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Dutch Schaefer
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, commonly known simply as Dutch, is a fictional character in the Predator and Alien vs. Predator franchises, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film Predator (1987) and the video game Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020), and voiced by James Patrick Cronin in the audiobook for Predator: Stalking Shadows (2020). A United States Army special forces operator, he first encounters the eponymous monster in Predator when it massacres his crew of mercenaries in Val Verde, before he is recruited to join the OWLF (Other Worldly Life Forms Program) to hunt Predators in Predator: South China Sea (2008), Stalking Shadows and Hunting Grounds, as Agent Onyx. Centuries following his death, Dutch returns rebuilt as a synthetic android major in the United States Colonial Marine Corps in the video game Alien vs. Predator (1994).
The character has received a universally positive critical reception.
In Predator (1987), Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer is introduced as a highly skilled and experienced special forces operator who served in Vietnam during the Battle of Huế with CIA officer Al Dillon, now the leader of a mercenary group who operated in Afghanistan. After Dillon recruits Dutch and his team to go on a mission to Val Verde, purportedly to rescue a foreign cabinet minister and his aide from insurgents. En route, the team discovers the wreckage of a helicopter and three skinned corpses, whom Dutch identifies as Green Berets that he knew, leading him to become suspicious of Dillon's intentions. After the team reaches the guerilla camp and witness the execution of a hostage, Dutch leads them in mounting an attack, killing most of the rebels and several Soviet intelligence officers. Dutch confronts Dillon, who reveals their true mission was to stop a planned Soviet-backed invasion, the CIA having sent the Green Berets weeks earlier.
After capturing the only surviving guerilla, Anna, and learning more rebels are coming, the team choose to trek to their extraction point on-foot. Unbeknownst to them, they are stalked by a Predator, employing a cloaking device and thermal imaging technology, who kills one of Dutch's team while Anna is attempting to escape. After another team member is killed by the Predator's plasma cannon, everyone is provoked to blindly fire their weapons into the jungle, unknowingly wounding the Predator. Regrouping and realizing they are being hunted, Dutch and his commandoes make camp for the night and set traps, which are triggered by a wild boar. Dutch later realizes that their enemy uses the trees to travel and frees Anna, who states that her people had seen similarly mutilated bodies before. The next day, the group constructs a net trap and captures the Predator, but it frees itself, killing everyone but Dutch and Anna as they flee. Realizing it does not attack unarmed individuals, Dutch tells the unarmed Anna to get to the chopper, before attempting to distract the Predator by fleeing, ending up followed to a muddy riverbank and covered in mud. The Predator fails to see him and leaves to collect trophies from the others. Dutch realizes the cool mud provided camouflage for his body heat. He crafts makeshift traps and weapons, and as he covers his body with additional mud for camouflage, before luring the Predator out at night with a war cry and torch.
Dutch lightly injures the Predator and disables its cloaking device as the Predator fires wildly into the forest, and tries to escape, but accidentally falls into the river, where the water dissolves his muddy camouflage. As the Predator corners Dutch, it removes its mask and plasma cannon to fight him hand-to-hand, having deemed him a worthy opponent. Despite being overpowered, outsmarted, battered, and bathed in his own blood he vomited, Dutch attempts to goad the Predator into a booby trap he feels it won't see. It goes around after realising what Dutch was attempting to do, with this Dutch realises the counterweight is direct above the Predator and kicks the supporting stick making the counterweight fall to earth, crushing the Predator. With the monster mortally wounded, he asks it, "What the hell are you?". The Predator repeats the question back to Dutch and activates its self-destruct device, imitating Billy's laugh as it counts down. Upon realizing what it has done, Dutch runs for cover and survives the explosion. He is then rescued by the extraction helicopter, with Anna already safely on board, though he is left traumatized by the experience.
In the novelisation of Predator 2 (1990), Dutch is revealed to have been spoken to by Agent Peter Keyes of the OWLF as he was infirmed in a hospital, suffering from radiation sickness from how close he had been to the Predator's explosion at the conclusion of Predator. Dutch is said to have escaped from the hospital, never to be seen again.
In Alien vs. Predator (1994), Dutch returns rebuilt as a synthetic android centuries following his death, with an enhanced cybernetic arm with a smart gun mounted on it, replicating one Dutch had installed as a human when he lost his arm. Having once again risen to the rank of Major in the United States Colonial Marine Corps, partnered with cybernetically enhanced Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa, Dutch and Linn are deployed to the city of San Drad, California after it is overrun with an army of xenomorphs, before they are abandoned by their superiors after their forces are seen to be too great. Just as Dutch and Lynn are about to be killed by a swarm of the xenomorph drones, a pair of Predators appear and destroy the xenomorphs, before offering an alliance with the two Marines in order to stop the alien infestation.
After destroying the xenomorph hive, Dutch and his team discover the xenomorph presence on Earth was the result of a bio-war project headed by the renegade General Bush of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Boarding Bush's military ship as it lifts off, Dutch, Lynn, and the Predator kill the Xenomorph Queen after it kills Bush, and program the ship to crash into San Drad, triggering a huge explosion that eliminates all xenomorph life on Earth. The Predator then gives Dutch and Lynn their wrist blades in recognition of their skills as warriors, before the Predator depart back into space; after Linn asks the Predator why they chose to help, their vague reply makes her and Dutch wonder whether they will have to fight them the next time they return to Earth.
