Prey hit Hulu within the US and Disney Plus Star elsewhere on the earth earlier this month. The flick brings the Predator sequence again to 1719 and sees one of many alien hunters going up in opposition to Comanche Nation tribespeople like Naru (Amber Midthunder). Additionally, it is completely wonderful.

This journey builds to a memorable finale, hints at what occurred afterward in its stunning animated credit sequences and consists of an superior reference to 1990’s Predator 2. Let’s dive in — however be warned: These things will make you a SPOILER Tyrannosaurus, identical to me.

We will kill it

Having seen her fellow Comanche Nation warriors and the deeply disagreeable French poachers slaughtered by the Predator, Naru lures the beast right into a entice in the dead of night forest. She kills it utilizing a mixture of her data of the setting, the weapons she’s gathered (together with a well-recognized flintlock pistol with the engraving “Raphael Adolini 1715” — extra on that later) and the Predator’s personal tech.

Lined within the alien’s luminous inexperienced blood, she brings its decapitated head again to camp and is honored as a hunter by her tribe. It mirrors the sequence wherein her brother Taabe (Dakota Beavers) did so with the lion earlier within the film, after she did not. In killing the Predator that took Taabe’s life, Naru has proved herself to be the tribe’s greatest badass.

And so they all lived fortunately ever after. Besides…

Predator revenge?

We get a supercool animated recap of the film’s occasions over the primary part of the credit, with one further wrinkle. The ultimate picture pans to point out a Predator ship popping out of storm clouds over Naru’s camp, implying that the aliens attacked once more. Which does not appear sporting of the Predators — you misplaced guys, go dwelling.

It is unclear how these occasions performed out — maybe we’ll discover out in a sequel someday — or after they befell. It is doable that they left Naru in peace and the picture is a metaphor for later hunts involving people, for the reason that authentic Predator and its sequels reveal that the aliens are kinda obsessive about battling us.

That is perhaps wishful pondering although, for the reason that flintlock pistol Naru received from murdered French poacher Raphael (Bennett Taylor) affords us a clue. It is on her belt when she returns to camp, however followers will realize it reveals up later within the sequence.

Raphael Adolini 1715

In Predator 2, which takes place in 1997, LAPD Lt. Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) and the primary Predator — referred to as the Metropolis Hunter — battle on one of many aliens’ ships. After the human triumphs, a bunch of different Predators decloak and appear able to homicide him.

As a substitute, one among them flings him a present — Raphael’s 282-year-old flintlock pistol.

“Take it,” the Predator growls to an astounded Harrigan.

On the very least, this proves that the Predators took again this gun sooner or later within the intervening years. They may have killed Naru (for the reason that credit picture suggests they attacked her once more), allied together with her (people are accepted by Predators within the Alien vs. Predator comics and the 2004 film) or simply retrieved it after she died.

Prey apparently overwrites the occasions of the 1996 comedian Predator: 1718, wherein one of many aliens groups up with a pirate captain to battle his mutinous crew. The film’s Raphael, the one one of many French poachers who does not act like a complete dirtbag, is presumably the one whose title is engraved on the weapon.

The Alien vs. Predator comics had been initially revealed by Darkish Horse, however the license transferred to Marvel within the wake of father or mother firm Disney nabbing the Alien and Predator rights after its 2019 Fox acquisition. They don’t seem to be at present obtainable to learn digitally, however Marvel would possibly rerelease them prefer it did with Darkish Horse’s Star Wars comics.