Character page for the 1990 film Predator 2.
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Mike Harrigan
Mike Harrigan
"Okay. Who's next?"
Played By: Danny Glover
"I don't roll over for anybody, especially for the feds, without a goddamn good explanation!"
An LAPD lieutenant and the main protagonist, Harrigan begins tracking the Predator after it kills gang leader El Scorpio's henchmen.
- Anti-Hero: He doesn't keep a lot of suspects alive, has a history of leaving destruction in his wake, and is rude to his chief and new recruit, but he has an all-around good heart.
- Badass Normal: Harrigan is not a special forces soldier or trained recon expert, yet he is able to prove a worthy opponent to the Predator. Not only that, he manages to cause the Predator to actually run from him, before turning the tables and hunting down and killing the Predator in hand-to-hand combat! Although, when it comes to fighting skills, it's a Zig-Zagged Trope as, while Harrigan is technically a normal police officer, his section of the city is an urban hellhole described in no uncertain terms as a warzone. He might not have all of the skills that Dutch and his team did, but he's every bit their match when it comes to open combat.
- Crazy-Prepared: His trunk contains different sorts of pistols, shotguns and even a CAR-15 with an M203 grenade launcher along with several sets of kevlar armour, the latter of which he uses to turn his car into a makeshift, rudimentary assault vehicle during the opening shootout.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To Dutch. Dutch was an experienced special forces operative with a bodybuilder's physique. Mike is an average cop who doesn't have any military experience and isn't especially big, though still in good physical shape. Of course, given that Mike's command is explicitly stated to be in a part of the city that's a straight up warzone, he has every bit as much experience as Dutch in fighting and shooting people.
- Their methods of dealing with their perspective Predator opponents also strongly contrast. Dutch's fight against the first Predator is more like a duel between two master hunters. Harrigan's fight? He just gets really, really pissed off and comes at the City Hunter with everything he's got.
- Cowboy Cop: He's pretty violent and willing to take risks to takes his enemies down.
- Determinator: He doesn't let anything get in his way of hunting down the Predator, disobeying police protocol to hunt it down and facing his Acrophobia.
- Defiant to the End. Subverted. Battered, bloodied, and bruised after killing the City Hunter only to see a whole squad of Predators show themselves, Harrigan only asks "Who's next?". Luckily, they congratulate him on the victory (in their way) and let him go.
- Glorified Sperm Donor: Deleted scenes reveal that he and Leona got drunk and slept together a few weeks ago, and that he may or may not be the father of her baby.
- Had to Be Sharp: Mike's precinct presides over a part of the city that is referred to as a flat-out warzone that is constantly fought over by drug dealers and other organized street criminals. As such, Mike and his people, though technically only standard police, have been in so many fights and firefights that experience-wise they are probably on the level of special forces when it comes to open conflict.
- Hand Cannon: He wields a Desert Eagle as his weapon of choice.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Danny. Danny's death at the Predator's hands is what gets him to hunt it down personally.
- Hypocrite: He tells Lambert not to pull any of his usual Cowboy Cop antics under his command, but he acts as a Cowboy Cop the entirety of the movie himself.
- It's Personal: He hunts down the Predator for the deaths of his partners. This is most evident with Danny, with Harrigan even saying the trope word for word.Lieutenant Mike Harrigan: Captain, Danny and I came up together. Fifteen years on the fucking street! Whoever killed him's gonna pay. I'm gonna finish it.]]Harrigan: [grabbing Keyes and violently pinning him against the wall] Listen, shithead. I don't give a fuck who you really are or what you want with this asshole... because now it's personal, and he's a dead man.
- Large Ham: He's very prone to shouting and violent outbursts.
- Oh, Crap!: When Harrigan finds out that Leona is pregnant. Justified, since deleted scenes reveal he might be the father.
- Old Soldier: His department's warlike conditions have made him take on this role, and the City Hunter spots him quickly. This is highlighted in the opening act when he singlehandedly uses a cruiser as mobile cover to help flush out well armed, entrenched mooks.
- Rabid Cop: His LAPD record's psych profile mentions that he has a history of violent behavior. Captain Pilgrim defends Harrigan by pointing out that he also has the highest arrest record in the police force and multiple decorations.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Leona and Danny's blue, but blue to Jerry's red.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: While he's already set on stopping the City Hunter, all bets are off upon the death of Danny. Harrigan becomes a veritable wrecking ball to anything between him and the Predator.
