History Main / EgomaniacHunter

* In [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus39.html this]] ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' comic, what initially appears to be a fairly normal hunter is told that the lion he recently shot "wanted to have a proper go at [him]" and is given a pair of boxing gloves. What does he do? He ''boxes the lion''!

* In ''Film/SandsOfTheKalahai'', Brian O'Brien is a big game hunter and the best survivalist of the group. Thinking his own chances will be improved by the absence of competition, he ruthlessly seeks to eliminate his fellow survivors, one by one, intending to leave only Grace Monckton alive, an "Eve" for his "Adam."

* There is a General Zaroff parody in the ''Series/GetSmart'' episode "Island of the Darned".

He doesn't shoot ducks over a pond; his prey has to live far, far away in a most dangerous and uncomfortable location and be hard to find, impressive looking, and immensely powerful. Great cats, large sea creatures, elephants, and crocodiles, as well as birds of prey come to mind. If the author is more fantastically inclined, he can let the Egomaniac Hunter go after dragons, dinosaurs, phoenixes, unicorns, you name it.

For the heroic counterpart, see GreatWhiteHunter. For an appropriate fantasy or sci-fi analogue, see ProudWarriorRaceGuy, and replace the 'Warrior' bit with 'Hunter'.

* One of a series of comics based off the [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] attraction ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' had an adventurer named Lord Dunswallop who enjoyed hunting and killing various monsters with his bare hands. Along with his biographer, he heads to the eponymous mansion to catch one of the barrel fisted "Gracy Ghasts" for his trophy collection. When asked by the biographer how he intends to strangle ghosts since they are incorporeal, Lord Dunswallop reveals that he has taken some poison and intends to return to his body later. In a AndThenJohnWasAZombie moment, after leaving his body and entering the grand hall, he is greeted by the ghosts with glee for they now have ghost #992, leaving the biographer unemployed and forced to drag Dunswallop's now dead body with him.

* Shaw from ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' is this to ''twistedly insane levels''. He's paranoid, violent sociopath who shows no regard for any life other than his own and is thus a selfish, vain, evil, egotistical, pompous and greedy man. This is proved by the sadistic and heartless way in which he's mounted many animals in the forest on his cabin wall and how he drove his truck recklessly to try and kill Elliot, nearly hitting several people along the way. He also shows no regards for the law: hunting in a national park (before the hunting season actually begins), and even going as far as attempting to ''fire his gun in a crowd''. Shaw also has a bizarre love for his hunting gun called "[[ICallItVera Lorraine]]" and even seems to believe it to be sentient, talking to it and even offering it a blanket so it wouldn't be cold. To top his his ego off, Shaw seems to develop the paranoid belief that animals are becoming as smart as humans and are plotting a rebellion to overthrow mankind and TakeOverTheWorld.

* ''Film/{{The Ghost and the Darkness}}'', subverted. Both Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas play "{{Great White Hunter}}s" that fit several of the stereotypes listed. Arrogant, glory seeking adventurers that don't hunt for food. One's even world famous for hunting. However, both are very sympathetic characters. Val Kilmer's character is surprisingly personable and warm, a family man who reaches out to all around him, high and low, and Michael Douglas' character, who is world famous for his exploits, actually doesn't like hunting, but does it as an escape from memories of the family he lost.

* The [[VillainBasedFranchise titular stars]] of the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' series are [[PlanetOfHats a culture based around this trope]]. The movies imply, and the ExpandedUniverse states, that their whole society revolves around each individual member striving to earn greater status by gathering trophies. It's a civilisation built on the prospect of going out into the universe in search of the most impressive and dangerous alien lifeforms that can be found, killing them, and coming back with their skins, bones, horns, tusks, fangs, claws, pelts, and anything else that can make an appropriate trophy, and their (centuries long, it's implied) life is devoted to accumulating ever-greater bragging rights via this method. While they do have something of a code of honor, that code is devoted solely to ensuring that the sport is "fair" -- never kill pregnant quarry (lest there be no new targets to hunt) -- and they are less braggadocious than is usually associated with this trope, they otherwise match it perfectly. They even deliberately spread one of the most dangerous alien lifeforms in their universe, the [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]], to other worlds, simply because it's one of their favorite hunting trophies.

