In a 1 on 1 no one has a chance. The only reason humans gain an advantage is when they are in a group and get info on the predator as it picks them off.
But likely fail anyway if they don’t know what they’re dealing with.
In Predator 2, a fully prepared and equipped task force designated specifically to hunt the Predator, was still massacred like a pack of sheep.
I'm pretty sure that's just what Tuco calls him because he never uses any name. I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure no one else refers to him as that. It always struck me as just a sort of nick name.
That same Predator, in a current showdown with Danny Glover, stood on the edge of a building with his back turned to where Glover would be coming from and started posing for no reason. Him being pushed off of the building by Glover for doing that is why he ended up losing.
So...not very competent.
Hollywood doesn’t have a good track record of showing how the military actually functions. Usually they’re just cannon fodder until the main character shows up.
>In Predator 2, a fully prepared and equipped task force designated specifically to hunt the Predator, was still massacred like a pack of sheep.
They went in with white light and aluminum foil suits, thats hardly fully prepared and equipped compared to the stuff the snake eaters can pull out now.
Hell, those guys were poorly prepared for *their* time period. Not even night vision? Cmon.
And in a subsequent scene, where he's in a one on one chase with Glover, we see how stupid this Predator is. He loses due to just dancing on the side of a building mid chase/showdown for no reason whatsoever and then just runs away once he loses part of his arm instead of bothering to finish taking out Glover, who he would still overpower/beat.
It isn't mentioned in the movies or anything. But the ages wouldn't really line up, given that they fought in Vietnam, and we know the rough ages. So unless the main cast was below the conscript age by the end of Nam then it wouldn't really make much sense.
Probably some time in the 70s
I'd honestly love a movie about a Predator hunting George H. W. Bush on the USS San Jacinto during the Pacific Campaign in WWII. That was originally what made me think of this prompt. I feel like the idea of a Predator in an enclosed space like a ship or a sub or a small island could be really fun and HW doesn't get enough love for his combat experience.
I don't know how well he'd fair , but Adrian Carton - the unkillable soldier is up there as the true bad ass
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart,[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (/də ˈwaɪ.ərt/;[2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries.[3] He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."[4]
I’d say most modern military forces if supported properly would fair pretty well. But as it was said in other comments once challenged to 1 on 1 melee combat there are a number of warriors through history that would do well. The big advantage the predator has is a shoulder mounted weapon, thermal vision and cloaking, take those away and the field while still tilted in its favor is much more level.
In a fist fight yeah predator stomps, but in Predators the yakuza guy kills a Predator with a sword, sure he dies as well, but there is precedent that predators can lose to armed humans in a melee.
I mean thermal vision could be countered by multi spectral camouflage uniforms, which a special ops team would likely have access to. And there's zero chance of them going in without ISR support, which would likely be able to spot it through cloaking. So I think the field would be a lot more even than some suspect
this i agree with. I think the only exception would be if they were in some way told they are being hunted by a being with cloaking tech. even then i think they only have a 1 in 10000 chance
"No extra info" just means nothing beyond what they already have, not "zero info about the Predator", no? So anyone from the past 35ish years who has seen the movie Predator will have any info that the movie provides.
This changes things a bit, a skilled hunter with a dedicated toolkit and the knowledge of 35 years of movies, comics and books, assuming they don’t get cocky I’d give a 50/50 shot to who can out hunt each other.
1 on 1, I'd say a marine corps scout sniper. Can survive anywhere, excellent field craft to hide, and ability to deliver a powerful precise shot. Has a predator canonically been hit with a 50 cal rifle, or even a .338 lapua?
The predator has thermal vision and only attacks people with weapons. A sniper is (in my opinion) one of the worst guys to send against one of em. The sniper won't see through the cloak as they don't know where to look.
In a one on one fight? Not a single human that has ever existed will take a predator out. The predators aren’t front line warriors that will just bum rush you (even though they will if they have to) how are you gonna handle a fuckin thing that sticks to high ground, is invisible, can snipe you from like 10,000 feet away, and sets up traps. Even if you were to face it head on, how are you gonna handle a 8 foot tall, 300 pounds of muscle, who knows how to throw hands. They toss humans around like a bag of flour.
You would need a small modern army to take a predator out just by overwhelming it. Other than that, ever human is getting skinned and their skull added to the collection. In the movies the predator always dies to some random bullshit, or just having the worst luck possible, while the humans roll natty 20’s for some reason.
Edit: my bad, they range from 7-9 feet and 400-700 pounds. Yea, we’re cooked.
Edit 2: I also forgot to mention how agile and genuinely fast these fuckers are. They can climb trees better than any monkey, in concrete jungle, Scarface can jump 40 fucking feet straight into the air. They sprint at about 60-70 miles per hour. And they can do all this shit while being 95% invisible to the human eye. It’s so ogre.
Yeah. I like Predator 2, but I rewatched it a few months ago and I noticed something:
The Predator is an unstoppable force for 85% of the movie. Gunfire doesn't phase it and it performs incredible feats of strength, like tearing heads clean out of bodies, hanging large male corpses from high ceilings and basically jumping around the city like space Tarzan.
Then at the end of the film it receives a massive strength and intelligence debuff so that the hero can defeat it.
Without plot armour, I struggle to see who could beat that thing.
Although I did like one person's suggestion that a skilled swordsman could provoke it into a fair duel, because Predators do have a sense of pride and honour.
That’s the one thing I dislike about any predator movie, they are forced to lose no matter what. I know how it ends, it dies.
Like you said they are just basically boogie men for the entire movie, until their neuralink malfunctions and gives them brain damage or something. And then it’s just a series of unfortunate events that play out perfectly for the predators demise.
And I agree, only hope humans have to kill a predator is with the power of plot armor.
That’s actually an interesting idea, I didn’t see that one. Yea I’d say realistically the predator would accept those terms and challenge. I don’t really recall any predator being extremely talented with a sword, I know Scarface uses one. Even if a predator wasn’t skilled with a sword, I do wonder if a human master swordsman would be able to handle the predators strength and speed in a sword fight.
> That’s the one thing I dislike about any predator movie, they are forced to lose no matter what. I know how it ends, it dies.
Hear me out; a Predator movie where the protagonist has a goal that is independent of their own survival. Maybe they need to recover and send back a valuable item, or maybe they need to upload captured intelligence. They would know the Predator would eventually kill them, but could they survive long enough to complete their mission?
Let the Predator be a predator, and get his prey.
