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| 10 | [[quoteright:290:[[Creator/ErnestHemingway https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hemingway_2_3108.jpg]]]] |
| 11 | [[caption-width-right:290: Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway, pictured here with a leopard that he [[BlatantLies heroically killed in self-defence]] because it [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark was coming right at him]].]] |
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| 13 | ->''"Peter, if you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions: firstly, I'm in charge, and when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you need to do is sign the checks, tell us we're doing a good job and open your case of scotch when we have a good day. Second condition, my fee. You can keep it. All I want in exchange for my services is the right to hunt one of the Tyrannosaurs. A male, a buck, only. How and why are my business. Now if you don't like either of those two conditions, you're on your own. So go ahead, set up basecamp right here, or in a swamp or in the middle of a Rex nest for all I care. But I've been on too many safaris with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas. Okay?"'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''Roland Tembo''', ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' |
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| 16 | The heroic counterpart to the EgomaniacHunter and the EvilPoacher, the Great White Hunter is a heroic big game hunter. He is most likely a GentlemanAdventurer, but he could also be an earthier type who leads safaris for a living. Either way, he will be an expert tracker, a crack shot, and skilled at wilderness survival. He may have learned his trade as a HunterTrapper. |
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| 18 | DeliberateValuesDissonance might come up if the story is trying to impart AnAesop about respecting the lives of wild animals. Often, however, this character ''does'' admire animals even as he kills them, considering them a WorthyOpponent of sorts. Some may even consider hunting something that doesn't have a chance of fighting back to be unsportsmanlike. Sometimes he does it merely out of necessity: there is a dangerous predator with [[ToServeMan taste for human flesh]] at the wild, and native hunters have failed at neutralizing the threat, so he is called to do the job. |
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| 20 | The Great White Hunter is something of a DeadHorseTrope. When he still appears, it will be in a period piece, a fictitous setting, or he will be leading expeditions to capture animals alive. Or he might be retired and feeling remorse over the number of now-endangered animals he killed over the course of his life. His spiritual descendants the Safari Guide, Wildlife Conservationist or Game Warden may still appear unironically. May wear an AdventurerOutfit. |
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| 22 | Despite his title, not always white... and [[NoHeroToHisValet not always all that great, either]]. |
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| 24 | [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] [[ThreateningShark Great White Sharks]], though a Great White Hunter might very well hunt them. |
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| 26 | Subtrope of ClassicalHunter. If they are so successful as to wipe out an entire species, they may become TheGreatExterminator. |
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| 28 | !Examples: |
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| 30 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 32 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 33 | * Ulysses Bloodstone and (to a lesser extent) his daughter [[ComicBook/{{Bloodstone}} Elsa Bloodstone]], in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, although they usually restricted their hunting to [[VampireHunter vampires]] and other monsters. |
| 34 | * There's also a DC hero called B'wana Beast (a white guy granted mystical powers by a magic helmet and a special potion). His successor, Freedom Beast, might count... except he's black.... |
| 35 | * Congo Bill in Franchise/TheDCU (who later gained the ability to swap his mind with that of a giant golden gorilla because, y'know, monkeys make everything better). |
| 36 | ** Congo Bill was also featured in a 15 chapter movie serial in 1948. |
| 37 | * ''ComicBook/GiveMeLiberty'': Moretti appears as this in one fight scene which is between ImagineSpot and allegory (Martha is a purple panther). |
| 38 | * Johnny Orchid, a Great White Hunter character created by Creator/JTEdson, whose adventures appeared in the British comic ''The Victor''. |
| 39 | * In ''ComicBook/JonSableFreelance'', Jon showed aspects of this trope, working as a safari guide and game warden before his RoaringRampageOfRevenge turned him into a mercenary. |
| 40 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsKravenTheHunter Kraven the Hunter]], a.k.a. Sergei Kravenoff, is basically made of this and HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. Born in 1917, he started out as a hunter in Kenya, but later enhanced himself with mystic rituals and herbs (supplied by his lover Calypso, a Haitian vodoun priestess) so that he could hunt and kill his prey barehanded. He moved on to hunting humans (including working for ComicBook/NickFury in the 1950s as a NaziHunter), before eventually deciding that only super-humans presented a sufficient challenge. Even then, he seems to return to his animal-centered roots, as some of his targets have included Spider-Man, ComicBook/{{Sabertooth|MarvelComics}}, and the ComicBook/BlackPanther. |
| 41 | * Allan Quatermain (see Literature below) is one of the central characters in ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. |
| 42 | * In Franchise/TheDCU, Paul Kirk was one of these before he adopted the superheroic identity of the Manhunter. |
| 43 | * ''ComicBook/KaZar'': In ''ComicBook/MarvelMysteryComics'', the David Rand Ka-Zar once ran across a hunter named Steve Hardy who spent months capturing animals to bring to zoos or collections (but had no qualms about killing them if he had to). Ka-Zar judged him a good man and did not allow the animals to harm him, but he still foiled his attempts to take animals. |
