The Celtic Predator led the three Young Blood Predators on their initiation hunt in Antarctica in Alien vs. Predator. He was the largest of the trio and fought both Weyland mercenaries and a Warrior Xenomorph. The Grid Alien killed him in the pyramid.
The Leader Of The Young Blood Predators
Celtic hunted with the Isolated Clan as an unblooded Yautja. In 2004 he dropped on Bouvet Island with his brothers Scar and Chopper. The three were there to take a first Xenomorph kill in the pyramid under the ice and earn Blooded rank. Celtic carried the holo-map on his wrist and led Scar and Chopper into the pyramid.
Arrival On Earth
The Predator mothership held in orbit over Antarctica and fired an orbital laser through the ice to open a shaft into the pyramid. Celtic, Scar, and Chopper geared up on the ship, then dropped in three separate pods to the abandoned whaling station. Their plasma cannons stayed in sarcophagi inside the pyramid for the blooding, so the first stretch of the hunt was meant to be close work. The Weyland camp on the surface sat on that same shaft.
The Massacre At The Whaling Station
The three Young Bloods hit the Weyland Corporation camp at the whaling station before they went under the ice. Scar and Chopper did most of the killing among the mercenaries on the floor. Celtic watched from a rooftop, then went after the last man who tried to get away. That survivor slid into the drilled shaft and fell the length of the hole before Celtic could reach him.
Entering The Pyramid
Celtic led Scar and Chopper down the shaft with a holographic map of the pyramid on his wrist gauntlet. The pyramid shifted on a ten-minute cycle, closing rooms and opening new corridors while they moved. In the center they found that the Weyland team had taken their shoulder cannons from the sarcophagi. Taking those weapons also released the Xenomorphs from the sacrifice chamber below.
Fight With Mercenaries
Celtic met the remaining mercenaries in the pyramid corridors while he hunted the stolen cannons. He caught Maxwell Stafford, Charles Bishop Weyland's chief of security, in a net, then pinned him to the floor with a spear through the chest. The rest of the team scattered as the rooms kept shifting. Scar fought other humans in the same stretch, including a cloaked leap and a noose kill. Celtic stayed with the net and spear.
Fight With Grid Alien
The Grid Alien killed Chopper first. It put a tail through his body and then an inner-jaw strike through the mask while Chopper was busy with the humans. Celtic went after that adult Xenomorph in close combat with wristblades and the netgun. The net burned a lattice into the creature's head, and the humans later called it Grid. Celtic had the Xenomorph down more than once and took those moments as the kill that would blood him.
Death Of Celtic Predator
The Grid Alien tore out of the net before Celtic finished the blooding. It climbed onto him and drove its inner jaws through the bio-mask, the same way it had finished Chopper. Green blood and brain matter hit the floor, and Celtic died in the corridor without a blooding mark. Scar was the only one of the three who later marked himself and left the pyramid.
Celtic Predator's Weapons
Celtic's loadout was a plasmacaster, a combistick, the netgun, and a ceremonial dagger. He also carried a shuriken like Scar, but he never threw it. The weapons were not proofed against acid. Xenomorph blood hit the net and blades. The gear melted, and the Grid Alien got free. The stolen plasmacasters never made it back onto Celtic's shoulder before he died.
Armor And Gear
Celtic was the bulkiest of the three and wore heavier Young Blood kit than Scar: body plates, a cloak, the wrist gauntlet, a self-destruct, and a medicomp. His bio-mask matched the unused first-film helmet later worn by the Guardian Predator in Predator 2, a leftover from the Jungle Hunter redesign. That mask did not stop the Grid Alien's inner jaw. The plates and netting were the same basic Young Blood cut as his brothers, painted so the three suits could swap on set.
In The Novelization
Marc Cerasini's Alien vs. Predator novelization, published by HarperEntertainment on 29 June 2004, never uses the name Celtic. Five unnamed hunters came out of fluid tanks on the mothership and dropped through the ice on Bouvetoya. One of them took a wrist net gun. After the roughneck Quinn shot a hole in one hunter's chest plate, that hunter opened a holographic map of the pyramid, and the other four followed him down the shaft. Two hunters then met the humans in the corridors. A net pinned Maxwell Stafford, and a spear went through the mesh, through Stafford's heart, and into the stone floor.
An adult Xenomorph killed one of those hunters with its tail. The remaining hunter fired the net and caught the same creature, then acid blood melted the mesh. The Xenomorph pinned him and punched its inner mouth through the broken faceplate. Green blood and brain matter hit the walls. Celtic died that way in the film. The book never named the hunter who took that blow, and it never blooded him. Later the net-scarred Alien held a different fallen hunter to the floor while a Facehugger covered his mouth.
Behind The Scenes
Ian Whyte wore Celtic, Scar, and Chopper for Paul W. S. Anderson. Amalgamated Dynamics, under Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr., cast the three basic bodysuits from one mold and painted sixteen interchangeable suits in the same scheme. They dressed each hunter with its own armor and mask so the bodies could swap during filming. Whyte later played the main Engineer in Prometheus.
Celtic Predator Figures
McFarlane shipped a Celtic figure in 2004 and a statue of the hunter throwing the Grid Alien. NECA later put Celtic on a new AvP body in Series 14 of its 7-inch Predator line, beside unmasked Scar and Chopper. The figure had more than 30 points of articulation and hunter-specific armor and trophies. NECA has not issued an Ultimate Celtic. An Ultimate Wolf was missing from that line as well.
Celtic Predator In Video Games
Aliens vs. Predator 2010 used a multiplayer skin titled Hunter that copied Celtic's mask and bulk. Predator: Hunting Grounds put Celtic, Scar, and Chopper in Hunting Party DLC Bundle 3 on 14 December 2022, the game's first AvP film trio. That pack treated Celtic as a playable class with the netgun loadout from the pyramid. Celtic has not appeared in a comic of his own.
Similarities With Dek Predator
Celtic and Dek from Predator: Badlands were both unblooded hunters on a first real job. Celtic saw Chopper die to the Grid Alien, and Dek lost Kwei on Yautja Prime. Celtic's hunt ended with him on his back under the Grid Alien, and that creature killed him on the pyramid floor. Dek reached the same position under the Kalisk. The Kalisk let him live after smelling Bud on him.
Conclusion
Celtic led Scar and Chopper on the 2004 blooding hunt under the Antarctic ice in Alien vs. Predator. He killed Maxwell Stafford with a net and spear, then fought the Grid Alien after Chopper died. The adult Xenomorph broke free and killed him with an inner-jaw strike through the mask.
Appearances
- Alien vs. Predator (2004)
- Alien vs. Predator (Marc Cerasini, 2004)
- Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020)
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