- Scary Black Man: He has quite a reputation on the street. Even the Predator learns to fear him.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He has a fear of heights, which the Predator seems fond of.
- Worthy Opponent: The Predator's tribe recognizes him as one for defeating it and rewards him with a trophy for his efforts. Keyes also notes that the City Hunter is gunning for him because of that.
Jerry Lambert
Jerry Lambert
"And you told me, Lieutenant, 'the only way you survive down here is because you're a team.' 'The door swings both ways,' remember?"
Played By: Bill Paxton
"Lieutenant, I've paid my dues. I had to bust my ass to get my transfer."
A transfer from Rampart Station, Jerry Lambert joins Harrigan's team in their investigation of the Predator after having gotten his previous partner killed.
- Actor Allusion: Bill Paxton has has experience fighting aliens.
- Badass Normal: He's able to hold his own in a gunfight and holds off the Predator to save a crowded subway train full of people, which is enough for the Predator to claim his skull and spine as a trophy.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: He often tells jokes and "funny" stories, but his colleagues mostly just find them irritating.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Harrigan and his team find Jerry and his invasive attitude and jokes irritating, and almost nobody can stand him.
- Hidden Depths: He seems like a loudmouth and a braggart at first, but
he's exactly as good at his job as he claims to be. - Heroic Sacrifice: He holds off the Predator to save a crowded subway train."Come on, motherfucker... let's dance!"
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may act like a prick, and he got his previous partner killed, but he deeply cares about his partners and is willing to put his life on the line for them.
- Laser Sight: Jerry's P226 pistol is fitted with a black laser pointer sight.
- Machete Mayhem: He picks up a machete for his confrontation with the Predator.
- Plucky Comic Relief: He's not very mature and has a tendency to crack bad jokes.
- Red Baron: He has the nickname of "The Lone Ranger," which according to the novelization, came from him taking down four bank robbers by himself on his first day on the job.
- Redemption Equals Death: His stand-off against the Predator is what gets Leona to take him seriously.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He has this sort of reputation due to losing his previous partner, although he's seeking to atone for this (while keeping the ego).
- The Smart Guy: He has experience with surveillance techniques, and uses them to track down Keyes' group and monitor their progress.
- What the Hell, Hero?: From Leona for his previous partner's death.
- Worthy Opponent: The Predator actually goes back to the subway just to collect his skull as a trophy.
- X Is My Middle Name: And that name keeps changing according to circumstance.
- You Shall Not Pass!: He tries to pull this on the Predator. It costs him his life, but the Predator is impressed enough to take Jerry's skull and spine as a trophy.
Leona Cantrell
Leona Cantrell
"This guy's playing with you, Mike!"
Played By: Maria Conchita Alonso
"You try that cowboy shit with me, fucker, and you can kiss these goodbye."
One of Harrigan's partners and friends, although she hasn't been with him as long as Danny has.
- Action Girl: She can handle herself quite well with a weapon, especially during a crime-filled heatwave in L.A. She turns out to be a Pregnant Badass as well.
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: After Jerry and the other mooks die on the subway train, she is left covered in blood.
- Boyish Short Hair: She rocks a short haircut.
- Groin Attack: She gives one to Jerry for annoying her and hitting on her, threatening to crush his balls if he does. Quoted above.
- Happily Married: The novelization and a deleted scene show that she's married.
- Imperiled in Pregnancy: Cantrell is spared by the Predator when its scanner reveals a fetus in her womb (the novelization states that killing pregnant prey is against the rules of the hunt). It's unstated whether Cantrell herself knew she was pregnant beforehand.
- Irony: Leona explains that Jerry Lambert is a lone wolf with a reputation for recklessness that gets his partners killed. His actions get himself killed, and Leona survives.
- Laser Sight: Leona's SIG-Sauer P226 pistol is fitted with a custom laser pointer.
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Leona is pregnant, and it's unknown whether her husband or Harrigan is the father of the baby.
- My Secret Pregnancy: Good thing for her, since the Predator doesn't kill pregnant prey.
- Neck Lift: The Predator does this to Leona when confronting her in the subway, lifting her to just the right height for it to realize she is pregnant. It lets her live.
- One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: A deleted scene would've revealed Harrigan and Leona got drunk and slept together once a few weeks prior, and that she is currently pregnant before the final release does.
