History Main / BatPeople

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': Kirk Langstrom was a scientist who attempted to splice human and vampire bat DNA together to create a cure for deafness, but instead accidentally turned himself into a monstrous bat/human hybrid with membranous arm-wings and large batlike ears on a distorted human face. His transformation rendered him largely mindless, and he now stalks the skies of Gotham as a feared predator. Completing his questline will have Batman seemingly cure him, but if the player's in-game clock is set for October 31, Man-Bat will give them another JumpScare before disappearing, having transformed and escaped offscreen. [[spoiler: Additionally, if you revisit his lab after finishing the quest his wife's dead body will be missing and the words "Forever my love" will be written on a destroyed TV screen alongside a bloody handprint. Since this happens while Kirk is in custody, it suggests that he infected his wife and she's become a bat monster just like her comic counterpart.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': Man-Bat is a monstrous humanoid bat with hands attached to his wings. He used to be Dr. Kirk Langstrom, an employee at Wayne Industries, who turned himself into a monster with a serum he claimed was meant to cure deafness but which in reality was always intended to turn him into a chiropteran monsters out of his jealousy for Batman's fame.

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* ''Anime/DoraemonTheRecordOfNobitasParallelVisitToTheWest'' have bat-humans as the lowest-ranked humanoid demons antagonizing the heroes.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Two episodes show [[{{Youkai}} bat youkai]]. They live in large caves on the coast, but fly out at night and feed on the blood of humans. However, it's implied that they can also eat differently because Tsukuyomaru has banned the other youkai from eating humans. Tskuyomaru also has a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] daughter named Shiori with a human woman. While most members (including the current leader Taigokumaru) look like bat-winged {{oni}}, Tsukuyomaru was a handsome dark-skinned humanoid with his wings acting as a cape.

* ''Manga/OnePiece''; a member of the Animal Kingdom Pirates, Batman, ate the Bat Smile, which gave him bat-like ears, nose and fangs, as well as the lower body of a bat with wings coming out of his hips. In a non-canon example, Patrick Redfield eats the mythological Zoan Bat Bat Fruit model Vampire, which transforms him in a bat-like humanoid able to suck the life force out of his opponents.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''

* In [[http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/life-on-other-worlds.html this series]] of comics from TheForties speculating about life on other planets, [[http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/man-from-pluto.html the Plutonians]] are rather cute bat people about half as tall as the visiting human astronaut [[http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/pluto.html who live in underground “cavern cities”]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' has Batboy, a strange little baby-like creature that walks on its overly-large bat wings.

* The {{Harpi|ng On About Harpies}}es from ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' are very much humanoid bats.

* In ''Film/ItLivesByNight'' (aka ''The Bat People''), researcher Stewart Moss gets bitten by a bat and develops odd symptoms. Everyone around him thinks it might be rabies, but he's actually transforming into a were-bat every night.
* ''Film/LatitudeZero'': One of the types of mutated beasts created by the MadScientist, Malic, are the Bat Men, giant humanoid bats which act as guard dogs in his secret base.

* ''Literature/FiveAgainstVenus'', a 1952 juvenile book featuring a space-going family stranded on Venus who face vampire-feeding bat-men.

* [[https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85064/beavers-moon-great-astronomy-hoax-1835 The Great Moon Hoax of 1835]] included a description of a civilization of Bat People living on the moon.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]", the Rani is aided by a HenchmenRace called the Tetraps who are somewhat like a combination between a human, bat and boar. In particular, they sleep upside down like bats and drink blood, which the Rani supplies to them in a huge trough.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]": The Krillitane, the episode's MonsterOfTheWeek, are a species able to integrate physiological features from other races they conquered, with their most recent addition being bat-like wings along with other bat behavior such as sleeping by hanging upside-down and eating rats.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab Demons of the Punjab]]": The Thijarians have faces that make them look like bat/spider hybrids, with [[ExtraEyes multiple small eyes]], giant fangs that protrude from their mouths and enormous pointed ears. They were [[TheDreaded once feared as the universe's deadliest assassins]], but when their planet was destroyed and most of their species wiped out, the survivors [[TheAtoner found new purpose as priests,]] [[DueToTheDead acting as witnesses to the final moments of those who would otherwise have died alone]].

** In the [[Series/KamenRider original series]], the second ever MonsterOfTheWeek was Shocker's cyborg monster Bat Man[[note]]Komori Otoko[[/note]]. In homage, bat monsters are often the first or second monster to be fought in each new ''Kamen Rider'' series. A new incarnation appears in the ContinuityReboot film ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'', known simply as [[GratuitousEnglish Bat]]. Later in the original series, Geldam-Shocker introduces hybrid monsters Ganikomoru (crab) and Sabotenbat (cactus).

* The Murcielagos (Spanish for Bat) from ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' are bat-like Wesens.

* Donald Worley published a newspaper article in June 1972, which reported on the experiences of his nephew. He was a soldier in the Vietnam War, and in the summer of 1969, along with two other soldiers, saw a bat woman who was flying towards her post. He described this as very human-like, but with fur all over his body and large bat wings instead of arms. In addition, she should also have shone a little. In June 1953, a man in Houston, USA, is also said to have seen a bat human who glowed a little, but this time the creature was male.

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' had three bat-themed Makuta from the 2008 storyline: Antroz[[note]]named after the genus ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antrozous Antrozous]]''[[/note]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vamprah]], and Chirox[[note]]named for Chiroptera. His sidekick Kirop has the same root for his name.[[/note]].

