Manhunters

The Manhunters are a fictional race of extraterrestrial robots that appear in titles published by DC Comics.

Publication history

The broader history behind the alien robot species covered in this article was introduced in Justice League of America #140 (March 1977), in a story by Steve Englehart and Dick Dillin.

Fictional character biography

Interstellar police

The Manhunters were the first attempt of the Guardians of the Universe to create an interstellar police force that would combat evil all over the cosmos. Their name and much of their code of behavior was modeled by the Guardians of the Universe on the Manhunters of Ma'aleca'andra (Mars) millions of years ago (This creates an apparent chronology problem, since the Manhunters were created many millions of years ago, while the Green Martian race were retconned as having come into existence from the Burning Martians only about 20,000 years ago). For thousands of years, they served the Guardians well. However, the Manhunters became obsessed with the act of "hunting" criminals. Their code, "No man escapes the Manhunters" (corrupted from the original), became more important to them than seeing justice done.

Manhunters (drama)

Manhunters was a three-part TV Drama Series that aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom in 2005. It tells the story of three cases of man-eaters through the memoirs of those who hunted them and, in the case of the third episode, accidentally unleashed them on their community. The first tells the story of Jim Corbett, played by Jason Flemyng and the Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag. The second tells the story of George Rushby and the Lions of Njombe, and the third tells the story of the Wolf of Gysinge.

Inaccuracies

Despite being supposedly told through them, The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag episode heavily differs from Corbett's memoirs:

In the film, Corbett is shown as a bare-faced young man at the time. In reality, Corbett was a fifty-year-old with a mustache. In reality, Corbett believed leopards and tigers had no sense of smell, whereas in the film, he says the opposite. In the film, when asked how they will find the leopard, Corbett says on two occasions that they will wait for it to kill again. In reality, Corbett said that was unacceptable.

Manhunters (disambiguation)

Manhunters may refer to:

See also