- Only Sane Man: She tries to warn Harrigan that they're in over their heads, but he doesn't listen.
- Put on a Bus: She's hospitalized following her encounter with the Predator, leaving Harrigan on his own against the Predator.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Harrigan and Jerry's red.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female member of Harrigan's team, and the only major female character in the film.
- Spicy Latina: Downplayed Trope, as she has a bit of a fiery temper and is Latina, but she's more level-headed than Harrigan and Jerry.
Danny Archuleta
Danny Archeluta
"Whoever did this waited until the last second, took out six guys armed with machine guns by hand, then got by us."
Played By: Rubén Blades
Harrigan's best friend and partner who knew him before joining the police force. He ends up being killed by the Predator when he investigates the scene of its latest hunt alone.
- Death from Above: Danny is investigating the massacre of Gold Tooth and his men when the Predator snags him by the leg. He tries to pull his sidearm on it, and it proceeds to drag him into the ceiling, where it kills him.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: According to his autopsy report, the Predator did this, and boned him like a fish afterwards.
- Nice Guy: He's certainly less abrasive than his partners, and far more reasonable.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Harrigan's red.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He's the most sympathetic member of Harrigan's group, and his death spurs the protagonists to take action against it.
- Tragic Mistake: One he had no way of knowing he was making. If he hadn't pulled his gun on the City Hunter who caught him and kept him from falling, it's entirely possible it wouldn't have killed him, given its code of honor.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He's established as Harrigan's friend, but is killed by the Predator not long into the film before we can get much of a sense of their relationship.
Peter Keyes
Peter Keyes
"Grab a seat. Enjoy the show. This is history."
Played By: Gary Busey
"How many times do I have to tell you? You don't know what you're dealing with."
A DEA agent who is really part of a alien investigation unit assigned to track the Predator and learn more about it.
- Admiring the Abomination: He finds the Predator and its technology fascinating, although he tells Harrigan he doesn't admire it for what it does.
- Asshole Victim: The Predator gives him his just desserts when his ambush goes wrong.
- Badass Bookworm: A background check reveals he has a PhD in Physical Sciences from Cornell University, and is a former captain in Air Force intelligence.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He wanted to capture the City Hunter for his and his crooked agency's selfish gains, but while it would make him a threat in another work like a science fiction government Conspiracy Thriller of sorts, he's just another small potato in comparison to the City Hunter.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He finds himself on the wrong side of this trope when the City Hunter bisects him at the waistline with a Smart Disc.
- Black Helicopter: Averted, as his team uses a silver Alouette chopper, like the silver thermal suits they later don for the fight in the slaughterhouse.
- Freeze Ray: His plan to capture the Predator. It turns out their liquid nitrogen guns are Harmless Freezing to the Predator, and he gets killed for it.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: The Predator saws him in half with its Smart Disc.
- He Knows Too Much: Harrigan believes he will do this to him in the novel. In the movie, however, he rejects the idea that they should kill Harrigan (albeit for pragmatic reasons), and later tells Harrigan to save himself while he takes on the Predator himself.
- Heroic Sacrifice: While not intended, him saving Harrigan at the last moment and giving him enough time to run before killed himself by the Predator counts as one.
- Hypocrite: He warns Harrigan that he doesn't know what he's dealing with, but Keyes isn't fully prepared for the City Hunter either. Still, the plan mainly fails because he did not foresee alternate vision modes defeating his carefully laid freezer trap and one of his squad members accidentally making too much noise on a stairway. Additionally, the City Hunter had its clan along for the trip back at the ship, so Keyes and his team would have likely had to deal with them even if they had won, due to the other Yautja being sure to notice if one of theirs didn't return to the ship.
- Ironic Last Words: Keyes intervenes in Harrigan's duel with the City Hunter, and feels confident that he can win. However, he gets effortlessly bisected by its smart disc, and the City Hunter continues his pursuit of Harrigan.Keyes: Get out of here, Harrigan. I'm going to save your ass. This is between me and him.
- Irony: Harrigan's intervention when Keyes and the Predator are about to face off saves Keyes from what would have been a lethal ranged attack due to the Predator being distracted and having its aim thrown off. His own offhand attempt to repay the favor is what ultimately gets him killed, since there's no way the Predator could miss this time.
- I Warned You: He delivers a lot of these to Harrigan. While Harrigan assumes he's being threatened (he is), Keyes is not wrong that he really does have no idea what he's dealing with.