* ''Webcomic/ChampionsOfFaraus'' has Dreadwings; they are large (over three meters tall when standing upright), with a design that leans heavily towards the "bat" part, with the additions of movement-sensing spines on their backs, fluffy manes, and eight legs/arms. They are noted to be untrustworthy partners to make deals with, as they usually find more value in the blood of the other party than whatever it is they will get out of the deal.

[[folder:Web Original]]

** ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': Man-Bat is a monstrous humanoid bat with hands attached to his wings. He used to be Dr. Kirk Langstrom, an employee at Wayne Industries, who turned himself into a monster with a serum he claimed was meant to cure deafness but which in reality was always intended to turn him into a chiropteran monsters out of his jealousy for Batman's fame.

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': "Last Bat on Earth" has Batman and his ally Kamandi visiting the future Batcave to retrieve some equipment to fight Gorilla Grodd. The cave, however, has become the home of a race of Man-Bats, who are fiercely territorial. Batman and Kamandi are able to beat and drive them out, but DefeatMeansFriendship at the end of the episode when the leader of the Bats declares Batman one of their own and joins the fight against Grodd.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': When exposed to the Ooze, Batman transforms into a large, winged humanoid bat-monster.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': "The Trickening!" features a vampire character named Nosferatu, an anthropomorphic vampire bat who LooksLikeOrlok. In an unusual twist, he lacks wings and has arms with vestigial wing membranes instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': Mumm-Ra is a batlike humanoid complete with leaf-nosed snout, and gains bat wings in his OneWingedAngel form.

** During the five part pilot, Krang gives Shredder the idea to use the mutagen on the gang members in his employ. After turning Bebop into a warthog and Rocksteady into a rhino, he applies the mutagen to one gang member (offscreen) and turns him into a bat. This same gang member is restored to humanity when Shredder demonstrates the retro-mutagen gun on him.

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* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': Two recurring extras are Starfleet officers who resemble humanoid bats with skin the texture of exposed musculature. The Manual names them Jin and Jeanine.

* ''Literature/WellWorld'': The Creit are giant humanoid bats. Their wings are purely that and useless as hands; they handle things with their prehensile feet instead. They have very keen smell, but are almost blind in daylight.

** The third-party book ''Underworld Races and Classes'', put out by AAW Games and compatible with ''D&D'''s Fifth Edition, also features a bat-like race called ahoolings, which are associated with the larger and more powerful bat-like monsters, the ahool.

* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': The space vampires' real form is some kind of vaguely humanoid alien bat. Most of the colony encountered by the astronauts from the ''Churchill'' are mummified corpses, as they spent decades [[MonstrousCannibalism feeding on each other]] until there were only three left.

Not to be confused with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Bat-Family]]. For the film also known as ''The Bat People'', see ''Film/ItLivesByNight''.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Man-Bat is a MadScientist who [[ProfessorGuineaPig experimented on himself]] with a serum meant to cure his deafness, but which instead causes him to [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting randomly transform]] into a monstrous were-bat. He generally resembles a hulking upright bat with misshapen arm-wings nonetheless capable of flight, and can be anything from a rabid animal to an unlikely ally for the Caped Crusader.

** Bainligors, introduced in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'', are an evil race of bipedal, flightless, and hideous bat-folk native to the Underdark. They're consummate scavengers who pride themselves on being able to survive off anything, no matter how foul, and their tribes are led by [[TheNecrocracy elders who have become undead monsters.]] Rumor has it that there are entire tribes of undead bainligors in the deepest parts of the Underdark, who continue to prey on other creatures for the sheer joy of killing. They share a bat's echolocation, and can make a [[MakeMeWannaShout sonic attack to damage, stun and potentially deafen victims.]]

** The desmodu are hulking, bat-like subterranean humanoids which are actually among the few good-aligned races living in the Underdark.
** Nycters are cousins of the desmodus that inhabit forests and caves. They're smaller and more imp-like, and don't get along with desmodus very well.
** Bainligor are evil, undead-worshipping batpeople native to the Underdark, introduced in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}''.
** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, a fair number of the Broken Ones inhabiting the island of Markovia are bat-based. Perhaps because they're derived from the tropical isle's native fruit bats, or perhaps just because they're smaller, they are actually a lot less aggressive than those Broken Ones which the darklord Markov created from felines, canines, or swine.

** Werebats are one of the ''vast'' array of [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent therianthropes]] native to the D&D multiverse that haven't quite caught on as well as the werewolves and wererats. They're bloodsucking werebeasts who are often mistaken for vampires, and are largely associated with the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' and ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' settings. There are also the shadkyn, evil cousins of voadkyn (forest giants) who turn into ''really'' big bats or batlike humanoids, and one of only two "true" lycanthropes amongst giantkin.

* In this series of comics from TheForties speculating about life on other planets, [[http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/man-from-pluto.html the Plutonians]] are rather cute bat people about half as tall as the visiting human astronaut [[http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/pluto.html who live in underground “cavern cities”]].

* ''VideoGame/BountyOfOne'': Halfway through a run, the Goblins get replaced with "Bats", bat-faced humanoids with wingless arms and rat tails. Like the Goblins, they chase after the player, but unlike the Goblins, they have the ability to [[KillOneOthersGetStronger gain a temporary but stacking speed buff whenever another Bat is killed]].

* The Murcielagos (Spanish for Bat) from ''{{series/{{Grimm}}'' are bat-like Wesens.

* The Popobawa from Tanzania is a one-eyed demon with bat wings and a humanoid body, known to [[DepravedHomosexual anally]] [[HornyDevils rape sleeping people]].

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Vlad had several bat-like features like wings, ears, and snout. He also had the ability to [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2004-01-28 roost]] like a bat.