Alan Schaefer

Alan "Dutch" Schaefer is the main protagonist of the 1987 sci-fi action film Predator.
He's a U.S. Army Special Forces Major who is the leader of a rescue team tasked to save hostages in a Central American country, but is in conflict with an extra-terrestrial hunter that kills for sport.
He is portrayed by , who also played Conan in Conan the Barbarian , John Matrix in Commando, Mark Kaminski in Raw Deal, Ben Richards in The Running Man, John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop, Douglas Quaid in Total Recall, Trench Mauser in The Expendables, Harry Tasker in True Lies, Jack Slater in The Last Action Hero, Ray Owens in The Last Stand, Jericho Cane in End of Days, Howard Langston in Jingle All the Way, John Kruger in Eraser, Gordon Brewer in Collateral Damage, the Young OG Terminator, the Young T850 and the Old T800 from the Terminator franchise. 
==Mission in Guatemala==
In 1987, Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer and his army special forces team is taken to Guatemala to rescue a Guatemalan cabinet minister and his aides from a group of guerrillas.
Meanwhile, Al Dillon, Dutch's former military friend now CIA agent, comes along with Dutch's team and takes command of the mission. As they are deployed in the jungle, the team finds a downed helicopter the cabinet administer was riding in. But Dutch's men becomes suspicious; helicopter looks more like surveillance vehicle instead of standard army heli, and later Billy, the team's tracker and pathfinder, finds skinned bodies belonging to four green berets, one of the bodies belonging to Jim Hopper, another one of Dutch's old military friends. Although Dillon was quick to blame guerrillas, Billy was not convinced - evidences he found through his analysis does not support not that conclusion. Green Berets' presence and the way they met their grisly demise begins to puzzle Dutch.
They soon find the guerrilla base and discover that the cabinet administer and his aides are executed. After obliterating the base, Mac, one of the team members, tells Dutch that the cabinet minister was actually a CIA agent. Realizing that the rescue mission was a set up, Dutch angrily confronts Dillon and he admits that the mission was just to destroy the base and kill everyone. He also reveals that Jim Hopper was ordered to go rescue the agents, but went missing in the mission which it turned out that he was actually skinned alive.
At this point, Dutch begins to hold a grudge against Dillon. Before the team pulls out, Dillon takes along a female guerrilla named Anna Gonsalves in order to get information out of her. As soon as the team leaves the base, a mysterious creature using a cloaking device and heat seeking vision begins to stalk the team.
As the team begins to take a break, Anna escapes and Dutch orders Hawkins, the team's radio and technical expert, to get her back.
As soon as he stops her, the mysterious figure brutally kills Hawkins, spares Anna, and drags his body away. The team begins to think that there are more guerrillas in the area and Dutch orders everyone to lead an all out search for Hawkins' body.
In the middle of the search Blain, the team's minigun handler, is killed by the mysterious figure by its plasma cannon.
Mac then goes over and manages to see the mysterious creature cloaked and manages to wound it. Poncho, the teams ordinance and translator, asks Anna what happened, in which she says in Spanish, "the jungle came alive and took him."
At this point, Billy believes that there is an inhuman being out in the jungle and that no one will survive. Later that night, the team begin to set up traps around their area.
Mac, who is tasked if keeping guard, suspects something and is attacked. Mac attack what seems to be the mysterious creature, but is only a wild pig.
After everyone laughs at him, Billy goes over to Blain's body bag only to find that the creature took his body and Dutch realizes that their enemy uses the trees to travel.
An attempt to trap the creature fails, leaving Poncho injured. Mac and Dillon pursue the alien, but it outmaneuvers and kills them. The Predator catches up with the others, killing Billy and Poncho and wounding Dutch.
Realizing the creature does not target unarmed prey because there is "no sport", Dutch sends Anna to the helicopter unarmed. The creature pursues Dutch into a river and its cloaking device malfunctions. The creature, now visible, gets within a few feet of a mud-covered Dutch. His thermal signature reduced, Dutch remains unseen by the Predator and the Predator moves on. Dutch realizes he can use mud as camouflage.
While the creature collects trophies from the bodies, Dutch crafts traps and weapons and lures the creature with a war cry and fire. As predicted, Predator came to the trap Dutch set for it. As the Predator walks carefully over the bonfire, Dutch shoots an arrow laden with explosive, disabling the creature's cloaking device. The alien, unable to see Dutch, shoots its plasma caster wildly in every direction. Dutch barely manages to escape the Predator's random strafing. Although the alien manages to stand before Dutch, it once again goes past Dutch due to Dutch's mud camouflage.