* ''Literature/{{Darksaber}}'': Drom Guldi is a mine owner who goes on a very dangerous wampa hunt and even as the creatures gain the advantage over them and are prepared to kill the hunting party, he still displays some preoccupation with hainvg failed to get the pelts of the ones he killed. That being said he does show some concern for the others while calmly acknowledging the near-certainty of his own demise at the hands of the creatures he came to hunt.

* ''Series/FrontierCircus'': Duke Felix Otway in "The Race". He travels the world trophy hunting. He also regards himself as a'[[TheCollector hunter of men]]', which is what sets the plot in motion.

* Bwana, a villain from one the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' supplements.

** We have also have [=FL4K=] from ''Videogame/Borderlands3'', who's a robotic version of this trope. They are obsessed with "The Hunt" and proving themselves as the biggest Alpha around.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, Hircine is the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of the Hunt. He lives for the glory of the hunt, and has no reason to do so beyond his own vanity. He prefers HuntingTheMostDangerousGame solely for the sport, including having his own pack of [[TheyHaveTheScent hunting dogs]] (read: [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]]). Somewhat unusually for the trope, he doesn't consider it a ''true'' hunt unless the prey has a sporting chance. Additionally, he has [[DefeatMeansRespect respect]] for those who ''do'' survive his hunts, or better yet, [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted turn the tables on the hunter]].
* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' - Ozzik Sturn, who appears as the commander of the Imperial forces on Kashyyyk. Sturn will hunt non-sapient game but particularly enjoys hunting intelligent beings. When he first appears, he's wearing a sash made from the fur of wookiee slaves he hunted down and killed as though it were a badge of office. The main character also passes through his trophy room, which is filled with the skulls of various aliens from the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise. When you confront him, he mentions how he's grown tired of hunting wookiees and relishes the opportunity to kill a Jedi.

** On the other hand, D.E.H.T.A itself is a bunch of [[AnimalWrongsGroup overagressive tree-huggers]] who demand ''hunter ears'' as a currency and will literally jump you no matter what your relation with them if you killed an animal, even in self-defense. This includes an aggressive one they ''saw'' attack you.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' had a one-shot hunter in Killgore Steed (yet another PunnyName) who specializes in hunting endangered species (and the occasional human) in his [[SupervillainLair killer island death maze]]. He got his karmic come-uppance when The Joker killed him with a pair of hyenas.

* In an episode of the ''Dial M for Monkey'' shorts in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', the titular hero Monkey fought an alien hunter named, appropriately enough, ''Huntor'', who targeted the most dangerous game of all: heroes. Monkey defeated the heavily-armed hunter by relying on his jungle instincts rather than his superpowers, then ditches him on a planet inhabited by giant redneck aliens so he would feel what its like to be hunted. Huntor would later have a cameo in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', still up to his old tricks.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' has the episode "The Huntsman", where Prince Adam and Teela try to convince a famous hunter to leave the unicorn alone. He refuses and the heroes not only have to use force to stop him, but convince the King to ban sport hunting for good measure.

* Vladimir Putin, reputed as loving extreme sports like mountain climbing, outdoor survival and martial arts, also loves hunting big game like huge bears in the cold, dark wilderness of Siberia.

* WesternAnimation/TheBeatles are on an African holiday, guided by Alan Watermain, great white hunter. At the conclusion, John and Paul scare Ringo and George with a lion costume, but Watermain mistakes it as real so he opens fire on them.

* WesternAnimation/TheBeatles are on an African holiday, guided by Alan Watermain, great white hunter. At the conclusion, John and Paul sacre Ringo and George with a lion costume, but Watermain mistakes it as real so he opens fire on them.

* Michael Sutton from ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'' episode "The Snare". He brings Banner to his private island in order to hunt an intelligent man...and becomes even more interested when he learns said man sometimes turns into a monster.

* Another heroic (albeit mildly buffoonish) example is Ned Land from ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea''. He is portrayed as greedy and destructive, though, in contrast to the more scientific-minded Arronax. That might be because he's [[AcceptableTargets Canadian]], though.
* ''Literature/IntoTheDrowningDeep'': [[UnholyMatrimony Jacques and Michi]] are some of the most infamous big-game hunters in the world, not least for having shot critically endangered species simply because they wanted to. They're treated like [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]] by the rest of the characters, [[spoiler:rightly so, as Jacques admits they've both murdered people who got in the way of their hunts.]]

