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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': Catwoman does this to Batman and Robin in the teaser to "Shadow of the Bat!".
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} '' cartoon spin-off, the game hunter is one of the frequent villains. The protagonists eventually just get used to him, even using him against other adversaries on occasion. The one time they get rid of him, Peter starts turning into his replacement -- he's as much a part of the setting as an actual person. There ''must always'' be a Van Pelt, and if YouKillItYouBoughtIt. [[spoiler:They figured out how to cure Peter... and elsewhere, the real Van Pelt climbed out of the DeathTrap they'd set for him unharmed.]]
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} '' cartoon spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries '', the game hunter is one of the frequent villains. The protagonists eventually just get used to him, even using him against other adversaries on occasion. The one time they get rid of him, Peter starts turning into his replacement -- he's as much a part of the setting as an actual person. There ''must always'' be a Van Pelt, and if YouKillItYouBoughtIt. [[spoiler:They figured out how to cure Peter... and elsewhere, the real Van Pelt climbed out of the DeathTrap they'd set for him unharmed.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E02TheLeastDangerousGame The Least Dangerous Game]]", Boimler agrees to be hunted by K'Ranch, an alien hunter who was about to do his hunting on the planet of the week before the orbital elevator broke down, preventing him from going down. [[spoiler:K'Ranch is able to hunt down Boimler, but all he does is stab him in the shoulder and take a selfie -- he had no intention on killing him.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E02TheLeastDangerousGame The Least Dangerous Game]]", Boimler agrees to be hunted by K'Ranch, an alien hunter who was about to do his hunting on the planet of the week before the orbital elevator broke down, preventing him from going down. [[spoiler:K'Ranch is able to hunt down Boimler, but all he does is stab him in the shoulder and take a selfie -- he had no intention on of killing him.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' was an exception, of sorts -- Kraven was given a different role in the finale, while an original villain, Shikata, subjected Spider-Man to Hunting The Most Dangerous Game partway through the series. Well, according to the commentary for the Shikata episode on the DVD, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original idea]] ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen was]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen to use Kraven]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "The Least Dangerous Game", Boimler agrees to be hunted by K'Ranch, an alien hunter who was about to do his hunting on the planet of the week before the orbital elevator broke down, preventing him from going down. [[spoiler:K'Ranch is able to hunt down Boimler, but all he does is stab him in the shoulder and take a selfie - he had no intention on killing him]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "The Least Dangerous Game", Boimler agrees to be hunted by K'Ranch, an alien hunter who was about to do his hunting on the planet of the week before the orbital elevator broke down, preventing him from going down. [[spoiler:K'Ranch is able to hunt down Boimler, but all he does is stab him in the shoulder and take a selfie - he had no intention on killing him]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' was an exception, of sorts -- Kraven was given a different role in the finale, while an original villain, Shikata, subjected Spider-Man to Hunting The the Most Dangerous Game partway through the series. Well, according (According to the commentary for the Shikata episode on the DVD, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original idea]] ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen was]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen ''was'' to use Kraven]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode"The "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E02TheLeastDangerousGame The Least Dangerous Game", Game]]", Boimler agrees to be hunted by K'Ranch, an alien hunter who was about to do his hunting on the planet of the week before the orbital elevator broke down, preventing him from going down. [[spoiler:K'Ranch is able to hunt down Boimler, but all he does is stab him in the shoulder and take a selfie - -- he had no intention on killing him]].him.]]
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'' ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'' episode "Safari Joe", the title character is a big game hunter who goes after the heroes. And he does so with ''[[LargeHam gusto]]''.
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** The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" segment "Survival of the Fattest" has Mr. Burns doing this, as shown in the page image. [[ImmoralRealityShow He even televises it, complete with sports commentators and guest analyst Terry Bradshaw]].
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** The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" segment "Survival of the Fattest" has Mr. Burns doing this, as shown in the page image. [[ImmoralRealityShow He even televises it, it]] [[BitingTheHandHumor for Fox]], [[ImmoralRealityShow complete with sports commentators and guest analyst Terry Bradshaw]].
