The Predator: What Does The Ending Really Mean?

4. More Hybrids

The suggestion at the end of the movie is that the evolved Predator hunter that comes to clean up the mess of the original hunter is only one of the whole new species of now "improved" aliens. They've spent time finding the best specimens in the galaxy to create the perfect version of themselves and there's no way they only made one.

That fundamental idea of hybridization might have led to some serious shark jumping in the Jurassic Park franchise, but with restraint, it can still work to escalate things. We could see more fearsome iterations of the Predator project, perhaps with more obviously alien augmentations (who wouldn't want a Xenomorph in there a little more obviously?) and that wouldn't be a bad thing at all.

And just imagine for a moment a sequel that brings back Arnold Schwarzenegger's crew from the original Predator but in monstrous hybrid form? Imagine a Carl Weathers creature. A Shane Black Predator. A Jesse f*cking Ventura hunter. It writes itself.