Archetype:Supernatural Hunter

Supernatural Hunter Physiology
Elsa Bloodstone (Marvel Comics) comes from a line of near-immortal monster hunters, and has been trained by her father and an android nanny called 'Hate Mother' to fight supernatural evils.
Power/Ability to:	Possess powers of a supernatural hunter.

"In the absence of light, darkness prevails. There are things that go bump in the night; make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back."

― Professor Broom about the BPRD (Hellboy)

"Saving people, hunting things. The family business."

― Dean Winchester to his brother, Sam (Supernatural)

"I am the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now you and me are gonna show 'em why. It's time."

― Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"So, how many times do I have to put you in the ground?"

― Blade (Marvel Comics)

The ability to possess the traits and powers of a supernatural hunter. Not to be confused with Paranormal Expertise.

Also Called

• Champion of Mankind/Humanity
• Grimm Physiology (Grimm series)
• Monster Hunter Physiology
• Slayer Physiology (Buffyverse)
• The Huntsman/Huntress

Capabilities

The user possesses the powers of a supernatural hunter, having the innate ability to hunt down supernatural creatures. They are able to physically match and fight off most of the creatures they hunt, have innate combat abilities and information about the paranormal world, ability to detect supernatural creatures and know how to kill and trap them. They may have immunity towards the creatures they hunt (immune to vampire's compulsion, werebeast's infection, demon's possession, witch's magic, divine influences, etc.).

Applications

• Combat Perception
• Enhanced/Supernatural Condition
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Combat
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Tracking
• Hunting Intuition
• Indomitable Will
  • Fearlessness
  • High Resistance
• Killing Intuition
• Martial Arts Intuition
• Paranormal Expertise
• Tactical Analysis
  • Enhanced Preparedness
• Trapping Intuition
• Supernatural Detection
• Weapon Proficiency

Variations

• Anti-Magic
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Ninjutsu
• Power Erasure
• Power Immunity
• Power Negation
• Power Opposition
• Power Weaponry
  • Anti-Power Weaponry
  • Demonic Weaponry
  • Divine Weaponry
  • Spiritual Weaponry
• Special Ops Mastery
• Strong Heart
• Strong Soul
• Supernatural Priest Physiology
• Supernatural Shrine Maiden Physiology
• Tactical Genius

Types of Hunter:

• Alien Slayer
• Demonic Slayer
• Divine Slayer
• Dragon Slayer
• Monster Slayer
• Undead Slayer
  • Ghost Slayer
  • Vampire Slayer

Associations

• Almighty Object
• Ancestral Evocation/Descendant Evocation
• Badassery
• Destiny Chosen/Usurp Worth
• Divinity/Demonic Source
• Hybrid Physiology
• Instant Learning
• Kresnik Physiology
• Meta-Teaching/Meta-Learning
• One-Man Army
• Omnislayer
• Past Life Awareness/Future Life Awareness
• Past Life Power Access/Future Life Power Access
• Training Regimen

Limitations

• May be unable to hunt transcendent supernatural creatures without the aid of divine, demonic or any other supernatural weaponry.
• If users are empowered by supernatural forces they may be bound to supernatural laws and rules.
• May only be a hunter of a specific supernatural creature (vampire, demons, spirits, etc.)
• Powers may be dormant until the user has an encounter with the supernatural.

Known Users

See Also: Hunter of Monsters.

Cartoons

• Hoss Delgado (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)
• Blood Spider (Ultimate Spider-Man)
• Jefferson Twilight (The Venture Bros.)

Comics

• Atuso Uchida/Silver (DC Comics)
• Miranda Shrieve (DC Comics)
• Cassie Hack (Hack/Slash)
• Hellboy (Hellboy/B.P.R.D.) via Cambion Physiology
• Sir Edward Grey (Hellboy/BRPD/Witchfinder)
• Blade (Marvel Comics); via Dhampir Physiology
• Elsa Bloodstone (Marvel Comics); via the Bloodstone
• Ulysses Bloodstone (Marvel Comics); via the Bloodstone
• Ghost Riders (Marvel Comics)
• Hunter of Monster Special Force (Marvel Comics)
  • Robert Hellsgaard
• Eva (Top Cow)
• Shadowmen (Valiant Entertainment)
  • Maxim "Max" Boniface
  • Josiah Boniface
  • Jack Boniface
• Abettors (Valiant Entertainment)
• Vampirella (Vampirella); via Vampire Physiology

