This image is the second chapter of my five-part series “Berserker Predator”, titled The Collapse of a Universe. In this scene, we see Berserker using his shoulder cannon without hesitation. Among Predators, this weapon is rarely favored; it creates distance, places a barrier between hunter and prey. Berserker, however, has no such reservations. He takes pleasure in using it, in watching his targets scatter in panic. This does not make him a coward. On the contrary, it is a deliberate expression of absolute dominance and control. The film’s director once stated that the jawbone attached to Berserker’s mask was taken from an Alien Queen. This moment, however, was never shown on screen. The scene you see here is my own interpretation, created to give form to that untold story. Berserker enters this battle carrying the weight of a previous moment from the first image of the series. While tearing out an Alien’s spine, a mistake led him to press it against his own leg, burning the flesh and leaving a permanent scar. This mark is more than physical damage; it is proof of a brief lapse in judgment. What angers Berserker most is not the pain itself, but the fact that the mistake was his own. The destruction depicted here is the outward release of that restrained fury. Berserker turns his anger toward an Alien colony, channeling his self-directed rage into total annihilation. We witness the Alien Queen, a cult figure of horror, in a rare state of helplessness. For the first time, she faces a being who does not retreat, does not hesitate, and does not fear her. In this moment, she loses not only her body, but her dominion. The fallen offspring scattered across the ground form the quietest yet heaviest detail of the scene. What is destroyed here is not merely a queen, but an entire structure of continuity and future. This is why this moment is not a triumph, but the collapse of a universe. Berserker stands at the center of this devastation—angry, yet controlled; brutal, yet purposeful. The true core of the destruction is not the enemy before him, but his refusal to forgive his own mistake.
