Predator Hunt Survivors: Humans Who Lived
Few humans live through a Yautja hunt. Dutch Schaefer walked out of the 1987 hunt in Val Verde, Mike Harrigan killed the City Hunter in 1997 Los Angeles, and Naru killed the Feral Predator on the Great Plains in 1719 and walked home with its head. Machiko Noguchi survived the outbreak on Ryushi, took the Blooded mark, and later hunted with a clan. Alexa Woods walked out of the 2004 Bouvetoya hunt Blooded, with the Elder's spear in her hands. Ranger Sloane walked out of an Alaska hunt with Mary Collins and later killed Vagouti in Oregon. The articles below cover those survivors and the hunts that left them alive.
Ricky Howard: Origins & Fate Of The Gunnison Survivor
Ricky Howard was a Gunnison pizza-delivery teenager in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, played by Johnny Lewis. Bullied over Jesse, he fought the Xenomorph outbreak with brother Dallas, took a Predalien wound at the hospital, and escaped the nuclear strike with Kelly and Molly.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Avp Lore | Alien Universe Characters | Predator Universe Characters
Kelly O'Brien: Origins & Fate Of The Gunnison Survivor
Kelly O'Brien was a U.S. Army soldier who returned to Gunnison the day of the October 2004 outbreak in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. She fled with Molly after Tim died, refused the Gilliam Circle airlift, flew the hospital helicopter clear of the nuke, and survived with Dallas, Ricky, and Molly.
By Janno Vares October 26, 2026 Avp Lore | Alien Universe Characters | Predator Universe Characters
Det. Leona Cantrell: Origins, Profile & Predator 2 Aftermath
Detective Leona Cantrell was an LAPD Metro officer in Predator 2, played by María Conchita Alonso. She fought the 1997 gang war with Mike Harrigan, lost partner Jerry Lambert on the subway, and survived when the City Hunter scanned her pregnancy and let her live.
By Janno Vares October 25, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Rory McKenna: The Boy Whose Autism The Predators Wanted
Rory McKenna was Quinn McKenna's autistic son in The Predator, played by Jacob Tremblay. He decoded a mailed hunter gauntlet, wore the gear on Halloween, and was taken by the Upgrade because Predators valued that mind. Quinn and the Loonies got him back.
By Janno Vares October 25, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Buddy Wilcox: The Mechanic Who Hunted A Predator
Buddy Wilcox was the mechanic and Vietnam veteran of Predator: Kindred, the 1996 Dark Horse series. As a boy he watched a Predator kill his father in 1958, and when it returned to Fleener Creek, Oregon, he fought it in homemade armor and killed Jimmy McCutcheon.
By Janno Vares October 23, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Juta Tanaka: The Blind Sensei Who Defeated A Predator
Juta Tanaka was the blind sensei and inventor in Predator: Blood Feud, the 1992 Dark Horse serial. After a Predator slaughtered his students in Tokyo, visions of a past life under the shogun led him to ruins near Nikko, where he beheaded the hunter avenging its brother.
By Janno Vares October 22, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Mandy Graves: Bad Blood Survivor And Predator Hunter
Mandy Graves was a former CIA killer who deserted with her husband and came back to help John Pulnick fight a rogue Predator in the Pine Barrens. The only survivor of her team, she killed it and later joined Jaya Soames's hunters on Kehua, in Afghanistan and in Belize.
By Janno Vares October 19, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
John Schaefer: Dutch's Brother And Predator Hunter
John Schaefer was the NYPD detective and older brother of Dutch Schaefer who fought Predators in a New York heat wave, in Siberia and in South America. Years later he guided hunters in Belize, and in 2068 he led stranded captives on the planet Mabou.
By Janno Vares October 19, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Enoch Nakai: Profile Of The Navajo Predator Hunter
Enoch Nakai was the Navajo corporal who survived the destruction of Cole Army Base, tracked the Big Game Predator to the lava fields of El Malpais and took its head. Discharged and sworn to silence, he later joined Jaya Soames's team of Predator hunters on Kehua, in Afghanistan and in Belize.
