History Main / HuntingIsEvil

!! Examples

* ''Film/TheHunt2020'': One member of the "deplorable" conservatives chosen to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame be hunted down]], "Trucker", is an unashamed big-game hunter of endangered animals who is eventually shown to have posted a picture of him posing besides a dead rhino on social media.

* ''Literature/WhaleTalk'': Early in the book TJ describes an incident where he tries and fails to protect a young deer from Rich Marshall, the first of many reasons him and Rich don't get along.. He had overheard Rich talking about having killed a mother deer, and that he wanted to get a tag so he could kill the fawn aswell. TJ goes to where the fawn is hoping to protect it, but Rich and his buddies arrive soon after. TJ tries to shield it with his own body, thinking they won't risk shooting him. His buddies trying beating him up first, but when that doesn't work Rich simply puts the muzzle of his rifle right against its head and pulls the trigger. TJ is horrified when he feels it's life drain from its body, and thinks hunting, particularly for sport alone, is horrible. [[spoiler:At the end Rich tries to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Heidi]] using the same hunting rifle, but TJ's father takes the shot instead.]]

* ''Series/{{Haven}}'': PlayedWith in season 1's "[[Recap/HavenS1E6Fur Fur,]]" in which the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Troubled Person of the Week]] is causing animals stuffed and displayed at the Haven Hunt Club to [[TaxidermyTerror come alive]] and [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted attack the people who killed them]]. The overall message of the episode seems to be this, particularly as Nathan and his father clash over Nathan's distaste for hunting. But one of the main suspects is Jess Minion, a Quebecois woman of Mi'kmaq descent who runs her grandmother's farm. She's an animal rights advocate, and is a suspect because she won't let Club members hunt on her land--and isn't shy about firing upon poachers who trespass. When Nathan points out that hunting animals is acceptable in her culture (and Jess herself hunts), she fires back "we use them, we don't mock them." So the message is less that hunting itself is evil, but that hunting for ''sport'' is evil and deserves retribution.

* ''Series/NightGallery'': "Clean Kills and Other Trophies" has Archie Dittman, who hunts not for sport, but for bloodlust. He has a son who is nervous even by the sight of a gun, whom Archie Sr. views as a coward. He puts a clause in his will that his son will not inherent one cent from him if he does not kill an animal within fifteen days time. Archie's butler, Tom, who is African by birth and studied in England, actually argues with his employer about it. Archie points out that Tom's native tribe hunts. Tom points out that for them, it is a matter of food and survival, not sport, and certainly not the bloodlust that Archie makes of it. [[spoiler:How the story ends depends on whether you are viewing the episode, or reading the original short story. In the former, Tom appeals to his native gods, who transform Archie into a head mounted on the wall. In the original story, being forced to kill drives the son insane, and he attends to his father in a more hands-on manner.]]
* ''Series/PaganPeak'': The second season plot heavily features the hunting culture of mountains near Salzburg, with the presentation being far from positive. The traditional hunting club of the area is presented as being populated by smug, classist [[AristocratsAreEvil crooked elites]] who use the connections to cut illegal backroom deals. Likewise the main antagonist of the season [[PsychopathicManchild Xandi Gössen]] is a prolific and highly skilled hunter. Whilst it is framed somewhat sympathetically (as its made clear his turn to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting vulnerable women]] is born out of his ongoing misery and frustrations at failing at everything he ever attempted, with hunting being his only genuine skill but one he can't turn into anything productive, making him feel more like a failure and a burden to his family especially his older brother [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Wolfgang]]), he is still a dangerous SerialKiller and SerialRapist.

-->''Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure-bread Guernsey cow!''

