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| “ | Want some candy? | „ |
| ~ City Hunter, also one of his most iconic one-liner's. |
| “ | Harrigan: You're one ugly mother- City Hunter: MOTHERF***ER! |
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| ~ City Hunter interrupting Harrigan's line. |
| “ | Shit Happens! | „ |
| ~ City Hunter as he attempts to self-destruct with Harrigan. |
Ghost, better known as the City Hunter, is the titular main antagonist of the 1990 science-fiction action film Predator 2. He is a member of the Yautja race who was sent to Los Angeles during the heatwave and gang war of 1997, eventually coming into conflict with both a government taskforce attempting to capture him and veteran LAPD Detective Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.
He was portrayed by the late Kevin Peter Hall, who also portrayed the Jungle Hunter in the first Predator film while his voice is provided by Hal Rayle.
Biography[]
Background and Arrival[]
Intrigued by humanity's prowess as shown in the footage of Jungle Hunter's final hunt in 1987, a Yautja hunting party set out to carry out another Hunt on Earth 10 years later. This time, the chosen hunting ground being Los Angeles due to almost urban warfare levels of armed crime and heatwave at the time, effectively making the city abundant of potential worthy preys. City Hunter happens to be among members of such hunting party, though he ends up carrying out the Hunt by himself while his teammates stay behind in their small mothership, which surreptitiously hidden in the city's sewers, to oversee his progress.
Predator 2[]
Hunting Gang Members[]
City Hunter then found the ferocious turf war and sweltering heatwave in the city, in which he uses the chaos as an advantage to stalk and hunt some armed individuals whom may be worthy for his hunt, including the Columbian Scorpion gang who were retreating back for their stronghold. Unfortunately for him, only one of them proved worthy as he silently took one of his killed victims and took his skull as a trophy while leaving the rest hanging upside down. Also, whilst still cloaking, he found Mike Harrigan and his friends cornered El Scorpio who had gone mad by the previous fight with him. El Scorpio loses control and almost gets shot from behind by City Hunter, only to be stopped by Harrigan who shot him back where the process caused him to fall to his death.
Later that night, he bursts into Ramon Vega's luxurious downtown apartment just as a bunch of Jamaican Voodoo Posse members ritualistically murdered the Columbian gang leader. The Predator challenge them whilst still cloaking and slaughtered them, sparing no one except Vega's mistress who was traumatized by the massacre.
Murdering Danny[]
By the time Harrigan and his team arrived and defiantly entered the scene of the crime noticed the bullet of City Hunter's speargun that stuck on the air conditioner before Keyes and his team arrived. Enraged at his defiance, Keyes threatens Harrigan, saying he will "disappear" if he interferes again. His suspicions aroused, Harrigan orders Jerry to follow Keyes, while he and Danny discussed their plans to return to the crime scene later for further investigation into the murders. Danny arrives before Harrigan and attempts to retrieve the weapon they spotted earlier, which has gone unnoticed by Keyes' team. Unfortunately, City Hunter has also returned to the scene and revealing himself to Danny, attacks and kills him. City Hunter then proceeds to "bone him like a fish." By this act, he unknowingly becomes a nemesis for Mike.
Stalking Harrigan[]
Believing that Harrigan may be the worthy foe for him, City Hunter developed interest and respect for the detective. He goes to stalk him when he consults with King Willie, the leader of Jamaican Voodoo Posse. King Willie uses his voodoo magic to deduce the killer that killed their people and concludes that the killer is not a human, but rather a being from another world (the suggestion was not entirely accurate, as King Willie believes that the killer was a demon, not the alien). When Harrigan left, King Willie notices City Hunter's presence and challenged him in combat. In spite of his best efforts, King Willie was killed and his skull was collected as a trophy.
On the next day, City Hunter follows Harrigan as the latter visits Danny's grave. A boy with a toy gun nearby catches his attention because he notices his presence despite his cloak being activated. Cautious at first, City Hunter leaves the boy alone after his Bio-Mask's scanner confirmed the toy gun is indeed harmless. The Yautja then leaves Danny's necklace for Harrigan to find, agitating him.
Subway Massacre[]
It is Harrigan's reaction which gives City Hunter an idea to target the detective's colleagues, Jerry and Leona, hoping that infuriating the former will make the final hunt more challenging and exciting. This helped by the duo being similarly formidable and therefore worth to have their mettle tested as well. The Yautja barges into the train they're on board just as the two have a stand-off against several armed gang members, escalating the ensuing shootout. Impressed by their prowess, City Hunter defeated Jerry in a fair fight when he got separated from Leona in the chaos. However, he is forced to spare the latter upon learning her pregnancy as per his kind's honor code to never harm offspring and subsequently left with Jerry's skull and spine instead.
Harrigan soon arrived at the scene and gave chase to the Predator, but losing him when Keyes' goons intercepted him as he neared the city's slaughterhouse district. The City Hunter climbed the nearby Eastern Columbia Building and presented Jerry's skull as a trophy to the world, attracting a bolt of lightning with his Combistick.
