XENOMORPH TIMELINE
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This is the full Predator timeline: the movies, the novels, the comics and the games, ordered by the year their story takes place. It includes the Alien vs. Predator films and the Titan Rage War novels, which bring the two franchises together. Each entry shows its in-universe year and release date. Open a media to see what comes right before and after it, or switch to the vertical timeline for a condensed view.
See also: Predator movies only · Alien and Predator movies in one timeline
August 2022 / In-Universe year : 1719
Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
July 2025 - October 2025 / In-Universe year : 1850 (approx)
Nine black-and-white Predator stories with red and green blood. In the main one, Joe Kelly's "Bloodwood," a young Predator hunting in the Australian wilderness of 1850 runs into men from a convict colony.
June 1987 / In-Universe year : 1987
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
January 2020 / In-Universe year : 1987 (approx)
A virtual reality game made for VR arcades. As an elite soldier leading two squadmates, the player fights the Predator in the jungles of Panama and a secret base in Siberia.
June 1987 / In-Universe year : 1987
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer and his commandos are sent into the Central American jungle on a rescue mission. One by one, they are hunted down by a creature they cannot see.
October 2017 / In-Universe year : 1987 (approx)
Sixteen new stories of Predators hunting humans across the centuries, from Viking raiders and a disgraced samurai to the American Civil War, Vietnam and the far reaches of space.
August 2022 / In-Universe year : 1987 (approx)
Fifteen original short stories about the Predators, set on Earth and in deep space. One of them follows Dutch Schaefer in the days after the first film.
November 1990 / In-Universe year : 1997
The Predator returns to Earth, this time to stake a claim on the war-torn streets of a dystopian Los Angeles.
December 1990 / In-Universe year : 1997
In Los Angeles, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan finds drug gang members slaughtered by a killer nobody can see. A federal team takes the case away from him, but Harrigan refuses to let it go.
May 2020 / In-Universe year : 1997 (approx)
After the Predator attack on Los Angeles in 1997, Marine Scott Devlin is drawn into a secret war. Over the years he finds an ally in Dutch Schaefer, who has been fighting the Hunters in the shadows.
June 2025 / In-Universe year : 1997 (approx)
A Viking raider, a ninja from feudal Japan, and a World War II pilot encounter a fierce intergalactic hunter.
August 2004 / In-Universe year : 2004
During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.
July 2004 / In-Universe year : 2004
Marc Cerasini's novelization of the 2004 film follows Lex Woods and Charles Bishop Weyland's expedition into a pyramid under the ice of Bouvetøya. It adds a prologue in Cambodia in 2000 BC and characters who are not in the movie.
December 2007 / In-Universe year : 2004
Warring Alien and Predator races descend on a rural Colorado town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.
October 2010 / In-Universe year : 2010 (approx)
A four-part motion comic prequel to "Predators." It shows the moments when Isabelle, Cuchillo, Hanzo and Mombasa were taken from Earth, framed by Noland waiting for the next hunt on the game preserve planet.
October 2010 / In-Universe year : 2010 (approx)
A motion comic from the "Predators" home video release. It shows how the Super Predators caught the smaller rival Predator that is later found bound in their camp.
July 2010 / In-Universe year : 2010
A group of elite warriors parachute into an unfamiliar jungle and are hunted by members of a merciless alien race.
March 2022 / In-Universe year : 2010 (approx)
Fifteen original short stories pit the Predators against their ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs, with humans caught in the middle. The tales take place on Earth and in distant space.
May 2017 - September 2017 / In-Universe year : 2017 (approx)
Survivors of past Predator encounters, including Enoch Nakai and Mandy Graves, team up to hunt the hunters. Their first target is a Predator said to stalk a remote island in the South Pacific.
August 2018 - January 2019 / In-Universe year : 2018 (approx)
The Predator hunters travel to the mountains of Afghanistan, where a creature the locals call a djinn has been killing jihadis. A government team is after the same prey.
July 2018 / In-Universe year : 2018 (approx)
Project Stargazer trains an elite strike team for one job: capture a Predator alive. When a hunter turns up in Florida, the team finally gets its chance.
September 2018 / In-Universe year : 2018
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
September 2018 / In-Universe year : 2018
A sniper sends home gear taken from a crashed Predator ship, and his young son figures out how to use it. The signal brings a deadlier hunter to Earth.