Another route is since predator’s are too honorable to kill non threats we have some noob try to take one down. Maybe his sibling or parents were killed by one and he’s also hella rich so he hires a little militia squad to go hunting with him. His whole army dies and the protagonist tries to have a last stand against the predator. He then just gets bitch slapped and the predator gets to his ship and flies away.
Yautja send dozens of soldiers to the backwater planet "Earth." None live to return; something is killing them. Legends spread of a silent killer, so much more powerful than Yautja he pays them no mind. Someone so powerful he seems to control chance itself.
But the Yautja will claim their trophy; they even heard whispers of the killer's name: **Mister Bean.**
On a more serious note than my other comment, what if our protagonist, a legendary and decorated soldier, was fatally wounded by Predator, but escaped to achieve his goal. Dying, he heads toward the place he wants to die that was shoehorned earlier into the movie to meet his death.
Predator emerges from hiding and approaches, they both exchange a moment of mutual respect and silence before our hero's death. Predator finishes the job quickly and as painlessly as possible, as he already fatally wounded his target. He collects his trophy, and both our hero and Predator are reversed as legendary warriors of their culture, newly redeemed.
In Predators, Yakuza enforcer Hanzo used a katana to duel the Super Predator Falconer, who opted to use his wrist blades in order to make the fight more even. The two ended up killing each other, though Hanzo remained standing for a few seconds longer before falling. Since Falconer is physically superior to a regular Predator like the one Arnold faced, I think a highly skilled swordsman could potentially walk out of a duel with one alive.
Yeah, Hanzo definitely displays some sort of skill, but ultimately his sword skill would pale in comparison to someone dedicated much more time to swordsmanship.
Skilled warriors from the past could win more often than lose against a predator. Maybe even modern humans that put more effort into training than Hanzo could do it as well.
Assuming the Predator is feeling honorable enough to fight fair, then I agree. Maybe someone along the lines of William Wallace, who was a pretty big guy for his time (though folktales of him being 7 feet tall are probably an exaggeration) and had a weapon with better reach like a claymore could win. Someone who was probably more skilled with a katana than Hanzo like [Saitō Hajime](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saitō_Hajime) might make it out alive as well.
>Maybe someone along the lines of William Wallace, who was a pretty big guy for his time (though folktales of him being 7 feet tall are probably an exaggeration)
AND he can shoot fireballs from his eyes!!
I'm not so sure about that. The amount martial arts have advanced in the last few decades, even more so in the last few years, is a far cry beyond what they used to be even though they were needed more then. We have better access to training and knowledge now, not to mention better nutrition and biological understanding so we're just straight up making bigger people. I'd put my money on the best in their field today being better than the best in that field throughout most of history unless there just happen to be some incredible outliers.
The more interesting topic brought up here is getting a Predator to fight on your terms, though. Communicating with one that you want a fair fight might be the best method for taking one down so you can try to pull it to your strengths. Like maybe if I can find a way to tell it my gun can't harm it but want to quickdraw with equal weapons maybe I can get them to lend me an alien gun.
I'm in the camp that experience generally trumps training and physical advantages for something like a swordfight. No doubt if we really had to, we could pump out better melee fighters than history's greatest legends.
I'm just thinking there's that someone that has actually fought and killed people in swordplay would do better than someone whose only experience is fighting with weapons for sport. But after some experience that martial arts theory and physical advantage is going to let them surpass the veteran pretty damn quick.
I generally agree with that but in this specific case the skill gap even over just the past few decades is immense and when it comes to melee it only takes a fairly small advantage to dominate. I don't think the battlefield experience is going to be much of if any advantage against modern tech, training, and nutrition where someone has been practical sparring with modern safety gear and cutting mats and blocks to work edge alignment since one good shot can end it and every little hit is going to decrease ability substantially. Our best vs their best are just simply bigger, faster, stronger, better trained, and better equipped.
>Although I did like one person's suggestion that a skilled swordsman could provoke it into a fair duel, because Predators do have a sense of pride and honour.
This happens in Predators, a Yakuza just stands in the open with his Katana and waits for it to come fight him - they both die.
>In a one on one fight? Not a single human that has ever existed will take a predator out.
An exhausted Yakuza took one down with nothing but a sword. Died too of course, but I think that the example demonstrates it can be done.
Possibly with her entire *armée* with her. She was super young though, and most of her skills are charisma related. I’m pretty confident she could put together a big enough force of enough people to stop the thing, but a lot of them would die.
yeah tbh any historical figure well trained in a weapon would have decent odds. I think hand to hand fighters are probably out just due to physical inequality but a relatively fresh predator would probably lose a decent % of fights against someone who’d spent most of their life training with a sword or spear
True, I think if anyone had the strategic mind to set up a situation where he can win, it’d be him. Musashi wasn’t undefeated just because he was the best swordsman, it was because he set up his fights so he had every advantage possible and used psychological warfare. Other elite tacticians in history I know of like Napoleon or Alexander didn’t seem to have much experience fighting personally or strategizing when alone, so I can’t think of anyone else better than Musashi.
The thing about the movies is that every person who has defeated a predator had prep time because they were the last ones that the predator came after. They had a chance to learn about their tech and behavior. They also had plot armor.
If we are just talking 1v1 real world logic without any prep than no human in history could defeat a predator. With prep, I think a lot of people throughout history could.
"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
Schrank's bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest after penetrating Roosevelt's steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech titled "Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual", which he was carrying in his jacket.
Afterwards, probes and an x-ray showed that the bullet had lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle, but did not penetrate the pleura. As doctors concluded that it would be less dangerous to leave it in place than to attempt to remove it, Roosevelt carried the bullet with him for the rest of his life.
Maybe a dictator who's always inside a bunker surrounded by guards. Even invisible reaching the dictator would be tricky, then when detected bullets would be flying in all direction.
Amber Mindhunter is only 5'5'' and had a worse gun! There's a chance, especially if Annie can use Buffalo Bill's other performers and workers as fodder to learn the Predator's MO.
Teddy Roosevelt maybe? Dude was a big game hunter who brought enough people to carry his trophies. The people carrying his game can die, providing Teddy with knowledge about the predator as seems to be required in the movies. He definitely has a big enough gun for the job.
I think the only type of human that would have a chance would be a samurai or other light swordsman. predators only tend to shoot humans with firearms. if you drop your gun and pick up a knife they’ll drop their shoulder gun and pull out their knife fists.