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** The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" skit segment "Survival of the Fattest" has Mr. Burns doing this, as shown in the page image. [[ImmoralRealityShow He even televises it, complete with sports commentators and guest analyst Terry Bradshaw.
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HuntingTheMostDangerousGame in WesternAnimation.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' episode "The Power Within", the heroes find themselves in this situation, with the added twist that the villain [[BroughtDownToNormal removes the Rangers' badges]] to prevent them from accessing their AppliedPhlebotinum powers. The episode's dialogue uses the phrase "most dangerous game" as a ShoutOut.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' 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 [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty had to eat the girl to survive]]. In an amusing ShoutOut, one of the men is dressed as ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' antagonist Kraven the Hunter (see above).
** In another episode CIA chief Avery decides to hunt and kill Jeff to eliminate him as a rival for Haley. He tells Jeff he's about to hunt "The Most Dangerous Game" and Jeff begins guessing the most absurd possibilities, some more than once. Finally Stan screams that he's the prey and then apologizes to Avery because it would have gone on all day.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' episode "The Hunted" had Jake among the several magical creatures captured by the Huntsclan for their Grand Equinox Hunt, where they're to be released at dawn and hunted down.
* Comes up in the episode "El Contador" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', with Archer and Lana being hunted by a South American drug lord and... Cyril (long story). Archer, being who he is, hears the phrase "The Most Dangerous Game" and replies, "[[CallBack Jai-Alai?]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': Catwoman does this to Batman and Robin in the teaser to "Shadow of the Bat!".
* Professor Pyg and Mister Toad practise this in ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'', rounding up corrupt businessmen who've damaged nature in some way and hunting them.
* The ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967'' episode "Hannibal the Hunter" pitted Birdman against the titular hunter. Amusingly, the villain crows that he has "succeeded where all others have failed" by capturing Birdman, evidently unaware that he is captured roughly every other episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In "The Great Tiki Hunt", [=McGee=] and his friends find an old Tiki idol and accidentally unleash an ancient Tiki deity. Although the deity initially seems nice, he soon gives the campers the "honor" of being his prey in the Great Tiki Hunt.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation S.A.F.A.R.I"; Numbuh One is taken to the doctor's for moose bumps shots, but the doctor thinks it's unsporting to hold a kid down and allows him to get a running start and acts like a GreatWhiteHunter, shooting shots from a rifle as they run through a jungle. And THEN it gets weird....
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'': 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".
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has the villain Skulker chasing the hero and his rival/enemy in conjunction with the EggSitting plot.
* One of the "Dial M For Monkey" vignettes from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' featured this. It's a parody of ''Film/{{Predator}}'', complete with Monkey stripping himself and preparing primitive traps to defeat the hunter.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DiGataDefenders'' episode "Hunter and the Hunted".
* Done in one of the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when the last game during a company picnic involved the employees being hunted by their boss, Mr. Weed. Of course in this case, he was just using tranquilizers and the object of the game was to be the last man standing. Peter wins as he managed stay on his feet despite being hit by multiple tranqs and only dropped after he was declared the winner.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'', Xander Crews goes on an annual hunting trip where he kills, skins, and eats a mother panda, which he claims to be ''the most dangerous game.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Bender frees the robot fox from a New Jersey fox hunt, so the hunt master decides that they will hunt Bender instead, declaring him to be "the most dangerous game, apart from lawn darts."
* The Pack does this to Lexington and Goliath in an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. A bit of a subversion, as the "most dangerous game" in this case was gargoyles rather than humans.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Hunted!", where the hunter (an [[FatBastard obese]] aristocrat named Colonel Beauregard Fatman) was constantly annoyed by Johnny's inability to survive in the wilderness or even find a decent hiding place.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} '' cartoon spin-off, the game hunter is one of the frequent villains. The protagonists eventually just get used to him, even using him against other adversaries on occasion. The one time they get rid of him, Peter starts turning into his replacement -- he's as much a part of the setting as an actual person. There ''must always'' be a Van Pelt, and if YouKillItYouBoughtIt. [[spoiler:They figured out how to cure Peter... and elsewhere, the real Van Pelt climbed out of the DeathTrap they'd set for him unharmed.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'': In "Under a Red Sun", after transporting Superman and himself to a planet with a red sun, negating Superman's powers, Steppenwolf hunts Superman across the wilderness. He cheats by bringing several mooks with him. Superman defeats them by setting booby traps.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'': In "The Most Dangerous Po", the InsaneAdmiral General Tsin has taken to hunting China's most dangerous villains and [[TheJailer imprisoning them]] in his [[TheCollector private collection]]. He invites Po to join him and, when Po refuses, Po becomes his next prey.
