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Edit Page Related Discussion History Close More To Do Page Source. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. That is why the bounty killers appeared. Bounty hunting is the occupation of Jet Black, Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, and aboutfolks in the Cowboy Bebop universe.

In fact, so many people make a living chasing criminals in the future that a cheesy Western-themed TV series a cross between Bonanza and an interplanetary America's Most Wanted exists to provide them with intel on known bounty heads.

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All bounties must be taken alive, which is why the cast miss almost every big bountyas well as in one particularly unlucky case, crashed into a police stationand once when they weren't given a bounty for stopping an AI in a satellite as it technically doesn't count as "alive". Nagi from the Tenchi Universe TV series is a bounty hunter who acts as Ryoko's Inspector Javert - and her Minnesota Fats.

The Gunsmith CatsRally Vincent and Minnie-May Hopkins and friendsspend most of their time as bounty hunters when they're not running their titular gun store. Rally and Minnie-May hold the distinction of being one of the most accurate portrayals of real-life bounty hunters that can be found in anime, or at least getting a lot closer to the real thing than most shows do.

Unlike most other hunters, they maintain very close ties with their local police forces and are not regarded as being above or outside the law by any means; on one memorable occasion, a crook managed to kidnap Minnie-May because his and Rally's high-speed chase caught police attention and ended with Rally being arrested for breaking traffic laws.

Vampire Hunter D is a sort of the old west-style bounty hunter - albeit of a very specific type of quarry. Though as the books and The Movies went on, he evolved from bounty hunter to a mercenary, or even an odd-job man. There's other bounty hunters in the canon, but they're usually of the sadistic type. In Hyper Policeall law enforcement in their post-magical-apocalypse world is handled by private companies of bounty hunters. The main characters make their money by claiming bounties. Licensing procedures are exacting and complex.

And anyone can stick a bounty on the internet and expect the person to be delivered. Train, Sven, and Eve from Black Cat are "sweepers," which are essentially the same thing as bounty hunters.

Inverted in Trigunwhere the main character Vash is the one that has a bounty on his head. A sixty billion double dollar one at that. However, there are many unimportant side characters that are bounty hunters in there, and most of the destruction that follows Vash around is caused by people interested in the price on his head.

The secondary protagonists, Meryl and Millie, seem like bounty hunters at first but are in fact insurance agents sent to minimize the massive collateral damage that bounty hunters after Vash always cause.

Nadie of El Cazador de la Bruja is nominally a bounty hunter, but her actual job seems to blur the lines between bodyguard, hired gun, and assassin. It is possible for a bounty to be for live capture only, though to date there is only one known example of this involving a criminal who is also royalty.

While given the nature of the story, most bounty targets are pirates, land-based criminals and the anti-government Revolutionary Army also qualify.

Roronoa Zoro, one of the protagonists, chased bounties for a living before joining with Luffy, and his past helped the Marines give him the epithet "Pirate Hunter". His former partners Johnny and Yosaku remain bounty hunters, though seeing as they operate out of the East Blue they mostly chase small-time criminals. The pirate and former Warlord of the Sea, Sir Crocodile led the Baroque Works, a fearsome organization of bounty hunters.

Infiltrating the Baroque Works, Vivi and Igaram went undercover as bounty hunters as well, one of the reasons why Vivi met the Straw Hats in the first place. The top 5 of them were very strong bounty hunters, particularly Daz Bonez Mister 1 and Bon Clay Mister 2. After the outbreak from Impel Down, it's suggested that Daz Bonez is now a pirate like Mister Crocodile because he joined him.

Galdino Mister 3 is pretty much confirmed as a pirate since he joined Buggy who is now one of the new Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Bon Clay is still in Impel Down, but he's now the "queen" of Newkama, the 5. While their primary job is scrapping retired ships, the Franky Family of Water 7 also did bounty hunting work on the side. This came to an end after the Enies Lobby Arc, when their leader Franky was issued a bounty of his own and joined the Straw Hat Pirates. The rest of the group move into other, less dangerous jobs.

Machika in Immortal Rain. She's following in her grandfather Zol's footsteps, although the bounty hunting part doesn't come up all that much. Yuya of Samurai Deeper Kyohunting down "the man with the scar on his back" who killed her brother. She periodically threatens to turn in Benitora or Kyo for their bounties. Outlaw Star deconstructs several aspects of the trope.

Gene Starwind and his kid partner Jim are technically odd-job men rather than bounty hunters, not least because bounties occur far too infrequently for them to make a living on hunting alone. And in the rare case where a bounty is put out, the reward they get is usually far less than the trouble they spent on it. In the end, most of their time is spent on unrelated activities like treasure-hunting and squaring off against the pirate clans. The Warriors of the Organization in Claymore function a lot like the example of Vampire Hunter D above.

