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Hunting Is Evil

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Hunting Is Evil	comment	Hunting can be dangerous to people as well as animals. There's a reason why the Hunting "Accident" is one of the most popular ways to dispose of characters or people. It's also a reason why (it's believed that) Manly Men Can Hunt. This is when hunting is treated as Foreshadowing for violence or violent people, and usually bad people. They do not need to be the Evil Poacher for it to apply (though it can do), but sinister and otherwise immoral characters. They may be an Egomaniac Hunter. In portrayals of The City vs. the Country, this will be treated as a reason to distrust or dislike the country. It will often coexist with the Half-Witted Hillbilly, though a lot of characters will not be stupid. If indigenous peoples are present, there will usually be a distinction drawn between the Noble Savage who hunts for survival, respects the animals he kills, and uses every part, and the Great White Hunter who just kills for fun. A lot of the time, it's a sister trope to Bad People Abuse Animals. However, in depictions of hunting, the focus is often not on animal abuse but on killing animals, and hunters are not always shown to get pleasure out of harming the animals. This is not necessarily shown as a positive side to the characters, just that hunting is often portrayed as more utilitarian than sadistic. This can be considered the human counterpart to Predators Are Mean. This is a unisex trope. However, because A Real Man Is a Killer, it may be more common that female hunters are a bigger red flag. Could overlap with Cruella to Animals if the reason they hunt is to take pleasure in eating meat or wearing fur. To a point, this is Truth in Television. Hunting has been considered to be an early sign of a Serial Killer, and can sometimes act as direct Foreshadowing for Hunting the Most Dangerous Game (which would be a subtrope as a particular form of bad or evil hunt). However, in-universe examples only, as this relates only to the attitude in-universe that hunting is bad, wrong, or morally corrupt, and/or associated with characters like that. Examples
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Hunting Is Evil / int_226f6b3f	comment	Haven: Played With in season 1's "Fur," in which the Troubled Person of the Week is causing animals stuffed and displayed at the Haven Hunt Club to come alive and attack the people who killed them. The overall message of the episode seems to be this, particularly as Nathan and his father clash over Nathan's distaste for hunting. But one of the main suspects is Jess Minion, a Quebecois woman of Mi'kmaq descent who runs her grandmother's farm. She's an animal rights advocate and is a suspect because she won't let Club members hunt on her land—and isn't shy about firing upon poachers who trespass. When Nathan points out that hunting animals is acceptable in her culture (and Jess herself hunts), she fires back "we use them, we don't mock them." So the message is less that hunting itself is evil, but that hunting for sport is evil and deserves retribution.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Mr. Burns hunts so that he can make the animals into clothes, which is part of his portrayal as one of the most evil characters in the series.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Elmer Fudd is a hunter who wants to shoot Bugs and Daffy to death despite knowing they're sapient. In Rabbit Fire, Bugs and Daffy each try to steer him towards the other by reading out dish recipes to him; Elmer answers that he's actually vegetarian and hunts for the sport of it.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_33fdae4d	comment	Downplayed in Season 1 of Mad Men. Betty is bothered by the birds in her garden, however, it's only after she loses her chance at modeling again thanks to Don, and realizes that she is still trapped in an unfulfilling and unhappy family and marriage that she takes a gun out to the garden and calmly shoots them.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_35e04208	comment	Whale Talk: Early in the book TJ describes an incident where he tries and fails to protect a young deer from Rich Marshall, the first of many reasons he and Rich don't get along. He had overheard Rich talking about having killed a mother deer, and that he wanted to get a tag so he could kill the fawn as well. TJ goes to where the fawn is hoping to protect it, but Rich and his buddies arrive soon after. TJ tries to shield it with his own body, thinking they won't risk shooting him. His buddies try beating him up first, but when that doesn't work, Rich simply puts the muzzle of his rifle right against its head and pulls the trigger. TJ is horrified when he feels its life drain from its body, and thinks hunting, particularly for sport alone, is horrible. At the end, Rich tries to kill Heidi using the same hunting rifle, but TJ's father takes the shot instead.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_36c89d24	comment	Hannibal: Abigail and her father Garrett Jacob Hobbs are hunters who are first shown hunting and killing a deer. He is then revealed to be a Serial Killer of young women that look like Abigail, kills her mother, and slashes her throat before Will and Hannibal save her. They then devote themselves to finding out whether Abigail was his accomplice, as she is suspected of being. And she is, but she didn't choose to be. She helped her father kill girls to stop him from killing her, though she continues to struggle with this decision and what it says about her.