- Jerkass: He's not exactly polite to Harrigan, and refuses assistance when Harrigan offers it.
- Just Think of the Potential!: He wants to capture the alien intact, or at least its technology, so as to advance our own technology.
- Large Ham: It's Gary Busey, after all.
- Made of Iron: He manages to survives an ranged attack by the Predator that he seemingly didn't even dodge, though his survival can be accredited to the arrival of Harrigan throwing the Predator's aim off, as it wasn't looking directly at Keyes when making the shot.
- The Men in Black: What he really is, albeit a militarised version.
- Predecessor Villain: The organization he created and the subplot he brings to the table (the government being interested in Predator technology come hell, high water, or large casualties) are shown to still cause trouble in canon media taking place decades later.
- Villainous Valour: Despite being a dick for the entire movie, Keyes is no coward, and when his plot to catch the Predator goes belly-up, he puts himself on the line to try to finish it off rather than running away.
- The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): To be fair, his plan to capture the Predator failed only due to an unfortunately-placed staircase creaking and giving away his squad's position and not being able to predict the Predator had other vision modes, one of which is capable of detecting their UV flashlights.
Tony Pope
Tony Pope
Played By: Morton Downey Jr.
An arrogant shock news reporter covering the events of the movie who harasses Harrigan and his partners for information.
- Asshole Victim: A non-fatal example. Harrigan punches him out late in the movie when he's had enough of his nosing around.
- Hate Sink: His character spends every moment getting the audience to despise him as much as every other character in the movie does.
- Jerkass: He's nosy and impolite in his search for news, which causes everyone to hate him as a result.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He is constantly harping on that the mayor of LA is doing absolutely nothing to help stop the gang violence, instead living it up in his house on Lake Tahoe, and things are bad enough that the mayor declaring martial law would be a good thing, as well as praising the carnage the City Hunter is delivering to the gangs. From what we see of the situation that doesn't involve the Predator, he's right.
- Kent Brockman News: His Hardcore News is shock news with no filter to his opinions.
- Large Ham: At least he has an excuse, as it's part of his job.
- Pet the Dog: Despite his general low opinion of the efforts of the LAPD, he refers to Danny's death as the killing of one of L.A.'s finest.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Despite being a shock reporter, he thinks of himself as being responsible for delivering the truth to the public.
- Turn Off the Camera: Keyes' mooks wrest his camera off him, but he just secretly films what he was after using a smaller handheld camera as they're hustling him off.
Captain Pilgrim
Captain Pilgrim
Played By: Kent McCord
Harrigan's superior in the LAPD who is willing to stick his neck out for him.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's willing to look past Harrigan's violent escapades, knowing they get the job done.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears once Harrigan starts pursuing the Predator for the final showdown.
Phil Heinemann
Phil Heinemann
Played By: Robert Davi
The Deputy Chief of Police of Harrigan's district who used to be friends with him, but became distant after being promoted, and has grown to hate Harrigan for his recklessness.
- Bad Boss: He treats Harrigan with little respect.
- By-the-Book Cop: Part of his problem with Harrigan involves annoyance at Harrigan's Cowboy Cop antics.
- Da Chief: Well, officially, he's a deputy chief, but he is the highest-ranked officer of the LAPD we see.
- It's All About Me: If telling Harrigan he made him look bad is any indication, it appears he only cares about his image over the job of fighting crime actually getting done.
- Jerkass: He never overlooks an opportunity to express his Irrational Hatred of Harrigan and his Cowboy Cop antics.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Heinemann may not appreciate Harrigan's successes, but he is correct that Harrigan's actions have done a lot of damage to the city, which he points out when he brings up a record of Harrigan's vandalism from his past duties, while confronting him over Danny's death as Captain Pilgrim attempts to defend Harrigan's actions.
- The Neidermeyer: He cares more about looking good in front of the public and the Chief of Police than the effectiveness of the police work.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: He tries to impede Harrigan's investigation when Keyes comes into town.
- Police Are Useless: He's the manifestation of this trope in the film, giving into pressure by Keyes to shut Harrigan down.
- Slave to PR: He is very conscious of his public relations, and finds Harrigan embarrassing to his image.
