History ComicBook / ArchieVsPredator

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler: Played entirely straight. With the exception of the Predator himself, every main and secondary male character ends up horribly murdered, whereas not only do Betty and Veronica survive facing the Predator, but also Ginger, Nancy and Big Ethel manage to survive unscathed by deciding to skip town rather than risk facing the Predator.]] The only female characters who die are [[spoiler: Sabrina and Cheryl.]]

* [[OffWithHisHead Off With Their Heads]]: The Predator's favorite way to kill is to pull people's heads off with their spins still attached. [[spoiler:This happens to Sabrina, Jughead, and Dilton.]]

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler: Played entirely straight. With the exception of the Predator himself, every main and secondary male character ends up horribly murdered, whereas not only do Betty and Veronica survive facing the Predator, but also Ginger, Nancy and Big Ethel manage to survive unscathed by deciding to skip town rather than risk facing the Predator.]]

** Possibly unintentional, but when [[spoiler:the Predator kills Sabrina, he essentially performs Sub-Zero's Spine Rip fatality from the original Franchise/MortalKombat.]]

''Archie Vs. Predator'' is a 2015 4-issue miniseries written by Alex de Campi and drawn by Fernando Ruiz released under the publication of DarkHorseComics and Franchise/ArchieComics. Similar to ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' or ''[[ComicBook/AfterlifewithArchie Afterlife with Archie]]'', its aim is to take the Archie cast and put them into a more mature AlternateContinuity setting, this time mixing up some sci-fi elements with the horror by pitting the iconic teen from Riverdale against 20th Century Fox's Franchise/{{Predator}}. Unlike the other two series however, instead of being drawn in their more realistic style it's drawn in the usual Archie Comics style, with the story hitting more familiar Archie beats.

** After wishing for the death of the poor, [[Cheryl and her brother]] are the first killed by the Predator.

* ImAHumanitarian: Part of Pops' [[spoiler:head (including on of his eyes) and a fair amount of his blood wind up on a cake after the Predator kills him]]. Jughead's totally cool with eating said cake, though.

** When the gang is in Costa Rica, one panel shows a seaside cabana called "Dutch's". Dutch Schaefer was Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in the film.

* TeensAreMonsters: Betty tried to use voodoo on Veronica for revenge (though this is PlayedForLaughs), Cheryl and Jason plot to rob a sacred temple of its treasures, Sabrina is a [[spoiler:serial killer satanist]], and to top it all off, the [[spoiler:BigBad is a teenage Predator]].

''Archie Vs. Predator'' is a 2015 4-issue miniseries written by Alex de Campi and drawn by Fernando Ruiz released under the publication of DarkHorseComics and ArchieComics. Similar to ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' or ''[[ComicBook/AfterlifewithArchie Afterlife with Archie]]'', its aim is to take the Archie cast and put them into a more mature AlternateContinuity setting, this time mixing up some sci-fi elements with the horror by pitting the iconic teen from Riverdale against 20th Century Fox's Franchise/{{Predator}}. Unlike the other two series however, instead of being drawn in their more realistic style it's drawn in the usual Archie Comics style, with the story hitting more familiar Archie beats.

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: Veronica turning the heal-machine past 4, all the way to 11. Instead of it mutating Archie into some crime against humanity, it just makes him ridiculously buff.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Betty gets her forearm cut off when she tries to take on the Predator in volume four, luckily Lodge Manner is equipped with a very good medical station. Though it is left un answered if her arm was actually restored as any shot that would fully answer the question is conveniently obscured.]]

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Our hero's spend very little time mourning the dead, even if their friends head is exploded right in front of them, or are brutally murdered by a weird monster.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Betty, who's removal of the dagger from the island ruins appears to have started the Predator's hunt.

Archie Vs. Predator is a 2015 4-issue miniseries written by Alex de Campi and drawn by Fernando Ruiz released under the publication of DarkHorseComics and ArchieComics. Similar to ''ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' or ''[[ComicBook/AfterlifewithArchie Afterlife with Archie]]'', its aim is to take the Archie cast and put them into a more mature AlternateContinuity setting, this time mixing up some sci-fi elements with the horror by pitting the iconic teen from Riverdale against 20th Century Fox's Franchise/{{Predator}}. Unlike the other two series however, instead of being drawn in their more realistic style it's drawn in the usual Archie Comics style, with the story hitting more familiar Archie beats.
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** In issue #3, Dilton comments that [[Film/AlienVsPredator "A.V.P."]] is a pretty cool acronym.

* [[spoiler: MenAreTheExpendableGender: Played entirely straight. With the exception of the Predator himself, every main and secondary male character ends up horribly murdered, whereas not only do Betty and Veronica survive facing the Predator, but also Ginger, Nancy and Big Ethel manage to survive unscathed by deciding to skip town rather than risk facing the Predator.]]

* [[spoiler: MenAreTheExpedableGender: Played entirely straight. With the exception of the Predator himself, every main and secondary male character ends up horribly murdered, whereas not only do Betty and Veronica survive facing the Predator, but also Ginger, Nancy and Big Ethel manage to survive unscathed by deciding to skip town rather than risk facing the Predator.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Surprisingly, ''Veronica''. As early as Issue 2 she takes the initiative to think of a plan to defeat the Predator and come Issue 4 she has no problems [[spoiler: arming herself with an uzi to kill him.]]

** [[spoiler: Archie may have got a huge dose of SuperSerum that makes him stronger than Predator but he is still a huge cluts with no fighting experience, he only lands two sucker punches before the Predator kills him.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Betty gets her forearm cut off when she tries to take on the Predator in volume four, luckily Lodge Manner is equipped with a very good medical station.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Pretty much everyone has [[TookALevelInJerkass taken several levels in jerkishness.]] Sabrina even becomes a voodoo Satanist with bodies buried in her backyard. Veronica and Betty are more than willing to physically fight for Archie, who himself is a complete womanizer.