Human Predators: List Of People Who Joined The Yautja

The human Predators were resourceful people who donned Yautja armor and weapons. Some of them even received great respect from the Predators and became blooded. There are a few instances of humans fighting alongside Yautja and even hunting together with different Predator types. Here is a list of notable human Predators from comic books, games and movies of the franchise.

Quinn McKenna/Predator Killer

The Predator Killer mech suit was a gift to the humans from the Predators. The motivations for that are complicated and involve a Predator civil war, global warming, an invasion of Earth and DNA extraction from spines. Although the first human to wear the suit was a helpless scientist, Quinn McKenna took over the testing and usage of the suit. We never see that in the movie, but it is heavily implied. McKenna also used some of the Predator tech during his previous encounter with the Yautja, including cloaking orbs. It is worth mentioning that Quinn's son also became a small Predator by wearing the Fugitive Predator's bio-mask.

Gisande Salazar

Gisande Salazar was the chief of corporate security for Montcalm-Delacroix, a big corporation in the Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species comic series. She teamed up with Ash Parnall and the Predator nicknamed Big Mama and turned on her employers. Big Mama provided her with Yautja equipment and actually trained her to become an efficient Xenomorph killer. Like Caryn Delacroix, she was genetically engineered with faster reflexes and healing. In the end, she survived her ordeals and escaped together with Big Mama and Ash Parnall, never to be heard from again.

Alexa Woods

The character of Alexa "Lex" Woods from the first Alien vs. Predator movie drew several parallels with Machiko Noguchi. She was an adventurous loner who led a Weyland Corporation expedition to Antarctica to investigate an ancient pyramid. She encountered both Aliens and Predators and successfully fought against them. Lex impressed Scar Predator with her skills and was blooded by receiving an acid scar from a facehugger on the cheek (Machiko was blooded on the forehead). She did not wear any Predator armor but received a ceremonial dagger from the Elder Predator after killing the Alien Queen. It was a missed sequel opportunity for her not joining the Predators at the end of the movie. Her final fate is unknown but a sequel comic would probably not be out the question for her in the future.

Hunter Borgia

Hunter Borgia was the CEO of Borgia Industries and an important member of the Borgia family. Having a convenient name, he wanted to become a human Predator after coming into contact with them as a small boy. Hunter was perhaps also influenced by Charles Bishop Weyland, a close friend of his. He experimented with Yautja blood and genetic engineering and became a Yautja-human hybrid. He also donned Predator armor and weapons, although he did not wear a bio-mask. Hunter Borgia's experimentation came to end before it could be finished, as he was killed by Scarface Predator. This all happened in the quite underrated Predator: Concrete Jungle video game.

Ronald Noland

Ronald Noland was a US soldier who lived on the Game Preserve Planet for a long time. He became a human Predator himself by salvaging Predator tech and weapons. There is conflicting information about him killing any Predators, but supposedly he took down 3 of them before the events of the Predators movie. However it seemed that some of his human sanity was lost in his exile, and he turned on his newly found comrades. Concocting an ill-advised plan involving smoke, he failed to kill any of the humans and become prey to the Super Predators.

Shane Burroughs

Shane Burroughs and his brother Charles were stuck on a colony world for several months after their transport ship was destroyed by the Predators. Having defeated a Predator, Shane acquired a Predator mask and armor from the fallen Yautja before the self-destruct mechanism was triggered. The brothers hunted Xenomorphs together, with Shane using the Predator equipment and Charles providing fire support with his sniper rifle. Their fun and games were cut short when Shane's Predator armor was damaged by Xenomorph acid and the Predators returned to the colony to capture all the humans. After several reversals involving a Xenomorph Queen and a group of androids, the brothers successfully escaped the colony world and the Predators. Shane Burroughs and his brother appeared in the Alien vs. Predator: Thrill of the Hunt and Civilized Beasts comic series.

Royce

Royce did not really become a human Predator in the Predators movie. This happened later in the Predators: Preserve the Game sequel comic. Having lived together with Isabella on the Game Preserve Planet for several months, he was getting in touch with his primal side. Royce also received a gift from the Predators - Predator armor together with a bio-mask. This allowed him to defeat the four-armed Predator, one of the biggest Predators ever known. By the end of the story, he was still stuck on the planet and it would be great to see him again in Predator lore.