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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Elmer Fudd is a hunter who wants to shoot Bugs and Daffy to death despite knowing they're sapient. In ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'', Bugs and Daffy each try to steer him towards the other by showing him dish recipes; Elmer answers that he's actually vegetarian and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ficcRf_wV30 hunts for the sport of it]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Elmer Fudd is a hunter who wants to shoot Bugs and Daffy to death despite knowing they're sapient. In one cartoon, Bugs and Daffy each try to steer him towards the other by showing him dish recipes; Elmer answers that he's actually vegetarian and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ficcRf_wV30 hunts for the sport of it]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Elmer Fudd is a hunter who wants to shoot Bugs and Daffy to death despite knowing they're sapient. In one cartoon, Bugs and Daffy each try to steer him towards the other by showing him dish recipes; Elmer answers that he's actually vegetarian and hunts for sports.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Elmer Fudd is a hunter who wants to shoot Bugs and Daffy to death despite knowing they're sapient.

This is when hunting is treated as {{Foreshadowing}} for violence or violent people, and usually bad people. They do not need to be the EvilPoacher for it to apply (though it can do), but sinister and otherwise immoral characters. They may be an EgomaniacHunter. In portrayals of TheCityVsTheCountry, this will be treated as a reason to distrust or dislike the country. It will often coexist with the HalfWittedHillbilly, though a lot of characters will not be stupid.

A lot of the time, it's a sister trope to BadPeopleAbuseAnimals. However, in depictions of hunting, the focus is often not on animal ''abuse'' but on killing animals, and hunters are not always shown to get pleasure out of harming the animals. This is not necessarily shown as a positive side to the characters, just that hunting is often portrayed as more utilitarian than sadistic.

-->''Series/{{Hannibal}}''

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* ''Series/{{Haven}}'': PlayedWith in season 1's "[[Recap/HavenS1E6Fur Fur,]]" in which the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Troubled Person of the Week]] is causing animals stuffed and displayed at the Haven Hunt Club to [[TaxidermyTerror come alive]] and [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted attack the people who killed them]]. The overall message of the episode seems to be this, particularly as Nathan and his father clash over Nathan's distaste for hunting. But one of the main suspects is Jess Minion, a Quebecois woman of Mi'kmaq descent who runs her grandmother's farm. She's an animal rights advocate, and is a suspect because she won't let Club members hunt on her land--and it's shy about firing upon poachers who trespass. When Nathan points out that hunting animals is acceptable in her culture (and Jess herself hunts), she fires back "we use them, we don't mock them." So the message is less that hunting itself is bad, but that hunting for ''sport'' is bad.

* ''Literature/WhaleTalk'': Early in the book TJ describes an incident where he tries and fails to protect a young deer from Rich Marshall, the first of many reasons him and Rich don't get along.. He had overheard Rich talking about having killed a mother deer, and that he wanted to get a tag so he could kill the fawn aswell. TJ goes to where the fawn is hoping to protect it, but Rich and his buddies arrive soon after. TJ tries to shield it with his own body, thinking they won't risk shooting him. His buddies trying beating him up first, but when that doesn't work Rich simply puts the muzzle of his rifle right against its head and pulls the trigger. TJ is horrified when he feels it's life drain from its body, and thinks hunting, particularly for sport alone, is horrible. [[spoiler:At the end Rich tries to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Heidi]] using the same hunting rifle, but TJ's father takes the shot instead.]]

* ''Series/MrsAmerica'': Lottie Beth Hoobs is shown shooting at a deer while discussing with Phyllis Schlafly about the need to hate.

* Downplayed in Season 1 of ''Series/MadMen''. Betty is bothered by the birds in her garden, however, it's only after she loses her chance at modeling again thanks to Don, and realizes that she is still trapped in an unfulfiling and unhappy family and marriage that she takes a gun out to the garden and calmly shoots them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}: Clayton, though technically serving as Professor Porter and Jane's guide to Africa, is a big-game hunter who treats their research on gorillas as foolish; in his own words, he sees gorillas (and all animals) as "wild beasts" who are only good for target practice. There are elements of hunting in everything Clayton does: his weapon of choice is a hunting rifle (to the point where Tarzan initially thinks that the sound of a gunshot literally means "Clayton") and he uses a machete to shave. Later in the film, Clayton is also outed as an EvilPoacher who plans to sell off the gorillas to various zoos.