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* The Hunter has suffered a terrible loss of some sort at the hands of the creatures, and now seeks [[Revenge]]. This style of Hunter usually has a specific individual among the creatures who he [[Animal Nemesis|regards as his personal enemy]] (usually the creature responsible for the wrong in question), and is [[Revenge Before Reason|particularly vulnerable]] to [[He Who Fights Monsters]].
* Just good old-fashioned prejudice or [[Fantastic Racism]]. Maybe there is just one type of monster with a bad rep that is the target, maybe The Hunter [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|hates everything that is]] [[Not Even Human]]. Even if the character is justified in hunting certain creatures, lumping all of one kind together may blind him to the fact that some of them are [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]].
* [[Who You Gonna Call?|For profit]], claiming to be a professional.
Occasionally parallels [[Bounty Hunter]], although for The Hunter, this is always ''very'' personal. (They don't always mind taking money for the endeavor, though. After all, equipment is expensive.)
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A Hunter with no fixed home is probably also a [[Knight Errant]]. Depending on the Hunter, may end up committing [[Van Helsing Hate Crimes]]. Not to be confused with a [[Left 4 Dead|zombie using the same name.]] See also [[Mary Sue Hunter]] for the [[Mary Sue|sue killing]] type.
For actual ''animal'' hunters, see [[Egomaniac Hunter]], who hunts for [[In Harm's Way|the hell of it]], [[Evil Poacher]] (who hunts endangered animals), and [[Great White Hunter]] (the Victorian ideal of hunter-as-[[Gentleman Adventurer]]). Any of these tropes may overlap with this one, however. For the 2011 film of the same name, see [[The Hunter (film)|''The Hunter'' (film)]].
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* Graveyard Shift from ''[[Scare Tactics (comics)|Scare Tactics]]'' is a church sanctioned organisation of vampire hunters.
* [[Green Arrow]] when Mike Grell wrote him was portrayed this way. Probably because Mike Grell is a big game hunter.
* In ''[[Hack Slash]]'', anti-heroine Cassie Hack is a [[Final Girl]] who has made it her mission to hunt down and deliver retribution to Slashers, a type of monster defined as the ones in gory [[Slasher Movie]]s who prey on teenagers, often created as the result of a failed government project. Ironically, this leads to her and her partner Vlad often discovering that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]. She has encountered a few famous Slashers via crossovers - including [[Child's Play (film)| Chucky]], [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krugar]], and [[Chaos! Comics| Evil Ernie]] - but seeing as [[Status Quo Is God]], conflicts between her and them have always been inconclusive.
▲== Fan Works ==
* Um, The Hunter in ''[[With Strings Attached]]''. Partially subverted in that his name is actually Jim Hunter, implying that Jeft chose to use him as a character because of his name. If he hunts anything specific (besides forest animals), we don't find out.
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':
** The Ranger character class in is stereotypically The Hunter. Their "favored enemy" class ability gives them bonuses to finding and killing a specific category of creature. It is possible to [[Subverted Trope|subvert this trope]] by choosing favored enemies for other reasons.
** In the original AD&D, all rangers had goblinoids and giants as their enemy, owing to the [[The Lord of the Rings|roots]] of the class, but with the advent of Second Edition, one could choose which kind of enemy their ranger was dedicated to taking down. One could even have a human ranger who had certain kinds of evil humans as a favored enemy, such as pirates, brigands or slavers, or in the case of Drizzt, a drow ranger who rebelled against his own evil kind. The original 3E removed restrictions on alignment, but you could not choose your own race as a favored enemy unless you were evil, which was thrown out for 3.5.
** ''[[Ravenloft]]'' has Rudolph Van Richten (an [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of [[Dracula|Abraham Van Helsing]] in concept), a herbalist-turned-monster hunter after his son was sold to (and turned) by a vampire, who later killed his wife in revenge. Not only does Van Richten personally go after these deadly evil creatures, but he had several books published detailing the results of his research to give others the needed edge to kill the things, along with other monsters he met and had to fight in process, such as werevolves and liches.
*** Also true for his two nieces and proteges, Laurie and Gennifer Weathermay-Foxgrove. The [[Player Characters]] could fit this Trope in Ravenloft too, depending on how the DM runs the campaign.
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** There's also Skulker, who generally hunts rare [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghosts]]. During his first appearance, he made a comment roughly along wanting "to hang [Danny's] pelt at the end of [his] bed".
** Also Danny's parents, who are professional ghost hunters, and also happen to unknowingly supply him with all of his ghost hunting equipment.
* Hoss Delgado from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Dr Von Goosewing from ''[[Count Duckula]]''.
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' there's Jefferson Twilight, blacula hunter, dedicated himself to the elimination of black vampires after his mother was raped by a group of them when he was 10. He breaks off their fangs to add to his necklace before he kills them. He even has a "blood eye" that allows him to detect the presence of blaculas despite not being magic in any other significant way. Keep in mind, the eye only works on blaculas- vampires of other races are not his quarry, and so he can't magically detect them.
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