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Subgenre of [[The Chase]] where the villains are hunters and the hero is the prey - the game - in a formalized hunting motif.
Most action series have a
If it's an actual ''contest'', you're talking about [[Deadly Game]], though it should be noted that the term "game" as it is used in this trope refers to the hunted species, rather than the hunt itself. The villain often is an [[Egomaniac Hunter]] for whom sapient game is the ultimate hunting thrill.
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== Comicbooks ==
* This is Kraven the Hunter's big schtick in various ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]''
** Kraven's son Alyosha once kidnapped dozens of villains with [[Animal Motifs]] (like Man-Ape and the Rhino), set them loose on a remote island, and went on the prowl. He had seemingly lost his mind at some point prior to this, as this was a dramatic departure from his usual M.O. and he was extremely irrational throughout the ordeal.
** The MTV animated series was an exception, of sorts - Kraven was given a different role in the finale, while an original villain, Shikata, subjected Spider-Man to
*** Well, according to the commentary for the Shikata episode on the DVD, [[What Could Have Been|the original idea]] ''[[What Could Have Been|was]]'' [[What Could Have Been|to use Kraven.]]
* One [[Story Arc|arc]] of ''[[The Trigan Empire]]'' features a rich maniac who keeps a whole island set up for "sporting" manhunts.
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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
** 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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* In ''The Naked Prey'' (1966), Cornel Wilde gets hunted by warriors of a native African tribe.
* ''Lethal Woman'' (1989): A group of men are told that they have won an "erotic vacation" at a fantasy island. In reality, they are being lured to the island by women they have wronged, and once there they are captured and set loose on the island to be hunted down.
* ''[[The Running Man (film)|The Running Man]]'': Here
* The 2008 Norwegian film ''Rovdyr'' (Manhunt) features this trope.
** Actually, the word translates to "Predator", but then that'd be a little too easy to confuse with a [[Predator|different movie]].
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* One set of villains in [[Elizabeth Moon]]'s ''[[Familias Regnant]]'' series is a cadre of senior military officers who abuse their positions to hunt people.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel ''The Doctor Trap'', the Doctor is taken to a planet where the galaxy's greatest hunters (the Endangered Dangerous Species Society) are in competition to kill him.
* ''The Devils of Langenhagen'', a short story by Australian sci-fi author Sean McMullen. In the last days of the Third Reich an Me262 interceptor squadron is visited by some strange and elegant
* An unusual version in ''Immortality, Inc'' by [[Robert Sheckley]]. In this novel, a rich guy, wishing to die in style, hires hunters to hunt and kill ''him''. He can hunt and kill them back. The catch is, there's the scientific (and very expensive!) process to ensure that someone will have an afterlife - and without said process to have one's soul survive death is almost [[Million-to-One Chance]]. The rich guy has guaranteed afterlife and doesn't fear death, while the hunters mostly don't.
* In the [[Women of the Otherworld]] novel ''Stolen'', Elena and other supernaturals are kidnapped to be experimented on and the major funder of this project is a millionaire video game designer who likes to hunt them when they've outlived their usefulness.
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* The ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation S.A.F.A.R.I".
* The ''[[Di-Gata Defenders]]'' episode "Hunter and the Hunted".
* In ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'', Xander Crews goes on an annual hunting trip where he kills, skins, and eats a mother panda, which he claims to be ''
* ''[[The Critic]]'' - In one of the running gags during the main credits, Jay's boss Duke calls him, inviting Jay to his ranch upon the news that Duke has received a license to hunt man. Jay is advised to bring "comfortable shoes".
* ''[[Roger Ramjet]]'' and his sidekicks meet up with one of these hunters. They deduce that the hunter is, in fact, afraid of animals, and they defeat him by wearing animal costumes. Ramjet wears a bunny suit. It works.
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