# Alien vs. Predator, who wins? ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780 "2004-03-27T18:52:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SettingSun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@SettingSun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SettingSun)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/1 "2004-03-27T18:52:29Z")
There was an involved discussion on radio yesterday, Alien vs. Predator, who wins? … ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/2 "2004-03-27T19:22:03Z")
There are too many variables to give a concrete answer, it all depends on the situation. In a one-on-one confrontation I’d have to side with the Predator. Predators have a wide array of powerful long-range weapons that they could use to kill an Alien. As long as the Alien wasn’t allowed to get close the Preadtor would just shoot it, and even in a melee confrontation the Predator would have that dual arm blade thing, so it’s possible they would just kill each other. Alien-hive Vs. Predator however would be an easy with for the Aliens. Overwhelm and eat, as they do to the puny humans all the time. And since someone else will no doubt mention it. Batman (prepared) \> Kindergarten Cop \> Predator. Batman vs. a Hive though, well, he’d just nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/3 "2004-03-27T19:51:44Z")
But could the Predator **see** an alien? Remember that the Predator uses infrared to track and see. “Maybe they don’t show up on infrared at all!” ---
**Author:** ![holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e95f7d/32.png) [@holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holmes)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/4 "2004-03-27T21:08:38Z")
> [@SettingSun](#): > > There was an involved discussion on radio yesterday, Alien vs. Predator, who wins? … Was that on Howard Stern? It was the most uninformed discussion about both creatures I have ever heard. Stern’s big argument was that the Predator would win, because the Alien (face-hugger)couldn’t infect it through it’s (predator’s)mask…I wanted to scream at the radio, that face-huggers use ACID to burn through whatever “protection” there is and then implants…like it did to the first astronaut in Alien and Ripley’s sleep chamber in Alien 3. Stupid know it all…arrgh! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/5 "2004-03-27T21:12:26Z")
Well, Predator is far more powerful than Alien in every single video game incarnation ever. Cooler weapons, too. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/6 "2004-03-27T21:14:03Z")
\>\>Alien vs. Predator, who wins? The movie studio. ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/7 "2004-03-27T22:18:32Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > But could the Predator **see** an alien? Remember that the Predator uses infrared to track and see. iirc, not _only_ infra-red. He/she switched between several different view-modes in the first movie. Long-term, the Alien should win. Because eventually, no matter how well they hunted, the Predators would kick back and go for a beer to celebrate, and in the movies it’s always the moment you relax that an unsplattered facehugger scuttles out from behind the toilet and wipes you out. And they only need ONE FACEHUGGER to survive; the Aliens are all over the place, there’s no telling how many planets have dormant eggs or suchlike hidden on them, and there are many different types too, so they’re fantastically adaptable. The Predators are too cool, but they do seem to be a bit like superpowerful humans. The Aliens are different. They’re Alien, man. The Predators could nuke the Aliens from here to Sunday, and you just know that even if they have to wait till the Predators have died out from boredom, the Alien will eventually be back. Eggs somewhere, DNA somewhere. It’s designed to survive. It _will_ survive. Also, the Predators are killing for sport, whereas the Aliens are doing it by the primal authority of their mythic, motherly biological drive - and as strong as the urge might be that drives thousands of men to sports every weekend, it pales in comparison to the terror that is woman pissed. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/8 "2004-03-27T23:28:18Z")
> [@Ross](#): > > iirc, not _only_ infra-red. He/she switched between several different view-modes in the first movie. That was the little-known and lesser-liked second movie, when Gary Busey is hunting down the predator in a heat-resistant suit. But yeah, apparently in the last mode he saw their flourescent lights. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/9 "2004-03-27T23:36:54Z")
Schwarzenegger’s Predator did it too. Whiile he was watching the fire fight between the A-Team and the Killer Guys. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/10 "2004-03-28T00:00:56Z")
Alien vs. Predator. Who wins? Batman, if he’s had enough time to prepare. ---
**Author:** ![SettingSun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@SettingSun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SettingSun)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/11 "2004-03-28T01:10:08Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#): > > Well, Predator is far more powerful than Alien in every single video game incarnation ever. > Cooler weapons, too. But in video games the Predators never have to sleep, do they? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/12 "2004-03-28T01:14:52Z")
Ripley 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/13 "2004-03-28T01:21:39Z")
> [@detop](#): > > Ripley 😃 Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/14 "2004-03-28T05:40:12Z")
I just read in the newest _Wizard_ magazine (#150) that DC and Dark Horse are doing a Batman / Superman / Alien / Predator series. I’ve actually never read any of the Alien and Predator crossovers. Are they any good? And how many crossovers have there been, anyway? Will this be the first time Superman faced off against either alien species? Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![Blaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-vs-predator-who-wins/236780/15 "2004-03-28T05:51:18Z")
When one human with a gun kills about a hundred aliens, why would we even ask if the predator with his many weapons could kick one aliens ass.