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Keyes
Keyes
CityHunter
City Hunter

Peter Keyes: How many times do I have to tell you? You don't know what you're dealing with... Ten years ago, one of his kind stalked and eliminated an elite Special Forces crew in Central America... That's right lieutenant. Other-world life-forms. Predator 2. 20th Century Fox. 1990. Movie.

The Yautja Encyclopedia is a comprehensive look at all facets of the AvP Multiverse.

Appearances

References
  • AvP Prey. Steve Perry and S. D. Perry. New York: Bantam, 1994. p 3. Print.
  • If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator'. AMC, 2001. Documentary.
  • Forever Midnight. John Shirley. DH, 2006. p 250. Print.
  • "The Predator Is Born." Stan Winston School. 23 May 2012. Web.
Yautja

Predators. Yautja. Hish-Qu-Ten. It matters not what their name is, because they are notorious for one thing: being hunters.

Stan Winston designed the Yautja after the first creature created for the film Predator proved "unsatisfactory." According to Winston, the Yautja's unique mandibles are due to James Cameron.

Films featuring them include:

In comic books, novels, and video games, the Yautja faced a variety of foes, including:

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Name

References
  • Predator. 20th Century Fox, 1987. Movie.
  • Predator 2. 20th Century Fox, 1990. Movie.
  • Predators - "Yautja Transformed". 20th Century Fox, 2010. Blu Ray/DVD.
  • Aliens vs. Predator. Peter Briggs. DH, 1991. Print.
  • Alien vs. Predator. 20th Century Fox, 2004. Movie.
  • Predator Concrete Jungle. Vivendi Universal Games, 2005. Computer software.
  • Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. 20th Century Fox, 2007. Movie.
  • The Predator, 20th Century Fox, 2018. Movie.
  • Predator: Incursion. Tim Lebbon, Sep 29 2015. p23. Print.

The species does not have a name in the film. It's referred to as the Predator throughout the film's credits and onscreen. The Yautja do not refer to themselves as "Predators". The word Yautja, when translated, means both "hunter" and "hunters".

The name Yautja was first used in AvP: Prey. The name has lately appeared in the Rage War Trilogy and is well-known among humans.

When Jungle Hunter hunted them in the jungles of Val Verde in 1987, Anna Gonsalves referred to them by a specific name:

Anna Gonsalves
Anna

When I was little, we found a man. He looked like... butchered. The old women in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things, strange things. El Diablo cazador de hombres. Only in the hottest years, this happens. And this year, it grows hot. We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... and sometimes much, much worse. El que hace trofeos de los hombres means the demon who makes trophies of men. Predator. 20th Century Fox, 1987. Movie.

The Hish-Qu-Ten (abbreviated as Hish) are the Yautja who appear in Predator: Forever Midnight. Their connection to prior versions is unknown.

The names Jungle Hunter (from Predator) and City Hunter (Predator 2) came from their hunting areas. These names were officially introduced in Predator: Concrete Jungle.

In Alien vs. Predator, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and Predators, each Yautja had a unique name.

Isabelle referred to the Yautja as "Predators" in 2008:

isabelle
Isabelle

Isabelle: It’s because we are predators, Royce. Just like them. Predators. 20th Century Fox, 2010. Movie.

In the documentary Yautja Transformed, the term is used for the first time as a section title. However, it is not mentioned in any text or spoken commentary on the entire disc.

Will Traeger gave them the nickname "Predator" in 2018:

Traeger
Traeger
bracket
Casey
[In a lab filled with lab workers, the Yautja laid on an examination table]

Casey Bracket: Why do you call it "the Predator"?

Will Traeger: It's a nickname. You know, the data suggests that it tracks its prey, exploits weaknesses. Seems to- well, enjoy it. Like a game.

Casey: That's not a predator, that's a sports hunter.

Traeger: Sorry?

Casey: A predator kills its prey to survive. I mean, what you're describing is more like a bass fisherman.

Traeger: Well, we took a vote. Predator's cooler, right?
[Rest of lab agrees] The Predator, 20th Century Fox, 2018. Movie.

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Name Pronunciation - Ya-OOT-ja

References
If It Bleeds
  • Predator: If It Bleeds - "May Blood Pave My Way Home". Weston Ochse, Titan Books, p107. 2017. Print.

Weston Ochse describes how this particular tribe of Yautja pronounces its name. In "May Blood Pave My Way Home", a unit of African-American cavalry soldiers pursuing Pancho Villa and his rebels through Mexico discovers that the Comanche tribe has allied with the Yautja.

poncho
Pancho

The warrior's head turned slightly as if he were regarding a new thing. Then he said in an accent [Lt] Pope didn't recognize, We are Yautja, pronouncing the word like Ya-OOT-ja. We fight with Comanches. Predator: If It Bleeds, p107.

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About This Site

References
  • Alien3. 20th Century Fox, 1992. Movie.
  • AvP Capcom Arcade. 1994 arcade game.
  • Alien vs. Predator. 20th Century Fox, 2004. Movie.
  • Prometheus. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2012. Movie.
  • Aliens: Infestation. Nintendo DS. September 29, 2011. Game.
  • Aliens: Colonial Marines. Sega, February 11, 2013. Game.
Multiverse

Based on the expanding AVP Universe, this site is written, whenever possible, as if it were fact, not fiction—like the Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual, the Star Wars Essential Guide, the Marvel Universe Handbooks, and the DC Who's Who series. Here, no information about artists, writers, or soundtracks (for example), is provided. Real-life entries are not included except for those that pertain to the AvP universe specifically.

On this website are entries about characters, events, locations, weapons, equipment, vehicles, and more related to AvP's universe-fromthe films and novelizations, to video games, to comics and more. Except for the history section, each section or entry should contain a reference table that indicates the movie, novel, comic, or game reference. There is a list of titles in the Titles section, broken down by the various titles.

It includes information from all sources, even when it contradicts information from other sources, because these contradictions arise throughout all sources, even within the cinematic universe. In the absence of facts, some conjecture is used.

In some cases, the release date of the movie is actually when the movie takes place. When a film contradicts a reference, the film takes precedence over the reference. The actors determine characters' ages and bio data (height, hair colour, first name, country of birth, etc.) unless otherwise specified in the original source material.

charles weyland
Charles W
peter weyland
Peter W

Contradictions are noted when possible. To illustrate:

At the time of the development of the Weyland Industries Timeline webpage, the movie was set in 2083 (per Damon Lindelof's Paradise script), not 2093. To accommodate the film, the dates have been pushed forward by more than a decade. Most have been left unchanged.

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(Mainly Alien) Canon

  • Defining Canon in an Alien World. Andrew EC Gaska, Oct 12, 2020. Roguereviewer. Web.
  • “Canon (Fiction).” Wikipedia, 18 June 2021, Web.
  • Refer to the Multiverse article.

The Alien, Predator, and AVP franchises are three separate universes.

The following is the canon hierarchy used on this site:

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These fonts are based on those used in the movies.

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