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyDucks'' featured an Egomaniac Hunter who threw the concept of ''sportsmanship'' to the wind, by using increasingly powerful robotic weapons in the process of hunting the unarmed avian heroes through a jungle.

He is usually European or American (with perhaps an occasional AwesomeAussie or AmoralAfrikaner thrown in for flavour), but he can have any real or fictional ethnicity.

He is usually European or American, but he can have any real or fictional ethnicity.

* Clayton, the villain from ''Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' is one of these. Being played by Creator/BrianBlessed helps make this character an excellent example.
* Charles Muntz from ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' has become one, making him a FallenHero.

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* In [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus39.html this]] ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' comic, what initially appears to be a fairly normal hunter is told that the lion he recently shot "wanted to have a proper go at [him]" and is given a pair of boxing gloves. What does he do? He ''boxes the lion''!

* The Stalker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', an African hunter who could stalk and kill a cheetah with his bare hands, is a subversion. He and Batman also get into an EnemyMine situation at one point.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' had a one-shot hunter in Killgore Steed (yet another PunnyName) who specializes in hunting endangered species (and the occasional human) in his [[SupervillainLair killer island death maze]]. He got his karmic come-uppance when The Joker killed him with a pair of hyenas.
* One of the "Rabbit Seasons" trilogy had [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs and Daffy]] reading out of recipe books to set Elmer on each other. Elmer explains that he's a vegetarian; he just hunts for the sport.

* Safari Joe from ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'', complete with racism. He doesn't even see the Thundercats as sentient, despite them talking to him. He even has his own 'slave' - the robot Mule.

* A brief cameo from such a character appears in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Love and Rocket", when the soon-to-be-stuffed bears at the Romanticorp factory are chased by a safari-suit wearing, snarling elderly Englishman whose blunderbuss is carried by his malnourished Indian attendant.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyDucks'' featured an Egomaniac Hunter who threw the concept of ''sportsmanship'' to the wind, by using increasingly powerful robotic weapons in the process of hunting the unarmed avian heroes through a jungle.
* In an episode of the ''Dial M for Monkey'' shorts in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', the titular hero Monkey fought an alien hunter named, appropriately enough, ''Huntor'', who targeted the most dangerous game of all: heroes. Monkey defeated the heavily-armed hunter by relying on his jungle instincts rather than his superpowers, then ditches him on a planet inhabited by giant redneck aliens so he would feel what its like to be hunted. Huntor would later have a cameo in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', still up to his old tricks.
* Nimrod, a recurring nemesis of the ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]'', looks like an extra from ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' and acts like a crazed game show host, but don't underestimate him. In his introductory episode ("The Power Within"), he traps the Rangers in a HuntingTheMostDangerousGame scenario--after removing their badges to prevent them from accessing their AppliedPhlebotinum powers. We are also shown that Nimrod has done this several times before with other space travelers.\\
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Galaxy Rangers fandom has also referred to him as "a Thundercat on drugs". In a later episode, "Murder on the Andorian Express", he actually helps Doc and Niko take down a Crown assassin, explaining that his whole purpose for getting on the luxury liner in the first place was to hunt the assassin.
* Mitch from the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "The Chronicles of Meap", who captures the galaxy's rarest creatures for his personal collection.
* Flintheart Glomgold in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''.
* Bwana Bob from ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperGlobetrotters''.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' has the episode "The Huntsman", where Prince Adam and Teela try to convince a famous hunter to leave the unicorn alone. He refuses and the heroes not only have to use force to stop him, but convince the King to ban sport hunting for good measure.

* Regis Stone in ''WesternAnimation/DexHamiltonAlienEntomologist''. He tricks Dex into helping him track down the universe's largest insect and boasts that this won't be the first time he's wiped out an entire species.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': This is what Blacque Jacque Shellacque appears to be in "Ridiculous Journey". Ultimately he is revealed to have been [[spoiler:attempting to return the pets to their owners]], but this doesn't explain why he was attempting to hunt the Abominable Snowman at the start of the episode.

* There is a General Zaroff parody in the ''Series/GetSmart'' episode "Island of the Darned".

