Poncho: <What happened woman? What did you see? What happened?>
Anna: <It was... I don't know.>
Poncho: <Tell me, woman!>
Anna: <I don't what know it was. The jungle, the jungle took him.>
Poncho: <What?>
Anna: <I don't know, I'm not sure. I don't know.>
Poncho: She says the jungle...it just came alive and took him.
Anna: <It was... I don't know.>
Poncho: <Tell me, woman!>
Anna: <I don't what know it was. The jungle, the jungle took him.>
Poncho: <What?>
Anna: <I don't know, I'm not sure. I don't know.>
Poncho: She says the jungle...it just came alive and took him.
— On the Predator, 1987 film
Alien vs. Predator combines two of the most notable alien monster film franchises and thus both franchises, as well as the times they have crossed over, have provided many brilliant baddies.
Entries for each franchise are by approximate release/publication date.
A crossover with Superman can be found here.
All spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
Alien(s) franchise
- Nightmare Asylum: The Xenomorph Queen is used as a captive by the insane General Thomas Spears to breed new "soldiers" for him to take over earth and destroy the other Xenomorphs. Upon Spears burning her children, the Queen bides her time, directing her children to play along with Spears' orders and desires, even sparing civilians when unleashed upon them. Once she has Spears believing she is obedient, the Queen lets him take her back to earth where she is able to reunite with her children over a new kingdom with Spears no longer needed.
Predator franchise
- 1987 film: The Predator itself is a dangerous, cunning and honourable warrior. Hunting in Republic of Val Verde during a Guerrilla War, the Predator stalked and killed numerous insurgents and elite forces, including a band of Green Berets. Cautiously hunting Dutch's group, it picked them off one by one as they split up, careful not to let itself be outnumbered even with its superior technology. Avoiding their first trap, they eventually catch it in a net, which it escapes by rapidly firing its Plasmacaster. Feigning ignorance of Mac and Dillon's presence when they pursue it, the Predator turns the tables and kills them both. The Jungle Hunter's final confrontation is with Dutchm who had figured out how to exploit the Predator's thermal imaging tech. The creature is so impressed that, even when it had Dutch in its clutches, it lets him go and disarms itself to fight him unarmed, and thoroughly kicks his ass. The hunter is finally defeated through ingenuity and use of traps by Dutch, and even then it evades the actual trap, but had the misfortune to stand beneath the trap's counterweight. Noble and terrifying, the Predator hunts for sport, will not go after those it doesn't consider a threat and is an alien icon that spawned an entire franchise.
- Predator 2: The "City Hunter" is the Predator currently terrorizing Los Angeles, brutally targeting and picking off dangerous gangs throughout the city as part of his hunt. Using both brute force and stealthy attacks to wipe out armed goons, the City Hunter takes out even cops in his pursuit, but holds a strict code to never harm a child, sparing even an armed police officer trying to stop him when the City Hunter realizes she is pregnant. Even when federal agents devise a scheme to trap the rogue Predator, the City Hunter quickly adapts and kills them all. The City Hunter quickly pegs Detective Lieutenant Harrigan as the most worthy trophy of this particular hunt, and the bulk of the film is their game of "cat and cat" as they hunt each other.
- Predators: Royce is a cold, ruthless mercenary who quickly takes charge of a group of seasoned killers that have been dropped on a game reserve planet. Royce formulates several pragmatic plans to get out of troubling situations, such as using the group as bait to draw out the Predators to figure out their capabilities, and setting off an explosive to lure in the Predators when the group is trapped by a crazed madman. Quickly deducing that the seemingly harmless Edwin is actually a Serial Killer, Royce paralyzes him with his own poison, using him as bait for the Berserker Predator, and uses brilliant combat tactics against the ensuing fight with the Berserker to come out on top.
- Prey (2022): The "Feral" Predator is a particularly vicious, yet no less cunning member of the Yautja race who arrives on Earth intent on hunting the most dangerous prey. Though wielding a more primitive arsenal than its later counterparts, the Feral expertly uses its weapons to its advantage in all forms of skirmishes with wolf, bear and human alike. The Feral tears its way through all foes and outwits the attempt by the French trappers to ambush it, instead twisting their trap around and picking them all off with stealth and tactics alike. Maintaining the same sense of honor that the rest of its race possesses, the Feral faces down Naru in a final skirmish and overcomes almost all of her wits to nearly strike her dead.
