Predators/Characters

The cast of Predators, in order of appearance:

Royce
"Played By: Adrien Brody

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man. And those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.""

A mercenary dropped in the game preserve. Cold and ruthless, he slowly and relunctantly emerges as the leader of the group.


 * Anti-Hero: Type V.
 * Awesome By Analysis: He makes judicious use of the Sherlock Scan and Batman Gambit.
 * Badass
 * Blood Knight: He loves to kill and has no moral qualms about it.
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Cultured Badass: With the Hemingway quotes to prove it.
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy
 * Dyeing for Your Art: Brody packed on quite a bit of muscle to play Royce.
 * Lightning Bruiser: A heavily muscled guy with a big gun, (although definitely not a BFG) he is still impressively quick, as he showcases when one of his teammates tries to backstab him.
 * Made of Iron
 * Noble Demon
 * Pet the Dog: Goes all out to save Isabelle from a pit trap early in the movie, one of the early signs that he's not entirely heartless.
 * Private Military Contractor: He plays all the negative stereotypes straight, though Isabelle also pegs him as former special forces.
 * Shirtless Scene: Serves up double-barreled Fan Service by showing off Brody's astonishing abdominals and giving an unsubtle Homage to the first movie.
 * Shotguns Are Just Better: His weapon of choice is a combat shotgun.
 * The Unfettered: Royce takes everything thrown at him in his stride, recognising quickly that they were abducted by an enemy force who wish to hunt them. When it revealed that they are on an alien planet, his immediate reaction is instead of utter shock, to try to figure out where the ships that brought them and contained their hunters landed.
 * The Unfettered: Royce takes everything thrown at him in his stride, recognising quickly that they were abducted by an enemy force who wish to hunt them. When it revealed that they are on an alien planet, his immediate reaction is instead of utter shock, to try to figure out where the ships that brought them and contained their hunters landed.

Cuchillo
""Does this look like a team orientated group of individuals to you?"

Played By: Danny Trejo"

A Mexican enforcer for the Los Zetas drug cartel.

"When I kill someone, it's for the payoff, the big money. You do it just 'cause."
 * Adam Westing: Danny Trejo plays a gunslinging, scenery chewing, Mexican gangster named after a sharp implement.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Reacts this way to Stans in a deleted scene.


 * Gang-Bangers: Identified by Royce as an enforcer for the Zetas Cartel.
 * Guns Akimbo
 * Only in It For The Money
 * Rogue Agent: Possibly. The Zetas were initially founded by Special Forces deserters from the Mexican Army.
 * Straw Misogynist: In the deleted scenes.

Nikolai Fedorov
""Ну и рожа у тебя!"

Played By: Oleg Taktarov"

A Russian Spetsnaz agent. Tough and courageous with a family back home, he's one of the more co-operative members of the misfit team.


 * Badass
 * BFG
 * The Big Guy: Class 2.
 * Bruiser With a Soft Center: He's the only one to introduce himself and offer a handshake like a normal person, and he also treasures his...
 * Fatal Family Photo: Oh Nikolai. If only he'd seen TV Tropes, he'd know not to proudly pass around a photo of his kids in a combat zone.
 * Gatling Good
 * Genre Blind: By this point, shouldn't everyone know about the family picture cliche?
 * Husky Russkie
 * Odd Friendship: With Edwin.
 * Odd Friendship: With Edwin.

Isabelle
""We're the monsters of our own world. It's probably better that we're never going back."

Played By: Alice Braga"

A sniper for the Israeli Defense Force. Suffering from Survivors Guilt, she takes it upon herself to keep the team's moral compass pointed in the right direction.


 * Action Girl
 * The Atoner: The reason she's so nice is Survivors Guilt.
 * Badass Israeli: Royce identifies her as IDF.
 * The Chick: She's the most compassionate by quite a wide margin.
 * Friendly Sniper
 * Hot Amazon: She's tough as nails, and the guys explicitly find her attractive for it.
 * Morality Pet: Isabelle's faith in Royce is the only external sign the audience gets that he's not an irredeemable prick.
 * Small Girl, Big Gun: Though not of cartoonish proportions, it's a long-barreled, high-caliber sniper rifle, and she's rather petite.
 * Survivors Guilt: She is haunted by the loss of her spotter, who was killed in action shortly before she was kidnapped by the Predators.
 * Token Good Teammate: Only Nikolai comes close to being as unambiguously good as she is.
 * Token Good Teammate: Only Nikolai comes close to being as unambiguously good as she is.

Walter Stans
""Who do you think you're dealing with, hoss?"

Played By: Walton Goggins"

A Death Row inmate responsible for killing 38 people. Played by Walton Goggins.