When a yoma preys on a settlement, the citizens round up money and make a request to the Organization. They dispatch a Warrior who slays the yoma and one of the handlers appears later to pick up the money. Reasonably, if the Warrior is slain, the Organization does not collect the fee until another Warrior successfully completes the mission. Blurring the lines of the trope, however, is the fact that while the Warriors do seem to have money Clare once dumped a huge sum on Raki's lap when she was assigned to fight an Awakened One and Theresa could afford rather fancy clothes for a certain Tagalong Kidthey do not actually seem to want or even need the money.

Their job is to kill yoma; it's what they do.

Various motivations have been shown, but a pure mercenary motive has yet to be evident in any of the Warriors. Almost all ninjas in Narutogood or evil, are this in one way or another.

Successful ninja almost invariably have somebody who will put a bounty on their head, be it the legitimate government of a rival nation or a criminal organization.

And capturing criminals is one of the many missions that a ninja could be hired for. In Mahou Sensei Negima! The one group that appears on screen, the Canis Niger hunters, nearly capture Nodoka before being utterly annihilated by Negi.

Duo Maxwell is this in the Frozen Teardrops novel. In-universe, this type are called blacklist hunters. Not only that hunters in general are strong, hunters are also rich, thanks to their hunter licences. Lupin is so busy trying to escape from them that Inspector Zenigata manages to arrest him. There are others, but they're killed within moments of seeing Alka. Space Dandy 's job is a variation of this, hunting down undiscovered alien species and cashing them in to the Alien Registration Center for sizable bounties.

He's generally fairly inept at this and often fails due to incompetence, bad luck or in some cases letting the bounty go for their own good. What exactly happens to the aliens after they're brought in for registration never specified and seems a bit inconsistent. While deliberately letting aliens he's befriended go might imply that it's something unpleasant, it could just as easily imply that Dandy is too stupid to know since Alien Registration Center are certainly not portrayed as villains.

Ryo Saeba of City Hunter is stated to have worked as this near the end of his stay in the US. DC Comics ' Lobo catches interstellar fugitives, whether they're running from the law or just rich crime lords. It's a job that basically allows him to be a complete ass to everyone around him and still get paid. DC also had a comic called Manhunter about a superpowered bounty hunter that retrieves super villains who jumped their bond, strictly for the money.

In the Preacher series of graphic novels, the Saint of Killers spent a while working as a Headhunter in the old west, long before transmuting into the Implacable Man he is today In Jon Sable, FreelanceJon would supplement his mercenary work by undertaking bounty hunting jobs. Jonah Hexdiscussed in the Western Animation examples below, first appeared as a Western character in The DCU.

Johnny Alpha, the protagonist in the Strontium Dog stories from the British Anthology Comic AD. Deadpool was employed to hunt down unregistered superheroes, for about an hour, during Civil War. Then he was sacked, mainly thanks to Cable. After She-Hulk 's disbarment in her lates series, she became a Bounty Hunter employed by a bail bonds company owned by her former law firm. The title character of the graphic novel Jinx. A "Lesser Race" being who hunts fugitive Lesser Races out of a sense of self-loathing.

Death's Headthough he insists on being called a " Freelance Peacekeeping Agent ". People don't make the mistake twice. The Savage Dragon was briefly a bounty hunter shortly after being kicked off the police force. The 21st century version of Nighthawk in The DCU is a bounty hunter.

In the Daughters of the Dragon miniseries, Colleen Wing and Misty Knight ran their own bail bonds firm. Lucky Luke book The Bounty Hunter in French Chasseur de primes is a hilarious parody of the trope.

Following a short introductory treatise on the general status of bounty hunters in the Old Westwe get introduced to the titular character, Elliot Belt, a notorious and unscrupulous representative of his trade. No Celebrities Were Harmed: Elliot Belt's appearance is an obvious nod to Western actor Lee Van Cleef, particularly his acting roles as merciless bounty hunters.

In the Astro City legal system, some superheroes make a living by registering as bounty hunters with the local authorities. They are sanctioned to capture criminals super-powered and otherwiseand are paid by picking up checks made out to their real identities which are kept secret from the public. As the series is a Western, bounty hunters often show up in Tex Willerwith more than a few forcing confessions out of their quarries in case they're just suspects and, in at least one occasion, using the body of some random man to try and claim a bounty on another criminal.

They are noted to be an opportunistic and unpleasant bunch who often hunt after lower level players instead of the more stronger players. Rainstorm would kill them in order to defend himself or for sport. Pied Piper is described as one of the best bounty hunters in Shrek Forever After. He is hired by Rumpelstiltskin to capture Shrek. Piper uses a magical flute with a dial that can be set to any creature, among which are rats, witches, and ogres.

When set to a creature and played, all of these within earshot start dancing uncontrollably and follow Pied Piper. Puss in Boots can also be described as this, although his job in Shrek 2 is to kill Shrek, not capture him. This would make him more of an assassin. Star Wars features a number of bounty hunters. It may be the definitive example of the name being misapplied; "mercenary" or "hired gun" may be a more accurate term, as they are commonly hired for purposes like guarding, theft and assassination.

Greedo shows up first, trying to capture Han Solo and cash in on the bounty Jabba the Hutt has placed on him. The Empire eventually hires the services of a number of bounty hunters, most notably Boba Fett. Pictured above with fellow bounty hunter Dengar, who he occasionally teams up with.