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' had an episode involving a hunter played by David Hyde Pierce and a bunch of robotic animals menacing the Ducks.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' does this in the episode "Primal Perry," where Perry and Doofenshmirtz must escape a platypus hunter named Liam who is chasing them through the Botanical Gardens.
* ''WesternAnimation/RogerRamjet'' 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.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' featured Aku sending some cat-like aliens from a [[ProudWarriorRace Proud Hunter Race]] planet after Jack. [[spoiler:After a long, arduous chase, they finally subdue him. Unfortunately for Aku, however, their people have a custom that [[WorthyOpponent any prey who can give them such a challenging hunt deserves to run free]].]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Rainier Wolfcastle expresses his desire to hunt his fellow man in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E20ChildrenOfALesserClod Children of a Lesser Clod]]", having bought the local YMCA to tear it down and use the land as a hunting ground. After Lenny says he's taking home a basketball that belongs to the court, Rainier is shown [[DisproportionateRetribution grabbing a gun and chasing after him]], so it looks like he was serious.
** The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" skit "Survival of the Fattest" has Mr. Burns doing this, as shown in the page image. He even televises it, complete with sports commentators and guest analyst Terry Bradshaw.
--->'''Terry:''' ''[watching as Mr Burns repeatedly shoots the already-dead Krusty]'' Aw, you hate to see that! That's the kind of showboating that'll turn people ''off'' this sport.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' did this with Kraven again, although Kraven was also hired by the Master Planner to "hunt" Spider-Man. Kraven's first battle with Spider-Man was a bust, given that Spider-Man had superpowers while Kraven was just a BadassNormal. The second half of Kraven's debut episode centres around him gaining superhuman powers of his own derived from deadly predator animals to even the odds against Spidey.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' was an exception, of sorts -- Kraven was given a different role in the finale, while an original villain, Shikata, subjected Spider-Man to Hunting The Most Dangerous Game partway through the series. Well, according to the commentary for the Shikata episode on the DVD, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original idea]] ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen was]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen to use Kraven]].
* An arc of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' revolves around this, with Ahsoka being captured by Trandoshans, dropped in the middle of a jungle, and hunted down along with several others.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperGlobetrotters'' episode "The Super Globetrotters vs. Bwana Bob".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'' episode "Safari Joe", the title character is a big game hunter who goes after the heroes. And he does so with ''[[LargeHam gusto]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToddMcFarlanesSpawn'''s main plot point for half the series is about how Jason Wynn tries to cover his tracks after he loses a shipment of high powered guns that he was planning on selling on the streets for a profit, because [[SpannerInTheWorks Spawn broke in a military base and stole them]] to arm himself unknowingly. [[spoiler:One of his employers, Terry is determined to track down the guns much to Wynn's annoyance and eventually sends corrupt government assassins after him to silence him. A full episode shows Terry getting hunted by the assassins with him discovering that Wynn stole the weapons, and the assassins are his men. Spawn saves him after questioning if he should kill Terry himself for getting with widowed wife Wanda after he died.]]
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', the GreatWhiteHunter Lord Chumley decides that he wants Optimus Prime's head hanging on his wall. When one considers that Optimus is about ten times his size, more heavily armored than any Earth battleship, strong enough to plow through concrete walls as if they were wet tissue paper, and carries an energy blaster with a barrel wide enough for a human to crawl into, one suspects that the hunter is suicidal... but it turns out that he's actually cunning enough to give Optimus a real challenge, though once Optimus makes it past Chumley's traps and {{Killer Robot}}s, things quickly swing back into Optimus' favor.
