Warning: This article contains spoilers forPrey.
Having proved itself a worthyPredator prequel film, the Prey ending wraps the movie and its major themes up nicely, while also establishing where it sits in the grander franchise. Prey has a number of themes that run throughout the film, chief among them being that people should follow their calling, regardless of what tradition may dictate. These themes tie in nicely to the greater Predator franchise, which Prey references even as it sets up to continue its own path via a potential sequel.
Starring Amber Midthunder as Naru, the Prey setting places the characters in 1719 North America, in a story that may well be the first-ever expedition of the Predator race on Earth. Naru is a Comanche who feels the call to being a hunter within her tribe, but is hindered by the traditional role she's meant to take. Naru's brother, Taabe (Dakota Beavers), believes in his sister, even as he doubts her resolve to become a warrior. When the Predator arrives and begins killing the creatures of the land, including humans, Naru is the only one to suspect it to be the work of something they haven't seen before, which sets her on the path to discover and destroy it.
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As the Predator in Prey is slowly revealed, taking on the likes of snakes, wolves, bears, Comanche warriors, French trappers — and, ultimately, Naru — it becomes evident that a balance is beginning to shift between predator and prey. Midthunder's Naru reveals herself to be the smartest of her fellow warriors, as she studies her adversary in a way that the Predator in Prey studies its own targets. Naru completes her rite of passage in becoming a warrior for her
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