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_43f300b9	comment	The film Open Season is seen from the animal's perspective which means the hunters looking for them are portrayed as the bad guys, particularly the Big Bad Shaw who will go to lengths and even break the law to hunt down the animals he's looking for.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_4511fee3	comment	In The Bush Baby animal hunting is done by poachers looking to skin endangered animals for a quick buck. That being said, Jackie herself also fishes for a living, so this trope is subverted.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_4e483062	comment	Discussed in "Blue Harvest", when Luke/Chris talks about hunting womp rats with his T-16.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_7035327	comment	Mrs. America: Lottie Beth Hobbs is shown shooting at a deer while discussing with Phyllis Schlafly about the need to hate.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_7485e16e	comment	Animaniacs (2020): In "Good Warner Hunting", Dr. Walter Grubb is a hunter of exotic cartoons who wants the Warners as part of his trophy collection. While initially played for laughs, it becomes disturbing once it becomes clear Grubb has already captured and made horrific trophies of most of the side characters from the original Animaniacs, including humans Mindy, The Mime, Miles Standish, and Katie Kaboom (though they later turn out to somehow be fine, just pissed off). Doubly so when Grubb is revealed to be Chicken Boo, himself a side character.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_793a0b95	comment	Cruel Summer: In Season 1 (which takes place in a small Texas town), Martin Harris (a principal who groomed and imprisoned Kate in his house) is shown meeting her during a hunt. It gets a Call-Back during Kate's imprisonment when it's revealed that she shot Martin and killed him after he was unable to go through with killing himself.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_93e3f14e	comment	Tarzan: Clayton, though technically serving as Professor Porter and Jane's guide to Africa, is a big-game hunter who treats their research on gorillas as foolish; in his own words, he sees gorillas (and all animals) as "wild beasts" who are only good for target practice. There are elements of hunting in everything Clayton does: his weapon of choice is a hunting rifle (to the point where Tarzan initially thinks that the sound of a gunshot literally means "Clayton") and he uses a machete to shave. Later in the film, Clayton is also outed as an Evil Poacher who plans to sell off the gorillas to various zoos.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_986cb669	comment	Bambi: The hunters kill Bambi's mother (which they would not usually do). In an example of Adaptational Villainy, they are also stupid enough that their fire burns out of control and nearly burns down the forest.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_9da908aa	comment	Yellowjackets: Zigzagged. Nat and Travis hunt in the wilderness, which is portrayed as unpleasant but necessary to survive. However, Nat is the best with a gun, which is revealed to be because she shot at her abusive father with his gun and intended to kill him, but she left the safety on. In the present day, Shauna also kills rabbits that are in her garden. Though they are pests, she is shown to take pleasure in doing it, and her family is horrified when they see the newly-killed rabbit on the table.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_9f3684de	comment	Marvel's Spider-Man 2: Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven the Hunter and his supporters hunt superhumans instead of animals (indeed, some of them used to work as anti-poachers before they were recruited), but they are treated as no less dangerous and amoral for it. They cause tons of collateral damage trying to capture just two supervillains from an armed prison ship, treat the staff at their Smoky Gentlemen's Club callously by testing their tranquillisers out on them, and have no problems killing civilians in the crossfire. Kraven is by far the worst of them, encouraging his own family to hunt and kill one another to test their strength, taking the underage Miles prisoner, and forcibly turning Curt Connors back into the Lizard, dismissing MJ's pleas that Connors is a good man with, "There are no good men. Only good prey." And why is Kraven so obsessed with these dangerous hunts? Because he's Secretly Dying of cancer, and he wants to make sure to find a Worthy Opponent who can give him an Honorable Warrior's Death instead. Which goes to show how self-centred and callous Kraven is.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_a578ebb5	comment	The Most Dangerous Game shows that this trope is Older Than Television; Zaroff is portrayed as an immoral murderer who enjoys Hunting the Most Dangerous Game— that is to say, other people. However, downplayed in that the protagonist is also a big game hunter.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_abfcff6a	comment	Rocky and Bullwinkle (2014): When Rocky fights Natasha, he asks her why Fearless Leader has been sending her and Boris to destroy him and Bullwinkle for so many years. Natasha tells him that if he saw his rumpus room, he would understand. What follows is a shot of Fearless Leader in his rumpus room, which has a wall filled with many animal trophies, except for two empty ones labelled "Moose" and "Squirrel".
