Scarface
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The "Scarface" Predator is the Yautja protagonist of the video game Predator: Concrete Jungle.[1] He was an experienced warrior banished by his clan in 1930 for failure and redeemed himself a century later.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Origins
A member of the Yautja alien species, the Predator culture revolves around the hunting and stalking of dangerous lifeforms. Usually, their hunts are not for sustenance or elimination of threats, but for entertainment, as the Yautja will only attack life forms that have the ability to provide them with a challenge. A member of the Dark Blade clan, the Predator is heavily trained in the ways of combat and hunting, and is an experienced warrior amongst his comrades. He chooses earth as the location for his next attack.
[edit] The New Way Devil
In 1930, the Predator landed on New Way City with the intent of hunting honorable prey. He decided that Bruno Borgia (the so called "God of Gangsters") would make a good trophy. The Predator followed Bruno to a museum, killing various members of his mafia and later killing Bruno himself in an honorable match. The Yautja then decapitaded the "God of Gangsters", and showed his new trophy with pride to Bruno's wife, Isabella Borgia, who was holding her sickly newborn son Hunter Borgia. As the Predator removed his mask, Isabella shot him in the head, causing him to lose one eye and spraying her and her son with the Yautja blood, causing them to both have un-natural health. At this point, the surviving members of Borgia's mafia showed up and shot the Predator, badly injuring him and forcing him to escape in a hurry, leaving his mask and weapons behind.
[edit] Redemption chance
A century later, Scarface had eliminated most of the wildlife on his exile planet, and his clan returned to retrieve him. The crime families of the rebuilted New Way City, now called Neonopolis, had deciphered the Yautja technology Scarface left behind. Attracted by the city's heat and conflict, Predators of the Bad Blood clan had gone to Neonopolis to hunt, but had been captured by Borgia Industries, led by Hunter Borgia, who had used weapons derived from the Yautja technology to defeat them.
The Predator then targeted Los Serviteurs Jamaican voodoo gang first, as they were using his Cloaking Device. He ripps their skins off and hangs them on some Borgia Industries signs around the town, to send a message. As the police rampages to defeat the rest of Los Serviteurs, Scarface kills the police so he can deal with the gang. The Predator then heads for the gang's headquarters, where he kills the remaining gang members and their leader Serviteur Houngan, wich skull he takes as a trophy. The Predator then searched for the Bad Blood's clan hidden ship, wich was located under a church used as sanctuary by the Dead Men gang. Scarface then interfered in their business, stopping robberies and an arms deal, and later used his Vocal Mimicry to record the password to enter the church from one of the remaining Dead Men. Scarface then infiltrated their lair and killed all of them, making trophies of their leaders, the Dead Men Triad. As he finds the ship, the thought would never cross his mind to use it as escape. This was his chance to reedeem himself amongst his kind for his mistake 100 years ago, and he uses it.
Scarface then infiltrates Italian mob boss Don Giovanni's residence and, with the indirect help from the Juvenite Pack-9 gang, manages to recover his Glaive and kills Giovanni and his bodyguard, making trophies of them. The Predator then targets El Hongo, leader of the Matadores and an associate of Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Hunter and grandaughter of Bruno and Isabella. Scarface follows him and interferes with his weapons and prostitution business, waiting for him to contact Lucretia so he can find her. Lucretia, however, sends Viktor the Chechen and The Machine Men to kill the Predator, but instead, Scarface kills them and takes Viktor's skull. El Hongo then runs to the docks to get protection from a group of armed ex-porn stars hookers led by Baby Blew. Scarface locates him, but the Promithius technology derived from his own weapons, interferes with his Cloaking Device and he is forced to destroy the docks generators before killing El Hongo. In the process, sinking a special shipment of Borgia Industries. Scarface then makes a trophy of El Hongo and Baby Blew, and follows a Borgia Industries truck to Lucretia's depot.
