XENOMORPH TIMELINE
Chronology · 93 media · updated
The legacy Predator and Aliens vs. Predator expanded universe from before the Disney era, outside today's canon: the Dark Horse comics and crossovers, the older novels and the older games, ordered by the year their story takes place. Open a media to see what comes right before and after it, or switch to the vertical timeline for a condensed view.
July 1996 / In-Universe year : 1718
Off the Guinea Coast in 1718, pirate captain Raphael Adolini faces a mutiny over gold stolen from a church. A Predator watching from the trees joins the fight.
February 1998 - March 1998 / In-Universe year : 1863
In the Ozark Mountains in 1863, a young Jesse James and his Confederate raiders run into a Union patrol. A Predator drawn by the war forces the enemies into an uneasy truce.
December 1997 - January 1998 / In-Universe year : 1896
In 1896 London, Captain Edward Soames is sent by the Diogenes Club after the killer known as Spring-Heeled Jack. He soon suspects it is the same demon that slaughtered his men in Bengal fifteen years before.
December 1990 / In-Universe year : 1926
In 1926, deep within the Everglades National Park, an escaped convict is pursued by three guards, unaware they are all being watched by a lurking Yautja.
November 1996 / In-Universe year : 1931
Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, July 1931. Two trappers and their Cajun guide find skinned bodies hanging in the swamp. The guide, LeBlanc, says it is the work of the Gollywomp, a man turned into a monster.
May 1993 - August 1993 / In-Universe year : 1936
Serengeti, August 1936. Railway workers are being slaughtered in the Nghasa basin, and the crown sends a famous hunter to kill the man-eating lion. The villagers say it is a forest devil.
November 1998 / In-Universe year : 1942 (approx)
During World War II, a Nazi commandant burns a village in Ecuador and forces a boy to lead his men to a lost Inca treasure in the mountains. The gold has a guardian.
January 1996 - June 1996 / In-Universe year : 1945 (approx)
Someone is killing the greatest warriors and beasts of Pellucidar, the primeval world at the center of the Earth, and its ruler David Innes has vanished. Tarzan goes below to find the hunters.
December 1993 - February 1994 / In-Universe year : 1947
Manhattan, summer 1947. Someone is killing the men of rival mob bosses Tony Vincenzo and Bernie Jinks, and a crime reporter named Max knows more than he is telling.
July 1994 / In-Universe year : 1959
Hollywood, 1959. The studios churn out alien invasion movies, and a real alien hunter lands on a back lot. Thanks to a pair of special glasses, eleven-year-old Tommy Anderson is the only one who can see it.
January 1987 - January 1988 / In-Universe year : 1987 (approx)
Dutch Schaefer fights his way through the jungle to face the alien hunter in the first games based on the 1987 film, released on home computers and the NES.
December 1996 - March 1997 / In-Universe year : 1988
Fleener Creek, Oregon, summer 1988. A serial killer escapes into the woods during a record heat wave. Buddy Wilcox is sure that the monster that killed his father there thirty years ago has come back.
June 1989 - March 1990 / In-Universe year : 1989
Predator: Concrete Jungle follows the story of an unnamed Predator that hunts in the urban jungle of New York City in 1989.
April 1995 / In-Universe year : 1989
During a record New York heat wave, detectives Schaefer and Rasche track a killer who skins the city's gangsters. The trail leads to an alien hunter and to the disappearance of Schaefer's brother Dutch.
March 1991 - June 1991 / In-Universe year : 1990 (approx)
In the New Mexico desert, Navajo corporal Enoch Nakai survives a Predator ambush that the army wants to hush up. When the hunter destroys Cole Army Base and turns on the region, Nakai goes after it alone.
February 1999 / In-Universe year : 1990 (approx)
A Predator lands in the New Mexico desert and starts killing soldiers. Navajo corporal Enoch Nakai turns to the legends of his people to face the creature on his own.
September 1991 - December 1991 / In-Universe year : 1990 (approx)
Months after the New York heat wave, a Predator ship crashes in Siberia. Detective John Schaefer is forced onto a secret American mission to reach the wreck before the Soviet army does.
March 1997 / In-Universe year : 1990 (approx)
A Predator ship crashes in Siberia. Detective John Schaefer is pressed into a covert American team sent to recover it, while Russian forces race to reach the same wreck.