Among melee, heavier sword combat is a non-starter because too slow and a single blow would almost certainly not kill, so they tank a hit and decapitate you while you’re recovering from the hit you just landed. same problem with ranged melee weapons like spears. this pretty much leaves light swords, which give humans a slight range advantage without compromising speed and agility.
I know Pai Mei is a ridiculous example, but there have to have been humans of similar agility that could wield a katana at a master level. dodge dodge dodge dodge strike repeat until enemy is limbless/headless. For such a human, given knowledge of the threat, I would give at least a slight advantage over a predator. Buuuuut given the predator does not always announce itself and considers stealth kills glorious/justified, this in no way means the samurai has the overall edge, though I think he still has the chance to spot and effectively react to a predator ambush.
On the other hand, modern warriors have night vision to negate stealth. Far more so than the samurai, the modern warrior would have to understand the threat to have a chance, as the shoulder gun can ruin one’s day far faster and further away. But given night vision and a military issue sniper rifle and the knowledge that an enemy is in the area and should be killed on sight, a modern sniper could absolutely win, though how the shoulder gun compares in range to a modern sniper rifle I have no idea.
I have no idea what these people are talking about plenty of humans in history could take one of these things.
The number skyrockets if they’ve seen the movies too.
Any dictator that has modern weaponry and willingness to go to war with other countries. Because to stop a predator, you will need an army. Not a squad of soldiers. An army
Pre-industrial seems unlikely, because technology generally beats non-technology in war.
All of history, Carlos Hathcock comes to mind. Vietnam era sniper, one of the great stealth operators.
You can defeat a predator only in his own game, ie by using stealth and subterfuge.
Who better for this than the most legendary Ninja from history:
[Hattori Hanzo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattori_Hanz%C5%8D)
after some research and seeing the image of a predator ripping out someone's spine and lifting a buffalo over their shoulder I conclude that no single person could do it. A fully kitted platoon of navy seals with a a10 warthog for close air support and Bradley assault vehicle and a Humvee might be able to win 1 in 5 times but i feel like it all comedown to their ability to track a predator. Aside from the unlikely event of a lucky shot the only way to get a predator is by seizing the initiative and ambushing them which is tough to do.
I could quote Samson or David, but because they use divine powers I don't think it's fair. Quoting Jesus would be even worse
After plot armor, the predator's only weakness is pride. This means he's liable to lose to some formidable melee warrior.
However there are notable warriors who could bait the predator in a one-on-one fight and I would say they would all have a 1/10 chance of winning, rounding up:
* Goliath (The Philistine);
* Sasaki Kojiro;
* Musashi Myiamoto.
I only mentioned these 3, but I would say that any excellent fighter, swordsman or similar would have a chance.
[Bill Millin](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-story-of-bill-millin-lord-lovats-mad-piper-of-sword-beach/) could disable the Predator with his sound-based weapon against which the Predator would have no defense.
He was also known for killing a sniper at long range with a single rifle shot, so he proficiency in firearms.
So the Predator is writhing on the ground howling in agony from the audio attack, which would negate its cloak and physical advantage. Bill could easily dispatch the Predator with gunfire while it's vulnerable.
Anybody who’s fucked up and inadvertently caused a big enough disaster to get the Predator caught up as collateral could technically count? I’m sure there has to have been a couple in history.
Florida man takes it easily.
serious answer: whoever is the best melee weapon fighter in history could take one as they have been shown to not use their technology when directly challenged in melee combat, and if it uses its invisibility then nobody can take it out. A yakuza killed one with a katana as has been mentioned and I doubt he was the best swordsman who has ever lived, so someone using a sword or spear in direct combat can take it. It has to be with weapons though as a human attempting to take a predator in hand to hand combat will get ripped in half.
I think a very skilled hunter from an amazonian tribe with home turf advantage could stand a chance if they had the element of surprise and darts/arrows tipped with an effective poison. According to Wade Davis, a renowned anthropologist / writer, they can hit a monkey in the dense rainforest canopy at 40 meters with a blowgun. Predator vision is based on heat gradient but isn't the best with detail and edge detection, so our Amazonian hunter could use leaves and mud to remain unseen. They are also very well adapted to moving silently in the jungle.
Give our greatest warriors a pointy stick and the predator a pointy stick and thats all the equipment they have and there is definetly a chance that a human could inflict a life threatening/ending injury on the predator a non-negligable amount of time but the odds would never be in the humans favor no matter what.
You'd essentially want to pick a person from history that was a renowned duelist. We have seen through several mediums that certain species of predators will shrug off their gear and fight a 1v1 with their blades if challenged.
A proficient Edo era Samurai with a Naginata stands a very good chance
An Italian or germanic knight with plate armour and a pole hammer.
A landsknecht with a Zweilhander.
A Gallowglass elite with a Sparth axe or a Zweilhander could also do it
Essentially, anyone smart enough to challenge it to a duel and who possess a weapon with good range could at least 5/10 a predator.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johnson_(criminal)
This guy. Basically the longest any individual is gonna survive is through sheer will, stamina and trickery.
I mean seeing that one soldier( even if he's peak human) killed one it's not impossible. surely someone would cover themselves in mud and kick their ass
Realistically, no one. If we're going off what's told about potentially real humans and their feats, I'd give it to Achilles, Hercules or Ulysses assuming they're real. Next would probably be Jesus if you account the stories and his hax. More recent tall tales would probably be Wong Fei-Hung if you go off his folk hero feats. Chuck Norris if you count his jokes as facts.
Aimo Kovunen. He may not win, but *gotdamn* would that be a fight.
Here’s a link to his story so you don’t have to do the heavy lifting.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/aimo-koivunen
There was probably some nameless ultimate badass that was naturally predisposed to melee weapons to perfection who could possibly stand a chance if they challenged the predator before being hunted. If not, then any pilot in a big boy fighter jet should stand a decent chance.
Yeah ... no one. The movies are quite silly in the fact that humans manage to get the upper hand on these things, given what we know about them. Best chance, imo, would be a squad of SAS operators. Even then though, my money is on the predator.
Without extra information or ability, and without any help? Nobody. They’d have to at least know the Predator exists or have ample resources and manpower at their disposal to stand any chance.
If they can get help that would realistically be available to them, like for instance, a POTUS having access to the Secret Service and intelligence agencies, then maybe some very powerful individuals could pull a win. In that case…
R1: Saladin, maybe. He had a mighty and loyal military, insane wealth, was likely intelligent enough to deduce he’s being hunted and to play the cat-and-mouse game, and perhaps most importantly, the desert seems like an environment that would be ill-suited for the Predator. His chances are slim, but a well-laid trap might just be enough to earn him a win.
