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| “ | That’s the thing that killed my men. | „ |
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The Fugitive Predator, also known as the Rogue Predator, is a major anti-hero and deuteragonist of the 2018 sci-fi action film The Predator. He is a Predator/human hybrid whose aim was to deliver a weapon known as the "Predator Killer" to humanity so that they could fend off an invasion of some kind and prevent it from being retrieved by his rival, the Ultimate Predator.
He was voiced and portrayed by Brian A. Prince and Kyle Strauts.
Biography
The Fugitive Predator appears in his spaceship trying to escape from another Predator ship that is attacking it. The enemy spaceship does some significant damage to it just before the Fugitive Predator opens a wormhole and flies through it. The wormhole opens in Earth’s orbit and the Fugitive Predator’s ship is tumbling towards Earth. The ship crash lands in a forest but moments before, a pod was ejected from the ship.
A soldier called Quinn McKenna is on a mission to rescue hostages in Mexico when the pod crashes near him. He goes to investigate, finds the pod open and recovers the Fugitive Predator’s mask and wrist gauntlet. Fugitive appears cloaked in the trees and kills one of McKenna’s team. Fugitive fires a plasma shot which kills another member of his team and throws McKenna to the ground. As Fugitive approaches him, McKenna accidentally activates the wrist gauntlet which fires a projectile injuring Fugitive and knocks him to the ground. McKenna walks off and the wrist gauntlet ejects a spherical device which is later revealed to be a cloaking device.
McKenna mails the mask and wrist gauntlet to home address in America and later his son Rory inadvertently finds it. The government sect behind Project Stargazer recovers the pod as well as the Fugitive Predator for study. The scientists conclude that the Predator has human DNA inside of it. The enemy spaceship that was attacking the Fugitive Predator soon arrives on Earth and is carrying a much more advanced version of the Predator – the Upgraded Predator.
Back in the laboratory, the Fugitive Predator regains consciousness and breaks free from the restraints. He kills many scientists and military personnel before finding his weaponry and equipment. The Predator realizes that the mask and gauntlet that McKenna took aren’t here. He goes to the decontamination area, finding a naked Casey Bracket sitting down but the Predator doesn’t kill her. He leaves the area before killing another guard and takes his gun. The Predator fires his assault rifle at the other guards before stealing the mask and shoulder cannon from behind a display cabinet.
The Fugitive Predator accesses his mask remotely and realizes it’s in Rory’s basement. The Predator sees a note through the mask which tells him the name of Rory’s school and heads there. The Predator escapes the Stargazer base and sees the Upgraded Predator’s spaceship being pursued by F-22s. The Fugitive starts running with Casey and the Loonies in pursuit. McKenna fires a shotgun at Fugitive and he turns around and fires a projectile at his bus and punctures the tyre. Fugitive boards a military truck, killing all the soldiers in the back and deceives the driver into thinking everything is okay.
The Fugitive Predator catches up with Loonies at the school. Jumps on the roof of the RV, pulls Nettles out of the driver’s seat and fires a warning shot with his shoulder cannon. He targets Rory with his laser before telling the group to lower their weapons. McKenna shoots Fugitive and he, Rory and Casey head into the school. The Loonies stay outside and almost get it from a plasma shot.
Fugitive catches up with them and grabs McKenna up by the window. McKenna shows the Predator the device from the wrist gauntlet and gives it to him. Just then, the Upgraded Predator appears from behind the window and pulls Fugitive through it. Fugitive managed to fire a shot from his shoulder cannon but misses. He then attempts to use his wrist blades against Upgraded but they snap on contact with Upgraded’s tough skin. The Upgraded Predator throws Fugitive onto a car, removes his mask and smashes his face with a punch. He then tears Fugitive’s head and spine out before he tosses it aside.
The Upgraded Predator later destroys Fugitive’s ship to prevent the humans from taking it. However, it is revealed that the Fugitive Predator wasn’t on Earth to kill mankind, but instead to save them. He had stolen a special Predator weapon: the Predator Killer. He wanted to give it to the people on Earth to help them defend against an incoming invasion from a different faction of Predators.
Later, scientists had recovered the pod the Fugitive arrived in and as they were studying it, the pod opened and revealed the Predator Killer. It latches onto a nearby worker and encases him in full Predator armour and weaponry.
Personality
Fugitive was a capable Yautja, easily killing dozens of Project Stargazer onsite security personnel both with and without his equipment. He was not above utilizing his species' natural weapons in a confrontation - when unarmed, he was observed using his mandibles to bite into the arm of a scientist attempting to restrain him; shortly after, he attacked a guard via sharp bone spurs which appeared to emerge from the tops of his forearms, before dealing a killing blow with a swipe of his claws. Fugitive was also capable of hearing one agent of Stargazer speak a password whilst in the middle of gunfire during his escape, he later mimics the words while using the severed hand of the agent to open the door. Fugitive was somehow also able to mimic English without his mask. While Predators have been known to speak some English, it is usually either barely understandable or broken and only their biomask can allow them to record and play back perfect human language. It is unknown how this was achieved but it may be due to other alterations to allow this. Ultimate was also shown at one point to mimic English perfectly as well as having a HUD without a mask, possibly suggesting that there may be some form of cybernetic enhancements in both Predators.
Fugitive also seemed to possess a sense of humor, or at the very least a basic understanding of human culture; he uses a dead man's severed arm to create a thumb's up gesture in order to deceive the driver of the truck he was stowing away on. Despite his slaughter of numerous humans, his mission was apparently to deliver a weapon to humans so that they could fend off a presumed Yautja invasion in the near future.
It is likely, however, that Fugitive's actions were due to both self-preservation instinct and the desperate need to relocate his ship to protect the cargo. Whilst he was caught before achieving his goals, Fugitive fearlessly engaged the much larger and stronger Ultimate Predator in combat. However, he was vastly outmatched and was killed relatively quickly.
Equipment
- Plasmacaster
- Wristblades
- Wrist Gauntlet
- Kuhjad
- Body Armor
- Bio-Mask
- Shuriken
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Yautja Physiology: Fugitive Predator possesses incredible feats of strength, speed, agility, durability, endurance, senses and intelligence, even for a Yautja and a human as Fugitive is possibly more powerful than anyone seen in the movie franchise.
- Superhuman Strength: Fugitive Predator possesses incredible superhuman strength, even for a Yautja as he can lift a human, he even managed to engage in combat with the Ultimate Predator despite the super-soldier Yautja being much larger than him.
- Superhuman Speed: Fugitive Predator possesses incredible superhuman speed, even for a Yautja as he was able to run at a maximum length, much faster than a normal Yautja.
- Superhuman Agility: Fugitive Predator possesses incredible feats of agility, even for a Yautja as he is able to outmanoeuvre Project Stargazer soldiers.
- Enhanced Intelligence: Fugitive Predator possesses incredible feats of intelligence as his intelligent and cunning traits helped him deliver the Predator Killer to mankind and even used a dead man's severed arm to create a thumb's up gesture in order to deceive the driver of a truck. Fugitive has even manage to defeat Project Stargazer soldiers who were attacking him; not by brute strength, but by intellectual means.
- Superhuman Climbing: Fugitive Predator can climb to trees and other surfaces in order to scale them.
Abilities
- Expert Combatant: Due to his strength, speed and agility, Fugitive Predator is an excellent combatant, as he was able to engage the Ultimate Predator in combat, despite the Ultimate Predator being much larger than him as he eventually overpowered and killed the Fugitive.
- Expert Tracker: Due to his expert tracking senses, Fugitive Predator can track any human or technology to their current location, regardless of the distance.