So a new set photo was released today showing two Predators on a tank with humans. WTF!
First The Predator Set Photo Showing The Predators
The abomination of the Predator franchise continues to grow with this set photo. Predators are hunters, they hunt humans for sport. They don't collaborate with humans!
Their wearing camo! They have cloaking...This will be a comedic action abomination not a horror/thriller like it should be. Ugh this is so horrible! I'm going to be ill. This will be a disaster, worse than AVPR!
You're all gonna hate me for this, but here goes...aside from the comedic hand gestures/poses that Pred is sporting(which is obviously taken on a break and fooling around, if it is indeed a real picture from set), I really reckon it's cool. REALLY COOL. Brought me back to this:
That pic took me to my childhood and I played that game for hours man, hours!!! While peeps were mastering Streetfighter, I was killing it with my Hunter. Yes, I preferred the hunter to the warrior because, brown is love ;P and his play style I liked more. And there is one stage during the game where they ride a tank like APC, similar to the m577 APC from Aliens 2, where one of your chosen characters got on the back, shooting Xenos!!!!And of course, since I almost always chose Predators, Preds on a tank
OMG the memories!!! <3 <3 <3
And yes, I do agree with Christina, Predators are hunters, they do Hunt humans for sport, but my preferred Hunter is a Yautja that hunts suitable and worthy prey. My hunter is an honourable hunter
But from the very first AVP graphic novels and the literature that followed, Yautja have always been depicted to be working with Humans, Machiko Noguchi being the best, prime example. Broken Tusk/Dachande is a great Hunter because he knows he couldn't take a whole swarm by himself, and he knows a kickass, formidable Human, a Woman when he sees one and not afraid to get help from her. For those saying Broken Tusk is a 'softy' too much of a 'Human-lover', I leave you with an excerpt of Steve Perry's Novelization of AVP PREY, while I download an emulator for the game above!!!
“Seated in front of the sensor array on Ne'dtesei, Yeyinde watched the alien ship dwindle in their wake. He was Leader; his very name meant "brave one" but he knew the warriors called him "Dachande" when they thought his ears too dull to hear them. That name meant "different knife," and it referred to his left lower tusk,
broken in a bare-handed fight against the Hard Meat, the kainde amedha, they of the black armored exoskeletons and acid blood. He smiled inwardly at the name. It could be considered an insult, but he was proud of it. The Hard Meat, save for the queens, were no smarter than dogs, but they were fierce and deadly game. Good prey upon which to train the young warriors. He could have had the tusk capped and reground, but he had left the broken fang a dull stump to remind himself-and any warriors who felt brave or particularly stupid-that only one yautja of all had ever faced the Hard Meat unarmed and walked away. As befitted a true warrior, Dachande himself never spoke of the battle, but let others tell the tale, holding a serious mandible at the embellishments they “But with deadly stingers, they added in the singing of it. He was Leader of the Ne'dtesei, son and grandson of ship leaders and warrior trainers, and he bowed to no one in his skill with blade or burner. He had taken hundreds of young males out to learn the Hunt and had lost but a dozen, most of whom would still be among the living had they obeyed his orders. But he sighed at the ship now so far behind him as to be invisible to even the sensors' keen eyes. Oomans flew in that vessel. He knew of them, the oomans, though he himself had never Hunted them. They were tool folk, had weapons equal to those of the yautja, and were, if the stories could be believed, the ultimate pyode amedha. Soft Meat. But with deadly stingers, the oomans. A true test of skill. What were they doing out here? Where were they bound? A pity he was locked into this Hunt, responsible for a score of itchy would-be warriors full of themselves and ready to show off their prowess. Well. Someday he would Hunt them, the oomans. For now he had a ship to fly, hunts to prepare.”
Excerpt From: Steve Perry. “0553565559[FY].” iBooks.
Aliens vs. Predator,
PREY
And oh yeah, I liked AVP and all other Pred related films(because, Predator Bias), but I've really got to say Hollywood really, really, really, really botched it up when they didn't choose Machiko/Broken Tusk story to start of the AVP franchise..
Edit: Found some more images, Bonus Gort/Guardian and Predator on Tank