December 1991 - February 1992 / In-Universe year : 1991 (approx)
A boxing match set up by two Gotham mob bosses draws the attention of a Predator, and the city's toughest men start dying. Batman takes up the hunt, against a killer that only goes after worthy prey.
February 1992 / In-Universe year : 1992 (approx)
A CIA lawyer defending an agent accused of a massacre in Nicaragua uncovers older cases, from Vietnam in 1968 to a French soldier's diary written in the trenches of World War I.
February 1993 - October 1993 / In-Universe year : 1992
A Predator follows the serial killer who claimed its murders into an Arizona state prison. A government task force sends the mercenary Cross inside to organize the inmates and capture it.
November 1992 - February 1993 / In-Universe year : 1992
Three hundred years after a blind swordsman dueled a Predator in feudal Japan, a hunter comes back to Tokyo. Its prey is Juta Tanaka, a blind martial arts master.
August 1992 - September 1992 / In-Universe year : 1992 (approx)
A young Maasai warrior comes home with the skin of the lioness he killed to become a man. His village has been slaughtered, and he sets off alone after the killer.
December 1993 - June 1994 / In-Universe year : 1993
In the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a psychotic Predator hunted by its own kind goes on a killing spree. Former CIA agent John Pulnick and his old team are caught between the creature and the CIA task force sent to capture it.
October 1994 - January 1995 / In-Universe year : 1994 (approx)
The Predators swore never to hunt in Gotham again after Batman beat one of them. A reckless young hunter breaks that vow to take the human champion's head, and two of its own kind are on its trail.
April 1994 - May 1994 / In-Universe year : 1994 (approx)
Out of the army, Enoch Nakai still has nightmares about the creature he fought in "Big Game." His grandfather tells him how, in 1919, their family met the same hunter during a fight over a sacred Navajo site.
August 1995 - September 1995 / In-Universe year : 1995 (approx)
A band of Predators comes to Earth looking for exceptional prey. This time the targets are the heroes of Dark Horse's own superhero universe.
July 1996 - October 1996 / In-Universe year : 1996 (approx)
Still looking for his brother Dutch, Detective John Schaefer is lured back into the jungle. A local strongman forces him to hunt a Predator worshipped by a native tribe, a hunter Schaefer thought he had killed.
February 1991 - June 1991 / In-Universe year : 1997
Comic book adaptation of the film. In the heat of 1997 Los Angeles, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan hunts the unseen killer who is butchering both sides of a gang war.
January 1991 - January 1993 / In-Universe year : 1997 (approx)
Lieutenant Mike Harrigan takes on drug gangs and the Predator across Los Angeles in the computer and Sega games based on the 1990 film.
March 1997 / In-Universe year : 1997 (approx)
A rich widow hires a band of hunters to kill the man-eating lion that took her husband. In the jungle, a Predator is watching them, and it judges men and beasts by its own code of honor.
August 1997 / In-Universe year : 1997 (approx)
Three boys camping in a suburban backyard swap scary stories. One of them swears he saw a monster in a spaceship nearby, so they sneak out to look, and find a Predator using birds for target practice.
April 1997 - June 1997 / In-Universe year : 1997
Off the southern coast of Chile, Captain Rafe Cromartie and his team go after a Predator that has dropped into the sea. The hunter is using them as bait to draw out something far worse living in the deep.
July 1997 - August 1997 / In-Universe year : 1997 (approx)
In the Alaskan wilderness during hunting season, a lone forest ranger is caught between a Predator and an angry mother grizzly, while a forest fire spreads around them.
September 1997 - January 1998 / In-Universe year : 1997 (approx)
An old Predator champion brings his son to Gotham City for his first hunt, and the young one has picked Robin as his prey. To stop them, Batman may need to make a deal with Mr. Freeze.
May 1998 / In-Universe year : 1998
In the Nevada desert, billionaire Tyler Stern keeps a living Predator in a biosphere and feeds it human prey. His new security chief, who survived a Predator attack in Nicaragua in 1984, warns him the creature cannot be held.
