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| “ | To forgive weakness… is to show weakness. | „ |
| ~ Njohrr as executes Kwei for refusing to kill Dek. |
| “ | Perhaps the right son did survive. Yield now and take your place in our clan. | „ |
| ~ Njohrr's last words as offers to make Deak and official hunter of the clan if he forgive his life. |
Njohrr is the secondary antagonist of the 2025 science fiction action film Predator: Badlands, the ninth installment of the Predator franchise. He is the ruthless leader of his own Yautja clan and the father of Kwei and Dek. He comes from a line of the great hunters, leading him to continue the line.
After having his younger son Dek, Njohrr despises him, due to being the runt and the weakest member of his clan, due to his birth defects, leading him to exile his son from the clan. He later ordered Kwei to kill his brother so the latter could "find honour" in death and went as far as to deny Dek a chance to prove himself in his first ever hunt. He executes Kwei when he refuses to execute Dek and helps him escape from their father.
He is portrayed by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, who also played Dek in the same film.
Appearance
Njohrr was a Yautja of old age, given his white dreadlocks, and his bio-mask had horns that resembled antlers. He also wears a black cloak.
Personality
Njohrr is a seasoned and respected warrior, but also brusque and ruthless, utterly devoid of compassion for anyone, even his own children. He harbored a deep contempt for anything he considered weak and believed that a weak Yautja could only honor their clan by dying. Not even his sons were save of this way of thinking: Njohrr completely disrespect his youngest son, Dek, whom he saw as a disgrace to the clan, to the point of never giving him the chance to prove himself in a hunt and condemning him to death to preserve the clan's honor, and Kwei was brutally killed by him in combat when he disobeyed the order of kill Dek.
Njohrr is also a very proud Yautja who refuses to acknowledge his flaws, such as when he refuses to recognize Dek's achievements in surviving and winning his first hunt to become a pureblood hunter, as that would mean he had failed as a leader. He also seems unwilling to acknowledge that he is getting old and that his combat skills are no longer what they were in his youth, which is why he is often forced to camouflage himself during battle to gain an advantage.
Although rarely shown, he does have a twisted sense of humor as shown in the scene when he laughs at the idea of Dek hunting down the Kalisk and remarking it to Kwei (who defends his brother) as "foolishness" due to considering Dek a "runt". His sense of humor can be extended to sadism as he sinisterly chuckles before beheading Kwei in front of Dek before the latter gets knocked out by the ship's take off.
Despite his pride, upon being bested by Dek, he attempted to reason with his previously condemned son, showing that his sense of "honor" was less important to him than his own self-interest.
Biography
Njohrr was born in the wastelands of Yautja Prime. His family came from a long line of great hunters, and Njohrr was raised to continue that legacy. In his adulthood, he completed his first hunt and became a Blood, a full member of the Clan, eventually rising to become its leader.
At some point, Njohrr mated with a female from a different clan, with whom he had two sons, Kwei and Dek. However, Dek was born smaller and weaker than his brother, causing Njohrr to despise him. Because of this hatred, Dek was hated by the rest of the clan.
As his sons grew, Njohrr continued to see Dek as the weakest link in the Clan. Therefore, when Dek decided to undertake his first hunt to complete his initiation rite, Njohrr, fed up with him, ordered Kwei to kill his own brother. Kwei, angered by his father's refusal to give his younger brother a chance to prove himself, disobeyed and freed Dek. Njohrr mercilessly murdered Kwei, much to Dek's horror.
After Dek succeeds in his hunt against the Kalisk, he returns some time later to his clan and throws the severed head of Tessa at his father's feet; Njohrr questions what it is, and Dek demands a cloaking device as a reward and for his father to make him a Blooded member of the clan. Njhorr flatly refused, calling Dek a disgrace to the Clan, just like Kwei, and summoned two of his bodyguards, ordering them to kill his son, though Dek kills them without much effort with his Wristblades and Combistick.
Pulling out his plasma sword, Njohrr and Dek engage in a brutal duel, where Njohrr repeatedly relies on his cloak to get the jump on his son, showcasing that, for all his talk of honor, he's actually a hypocritical coward. Dek eventually defeats him by using his ship's exhaust to detect his father through the cloak, using his wristblades to stab him through the right hand before amputating his arm just as Njohrr himself had done to Kwei, finally capturing him with a laser snare just like how Njohrr did to him; he finally stabs his father in the head with his combistick, before removing Njohrr's mask to reveal his face. Heavily wounded, Njhorr acknowledges that he was wrong about Dek and implicitly begs his son for mercy, offering to make him a Blooded member of his clan.
But Dek, fed up with his father and determined to avenge Kwei, refuses, claiming that he, along with Thia and Bud, has founded his own clan, which infuriates his father. Instead of getting his hands dirty, Dek has Bud, now an adult, bite off Njohrr's head, killing the Yautja Elder and avenging Kwei's death.
With his father dead, Dek removes the cloaking device from Njohrr's wrist gauntlet before equipping it himself, finally claiming the reward his father had spitefully denied him.
After Njohrr's death, a Yautja starship appears in the sky, and Thia asks if it's more of Dek's people. However, Dek says that it's something much worse: his mother and Njohrr's mate.
Trivia
- It is unknown if his mate is a member of his Clan, since her ship is nothing like those owned by Njohrr and his hunters.
