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* {{Madonna}}'s music video ''Frozen'' has one scene where she seemingly falls over and shatters into crows which then fly away.

* In ''{{Bayonetta}}'', by dodging an attack at the very last second, Bayonetta can shatter into bats upon getting hit, negating the attack and gaining increased amounts of [[BulletTime Witch Time]] in the process. For Jeanne, this is the only way she can get any normally.

* ''{{Exalted}}'' has the spell Flight of Separation, which turns the caster into a flock of birds.
* In the ''{{NewWorldOfDarkness}} The Changing Breeds can do this with a specific aspect. Werecrows turn into crows, werebats turn into bats, and werecats turn into a horde of small cats or kittens...

* This is Kain's favorite method of transportation in ''{{LegacyofKain}}: Blood Omen'' and ''Defiance''. Being a vampire he transforms into a flock of bats.

* The 2010 ''ClashOfTheTitans'' has Hades teleport by having demon imps fuse into him (and he can de-fuse into said imps). He also has a "conventional" VillainTeleportation where he appears from what is essentially a shadowy black hole that has sucked up a platoon of Argosian soldiers.

* Lance-Constable Sally von Humpeding, the first vampire to joing the Ankh-Morpork City Watch in ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', turns into a flock of bats, much like the movie version of Mina. This is theoretically easier than turning into a single bat since you don't have ShapeshifterBaggage problems. What you do have are "keeping track of where they all are" problems.

* In 4th Edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'', the crystalline beings known as the ''Shardmind'' have an ability that lets them separate into individual pieces and reform a short distance away after being successfully attacked.

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* {{Dracula}} from ''{{Castlevania}}'' occasionally [[TeleportSpam teleports]] this way. Being the good ol' Drac, he becomes a mass of bats. Curiously, the ability was first seen in an NES-era boss fight with [[IHateYouVampireDad Alucard]], who uses Drac's classic pattern from the other games.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda: TheWindWaker'' has Jalhalla, boss of the Earth Temple. Killing the smaller parts is what actually harms it, as evidenced by [[EnemyScan its lifebar]].

* [[Naruto Itachi Uchiha's]] crow-clone genjutsu invokes this. As does Shino Aburame's insect clone jutsu.

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* ''{{Exalted}}'' has the spell Flight of Separation, which turns the caster into a flock of birds.

** Some games also give this ability to [[RecurringBossTemplate the Phantom Bat]]. Similarly, ''SuperCastlevaniaIV'' gives this ability to the mummy boss, Akmodan II, who teleports as a stream of loose bandages.

* A variation is the central ability of the [[ThatOneBoss Yellow Devil]] and its many, many successors throughout the ''MegaMan'' franchise.

* Gabriel in ''TheProphecy'' series sometimes teleports this way, as when a shot from a gun turns him temporarily into a murder of crows.

* Boolossus, the third boss of Luigi'sMansion, is defeated by luring him into the horn of a nearby ice unicorn statue, causing him to pop into many smaller Boos, which you can then capture.

* In ''{{Bayonetta}}'', Bayonetta can shatter into bats upon getting hit, negating the attack.

* A variation is the central ability of the [[ThatOneBoss Yellow Devil]] and its many, many suiccessors throughout the MegaMan franchise.

* ''{{Bayonetta}}'' can shatter into bats upon getting hit, negating the attack.

* I remember this happening with cars in an insurance commercial (Liberty Mutual?) The car would be rear ended, and fly into little pieces, before reforming a short ways away.

* When ''{{Kinnikuman}}'' uses his Megaton Punch to shatter Akuma Shogun's body, it breaks into hundreds of razor-sharp pieces that [[DeathOfAThousandCuts fly though Kinnikuman's body]] before reforming.

* This is an infuriating ability of the [[DemonicSpider "Golden Knight"]] enemies in ''{{Karnov}}"'.

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