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HuntingTheMostDangerousGame in WesternAnimation.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' episode "The Power Within", the heroes find themselves in this situation, with the added twist that the villain [[BroughtDownToNormal removes the Rangers' badges]] to prevent them from accessing their AppliedPhlebotinum powers. The episode's dialogue uses the phrase "most dangerous game" as a ShoutOut.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' 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 [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty had to eat the girl to survive]]. In an amusing ShoutOut, one of the men is dressed as ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' antagonist Kraven the Hunter (see above).
** In another episode CIA chief Avery decides to hunt and kill Jeff to eliminate him as a rival for Haley. He tells Jeff he's about to hunt "The Most Dangerous Game" and Jeff begins guessing the most absurd possibilities, some more than once. Finally Stan screams that he's the prey and then apologizes to Avery because it would have gone on all day.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' episode "The Hunted" had Jake among the several magical creatures captured by the Huntsclan for their Grand Equinox Hunt, where they're to be released at dawn and hunted down.
* Comes up in the episode "El Contador" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', with Archer and Lana being hunted by a South American drug lord and... Cyril (long story). Archer, being who he is, hears the phrase "The Most Dangerous Game" and replies, "[[CallBack Jai-Alai?]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': Catwoman does this to Batman and Robin in the teaser to "Shadow of the Bat!".
* Professor Pyg and Mister Toad practise this in ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'', rounding up corrupt businessmen who've damaged nature in some way and hunting them.
* The ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967'' episode "Hannibal the Hunter" pitted Birdman against the titular hunter. Amusingly, the villain crows that he has "succeeded where all others have failed" by capturing Birdman, evidently unaware that he is captured roughly every other episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In "The Great Tiki Hunt", [=McGee=] and his friends find an old Tiki idol and accidentally unleash an ancient Tiki deity. Although the deity initially seems nice, he soon gives the campers the "honor" of being his prey in the Great Tiki Hunt.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation S.A.F.A.R.I"; Numbuh One is taken to the doctor's for moose bumps shots, but the doctor thinks it's unsporting to hold a kid down and allows him to get a running start and acts like a GreatWhiteHunter, shooting shots from a rifle as they run through a jungle. And THEN it gets weird....
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'': 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".
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has the villain Skulker chasing the hero and his rival/enemy in conjunction with the EggSitting plot.
* One of the "Dial M For Monkey" vignettes from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' featured this. It's a parody of ''Film/{{Predator}}'', complete with Monkey stripping himself and preparing primitive traps to defeat the hunter.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DiGataDefenders'' episode "Hunter and the Hunted".
* Done in one of the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when the last game during a company picnic involved the employees being hunted by their boss, Mr. Weed. Of course in this case, he was just using tranquilizers and the object of the game was to be the last man standing. Peter wins as he managed stay on his feet despite being hit by multiple tranqs and only dropped after he was declared the winner.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'', Xander Crews goes on an annual hunting trip where he kills, skins, and eats a mother panda, which he claims to be ''the most dangerous game.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Bender frees the robot fox from a New Jersey fox hunt, so the hunt master decides that they will hunt Bender instead, declaring him to be "the most dangerous game, apart from lawn darts."
* The Pack does this to Lexington and Goliath in an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. A bit of a subversion, as the "most dangerous game" in this case was gargoyles rather than humans.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Hunted!", where the hunter (an [[FatBastard obese]] aristocrat named Colonel Beauregard Fatman) was constantly annoyed by Johnny's inability to survive in the wilderness or even find a decent hiding place.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} '' cartoon spin-off, the game hunter is one of the frequent villains. The protagonists eventually just get used to him, even using him against other adversaries on occasion. The one time they get rid of him, Peter starts turning into his replacement -- he's as much a part of the setting as an actual person. There ''must always'' be a Van Pelt, and if YouKillItYouBoughtIt. [[spoiler:They figured out how to cure Peter... and elsewhere, the real Van Pelt climbed out of the DeathTrap they'd set for him unharmed.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'': In "Under a Red Sun", after transporting Superman and himself to a planet with a red sun, negating Superman's powers, Steppenwolf hunts Superman across the wilderness. He cheats by bringing several mooks with him. Superman defeats them by setting booby traps.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'': In "The Most Dangerous Po", the InsaneAdmiral General Tsin has taken to hunting China's most dangerous villains and [[TheJailer imprisoning them]] in his [[TheCollector private collection]]. He invites Po to join him and, when Po refuses, Po becomes his next prey.
