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* ''[[Hunter: The Reckoning]]'', an RPG by White Wolf where all the player characters are monster hunters who've been granted mystical powers and are driven by a new urge to protect mankind from the supernatural beings that live among us. They also have a tendency to be driven insane, and a lot of them (especially those of the Avenger creed) aren't fussy about whether the supernatural beings they hunt deserve to be slaughtered or not.
** ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' has ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'', with similar themes (though arguably much better done). In HtV, player characters are generally bog-standard humans who become Hunters after some sort of incident breaks [[The Masquerade]] for them (although some have [[Defector From Decadence|some supernatural heritage they've denied]], and others have supertech developed to fight various types of monster).
* The Witch Hunters of [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] go after their prey (witches, vampires, heresy, the forces of Chaos...) with little more than [[Sword and Gun|their weapons]], their unshaking faith in Sigmar, and of course [[Nice Hat|their hats]]. Some are accompanied by a rabble of zealous henchmen, others work alone.
** The Inquisition of [[Warhammer 40000]] is this ([[Up to Eleven|on a much larger scale]]. Here the Inquisitor can essentially requisition entire planets, regiments of Guardsmen and even [[Space Marines]] if he so chooses, and often the dangers they hunt require that kind of firepower to destroy. The Inquisition is divided into three groups specializing in rooting out traitors and heretics, dealing with Chaos and learning about aliens to better defeat them.
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* The Belmont family in the ''[[Castlevania]]'' games, as well as the Belnades and Morris families. The Belmonts are described as a clan of vampire hunters, but in the end it's only really Dracula (and his countless minions) that they wind up hunting.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'''s Ashrah is a demon who hunts others of her kind. She wields a holy sword that cleanses her of her demonic essence bit by bit with every demon warrior she kills with it, and she hopes to become completely purified and holy this way.
* As the name implies, Witch Hunters from ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Online'' hunt rogue witches.
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'': The future Tohno(/Nanaya) Shiki becomes this, hunting down the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors (some of the most powerful beings on the planet) for the sake of the vastly-weakened Arcueid. He is ''good'' at it.
** Arcueid herself. She's been chasing one single vampire for 800 years, killing any of the others who get in her way. Even before going after him, she hunted the Demon Lords, fallen True Ancestors.
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