| 44 | * ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' reveals that Catman's father was one of these. He was also an abusive asshole who believed that ARealManIsAKiller to the point that he forced his son to kill his mother. |
| 45 | * Bob Reynolds, boyfriend of ''ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle'' was supposed to be this, but he spent most of his time as a DistressedDude. |
| 46 | * ComicBook/{{Tintin}} in OldShame ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' killed a rhinoceros by blowing it up with dynamite after bullets didn't work. This and his earlier senseless killing of a monkey are especially jarring in light of his later kindness to animals in ''The Black Island'' and ''Tintin in Tibet''. A Swedish translator made Herge redraw his work to spare the rhinoceros. |
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| 49 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 50 | * In ''Fanfic/LetTheWorldSmile'', the king of Hyrule is known for his love of hunting more-so than actually being a ruler. |
| 51 | * In ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'', the Sukumvit noble family has a long tradition of hunting the most dangerous wildlife of the Grand Line. A few generations back the family patriarch decided to focus their hunts on [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame pirate captains who had eaten Zoan-type devil fruits]] as they were the ultimate quarry. |
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| 54 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 55 | * ''WesternAnimation/TarzoonShameOfTheJungle'': Professor Cedric, even though he is hardly the MightyWhitey or BoldExplorer he thinks he is. |
| 56 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': In his younger days, Charles Muntz was a Great White Hunter and BoldExplorer whose exploits inspired Carl, and especially Ellie. [[spoiler:However, by the time Carl meets him, Muntz has been become an EgomaniacHunter: hiding from the world in Paradise Falls and obsessively stalking the "Beast of Paradise Falls".]] |
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| 59 | [[folder:Films -- Live Action]] |
| 60 | * Parodied in the Creator/AbbottAndCostello film ''Africa Screams''. |
| 61 | * Subverted by Colonel Brock in the horror/comedy ''Film/{{Alligator}}''; he wears a safari suit and pith helmet even though the film is set in ''Chicago''. |
| 62 | * Creator/GrouchoMarx's famous character Capt. Geoffrey Spaulding from the film ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'' is a parody of this trope. |
| 63 | -->'''Capt. Spaulding:''' "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How it got in my pajamas I'll never know". |
| 64 | * Played for BlackComedy in ''Film/BigGame'', where PsychoForHire Hazar is acting out a White Hunter fantasy -- with President Moore as the hunted. |
| 65 | * ''Film/BringingUpBaby'': Maj. Applewhite is one, which leads to some hilarity when Susan describes David as one and Applewhite starts firing questions at him. |
| 66 | * In ''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf'', Frosnac is sent to investigate the beast because of his skill as a naturalist and a hunter, making him an example in an unusually early setting. |
| 67 | * Parodied in the Creator/BobHope film ''Film/CallMeBwana''. Bob Hope plays a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own. Hope lives his false reputation as a great white hunter to the point of living in a Manhattan apartment furnished to look like an African safari lodge complete with sound effects records of African fauna. Based on his false reputation as an "Africa Expert", he is recruited by the United States Government and NASA to locate a missing secret space probe before it can be located by hostile forces. |
| 68 | * Parodied with Bill Boosey (Creator/SidJames) in ''Film/CarryOnUpTheJungle'', whose alcoholism is so bad that he can't manage to shoot a single thing: |
| 69 | -->'''Mr. Boosey''': Did I get him? |
| 70 | -->'''Upsidasi''': No Boss, you aim good - but him in de wrong place. |
| 71 | * Ross, in the short film ''Film/CatchingTrouble'', As made infamous by ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'', is clearly supposed to be one. [[ValuesDissonance However]], [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel and the 'Bots]] see Ross as more of an EgomaniacHunter or EvilPoacher. |
| 72 | * In the movie adaptation of ''Film/{{Congo}}'', Captain Munro Kelly introduces himself to the team with the line "I'm your Great White Hunter for this trip, though I happen to be black." This is, of course, because the book Munroe was a more-or-less straight example, who the movie then made black in order to add diversity to the cast. In an interview, the director claimed he cast Ernie Hudson as the hunter because he disliked this trope. In the book, Munro was less a Great White Hunter and more along the lines of all the other white mercenaries running around in Africa at the time of writing, and also was half Indian. |
| 73 | * [[Film/CrocodileDundee Mick "Crocodile" Dundee]] plays the part in Australia, though he isn’t especially keen on killing animals. |
| 74 | * In ''Film/DesertNights'', Steve pretends to be this when in Lord Stonehill disguise and tells a story about hunting tigers. |
| 75 | * Charles Remmington (Creator/MichaelDouglas) from the movie ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness''. Although Colonel John Henry Patterson (Creator/ValKilmer) also ends up hunting the lions, he is not specifically an example of this trope but is instead forced into the role. |
| 76 | * Ottway is described as such by EthnicScrappy Diaz in ''Film/TheGrey''. |
| 77 | * Sean Mercer (Creator/JohnWayne) in the movie ''Film/{{Hatari}}''. Which is an interesting variation on the trope, since he heads up a RagTagBunchOfMisfits who capture animals alive for zoos, instead of hunting them. |
| 78 | * ''Film/HouseOfTheWolfMan'' has Whitlock, who has hunted every kind of game on the face of the earth. |
| 79 | * Robert Shaw's character Sam Quint in ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. He's a Great White Hunter who hunts great white sharks. But he's also haunted by his past experiences with sharks, and has become a merciless shark-hater and borderline psychotic, not unlike Captain Ahab in ''Literature/MobyDick''. |
