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Subgenre of The Chase where the villains are hunters and the hero is the prey — the game — in a formalized hunting motif. Most action series have a Hunting the Most Dangerous Game episode as well as a Forced Prize Fight. Villains may get victims from any walk of life, typically kidnapping Innocent Bystanders, buying Condemned Contestants, or tricking friends/enemies/the soon to be ex-wife into an isolated spot. The hunter is likely to do things that will give the victim more of a "fighting chance" to survive for a while, whether this means releasing them from a cage into that isolated spot in the wilderness (with a "head start" like "You have one hour to prepare before I start tracking and hunting"), or, often enough, providing them with a weapon or tools. Aside from providing a good dramatic sequence, this type of episode can also become a Green Aesop about sport hunting. If it's an actual contest, you're talking about Deadly Game, though it should be noted that the term "game" as it is used in this trope refers to the hunted species, rather than the hunt itself. The villain often is an Egomaniac Hunter for whom sapient game is the ultimate hunting thrill, or an evil aristocrat or other rich guy who gets off on the sadistic thrill of hunting down and killing those they consider inferior. In science fiction works, this is frequently the modus operandi of a Predator Pastiche. The Trope Namer is "The Most Dangerous Game", a classic short story in which a big game hunter becomes the prey of a retired Russian general who hunts humans for sport on his private island. Expect the villain to motivate his prey by promising he can "Win Your Freedom" by surviving X amount of time. Whether he's being truthful or not, the story rarely actually ends with the hero simply winning his freedom and leaving, because then the villain would get away with it — true resolution of this deadly game will usually only come with the villain taken down and either arrested or killed, often after the protagonist turns the tables on his pursuer. The Wild Hunt often engages in this sort of hunting, as does the Proud Hunter Race. See also Blood Knight for someone who is more of a warrior than a hunter. When this is someone's job instead of a sport or hobby, see Bounty Hunter and Professional Killer. Villains who go so far as to have an MO and do this often enough are practicing Industrialized Evil. See also Serial Killer, who usually drops the overt hunting motif but still maintains the spirit of the trope, especially if they engage in cat-and-mouse games with their victims. Contrast with Hunting Is Evil, which can be related but is not as related as it sounds. If the "game" being hunted is people, the evil part is fully justified, whereas Hunting Is Evil is related to the hunt of animals being dangerous (though they can overlap if a villain practices both). |
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Reasoning has the Venator, a sapient rat monster that goes around hunting human beings for his own personal pleasure. He even dresses like a hunter. | |
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Modesty Blaise: In "The Killing Ground", Modesty and Willie are abducted by an old enemy and dropped on a desert island where they are hunted by three big game hunters, as revenge for the way they hunted him down and turned him over to the authorities. O'Donnell revisited the idea 22 years later in "The Killing Game"; the second last story arc. Modesty and Willie are abducted by the Big Bad Kromm, who runs an exclusive (and illegal) club for Egomaniac Hunters. and who has decided to step up to hunting humans, and believes that Modesty and Willie would provide the perfect challenge. |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: In one comic, after being told his captive has escaped, the bad guy says "We must play the most dangerous game," suggesting he intends to hunt this man and is just using the misunderstood version of the expression... but no, they play tennis with a bundle of live dynamite while riding angry bears. What this has to do with catching the prisoner is not made clear. In another strip, a hunter yearns to hunt his fellow man, the "deadliest prey", only to be told that the average man spends his days on the couch: "Hunting man is like hunting a chimp with no legs", and if he really wants to feel the thrill of danger, he's better off texting while driving. |
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Doctor Who Magazine: In "Bloodsport", a pair of alien hunters arrive on Earth in search of sentient prey to hunt because the practice has been outlawed on their home world. | |
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Cracked, of course, did an article on this: "So You're Being Hunted For Sport". | |
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Macabre's "The Ted Bundy Song" tells how the titular killer would seduce women, abduct them, and hunt them in the woods. | |
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Rak Wraithraiser from Tower of God is a warrior hunter. He tracks down the strongest people he can find and kills them to become stronger. His prey is human (or humanoid), but to him, they are all turtles. Did we mention Rak is a giant bipedal alligator? | |
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In The Shadow episode "Death in the Deep", a big-game hunter invokes this trope in a submarine, stalking ships and slaughtering their occupants for the thrill of it. | |
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In Lucha Underground, King Cuerno's gimmick is that he's a hunter who got tired of normal animals and aims to make his opponents into his trophies. He fights like a hunter; he observes other matches to learn how future opponents fight, then in his matches, he moves slowly and makes his opponents come to him until they become tired or make a mistake. | |
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In Super Stupor a pair of minions are hired by a supervillain so he can hunt "the most dangerous game", which the minions think is gonna be this trope and he plans to hunt them, but it turns out the most dangerous game is actually "Rocket Tigers" and they are just there to help him with that. | |
