Millicent, called Millie by nearly everyone, was the red-haired girl who narrated Bloodwood, the serial that ran through all four issues of Predator: Black, White & Blood. Her family left England for a goldfield in New South Wales, and by 1850 both of her parents were dead and she owed her labor to the Bloodwood Mining Concern. She freed the chained young Yautja Lucky Boy, trained under him for three seasons and killed the camp boss Big Jim with a Yautja disc before she left Earth aboard a hunters' ship.
Biography
Early Life
Millicent grew up in England with a father who dreamed of fortune and a mother of unshakable faith. Whenever she misbehaved, her mother told her that God was always watching, and Millie later said that she lived in constant fear that God was judging her. The family answered a poster from James Higgson of the Bloodwood Mining Concern, which promised a new goldfield in New South Wales with thrice the bounty of the old ones. On arrival her father admitted that the camp was more rustic than he had been led to believe, while Millie complained that the mud had ruined her dress.
Around a campfire she called greed a sin, and her mother answered, "So is pride, Millicent," telling her to hold her tongue while her father's claim bore fruit. One night a streak of green light fell from the sky, and her father cried that it was a sign from Heaven that had landed on his stake. Millie begged him not to go, but her mother told him to secure what was his. He never came back, and a man in a green waistcoat told her grieving mother that Big Jim would only have helped the family if he had died on company business.
Her mother then bound Millie's chest and dressed her in trousers, telling her that it would save her life. She had hidden money under a stone near the Red House, the camp's saloon, and told Millie to tell no one and to pray, since they might save enough to book passage home. Millie guessed that the money came from the saloon. Soon afterward her mother was dead. A camp man offered his condolences, called it an accident and added that she had owed Big Jim money, and when Millie said that someone had taken her money, he told her to make more.
The Red House
By then the girl had spent years in Bloodwood, and she said that the devil whispered lies to her there every night. She came to believe that her parents had brought their child to hell and left her there, and that she must have done something to deserve it. She went to work as a server at the Red House, where a saloon woman named Cher found her the drabbest frock she could and told her to serve the drinks, bow and move. Cher reassured her that everyone was scared on the first night and that Bloodwood women took care of their own.
The saloon keeper, Philips, praised how well she cleaned up, and Millie told him it was her first night and that it was quite lively. She noticed the red key that hung at his belt. Philips announced that Lucky was on stage, and handlers set a pack of fighting dogs on a one-armed creature chained in a green cage. As it tore the dogs apart, Millie recalled her pastor's words that God did not need to test the weak but tested the strong to see what they could do. Watching the creature, she told herself, "I am in hell... but I was sent here for a reason."
In her narration she decided that the reason was to escape, and more than that, to prove herself. She would do it by burning down that earthly hell with all the gifts that the Lord had seen fit to provide, and by killing the devil on her way out. Only then, she said, would she be worthy of His love. The devil she meant was Big Jim, the bald and bearded camp boss who watched the fights from a red throne decorated with severed hands, and the creature in the cage became the gift she meant to use against him.
Escape With Lucky Boy
By 1850 Millie was still working at the Bloodwood Mining Concern in Australia. Millie tried to take the key from Philips at night and failed, and he beat her in front of his men, mocking her as a class act just like her mother. He then unlocked the cage and ordered the creature to kill her slowly. Kneeling before it, she admitted that she had seen a chance to kill the devil who ruled that hell and had taken it, and she said that she would meet her maker knowing she had tried.
Instead, Lucky Boy cut the throat of the guard beside the cage and wrapped his chain around Philips. The keeper begged Millie to call for Jim, but the hunter told her to take the key, and she pulled it from the keeper's coat before Lucky Boy tore his head off with the chain. Looking up at the blood-soaked creature, Millie said that she had seen many paintings of angels and that none looked like this. Big Jim announced that Philips was dead and led a search for them, but a flood washed the trail away, which reminded Millie of the story of Noah.
The two of them sheltered in a cave, where Lucky Boy built a fire and skinned a dingo. Millie, who now believed she understood why God had sent the flood to wash away the stench of evil men, asked him whether he had saved her to eat her. He laid the warm pelt over her shoulders instead, and she thanked him and asked him why. In broken English he told her that she was strong and could help him. His last words that night, "Kill... Jim," gave the pair the purpose they would share for the next three years.