| 80 | * Van Pelt in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' was one of these; well, before he started HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. |
| 81 | * Bob Elliott is a legitimate Big Game Hunter who shoots lions and whatnot, but he also uses it as cover for a secret mission in ''Film/JungleQueen''. |
| 82 | * ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': |
| 83 | ** Muldoon in ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' is about as close as you'll get to this trope being played straight in the modern day. He's technically a game warden, though, but the look and the 'tude are there; close enough. Muldoon is really something of a subversion in that he leans more toward the ''anti''-heroic end of the scale. He is not portrayed in a particularly romantic manner, and is in fact an embittered, highly cynical man who hates the [[RaptorAttack raptors]] and wishes he could kill them all - and considering what happens throughout the course of the film, it's hard to blame him. |
| 84 | ** Roland Tembo in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' is even closer, and has made his goal to turn over captured dinos to the BigBad in exchange for getting to hunt a bull male ''T. rex''. He's more or less responsible for the fact that anyone manages to survive the expedition [[NiceJobBreakingItHero despite the efforts]] of the "[[DesignatedHero heroes]]". [[spoiler:Not only does he survive to the end of the film, ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome he actually manages to bag the]] ''T. Rex.'']] |
| 85 | ** Vic Hoskins in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' seems to fancy himself a Great White Hunter, but he's not. It's revealed that he wants to ''[[BeastOfBattle weaponize]]'' the intelligent Raptors, but he's in way over his head, [[spoiler:and eventually becomes dino lunch]]. |
| 86 | %% ((quote to be verified)) ** [[DiscussedTrope Referenced]] in Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom; Owen asks Wheatly "You're our what, great white hunter?" |
| 87 | * Conrad in ''Film/KongSkullIsland''. He is hired for the expedition because of ability as a tracker, and his jungle survival skills. His skills are tested to their limit on Skull Island, and just about every action he takes is to keep other expedition members alive. |
| 88 | * Maston Thrust in ''Film/TheLastDinosaur''. He's a world famous hunter and wants to hunt the eponymous last dinosaur, a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex''. Interestingly he considers himself the last of his kind too as he says so at the end of the movie. |
| 89 | * Sidestepped by Allan Quatermain (Creator/SeanConnery) in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. He has all the characteristics, but Connery plays him as a very world weary figure, in a company that only just barely needs his skills. Bonus points for the fact that the BigBad actually calls him "the great white hunter." |
| 90 | * David in ''Film/TheLeechWoman''. |
| 91 | * In ''Film/LianeJungleGoddess'', Thoren is the rugged, handsome leader of the expedition thhat discovers Liane, and whom Jacqueline correctly identifies has having a need to protect women. |
| 92 | * Subverted in the 1964 film ''Film/MansFavoriteSport'' wherein Rock Hudson plays a fishing expert at Abercrombie and Fitch (this was back in the days when it was still just a world famous outdoor sports emporium) who can't fish. Entered into a fishing tournament by a publicity agent who doesn't know his secret, Hudson is forced to learn how to fish from the owner of the lodge's daughter. And yes, fishing is not the same as hunting, but it is the principle that counts. |
| 93 | * [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in the 1966 family film ''Film/{{Maya}}'', which is actually about a quest to save a sacred white elephant. The young protagonist of the story journeys to India to meet his father, who lives on a plantation in the country and supposedly lives this trope. When he gets there, however, he finds that all the cages are empty of animals and have fallen to rust and disrepair. Gradually, the truth comes out... and it proves to be quite ugly. The boy's father was indeed known as a great hunter until he was clawed by a tiger, which traumatized him so much that he has devolved into a DirtyCoward who could no longer bring himself to hunt true wild game and now only uses his gun to kill small, weak, or tamed animals out of spite (such as when, without provocation, he shoots a tamed cheetah that his son had befriended). Eventually, though, the father redeems himself by rescuing his son, another boy his age, and a baby elephant from being eaten by a pack of tigers in the aptly named "Valley of the Tigers". |
| 94 | * ''Film/MistressOfTheApes'': Paul Cory is actually a journalist for a nature magazine, but he dresses and acts the part. |
| 95 | * Victor Marswell (Creator/ClarkGable) in ''Film/{{Mogambo}}'', although he usually doesn't kill the animals, he captures them to sell to circuses and zoos. |
| 96 | * In ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'' John Lockwood is initially seen this way, and becomes Mowgli's mentor in the Man-Village. He's also the only white man in the movie, helping an Indian village get rid of the local man-eating tiger. |
| 97 | * ''Film/NanookOfTheNorth'': He isn't white, but Nanook fits the trope in every other way, and is even described as a "great hunter" in a title card. The real Allakariallak was in fact cast in Flaherty's film due to his skills as a hunter. |
| 98 | * In ''Film/NoKidding'', the Treadgolds' parents are off in Africa on a hunting trip: |
| 99 | -->'''Dandy Big''': They're way out in Africa, someplace. Pa knockin' out rhinos, Ma knockin' back martinis. |
| 100 | * ''Film/OutOfAfrica'': Denys Finch-Hatton, although he's not brutal about it, declining to shoot a lioness that is menacing Karen. Bror quickly tires of farming and says he will become this. |
| 101 | * Subverted in ''Film/Paddington2014''. The Explorer is about to shoot the bears, but then one of them approaches him and knocks a scorpion of his jacket. He then sees they are intelligent enough to build bamboo technology and even learn English he befriends them and lets them live. [[spoiler:Played straight however with the other members of the Geographer's Guild, however]]. |