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Hunting Is Evil / int_ae9ce4f0	comment	May December: Gracie molested twelve-year-old Joe, groomed him, and had children with him, still keeping him under her thumb years later. She is also shown to be a hunter, hunting meat for her, Joe, and Elizabeth's meals. She also tells Elizabeth that she went hunting with her father and brothers. Georgie tells Elizabeth near the end that Gracie was sexually abused by her brothers growing up.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_b3723e44	comment	Wild: When Cheryl is walking the trail, she is menaced by two hunters, including one that seems about to rape her.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_c07374f4	comment	Jumanji: The film's (human) antagonist is Van Pelt, a stereotypical Great White Hunter complete with elephant gun and pith helmet. Once Alan releases him from the titular game, Van Pelt becomes completely obsessed with tracking him down (and causing immense property damage along the way), all while scolding Alan to "face him like a man" (Van Pelt is also a psychological representation of Alan's cold, harsh father). Unlike most examples, though, Van Pelt is only evil insomuch as he's the final challenge Alan has to overcome—the hunter seems completely aware that he's a magical construct bound by the rules of Jumanji and even refuses to kill anyone besides the person who summoned him; as he tells Sarah, "You didn't roll the dice. Alan did."
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Hunting Is Evil / int_c9777ec1	comment	Night Gallery: "Clean Kills and Other Trophies" has Archie Dittman, who hunts not for sport, but for bloodlust. He has a son who is nervous even by the sight of a gun, whom Archie Sr. views as a coward. He puts a clause in his will that his son will not inherit one cent from him if he does not kill an animal within fifteen days' time. Archie's butler, Tom, who is African by birth and studied in England, actually argues with his employer about it. Archie points out that Tom's native tribe hunts. Tom points out that for them, it is a matter of food and survival, not sport, and certainly not the bloodlust that Archie makes of it. How the story ends depends on whether you are viewing the episode, or reading the original short story. In the former, Tom appeals to his native gods, who transform Archie into a head mounted on the wall. In the original story, being forced to kill drives the son insane, and he attends to his father in a more hands-on manner.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_daecb6e6	comment	The Hunt (2020): One member of the "deplorable" conservatives chosen to be hunted down, "Trucker", is an unashamed big-game hunter of endangered animals who is eventually shown to have posted a picture of him posing beside a dead rhino on social media.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_e3ad7328	comment	Songs by Tom Lehrer: "The Hunting Song" is about a comically inept and dangerous hunter who, in a quest to hunt some deer, shoots seven other hunters, two game wardens, and a cow. However, this doesn't stop him from dragging their corpses home and turning their bodies into trophies.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_e631314a	comment	A Fly Went By: Subverted — when the boy finds out that the fox was not trying to kill the calf and instead running from a man with a gun, he assumes the man is bad and wants to shoot the fox. As it turned out, however, the man was innocent and in fact didn't even see the fox. It's never revealed why he was carrying a gun, though judging by his clothes, he was probably in the military.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Discussed in "Blue Harvest", when Luke/Chris talks about hunting womp rats with his T-16. In "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.", Quagmire and his friends attempt to murder Jeff, his sister's abusive boyfriend, by inviting him along on a midnight hunting trip. He gleefully accepts because it's an excuse to kill animals for fun.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_ed6a91a8	comment	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: The main villain, Du Bois, hunts exotic animals and wants to have one of each, making her a threat to the protagonists, who are a lion, hippo, zebra, and giraffe.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_f1bed52	comment	In the first episode of Hello! Sandybell, Kitty's hunt takes a turn when Sandybell prevents her from taking a bird she shot, vowing to protect the injured animal. When Kitty goes to the school board and demand they punish her, Professor Christie pretends he doesn't know the girl Kitty's describing (who happens to be his daughter), and says that it could have been any of his students, as he taught them that injuring animals is bad. He ends the session by telling Kitty that it's for the better that she doesn't hunt, causing her to fume.
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Hunting Is Evil / int_fdfba2ee	comment	Leave Her to Heaven: Although she is a pathologically jealous Femme Fatale, Ellen is first established as being One of the Boys. The delight she takes in wild game hunting is treated as foreshadowing of both her unfeminine and violent nature, which culminates in her cold-blooded murder of Dick's disabled brother.
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