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* ''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.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'', 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.
* ''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/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.
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* The chiropterans from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' in their monstrous forms are essentially huge bat people. They attack humans to feed on their blood.
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** In their monstrousforms forms, the chiropterans are essentially huge bat people. They attack humans to feed on their blood.
** In their monstrous
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* Two episodes from ''Manga/InuYasha'' 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 is 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.
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* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Two episodes from ''Manga/InuYasha'' 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 is 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.
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* The comics from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' show a new breed of vampires. These are not only stronger than the old vampires, but also [[DaywalkingVampire immune to sunlight]]. They can also change their shape, [[NighttimeTransformation if only at night]]. Two of them, Vicki and Trevor, seem to prefer the shape of a giant bat.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The comics from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' show a new breed of vampires. These are not only stronger than the old vampires, but also [[DaywalkingVampire immune to sunlight]]. They can also change their shape, [[NighttimeTransformation if only at night]]. Two of them, Vicki and Trevor, seem to prefer the shape of a giant bat.
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* 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.
** 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.
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* 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.
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* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' have [ToServeMan yoma]], which have wings and can therefore fly. These wings are very similar to the wings of bats.
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* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' have [ToServeMan [[ToServeMan yoma]], which have wings and can therefore fly. These wings are very similar to the wings of bats.
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* The chiropterans from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' in their monstrous forms are essentially huge bat people. They attack humans to feed on their blood.
** The chevaliers from Diva look even more monstrous in their transformed shapes.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' have [ToServeMan yoma]], which have wings and can therefore fly. These wings are very similar to the wings of bats.
* Two episodes from ''Manga/InuYasha'' 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 is 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.
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* The chiropterans from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' in their monstrous forms are essentially huge bat people. They attack humans to feed on their blood.
** The chevaliers from Diva look even more monstrous in their transformed shapes.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' have [ToServeMan yoma]], which have wings and can therefore fly. These wings are very similar to the wings of bats.
* Two episodes from ''Manga/InuYasha'' 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 is 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.
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* ''Film/Hellboy2019'' shows a friend of Hellboy who has been turned into a vampire. Hellboy does not notice what happened to his friend until he attacks him and turns into a giant bat in the middle of a fight.
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* 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.
** 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.
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** Werebats, lycanthropes mostly found in jungles and in the Darklands, turn into monstrous humanoid bats when in hybrid form. While most werecratures have few direct feuds with vampires, werebats intensely dislike them due to other creatures mistaking them for the undead, and often work to oppose them.
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** Werebats, lycanthropes mostly found in jungles and in the subterranean Darklands, turn into monstrous humanoid bats when in hybrid form. While most werecratures have few direct feuds with vampires, werebats intensely dislike them due to other creatures mistaking them for the undead, and often work to oppose them.
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** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': Scorpan, the BigBad Tirac's chief servant, broadly resembles a large batlike humanoid with a simian face; fittingly, his side is strongly associated with darkness -- their lair, Midnight Castle, is is constantly dark and shadowy, and Tirac wants to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds. Scorpan is also a case of DarkIsNotEvil, however, as despite his monstrous looks he's actually a pretty decent guy at heart and [[HeelFaceTurn eventually turns against Tirac]].
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** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': Scorpan, the BigBad Tirac's chief servant, broadly resembles a large batlike humanoid with a simian face; fittingly, his side is strongly associated with darkness -- their lair, Midnight Castle, is is constantly dark and shadowy, and Tirac wants to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds. Scorpan is also a case of DarkIsNotEvil, however, as despite his monstrous looks he's actually a pretty decent guy at heart and [[HeelFaceTurn eventually turns against Tirac]].
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** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': Scorpan, the BigBad Tirac's chief servant, broadly resembles a large batlike humanoid with a simian face; fittingly, his side is strongly associated with darkness -- their lair, Midnight Castle, is is constantly dark and shadowy, and Tirac wants to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds. Scorpan is also a case of DarkIsNotEvil, however, as despite his monstrous looks he's actually a pretty decent guy at heart and eventually turns against Tirac.
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** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': Scorpan, the BigBad Tirac's chief servant, broadly resembles a large batlike humanoid with a simian face; fittingly, his side is strongly associated with darkness -- their lair, Midnight Castle, is is constantly dark and shadowy, and Tirac wants to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds. Scorpan is also a case of DarkIsNotEvil, however, as despite his monstrous looks he's actually a pretty decent guy at heart and [[HeelFaceTurn eventually turns against Tirac.Tirac]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]": Luna's chariot pullers are a peculiar variant of this, being essentially the bat people equivalent in a world of sapient equines -- in their case, they're {{pegas|us}}i with bat wings, tufted ears and slit pupils, and are seemingly associated with the Princess of the Night.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]": Fluttershy is turned into another variant of this after taking in the nature of vampire fruit bats, gaining batlike wings instead of her feathered ones and turning into a feral, vampire-like fruit-sucker.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]": Luna's chariot pullers are a peculiar variant of this, being essentially the bat people equivalent in a world of sapient equines -- in their case, they're {{pegas|us}}i with bat wings, tufted ears and slit pupils, and are seemingly associated with the Princess of the Night.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]": Fluttershy is turned into another variant of this after taking in the nature of vampire fruit bats, gaining batlike wings instead of her feathered ones and turning into a feral, vampire-like fruit-sucker.