| 102 | * The hero of ''Film/PrehistoricWomen'' is David Marchant, a safari hguide and big game hunter who is thrown backwards in time to a kingdom of brunette women and their blonde slaves. |
| 103 | * Frank Walsh, the hero of ''Film/{{Primal}}'', is a skilled big-game hunter specializing in capturing rare and dangerous species for zoos. |
| 104 | * ''Film/{{Serena}}'': Downplayed with George, who spends much of the film hunting a mountain lion. While he only hunts it for the sake of bagging a montain lion, he is shown sparing a bobcat because it wasn't his target. |
| 105 | * ''Film/ShandraTheJungleGirl'': Karen is a rare female example. An expert hunter and tracker, she is hired to lead the expedition to capture Shandra. Cord even jocularly refers to her as 'a great white hunter'. |
| 106 | * ''Film/TheSuckers'': Jeff Baxter is a professional hunter and Vietnam vet who Vandemeer inveigles to his estate, and then [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame adds to his prey]] in order to give the models a more sporting chance. |
| 107 | * ''Film/TwoBrothers'' has Aidan [=McRory=], a big game hunter who has made himself famous by portraying himself as a Great White Hunter in books that he has written about his hunts. |
| 108 | * In ''Film/Venom1981'', Howard is a retired big game hunter, as his kidnappers learn to their regret. |
| 109 | * Tiger Haynes in ''Film/WhereEastIsEast''. The first scene shows Tiger and his crew capturing a tiger by climbing up into the trees and dropping a net on a tiger as it enters a clearing. |
| 110 | * John Wilson (Creator/ClintEastwood) in ''Film/WhiteHunterBlackHeart'', although Wilson's questioning of his motives for wanting to bring down an elephant turns this into a {{Deconstruction}}. |
| 111 | * Deconstructed in ''[[Franchise/{{Tarzan}} Tarzan's Revenge]]'' way back in 1938, in which the heroine's fiance is presented as a wannabe Great White Hunter who is a coward for shooting animals from a great distance where they cannot possibly hurt him, while her father is trying to capture live specimens and is angry at the man for killing them. |
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| 114 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 115 | * ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': Ned Land, the King of Harpooners. |
| 116 | * John Hunt and his sons Hal and Roger from the ''Literature/AdventureSeries'' of children's novels by Willard Price. |
| 117 | * Creator/HRiderHaggard's Literature/AllanQuatermain. |
| 118 | ** In fact, all the European characters from the novel ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines'' are. |
| 119 | * ''Literature/TheAvenger'': Among the other elements of his personal history, Benson mentions earning forty thousand dollars by selling Malay jungle animals to the Cleveland Zoo. |
| 120 | * In J. B. Morton's ''Beachcomber'' columns, the name of Big White Carstairs, the British Empire's roving troubleshooter in M'Gonkawiwi, is a clear reference to this trope. |
| 121 | * In the ''Bunduki'' series by Creator/JTEdson, James Allenvale 'Bunduki' Gunn was a Game Warden in Kenya before being transported to another planet. |
| 122 | * The Hunters of Artemis in ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries''. Blessed with divine ranged capabilities and ImprobableAimingSkills. Although the game they hunt is often [[HunterOfMonsters mythical in nature]]. |
| 123 | * The Man with the Yellow Hat's role in the first ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' book, where he captured George for an American zoo. |
| 124 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 125 | ** Mustrum Ridcully, though he leans more towards fishing than hunting. Keeps loaded crossbows everywhere (including his office in case anyone wants to see him) and was once tempted to shoot down a deer-horned god of the hunt (imagine the size of its rack). |
| 126 | ** Parodied in one of the books where the witches hold meetings on the bare mountain. This of course leads to people thinking it's called the Bear mountain, and the locals take advantage of stupid nobs who come in with heavy crossbows buying bear traps, maps of the bear caves and hiring native guides. |
| 127 | * ''Literature/FiveWeeksInABalloon'': One of the protagonists, Dick Kennedy, is very fond of (and very skilled at) hunting during the trip through Africa, and is very protective of his guns. |
| 128 | * In ''Go Down, Moses'' by Creator/WilliamFaulkner, Isaac Mc Caslin is one, and the novel itself is rife with hunting imagery. |
| 129 | * ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'': The version of Gatsby's MultipleChoicePast that he personally tells Nick includes this, inducing a {{Narm}} attack: |
| 130 | -->“After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe — Paris, Venice, Rome — collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.”\ |
| 131 | With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter. The [[ClicheStorm very phrases were worn so threadbare]] that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned “character” leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne. |
| 132 | ** However, a minute later, Gatsby produces some evidence that other parts of his story are true, giving Nick what he later calls "one of those renewals of complete faith in him." |
| 133 | -->Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart. |
| 134 | * A comic version of this character is Colonel the Hon. George Hysteron-Proteron CB DL JP (1870 - 1942), the invention of the author J. K. Stanford. |
| 135 | * In the ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel, Muldoon is [[JerkassHasAPoint actually consistently right,]] just constantly hamstrung by Hammond. He wanted multiple gas-powered jeeps, wanted to kill and dissect one of each kind of dinosaur so they could be made safe for the tourists - a reasonable request, considering ''the dilophosauri could spit acid'', and requested a large amount of high-caliber weaponry. He got two gas-powered jeeps (the rest were electric), one of which Nedry stole, and was denied most of the weaponry that might have saved lives on the island because Hammond wouldn't allow him anything that might damage his precious dinos; he finally convinced Hammond to let him have a rocket launcher on standby by threatening to blow the whistle on worker deaths that had already taken place before the story even begins, which were covered up as industrial accidents. Luckily, [[spoiler: he's a total badass anyway, and [[KarmicDeath Hammond gets eaten by a bunch of Compys.]] Also, [[DeathByAdaptation unlike in the film]], he survives in the novel.]] |
