Hunting the Most Dangerous Game in Comic Books.
- A villain called the Stalker subjects Batman to being hunted in Detective Comics #401.
- Cavewoman: Raptorella: Raptorella captures Miriam and uses her as the prey in the game - having started with Disposable Vagrants and working way up to Miriam as the ultimate prey.
- Eerie #9's story "Isle of the Beast" has the hunter specifically mentioning the original "The Most Dangerous Game" as his inspiration to set up such an island. To make things more interesting, he also mutates himself into a kind of beastman while hunting. Unfortunately for him, his quarry is a werewolf. Eerie's writers were fond of this kind of twist ending.
- The French graphic novel Exit (with a scenario by the sci-fi author Bernard Werber) revolves around suicide pacts that turn out to be this.
- The Sportsmen, in Firearm. And they don't stop at hunting and killing, either.
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: 1993's "A-Hunting We Will Go" by John Kane (re-published in the United States as "Danger Island") features Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and his nephews being shipwrecked on a private island owned by an exiled Brutopian nobleman who amuses himself hunting other "humans" (including ducks). The story is a rather obvious parody of Connell's short story.
- Fall of Cthulhu kicks of because Nodens, Elder God of the Hunt wans to hunt the most dangerous game of all: Cthulhu. Meanwhile, Nyarlathotep is orchestrating things behind the scenes. Except that Cthulhu is merely the bait. Nodens is actually going after much larger prey: Nyarlathotep.
- A story ("The Ferryman") in an issue of Clive Barker's Hellraiser once featured a rich KKK member who would routinely capture homeless black people to torture on his ship, occasionally letting some loose on deserted islands in order to hunt them for sport alongside his fellow Klansmen.
- In The Invisibles, a group of English nobles take great pleasure in hunting down the homeless and poor. It's shown in detail in "Royal Monsters".
- One Judge Dredd story features a hunting club for bored rich men who hunt people for sport, whose next game is Dredd himself.
- Superman:
- In Action Comics (Volume 2) #10, a big game hunter who has gotten bored of hunting animals (in his introduction, he casually kills a dinosaur) learns of Superman and considers him a worthy test of his skills. His friend warns that Superman is bulletproof, but he boasts, "There is no such thing as bulletproof!" He obtains high-powered weapons, somehow learns of Clark Kent's secret, and lies in wait in Clark's apartment. Superman easily takes him down, with the man suffering a Villainous Breakdown when all his weapons prove useless.
- In Reign of Doomsday, Lex Luthor traps the Superman Family in a dimensional maze so they may be hunted by a pack of Doomsday clones.
- There's a minor Legion of Super-Heroes villain called the Hunter who operates like this. In his first appearance he kidnapped some Legionnaires he felt would make especially difficult prey, set them loose on a jungle planet, and hunted them down one by one until Karate Kid beat his challenge.
- Ramba #7 — "The Hunters and the Prey". Ramba has received an invitation to a party on the island of Elba, with a rich bounty in it if she survives the experience. Three men want to play a hunting game. The whole island is the playing field, and she agrees to become prey. Each hunter has part of a clue to the whereabouts of a large cache of money. If she is caught, she loses the money she already has and submits to their "most perverse wishes". If she catches them, she gets the money. Ramba agrees. She quickly catches and seduces several of her would-be hunters and a female bystander. She demonstrates her own perverse wishes and gets their clues, which lead her to the vicinity of the money. The third man is guarding it in an old German bunker and manages to get himself impaled on the wall. Her third perverse wish is a necrophiliac one, after which she takes the money and leaves.
- Rivers of London: In Cry Fox, Abigail Kamara and DC Sahra Guleed are kidnapped and forced to take part in a sadistic human hunt, styled after a fox hunt, run by the mother and son Robinettes. Alaric Robinette is actually obsessed with The Most Dangerous Game and has a collection of every separate printing of the story he's been able to get his hands on. Abigail and Guleed were kidnapped as specific targets, however, at the instigation of criminal Reynard Fossman, who was attempting to get revenge on the Folly and considered them the most vulnerable targets.
- Robin (1993) villain Jaeger sells recordings of himself hunting meta-humans.
- In Robyn Hood: I Love NY series, Robyn is captured by Natalya who plans to subject her to this.
- In "Hunter's Moon" in Savage Sword of Conan #171, Conan is nursed back to health in a village. He learns the village has a deal with the local lord who provided the land for the village. Each year, he takes a villager and turns them loose in the forest while he hunts them. If the villager ever makes it to the edge of the forest without being killed, the village will own its lands free and clear. Naturally Conan ends up being the 'prey' for this year and things end badly for the lord.
- In Secret Six #23, a group of hunters try this with the Six. They find out this is not a good idea.
- The Nesting Ones do this to Jon Sable in Shaman's Tears #8; giving him a gun and a single bullet to make things 'sporting'.
