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An inversion of Evil Poacher, some older works, particularly fairy tales and Folk Music, pitch a Loveable Rogue poacher against an evil fat-cat landowner in a Peter Rabbit-vs-Farmer MacGregor kind of relationship. These are generally from a time when even kids' stories admitted that animals have to be killed for people to eat meat (and this kind of poacher always does hunt for food, usually for his starving family or to share with the community), and the conflict is more about the morality of claiming ownership of natural resources.note In European history, clashes between landowners and poor countrymen who only wanted to feed their families sometimes turned brutal on both sides; the conflict earned the nickname of "The Poaching Wars". Whereas the Evil Poacher is an Egomaniac Hunter out for endangered charismatic megafauna, the Roguish Poacher hunts prey animals like rabbits, fish, and game birds (the only quarry the two might compete over is deer). Where the Evil Poacher is a Glory Seeker who wants to put trophies on his walls, the Roguish Poacher wants to feed his family and maybe scratch a living selling the meat and skins. Naturally, in Real Life, it's more complicated than this. For example, how to classify a poor "third-world" hunter poaching endangered animals on a game reserve in order to sell bushmeat, ivory, luxury furs, etc., on the Black Market would be much more open for debate. But fiction is usually more willing to take sides. As this guy is still a criminal, he'll either have a Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist or the police/sheriff/gamekeeper will be in the pockets of the Small-Town Tyrant landlord. Subtrope of Classical Hunter and Karmic Thief. Often a Guile Hero, who may be portrayed as Just Like Robin Hood. Compare Hunter Trapper. Sympathetic portrayals of The Rustler may also fall under this trope, with the Cattle Baron as the bad guy. |
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Night on the Galactic Railroad: Campanella and Giovanni meet a friendly poacher who catches herons and turns them into candy. | |
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Poldark: Jim Carter is caught poaching pheasants and sentenced to transportation. He is portrayed sympathetically and saved from this fate by main character Ross, who pleads his sentence down to imprisonment. | |
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The Hunger Games: Katniss Everdeen hunts illegally to feed her starving family and coincidentally stick it to "The Man". | |
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Went the Day Well? has Bill Purves the local poacher as a genial old man who gets along well with kids and isn't portrayed negatively during a scene where he's trying to outwit the local policeman. Later he's a heroic figure during the conflict. | |
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Toast of London: According to Steven Toast, his fellow actor John Nettles has had to become one after falling on hard times. | |
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Reservation Dogs: Leon takes his family hunting every year on land that his great-grandfather sold in the 1930s. They only poach the occasional deer, and many happy family memories come from the hunting excursions. | |
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Discworld: Lords and Ladies: Carpenter the Poacher is specifically described with quotes from "The Lincolnshire Poacher". Nanny Ogg's Cookbook implies everyone in Lancre has a bit of this, when talking about how fresh food is always available in the countryside: "As we always say, you can boil it, bake it, or fry it, but for preference, you poach it." Pyramids: Pteppic spends some time under the wing of a roguish poacher, whom his absent-minded father mistook for his tutor. The main thing he learned was how to operate a "punt-bow",note inspired by the real-life punt gun a device that can turn a flock of ibises into a heap of pâté. |
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Danny, the Champion of the World is based on this premise. Danny's father is a kindly but poor rural mechanic who poaches pheasants from the estate of the local rich guy, who happens to be a cruel, pompous Jerkass. It's implied that he does so for the sport and challenge more than the food (considering it to be much more sporting than the canned hunts the pheasants were destined for). The plot of the novel involves Danny hatching a plan to poach all the pheasants on said estate, just before the big annual hunt. | |
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: The boy that Robin finds trapped up a tree by some soldiers is accused of shooting a deer. When asked by Robin (after chasing the Sheriff's men away and branding himself an outlaw) the boy confirms it's true (although Robin doesn't seem to care either way). | |
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The Victors Project: During a harsh District 7 winter several years before The Lunberjack and the Tree-Elf, Mayor Lourdes organized unauthorized hunting parties into the woods to keep the District fed and then presented it to the Capitol as an act of loyalty meant to ensure the loggers were well fed enough to keep working. The public bought it but President Snow didn’t, and punished Lourdes behind closed doors while officially accepting his explanation. | |
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Far Cry: Absolution: Will Boyd regularly kills animals out of season to feed himself and the other cultists but doesn’t kill them for the sport of it and feels kinship with some animals. | |
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Vera: The Victim of the Week in "The Deer Hunters" is suspected of being this. The truth is more complicated, but he certainly wasn't an Evil Poacher. | |
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Lords and Ladies: Carpenter the Poacher is specifically described with quotes from "The Lincolnshire Poacher". Nanny Ogg's Cookbook implies everyone in Lancre has a bit of this, when talking about how fresh food is always available in the countryside: "As we always say, you can boil it, bake it, or fry it, but for preference, you poach it." | |
