Hunter (Gargoyles) - Modern Hunters

Modern Hunters

One character using the name and the mask of the Hunter was involved during the present day events during City of Stone. However, this Hunter was not descended from the Canmore family. Rather, it was Macbeth himself, who wanted to kill Demona and thus end his own immortality.

More Hunters were introduced during the second season's finale episode Hunter's Moon. In this episode, three of Duncan's descendants, the siblings Jason, Jon and Robyn Canmore arrived in Manhattan in search of Demona and others of her kind. They had earlier witnessed their father, Charles Canmore killed fighting Demona in 1980 at the Notre Dame Cathedral. The three of them, using false identities, worked their way into various influential organizations in the city in order to find their prey using phony aliases and references. Jason, who was the eldest and most driven (voiced by Diedrich Bader), joined the police force under the name Jason Conover, becoming Elisa Maza's partner. Pragmatic Robyn (Sheena Easton) using the name Robyn Correy was hired to Nightstone Unlimited, the corporation owned by Demona in her daytime guise, as the human Dominique Destine. Jon (Scott Cleverdon) was the least aggressive of the three, occasionally pressing Jason to abandon his crusade, but he nevertheless supported his brother and sister in his role as reporter Jon Carter.

While hunting the Manhattan Clan, Jason refused to accept the notion that they opposed Demona themselves. Furthermore, the trio deduce that Demona is human by day and she may have given this ability to the others, which means they could easily escape into the human population the next morning if they discover that the Hunters have found their hidden home, the clock tower. To prevent this, the Hunters preemptively destroy the tower and when they learn that the Clan survived and escaped, they used Jon's reportage to reveal the existence of gargoyles to the public, resulting in a panic. Jon initially objected to the idea of fighting the Manhattan Clan on the grounds that they were not their real enemies, while Jason insisted that all gargoyles were evil and had to be destroyed. In an ensuing confrontation, Jason was apparently killed by the gargoyles during a fight by a dam where he apparently drowned, which convinced Jon that gargoyles were in fact evil, whereas Jason, who survived, came to doubt his own beliefs. In a subsequent confrontation as Demona prepared a ritual that would allow her to release a fatal virus that would kill humans but leave gargoyles unharmed, Jason was paralyzed when he stepped in between Jon and the gargoyle Goliath just as Jon tried to shoot Goliath. Although the fight resulted in Demona's plan being defeated, Jon, unable to accept his role in his brother's injury, was driven insane with guilt, blaming the accident on the gargoyles, (mirroring Demona's descent into evil).

The Hunter name was all but dropped then. Jason, now a wheelchair user, abandoned his mission altogether. Jon, adopting the name John Castaway, instead lent his weight to a more respectable (but no less evil) organization called the Quarrymen. Robyn was recruited into an expendable group called the Redemption Squad, charged with apprehending criminals too dangerous for normal law enforcement. Though initially given no choice but to comply, Robyn may have come to see the assignment as a chance to redeem both herself and the line of Hunters from which she had sprung. She has been the team's field leader, and began a tempestuous relationship with the character Dingo. Two of the modern day Hunters, Jon and Robyn, were named after Jon and Robyn Weisman, the siblings of series creator Greg Weisman.