Poll
Question:
Predators and regrowing limbs, yay or nay?
Option 1: Yay
votes: 7
Option 2: Nay
votes: 29
So the other day I was playing around with the idea of how it would be possible for some Predators to regrow limbs. I was thinking it could be a very rare gene in their blood. Like only 10 or so among thousands have the ability. And within their society those who can are considered blessed by their gods. Is it an ability you think would be neat? Or would it make an already powerful being over powered?
Nah. Just give them a limb made out of predtech if they need it.
Definitely a nay from me. I'd rather see them with some wicked prosthetics.
Quote from: The Shuriken on May 18, 2022, 09:56:00 PMSo the other day I was playing around with the idea of how it would be possible for some Predators to regrow limbs. I was thinking it could be a very rare gene in their blood. Like only 10 or so among thousands have the ability. And within their society those who can are considered blessed by their gods. Is it an ability you think would be neat? Or would it make an already powerful being over powered?
Rather no.
But it might be an interesting feature for aliens.
Well it's Scott's intent. At least in Covenant. I feel like it was also going to be a thing with the Alien's tail in the original but I can't remember 100% off-hand.
Quote from: Samhain13 on May 19, 2022, 12:17:33 AMNah. Just give them a limb made out of predtech if they need it.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 19, 2022, 07:36:26 AMDefinitely a nay from me. I'd rather see them with some wicked prosthetics.
Yep
Also, this thread would probably benefit from having a poll
Poll added.
The Alien was going to regrow a limb in Alien, yes.
Give Predators prosthetics, it fits their style more.
The Neighs have it.
(https://townsquare.media/site/341/files/2013/05/animalsthatsmile-tumblr.jpg?)
Nay, but voted "Yay" just to watch the world burn.
I don't think it suits them, but it wouldn't especially bother me either if it came up.
However, as presented in the OP, definitely not. Either they all can or none can (preferably none), but a rare recessive gene for regrowing whole limbs is... not how that works.
I'd be into them cloning limbs and replacement parts but not outright regrowing them.
Robotics fit the style more and with mutants seemingly being more recent I feel like they're more likely to have cyborgs walking around than anybody that can regrow a leg.
Regrowing is such an advanced scifi idea for our current time that it seems silly today. Even for an advanced species.
I'd say if they injured it around their tech, they could reattach it, or go prothesis if they couldn't.
Idk about limbs, seems like too much of a super power to me but something about a light healing factor that deals with deep cuts, lacerations, or gashes in a period of 3 days or so seems more reasonable. Seeing a form of tribal-high tech prosthetics would be a badass fresh design take on new Predator characters is a better alternative!
Quote from: Mr.Turok on May 23, 2022, 04:27:58 AMSeeing a form of tribal-high tech prosthetics would be a badass fresh design take on new Predator characters is a better alternative!
This is what I really want to see. I just want to see some f**ked up tribal take on a sword or something directly attached in place of an arm. Hell, I can totally see the Predators doing something like that without it even being a medical need.
Harpoon launcher arm, pls.
Well idk about going full Kenner figures with giant multibarrel rocket launchers but I've seen how 3D printing has done for prosthetic limbs and they look amazing. Something like that but in the Predator's aesthetic form. And since each clan has a distinct look, their takes on said prosthetic limbs would look awesome.
Weirdly I could almost see a general Grievous version of Predator where the hunts become so demanding they end up a cyborg. Like take everything to it's logical extreme.
A gross idea is that it's trophies could become gadgets. Like if it's deprived of vision, if the heads still fresh it can I guess link itself to the trophies eyes. It's not only ugly as sin but practical in an intergalactic slasher kind of way.
Nope. Once a limb is gone it should be gone. The consequence of a poor hunt.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 23, 2022, 08:31:03 AMQuote from: Mr.Turok on May 23, 2022, 04:27:58 AMSeeing a form of tribal-high tech prosthetics would be a badass fresh design take on new Predator characters is a better alternative!
This is what I really want to see. I just want to see some f**ked up tribal take on a sword or something directly attached in place of an arm. Hell, I can totally see the Predators doing something like that without it even being a medical need.
Quote from: [cancerblack] on May 24, 2022, 11:50:03 PMHarpoon launcher arm, pls.
Honestly, I'm shocked the series has been going this long and we haven't yet gotten, at the very least, a sort of grungy, Furiosa-esque prosthetic arm (with some sort of weapon attached) on a Predator.
