Factual error: In the air battle with the Predator vs the World War 2 planes, Torres figures out the alien is tracking their heat. When he and the other pilot climb high to cool the engines, Torres cuts off his while the other pilot keeps his on. In the Predator's perspective, as soon as Torres kills his engine, the ship disappears from his heat vision. That's not how heat works. It's not just a light switch you can turn on and off. It would take time for the plane to slowly cool off and be invisible. (00:55:15)
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
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Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg, Joshua Wassung
Starring: Michael Biehn, Rick Gonzalez, Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa
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I watched this movie on Hulu.
As the first animated full feature film set in the Predator franchise, this was a great first step.
This movie mostly follows the story of 3 different protagonist and their story fighting and defeating a Predator in their historical time period on earth, then all 3 of them frozen and kept in cryo sleep till some undisclosed point in the future or modern time to be pit against each other and then fight a sort of king Predator like figure.
The first is a Viking woman back in that time on a revenge mission against the man who made her kill her own father while bringing her son along. She is a fun, macho Viking woman and a real hoot. Brings real life to the movie and is a believable bad ass warrior woman. Almost Vikings Grandma vibes.
The second is in ancient Japan with the story of a ninja going against a samurai and their fight interrupted by a Predator and they team up to take it down, one surviving. And fun fact, the ninja guy is voiced by the same actor who played Hanzo in 2010's Predators movie. He's an awesome character and you can't go wrong with an awesome ninja doing bad ass stuff and fighting and alien.
The third one is where it calls short. Set in WW2, it follows a young guy who is a amateur mechanic and rookie fighter pilot just trying his best.
However he is fairly annoying in the movie and talks to himself constantly, and he practically Har Jar Binks his way through the plot with just dumb luck or contrived BS getting him through.
(Also this part of the movie shows the guys making this have a fundamental misunderstanding of how heat and heat vision works)
The 4th part with them together at the end is pretty fun, and once again Viking Grandma and Ninja guy are stand outs. However the pilot kid is still really annoying but he servers his part in the story.
Over all we well done and enjoyable movie and I look forward to where they go from here.
Mistake Status: May do the whole Predator franchise for mistakes at some point, so will for sure revisit this when I do that. For now just caught a few in my first watch.
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Question: In the World War 2 segment of this film, a Predator pilot starts having aerial dogfights with a bunch of WW2 fighter planes. There's no subtlety about it at all, and it shoots down several and even chases the main hero through an active battlefield. Is this not very out of character for a Predator to make such a public display like that?
Answer: Yes, the way we are used to seeing the Predators portrayed, this is very much out of character. We are used to seeing them as stalky hunters lurking unseen. However, this scene could have been added as a cool dramatic effect. Or the Predators have other ways of earning their "badges," i.e., aerial battles like this.
Indeed, but would this be considered a mistake as it's very lore-breaking with how a Predator would behave? And considering it's WWII era, and set in the same continuity as the other films, it should have been something documented or mentioned in later stories. Especially Predator 2 when Peter Keyes is talking about their activity he's been tracking. And we know from the newly altered ending to the film that Predator 1 and 2 are both canon in this timeline with Arnie and Danny Glover.
Answer: At best, it's a cool trivia. As a mistake, it's very thin, considering we don't know if it could be documented at all. For all we know, this was a city or area laid to ruins with no survivors, either by bombs or the Predators (as we know, they like to clean up their mess with MOABs). It's all just speculation. But I understand what you are thinking, and personally, I didn't enjoy that scene.
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