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' - The Hirogen are [[PlanetOfHats a species]] of Egomaniac Hunters. One of them threatens to remove Seven of Nine's intestines as a trophy, as "Unusual relics are prized. Yours will make me envied by men and pursued by women." Seven, who rivals the Hirogen in the big ego stakes, is unimpressed.
* Michael Sutton from ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'' episode "The Snare". He brings Banner to his private island in order to hunt an intelligent man...and becomes even more interested when he learns said man sometimes turns into a monster.

* In Season 2 ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' meets a werewolf hunter who fits this trope, except for selling the werewolf pelts. He runs away after she bends the barrel of his gun like a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything limp noodle]].
* The killer in the ''Series/FatherBrown'' episode "The Lair of the Libertines" is ultimately revealed to be this.

* ''Series/FrontierCircus'': Duke Felix Otway in "The Race". He travels the world trophy hunting. He also regards himself as a'[[TheCollector hunter of men]]', which is what sets the plot in motion.
* Hank and Roy Spim from Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus parody this trope in that they hunt little bugs like mosquitos... with assault rifles, machine guns, and bazookas.
* Sir Malcolm Murray of ''Series/PennyDreadful'' starts out at the GreatWhiteHunter but the further the audience learns of him it's apparent that he's a deconstruction of the character archetype and comes to resemble this trope more closely. He's butchered and raped his way across Africa. He's mentioned having lured predatory lions into ambushes with dead lambs in favor the more sporting action of stalking them down. And in his quest for glory [[spoiler: left behind his son Peter to die to continue the journey. When his son's dying wish was to have a mountain named after him Malcolm instead upon discovery of the territory named it after himself.]]

* "Little bunny Foo-Foo, hopping through the forest, [[ForTheEvulz scooping up the field mice and bopping 'em on the head...]]"

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' D&D setting had Adamok Ebon, a rare female example (who's also an assassin who works for the thrill instead of money) and a module featuring an arrogant young nobleman with no clue of how smart (and dangerous) Beastlands creatures are.
* Malar, god of the hunt in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', is a bloodthirsty brute who's the patron of evil lycanthropes and serial killers.
* ''TabletopGame/DisneyVillainsVictorious'': The Elite Global Huntsmans Club is made up of every hunter-type character in animated movies (Clayton, Gaston, Cruella de Vil, Charles Muntz...) who live on Muntz' zeppelin.

* Hemet Nesingwary from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' fits this trope to a tee. His [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute son]] took over his original hunt when Hemet moved to Outland for bigger game to hunt, where he and his expedition proceeded to instruct players to slaughter an ''immense'' number of creatures in one of Outland's few pastoral wildernesses left. Then he left for Northrend, settled down in a primeval jungle (it makes sense when you get there) and cradle of life, and had the nerve to first demand assistance from a dead rhino spirit, then [[{{Jerkass}} refuse to leave as it asked, saying "no dead rhino'll stop me from hunting wherever I want!"]]\\
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Amusingly, just as ''players'' tend to ''hate'' Hemet for his ridiculous egomania and his ''tedious'' quests ([[MassMonsterSlaughterSidequest endless slaughter-fests]] for the most part), an organization of druids, D.E.H.T.A (Druids for the Ethical and Humane Treatment of Animals) has arisen with killing Nesingwary and his increasingly deranged followers as their sole goal. "Hemet Nesingwary" is a SignificantAnagram: Creator/ErnestHemingway.
** On the other hand, D.E.H.T.A itself is a bunch of [[AnimalWrongsGroup overagressive tree-huggers]] who demand ''hunter ears'' as a currency and will literally jump you no matter what your relation with them if you killed an animal, even in self-defense. This includes an aggressive one they ''saw'' attack you.
* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'' - Evil country music star Conroy Bumpus, who is out to capture the same Bigfoot the heroes of the game are trying to aid just so he can add it to his personal menagerie. His obsession is even lampshaded in his VillainSong "King of the Creatures":
-->''I trapped my first tiger before I could speak\\
Killed me a bear when I was three\\
And now with this Bigfoot and giraffe-necked freak\\
I finally have a full menagerie!''
* Rudy "Lynx" Roberts in the ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'' series. His character bio mentions his favourite hobby is "tracking down endangered species to finish them off".
* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' - Ozzik Sturn, who appears as the commander of the Imperial forces on Kashyyyk. Sturn will hunt non-sapient game but particularly enjoys hunting intelligent beings. When he first appears, he's wearing a sash made from the fur of wookiee slaves he hunted down and killed as though it were a badge of office. The main character also passes through his trophy room, which is filled with the skulls of various aliens from the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise. When you confront him, he mentions how he's grown tired of hunting wookiees and relishes the opportunity to kill a Jedi.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, Hircine is the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of the Hunt. He lives for the glory of the hunt, and has no reason to do so beyond his own vanity. He prefers HuntingTheMostDangerousGame solely for the sport, including having his own pack of [[TheyHaveTheScent hunting dogs]] (read: [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]]). Somewhat unusually for the trope, he doesn't consider it a ''true'' hunt unless the prey has a sporting chance. Additionally, he has [[DefeatMeansRespect respect]] for those who ''do'' survive his hunts, or better yet, [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted turn the tables on the hunter]].

