History Characters / TheOwlHouseTheGoldenGuard

[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles The Boiling Isles]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | '''The Golden Guard''') | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him after leaving the Emperor's Coven]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hunter_casual_3.png ''"Listen, I don't know if I'm a witch, or human. All I know is that I'm a copy of someone Belos made... disappear."''[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see his Halloween costume]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hunters3_0.png ''"You didn't make anything worse, you didn't do anything wrong! You guys mean the world to me, and I... I didn't know how to say that yet."''[[/labelnote]]]]

[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles The Boiling Isles]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesAToF A-F]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesGToO G-O]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesPToY P-Y]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | '''The Golden Guard''') | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles The Boiling Isles]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesNumberToC #-C]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesDToG D-G]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesHToM H-M]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesNToS N-S]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesTToZ T-Z]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesAToF A-F]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesGToO G-O]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlightTropesPToY P-Y]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | '''The Golden Guard''') | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles The Boiling Isles]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]: [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesNumberToC #-C]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesDToG D-G]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesHToM H-M]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesNToS N-S]], [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNocedaTropesTToZ T-Z]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | '''The Golden Guard''') | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles The Boiling Isles]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | '''The Golden Guard''') | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

-->'''Hunter:''' I spent my whole life believing I was doing something good for someone good. But it was a lie... And some part of me still wants to... ''believe'' in that lie. Just like you want to believe you're dumb, or whatever. But it's not true!

* IdentityBreakdown: He has this big time at the end of "Hollow Mind". After he and Luz escape the mind of Emperor Belos, he begin to start freaking out saying that ''he'' knows where he is and runs out of the Owl House thinking about the fact he discovered that he is actually not the Emperor's nephew, but a Grimwalker simply to replace his older brother Caleb that he murdered.

* IdentityBreakdown: He has this big time at the end of "Hollow Mind". After he and Luz escape the mind of Emperor Belos, he begin to start freaking out saying that ''he'' knows where he is and runs out of the Owl House thinking about the fact he discovered that he is actually not the Emperor's nephew but a Grimwalker simply to replace his older brother Caleb that he murdered.

** After learning that he's a Grimwalker, that Belos never really cared about him, and after ''very'' narrowly escaping death by Belos's hands, Hunter has a severe and horribly realistic panic attack. He stammers out that he can't go back, starts to hyperventilate, flinches away from Eda when she offers him a hand to help him stand, and roughly tears his Golden Guard cloak off his shoulders while gasping for air. He then turns and runs out the door, blindly sprinting into the woods while hyperventilating and TryingNotToCry.

[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles The Boiling Isles]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLilithClawthorne Lilith Clawthorne]] | '''The Golden Guard''') | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles The Boiling Isles]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne Eda Clawthorne]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLilithClawthorne Lilith Clawthorne]] | '''The Golden Guard''') | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheBoilingIsles The Boiling Isles]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHousePalismen Palismen]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheOwlHouse The Owl House]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEdaClawthorne Eda Clawthorne]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheHexsquad The Hexsquad]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight]]) | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheEmperorsCoven The Emperor's Coven]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLilithClawthorne Lilith Clawthorne]] | '''The Golden Guard''') | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseHexside Hexside]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseOther Other]] ([[Characters/TheOwlHouseCamilaNoceda Camila Noceda]] | [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector The Collector]])]]-]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as of "For the Future"]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hunters3_0.png ''"You didn't make anything worse, you didn't do anything wrong! You guys mean the world to me, and I... I didn't know how to say that yet."''[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as of "Clouds on the Horizon"]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hunter_casual_3.png ''"Listen, I don't know if I'm a witch, or human. All I know is that I'm a copy of someone Belos made... disappear."''[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in "Thanks To Them"]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hunter_s3_fall_outfit.png ''"Even if I'm not who I'm supposed to be... I like who I am right now."''[[/labelnote]]]]

* DecoyBackstory: Hunter was raised to believe that he was a powerless witch, raised by his uncle Emperor Belos, after the rest of their family was wiped out by WildMagic. [[spoiler:It turns out that this backstory was a complete lie, and Hunter is really a kind of ArtificialHuman called a Grimwalker, based on Belos/Philip Whittebane's brother Caleb, and is only the latest in a long line that Belos keeps killing off for betraying him.]]