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The Onion satirized and deconstructed this trope in the article: "Maverick Hunter's 'Human Beings As Prey' Plan Not As Challenging As Expected". The humans that were being hunted weren't conditioned to survive in the environment they were placed in, and offed themselves in ways the titular hunter didn't even consider was even fathomable. | |
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Behind the Bastards has a running gag about a certain meal kit delivery company (the name is always Censored for Comedy except for one instance showing it's Blue Apron) that has a private island for child hunts. He eventually retired this joke on air after several people emailed the team believing it to be true. | |
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RWBY Recaps makes a joke along these lines when Pyrrha throws her spear at Jaune in the forest. note Canon subverted this trope- Jaune was falling through the air and Pyrrha saved him by pinning him to a tree. | |
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Subverted in Red vs. Blue. When Sarge mentions this, Doc assumes he's talking about man. In actuality, he was referring to Giant Robot. | |
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Tarzan: In the end, Clayton gets fed up with Tarzan and hunts him down like the animal he sees him as. | |
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"The Most Dangerous Game" itself was adapted to radio several times, including on such series as Suspense (in a version starring Orson Welles as Zaroff) and Escape. | |
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In Two Guys and Guy, Wayne Got Volunteered when Frank needed funding. Frank doesn't understand why Wayne would call the police over this. | |
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The Magnus Archives: in "First Hunt" two men on a hunting expedition suddenly find themselves hunted by a savage Ambiguously Human hunter. | |
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One of the Decadence series of crapshots (1 minute or less) LoadingReadyRun videos has the eccentric, decadent character proclaim that he keeps fit by partaking in the most dangerous game and then the video cuts to him in the forest, revealing he does so as the game. | |
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There is a Lego stop motion short on YouTube entitled The Game, which has a more modern setting and Sci-Fi elements. Word of God says it was inspired by the novel. | |
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The Wotch: An arch-mage Battle Couple kidnaps random heroes from the multiverse to hunt down for sport, including Anne and Robin. Mostly by disabling their magic, then shooting them with magic-powered guns. It ends badly for them when they push Anne so far she shows what a Wotch actually does. | |
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In Our Little Adventure, Bruce Moriatos of The Empire has organized a 'practice dungeon' where low level soldiers can train for 'real world experience.' The Souballo Empire often capture Elves and dump them in the dungeon for the trainees to fight and kill. | |
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The ARMA clan Shack Tactical has a custom mod of the ARMA engine called "The Game" which turns gameplay into a mix of this and Deadly Game. Long story short, a group of civilians are poisoned and given weapons. To survive, they have to kill another civilian who is designated as their quarry, while dodging the hunter(s) who are simultaneously out to get them. Killing your quarry will get you a dose of the cure, enough to buy you another 10 minutes or so of life. This cycle repeats until only one civilian is left. The interesting x-factors here are that killing anyone other than your quarry or a hunter trying to kill you will result in a penalty to your health (and as a result, there's a chance for players to temporarily cooperate... until one ally is secretly assigned to kill one of the people they've been working with), and the local police force (who are also played by members of the clan), which is mostly just corrupt or incompetent, but some of whom are perfectly happy to join in the festivities or may decide to favor certain players... | |
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In Dead Winter, a large group of rich people is apparently behind a game of world-renowned assassins hunting each other for sport, with the assassins and their sponsors getting the bounty when they kill one of the other participants. Apparently, not all of the assassins are in the game because they want to be. | |
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Plumbing the Death Star's answer to "How Would You Use The Suicide Squad?" is to execute the Squad members by putting them in the wild, giving them some sort of handicap, and allowing eager citizens to hunt them to death. James compares it to The Most Dangerous Game, although with the addition of the even more dangerous game of superhumans like Enchantress that complicate things. They conclude that the best member of the Suicide Squad to hunt would obviously Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, despite not being a member of the team, because he's the more annoying than any of them. | |
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Dinosaur Comics Has this strip, in which T-Rex says that dinosaurs are in fact the most dangerous game, because humans don’t have claws. | |
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Nonlethal variant in Never Satisfied: One round of the Tournament Arc sees the participants paired up with civilians (mostly local vagrant kids), sent to a secluded island, equipped with the magical equivalent of toy guns, and tasked with protecting their own quarry while hunting each others'. It becomes more dangerous than anticipated when one group encounters Su-Yeong, a Husk that had taken refuge on the island. | |
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The Last Podcast on the Left describes this as Robert Hansen's M.O. He would kidnap women, set them loose in the wilderness, and hunt them down. Despite the similarity to the trope naming story, the hosts think it unlikely Hansen ever actually read it, as the man was a dullard. | |
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