History Main / TheHunterBecomesTheHunted

* ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}'', in almost all Manhunts where he's being hunted by the hunters. He manages to kill the hunters by outsmarting them, in various, creative ways. And most of the time, Dream's outnumbered.

* ''Oh Deer'' is a hide-and-seek game where one player is the Hunter while the rest are deer that can walk on their hind legs and have to hide themselves among normal deer. The Hunter has a SanityMeter that falls over time, rises sharply if he kills a player deer, but drops sharply if he shoots an actual deer. Once the Hunter's sanity runs out, all the surviving deer players turn into {{Wendigo}}s, and can now chase after the Hunter and kill him before he returns to his cabin to regenerate his sanity.

The HunterOfMonsters lives by this trope, since by default monsters are portrayed as predators of human beings, and human beings tend not to like being prey.

* Most of the playable licensed characters in ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' on the Survivor side are the protagonists of their respective franchises, making them lean towards the "good" side of the good vs. evil debate. However, they've started introducing antagonists as [[PaletteSwap Legendary skins]], first with Maria from ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', and then with Mr. Scratch from ''VideoGame/AlanWake''. Hilariously, both of these examples are of the EvilTwin variety (for James' wife Mary and Alan himself, respectively).

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is about humanity being hunted to the brink of extinction by the eponymous Titans, and the humans fighting back and hunting them in return. The quote up top is the LyricalColdOpen to the first opening theme.

* Likewise in another [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnie]] vehicle, ''TheRunningMan''. The villain even offers Richards a role as a Stalker, which he promptly refuses.

* In ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'' the other 2 teams of superpwered teens at the Death Camp target Luz after being promised billions of dollars to kill her... she quickly turns the tables on them with her PowerParasite Quirk, All For One. [[spoiler:It ends Luz killing '''twenty of them''' in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge saving a SoleSurvivor who Luz allowed to successfully pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere after she pleaded to All For One user for mercy.]]

* The ''Creator/NationalGeographicChannel'' Program ''Hunter Hunted'' invokes this with its CatchPhrase: "Who is the Hunter and Who is the Hunted?"

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is about humanity being hunted to the brink of extinction by the eponymous Titans, and the humans fighting back and hunting them in return.
** Heavily {{invoked|Trope}} on the GratuitousGerman intro verse of the Anime's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic opening theme]]:
--->''Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind die Jäger!'' [[note]]Are you the food? No, we are the hunters! [[/note]]

* Invoked in ''Film/FlashGordon'' when the Hawkmen are ready to leave Flash and his allies behind when Ming's forces come at them.

* In ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'' the other 2 teams of superpwered teens at the Death Camp target Luz after being promised billions of dollars to kill her... she quickly turns the tables on them with her PowerParasite Quirk, All For One. [[spoiler:It ends Luz killing '''twenty of them''' in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge saving a SoleSurvivor who Luz allowed to successfully pull a ScrewThisImOuttaHere after she pleaded to Luz for mercy.]]

* In most of the games in the ''Videogame/PacMan'' series, Pac-Man must avoid ghosts that chase after him, typically in groups of four, but sometimes more. However, Pac-Man can eat Power Pellets that allow him to turn the tides and eat the ghosts instead, temporarily removing them from the maze.

** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersGenerationOne'': In "Prime Target" an aristocrat named Lord Chumley steals an experimental jet and kidnaps two Autobots in order to lure Optimus to his island in an attempt to hunt him down. Optimus proves more than capable of handling Chumley's traps, even scoffing at a woman tied to train tracks because his sensors could tell it was a hologram being used to bait a trap.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars'': "Call of the Wild" sees the Press sabotaging the Maximals' recharger, leaving them only able to rest while in beast mode. When their beast selves overtake their robot intellects, Megatron and his crew are all too eager to hunt the animalistic heroes down. Fortunately Primal is able to integrate his beast and robot sides and show the others how to do this too. Armed now with both robot intellect and animal instincts, the Maximals quickly turn the tide on the Predacons.