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* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': Scorpan, the BigBad Tirac's chief servant, broadly resembles a large batlike humanoid with a simian face; fittingly, his side is strongly associated with darkness -- their lair, Midnight Castle, is is constantly dark and shadowy, and Tirac wants to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds. Scorpan is also a case of DarkIsNotEvil, however, as despite his monstrous looks he's actually a pretty decent guy at heart and eventually turns against Tirac.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]": Luna's chariot pullers are a peculiar variant of this, being essentially the bat people equivalent in a world of sapient equines -- in their case, they're {{pegas|us}}i with bat wings, tufted ears and slit pupils, and are seemingly associated with the Princess of the Night.
** *** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]": Fluttershy is turned into another variant of this after taking in the nature of vampire fruit bats, gaining batlike wings instead of her feathered ones and turning into a feral, vampire-like fruit-sucker.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': Scorpan, the BigBad Tirac's chief servant, broadly resembles a large batlike humanoid with a simian face; fittingly, his side is strongly associated with darkness -- their lair, Midnight Castle, is is constantly dark and shadowy, and Tirac wants to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds. Scorpan is also a case of DarkIsNotEvil, however, as despite his monstrous looks he's actually a pretty decent guy at heart and eventually turns against Tirac.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
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* ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'': "Manbat" from the ''Monster Fighters'' theme and the similar-looking "Vampire Bat" from ''Toys/LEGOMinifigures'' Series 8.
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* ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'': ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'' has the "Manbat" from the ''Monster Fighters'' theme and the similar-looking "Vampire Bat" from ''Toys/LEGOMinifigures'' Series 8.
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** [[{{Jerkass}} Preed]], Corso's first mate on the Valkyrie, is an Akrennian, a PettingZooPeople alien species that resembles a flightless humanoid fruit bat. Downplayed in that his [[InformedSpecies resemblance to an actual bat]] is tenuous enough that even [[Creator/NathanLane his voice actor]] mistook him for a reptile instead, but he has a set of vestigial wing membranes attached to his arms.
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** [[{{Jerkass}} Preed]], Corso's first mate on the Valkyrie, is an Akrennian, a PettingZooPeople BeastMan alien species that resembles a flightless humanoid fruit bat. Downplayed in that his [[InformedSpecies resemblance to an actual bat]] is tenuous enough that even [[Creator/NathanLane his voice actor]] mistook him for a reptile instead, but he has a set of vestigial wing membranes attached to his arms.
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* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': When the gremlins drink experimental serums and develop a variety of mutations in response, one gains bat wings and the ability to fly-- then another gremlin gives it immunity to sunlight. It eventually gets tossed into wet cement, and before the cement hardens flies up and perches onto the side of a church, where it turns into a passable gargoyle.
* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': When the gremlins drink experimental serums and develop a variety of mutations in response, one gains bat wings and the ability to fly-- then another gremlin gives it immunity to sunlight. It eventually gets tossed into wet cement, and before the cement hardens flies up and perches onto the side of a church, where it turns into a passable gargoyle.
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** ''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.
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** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': "Last Bat On 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.
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Subtrope of BeastMan. See also BatOutOfHell. Bat wings are also a common feature of {{Big Red Devil}}s and [[OurGargoylesRock gargoyles]]. Not to be confused with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Bat-Family]].
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Subtrope of BeastMan. See also BatOutOfHell. Bat wings are also a common feature of {{Big Red Devil}}s and [[OurGargoylesRock gargoyles]].gargoyles]] -- the latter may have batlike ears and faces, as well. Not to be confused with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Bat-Family]].
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Subtrope of BeastMan. See also BatOutOfHell. Not to be confused with Characters/BatmanAndBatFamily.
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Subtrope of BeastMan. See also BatOutOfHell. Bat wings are also a common feature of {{Big Red Devil}}s and [[OurGargoylesRock gargoyles]]. Not to be confused with Characters/BatmanAndBatFamily.[[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Bat-Family]].
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* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': The space vampires' real form is some kind of vaguely humanoid alien bat. Most of the colony encountered by the astronauts on the ''Churchill'' are mummified corpses, as they spent decades [[MonstrousCannibalism feeding on each other]] until there were only three left.
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* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': The space vampires' real form is some kind of vaguely humanoid alien bat. Most of the colony encountered by the astronauts on from the ''Churchill'' are mummified corpses, as they spent decades [[MonstrousCannibalism feeding on each other]] until there were only three left.
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** 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.
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* Bat wings are a common feature of {{Big Red Devil}}s
* The Popobawa from Tanzania is a one-eyed demon with bat wings and a humanoid body, known to [[DepravedHomosexual anally]] [[HornyDevils rape sleeping people]].
