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Predator: Badlands

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As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.


Fridge Brilliance:

  • At first glace, the status of the Kalisk among the Yautja as The Dreaded prey that has killed all hunters who have tried to claim it as their trophy might seem odd, considering that Tessa was able to capture the creature using Yautja tech stolen from the wreckage of Dek's ship. However, a closer reading shows that the Yautja failure against the Kalisk is entirely a case of Honor Before Reason: the Yautja do have the tools and skills available to them to successfully hunt the Kalisk... if two or more of them work together (as Tessa proved when she used the Yautja freeze grenade on the Kalisk while it was engaged fighting Dek), something that is expressly forbidden by the Yautja Codex.
    • Even more simply, a Yautja hunt needs to end with a kill, and a kill that brings back a skull (and spine, preferably). Capturing isn't honorable!
  • Bud's interest in the Bone Bison meat comes off at first as her just being a hungry animal, but this makes more sense in hindsight with the reveal that she is a baby Kalisk and Thia established that Kalisk eat Bone Bison. When Dek shares the meat with Bud and she marks him in response, she was likely recalling her own mother feeding her and so this caused her to see Dek as family.
  • Bud unwittingly saved Dek's life from the Kalisk. After he's pinned down during their fight the Kalisk didn't finish him off because she smelled her young's mark on him.

Fridge Horror:

  • Was Njohur's cruelty a rarity or it has been reoccurring amongst his society? In fact, his actions seems to be more in line to what the Grendel King and his faction has been doing: abducting people and using dishonorable tactics to gain victory.
    • One must wonder that there are still honorable hunters like with Dek and Kwei out there but have been overshadowed by the majority who care less about the sportsmanship but more about satisfying their bloodlust and sadism.
    • Another point in favor of them being under the Grendel King's rule is that Njohrr's bodyguards resemble the exact same enforcers that the Grendel King had at his command — right down to the tusked biomasks and padded armor — implying that Dek's clan were little more than a fief of the Grendel King's and further implies that the Grendel King is seemingly the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire franchise with his cruelty motivating a lot of Yautja behavior.

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