Movies

• Gretel (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters)
• Hansel (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters)
• Kaulder (The Last Witch Hunter)
• Gabriel Van Helsing (Van Helsing)

Literature

• Verroq/The Mercenary (The Bartimaeus Sequence)
• Abraham Van Helsing (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
• Shadowhunters (The Shadowhunter Chronicles); via Nephilim Physiology

Live Television

• Slayers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Buffy Summers
  • Faith Lehane
  • Kendra Young
  • Melaka Fray
  • Sineya
• Grimms (Grimm)
  • Kelly Burkhardt
  • Nick Burkhardt
  • Marie Kessler
  • Theresa Rubel
• Monster Warriors (Monster Warriors)
• Hunters (Supernatural)
  • Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
  • Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
• Supernatural Hunters (The Vampire Diaries/Originals)
  • Brotherhood of the Five
  • Rayna Cruz
  • Jeremy Gilbert
• Van Helsings (Van Helsing TV series)
  • Vanessa Van Helsing

Anime/Manga

• Ackerman Family (Attack on Titan)
  • Levi Ackerman
  • Mikasa Ackerman
• Quincy (Bleach)
• Guts (Berserk)
• Claymore (Claymores)
  • Clare
  • Irene
  • Miria
  • Teresa
• Jeremiah Gottwald (Code Geass)
• Wizards (Fairy Tail)
  • Dragon Slayers; via Dragon Slayer Magic
  • God Slayers; via God Slayer Magic
  • Demon Slayers; via Demon Slayer Magic
• Adventurers (Goblin Slayer)
  • Goblin Slayer
• Hellsing Organization (Hellsing)
  • Alucard via Vampire Physiology
  • Seras Victoria via Vampire Physiology
  • Walter C. Dornez
• Iscariot, Vatican Section XIII (Hellsing)
  • Alexander Anderson
  • Heinkel Wolfe
  • Yumiko Takagi
• Exorcists (Highschool DxD)
• Hunter Organization (Hunter X Hunter)
• Hero Tribe (Testament of Sister New Devil)
  • Takashi Hayase
  • Shiba Kyouichi
  • Kurumi Nonaka
  • Yuki Nonaka
  • Jin Toujou
• Kishou Arima (Tokyo Ghoul); via Hybrid Physiology
• Gourmet Hunters (Toriko)
• Vampire Hunters (Vampire Knight)

RPGs

• Inquisitors (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• Nightmare Hunters (Anima: Beyond Fantasy)
• Heroes (Chronicles of Darkness/Beast: The Primordial)
• Hunters in Conspiracies (Chronicles of Darkness/Hunter: The Vigil); via Endowments
• Rangers (Pathfinder)
• Slayers (Pathfinder)
• Anti-Monsters (Rifts)
• Celestial Chorus (World of Darkness/Mage: The Ascension)
• Imbued (World of Darkness/Hunter: The Reckoning)
• Shih (World of Darkness/Kindred of the East)

Video Games

• Yharnam Hunters (Bloodborne)
  • Alfred, Hunter of Vilebloods
  • Bloody Crow of Cainhurst
  • Brador, Church Assassin
  • Djura
  • Eileen the Crow
  • Father Gascoigne
  • Gehrman, the First Hunter
  • Henriett
  • The Hunter
  • Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower
  • Queen Killer
  • Simon the Harrowed
  • Valtr, Master of the League
  • Vitus
  • Yahar'gul Hunters
• Victor Belmont (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2)
• Dante (Devil May Cry); via Cambion Physiology
• Nero (Devil May Cry); via Cambion Physiology
• Trish (Devil May Cry); via Demonic Physiology
• Demon Hunters (Diablo)
• Dante (DmC: Devil May Cry); via Nephalem Physiology
• Templar Order (Dragon Age)
• Hunters (Hunt: Showdown); via Dark Sight
• Juliet Starling (Lollipop Chainsaw); via her "Star Power"
• Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden series)
• Knights of the Round Table (The Order: 1886); via Blackwater
• Archers of Sirius (Tekken)
  • Claudio Serafino
• Kazama Clan (Tekken)
  • Asuka Kazama
• Hunters (Valkyrie Crusade)
  • Devil Hunter
  • Hunter
  • Vampire Hunter
  • Vampire Slayer
• Grünfeld Bach (Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines)
• Geoffrey McCullum (Vampyr)
• Witchers (The Witcher)
• Demon Hunters (World of Warcraft)
  • Illidan Stormrage
  • Deathstalker Rexxar