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* Bat wings are a common feature of {{Big Red Devil}}s
* The Popobawa from Tanzania is a one-eyed demon with bat wings and a humanoid body, known to [[DepravedHomosexual anally]] [[HornyDevils rape sleeping people]].
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** ''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.
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** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': ''Last "Last Bat On Earth'' 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.
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* One of the escaped freaks on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', whom Gordon apprehends during his sojourn as a bounty hunter, has functional bat wings sprouting from his back. Another example, with bat-like ears and huge wings for arms, makes a screeching cameo in the closing episode of season four; fans speculate that this second Bat Person ''would'' have been developed as the series' version of Man-Bat from the wider ''Batman'' franchise, had season five not been cut back from 16 episodes to 10.
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* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': One of the escaped freaks on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', freaks, whom Gordon apprehends during his sojourn as a bounty hunter, has functional bat wings sprouting from his back. Another example, with bat-like ears and huge wings for arms, makes a screeching cameo in the closing episode of season four; fans speculate that this second Bat Person ''would'' have been developed as the series' version of Man-Bat from the wider ''Batman'' franchise, had season five not been cut back from 16 episodes to 10.
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* One of the escaped freaks on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', whom Gordon apprehends during his sojourn as a bounty hunter, has functional bat wings sprouting from his back. Another example, with bat-like ears and huge wings for arms, makes a screeching cameo in the closing episode of season four; fans speculate that this second Bat Person ''would'' have been developed as the series' version of Man-Bat from the wider ''Batman'' franchise, had season five not been cut back to 10 episodes rather than 16.
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* One of the escaped freaks on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', whom Gordon apprehends during his sojourn as a bounty hunter, has functional bat wings sprouting from his back. Another example, with bat-like ears and huge wings for arms, makes a screeching cameo in the closing episode of season four; fans speculate that this second Bat Person ''would'' have been developed as the series' version of Man-Bat from the wider ''Batman'' franchise, had season five not been cut back to 10 from 16 episodes rather than 16.to 10.
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* One of the escaped freaks on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', whom Gordon apprehends during his sojourn as a bounty hunter, has functional bat wings sprouting from his back. Another example, with bat-like ears and huge wings for arms, makes a screeching cameo in the closing episode of season four; fans speculate that this second Bat Person ''would'' have been developed as the Man-Bat from wider the ''Batman'' franchise, had season five not been cut back to 10 episodes rather than 16.
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* One of the escaped freaks on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', whom Gordon apprehends during his sojourn as a bounty hunter, has functional bat wings sprouting from his back. Another example, with bat-like ears and huge wings for arms, makes a screeching cameo in the closing episode of season four; fans speculate that this second Bat Person ''would'' have been developed as the series' version of Man-Bat from the wider the ''Batman'' franchise, had season five not been cut back to 10 episodes rather than 16.
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** 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.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' has the Valkyrie visit a broken world called Sessharim, which is home to beaked and horned bat-like aliens. They swarm around the landing party, greatly unnerving them. However, these bat-people aren't hostile; in fact, they aid Cale Tucker in finding his father's legacy, and keep the landing party safe from an attack by a Drej fighter squadron.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' has the ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'':
** The Valkyrievisit visits a broken world called Sessharim, which is home to beaked and horned bat-like aliens. They swarm around the landing party, greatly unnerving them. However, these bat-people aren't hostile; in fact, they aid Cale Tucker in finding his father's legacy, and keep the landing party safe from an attack by a Drej fighter squadron.squadron.
** [[{{Jerkass}} Preed]], Corso's first mate on the Valkyrie, is an Akrennian, a PettingZooPeople alien species that resembles a flightless humanoid fruit bat. Downplayed in that his [[InformedSpecies resemblance to an actual bat]] is tenuous enough that even [[Creator/NathanLane his voice actor]] mistook him for a reptile instead, but he has a set of vestigial wing membranes attached to his arms.
** The Valkyrie
** [[{{Jerkass}} Preed]], Corso's first mate on the Valkyrie, is an Akrennian, a PettingZooPeople alien species that resembles a flightless humanoid fruit bat. Downplayed in that his [[InformedSpecies resemblance to an actual bat]] is tenuous enough that even [[Creator/NathanLane his voice actor]] mistook him for a reptile instead, but he has a set of vestigial wing membranes attached to his arms.
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* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': When the gremlins drink experimental serums and develop a variety of mutations in response, one gains bat wings and the ability to fly. It eventually gets tossed into wet cement, and before the cement hardens flies up and perches onto the side of a church, where it turns into a passable gargoyle.
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* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': When the gremlins drink experimental serums and develop a variety of mutations in response, one gains bat wings and the ability to fly.fly-- then another gremlin gives it immunity to sunlight. It eventually gets tossed into wet cement, and before the cement hardens flies up and perches onto the side of a church, where it turns into a passable gargoyle.
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** Nycters are smaller 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.
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** Nycters are smaller 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.
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** Werebats, lycanthropes mostly found in jungles and in the Darklands, turn into monstrous humanoid bats when in hybrid form.