Attack of the Clones features Boba's father, Jango. Like Boba, he's supposedly the best bounty hunter in the galaxy. Also like Boba he operates more as an assassin and mercenary than an actual bounty hunter. Or at the very least, he's not choosy about whether the bounty he's pursuing is a legal one, so long as the credits are good. Sergio Leone 's Spaghetti Westernsespecially the latter two movies of the Dollars Trilogyhave bounty hunters as protagonists.

In For a Few Dollars Morethe Man With No Name and his rival and partner Mortimer were bounty killers. In The Good, the Bad and the Uglythe Man With No Name engaged in a con involving turning in his partner for the bounty on his head, freeing him from the noose by shooting off the rope, and then splitting the take between them. The villain Angel Eyes is a much darker version.

His very first scene involves his target trying to pay him to kill his employer by offering more than what he was paid. Angel Eyes takes the money but simply tells him "When they pay me, I always see the job through" and shoots him.

In the very next scene, he collects his money from his employer and says the exact same line before brutally murdering him. In The Hateful 8two main characters are bounty hunters with differing methods: Major Marquis Warren, a black former Union soldier who prefers to shoot first and turn in the bodies, and John "The Hangman" Ruth, who is famous for his insistence on delivering his prisoners alive so he can watch them stand trial and hang.

When they meet each other at the start of the film in a snow-covered wilderness, Major Warren is sitting in the middle of the road on top of the frozen bodies of three dead criminals, while Ruth is riding in a stagecoach with his fugitive Daisy Domergue handcuffed to him to prevent her escape. John Hurt's character, Jellon Lamb, in The Proposition is a drunken bounty hunter who believes in neither God nor evolution, but is a big racist.

He has a lot of fun with the role. In The Great Silenceanother Spaghetti Western, the majority of the villains are bounty hunters, and they operate exactly like assassins.

The protagonist is a bounty hunter paid by the families of their victims to bring them to justice. The film is often seen as an intentional counterpoint to the Leone Westerns.

Beck, the main character of The Rundownis a "retrieval expert" hired mainly to collect debts or other stuff that his boss wants from people, or in the case of the main plot of the movie, track down people who have cut and run and bring them back to him.

He's described in many summaries as a "bounty hunter. Supreme Court decision in Taylor v. Taintor please see the quotes pagewhich Burton incredulously reads out loud.

The movie is about a real-life bounty hunter, Ralph "Papa" Thorson who can be seen in a cameo serving Steve McQueen a beer. In Blade RunnerRick Deckard and other "Blade Runners" who hunt down and kill replicants on Earth are essentially bounty hunters.

In the original novelthey are, in fact, called bounty hunters. Over-the-top Badass Biker Leonard Smalls in Raising Arizona. Domino Harvey from the eponymous Tony Scott film, Domino. A case of Truth in Televisionsort of. The repo men in Repo Man seem to like exoticizing their jobs by thinking of themselves as bounty hunters of cars. In Midnight RunRobert De Niro plays a former cop turned bounty hunter who catches a former mob bookie and must make a moral choice of whether to collect the bounty or turn the bookie back over to the crooked cops who got him kicked out of the force.

A competing bounty hunter constantly tries to steal the bookie away from him. Gerard Butler plays one in The Bounty Hunter Bounty hunters are sent to eliminate the titular creatures in Critters and are featured to some extent in all of the sequels. One drops in partway through Hunter Prey. Jake Sharp Woody Strode in The Professionals. Many bounty hunters show up in The Chronicles of Riddickall in pursuit of the title character. Johns and Toombs are among them. Dark Fury is almost entirely set on a ship full of them, which is where Toombs came from.

Rutger Hauer plays one in Wanted: Creighton Duke in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is a bounty hunter who specializes in capturing serial killers. King Schultz Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained. Django himself becomes one when he starts to assist him. In the John Wayne Very Loosely Based on a True Story Western ChisumDan Nodeen Christopher George is a bounty killer.

Deader than a can of corned beef. Likely the Ur-Example is Saul from the Book of Actswho was first shown accepting payment for arresting the followers of Christ. The titular character in Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series is a bounty hunter, albeit a spectacularly bad one. She's in terrible shape, dresses more Jersey Girl than SWAT, frequently has her cars blown up and a funeral home, onceand keeps her gun unloaded in the cookie jar not that she's licensed to carry it anyway.

Luckily for her and fansshe's got Ranger, an ex-Special Forces "primo bounty hunter", and his "Merry Men" to clean up after her. Ranger jokes that his company's budget has a line-item for Stephanie's misadventures, listed under "Entertainment".

Pretty much everyone who works for Vincent Plum Bail Bonds falls into the same description. Luckily for them, their clients are just as woefully inept at jumping bail as they are at recovering them. Just about everyone in Mike Resnick's Space Western Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future are bounty hunters. The largest bounty in the universe, the one they all secretly or openly hunt after, is Santiago himself.

