The Hunter

The Hunter
Alias	Henry
Species	Elephant
Gender	Male
Skin Color	Brown
Eye Color	Beige with turquoise irises
Appearance	123 Slaughter Me Street (Poster) 123 Slaughter Me Street 2 (Poster and Token) 123 Slaughter Me Street Super Retro 123 Slaughter Me Street: Evolutions

The Hunter, also know as Henry, was the scrapped 3rd puppet seen in the early art of 123 Slaughter Me Street for the first game and is one of the puppets featured on the Foggle Friends poster. The Hunter was scrapped and replaced by The Waiter, due to budget constraints. They were teased to appear in 123 Slaughter Me Street 2 as a demon but were ultimately scrapped again due to time constraints. The Hunter is set to make his first 3D physical appearance in 123 Slaughter Me Street: Evolutions and has since made his first official appearance in Slaughter Me Street Super Retro.

Physical Appearance

In the first game's art, The Hunter bears a strong resemblance to the Sesame Street character the Snuffleupagus, with small bloodshot eyes with blue irises. His fur is brown in color. He also has small elephant-like ears and curled horns on his forehead with two smaller horns poking outwards. His body in his original art is mostly obstructed, but it can be assumed that it would resemble Snuffleupagus' body, as he is based on the puppet in design, and it also looks like an elephant.

In the second game's art, the Hunter is brown with short black horns and yellow reptilian eyes, and he has a long trunk with three pairs of trunks coming out from below. The tentacles are covered with what seem to be nostrils. His body resembles greatly to the real-life elephant, or Mastodon. Each pair of feet sport four long talons.

In the unused model however, Hunter's trunk instead has one pair of trunks sprouting off of it. The trunk for the model is also notably has a different texture and color than the rest of the body, instead matching his feet. The trunks also lack the nostrils seen in the promotional art and coin. He also has sharp teeth behind his trunk.

In Evolutions, It's not entirely known what his original model looked like due to most pictures of it is shown in darkness. However, in his teaser image he appears to be a brownish color with red glowing eyes and seemingly wider horns that are a darker brown. Based on the early model it appears that his feet had at least four toes. In his new model, he appears with blue irises and retains the light brown fur with dark brown horns as well as having sharp teeth behind his trunk. His feet are how appear like hooves and the body of his costume is made of two visible sections for the front and hind legs. He also has a small tail that has a tuft of light brown fur, and eyelashes.

History/Behavior

Scrapped Appearances

123 Slaughter Me Street

All that is known from the earliest possible version of the puppet is that he would have charged towards the player when encountered, potentially actively hunting the player in the original game. The Hunter only remains as part of the Foggle Friends poster, Which in the opening cutscene of 123 Slaughter Me Street has his portion mostly torn off.

123 Slaughter Me Street 2

It is unknown if he would have functioned in the same manner in Slaughter Me Street 2, had he not been scrapped as almost every demon acts very similarly to each other (wandering the map looking for the player) or has a gimmick like the Screamer. Despite this He still makes two appearances in the game itself, notably on the Foggle Friends poster during the opening cutscene and as a collectable Token.

Modern Appearances

Slaughter Me Street: Evolutions

In Slaughter Me Street Evolutions, it seems he will randomly appear and charge at the player, and It is assumed that the player would have to shine their flashlight at him to survive. This marks the puppet's first 3D appearance

123 Slaughter Me Street Super Retro

In Super Retro, The Hunter finally debuts as a enemy the player encounters in the hallways. The Hunter will charge towards the player from the right side of the screen (in "front" of the player) in a similar manner to the Follower. The player has to flash their light at them to ward him off, functioning the same way as the Follower who comes from the left side of the screen (behind the player). However, in Infinity mode The Hunter has a chance to have the role of one of the other puppets. It should be noted that because of the direction the Hunter charges in he can still charge through the exit when he spawns if the player is not careful.

Trivia

• The Hunter resembles the Snuffleupagus species from the children's program Sesame Street, A puppet that is full bodied, manned by two puppeteers and have controls for the trunk and mouth.
• It is unknown what the Hunter actually symbolized anything at all. In the first game he can be assumed that he would have symbolized the same thing if not similar as the Waiter. It is also possible that he was scrapped before any ideas of symbolism was thought of.
• Despite constantly being scrapped in the early games, the Hunter still makes many appearances like on the Foggle Friends poster in both games and the teaser art for both games.
  • Since he appears on most of the Foggle Friends posters, it is possible that the Hunter may have had a role in the show despite never being actually seen in those games.
  • He also appears as one of the eight collectible coins from the second game.
• At the end of Wilbium Mohlenhoff's "Follow Greet Wait Repeat - Remix 123 Slaughter Me Street 2 Promo Video", there is a wireframe of the Hunter's model displayed.
  • Also, Wilbium left a reply to the user's comment where it asks about the puppet's name with "The Hunter. Coming soon.", possibly hinting that the Hunter will appear either in the third game or the second game's DLC/update as promised.
  • Interestingly enough, The Model has been worked on to the point of Fur testing as seen on Wilbium's channel on July 24, 2018. As of today it's still not in the game.
• In the second game's teaser, the Hunter originally sported seven tentacled trunks instead of three.
• The ears of the Hunter indicate that he is most likely based on an Asian elephant.
• If the mockups from the Odd Stories channel were to be believed he was also planned to appear in SMS 3 once again as a demon.
  • However, Due to IGS not being associated with this channel, this is not official, and its appearance shouldn't be considered as canon.
• In an old teaser on Impulse Game Studios' website for 123 Slaughter Me Street: Evolutions, the name of the file is called "Hunter_Needs_Light" with a darkened picture of The Hunter in a corridor in the upcoming remake of the first game, confirming that he will finally make an appearance as an enemy in a 123 Slaughter Me Street game prior to 123 Slaughter Me Street Super Retro.
• It was revealed in a Twitch Stream rigging one of the puppets for SMS: Evolutions that the Hunter's real name is Henry.
  • This name is one of the few names that doesn't play off of the puppet's "title", the other one being Gomez (who resembles the Nightmare).
• While It's unclear if the design for the Hunter in Slaughter Me Street 2 will ever be revisited as its own character, A community name has been given to the Slaughter Me Street 2 version make the two designs stand apart, The Strangler.