ALIEN VS PREDATOR: PREY

由於The Predator的上映，我又迷上了這個ugly motherfucker，又找來相關漫畫看看了。

這次看的是傳說中的名作，AVP的始源，ALIEN VS PREDATOR: PREY。

以下的內容引自Xenopedia:

The Lector, a transport ship headed for the planet Ryushi, is passed by a Yautja vessel in deep space, but the crew pass the object off as a comet. The Yautja ship, the Ne'dtessi, is also headed for Ryushi, where its commander Dachande intends to lead several inexperienced un-Blooded hunters in their first Hunt. Arriving in orbit around Ryushi, the crew use Eggs from a captive Xenomorph Queen held prisoner in the ship's hold to "seed" the planet with Xenomorph prey.
Unknown to the band of Yautja, the human rhynth-farming colony Prosperity Wells has been established on Rysuhi since they last visited. The settlement's new administrator, Machiko Noguchi, is preparing for the much-anticipated harvest, when the rhynth reared by the ranchers over the last few years will be collected by The Lector and taken off-world for slaughter. However, one of the ranchers, named Ackland, finds several of his rhynth are apparently suffering from a mystery illness, while his employee Roth discovers several dead crab-like creatures near where the animals were pastured. Not wanting to risk the harvest, Ackland keeps the incident quiet, while he has Roth lie to the colony veterinarian Dr. Kesar Revna about where she found the dead creatures.
Intrigued by the biologically unique specimens, Renva heads out to where Roth claims to have found the dead creatures to investigate. Instead of more examples, he instead discovers the Ne'dtessi and its Yaujta crew, who have set down for their Hunt. When he is discovered, Revna panics, and in attempting to flee on his speeder he accidentally crashes into the ship, destroying it and killing himself. With Dachande incapacitated by the explosion and his lieutenants killed, the young Yautja find themselves leaderless. One of their member, Tichinde, assumes command of the group, killing his peer 'Aseigan when he protests, and elects that the inexperienced Yautja will attack the humans they now realize are on Ryushi, relishing the challenge. To this end, the group assaults one of the outlying ranch houses and slaughters its occupants, the Sheldons, although their young son Bobby escapes.
At the main colony complex, The Lector arrives and loading of the rhynth begins. A large party is organized in celebration of the harvest, and even the usually uptight Machiko joins in the festivities. However, when she learns of Revna's disappearance from his wife, Dr. Miriam Revna, the colony's human doctor, she becomes concerned. These feelings are compounded when she discovers a report Kesar has written about the dead creatures Roth found, and realizes that the doctor must have gone looking for them. Her thoughts are interrupted by Scott, one of The Lector's pilots, who drunkenly propositions her. After fighting him off, the beaten Scott is helped back to the ship by Tom, the vessel's second pilot, whereupon the two are attacked by Xenomorph s born from the impregnated rhynth.
The following morning, Machiko has the colony's pilot fly her out in search of the missing Revna in the colony's copter — they discover the destroyed Yautja ship as well as the still-unconscious Dachande, whom they return to the colony. Meanwhile, the traumatized Bobby Sheldon arrives at the colony with a story of monsters slaughtering his family. When he recognizes Dachande's body and panics, Machiko realizes there must be more of the hunters on Ryushi. She leaves Miriam to tend to Dachande while she herself organizes defensive preparations for the colony. She goes to contact the crew of The Lector, but finds that the ship is infested with Xenomorphs. The emerging creatures are briefly held at bay by Gkyaun, one of the young Yautja, but the creatures soon overcome the inexperienced hunter and swarm into the colony. At the same time, the remaining Yautja attack the town, killing any colonists they find.
The surviving humans retreat inside the operations building and barricade the doors, and Machiko comes up with a plan for them to escape. She first goes to collect Miriam, who is still in her lab, only for the two to be attacked there by Tichinde. They are saved by the resuscitated Dachande, and make their escape while the two creatures fight. Dachande easily kills the traitorous Tichinde. Meanwhile, Machiko and Miriam take the copter and use the aircraft to scare the corralled rhynth out of their enclosure — the stampeding animals crush the warring Xenomorphs and Yautja as they charge through the colony. Amidst the chaos, the surviving colonists board vehicles and flee the town.

Dachande barely escapes the stampeding animals by climbing a tower; Miriam recognizes him as the one who saved them and makes Machiko try to save him. However, the copter collides with the tower and crashes. Miriam is killed in the impact, while Machiko is found by Scott and Tom, who have escaped the Hive aboard The Lector. The three encounter Dachande, who spares them out of respect for Machiko's attempt to save him, before the group is again attacked by Xenomorphs. They are forced back into the operations building, where Tom is killed by the birth of the Chestburster that had been growing inside him. Realizing he is to share his crewmate's fate, Scott has Machiko shoot him dead, but not before helping her formulate a plan to destroy the remaining Xenomorphs.
Machiko and Dachande head into The Lector, fighting their way through the Hive. While Dachande holds an escape pod, Machiko heads to the ship's bridge and programs the vessel's cargo barge, still in orbit around the planet, to plummet onto Prosperity Wells, hoping the impact and explosion will obliterate the Xenomorph scourge. As they attempt to flee they are attacked by the Hive's Queen; Dachande is mortally wounded fighting the creature, but Machiko manages to kill it by decapitating it with the escape pod's airlock door.
The pod carries Machiko and Dachande safely away from the colony before it is destroyed, the surviving Xenomorphs along with it. With his dying breath, Dachande marks Machiko with Xenomorph blood, Blooding her in recognition of her prowess in combat, before passing away. The colonists are eventually rescued from Ryushi by the United States Colonial Marine Corps, although Machiko elects to stay behind. Two years later, the Yautja return to Ryushi, and Machiko goes to meet them. Seeing the mark on he forehead, the group's leader, Vk'leita, invites Machiko to join his clan.

果然不愧是名作，真的很好看。

基本上，本作劇情與早年的電影AVP大同小異，或我應該說，電影有很多地方都參考了漫畫，例如年輕Predator來異星接受考驗、捕捉Alien Queen生產Alien供他們狩獵、與女主角合作、最終戰死等等，都是令人眼熟的畫面。

對於當時的觀眾來說，這樣的劇情應是十分新穎剌激吧，就算是2018年的我，也看得津津有味呢。

女主角Machiko成為了經典人物，畢竟她是第一部合作作品的主人翁，也是第一個異族Predator，是個極具代表性的人物。

本作的Predator懂得知恩圖報，乃念人類數次救助自己，故多次協助人類，更在臨死前賜予Machiko自己的標誌。看到Predator和人類一同行動，一同作戰的感覺真的很有趣。

不過在本作中的Predator較多使用冷兵器，與機動性強悍的Alien肉搏，自然會落下風，但也可能是設定上不許新人「作弊」吧，可能有設定書提及，至少在作品中沒有交代。正如上面那段Plot中，提及到的Predator姓名，內心想法，行動目的等等，我都不知道從何看到的。

總括而言，本作是個創新，有質素的故事，各方面都是超水準的作品，喜歡Alien/Predator都非看不可。

90分。