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[[Egomaniac Hunter|The hunter]] is usually the one pursuing the prey, be it a literal example of one hunting animals, or the [[Villain]] relentlessly hunting his victim in a sporting example of [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]. But in some cases, the hunted gains resolve or the upper hand, and turns the tables on his pursuer, turning
Once the victim pulls this off, the hunter's game falls apart, and he will be forced to recognize his victim as an actual threat to him. The turnaround embodied in this trope usually signifies that [[The Hero]] will soon defeat The [[Villains]] and put an end to his twisted game.
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This trope has roots as far back as [[Greek Mythology]], where a quite literal hunter, Actaeon, is [[Baleful Polymorph|transformed into a deer]] by Artemis and eventually torn apart by his own dogs.
[[Vampire Hunter
See also [[Egomaniac Hunter]], [[Evil Poacher]], [[Serial Killer Killer]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* The first two ''[[Predator]]'' films provide a ''perfect'' example, as the consummate trophy hunter/
* ''[[Westworld]]''. The tourist being hunted by the gunslinger android eventually turns the tables on him and destroys him.
* At the end of ''[[Halloween (
* In [[Soul Surfer]] the shark that bit Bethany is tracked down and killed. It is identified by matching it's jaw to the bite marks in her surfboard.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Star Trek:
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* Played with all the time in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', seeing as Buffy is always a potential victim, but is, well...[[Exactly What It Says
* An episode of the revived ''[[Outer Limits]]'' involves an illegal android hunt. The androids are prevented by inhibitor chips from harming humans. That is until they find plans for their bodies in a shack and proceed to remove their inhibitors. They kill several hunters but are ultimately gunned down, except for one who manages to escape.
* In the paranormal documentary ''Creepy Canada'', a team of ghost hunters search for the ghost of a sailor that died in the 19th century. During the investigation, they were surrounded by a cold mist and strange noises prompting one of the ghost hunters to say that they have, at that point, become the hunted.
== Literature ==
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* In [[Euripides]]'s ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* At the end of the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "[[Rabbit Fire]]", as Bugs and Daffy continue to pull away posters saying "Rabbit Season" and "Duck Season" alternately, each trying to convince Elmer to shoot the other, they finally reach the final poster, which reads "Elmer Season". In the next shot we see Bugs and Daffy dressed as hunters, carrying rifles and "Hunting for Elmers".
** Also, there's a short in which Pepe Le Pew gets painted all black and his perennial harassment-victim, Penelope Pussycat, gets a head cold that blocks her sense of smell. Sure enough, she turns the tables and starts pursuing the suddenly-terrified "big strong tomcat" Pepe.
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'', the Wolf while trying to hunt down Red instead encounters her Granny, who becomes his [[Abhorrent Admirer]] at first sight and chases the Wolf through her building.
* In the ''[[Tales
* Discussed in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "I Married Marge". Mr. Burns says the Trope name word for word while playing ''[[Ms. Pac Man]]''.
==Real Life==
*This has always been humanities chief survival mechanism. Humans are to weak individually to defend themselves when caught off guard but are powerful in a [[Manly Men Can Hunt| cooperative offensive]]. Furthermore the intelligence and the tight and complex social bonds among humans preclude [[We Have Reserves|shrugging off]] predation losses the way many prey species seem to do, while at the same time making humans [[Humans Are Warriors|efficient killers]]. In fact the reason so few predators like the taste of human may be that those who did were killed off long ago and left no descendants.
*In the Vietnam Highlands one time, one village chief asked a local Green Beret to loan a helicopter to help chase a tiger which had been harassing children and livestock. In a short time the tiger ended up as a village feast.
*The basic principal behind law enforcement.
*World War II submarine actions were a shift in hunting between the sub and the escorts. Usually the sub would make an approach at the target inside the convoy. When detected or when it revealed itself by firing it's torpedoes the escorts would swarm over it in the hopes of either sinking it or neutralizing it by keeping it to low underwater to make an attack.
**Air raids were like this too with bombers hunting their target and fighters hunting the bombers.
**The "Unconditional Surrender" policy in World War II overall based on the assumption the German and Japanese governments of the time were too dangerous to exist
*Habsburg galleys laying at ambush for Muslim Corsairs were not just patrolling the coast but actively preying on the pirates. A galley's efficiency increased geometrically with the ability of the rowers. That is the peasants the raiders kidnapped would take ages to work in. While a captured corsair could have any prisoners chained to an oar right away in the confidence of their efficiency-because they were already reasonably tough, at least tougher than could be gotten from a fishing hamlet.
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