Outsmarting Keyes' Soldiers[]
As Keyes explained City Hunter's proposed origin to Harrigan, the Yautja returned to a slaughterhouse whose meat supply became his source of nourishment for the duration of his hunt. His current visit was soon interrupted by Keyes and his OWLF team who activated sprinkles that sprayed him with water mixed with the radioactive material that jammed his cloak an interfered his thermal vision mode. Keyes' OWLF team entered the slaughterhouse soon after, clad in advanced gear which shielded them from the Yautja's thermal vision. However, they failed to take the account of City Hunter installed additional vision modes into his Bio-helmet to get around thermal vision's limitations and weaknesses Dutch exploited when dueling Jungle Hunter a while ago, finally choosing one which allowed him to pinpoint his foes' location through the light coming from the team's ultraviolet torches. With that, he managed to ambush Keyes' OWLF team before engaging it in combat, forcing Harrigan to gear up and confront the Yautja himself.
A fierce duel between Harrigan and City Hunter ensued, with the former overwhelmed the latter with focused shotgun blasts in response of a plasmacaster shot at the chest he survived thanks to his body armor. When it appeared the Yautja finally succumbed to continuous shots, the cautious police officer unmasked him, confirming his nemesis to be indeen an alien. His remark upon City Hunter's hideous visage — which basically same as Dutch — was unceremoniously interrupted by the awakened City Hunter who yelled the rest of it on his face before tossing him aside and disposing his shotgun. Keyes himself eventually joined the fray just as City Hunter about to corner Harrigan, though he could do so much before being cut down by the Yautja's Smart Disc. Bringing their fight to the rooftop, City Hunter continue his duel against Harrigan, losing his Combistick and Smart Disc in process. The fight culminated to both combatants hanging perilously over the end of the building. It was when the Yautja activated his Wrist Computer's self-destruct system — an unwise decision as he didn't expect the police officer to claim his forgotten Smart Disc nearby and subsequently slice both his Wrist Computer and arm off, severely injuring him and forcing him to retreat.
Realizing he had woefully underestimated his opponent, City Hunter opted to even the duel by luring Harrigan into his trophy room in his hunting party's mothership below the city. He took his time cauterizing his wounds with sophisticated equipment in his Medi-Comp and bits of concrete from the wall of Ruth Albright's adjacent apartment, then preparing his net gun for the rematch.
Defeat[]
City Hunter fired his net gun at Harrigan as the latter distracted by his trophy display, though he easily cut through it with his Smart Disc. City Hunter promptly stepped in to face his opponent head on, clashing his wrist blade against the latter's weapon. A wrist blade slash at the gut forced Harrigan to his knees, which he retaliated by a decisive blow at City Hunter's sternum, killing the Yautja and ending his hunt.
Harrigan's victory was cut-short by City Hunter's teammates who decided to reveal themselves. Preparing for what would be his last stand, the police detective instead found himself watching two of Yautjas taking away their fallen comrade's body as per their leader's instruction. The leader of City Hunter's hunting party, Greyback, gifted Harrigan an antique flintlock with "Raphael Adolini 1715" engraved on its side before allowing him to make his leave as they departed from Earth seeing that City Hunter fought honorably as much as the police officer despite his shortcomings.
Personality[]
As with other members of Yautja race including Jungle Hunter, City Hunter was nurtured into a ruthless headhunter who hunt challenging prey for sport and follow his kind's strict honor codes. As highlighted by his "Ultimate Battle Damaged City Hunter Predator" figure by NECA however, he's much younger, overconfident, and overzealous to the point of carelessness, drawing unnecessary attention to CIA and police alike throughout his hunt at Los Angeles. He didn't even properly formulate his approach in facing his chosen opponent Harrigan; the Yautja provoked the detective more than necessary by deliberately targeting his colleagues and later, choosing the worst time in activating his Wrist Computer's Self-Destruct System while both combatants were hanging for their dear lives during which the latter disarmed the device with the former's forgotten Smart Disc.
Although his recklessness compared to more exemplary Jungle Hunter concerned his superior Greyback to the point of considering to discipline him, City Hunter still adhered his kin's Honor Code, notably targeting those who truly both armed and capable of fighting back. He spared a boy with toy gun who momentarily alarmed him to the point of aiming his plasmacaster at his skull, abruptly leaving Leona Cantrell alone upon learning her pregnancy, and wisely continue his duel against Harrigan to the death after tending to his wounds.
Victims[]
- Xenomorph (though it's implied that City Hunter killed a Xenomorph and turned it into a trophy before the film's events)
- Unnamed Colombian Scorpions member
- Unnamed Jamaican
- Unnamed Jamaican Voodoo Posse member
- Gold Tooth
- Danny Archuleta
- King Willie
- Numerous armed civilians on subway
- Subway gang leader
- Jerry Lambert
- Peter Keyes
Gallery[]
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Miscellaneous[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- Unlike the Jungle Hunter, the prosthetic face also had false eyes, whereas the first one had the actor's eyes visible. Subsequent Predator films used the original's design of showing the actor's real eyes, or in some cases CGI.
- In the novelization, City Hunter's death is different instead of dying by his own smart disc by Harrigan, he is beheaded by Greyback.
- City Hunter is the first predator to be killed by the human protagonist.
- City Hunter loses most of his weapons throughout the film and received the most injuries.
External Links[]
- City Hunter on the Xenopedia Wiki
