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Originally Posted by Jeddostotle7

The Alien/Predator (Xenopedia) wiki's page for the Bio-Mask says this:


The Alien Species wiki (just a wiki for any fictional alien species) page for Predators mentions that many "Expanded Universe" Predator works, like comics, books, etc. state that they need the mask, but give wildly different, contradicting reasons why, and different explanations of how well they survive in Earth-like atmospheres, ranging from "Can, with some difficulty", to "Can, but only for a week", to "Only for a very short while". It's safe to say that the only thing that indicates in the movies (which are the only things that seem to be indisputably canon with this universe) that Predators maybe have trouble breathing in human atmospheres, as far as I can tell, is the City Hunter breathing from the hand-held mask in Predator 2. And even then, as you suggested, there could be other reasons for his use of that hand-held mask.

Yeah I think the AVP-verse is one of the most foggy as far as intricate explanations go, a lot of stuff is essentially published fan fiction. As you noted there are a lot of contradictions between different entries and the films which hold the most authority keep things mysterious so it's one of those cases where individual input actually carries a lot of weight.