*The Snatcher is the secondary antagonist of the 2017 indie video game A Hat in Time. He is a manipulative shadow spirit who competes with the mysterious Queen Vanessa for the control over Subcon Forest, playing tricks and making deals with others in order to obtain their souls.

According to the Subcon Forest Storybook and journal entries in Queen Vanessa's manor, the Snatcher was once a lawyer who served Queen Vanessa of the kingdom of Subcon Forest. Vanessa fell in love with the lawyer, viewing and referring to him as her "prince", and the two lived happily together. Over time, Vanessa's obsession with her prince grew uncontrollably unhealthy and jealous when he spent much time away at law school, but nonetheless, he still loved her back and wrote her frequent letters.

Things came to a head one day when she discovered her prince holding hands with another girl (actually a flower girl who was merely selling him a bundle of flowers he was buying for Vanessa), mistaking it for an affair. Consumed by hatred in her heart, Vanessa imprisoned her prince within her wine cellar as punishment for "leaving her", where her magic and abuse eventually transformed the man into the Snatcher.

After escaping the manor, the Snatcher rallied the other people transformed into shadowy monsters and spirits by Vanessa with contracts so they could one day restore the forest that Vanessa destroyed, offering them bodies from dolls.*