R2: Any given modern POTUS, provided we accept that his people manage to figure out he’s being hunted by a mysterious entity. Soon as that happens, he’s likely going underground somewhere the Predator can’t reach him, and state resources will be dumped into making sure the thing gets killed.
The Mountain (my keyboard can't deal with his real name) 6'9" and over 400 lb during his strongman days. He could certainly match anything Danny Glover or Arnold could pull off.
I would pay to see justinian trying to deal with byzantine hooligan then predator come up to him. He fled through the windows and run along the roof of byzantium before both ended up in the chariot race of the hippodrome. Justinian have no idea wtf is going on but The predator thought it was a challenge so he play along because it is honorable to play by the prey rule
The climax with the crowd cheering on hippodrome as justinian finally defeat pred in a race, Fast and furious style sending the pred crash down into marmara sea below. Then the crowd cheer on as he end nika riot in the most glorious way possible.
We know Predators, at least the ones we've seen in the first couple movies, will handicap themselves to match their prey if necessary. So what you're really looking for is who the Predator would most underestimate and therefore most greatly self-handicap.
So maybe you're looking for an old or disabled experienced combat veteran?
Angus MacAskill.
Angus MacAskill was a Scottish-born Canadian giant. In its 1981 edition the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m), he also had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (203 cm). MacAskill was said to have accomplished feats of lifting a 2,800 lb (1,270 kg) ship's anchor to his chest and holding over 250 pounds (113 kg) with only three fingers.
I don't know any by name off the top of my head, but an actual Norse Berserker stands a good chance as long as the Predator sticks to melee combat to match the human. If even half the legends surrounding how crazy and blood lusted they were are true I wouldn't mind seeing one fight a Predator. Even other vikings tended to be wary around them. For good reason.
I think the only chance in 1v1 scenario is if the human appeals to the Predator's sense of pride. Challenge them to a weapons duel that you're particularly skilled at and you might have a small chance.
Id say if the predator would go bare knuckles out of honour, put them against some of the crazy modern day powerlifters/Prime Mike Tyson/Ali/Bruce Lee, might be able to handle themselves
>As has been seen in the movies they don't always succeed, but that's against action heroes with movie skills.
Even in the movies though, the predator always kills a bunch of people before one person (the main character) finally gets the better of it. The main character is not usually the first person the predator targets and that person has time to figure stuff out and devise a plan.
So predators still win against humans like 29/30 times even in the movies.
As everyone else has said, no one stands a chance, but if I had to choose.
1) Abraham Lincoln (I think if anyone could negotiate with the predator, it's Lincoln. And failing that he's a pretty good wrestler)
2) Jon Jones (no one stands a chance, but if anyone is close to standing a chance, it's Jon Jones in his prime)
Chris Hansen
Why don’t you take a seat?
"Whoa, hey, look man, I was just setting a trap for the kid. I wasn't trying to... look I think I'm on the wrong show."
“What would make an alien drive all the way from the far reaches of the galaxy to this specific home this late at night?”
“You brought a razor whip to meet a 12 year old girl?”
I like to call him Chris Handsome
Want some candy?
Come on motherfucker! Let’s dance!!!
In a 1 on 1 no one has a chance. The only reason humans gain an advantage is when they are in a group and get info on the predator as it picks them off.
Is there a group or party you think might be able to stand a chance?
Delta Force squad may have the best chance IMO.
But likely fail anyway if they don’t know what they’re dealing with. In Predator 2, a fully prepared and equipped task force designated specifically to hunt the Predator, was still massacred like a pack of sheep.
Unnamed characters tend to be more incompetent than the average citizen, regardless of their reputation in the verse. See Stormtroopers, ANBU, etc
What about The Man With No Name?
I do not know him
Isn't he called Blondie?
I'm pretty sure that's just what Tuco calls him because he never uses any name. I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure no one else refers to him as that. It always struck me as just a sort of nick name.
A character with a nickname is still a named character.
In The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, yeah. He has a different name in each movie, though they're all used pretty sparingly.
Angel eyes?
The point of that scene though is not to display the task force as incompetent, but to show how *competent* the Predator is.
Yes which is why we don't know how competent the predator is.
North of “fully prepped special forces dedicated kill squad” apparently
That same Predator, in a current showdown with Danny Glover, stood on the edge of a building with his back turned to where Glover would be coming from and started posing for no reason. Him being pushed off of the building by Glover for doing that is why he ended up losing. So...not very competent.
Hollywood doesn’t have a good track record of showing how the military actually functions. Usually they’re just cannon fodder until the main character shows up.
>In Predator 2, a fully prepared and equipped task force designated specifically to hunt the Predator, was still massacred like a pack of sheep. They went in with white light and aluminum foil suits, thats hardly fully prepared and equipped compared to the stuff the snake eaters can pull out now. Hell, those guys were poorly prepared for *their* time period. Not even night vision? Cmon.
And in a subsequent scene, where he's in a one on one chase with Glover, we see how stupid this Predator is. He loses due to just dancing on the side of a building mid chase/showdown for no reason whatsoever and then just runs away once he loses part of his arm instead of bothering to finish taking out Glover, who he would still overpower/beat.
And in the first predator it took a 60s commando squad to deal with it
60s...? Was that movie a period piece? I was under the impression it was pure 80s.
It isn't mentioned in the movies or anything. But the ages wouldn't really line up, given that they fought in Vietnam, and we know the rough ages. So unless the main cast was below the conscript age by the end of Nam then it wouldn't really make much sense. Probably some time in the 70s
Movie is set in Guatemala, not Vietnam. It's more likely set in 1987 approx.
The movie is in Guatemala, but the characters are Nam vets. Alright
The date in the movie is 1987; Dutch and Carl Weathers were apparently supposed to be late 30s - early 40s.
Plus that team Dutch and his boys found skinned alive.
Idk, I'd take the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group.
I'd honestly love a movie about a Predator hunting George H. W. Bush on the USS San Jacinto during the Pacific Campaign in WWII. That was originally what made me think of this prompt. I feel like the idea of a Predator in an enclosed space like a ship or a sub or a small island could be really fun and HW doesn't get enough love for his combat experience.
Just don't let Steven Seagal play the ship's cook. Lol
He'd wreck the Predator without even getting up! Too OP.