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' had an episode involving a hunter played by David Hyde Pierce and a bunch of robotic animals menacing the Ducks.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' does this in the episode "Primal Perry," where Perry and Doofenshmirtz must escape a platypus hunter named Liam who is chasing them through the Botanical Gardens.
* ''WesternAnimation/RogerRamjet'' 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.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' featured Aku sending some cat-like aliens from a [[ProudWarriorRace Proud Hunter Race]] planet after Jack. [[spoiler:After a long, arduous chase, they finally subdue him. Unfortunately for Aku, however, their people have a custom that [[WorthyOpponent any prey who can give them such a challenging hunt deserves to run free]].]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Rainier Wolfcastle expresses his desire to hunt his fellow man in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E20ChildrenOfALesserClod Children of a Lesser Clod]]", having bought the local YMCA to tear it down and use the land as a hunting ground. After Lenny says he's taking home a basketball that belongs to the court, Rainier is shown [[DisproportionateRetribution grabbing a gun and chasing after him]], so it looks like he was serious.
** The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" skit "Survival of the Fattest" has Mr. Burns doing this, as shown in the page image. He even televises it, complete with sports commentators and guest analyst Terry Bradshaw.
--->'''Terry:''' ''[watching as Mr Burns repeatedly shoots the already-dead Krusty]'' Aw, you hate to see that! That's the kind of showboating that'll turn people ''off'' this sport.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' did this with Kraven again, although Kraven was also hired by the Master Planner to "hunt" Spider-Man. Kraven's first battle with Spider-Man was a bust, given that Spider-Man had superpowers while Kraven was just a BadassNormal. The second half of Kraven's debut episode centres around him gaining superhuman powers of his own derived from deadly predator animals to even the odds against Spidey.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' was an exception, of sorts -- Kraven was given a different role in the finale, while an original villain, Shikata, subjected Spider-Man to Hunting The Most Dangerous Game partway through the series. Well, according to the commentary for the Shikata episode on the DVD, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original idea]] ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen was]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen to use Kraven]].
* An arc of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' revolves around this, with Ahsoka being captured by Trandoshans, dropped in the middle of a jungle, and hunted down along with several others.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperGlobetrotters'' episode "The Super Globetrotters vs. Bwana Bob".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'' episode "Safari Joe", the title character is a big game hunter who goes after the heroes. And he does so with ''[[LargeHam gusto]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToddMcFarlanesSpawn'''s main plot point for half the series is about how Jason Wynn tries to cover his tracks after he loses a shipment of high powered guns that he was planning on selling on the streets for a profit, because [[SpannerInTheWorks Spawn broke in a military base and stole them]] to arm himself unknowingly. [[spoiler:One of his employers, Terry is determined to track down the guns much to Wynn's annoyance and eventually sends corrupt government assassins after him to silence him. A full episode shows Terry getting hunted by the assassins with him discovering that Wynn stole the weapons, and the assassins are his men. Spawn saves him after questioning if he should kill Terry himself for getting with widowed wife Wanda after he died.]]
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', the GreatWhiteHunter Lord Chumley decides that he wants Optimus Prime's head hanging on his wall. When one considers that Optimus is about ten times his size, more heavily armored than any Earth battleship, strong enough to plow through concrete walls as if they were wet tissue paper, and carries an energy blaster with a barrel wide enough for a human to crawl into, one suspects that the hunter is suicidal... but it turns out that he's actually cunning enough to give Optimus a real challenge, though once Optimus makes it past Chumley's traps and {{Killer Robot}}s, things quickly swing back into Optimus' favor.
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