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Bat people are, plainly put, people with traits of bats, whether they're outright humanoid chiropterans or just humans with a few batlike characteristics. They're typically portrayed as nocturnal, are likely to be villainous or, if not, distrusted by other species, and may have connections to vampires.
Physically, Bat People almost always have bat wings. Much like with BirdPeople, these may either double as their arms or may be a third, separate set of limbs anchored to their backs. Additionally, they may have other chiropteran traits such as leaflike noses, large ears, entirely batlike heads and the ability to echolocate. Some may even forgo the wings entirely, as long as their other traits show a sufficiently clear connection to bats.
Bat people often live underground, generally within large cave systems. When living on the surface, they're almost always nocturnal and are fairly often found in jungles or other tropical areas.
Because people don't generally like bats very much, batlike humanoids are often portrayed as monstrous and evil, or at least as sinister and frightening. In general, it's also quite common for demonic entities to have [[GoodWingsEvilWings batlike wings]]. If they're benevolent or simply nonaggressive, which in many cases may be played as a deliberate subversion of stereotypes, other species will likely assume that they're evil anyway. This may likely lead to cases of FantasticRacism.
Finally, bat people may be connected to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in some manner, due to the latter's own connection to bats. In some cases, vampires will themselves be Bat People either full-time or in certain transformed states. Even when a vampire just LooksLikeOrlok, the resulting pointed ears, pale skin, and fangs will often come together to form a fairly bat-like visage. In others, Bat People and vampires will be distinct but linked groups, connected by supernatural kinship, one group's origins, or even mutual enmity. Regardless of any other link to vampirism, and often even without any such link, it's not uncommon for Bat People to be [[BloodsuckingBats blood-drinkers]]. Other times, however, Bat People may be [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werebats]] instead.
Subtrope of BeastMan. See also BatOutOfHell.
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!!Examples
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* ''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.
* ''ComicBook/FiendsOfTheEasternFront'': Bat-people are a species older than vampires and are hostile towards them, viewing vampires as "upstarts". One of them [[RedplicaBaron flies a red plane during World War I]] before running into Constanta.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** Batwing is a young boy who was exposed to [[ToxicWasteCanDoAnything toxic waste]] in Carlsbad Caverns, causing him to become bat-like. Despite his monstrous appearance, he's still just a child, and Spider-Man tries to protect him from those who hate and fear him.
** ComicBook/{{Morbius}} is an AntiVillain who became a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent genetically modified vampire]], with bat genes and an [[LooksLikeOrlok Orlok-like appearance]]. However, in some appearance -- like in an ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' story arc and in [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries animated]] [[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan series]] -- he was transformed into a half-man half-bat monster, seeing more like an anthropomorphic bat with wings.
* ''ComicBook/WizardsOfMickey'': The bat-orcs are large humanoid bats that live in caves deep underground, sleep hanging upside-down, and are ancestral enemies of dragons.
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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' has the Valkyrie visit a broken world called Sessharim, which is home to beaked and horned bat-like aliens. They swarm around the landing party, greatly unnerving them. However, these bat-people aren't hostile; in fact, they aid Cale Tucker in finding his father's legacy, and keep the landing party safe from an attack by a Drej fighter squadron.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': When the gremlins drink experimental serums and develop a variety of mutations in response, one gains bat wings and the ability to fly. It eventually gets tossed into wet cement, and before the cement hardens flies up and perches onto the side of a church, where it turns into a passable gargoyle.
* 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. Stewart was a JerkAss to begin with, but in his bat form he starts actively murdering people -- [[GreyAndGrayMorality and he's still supposed to be the protagonist]].
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The Chandra-Fan are short, hairy humanoids with batlike faces. There's one ordering a drink at the Mos Eisley cantina in ''Film/ANewHope''.
* ''Film/VanHelsing'':
** Dracula and his brides have the ability to shapeshift into bat-like humanoids, which they do at several points in the film. Director Creator/StephenSommers [[WordOfGod stated in one behind-the-scenes interview]] that he explicitly wanted the vampires to shapeshift into something other than ordinary bats because "I'm not afraid of bats, but what if my bat had a 15-ft wingspan?".
** Count Dracula sires a brood of vampire infants, all stillborn and suspended from the vaulted ceiling in their amniotic sacs. Once the Count's EvilPlan succeeds in energizing his offspring with "filtered" lightning, they come to life, and fly on bat-like wings into the nearby town. There, they set upon the townsfolk like a swarm of ten-pound vampire bats.
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* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Vampires of the Red Court, beneath the human disguises they wear, resembles hairless, anthropomorphic bat-things with long, wormlike tongues and thin membranes strung between their arms and torsos.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** "[[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]].
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** The desmodu are hulking, bat-like subterranean humanoids which are actually among the few good-aligned races living in the Underdark.
** Nycters are smaller 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.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Chiropterans are one of the most common breeds of beastmen in the great Eastern forests. They resemble large, bipedal bats with four-fingered hands attached to their wings and, while just as capable during the day as during the night, prefer to keep nocturnal schedules to avoid contact with humans -- their appearance makes them one of the most actively distrusted beastman types. While most don't have particularly remarkable dietary habits, one population [[BloodsuckingBats drinks blood]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
** Werebats, lycanthropes mostly found in jungles and in the Darklands, turn into monstrous humanoid bats when in hybrid form.
