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Predator Kills the Marvel Universe is an ongoing five-issue crossover comic book series first published by Marvel Comics from August-December 2025. It was written by Benjamin Percy, illustrated by Marcelo Ferreria and Daniel Picciotto, inked by Jay Leisten and Daniel Picciotto, colored by Frank D'Armata, lettered by VC's Clayton Cowles, and edited by Martin Biro. Cover art was provided by Leinil Francis Yu and Matt Milla while variant cover art was provided by various artists.
Predator Kills the Marvel Universe built off the momentum of several earlier crossover events written by Banjamin Percy including Predator versus Wolverine, Predator versus Black Panther, and Predator versus Spider-Man.
In the overall Marvel Comics crossover comics line, Predator Kills the Marvel Universe was preceded by Predator versus Spider-Man, and was published concurrently with Alien vs. Captain America.
Publisher's summary[]
#1. A PREDATOR KING. A VIBRANIUM ARSENAL. AN ALL-OUT INVASION! It's the bloody kickoff to an epic battle between the Predators and Marvel's heroes! A Predator King, emboldened by a new vibranium arsenal and aided by a surprising human ally, launches an all-out invasion of Earth, claiming the planet as hunting preserve! You'll need to read to see just who - if anyone - will survive and to witness some shocking twists and turns as the entire Marvel Universe finds itself in the Predator's tri-laser crosshairs!
#2. ALL-OUT MAYHEM! After several battles in our solar system - which devastated both the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Fantastic Four - the Predators escalate to the next stage of their war. Their target: Earth. And the X-Men and the Avengers are at the top of their kill list! Prepare for an extinction-level event!
#3. Earth's Mightiest Prey! Reeling from the deadly Yautja invasion, Earth's surviving heroes lick their wounds and form a last line of defense. Wolverine and Spider-Man take the lead - but will their experience battling Predators in the past be enough? And an unexpected ally makes an appearance...
#4. Vibranium Wars! In this time of death and crisis, Black Panther and the Wakandans open up their isolated nation to join the fight against the Predator incursion. They’ve faced these hunters before – and they have wartime tactics and a vibranium arsenal of their own to share…
#5. The Predators launched their bloody war with surprise and success – and now Earth’s survivors have mounted their defense, which includes specially outfitted Iron Man armor, a vibranium arsenal, a weapon called Predator X and a whole lot of heart. Will our planet be reduced to a hunting reserve? Find out in this final, epic showdown!
Plot[]
Issue #1[]
While flying through space, the Guardians of the Galaxy are alerted to a distress signal and Rocket Racoon rudely wakes up a sleeping Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord. Locating the emergency beacon's source on a Stark Industries mining ship on one of Saturn's moons, Peter and Rocket dock their ship, the Milano, aboard the mining ship, only to find eerily empty and quiet. The silence doesn't last, as tri-laser crosshairs appear on the pair's chests, and a plasma blast rips through Star-Lord. Horrified, Rocket returns fire with one of Peter's Quad Blasters, and the noise alerts the rest of the Guardians as they also enter the ship. They are immediately ambushed and slaughtered as a Smart Disc decapitates Drax, cleaves Groot in half, and severs Gamora's arm. The attackers reveal themselves as two Yautja and a human figure wearing a skull helmet, who reveals the distress call was a trap to lure the Guardians: a tactic that has made them easy prey. As the Yautja finish the Guardians off, the figure removes his helmet to reveal the face of Kraven the Hunter, who deems himself the spearhead of "the Great Hunt".
Meanwhile, on Earth, Doctor Abraham Cornelius greets General Charlotte Pett at Virginia's Weapon Plus facility, who is displeased of the project's lack of weapons in over a year. Cornelius responds that he's been busy and offers to show General Pett what she's paying for, although she warns him he's "on the chopping block" as she is led into a dark room. Cornelius seals the door behind her, and the shocked general is met by the promised weapon: Predator X, a captured Yautja from New York City wearing a control helmet similar to Weapon X. The alien growls at the terrified human woman and goes in for the kill...
