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Tracker, also known as Flusher^{[citation needed]} or Dog Handler,^{[citation needed]} was one of the Super Predators on the Game Preserve Planet. Tracker notably used Hell-Hounds to flush its prey out of hiding during a hunt. As well as an ongoing rivalry with the Jungle Hunter Clan, Tracker and his clan also abducted dangerous humans and other dangerous game to hunt on the planet for sport.

Tracker was killed by Nikolai, who sacrificed himself by detonating several Claymore mines attached to himself, obliterating the Super Predator with the blast.

Biography

The Hunt Begins

The Tracker, like his clan brothers, set up the season's game on the Game Preserve Planet. He was a powerful and skilled fighter. After locating the group of humans, he ordered his Hell-Hounds to attack them, in order to determine how they would react. While the group engaged Tracker's hounds, either a hound or one of the Super Predators proceeded to kill the human known as Cuchillo, and he was subsequently booby trapped, but this plot was unsuccessful. Once the humans entered their hunting camp and found a mainstream Yautja tied up, he along with his clan brothers attacked the group of humans. Mombasa was killed during the carnage. The Tracker and his clan-brother, the Berserker, opened fire on the retreating humans, but failed to injure or kill any of their prey.

The Last Prey

He later tracked Royce and his allies to Noland's hideout after the mercenary gave their position away. The Super Predator entered the hideout and killed the escapee, Noland, blasting the scavenger into pieces using his Plasmacaster. The Tracker toyed with his prey as the Humans were trapped in a room. The group got out and attempted to get away, but Edwin got lost in the darkness. Lighting a flare, he threw one that hit the cloaked Tracker, and as he walked slowly towards Edwin, Nikolai came and saved the doctor by shooting the Tracker. Angered, he caught up to them as they ran, shot Nikolai from behind with his Plasmacaster, and de-cloaked, slowly walking towards the wounded soldier as he tried to crawl away. The Super Predator impaled Nikolai in the chest and held him up with his Wristblade while Edwin escaped. However, the Tracker's hunt came to an end when Nikolai pulled out two of his claymore mines and said a Russian version of Dutch's quote, setting off the mines; the Tracker roared in absolute terror beneath his mask before the claymores exploded in his face, killing both him and Nikolai.

Personality and Traits

Tracker was seemingly an unsociable loner who preferred the company of his Hell-Hounds over other Yautja. He would personally train Predator Dogs in the art of flushing and tracking, believing that they were not used to their fullest potential in hunts.^[1] Tracker was rather brutal, blowing Noland apart with his Plasmacaster and later mortally wounding Nikolai when he attempted to escape, and he seemed to be sadistic as well, stabbing the downed Russian in the chest and holding him up to look at his face, but in his final moments, he appeared to show a fear of death, growling in audible horror under his mask when Nikolai detonated several claymores in the Yautja's face to kill them both.

Equipment

• Bio-helmet
• Plasmacaster
• Whistle device
• Scimitar

What sets Tracker Predator apart from his clan brothers, and the mainstream Predators seen in previous films, is his use of domesticated alien creatures in the form of Hell-hounds. Resembling a cross between a tiger and a wild boar, the Hell-hounds are extremely vicious and aggressive medium-sized quadrupedal animals capable of causing significant damage. Their function is similar to a Spaniel as they are used as means of "flushing out" quarry. Unless a vital organ is fatally injured, these creatures are extremely difficult to kill as one was shown still standing after being shot at multiple times by bullets from a M134 Minigun at point-blank range.

In order to communicate with the Hell-hounds, the Tracker Predator carries a whistle-like device. While it is never seen on film, it is heard, and it creates a very loud, high-pitched sound that the Hell-hounds have seemingly been conditioned to respond to immediately.

Like his clan brothers, the Tracker Predator is armed with a single, lengthy Wristblade that functions much like the twin-bladed Wristblades of the mainstream Predators. The blade is one of the largest seen in any Predator film, rivalled only in size by the elongated blades worn by the mainstream Predators in the first AVP. The material for the blade is extremely strong as the Tracker Predator used it to lift the Russian commando Nikolai off his feet. Though only the Berserker Predator was witnessed using it in such a way, it is presumed that the Wristblade worn by the Tracker Predator can also be fired as a weapon, most likely as a last resort use.

Along with the Berserker Predator, the Tracker Predator is also armed with one of the newer and sleeker Super Predator Plasmacasters. While the newer Plasmacasters still fire blue plasma bolts, the Plasmacaster mechanism itself is much different from the mainstream Predators and the sound effects are different as well. The new Plasmacaster is much smaller, sleeker, and resembles a minigun in design. The firing mechanism also twirls and rotates before a bolt is fired, indicating that the blast is charging and powering up. The longer the Predator charges the blast, the more damage the bolt inflicts. This was clearly demonstrated in the film, when the Tracker Predator took his time charging up his Plasmacaster before blasting Noland, blowing him to pieces. Yet when he quickly shot Nikolai in the back, the blast went clean through him, creating a small hole through his body.

List of Notable Victims

• Ronald Noland
• Nikolai Fedorov (indirectly)

Trivia

• Tracker was the first of the three Super Predators to be killed in Predators.
• Tracker appears in AVP: Evolution, but unlike in the film, the Predator's Plasmacaster is mounted on the right shoulder, not the left.
• Tracker also carries a Yautja Whip in the Predators mobile game.
• According to the making of Predators, the tusks on Tracker's mask are actually from Predator hounds.^{[citation needed]}

Appearances

• Predators/comic
  • Crucified
• Predators: A Predatory Life
• Predators (video game)

Gallery

Figures

References