** Sabosans are evil jungle-dwelling humanoids with claws, fangs, pointed ears, and large bat wings growing from their backs. They drink blood, echolocate in the dark and can emit deafening shrieks, and are greatly feared by the communities subject to their predations. They're speculated to descend from regular humans who were infected with vampirism but managed not to succumb to undeath, or from cultists of demonic powers.
** Nabasus are a type of demons that resemble hideous humanoid bats.
* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'':
** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
*** Vargheists are monstrous bat people created from von Carstein Vampires that lost out in their family's endless internal plotting. Denied blood for decades, and tainted with diluted Dark Magic, these unfortunates grow in size and sprout leathery wings from their forelimbs as their features twist into fearsome bat-like faces with mouths filled with murderous fangs. Driven mad by their thirst, Vargheists desire nothing more than to feed and will follow their creators into battle so that they can feast on the blood of the enemy.
*** Varghulfs are Vampires that have given in to the bestial side of their nature, forsaking any semblance of humanity to run with Dire Wolves and Ghoulkin. With heavily muscled bodies, winged forearms and nightmarish bat-like features, Varghulfs fight with bestial fury, ripping apart their prey with dagger-like fangs and feasting on the bloody remains.
** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'':
*** When a Soulblight vampire is denied blood for too long they devolve into towering, bat-like humanoids with fang-filled jaws known as Vargheists. While these devolved creatures are often created as a punishment some Soulblight societies, such as the Avengorii of the Realm of Beast, create these bestial bat people from willing volunteers who wish to become monstrous weapons for their fellows.
*** The champions and war leaders of the Flesh-Eater Courts, Varghulf Courtiers are some of the most favoured servants of the Abhorrent Ghoul-Kings. Possessing a massive body covered in matted fur, grotesque bat-like heads, and winged forearms, these terrifying mordants feed on the flesh of their prey and the foul magics unleashed by their vampiric liege.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'': The now-extinct Camazotz werebats, who served as Gaia's nocturnal messengers and mostly lived in Mesoamerica, took the form of humanoid chiropterans when in war form. They were no more evil and no less loyal to Gaia than any other of the Changing Breeds, but their appearance convinced the werewolves that they must have been Wyrm-tainted and led to their eradication.
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* ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'': "Manbat" from the ''Monster Fighters'' theme and the similar-looking "Vampire Bat" from ''Toys/LEGOMinifigures'' Series 8.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Bat men only have four limbs -- their arms double as wings like in real bats -- and live in tribes underground, being one of the few underground animal people capable of flight. They can also be found on the surface, where like the other surface-dwelling animal people they don't form tribes and are essentially bipedal animals.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': The Winged Twilights are an [[OneGenderRace all-female]] race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Lesser Daedra]] with bat-like wings in place of arms. Despite their sinister appearance, they serve the typically "good" [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] Azura.
* ''Videogame/Fallout4'': The cover of the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe comic-book]] ''Grognak the Barbarian: Jungle of the bat-babies'' depicts Grognak being attacked by a swarm of small humanoids with bat wings and oversized, pointy ears.
* ''VideoGame/InFAMOUS2'': In the "Festival of Blood" DLC, the Blood Conduits are a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] breed of EliteMooks that can disguise themselves as regular humans. Cole can distinguish them from humans with his vampire vision and can on-shot kill them while in this state. If provoked, they transform into giant bat monsters, being much harder to kill than the common vampire.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Vires are enemies resembling humanoid bats with separate arms and legs. They're a stronger variant of the common, entirely batlike Keese, and split into multiple Keese when killed. ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' has Achemen, one-game enemies that resemble Vires in almost all respects save that they hang from ceilings to ambush Link.
* ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne}}'': Vampires are humanoids with bat-like features such as spear noses and elongated, winged arms. Humans converted by them, such as Vampire Brides, look more like your typical undead bloodsucker.
* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': [=BatGals=] are humanoid enemies with yellow eyes, batlike wings on their helmets, and the ability to turn into bats.
* ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'': One of the enemy types in the "[[Recap/Sly2BandOfThievesMission04Jailbreak Jailbreak]]" and "[[Recap/Sly2BandOfThievesMission05ATangledWeb A Tangled Web]]" levels is the Bat Guards, anthropomorphic vampire bats that will sometimes disguise themselves as gargoyles. If they spot intruders, they would call for backup by releasing a bat scream, then charge at Sly with their pointy wings if they were successful.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'': The BigBad, Antasma, is a large anthropomorphic bat who makes heavy use of generic vampire imagery, keeping his wings curled around himself like a cloak and pronouncing his "w"s like "v"s. He also punctuates his sentences with batlike screeches.
** ''VideoGame/WarioLand'': One of Wario's transformations in ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'', Bat Wario, gives him purple skin and red eyes and turns his arms into membranous wings. Its predecessor in ''VideoGame/WarioLand3'', Vampire Wario, also gives him bat wings.