Some have actually succeeded, but they don't live long enough to boast of it, because Santiago is a Legacy Character and has a lot of allies. In Artemis Fowl and the Lost ColonyHolly and Mulch are forced to become bounty hunters in order to pay the rent for the offices to their PI business.

Unusually for this trope, the bounty hunting is earnest money homes accurately, in that they're searching for a criminal who has skipped bail and are forbidden to carry weapons. In Michael Crichton 's Nexta bounty hunter is trying to grab a relative of a man from whom they had obtained the right to own his gene sequence, but when it was lost, they are of the impression they can obtain a DNA sample from one of his relatives by suing her, then filing for a writ to have her brought into the court where they were located.

The Witcher novels introduced the character of Leo Bonhart, who is really good at his job and so utterly vile at the same time that he makes Jubal Early look like a puppy.

The titular Witchers also qualify to a degree, taking out monsters with bounties on their heads. Lots of Richard K. Morgan's characters, including but not limited to Takeshi Kovacs from the Takeshi Kovacs series and Carl Marsalis from Thirteenfall into some flavor of this trope. Kovacs is an ex-UN Special Forces operator who works as a private investigator, mercenary, and general hired gun, while Marsalis is ex-British Special Forces who specializes in hunting down genetically modified people on behalf of the government.

Neither is a particularly nice guy, but then again, they don't inhabit very nice worlds either. The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers has Book Hunterswho could have been taken straight from Star Warsexcept that they make underground raids for old books. They got the patchwork armor and rusty swords and like to prey on each other for the greatest prizes.

Velith Il-nok of The Sirantha Jax Series is definitely a stand-up individual who is in the profession for the good it does rather than just getting paid. It's interesting in that, even while being alien, he is more "human" than some actual human characters.

In the short story "A Good Boy" by Desmond Warzel, Stitsky make money fast perth a Bounty Hunter of the contemporary sort who makes his living retrieving bail-jumpers; as the story commences, however, he's overstepped his jurisdiction, having accepted a couple's commission to locate and retrieve their runaway son.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Many characters express distaste for bounty hunters and their role in society. Unlike in the movie, they are known simply as "bounty hunters", rather than "blade runners". The sci-fi anthology Riesel Tales: Two Hunters centers around the adventures of the two titular bounty hunters on the city-covered criminal world of Riesel.

Wax was one of these when he went out to the Roughs. He called himself a "lawman for hire," and in his early years he was known for grabbing the most dangerous bounties off the board and coming back a few days later with the target tied up on his saddle. The truth is that in those early years, he was short on money, so he just grabbed the biggest bounties he could find. Either way, he did such a good job that when the sheriff of Weathering eventually retired, he gave Wax his badge.

The Han Solo Trilogy: Most notable bounty hunter in the series is Josef, who actually left the job a year prior to the beginning of the story, when Eli convinced him that going with him would fnb forex botswana Josef find better opponents. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The eponymous star was a Bounty Hunter hired to capture the outlaw gang who murdered his father. His rival, Lord Bowler, was also looking to collect the bounty on those outlaws. In one episode, Fiona is working as a bounty hunter and ropes Michael into break above bollinger bands her, only to have the man they capture hire them to prove his innocence. Bounty hunting seems to be Fiona's primary legitimate source of income when she is not working as an illegal arms dealer.

Beckett's former mentor and flame returns as a bounty hunter. He tries to get her to work for him to catch crooks, get better pay, and avoid the red tape. He is later killed, causing Tri county livestock market to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. One reports the whereabouts of the forex xmas hours Chimeron princess to the Bannermen in "Delta and the Bannermen".

Dog the Bounty Hunter: This show is a Reality Show following Hawaiian-based bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman.

His brushes with the law and use of racial slurs have made him something of a controversial figure. The Dukes of Hazzard: This show is about a team of stuntmen who moonlight as bounty hunters of bail jumpers, for a bail bondsperson.

Jubal Early from the episode "Objects in Space" was a bounty hunter sent to collect on the bounty for Simon and River. He quickly proves himself to be a Psycho for Hire who is in it for the sadism, and is not above threatening to rape Tradestation forex fees or threatening Simon with raping her if he won't reveal where River is hiding- in order to get what he wants.

Cersei offers a lordship for whoever brings her Tyrion's head, leading to the death of at least one innocent dwarf. Likewise, Keisuke Nago was a bounty hunter shortly before becoming Kamen Rider IXA. In some ways, Kamen Rider Birth could be seen as a Bounty Hunter.

He was hired to retrieve a huge amount of Cell Medals, and in order to get them, has to ea scalper fx unlimited finish Yummy or Greeed. This had shades of real world bounty hunters, who are, by law, technically hired to retrieve the bail, which is physically represented by the criminal they're capturing.

The shows revolves around a crew of interplanetary bounty hunters in a distant star system. They work for an organization of bounty hunters called the R eclamation A pprehension Bse stock market on monday morning oalition, commonly known as The Rack.

The Rack is highly organized with their members only allowed to take bounties that fit their certification. A Level One warrant is a property retrieval bounty and 99 binary option risk free allows violence in self defense.