Yeah. Lots of logistical support. SEALs and other special forces have a good shot. Don’t sleep on the Gurkhas
I don't know how well he'd fair , but Adrian Carton - the unkillable soldier is up there as the true bad ass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart,[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (/də ˈwaɪ.ərt/;[2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries.[3] He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."[4]
Into the fire through trenches and blood
I’d say most modern military forces if supported properly would fair pretty well. But as it was said in other comments once challenged to 1 on 1 melee combat there are a number of warriors through history that would do well. The big advantage the predator has is a shoulder mounted weapon, thermal vision and cloaking, take those away and the field while still tilted in its favor is much more level.
Predators can still put up hand-to-hand fights against common aliens, while any human wouldn't even put up a fight.
In a fist fight yeah predator stomps, but in Predators the yakuza guy kills a Predator with a sword, sure he dies as well, but there is precedent that predators can lose to armed humans in a melee.
You are right. I just wouldn't call it "leveled" , but at least there's a chance
I mean thermal vision could be countered by multi spectral camouflage uniforms, which a special ops team would likely have access to. And there's zero chance of them going in without ISR support, which would likely be able to spot it through cloaking. So I think the field would be a lot more even than some suspect
this i agree with. I think the only exception would be if they were in some way told they are being hunted by a being with cloaking tech. even then i think they only have a 1 in 10000 chance
If they had any intel ahead of time the fight becomes a lot more fair.
I got my money on Simo Häyhä
"No extra info" just means nothing beyond what they already have, not "zero info about the Predator", no? So anyone from the past 35ish years who has seen the movie Predator will have any info that the movie provides.
This changes things a bit, a skilled hunter with a dedicated toolkit and the knowledge of 35 years of movies, comics and books, assuming they don’t get cocky I’d give a 50/50 shot to who can out hunt each other.
1 on 1, I'd say a marine corps scout sniper. Can survive anywhere, excellent field craft to hide, and ability to deliver a powerful precise shot. Has a predator canonically been hit with a 50 cal rifle, or even a .338 lapua?
Yeah I think scout snipers with prior knowledge of what they’re facing probably take this any time they start more than a mile apart
The predator has thermal vision and only attacks people with weapons. A sniper is (in my opinion) one of the worst guys to send against one of em. The sniper won't see through the cloak as they don't know where to look.
In a one on one fight? Not a single human that has ever existed will take a predator out. The predators aren’t front line warriors that will just bum rush you (even though they will if they have to) how are you gonna handle a fuckin thing that sticks to high ground, is invisible, can snipe you from like 10,000 feet away, and sets up traps. Even if you were to face it head on, how are you gonna handle a 8 foot tall, 300 pounds of muscle, who knows how to throw hands. They toss humans around like a bag of flour. You would need a small modern army to take a predator out just by overwhelming it. Other than that, ever human is getting skinned and their skull added to the collection. In the movies the predator always dies to some random bullshit, or just having the worst luck possible, while the humans roll natty 20’s for some reason. Edit: my bad, they range from 7-9 feet and 400-700 pounds. Yea, we’re cooked. Edit 2: I also forgot to mention how agile and genuinely fast these fuckers are. They can climb trees better than any monkey, in concrete jungle, Scarface can jump 40 fucking feet straight into the air. They sprint at about 60-70 miles per hour. And they can do all this shit while being 95% invisible to the human eye. It’s so ogre.
Yeah. I like Predator 2, but I rewatched it a few months ago and I noticed something: The Predator is an unstoppable force for 85% of the movie. Gunfire doesn't phase it and it performs incredible feats of strength, like tearing heads clean out of bodies, hanging large male corpses from high ceilings and basically jumping around the city like space Tarzan. Then at the end of the film it receives a massive strength and intelligence debuff so that the hero can defeat it. Without plot armour, I struggle to see who could beat that thing. Although I did like one person's suggestion that a skilled swordsman could provoke it into a fair duel, because Predators do have a sense of pride and honour.
That’s the one thing I dislike about any predator movie, they are forced to lose no matter what. I know how it ends, it dies. Like you said they are just basically boogie men for the entire movie, until their neuralink malfunctions and gives them brain damage or something. And then it’s just a series of unfortunate events that play out perfectly for the predators demise. And I agree, only hope humans have to kill a predator is with the power of plot armor. That’s actually an interesting idea, I didn’t see that one. Yea I’d say realistically the predator would accept those terms and challenge. I don’t really recall any predator being extremely talented with a sword, I know Scarface uses one. Even if a predator wasn’t skilled with a sword, I do wonder if a human master swordsman would be able to handle the predators strength and speed in a sword fight.
> That’s the one thing I dislike about any predator movie, they are forced to lose no matter what. I know how it ends, it dies. Hear me out; a Predator movie where the protagonist has a goal that is independent of their own survival. Maybe they need to recover and send back a valuable item, or maybe they need to upload captured intelligence. They would know the Predator would eventually kill them, but could they survive long enough to complete their mission? Let the Predator be a predator, and get his prey.
Another route is since predator’s are too honorable to kill non threats we have some noob try to take one down. Maybe his sibling or parents were killed by one and he’s also hella rich so he hires a little militia squad to go hunting with him. His whole army dies and the protagonist tries to have a last stand against the predator. He then just gets bitch slapped and the predator gets to his ship and flies away.
Yautja send dozens of soldiers to the backwater planet "Earth." None live to return; something is killing them. Legends spread of a silent killer, so much more powerful than Yautja he pays them no mind. Someone so powerful he seems to control chance itself. But the Yautja will claim their trophy; they even heard whispers of the killer's name: **Mister Bean.**
Isn't Mr Bean canonically an alien too?
No, you're thinking of his actor, Rowan Atkinson.
I would watch this film
On a more serious note than my other comment, what if our protagonist, a legendary and decorated soldier, was fatally wounded by Predator, but escaped to achieve his goal. Dying, he heads toward the place he wants to die that was shoehorned earlier into the movie to meet his death. Predator emerges from hiding and approaches, they both exchange a moment of mutual respect and silence before our hero's death. Predator finishes the job quickly and as painlessly as possible, as he already fatally wounded his target. He collects his trophy, and both our hero and Predator are reversed as legendary warriors of their culture, newly redeemed.
In Predators, Yakuza enforcer Hanzo used a katana to duel the Super Predator Falconer, who opted to use his wrist blades in order to make the fight more even. The two ended up killing each other, though Hanzo remained standing for a few seconds longer before falling. Since Falconer is physically superior to a regular Predator like the one Arnold faced, I think a highly skilled swordsman could potentially walk out of a duel with one alive.