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': The player, if they've chosen the appropriate clan and have levelled up their Protean discipline enough, can morph into a bat-like humanoid warform.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'': DefiedTrope. Batfink is TheHero in this cartoon series, a FunnyAnimal in a yellow jumpsuit with red boots and gloves, and bat-like steel wings that make him ImmuneToBullets. He's an AffectionateParody of Series/{{Batman}} and Series/TheGreenHornet, and he JustForFun/FightsCrimeWithX, X being those steel wings and lots of DeusExMachina.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** ''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/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE1OnLeatherWings On Leather Wings]]" sees Batman fight a monstrous were-bat, who turns out to be a human scientist named Kirk Langstrom, transformed by an experimental serum. He later encounters another victim of the same Man-Bat serum in "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE45TerrorInTheSky Terror in the Sky]]".
** ''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/Ben10Omniverse'': The Vladats are a race of vampire-like aliens with the overall appearance of large humanoid bats.
* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': The weakest and most common members of {{Dracula}}'s army, and the first seen, resemble twisted humanoid bats with both clawed arms and wings sprouting from their backs.
* ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'':
** The Speleans are a race native to the caverns of Subternia. They are vaguely humanoid with blue skin, wings, and bat-like faces with giant ears that give them excellent hearing. Although some of them have become villains, they're no more inherently evil than humans and their leader, Dactys, is a personal friend to King Randor.
** ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Hordak has bat-like features, including long bat-like ears, a bat-like nose, fangs, and claws. [[spoiler:The cloned fetuses in his lab]] also have bat wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]": Luna's chariot pullers are a peculiar variant of this, being essentially the bat people equivalent in a world of sapient equines -- in their case, they're {{pegas|us}}i with bat wings, tufted ears and slit pupils, and are seemingly associated with the Princess of the Night.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]": Fluttershy is turned into another variant of this after taking in the nature of vampire fruit bats, gaining batlike wings instead of her feathered ones and turning into a feral, vampire-like fruit-sucker.
* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'': Dark Kat is the archnemesis of the Swat Kats, and he commands five or six "creeplings" to do the heavy lifting. These creeplings resemble small gargoyles, and fly on bat-like wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': Mumm-Ra is a batlike humanoid complete with leaf-nosed snout, and gains bat wings in his OneWingedAngel form.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'':
** 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.
** A later episode has the turtles face off with a pair of aliens, one of whom, Wingnut, is a bat creature. Oddly, he's an ally of the turtles in the toy line.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Yes, father. I shall become a bat.]]"]]
Bat people are, plainly put, people with traits of bats, whether they're outright humanoid chiropterans or just humans with a few batlike characteristics. They're typically portrayed as nocturnal, are likely to be villainous or, if not, distrusted by other species, and may have connections to vampires.
Physically, Bat People almost always have bat wings. Much like with BirdPeople, these may either double as their arms or may be a third, separate set of limbs anchored to their backs. Additionally, they may have other chiropteran traits such as leaflike noses, large ears, entirely batlike heads and the ability to echolocate. Some may even forgo the wings entirely, as long as their other traits show a sufficiently clear connection to bats.
Bat people often live underground, generally within large cave systems. When living on the surface, they're almost always nocturnal and are fairly often found in jungles or other tropical areas.
Because people don't generally like bats very much, batlike humanoids are often portrayed as monstrous and evil, or at least as sinister and frightening. In general, it's also quite common for demonic entities to have [[GoodWingsEvilWings batlike wings]]. If they're benevolent or simply nonaggressive, which in many cases may be played as a deliberate subversion of stereotypes, other species will likely assume that they're evil anyway. This may likely lead to cases of FantasticRacism.
Finally, bat people may be connected to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in some manner, due to the latter's own connection to bats. In some cases, vampires will themselves be Bat People either full-time or in certain transformed states. Even when a vampire just LooksLikeOrlok, the resulting pointed ears, pale skin, and fangs will often come together to form a fairly bat-like visage. In others, Bat People and vampires will be distinct but linked groups, connected by supernatural kinship, one group's origins, or even mutual enmity. Regardless of any other link to vampirism, and often even without any such link, it's not uncommon for Bat People to be [[BloodsuckingBats blood-drinkers]]. Other times, however, Bat People may be [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werebats]] instead.
Subtrope of BeastMan. See also BatOutOfHell.
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!!Examples
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''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.
* ''ComicBook/FiendsOfTheEasternFront'': Bat-people are a species older than vampires and are hostile towards them, viewing vampires as "upstarts". One of them [[RedplicaBaron flies a red plane during World War I]] before running into Constanta.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** Batwing is a young boy who was exposed to [[ToxicWasteCanDoAnything toxic waste]] in Carlsbad Caverns, causing him to become bat-like. Despite his monstrous appearance, he's still just a child, and Spider-Man tries to protect him from those who hate and fear him.
** ComicBook/{{Morbius}} is an AntiVillain who became a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent genetically modified vampire]], with bat genes and an [[LooksLikeOrlok Orlok-like appearance]]. However, in some appearance -- like in an ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' story arc and in [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries animated]] [[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan series]] -- he was transformed into a half-man half-bat monster, seeing more like an anthropomorphic bat with wings.
