10 Unanswered Questions About the Predator series : Unanswered Questions Episode 26

[@shallendor]

The "nuke" in Predator isn't about killing Dutch, it was about preventing the tech from being taken by Humans!

[@kingcrustytut7544]

Isn’t this in canon too?

[@Occult_Detective]

Exactly.

[@JediPeaceFrog]

Pretty obvious. Lol i logged on to say just exactly that after I watched this vid…I always thought it was pretty obvious, even when I watched Predator in the theater back in 87.

[@culturewarsdiplomacy]

Personal view, Dutch suddenly befriending predators and being okay with kidnapping humans for hunt is Bull. It was a point that he didn’t do assassination missions and they killed his friends. People who want to force that make Dutch an jerk not cool that Arnold becomes drinking brothers with the people that wiped out his friends who only rescue missions for sport.

[@dillonfisher7615]

I've always assumed the bomb is typically an honor thing. Like if a Predator loses its hunt/trial, it kills itself because of the dishonor it brought about itself and its clan/tribe.

[@TeatroGrotesco]

I agree but also I see the relatively contained eradication of the explosion to be a way of not leaving any evidence that monsters were coming here for hunts to the death.

[@bobbyscott2123]

@@TeatroGrotescoyes exactly so the tech can’t be left behind to be used against the predators at a later time and to erase any evidence of existence

[@TheBadGuy235]

So back in college, Sonny Landham (Billy) came to my campus and did a talk with the AV Department. When he had given his speech, he took questions from the audience and gave alot of backstory on Predator and Billy's last stand. When he got to me, I asked if he'd do the Laugh (TM). He said "Okay, but if anybody's going to record this then get ready because I'm only doing it once." He proceeded to do the Woody Woodpecker laugh. The room erupted into laughter at that and it was great....but the loudest laugh in the room was Sonny Landham's because he did start belting out into the Predator Laugh and it was amazing.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

He was good in the Best Of The Best 2 movie.

[@bobbyscott2123]

@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812and lock up also

[@tylerst.francis9126]

Regarding the bomb at the end of Predator, I believe the reason the Predator had to self destruct at that moment was because he knew he was going to die soon, and part of the rules of the hunt would be to destroy evidence of their existence (meaning to destroy themselves and evidence of their arrival as best they can) and to avoid dissection by humans which they would have to assume humans would do. Dutch being there was only icing on the cake, and would be almost inconsequential to his desire to fight "fair" or as fair as an advanced alien could be when we are the human equivalent of deer to it with its invisibility (so it doesn't really fight fair at all...

[@ZacharyVogt]

Leaving my obligatory thumbs up comment on an Unanswered Questions episode, because it's my favorite series on the channel.

[@KnuckleheadStuey]

Dutch went on to be an assistant manager at a donut shop in Aurora Illinois.

[@iNeverHadMercy]

30:06 oh there are SOOO many other moments of "manliness" that can be inserted here from Predator i.e. Bill Dukes' "......anytime". Or Billy's "there's something out there waiting for us....."

[@kareembrown5235]

"Like Arnold's body, there's no extra fat." All time quote. 👍🏾😅

[@czmisfitsfan]

Thing with the Predator series, it's best to consider some comics and novels as canon to answer some questions. Question 2: If I remember, a novel mentions the Predator in the original was young and considered brash. Most likely he started taking Dutch's survival personally so by the end he was frustrated and was laughing because he was taking out his enemy at the same time he was dying. Question 4: I can imagine Dutch going to bat for her and at the very least eventually getting sent back home. Question 7: The Predators do prefer hunting in heat so that's one reason. Also, maybe other sections of the planet resemble other alien worlds. No idea why the proto-Predator was there. Question 9: AvsP does take place in the Predator universe but it's separate from the Alien universe. The Xenomorphs in the Predator universe have a different origin.

[@David-And-A-Half]

The AvP question is easy enough. Alien/Aliens are canon in the Predator movies but not the other way around. It's not a shared, ongoing continuity it's a one way link.