* Count Razoff from ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc''.
* ''Every'' Norn in ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' and ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' is this, as are most Charr.

* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2: Case Zero'' has Jed Wright, a psychopath who is happy that the ZombieApocalypse happened because he can hunt zombies as much as he wants and take trophies without getting in trouble with the law. He also hunts humans who have been bitten, [[InsistentTerminology insisting that they are already zombies]], and not caring if they take Zombrex to prevent themselves from turning.

* Jean Bison in ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' has some shades of this combined with him being a lumberjack. It is also subverted, as Sly notes that Jean's time as a Human Popsicle catapulted him into a time where these traits are considered bad.

* Kraven the Hunter from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''.
* Jaeger from the ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' comic book in Franchise/TheDCU.
* ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' -- UpperClassTwit and uber-jackass Maximillian Ramhoff from Will Pfeiffer's brief run was one of these; he makes a habit of hunting the rarest creatures possible and making elaborate trophies just because. For instance, he not only kills the last California Condor, he ''eats'' it. He also killed the Yeti, has a stuffed thunder lizard, made a coat out of the skunk ape, and sets his sights on Swamp Thing as the plot moves forward.
* Creator/MarvelComics: Cosmic Villain The Obliterator. An Elder of the Universe, he obtained immortality by being monomaniacally obsessed with one thing -- in his case, killing. He is the last member of his own species, as he hunted them all down and killed them one by one (by his own admission, twenty billion of them). He has exterminated huge numbers of worlds in the five billion years of his existence -- one living creature at a time.
* Minor ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' antagonist Jack Marlin, from the original Mirage comic books, initially plays the trope completely straight. His animated counterpart, on the other hand, is simultaneously more nutters and more affable than most examples of the trope.
* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' -- Otto Orion, a.k.a. the Hunter, captured The Legion and subjected them to a HuntingTheMostDangerousGame scenario in ''Adventure Comics'' #358. His son Adam later adopted his father's alias and M.O. and attempted to avenge his father, eventually becoming a member of [[LegionOfDoom The Legion of Supervillains]].

* One of a series of comics based off the [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]] attraction ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' had an adventurer named Lord Dunswallop who enjoyed hunting and killing various monsters with his bare hands. Along with his biographer, he heads to the eponymous mansion to catch one of the barrel fisted "Gracy Ghasts" for his trophy collection. When asked by the biographer how he intends to strangle ghosts since they are incorporeal, Lord Dunswallop reveals that he has taken some poison and intends to return to his body later. In a AndThenJohnWasAZombie moment, after leaving his body and entering the grand hall, he is greeted by the ghosts with glee for they now have ghost #992, leaving the biographer unemployed and forced to drag Dunswallop's now dead body with him.

* Clayton, the villain from ''Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' is one of these. Being played by Creator/BrianBlessed helps make this character an excellent example.
* [[EvilPoacher Percival McLeach]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' is probably one of the most sadistic versions of this character type. Besides hunting down an endangered eagle just because he can, he regularly skins animals for fun.

* Charles Muntz from ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' has become one, making him a FallenHero.

