Predator Universe Characters: Backstories & Profiles
This category collects profiles of the people and synthetics who stand against, beside, or in the way of a Yautja hunt. Film survivors include Dutch Schaefer, Mike Harrigan, Naru, and Alexa Woods. The books add ranger Sloane from Predator: Turnabout and Andar Ciejek from Predator: Flesh and Blood. Thia and Tessa sit here as the Weyland-Yutani androids from Predator: Badlands, and Peter Keyes as the OWLF officer from Predator 2. Yautja hunters themselves stay on Individual Predators.
Peter Keyes: Backstory & Expanded Profile Of OWLF Head
Peter Jacob Keyes was the CIA officer who ran the Other Worldly Life Forms Program under a DEA cover. He interrogated Dutch Schaefer after Val Verde, tracked the City Hunter through 1997 Los Angeles, and died in a slaughterhouse when a smart disc cut him in half.
By Janno Vares September 21, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore
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
Andar Ciejek: Flesh and Blood Hunt Survivor
Andar Ciejek was Gregor's son in Michael Jan Friedman and Robert Greenberger's 2007 novel Predator: Flesh and Blood. He left the family at twenty-one, returned to Felicity after Karl died, lived through Bet-Karh's hunt, and could not shoot Derek. Bet-Karh killed Derek and spared him.
By Janno Vares September 06, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt
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
Tessa: Profile Of Thia's Android Sister
Tessa was a synthetic android created by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and served as the main villain in Predator: Badlands. She was designed as part of a new generation of research synthetics intended to operate autonomously.
By Janno Vares January 27, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Badlands Lore | Predator Badlands Characters
Thia: Profile Of The Cut-In-Half Weyland-Yutani Android
Thia is a female synthetic created and employed by Weyland-Yutani and featured in Predator: Badlands. The film introduces Thia as a damaged yet determined survivor who forms an unlikely alliance with a Yautja warrior named Dek.
By Janno Vares November 02, 2025 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Badlands Lore | Predator Badlands Characters