A Level Four warrant is issued against the most dangerous london stock exchange listed companies by sector and is dead-or-alive.

A Level Five warrant is a straight up assassination mission. The Rack acts pretty much as a secondary law enforcement agency for the star system. Devoted an episode to bounty hunters; the hunters in question were violent thugs though. Ilana is or claims to be a bounty hunter hired to bring Sayid to Guam.

Frequently crossed paths with the Coltons, an entire family of bounty hunters. They only all appeared together in the Poorly Disguised Pilot for an aborted Spin-Off. The Magnificent Seven series: Vin Tanner used to operate as a bounty hunter; dramatic irony kicked in when how does dog the bounty hunter earn his money was framed for murder and had to go on the run himself.

My Name Is Earl: Jesse in the episode " The Bounty Hunter ". Power Rangers Ninja Storm features Vexacus, one of the later villains to join Lothor's crew. It's mainly used as shorthand for "this season's backstabber type " earnest money goes towards down payment the one being we see Vexacus hunt is an alien whose power he wants to take for himself, not an employer.

Power Rangers Dino Charge features the Big BadSledge, who is after the Ener-Gems for his own ambitions for domination. The monsters he sends to destroy the rangers are other criminals he's captured and promised freedom to the one who brings him an Ener-Gem.

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Has dax futures forex episode called "Bounty Hunters! Though the incompetent and crooked "Dog" parody who kept spooking the fugitive before Shawn and Gus could get him didn't help.

Sam leapt into a Bounty Hunter in one episode. Sam works as a bounty hunter for the Devil: This show is about a cop-turned-bounty hunter, a bounty hunter, and the latter's sister, who helps them hunt bounties. Jacob from " Chained Heat ", Mia Clayton from " Ties That Bind ", and Steve from " Home ". Jacob was spared by Miles at Charlie's urging, Jacob repays that by revealing their location to the militia, and Miles kills him off later on. Mia Claytondespite being Nora Clayton's sister, proved to be extremely selfish, sold out her sister's friends to the militia, and Nora decided to just abandon her and let her walk back to Texas on her own.

Steve tried to bring in Priscilla Pittmanwhose only crime was killing a militia sergeant who tried to molest her year-old-daughter in self-defense, but between Aaron and her, he got killed off.

This show portrays bounty hunters in an extremely unsympathetic light. Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters follows two teams of real life fugitive recovery agents, Clint and Dayson from Colorado, and Rob and "Animal" in Minnesota as they bring in bail bond jumpers who have ceased contact with authorities or the bail bond companies, and are hiding out in the Rocky Mountains region of the United States. Has had a few. Aris Boch in season 3 and then several more in the season 10 episode "Bounty".

In "Bounty", Captain Archer is captured by a Tellarite bounty hunter who wants to hand him over to the Klingons in exchange for enough money to buy back his spaceship.

Archer eventually convinces the Tellarite to give him the means of escaping the Klingon cell once he's been handed over.

Before that, Star Trek: Voyager featured the Hazari, an alien species from the Delta Quadrant who's hat is bounty hunting. Legend of the Seeker: A bunch of them go after Richard in "Bounty" after a reward trader joes stock history offered to kill him by Darken Rahl. One in particular manages to get ahold of his pendant and use it to have a magic map created that shows Richard's location.

Will's former partner works as one in the Santa Monica bloc to make ends meet. Once Upon a Time: Emma's job before Storybrooke was as a bail collector. Those who skipped out on their bail, she would hunt down to arrest herself. Baylin is foreign exchange rates rmb to usd female bounty hunter from Mongo.

The Spanish government sends one to arrest a young woman based on Amanda Know and return her so she can be tried again on murder charges. Realistically, this is quite unlikely, since it would damage relations with the US. The US and Spain have an extradition treaty already which they are shown invoking later so going outside official channels like this makes no sense given that too. Goldenrod was described as being similar to a bounty hunter in Kaiju Big Battel. She was on a mission como calcular ganancias en forex stop all city destroying kaiju, which made her an ally to the heroes.

Former ECW wrestler New Jack claims to have been a bounty hunter in Real Life and that he committed four justifiable homicides. However there is no outside evidence that proves either one of these claims to be true. The BattleTech universe has numerous Bounty Hunters; the most infamous is known simply as The Bounty Hunteran enigmatic figure who never shows his face and rarely speaks.

He's famous for his relentless nature, for never once letting a bounty escape, his unfailing loyalty to his employer, and his signature emerald-green Marauder Battlemech. In truth, the Bounty Hunter is a legacy of individuals who have been passing the title and Mech for over a century.

Recently, the Bounty Hunter betrayed his employer and seems to have been replaced by an impersonator Mongoose Games' Strontium Dog RPG, based on the Strontium Dog entry under Comic Books above. The "Justicar" was similar. In the Eberron setting House Tharashk dominates the market in this field, thanks to their Dragonmarks of Finding. In Eclipse Phase they're known as Ego Hunters, and their job is a bit more difficult since many people change bodies like wardrobes.