Web Series

• Blood Hunters (Critical Role)
  • Benicio Lorelei
  • Jorick LaMensh
  • Lawrence Lorelei
  • Mollymauk Tealeaf
  • Otis Brunkel
  • Portia Lorelei
  • Tyffial Wase
  • Zoran Kluthidol
• Huntsmen and Huntresses (RWBY)

Gallery

The Ackerman Family (Attack on Titan)

Guts, the Black Swordsman (Berserk) wanders between the darkness and Interstice hunting down Apostles, demonic beings that serve under the God Hand.

The Hunter (Bloodborne) is a hunter bounded and sustained by the Hunter's Dream to hunt beasts and Great Ones. The Hunter gains strength from consuming blood echoes and inhuman knowledge.

Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is a Slayer, a supernatural hunter who can slay any supernatural creature.

Unlike the rest of his bloodline, Victor Belmont (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2) has the strength to fight with the vampiric god Dracula with his bare hands, not even taking into account his hunting prowess.

The Claymores (Claymore) are an order of augmented hunter-killers dedicated to the elimination of Yomas and Awakened Beings...

...Teresa of the Faint Smile was the strongest claymore to ever have existed. As such she could effortlessly detect and kill Youma posing as humans...

Dante (Devil May Cry series) is the second son of the Dark Knight Sparda, and a professional Devil Hunter dedicated to exterminating evil demons and other malevolent supernatural forces.

Nero (Devil May Cry series) was once a Holy Knight in the Order of the Sword, which granted him great skills in combat and weaponry to fight against demons and with his own demonic bloodline helping even more.

Goblin Slayer (Goblin Slayer) is very skilled and highly intelligent in hunting down and killing all kinds of goblins.

Grimms (Grimm) are clan of humans who posses the power to see the true form of Wesen even when the Wesen don't want them to...

...Nick Burkhardt is the latest descendant born with the ability but only awakened them later during his adult life.

Hellboy (Hellboy/BPRD) is adept in many supernatural and paranormal subjects such as possession, haunting, exorcism, enchantments, holy amulets, and sacred artifacts.

Hunters (Hunter X Hunter) are humans that can use Nen to track down and fight against all kinds of natural and supernatural creature.

Eric Brooks (Marvel Comics) commonly known as Blade.

Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden series) is the last descendent of the Dragon Lineage, a bloodline of elite ninja warriors sworn to safeguard the world from the forces of the Fiends.

Huntsmen and Huntresses (RWBY) are super-powered and licensed elite warriors who use their "Semblance" skills, custom weapons, the Dusts and Aura to protecting the world from the creatures of Grimm.

Sam and Dean Winchester (Supernatural) are hunters who have over the years become demons, gained immunity to direct tracking by angels, etc., abilities that have greatly helped them in protecting humanity from the supernatural and vice versa.

Jin Toujou (Testament of Sister New Devil) is a powerful supernatural hunter who can take on the current demon lord. His nickname is the God of War.

Gourmet Hunters (Toriko) have the Gourmet cells to hunt down dangerous and supernatural beasts that no mere human can hunt and take down.

Blood Spider (Ultimate Spider-Man) became a vampire hunter after his friends became vampires and his New York was overtaken by the Lizard King.

Jack Boniface (Valiant Entertainment) latest inheritor of the Shadowman linage, protectors of the world of the living from the unworldly Deadside.

This Devil Hunter (Valkyrie Crusade) hunts devils that bewilder people.

This Vampire Slayer (Valkyrie Crusade) is confident because of her past successes.

Despite being a vampire herself, Vampirella (Vampirella) was raised to be good by her mother Lilith and has dedicated her life to protecting humans from vampires, demons, and all other monsters.

Jefferson Twilight, (The Venture Bros.) blackula hunter.

Like all Witchers, Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher) is a superhuman monster hunter, who received extreme training since childhood and was augmented beyond ordinary human limits through mutagenetic alchemy.