Round 2: instead of actively chasing Dutch, the Predator decides to take out Dutch from a high ground using plasma caster. Grabbing some sticks for bait and a makeshift javelin, Dutch after pinpointing Predator's location through series of baiting manages to inflict minor injuries with the javelin.
Bleeding, the Predator flees. Dutch goes after the alien hunter in a bid to kill it. But the alien hunter was clever: It used its wound and blood as a bait to lure Dutch into a dead-end cave. Realizing that he is cornered, Dutch attempts to escape the Predator by throwing an improvised bomb at it. Although temporarily distracted by the blinding flash caused by explosion, Predator manages to shoot its plasma caster at Dutch's location. Even though the blast missed Dutch, Dutch fell onto water, washing away all his mud camouflage. No sooner than Dutch having swam to catch his breath, Predator catches up to Dutch and grab Dutch by the throat, eager to finish him off.
Then, something unexpected happens: acknowledging Dutch as a worthy foe in addition to experiencing more sporting challenge, the creature discards its mask and plasma weapon and engages him in hand-to-hand combat. Dutch is almost beaten, but crushes the creature under a trap's counterweight. As the creature lies dying, Dutch asks, "What the hell are you?"
The alien repeats the question in garbled English before activating a self-destruct device while laughing maniacally.
Then, Dutch takes cover just before the device explodes, resulting in a mushroom cloud. He was picked up by his commander and Anna in the helicopter.
==Behind the Scenes==
===Cancelled reappearances===
Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally intended to reprise the role of Dutch in Predator 2 and the actor was supposedly close to signing up.
However, according to producer John Davis, a pay dispute amounting to $250,000 meant that the deal fell through and Schwarzenegger walked away from the project. The Dutch role was subsequently rewritten as Peter Keyes.
When Robert Rodriguez came to make Predators, he also intended to have Schwarzenegger reappear as Dutch, in the form of a cameo at the film's end after defeating Berserker, Royce and Isabelle sit bloodied and exhausted in the jungle when a Yautja ship lands nearby and a host of Predators emerge.
Too tired to fight, the survivors await their fate, but the Predators do not attack. Instead they split into two single-file lines flanking the doorway and through the gap in the center their leader emerges from the ship, his armor covered in trophies.
The leader would then remove his helmet, revealing it to be Dutch, who tells Royce, "Not bad, kid... Not bad at all." The scene was dropped due to Schwarzenegger being unavailable, but Rodriguez has mentioned a desire to include the sequence in any potential Predators sequel.
==Appearance==
===Movies===
*Predator (1987)
*Preadors (2010, mentioned)
===TV===
*Rude Tube (2011-2014, 2 appearances)
*Special Collector's Edition (2010-2013, 1 appearance)
*The Investigation Led By (2007, 1 appearance)
===Comics===
*MAD (1988, 1 appearance)
*Famous Monsters of Filmland (2010, 1 appearance)
*Predator: Concrete Jungle (1989-90, mentioned)
*Predator: Cold War (1987, mentioned)
*Predator: Dark River (1996)
*Predators: Beating the Bullet (2010)
===Games===
*Predator (1988)
*Predator: Soon the Hunt Will Begin (1988)
*Alien vs. Predator (1994)
*Scene It? Box Office Smash (2008)
*Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020)
===Books===
*Predator (1987)
*Predator 2 (1990)
*Predator: Concrete Jungle (1995)
*Predator: Cold War (1997, mentioned)
*Predator: South China Sea (2008)
*Predator: Stalking Shadows (2020)
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Dutch Schaefer actor Arnold Schwarzenegger played the titular Terminator in the Terminator franchise, the first two films of which were written and directed by Aliens director James Cameron.
*In the novelization of Predator 2, Keyes mentions Dutch's "Olympian physique"; this is likely a humorous nod to Schwarzenegger, who won the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition seven times before becoming an actor.
*The 1994 arcade game Alien vs. Predator features a character named Dutch Schaefer as an homage to the character in the film. Additionally, Dutch Schafer in the game has a mechanical arm and is said to be a cyborg, likely a reference to Schwarzenegger's starring role in the Terminator series, particularly the second film which features a famous scene where Schwarzenegger strips the skin from his left arm, revealing the robotic structure beneath.
*The real-life goblin spider species Predatoroonops dutch is named after Dutch Schaefer; every member of the Predatoroonops genus has a name that references Predator, due to the perceived similarity between the spider's mouthparts and the Predator's mandibles.
==External Links==
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*Dutch on AVP Wiki
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