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| “ | Dutch: What the hell are you? Predator: What... the hell... are you? |
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| ~ The Jungle Hunter's only line of dialogue. |
The Jungle Hunter is the titular main antagonist of the 1987 science-fiction/action film Predator. He is a member of the Yautja race who was sent to Earth deep into the Val Verde jungle to complete a hunt and kill worthy human prey. The Hunter's prey is a group of highly trained and skilled American mercenaries, led by Dutch Schaefer, who are there to rescue CIA hostages, however, one by one the team fell victim to the brutal creature.
He was portrayed by the late Kevin Peter Hall, who also portrayed City Hunter in Predator 2, Katahdin in Prophecy, and Alien in Without Warning; while his voice was provided by Peter Cullen, who also voiced Venger in Dungeons and Dragons, Nemesis Prime in Transformers: Prime, Red Skull in Spider-Man (1981), Captain Flint in Treasure Planet and Armstrong in DuckTales.
Personality[]
Jungle Hunter is shown to be aggressive and enjoy toying with his targets to determine their worth as formidable prey. Yet at the same time honorable and strictly followed his people's Honor Code, sparing Anna because she is unarmed, providing Dutch a fair fight after forcing him out of hiding, and importantly, only targeting preys who genuinely worthy unlike some members of his race which don't follow or even believe in the Code.
He is also a traditionalist as, in addition of aforementioned adherence to Yautja Honor Code, Jungle Hunter relies more on skill that just firepower; he believed the idea of pursuing one's prey with more basic gear which make the fight more even for both sides honorable. Moreover, Jungle Hunter's decision to activate his Wrist Gauntlet's self-destruct device with his remaining strength is both meant to ensure Dutch won't claim his equipment following his death and retain his honor.
Biography[]
Predator (1987)[]
The Yautja known as the Jungle Hunter arrived at Earth in the Val Verde jungle and was drawn to the numerous armed conflicts that took place in that area of the world. The creature became a local legend, feared by many of the jungle's inhabitants for hunting and killing men in the area before leaving their mutilated corpses strung up as trophy's. Eventually, the Jungle Hunter came across a team of US Army Special Forces Green Beret Unit led by Captain James "Jim" Hopper, who was sent there to rescue CIA hostages. However, the entire team was hunted and eventually slaughtered by the creature. This led to a private mercenary team led by the battle-hardened Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, to be sent in by CIA agent and mission handler, Al Dillon, to complete the same mission and to find out what happened to Hopper and his team.
The creature monitors Schaefer and his team's arrival and watches as they take down a whole village of armed guerrilla fighters and rescue the last surviving hostage, Anna. After deeming them worthy prey, he hides himself using his cloaking device and begins to hunt them down one by one, starting by killing two members of the team who become separated from the others, Blaine and Hawkins, by disemboweling Hawkins when he runs after the fleeing Anna, and then later shooting Blaine in the back with his powerful plasma caster. After killing Blaine the creature is spotted and wounded in the leg by Blaine's friend Mac and the rest of the team after its cloaking device temporarily malfunctions. Some of the Hunter's green blood is found by the team, confirming their suspicions that whatever is hunting them is not human.
After escaping the mercenaries, the creature retreats to his tree top hideout and, using his medic system, painfully heals himself. Once he has fully healed the creature once again begins hunting, however while tracking Schaefer's team, he is caught in a net trap set by them in their attempt to finally kill the hunter. After briefly struggling, the hunter uses his plasma caster to blast his way out of the trap. In the chaos, several members of the team become separated and they are all hunted down and killed by the creature, including Mac and Dillon, leaving only Dutch and Anna left alive. Dutch, realizing the creature only kills armed opponents, takes away Anna's gun and sends her to the chopper extraction point. This leaves Dutch to face off against the creature alone.
A chase through the jungle ensues, ending with the creature losing track of his prey after Dutch covers himself in mud which hides him from the predator's thermal vision. Later as the jungle hunter is cleaning and collecting his trophies from the bodies of the men he has slain, he hears Dutch's war cry, calling the creature out to finally settle the score one on one: a challenge the hunter can't turn down. After a brief skirmish between the two, the creature is wounded by one of Dutch's self-made explosive tipped arrow which also damages the creature's cloaking device. The two warriors finally meet face to face and the Jungle Hunter, deeming Dutch a worthy enemy, removes his mask and shoulder cannon to fight him hand-to-hand.
The two engage in close combat where the predator is easily able to overpower Dutch, pummeling him to near death. A heavily wounded Dutch is able to crawl away from the creature and baits his would be killer to follow him and finish him off. The predator, stops and realizes that Dutch is attempting to lure him into a trap, and much to the dismay of his prey, walks around the trap and stands over Dutch about to deal the death blow. However, unbeknownst to the creature, Dutch had set up a secondary trap, a large log hung over the top of where the Yautja warrior is standing. Dutch proceeds to kick out the counter weight sending the log crashing down on the predator's head crushing him. Dutch takes this opportunity to grab a large rock and is about to finish his attacker off when he realizes that the predator is mortally wounded and near death.
The Jungle Hunter at death's door, coughing up blood.
After Dutch drops the rock, he asks the creature what he is, the creature only responds by repeating his question back to him in garbled English. The creature then activates it's wrist bracer, which begins counting down. Dutch recognizes this as a self-destruct device and begins to flee, as the creature, using a warbled recording of Billy's laughter, laughs maniacally at its assumed victory.
| “ | Hehehehehehe... HAHAHAHAHA! | „ |
| ~ The Predator mimics and distorts Billy's laugh to mock Dutch. |
The device soon detonates killing the predator instantly, however Dutch was able to make it a safe distance before the explosion and was unharmed, therefore achieving victory over the alien that hunted him and murdered his team, though in the eyes of the Jungle Hunter, Dutch hadn't managed to kill him himself, which he likely considered a victory.
