Predator
Character » Predator appears in 339 issues.
Predators, or Yautja, are extraterrestrial hunters who possess advanced technology and weapons used to hunt any being they consider worthy prey. They often make trophies of their victims after killing them, and are often known to hunt for sport on Earth, seeing humans as easy prey that are plentiful in numbers.
Just exactly how strong are predators(Yautja)?
@spawndon said:
About 4 muscular men combined.
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@ 1:50&4:25 Scarface lifts a security gate, overcoming the locking mechanism.
They had careened through yet another curve in the road when Nikolai saw Marikova's eyes widen and she shouted at him, at them "There's something out there! Stop now!" Rath glanced back at her with an expression that Nikolai interpreted as pity or disgust--and gunned the engine. Something shimmering and heavy hit Nikolai's side of the truck with a force that cracked metal, and in that split second before the truck overturned and they all went spilling out onto the ground, onto the road, Nikolai felt something right beside his head, something that made a growling-clicking sound that made him scream, and behind it the sensation of great weight and the smell like rotting meat so that he steeled himself for a blow, but no blow came, just the delicate scrape of a clawed hand across his face, receding as the changed momentum of the truck and his own inertia carried him away from the creature."
Predator: Cold War
Kicks over a military truck full of soldiers.
Predators are similar to humans morphologically speaking, to it wouldn't be too out of the ball park to suggest that they have about the amount of strength that one could expect of a human at that size. I'm not talking about people who have acromegaly, where they just have a pituitary gland disorder which causes them to grow to large sizes, but I'm talking about true giants (or non-pathological giants) who are basically humans upscaled a couple feet and so are well proportioned. Enter in Angus Macaskill, the largest true giant in modern history. He grew to 7'10" and 580 lbs at his largest.
This man was a strongman in a circus through most of his life, known for many amazing feats. He lifted a 2800 lb anchor and was able to lift a full grown horse (900-1200 lbs) over a 4 ft fence with ease. He also could lift a 40 ft mast of a ship and put it in place by himself. He was likely stronger than the average predator, we can infer this because in the original Predator movie we saw Dutch get punched three times in the face by the predator without even so much as blacking out. Angus Macaskill, although usually a gentle giant, did get into a fight with a normal sized man, and with one punch put him in critical condition, nearly killing him. Considering that he was nearly a foot taller than the average yautja, this isn't really a surprise. Assuming that they'd be about as strong as a 7ft human isn't entirely out of the question; Here is a strongman that's nearly 7ft at 6ft11in, Sean O'Hagan
Unfortunately he's still rather new in the strongman fields and I can't find much on his feats. His workout often involves doing multiple reps with weights as heavy as about 16 stones (224 lbs). There's another strongman who lifted the Atlas Stone, Brian Shaw, who is shorter (about 6'8") He's disproportionately heavy and strong for his height though, as he did feats that the big kid above can do and is trying to do, so maybe his feats being used as a reference can give us some insight on how strong the predators might be.
- Squat – 410 kg (903 lbs)
- Tire Deadlift – 1,256 lb (570 kg) (with straps)
- Bench press – 525 lb (238 kg) x 2 [11]
- Deadlift – 1,001 lb (454 kg)
- Indoor Rowing – 100 meters in 12.8 seconds (unofficial world record at the time, since beaten by Loren Howard with 12.6)[12]
- Deadlift (with straps) – 1,014 lb (460 kg) (World's Strongest Man 2017)[13]
- Rogue Elephant Bar Deadlift (with straps) – 1,021 lb (463 kg) (Arnold Strongman Classic 2016)
- Hummer Tire Strongman Deadlift (with straps) – 1,140 lb (520 kg)[14]
- Log Lift – 440 lb (200 kg)
- Atlas Stone/Manhood Stone – 560 lb (254 kg) (world record)[15]
- Keg toss – 8 kegs in 16.59 seconds (World's Strongest Man 2014).[16]
So it would seem that the predators are about as strong as we could expect humans to be at that size (athletic humans that is) And if you find a human that's bigger than them, you could likely expect them to have greater strength (This is also supported by the fact that Engineers, a lifeform that humans come from, are bigger than predators and also shown to be far stronger than them. This however was in an AvP comic book so it may or may not be considered canon.) This is an old question, but when I myself was curious about this question and googled it, this was one of the first results to come up, so after consideration decided this was as good a place to post my input on the matter.
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