[@TheMightyCookieShow]

I've always felt what leads to the last several years that the Predator blowing himself up at the end of this movie was not about being vindictive or Petty or anything like that because he lost I think that it's policy that the Predators must keep their technology away from humans at all costs, therefore they are armed with a weapon that would evaporate them if activated along with their equipment

[@calumsanderson6741]

It' s my headcanon that the Predator and Terminator films are linked. Dutch was the model for the T800.

[@Akamakmalaeo1o1919]

Timeline 1719: Prey 1987: Predator 1997: Predator 2 2004: AVP & AVP Requiem 2018: The Predator 2024: Predators 2025: Predator: Hunting Grounds

[@manuelvelez7777]

I love the unanswered questions videos. Thank you.

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

I remember a funny quote from a review of the first movie: "The Predator tries to do to Schwarzenegger what Schwarzenegger does to the English language".

[@therosebride]

All the "choppa" jokes brightened my day so much, Josh. Thank you for another great video!

[@vonVile]

Dutch also appeared in the Capcom video game "Alien Vs Predator" (1994). In it Dutch has a cybernetic arm with smart gun. Also the game was suppose to be an adaption to an early draft of an AVP movie based off a comic book story, but was scrapped. The only connection to the comic and AVP movie is the female heroine copies the same character arc by joining the Predator clan by getting a mark etched in her forehead.

[@Haplo699g]

I would be more sympathetic toward your cannon standpoint. Unfortunately I'm a Star Trek fan... LOL 😆 🤣 🥺

[@billyrattlesticks6949]

Ahhh, you never let me down Josh, you always manage to drop a new video just as I'm settling down to eat my tea, saves me so much time looking for something to watch while I chow down, impeccable timing good man, good man 😉👍

[@flywheelshyster]

Man I've been binging this channel at work. Nice work algorithm [not lazy it's busy work doing today so I'm listening 👍]

[@olololo4807]

i really enjoyed the predator movies. i wonder why they stopped after part 2.

[@aquariandawn4750]

They set off the bombs when they die so that their prey doesn't get a hold of their technology

[@paulroman3668]

I love these videos brother...

[@lttacos2092]

Blade Runner, aliens, predator and Alien versus Predator in my head are all in the same world. How can they not be? My man, if anything you give it as more proof that they're all in the same world. Excellent video, my dude.

[@samwill7259]

You've got the right idea. As a comic book fan let me tell you an insistence on canon is the fastest way to ruin just about any story ever told. It's canon if it needs to be or if you want it to be. it isn't if you or the writer doesn't want it to be

[@robinlamont4167]

I think the reason the Predator blows himself up, is to destroy evidence of himself. The second one, the battle takes place on the predator ship, so no body for humans to find. 3rd film takes place on the predators practice hunting ground, so any surviving humans can't escape and alert Earth. The Predator, the predator hunted down the smaller predator to destroy its body and then escape on its ship. Predators have cloaking to not be seen, so destroying evidence of their physical self, so as not to be seen by humans for study would make sense

[@jaystreet46]

I just got done watching the new movie, Prey, and they included an explanation for the black powder pistol

[@Mark-nh2hs]

Problem is the space universe in Aliens is bleak and very empty - where Predator space is very populated with loads of prey. The Skull in Pred2 was just there to excite the comic fans for a cross over as comics were doing it all the time and there was a fan war which alien species was better and it was just a dig at Alien fans.

[@CeeJayThe13th]

Hell yes. I needed this one!

[@Phoenix2312]

5:40 I kind of agree with you here, but when it comes down to "Sportmen like Conduct" - The Predator has a lot in common with us as Humans... And how they see "Being Sporting" is probably not... Heck I have seen pictures posted of "Big Game Hunters" with their prey - Using VASTLY OVERPOWERED RIFLES to take out a Deer or an Antelope! Long and the short - What is being "Sporting"? It is entirely subjective... In addition, The Predator knows it ship is still there in the Planet and the last things they really want to risk is that Technology landing in our hands!

