Dutch Schaefer | |
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Predator and Alien vs. Predator character | |
First appearance | Predator (1987) |
Last appearance | Predator: Eyes of the Demon: Aftermath (2022) |
Created by | Jim and John Thomas |
Portrayed by | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Voiced by | Arnold Schwarzenegger (Predator: Hunting Grounds) James Patrick Cronin (Predator: Stalking Shadows audiobook) |
In-universe information | |
Full name | Alan Schaefer |
Nickname | Dutch |
Species | |
Gender | Male |
Title | Agent Onyx |
Occupation | |
Affiliation | |
Family | John Schaefer (brother) |
Relatives | Psi-Judge Schaefer (great-great-granddaughter) |
Nationality | Austrian-American |
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, commonly known simply as Dutch, is a fictional character in the Predator and Alien vs. Predator franchises, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film Predator (1987) and the video game Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020), and voiced by James Patrick Cronin in the audiobook for Predator: Stalking Shadows (2020). A United States Army special forces operator, he first encounters a Yautja (Predator) in Predator when it massacres his crew of mercenaries in Val Verde, before he is recruited to join the OWLF (Other Worldly Life Forms Program) to hunt Yautja in Predator: South China Sea (2008), Stalking Shadows and Hunting Grounds, as Agent Onyx. Following his death, in Alien vs. Predator (1994), Dutch is rebuilt as an android by the United States Colonial Marine Corps, and he and his partner Linn Kurosawa join forces with two Yautja to fend off an invasion of xenomorphs.
The character has received a universally positive critical reception.