By Janno Vares October 18, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Jaya Soames: Profile Of The Predator Hunter Leader
Jaya Soames was the heir to a family that had hunted Predators since Captain Edward Soames. She led a privately funded team from her ship, the Durga, against the Exiles of Kehua, the Djinn Predator in Afghanistan and two Predators in Belize, vowing to keep their technology out of the wrong hands.
By Janno Vares October 18, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Millicent: The Bloodwood Girl Who Became A Hunter
Millicent, called Millie, narrated Bloodwood in Marvel's Predator: Black, White & Blood. After her parents died on an 1850 New South Wales goldfield, she freed the chained Yautja Lucky Boy, trained under him for three seasons, killed the camp boss Big Jim and left Earth with three Yautja hunters.
By Janno Vares October 17, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Theta Berwick: The Most Successful Predator Killer
Theta Berwick was the human hunter of Marvel's Predator comics. After a Predator killed her parents in 2041, she spent decades hunting its kind in Predator armor aboard the Sandpiper, killed her parents' murderer and later beat a Super Predator to free captives held in stasis.
By Janno Vares October 17, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Adam Garber: Origins & Fate Of The OWLF Agent
Adam Garber was Peter Keyes's second-in-command in Predator 2, played by Adam Baldwin. He questioned Dutch Schaefer in 1987, froze at the monitors when the Los Angeles trap failed, later recruited Scott Devlin for the OWLF, and was killed by a hunter in Rio de Janeiro.
By Janno Vares October 15, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Shoko Kawakami: Yakuza Boss On Yautja Prime Hunt
Shoko Kawakami was the onna-oyabun of the Kawakami-gumi in Kejime, from Marvel's Predator: Black, White & Blood #2. After giving up her arm to stay in the clan, she was put in a Yautja Prime arena, killed the Young Blood hunters, learned it was their initiation, and was sent home.
By Janno Vares October 15, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Isabelle Nissenbaum: IDF Origins & Return To Earth
Isabelle was the Israel Defense Forces sniper in Predators, played by Alice Braga. Tie-ins added black operations in Afghanistan and a Guatemala mission where her spotter died. On the Game Preserve Planet she survived Edwin's neurotoxin and the Berserker, then flew a Predator ship home alone.
By Janno Vares October 14, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Sean Keyes: Profile Of Peter Keyes' Son
Sean Keyes was the son of OWLF leader Peter Keyes, played by Jake Busey in The Predator. A xenobiologist who joined the OWLF in 1996 and moved to Project Stargazer in 2016, he greeted Casey Brackett, found human DNA in the captive hunter, and survived its escape with a gunshot wound.
By Janno Vares October 13, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Anna Gonsalves: The Female Guerrilla Survivor
Anna Gonsalves was the guerrilla fighter taken prisoner by Dutch Schaefer's team in Predator, played by Elpidia Carrillo. She saw the Jungle Hunter kill Hawkins, told the team of the demon who makes trophies of men, helped them fight it, guided the rescue helicopter to Dutch, and later gave her account to the OWLF.
By Janno Vares October 13, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Royce: Origins & Final Fate Of Game Preserve Survivor
Royce was the American mercenary in Predators, played by Adrien Brody. Taken after a contract in Africa, he woke in freefall over the Game Preserve Planet, led a group of hunted killers, freed a captive Predator, killed the Berserker, and later flew off alone in a Predator ship.
By Janno Vares October 12, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Casey Brackett: The Predator's Evolutionary Biologist
Dr. Casey Brackett was the evolutionary biologist in The Predator, played by Olivia Munn. Project Stargazer brought her in to study a captive hunter. After it escaped she joined Quinn McKenna and the Loonies, worked out the hybrid plan, and survived the Upgrade.
By Janno Vares October 12, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Erik Tomlin: Profile Of The Reapers' Leader
Erik Tomlin commanded the Reapers in James A. Moore's 2018 novel The Predator: Hunters and Hunted. He led the Nicaragua raid and a live capture on a Florida cul-de-sac, then drove a spear through the Florida Hunter's gauntlet at the Hartshorn Carnival. Four weeks later he was in a coma with sepsis.
By Janno Vares October 08, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Scott Devlin: Marine Who Ran The OWLF Hub
Scott Devlin was a U.S. Marine in James A. Moore and Mark Morris's 2020 novel Predator: Stalking Shadows. He joined an off-the-books unit in Los Angeles in 1997, hunted with Dutch Schaefer through Venezuela, and later ran an OWLF communications hub after a blast wrecked his left leg.