The Yautja mothership lands on the dark side of the moon, seeking to claim Earth as a hunting preserve thanks to its abundance of life and industry that has made the planet hot enough for the Yautja's preferences. Kraven has been living amongst the Yautja for over a year after killing Skinner and earning their respect, learning their ways in exchange for teaching them Earth's. Standing before the Predator King and his eldest son Graveyard, Kraven gives them a kill list composing of every hero and villain on Earth, with him willing to show the Predators how to best eliminate them. However, Kraven has one exception: Spider-Man is his to kill. The Yautja's first targets are a team of heroes that stand between them and Earth: the Fantastic Four, who are relaxing on their lunar base on the blue area of the moon.
The Yautja begin their attack by cutting off Mr. Fantastic's arm mid-stretch, mere moments after his family dismisses his concerns over an activated doomsday algorithm. Knowing the team would attempt to warn Earth of the Yautja's arrival, Kraven coordinates his strategy with his Predator allies. He orders the Predators to prioritize Susan Storm, the Invisible Woman, whose invisibility is rendered useless thanks to the Yautja's heat-seeking tech, yet is able to shield herself with forcefields. As the Four are separated to hinder their effectiveness, a cloaked Yautja decapitates the Human Torch with a vibranium lasso and the Thing is attacked from a distance by vibranium blasts before he is ejected into space, his rock-like skin unable to be penetrated. In the chaos, Sue escapes with the mortally-wounded Reed Richards, who perishes in his wife's arms after revealing that their attackers are using vibranium weapons.
Issue #2[]
With Earth's first line of defense eliminated, Kraven tells the Yautja that they must strike with speed, stealth, and surprise in a blitz maneuver before the rest of Earth's heroes can react. Kraven commandeers the Milano with a hunting party while Graveyard leads the rest of the Yautja forces. Graveyard's team target the Xavier Institute in New York, during a chess match and philosophical debate between Charles Xavier (aka Professor X) and Erik Lehnsherr (aka Magneto). As the two mutants discuss the nature of humanity and the future of their race, Charles is stricken by immeasurable thoughts of pain, loss, and warning, and he tells his old friend that he is truly terrified.
Suddenly, Erik is wrenched off the floor, much to Charles' horror, and crashes through the mansion's ceiling, straight into a giant inversion magnet attached to Graveyard's ship. Recognizing Magneto's ability to turn their vibranium against them, the Yautja crush him with the magnet. With one of the planet's greatest threats removed, Graveyard and his hunting party silently slip into the Institute under the cover of stormy darkness. Meanwhile, Kraven flies the Milano into New York City. The Triskelion, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters, detects the ship's approach and requests the vessel's ID and flight path. Kraven's Yautja co-pilot mimics the voice of Peter Quill to fool the humans, but S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel are still suspicious about mismatching radar signals, which are the cloaked ships of Kraven's hunting party. Dismissing it as a sign of the Milano's poor condition, their boss allows the ship to land and get clear of the storm.
Back at the Weapon Plus facility in Virginia, Predator X has General Pett by the throat until Doctor Cornelius orders it to stand down. Brushing off the general's threat to have him shot because the weapon is too valuable, Cornelius explains that the being is a Predator: an alien lifeform that has been hunting on Earth for several centuries. By implementing the memory-erasure technologies used in the Weapon X program, Cornelius has brought this particular specimen under his command and is free to use it however he sees fit, including making it a weapon for the United States government.
Unaware of the danger lurking in their midst, the X-Men (Cyclops, Colossus, Beast, Nightcrawler, and Storm) train against simulated mutant-hunting Sentinels in the Danger Room deep beneath the Xavier Institute. Their session is cut short when Cyclops notices Graveyard and his Predators, but he believes them to be more simulations as a result of the lightning storm tampering with their systems. He asks Beast to reboot the program... but he doesn't get to finish as Graveyard savagely strikes Scott across the face with his vibranium mace, breaking the mutant's jaw.
