"Predator: Badlands" hit movie theaters with all the might of a shoulder cannon in November 2025. It earned positive reviews from critics and blew everyone away at the box office with a $40 million domestic haul from its opening weekend, a best for the franchise. Even with all this success, there's a chance we'll never see Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) and Thia (Elle Fanning) again based on a troubling trend within the series. Check out Looper's video above to see for yourself how every "Predator" sequel ends on a lie.

The lie in question is that "Predator" movies usually tease something bigger on the horizon that just ... never happens. As cool as it would be to see Dek and Thia battle Dek's mother, who pops up in the final moments of "Badlands," that moment may be left to fans'

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