- Ungrateful Bastard: He berates Harrigan for disobeying orders during the siege on El Scorpio's hideout, despite it winning the shootout. Heinemann does stick up for him when the Chief of Police threatens to fire Harrigan for Danny's death, however, despite his hatred of Harrigan and blaming him for Danny's death.
- We Used to Be Friends: A cut subplot included in the novelization revealed this is the case with him and Harrigan due to his promotions causing him to be more submissive and having Taken a Level in Jerkass at some point.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears after meeting with Harrigan over Danny's death. A deleted scene reveals that Keyes' group abandoned the LAPD when things get nasty and he's being pursued by angry reporters. Heinemann begs Harrigan to help him, but Harrigan rejects him since he's still furious over Danny's death.
King Willie
King Willie
Played By: Calvin Lockhart
The leader of the Jamaican Voodoo Posse drug cartel competing with the Colombian Scorpions. He orders the execution of one of El Scorpio's men before he meets with Harrigan to discuss the Predator, which has begun attacking his men and Harrigan's. He is killed by the Predator shortly afterward.
- Affably Evil: He discusses the Predator with Harrigan while holding a degree of respect without any tension.
- Asshole Victim: He's a crimelord, after all. At least he faced death with dignity.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Averted. Despite being a cartel leader, his outrageous appearance that sticks out like a sore thumb and having operations throughout the city streets that include ordering a hit on a Colombian cartel member, he does not seem to actively try to pursue being an Arch-Enemy of Harrigan's, and even tries to warn Harrigan of the Predator's presence.
- Cane Sword: He has one with a snake head hilt.
- Cold Ham: He tends to speak slowly with dramatic emphasis.King Willie [his last words while facing the City Hunter, reciting Psalm 87:1]: His foundation lies in the holy mountains. Selah!
- The Don: He's the leader of the Jamaican Voodoo Posse drug cartel.
- Dreadlock Rasta: Subverted, as he is actually Voodoo, but in every other way he fits this trope to a T.
- Even Evil Has Standards: It's implied that despite being on the opposite side of the law, the reason he discusses the Predator with Harrigan is to somewhat warn him about it being a dangerous off-world threat that is very likely more deadlier than his mob, the Colombian mob, and Harrigan's precinct put together.
- Face Death with Dignity: When facing the Predator for a duel.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: His voodoo comes across as this, and he believes the Predator to be a demon.
- Off with His Head!: How the Predator kills him. Since this is usually the fate of Worthy Opponents, this suggests that he put up a good fight offscreen.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He does not seek to fight the police, unlike his psychotic Colombian counterpart El Scorpio, and even takes the time to warn Harrigan about the Predator.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: He has a habit of regularly talking slowly and emphasizing his words, as the Cold Ham description says.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He believes the one killing his men is a demon. He's right about it not being human, at least.
- Scary Black Man: Not so much in appearance, but his voodoo beliefs and behavior certainly make him qualify. Also, an Invoked Trope, as his gang uses their voodoo-style killings to frighten their rivals.
- Villain of Another Story: He's an established crimelord in open battle with both his Colombian rivals and the police, only having to put their account on hold when the Predator shows up.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets killed a couple minutes after Harrigan meets with him.
- Worthy Opponent: The Predator collects Willie's head as a trophy and mounts his skull prominently in his trophy room, suggesting Willie put up a pretty good fight.
- The Yardies: A Jamaican gang leader whose men are prone to violent ritualistic assassinations.
El Scorpio
El Scorpio
Played By: Henry Kingi
The leader of the Colombian Scorpion drug cartel competing with the Jamaican Voodoo Posse. He engages in a bloody firefight with the LAPD before being attacked by the Predator and subsequently killed by Harrigan.
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign/El Spanish "-o": "The Scorpion" is actually written El Escorpión in Spanish.
- Asshole Victim: He's a crimelord who murders several people onscreen.
- Ax-Crazy: He takes delight in slaughtering police officers.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He's the biggest threat to law enforcement until the City Hunter shows up, making him just another bit of cannon fodder for Harrigan to take down at the beginning of the film.
- Car Cushion: Picnic table cushion but it's a similar effect. After recoiling off a building from Harrigan's Desert Eagle Hand Cannon, he lands on an appointed picnic table next to a food truck.
- Disney Villain Death: He falls off a roof after getting gunned down by Harrigan. Though likely, since he had on a bulletproof vest, it was the fall that killed him and not getting shot.
- Giggling Villain: See Large Ham below.
