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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' features a number of bounty hunters. Greedo shows up first, trying to capture Han Solo and cash in on the bounty Jabba the Hutt has placed on him. The Empire eventually hires the services of a number of bounty hunters, most notably [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Boba Fett]]. Fett became [[Ensemble Darkhorse|so popular]] that his whole family and Mandalorian culture have been greatly elaborated upon in the Expanded Universe. Both contain quite a few more bounty hunters.
** Fett was so popular that Expanded Universe material established that Fett did not die in the Sarlacc, [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|but escaped]]. He remains a major character in the franchise today.
** And these appearances extend to these guys (Boba, Dengar, Bossk, 4-LOM, Zuckuss, and IG-88) all being the go-to bounty hunters in the [[Expanded Universe]] (except for Greedo, whose ignominious death caused him to be depicted as an egotistical wimp or a cowardly bottomfeeder.)
*** Or Zuckuss, who is something akin to the [[Butt Monkey]] of the intergalactic bounty hunting community.
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* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' has a small tree of sidequests where the player takes the role of Bounty Hunter while working for a somewhat sleazy bail bondsman in Santa Monica. Unusually, part of the quest line is finding out what happened to said bondman's regular bounty hunter, and then {{spoiler|freeing him from the basement where his would-be quarry is torturing him}}.
* Although ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Privateer]]'' has AI pilots referred to as bounty hunters (and the [[Player Character]] occasionally takes on jobs with the label), the actual task is never to actually capture them, just shoot them down.<ref>On the rare occasions a bounty mission target ejects, they only show up as generic pilots, and once you land they're just regular slaves to sell.</ref>
* In ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' The [[All There in the Manual|Teach Me Miss Lichi]] segments explain that "Vigilantes" are (despite the name) this. Criminals the [[The Empire|NOL]] want to capture are given bounties which anyone can turn in (although it's noted that their bounties don't always tally with the threat the individual presents and they may or may not be of the "dead or alive" variety) and the NOL allows citizens to collect them (they even offer a service where they dispatch an agent to collect the bounty and freely teach otherwise restricted [[Functional Magic|ar magus]] which can be used to bind criminals and drag them to the nearest NOL outpost).
* Stranger of [[Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath]] makes his money bounty hunting.
 
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