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11	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hunter_trapper.png]]
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13	A character who makes his (or, rarely, her) legitimate living by hunting down animals for their meat and fur. Most often found in stories about America's frontier days, fading into TheWestern.
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15	Generally, the Hunter Trapper will have or quickly acquire excellent survival skills and woodcraft, often with the aid of a Native American friend. ImprobableAimingSkills are common, but this character is seldom TheGunslinger, as in the early days, their rifles hold only one shot. Often wears a Coonskin cap.
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17	Expect to see a successful Hunter Trapper [[NemeanSkinning garbed in the skins and furs of his prey]], with the more ostentatious ones perhaps wearing claws and teeth as decorations. He's also likely to have [[ManlyFacialHair an impressive beard]], [[WildHair possibly unkempt]]. Many of these characters are TheStoic, uncomfortable with civilized society's demands for emotional involvement, but a few are {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s instead, especially if they're {{Sidekick}}s. If it's a period RomanceNovel, one might serve as the male LoveInterest (though being "tamed" by the heroine is inevitable in this case.)
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19	The French-Canadian version of this character is the ''Voyageur'', or ''Coureur des Bois'' (literally "Runner of the woods"), actually rivermen who worked for the fur companies, but who did hunting and trapping on the side.
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21	Often overlaps with ThePioneer; can turn into the MountainMan if he decides to stay outside civilization permanently. May also qualify as a type of IntrepidMerchant, especially if he puts himself at high risk to gather pelts from dangerous animals because of the even higher chance of profit.
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23	Subtrope of ClassicalHunter. Contrast the EvilPoacher; compare and contrast the RoguishPoacher. Compare to GreatWhiteHunter, who may well have the HunterTrapper background.
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25	!!Examples:
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* In ''Manga/WildRock'', the clans rely on hunting and trapping for food. Emba is by far the [[TheAce best]] HunterTrapper, making meat scarce for the forest clan, while [[NonActionGuy Yuuen]] is terrible at it.
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33	[[folder:Comic Books]]
34	* ''ComicBook/DarkTimes:'' K'Kruhk is an expert archer and woodsman who uses his skills to hunt game for the group of Younglings under his care after Order 66 when they're living in seclusion. He also uses these skills to subject a group of outlaws to a MookHorrorShow.
35	* Wolverine [=McAllister=] from the ''ComicBook/{{Journey}}'' comic book published by Aardvark-Vanaheim.
36	* Kraven the Hunter of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' fame is a super-villain with this as his shtick. When he isn't playing bad guy, he lives off the land in the wildest places of Earth, including the dinosaur infested Savage Land.
37	* ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' and his sidekick Dan Hunter in Franchise/TheDCU.
38	* The villain Buck Wylde from the ''{{Franchise/Zorro}}'' comic book published by Topps was one of these.
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41	[[folder:Fan Works]]
42	* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived:'' Lammy and her dad hunt and trap to feed themselves and make money before she's reaped for the 40th Hunger Games, and she wins using TrapMaster strategies.
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45	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
46	* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Bruce compares himself to the old Hunter Trappers while he's [[spoiler: preparing to hunt Superman]], reminding Alfred that the first Waynes in the United States made their money as this.
47	* The hunters brought in to hunt the Beast in ''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf'' fit this mold.
48	* ''Film/TheGrizzlies'': Adam, Zach, and many other people on the reservation hunt food for themselves and their families.
49	* The protagonist in 2011's ''Film/TheHunter'' qualifies; despite being referred to as just a mercenary, he knows a LOT about stalking, hunting, and trapping 4-legged prey.
50	* As does the wolf-hunter whom the Bishop hires to kill Navarre in ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}''.
51	* In ''Film/LetHimGo'', Peter is a young man who hunts and traps animals for their fur and meat to survive, and acts as the NativeGuide for the two protagonists.
52	* In ''Film/{{Mohawk}}'', Oak and Joshua encounter a Québecois fur trapper in the woods as they make their way to the mission. The meeting does not go well, and they wind up [[HeroStoleMyBike stealing his canoe]].
53	* In ''Film/RomasantaTheWerewolfHunt'', Antonio is a hunter-trapper (although not above a bit of brigandry if the opportunity presents itself) who is obsessively hunting Romasanta because he believes Romasanta inflicted him with the curse of lycanthropy.
54	* [[OneSceneWonder The bear guy]] from ''Film/TrueGrit''.
55	* In ''Film/Prey2022'', which takes place in 1917, Comanche native Naru comes across a group of French hunter trappers, most of whom are hostile toward her and her brother Taabe.
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59	* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTeebo'': King Ulgo lives alone in a cave and uses snares to trap lantern birds that he eats, trades, or uses as light sources. This angers the Ewoks, who see the birds as sacred and magical.
60	* In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' series, Scout Sergeant Mkoll was one of these before he joined the Guard. He fits the stoic, outdoor-oriented stereotype, although he evidently used to have a family he cared for deeply.
61	* In ''Literature/GrentsFall'', Paul Knyvett, who reluctantly fights his foes with the same techniques he'd use for hunting.
62	* ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'':
63	** "Carribou" Caron from ''The Viking Symbol Mystery'' is a Canadian trapper who stumbled across some viking artifacts out in the woods, was robbed of the money he got selling them to an anthropologist and teams up with the brothers to go after the thieves.
64	** Both Peter (the brothers host and a friends uncle) and his rival Willy Ekus in ''The Alaskan Adventure.''