The cave marked the start of her alliance with the hunter. Millie had arrived in the camp as a pious girl who feared God's judgment, and she left the cave wearing the skin of an animal that a Yautja had killed for her. From the night of the escape she thought of him as her Angel, a name she used for him through the rest of the story. Theirs became one of the Predator and human team-ups of the comics, held together because both of them wanted the same man dead and neither could reach Big Jim alone.
Three Seasons In The Bloodwood Forest
Three seasons passed in the Bloodwood Forest of New South Wales. Millie said that they moved like an angry river and threatened to wash her parents' faces from her mind, but that she grew like a stubborn tree and forgot nothing. Big Jim and his men had stopped chasing them after the first month, perhaps expecting a girl and a one-armed monster to die in the wilderness. She called that half right, because the girl was dead and she had become something different, with red dreadlocks, war paint and an animal skull worn as a headdress.
Lucky Boy trained her with a spiked mace in a swamp full of crocodiles, while she used a long spear and two red-handled blades. He called her "young blood," and she admitted that she did not fully understand the name in either language but liked it. When she fell for his feints, he knocked her into the water and judged her with words such as "good kill" and "bad hunter," and she answered him as "sir." A narrator explained that he thought her weaker than the weakest Yautja Young Blood but saw fire in her veins, and that he knew she was not ready for the revenge she kept talking about.
The Hunters' Judgment & Return To The Red House
One night three armored Yautja came to the forest camp. Millie, her heart racing, called them angels and stood without showing fear, as she had been taught. She could not understand their language and imagined that Lucky Boy was telling them about Jim's cruelty and the value of an alliance. In fact they called him a lost one and summoned him to judgment, and the narration named him a disgrace and bad blood. One of them handed him a red disc, and as the hunters walked away, Millie asked whether they were heading for Bloodwood to help her.
Lucky Boy told her that they would take him home, that he was not bad blood but was not Blooded, and that both of them should go home. Millie insisted that they would fight together and pleaded with him, but he refused. She said nothing for the rest of the night, and he felt her judgment burning like flame. Later that night her bedroll held an animal skull in her place. Millie had already gone to the mining camp alone in her war paint and cloth wrappings, and she used her spear to pin one of Jim's armed men to a tree beside the Red House.
Captured By Big Jim
After her capture, Millie looked back on everything she had lost. Her father had abandoned their lives to chase riches, her mother had left her alone among the men who killed her, and God Himself had forsaken her, if He had ever existed at all. Several of Jim's men lay dead from spears and blades in the camp by then. She had endured all of it, she said, but when her fallen angel traded their revenge for his passage home, it broke her, and Jim's men dragged her before Big Jim.
Big Jim greeted her as the prodigal daughter who had gone feral by consorting with beasts. He demanded to know where his Lucky Boy was, called the creature precious to him and accused her of stealing it. Millie swore to kill him, and he answered that she needed a reminder of how things worked in the camp. As his men held her, he swung his pickaxe and cut off her left hand at the wrist. Sobered by pain and shame, she remembered her dark angel's words, "bad hunter," and admitted that her own arrogance had sealed her fate because she had not been ready.
Jim told his men to wrap the wound and mocked her for still being conscious. He said that the last one-armed monster in the camp had been great entertainment and asked how she would like fighting hungry dingoes one-handed for the rest of her miserable little life. He promised her Lucky's old cage and bucket and even offered to paint her name on the side. The miners began to fall around him before he finished, as Lucky Boy, one of the Predators who lost limbs, came back out of the night and cut into the crowd with his spiked mace.
Revenge On Big Jim
Jim called the hunter a motherless bastard and offered him the broken little girl, but Lucky Boy answered that she was his. When Millie apologized to him, he called her young blood and gave her the choice to die or fight. "I choose to fight, sir," she told him, and he placed the spiked red throwing disc in her remaining hand. The two cut through the miners together until Big Jim swung his pickaxe at her, shouting that her family still owed him, and Lucky Boy took the blow in his own body to shield her from it.
Jim mocked the hunter for not killing him when he had the chance, but Lucky Boy said that Jim was not his kill and crushed the man's arm to hold him in place. Millie leapt onto Jim's shoulders with the disc. She said that she was unaccustomed to the thrill of a second chance, which felt like growing a pair of angel wings, and she drove the disc into his head. For the first time since she set foot in that forsaken land, everything was quiet, and Lucky Boy called it a good kill.
Millie asked the dying hunter how she could help him and why he had followed her. She reminded him that the others had been ready to take him home, but he told her that only a good hunter went home and that he needed honor. The three Yautja then stepped out of the dark, and one of them called her a good hunter. With the Red House burning around them, Millie said that the devil was dead and that hell was crumbling around his corpse, although she no longer felt the embrace of the God she had once craved.
