Female Predator in Badlands?

[Xenomorph Nerd]

I greatly prefer the Predator to remain a terrifying monster, heartless toward humans and something to fear, rather than having it transform into some kind of sci-fi superhero battling 'baddies' and Xenomorphs for the greater good of humanity...

[skhellter]

it's a species, with probably billions of individuals. If people want to actually treat this universe seriously (within reason) for actual scifi storytelling then having a slightly """heroic""" pred every now and then is essential for them to have different characters and cultural diversity. Stuff like this makes the universe feel more alive. It doesn't mean every one of them is going to be heroic from this moment on either.
There will always be room for standard slasher-like evil pred shenanigans.

fully open to a solid space-conan pred. Lots of ways that can be done right. (lots of ways it can be done wrong too).

Dan already proved himself and he has a vision for something different.. ok. let's see it.

If Dan was already somewhat inspired by Mad Max 2 for Prey then maybe this is a Pred equivalent of Max.. loner weirdo who doesn't talk much and doesn't want to get involved in anything but is swept by a dangerous local event and has to be a reluctant "hero" if he wants to survive.

[BigDaddyJohn]

Nothing wrong with a predator acting differently depending on the context of a different situation. But it depends a lot on execution in the end.

[Xenomorph Nerd]

I am not necessarily against the Predator being the protagonist, but I am against this Predator becoming some sort of action hero in the franchise. I don't really want any 'good guy' Predators. A morally ambiguous Predator that helps out the humans in some way can certainly be done right, but I just hope the franchise won't devolve into something like them becoming a superhero protagonist of sorts.

When an AvP happens, I would be greatly disappointed if we get another team-up scenario where the humans and Predators are duking it out against the Xenomorphs. It would be way more intriguing if both the Predators and the Xenomorphs posed an equal threat to the main characters.

[BigDaddyJohn]

A predator that's a full on protagonist is very risky IMO, but apparently a fair amount of people seem to want that.

It could open a box that may not be easy to close afterwards.

[The Cruentus]

I'm not sure if I would be comfortable with it as a protagonist either, since the Predator is essentially a movie monster, I don't want to be able to sympathise with it. I don't mind understanding them but some things should just be left as they are. Look how learning about the Space Jockies turned out for the fandom 

That being said, protagonist does not mean good guy or hero, its just someone or something the story follows. So they could keep it as brutal as the others.

[Xenomorph Nerd]

There's also a difference between it becoming some sort of superhero and it being a ''protagonist''. I don't want the Predator to be an alien hero that is defending humanity, like superman, lol. 

[BigDaddyJohn]

That being said, protagonist does not mean good guy or hero, its just someone or something the story follows. So they could keep it as brutal as the others.

I'm sure it will be brutal at least.

[aliens13]

I'm not sure if I would be comfortable with it as a protagonist either, since the Predator is essentially a movie monster, I don't want to be able to sympathise with it. I don't mind understanding them but some things should just be left as they are. Look how learning about the Space Jockies turned out for the fandom 

That being said, protagonist does not mean good guy or hero, its just someone or something the story follows. So they could keep it as brutal as the others.

For example, Walter White it's the protagonist of Breaking Bad and it's not actually the "good guy"

[The Cruentus]

Yep, Protagonist does not mean good guy. Same with antagonist too, they could be good guys, not villians. Its just who the story follows and who obstructs who.

[BigDaddyJohn]

As long as there is no predator raising humans stuff, I will probably be fine.

[aliens13]

Yep, Protagonist does not mean good guy. Same with antagonist too, they could be good guys, not villians. Its just who the story follows and who obstructs who.

Following the example of BB, Hank it's a good guy but he is the antagonist

[Mr.Turok]

I don't think that the Predator will be out there stopping crime and walking old grannies out there on the streets, rather it will simply handle things worse than it. I look at Scarface's story as reference. While he would normally be an antagonist to humans, him taking down Borgia Industries was a net benefit good to the corrupt city of Neonopils, despite his goal being a mostly self-driven goal. Keeping crime artificially high, black arms deals based on alien tech sold to war torn countries, crimes against humanity in their experiments, ect. Morally grey vs grey-dark or black is the perfect spectrum.

[BigDaddyJohn]

Scarface was great but again, different media. Harder to portray the same thing on screen.

[The Cruentus]

It can be hard to translate somethings to the big screen.

For the most part, scarface was brutal and would be considered an antagonist if he was doing his thing to others and the perspectives swtiched.

I say others because most of what Scarface goes up against in the game are pretty much corrupted corps and murderous gangsters.

Its been a long time since I played the game so I can't recall if there was an instance where you have to kill an armed but otherwise morally good people" (outside of the self destruct bomb of course)

A predator's code is whether someone is armed or not, it really doesn't care if its a cop or gangster, human morality doesn't apply to it.