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14	[[caption-width-right:350:"[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Yes, father. I shall become a bat.]]"]]
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16	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.
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18	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.
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20	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.
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22	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.
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24	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.
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26	Subtrope of BeastMan. See also BatOutOfHell. Bat wings are also a common feature of {{Big Red Devil}}s and [[OurGargoylesRock gargoyles]] -- the latter may have batlike ears and faces, as well. See also HarpingOnAboutHarpies, whenever harpies have bat features.
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28	Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} the Bat-Family]]. For the film also known as ''The Bat People'', see ''Film/ItLivesByNight''.
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30	!!Examples:
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34	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
35	* ''Anime/BloodPlus'':
36	** In their monstrous forms, the chiropterans are essentially huge bat people. They attack humans to feed on their blood.
37	** The chevaliers from Diva look even more monstrous in their transformed shapes.
38	* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' have [[ToServeMan yoma]], which have wings and can therefore fly. These wings are very similar to the wings of bats.
39	* ''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.
40	* ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'' has Father Petrescu, the Giant Bat Monster who can transform his victims into bat-like vampires.
41	* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Vampires are a bat-like race with bat wings for arms and it's speculated in-universe that their more "vampire" traits are the result of an infection that grew species wide.
42	* ''Manga/NurseHitomisMonsterInfirmary'': Komori the bat girl has bat ears and hangs upside down from the ceiling, but doesn't have wings.
43	* ''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.
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46	[[folder:Art]]
47	* ''Murciélago'' by Creator/GabrielGrun features a human man with wings anatomically similar to that of a bat pinned to a surface with pins in a manner similar to a crucified Jesus.
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50	[[folder:Comic Books]]
51	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
52	** 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.
53	** In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham'', Batman himself permanently transforms into a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human bat creature]] in order to save the world from an EldritchAbomination.
54	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The comics 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.
55	* ''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.
56	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
57	** 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.
58	** ComicBook/{{Morbius}} is an AntiHero who became a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent genetically modified vampire]], with bat genes and an [[LooksLikeOrlok Orlok-like appearance]]. However, in his 3rd solo series and some alternate universes -- like in an ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' story arc and in [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries animated]] [[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 series]] -- he was transformed into a half-man half-bat monster, looking more like an anthropomorphic bat with wings.
59	* ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'': The Probats are a race of bat-like aliens who are exploited by the Cybertronians for their [[SolidGoldPoop valuable excrement]]. They have poor vision and rely on echolocation, which is why they mistake Cliffjumper for the similar-looking Bumblebee. They should be able to fly like bats, but unfortunately, the [[TheQuisling Cybertronian-appointed despot]] had the wings of all Probats besides himself clipped, believing only he should have the gift of flight.
60	* ''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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64	* In ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'', after [[spoiler:Nabiki Tendo]] eats the [[{{Animorphism}} Mythic Zoan-class Devil Fruit]] known as the Bat-Bat Fruit, Model Type: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampire]], she gains a "beast" form in which she sprouts bat ears from her head in the LittleBitBeastly style, her feet become prehensile talons, and her arms turn into bat-like wings. WordOfGod is that this form was visually based on Jenny the Bat from the 'VideoGame/BloodyRoar'' series.
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68	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': When exposed to the Ooze, Batman transforms into a large, winged humanoid bat-monster.
69	* ''Anime/DoraemonTheRecordOfNobitasParallelVisitToTheWest'' has bat-humans as the lowest-ranked humanoid demons antagonizing the heroes.
70	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' has Batboy, a strange little baby-like creature that walks on its overly-large bat wings.
71	* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'':
72	** The Valkyrie 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.
73	** [[{{Jerkass}} Preed]], Corso's first mate on the Valkyrie, is an Akrennian, a 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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77	* ''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.
78	* ''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.
79	* In ''Film/ItLivesByNight'' (also known as ''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.
80	* The {{Harpi\|ng On About Harpies}}es from ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' are very much humanoid bats.
81	* ''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.
82	* ''Film/Lifeforce1985'': 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.