| 136 | * Lord John Roxton from ''Literature/TheLostWorld1912'', an expert hunter. One of the chief reasons why he's interested in the expedition is the perspective of hunting game nobody else has ever hunted before, and his skills, along with his stock of guns, become invaluable once reaching the plateau. What sets him apart as a far nobler example of this archetype is that he's also [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil a hunter of slavers]], and has a special notch on his rifle for every one he's killed. |
| 137 | * Sanger Rainsford, the hunter who becomes General Zaroff's prey in "Literature/TheMostDangerousGame". |
| 138 | * In ''Literature/TheMurderOfRogerAckroyd'', Sheppard says of Major Blunt that "He has shot more wild animals in unlikely places than any man living, I suppose." A gigantic animal head mounted on the wall of Ackroyd's house was a present from Blunt. |
| 139 | * Denys Finch-Hatton in ''Literature/OutOfAfrica''. |
| 140 | * Colin O'Connor, from ''[[Literature/DetectiveJoeSandilands The Palace Tiger]]'', is a former professional tiger hunter turned conservationist; he says he now prefers to hunt with a camera rather than a gun. Edgar Troop plays it straight, though: he makes a considerable part of his living running big game hunts and considers hunting to be reason enough by itself. |
| 141 | * [[Literature/PrinceRoger Prince Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang MacClintock]] is initially looked down on by his Marine bodyguards for, among other things, living this trope as part of the general perception of him being a rich layabout and general waste of space. When they crash on the technologically primitive planet of Marduk, however, he quickly demonstrates that the experience has made him possibly the best equipped to survive the hostile planet because of his understanding of animal behaviour, survival skills, and that his aim with his old-fashioned slug-thrower rifle makes him the best sniper of all the humans. |
| 142 | * Captain C.G. Biggar from the Creator/PGWodehouse Literature/JeevesAndWooster novel ''Literature/RingForJeeves''. How he met Rosalinda, as her husband was killed by a lion on one of Captain Biggar's African expeditions. |
| 143 | * Geoffrey Household's 1939 novel ''Literature/RogueMale'' featured a white hunter going after Adolf Hitler. It was later filmed as ''Man Hunt'' in 1941 and ''Rogue Male'' in 1976. |
| 144 | * ''Literature/{{Safari}}'': Frank Henson. At the first village they come across, he decides that the best way to get the people to tell them where Oglethorpe went is to get them food. The next day, he goes out with his rifle and hunts some antelope. The peoples' tongues certainly to loosen after that. |
| 145 | * ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'': |
| 146 | ** A few tiger hunts are shown. Sandokan, Tremal Naik and Kammamuri fail to qualify due not being white (even if Tremal Naik used to hunt tigers for a living), but we still have Lord Guillonk, Yanez (who will ''mock the tiger'' before shooting it if he deems it safe), ''Marianna'', and others. |
| 147 | ** British officers are mentioned as hunting man-eating tigers in their free time. |
| 148 | * The narrator of ''Literature/{{Saturnin}}'' has a reputation of being a courageous hunter and tamer of animals but only because of the fanciful stories Saturnin circulates about him. One time he is in all earnestness asked to go help and catch a lion that had escaped from the ZOO. |
| 149 | * {{Subverted}} in ''[[Literature/TimeMachineSeries Search for the Nile]]'' with sir Mortimer P. Quimby III. He is content merely to track down the animal and aim his rifle without actually shooting, solely for the satisfaction of outwitting the beast. |
| 150 | * Colonel Sebastian Moran is an early villainous example from ''Literature/SherlockHolmes''. Prior to being TheDragon and chief assassin of Professor Moriarty, he was a soldier in the British Army in India, during which time he also became "the best heavy game shot that our Eastern Empire has ever produced," according to Holmes. |
| 151 | * {{Deconstructed}} with Robert Wilson from Creator/ErnestHemingway's ''The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber''. His current clients are Mr and Mrs Macomber. During the story, they hunt lions and buffalo. He sees it as his duty to help Francis Macomber become a man. He's also a cold-hearted asshole who happily cheats with Mrs. Macomber, looks down on Francis for reacting with fear at a ''charging lion'', and doesn't care when Francis is killed, even after he proved himself as a hunter. He even cruelly taunts his wife about it. Basically, the story shows that someone who dedicates their life to killing things for sport is pretty much TheSociopath. |
| 152 | * ''Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire'': Toq, of a sort. He was raised without Klingon values at first, so in a cultural sense he's overcompensating for not being raised as a Klingon, which makes him seem like a parodic exaggeration of a Klingon who enjoys hunting. |
| 153 | * All cats like hunting, but WarriorPrince Fencewalker from ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' takes a special pleasure in hunting. The bigger and more extravagant the prey, the better. Fencewalker is also an adventerous prince who prefers to be out and about than sitting around in court all day. |
| 154 | * Literature/{{Tarzan}} goes under cover as an American big game hunter in ''The Return of Tarzan''. |
| 155 | * Commander Trafford Bradshaw in the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' series. |
| 156 | * Prepoc, the feline alien whose grave is the titular ''Literature/UrnBurial'' of Creator/RobertWestall's sci-fi novel, is described as glorying in the hunt and taking a savage joy in pursuing his quarry in battle; facing them honourably but not stupidly, and trying to take as many as possible down with a single shot. It's a holdover from the days before he was Fefethil war-leader and hunted game for food. |