Meanwhile, at Avengers Tower, Black Widow and Hawkeye are relaxing with a game of pool while Captain America watches New York's stormy skyline. Natasha complains that it's not very fun to play with a guy who never misses, but an announcement from Steve Rogers interrupts Clint's shot, much to the archer's annoyance. The Milano flies in to touch down on the tower's landing pad, with the three Avengers suiting up to greet the Guardians. However, as the landing ramp retracts, Captain America and Black Widow immediately get suspicious as nobody answers their call... and they realize they've walked into a trap just as some Predators de-cloak from behind them, forcing the three heroes to spring into combat.
Inside the tower, someone hears the commotion that disrupts his work in the lab: Doctor Bruce Banner, another high-priority target for the Yautja. As he moves to investigate, Bruce spots Captain America's shield lying in the lab's door... and upon closer inspection, Bruce finds it damaged and covered in blood. Horror crosses the scientist's face as his eyes and face start to turn green, and Kraven steps out to reveal himself now that his latest prey has taken the bait. He removes his skull helmet and knows his hunting party only has one shot as the Incredible Hulk stands before him, roaring in fury.
Issue #3[]
Kraven knows that Earth believes itself a fortress because of all that protects its people from threats, ranging from space and weather to disease and other dangers. Believing the world has gone soft with complacency, Kraven wishes to have the comfortable slaughtered while those who fight back receive a worthy death. One of these rare few is the raging, rampaging Hulk who chases Kraven through Avengers Tower until Kraven leads him right into an ambush prepared by Kraven's hunting party. Withstanding several Plasmacaster shots, Hulk smashes the Predators with his gamma-charged fury, from tearing one apart with his bare hands and stomping another into the floor to tossing a Yautja out of a window and sending the group flying with a thunderclap. With the hunting party keeping Hulk occupied, Kraven continues to flee outside, reflecting on his time living among the Yautja on their home planet and repaying their knowledge of their hunting ways with his knowledge of Earth's defenders. Kraven only has seconds before Hulk bursts out of the window, but Kraven and the Predators have come prepared for their strategy to dispose of the Hulk. Kraven fires a vibranium cannon designed to drain the gamma energy from Hulk, reverting him back to Bruce Banner, which allows Kraven to finish him off with an axe to the scientist's chest.
In Westchester, Wolverine rides his motorcycle to the Xavier Institute only to be filled with horror upon seeing the mansion ablaze. Skinned mutant bodies are hung and the burning body of Charles Xavier is sent rolling out of the estate, enraging Wolverine after he sees the destruction of his newest home and the deaths of his fellow X-Men and his mentor. The mutant is attacked by Graveyard, who seeks to claim his adamantium skeleton for a trophy, and is overpowered by the Yautja's vibranium weaponry all while he recalls fighting an enemy like this before. A blast from Graveyard's mace melts the flesh off part of Wolverine's face, but he is saved by Nightcrawler, who teleports him away just before Graveyard's claws can strike him.
With the hunting parties successful, the Predator King calls for the next stage of the invasion: Yautja drones target human technology and infrastructure to render the people of Earth defenseless. Everything from satellites, power plants, and data centers, to communication centers and defenses are struck simultaneously. The element of surprise is over and the Yautja finally make their statement that not even the strongest of Earth's people can stop them. One of their messages around the world is made clear in New York City, as both a horrified Iron Man and a stunned Spider-Man see Avengers Tower burning. Yautja drones commence attacks on major landmarks and capital buildings around the world while the Predator King prepares his army for war...
...but as they leave their mothership's throne room, Susan Storm - the Invisible Woman and sole survivor of the Fantastic Four - emerges as one of the few remaining symbols of hope and strength for the planet.
