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"My brothers, you knights! King Alexander has dared to resist us, But God's hand has punished his impertinence. His advance guard is trapped in the forest, like a bear. I invite you all to hunt the Russian bear."
—Hermann von Balk, Alexander Nevsky
Captain William Boone: I hunt animals, you know?
Mowgli: Maybe someday... you hunt me.
When I was little, we found a man. He looked like - like, butchered. The old women in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things, strange things. El Diablo cazador de hombres. Only in the hottest years this happens. And this year, it grows hot. We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... and sometimes much, much worse. El cazador que hace trofeo de los hombres means "the hunter who makes trophies of men."
— Anna, Predator
This planet is a game preserve, and we're the game.
— Royce, Predators
"There is no hunting like the hunting of man. And those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter."
—Royce, Predators, quoting Hemingway below
"The Most Dangerous Game. That's why you're here isn't it? It was my favorite book in high school. It's about this man who waits for these people to get shipwrecked on this island. Because he was tired of hunting animals, he hunted the people for the challenge."
—Arthur Leigh Allen, Zodiac (2007)
Literature
"It's the Baron and his hunting party."
"What are they hunting?"
"Man, beast. Doesn't really matter."
"What are they hunting?"
"Man, beast. Doesn't really matter."
— Homeward Bound, part of the Deathlands series.
So I guess I'm playing Signeur Rainsford to your General Zaroff.
— Dirk Pitt, Dragon
...and Araminta Meliflua... cousin of my mother's... tried to force through a Ministry Bill to make Muggle-hunting legal...
— Sirius Black, showing his Big, Screwed-Up Family in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"I wanted the ideal animal to hunt," explained the general. "So I said, 'What are the attributes of an ideal quarry?' And the answer was, of course, 'It must have courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to reason.'"
"But no animal can reason," objected Rainsford.
"My dear fellow," said the general, "there is one that can."
"But no animal can reason," objected Rainsford.
"My dear fellow," said the general, "there is one that can."
A hunter is always seeking new prey. I grew tired of hunting beasts, and humans make poor game. Their minds are sharp, but their bodies are weak. And then I thought how wonderful it would be if I could combine the body of an animal with the intelligence of a human. What a test it would be for my skills!
—The Huntress, The Book of Lost Things
Live-Action TV
Jeff: Do I even need to say it? It is bad to hunt man for sport!
Pierce: Bad-ass!
Pierce: Bad-ass!
— Community, Accounting for Lawyers
Mac: We're gonna hunt you, bro.
Cricket: What?
Mac: We ... are going ... to hunt you ... Cricket!
Cricket: Why?
Dennis: I'd spend a lot less time asking questions and more time running.
Cricket: What?
Mac: We ... are going ... to hunt you ... Cricket!
Cricket: Why?
Dennis: I'd spend a lot less time asking questions and more time running.
— It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters"
Music
And there's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now,
two Game Wardens, seven hunters and a purebred Guernsey cow.
two Game Wardens, seven hunters and a purebred Guernsey cow.
— Tom Lehrer, "The Hunting Song", Songs by Tom Lehrer
Tabletop Games
Hunting humans? That ain’t nuth’n but nuth’n... They all run like scared little vermin in the end. Run vermin run. Run vermin! RUN VERMIN RUN!
— "Doc" Pale addressing the fresh meat, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy
You've always loved the thrill of the hunt, the risk involved the most dangerous quarry you can find, on its own home ground. But where do you go when lions and leopards aren't a challenge anymore? You won't be short of a challenge now, that's for sure.
—The Sportsman character template, Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Assamite
Video Games
The thrill of the hunt... the promise of payment...
— The Ancestor upon recruitment of the Bounty Hunter, Darkest Dungeon
But you must first do a service for my glory. The one who stole [my ring] has fled to what he thinks is his sanctuary. Just as a bear climbs a tree to escape the hunt, but only ends up trapping himself. Seek out this rogue shifter. Tear the skin from his body, and make it an offering to me.
"The only prey I really like to take my time with is of the human variety. The ones I'm really fond of, I like to stuff and mount on my walls. In fact, I've got quite a nice collection now, if I do say so myself. You know how some people like to hunt foxes? It's just like that, only with humans."
— Koyanskaya, Fate/Grand Order
Webcomics
Debbie: I have invited you all here to play a game... some might call it the ultimate game.
Rosaline: Yawn. Count me out. Hunting yumans may sound exhilarating, but in practice it's not all that different from any other animal.
(everyone stares at her in horror)
Rosaline: What!? I said I don't want to do it!
Rosaline: Yawn. Count me out. Hunting yumans may sound exhilarating, but in practice it's not all that different from any other animal.
(everyone stares at her in horror)
Rosaline: What!? I said I don't want to do it!
Web Original
Ryan: You know what? I felt like you guys were a little low-energy, so we're gonna start off with a little warm-up. You ready? Welcome to the king's private game reserve. Uh, I'd say - what do you think, Kerry? Thirty seconds?
Kerry: Oh I don't - yeah, maybe thirty seconds.
Ryan: Thirty seconds. Alright, so, counting down from thirty... Kerry, you wanna count that down for me?
Kerry: Yeah-yeah, got it.
Ryan: So... (begins putting on armor) This is gonna be pretty easy if you all just stay here.
Kerry: Thirty. Twenty-nine. Twenty-eight. Twenty-seven.
Michael: ...Oh, he's gonna murder us.
Ryan: Yeah...
Kerry: Oh I don't - yeah, maybe thirty seconds.
Ryan: Thirty seconds. Alright, so, counting down from thirty... Kerry, you wanna count that down for me?
Kerry: Yeah-yeah, got it.
Ryan: So... (begins putting on armor) This is gonna be pretty easy if you all just stay here.
Kerry: Thirty. Twenty-nine. Twenty-eight. Twenty-seven.
Michael: ...Oh, he's gonna murder us.
Ryan: Yeah...
Western Animation
I have purchased the Springfield YMCA. I plan to tear it down, and turn the land into a nature preserve where I will hunt the deadliest game of all - Man.
— Rainier Wolfcastle, The Simpsons, "Children Of A Lesser Clod"
Mr. Burns: Welcome, all. Now, to explain why I summoned you all here...
Moe: Oh, god, here it comes: time-share pitch. Well, I got bad credit, so the joke's on you!
Burns: You're here to participate in a hunt for the world's most dangerous game.
Barney: "The most dangerous game"? What could it be?
(Barney leans back, revealing a hunting trophy plaque with Barney's name printed on it hanging over him, as does everyone else)
Burns: The game I'm hunting... is all of you. (pulls out rifle) Now, because I am too kind, I will give you all a five-minute head start. You may commence running.
Comic Book Guy: Five minutes of running? Shoot me now!
(Burns shoots Comic Book Guy)
Burns: Well, that broke the ice. Now, any man who lives till noon tomorrow shall win his freedom.
— The Simpsons, "Treehouse Of Horror XVI", "Survival Of The Fattest"
Real Life
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
I'll just tell you this: Until you've hunted man, you haven't hunted yet.
— Jesse Ventura, to his later chagrin when the newspapers printed it
like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest [sic] because man is the most dangerous anamal [sic] of all.
— The Zodiac Killer