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Le Capitaine Fracasse: The servant of the Baron of Sigognac servant poaches rabbits on lands that don't belong to his (impoverished) lord so his lord can have some good things for dinner at least. And even then, Sigognac ends up happily sharing the poached rabbits at dinner with a traveling Commedia dell'Arte theatre troupe that asked for refuge in his castle for the night. | |
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Accidental Detectives: The older members of the impoverished Johnson family in Madness at Moonshiners Bay are alligator poachers, but they feel some self-loathing about what they do and are quick to save the main characters from kidnappers. | |
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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling: Black George is a gamekeeper on an estate (the guy supposed to stop poachers) but also does some poaching himself — a combination of feeding his family and being a (lovable) scoundrel. At the end of the novel, the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue indicates he was ultimately transported for his crimes. | |
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Pyramids: Pteppic spends some time under the wing of a roguish poacher, whom his absent-minded father mistook for his tutor. The main thing he learned was how to operate a "punt-bow",note inspired by the real-life punt gun a device that can turn a flock of ibises into a heap of pâté. | |
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Joe Pickett: Zigzagged with Ote Keely, a murder victim in the first book. Ote poaches deer, elk, and moose out of season and out of the areas where he has a tag to do so. He claims that this is to feed his large and poor family, which is true to an extent, but Joe notices that Ote also kills trophy animals that he can sell the body parts of. The book begins with Joe writing Ote a ticket, only for Ote to steal Joe's weapon and hold him at gunpoint, before giving it back with a smirk. | |
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Poacher: Derek Badger is an Unfazed Everyman from Oop North who mostly hunts small game such as rabbits to feed himself and his wife. Fittingly, he spends a fair chunk of the game pursued by his rival, Gamey the game warden. | |
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A Clash of Kings, the second A Song of Ice and Fire book, has Arya travel with a group of Night's Watch recruits which includes two pleasant-natured poachers named Koss and Kurz. The two men keep the group fed (Koss takes down larger animals with a bow and arrow while Kurz fishes with his bare hands) and never try to desert while out foraging. After being fatally wounded, Kurz passes on his hunting techniques and survival skills to his younger companions. | |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights has Robin similarly rescue a boy from the guards. Later, Robin barges into Prince John's castle and plops down a poached boar right on his table. | |
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Heather Dale: "The Poachers" is sung by Saxon poachers in the time of William the Conqueror, portrayed as Robin Hood-esque types trying to sustain themselves under the overlordship of a new and more tyrannical lord than King Harold. | |
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In the episode Dinosaurs on a Spaceship in Doctor Who The Doctor travels back the the African planes in 1902 to recruit John Ridell, who is a morally ambiguous big game hunting anti-hero. | |
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Ni vu, ni connu (1958) stars Louis de Funès as Léon Blaireau, a sympathetic poacher who's pitted against Parju, a Meddlesome Forest Guard and gamekeeper. Mr. Bluette, the prison director, calls Blaireau a "Rural Bohemian" but the mayor angrily reminds that he is still a poacher. Much to his dismay, Blaireau is incredibly popular in the village since he brings in most of the game and fishes... | |
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"Crocodile" Dundee fits the archetype pretty well, except for the "poor subsistence hunter sticking it to the man" part. He's allegedly a fisherman who runs a safari business in Australia's Northern Territory, but in the first movie a barfly calls him a "bloody croc poacher," and, while Mick punches him out for it, it does seem to be an open secret in Walkabout Creek, where he's generally well-liked. | |
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The Hunger Games opens with Katniss and Gale hunting outside their District's perimeter in order to feed their families, which is described as a harshly punishable crime by their tyrannical government. | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox: The main character is a wily fox who combines this with Carnivore Confusion by stealing chickens from industrial-scale farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. | |
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Will Scarlet in Rogues of Sherwood Forest. When Robin and Little John are Putting the Band Back Together, they find Will locked up in a pillory in a town square with the words 'THIS MAN IS A POACHER' carved into the pillory. | |
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: The hunter who finds Trisha is a heavy drinker who is trying to shoot a deer out of season because he would rather spend his limited money on things other than food. However, he does save a malnourished little girl from a dangerous predator and then take her back to civilization. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel The Gatekeeper Trilogy: Ghost Roads, The crew of the Lizzie S sneak out to sea to fish even after the Coast Guard declares the bay off-limits due to monster attacks but are fairly benevolent people who aren't overfishing the area. | |
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The Adventures of Robin Hood begins when Much, a poor Saxon peasant, poaches "the king's deer" to feed himself. He is captured and about to be executed by Sir Guy, and Robin intervenes to save his life. | |
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Scaramouche (1923) begins with a peasant having been executed for poaching on the Marquis' land. We are meant to sympathize with the slain poacher, who was presumably desperate for food, and to see the Marquis as evil. In fact, this is how the Marquis is first established as the bad guy. | |
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