In the novelization of the film, the Predator is very different from the creature that appeared in the movie. In the book it is a shape-shifter, able to mimic any form it chooses from just the slightest physical contact, and even capable of dissipating entirely, vanishing and becoming part of the blowing breeze. Its basic form is a tall humanoid creature with crimson scaly skin and three-fingered hands. Its only weapons are a telescoping spear that it throws (incidentally similar to the combistick from Predator 2 (1990)) and a static spider web-like trap capable of shredding anything caught in it (similar to the net fired by the Netgun in Predator 2). Instead of a cloak, the predator uses its shape-shifting ability and chameleon-like skin to hide. The Predator is also able to possess any animal it chooses (but not humans, one of the reasons it is so interested in them). Its blood is translucent and amber in color instead of green, although it still glows at night. The Predator does not kill men for sport, but rather out of curiosity; the way it horrifically mutilates its prey is merely an attempt to study and better understand humans. It does however keep trophies taken from those that it kills on board its ship.

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