Predator vs. X-O

[GJB]

Were there any plans to do a Predator vs. X-O mini series?

IMO, P vs. MRF was one of the better stories put out by valiant and dark horse for that matter. There seemed to be so many interesting questions left to our imagination.

When the X-O was defeated, why did the helmet keep it's form and not melt back into a ball as seen in many X-O stories after Aric took off the suit?

How did the Predator get ahold of the ring? And if they had it, why couldn't they just call the helmet back to the "ring bearer".

Who was in the armor when it was defeated?

The bottom line is that would have been one heck of an interesting, and action filled, follow up story.

I can envision an awesome cover by Joe Q..............Ah well, it's nice to dream.

[Todd Luck]

Were there any plans to do a Predator vs. X-O mini series?

IMO, P vs. MRF was one of the better stories put out by valiant and dark horse for that matter. There seemed to be so many interesting questions left to our imagination.

When the X-O was defeated, why did the helmet keep it's form and not melt back into a ball as seen in many X-O stories after Aric took off the suit?

How did the Predator get ahold of the ring? And if they had it, why couldn't they just call the helmet back to the "ring bearer".

Who was in the armor when it was defeated?

The bottom line is that would have been one heck of an interesting, and action filled, follow up story.

I can envision an awesome cover by Joe Q..............Ah well, it's nice to dream.

I always assumed it was something Shooter intended to be left in the realm of the reader's imagination. Maybe the Predator got ahold of really fancy weapons or maybe he challenged it's wearer to a mano-mano sans armor. Always assumed it was a spider alien Predator defeated (after all it wasn't neccesarily THAT X-O armor, though if it was, I always assumed that Aric probably sent it back to it's home planet in Rai #0). Either way I doubt there's any story that could live up to the speculation:). X-O vs Predator would've still been cool if only to see one Predator story were the alien hunter actually wins.

I don't recall the armor going into it's ball form unless the ring bearer wants it too. There are several instances were the person using spider alien armor died or lost the ring (X-O Commando got her arm chopped off) where the armor remains in it's armor form. I always found it interesting the Predator took the empty helmet as a trophy (the "head" of the armor). It's like he considered the armor as much of an opponent as whoever wore it.

[Jaknife]

i bet it was XOs. the spider aliens were always ready to take Arics armor so they could go home. if they got it, they woulda left. aric didnt send his back home either, mainly because we see the same armor on the aryan warrior in Rai, and also becaue Aric would never give soemthing so powerful to something he hates so much. Actually, come to think of it, it was Arics armor in Predator vs. MRF, because the aryan warrior mentioned it. if the predators got the ring, they could have the armor set itself up to look like armor, minus the gold, as seen in XO 14. i think, the preds got the armor from space, and just kept the head and ring, sending the rest of the armor somewhere else in their ship. they only kept heads as their trophies, and so we only saw the head.

[Todd Luck]

i bet it was XOs. the spider aliens were always ready to take Arics armor so they could go home. if they got it, they woulda left. aric didnt send his back home either, mainly because we see the same armor on the aryan warrior in Rai, and also becaue Aric would never give soemthing so powerful to something he hates so much. Actually, come to think of it, it was Arics armor in Predator vs. MRF, because the aryan warrior mentioned it. if the predators got the ring, they could have the armor set itself up to look like armor, minus the gold, as seen in XO 14. i think, the preds got the armor from space, and just kept the head and ring, sending the rest of the armor somewhere else in their ship. they only kept heads as their trophies, and so we only saw the head.

I was judging it in the context of Shooter's work, not the Orstrander stuff that came after (usually works better to keep the two seperate). The Rai/Magnus issues with the Aryan guy protrayed the armor as being VERY close to the Earth in order for the guy to get the ring, command the armor to come, and for the armor to get there all in less than a year, so in the context of those issues everything you wrote sounds right.

I just thought about Aric sending the armor home, recently. At first I thought he sent it into space so it could just float there endlessly, or so it could come to a resting place with the other X-O armor that's in our solar system, or so it would end up going to some civilization or alien he learned about in the decades between now and then (I always leaned towards the later, personally I wouldn't think the Aric or the armor would just want the X-O to be lost in space forever).

However, the most appropriate ending I can think of for these two old warriors was for Aric to give the armor something he never had: the ability to return back to his people and to a civilization he could belong in (Aric's own homecoming early in the series was ruined by the armor itself, ironically). If the aliens did eventually get the armor (the trip home could take hundreds or thousand of years), one more armor added to the amount of Manowars the aliens already had wasn't going to make that big a difference. Just a thought.

[dino]

I always found it interesting the Predator took the empty helmet as a trophy (the "head" of the armor). It's like he considered the armor as much of an opponent as whoever wore it.

Thats pretty cool, I never realized that.

[GJB]

I agree, that is pretty cool. Because they keep the skulls of their hunted as a trophy, it makes sense they would keep the "skull" of the XO.

It seems there's a lot for me to learn about how many xo armors are out there.

[Jaknife]

tons. solar the destroyer killed about 10 in a few pages. aric is really the only human to have owned an xo armor, besides the aryan, but it was most likeyly the same armor.