* ''ComicBook/WizardsOfMickey'': The bat-orcs are large humanoid bats that live in caves deep underground, sleep hanging upside-down, and are ancestral enemies of dragons.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' has the Valkyrie visit a broken world called Sessharim, which is home to beaked and horned bat-like aliens. They swarm around the landing party, greatly unnerving them. However, these bat-people aren't hostile; in fact, they aid Cale Tucker in finding his father's legacy, and keep the landing party safe from an attack by a Drej fighter squadron.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': When the gremlins drink experimental serums and develop a variety of mutations in response, one gains bat wings and the ability to fly. It eventually gets tossed into wet cement, and before the cement hardens flies up and perches onto the side of a church, where it turns into a passable gargoyle.
* 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. Stewart was a JerkAss to begin with, but in his bat form he starts actively murdering people -- [[GreyAndGrayMorality and he's still supposed to be the protagonist]].
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The Chandra-Fan are short, hairy humanoids with batlike faces. There's one ordering a drink at the Mos Eisley cantina in ''Film/ANewHope''.
* ''Film/VanHelsing'':
** Dracula and his brides have the ability to shapeshift into bat-like humanoids, which they do at several points in the film. Director Creator/StephenSommers [[WordOfGod stated in one behind-the-scenes interview]] that he explicitly wanted the vampires to shapeshift into something other than ordinary bats because "I'm not afraid of bats, but what if my bat had a 15-ft wingspan?".
** Count Dracula sires a brood of vampire infants, all stillborn and suspended from the vaulted ceiling in their amniotic sacs. Once the Count's EvilPlan succeeds in energizing his offspring with "filtered" lightning, they come to life, and fly on bat-like wings into the nearby town. There, they set upon the townsfolk like a swarm of ten-pound vampire bats.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Vampires of the Red Court, beneath the human disguises they wear, resembles hairless, anthropomorphic bat-things with long, wormlike tongues and thin membranes strung between their arms and torsos.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** "[[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]].
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** The desmodu are hulking, bat-like subterranean humanoids which are actually among the few good-aligned races living in the Underdark.
** Nycters are smaller 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.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Chiropterans are one of the most common breeds of beastmen in the great Eastern forests. They resemble large, bipedal bats with four-fingered hands attached to their wings and, while just as capable during the day as during the night, prefer to keep nocturnal schedules to avoid contact with humans -- their appearance makes them one of the most actively distrusted beastman types. While most don't have particularly remarkable dietary habits, one population [[BloodsuckingBats drinks blood]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
** Werebats, lycanthropes mostly found in jungles and in the Darklands, turn into monstrous humanoid bats when in hybrid form.
** Sabosans are evil jungle-dwelling humanoids with claws, fangs, pointed ears, and large bat wings growing from their backs. They drink blood, echolocate in the dark and can emit deafening shrieks, and are greatly feared by the communities subject to their predations. They're speculated to descend from regular humans who were infected with vampirism but managed not to succumb to undeath, or from cultists of demonic powers.
** Nabasus are a type of demons that resemble hideous humanoid bats.
* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'':
** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
*** Vargheists are monstrous bat people created from von Carstein Vampires that lost out in their family's endless internal plotting. Denied blood for decades, and tainted with diluted Dark Magic, these unfortunates grow in size and sprout leathery wings from their forelimbs as their features twist into fearsome bat-like faces with mouths filled with murderous fangs. Driven mad by their thirst, Vargheists desire nothing more than to feed and will follow their creators into battle so that they can feast on the blood of the enemy.
*** Varghulfs are Vampires that have given in to the bestial side of their nature, forsaking any semblance of humanity to run with Dire Wolves and Ghoulkin. With heavily muscled bodies, winged forearms and nightmarish bat-like features, Varghulfs fight with bestial fury, ripping apart their prey with dagger-like fangs and feasting on the bloody remains.
** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'':
*** When a Soulblight vampire is denied blood for too long they devolve into towering, bat-like humanoids with fang-filled jaws known as Vargheists. While these devolved creatures are often created as a punishment some Soulblight societies, such as the Avengorii of the Realm of Beast, create these bestial bat people from willing volunteers who wish to become monstrous weapons for their fellows.
*** The champions and war leaders of the Flesh-Eater Courts, Varghulf Courtiers are some of the most favoured servants of the Abhorrent Ghoul-Kings. Possessing a massive body covered in matted fur, grotesque bat-like heads, and winged forearms, these terrifying mordants feed on the flesh of their prey and the foul magics unleashed by their vampiric liege.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'': The now-extinct Camazotz werebats, who served as Gaia's nocturnal messengers and mostly lived in Mesoamerica, took the form of humanoid chiropterans when in war form. They were no more evil and no less loyal to Gaia than any other of the Changing Breeds, but their appearance convinced the werewolves that they must have been Wyrm-tainted and led to their eradication.
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* ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'': "Manbat" from the ''Monster Fighters'' theme and the similar-looking "Vampire Bat" from ''Toys/LEGOMinifigures'' Series 8.