March 1999 - June 1999 / In-Universe year : 1999
In Yellowstone National Park, a naturalist and a former combat photographer meet an ancient Predator warrior who has come to Earth to hunt down three young renegades of his own race.
May 2000 - July 2000 / In-Universe year : 2000 (approx)
In the jungles of Central America, an alien virus drains Superman's powers just as a Predator picks the weakened Man of Steel as its next trophy.
December 2000 - March 2001 / In-Universe year : 2000 (approx)
Aliens and a Predator arrive in New York City, where detective Sara Pezzini, wielder of the Witchblade, and mob hitman Jackie Estacado, host of the Darkness, become their targets.
December 2000 - February 2001 / In-Universe year : 2000 (approx)
In this sequel to "Overkill," Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado wake up in a false reality and discover they are prisoners aboard a huge living spaceship in Earth orbit, along with Aliens and Predators.
August 2004 / In-Universe year : 2000
The year is 2000. A high-ranking Predator lands in a jungle on Earth and slips into a military outpost, where he hunts the soldiers for skulls to bring back to the trophy shrine of his race.
February 2001 / In-Universe year : 2001 (approx)
A group of Predators comes to Earth to hunt the Justice League. With help from a rogue alien geneticist, the hunters have given themselves the heroes' own powers.
August 2004 - November 2004 / In-Universe year : 2004 (approx)
Two mobile tie-ins to the 2004 film: a side-scroller by Superscape in which each species takes its turn, and a basic 2D fighting game by Wicked Witch Software.
May 2006 / In-Universe year : 2004
One of the humans of the Antarctic expedition picks up a Predator weapon left at the buried temple. On rails, the player fights facehuggers, Aliens and cloaked Predators from the whaling station to the pyramid.
November 2007 / In-Universe year : 2004
After the events of "Alien vs. Predator," a lone Predator is sent to Gunnison, Colorado, to destroy the Aliens loose in the town and erase every trace of them before humans find out.
November 2007 / In-Universe year : 2007
During the Iraq War, a U.S. Army patrol stumbles into a fight between a lone Predator and an Alien.
January 2007 - February 2007 / In-Universe year : 2007 (approx)
Batman learns that Aliens and Predators have been hiding on Earth for centuries. With Superman, he has to get them off the planet before the colony spreads.
March 2008 / In-Universe year : 2008 (approx)
In the Alaskan wilderness, park ranger Sloane goes after bear poachers. He soon learns that a party of Predators has come for the same game, and that they hunt men too.
October 2008 / In-Universe year : 2008 (approx)
On a private island in the South China Sea, rich guests pay a former Khmer Rouge colonel to hunt exotic game. A veteran Predator arrives and turns the island into its own hunting ground.
January 2008 / In-Universe year : 2008 (approx)
In the maximum security prison camp of Terminal City, a Predator and a soldier named Major Duke are each out to kill the other. The levels alternate between the hunter and the man.
June 2009 - January 2010 / In-Universe year : 2009 (approx)
During a civil war in East Africa, mercenary Thorpe and his Graham Directive Security crew are caught between two rival Predator clans. One of the hunters seems to take their side.
June 2010 - June 2010 / In-Universe year : 2010 (approx)
Two prequel stories to the film "Predators." A Navy SEAL fights to survive on the Predators' game preserve planet, and the mercenary Royce takes a job in Africa shortly before his abduction.
July 2010 / In-Universe year : 2010
Sniper Isabelle is captured during a mission in the jungles of Guatemala and wakes up falling toward an alien planet. With the other fighters dropped there, she learns that they are the game in a Predator hunt.
July 2010 / In-Universe year : 2010 (approx)
Two mobile games tied to the 2010 film. In Angry Mob Games' version, a young Predator hunts the humans dropped on the game preserve planet. In Gameloft's version, Royce fights his way across the planet.
July 2010 / In-Universe year : 2010 (approx)
A few weeks after the end of the film, Royce and Isabelle are still stranded on the Predators' game preserve. Now they have a plan to get away, and a huge four-armed Predator standing in their path.
April 2015 - July 2015 / In-Universe year : 2015 (approx)
Archie and his friends spend spring break in Costa Rica, where a trophy-collecting Predator picks them as its next prey. When the gang goes home, the hunter follows them to Riverdale.
