as humans.
See also
- List of Alien characters
- List of Alien vs. Predator characters
References
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