By Janno Vares October 08, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Quinn McKenna: Ranger Sniper & Leader Of The Loonies
Quinn McKenna was the Army Ranger sniper in The Predator, played by Boyd Holbrook. In Mexico he shot a drug lord, took a fugitive hunter's mask and gauntlet, and mailed them home to his son Rory. With the Loonies he fought the Upgrade in Georgia and lived.
By Janno Vares October 07, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Kenji Kawakami: The Exiled Shinobi Brother
Kenji Kawakami was a Japanese shinobi in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Louis Ozawa. In 1609 he returned from exile, scarred his brother Kiyoshi in their father's castle, and helped kill the Oni Predator. The Grendel King later severed Kenji's right arm, and John Torres flew him away from that world.
By Janno Vares October 07, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
Ursa: Profile Of The Viking Shieldmaiden
Ursa was a Norse shieldmaiden in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Lindsay LaVanchy. In 841 she led her son Anders against the Krivich chieftain Zoran at Lake Ladoga, killed the hunter Grendel under the ice, and stayed behind on the Grendel King's world so John Torres and Kenji could leave.
By Janno Vares October 06, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
John J. Torres: Navy Pilot Who Escaped Yautja Prime
John J. Torres was a U.S. Navy ensign in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Rick Gonzalez. Grounded on the Ranger in 1942, he took a battered Wildcat against a Yautja fighter over North Africa, then was abducted after the war and escaped the Grendel King's arena with Kenji.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
Ash Parnall / Caryn Delacroix: Big Mama's Human Ally
Ash Parnall, also called Caryn Delacroix, was the trophy wife Toy built for Lucien Delacroix on the skyliner Liberté. In Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species her appearance, personality, and the realities around her changed. She killed Toy, and Big Mama left with the children.
By Janno Vares September 28, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Avp Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Alexa (Lex) Woods: Blooded Bouvetoya Hunt Survivor
Alexa Woods was the ice guide on Charles Bishop Weyland's 2004 Bouvetoya expedition in Alien vs. Predator. She fought beside Scar Predator, killed two adult Xenomorphs, helped sink the Queen, and left the ice Blooded with the Elder's spear.
By Janno Vares September 20, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Avp Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Sloane: Alaska Ranger Who Survived Two Yautja Hunts
Sloane was an aging Alaska park ranger and Vietnam Marine sniper in Steve Perry's 2008 novel Predator: Turnabout. He survived a four-hunter Yautja hunt with teacher Mary Collins, then nine years later killed Vagouti in an Oregon forest in Rematch, collected in Predator: If It Bleeds.
By Janno Vares September 16, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Naru: Origins & Final Fate Of Prey's Comanche Hunter
Naru was a Comanche hunter on the Great Plains in 1719 who killed the Feral Predator in Prey. She returned to her village with its head and Raphael Adolini's flintlock, then later appeared in Yautja stasis in Killer of Killers and as Earth's hologram on Kwei's ship in Predator: Badlands.
By Janno Vares September 14, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
Lt. Mike Harrigan: Origins, Profile & Predator 2 Aftermath
Lieutenant Mike Harrigan was the LAPD detective who hunted the City Hunter through 1997 Los Angeles in Predator 2, killed that Yautja aboard the Lost Tribe ship, and left with Greyback's Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol. Later stories put the retired captain in Rio, then in stasis beside Dutch Schaefer and Naru.
By Janno Vares September 11, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore | Predator Killer Of Killers Lore
Machiko Noguchi: The Woman Who Became A Yautja
Machiko Noguchi was a human survivor of the Ryushi incident who earned the respect of Broken Tusk, became Blooded, joined Top-Knot's Predator clan, later returned to humanity, and finally fought in the Three World War on Earth.
By Janno Vares May 13, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Avp Lore | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Alan Dutch Schaefer: Profile, Past & Alternate Fates
Major Alan Dutch Schaefer was a U.S. Army special forces operator and the main character in the first Predator movie. Across different continuities, his post-1987 life ranged from disappearance to involvement with hunting Predators.
By Janno Vares February 11, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
