Alien And Predator’s Best Sequels Were With Batman And Superman

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Batman Versus Predator (1991)

1. Batman Is The Most Believable Rival To The Predator Since Arnold

It really says something that the most badass adversary the Predators have faced on the big screen since the first movie is 44-year-old Danny Glover, a guy who was already "too old" for Mel Gibson's antics three years prior. Other than that, the movies have pitted these ruthless intergalactic warriors against Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Key from Key & Pelee, and an autistic 12-year-old. It's always "unlikely action heroes" in the Danny Glover mold because who the hell could measure up to Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Here's who:

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Pretty sure he'd beat Arnold in a governor election, too.

Batman, a man in peak physical condition who pathologically prepares for every possible combat scenario, is the first character to realistically give a Predator a run for its money since Arnold's gang of roided-up mercs from the first movie. Frankly, letting anyone but Batman survive one-on-one rounds with the Predator is an insult to the audience's intelligence. And here's the thing: he still gets his ass kicked.

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If you can't read Predator language, he's saying his mom's name is also Martha.

Batman only survives by throwing his remote-controlled Batmobile at the Predator, and then spends much of the comic bandaged up from head to toe while an increasingly desperate Commissioner Gordon tries to deal with the Rastafalien butchering whoever he perceives to be Gotham's top dog (from a boxing champion to top gangsters to the mayor). Luckily, the biggest benefit of being rich is that you can build a robot armor for yourself at any point, so Batman does that. After all, the Predator's wearing one too. Which, yes, probably means that the Predators from the movies are bored CEOs and trust fund kids coming to this planet for some excitement between board room meetings.

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"Let's do golf after this."

Even if you've never seen a Predator movie before, the fact that this thing mopped the floor with Batman and forced him to go all Iron Bat tells you all you need to know about the character. But that's not the only thing the writer (Watchmen artist and co-creator Dave Gibbons) did right ...

2. This Comic Pulls Off The "Predator In The City" Idea Much Better Than Predator 2

Predator 2 is like two movies: one about a police detective investigating a drug war in 1997 L.A. and one about a space monster randomly stabbing dudes. The plot sort of screeches to a halt whenever Danny Glover has to do any actual "detecting," and his slow investigation means it isn't always clear why the Predator picks his victims, making the whole thing feel disjointed. This comic solves both issues with a technique all movies with second act problems should consider: adding more Batman.

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Even intimate dramas. Especially intimate dramas.

Batman has figured out what's going within the first third of the comic, making his uneasy interactions with the targeted gangsters over the rest of the story feel more organic than Predator 2's messy plot. More importantly, the sequences with the Predator going nuts on the city just work better here, probably because Gotham is a natural fit for ugly creatures with crazy abilities dismembering people in creative ways.

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He's not invisible: some pigeons flew above him while he was up there.

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