History Main / BatOutOfHell

** It's also played with in the case of the most prominent character who happens to be a Korbat, [[DarkIsNotEvil Lord Darigan]]. Introduced as the apparent BigBad in the ''Champions of Meridell'' plot, we later learn that he and his people were victimized by the supposed "heroes," Meridell, when they stole the Orb, and [[MoralEventHorizon cast a hellish curse on them, despite Darigan's kingdom being pacifistic]]. Despite looking like a mixture of [[{{Batman}} Man-Bat]] and a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]], Lord Darigan and his people are merely fighting to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. Although they won the war, a DiabolusExMachina ended with Darigan going BrainwashedAndCrazy when the orb failed to work. Not only did [[KarmaHoudini King Skarl]] get away scot-free and [[WallBanger earned a position in the Gallery of Heroes while Darigan was placed in the Gallery of Evil]], Darigan's [[DragonAscendant successor]], [[FeatheredFiend Lord Kass]], [[KnightOfCerebus was]] [[PuttingOnTheReich far]] [[TheSociopath more]] [[CompleteMonster monstrous]]. Fortunately, Lord Darigan [[BackFromTheDead returned from the dead]] [[BigDamnHeroes and saved Meridell, forgiving them and trying to usher in a new era of peace]]. [[UngratefulBastard And yet Darigan's still in the Gallery of Evil with Kass and the like]].

# Were Bats: Monstrous, anthropomorphic creatures with a mixture of bat and human features. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires can sometimes]] transform into these.

* Somewhat subverted with [[SonicTheHedgehog Rouge the Bat]]. She's a ClassyCatBurglar ([[TheSandiego with rather improbable goals]]) and generally on the evil side, but closer to TrueNeutral and often acting as an AntiHero.
** Played straigter with Ixis Naugus, although he's only one-third bat.

** It's also played with in the case of the most prominent character who happens to be a Korbat, [[DarkIsNotEvil Lord Darigan]]. Introduced as the apparent BigBad in the ''Champions of Meridell'' plot, we later learn that he and his people were victimized by the supposed "heroes," Meridell, when they stole the Orb, and [[MoralEventHorizon cast a hellish curse on them, despite Darigan's kingdom being pacifistic]]. Despite looking like a mixture of [[{{Batman}} Man-Bat]] and a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]], Lord Darigan and his people are merely fighting to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. Although they won the war, a DiabolusExMachina ended with Darigan going BrainwashedAndCrazy when the orb failed to work. Not only did [[KarmaHoudini King Skarl]] get away scot-free and [[WallBanger earned a position in the Gallery of Heroes while Darigan was placed in the Gallery of Evil]], Darigan's [[DragonAscendant successor]], [[FeatheredFiend Lord Kass]], [[KnightOfCerebus was]] [[PuttingOnTheReich far]] [[TheSociopath more]] [[CompleteMonster monstrous]]. Fortunately, Lord Darigan [[BackFromTheDead returned from the dead] and saved Meridell, forgiving them and trying to usher in a new era of peace]]. [[UngratefulBastard And yet Darigan's still in the Gallery of Evil with Kass and the like]].

** It's also played with in the case of the most prominent character who happens to be a Korbat, [[DarkIsNotEvil Lord Darigan]]. Introduced as the apparent BigBad in the ''Champions of Meridell'' plot, we later learn that he and his people were victimized by the supposed "heroes," Meridell, when they stole the Orb, and [[MoralEventHorizon cast a hellish curse on them, despite Darigan's kingdom being pacifistic]]. Despite looking like a mixture of [[{{Batman}} Man-Bat]] and a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]], Lord Darigan and his people are merely fighting to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. Although they won the war, a DiabolusExMachina ended with Darigan going BrainwashedAndCrazy when the orb failed to work. Not only did [[KarmaHoudini King Skarl]] get away scot-free and [[WallBanger earning a position in the Gallery of Heroes while Darigan was placed in the Gallery of Evil]], Darigan's [[DragonAscendant successor]], [[FeatheredFiend Lord Kass]], [[KnightOfCerebus was]] [[PuttingOnTheReich far]] [[TheSociopath more]] [[CompleteMonster monstrous]]. Fortunately, Lord Darigan [[BackFromTheDead returned from the dead] and saved Meridell, forgiving them and trying to usher in a new era of peace. [[UngratefulBastard And yet Darigan's still in the Gallery of Evil with Kass and the like]].

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*** YouFailBiologyForever; its not even a case of ScienceMarchesOne as that hypothesis was never taken seriously by the majority of biologists anyway.

* Completely subverted (and also played straight, if you think about it) in ''Silverwing'' - the protagonists are bats. The story is about bats. Bats are the good guys, with birds and land mammals (the traditional heroes) as villains or at least bad-tempered (with a few exceptions). Granted, the main villain is ''also'' a bat...