- Spider-Man
- This is Kraven the Hunter's big schtick in various Spider-Man media — hunting Spider-Man, whom he considers the most elusive prey of all and the only one capable of presenting him with any challenge. The "Kraven's Last Hunt" storyline features him not only succeeding at this goal, but impersonating and outperforming Spider-Man before committing suicide. He returns in Scarlet Spider to do the same.
- Kraven's son Alyosha once kidnapped dozens of villains with Animal Motifs (like Man-Ape and the Rhino), set them loose on a remote island, and went on the prowl. He had seemingly lost his mind at some point prior to this, as this was a dramatic departure from his usual M.O. and he was extremely irrational throughout the ordeal.
- Hunted, the 2019 story event from The Amazing Spider-Man (2018), has Kraven back to stage the ultimate version of it which he calls The Grand Hunt — gather as many villains with Animal Motifs as he can, find a bunch of remote operated drones attached to a bunch of rich jerks, and see who kills and who lives, all underneath a Domed Hometown over Central Park keeping them from getting out and others from getting in.
- The Ultimate Spider-Man version of Kraven, by contrast, is a devoted celebrity hunter, sort of like Steve Irwin in leather pants. He declared his intention to catch and kill Spider-Man, often believed to be a mutant. He successfully tracked Spider-Man down, but since Kraven is just a normal human who happens to wrestle alligators or whatever, Spider-Man completely wipes the floor with him (less than a minute after a much tougher fight with Doc Ock). Moral of the story: Hunting The Most Dangerous Game is no fun for anyone if the hunter is unarmed.
- Later, Kraven returns claiming to be ready to hunt down Spiderman for real, only to be immediately arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. for obtaining black market superhuman enhancements... and then bragging about it on TV.
- This once happened to Spider-Man in his Peter Parker identity after he barely survived escaping an exploding villain base and was picked up in a Small-Town Tyrant's town for being a vagrant. After all the times he's dealt with Kraven, Peter figured being chased by some wealthy old man with a thing for hunting people would be no big deal until he found out the hunter had a multi-million dollar surplus super-villain battle platform instead of a rifle. With the help of a honest cop who finds out what is going on, Peter beats the hunt and brings the villains to justice.
- Star Wars:
- Darth Maul. Maul hears that a gangster has captured Jedi Padwan Eldra Kaitis and is auctioning her off, so he kidnaps her off the winner so he can fight a Jedi without giving away the existence of the Sith. However the auctioneer has planted a bomb on the winner's ship to force it to crash on a nearby planet, so she can make even more money off the losers of the auction for a chance to hunt the Padwan and those who took her.
- Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith has Tarkin leading a team of expert bounty hunters to hunt down and kill Darth Vader. The best bit is The Reveal that Vader organized this himself, because he'd run out of Jedi to fight and needed a challenge.
- One arc of The Trigan Empire features a rich maniac who keeps a whole island set up for "sporting" manhunts.
- The Ultimate Riddle involves Batman being pursued by seven great warriors from across space and time (and a criminal who Judge Dredd was in the middle of arresting).
- One Story Arc of Ultimate X Men actually has this as its title. Naturally, it's about a media mogul who has a TV show in which mutants convicted of capital crimes (often falsely, but, as it turns out at the end, not in the case of the guy our heroes wound up protecting the whole time) are hunted and killed.
- And Ultimate Spider-Man did it later, with Deadpool as the hunter and Spiderman as the hunted. Deadpool was going after the X-Men and, thanks to Shadowcat trying to get help, Spider-Man found himself tangled up in that mess.
- The second issue of EC Comics' The Vault of Horror comic book featured a story blatantly ripped off from "The Most Dangerous Game" called "Island of Death".
- Subverted in The Walking Dead where a group of survivors reveal that they kill and eat people because it is less work than hunting animals.
- The Warlord: Rogue CIA agent Stryker subjects Travis Morgan to one of these in issue #13.
- Warrior Nun Areala: The 2001 miniseries Dangerous Game has Eleanore Angeli being hunted across New York City by Sir Charles Westlake, an elderly Great White Hunter brought out of retirement by the denizens of Hell, who promised to restore his youth in exchange for killing a warrior nun.
- Wonder Woman (1987): Circe creates a twisted hunting game for as many villain women as she can gather with her magic, by taking the world's top male heroes, transporting them to New York City, transforming them into human-animal mashups (thereby preventing them from using their powers and/or gadgets), and putting a magical barrier around New York while the villains hunt down the heroes and slaughter any civilians in their way.
- X-Men: The Crimson Commando, Stonewall, and Super Sabre were World War II-era superheroes who, after retiring from active duty, grew disgusted with the amount of ordinary crime that was occurring, so they played this game with criminals they plucked off the streets and hunted and killed them in Adirondack State Park. Then they inadvertently caught Storm, and despite realizing their mistake tried to kill her anyway so she wouldn't reveal their secret. She beat them, and they turned themselves in, though they'd later be pardoned into Freedom Force.