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Dutch Schaefer
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, commonly known simply as Dutch, is a fictional character in the Predator and Alien vs. Predator franchises, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film Predator (1987) and the video game Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020), and voiced by James Patrick Cronin in the audiobook for Predator: Stalking Shadows (2020). A United States Army special forces operator, he first encounters the eponymous monster in Predator when it massacres his crew of mercenaries in Val Verde, before he is recruited to join the OWLF (Other Worldly Life Forms Program) to hunt Predators in Predator: South China Sea (2008), Stalking Shadows and Hunting Grounds, as Agent Onyx. Centuries following his death, Dutch returns rebuilt as a synthetic android major in the United States Colonial Marine Corps in the video game Alien vs. Predator (1994).
The character has received a universally positive critical reception.
In Predator (1987), Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer is introduced as a highly skilled and experienced special forces operator who served in Vietnam during the Battle of Huế with CIA officer Al Dillon, now the leader of a mercenary group who operated in Afghanistan. After Dillon recruits Dutch and his team to go on a mission to Val Verde, purportedly to rescue a foreign cabinet minister and his aide from insurgents. En route, the team discovers the wreckage of a helicopter and three skinned corpses, whom Dutch identifies as Green Berets that he knew, leading him to become suspicious of Dillon's intentions. After the team reaches the guerilla camp and witness the execution of a hostage, Dutch leads them in mounting an attack, killing most of the rebels and several Soviet intelligence officers. Dutch confronts Dillon, who reveals their true mission was to stop a planned Soviet-backed invasion, the CIA having sent the Green Berets weeks earlier.
After capturing the only surviving guerilla, Anna, and learning more rebels are coming, the team choose to trek to their extraction point on-foot. Unbeknownst to them, they are stalked by a Predator, employing a cloaking device and thermal imaging technology, who kills one of Dutch's team while Anna is attempting to escape. After another team member is killed by the Predator's plasma cannon, everyone is provoked to blindly fire their weapons into the jungle, unknowingly wounding the Predator. Regrouping and realizing they are being hunted, Dutch and his commandoes make camp for the night and set traps, which are triggered by a wild boar. Dutch later realizes that their enemy uses the trees to travel and frees Anna, who states that her people had seen similarly mutilated bodies before. The next day, the group constructs a net trap and captures the Predator, but it frees itself, killing everyone but Dutch and Anna as they flee. Realizing it does not attack unarmed individuals, Dutch tells the unarmed Anna to get to the chopper, before attempting to distract the Predator by fleeing, ending up followed to a muddy riverbank and covered in mud. The Predator fails to see him and leaves to collect trophies from the others. Dutch realizes the cool mud provided camouflage for his body heat. He crafts makeshift traps and weapons, and as he covers his body with additional mud for camouflage, before luring the Predator out at night with a war cry and torch.
Dutch lightly injures the Predator and disables its cloaking device as the Predator fires wildly into the forest, and tries to escape, but accidentally falls into the river, where the water dissolves his muddy camouflage. As the Predator corners Dutch, it removes its mask and plasma cannon to fight him hand-to-hand, having deemed him a worthy opponent. Despite being overpowered, outsmarted, battered, and bathed in his own blood he vomited, Dutch attempts to goad the Predator into a booby trap he feels it won't see. It goes around after realising what Dutch was attempting to do, with this Dutch realises the counterweight is direct above the Predator and kicks the supporting stick making the counterweight fall to earth, crushing the Predator. With the monster mortally wounded, he asks it, "What the hell are you?". The Predator repeats the question back to Dutch and activates its self-destruct device, imitating Billy's laugh as it counts down. Upon realizing what it has done, Dutch runs for cover and survives the explosion. He is then rescued by the extraction helicopter, with Anna already safely on board, though he is left traumatized by the experience.
In the novelisation of Predator 2 (1990), Dutch is revealed to have been spoken to by Agent Peter Keyes of the OWLF as he was infirmed in a hospital, suffering from radiation sickness from how close he had been to the Predator's explosion at the conclusion of Predator. Dutch is said to have escaped from the hospital, never to be seen again.
In Alien vs. Predator (1994), Dutch returns rebuilt as a synthetic android centuries following his death, with an enhanced cybernetic arm with a smart gun mounted on it, replicating one Dutch had installed as a human when he lost his arm. Having once again risen to the rank of Major in the United States Colonial Marine Corps, partnered with cybernetically enhanced Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa, Dutch and Linn are deployed to the city of San Drad, California after it is overrun with an army of xenomorphs, before they are abandoned by their superiors after their forces are seen to be too great. Just as Dutch and Lynn are about to be killed by a swarm of the xenomorph drones, a pair of Predators appear and destroy the xenomorphs, before offering an alliance with the two Marines in order to stop the alien infestation.
After destroying the xenomorph hive, Dutch and his team discover the xenomorph presence on Earth was the result of a bio-war project headed by the renegade General Bush of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Boarding Bush's military ship as it lifts off, Dutch, Lynn, and the Predator kill the Xenomorph Queen after it kills Bush, and program the ship to crash into San Drad, triggering a huge explosion that eliminates all xenomorph life on Earth. The Predator then gives Dutch and Lynn their wrist blades in recognition of their skills as warriors, before the Predator depart back into space; after Linn asks the Predator why they chose to help, their vague reply makes her and Dutch wonder whether they will have to fight them the next time they return to Earth.