Witch-Hunters

Witch-Hunters are a popular antagonist in many media, based on a very real phenomena in the past the modern take on Witch-Hunters can vary from delusional fanatics who persecute the occult or "heretics" to outright evil, corrupt men and women of the clergy who use the superstitions of old to enforce political and social changes for their own benefits.

Often Witch-Hunters are of high social rank and thus a protagonist can have great trouble in stopping their misdeeds, in medieval societies (or similar) a Witch-Hunter may be all but untouchable by anything short of a life-threatening revolt and may have the blessing or protection of a nation, religious body or (sometimes) a mad or actively "evil" God.

In more modern settings however Witch-Hunters are often the opposite and are solitary, eccentric individuals who are at odds with society as a whole and seen as mad, dangerous or just plain foolish by everyone save those they endanger.