{"id":170859,"date":"2025-06-09T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170859\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:58:11","slug":"predator-killer-of-killers-naru-connection-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170859\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator Killer of Killers Naru Connection Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major spoilers ahead: The end credits of Prey<\/a> featured ledger art paintings that depicted Yautja vessels descending upon the Comanche tribe, signaling the story wasn\u2019t over. Original animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers<\/strong><\/a> continues that thread with imagery hinting toward the franchise\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

The anthology, now streaming on Hulu, features a triptych\u00a0depicting three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause.<\/p>\n

The self-contained stories eventually converge as the human warriors awaken from suspended animation and find themselves displaced by time on a strange new planet, held captive and forced to enter a gladitorial arena where they must fight each other to the death. The prize for survival? The winner must face a behemoth Warlord Predator to determine the ultimate Killer of Killers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Ursa\"<\/p>\n

A scene still from 20th Century Studios\u2019 PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. \u00a9 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

The trio of humans eventually learn to work together to escape their new fate, but tough-as-nails shield-maiden Ursa (Lindsay LaVanchy<\/strong>) sacrifices herself to aid the escape. But the Yautja have long been established as an extra-terrestrial species that honors a worthy opponent and places Ursa back in stasis instead of killing her. The anthology ends with Ursa getting placed back in their cryo storage alongside countless others that the Yauja have collected throughout time and space, with the final image of the film resting on another warrior in their possession: Naru (Amber Midthunder<\/strong>), the Comanche warrior who bested the Predator in Prey.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a startling sight in that it not only answers the questions Prey\u2018s closing credit imagery evoked but that it\u2019s not exactly the fate we\u2019d wish for the young Comanche warrior. Still, it means she\u2019s alive and poised to face the Predators again sometime in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Predator<\/p>\n

Naru\u2019s surprise appearance also highlights that Prey director and Predator: Killer of Killers co-director Dan Trachtenberg<\/strong> is playing the slow game when it comes to expanding the Predator franchise. The filmmaker also has Predator: Badlands<\/a> on the way this year, but this Killer of Killers cameo is laying the groundwork for what\u2019s beyond. Don\u2019t expect to see Naru pop up in Badlands; Trachtenberg has larger ambitions for her return, which he\u2019s keeping close to the vest.<\/p>\n

Trachtenberg tells Bloody Disgusting, \u201cThe fun is that now we have the end of Prey set up something, and then there\u2019s this, and I love the slow play of it all. I think is cool rather than smushing everything together inside one movie right away, we can really be elegant with our storytelling and hopefully aspire to that. So, it is not a setup for what\u2019s in Badlands, but it is a setup for what could happen afterward<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear the director is thinking many steps ahead, and that Naru factors into those plans if they come to pass. Naru\u2019s appearance in the Yautja cryo bay means that a sequel to Prey could take place anywhere, at any time. What are the Yautja up to with their collection of hunters? The possibilities are now endless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major spoilers ahead: The end credits of Prey featured ledger art paintings that depicted Yautja vessels descending upon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[71133,24622,77,30598,3943,24580,47117,35627,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amber-midthunder","9":"tag-dan-trachtenberg","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hulu","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-predator","14":"tag-predator-killer-of-killers","15":"tag-prey","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114654708038208932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}