| 157 | * David Talbot in Creator/AnneRice's ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Vampire Chronicles]]'' is an old Brit who keeps fondly recalling his youth, much of which was spent in the jungles of India and South America as this trope. He would also often find local lovers (usually young men). |
| 158 | * ''Literature/VillageTales'': Highly trained head gamekeeper Will Sanger, nicknamed by the Duke as "Sanglier," the Wild Boar, and acknowledged to have been capable of scouting for Lovat or guiding for Lumsden. |
| 159 | * In ''Literature/WeWalkTheNight'', the way Tommy Rawhead manifests when Greg encounters him in the Hunting Grounds invokes this trope. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 163 | * Spencer Dutton in Series/1923 is a played-with version of this trope. He hunts exotic animals, yes, but he is hired to kill animals that have been preying on people. |
| 164 | * ''Series/{{Badger}}'': In "Predators", Harrington, the owner of a private collection of dangerous wild animals, reports that his animals - an iguana, a racoon, two wolves and a leopard - have all been released into the countryside. [=McCabe=] brings in a professional big-game hunter and, during their mutual pursuit of the animals, learns to respect the man's expertise. |
| 165 | * Frank Buck from ''Series/BringEmBackAlive''. |
| 166 | * ''Series/DansUneGalaxiePresDeChezVous'': The Captain in one episode gets a bit too much into hunting a creature on the ship, dressing as such and covering himself in monster's female urine. |
| 167 | -->'''Captain:''' You'll know that Charles Patenaude is the last of a bloodline of famous hunters. The Patenaude Of Michamekhwan. I won't sleep until I see your monster's fur in front of my bed. |
| 168 | * John Riddell from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]". |
| 169 | * Colonel Poom, the pith helmet in ''Series/{{Lidsville}}''. (Most of the characters are anthropomorphic hats). |
| 170 | * John Locke from ''Series/{{Lost}}''. |
| 171 | * Lord John Roxton in ''Series/TheLostWorld2001''. In a twist on this trope, he actually seems to have the best understanding of the plateau's natives and how vital it is not to try to force English values on them. Likewise, the natives admire his hunting skills. |
| 172 | * Parodied in the "mosquito hunting" sketch from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. |
| 173 | * ''Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom'': Though they didn't actually kill any of the beasts, Marlin Perkins and (when Perkins got too old) Jim Fowler still went out into exotic settings and tracked and interacted with wild animals. |
| 174 | * ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'': In "Future Shock", Principal Russo hires Great White Hunter Rex Huston to track down and retrieve Kube who is hiding in the ventilation system to avoid a vaccination. |
| 175 | * ''Series/PennyDreadful'': Sir Malcolm gains his fame from trekking and exploring through Africa, adorns his home with some of his game, and is a total badass with his sword cane and guns. [[spoiler:Just, he isn't great — his dead son, who accompanied him to prove himself, begged him to name a mountain after him. After returning, he named the Murray Mountains in the Congo after himself. Oh, and he was also ankle-deep in blood the entire time, butchering and raping his way to his objective.]] But, everyone in society treats him as a great man and he is an upstanding member of the Explorer's Club. |
| 176 | * ''Series/RiverMonsters'': Jeremy Wade is essentially a TechnicalPacifist, fish-based version of the trope. |
| 177 | * Lord John Roxton from ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld''. |
| 178 | * ''Series/TheTerror'': In the third episode Franklin sets up a trap for the Tuunbaq similar to those used in India for hunting tigers, and brings a camera to photograph the expected result. [[spoiler:It does not end well. At all.]] |
| 179 | * Character actor James Gammon portrayed UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt this way in an episode of ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'' set in Kenya in 1909. He kills dozens of rare animals in order to have them shipped back to America so that they can be displayed in museums, where ordinary people can come to be educated about them. Indiana eventually gets him to see the contradiction of someone who has such high regard for animals shooting so many of them. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 183 | * [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] into absurdity in "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill", by Music/TheBeatles. |
| 184 | -->''The children asked him if to kill was not a sin,'' |
| 185 | -->''"Not when he looked so fierce" his mummy butted in,'' |
| 186 | -->''If looks could kill, it would have been us instead of him.'' |
| 187 | * The singer/narrator of "Hunting Tigers Out in 'INDIAH'", a music hall song covered by Music/TheBonzoDogBand, is trying to be this, although the Bonzo Dog Band's version implies he's not quite as brave as he'd like to be. |
| 188 | * "Where's The Dragon?" by Music/{{Lordi}} is about one of these, who's lying through his teeth since he can't produce any of the trophies of the mythical monsters he killed. |
| 189 | * Mentioned by name in Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}'s "10th Man Down": "I alone, the great white hunter, I'll march till the dawn brings me rest" |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 193 | * In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin had a one-shot imaginary personality named Safari Al who was this trope. He got captured by a [[KingKongCopy giant gorilla]] (his mom) inquiring why his room hadn't been cleaned. |
| 194 | * ''ComicStrip/JungleJim'', who also appeared in radio, film, and television. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 198 | * We don't actually see much of Roy's hunting career in ''Podcast/TheMonsterHunters'', so while it's not exactly glorified, he's not demonised for it either. Unlike Lord Greg, who is more of an EgomaniacHunter. |
| 199 | * ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour'': Parodied in "White Hunter, Drunk Heart", where Frank and Sadie are on a safari in Africa and apparently shooting anything that moves. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 203 | * ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' featured [[DirtyCoward Major Bloodnok]], who occasionally added this to his usual job of parodying the MightyWhitey in general. |
