| Terminator vs. Predator: REDUX Back by Popular Demand and re-vamped for your reading pleasure, I am pleased to present one of the first articles ever written for this site (after returning to Geocities from The Globe) back in 1999! |
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| Hollywood, in the middle of the 1980's, created two of the most well-written, well-played action/ science fiction movies in history: "The Terminator," and "The Predator." First we saw the Terminator, in 1984; an advanced robotic killing machine with human-characteristics sent from the future to keep a mother from producing a war hero. The Terminator is regarded by many as Arnold Schwarzenegger's most dominating role... a role that earned him his catch phrase ("I'll be back"), Hollywood status as an "Indestructable actor," and a multi-million dollar leading role in the films 1991 sequel (Which originally scripted "Ahnuld" as a bad guy, but the enormous actor decided to doctor the script and be a "good" Terminator). Soon after The Terminator graced the silver screen, moviegoers gained a taste for Science-fiction again. By 1987, it was time for Hollywood's favourite action star to step into the ring for round two of his sci-fi career. "The Predator" is a movie about an elite unit of commandos, led by Dutch (Ahnuld), who go to |
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| South America for your typical cartel/ Geurilla camp crack-down. However, they are attacked and torn to shreds by an extra-terrestrial hunter, who kills humans (And beings throughout the universe, it seems) for sport. Soon, it's left to Dutch to destroy this monster, and for the first time, we all saw a more human side to the body-building austrian. It didn't take long for people to put two-and-two together. When both movies turned out sequels in the very early 1990's (before the mullet began to fade), arguements started to rise amongst fans all over the world. In my group of friends (and I'm certain the same can be said about any geeks you might know), |
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| there are two "Deathmatch's" that people seem to have always yearned to see: The Terminator vs. Robocop, and The Predator vs. Aliens. Let's tear those down real quick... they don't take much intelligence to figure out. First of all, Robocop was a bi-product of The Terminator... and a bad one. Robocop was slow, weaker, and was too easily broken apart. So instantly, we see the Terminator winning that match. Alien vs. Predator is the more commonly |
| argued-about match... in fact, several scripts have already been written (and declined, boo-hoo), and a handful of well-selling games have been produced about it. But this fight was over by the end of Predator 2... as Danny Glover enters the Predators' space ship, he finds a trophy room... and sure enough, the head and long neck of the Aliens' alien was the main attraction. So now, we're left with those two winners of those commonly fought-over arguements... The Terminator and The Predator. And this little topic can start some of the most heated debates you could ever hear at a bar or in an arcade... so be wary when you bring it up. |
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| Before we dive into this scenario head-on, we should mention something that Jeremy Thomas brought up a long time ago, when my friends and I had an hour-long arguement about this very topic... The Terminator was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played Dutch in the Predator... and dutch killed the Predator, meaning the Predator couldn't kill the Terminator, and even if the two of them did fight, the Shwarzenegger-cross-over would create a tear in the space-time |
| continuum, and Hollywood would dissolve into nothing for eternity. In other words, Jeremy was trying to end the arguement, so if you're ever fighting with someone about this, and you deem it necessary to end the conversation with the silliest ideology you can come up with, use that. Right, back to the fight. For these two motion-picture-mega-monsters to fight each other, they must first find each other. Both are excellent hunters/ stalkers, and they share the same goal of seek-and-destroy. They both have numerous ways of finding their prey, and try to avoid blowing their cover too early. They both utilize night-vision and heat-sensory. What makes their differences is, first of all, the Predator is a sneaky-sleuth, where the Terminator will destroy a city to find it's mark. The Predator uses a cloaking device to make him invisible, and hides out as high from the ground as possible, searching for his enemies with his heat-sensing |
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| vision. Anyone associated with his target is taken out violently, but the Predator tries to avoid arousing suspicion, while maintaining a frightening mysterious entity. The Terminator is completely different. He walks around Los Angeles butt naked, and always seems to wipe out anyone who gets in his way while shopping around for suitable attire... Sunglasses, a T-Shirt, a leather jacket, and the tightest jeans he can possibly find. Then, to find his mark, the Terminator slaughters practically anyone who comes even remotely close to him while he's on the job... because it's the easiest way for him to |
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| get from point A to point B... through anything in his path. Here is where The Predator gets a point. I think the Predator would find the Terminator pretty darn fast if the T-100 was blowing up buildings trying to find his enemy. Let's break down firepower. The Predator has a small-yet-potent arsenal of blades and lasers at his (its) disposal. The Predator can even self-detonate with what appeared to be a hydrogen explosion (How did "Dutch" survive that, by the way? Those tricky Austrian-american special forces guys). From what I can tell, his weapons are strong, but the Terminator? He uses |
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| just about anything he can get his robotic hands on. It seems a shotgun is his favourite tool, but he uses a variety of weapons to kill his mark, including his powerful bare hands. As far as weapons are concerned, I'm giving this one to the robot. |
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