Alien Vs Predator
It has been well established inAlien vs Predatorlore thatPredatorsaren’t just culturally bind to killXenomorphs , they genuinely love it and will fight for the chance to take one on – however , despite propagation of practice , there is one other foreign life form out there even better at killing Xenomorphs than the Yautja , andAvPunwittingly confirms it .
WhenAlien vs Predatorbecame its own franchise , it did n’t take the iconic characters and make a brand - newfangled canyon from scratch , but rather merged the pre - existing continuities of the separateAlienandPredatorfranchises , and moved forrad with an all - new story from there . This means that the histories within both serial stay intact upon the official crossover , including the very first extraterrestrial creature ever record in anAlienmovie : the Space Jockey . While after gain toAlienlore would explicate that this Space Jockey was actually a member of a species relate to as Engineers , the demonstrate canon within Dark Horse’sAliencomic series ( which is the same publisher responsible forAlien vs Predator ) provide a unlike explanation – one that is unwittingly linked to the first officialAvPcomic series .
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The Original Space Jockeys are Better Xenomorph Killers than Predators
InAliens vs Predator#4 by Randy Stradley and Chris Warner , the last remaining Predator bring together personnel with a group of homo during a Blooding Ritual that was take post on the off - world human settlement of Prosperity Wells . The Predators ( this one included)seeded the world with Xenomorph lifein order to trace them – as per their cultural customs . However , the Xenomorphs quickly became more than the Yautja could treat , go forth all but one dead while the Xenomorphs continued to reproduce and capture this supposedly arrogate world . so as to take their world back , the humans and their new Predator ally satisfy in a secure location to fall up with a game architectural plan on how to kill the Xenomorph horde . While expectoration - balling ideas , one survivor says that they should use a “ death ray ” to stop them – and while they do n’t have one , he ’s not ill-timed .
InAliens#5 by Mark Verheiden and Mark A. Nelson ( which is arrange after the event of the movieAlienswithin Dark Horse Comics ’ established canyon ) , Hicks and Newt are on a far - off satellite , surround by hordes of Xenomorphs , when suddenly , a Space Jockey shows up seemingly out of nowhere and kills every one of the Xenomorphs with a unmarried blast of a mysterious gun . Basically , this Space Jockey had on the button what the human survivor wished the Predator had inAliens vs Predator , andAliensproved that he was good to want this picky weapon . While an full squad of Predators could n’t take down a host of Xenomorphs – resulting in most ( and by the end , all ) of their death – a single Space Jockey annihilate just as many Xenomorphs without even trying while using the coveted ‘ demise irradiation ’ .
A character inAvPnaming the accurate weapon they take to defeat the Xenomorphs without intend to was either a subtle book of facts to an older , canonicalAlienstory or was a complete fortuity . Either way , he was right on the money as the Space Jockey used a ‘ destruction ray ’ to down an entire brood in a second – which proves two things : Space Jockeys are betterXenomorphkillers thanPredators , andAlien vs Predatoraccidentally confirmed it .