Issue #4[]
The Yautja invasion continues to rage on after the storm passes. Many heroes and villains are hung from the Brooklyn Bridge, including Doctor Strange, She-Hulk, Daredevil, Elektra, Green Goblin, and the Vulture, while Predators overpower more of the city's super-powered residents such as the Kingpin, Doctor Octopus, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones. Predator drones engage the US Air Force over Manhattan's skies, obliterating fighter jets and helicopters as similar attacks strike everywhere around the world. The slaughter is so massive and destructive that news of it spreads beyond Earth, and the gods themselves take notice as the thunder god Thor crashes onto the scene.
Unfortunately for him, the Yautja are more than ready thanks to Kraven's intel. One Predator wearing the bloodied, skull-laden shirt of the Punisher fires a specially-designed weapon out of a sniper rifle: a vibranium bullet that punctures the god's armor and skin. While this does not kill Thor, the bullet holds a gravity well that drags Thor all the way to the Earth's molten core, consuming him in its fiery depths before his mighty hammer Mjolnir is expelled back to the surface in a magma eruption. The Predator attempts to claim the weapon as a trophy, but the hammer is impossible for the Yautja to lift due to its worth-based enchantment. Distracted in trying to claim Mjolnir, the Yautja is stabbed and killed from behind by Wolverine, who orders Nightcrawler to help him kill every last one of the invaders as he kicks the Predator's corpse into the hole in the street.
The last of the X-Men spot a police car race by, a Predator atop the roof stabbing at the panicking officers inside as they try to return fire. Teleporting atop the vehicle, Logan swiftly dispatches the Yautja by slicing its throat and asks Kurt to find him another target. The Yautja find the mutants first and fire a netgun at them, and Nightcrawler is barely able to teleport them both out in time before the tightening net can kill them. Kurt is left disoriented, but Wolverine is back on his feet and picks up another Predator's scent, spitting on a cloaked hunter to reveal them. Exposed, Graveyard attacks Logan again and runs him through, still craving his adamantium skull. But before he can claim it, a web strand snatches Wolverine and yanks him away, denying Graveyard his prize again.
Spider-Man swings away from the scene with a webbed-up Wolverine and Nightcrawler in tow, but complains on how the weight of Wolverine's metal skeleton is slowing him down. Unwilling to let his trophy escape, Graveyard blasts Spider-Man in the back, causing him to drop the mutants. Fortunately, the group is saved by Iron Man, who grabs the wall-crawler's wrist and flies off with him while Spider-Man secures the X-Men. Graveyard reports the sighting of Spider-Man to Kraven, who is slaughtering human military forces with his own Yautja, and he demands to know where Spider-Man has gone, unaware he is being watched through the soldiers' helmet cameras. Recognizing Kraven as the leader of the invasion force and the reason why the Predators were so successful in their attack, General Pett marks him as a primary target. Doctor Cornelius relays instructions to Predator X, who leaps out of a military aircraft hovering above the city and dives into a river before extending his claws beneath the water. His mission is to infiltrate the invasion force while the human military continues their ground and air attacks, with Predator X remaining undetected amongst his own kind.
Aboard the Yautja mothership on the moon, Susan Storm expresses her rage and grief over the loss of her family as she approaches the ship's reactor core, intending to use her powers to disrupt the fusion process and detonate it to destroy the entire ship. Before she can make any progress, the Predator King returns and smacks the Invisible Woman away, accompanied by guards as he prepares to kill her. Back on Earth, a Wakandan boat cruises through the New York harbor while en route to the city, carrying Black Panther, Shuri, and Falcon. While well aware that Wakanda does not insert itself into outside affairs, T'Challa deems Wakanda's assistance to be one of honor and responsibility. The Predators are using vibranium - Wakanda's most cherished resource that the Yautja have tried to steal throughout Wakanda's history - and the Black Panther intends to end this invasion and the Predators entirely.
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