(https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3dp_furiosaarm_movieprop.gif).
We at least got Hook in Thicker Than Blood!
Hook ?
Lasershot Predator has a robotic claw - he supposedly cut off his own arm.
Prosthetics pls
Quote from: Kradan on Aug 15, 2022, 01:16:15 PMHook ?
The main Predator who got dismembered.
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Hook
From a great graphic novel in my opinion, can not believe I forgot him.
Also, Yaquita from Rage War lost both legs and was moving around in a Predator wheelchair, although don't remember how it was described exactly.
*Mass Effect
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/603438127314632704/1011672614588125194/unknown.png)
Case solved
We're way overdue for a Predator film where we find out City Hunter is alive and with a mechanical forearm and a life support tech implanted in his chest
Tbh
Quote from: Omegamorph on Aug 23, 2022, 08:54:21 PMWe're way overdue for a Predator film where we find out City Hunter is alive and with a mechanical forearm and a life support tech implanted in his chest
Tbh
It's really a direction you'd think the comics would've done.
Quote from: Omegamorph on Aug 23, 2022, 08:54:21 PMWe're way overdue for a Predator film where we find out City Hunter is alive and with a mechanical forearm and a life support tech implanted in his chest
Tbh
Alternately, the severed forearm grew an entirely new body (which lacks higher motor functions), which plagues Los Angeles to this day with random killings, becoming something of an urban legend. The Demon of The Angels, El Demonio de Los Angeles.
Seriously though, no regrowing limbs.
Quote from: SuperiorIronman on Aug 23, 2022, 09:51:12 PMIt's really a direction you'd think the comics would've done.
I'd make it a cameo more like
well, interesting idea but...yeah its already in the xenos house.
regrowing arm in the novel of the first movie, after an airlock door cut it up from the creature.
and also used in the avp extinction game.
i think prosthetics for the preds are much cooler, because they have futuristic technics and stuff.
the predator is strong enough an he has to got some points of weakness too because otherwise it would be unbeleavable and boring.
i mean whats next ? wings ? magical powers ? hypnosis ?
the pred shouldn't be a superhero ;D and neither does the alien
Quote from: Neila on Aug 24, 2022, 07:43:17 PMhypnosis ?
Funny you should mention that one, actually...
Quote from: Neila on Aug 24, 2022, 07:43:17 PMthe pred shouldn't be a superhero ;D and neither does the alien
Agreed. What strengths they already have is enough.
Quote from: Neila on Aug 24, 2022, 07:43:17 PMwell, interesting idea but...yeah its already in the xenos house.
regrowing arm in the novel of the first movie, after an airlock door cut it up from the creature.
and also used in the avp extinction game.
i think prosthetics for the preds are much cooler, because they have futuristic technics and stuff.
the predator is strong enough an he has to got some points of weakness too because otherwise it would be unbeleavable and boring.
i mean whats next ? wings ? magical powers ? hypnosis ?
the pred shouldn't be a superhero ;D and neither does the alien
Being completely honest, I'd love to see a Predator with a Jetpack styled like the Vulture's wings. Maybe it doubles for wristblades IDK. You could call that movie Bird of
PREY.
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(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/other-artwork-___barbarian_yautja____by_wyv1-d4xu0kc.jpg)
No. They don't regrow limbs. If that was the case, they wouldn't have medical technology that literally make them cauterize wound to the point of it being crispy.
Also Falconer had metalic left arm. In my head canon this is exactly the mechanical prosthetic and reminder of earlier hunt.
He doesn't have a metallic arm, but he does have a metal glove that evokes a falconer's gear.
We don't see him ever remove it, so it might as well be a mechanical prosthetic, so the point stands. Also this is my head canon.
Quote from: Master on Aug 26, 2022, 08:41:43 PMNo. They don't regrow limbs. If that was the case, they wouldn't have medical technology that literally make them cauterize wound to the point of it being crispy.
Also Falconer had metalic left arm. In my head canon this is exactly the mechanical prosthetic and reminder of earlier hunt.
My initial post was about SOME Predators having this ability. A very super rare genetic trait. Not thr entire species.