Buddy Wilcox

Buddy Wilcox had his father killed by a Predator when he was still a young boy. It happened on a hunting trip right in front of his eyes and traumatized him for life. Thirty years later, the same Predator came to terrorize the small Northwestern town in Oregon where Buddy lived. The Yautja killed several men in the town and set his sights on the police station. This time, Buddy was prepared and donned Predator armor and weapons that he built himself. He successfully defeated the Predator in a duel and saved the town. Buddy Wilcox appeared in the Predator: Kindred comic, released in 1997.

Ripley 8

In a bizarre twist of events, Ripley 8 became blooded by Predators and fought a new breed of Terminators soon after the events of Alien: Resurrection. In the Aliens versus Predator versus The Terminator comic, Ripley 8 and Call were caught up in a three-way fight between the three species. They reluctantly joined forces with Predators, while Ripley 8 was blooded in a strange ritual by a Predator witch, not seen elsewhere in Predator lore. Although she did not wear a Predator mask, she did use a Predator spear and wear their tribal markings and a necklace. Ripley 8 led other Predators to battle and finally sacrificed herself to kill the last hybrid Terminator.

Theta Berwick

The ongoing Predator comic book series by Marvel introduced another female human Predator - Theta Berwick. In one of the few non-crossover Predator stories set in the future, Theta's family was killed by a Predator when she was young. Fifteen years later, she built custom Predator armor and trained herself to be a Predator hunter, swearing to take revenge on the murderer of her family, and on the Predator race in general. Killing at least four Predators, she got close to meeting the Yautja who she saw as a child, distinctively missing a lower mandible that she sliced off herself. Her final battle against the Yautja took place on a cold tundra-world where her ship crash-landed, ultimately dooming the Predator in an unfamiliar environment.

Paolo Silva

Dr. Paolo Silva was an ordinary science officer onboard the Turnstone before he met Theta Berwick and became another human Predator. Although not as powerful a fighter as Theta, Paolo could hold her own in a fight. While Theta donned golden Predator armor, Paolo wore silver armor and often used the shoulder cannon as a hand-held pistol. In their fight against a Super Predator, Paolo was attacked by Hell Hounds, and although gravely injured, he managed to kill many of them with melee weapons. At the end of Predator: The Last Hunt, Theta and Paolo joined with John Schaefer (the brother of Dutch) in finding all humans kept in stasis by Predators.

Ash Parnall/Caryn Delacroix

Ash Parnall, also known as Caryn Delacroix, was a complicated person who appeared in a complicated comic: Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species. She started as a genetically engineered trophy wife to Lucien Delacroix. She crossed paths with the Big Mama predator who became a mentor of sorts for her. Big Mama trained Ash Parnall in the arts of Predator technology and weapons. They assembled a small team of other human Predators and fought against Xenomorphs, white-hybrids and an AI construct nicknamed "Toy". Throughout the story, the appearance and personality of Ash Parnall changed several times, bending dreams, reality and virtual reality. Through her adventures were at times difficult to follow, Ash Parnall was a memorable protagonist and a great human Predator.

Machiko Noguchi

Machiko Noguchi is the most well known and badass human Predator. She was also the first, appearing in the initial Aliens vs. Predator comic line released in 1989. One of the few human to be blooded by a Predator (namely Dachande), she fought alongside a Predator clan for over a year. The Yautja respected her for her skills but some of them also showed distrust. This distrust and her longing for human contact led to her being ousted from the clan. She had more adventures after leaving the Predators which are featured in Aliens vs. Predator: War and Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War.

Hish Mannen

Another human Predator worth mentioning is Hish Mannen, who appeared in the ill-received Predator: Forever Midnight book. He was brainwashed by the Hish Qu Ten (a Yautja subspecies) to become one of their slaves. The Hish did not follow the traditional Predator Honor code and used Mannen to kill other humans, while observing the carnage from afar. For a while, Mannen believed he was a Predator himself and even saw flashbacks of the Predator homeworld. In the end, Mannen partly redeemed himself and snapped out of his intoxication.

Conclusion

The concept of Predators using Yautja weapons and armor is a recurring theme in the Yautja lore, especially in the Expanded universe of comics. Adapting to Predator tech and some of their tactics gives the humans an edge over their opponents, even the Predators themselves. Some humans form alliances with the Yautja and even go through the sacred blooding ritual, while others become rivals or seek revenge. Interestingly, the Predators don't find this to be a sacrilege and have welcomed a few humans to join their ranks. Seeing things from the human's perspective can give the Predators an advantage as well, especially when fighting Xenomorphs, a species that both races hate.

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