- Guns Akimbo: He carries two Micro-Uzis with him wherever he goes.
- Large Ham: Besides being a smiling, laughing goon, he delivers this gem when taking a hit of cocaine in his armory.El Scorpio: Come and get it! El Scorpio is ready!
- More Dakka: He uses a grenade launcher to take out a police car and attempts to invoke this when the police enter his hideout, but the Predator puts that to a stop.
- Starter Villain: He and his gang are the first enemies Harrigan and his partners battle before facing the City Hunter.
- Villain of Another Story: He's battling the cops on behalf of the Colombian Scorpion drug cartel before the City Hunter swooped in.
- Villainous Breakdown: He's noticeably nervous and unstable after the Predator kills his gang, though the cocaine he took earlier probably contributed to his behaviour.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets offed within the first ten minutes.
The City Hunter
The City Hunter
Played By: Kevin Peter Hall, Danny Smith, Hal Rayle (voice)
A Predator who has come to Los Angeles with its tribe to hunt humans.
- An Arm and a Leg: It loses its left arm to Harrigan, although it survives and heals up for their final showdown.
- Anti-Villain: It's a Noble Demon who Would Not Shoot a Civilian (i.e., anyone unarmed). It also has a thing against killing pregnant women as well whether they’re armed or unarmed not withstanding.
- Berserk Button: The Predator is furious when Harrigan unmasks it. It throws Harrigan, smashes his shotgun, roars at him, and would've killed him if Keyes hadn't intervened. Harrigan insulting its appearance probably didn't help either.
- Big Bad: The titular main villain of the film who goes on a killing spree throughout Los Angeles.
- Blood Knight: More so than any other Predator, as while their preferred hunting grounds and tactics prioritze lone isolated targets, the City Hunter regularly jumps in the middle of heavily armed groups and gives its prey more chances than a regular Predator would.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: It spares a little kid after identifying his gun as a toy and does the same to Leona when it realizes she's pregnant even though she's armed, although all bets are off if you can defend yourself, as it kills an old lady in the subway shootout, and it did aim its gun at the head of the child mentioned above at first. The City Hunter doesn't seem to distinguish between dangerously armed and armed but still doesn't stand a chance, so it's best to play Actual Pacifist to survive.
- Chameleon Camouflage: It wouldn't be the Predator without it.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: He is more hot-headed and reckless in his actions compared to the more methodical original Predator.
Word of God explains this as the Jungle Hunter being a seasoned veteran while the City Hunter is younger and eager to prove himself. - Deadly Disc: Its Smart Disc acts as a remote-controlled boomerang buzzsaw that can fly.
- Glory Seeker: The late Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who played the City Hunter and Greyback, states in the DVD/Blu-ray extras that he played the City Hunter as a "wild boy" who chose LA so its actions during the hunt would be well-known.
- Harmless Freezing: It turns out Keyes' liquid nitrogen throwers don't have much of an immediate effect on it, and it's able to escape and retaliate after being blasted the first time, though it does hurts it as a creature preferring warm environments.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Harrigan kills it with its own Smart Disc.
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Like always, with the novel indicating it sees humans in particular as this after Dutch's actions in the first film.
- Immune to Bullets: It absorbs 30 bullets (two 15-round magazines of 9mm ammunition) from Lambert and barely slows down, while Harrigan's shotgun blasts merely knock it out.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: It ends up being stabbed with its Smart Disc by Harrigan and having its stomach sliced open.
- Inescapable Net: It uses one made of some sort of piano wire-like material to kill a gang banger and trap Harrigan momentarily.
- Noble Demon: It comes across as this in comparison to the original Jungle Hunter, considering it spares victims not capable of defending themselves, such as a child, and leaves an otherwise armed pregnant woman alone upon discovering she's pregnant. Additionally, much more of its victims come across as assholes deserving to die compared to the first, especially the drug cartel members.
- No Waterproofing in the Future: Like the first Predator, this one has its cloaking device flicker when walking through a puddle to confront King Willie and short circuit when emergency sprinklers go on in the warehouse.
- Outside-Genre Foe: Nobody was expecting an alien hunter to interrupt a drug war.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: The novel implies that it attacked the Jamaican gangmembers because they attacked the helpless Ramon Vega and his mistress; though Ramon Vega was a Colombian crime boss, he was unarmed and nude when they found him, and before killing him, they gang-raped his mistress.