December 2018 / In-Universe year : 2018 (approx)
At the North Pole, a Predator stalks Santa's elves and his heavily armed reindeer. A stop-motion parody made to promote the home release of "The Predator."
July 2019 - January 2020 / In-Universe year : 2019 (approx)
With their friends dead and their town in ruins, Betty, Veronica and Predator-Archie drive into a different Riverdale. Meanwhile, Predators on Mars are planning their next attack.
June 1998 - September 1998 / In-Universe year : 2025 (approx)
In the Tokyo of 2025, a trillionaire has lived for seven centuries on the flesh and technology of a crashed Predator ship. To go on living, he needs new hunters, and a reporter is already on his trail.
April 2005 / In-Universe year : 2030
In 1930, a Predator loses a fight in New Way City and is exiled by his clan. A century later he returns to the city, now called Neonopolis, to take back the technology the gangs built from his lost gear.
August 1999 - November 1999 / In-Universe year : 2040 (approx)
Spearhead, a black-ops team of mercenaries armed with the latest weapons, sets out to wipe the Predators off the Earth for good. The hunters have plans of their own.
May 2006 / In-Universe year : 2117
In 2117, the Predators return after a century of silence and attack the colony world Midnight. Commander Randall Ness and a few UN troopers crash far from the settlement and must cross the jungle to reach it.
September 2007 / In-Universe year : 2117 (approx)
When patriarch Karl Ciejek dies, his grandson Andar returns to the mining planet Felicity for the reading of the will. His cousin Derek wants the family empire for himself, and he has called in the Predators to get rid of Andar.
October 1997 - December 1997 / In-Universe year : 2119 (approx)
In Mega-City One, a rogue Predator hunts criminals and Judges alike. Judge Dredd tracks it down with the help of Psi-Judge Schaefer, whose ancestors fought the creatures.
July 2016 - June 2017 / In-Universe year : 2138 (approx)
Judge Dredd tracks a cult leader into the Alabama Morass while Predators come to Earth to rescue a captured comrade. Both run into a mad gene-splicer who has just obtained a Xenomorph skull.
January 2007 / In-Universe year : 2179 (approx)
In a secret facility guarded by Colonial Marines, the player either spreads the hive as an Alien or hunts it down as a Predator, wiping out every trace of the creatures.
February 2010 / In-Universe year : 2180 (approx)
On the jungle planet BG-386, Weyland-Yutani breeds Aliens and digs into an ancient Predator pyramid. When the creatures escape, Colonial Marines and three Predator hunters are drawn into the outbreak.
February 2013 / In-Universe year : 2180 (approx)
On LV-412, the Super Predators capture an Alien Queen to control her brood. A young Predator and an Alien Drone, each fighting for its own kind, set out to stop them.
May 1999 / In-Universe year : 2189 (approx)
Three unconnected campaigns, one for each species. The Marine, Private Anderson, serves at a Weyland-Yutani facility built around the derelict ship on LV-426.
October 1994 / In-Universe year : 2189 (approx)
On the Golgotha training base, the player is an Alien freeing its Queen, a Predator hunting her skull, or a Colonial Marine trying to escape the overrun station.
July 2003 / In-Universe year : 2189 (approx)
On the distant world LV-742, a Weyland-Yutani colony stumbles on a dormant Alien hive that a clan of Predators has come to hunt.
June 1990 - December 1990 / In-Universe year : 2189 (approx)
On the ranching colony of Ryushi, young Predators arrive to hunt Aliens as a rite of passage. The colonists are caught in the middle, and administrator Machiko Noguchi must fight alongside the hunter Broken Tusk.
April 1994 / In-Universe year : 2189 (approx)
On the colony world Ryushi, young Predators seed the land with Aliens for a coming-of-age hunt. Administrator Machiko Noguchi and her colonists are caught in the middle, until she sides with a wounded hunter.
September 1994 / In-Universe year : 2190 (approx)
On an Alien-infested world, clan leader Top-Knot takes young Predators on their first hunt. The rash Two-Stripes is ready to cheat his rival Light-Stepper to win a trophy.
March 1995 - April 1995 / In-Universe year : 2192 (approx)
Years after the fall of Prosperity Wells, Colonial Marines answer a distress call from Ryushi. Inside a Predator mother ship they find an unconscious hunter and a chained Alien Queen, and more Predators are close by.
