PREDATOR: Killer of Killers

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NOTE: This spoiler was submitted by Jeremy

The film opens with the Yautja Codex (the code of the Predators): “Go forth among the stars and seek only the strongest prey. They shall be your trophy. Become the killer of killers.”

1. The Shield
Scandinavia, 841 AD – A clan of Vikings, led by Queen Ursa (Lindsay LaVanchy), is sailing on the seas to fight their enemies, the Krivich tribe. Ursa travels with her son, Anders (Damien Haas), and she is preparing him to kill when necessary.

The Vikings arrive outside the ruined Krivich camp. They take one survivor, demanding to know the whereabouts of his leader, Zoran (Andrew Morgado). Ursa jams her axe into the man’s side, forcing him to give up Zoran’s location above Lake Ladoga. Ursa instructs Anders to kill the man, but as he tells Anders that his death will haunt him, Ursa just shuts him up by chopping him in half. From up above, a Predator ship begins to descend.

Before going to find Zoran, Ursa tells Anders why they are hunting him. A flashback shows that Zoran had forced Ursa’s father Einar (Doug Cockle) to make the choice of killing him, which would lead to Ursa’s death, or make her kill him to spare her. Einar puts Ursa’s hand on Zoran’s blade and forces it into his chest, but not before making Ursa swear to avenge him.

The next day, the Vikings arrive at Zoran’s camp. Ursa proceeds to brutally slaughter his soldiers alongside her warriors, until not one man is left in one piece. They make it inside Zoran’s home, where he does not recognize Ursa until she mentions her father’s name. Zoran proceeds to hurl insults at her until Anders decapitates the warlord. Moments later, the hulking, brutish Predator makes its appearance. It starts to kill the Vikings with a single punch, though it also pushes one of their heads into their own weapon. Anders is left in the path of the Predator’s wrath, but Ursa takes a hit of its sonic blast, knocking her into the river.

Ursa battles the Predator underwater as it tries to catch her. She eventually outsmarts it by putting her shield between herself and the sonic blast, which sends her back out of the water and pushes the Predator down, where its head is impaled by an anchor. Ursa makes it back up to Zoran’s home, where she finds Anders gravely injured. He asks her if she killed the monster before he dies, and Ursa weeps over her son’s body.

Ursa is then seen somewhere else with a collar around her neck. Next to her, there is another man with a similar collar.

2. The Sword
Japan, 1609 – Brothers Kenji and Kiyoshi Kamakami (both voiced by Louis Ozawa) live together with their father, a warlord. While they get along just fine, their father forces them to duel. Kenji refuses to fight, but Kiyoshi uses his sword to cut Kenji’s cheek. Kenji ends up fleeing his home.

20 years later, the brothers’ father dies, with only Kiyoshi, the new lord, being around to mourn him. Meanwhile, Kenji has taken up life as a shinobi. He learns of his father’s death and goes to find his brother. Nearby, another Predator is lurking.

Kenji infiltrates the castle, incapacitating the guards until he gets close enough to Kiyoshi. The brothers confront each other, and another duel occurs. After a tense fight, Kenji returns the cut to Kiyoshi’s cheek, but Kiyoshi loses his balance and appears to fall into the river below. Just as Kenji starts to feel remorseful, the Predator emerges. Three of Kiyoshi’s guards meet grisly deaths, while Kenji manages to escape. The Predator goes into stealth mode across the rooftops, but Kenji stabs it in the foot before making his way to the ground.

Kenji finds Kiyoshi alive but pissed off. He tries to fight his brother again until they team up to take on the Predator. The brothers fight the creature, with Kiyoshi taking a serious injury in his abdomen, until they trick it into getting caught by one of its own bombs. The Predator’s camouflage turns on again, and the brothers wait for the right time to strike. They see a leaf fall on the invisible Predator, and together, they run and slice the monster into three pieces.

The brothers sit by the water together as Kiyoshi begins to succumb to his wounds. Kenji reassures his brother that he is not alone before Kiyoshi passes on. Kenji is then seen in the same cell as Ursa, alongside a third person wearing dog tags.

3. The Bullet
Florida, 1941 – John Torres (Rick Gonzalez) is with his father (Felix Solis), when their car breaks down. Torres’s dad tells him he flooded the engine, and while he knows his son has dreams to fly, he hands him a draft notice.

Torres reports to Captain Vandy (Michael Biehn) and is set to be a Wildcat fighter pilot. A mysterious object hits one of their planes, so Vandy leads a squadron to go investigate while Torres is left on the carrier to observe the item that pierced the plane. It is Predator machinery, and Torres realizes the other pilots are about to enter something dangerous. Torres takes control of his own plane and heads to the skies.

