Predator Fans Mixed on Return of Dutch and Harrigan in Killer of Killers: ‘Harrigan and Dutch Had Good Endings. Zero Reason This Needed to Be Done’ | SDCC 2025

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Dutch is backmost successful the satellite of Predator via an extended mentation of animated movie Killer of Killers — and it’s sent fans of the long-running sci-fi franchise down a lore rabbit spread that calls into question the endings of the archetypal movies and what was thought to beryllium a canon Predator video game.

This week astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2025, existent Predator custodian Dan Trachtenberg announced a astonishment extended mentation of Killer of Killers that shows Dutch from the archetypal Predator and Danny Glover's Mike Harrigan from Predator 2 captured and frozen by the Yautja. Trachtenberg said during a sheet astatine Comic-Con that Schwarzenegger had fixed his blessing to usage Dutch successful aboriginal stories, leaving the doorway unfastened to a Killer of Killers follow-up that would spot Dutch and co revived and pitted against a Predator erstwhile again.

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The extended mentation of Killer of Killers is retired now, truthful fans are already analyzing it to wrong an inch of its life. Reaction appears to beryllium mixed. While immoderate are excited astir the iconic characters' return, immoderate are disappointed with the thought that the Yautja kidnap victorious humans successful the archetypal place. Let’s retrieve the iconic country astatine the extremity of Predator 2 wherever an elder Yautja rewards Harrigan with an antique flintlock pistol arsenic a trophy. The proposition present is Harrigan was aboriginal kidnapped and enactment successful stasis, which immoderate judge devalues the quality victories seen successful erstwhile Predator movies.

“It conscionable feels similar crap knowing your favourite quality survivors are conscionable going to beryllium kidnapped and astir apt killed successful an arena by different quality oregon by the Warlord,” said redditor Vector_Mortis.

“Why would the Yautja congratulate Harrigan, springiness him the pistol, and permission conscionable to travel back, instrumentality the pistol, and kidnap him?” wondered Slow_Obligation2286.

“I'm not a instrumentality of this astatine all,” added Hanesman12. “Harrigan and Dutch had bully endings. Zero crushed this needed to beryllium done. Purely nostalgia bait.”

“This removes everything we antecedently knew astir Dutch and Harrigan’s timelines aft the movies,” said Originalname888. “This removes the grant code. This removes everything.”

Fans are present latching onto a imaginable mentation for what is going connected here: that the full kidnap quality survivors happening is the enactment of the Yautja people we spot successful Killer of Killers, which does not correspond the Yautja arsenic a whole. Perhaps this peculiar people has gone rogue and volition yet beryllium enactment successful its place. On that we’ll person to hold and see, but what is irrefutable is that it is present canon that Dutch and Harrigan were kidnapped soon aft the events of their movies and stay successful stasis astatine this undetermined constituent successful the future.

But there’s an further tricky Predator lore question that revolves astir Dutch. 2020’s Predator: Hunting Grounds, developed by IllFonic, features Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his relation arsenic Dutch. In the tally up to the game’s release, the developers talked astir moving with radical astatine erstwhile rights holder Fox (this is earlier Disney bought the institution and its franchises) to cement Hunting Grounds’ spot wrong the authoritative Predator lore.

This was breathtaking for fans arsenic it meant Hunting Grounds officially revealed what happened to Dutch aft the events of the archetypal Predator movie — and determination was nary notation of being kidnapped by Yautja. Indeed, Hunting Grounds shows an older Dutch successful the twelvemonth 2025.

So, is Hunting Grounds nary longer canon? Is Trachtenberg ignoring it? Is determination different explanation? These are conscionable immoderate of the questions fans are trying to reply successful the aftermath of Dutch’s instrumentality successful Killer of Killers.

Whatever Trachtenberg’s maestro plan, determination remains immense involvement successful the upcoming Predator: Badlands, the archetypal 15 minutes of which were shown astatine Comic-Con. The Alien franchise links are clear, but volition determination beryllium an AVP movie afterwards? We’ll person to hold and see.

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