[edit] Unfinished business
The Predators then infiltrates and destroys the depot, but as he's leaving a group of members of The Monster Squad attacks him. Scarface is able to defeat four of them, but they later arrive in larger numbers and capture him, badly injuring him. As he is taken to the Borgia laboratories by Lucretia and Hunter Borgia, Scarface remembers the hunt of Bruno Borgia he made one hundred years before. As he wakes up, the Predator manages to free himself and recovers his weaponry, killing several guards and freeing other Yautja clan brothers that were also captured. As Scarface escapes, however, Lucretia dispatches three brainwashed Bad Blood Yautja to kill him. While he tries to disable a weather station that was preventing him from using his cloak, Scarface is attacked by "Swift Knife", but manages to give him an honorable death. He later confronts "Stone Heart" and "Long Spear", and manages to defeat them. As Scarface claimed "Long Spear" as a trophy, however, "Stone Heart" managed to escape.
The Predator then heads to Lucretia's penthouse to confront her, fighting several guards in the way, including her personal Ronin Bodyguards. He then jumps on her car and follows her to the MOTHER building. After defeating several Ulysses robots, Scarface reaches a room with a holographic projection of New Way City, which he disables. After making trophies of four more Monster Squad members, Scarface then enters his final battle with "Stone Heart" and ends his life with honor. Scarface then discovers that MOTHER, the computer controlling Neonopolis in 2030, is actually Isabella Borgia, who has been kept alive since 1930 by the Yautja blood. As he prepares to finish her, however, MOTHER activates a shield and frees a large group of Xenomorphs to kill Scarface, who battles them with rage while trying to disable four shield generators.
After finally killing Isabella, Scarface finds out that Hunter Borgia has gone through genetic manipulation and has become a hybrid of Human and Yautja traits. When Hunter apparently kills Lucretia, Scarface finds her Ronin bodyguards and convinces them to help avenge her by killing Hunter. After weakening and chasing Hunter, the three Ronin's die in Lucretia's honor and it becomes a last showdown between Scarface and Hunter Borgia, in the right hand of a statue of Bruno Borgia, the "God of Gangsters". Scarface finally redeems his honor by taking Hunter's head as his final trophy, ending the Borgia dinasty, and his Yautja clan brothers returns to take him home.
[edit] Abilities and weaponry
The Predator possesses superhuman strenght, resistence, reflexes, and stamina. His reptlian-like biology makes him agile and able of performing high jumps and acrobatics, such as jumping from rooftop to rooftop. The Predator is an alien humanoid with advanced technology and a penchant for hunting difficult game. With interstellar travel capability, multi-spectrum vision enhancement, and a light-bending armor suit with equally advanced weaponry, the Predator is able to travel anywhere, hunt anything, and usually succeed. The "Scarface" Predator uses all the trademark weapons from the movies, plus exclusive new weapons designed specially for the game.
The Yautja technology used in Predator: Concrete Jungle was:
- Cloaking Device
- Plate Armor
- Wrist Blades
- Spear Gun
- Plasma Caster
- Vision Modes
- Bio Mask
- Medicomp
- Vocal Mimicry
- Self-destruct Device
- Yautja Mothership
- Combi Stick
- Smart Disc
- Glaive
- Maul
- Throwing Mines
[edit] Behind-the-scenes
[edit] Design
The "Scarface" Predator is the player controlled character in the video game Predator: Concrete Jungle. He was designed to remember the Yautja from the movies, but have some customizations of his own, such as tribal ornaments and a Human skull on his shoulder.
[edit] Portrayer
The character was portrayed as an experienced warrior, called "a veteran of battles we cannot immagine". His tale is, resumed, that of a disgraced warrior who must regain his honor by killing the enemies who have stolen his weapons. Predator: Concrete Jungle makes several links between the films of the Alien, Predator, and Alien vs. Predator franchises. Hunter mentions to Lucretia Borgia that he knew Charles Bishop Weyland "before he disappeared"; Weyland appeared in the film Alien vs. Predator leading an expedition to the Antarctic, where he was killed by the Scar Predator. The Yutani Corporation is also mentioned, referencing the Weyland-Yutani Corporation of the Alien films. MOTHER, the name of the computer controlling Neonopolis in 2030, is also the name of the Nostromo's computer intelligence in Alien. Several other references to the film franchihses are made throughout the game, including the appearance of the Xenomorphs.
[edit] Name
In Concrete Jungle, the character is called "The New Way Devil" in most of the New Way City missions, as an obvious reference to the name of the fictional city. After missing one eye, the Predator was nicknamed "Scarface" due to his wound. The character El Hongo often calls him "El Diablo Invisible", meaning "The Invisible Demon".