65	* Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' are a post-apocalyptic version of this, supporting themselves and their families by hunting game and gathering plants in the woods outside District 12. Katniss's resulting knowledge of wilderness survival and skill with a bow and arrow render her well-prepared to partake in the titular Games.
66	* OlderThanRadio: Natty Bumppo, the hero from ''Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans'' and other ''[[Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales Leatherstocking Tales]]'' by James Fenimore Cooper.
67	* In Aleksis Kivi's ''Literature/SevenBrothers'', this is how the brothers live during the most of their isolation years in Impivaara.
68	* In the ''Literature/TrixieBelden'' books, Mr. Maypenny, who works for Honey's father as gamekeeper in his reserve. I don't believe he gets paid for his services (at least not as much as Mr. Wheeler offered him, according to Mr. Maypenny's telling of it), but gets to hunt and trap the animals in the reserve for his own use. (Also, Mr. Maypenny is the non-crazy/non-unicycle-riding/non-poacher that Honey and Trixie thought he was.)
69	* Multiple examples throughout Karl May's ''Literature/{{Winnetou}}'' novels and related works -- the author's self-insert and frequent viewpoint character Old Shatterhand is himself one and consequently tends to find himself in like company when out in the West.
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73	* Clarke Griffin from ''Series/{{The 100}}'', after separating herself from the rest of her people, relies on trading the animals she kills (including a wild panther) to keep herself alive.
74	* ''Series/DeadMansGun'': In "the Trapper", a cruel trapper who owns the gun gets what's coming to him when the grandfather of a young Native American woman he raped resorts to the supernatural for payback.
75	* Parodied in a sketch of ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', where a pair of French Canadian trappers row a boat with wheels on dry land and kill businessmen for their expensive Armani suits.
76	* Brothers Larry, Darryl, and Darryl in ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' are backwoodsmen who are just as kooky as everyone else in town.
77	* In ''Series/NorthernExposure'' minor character Walt is a seventy-something trapper who lives in the woods for most of the year, just coming into town to drop off his skins and for supplies. He eventually becomes general store owner Ruth-Anne's love interest.
78	* One of these tries to goad Lucas [=McCain=] into [[SuicideByCop killing him in a showdown]] in ''Series/TheRifleman'' episode "Day of the Hunter".
79	* ''Series/{{Thanks}}'': Marcel and Phillipe are trappers who sell their pelts in Plymouth.
80	* In the ''Series/WynonnaEarp'' episode "When You Call My Name" the MonsterOfTheWeek is an [[TheUndead undead]] Hunter Trapper.
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84	* A couple of hunter/trapper archetypes (suitable for use as [=PCs=]) appear in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: The Great Weird North''.
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87	[[folder:Video Games]]
88	* The parts of ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires III'' that are set in North American locales tend to feature them as in-game characters. Notably, the Explorer unit of most European nations available in the game has very trapper-esque attire and equipment. There are several other playable and non-playable units that evoke this trope too.
89	* The ''VideoGame/AmericanConquest'' series also features them as playable units.
90	* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
91	** Ratonhnhaké:ton[=/=]Connor from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' can hunt and trap animals in the North American wilderness and then sell the meat, skin, bones and fat to several of the craftsmen that lives nearby his homestead to [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou produce the goods he can then sell]] to finance his war against the Templars and their British allies during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution.
92	** Shay Patrick Cormac from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' (the prequel to ''Assassin's Creed III'') can do it as well, though it's less important in that game overall.
93	* ''Sid Meier's VideoGame/{{Colonization}}'' has the Fur Trapper colonist occupation, to produce fur for your colony on forest squares. "Game" bonus is applied to both furs and food production on the square.
94	** ''Sid Meier's VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V'' offers the same bonuses on hexes with [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential little frolicking fox kits]].
95	* This is a possible [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou side-business]] for a character with high Survival skill in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' -- harvesting and tanning the skins of the rarer varieties of mutated Gecko is particularly profitable. Sunny Smiles specializes in this as part of defending the town of Goodsprings.
96	* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Several characters, including Aloy and the other Nora Braves, are hunters trained in such practices. Of course, since the most valuable animals around are [[MechanicalLifeforms the machines]], hunters are often the most technically-minded people around, learning how to cobble together various power generators and gas canisters to make primitive mechanical weapons. The Banuk tribe is noted to be a bit odd for separating the hunter and scrapper roles; hunters kill machines, but shamans are responsible for stripping their kills of useful parts and building new tools.
97	* H'aanit, one of the protagonists of ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' comes from a village of hunters and trappers. That said, she and her neighbors live by a code of only taking what they need from the forest, and men or animals who kill needlessly are her BerserkButton.
98	* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' relies heavily on hunting and trapping throughout the game.
99	* Like its predecessor, ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' will see Arthur relying heavily on hunting to bring in money and crafting ingredients. There's also an NPC called The Trapper, who buys skins and meat and, if you bring him the right materials, can make unique outfits for you.
100	* ''VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII: Serpent's Isle'' gives us the Trapper, a frontiersman who hunts and traps the sentient Gwani for their pelts. Players may go in expecting a rehash of ''Ultima VII Part 1'' and its subplot about the logger who doesn't realize he's destroying the homes of the sentient Emps and swears to leave them alone as soon as he finds out. Uh...[[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame nope]].
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104	* William "Creator/BuffaloBill" Cody was less on the trapping side, but quickly parlayed his fame as a hunter into a career in entertainment.
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