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Warning : curb SPOILERS for vulture : The Last Hunt # 2!John Schaefer , the former brother of the originalPredator - killer , Dutch , has formally re - entered Predator canon - in the most badass way possible . While Dutch was the main character of 1987’sPredator , John would n’t enterPredatorcontinuity until the Dark Horse Comics seriesPredator : Concrete Jungle , followed by many other appearance in subsequent Dark HorsePredatorbooks . And now , John Schaefer has formally made his way into the new - establishedPredatorcanon under 20th Century Studios , and he ’s waste no clip remind fans how sincerely awesome he is .

In a trailer forPredator : The Last Hunt#2 by Ed Brisson and Francesco Manna , John Schaefer arouse from a cryogenic hibernation pod on board a Yautja spaceship . As he quickly learn , the ship doss , which caused a malfunction in the hibernation pod , allowing him to awaken untimely . minute after he recover consciousness , John find himself face - to - face with an injured Predator who ’s there to drink down him , though John savagely turns the tables on the alien grampus .

When the Predator pick out John alive in the hibernation pod chamber of the spaceship , it promptly direct its plasm shank straight off at John ’s head and flame . give that this is n’t his first rodeo fighting Predators , John knows what to expect , and promptly throws himself out of hurt ’s way . He then scrambles to piece up a Yautja lance that the Predator dropped follow its attack , before violently plunging the weapon into the Predator ’s chest , killing it instantly .

Arnold Schwarzenegger with John Schaefer and a Predator behind him.

John Schaefer , Dutch ’s brother from the original 1987 movie , is making his return to Predator canyon , and it seems like he ’s now on the Yautja ’s side !

John Schaefer’s First Kill Makes Him a Perfect Partner for the Ultimate Predator Killer: Theta

In the previous report arc , reader learn thatTheta had been track Predators all around the galaxy , looking for their homeworld . This conduct her to a hunt preserve planet where she finds a identification number of survivors - who had been nobble by Predators and kept in stasis for decennary - uncoerced to join her causal agency . And now , the leg is set for Theta and John to fall in forces and obliterate these planet - hop murderer for goodness . Unless John ’s personal mission gets in the way , that is .

John Schaefer is Currently on a Mission to Find His Missing Brother, Dutch

John was last seen searching for Dutch in Dark Horse Comics’Predator: Hunters IIIby Chris Warner and Brian Thies

John Schaefer ’s entire role in thePredatorseries is to ascertain Dutch , who went miss following the event of 1987’sPredator . John is convinced that the Predators took Dutch , and interestingly enough , John ’s tale arc fits in perfectly with the on-going plotline of twentieth Century Studios’Predatorseries , as Dutch may very well have been captured by the Predators , just like the people Theta write in the last spark . Not only that , but in his quest to recover his sidekick , it seems like John was fascinate by the Predators himself - until his escape in this prevue .

It seems like John and Theta ’s goals are the same , as Theta want to kill the Predators and gratis those they captured , while John want to find his buddy and kill any Predator that gets in his elbow room . However , the individual - mindedness of John ’s destination may actually put him at betting odds with Theta - something that ’s teased on the cover song of this prevue . But , no matter what the larger storyline holds for these characters , the one certainty is that Dutch ’s brother , John Schaefer , has formally re - enteredPredatorcanon - and he did so with an perfectly brutal first kill .

Predator : The Last Hunt # 2by twentieth Century Studios is available March 27 , 2024 .

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Predator : The Last Hunt # 2 ( 2024 )

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predator’s dutch in foreground, in the background his brother bathed in shadow

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Split image: Predator’s John Schaefer and Theta.

John Schaefer last appearance in Dark Horse Comics' Predator continuity.

Cover of Predator: The Last Hunt #2 featuring John Schaefer attacking Theta.

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