Predator: Killer of Killers(2025)
Submitted by Evan B
Pooper:
Ursa (living in viking times), Kenji (living in samurai times), and Torres (living during World War 2) each manage to kill the Predators hunting them. After their respective victories, other Predators abduct them and put them into deep freeze. The trio are then awoken in order to fight each other to the death for the Predator’s amusement. They instead band together to try and escape. Torres manages to steal and fly one of the predator’s spaceships and escapes with Kenji (with other Predators in hot pursuit). Ursa stays behind to help ensure their escape, and is returned to deep freeze.
Long Ending:
This anthology film follows the stories of three people as they fight alien Predators (also referred to as yautja). The Predators are charged to hunt down the most dangerous prey, to become the killers of killers.
The Shield
In the time of Norsemen, a woman named Ursa (voiced by Lindsay LaVancy as an adult, Cherami Leigh as a child) leads a group of expert killers on a search for a man named Zoran. Ursa uses a pair of shields with razor-like edges to cut down her enemies in a quest for vengeance. As she explains to her teenage son Anders, Zoran forced her to murder her own father when she was just a child, and her dying father had her swear vengeance. They eventually track Zoran down and Anders kills the old warlord. As they celebrate, the group is attacked by a huge Predator with a metal prosthetic arm that emits sound blasts. It quickly kills most of Ursa’s group and knocks Ursa onto a frozen lake. She eventually manages to entangle the predator in an anchor chain and crack the ice so that she and the alien fall into the water. After an underwater fight, she gets the recoil of the predator’s weapon to impale him on the anchor. Victorious, she holds her mortally wounded son Anders until he breathes his last breath. The next thing she knows, Ursa is on a spaceship with an alien collar attached to her neck.
The Sword
In the time of samurai, two children – Kenji and Kiyoshi (both voiced by Louis Ozawa) – are raised by a stern shogun. One day, the shogun demands that the loving brothers fight each other with real swords for the right to inherit his title. Kenji refuses to attack his brother. Kiyoshi initially declines to fight, but then ambushes Kenji and slashes him across the cheek (leaving a scar). Many years later, Kiyoshi is a samurai and about to take his inheritance. A ninja infiltrates Kiyoshi’s home and attacks, revealing himself to be Kenji (who ran away after his fight with Kiyoshi). After a skirmish, Kenji slashes Kiyoshi’s cheek. They are then attacked by a predator. The predator dispatches most of Kiyoshi’s men and chases Kenji across rooftops to a nearby riverbank. The brothers join forces there and, together, manage to kill the predator (beheading it and cutting it in half). The brothers reconcile as Kiyoshi passes away from wounds suffered in the battle. And like Ursa, Kenji suddenly wakes up on a spaceship wearing an alien collar.
The Bullet
Torres (voiced by Rick Gonzalez) is drafted during World War 2 and trains to become a pilot. Before allowing him into the air, kindly Commander “Vandy” Vandenberg (voiced by Michael Biehn) tells him to repair an old airplane. While Vandy and his squadron take flight to engage in an aerial battle, Torres is looking through the recovered wreckage of a shot down plane and finds a giant, alien hook lodged inside. When the hook flies back into the sky, Torres deduces that Vandy and his squadron are likely going to be attacked by the alien. Using lessons he was taught by his mechanic father, Torres is able to get the old plane to run and flies up to warn the squadron. They are indeed attacked by a predator in a spaceship. Using various hooks, nets, and jet engines, the predator kills almost everyone. Vandy sacrifices himself (with he and his plane torn to pieces by a laser whip projectile) to give Torres a chance to get behind the Predator and blow one of it’s engines. The Predator begins chasing Torres and he leads it through enemy territory where the spacecraft takes lots of damage from anti-aircraft shells. Torres then manages to trick the Predator into hitting his own spaceship with one of his rocket hooks, destroying the spacecraft and its pilot. Months later, Torres is back in the US working in his father’s shop. He hears a noise and, when he walks outside, finds a giant predator spaceship hovering about him. The spacecraft abducts Torres and puts him in suspended animation.
The film then cuts to the present
Torres is awakened from suspended animation and has an alien collar placed around his neck by Predator guards. He is then sent into an arena on an alien world where he meets Kenji and Ursa (who had also been abducted, frozen, awakened, and collared). A Warlord Predator (voiced by Britton Watkins) emerges and announces that the three of them must fight to the death for the assembled Predators’ entertainment, and the winner will have a chance to fight him. If they don’t fight, the collars around their necks will explode. Although Torres and Kenji are reluctant to fight, Ursa attacks as she wants to get vengeance for Anders’ death. After the three join forces to destroy a giant creature that is loosed upon them, Torres takes a control panel from a predator that was killed by the creature and deactivates their collars. The trio decide to join forces and attack the Warlord. While Kenji and Ursa fight the Warlord, Torres sneaks into the Warlord’s ship and manages to figure out how to fly it. Though the Warlord cuts off one of Kenji’s arms, Kenji and Ursa manage to fight the Warlord to a stalemate and jump onto the ship. As it flies away, another Predator shoots a giant hook at the spaceship and prevents it from flying away. Wanting to save “her boys,” Ursa jumps off the ship and destroys the mechanism holding them in place. Torres and Kenji fly away as Ursa is put back into suspended animation. The Warlord then orders his Predators to hunt down Kenji and Torres. As Ursa is wheeled back into storage, we see that one of the other people who are also in suspended animation is Naru (the protagonist from the movie Prey).