[@kiss4jam]

Loved this one👍

[@adamstapleton9756]

Great vid. Appreciate the calling out of the absurdity of The Predator.

[@mr.bullionnaire9748]

Sweet thx for upload!

[@pablorosario5232]

I hope the protagonist in each movies only encounters the Predators once, it’s like an anthology or something, different stories spanning different periods of human history but in the same universe

[@Occult_Detective]

The old Chief pred, was showing Harrigon how long he personally has been around doing hunts. Harrigon being the only other worthy human he has seen, since Adolini. It is showing the highest respect to Harrigon. Even speaking to him "Take it".

[@RhapsosProductions]

Fun fact I found out while doing a video on anxiety and horror , as I have the former but love the latter, is that anxiety can cause blood to thicken. If we consider anxiety as a stress response, then the situation in Predator is close enough to potentially cause Jesse Ventura's (as I can't remember the character name, and he wasn't that different to himself!) blood to also thicken and thus could be interpreted as him not having time to bleed. Thank you, I will be taking no questions

[@macabrerapkz]

Keep up, great content here

[@TySama0]

Labiaface should be their canon name.

[@binsoku6]

It'd be a bit of a fun distraction, but you could have fun doing a video about the times Alien and Predator have fought Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern

[@Illstatefishing]

Love the Unanswered Question series!!

[@ranwolf1240]

Silly fact: in the comic book adaptation of Predator 2, the flintlock pistol that the Predator gives Harrigan has an engraved name and date. It's my family name.

[@Stinger420]

{{chuckles a bit}} You might say that Arnold was, 'Batman Close' to the atomic explosion. ;-D

[@markgibson3231]

I always just figured it just blew itself up cause it didn’t want to leave a trace of its existence and it laughed as a sign that he wouldn’t live to tell of the hunt even in its defeat

[@Soul.Is.Willing]

Predator being "petty", lol.

[@billyrattlesticks6949]

One thing I've always wondered about these movies is, there must be female Predators, well, unless the one's we see in the movies are hermaphrodites, so what would they look like and what would their role in Predator culture be. Maybe this has been covered in some comic book somewhere at some point, but I don't read comic books so I wouldn't know lol It's always something that's intrigued me though

[@jaystreet46]

Yeah there’s been female yautja in the comics but not many of them venture out on the hunts, so that’s why they’re not seen in movies

[@billyrattlesticks6949]

@@jaystreet46 Thanks for that Jay, would be interesting to see them in one of the movies just to add a touch of variety and world building.

[@jeremybrooks7637]

In the video game a female almost killed Dutch

[@jamesfeltman3300]

Everything I have seen about the female yautja is that most are smaller but ten times more badass than alot of the males but they are not that different in body than the males. I am sure that I have not seen or read everything.

[@dillonfisher7615]

Others covered pretty much all you need to know about female Yautja. But visually, they look like slightly smaller males, but with a more feminine build and clear breasts that are covered with armor.

[@AtticusFink]

The Alien skull always seemed odd to me. They xenomorphs struck me as having an exoskeleton, or at least something less dense than straight bone in their bodies

[@InimicalRabbit]

Fair point, nut Xenomorphs tend to take on the genetic properties of those from whom they were hosted. Like the dog-alien from Alien 3 or the supposed Pred-Alien from Aliens. It stands to reason this Xenomorph was simply gestated in a yet undiscovered alien species from the Predator's hunts. Just a thought. That was my takeaway.

[@AtticusFink]

@@InimicalRabbit I could see that, but when we've seen them in the past, they've always gestated in animals with dense, endoskeleton structures. And it's never seemed to inform they're basic anatomy, i.e. elongated head shape, spiney tail, secondary jaws, protruding ribcage; just effects their general layout, like whether they're bi or quadrupedal. From that, I would think that there are hard-set parts of their anatomy, like bone structure. All that said, this is like debating over what mechanism allows Santa's reindeer to fly. Not to say that it isn't still fun to think about.