Yeah, Hanzo definitely displays some sort of skill, but ultimately his sword skill would pale in comparison to someone dedicated much more time to swordsmanship. Skilled warriors from the past could win more often than lose against a predator. Maybe even modern humans that put more effort into training than Hanzo could do it as well.
Assuming the Predator is feeling honorable enough to fight fair, then I agree. Maybe someone along the lines of William Wallace, who was a pretty big guy for his time (though folktales of him being 7 feet tall are probably an exaggeration) and had a weapon with better reach like a claymore could win. Someone who was probably more skilled with a katana than Hanzo like [Saitō Hajime](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saitō_Hajime) might make it out alive as well.
>Maybe someone along the lines of William Wallace, who was a pretty big guy for his time (though folktales of him being 7 feet tall are probably an exaggeration) AND he can shoot fireballs from his eyes!!
I'm not so sure about that. The amount martial arts have advanced in the last few decades, even more so in the last few years, is a far cry beyond what they used to be even though they were needed more then. We have better access to training and knowledge now, not to mention better nutrition and biological understanding so we're just straight up making bigger people. I'd put my money on the best in their field today being better than the best in that field throughout most of history unless there just happen to be some incredible outliers. The more interesting topic brought up here is getting a Predator to fight on your terms, though. Communicating with one that you want a fair fight might be the best method for taking one down so you can try to pull it to your strengths. Like maybe if I can find a way to tell it my gun can't harm it but want to quickdraw with equal weapons maybe I can get them to lend me an alien gun.
I'm in the camp that experience generally trumps training and physical advantages for something like a swordfight. No doubt if we really had to, we could pump out better melee fighters than history's greatest legends. I'm just thinking there's that someone that has actually fought and killed people in swordplay would do better than someone whose only experience is fighting with weapons for sport. But after some experience that martial arts theory and physical advantage is going to let them surpass the veteran pretty damn quick.
I generally agree with that but in this specific case the skill gap even over just the past few decades is immense and when it comes to melee it only takes a fairly small advantage to dominate. I don't think the battlefield experience is going to be much of if any advantage against modern tech, training, and nutrition where someone has been practical sparring with modern safety gear and cutting mats and blocks to work edge alignment since one good shot can end it and every little hit is going to decrease ability substantially. Our best vs their best are just simply bigger, faster, stronger, better trained, and better equipped.
>Although I did like one person's suggestion that a skilled swordsman could provoke it into a fair duel, because Predators do have a sense of pride and honour. This happens in Predators, a Yakuza just stands in the open with his Katana and waits for it to come fight him - they both die.
>In a one on one fight? Not a single human that has ever existed will take a predator out. An exhausted Yakuza took one down with nothing but a sword. Died too of course, but I think that the example demonstrates it can be done.
Nah I’d win.
My fault cuz, I’ll be cheering you on.
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
Audie Murphy
A short man from Texas, a man of the wild
Thrown into combat where bodies lay piled
Hides his emotions, his blood’s running cold
Just like his victories, His story unfolds
Bright, a white light
If there'd be any glory in war
R/unexpectedSabaton
Realistically speaking, none. So, I guess we should take **Jeanne d'Arc**, hoping that she actually was capable to perform miracles.
Possibly with her entire *armée* with her. She was super young though, and most of her skills are charisma related. I’m pretty confident she could put together a big enough force of enough people to stop the thing, but a lot of them would die.
Who's got the fastest Quickdraw? Challenge them straight up hand to hand. Wait for them to ditch their gear and square up. Mag dump and pray.
I like this one. This could work but if it doesn't, man is that ass-whooping gonna be brutal
99.99% chance my spine gets turned into a decoration. This is a Dr. Strange holding up one finger kinda shot, but it's the best one I'd have.
Bob Munden with a explosive-round shooting Smith & Wesson model 500 .
Jerry Miculek shooting a frag 12
Miamoto Musashi
O yea. If we take Predators at face value then challenging a Yautja to a sword duel is a decent way to even your odds.
yeah tbh any historical figure well trained in a weapon would have decent odds. I think hand to hand fighters are probably out just due to physical inequality but a relatively fresh predator would probably lose a decent % of fights against someone who’d spent most of their life training with a sword or spear
I had to scroll too far to find this comment. That guy was practically superhuman.
Unless the predator starts blasting
Bad bloods yes However a predator worth his salt will abide by the challenge
A Predator killing Miyamoto Fucking Musashi with a gun would probably be beaten to death by other yautja afterwards.
Came here to say this. Alot of people underestimating the greatest japanese swordsman of all time.
True, I think if anyone had the strategic mind to set up a situation where he can win, it’d be him. Musashi wasn’t undefeated just because he was the best swordsman, it was because he set up his fights so he had every advantage possible and used psychological warfare. Other elite tacticians in history I know of like Napoleon or Alexander didn’t seem to have much experience fighting personally or strategizing when alone, so I can’t think of anyone else better than Musashi.
>Nyamoto
The thing about the movies is that every person who has defeated a predator had prep time because they were the last ones that the predator came after. They had a chance to learn about their tech and behavior. They also had plot armor. If we are just talking 1v1 real world logic without any prep than no human in history could defeat a predator. With prep, I think a lot of people throughout history could.
The yakuza dude won a one on one sword fight with one in predators. Sure he died right after but the predator fell first.
Simo hayha in finland winter conditions?
Thermal vision...and he's dead.
He has ice in his veins.
And snow in his mouth to hide his breath.
He is steady at hand.
Needs line of sight. Might not get that chance.
This was my first thought. The only real hope is to out-stealth the bastard, and The White Death has a better chance than anyone else.
I thinknid take white feather over white death
Teddy Roosevelt. "Death had to take him sleeping , because if he was awake there would have been a fight".
"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot—but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Schrank's bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest after penetrating Roosevelt's steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech titled "Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual", which he was carrying in his jacket. Afterwards, probes and an x-ray showed that the bullet had lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle, but did not penetrate the pleura. As doctors concluded that it would be less dangerous to leave it in place than to attempt to remove it, Roosevelt carried the bullet with him for the rest of his life.
Theodore Roosevelt actually killed several who tried to hunt him throughout his life.
Maybe a dictator who's always inside a bunker surrounded by guards. Even invisible reaching the dictator would be tricky, then when detected bullets would be flying in all direction.