Sure enough, this new Predator is commandeering its own ship and begins to open fire on the pilots, blowing them up or slicing them in midair. Torres’s plane gets hit, forcing him to get out and remove the flaming explosive back towards the Predator’s ship. Vandy tries to buy Torres some time, causing him to get beheaded by the Predator’s weaponry.

Torres tricks the Predator into chasing him into enemy territory. The ships fire their cannons and artillery at the two aircrafts, causing the Predator’s ship to get knocked into the water. It rises up again not long after, but Torres has another plan. He lets the Predator harpoon his plane and tricks it into pulling out its engine, which swings back up and slams down onto the Predator ship, blowing it up. Torres hits the water and shoots a flare to be rescued.

Sometime after WWII ends, Torres is working in his family’s garage, when a Predator ship arrives and takes him in.

Epilogue
Torres is brought into the same cell as Ursa and Kenji. They are unable to communicate due to the differences in their languages, but they each have similar collars around their necks. The three are brought out into an arena on the Predator planet, where the Warlord Predator (or “Grendel King”, to Ursa) has them set to fight each other to the death since each of them has killed a Predator. Only one will be left standing, and the survivor must face the Warlord Predator.

The three are given weapons from their own times. Ursa has her axe, Kenji has a sword, and Torres gets a flintlock pistol. If they refuse to fight, the Warlord Predator can activate the collars on their necks to blow their heads off. Torres tries to avoid the fight while Kenji thinks they can kill the Warlord Predator together like he and Kiyoshi did, but Ursa is set on dying to reunite with Anders. Torres comes up with a plan to fly the ship to safety. The Predators unleash a gigantic beast upon the three, which swallows Torres, but he is able to wound and kill it from within until a bulldozer pushes the monster’s corpse underground.

Ursa prepares for Kenji to strike his fatal blow, but he refuses to fight. Just as the Warlord Predator gets ready to blow their heads off, their collars deactivate and fall off, thanks to Torres escaping the monster’s belly and freeing them. The three make their way to the ship, with Kenji losing an arm in their escape. They battle the Warlord Predator until they make it to the ship, but the Predators fire a harpoon that keeps the ship anchored. Ursa sacrifices herself and stays behind to break the harpoon, allowing Torres and Kenji to escape. The Warlord Predator then declares, “LET’S GO HUNTING!” and leads a squadron of ships to go after them.

An unconscious Ursa is put into stasis, alongside several other captures humans who have killed Predators. Among them is Naru (from “Prey”), the Comanche warrior who defended her village from the Predators.

The film is an anthology of three separate stories in the "Predator" universe, which all come together.

The first story is about a Viking queen named Ursa, who leads her warriors to go after Zoran, the warlord that forced her to kill her father Einar. After slaughtering Zoran's men, Ursa confronts Zoran, who is decapitated by Ursa's son Anders. The Predator in this story kills the other Vikings and severely wounds Anders, but Ursa fights it underwater and kills it with an anchor, but she loses Anders.

The second story is about samurai brothers Kenji and Kiyoshi. Kenji leaves home after their father forces them to duel, and Kiyoshi injures Kenji. After their father dies, Kenji, now a shinobi, returns home to confront Kiyoshi. After their duel, the new Predator attacks and kills Kiyoshi's guards. Kiyoshi is also wounded in the fight, but he and Kenji work together to slice the Predator into three pieces. Kiyoshi succumbs to his wounds and dies next to Kenji.

The third story is about a WWII Wildcat fighter pilot named John Torres, who encounters a pilot Predator going after a squadron that Torres had joined. His captain is killed after buying Torres time, and Torres finds a way to trick the Predator into destroying itself. After the war, Torres is captured by a Predator ship.

Torres joins Ursa and Kenji on the Predator planet, where those who have killed Predators are forced by a Warlord Predator into a gladiator-style arena where they must fight to the death before taking him on. While Ursa is prepared to die an honorable death in battle to rejoin her son, Kenji and Torres refuse to fight and work together to escape. Torres helps unlock their explosive collars, and leads them to a ship to escape. The Warlord Predator briefly fights them and tries to stop the ship from leaving, but Ursa stays behind to break their machine and let the two escape. The Warlord Predator leads a hunt after Torres and Kenji, while Ursa is put back into stasis alongside other survivors or Predator attacks, including Comanche warrior Naru.