[@InimicalRabbit]

@@AtticusFink Great point. The exoskeletal structure has always been endemic. We need not EVER point out Resurrection. But hybridisation has always been a trait of the Yauja. Looking for better and harder prey, perhaps there was more going on at Yauja Prime. That is a movie I want to see. Call it "Prime" (just because I only know a few people that know the term Yauja Prime. wankers!

[@alessobizan9688]

Well done Josh - as usual! Really need to know about the 'spacey' back ground music you use for your videos, pls let me know!

[@movietimelines]

it’s one of the stock music pieces that KZbin has on their audio library. i think this one is from Unicorn Heads? or something like that?

[@rayisdashit]

number 2: he wanted to destroy his technology.

[@AdmiralBison]

Question 1. The Predator deploying that bomb could be a way to prevent their technology and species from being studied and human civilization advancing off of the knowledge. Also there could varying "tribes" of Predators that do things differently.

[@strongblade]

Now we have PREY, which is a Predator prequel movie which has a nice tie-in into Predator 2.

[@redmist78]

I was playing the alien vs predator arcade game this past weekend and I forgot duchess of playable character but he's got a metal arm.

[@spittinvenom9843]

Great questions. Fun video about a terrific franchise that seems to have lost its way.

[@JediPeaceFrog]

It doesn’t need to be a nuke to create a mushroom cloud…why is it always assumed it’s a nuke?

[@Bluecollarjoe6B9]

The sound the Predator made through the movie was an imitation of a crow.

[@tylerst.francis9126]

To be fair, Blaine wasn't Mac's friend, he was his... friend. Very different and rarely talked about

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Seriously?

[@tylerst.francis9126]

@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 Yea the whole subtext to the relationship between Mac and Blaine is some of the best subtle character building in screenwriting.

[@movietimelines]

believe it or not, this was actually one of the questions that didn’t make the final cut of the video. I’ll perhaps have to cover that in a sequel at some point…

[@tylerst.francis9126]

@@movietimelines That's awesome. Think it is a great way to build character subtly. I thought it was handled really well and through body language and off-the-cuff dialogue was a tasteful way to handle that they were together at least physically, although the scene where Mac is talking to the moon implies the relationship was more than just physical. However, a lot of people I have talked with about Predator and the relationship between Mac and Blaine have either denied or not seen that it is there. Which, I mean even Poncho references it on the helicopter. Dutch seems to be the only one genuinely surprised by the revelation when Mac paused on friend, but that makes sense considering he is their superior officer and there is often professional barriers between the higher ranks and the rest.

[@SargeLoki]

There is another link between Predator 1 and 2: Dutch's team is using Desert Eagle pistols (only seen holstered), just like Harrigan does.

[@heav85]

That shirt bro! Need it.

[@peterdanior4538]

Question 4: I wonder if Anna was originally supposed to be the female character in Predators & that was going to be how she knew what they were.

[@ryanconway8651]

Just wanna point out Raphael Adolini's flintlock got retconned with Prey. Adolini is a translator for some French hunters who gets killed by the feral predator and Naru ends up getting his flintlock.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

And now Prey adds more questions about the Gun

[@veganmunsterweare138]

Dutch & Anna was mentioned in 2010’s Predators

[@TheMajorBlazer]

The bomb is also to hide the predator's presence/corpse/landing craft

[@grimmmickey5125]

Maybe he laughed because he got what he wanted. Spartans would dance and clean themselves before certain death so why not lol

[@ajsanchez4370]

He sets the bomb off to keep predators tech away from humans

[@wyldshot666]

The laugh was menacing telling Dutch he was still fucked.

[@Lee.Willcox]

I always get things so wrong. I thought the predator blew himself up with such ferocity so that nothing of him or his tech could be found. The 1715 gun to was then saying "We have been coming here for centuries". In predators the sky shows other planets or other hunting reserves. The strange alien the stumbled across possibly escaped from their reserve but only managed to get this far and suffocated or was killed ? After AvP I stopped thinking too much, they didn't give me much to think about 😅🤣😂 I liked them for what they were and I also liked PREY or SKULL as it is known in some parts of the world. Edit: P.S. Great video. Of course the 1st film is the best, once you know the monster and their weaknesses, they are no longer scary.

