History Main / BatScare

* Generally associated with ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', and clouds of bats often appear when he enters the Batcave. On at least a few occasions he has weaponised this, using bat-influencing ultrasound to set up a Bat Scare which distracts an opponent.

* In the Classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]", this trope is invoked with animatronic bats in the haunted house.

* It is possible to kick up a handful of bats in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' whenever you start lighting up a cave with torches. Normally they're pretty harmless, unless there are hostile creatures nearby, which will hear the bats and start moving toward them.

* Aside from the risk of zoonotic diseases that all animals carry, a swarm of bats is more scary than dangerous. They'll bite if handled but if you remain still, they'll fly past and away from you. They have much more to fear from spelunkers than the other way around; rousing them in winter can cause them to use up their fat stores and cause them to starve before spring.

* Several times in the HauntedHouse level in ''CarnEvil'', swarms of bats will appear from different places.

The mass version of a CatScare, a Bat Scare is when characters who are exploring an apparently-deserted location -- a cave, vacant house, abandoned barn, etc -- unexpectedly disturb a colony of winged animals which has taken up residence BehindTheBlack. As startled by the characters' presence as vice versa, the whole flock explodes into flight, fluttering ''en masse'' from their roosting-place and right at the explorers' faces. Both the characters and the audience get to [[JumpScare jump out of their skins]], but the animals don't actually hurt anyone, flying away as quickly as they'd emerged.

* Generally associated with ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', and clouds of bats often appear when he enters the Batcave. On at least a few occasions he has weaponised this, using bat-influencing ultrasound to set up a Bat Scare which distracts an opponent.

* While in ''TheBirds'' the evil avians are a recurrent threat, their final attack, as Melanie enters a room and finds it's filled with them, must fit.

* Rare multispecies example in HGWells' ''The Chronic Argonauts'', in which a vast swarm of swallows, owls, bats, moths, and other creatures explodes from the attic of a creepy house.

* A swarm of bats explodes out of the abandoned well in ''[[MysteryCaseFiles Escape From Ravenhearst]]'' when you lean over to retrieve its bucket.

* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'': While lost in the woods, Maurice wakes up a flock of bats, which spook his horse and leads to him being left behind.

* Inverted on an episode of ''TheWildThornberries''. Eliza tried to greet a bat only for the bat to scream "Eek! A human!" frightening all the other bats into waking up and flying away.

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