"Royce: I needed to know who we're up against. Now I do.
 * Ax Crazy
 * Badass
 * The Berserker
 * Blood Knight: Why was he attacking Mombasa in their intro scene? For the Evulz, apparently.
 * Brother-Sister Incest: Pretty strongly implied, considering his tattoo.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Even Evil Has Standards
 * Evilly Affable
 * For the Evulz: His reason for killing 38 people? "Well my lawyer said I was crazy, but you want to know the real reason; why the fuck not?"
 * Knife Nut: He complains about all the others getting guns when he only has a knife, but like the others he has been equipped with his most proficient weapon.
 * Laughably Evil
 * Pet the Dog: Even as the  Token Evil Teammate, he gets a few of these to avoid Complete Monster status: his What the Hell, Hero? to Royce, for one--and, of course, the
 * Sociopathic Hero
 * Token Evil Teammate: There are quite a few people on this team that would probably qualify as evil or close enough to count, but he's probably the most evil and deranged. He provokes Even Evil Has Standards from multiple characters.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Of all people, he joins Isabelle in directing a minor one at Royce after Mombassa's death.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Of all people, he joins Isabelle in directing a minor one at Royce after Mombassa's death.

Stans: A man is dead because of that.

Royce: This morning you were ready to kill him.

Stans: Well it ain't this goddamn morning, is it?"

Mombasa
""I am ready to die. [Beat] Are you?"

Played By: Mahershalalhashbaz Ali"

An RUF member and a Sierra Leone Death Squad officer.


 * The Atoner: Maybe.
 * Badass
 * Black Dude Dies Second
 * Not Afraid to Die: See quote, if you are uncertain.
 * Knight Templar
 * Scary Black Man: Big, check. Black, check. RUF Death Squad Member, check.
 * The Stoic
 * The Stoic

Edwin
""Can someone please just tell me, uh, what the fuck is going on here?"

Played By: Topher Grace"

A doctor with no combat background.


 * Action Survivor: He's the only one who makes no active contribution to the firefights.
 * Combat Medic: It's the teams' only explanation for why he is there at all.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Kick the Dog:
 * Non-Action Guy: He mostly gets through combat by ducking behind Isabelle or Nikolai.
 * One of These Is Not Like the Others: It's a team of soldiers, mercenaries, murderers...and a doctor.
 * The Smart Guy: He can identify plant life, and knows their toxic properties.
 * One of These Is Not Like the Others: It's a team of soldiers, mercenaries, murderers...and a doctor.
 * The Smart Guy: He can identify plant life, and knows their toxic properties.
 * The Smart Guy: He can identify plant life, and knows their toxic properties.

Hanzo
""...I talk too much."

Played By: Louis Ozawa Changchien"

A silent member of the Yakuza.


 * Badass Beard: He sports a close-shorn stubble that is almost painfully stylish.
 * Badass in A Nice Suit: As any self-respecting mob enforcer should be.
 * Bald of Awesome
 * Deadpan Snarker: He manages to be this with only one line.
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * The Quiet One/The Silent Bob: His only lines of dialog are to note how long the Predators must have been doing this when he finds a katana, and to indirectly explain why he doesn't talk more.
 * Sharp-Dressed Man: Complete with a Waistcoat of Style!
 * Shirtless Scene: He does a Battle Strip before taking on a Predator.
 * Yakuza: So naturally he has the trademark tattoos, a suit that is straight pimpin' by any objective standard, and three fingers on one hand. Eventually, he even acquires a katana.
 * Yubitsume

Classic Predator
""RRRRAAAAARRGGGGHHHHH!"

Played By: Brian Steele"

One of the traditional Predators, he's found trussed up by the larger Predators.


 * Badass in Distress: He's first introduced chained to a pillar in the enemy Predator camp.
 * Blood Knight: Natch, since all the Predators are, canonically.
 * Blue and Orange Morality: The Predators live by a strict moral code; that code happens to endorse hunting, killing and taking trophies from human beings.
 * Enemy Mine: He loosely allies with the humans after being freed.
 * Honor Before Reason: Rather than try to escape, when he's freed he attacks the Berserker Predator. Head on.
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy: Again, canonically.

Berserker Predator
"Played By: Derek Mears"

Berserker is the leader of the Black Predators, who spend the entire film hunting the protagonists for sport. He decorates his mask with a trophy's jawbone.


 * Big Bad
 * Blue and Orange Morality: The Black Predators clearly do not share the Classic Predators strict code of behavior. It's possible their actions would in fact be frowned upon by their own culture, though that is not explicitly stated.
 * Combat Pragmatist: He accepts the Classic Predator's challenge to a fist-fight, but once Classic starts scoring some hits, Berserker resorts to using his plasma blaster.
 * Dramatic Unmask: The only one in the entire movie (at least from an actual Predator).
 * Obviously Evil: The eyes on his mask glow Hellish-Red, compared to the yellowish glow of all the other Predators. His red-stained dreadlocks don't help much either.
 * Unflinching Walk: When he detonates his own ship he just walks away casually without even looking back at the end results.

Ronald Noland
""I'm the one that got away. The one you don't fuck with."

Played By: Laurence Fishburne"

A veteran warrior who's survived in the game preserve for many seasons.


 * Badass: Sure, he may be focused on keeping a low profile rather than constantly fighting Predators, but he claims to have survived at least 7 hunting seasons on the world (or as his imaginary companion asserts, it's actually closer to 10). Either way, that's still pretty impressive.
 * Even more so when you consider it's implied that the conflict he was plucked from was Vietnam.
 * Crazy Survivalist
 * Dirty Coward
 * Imaginary Friend: Talks to one frequently.
 * Legacy Character
 * One-Scene Wonder
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran
 * One-Scene Wonder
 * Shell-Shocked Veteran