History Main / HunterOfHisOwnKind

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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel, also known InUniverse as the "Scourge of the Orcs", dedicated centuries from her life to Find Sauron and kill Orcs. When she finally captures their chieftain, she holds a speech about how his kind has no right to exist and starts to describe she will keep him alive solely to make him witness how she will massacre his entire kind. What makes her speech even more bone-chilling is that the Orcs, are her kin too and she knows it and doesn't care. The orcs she brags about massacring to their leader were formerly Elves captured by Morgoth and turned into Orcs.

** [[BoomerangBigot Seath the Scaleless]] hated his own kind [[FreudianExcuse because they mocked his lack of scales]] and assisted in their extermination by The Lords.

* In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', the most common enemies the Chosen Undead will encounter are other Undead who have long since gone Hollow and insane.
** Also in ''Dark Souls'', Seath the Scaleless hated his own kind [[FreudianExcuse because they mocked his lack of scales]] and assisted in their extermination by The Lords.

* ''Fanfic/AFrozenFlower'': Grimes and his group of ''lamberos'' once were a WanderingCulture who walked the Earth and got rid of evil, but ever since Grimes's brother, Edward, was murdered, the group has shifted goals to kill every awoken ''lambero'' in existence out of revenge. This includes Orchid, who they target as the last remaining awoken ''lambero'' on the planet.

* [[spoiler: Natsuno]] aids in the efforts to stop the vampires infesting Sotoba Village in ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'', ultimately [[spoiler: killing TheDragon and himself in the process]].

** In the future world she came from, ComicBook/RachelSummers was forcibly brainwashed into becoming a Hound by Ahab after being captured and tortured by the government as a child. Ahab considered her the best of his Hounds thanks to her psionic abilities making her extremely talented at tracking other mutants. It left her both with long-lasting trauma, and tattoos/scars (it's never been entirely clear what they are) that she usually keeps concealed with her {{telepathy}}.

** ComicBook/RachelSummers was programmed to be this as one of Ahab's Hounds in the ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'' reality. It left her both with long-lasting trauma, and tattoos/scars (it's never been entirely clear what they are) that she usually keeps concealed with her {{telepathy}}.
** Would you believe that Sentinels are mutants themselves? Seriously, some people who build them (like Sebastian Shaw) have tried to put a failsafe program into them to use in case they go rogue, which reveals that, since their abilities were "inherited" and improved upon from from the original Mach-1 Sentinels, they are technically mutants. In theory, this would act as a LogicBomb, causing a rogue Sentinel who has this revelation thrust upon it to destroy itself, as its directive is to destroy mutants. However, this idea hasn't had as much success as whoever thought it up had hoped.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'': The founding vertebrate of the planet HP-02017 was the hamster, an animal known for its cannibalistic tendencies, which seem to have carried over to its evolutionary descendants as quite a few have adapted to hunt their close relatives.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Zeffer is a vampire who hunts other vampires as a revenge for what happened to him and so nobody has to suffer vampirism like he has. He planned to kill himself once he'd killed every last vampire, but Evan made him make an unbreakable promise to never take his own life.

*** [[spoiler: The Slayer herself could be considered an example, considering the Slayer's mystical powers originate from the heart, soul and spirit of a pure-demon, while she fight against demons and vampires (a subtype of demons in the show)]]

* A non-species example: The Seven Warlords of the Sea in ''Manga/OnePiece'' are government sponsored pirates who given amnesty (and often a blind eye to their other shady dealings) in exchange for bringing down other pirates.

* Liebe in ''Manga/BlackClover'', aka [[spoiler:the AntiMagic Devil]], despises all devils because [[spoiler:their leader Lucifero killed his human adoptive mother Licita, who's also [[TheHero Asta]]'s biological mother]]. His goal in life is [[GenocideFromTheInside to kill every devil in existence]], no matter what it takes.

** a SciFi twist on this with Setsuna's Gundam Exia: its primary purpose is to hunt down any Gundam should its pilot go rogue, since its [[BladeBelowTheShoulder GN sword]] is the only weapon that can penetrate a Gundam's [[SomeKindOfForceField GN field]]. [[spoiler:Though late in the first season, the Earth's military gets their hands on GN Drive technology, meaning Exia has a wealth of targets from then on.]]

* ''LightNovel/NinjaSlayer'' is about a super-powered ninja who slays other super-powered ninjas. He's not the only example in-series, however: Dragon Yukano, Yamoto Koki, and from the villains' side, Darkninja, could all be considered hunters of their own kind.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'' has the eponymous hero who also qualifies for it. He is a hanyou (half-youkai), and he wanders the country with his friends to kill malicious youkai who attacking humans. Although you see a lot of youkai attacking humans, there are also some very [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman questionable occurrences]].

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': Abel Nightroad is a crusnik, a vampire who hunts and eats other vampires; although it is implied (in the anime) by their dialogue that the Crusnik see themselves as another race entirely, they do need the blood of vampires to survive. Abel is the only one [[spoiler: of the three]] who actually makes it a point to hunt vampires. [[spoiler: His sister]] isn't shown to hunt anyone (in fact, [[spoiler:she's the empress of the vampires]]), and [[spoiler: Cain]] doesn't care who he hunts/hurts.

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' Morgan is the serial killer who hunts other serial killers to satisfy his Dark Passenger.

* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' has its own cynical take on this trope, where captured devils [[MutantDraftBoard are forced into government service]] hunting other devils [[JoinOrDie under threat of death]]. Not that they have issue fighting their own kind, as they're eager to [[DealWithADevil loan out their powers]] to devil hunters.

** Alucard is an interesting case; he's frequently as bad or ''worse'' than the vampires he's hunting (''[[EvenEvilHasStandards maybe...]]'') and takes far too much glee in killing them, often getting [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath 'creative']] in his methods. Really, he only hunts vampires because he's bound to follow orders from the head of the Helsing family, and they're in the vampire hunting business.

See also: BoomerangBigot, MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, StagesOfMonsterGrief, and TakesOneToKillOne. Someone who actually succeeds in killing off their entire people or clan has committed GenocideFromTheInside. PredatorTurnedProtector may lead to them protecting their supposed "prey" from their own kind, who feeds on the same prey. Contrast MonstersAnonymous. Compare ProHumanTranshuman and TokenHeroicOrc.

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': The series sees the titular superhero hunt down and fight other [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual "Metahumans"], people with superpowers, like himself to put them into an especially designed prison. Most of them even got their powers thanks to the same FreakLabAccident as the protagonist himself. While it first seems as most of the metahumans turn out criminal or evil in some kind, later seasons see other powered individuals join forces with the Flash.