Quite a few of Warhammer 's Witch Huntersdespite the name, are basically petty thugs who only signed for the chance to exercise church-sanctioned bullying or bounty hunting. Bounty Hunter is an actual job in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. It's actually one of the jobs that can lead to becoming a Witch Hunter which is an advanced career.

Bounty Hunters also shows up in some of the more rpg-oriented WH 40 K games like Necromunda or in outright rpgs like Dark Heresy. The problem 11-2a cash dividends treasury stock and statement of retained earnings book for Fantasy Flight's Starwars RPG has Bounty Hunter as one of the playable classes with three specializations.

Gadgeteers in the vein of Boba Fett, who modify their weapons and armor to give them an advantage. Assassins adept at stealth and dealing ranged damage, and Survivalists skilled at tracking and surviving in the wild. With the Stock options genentech Artist, Operator, and Skip Tracer specializations being added in the "No Disintegrations" Source Book.

As well as rules for running bounty hunting focused missions. Rifts pengalaman ikut forex a few variations on this; the core rulebook featured the "Tracer" class which was generically Bounty Hunter-themed and featured a picture of a guy in vaguely Fett-like armorbut the "New West" Source Book actually contained a Bounty Hunter class patterned after the classic Western archetype.

Metroid series heroine Samus Aran is usually described as a bounty hunter, although "mercenary" would probably be a more accurate job description, as her primary employer appears to be the Galactic Federation and the jobs they assign her usually tend toward infiltrations, search-and-destroy, and other military operations.

Other "bounty hunters" with vastly different motivations appear in the aptly named Metroid Prime: Hunters and Metroid Prime 3: Samus' missions for the Feds typically take the form of "kill X", where X is the enemy du jour. This makes her description as a bounty hunter slightly more accurate, as a bounty is paid for the things she kills. The only exceptions to the "kill X" missions are Metroid Prime 3, Hunters, and Fusion.

Prime 2 can be an inferred mission: Super Metroid is debatable, since she's doing it all of her own accord she doesn't have to chase Ridley down and get the baby Metroid back The same can be said for Metroid Prime. She didn't have to follow that distress beacon, and then chase Ridley to Tallon IV. So really, she is a technical bounty hunter as evidenced in the opening for Super, when she decides to hunt smaller bountybut her ties with the Chozo and the Space Pirates keep getting in the way.

There's also Metroid II: Return of Samus for the Game Boywhere her whole mission is to kill lots and lots of dangerous wildlife, namely the entire Metroid species, along with any creatures that get in the way. Incidentally, Retro Studios planned on having Samus fulfill more of a bounty-hunting role in Prime 3namely by having the player pick out actual bounties to go after. The higher-ups vetoed this, in part because of the Genre Shift it would entail and in part because Samus doesn't really fit the role of bounty hunter to a T.

The guys at Retro jokingly referred to her as a "pro-bono hunter" instead. In SNATCHERdue to understaffing, JUNKER is forced to hire bounty hunters to help in taking down the eponymous SNATCHERs.

When they aren't racing on the F-Zero tracks, Captain Falcon and Samurai Goroh are rival bounty hunters. Guilty Gear 's Bridget is a self proclaimed bounty hunter. However, he's not exactly very competent at it. His only real successful bounty to date happened to consist of innocent people.

Ky Kiske only paid him due to feeling bad for the poor little guy. Sol Badguy is a more experienced and competent example, and it's a career that fits nicely with his "hunting down and killing the other Gears" thing. Red Dead Revolver includes the protagonist Red as a bounty hunter of the heroic type. The sequel Red Dead Redemption John is pretty much a Government Bounty Hunter, who has to hunt down the rest of his old gang dead or alive, or he'll never see his family again. Also allows the player to accept bounty hunting side-missions by collecting the Wanted Posters he finds.

The player then tracks the bounty and has the choice of capturing them for a bigger reward or simply killing them. Also, committing crimes will create a bounty on the player himself, and bounty hunters will come after you hoping to collect. Bounty Hunter features playing as Jango Fett. Guess what the game revolves around. The Old Republic has an entire Bounty Hunter class, complete with its own story and companions, for the Imperial faction.

You start off as a competitor in a Mandalorian Bounty Hunting competition, to hunting high-profile targets from an exclusive list and ultimately ending up as the most wanted criminal of the Galactic Republic. The Bounty Contract in-game events allow other classes to engage in this as well, capturing bounties dead or alive to earn rewards from the Bounty Hunter's Guild.

The Dark Forces Saga features Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors, who are these at least in the general sense that Star Wars doesn't really distinguish between mercenaries, which the duo are actually labeled as, and bounty hunters; the main difference is that they do jobs for the Rebellion and later New Republic rather than the Empire or unaffiliated criminals like Jabba.

Specifically, they're doing a job for someone else for the entirety of the original Dark Forces the opening level has them stealing the Death Star plans to deliver them to Leiathen the rest of the game is a more involved mission to investigate a Dark Trooper project and the first two levels of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast investigating transmissions coming from an Imperial outpost thought to have long since been abandoned, then the source of power crystals Kyle found samples of in that outpost.