* In ''Film/{{Walkabout}}'' two white hunters on a jeep shoot a buffalo and leave it to rot, much to the grief of the Aborigine boy who watches it happen.
* Roland Tembo from ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' [[DesignatedVillain is portrayed as being this]], but most of his actions really show he's more of a GreatWhiteHunter. ''"Somewhere on this island is the greatest predator this world has ever known. The second greatest must hunt it down."'' Once the dinos escaped, he focuses on trying to keep people alive, [[DesignatedHero even the idiots]] [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality responsible for releasing the dinos and endangering everyone in the first place]].
* Ken Wheatley from ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', is a straighter example, and acts as a {{Foil}} to Tembo. While Tembo is working for [=InGen=] in exchange for the opportunity to hunt the fearsome game to ever live, Wheatley is clearly only in it for the money and constantly reminds his employers about his bonus. And while Tembo makes sure his men are holding up and is extremely distraught when his long-time hunting partner is killed, [[BadBoss Wheatley is shown to care more about his paycheck than his men]]. He also proves to be far more incompetent than Tembo and [[spoiler: ends up brutally killed after entering the cage of a seemingly tranqed ''Indoraptor'' to pull out one of its teeth for his collection [[TooDumbToLive without actually checking to see if it was really tranqed]]]].
* TriggerHappy [[PunnyName Van Pelt]] from ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame who is hunting down Alan]], has the obsession and personality of an Egomaniac Hunter.

* The villain from the John Leguizamo film ''The Pest''.

* The film director played by Clint Eastwood in ''Film/WhiteHunterBlackHeart'', who goes to Africa ostensibly to shoot a movie but is actually monomaniacally obsessed with shooting an elephant.

* In ''Film/TheBeastMustDie'', a rich hunter invites several people to his mansion for a weekend so he can determine which one of them is a werewolf and shoot it.
* The BigBad Morgan from ''Film/CryWilderness'', who is very proud of his achievements in big game hunting and later relishes in the fame he'll get for taking down Bigfoot.

* Suruk The Slayer from ''Literature/SpaceCaptainSmith'' and its sequels.
* Prince Humperdink from ''Literature/ThePrincessBride''.
* General Zaroff from the short story (and later movie) "Literature/TheMostDangerousGame". Interestingly, the hero he tries to kill is a GreatWhiteHunter.
* Another heroic (albeit mildly buffoonish) example is Ned Land from ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea''. He is portrayed as greedy and destructive, though, in contrast to the more scientific-minded Arronax. That might be because he's [[AcceptableTargets Canadian]], though.

* [[TheWildHunt Herne the Hunter]] in ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' is an odd case because he is, arguably, a ''good guy''.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' - Sebastian Moran, Moriarty's right-hand man, apparently does a lot of this on the side.
* A very common personality trait among Literature/TheDraka. A short story set in the Drakaverse by Creator/HarryTurtledove has the Domination's [[BadassArmy army]] restricted from using nuclear weapons on an American holdout because its leader wants to keep the area as a nature reserve after the war.
* A [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-inverted example]] is Hunter from ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}''. However, other than her obsession with hunting rare and powerful monsters ([[spoiler:and for this reason, she betrays the party in exchange for a spear with which to kill the Beast of London]]), she's an extremely professional and reticent fighter and bodyguard and doesn't showcase any of the other personality foibles that tend to go along with this trope.

* He's not seen actually hunting, but Juan Puneta in ''Literature/{{Mass}}'' otherwise fits this trope; TheNarrator Pepe visits him in his fancy house with tiger-skins on his floor and an elephant rifle.

* Lord Cockswain, the SteamPunk adventurer who massacres the rare game of Venus in ''Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory''. At the end of his illustrated journal, we see Cockswain's living room full of the mounted heads of his game, [[FantasticRacism including his alien guide]].

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' - Mustrum Ridcully is quite heroic, but a fiend for hunting and fishing. According to ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'', "Mustrum Ridcully did a lot for rare species. For one thing, he kept them rare."

* Rak Wraithraiser from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', a [[LargeHam giant]] [[RuleOfCool bipedal]] [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile alligator]], used to be this until Baam and Koon conned him into their team. He entered a Tower hailed as being able to grant any wish if you reach the top, not to get a wish, but to ''fight'' the other strong people trying to get to the top.

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* Clayton, the villain from ''Disney's Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' is one of these. Being played by Creator/BrianBlessed helps make this character an excellent example.
* [[EvilPoacher Percival McLeach]] from ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'' is probably one of the most sadistic versions of this character type. Besides hunting down an endangered eagle just because he can, he regularly skins animals for fun.
* Gaston from ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' plays the character type straight. "''I use antlers in all of my decorating!''" [[UpToEleven Apparently]], one of the deer heads on his wall was meant to be ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'s mom''.