[@MrReef2323]

They need to do a movie about general Hooper

[@mrains100]

The flint lock pistol shows up Hulu's "Prey."

[@RetroPillowcase]

Wow. What a blunder on that blunderbluss!

[@thefatmanbatman9822]

watching the new movie prey, it seems like it’s deconnonizes the predator and the AvP movies, since it states the predator in prey is the first to come to earth, conflicting with avp because in that movie they were helping the first civilization build city’s only to use them for host for aliens, and the spear from that movie shows up in the predator

[@movietimelines]

do they say in the movie though that it’s their first trip to earth?

[@mikehernandez8063]

@@movietimelines only in the marketing not explicitly in the movie :)

[@System_Sega]

I always thought the pistol in Predator 2 was suggesting that the Predators had the ability to travel through time. That might explain what looks like a dinosaur skull next to the alien skull.

[@vimalmurthy3665]

But if you look closely at that trophy room scene, the "dinosaur"-looking skulls have enough other features (i.e. extra mandibles, etc.) to suggest that they are not terrestrial in origin

[@tommystrickland6268]

I almost spit soda out of my mouth when you said make time bitch, I don't know why but that came out of nowhere and was so hilarious to me Anyway great video

[@Onyxolotl]

If you've ever played the PS2 game Predator: Concrete Jungle it shows a world where a predator failed to deploy the bomb and humans got a hold of their tech and you are forced to return decades later and correct your mistake.

[@Blake-gh8xl]

Greatttt video

[@thecatwrangler9448]

I think you looked at the flintlock pistol trophy the wrong way and that it’s fully an honor thing for them

[@InimicalRabbit]

Dutch not being armed at the end of the first film is a moot point. Dutch set up a kill-zone and then basically called the Yautja out by bellowing into the jungle at the top of his lungs. So...game on?

[@jackwilliam4436]

Exactly. It's not about being armed or being unarmed. It's about being a threat or worthy opponent (such as being physically imposing or hostile or laying traps or actively challenging the Predator to a fight) or being weak or unsuited for combat (such as being old or sick or pregnant or caught in someone else's trap).

[@InimicalRabbit]

@@jackwilliam4436 Thank you. If I had not so much as a slingshot but gave ol' Mr. Yautja a swift kick to the bollocks I would expect to be a spine donor as well.

[@peterdanior4538]

What if the Predator in the first one is a female Predator and the entire movie is about crushing toxic masculinity?

[@bishopsteiner7134]

What's sporting about hunting with huge tech advantage and cloaked?

[@jedshaffer5956]

“Is Predator the manliest movie ever?” Not in a universe where Tombstone exists.

[@InimicalRabbit]

Dirty Dozen, homeboy. C'mon.

[@jedshaffer5956]

@@InimicalRabbit Not even close in my eyes.

[@InimicalRabbit]

@@jedshaffer5956 Magnificent Seven? Does that tickle your pickle?

[@jedshaffer5956]

@@InimicalRabbit Sorry. For my money, there is no western better than Tombstone.

[@InimicalRabbit]

@@jedshaffer5956 Unforgiven? Please! Clint at his best since the spaghetti westerns. I beg you!

[@RobbDorn]

Looks like Prey tried hard to answer your gun question…or did it?

[@sverrg]

Alien vs. Space Gardener - The Reckoning

[@waynekennedy4642]

is the old gun in pred 2 dated the same year that the new prey movie is set in?

[@BrianJ677]

Perhaps the alien returned the antiquated weapon because he had gained such a newfound respect for human beings that he no longer felt appropriate carrying a human weapon as a token of a past kill.

[@capitalcitygoofball1987]

I have a simple question. Is the Predator in Prey the Alpha model from 2010 Predators or just another redesign?

