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* Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' are a post-apocalyptic version of this, supporting themselves and their families by hunting game and gathering plants in the woods outside District 12. Katniss's resulting knowledge of wilderness survival and [[TheArcher skill with a bow and arrow]] render her well-prepared to partake in the titular Games.

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* Wolverine [=McAllister=] from the ''Journey'' comic book published by Aardvark-Vanaheim.
* The villain Buck Wylde from the ''{{Franchise/Zorro}}'' comic book published by Topps was one of these.
* Kraven the Hunter of ComicBook/SpiderMan fame is a super-villain with this as his shtick. When he isn't playing bad guy, he lives off the land in the wildest places of Earth, including the dinosaur infested Savage Land.
* ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' and his sidekick Dan Hunter in Franchise/TheDCU.

* In ''Film/RomasantaTheWerewolfHunt'', Antonio is a hunter-trapper (although not above a bit of brigandry if the opportunity presents itself) who is obsessively hunting Romasanta because he believes Romasanta inflicted him with the curse of lycanthropy.
* In ''Film/{{Mohawk}}'', Oak and Joshua encounter a Québecois fur trapper in the woods as they make their way to the mission. The meeting does not go well, and they wind up [[HeroStoleMyBike stealing his canoe]].

* OlderThanRadio: Natty Bumppo, the hero from ''Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans'' and other ''[[Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales Leatherstocking Tales]]'' by James Fenimore Cooper.

* In the ''Trixie Belden'' books, Mr. Maypenny, who works for Honey's father as gamekeeper in his reserve. I don't believe he gets paid for his services (at least not as much as Mr. Wheeler offered him, according to Mr. Maypenny's telling of it), but gets to hunt and trap the animals in the reserve for his own use. (Also, Mr. Maypenny is the non-crazy/non-unicycle-riding/non-poacher that Honey and Trixie thought he was.)
* Multiple examples throughout Karl May's ''Literature/{{Winnetou}}'' novels and related works -- the author's self-insert and frequent viewpoint character Old Shatterhand is himself one and consequently tends to find himself in like company when out in the West.

* Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' are a post-apocalyptic version of this, supporting themselves and their families by hunting game and gathering plants in the woods outside District 12. Katniss's resulting knowledge of wilderness survival and [[TheArcher skill with a bow and arrow]] render her well-prepared to partake in the titular Games.
* In Aleksis Kivi's ''Literature/SevenBrothers'', this is how the brothers live during the most of their isolation years in Impivaara.

* In ''Literature/GrentsFall'', Paul Knyvett, who reluctantly fights his foes with the same techniques he'd use for hunting.

* One of these tries to goad Lucas [=McCain=] into killing him in a showdown in ''Series/TheRifleman'' episode "Day of the Hunter".
* Parodied in a sketch of ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', where a pair of French Canadian trappers row a boat with wheels on dry land and kill businessmen for their expensive Armani suits.
* Brothers Larry, Darryl, and Darryl in ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' are backwoodsmen who are just as kooky as everyone else in town.

* ''Series/DeadMansGun'': In "the Trapper", a cruel trapper who owns the gun gets what's coming to him when the grandfather of a young Native American woman he raped resorts to the supernatural for payback.

* The parts of ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires III'' that are set in North American locales tend to feature them as in-game characters. Notably, the Explorer unit of most European nations available in the game has very trapper-esque attire and equipment. There are several other playable and non-playable units that evoke this trope too.
* The ''VideoGame/AmericanConquest'' series also features them as playable units.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' relies heavily on hunting and trapping throughout the game.
* Like its predecessor, ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' will see Arthur relying heavily on hunting to bring in money and crafting ingredients. There's also an NPC called The Trapper, who buys skins and meat and, if you bring him the right materials, can make unique outfits for you.
* ''VideoGame/UltimaVIIPartII: Serpent's Isle'' gives us the Trapper, a frontiersman who hunts and traps the sentient Gwani for their pelts. Players may go in expecting a rehash of ''Ultima VII Part 1'' and its subplot about the logger who doesn't realize he's destroying the homes of the sentient Emps and swears to leave them alone as soon as he finds out. Uh...[[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame nope]].

* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Several characters, including Aloy and the other Nora Braves, are hunters trained in such practices. Of course, since the most valuable animals around are [[MechanicalLifeforms the machines]], hunters are often the most technically-minded people around, learning how to cobble together various power generators and gas canisters to make primitive mechanical weapons. The Banuk tribe is noted to be a bit odd for separating the hunter and scrapper roles; hunters kill machines, but shamans are responsible for stripping their kills of useful parts and building new tools.

* Ratonhnhaké:ton[=/=]Connor from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' can hunt and trap animals in the North American wilderness and then sell the meat, skin, bones and fat to several of the craftsmen that lives nearby his homestead to [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou produce the goods he can then sell]] to finance his war against the Templars and their British allies during the American Revolution.

* Ratonhnhaké:ton[=/=]Connor from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' can hunt and trap animals in the North American wilderness and then sell the meat, skin, bones and fat to several of the craftsmen that lives nearby his homestead to [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou produce the goods he can then sell]] to finanize his war against the Templars and their British allies during the American Revolution.

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* The protagonist in 2011's ''The Hunter'' qualifies; despite being referred to as just a mercenary, he knows a LOT about stalking, hunting, and trapping 4-legged prey.

Expect to see a successful Hunter Trapper [[NemeanSkinning garbed in the skins and furs of his prey]], with the more ostentatious ones perhaps wearing claws and teeth as decorations. He's also likely to have [[BadassBeard an impressive beard]], [[WildHair possibly unkempt]]. Many of these characters are TheStoic, uncomfortable with civilized society's demands for emotional involvement, but a few are {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s instead, especially if they're {{Sidekick}}s. If it's a period RomanceNovel, one might serve as the male LoveInterest (though being "tamed" by the heroine is inevitable in this case.)

* Connor from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' can hunt and trap animals in the North American wilderness and then sell the meat, skin, bones and fat to several of the craftsmen whom lives nearby his homestead to [[AnEntreprenuerIsYou produce the goods he can then sell]] to finanize his war against the Templars and their British allies during the American Revolution.

* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Several characters, including Aloy and the other Nora Braves, are hunters trained in such practices. Of course, since the most valuable animals around are [[MachineLifeform the machines]], hunters are often the most technically-minded people around, learning how to cobble together various power generators and gas canisters to make primitive mechanical weapons. The Banuk tribe is noted to be a bit odd for separating the hunter and scrapper roles; hunters kill machines, but shamans are responsible for stripping their kills of useful parts and building new tools.

* The protagonist in 2011's ''The Hunter'' qualifies; despite being referred to as just a mercenary, he knows a LOT about stalking, hunting, and trapping 4-legged prey.

* ''Series/{{Thanks}}: Marcel and Phillipe are trappers who sell their pelts in Plymouth.

Expect to see a successful Hunter Trapper [[NemeanSkinning garbed in the skins and furs of his prey]], with the more ostentatious ones perhaps wearing claws and teeth as decorations. Many of these characters are TheStoic, uncomfortable with civilized society's demands for emotional involvement, but a few are {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s instead, especially if they're {{Sidekick}}s. If it's a period RomanceNovel, one might serve as the male LoveInterest (though being "tamed" by the heroine is inevitable in this case.)

The French-Canadian version of this character is the ''Voyageur'', actually rivermen who worked for the fur companies, but who did hunting and trapping on the side.

Often overlaps with ThePioneer; can turn into the MountainMan if he decides to stay outside civilization permanently. May also qualify as a type of IntrepidMerchant, especially if he puts himself at high risk to gather pelts from dangerous animals because of the even higher chance of profit. Contrast the EvilPoacher; compare and contrast the RoguishPoacher. Compare to GreatWhiteHunter, who may well have the HunterTrapper background.