The Stranger of Oddworld: Later on, after The Stranger is outed as a Steefa beast hunted to near extinctionthe townsfolk automatically turn against him and he spends the game helping the Grubbs the Native American Fantasy Counterpart Culture retake their land from Sekto.

In Popful MailMail often goes after big-time criminals the bigger the reward, the betterbut never manages to catch any of them. Inverted by Wrex of Mass Effectwho describes himself as a mercenary, but his actual role is much more similar to that of a bounty hunter.

The jobs of his that you see or he describes in-game usually involve tracking down and kidnapping or killing one person Fist, Aleena, the unnamed volus, etc at the behest of a private employer. He's also done bodyguarding and space piracy according to his stories, so he's pretty much an all-around hired gun.

However, he found bodyguarding to be boring but easy money, naturally and prefers to work in smaller groups or alone, so he's arguably a Bounty Hunter foremost. The sequel plays it a little straighter while still being flexible in the form of Zaeed Massani.

The guy is described as the best bounty hunter in the business. Even when Shepard first meets him, he's cornered a Batarian bounty.

As well as shooting him in the back of the knee when he tries to run. That said, Zaeed also co-founded the Blue Suns mercenary corporation and has fought in many battles as a soldier for hire. Ultimately, Zaeed burns this trope's candle at both ends. The only difference being if the contract in question says "capture" rather than "kill", "secure", "breach", or other more strategic terms.

She very much falls under the "villain" category, being a greedy, sadistic, amoral Ax-Crazy Enfant Terrible Psycho for Hire. Bounty hunters are recurring antagonists in the Mega Man X series, with Dynamo in X5 and X6Red Alert in X7and Spider in Mega Man X: In Mercenariesthe player characters a trio of mercenaries are often dispatched to capture or kill selected targets with prices on their head. In fact, in the original game, the players' primary reason for being there was the massive bounty on the Big Bad 's head.

In Final Fantasy XIIone of the Sidequests involved killing of various "marks" in order to get prizes. Freelancer has an entire faction of these, which the Discovery Game Mod expands upon. You can take up bounty hunting side missions as well; they're similar to the assassination ones except you grab the target's escape pod after the battle.

Hachimen from Sacrifice works entirely for the highest bidder. Presented due to him having an array of different spells, mostly early Pyro units, and later, Stratos units. The Regulators in Fallout 3 are bounty killers who target evildoers and turn in their fingers for caps. Players with very good karma can join them, while evil players will be hunted by them.

The Talon Company Mercs likewise are hired to hunt down players who do too many good deeds. New Vegasthe player can pursue bounties for Fiend leaders for the NCR, who will pay for their heads.

Many MMORPGs have a large proportion of their Side Quests involve collecting bounties on named monsters or NPCs. Unusually, part of the quest line is finding out what happened to the bondman's regular bounty hunter, and then freeing him from the basement where his quarry's murderer is torturing him.

Although Privateer has AI pilots referred to as bounty hunters and the Player Character occasionally takes on jobs with the labelthe actual task is never to actually capture them, just shoot them down. In BlazBluethe Teach Me Miss Lichi segments explain that "Vigilantes" are despite the name this.

Criminals the NOL want to capture are given bounties which anyone can turn in although it's noted that their bounties don't always tally with the threat the individual presents and they may or may not be of the "dead or alive" variety and the NOL allows citizens to collect them they even offer a service where they dispatch an agent to collect the bounty and freely teach otherwise restricted ar magus which can be used to bind criminals and drag them to the nearest NOL outpost.

EV Nova has a Bounty Hunters' Guild that the player can join. Their missions mainly involve killing and capturing space pirates. They start out working only in Federation territory, but the Guild storyline allows you to expand their operations into the Auroran Empire. In Borderlands 2Axton worked as one on Pandora in-between leaving the Dahl military and becoming a Vault Hunter.

Duel Saga features a Hunter's Guild which the player can access about halfway through the game. Though some of the requests are more reminiscent of Fetch Queststhe majority present marks that the party must track down and eradicate. The protagonist of Three the Hard Way works as one. Gondar the Bounty Hunter in Defense of the Ancients: All-Stars is a rather ninja-ish hero who specializes in tracking the enemy heroes and assassinating them.

Treating his targets as his bounties, his Ultimate lets him net an even bigger amount of gold in case he killed a tracked hero, which he shares with his nearby teammates if able. Miss Fortune in League of Legendsby lore, is a bounty hunter, specifically she hunts pirates. The various Hunter organizations of Solatorobo are this in all but name. Though most of the jobs the guild offers are along the lines of Fetch Quests or 20 Bear Asses.

Generals allows the GLA to make money whenever they kill an enemy. The Elder Scrolls Hunting down dangerous criminals to collect the bounty on their heads is a common quest for the Fighters Guild, as seen repeatedly in DaggerfallMorrowindand Oblivion. As the Fighters Guild does not operate in Skyrim due to the presence of the Companions, the Companions fill this void instead.