- Plasma Cannon: In addition to the shoulder-mounted weapon, this Predator has one built into its left gauntlet.
- Precision F-Strike: Twice in the film. When Mike unmasks him, the City Hunter screams "Motherfucker," and when it almost defeats Mike, it says, "Shit happens".
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: Among a race known for being wild and tough, the City Hunter is almost certainly the wildest and quite possibly one of the toughest.
- Really 700 Years Old: Predator: Hunting Grounds reveals the City Hunter is 300 years old, but still a youth by Yautja standards.
- Retractable Weapon: Its spear, wrist blades, and wrist cannon.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It carelessly discards its mask and plasma caster when they are broken and does not retrieve its severed arm, all of which have dangerous consequences down the line. In the audio logs from Predator: Hunting Grounds, it's revealed that the OWLF program picked up the City Hunter's discarded helmet, plasma caster, and severed arm and used them to study Predator technology and physiology. This led them to have a better grasp on killing Predators, forcing the species to slow its hunts on Earth before drawing the ire of possibly the Predator Queen. This culminated in the events of the fourth film, where it's implied a rogue clan of Predators planned to take over the Earth and caused havoc in a Project Stargazer facility. In turn, this led to Stargazer being shut down and becoming a terrorist group selling black market Predator tech and destabilizing regions in hopes of attracting Predators.
- Worthy Opponent: It comes to view Lambert, King Willie, and Harrigan as this. The novel also states that it, along with the rest of its kind, view Dutch as this.
- Would Hit a Girl: The Predator attacks Leona, only sparing her when it sees she's pregnant. Before then, it does kill armed female commuters in the attack on the train shootout, including an elderly woman.
- Would Hurt a Child: Implied, only to be subverted. When the City Hunter comes across a child carrying a gun, it aims its plasma weapon at the boy's head, only sparing the child after double-checking and identifying the gun as a toy.
- Judging by the Predator's sudden movements while camouflaged, the boy's presence startled it while it was stalking Harrigan. Once it regains its composure, it realizes it was only a young child with a toy gun. It’s a good thing for that kid that the City Hunter took the time to make sure, otherwise the City Hunter could’ve wound up accidentally killing that kid. Expanded universe material indicates that Predators never kill children.
- Also, when it initially attacks the pregnant Leona, once it scans her and sees the baby, it immediately stops its attack on her as Predators will never kill pregnant women either.
Elder Predator "Greyback"
Elder Predator "Greyback"
Played By: Kevin Peter Hall, Hal Rayle (voice)
The leader of the City Hunter's tribe with centuries of hunting experience under his belt.
- Ascended Extra: He is the main character in the comic Predator: 1718, depicting how he came to acquire the flintlock that he eventually gave to Harrigan.
- Berserk Button: When a pirate kills Raphael Adolini, his intended prey, Greyback proceeds to kill the pirate for stealing his kill.
- Cool Old Guy: A cool old Predator at that, who recognizes a Worthy Opponent when he sees one.
- Cool Sword: He carries a jagged sword in lieu of wrist gauntlets.
- Due to the Dead: He does this with the corpse of the City Hunter despite the City Hunter having lost several pieces of their technology that could fall into human hands, which the EU reveals is a crime in Predator society. He also does this in Predator: 1718 when he buries Raphael Adolini, the original owner of the flintlock pistol he rewards Harrigan with many years later.
- Empathic Weapon: Greyback's Plasma Caster seems to move of its own volition, first motioning to the deceased City Hunter on the ground, and then later towards his own belt, as if encouraging its owner to award Harrigan a trophy for proving himself against one of their own.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Raphael Adolini in the comic, an 18th-century pirate who he targeted. Before dying, Adolini gives him his pistol, while the Predator buries Adolini and leaves his prized sword at his grave.
- Mythology Gag: Its design is an aged version of the original Predator.
- Shoulder Cannon: He has a Plasma Caster with a built-in targeting laser sight controlled by hand, considering it forgoes a helmet.
- Time Abyss: As its flintlock trophy implies, Predators can live for centuries before becoming elderly. Predator: Hunting Grounds reveals the City Hunter is 300 years old and still a youth by Predator standards, which means Greyback is likely exceptionally old.
- Worthy Opponent: He awards Harrigan its flintlock trophy for defeating the City Hunter and allows him to live. In Predator: 1718, he shows his respect to Raphael Adolini by burying him.
