Jungle Hunter

The titular humanoid extraterrestrial is a member of a monster warrior race, the Yautja, which hunts aggressive members of other species for sport, uses active camouflage, a plasma weapon and can see in the infrared spectrum. It eventually kills every member of Dutch's team and then engages Dutch in a hand-to-hand fight, nearly killing him until Dutch traps it under a log. The Predator, however, commits suicide with a self-destruct device, though Dutch escapes the explosion.

## Biography (P)

### Early Life

The Yautja known as the Jungle Hunter arrived at Earth in the Guatemalan jungle and was drawn to the numerous armed conflicts that took place in that area of the world. The creature became a local legend, feared by many of the jungle's inhabitants for hunting and killing men in the area before leaving their mutilated corpses strung up as trophy's. The locals called him "El Diable que have trofeos de los hombres" which translates to "The demon who makes trophies of men."

### 1987 Guatemalan Hunt of U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret Unit

The Jungle Hunter came across a team of US Army Special Forces Green Beret Unit led by Captain James "Jim" Hopper, who was sent there to rescue CIA hostages. However, the entire team was hunted and eventually slaughtered by the creature.

### 1987 Guatemalan Hunt of Delta Force in Predator

When the Green Beret Unit came up missing in action, Delta Force led by the battle-hardened John "Dutch" Matrix, was called in by CIA agent and mission handler, Al Dillon, to complete the same mission and to find out what happened to Hopper and his team.

The creature monitors Matrix and his team's arrival and watches as they take down a whole village of armed guerrilla fighters and rescue the last surviving hostage, Anna. After deeming them worthy prey, he hides himself using his cloaking device and begins to hunt them down one by one, starting by killing two members of the team who become separated from the others, Blaine and Hawkins, by disemboweling Hawkins when he runs after the fleeing Anna, and then later shooting Blaine in the back with his powerful plasma caster. After killing Blaine the creature is spotted and wounded in the leg by Blaine's friend Mac and the rest of the team after its cloaking device temporarily malfunctions. Some of the Hunter's green blood is found by the team, confirming their suspicions that whatever is hunting them is not human.

After escaping the mercenaries, the creature retreats to his tree top hideout and, using his medic system, painfully heals himself. Once he has fully healed the creature once again begins hunting, however while tracking Delta Squad, he is caught in a net trap set by them in their attempt to finally kill the hunter. After briefly struggling, the hunter uses his plasma caster to blast his way out of the trap. In the chaos, several members of the team become separated and they are all hunted down and killed by the creature, including Mac and Dillon, leaving only Dutch and Anna left alive. Dutch, realizing the creature only kills armed opponents, takes away Anna's gun and sends her to the chopper extraction point. This leaves Dutch to face off against the creature alone.

A chase through the jungle ensues, ending with the creature losing track of his prey after Dutch covers himself in mud which hides him from the predator's thermal vision. Later as the jungle hunter is cleaning and collecting his trophies from the bodies of the men he has slain, he hears Dutch's war cry, calling the creature out to finally settle the score one on one: a challenge the hunter can't turn down. After a brief skirmish between the two, the creature is wounded by one of Dutch's self-made explosive tipped arrow which also damages the creature's cloaking device. The two warriors finally meet face to face and the Jungle Hunter, deeming Dutch a worthy enemy, removes his mask and shoulder cannon to fight him hand-to-hand.

The two engage in close combat where the predator is easily able to overpower Dutch, pummeling him to near death. A heavily wounded Dutch is able to crawl away from the creature and baits his would be killer to follow him and finish him off. The predator, stops and realizes that Dutch is attempting to lure him into a trap, and much to the dismay of his prey, walks around the trap and stands over Dutch about to deal the death blow. However, unbeknownst to the creature, Dutch had set up a secondary trap, a large log hung over the top of where the Yautja warrior is standing. Dutch proceeds to kick out the counter weight sending the log crashing down on the predator's head crushing him. Dutch takes this opportunity to grab a large rock and is about to finish his attacker off when he realizes that the predator is mortally wounded and near death.

After Dutch drops the rock, he asks the creature what he is, the creature only responds by repeating his question back to him in garbled English. The creature then activates it's wrist bracer, which begins counting down. Dutch recognizes this as a self-destruct device and begins to flee, as the creature, using a warbled recording of Billy's laughter, laughs maniacally at its assumed victory.

The device soon detonates killing the predator instantly, however Dutch was able to make it a safe distance before the explosion and was unharmed, therefore achieving victory over the alien that hunted him and murdered his team,