May 1995 - August 1995 / In-Universe year : 2192 (approx)
Machiko Noguchi now hunts with a Predator clan. On the jungle planet Bunda, the clan's great hunt turns against the humans of a Weyland-Yutani outpost, among them the survivors of "Aliens: Berserker."
December 1999 / In-Universe year : 2192 (approx)
S. D. Perry's novel adapts the Dark Horse comic "Aliens vs. Predator: War," with its prologue retold as Machiko Noguchi's flashback. Machiko turns on her Predator clan on Bunda, where Weyland-Yutani holds the three survivors of "Aliens: Berserker."
December 1994 / In-Universe year : 2192 (approx)
Machiko Noguchi has left the Predators and now sits behind a desk on a quiet colony world. When billionaire Livermore Evanston asks her to clear the Aliens from his private hunting planet, she says yes. Then she learns what he is really hiding.
May 1994 / In-Universe year : 2192 (approx)
Aliens have overrun San Drad, California. Cyborg Marines Dutch Schaefer and Linn Kurosawa join forces with two Predators to destroy the hive.
July 1993 - August 1995 / In-Universe year : 2194 (approx)
High above an Alien-contaminated Earth, trophy wife Caryn Delacroix cannot sleep. Every night she dreams that a Predator is hunting her, and the dreams are about to come true.
January 2010 - September 2010 / In-Universe year : 2195 (approx)
A rogue Predator clan is attacking human colonies with Aliens bred as weapons. The Colonial Marines turn to Machiko Noguchi, the only human who has lived among the hunters, to win her old clan over as an ally.
January 1992 / In-Universe year : 2200 (approx)
Sometime in the future, the Predator Cracked Tusk leads his clan against an Alien hive, while the young blood Renegade looks for his first kill.
July 1999 / In-Universe year : 2200 (approx)
Five short Aliens vs. Predator stories in one double-sized issue, from an Alien outbreak on the rimworld Charon 13 to the true story of Saint George and the dragon.
December 1999 - March 2000 / In-Universe year : 2200 (approx)
To get Charley out of a prison colony, she and her boyfriend Elliott must rob a rival company's research complex. A Predator arrives at the same moment to free the Aliens held there.
April 2008 / In-Universe year : 2200 (approx)
Two astronauts board a ship and find its whole crew dead. Aliens and Predators were here before them, and they may not have left.
September 1999 - October 1999 / In-Universe year : 2219 (approx)
Thirty years after the fall of Prosperity Wells, the stranded crew of the freighter Herakles answers a distress beacon on an unknown planet and finds a gigantic factory overrun by Aliens.
February 1995 - January 1996 / In-Universe year : 2222 (approx)
A pair of pirate Predators attacks a ship carrying a captive Alien Queen to the research station Innominata. A few ordinary, well-armed humans are caught in the crossfire.
October 2004 / In-Universe year : 2381 (approx)
Long after a computer disaster erased most of humanity's past, a corporate expedition makes the first planetfall in more than a century. Nobody aboard remembers the Predators or the Aliens.
April 2008 / In-Universe year : 2381 (approx)
Eight months after "Thrill of the Hunt," the stranded Lambda Exponential colonists have run out of supplies. Help comes from the very Predators who marooned them.
April 2000 - July 2000 / In-Universe year : 2381 (approx)
Centuries after its defeat, Skynet returns and starts making Terminator and Alien hybrids. The Ripley clone and Annalee Call must side with the Predators to stop it.
January 1993 / In-Universe year : 2493
On the colony world Vega 4, workers digging under New Shanghai unearth Alien eggs. A passing Predator ship answers the distress call, and its hunters set out to purge the planet.
September 1993 / In-Universe year : 2593
In 2593, Aliens have wiped out both the human colony on Alpha Centauri 3 and a Predator hunting party. The last Predator of the clan must hunt down the Alien Queen to restore its honor.
October 1992 - May 1993 / In-Universe year : 4001 (approx)
In the far future city of North Am, a Predator hunts Magnus, Robot Fighter, who holds the X-O Manowar helmet the alien wants back as its most prized trophy.