He Who Fights Monsters: Sometimes, particularly with Gordon.It's partially justified, seeing as how most of the creatures encountered on the show are evil, but even when they come across a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, a hunter is more likely to shoot first, ask questions never. Fantastic Racism: Towards all supernatural beings.Dude, Where's My Reward?: Hunters do not generally get paid or recognized for their work, since the public is largely unaware of what they do.

Turns out he just discovered supernatural creatures exist one day and that they kill people, so he decided that killing them back was the right thing to do. Also averted by Eliot Ness, who reacts with confusion when Dean automatically assumes he has lost a loved one to some kind of creature. Averted by the occasional hunter group who primarily investigate reported supernatural phenomena to sate their own curiosity of the paranormal, such as the Ghostfacers and Mystery Inc.Cynicism Catalyst: Almost every hunter is motivated by grief or vengeance for a lost loved one, like the Winchesters by Mary, Bobby by Karen, Jo by Bill, Gordon by his sister, etc.Crazy-Prepared: Most hunters are portrayed as having extensive armories, including guns, knifes, silver, iron, holy water, hex bags, and, of course, salt.Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Samuel Colt and Elliott Ness were both hunters.You do need to be able to fight and kill monsters after all. The Alcoholic: Many of them turn to drinking when they find it hard to deal with their Dark and Troubled Past and the stresses of hunting.Action Girl: Female hunters, not male ones.They find cases by searching newspapers and the internet for abnormal events and patterns which suggest a supernatural etiology. Most have a nomadic lifestyle, but they have a network to pass along information and have hangouts like Harvelle's Roadhouse in Nebraska. They have usually lost someone close to them to a supernatural being, but in some cases they were raised in a hunting family.

Hunters in Supernatural are humans who have decided to protect unaware, normal people from supernatural beings, such as ghosts, vampires, and demons. Dean: So you're only out for yourself, huh? It's all about number one?Д«ela: Being a hunter is so much more noble? A bunch of obsessed, revenge-driven sociopaths trying to save a world that can't be saved?Дean: Well, aren't you a glass half-full?

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