History Main / EvilPoacher

* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' - One of the reasons why the [[TheFederation Time-Space Administration Bureau's]] Frontier Nature Conservation Corps exists is the presence of poachers who disregard the nature protection laws. One of them even tried to put a bullet between the eyes of a 13-year-old officer when she arrived to arrest him in ''AudioPlay/StrikersSoundStageX''. Granted, [[TheBeastmaster said officer was]] [[DragonRider patrolling the grounds on a]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent giant dragon]] [[ToyShip and had a partner]] [[SuperSpeed who could deflect bullets]], but still...

* Kai and Jinora run afoul of a group of Sky Bison poachers in Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. They capture baby bison for transport back to Ba Sing Se, where they're usually used for meat. Fortunately for the kids and the bison, the rest of the new Airbenders and the herd of adult bison come to their rescue.

HuntingIsEvil is the supertrope.

Evil Poachers are [[VillainByDefault Villains By Default]] in a KidsWildernessEpic, a genre in which they tend to [[TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily end up as slapstick idiots]] dressed in scary [[NemeanSkinning animal skins]], sometimes resulting in them seeming less threatening than real poachers can be.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|AndThePlaneteers}}'' villains sometimes fall into this:

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'': Sebastian Conger, the multimillionaire collector of rare species, who will stoop to any level to acquire species for his collection.

* [[spoiler: Mitch and Tiffany]] from the second season of ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' who claim to be eco-tourists and are revealed to actually be trophy hunters who came to Isla Nublar to shoot the island’s dinosaurs.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb:'' [[TomTheDarkLord Mitch]], an alien criminal who abducts rare creatures from across the universe. His attempt to add Phineas and Ferb ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg plus Isabella]]) to his collection brings out Candace's {{Big Sister Instinct}}s.

** In one episode, Bart gets an elephant as a part of a radio contest. The elephant becomes a handful so Homer agrees to sell him to an ivory dealer named Blackheart. When Bart and his elephant run away during the night, Homer at first thinks Blackheart took them both. He yells out the window: "That wasn't part of the deal, Blackheart! THAT WASN'T PAAARRRT!!"
** Another episode had the family going on a trip to Africa and meeting a Jane Goodall {{Expy}}. She convinces them to help her defend her chimpanzee sanctuary from a group of Evil Poachers. The trope gets flipped when it turns out that they are with Greenpeace and are trying to free the chimps from her diamond mine. She admits that she snapped, then buys everyone off with diamonds from her illegal chimp-slave diamond mine.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' plays this trope completely straight with [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Lord Chumley]] in the episode "Prime Target". Not only does he poach rare animals, but also apparently top secret Russian planes and [[MechanicalLifeForms Transformers]].

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode ''Alpha Male'' features Gotham mayor Hamilton Hill being involved in a tiger poaching ring. This makes him a combination or the corrupt official and illegal trophy hunter examples.

* Gale Haley's ''Birdsong'': Villain Jorinella takes advantage of the title character (an orphan girl who has the ability to speak to birds) to boost her bird-trapping operation, but once Birdsong frees all the birds she is finally defeated when the birds ZergRush her. We never see her actually kill anything, but she's [[VileVillainSaccharineShow a surprisingly dark character for a kids' picture book]].

In RealLife, poachers are a diverse group. They include subsistence poachers (the vast majority) and farmers, commercial poachers, organized crime, rebel and insurgent militia, military and corrupt officials, wildlife traffickers, buyers of various animal parts, and illegal trophy hunters. While some are [[TragicVillain poor people trying to get out of poverty]], this is not the case for all of them, though in the case of the ones that are poor, they are typically unable to afford a license. This is also a major reason why poor poachers will often target endangered animals - the rarity of their parts increases the value. However, they do often shoot at park rangers if they encounter them (they're the reason why most rangers in Africa are heavily armed) and are often hired by people in [[TheMafia organized crime]] (which means media that ''does'' acknowledge the average poacher's real circumstances is likely to reserve this trope for the mobsters who hire them). It must be noted however, that some fictional poachers do not fit into any of the aformentioned categories. If a poacher does fit any of them, they will typically be a commercial poacher. In addition, due to the various types, their motives vary, with the motives for rebel and insurgent militias for example being to fund their battle against local ethnic groups, state militaries and other militias, making them as far from a real-life example of TragicVillain as you can possibly get and some poachers-turned-ranger have reported individuals who poach for entertainment rather than for food, money or to fund a campaign.

** [[MeaningfulName Looten Plunder]] is an Evil Poacher who is also an Evil Capitalist.

In RealLife, poachers are a diverse group. They include subsistence poachers (the vast majority) and farmers, commercial poachers, organized crime, rebel and insurgent militia, military and corrupt officials, wildlife traffickers, buyers of various animal parts, and illegal trophy hunters. While some are [[TragicVillain poor people trying to get out of poverty]], this is not the case for all of them, though in the case of the ones that are poor, they are typically unable to afford a license. This is also a major reason why poor poachers will often target endangered animals - the rarity of their parts increases the value. However, they do often shoot at park rangers if they encounter them (they're the reason why most rangers in Africa are heavily armed) and are often hired by people in [[TheMafia organized crime]] (which means media that ''does'' acknowledge the average poacher's real circumstances is likely to reserve this trope for the mobsters who hire them). It must be noted however, that some fictional poachers do not fit into any of the aformentioned categories. If a poacher does fit any of them, they will typically be a commercial poacher. In addition, due to the various types, their motives vary, with the motives for rebel and insurgent militias for example being to fund their battle against local ethnic groups, state militaries and other militias, making them as far from a real-life example of TragicVillain as you can possibly get.