83	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
84	** ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' has the Remans, who hail from a Romulan colony-moon that is tidally locked with the Remans living on the dark side. They hate the light, have pale skin, fangs, long nails and generally bat-like features (minus the wings) not unlike Nosferatu. They even have the Scimitar, a massive bat-like ship.
85	** Two recurring extras in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' are Starfleet officers who resemble humanoid bats with skin the texture of exposed musculature. The Manual names them Jin and Jeanine.
86	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
87	** The Chandra-Fan are short, hairy humanoids with batlike faces. There's one (Kabe) ordering herself a drink at the Mos Eisley cantina in ''Film/ANewHope''.
88	** He doesn't look much like a bat-- or any living creature-- by the time we meet him, but General Grievous [[WasOnceAMan started out as]] a Kaleesh, one of a species of red-skinned humanoids with very bat-like facial features.
89	* ''Film/VanHelsing'':
90	** 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?".
91	** 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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95	* ''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.
96	* ''Literature/FiveAgainstVenus'' is a 1952 juvenile book featuring a space-going family stranded on Venus who face vampire-feeding bat-men.
97	* ''Literature/HowlOfTheWerewolf'': Vampire Countess Isolde's manservant and BattleButler, Gustave, is a werebat. Usually he assumes the form of an ordinary human, but he'll sprout wings, fur and fangs before swooping towards intruders.
98	* ''Literature/InCryptid'': The [[http://seananmcguire.com/fgahool.php ahool]] could be considered this, though it's debatable whether they're intelligent enough to be counted as "people".
99	* ''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, [[BlindBats but are almost blind in daylight]].
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103	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
104	** In "[[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.
105	** The Krillitane, the MonsterOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]", 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.
106	** The Thijarians in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab Demons of the Punjab]]" 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]].
107	* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': One of the escaped 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.
108	* The Murcielagos (Spanish for Bat) from ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' are bat-like Wesens.
109	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
110	** The second ever MonsterOfTheWeek in [[Series/KamenRider the original series]] is Shocker's cyborg monster Bat Man (Komori Otoko). 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).
111	** Burner Bat and [[TheDragon Zombie Bat]] from ''Series/KamenRiderV3''.
112	** Franken[[note]]as in Frankenstein[[/note]] Bat from ''Series/KamenRiderX'' TheMovie ''Film/FiveRidersVsKingDark''.
113	** The Vampire Bat Beastman from ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon''.
114	** The Bat Kikkaijin from ''Series/KamenRiderStronger''.
115	** Komorujin from ''Series/KamenRiderSkyrider''.
116	** Cassette Gomoru from ''Series/KamenRiderSuper1''.
117	** The Bat Kaijin from ''Series/KamenRiderBlack''.
118	** ''Series/MaskedRider'' has Fluffy, although its Japanese counterpart in ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX'' is based solely off a flying squirrel.
119	** Another Bat Man appears in the manga based on the film ''Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue''.
120	** Koumori Man from the film ''Film/KamenRiderZO'', becomes Parasect in ''MaskedRider''.
121	** Zu-Goma-Gu, a recurring villain from ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga''.
122	** The Bat Orphnoch from ''Series/KamenRider555''.
123	** The Bat Undead from ''Series/KamenRiderBlade''.
124	** The Bat Imagin from ''Series/KamenRiderDenO''.
125	** The Bat Fangire from ''Series/KamenRiderKiva''. Also counted is TheHero himself, Wataru Kurenai, a human-Fangire hybrid.
126	** The Bat Dopant from ''Series/KamenRiderDouble''.
127	** The Komori Inves from ''Series/KamenRiderGaim''.
128	** In ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'', a rough third of the 108 Roidmudes had their original {{mook}} forms be a bat, the others being spiders and cobras.
129	** Several Bat Amazons appear in ''Series/KamenRiderAmazons''.
130	** Gammaizer Rifle from ''Series/KamenRiderGhost''.
131	** Both [[EvilKnockoff Another Fourze and Another Kiva]] in ''Series/KamenRiderZiO''.
132	** Onycho Magia from ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne''.
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136	* In [[http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/life-on-other-worlds.html this series]] of magazine back-cover pieces from The40s 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"]].