| 204 | * ''Radio/TheMarkAndBrianRadioProgram'' will occasionally do a sketch titled "The Great White Hunter" which parodies the trope with a Great White Hunter who tries to be Great in the modern world (pet shops and dog shows beware). |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 208 | * The standard enemy for Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld''. The Guardians of Earth gain bonuses to their Inner Beast for killing them. |
| 209 | * Most versions of ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' portray Colonel Mustard as this. |
| 210 | * The Explorer's Society in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' even lets player characters become {{Great White Hunter}}s. Of course, our heroic [=PCs=] can do this in good conscience because the "great whites" in question almost always have a taste for human flesh ("but what doesn't these days?"). |
| 211 | * ''TabletopGame/DisneyVillainsVictorious'': All members of the Elite Global Huntsmans Club, a group of hunters that claimed Australia as theirs (although they often make use of [[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} Charles Muntz's palatial zeppelin]] as a mobile base) and include [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} Clayton]], [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella]], and the club's leader, [[WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder McLeach]]. In truth, most of them are closer to being {{Egomaniac Hunter}}s (or {{Evil Poacher}}s). |
| 212 | * One of the most common and balanced player character archetypes in ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' is this. To the point one is made to explain char-gen rules. |
| 213 | * Even though they're another society in a whole culture of hunters, the Bear Lodge of ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' is probably the Compact most closely matching this trope. Why? Because they tend to hunt ''werewolves''. |
| 214 | * Quite a common site on Venus in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'', where trophy hunters come seeking the heads of dinosaurs and the shells of gigantic jungle tortoises. |
| 215 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Space 1889}}'' in Steppelords of Mars the players meet a character who is aspiring to this and wants to bag a big predator. Big game hunter is also a career available in character generation. |
| 216 | ** With its dinosaurs, Venus is noted in-universe to be a very popular destination for big game hunters. |
| 217 | * ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'': Mean werewolves too-an Urathra who can prove he hasn't killed a human being (which is rare, given their genetically-mandated job, but it happens) is often let go, since the Lodge recognizes that werewolves are sapient beings too-just very angry, very scary ones. |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 221 | * Franklin Payne, one of the possible party members in ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura''. He joins your quest to save the world not out of goodness, self-preservation or for the related glory, but solely because you are going to visit a jungle-covered island and he always wanted to go for a safari there. Also, while appearing to be a bad case of MilesGloriosus, he's even ''more'' deadly than the stories claim. |
| 222 | * Major Gunn in ''VideoGame/BeTrapped'', or at least he's dressed this way. Most likely a ShoutOut to [[TableTopGame/{{Clue}} Colonel Mustard]], with at least a passing resemblance to UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt. |
| 223 | * Sir Hammerlock in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', a GentlemanAdventurer who is equal parts hunter, scholar, and gentleman. He doesn't go out in the field much anymore, mostly because he literally lost AnArmAndALeg to a thresher. His ex-boyfriend Taggart also tried to be this, but mainly just punched stalkers in the face until he got killed. He's even involved in his own DLC (titled Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt), where he invites the player to Pandora's equivalent of DarkestAfrica for a safari trip. In contrast, his sister Aurelia is an EgomaniacHunter who hunts primarily because she's a bored RichBitch looking for cheap thrills, especially if it lets her antagonize her brother. |
| 224 | * In ''VideoGame/ChampionOfTheRaj'', an obscure game set in early 1800s India, one way the player can win an alliance with local lords is by going tiger hunting with them. Two of the possible players are the British and French East India Company representatives. |
| 225 | * ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings II'': The Hunting focus of ''Way of Life'' represents your character aspiring to be this, with multiple event chains representing what can happen to them in their pursuit of worthy prey. |
| 226 | * ''VideoGame/CuriousExpedition'': |
| 227 | ** Frederick Courtney Selous. The real life one was ''the'' TropeMaker. In game, he starts with a powerful hunting rifle and equally powerful Jungle Explorer perk, while his party already has a cook, allowing him to turn all the hunted game into tasty steaks. |
| 228 | ** To a lesser extent, the leader of every expedition that relies on hunting will inevitably turn into one. |
| 229 | * Lord General Castor from ''[[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Dawn of War II: Retribution]]'' definitely has the personality of one, and collects the heads of [[HordeOfalienLocusts Tyranids]] he killed over the course of his career. |
| 230 | * Warbucks from ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' looks and dresses the part. That said, none of his perks relate to animal hunting at all. |
| 231 | * Bonus Henchmen Col. Blackheart from ''VideoGame/EvilGenius''. Complete with a bear trap and a pet monkey. |
| 232 | * In ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}'', Griffin Hallsey. He fulfills the older version of the trope, but for good reason. He, as an experienced and skilled hunter, hunts various deadly wildlife on many planets so that other, less skilled individuals know what to do against those creatures. that said, he does it at least partially for the sport and occasionally as a fundraiser for various expeditions. |
