History Main / BountyHunter

** ''[[Literature/StarWarsHonorAmongThieves Honor Among Thieves]]'': Baasen Ray is a former smuggler and colleague of Han's, who has turned to bounty hunting after smuggling work dried up. Specifically, he is after the price placed on Han's head by Jabba the Hutt, and in fact convinced Jabba to pay a portion in advance by claiming he'd already captured Han and needed funds to get him back to Tatooine. He's desparate to get his hands on Han, lest Jabba come after ''him'' next. For all that, Han is able to convince him to join forces by promising greater rewards from the device everyone is after.

* ''Series/TeenageBountyHunters'': has sisters Blair and Sterling Wesley as a pair of protege bounty hunters for former cop turned bounty hunter, Bowser Wilkins. The girls are unusually talented at it despite their occasional screw-ups and they're from a prominent wealthy family in Georgia so they can navigate the Georgian upper crust where Bowser can't.

* ''Film/{{Surrounded}}'':Clay introduces himself as a kindly farmer passing by, but Tommy insists that Clay has been chasing him for the reward for years and is willing to kill anyone who stands between it and him. [[spoiler:Tommy is telling the truth.]]

* ''Film/{{Surrounded}}'': In the aftermath of the failed stagecoach robbery, Wheeler goes to the county seat to fetch the sheriff and a posse while sending Curly to take the inured Mr. Fields to a doctor and have Mo stay behind to guard the captured outlaw leader, something which makes sense to do but doesn't go well for everyone who sets out to follow that plan.

* ''Series/{{Surrounded}}'': In the aftermath of the failed stagecoach robbery, Wheeler goes to the county seat to fetch the sheriff and a posse while sending Curly to take the inured Mr. Fields to a doctor and have Mo stay behind to guard the captured outlaw leader, something which makes sense to do but doesn't go well for everyone who sets out to follow that plan.

Sometimes they’re a GlorySeeker who wants to bring down the toughest targets. More often, though, they are just a working stiff who tries to do the right thing - or something close to it. Buried deep within their grizzled, world-weary exterior is still an idealist with a heart of gold. Because there is nothing that prevents a Bounty Hunter from taking both legal and shady bounties, this character is usually a LawfulNeutral.

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', the [[AllThereInTheManual Teach Me Miss Lichi]] segments explain that "Vigilantes" are (despite the name) this. Criminals the [[TheEmpire NOL]] want to capture are given bounties which anyone can turn in (although it's noted that their bounties don't always tally with the threat the individual presents and they may or may not be of the "dead or alive" variety) and the NOL allows citizens to collect them (they even offer a service where they dispatch an agent to collect the bounty and freely teach otherwise restricted [[FunctionalMagic ar magus]] which can be used to bind criminals and drag them to the nearest NOL outpost).

* ''VideoGame/DeathlessHyperion'' have "Bounty Hunter" as the hardest setting in it's IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels. Said setting contains the highest enemy count, but also plenty of loot.