In RealLife, poachers are a diverse group. They include subsistence poachers and farmers, commercial poachers, organized crime, rebel and insurgent militia, military and corrupt officials, wildlife traffickers, buyers of various animal parts, and illegal trophy hunters. While some are [[TragicVillain poor people trying to get out of poverty]], this is not the case for all of them, though in the case of the ones that are poor, they are typically unable to afford a license. This is also a major reason why poor poachers will often target endangered animals - the rarity of their parts increases the value. However, they do often shoot at park rangers if they encounter them (they're the reason why most rangers in Africa are heavily armed) and are often hired by people in [[TheMafia organized crime]] (which means media that ''does'' acknowledge the average poacher's real circumstances is likely to reserve this trope for the mobsters who hire them). It must be noted however, that some fictional poachers do not fit into any of the aformentioned categories. If a poacher does fit any of them, they will typically be a commercial poacher. In addition, due to the various types, their motives vary, with the motives for rebel and insurgent militias for example being to fund their battle against local ethnic groups, state militaries and other militias, making them as far from a real-life example of TragicVillain as you can possibly get.

In RealLife, poachers are a diverse group. They include subsistence poachers and farmers, commercial poachers, organized crime, rebel and insurgent militia, military and corrupt officials, wildlife traffickers, buyers of various animal parts, and illegal trophy hunters. While some are [[TragicVillain poor people trying to get out of poverty]], this is not the case for all of them, though in the case of the ones that are poor, they are typically unable to afford a license. This is also a major reason why poor poachers will often target endangered animals - the rarity of their parts increases the value. However, they do often shoot at park rangers if they encounter them (they're the reason why most rangers in Africa are heavily armed) and are often hired by people in [[TheMafia organized crime]] (which means media that ''does'' acknowledge the average poacher's real circumstances is likely to reserve this trope for the mobsters who hire them). It must be noted however, that some fictional poachers do not fit into any of the afformentioned categories. If a poacher does fit any of them, they will typically be a commercial poacher.

Subtrope of ClassicalHunter. A sister trope to the EgomaniacHunter. Compare with CruellaToAnimals and HumanTraffickers. Contrast the HunterTrapper, who hunts and traps legally and is much more likely to see reason; the RoguishPoacher, this guy's JustifiedCriminal counterpart; and the GreatWhiteHunter, the heroic counterpart.

In RealLife, poachers are a diverse group. They include subsistence poachers and farmers, commercial poachers, organized crime, rebel and insurgent militia, military and corrupt officials, wildlife traffickers, buyers of various animal parts, and illegal trophy hunters. While some are [[TragicVillain poor people trying to get out of poverty]], this is not the case for all of them, though in the case of the ones that are poor, they are typically unable to afford a license. This is also a major reason why poor poachers will often target endangered animals - the rarity of their parts increases the value. However, they do often shoot at park rangers if they encounter them (they're the reason why most rangers in Africa are heavily armed) and are often hired by people in [[TheMafia organized crime]] (which means media that ''does'' acknowledge the average poacher's real circumstances is likely to reserve this trope for the mobsters who hire them). It must be noted however, that some fictional poachers do not fit into any of the afformentioned categories.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode ''Alpha Male'' features Gotham mayor Hamilton Hill being involved in a tiger poaching ring. This makes him an example of a corrupt official, but is unusual in that he is a foreigner rather than a native of India, where the action takes place.

In RealLife, poachers are a diverse group. They include subsistence poachers and farmers, commercial poachers, organized crime, rebel and insurgent militia, military and corrupt officials, wildlife traffickers, buyers of various animal parts, and illegal trophy hunters. While some are [[TragicVillain poor people trying to get out of poverty]], this is not the case for all of them, though in the case of the ones that are poor, they are typically unable to afford a license. This is also a major reason why poor poachers will often target endangered animals - the rarity of their parts increases the value. However, they do often shoot at park rangers if they encounter them (they're the reason why most rangers in Africa are heavily armed) and are often hired by people in [[TheMafia organized crime]] (which means media that ''does'' acknowledge the average poacher's real circumstances is likely to reserve this trope for the mobsters who hire them).

Evil Poachers are [[VillainByDefault Villains By Default]] in a KidsWildernessEpic, a genre in which they tend to [[TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily end up as slapstick idiots]] dressed in scary [[NemeanSkinning animal skins]].

In RealLife, most poachers are [[TragicVillain poor people trying to get out of poverty]]; they are unable to afford a license. This is also a major reason why poor poachers will often target endangered animals - the rarity of their parts increases the value. However, they do often shoot at park rangers if they encounter them (they're the reason why most rangers in Africa are heavily armed) and are often hired by people in [[TheMafia organized crime]] (which means media that ''does'' acknowledge the average poacher's real circumstances is likely to reserve this trope for the mobsters who hire them). There are some illegal trophy hunters as well, ranging from amateurs hunting without a license and off-season to wanting the glory of getting a rare animal.

* ''Film/{{Instinct}}'': A group of Ugandan poachers brutally shoot the gorillas who Powell lives with. He kills two and wounds others while attempting to stop the slaughter. He's convicted of murder for it, with the government saying the men were park rangers.

* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': Mac clashes with evil poachers in "Eagles", "The Endangered", and "Black Rhino".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': Clayton combines attributes of the Evil Poacher and the Egomaniac Hunter.