History Main / VanHelsingHateCrimes

** The British [[CreatureHunterOrganization Men of Letters]] in Season 12, led by [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the discplinarian Doctor Hess]]. Between killing friendly monsters, killing a human psychic girl, who [[PowerIncontinence was unaware that she was killing others by using her abilities to call for help]] that the Winchesters saved from her religious abusive family, on the grounds that she's a monster, and really having no issue with ColdBloodedTorture, killing [[spoiler: or brainwashing]] hunters or even their own members for slightest sign of disobedience, the British Men of Letters are arguably [[HeWhoFightsMonsters far worse than the so-called monsters they kill]]. Their leadership is corrupt to the core, Mr. Arthur Ketch (their assassin) is TheSociopath (and outright stated as such) and an amoral hitman with no real belief in their ideology and only in it to satisfy his killer urges, and their code includes killing everything that is a monster (no matter if good or evil) and [[spoiler: their operatives are ChildSoldiers raised and indoctrinated in the code and then made to kill their friends to see if they're obedient, and at one point they kill another hunter Sam and Dean worked with because she killed one of their operatives even though they know that the death was an ''accident''. This haunts Mick Davies and eventually causes him to switch sides to the Winchesters only to get killed as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness He Has Outlived His Usefulness]].]] For all their anti-monster propaganda, [[spoiler: the leadership has a backroom DealWithTheDevil with Crowley himself.]] It only gets worse from there. [[spoiler: Sam, in the Season 12 two-part finale, concludes that the British branch has crossed the MoralEventHorizon and leads a raid on their compound, killing all those present and cutting ties with the organization after the British Men of Letters start killing all the hunters.]] Needless to say, the American branch that Sam and Dean are a remnant of were very different, lacked the extremism and really had the best intentions at heart.

** Interestingly, we later learn in the second series that there is a RenegadeSplinterFaction of Grimm who are ''even worse'' and consider decapitation to be the finale of a good week of solid torture. Monroe explains that these guys became so bad, the Wesen felt that they had no choice but to fight back, with the [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted Reapers]] being the end result.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' dealt with this trope head-on in "[[Recap/AngelS03E03ThatOldGangOfMine That Old Gang of Mine]]", when it turned out that Gunn's old demon-slaying gang had started turning its sights on ''all'' demons, no matter how harmless they were. This appears to have been mostly out of boredom after the vampire nest they had used to fight was wiped out.

Van Helsing Hate Crimes are what happens when a medium that includes monsters and/or monster hunters calls attention to the fact that, in that [[TheVerse 'verse]] at least, [[SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness not all monsters are, well]]...[[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster monsters]]. Some of them are [[DarkIsNotEvil perfectly decent folks]] just [[MonstersAnonymous trying to fit in]] who happen to get lumped in with the one or two bad apples, like {{Dracula}}. Of course, this will result in the monster hunters either learning AnAesop or turning out to be [[HeWhoFightsMonsters those who fight monsters in the truest Nietzschean sense]], sometimes [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters becoming even worse than the actual monsters]]. If there are both good and bad monsters within this universe, expect these hunters to be ''far'' more competent at [[TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw attacking the good ones]].

Compare FantasticRacism, which is similar to this but on a more wide-spread, societal scale, and may also be targeted at creatures that are not obviously monstrous (such as [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]], {{talking animal}}s or whatever). Also compare ZombieAdvocate, who argues in favor of the monster's [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman humanity]], and InhumanableAlienRights, when the hunter is from a government agency of some kind. See also StagesOfMonsterGrief, for monsters who may or may not like their condition. See also BurnTheWitch.

* In ''Manhwa/WitchHunter'', the whole plot was kick-started when a new religion speaking out against Witches, a group of women who are able to wield supernatural powers, started wide-scale witch hunts, killing countless innocent witches. In answer to this, [[BigBadDuumvirate North and South]], two of the most powerful witches--who are without a doubt sadistic warmongerers who enjoy carnage--and their followers started their own genocide against humanity, killing almost 2/3 of all humans on ''Earth''. The world-scale organization humans formed to combat these witches {{subvert|edTrope}}s this trope by having made it their mission to ''limit'' witch deaths, instead capturing them alive and draining their magic, which has proven to be the reason so many of the humanity-hating ones are insane in the first place. They even employ and protect witches who are willing to fight for humanity and are, in fact, the only organization that treats humans and witches as equals.
** Any character in the series who wholeheartedly believes all witches should be killed, or simply kills witches for revenge, is clearly painted in the narrative as being a {{Jerkass}} for it.

* ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': Cemetery Wind, a Black Ops Task-Force from the CIA that was initially tasked by the U.S. Government with the mission of hunting down any remaining Decepticons [[{{Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon}} following the events of Chicago]]. However, at some point, Harold Attinger the leader of the task force began ordering his men to start targeting the Autobots purely out of him FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence and wanting to create his own army of mindless Transformer drones loyal to the United States in order to fight in wars, all the while his superiors in Washington are demanding him to report back on how he's hunting "The enemy Decepticons".

* ''Film/TheMonsterClub'': Pickering and The Blini--a MenInBlack [[CreatureHunterOrganization vampire hunting group]]--are dedicated to hunting down and exterminating all vampires; including VegetarianVampire Mr. Busotsky (who survives by feeding on drunks and whose motto is 'feed without greed'). After he is bitten by Busotsky, Pickering's underlings immediately turn on him and drive a WoodenStake through his heart.

* In the Creator/{{Netflix}} adaptation of ''Series/OctoberFaction'', it turns out that [[spoiler: Presidio is doing this; although there are legitimately bad warlocks/werewolves/etc who hurt innocents, most are just regular people trying to live their lives]]. Interestingly, the series also takes the tack of making this stack with human hate crimes. In a flashback, [[spoiler:the AntiVillain's husband, who is black, explains that he faces just as much danger for the color of his skin as for his species, pointing out that his ancestors weren't just targeted for being warlocks, they were ''lynched'', and tells her she needs to understand this because it also applies to their future children.]]