Prey - Easter Eggs & Hidden Details

The pistol Naru acquires from the French translator is the exact same gun that the Elder Predator tosses to Danny Glover's character at the end of Predator 2 (1990) as a trophy for his victory. This perfectly ties the 300-year timeline together.

When the French trappers capture Taabe, they torture him by making a diagonal slice across his chest with a knife. This is a visual homage to Billy Sole, the Native American tracker from the 1987 Predator, who cuts his own chest with a machete before his final stand against the alien.

Naru accidentally falls into a sinking mud bog early in the film and barely escapes. She later uses this exact bog to trap the Predator. Her being covered in mud is a nod to Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) discovering that mud hides his heat signature in the original 1987 film, though Naru subverts this by using the orange flower for temperature control instead.

The Feral Predator is shown using a special chemical mist to melt the flesh off a wolf's severed head, leaving a pristine skull. This is a direct callback to similar flesh-dissolving skull preparations seen in both Predator and Predator 2.