[@movietimelines]

that is a good question. i guess Dan Trachtenberg said that it’s just a regular predator, but that like humans, there’s different looks for them based upon what part of their planet they’re from.

[@capitalcitygoofball1987]

@@movietimelines Well, that's good to know. I never really saw the '87 Predator going toe to toe with a bear, killing it with a single punch and lifting it's 600 pound body over it's head, but then again they never said it couldn't. I think the '87 Predator was going very, very easy on Dutch.

[@aaronmccray7086]

Given that Prey had come out by the time you posted this; a little surprised you decided to post anything about the gun when watching it, knowing that it was a prequel set in the gun's time period. You *had* to know Prey would show the origin of it.

[@movietimelines]

well, to be fair, i made the video well before the movie was released and it was uploaded a few days before hand but went public on the same day as the release. i had wondered, given the time frame, if they would discuss the pistols, but at that point, had no clue as to where they were going, and given the focus on a group of natives, i really didn’t think they’d bring the pistol into it.

[@TokenDrew]

Thank you! I completely agree, canon doesn't matter! It's not real

[@jacobdinofan3070]

Welp now that prey has come out we now know that adolini was a fur trapper that gave the pistol to naru and got killed by the predator,so the predator must have gotten it from naru and years later gave it to Harrigan essentially making the comic non canon

[@jackwilliam4436]

Couldn't Adolini have simply decided to join the Voyageurs from Prey after the events of the graphic novel, in the hopes he could learn more about the Predators and kill them before they eradicate humankind ?

[@jacobdinofan3070]

@@jackwilliam4436 that could've been the case but he got killed so.....

[@clay_harrison]

I wanna see botany Predators. What plants are they hunting?

[@tylerst.francis9126]

Question 5 is now obsolete in the events of Prey

[@grimmmickey5125]

How did you not include the new movie in any of this lol. Bad timing?

[@Nico3039]

question : pourquoi le "predator" n'a pas attaqué le camp rebelle ?

[@Thefoxygamer1]

The comic/Predator from the comic is canon, not whatever Prey did. The Predator from the comic appears on screen in Predator 2 Prey’s director just didn’t respect the source material. The Dutch tapes are also canon as what’s in the tapes also happens in other parts of Predator lore. Dutch was nearly killed returning to Val Verde by a female predator who knew who he was. It could also be argued that Predator/Alien do share a universe as there is only two, both an on screen and a comic Predator that are known to have killed an engineer (a member of the lost tribe from Predator 2 has killed 2).

[@Crazy1van]

So if I wanna say that all the HALLOWEEN movies are canon, and someone says they can't be because of Laurie's children, I should just put my fingers in my ears? ;)

[@peterdanior4538]

Yeah, women can have multiple kids

[@movietimelines]

absolutely. personal canon is just that. for instance, i insist that part 3 is part of the original storyline even if it doesn’t make a lot of sense because they show the original Halloween on tv.

[@peterdanior4538]

@@movietimelines in my head canon they are showing a movie version of the Halloween events

[@robinlamont4167]

Just watched Prey, very good. Maybe third or even second best in the franchise

[@finvarracernonnos3428]

the dentition and "mouth" structure of that skull doesn't really look xenomorph

[@tylerhart1917]

There wasnt there a side scroller beat em up arcade game where there's a cyborg Dutch?

[@tylerhart1917]

Alien v predator arcade cabinet.

[@russellcoight9376]

Question 1 = I believe that the Predator would have just dropped his weapons and gone hand to hand with all of them if they all dropped their weapons. Question 2 = He nuked himself to stop Humans from getting their technology. Question 3 = I think I read somewhere that Dutch disappears because he got cancer from radiation from the Nuke in the first one.

[@joshallanmpls4495]

Well, it seems one of your questions has been officially answered.

[@jackraiser4391]

For me my own canon is: Predator Predator 2 Alien Aliens Alien 3 Alien Vs. Predator 2 (Monolith game) Alien Resurrection Alien 5 (Joss Whedon unproduced script)