History Main / ManlyMenCanHunt

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* GenderInvertedTrope in ''Film/TheMother''. The title character is a former ColdSniper ProfessionalKiller who lives in Alaska and supports herself through hunting. She's trying to teach her daughter Zoe, raised in a completely different environment, to survive. Zoe is shocked when her mother points out a stag and then, while Zoe is gushing over the sight, shoots it dead on the spot. That night Zoe is RefusingToEat.

[-[[caption-width-right:300:[[TestosteronePoisoning The blunderbuss is just for decoration. Real men hurl arrows at their prey with their bare hands]].]]-]

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* Like his Literature version, Robert Baratheon in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' is an enthusiastic hunter. His wife Cersei claims this was his way of avoiding having to deal with his family.

* Averted in both ''[[VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn Horizon]]'' [[VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest games]]. Both men and women are portrayed as capable hunters and huntresses of machines in various tribes across the world, and discrimination is more along the lines of individual weakness or [[FantasticRacism if you happen to be a Nora outcast]].

** Earlier in the same book, after [[RichBitch Sarah]] kicks out her adoptive son Ishmael and his birth mother Hagar (because she favored her biological son, Isaac) [[note]] Yes, that ''is'' the same Isaac from the previous paragraph, ''much'' younger. [[/note]], the two of them are CrossingTheDesert and have run out of water. Ishmael is suffering from dehydration, and Hagar cries because [[AdultFear she doesn't want to watch her son die]]. An angel leads them to a well, and tells them not to fear, that Ishmael will survive and grow up to be a great hunter, "a wild ass of a man." [[HeroOfAnotherStory He becomes an important patriarch to Muslims, just as his half-brother Isaac is to Jews and Christians]].

* In ''Videogame/RedDeadRedemption'', animal hunting is one of the side-activities John Marston can take up, usually for [[VendorTrash animal parts that can be sold]] as well as some used for sidequests.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': In one Klingon province, courtship begins with the man presenting a leg of freshly killed meat on the woman's table.

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* Gaston from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' seems to think so and so does everyone in town. His sidekick sings that there's 'no one in town half as manly' while gesturing to a wall full of hunting trophies. And don't forget that Gaston feels 'I use antlers in all of my decorating' is something to brag about.

* Subverted in the 1964 film ''Man's Favorite Sport?'' 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 hire an Indian guide to catch his fish for him. And, yes, fishing is not the same as hunting, but it is the principle that counts.

The SpearCounterpart of FeminineWomenCanCook. Compare ARealManIsAKiller; hunting involves killing other animals but has a different connotation from killing other ''humans''. See also RealMenEatMeat, where manliness is equated with ''eating'' said animals, and RealMenCook if the hunter can also make a great steak out of his quarry when he's done.

* There's a joke out there which says that "vegetarian" is an old Indian word for "bad hunter."

Men who have become white collar workers and achieved success lose the ability to fix cars, hunt, fish, plumb, or perform carpentry. It's not so much focused on how a specific ability makes you manly, but about how the lack of it makes you wimpy and how being "civilized" makes you lose your manly edge. Should they attempt to do such things -- usually in a vain attempt to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this very trope -- [[MachoDisasterExpedition they will fail spectacularly.]] This concept probably dates back to hunter-gatherer days: the way to prove you were an adult was to demonstrate that you can feed yourself and your family, and in those days hunting was the primary way of acquiring food. Just because nowadays people can get by just fine with butcher's shops and supermarkets selling cuts of meat taken from domesticated livestock doesn't mean that the original notion has gone away.

* Subverted in the 1964 film ''Man's Favorite Sport?'' 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 hire an Indian guide to catch his fish for him. And, yes, fishing is not the same as hunting, but it is the principle that counts.

* In ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|2014}}'', it's the Prince's proclivity for hunting that eventually gets him transformed into a Beast. He's obsessed with hunting a golden doe in the forest, but when he finally hits his mark [[spoiler:the deer transforms back into his wife, who confesses her true nature as a mountain nymph]]. The God of the Forest is not happy about his daughter's death, and puts the Prince under a {{Curse}}.

* Played straight by Creator/RudyardKipling in the ''Jungle Books'', if you count anthromorphic wolves as "men".

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. Obviously Sam and Dean share a background, and they both "hunt" (demons) but manly Dean who accepts his blue-collar roots can not merely fix but ''rebuild'' cars, while Sam who went to college and wanted to be a lawyer (and whose masculinity Dean likes to make fun of) isn't allowed to drive any more and does not know how to do anything similar.

* In the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'', this is the reason that [[ParentalFavoritism Isaac favors Esau over Jacob]]. Esau was a great hunter, while Jacob preferred helping their mother Rebecca out in her tent (which is why ''she'' favored him over Esau). This causes problems later: Jacob knows that Esau is, well, more brawn than brains, and tricks him into [[ComicallySmallBribe trading his inheritance for a bowl of lentil soup]]. The deception works, because as Isaac had gone blind in his old age, Jacob and Rebecca worked together to make him think Jacob was Esau: they cover Jacob in goat skins (because Esau was [[CarpetOfVirility hairy]]), and pass off the meat from said goat as game that Esau would routinely bring home. When Esau finds out about the deception he is ''pissed'' (understandably so), and Jacob has to flee to the other side of the Fertile Crescent to protect himself from a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[spoiler: They make up later, when both of them are wealthy sheikhs with multiple wives and children.]]

* In ''Film/LaBelleEtLaBete'', it's the Prince's proclivity for hunting that eventually gets him transformed into a Beast. He's obsessed with hunting a golden doe in the forest, but when he finally hits his mark [[spoiler:the deer transforms back into his wife, who confesses her true nature as a mountain nymph]]. The God of the Forest is not happy about his daughter's death, and puts the Prince under a {{Curse}}.