Leaving Earth
Lucky Boy lay down on Big Jim's red throne with the pickaxe and used the gauntlet fixed to its handle to start his self-destruct. Millie said that she might have lost God or her mind entirely, but that this felt better, honest and real, like truth and honor. She watched from the hunters' ship as the self-destruct rose over the goldfield, standing among the three Yautja with her face painted and an animal skull at her side. She bade goodbye to her Lucky Angel and thanked him for all he had taught her.
Her last words to Lucky Boy were a promise to hunt for him now and to let him take his rest in utmost respect, followed by a single "Amen." The story ended there, with Millie alive and leaving Earth in the company of the hunters who had once come to judge her angel. She was one of the few human Predators to be accepted by the Yautja, and her survival placed her among the humans who outlived a Predator hunt. Bloodwood ended on her painted face, marked with the same red stripes she had worn since her years in the forest with her angel.
Personality & Traits
Millie grew up devout, and faith shaped the way she understood everything that happened to her. She read the Bible as a child, loved the animals and the rainbow in the story of Noah and feared that God watched and judged her. In Bloodwood that faith turned into anger at her mother, her father and the Lord himself, and she came to believe that she had been sent to hell for a reason. By the end she admitted that she might have lost God, yet she still closed her farewell to Lucky Boy with the word Amen.
Millie was a schemer by nature. Her father used to tease her when she cooked up some scheme or another and failed spectacularly, telling her that the Lord dropped people on their behinds to remind them that walking came before running. That impatience followed her into the forest, where Lucky Boy judged that she spoke too often of revenge and was not ready for it. Her attack on the camp alone proved him right, and she blamed her capture on her own arrogance.
Millie was also brave, loyal and grateful. She faced a chained alien killer, stole a key from the man who owned it and stood in front of three armored hunters without showing fear. She called Lucky Boy her angel from the night he saved her, accepted his harsh lessons as "sir" and apologized to him when her rashness nearly got her killed. Her final words to him thanked him for everything he had taught her and promised that she would hunt in his name, which made her loyalty to him last beyond his death.
Behind The Scenes
Millie was created for Bloodwood by writer Joe Kelly and artist Álvaro López, with lettering by VC's Clayton Cowles. Bloodwood ran through Predator: Black, White & Blood #1 to #4, which Marvel published from July to October 2025. Her full name, Millicent, appeared only once, when her mother scolded her at the campfire in issue #1, and every other character called her Millie. Lucky Boy called her young blood, and the three Yautja who judged him called her a good hunter in issue #4.
Her story was told in her own voice, while the thoughts of Lucky Boy took over in parts of issues #3 and #4. The anthology used only black, white and red, and her red hair was one of the most visible uses of that color in every scene she appeared in, from her curls as a child to her dreadlocks in the forest. Bloodwood was the only serial in the anthology, and it gave Millie a larger role than any other human in the series and a place among the heroines of Marvel's Predator comics. Her arc ran from a frightened girl at the Red House to a hunter accepted by the Yautja.
Famous Quotes
- "I am in hell... but I was sent here for a reason." (Bloodwood Part 1)
- "I saw an opportunity to kill the devil that presides over this hell, and I took it." (Bloodwood Part 2)
- "I failed... but damn it... I will meet my maker knowing I tried." (Bloodwood Part 2)
- "I have seen many paintings of angels... none looked like this." (Bloodwood Part 2)
- "Did you save me to eat me?" (Bloodwood Part 2)
- "They were half right. The girl is dead. Now I am something different." (Bloodwood Part 3)
- "I choose to fight, sir." (Bloodwood Finale)
- "Goodbye, Lucky Angel. Thank you for all you taught me. Take your rest in utmost respect. I will hunt for you now." (Bloodwood Finale)
Conclusion
Millicent came to the Bloodwood goldfield as a pious English girl and lost her father, her mother and her faith to the camp that Big Jim ruled. She freed Lucky Boy, learned to hunt from him over three seasons and refused to give up her revenge when he chose to go home. Big Jim took her hand, but the hunter came back for her, and she killed Jim with the red disc. Millie survived the burning of the Red House and left Earth with the three Yautja, promising to hunt for the angel who taught her.
Appearances
- Predator: Black, White & Blood #1-4, "Bloodwood" Parts 1-4 by Joe Kelly and Álvaro López (Marvel Comics, July to October 2025)
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