Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Difference between revisions

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* Spoofed in ''The Pest''.

* In the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] movie ''[[Octopussy]]'', Kamal Khan uses a tiger hunt from elephant back to hunt down the escaped spy.

* This is the premise of the ''[[Predator]]'' franchise, except the hunters are aliens. They have a code of honor, and among other things do not hunt/kill unarmed targets or pregnant women. They also respect [[Worthy Opponent]]s and at the end of the second film, when the protagonist kills a predator, {{spoiler|the others give him an 18th-century flintlock pistol, implied to be a trophy from a previous hunt}}.

* This is the premise of the ''[[Predator]]'' franchise, except the hunters are aliens - [[Planet of Hats|it's their Hat]] as a species. They have a code of honor, and among other things do not hunt/kill unarmed targets or pregnant women. They also respect [[Worthy Opponent]]s and at the end of the second film, when the protagonist kills a predator, {{spoiler|the others give him an 18th-century flintlock pistol, implied to be a trophy from a previous hunt}}.

** In ''[[Alien vs. Predator (film)|Alien vs. Predator]]'', the last surviving Predator gives the last surviving human an honor mark (apparently) for killing an Alien with a spear. When the other Predators come to pick up the hunt team, they appear to respect the human survivor because of the mark.

** ''[[Predators]]'' takes this to the extremes, taking place on what is essentially a Predator game preserve and featuring choice human soldiers, criminals, etc. as the game.

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* The premise behind ''Fugitive X''. A casino even takes bets on how long the "game" will survive.

* ''Blooded'': An [[Animal Wrongs Group]] kidnaps a group of hunters, strips them to their underwear and releases them in the moors to be hunted by members of the group.

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