Predator 2[]
Following the Jungle Hunter's demise, his ship automatically returned to Yautja Prime, taking with it a record of everything that had happened in Val Verde in the form of recordings automatically relayed through the creature's Bio-Mask and stored aboard the vessel. These records were thoroughly studied by the Yautja and led to increased respect for humanity's capabilities. In fact, upon City Hunter's arrival during chaos in Los Angeles, Keyes immediately prepared his team with special equipments to captured him, only for the said predator revealed to armed himself better than Jungle Hunter did, and immediately wipe them out. A reference of Jungle Hunter's confrontation with Dutch is when Harrigan expresses his disgust on City Hunter's face, his Dutch line was interrupted by City Hunter whom yelled on his face, finished the line and tossed him away before continue the fight.
Predators[]
Isabelle was mentioned about how Dutch defeated Jungle Hunter in the past when Royce questioned why she was not as surprised as anyone else upon their confrontation by Berserker Predator's trio. With that information, Royce, whom going to confront Berserker Predator, both covered his body with mud and create a wall of fire to confuse the dishonorable predator and gave him advantage, until Berserker Predator turned the tide of battle with his more advanced vision modes of his Bio-Mask.
Other Media[]
Mortal Kombat X[]
The Predator's in-game appearance in Mortal Kombat X.
| “ | Hehehehe... | „ |
| ~ The Predator's laugh. |
The Predator has been appeared as a DLC character of neutral side in the video game Mortal Kombat X. Predators (a.k.a. Yautja) hail from the Predator film series, along with the shared Alien vs. Predator universe. The Predator is playable in Mortal Kombat X alongside the Xenomorph DLC. Here, like his incarnation in film, he interests with hunting for sport and has all arsenals that other member of Yautja race has.
Descriptions[]
About[]
The Predator is not here to rule us. He does not wish to destroy the realms. He and others of his alien race merely fight—and kill—for sport and honor. There is much combat in Earthrealm. Shao Kahn and then Shinnok thought themselves conquerors. They were defeated. The Predator will not be. The humans, Outworlders and Netherrealm demons will fall to his superior weapons, tactics, and strength. Their skins will make fine trophies.
Ending[]
This world called Earth produced many worthy opponents - which made for excellent sport. Some possessed a power previously unknown to the Predator's race: sorcery. The Predator sought to harness this new power for use in his conquests. He analyzed a trophy from a recent battle and eventually discovered its secrets. With the power of sorcery, the Predator was unstoppable and decimated whole worlds single-handedly. He had become the Apex Predator.
Notable Victims[]
- James Hopper - Skinned alive.
- Rick Hawkins - Stabbed and skinned alive.
- Blain Cooper - Blasted through the stomach.
- Mac Elliot - Blasted through the head.
- Al Dillion - Arm blasted off and stabbed.
- Billy Sole - Unknown, skull and spine ripped from corpse later on.
- Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez - Blasted through the side of the head.
Trivia[]
- Kevin Peter Hall, who wore the suit, was 7 ft 2 in (218 cm), though the Jungle Hunter has been cited as being 7 ft 8 in (234 cm).
- Kevin also played the black helicopter pilot at the end of the film.
- In the novelization of the film, the Jungle Hunter is very different from the creature that appeared in the movie. In the book it is a shapeshifter, able to mimic any form it chooses from just the slightest physical contact, and even capable of dissipating entirely, vanishing and becoming part of the blowing breeze. In its basic form, it is a tall, humanoid creature with crimson, scaly skin and three-fingered hands. It's only weapons are a telescoping spear that it throws (incidentally similar to the Combistick from Predator 2) and a static, spider web-like trap capable of shredding anything caught in it (similar to the net fired by the Netgun, again introduced in Predator 2). Instead of a Cloak, the creature uses its shapeshifting ability and chameleon-like skin to hide. Jungle Hunter is also able to possess any animal it chooses (but not humans, one of the reasons it is so interested in them). It's blood is translucent and amber in color instead of green, although it still glows at night. Jungle Hunter does not kill men for sport, but rather out of curiosity; the way it horrifically mutilates its prey is merely an attempt to study and better understand human beings. It does, however, keep trophies taken from those it kills on board its ship.
- This design would later be recycled for Amengi, a hostile alien race who used to enslave Jungle Hunter's ancestors before eventually defeated in an uprising in distant past.
- Jungle Hunter's finalized design would become the template to other members such as City Hunter and Scar. This would later changed for Feral Predator whose design far more distinctive for being hailed from a desert-dwelling clan as opposed to the former who more adapted to jungle biomes.
- In the Novelization, the Jungle Hunter flees back to its ship after Dutch gain the upper hand. The Jungle Hunter attempts to board its ship, but Dutch throws its spear and goes right through its head. However, the spear damage something value in the ship which causes the ship to explode.
- If Bo' Rai Cho battles against the Predator in Mortal Kombat X, he says "You are one ugly motherf***er!". Additionally, Erron Black's bullet for the Predator says "Ugly Mofo".
- These Predator often mistakenly with Classic Predator from Predators 2010. Although the two were confirmed belongs to same clan, its worth noting that they're different in appearance. The Jungle Hunter looks like he has the face of a mature adult Yautja, not forget to mentioned that his skills is at least almost close to that of a veteran/elite class hunter. Where as Classic Predator looks like has face of young adulthood who recently blooded in some point, his skills still not matured yet which explained how Berserker easily bested him.
External Links[]
- Jungle Hunter on the Xenopedia Wiki