| 233 | * ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' brings you into contact with a Great Twi'lek Hunter during your stay on Tatooine, a man who's hunting a krayt dragon. After killing it by luring it into a minefield, he mentions to the PlayerCharacter that he regrets denying the dragon a final battle. |
| 234 | * In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', the Consular's first companion is a Trandoshan named Qyzen Fess. Hunting is a religious rite among his people with their goddess keeping score of a hunter's lifetime kills. (After the Consular defeats an enemy who managed to get the drop on him, he sees them as an avatar or "herald" of his goddess) Sentient or non-sentient matters little, though Qyzen prefers the latter. (They are bitter rivals to the Wookiees, however, and killing a Wookiee is a ''lot'' of "points." Qyzen even gifts the Consular with the pelt of a particularly difficult to kill Wookiee). Before deciding to go on his sacred hunt, he used to be a BountyHunter. A character comments that if he enjoyed hunting criminals as much as he liked hunting hostile wildlife, he'd be a household name. In the Knights of the Fallen Empire arc, a non-Consular Outlander can only get him to sign on with their team if they prove themselves by taking out several world bosses. |
| 235 | * The Sniper from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is meant to be a version of this, except that he hunts people instead of animals. |
| 236 | ** According to his character background, he actually used to be this trope in the Australian outback. |
| 237 | ** [[AwesomeAussie Saxton]] [[TestosteronePoisoning Hale]]'s favorite pastime is wrestling big game to death and bringing them back home as trophies. True to the trope, seeing animals live miserable lives in zoos instead of being killed by humans as God intended just breaks his heart. |
| 238 | * Captain Ash from ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''. |
| 239 | * The player character of the 1980 Creator/{{Sega}} game ''Tranquilizer Gun'' (which was also released for the SG-1000 as ''Safari Hunting''). |
| 240 | * ''VideoGame/TroubleshooterAbandonedChildren'': Giselle Wallenstein is a scion of nobility whose default weapon is her grandfather's hunting rifle, and who specializes in dealing with dangerous animals. |
| 241 | * Played straight in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' with Hemet Nesingwary, an anagram of Ernest Hemingway, who repeatedly asks you to hunt countless animals. He is hated by players for his tedious quests (which are less "hunting" than "ecological disaster") and the whole thing is hilariously subverted in the fact that he's opposed ''personally'' by a faction of [[FriendToAllLivingThings druids]].[[note]]Though the faction of druids are a thinly-veiled TakeThat at PETA, so make of that as you will. During their quest line they also have you brutally kill one of Nesingwary's companions, which in some player's views, arguably makes them worse[[/note]] However by the time of ''Wrath of the Lich King'' his actions are a lot more tolerable. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 245 | * Christopher Marlowe from ''WebVideo/TheNingyo'' used to be one, but gave it up after he killed an Okapi. |
| 246 | * Parodied with Lord Cockswain, the SteamPunk UpperClassTwit created by Weta Workshop. On his hunting trip to Venus he blasts everything in sight with his arsenal of death rays regardless of how rare or nonthreatening the creatures are, then mounts their heads on his wall, including his NativeGuide. See also Lord Broadforce in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSwNFVjCquU video from Media Design School]] set in the same universe. |
| 247 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Professor Peter Port, Beacon Academy's professor of Grimm Studies, evokes this with his character design and mannerisms, though rather than exotic animals he hunted the [[TheHeartless Creatures Of Grimm]]. He's [[RetiredBadass semi-retired]] by the time the audience meets him and spends most of his time telling grandiose stories to his students about the monsters he's fought, and occasionally dolling out some pretty good life advice, but when the chips are down, he can and ''will'' prove that that [[{{BFG}} blunderbuss]] on his wall isn't just for show. |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 251 | * WesternAnimation/TheBeatles go on a three-week African safari holiday with great white hunter Alan Watermain in the episode "I'll Get You." |
| 252 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'', Paul Kirk posed as one publicly to cover up his activities as the government spy Manhunter. |
| 253 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In one episode, Hoggish Greedly captured animals for clients who wanted to experience hunting without the dangers real hunters face. A real hunter opposed him. |
| 254 | * Colonel Pot Shot from ''WesternAnimation/ChillyWilly''. He has a vast collection of stuffed animals, each a trophy from a previous hunting expedition. |
| 255 | * [[PunnyName Haunter]] the ghost of a stereotypical British safari hunter is one of the enemies of the ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters''. |
| 256 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'': UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt, just like in RealLife. He almost shoots Tantor, but is quick to apologize when he learns that the elephant is Tarzan's friend, and he emphasizes that he hunts for science, not for sport. When Tarzan calls him on it, he explains that most humans can't just walk up and talk to animals like Tarzan does, they have to study everything the hard way. When Tarzan asks ''why'' they can't just do that, [[BeenThereShapedHistory it inspires Roosevelt to create the National Park system in the U.S.]] While it's not quite the level of nature harmony Tarzan lived in, it did create sanctuaries for wildlife and allowed countless tourists to see them in their natural habitat. |
| 257 | * Wildly subverted by Commander [=McBragg=] from ''WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales''. As his name suggests, he was very sure of his skills and conquests, but they didn't always play out as nicely as he described them. |
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