History Main / EvilPoacher

* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel", Gorbin, the co-owner of a ruinous sea circus, decides to sail to Zone X, an area where fishing was declared ilegal because that is Atlantis' territory, and catch two merpeople to add to his show's exhibits. After hailing Lori and Jerro out of the water, Gorbin refuses to put them into water tank right away because he wants them, considering they will be easier to handle if they are half-suffocated.

* Col. Werner Dachsund in ''ComicBook/{{Proof}}'' hunts cryptids (the extremely endangered species that the protagonists' organization, The Lodge, exists to protect) for sport and eats them. Many cryptids are sentient, which doesn't deter him in the slightest. In fact, his main goal in the arc is to hunt the Lodge's star agent, John Prufrock (a.k.a. Bigfoot).

* Gaston from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has some attributes of this trope combined with his general nature as an EgomaniacHunter, though it's hardly the worst thing about him. [[{{Fanon}} It's universally suggested by fans that he's the hunter who shot Bambi's mother, as her head was seen mounted in a cameo during his song.]]

* Clayton from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', like Gaston, combines attributes of the Evil Poacher and the Egomaniac Hunter.

* Bree and Sloan Blackburn, the villains of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrysMovie'' are Evil Poachers. They're also perfectly willing to kidnap and murder kids just to be able to keep poaching endangered African wildlife.

* Jorinella, the villain of the children's book ''Birdsong'' by Gale Haley, is one of these. She takes advantage of the title character (an orphan girl who has the ability to speak to birds) to boost her bird-trapping operation, but once Birdsong frees all the birds she is finally defeated when the birds ZergRush her. We never see her actually kill anything, but she's [[VileVillainSaccharineShow a surprisingly dark character for a kids' picture book]].

* ''{{Literature/Malevil}}'' has Wahrwoorde. He forced this family to live in backwards squalor in a swamp, is cruel to his son and mother-in-law, raped his stepdaughters, and plots to murder the inhabitants of Malevil to steal the castle stronghold for himself.

* Probably the most common sort of bad guy encountered in ''Series/{{Daktari}}''.
* In the episode “Trapped” of ''Series/{{Dinosapien}}'' a pair of poachers that are the VillainOfTheWeek arrive in forest and illegally set up traps and try to capture Eno.

* Several episodes of ''Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo'' deal with people trying to illegally kill or capture park animals, including Skippy.

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* Inverted in ''Myth/RobinHood'': most of the poachers in the stories were often starving peasants who are forced to intrude on the King's gaming grounds in order to feed their families. Most of the Merry Men were poachers whom Robin saved from hanging.
** Indeed, many of the earliest game-management laws (which are OlderThanTheyThink, going back a few centuries) were instituted not for conservation purposes, but because greedy landowners hunted for recreation and didn't want the peasants to have their own wild game.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': Bull Gator and Axl, for a sufficently low value of "evil". They claim they are only doing it to bring happiness to the zoo-going children of the world.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' brings us Percival C. [=McLeach=], voiced by George C. Scott. Did we mention he has a scope ''shotgun?'' Now there's a guy who loves to see the faces of his victims before he riddles them full of holes. He also sings this jolly-sounding but [[VillainSong macabre song]] while he drives back to his camp in a giant truck he built himself:

* The "Kiliminjaro Safaris" ride at Ride/WaltDisneyWorld's [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Animal Kingdom]] features these as antagonists who are chased off after a pursuit. Early versions of the ride featured the poachers being captured by a cast member portraying a warden. Prior to opening, cast previews featured a DownerEnding where the poachers [[TheBadGuyWins successfully slaughtered an elephant]], whose corpse is seen by the riders; this was [[LighterAndSofter eliminated]] due to poor reactions from families and children.

* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'': While not quite a true poacher due to the animals he's going after not being under legal protection [[spoiler:as a result of them newly brought back from extinction]] and more of a smuggler than anything else, he otherwise fits the stereotype in that he still takes the time to ''kill'' some of the animals he goes after as well as capture them while also being more than willing to attack any people who get in his way. As if to further heighten how well he seems to fit the stereotype, he even wears a necklace of dinosaur teeth around his neck.