137	* [[https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85064/beavers-moon-great-astronomy-hoax-1835 The Great Moon Hoax of 1835]] that ran in New York's ''The Sun'' newspaper included a description of a civilization of Bat People living on the moon.
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141	* The Popobawa from Tanzania is a one-eyed demon with bat wings and a humanoid body, known to [[DepravedHomosexual anally]] rape sleeping people.
142	* 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.
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146	* ''TabletopGame/{{Crimestrikers}}'', which is set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, features two anthro bats among the main cast. Nyx Marama, one of the eponymous heroes, is one of the nicest characters in the series. Vladimir "Steelwing" Kavas, a deposed dictator with {{cyborg}} wings who wants his old job back, [[BatOutOfHell isn't]].
147	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
148	** Werebats are one of the ''vast'' array of [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent therianthropes]] native to the ''D&D'' multiverse, though they 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.
149	** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, a fair number of the broken ones -- [[BeastMan humanoids with animal features]] -- 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.
150	** 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 [[SuperScream sonic attack to damage, stun and potentially deafen victims.]]
151	** The desmodu, meanwhile, are ogre-sized bat-folk who are actually one of the few good races of the Underdark. They're too large to fly or glide, but are excellent climbers, as well as {{Gadgeteer Genius}}es who had devised a number of tools to help them survive, from steel climbing cables to breathing masks to alchemical weapons. Like bainligors, they have blindsight thanks to their echolocation, and can make sonic attacks to demoralize or damage foes.
152	** Nycters are halfling-sized bat-folk fully capable of flight, and tend to live in forests or caves closer to the surface. They're Neutral compared to other bat-folk, and tend to look down on desmodu as brutish savages, despite the fact that desmodus are smarter and more technologically-advanced. And yes, they have echolocation and can make sonic attacks to damage and potentially paralyze foes.
153	** Vril are a [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblin]] subrace that was mutated by the drow to serve as BattleThralls, and look like blue-purple goblins with elongated arms and monstrous faces. Though flightless, vril can make a sonic attack once per day, and also have the ability to "skinshift" for temporary DamageReduction against a given physical damage type. They're now a truebreeding race incapable of reproducing with other goblinoids, and have a natural weakness to the drow's sleep poison and the venom of spider monsters, all intentional design flaws to make the vril easier to control.
154	** The third-party book ''Underworld Races and Classes'', put out by AAW Games and compatible with ''D&D'''s Fifth Edition, features a bat-like race called ahoolings, which are associated with the larger and more powerful bat-like monsters, the ahool.
155	* ''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]].
156	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
157	** 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.
158	** 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.
159	** Nabasus are a type of demons that resemble hideous humanoid bats.
160	** Nykteras are fey who resemble tiny humanoid bats, and usually live underground and alongside bat species whose features they share.
161	* ''TabletopGame/{{Rym}}'': The cepn are a race of blood-drinking, death-worshipping batfolk assassins mostly known for having betrayed TheAlliance against the alien liches seeking to necromantically "terraform" the planet by assassinating TheGoodKing leading TheAlliance, resulting in the liches winning.
162	* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'':
163	** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
164	*** Strigoi are the most physically bestial of the vampires, and tend to resemble monstrous humanoid bats through traits such as prominent fangs, elongated ears and vestigial wings.
165	*** 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.
166	*** 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.
167	** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
168	*** The khrave resemble humanoid carnivorous bats, with faces framed by winglike ears and mouths filled with fangs. Most are flightless, simply having two sets of humanoid arms, but some possess large wings as an additional pair of limbs.
169	*** Vampires from early editions resemble giant bats the size of a human, which walk upright and possess three free fingers on each wing
170	** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'':
171	*** 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.
172	*** 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.
173	* ''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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177	* ''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]].
178	* ''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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182	* ''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.]]
183	* ''VideoGame/BloodyRoar'': Jenny the Bat, as her name suggests, is a [[{{Animorphism}} Zoanthrope]] with bat features introduced in the second game. Unlike the vast majority of zoanthropes, who turn into [[BeastMan full-on humanoid animals]], Jenny's "zoa form" is [[LittleBitBeastly far more human]], gaining bat ears atop her head, turning her arms into bat wings, and changing her legs into bestial grasping talons, similarly to a bat's. She's also heavily rumored in-universe to have [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire-like traits]], such as a HealingFactor and being TheAgeless.
