History Main / BloodsuckingBats

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Sabosans are [[BatPeople batlike humanoids]] who feed by drinking the blood of other beings, preferably other humanoids. While their true origins aren't known, they're rumored to descend from humans who were afflicted with vampirism but managed to avoid fully succumbing to it.

Compare BatScare and OneEyedBats, which are other bat-related tropes. Subtrope of BatOutOfHell, as bats of the blood-sucking variety tend to be considered scary or vicious. Not related to GoddamnBats, but they may overlap.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The Bloodhunter Bat hunts and retrieves blood for its undead masters, represented by its ability removing life from your opponent and giving it to you.
-->''It returns eager to share the feast of blood and gore with its ghoulish master.''

Compare BatScare and OneEyedBat, which are other bat-related tropes. Subtrope of BatOutOfHell, as bats of the blood-sucking variety tend to be considered scary or vicious. Not related to GoddamnBats, but they may overlap.

Compare BatScare, which is another bat-related trope. Subtrope of BatOutOfHell, as bats of the blood-sucking variety tend to be considered scary or vicious. Not related to GoddamnBats, but they may overlap.

Bats in real life come in a variety of species, which have a variety of diets. Some eat fruit, while others fly around hunting for insects, but the most known group consume the blood of animals like cattle. Bats like these are indigenous to South and Central America only. While they don't [[VampireBitesSuck "suck" blood]] in the vampiric sense, their blood-feeding nature has become infused with vampire lore some time in the late 19th Century. In return, the association with vampires means many fictional bats and their equivalents are considered to be bloodsuckers, or otherwise have a way of draining the life out of their food.

* Fanfic/WhenInstinctFalls: Vladzotz Fangpyre the bat crime lord has a vampire-like style of fashion and a literal thirst for blood.

* ''VideoGame/DuskDiver'': Subverted. Boss refers to Bahet the flying fox as "young vampire", but the latter states that he is a vegetarian.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The vampire fruit bats in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]" do a G-rated version of this in which they suck all the juice out of apples, acting as a menace on Applejack's farm.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay State of Decay]]", Aukon commands a swarm of blood-sucking bats.

* In [[Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths Yolngu]] oral traditions the Garkain is a bat thing that drinks blood, though sometimes it is depicted as bird-like instead.
* The Manananggal from ''Myth/PhilippineMythology'' is a vampiric creature that has a proboscis it uses to drink blood, as well as bat wings.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The 1st Edition AD&D supplement ''Monster Manual II'' describes fire bats, creatures from the Elemental Plane of Fire. They attack other creatures by biting down on them with their razor-sharp fangs and drinking the victim's blood. Once they have drained blood for three minutes, they are satiated and return to their lair.

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* ''Manga/InuYasha'' has a clan of bat [[{{Youkai}} youkai]], who repeatedly attack humans and suck their blood out.
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Bats in real life come in a variety of species, which have a variety of diets. Some eat fruit, while others fly around hunting for insects, but the most infamous group consume the blood of animals like cattle. While they don't [[VampireBitesSuck "suck" blood]] in the vampiric sense, they are the inspiration for the creature and, in return, the association with vampires means many fictional bats and their equivalents are considered to be bloodsuckers, or otherwise have a way of draining the life out of their food.

Vampire characters don't count for this trope, as for them sucking blood is just part of the package. As such, this is only for actual bats and their in-universe equivalents. For the vampire scenario, see VampiricDraining.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The [[https://scryfall.com/card/a25/80/bloodhunter-bat Bloodhunter Bat]] hunts and retrieves blood for its undead masters, represented by its ability removing life from your opponent and giving it to you.

* The Manananggal from ''PhilippineMythology'' is a vampiric creature that has a proboscis it uses to drink blood, as well as bat wings.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Discussed in an arc where Calvin has to write a report on bats. Having [[CriticalResearchFailure not done any research]], he claims that bats are blood-sucking bugs, which is immediately debunked by his teacher and classmates.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'', the bat colony that helps the group is stated by Dave to drink warm blood, and Maddie tells one (Vlad) to get away from Pretty Boy’s neck. Interestingly, official material lists them as flying foxes, which are herbivores.

* In ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'', bat monsters all have the ability to suck life out of enemies, animated as sucking blood.

* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94'', it's implied that the bat enemy is vampiric, as it makes a "suck-suck" noise when it touches Mario.

* In ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', Bats are an environmental enemy. Some steal health/hp (which is portrayed as red droplets); others cause bleeding, a DamageOverTime condition.

-->''When that twerpy little bat Minicula bites me and sucks my blood, I turn into a bat! My big, macho arms turn into puny little wings! By the way, what's my blood type? You sucked my blood, the least you can do is tell me that! What a pest!''

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'': Although this is not represented in in-game mechanics, the manual's description of Wario's Bat Wario form describes both Miniculas (small bat enemies that turn Wario into this form on contact) as sucking blood.

* The tuxedo bat enemies in ''VideoGame/TribalHunter'' attack Munch by latching onto him and sucking his blood and sapping his health which requires you to button mash to shake them off. If you let the bat keep sucking, it'll eventually overindulge and grow very fat, which will incapacitate it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode "Bloodsucking Fruit Bats of the Lower Amazon", Igor is summoning his new pet, a "[[OxymoronicBeing bloodsucking fruit bat]]" and plots to use his pet to convert Count Duckula into the vampire that he truly is, but fails when he finds out that Nanny and Duckula have been treating the bat as a benevolent pet.

* While no bat sucks blood, as such, three species of vampire bat exist -- the common vampire bat, the white-winged vampire bat and the hairy-legged vampire bat, all found in South and Mesoamerica. They feed exclusively on the blood of large mammals, which they obtain by biting open small wounds in their skin and licking up the blood as it flows out, relying on anticoagulants in their saliva to keep it from clotting until they're done.

Vampire characters don't count for this trope, as for them, sucking blood is just part of the package. As such, this is only for actual bats and their in-universe equivalents. For the vampire scenario, see VampiricDraining.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Exaggerated in "[[HalloweenEpisode The Trickening!]]" where the Duck kids encounter a group of classic monsters, one of which is an [[LooksLikeOrlock Orlock-esque]] vampire who is an anthropomorphic vampire bat.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Exaggerated in [[HalloweenEpisode The Trickening!]]" where the Duck kids encounter a group of classic monsters, one which is an [[LooksLikeOrlock Orlock-esque]] vampire who is an anthropomorphic vampire bat.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The HalloweenEpisode, "The Trickening!", features a vampire who happens to be an anthropomorphic vampire bat.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The HalloweenEpisode, "The Trickening!", features a vampire who is also an anthropomorphic vampire bat.