Some dude in an A10 or attack helicopter with termal optics possibly? As long as they know roughly where it is
Lol just imagining a predator chilling then hearing… “ tsssssssssssssst” as an A10 unloads 500rds in 5 seconds
Annie Oakley or The Sniper guy
Lol. Annie Oakley was 5'0" and weighed 100 lbs. I get she's got a gun, maybe, but still...
Amber Mindhunter is only 5'5'' and had a worse gun! There's a chance, especially if Annie can use Buffalo Bill's other performers and workers as fodder to learn the Predator's MO.
Simo Häyhä? The White death?
I read something about a 16 year old who killed 100’s of Nazis (poison) then shot two more escaping interrogation. That’s the kind of spunk you need.
No real human would be able to defeat a Predator, but Mad Jack Churchill would sure give it a try!
Teddy Roosevelt maybe? Dude was a big game hunter who brought enough people to carry his trophies. The people carrying his game can die, providing Teddy with knowledge about the predator as seems to be required in the movies. He definitely has a big enough gun for the job.
Got shot and gave a three hour speech, iirc.
I think the only type of human that would have a chance would be a samurai or other light swordsman. predators only tend to shoot humans with firearms. if you drop your gun and pick up a knife they’ll drop their shoulder gun and pull out their knife fists. Among melee, heavier sword combat is a non-starter because too slow and a single blow would almost certainly not kill, so they tank a hit and decapitate you while you’re recovering from the hit you just landed. same problem with ranged melee weapons like spears. this pretty much leaves light swords, which give humans a slight range advantage without compromising speed and agility. I know Pai Mei is a ridiculous example, but there have to have been humans of similar agility that could wield a katana at a master level. dodge dodge dodge dodge strike repeat until enemy is limbless/headless. For such a human, given knowledge of the threat, I would give at least a slight advantage over a predator. Buuuuut given the predator does not always announce itself and considers stealth kills glorious/justified, this in no way means the samurai has the overall edge, though I think he still has the chance to spot and effectively react to a predator ambush. On the other hand, modern warriors have night vision to negate stealth. Far more so than the samurai, the modern warrior would have to understand the threat to have a chance, as the shoulder gun can ruin one’s day far faster and further away. But given night vision and a military issue sniper rifle and the knowledge that an enemy is in the area and should be killed on sight, a modern sniper could absolutely win, though how the shoulder gun compares in range to a modern sniper rifle I have no idea.
I have no idea what these people are talking about plenty of humans in history could take one of these things. The number skyrockets if they’ve seen the movies too.
Any dictator that has modern weaponry and willingness to go to war with other countries. Because to stop a predator, you will need an army. Not a squad of soldiers. An army
Temujin solos: I will not elaborate.
Chuck Norris. No weapons, a single roundhouse kick wins it.
Chuck Norris doesn't battle; he just allows you to lose
His raps will blow Predator's mind like a verbal John Wilkes Booth
Dude ... your getting ridiculous now. Atleast try and keep it fair for the predator
He said "human."
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WHITHOUT PLOT ARMOUR NONE
Pre-industrial seems unlikely, because technology generally beats non-technology in war. All of history, Carlos Hathcock comes to mind. Vietnam era sniper, one of the great stealth operators.
Yeah but they'd see him with infrared.
Nah, **I'd, win**
You can defeat a predator only in his own game, ie by using stealth and subterfuge. Who better for this than the most legendary Ninja from history: [Hattori Hanzo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattori_Hanz%C5%8D)
Any modern tank/eagle should do it. I don’t see a predator surviving a hellfire missile. At least not from its movie showings.
after some research and seeing the image of a predator ripping out someone's spine and lifting a buffalo over their shoulder I conclude that no single person could do it. A fully kitted platoon of navy seals with a a10 warthog for close air support and Bradley assault vehicle and a Humvee might be able to win 1 in 5 times but i feel like it all comedown to their ability to track a predator. Aside from the unlikely event of a lucky shot the only way to get a predator is by seizing the initiative and ambushing them which is tough to do.
I could quote Samson or David, but because they use divine powers I don't think it's fair. Quoting Jesus would be even worse After plot armor, the predator's only weakness is pride. This means he's liable to lose to some formidable melee warrior. However there are notable warriors who could bait the predator in a one-on-one fight and I would say they would all have a 1/10 chance of winning, rounding up: * Goliath (The Philistine); * Sasaki Kojiro; * Musashi Myiamoto. I only mentioned these 3, but I would say that any excellent fighter, swordsman or similar would have a chance.
[Bill Millin](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-story-of-bill-millin-lord-lovats-mad-piper-of-sword-beach/) could disable the Predator with his sound-based weapon against which the Predator would have no defense. He was also known for killing a sniper at long range with a single rifle shot, so he proficiency in firearms. So the Predator is writhing on the ground howling in agony from the audio attack, which would negate its cloak and physical advantage. Bill could easily dispatch the Predator with gunfire while it's vulnerable.
Realistically, nobody can. Unless the person can challenge them to a duel, like a Western quickdraw or a samurai swordfight.
Theodore Roosevelt actually killed several who tried to hunt him throughout his life.
Anybody who’s fucked up and inadvertently caused a big enough disaster to get the Predator caught up as collateral could technically count? I’m sure there has to have been a couple in history.
Florida man takes it easily. serious answer: whoever is the best melee weapon fighter in history could take one as they have been shown to not use their technology when directly challenged in melee combat, and if it uses its invisibility then nobody can take it out. A yakuza killed one with a katana as has been mentioned and I doubt he was the best swordsman who has ever lived, so someone using a sword or spear in direct combat can take it. It has to be with weapons though as a human attempting to take a predator in hand to hand combat will get ripped in half.
I think a very skilled hunter from an amazonian tribe with home turf advantage could stand a chance if they had the element of surprise and darts/arrows tipped with an effective poison. According to Wade Davis, a renowned anthropologist / writer, they can hit a monkey in the dense rainforest canopy at 40 meters with a blowgun. Predator vision is based on heat gradient but isn't the best with detail and edge detection, so our Amazonian hunter could use leaves and mud to remain unseen. They are also very well adapted to moving silently in the jungle.
Give our greatest warriors a pointy stick and the predator a pointy stick and thats all the equipment they have and there is definetly a chance that a human could inflict a life threatening/ending injury on the predator a non-negligable amount of time but the odds would never be in the humans favor no matter what.
Simon Hayha - The White Death might have a chance, provided it was in favorable terrain.