The Jarls of the various holds in Skyrim will often put out bounties on threats to their citizenry, including bandits, giants, and even Dragons. If you commit crimes, even if you aren't caught by the actual City Guardsthose you've committed crimes against may send Hired Thugs and even Dark Brotherhood assassins after you.

Phantasy Star II gives you two flavors of bounty hunter as party members. Rudolf Steiner hunts Biomonsters as a profession as revenge for the deaths of his wife and child.

Anna Zirski is said to hunt peoplebut it's never explored as a facet of her character. Tokyo Hunters in Shin Megami Tensei IV.

Functionally, Samurai who take quests from K are pretty much the same, though from a trained fighting force instead. Grand Theft Auto V has an entire questline dedicated to Tre vor working as a bounty hunter. Notably, he has to work for a bail bondsman and gets more money for not killing his targets which is asking a lot from Trevor.

Abe Presley of Evolve. Played differently than usual as he doesn't really care for bounty hunting, considering it something that you do because you don't have many other options. On the other hand, he does have a healthy respect for the money it can bring. Darkest Dungeon features the Bounty Hunter class, a unit whose primarily uses are marking enemies for Armor-Piercing Attacks and for pulling units from the back to the front among others.

Granblue Fantasy nods to this with the "Bounty" status effect, which can be stacked on an enemy to increase the chance of getting a chest with good loot from defeating them. The skills available to the player that increase the bounty level on an enemy are even outright called "Bounty Hunter".

The comic starts with a room full of bounty hunters who are out for Cade's head. It then follows up with close-ups of three of them: Any guesses on which bounty hunters from this group are going to be most relevant to the story? Bossk The Cyantian Chronicles: Genoworks Exotica wants its creations back. This is their preferred method. Mercial, though she doesn't work for Genoworks Exotica.

Dream Catcher Lunos' belief is that as a werewolf demonthis type of stuff is in his nature and is what he does best. Naturally, it's his job. Clark and Tonya from Shape Quest are bounty hunters. A Bounty Hunter picks up the girls' Distress Call in Girls in Space and tracks them back to Earth Ganji and Enor from Order of the Stick. The Ambis Empire in the comic Jix has a lot of bounty hunters; however, the only two seen are Pratos who is really named Aranis, Jix's cousinand Maricax, both of whom hunted the main characters.

In RozaEsten appears to be this. Luger, who wants to claim the bounty on Rak's head. Doyt and later Doyt-Haban from Schlock Mercenary. When the crew rescues some hostages, he explains the way to turn a profit. Ransoming them back to their families is wrong, but selling them to interested governments is fine. That's actually a pretty fair idea, once you get used to the odd distinction. How is the distinction odd?

It's not okay for us to sell a guy back to the people who love him, but it's just fine for us to sell him to a body politic that wants to incarcerate him or execute him? Bounty-hunting is like that. The web series Chapel has Butch Sauftthe man who originally caught Chapel. But it wasn't personal. Sorry I caught you. The Animated Series episode "Showdown", the real hero of the story is Jonah Hex, a cynical Wild West bounty hunter with a hideously scarred face and gruff manners that hide his heroism.

And, in sharp contrast, we have the villainous Lockdown of Transformers Animatedwho takes parts of his quarry as trophies before turning them over to his employer.

Psycho for Hire with a dash of creepiness to boot. Some 'bots are in it for the glory, some for the adventure, some even actually believe in the "cause. Today, civilian bounty hunting is legally practiced only in the United States, and its former colony, the Philippines. Though it should be noted that modern bounty hunting is a very different practice than in the old days. In the United States a bounty hunter is usually under contract with a bail bondsman and can't work without their sanction.

The US and the Philippines are the only countries which allow for corporations to make bail on behalf of criminals, which means that a many more people in America can make bail, and thus b more people in America skip bail than the police can handle on their own; also bail in America can get ludicrously expensive, which makes bounty hunting a lucrative career. Most states also require strict licensing and training for bounty hunters, and a few states ban bounty hunting entirely. And of course, "dead or alive" bounties are completely illegal.

A bounty hunter who killed their quarry would have to face a lot of questions from the police and could easily find themselves blacklisted in the bail bondsman industry for it especially since killing the bounty would mean the bail bondsmen wouldn't be getting their money back.

As it is, unlike law enforcement they don't have quasi-immunity and can be much more easily sued or prosecuted for any excessive force against fugitives. Speaking of the Philippines, bounty hunting is starting to make a comeback in the middle of The New '10sespecially after the election of President Rodrigo Duterte inand it looks a lot more like the classic "dead or alive" style.

Bounty hunters do exist somewhat like they are portrayed in fiction over in the Middle East; most of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay came from these guys. Domino Harvey Dog the Bounty Hunter is probably the most famous contemporary example, in no small part thanks to his hit reality TV show. A Bug Bounty Program is a type of bounty for programmers to deal with bugs and exploits, in which the Bug Bounty Hunters search for the bugs with their programming skills and resolve them for a reward.

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