February 2020 - November 2020 / In-Universe year : 2020 (approx)
Cartel soldiers are dying in the jungles of Central America. The Predator Hunters team heads to Belize, where a Russian squad is after the same prey and John Schaefer, Dutch's brother, is waiting.
April 2020 / In-Universe year : 2025
In remote jungles around the world, a team of four elite operatives carries out paramilitary missions while a lone Predator hunts them down.
February 2026 - June 2026 / In-Universe year : 2030 (approx)
In the near future, an underground martial arts tournament gathers Earth's fiercest fighters. When a Predator enters the ring, the champions must fight for their lives.
August 2022 - January 2023 / In-Universe year : 2056
Years after a Predator killed her family, Theta Berwick hunts the Yautja across the stars. A crash on the frozen planet Tusket leaves her stranded, and another Predator is watching.
March 2023 - July 2023 / In-Universe year : 2062
Eight people taken from Earth over the last century wake up on a Predator game preserve in 2062. Their only way out is Theta Berwick, who has been looking for this planet for a long time.
February 2024 - May 2024 / In-Universe year : 2068
In 2068, Theta Berwick sets out to free the humans held by the Predators. A Super Predator stands in her way, and far from Earth she meets John Schaefer, Dutch's brother.
August 2022 / In-Universe year : 2190 (approx)
On the narcotic-producing planet LV-363, Predators seed the deep rifts with Xenomorph eggs for a blooding hunt. The hybrids that emerge, some able to fly, trap the cartel's workers between hunters and prey.
December 2019 - November 2020 / In-Universe year : 2200 (approx)
Three Predators board the luxury star liner Double Down. Maria, a teenage girl, and Tyler, her android brother, must survive the hunters and the Xenomorph they were keeping prisoner.
September 2014 - December 2014 / In-Universe year : 2219
In 2219 the crew of the Geryon reaches LV-223, the moon where the Prometheus disappeared 126 years earlier. Instead of barren rock they find a jungle, and an old ship from Hadley's Hope with Xenomorphs still inside.
October 2014 - January 2015 / In-Universe year : 2219
As the Geryon armada leaves LV-223 behind, the mutating synthetic Elden catches up with it and lets a horde of Aliens loose on board. Then a Predator hunting party joins the fight.
October 2014 - January 2015 / In-Universe year : 2219
Galgo Helder flees LV-223 aboard the Perses with a Predator stowaway. The hunter is after bigger game, and it forces Galgo to fly back to the moon he abandoned.
February 2015 / In-Universe year : 2219
April 2219. Stranded on LV-223 and close to starving, Angela Foster and the last survivors of the Geryon look for a human beacon buried inside a mountain, their only way to call for help.
March 2016 - June 2016 / In-Universe year : 2220 (approx)
On the jungle planet Tartarus, Colonial Marines guarding a Weyland-Yutani claim find a horseshoe-shaped alien ship. A band of Predators wants it too.
June 2016 - September 2016 / In-Universe year : 2220 (approx)
A squad of Colonial Marines is aboard an Engineer ship taken from the Predators when its owner wakes up. Six days later the ship lands on LV-223, where the survivors of "Fire and Stone" are still stranded.
December 2016 - March 2017 / In-Universe year : 2220 (approx)
Stranded on LV-223, the Colonial Marines face an army of Aliens determined to take back their unborn queen. Their only hope is a Predator clan, if Ahab can win its help.
April 2017 / In-Universe year : 2220 (approx)
On LV-223, the last Colonial Marines face a wounded Engineer one more time. Far out in space, three survivors trapped aboard the Engineer's ship try to change its course.
November 2025 / In-Universe year : 2400 (approx)
Before the film, young Yautja Dek is sent by his father to recover technology from an alien ship that crashed ten thousand years ago. The ship's AI is still active, and it fights to stop him.
November 2025 / In-Universe year : 2400 (approx)
A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
October 2015 / In-Universe year : 2692
Predator ships pour into human space in record numbers. While Lieutenant Johnny Mains and his Colonial Marines are stranded on a Yautja habitat, scientist Isa Palant learns that the hunters are running from something worse.
April 2016 / In-Universe year : 2692 (approx)
The second original novel in the Alien vs. Predator "Rage War" series, continuing from Predator: Incursion as Colonial Marine units are being wiped out, and not by the Predators. This is an attack by organized armies of Aliens.
September 2016 / In-Universe year : 2692
The Rage launch their final assault on the Human Sphere, and their target is Earth. Mankind must rely on the Predators, while the fate of the planet may rest with a single android.