I wouldn't mind a Predator with a cyborg arm in the middle of the dieselpunk-like-Nowhere. ;D
(https://s4.gifyu.com/images/ec669274c75c405bcaaefb56f052c49e.gif)
Quote from: The Shuriken on Aug 31, 2022, 07:28:51 PMQuote from: Master on Aug 26, 2022, 08:41:43 PMNo. They don't regrow limbs. If that was the case, they wouldn't have medical technology that literally make them cauterize wound to the point of it being crispy.
Also Falconer had metalic left arm. In my head canon this is exactly the mechanical prosthetic and reminder of earlier hunt.
My initial post was about SOME Predators having this ability. A very super rare genetic trait. Not thr entire species.
Nah, I don't like it anyway. It couldn't have been fitting for such monstrosity like Upgrade. For normal Predator they are already packed plenty.
Just to be on the safe side I'm going to spoiler tag this
Spoiler
I figure this probably goes in the things we didn't notice thread but this is more a franchise thing. Anyone else notice that 4 of the 5 solo films involve a Predator losing an arm? Jungle Hunter might very well be the only one to have a film where one doesn't. It just weird to think about. Like how an Alien always has to fall or get sucked into something a Predator has to lose an arm. Which means that by now we should go against the trope. An improvised prosthetic or something they'd have just in case given this seems to be a weirdly common problem for them.
I think it fits better if they have cool prosthetics, or stabbing weapons on a stump lol. Maybe they could have an autism injector attached and help make other species better.
Regrowing limbs from medical technology or, in the case of the 'Ultimate' Predator some weapons grade gene-splicing? Sure.
But 'ordinary' Yautja sprouting out new limbs? That seems a bit much in my opinion.
One can probably see that in light of cloning technologies in movies like the fourth Alien movie, and from there assume that Predators have even more advancec tech compared to that.
Quote from: SuperiorIronman on Sep 07, 2022, 12:57:52 PMJust to be on the safe side I'm going to spoiler tag this
Spoiler
I figure this probably goes in the things we didn't notice thread but this is more a franchise thing. Anyone else notice that 4 of the 5 solo films involve a Predator losing an arm? Jungle Hunter might very well be the only one to have a film where one doesn't. It just weird to think about. Like how an Alien always has to fall or get sucked into something a Predator has to lose an arm. Which means that by now we should go against the trope. An improvised prosthetic or something they'd have just in case given this seems to be a weirdly common problem for them.
Right, the arms...(https://emos.plurk.com/276e53253a398bd3f7634e43a11cefd4_w48_h48.gif)
Quote from: Ar-Druinn on Nov 15, 2022, 11:53:49 AMQuote from: SuperiorIronman on Sep 07, 2022, 12:57:52 PMJust to be on the safe side I'm going to spoiler tag this
Spoiler
I figure this probably goes in the things we didn't notice thread but this is more a franchise thing. Anyone else notice that 4 of the 5 solo films involve a Predator losing an arm? Jungle Hunter might very well be the only one to have a film where one doesn't. It just weird to think about. Like how an Alien always has to fall or get sucked into something a Predator has to lose an arm. Which means that by now we should go against the trope. An improvised prosthetic or something they'd have just in case given this seems to be a weirdly common problem for them.
Right, the arms...https://emos.plurk.com/276e53253a398bd3f7634e43a11cefd4_w48_h48.gif
When I first watched
Predator 2 and saw the 'salve' the City Hunter was putting on his stump, I actually thought he was putting it there because it was going to help grow his arm back, albeit eventually.
More than likely it was just to like, stop the bleeding and help the wound heal/close over, but I don't see why Yautja wouldn't figure out ways to grow back limbs. Again, the question is how much and is it a 'natural' ability or only able through their tech?
I could see a story where someone like Bionic is irritated he's left as a cyborg where someone better off was able to grow theirs body back. Maybe a lack of access to cloning equipment or in a post-The Predator universe the technology is off limits. Further someone like Assassin who is a guinea pig for these kinds of experiments, as inevitably you'll ask "can we make it better than the hand you lost". You could absolutely create a literal class warfare arc where hunters start to question their abilities/station and we see what deranged shit they get up to. As a side note for Bionic, he uses the female roar. You could play with that as perhaps Binoic was put back together in a way that was wrong. Whether Bionic was male and gained a female voice or was female and brought back male, there's a story in there about their sense of self as regardless Binoic's body very much no longer resembles the old one and feels disconnected from past victories as a result.