184	* ''VideoGame/BountyOfOne'': Halfway through a run, the Goblins get replaced with "Bats", a cross between these and RatMen. They're bat-faced humanoids with wingless arms and rat tails who chase after the player like Goblins, but unlike the Goblins, they also have the ability to [[KillOneOthersGetStronger gain a temporary but stacking speed buff whenever another Bat is killed]].
185	* ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' has the Muertitos, a species of mutant bat men that speak Spanish. They are only some of the many mutant creations of [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Prof. Ludwig von Tökkentäkker]].
186	* ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'', set in a world of andromorphic animals, have humanoid-bats as enemies in the cavern stages. They're introduced hanging from ceilings like real-life bats, before swooping down to attack.
187	* ''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.
188	* ''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.
189	* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'': [[spoiler:The Masters of the Bazaar]] are a race called Curators, which are giant, loosely humanoid space bats.
190	* ''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.
191	* ''VideoGame/{{Ghostlore}}'': Ahools, humanoid bats with leathery wings based off the Indonesia cryptid of the same name, appears in the swamps as enemies.
192	* ''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.
193	* ''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.
194	* ''VideoGame/Nocturne1999'': 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.
195	* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': [=BatGals=] are humanoid enemies with yellow eyes, batlike wings on their helmets, and the ability to turn into bats.
196	* ''VideoGame/SilentDragon'' has a giant bat-human as a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere boss. It's briefly foreshadowed in the second stage, when a defeated human boss has a miniature bat-person bursting out from him before flying off, but that was never touched on until now. A later stage has you fighting two more bat-people.
197	* ''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.
198	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has Rouge the Bat.
199	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
200	** ''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.
201	** ''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.
202	* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantsInManhattan'': The boss of Level 6 is Wingnut, a monstrous anthropomorphic bat. He is implied to be an alien in this version, riding a UFO in his boss fight.
203	* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Lilia is a bat-based fairy, as such he can summon bats, is not a morning person, and likes to hang upside down.
204	* ''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.
205	* ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'': Charles The Third, the first major boss of the game, is a humanoid bat creature that works as an agent for Jadow. He is fought a second time as a clone in a boss rush at later parts of the story.
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208	[[folder:Webcomics]]
209	* ''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.
210	* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'': Cave elves have upturned noses, large eyes, large fin-like ears, and sharp teeth that give them a distinctively bat-like appearance, which they developed from living in the dark underground.
211	* ''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.
212	* ''Webcomic/TwinDragons'' has bat hybrids. So far (2022), we've seen Nale's cousins [[https://www.twindragonscomic.com/comic/bat-gathering/ Charon, Jenny, and Trixy Hamilton]], "The Brat Bats". Like all hybrids in the comic, they have fur-covered humanoid bodies and more animalistic heads. In their particular case, they've also got [[WingsDoNothing vestigial]] membranes along their arms. Jenny has a {{Goth}} hairdo, but that may be just her being 14.
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215	[[folder:Web Originals]]
216	* ''WebOriginal/BosunsJournal'': The weightless people, adapted for the zero-gravity environment of Habitat 3, have arms modified into batlike wings and elongated legs with prehensile feet.
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219	[[folder:Western Animation]]
220	* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
221	** ''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]]".
222	** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E3Splicers Splicers]]", Terry is injected with a serum that turns him into a large humanoid bat.
223	** ''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 monster out of his jealousy of Batman's fame.
224	** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': "[[Recap/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBoldS1E22TheLastBatOnEarth The 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.
225	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': The Vladats are a race of vampire-like aliens with the overall appearance of large humanoid bats.
226	* ''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.
227	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S3E10TheTrickening 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.
228	* ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'':
229	** 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.
230	** ''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.
231	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
232	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyRescueAtMidnightCastle'': 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 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]].
233	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
234	*** "[[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.
235	*** "[[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.
236	* ''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.
237	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'':
238	** 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.
239	** 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.
240	* ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'': Mumm-Ra is a batlike humanoid complete with leaf-nosed snout, and gains bat wings in his OneWingedAngel form.
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