- Superman vs. Predator, by David Michelinie & Alex Maleev: The Yautja of this setting, a cunning Predator only referred to as the "sky devil", staked out its territory in La Jungla de Las Sombras after crash-landing there. For years the sky devil has meticulously outwitted and killed every soldier who comes to investigate the island, and when its technology is misappropriated by a genocidal scientist and his mercenaries, the Predator begins killing them all. The sky devil is even good enough to take on a depowered Superman, and honorable enough to realize that Superman is not his foe in the end, taking out both the scientist and his Dragon before sacrificing himself to destroy their superweapon.
Alien(s) vs. Predator
- Aliens vs. Predator: Dachande, known as "Broken-Tusk", is a Blooded Yautja leader known for his charisma and intellect. A strategic hunter and veteran of many hunts, Dachande chooses the world Ryushi as the site of the Predators' hunt before being wounded by a shuttle crash. Saved by humans, Dachande repays the favor by helping to eliminate the Xenomorphs and rogue Yautja alike, disgusted at his people murdering civilians and children. Helping to trap the Xenomorphs and destroy them before being mortally wounded by the alien queen, Dachande uses his dying moments to mark his human partner Machiko with the sign of his clan, one warrior to another.
- Aliens vs. Predator 2: The Predator "Prince" is a brilliant hunter who leads an attack on a military outpost, burning through the spine of soldier Rykov and earning his lifelong hatred. When the Prince encounters Rykov decades later, he is shown to be a canny and deadly opponent, outwitting his human foes and using the explosion of a transport ship for cover against the humans and Xenomorphs alike so he might find and kill Rykov to reclaim his personal mask.
- Predator: Concrete Jungle: "Scarface" was exiled from his Yautja clan for failing to honorably kill himself after a mission gone wrong, but spends the entirety of the game earning his stripes back while proving his honor and skill. Tearing apart the gangs of Neonopolis with strategic strikes and even by turning them against each other, Scarface follows all the traces of information they have to locate the source of local Predator deaths in the form of the Borgia family. Scarface escapes several traps set for him by the Borgias, manipulates Lucretia's personal guard into helping him when she's killed, and butchers the villainous Isabella and Hunter Borgia, standing triumphantly over their corpses while proclaiming an Ironic Echo of something Bruno Borgia once said: "I'm the boss of this city!"
- Requiem: "Wolf" is a Yautja dispatched to contain the Predalien and Xenomorph outbreak in Colorado. Arriving on Earth and honoring his fallen comrades, Wolf uses deduction and a jar of acid to track down and eliminate all traces of Xenomorph presence, using laser traps and his bevy of weaponry to carve through dozens of Xenomorphs with ease. Taking time out of his mission to kill a gun-wielding scumbag threatening a woman and child, Wolf murders a local deputy and uses another man as bait to lure more Xenomorphs to their doom. Meeting the otherwise unstoppable Predalien in singles combat, Wolf deals a killing blow against the monstrous creature and spends his last moments roaring defiantly in the Predalien's face even after it impales him.
- 2010 game:
- Predator Elite "Dark" is a brilliant hunter who infiltrates the world of the Yautja sacred hunting grounds, punishing the humans who have desecrated them and finding the corpses of Predator youngbloods, setting their wrist gauntlets to self destruct to prevent the humans from taking Yautja technology. Taking advantage of the chaos to kill multitudes of Xenomorphs and humans on the hunt, Dark even kills a Predalien singlehandedly, taking the mask from his own great ancestor's tomb to reveal the ultimate prize for the next hunt: the Xenomorph home world.
- Specimen Six is an unusually intelligent Xenomorph who escapes from her captors in Weyland-Yutani before freeing several of her brethren, including the ancient Queen known as the Matriarch. Armed with her wits and strategic prowess, Six cuts through entire swaths of Marines in defense of her hive while bolstering their ranks by harvesting civilians. Making her way to the Yautja ruins, Six single-handedly kills two Young Blood Predators and impregnates one Elite. Although captured once again, Six quickly escapes and molts into a Queen herself, having exacted revenge on her captors and built a new hive to rule over.
