City Hunter - Yautja Explained (Predator 2 Lore)

City Hunter also known as Ghost was a predator who stalked the streets of Los Angeles in the year 1997.
He was drawn to the area by a deadly three-sided conflict between the Jamaican and Colombian drug cartels and the city's Police force during a blazing heat wave with record temperatures, ideal conditions for a predator hunt.
City hunter differed in appearance to Jungle Hunter, the predator from the first movie, wearing different armour with more of a copper/bronze colour to it as well as a different Biomask; The City Hunter did however possess the same
cloaking technology we've seen before, distorting visible-light around the Predator making him appear almost invisible.
For weaponry, City Hunter had the classic Wrist Blades and Plasma Caster; but in addition to these, he also carried a telescoping spear also known as a CombiStick another melee weapon but with longer reach than WristBlades and can also be thrown like a javelin as we see city hunter do towards the end of the movie.
The Smart Disc, a bladed smart weapon, after being thrown it will then return to the user like a computer-controlled frisbee.
A SpearTip Launcher capable of firing razor-sharp speartip-like projectiles, as well as a Net Gun which shoots a wire net which pins the target to a surface and will then contract and slice through the victim's body.
And an Energy Flechette, essentially a smaller version of the PlasmaCaster located on the gauntlet and aimed by hand.
In addition to these, the City Hunter's mask featured multiple vision modes enabling him to see in multiple light-spectrums including Infrared, and Ultraviolet which we see him use while attacking the O.W.L.F team as they attempted to capture him.
City Hunter arrived in L.A on a spaceship which is hidden underground, we see inside where the predators have a trophy wall displaying trophy skulls from various animals
hunted throughout their travels, it is here we see him preparing the skull of King Willie, the Jamaican Voodoo gang-leader and places it up on the display, we also see a xenomorph skull as well.
On the predator ship at the very end of the movie we discover that the City Hunter didn't come to earth alone, but was accompanied by a whole hunting party known as the Lost Tribe, his fellow clan members include: Boar, Shaman, Guardian, Snake, Stalker, Lost, Warrior, Scout and the Elder.
If you want to check out my video I did on every member of the Lost Tribe, you can do so here.
City Hunter arrived in Los Angeles and began hunting the warring Jamaican and Colombian factions when he saw Police Detective Lieutenant Mike Harrigan, and noticed how deadly he was during the firefight.
It was here when city hunter decided Harrigan would make a good trophy.
later on, the Jamaicans entered the Colombian leader's apartment and killed him, but City Hunter was lying in wait and wiped them all out using his vast arsenal of weapons.
One of Harrigan's colleagues and close friend Danny arrived to investigate the murders but was ambushed by the Predator and killed trying to retrieve a Speartip.
After his friend's funeral, Harrigan finds Danny's necklace hanging from a tree left by the predator for him to find.
Once Harrigan left his meeting with the Jamaican leader King Willie, the Jamaican is confronted by the Predator and killed with his head being taken to be turned into a trophy.
City Hunter later attacks some of Harrigan’s other detectives on a subway train killing Lambert but sparing Leona as she was pregnant, and murdering an unborn baby would not be honourable.
The Predator is followed to a meat factory where he has been using the beef as a food source, it’s here where O.W.L.F Special Agent Peter Keys and his men attempt to capture the Predator, but they underestimate him and are wiped out.
Harrigan injures the Predator with a Shotgun, and unmasks it to see what the creature looks like, but it wakes up and flees, He chases after it and attempts to push it off the roof, but it grabs him almost pulling him off with it.
Out of the mist, City Hunters clan brothers reveal themselves, but instead of killing Harrigan, they respect his abilities and give him with a reward, a flintlock pistol from the 18th century, one that had been owned by a French Fur Trapper named Rafael Adolini.
So that was the City Hunter from Predator 2; he is one of my favourite Predators and a lot of other people’s too.
In the latest movie, PREY, they added in the Flintlock from Predator 2 to tie it in to that film, but doing so they’ve essentially wiped away the previous backstory for it, which came from the comicbook Predator 1718 where the gun came from a Pirate.
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