* Charles Muntz from ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''.
* The villains of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrysMovie'' are Evil Poachers. They're also perfectly willing to kidnap and murder kids just to be able to keep poaching endangered African wildlife.

* The villains of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys The Wild Thornberrys Movie]]'' are Evil Poachers. They're also perfectly willing to kidnap and murder kids just to be able to keep poaching endangered African wildlife.

* Bull Gator and Axl from ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'', for a sufficently low value of 'evil'. They claim they are only doing it to bring happiness to the zoo-going children of the world.
* BountyHunter Rongruffle the Huntress from the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Bounty."

** Right in the first movie, ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDinosaur'' have Nobita, Doraemon and friends being menaced by the Dinosaur Hunters, the StarterVillain of the entire franchise, a group of futuristic poachers who wanted to steal Nobita's new baby dinosaur, Piisuke, for themselves, and are not above shooting at the gang when theire demands are refused.

Subtrope of ClassicalHunter. A sister trope to the EgomaniacHunter. Compare with CruellaToAnimals. Contrast the HunterTrapper, who hunts and traps legally and is much more likely to see reason; the RoguishPoacher, this guy's JustifiedCriminal counterpart; and the GreatWhiteHunter, the heroic counterpart.

* ''Film/Rogue2020 opens on a game farm that belonging to poachers who specialize in trafficking wild animals for the exotic pet trade and their body parts for traditional medicine, and running caged hunts for wealthy foreigners. [[EscapedAnimalRampage A lioness about to be slaughtered for body parts escapes and kills most of the poachers.]]

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheKingdomOfClouds'' has a band of poachers arrested by the Sky People while they're slaughtering a family of elephants in Africa. These poachers managed to escape custody, steal one of the Sky People's transports, and later hijacks a powerful [[WeaponOfMassDestruction WMD]] from Doraemon intending to destroy the Kingdom of Clouds out of spite.

* ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'': While the game's plot puts more emphasis on BigBad warlord [[SouthAsianTerrorists Asav's]] plundering of Indian antiquities to fund his bloody insurrection, his headquarters at the start of the game has storage crates full of tiger pelts and elephant tusks, suggesting that Asav also dabbles in poaching and ivory dealing to support his warmongering.

* ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'': While far more focus is put on BigBad [[SouthAsianTerrorists Asav's]] warmongering and megalomania, investigating his headquarters at the start of the game reveals that he has crates full of tiger skins and elephant tusks in storage, suggesting that, in addition to plundering Indian antiquities, Asav has also turned to poaching and ivory dealing to fund his bloody insurrection.

* ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'': While far more focus is put on BigBad [[SouthAsianTerrorists Asav's]] warmongering and megalomania, investigating his headquarters at the start of the game reveals that he has crates of tiger skins and elephant tusks in storage, suggesting that, in addition to plundering Indian antiquities, Asav has also turned to poaching and ivory dealing to fund his bloody insurrection.

* ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'': While far more focus is put on BigBad [[SouthAsianTerrorists Asav's]] warmongering and megalomania, investigating his headquarters at the start of the game reveals that he has crates of tiger skins and elephant tusks in storage, suggesting that, in addition to plundering Indian antiquities, he's also turned to poaching and ivory dealing to fund his bloody insurrection.

* Evil poachers--part of an organized ivory smuggling ring--killed Sable's family in ''ComicBook/JonSableFreelance'', starting off his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'': In addition to making snuff films Amsel Reiniger is also credited with tracking and personally causing the extinction of multiple endangered species for fun. He also filmed himself doing that and sold the videos to make a profit of it.

* The Poacher from ''VideoGame/JadeCocoon'' who you can fight three times. Thankfully, even though he demands you hand over your {{Mons}} if you lose, he [[GameplayAndStorySegregation doesn't actually steal them if you do.]]

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Hemet Nesingwary thinks of himself as more of a GreatWhiteHunter, but his followers in ''Wrath of the Lich King'' take it UpToEleven and become hilariously over the top Evil Poachers.

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