The above meme (using one of the final scenes of *Transformers Animated*) is something I came up with during a conversation with a discord buddy regarding what the series could do with the story of 2018's *The Predator*.

My buddy argued that they should just ignore it, and leave it to be forgotten rather than waste any more time on it... and that's fair, ignoring it or declaring it non-canon is the easiest and quickest way to get rid of it.

I however, much like in the meme, think that's not entirely fair and simply *too* easy. It might be  (scratch that, **is**) the worst Predator movie but talented people still worked on it (e.g. the Fugitive Predator stuff and the posters) and it'd be a disservice to those few good things to outright ignore it in its entirety I feel.

I argued that you could come up with a plot involving something akin to a clean-up crew, and showing how Yautja deal with some of their tech that gets left behind, and maybe have one of these Yautja quickly raid the army base we see at the end and effortlessly defeat the Predator Killer armour, then destroying the rest of the evidence (and perhaps offhandedly mention how the bad bloods we see in that movie are all just a bunch of crazy guys no other clan or even other bad bloods trust or associate with).

To me something like that could feel like a way of at least acknowledging its failure while building something new from its ashes, as opposed to simply ignoring it (which would be, as the clip above puts it, the undeserved easy way out).

But what would ***you*** do with it in the canon? Would you come up with an in-universe way of erasing its failure, or simply ignore it and move on with another entry in the series?

How would you deal with "The Predator" (2018) in the canon?