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* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Bat men only have four limbs -- their arms double as wings like in real bats -- and live in tribes underground, being one of the few underground animal people capable of flight. They can also be found on the surface, where like the other surface-dwelling animal people they don't form tribes and are essentially bipedal animals.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': The Winged Twilights are an [[OneGenderRace all-female]] race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Lesser Daedra]] with bat-like wings in place of arms. Despite their sinister appearance, they serve the typically "good" [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] Azura.
* ''Videogame/Fallout4'': The cover of the [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe comic-book]] ''Grognak the Barbarian: Jungle of the bat-babies'' depicts Grognak being attacked by a swarm of small humanoids with bat wings and oversized, pointy ears.
* ''VideoGame/InFAMOUS2'': In the "Festival of Blood" DLC, the Blood Conduits are a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] breed of EliteMooks that can disguise themselves as regular humans. Cole can distinguish them from humans with his vampire vision and can on-shot kill them while in this state. If provoked, they transform into giant bat monsters, being much harder to kill than the common vampire.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Vires are enemies resembling humanoid bats with separate arms and legs. They're a stronger variant of the common, entirely batlike Keese, and split into multiple Keese when killed. ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' has Achemen, one-game enemies that resemble Vires in almost all respects save that they hang from ceilings to ambush Link.
* ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne}}'': Vampires are humanoids with bat-like features such as spear noses and elongated, winged arms. Humans converted by them, such as Vampire Brides, look more like your typical undead bloodsucker.
* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': [=BatGals=] are humanoid enemies with yellow eyes, batlike wings on their helmets, and the ability to turn into bats.
* ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'': One of the enemy types in the "[[Recap/Sly2BandOfThievesMission04Jailbreak Jailbreak]]" and "[[Recap/Sly2BandOfThievesMission05ATangledWeb A Tangled Web]]" levels is the Bat Guards, anthropomorphic vampire bats that will sometimes disguise themselves as gargoyles. If they spot intruders, they would call for backup by releasing a bat scream, then charge at Sly with their pointy wings if they were successful.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'': The BigBad, Antasma, is a large anthropomorphic bat who makes heavy use of generic vampire imagery, keeping his wings curled around himself like a cloak and pronouncing his "w"s like "v"s. He also punctuates his sentences with batlike screeches.
** ''VideoGame/WarioLand'': One of Wario's transformations in ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'', Bat Wario, gives him purple skin and red eyes and turns his arms into membranous wings. Its predecessor in ''VideoGame/WarioLand3'', Vampire Wario, also gives him bat wings.
* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': The player, if they've chosen the appropriate clan and have levelled up their Protean discipline enough, can morph into a bat-like humanoid warform.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'': DefiedTrope. Batfink is TheHero in this cartoon series, a FunnyAnimal in a yellow jumpsuit with red boots and gloves, and bat-like steel wings that make him ImmuneToBullets. He's an AffectionateParody of Series/{{Batman}} and Series/TheGreenHornet, and he JustForFun/FightsCrimeWithX, X being those steel wings and lots of DeusExMachina.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** ''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/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE1OnLeatherWings On Leather Wings]]" sees Batman fight a monstrous were-bat, who turns out to be a human scientist named Kirk Langstrom, transformed by an experimental serum. He later encounters another victim of the same Man-Bat serum in "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE45TerrorInTheSky Terror in the Sky]]".
** ''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/Ben10Omniverse'': The Vladats are a race of vampire-like aliens with the overall appearance of large humanoid bats.
* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': The weakest and most common members of {{Dracula}}'s army, and the first seen, resemble twisted humanoid bats with both clawed arms and wings sprouting from their backs.
* ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'':
** The Speleans are a race native to the caverns of Subternia. They are vaguely humanoid with blue skin, wings, and bat-like faces with giant ears that give them excellent hearing. Although some of them have become villains, they're no more inherently evil than humans and their leader, Dactys, is a personal friend to King Randor.
** ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Hordak has bat-like features, including long bat-like ears, a bat-like nose, fangs, and claws. [[spoiler:The cloned fetuses in his lab]] also have bat wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]": Luna's chariot pullers are a peculiar variant of this, being essentially the bat people equivalent in a world of sapient equines -- in their case, they're {{pegas|us}}i with bat wings, tufted ears and slit pupils, and are seemingly associated with the Princess of the Night.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]": Fluttershy is turned into another variant of this after taking in the nature of vampire fruit bats, gaining batlike wings instead of her feathered ones and turning into a feral, vampire-like fruit-sucker.
* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'': Dark Kat is the archnemesis of the Swat Kats, and he commands five or six "creeplings" to do the heavy lifting. These creeplings resemble small gargoyles, and fly on bat-like wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': Mumm-Ra is a batlike humanoid complete with leaf-nosed snout, and gains bat wings in his OneWingedAngel form.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'':
** 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.
** A later episode has the turtles face off with a pair of aliens, one of whom, Wingnut, is a bat creature. Oddly, he's an ally of the turtles in the toy line.
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