Predator: Badlands (2025) - Quotes

Taglines: Welcome to a world of hurt.

Taglines: [[w:IMAX|IMAX] On November 7, the director of Prey welcomes you to a world of hurt in ].

Dek: Name is Dek. Now talk that way.

Thia: [[w:Red dwarf|a dying red dwarf star] Okay, sure. Well, let's back up and start at the beginning. Genna was formed 64 billion cycles ago, when ] in a neighboring system...

Thia: It's so beautiful. After all the time I've been stuck here, I never get tired of the view.

Dek: How long have you been here?

Thia: Well, we arrived on Genna two years ago, and we built a base. Then, I was in the vulture's nest for the most exciting 13 days, seven hours, 43 minutes and two seconds of my life. But I always knew someone would come. I was just wrong about who.

Dek: Who would come?

Thia: Tessa. Our crew is made entirely of synths. But Tessa and I are special. We have a higher sensitivity than the others.

Dek: Sensitivity is weakness.

Thia: Sensitivity is what allows us to understand the creatures on this planet. We were created to work in tandem. Me, cooped up in the lab, Tessa out in the field. Until the wonderful day Tessa let me come with her. We were exploring Genna. And the Kalisk attacked us. Separated me... and us. The last sound I remember hearing was Tessa calling out my name. Reaching for me. Then the Kalisk. I didn't know what to do. But I refuse to believe she's dead.

Muthur: Hello, Tessa. The Company is not pleased. Continued failure will result in your decommission.

Tessa: Where's Thia?

Muthur: The Yautja has Thia.

Thia: Look. Many Yautja have come for the great Kalisk, and none have survived it or Genna. I've seen the Kalisk. I survived it. Here's my proposal: You take me along with you, and I'll guide you to its den. Once there, I get my legs, you get your trophy, and everyone's a winner. Deal?

Dek: You have seen the Kalisk?

Thia: [''Waits for Dek to respond, her confidence slowly draining as the silence stretches, shifts awkwardly, glancing toward the horizon''] Oh, yeah. I've seen the Kalisk? Okay. Hmm. Good luck with your journey. I'm just gonna... go on my journey. I'm sure you'll figure something out.

Tessa: Betrayed by my own sister.

Thia: We're not sisters.

Tessa: Hi, Dek. How does it feel to be hunted?

Dek: [''The Kalisk attacks the Super Power Loader''] You tell me.

Thia: I could help you, but... I need a hand.

Dek: Yautja hunt alone.

Thia: Yautja might hunt alone, but they die alone too. Kalisk. You're hunting the Kalisk.

Kwei: Genna. The death planet. Home of the un-killable Kalisk. Even father fears it.

Dek: Then the Kalisk shall be my trophy. Father calls me the weakest... so I must kill the strongest.

Kwei: Failure means death.

Dek: Then I will not fail.

Kwei: I cannot allow it.

Dek: I make my vow. I make my vow!

Dek: I'm still alive, brother.

Kwei: Still much to prove to show who you are.

Dek: I am Yautja.

Kwei: Not yet.

Dek: Are you holding your sword, Kwei?

Kwei: No.

Dek: Pick it up!

Dek: What is this creature?

Thia: Bone bison. They're Kalisk food.

Dek: Then it will be my food, too.

Thia: So exciting. Hunting with the Yautja? Tessa wouldn't believe it.

Thia: I think she's marking you. She wants you to be part of her clan. Maybe she's lost.

Dek: I have no clan!

Thia: What do you mean? Don't all Yautja have family?

Dek: No clan!

Thia: So you never had anyone looking out for you?

Dek: I had a brother.

Thia: What happened to him?

Dek: Father killed him.

Thia: You're grieving.

Dek: Grief is weakness.

Thia: You're here because you lost your brother.

Dek: I am here for Kalisk. Why are you here?

Thia: I'm here because traveling with you is the best way to get back to Tessa. When I was in that vulture's next, I was so afraid I would never see her again.

Thia: [''Dek lifts her easily, his hand brushing against the exposed robotic components beneath her damaged outer skin''] How about a lift? Let's go. Excuse me, sir.

Dek: What happened to your legs?

Thia: I'm synthetic. I was built and deployed by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation for research. Because their humans wouldn't last a day on this planet.

Dek: The sun rises. Let's go.

Thia: We can't leave Bud.

Dek: Bud?

Thia: Yeah. Bud. I named her.

Dek: Yautja hunt alone.

Thia: You're not alone. I'm with you.

Dek: You're a tool.

Thia: The tree would have eaten us without her.

Dek: We're not in the tree now.

Dek: You kept this toy?

Kwei: You remembered what happened...

Dek: I lost my fang!

Kwei: And you saved my life. You protected me.

Drone Synth: What is the device?

Thia: [''To Dek''] He's asking about the device.

Dek: It's a children's toy. But says it's a map.

Drone Synth: What did it say?

Thia: He says its a map.

Drone Synth: How does it work?

Dek: [''The device explodes and blows up the Drone Synth''] Tell tool to look inside.

Thia: That was a children's toy?

Dek: Yautja children!

Thia: Why'd your father kill your brother?

Dek: My brother was protecting me. The clan can have no weakness. I will show them strength.

Thia: On Earth... there's a predator known as the wolf. It's a powerful creature. They hunt in packs. They're very loyal. The leader of the pack is the alpha, known as the most dominant.

Dek: Wolf. This alpha must be a great killer. I will hunt it too.

Thia: No. The alpha isn't the wolf who kills the most. The alpha is actually the one who best protects the pack.

Dek: I see... The alpha is actually the one who best protects the pack. But, I will be the the alpha that kills the most.

Thia: Dek of the Yautja.

Dek: Not yet.

Father: Perhaps the right son did survive. Yield now... and take your place in our clan.

Dek: I have my own clan.

Thia: More friends of yours?

Dek: No. It's my mother.

Kwei: You fight with rage.

Dek: I fight like father!

Kwei: You are not father, you are Dek.

Dek: You should be able to survive on your own.

Thia: I can survive on my own. But who would want to survive on their own?

Dek: Tessa is your sister.

Thia: Sister. I guess she is. I have a sister. What a lovely thought. I need to find her.

Dek: And legs.

Thia: Excuse me?

Dek: Find your sister. And legs.

Thia: Was that a joke?

Thia: [''To Dek] We might not be alone in this hunt.

Thia: You're hunting something that can't be killed.

Thia: [''Having just fully reattached her legs when Dek is knocked into the medical bay by the Kalisk''] Oh, come on!

Dek: You protected me, brother. Wolf.

Dek: I am prey to none!