Wolf was an Elite Yautja cleaner in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. After the Isolated Clan's scout ship crashed near Gunnison, Colorado, he was sent from Yautja Prime to wipe out the Xenomorphs and any sign the hunters had been there. The job followed the first Alien vs. Predator film, where a Predalien left the wreck and started a hive in town.
"The Cleaner" Yautja
The nickname came from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, where Mr. Wolf, played by Harvey Keitel, was called in to clean a body from a car. Wolf's job in the film was the same kind of cleanup after the Isolated Clan, also called the Antarctica clan, left a Predalien-led Xenomorph infestation on Earth. A prior hunt had marked him: Xenomorph acid took one of his four mandibles, whitened one eye, and left a scar across his face. The Isolated Clan hunted in heavy armor. Wolf was leaner and closer to the Jungle Hunter, with light plates and an open net suit.
Life On Yautja Prime
Wolf lived in high rooms on Yautja Prime, an apartment on a Yautja structure with a balcony, a private landing pad, and a war room. The walls held trophies from earlier hunts and racks of spare weapons. In the center sat a Space Jockey-like chair where he took calls from other hunters. The distress signal from Earth reached him in that chair and sent him off the homeworld.
Trip To Earth
A Predator scout ship had crashed on Earth and spilled Facehuggers into the woods. A Predalien was aboard as well. Some cuts of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem keep Wolf unaware of that hybrid until he reaches the wreck. His orders were to kill the infestation and remove Yautja hardware before humans could collect it. His ship crossed from Yautja Prime to Earth in a few hours, then held station in orbit while he dropped alone.
Arrival Near Gunnison, Colorado
Wolf left the mothership in a drop pod like the ones used by the Young Bloods in the earlier film. The pod hit a lake outside Gunnison and stayed under the surface. Both that pod and the orbiting ship were left in place after the hunt. Once he climbed out of the water, his bio-mask pointed him at the crashed scout ship.
Disposing The Scoutship
At the wreck Wolf found Facehugger tracks in the trees and proof that a Predalien had been inside. He stopped at the body of Bull Predator, the hunter who had called for help instead of triggering his own bomb. Wolf took fresh kit from the ship's racks, then set the hull to self-destruct so the wreck and its stores would not stay on the ground. The explosion destroyed that site, but the Facehuggers and the Predalien were already in the woods and the town drains.
Hunt In The Sewers
Wolf followed the hybrid into the sewers under Gunnison and hung laser mines along the tunnels. Two adult Xenomorphs and the Predalien came at him from behind. He killed those two adult Xenomorphs. The fight brought a tunnel down, and the Predalien escaped through the break. Wolf climbed after it into the streets rather than stay in the collapsed drain.
Cleaning The Town
Above ground the infestation had spread through the power plant, a school, and the shops. At the plant Wolf fought adult Xenomorphs in the same rooms as armed townsmen, and some of those men died in the crossfire. In the school gym he killed a lone adult Xenomorph in the pool and used dissolving fluid from his cleaner case on the body. A later pass through a sports shop put him in front of another group of humans. He killed the Xenomorphs around them and kept moving toward the hospital.
The Hospital Hive
The Predalien had built a hive in the hospital and implanted women in the pregnancy ward. New Chestbursters were coming out while Wolf cut through the corridors. He tried to keep the fight on the Xenomorphs, but his weapons hit people in those halls, including a throw of the shuriken. The hybrid pulled the last of the fight onto the roof, and the military had a nuclear strike ready for the town.
Duel With The Predalien
On the hospital roof Wolf met the Predalien in the open, a Yautja-Xenomorph hybrid that Yautja treated as an insult that had to be killed. Both of them were wounded from the hive. The fight left them down and bleeding. Wolf drove his wristblades through the Predalien's head.
Final Fate And Possible Survival
A nuclear bomb hit the hospital and the streets around it. Wolf was wounded on the roof and did not get clear of the explosion. In the Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem PSP game, Wolf never reached that roof fight. He fought a U.S. Apache and flew out in his ship. That version was built while the film ending was unsettled. After the explosion, Wolf's plasma pistol reached Miss Yutani.
Wolf Predator's Rank And Clan
Wolf's rank was Blooded Elite, past first blooding and short of Elder. Elites took special jobs for the Elder Council or the Predator King, including cleanup hunts after a hive got loose. He answered the Isolated Clan's distress call, but his lean kit and honor code sat closer to the Jungle Hunter clan than to the heavy Antarctica hunters. That same traditional line later included the Crucified Predator from Predators.
Wolf Predator's Weapons
Wolf carried a plasmacaster, wristblades, and a combistick for ranged shots and close work. He also used a razor whip built from a Xenomorph tail, and laser mines that had shown up in Predator games before the film put them on screen. For heavier fire he ran two plasmacasters at once. He locked those cannons together into a plasma pistol. The pistol had appeared in the games before the film. It later reached Miss Yutani.
Wolf Predator's Equipment And Armor
Wolf's plates stayed light, and his bio-mask carried Yautja marks that Predator language tools have not turned into readable words. Beside a cloak and medicomp on the left shoulder, he wore a larger cleaner case on the right. That case held the tracking syringe that read Facehugger DNA and painted their trails on the helmet display. It also held a blue dissolving fluid that melted bodies and leftover kit, plus a spare self-destruct charge for hardware he could not recover.
Behind The Scenes
Ian Whyte performed Wolf for directors Colin Strause and Greg Strause. Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc., under Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr., built the suits. They moved away from the heavy AvP 2004 bodies toward a slimmer shape closer to Stan Winston's 1987 hunter. The helmet followed the City Hunter from Predator 2, with extra thorns and etched marks. ADI made hero and stunt suits, and the hero head used animatronic eyes so the face could track in close shots.
Wolf Predator Figures
NECA put Wolf into its 7-inch Predator line after Requiem opened and has not issued an Ultimate Wolf. Hot Toys covered the same hunter at 1/6 scale with the Requiem armor, whip, and dual cannons. McFarlane Toys held the film license into production, then lost it before the movie reached stores, so that line never shipped a Wolf.
Wolf Predator In Other Media
On the PSP game Wolf was the playable hunter through Gunnison and left in his ship after the Apache fight. Aliens vs. Predator 2010 later used the name Wolf for a different Elite on BG-386, hundreds of years after the film. IllFonic added the Requiem cleaner as a late premium class in Predator: Hunting Grounds. He has not appeared in a comic of his own.
Connection With Dek Predator
Yautja Prime in Predator: Badlands had a statue that matched Wolf. Dek spoke the name after Thia mentioned Earth's wolves. Director Dan Trachtenberg said that line was not an origin for Wolf, and that Dek was a separate hunter. The timelines did not match either. Requiem was set in the mid-2000s, and Badlands sat much later. The statue and the spoken name were a nod rather than a shared life.
Conclusion
Wolf was the Elite cleaner in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. He left Yautja Prime after Bull's scout ship crashed near Gunnison, destroyed the wreck, and hunted the Predalien from the sewers to the hospital roof. The nuclear strike on the town destroyed him with the hive. The PSP game kept him alive and sent him home in his ship.
Appearances
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (PSP, 2008)
- Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020)
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