The Predator's New Mask In Prey Is More Important Than You Realize
The Predator's new mask in the upcoming Prey could have great significance for the extraterrestrial hunter. As the fifth installment of the Predator franchise, Prey will show the titular alien up to its old human hunting tricks once more. This time, the Predator franchise will leave the modern setting it has typically taken place in for the year 1719, with other new elements also at work.
In Prey, the Predator hunts the Comanche tribe, with a young woman named Naru (Amber Midthunder) stepping up to face her people's adversary. While the trailer significantly obscures the Predator, either through rapid flashes of its appearance or its famed invisibility cloak, the creature is shown just enough to see that its design is quite different from past Predator movies. The Predator's mask is a particularly noticeable re-invention, and in addition to the apparent absence of the Predator's plasma canon, this could indicate some new details about the specific Predator appearing in Prey.
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In the previous Predator movies, the Predator's mask has more of a sci-fi look, with the mask being used as a tool to focus the Predator's infrared vision in its hunts on Earth. The mask seen in Prey, while likely still serving that same purpose, has what appears to be a skull of some kind adorned over it. This could hint that the Predator who will battle Naru and her people in Prey might have different practices in its career as a hunter, and might also be of a different subset of Predators.
As seen in the Predator franchise, the skulls and weapons of various vanquished species are the prizes that the alien race treasures most as hunters. Predator 2 really emphasized the
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