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Bats are creepy for many people. They often seem rats [[RecycledINSPACE with wings]] to us, they are thought to spread rabies, and apparently like to hang out in all sorts of dark, foreboding places (caves, bell towers, abandoned houses, castles, crypts, etc). Three species drink blood (however there are almost 1000 other species of bats that don't do that), so bats are very heavily associated with vampires . As such, bats frequently show up as antagonists in horror themed media. Can be roughly divided into two types:

# Dire Bats: Normal bat, but larger and more vicious than usual. [[TheSwarm Like to swarm.]]
# Were Bats: Monstrous, anthropomorphic creature with bat and human features. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires can sometimes]] transform into these.

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* Spectral Bats, who have 3 foot long wingspans and are the largest carnivous bat alive, will eat anything smaller than it and will hunt other bats as well. Execpt that bats with offspring are very good [[MamaBear mothers]] and [[PapaWolf fathers]]. The male will even sleep with the mother and young in his wings.

* The Chiropterans in ''BloodPlus'' take the vampire/bat comparison and run with it(check out the name). Even the humanoid chiropterans get batlike features when they go OneWingedAngel.

* Marvel also has Batwing, who manly showed up in Untold Stories of Spider-Man. A Man-Bat homage by Kurt Busiek.

* The latest ''KingKong'' film features a cave of DireBats.

* Turned around in the Argentine computer animated movie Plumiferos (free birds). Clarita the bat frightens Feifi the sparrow at first during her new life of freedom out of her cage, but the misunderstanding is cleared and they become good friends.
* Averted in the 1997 film, {{Anastasia}}. Bartok the albino bat objects to his master's heinous acts, and gets beaten up by demonic insects. He got his own sequel called {{Bartok The Magnificent}}.

* Oddly averted in {{Redwall}}, which normally plays "good" and "evil" animal stereotypes straight. Mossflower's bats are perfectly nice, help the heroes, and speak with an odd [[FunetikAksent nervous tic, nervous tic, nervous tic ...]] This is explained by WordOfGod as the bats having spent their entire lives listening to their voices echo in the caves they live in, so now they provide their own echo.

* The Future Predators, {{Primeval}}'s answer to [[{{Doctor Who}} the Daleks]], are highly evolved flightless bats.

* In one episode of TheOffice, a bat winds up loose in the titular office. Jim, playing to Dwight's usual GenreBlindness, convinces him that he was bitten and is turning into a vampire.

* In ''MortalKombat vs. {{DC}}'', Batman's [[strike:fatality]] heroic brutality is apparently summoning a swarm of bats.

* The Keese from LegendOfZelda are pretty average sized.. But can light themselves on fire! .. Or Ice! [[SoYeah Yeah they light themselves on ice, big whoop, wanna fight about it?]]
* Vampires in AdventureQuest normally turn into Werebats, and more powerful Vampires are always Werebats (except the queen). Werepyres are part wolf, part bat, but they look more like a bat than a wolf.
* The [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] series has a lot of giant bat type enemies (Swoopers, Swampires, Swoopulas, Fangs, etc), most being rougly Mario or playable character sized and in some cases, annoying as they either swoop down or drain Mario's health.
** Similarly, the WarioLand series has various kinds of creepy bats, from the annoying flying bomb shaped bats which explode after attaching themselves to Wario, the bats in WarioLand 4 which turn him into a vampire just by touching him, the ones in Shake It which just swarm him, and whatever the heck Catbat is actually meant to be (some kind of flying cat thing with bat wings for ears, a mechanical bat head on it's head, that floats like a ghost. And that heads straight into NightmareFuel).

* {{Darksiders}} features not only enemy bats (occasionally fire breathing or using sound attacks), but also their mommy: Super-sized bat demon Tiamat.
* [[RivieraThePromisedLand Riviera: The Promised Land]] featured a bat...as a weapon! You catch it and use it against your enemies.

* Averted with one of the alternate BeastWars toy sets, with an [[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/beast-wars/optimus-primal-bat/239/ Optimus Primal bat]]. (The Megatron in that set was a crocodile.)

* Averted in the 1997 film, {{Anastasia}}. Bartok the albino bat objects to his master's henious acts, and gets beaten up by demonic insects. He got his own sequel called {{Bartok The Magnificent}}.

* StephenKing's ''Graveyard Shift'' is about a car-sized bat terrorizing a textile mill.
**Someone [[DidNotDoTheResearch Did Not Do The Research]] here...they were giant RATS, not bats.
***Though there ARE bats in the mill, they turn out to be ''literally'' rats with wings.
**Actually, in the movie version, the main "boss" is some sort of albino BAT, not a rat.
*** And a rabid bat starts all the trouble in ''Cujo''.

* ''GilligansIsland'' episode "Up At Bat". Gilligan is bitten by a *large*, nasty looking bat and thinks he's turning into a vampire.
**Doesn't that bat look kinda fake though?