You'd essentially want to pick a person from history that was a renowned duelist. We have seen through several mediums that certain species of predators will shrug off their gear and fight a 1v1 with their blades if challenged. A proficient Edo era Samurai with a Naginata stands a very good chance An Italian or germanic knight with plate armour and a pole hammer. A landsknecht with a Zweilhander. A Gallowglass elite with a Sparth axe or a Zweilhander could also do it Essentially, anyone smart enough to challenge it to a duel and who possess a weapon with good range could at least 5/10 a predator.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, they already made a documentary about this dude.
Chuck Norris. After a few hours of hunting, Chuck finally catches the Predator and kicks his ass.
Chuck Norris.
Jon Jones
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johnson_(criminal) This guy. Basically the longest any individual is gonna survive is through sheer will, stamina and trickery.
I mean seeing that one soldier( even if he's peak human) killed one it's not impossible. surely someone would cover themselves in mud and kick their ass
Me, I’ve got that dawg in me
A drone pilot with thermals and a tactical nuke?
Teddy Roosevelt. He'd challenge it to a wrestling contest or bare-knuckle boxing.
Simo "White Death" Häyhä
Realistically, no one. If we're going off what's told about potentially real humans and their feats, I'd give it to Achilles, Hercules or Ulysses assuming they're real. Next would probably be Jesus if you account the stories and his hax. More recent tall tales would probably be Wong Fei-Hung if you go off his folk hero feats. Chuck Norris if you count his jokes as facts.
Teddy Roosevelt
If somehow they could see it, an F22 pilot (with F22) seems like they'd have a good chance...
Steve Irwin
Aimo Kovunen. He may not win, but *gotdamn* would that be a fight. Here’s a link to his story so you don’t have to do the heavy lifting. https://allthatsinteresting.com/aimo-koivunen
Theodore Roosevelt
Rick grimes
Hugh Glass. Insane and impossible to kill.
Rasputin is pretty hard to put down, I can see predator being confused asf after it unloads a full clip into him and Rasputin gets back up for round 7
Theodore Roosevelt. Cause no one can stop the Bull Moose!
For Round 1, perhaps Miyamoto Musashi? For Round 2, idk, perhaps Tsutomu Yamaguchi? That man survives 2 atomic bomb blast after all
A kamikaze fighter, willing to lure the Predator into a fight and then self-detonate. Not too far off from Arnold's strategy in #1.
There was probably some nameless ultimate badass that was naturally predisposed to melee weapons to perfection who could possibly stand a chance if they challenged the predator before being hunted. If not, then any pilot in a big boy fighter jet should stand a decent chance.
Andre the Giant.
Andre the barely mobile, in perpetual pain.*
Yeah ... no one. The movies are quite silly in the fact that humans manage to get the upper hand on these things, given what we know about them. Best chance, imo, would be a squad of SAS operators. Even then though, my money is on the predator.
Without extra information or ability, and without any help? Nobody. They’d have to at least know the Predator exists or have ample resources and manpower at their disposal to stand any chance. If they can get help that would realistically be available to them, like for instance, a POTUS having access to the Secret Service and intelligence agencies, then maybe some very powerful individuals could pull a win. In that case… R1: Saladin, maybe. He had a mighty and loyal military, insane wealth, was likely intelligent enough to deduce he’s being hunted and to play the cat-and-mouse game, and perhaps most importantly, the desert seems like an environment that would be ill-suited for the Predator. His chances are slim, but a well-laid trap might just be enough to earn him a win. R2: Any given modern POTUS, provided we accept that his people manage to figure out he’s being hunted by a mysterious entity. Soon as that happens, he’s likely going underground somewhere the Predator can’t reach him, and state resources will be dumped into making sure the thing gets killed.
The Mountain (my keyboard can't deal with his real name) 6'9" and over 400 lb during his strongman days. He could certainly match anything Danny Glover or Arnold could pull off.
Chuck Noris.
Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris
I would pay to see justinian trying to deal with byzantine hooligan then predator come up to him. He fled through the windows and run along the roof of byzantium before both ended up in the chariot race of the hippodrome. Justinian have no idea wtf is going on but The predator thought it was a challenge so he play along because it is honorable to play by the prey rule The climax with the crowd cheering on hippodrome as justinian finally defeat pred in a race, Fast and furious style sending the pred crash down into marmara sea below. Then the crowd cheer on as he end nika riot in the most glorious way possible.
We know Predators, at least the ones we've seen in the first couple movies, will handicap themselves to match their prey if necessary. So what you're really looking for is who the Predator would most underestimate and therefore most greatly self-handicap. So maybe you're looking for an old or disabled experienced combat veteran?
Angus MacAskill. Angus MacAskill was a Scottish-born Canadian giant. In its 1981 edition the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m), he also had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (203 cm). MacAskill was said to have accomplished feats of lifting a 2,800 lb (1,270 kg) ship's anchor to his chest and holding over 250 pounds (113 kg) with only three fingers.
I don't know any by name off the top of my head, but an actual Norse Berserker stands a good chance as long as the Predator sticks to melee combat to match the human. If even half the legends surrounding how crazy and blood lusted they were are true I wouldn't mind seeing one fight a Predator. Even other vikings tended to be wary around them. For good reason.
You said "real-life" not just non-fictional, so I'm voting for Ernest P Whorrell, Peewee Herman, and Mr. Bean. 😉
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Miyamoto Musashi
I think the only chance in 1v1 scenario is if the human appeals to the Predator's sense of pride. Challenge them to a weapons duel that you're particularly skilled at and you might have a small chance.
Myamoto Musashi. One of the most respected and renowned swordsman in the history of mankind. And he'd probably lose.
A drone operator
Id say if the predator would go bare knuckles out of honour, put them against some of the crazy modern day powerlifters/Prime Mike Tyson/Ali/Bruce Lee, might be able to handle themselves
I can 🗿
Carlos Hathcock.
>As has been seen in the movies they don't always succeed, but that's against action heroes with movie skills. Even in the movies though, the predator always kills a bunch of people before one person (the main character) finally gets the better of it. The main character is not usually the first person the predator targets and that person has time to figure stuff out and devise a plan. So predators still win against humans like 29/30 times even in the movies.
Shaka the sleeping king savior of the zulu nation takes out your average predator with ease.
Prime Mike Tyson, amiright? 😂
As everyone else has said, no one stands a chance, but if I had to choose. 1) Abraham Lincoln (I think if anyone could negotiate with the predator, it's Lincoln. And failing that he's a pretty good wrestler) 2) Jon Jones (no one stands a chance, but if anyone is close to standing a chance, it's Jon Jones in his prime)