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* The hero of ''Rogue Male'' is a big game hunter whose stalking of an unnamed Great Man (implied to be Hitler) is presented as an exercise in stealth, he wasn't actually going to shoot. Only later is it revealed that he had a motive ([[Revenge]] for the execution of a lover) and would have shot if he'd had a moment longer.

* 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.

* 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.

* A non-lethal variant occurs the ''[[Have Gun Will Travel]]'' episode "The Great Mojavo Chase". Paladin accepts a bet that he can avoid a team of man-hunters on their own turf for a cerrtain period of time.

* ''[[Dexter]]'' hunts people as a matter of course, but his idea of a really good time is to go after a killer who is hard to get at, able to put up a fight, or expecting a visit from him. {{spoiler|e.g., a cop who killed her husband and daughter, a public figure with lots of bodyguards, a neo-nazi currently in prison but still giving orders to his minions on the outside, his friend and co-killer the district attorney, etc.}}

* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'': "Hunting Ground".

* ''[[Deathlands Homeward Bound]]''. The mad Baron Harvey {{spoiler|Cawdor}} enjoys this, and ends up hunting Ryan and his [[True Companions]], who are given only knives against mutant hunting dogs and Sec Men with assault rifles. Needless to say the hunting party doesn't have a chance.

* One episode of ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' featured Aku sending a team of intergalactic hunters after Jack. {{spoiler|After a long, arduous chase, they finally subdue him... then let him go, respecting the challenge he presented.}}

* In the ''[[Thunder Cats]]'' episode "Safari Joe", the title character is a big game hunter who goes after the heroes. And he does so with ''[[Large Ham|gusto]]''.

* ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]'' had the Stalker, an African hunter whose spine had to be cybernetically replaced after a run-in with a jungle cat, granting him such unnatural strength that he was able to exact his revenge with his bare hands, and soon tired of hunting normal animals. His intro episode had him playing this trope with the show's titular character, believing him to be the inheritor of some sort of "bat totem" that would be the ultimate test of his strength.

* ''[[Danny Phantom (Animation)|Danny Phantom]]'' has the villain Skulker chasing the hero and his rival/enemy in conjunction with the [[Egg Sitting]] plot.

* The ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode "The Vacation Goo" had the Smiths (and the busty activities director who wanted to bed Steve) end up on an island that looks like this. In the end it turns out to just be a theme park attraction where the "hunters" use paintball guns. Of course, the Smiths don't learn this until '''after''' they spent three days hiding in a cave and [[No Party Like a Donner Party|had to eat the girl to survive]].

* In an episode of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'', a big-game hunter decides that he wants Optimus Prime's head hanging on his wall.

* The ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation S.A.F.A.R.I".

* Robert Hansen, a serial killer who was active in the early 1980s, would kidnap women and then release them in the Knik River Valley in Alaska. He would then hunt them, armed with a knife and a Ruger Mini-14 rifle. The films ''The Naked Fear'' and ''The Frozen Ground'' were based on him.

* In one of his decoded letters, the Zodiac Killer wrote, "I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the [[Rouge Angles of Satin|forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all]]".

* Paintball, airsoft and lasertag enable people to hunt The Most Dangerous Game without inflicting serious injury, at least not as long as all participants follow the safety briefing.

* One of the substitutes for fox hunting that has become mildly popular in Britain is to chase a runner instead. A runner who is competing totally of their own free will, I hasten to add, and who is not harmed in any way.

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