** Hunter starts out as a backstabbing, arrogant jerk who feels that the other people are beneath him. Slowly forming bonds with Flapjack, Luz, Willo, Gus, Amity, and others has him gradually lose each of these toxic traits. By season 3, he has transformed into a loyal, humble, friendlier (even dorkier) individual.

* TeensAreShort: Downplayed. At sixteen years old, Hunter is shorter than most of the adults around him, but one of the tallest out of the teenaged cast. The only teens he doesn't tower over are Jerbo and the Blight twins.

* CloningBlues: After finding out he's a Grimwalker, Hunter becomes very insecure about his identity, only knowing he's a copy of someone Belos killed but unsure if he's a witch or a human. Even after befriending Willow and Gus he's too nervous about how they'd react to admit to what he is and asks Luz to keep it secret. It's later revealed that what he's afraid of isn't everyone learning he's a Grimwalker, but that they'll hate him if they learn who he's meant to be a copy of, believing the person he was cloned from was an evil witch hunter like Belos.

[[TheDragon Emperor Belos's nephew and right-hand man]], a highly skilled fighter despite his young age. Hunter became the head of the Emperor's Coven after Lilith's defection, though as he learns more about the world outside the Emperor's Coven, his loyalty slowly gets put to the test...

* TraumaCongaLine: "Hollow Mind" is this for him. He spends the episode learning that Belos is a liar who only wishes for power and to hurt the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles and that Hunter himself is just one of many Grimwalkers Belos created to serve him. He's then almost killed by Belos' inner self and upon returning from the mind scape, Hunter promptly has a full on panic attack and runs into the woods. Afterwards, with nowhere else to go, he hides out at Hexside for several days, terrified that the emperor will be hunting him down and knowing he's just a copy of someone Belos killed.
* {{Troll}}: When the Golden Guard kidnaps King in a birdcage, he realizes closing the covering puts King to sleep and opening it wakes him again, and proceeds to do so over and over again. Later, while Luz searches for a way to land a ship after blasting him off it, he teleports back on, lies down on the controls and tells her how to land while waiting for her to notice him.

* TsurimeEyes: His eyed are quite sharp, which serves to present him as serious and pessimistic. He also lacks the visible eyeliner that Lilith and Amity have, adding to his exhausted-looking appearance. They're drawn more rounded after his HeelFaceTurn.
* TykeBomb: Belos has been creating Grimwalkers for centuries to serve as his Golden Guard, but always ends up killing them when they betray him. Hunter is the latest Grimwalker and was groomed by Belos via emotional and physical abuse to forever be blindly obedient towards him. However, while this largely works, Hunter starts losing faith once he learns of the atrocities Belos as committed and plans to commit.

* UndyingLoyalty: He is extremely loyal to Emperor Belos, to the point that when he believes he's failed a mission, Hunter's first instinct is to start digging his own grave. Darius doesn't think too highly of this behavior, seeing the Golden Guard as a complete pushover and only starts respecting Hunter when he demonstrates the ability to think for himself. Once he finds out that he's just one of Belos' many Grimwalker minions and his past crimes that got him to position of Emperor, and knowing that Belos himself knows he's aware of all of this, he freaks out and runs away. He later defects completely as he relays all he knows about the Day of Unity to the students and faculty of Hexside.

* VillainsWantMercy: He starts panicking when he's tied up by Amity on the way to Eclipse Lake and hears Kikimora making her way through the tunnels, looking to kill him. He pleads with Amity to either take him with her or release him so he can at least escape. She obliges, but unfortunately he takes the opportunity trip her and rush off while Kikimora captures her.

** By "Thanks to Them", he's dropped this completely, immediately trying to hunt him down the second he realizes Belos is alive. Later, Hunter confronts him, telling him everything he wants to do with his life free from his uncle's control and that he will never let him hurt anyone else ever again. After Belos escapes following Flapjack's death, Hunter tells Luz that all the witch hunter does is trick people and pleads with her to go after him, having lost any care he had left for his former guardian.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Implied. Grimwalkers typically aren't born as babies, and Belos generally only views them in terms of usefulness, so it's highly doubtful he wasted an entire decade or so raising baby Hunter. While Hunter looks and acts like a sixteen year-old witch, it's unknown how long ago he was actually 'born.'

* ForcedIntoEvil: Ever since Belos created him, he has forced Hunter to act as despicable as he is, even though Hunter is an incredibly NiceGuy who doesn't want to hurt anyone. It's when he meets Luz and friends that he finally learns that he doesn't need to be evil, and has been trying to sever ties with Belos ever since.