Basic Trope: Bats that drink blood.
- Straight: A bat drinks blood.
- Exaggerated: All of the bats drink blood, regardless of species.
- Downplayed: Only the three species of bats that naturally drink blood note are shown to do so.
- Justified:
- The bats in question are vampire bats, which actually do drink blood (though usually of livestock rather than from humans).
- The bats are vampires in disguise.
- Inverted: Bats will drink anything except for blood.
- Subverted: A bat lands on a sleeping human’s neck, opens its mouth wide…and eats an insect that was crawling on the person.
- Double Subverted: The bat didn't mean to bite the insect — it was aiming for a vein.
- Parodied: A bat's Trademark Favorite Food is various red foods/drinks.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- No bats drink blood.
- There are no bats.
- Enforced: The creators want to include a scary bloodsucking creature for the Halloween episode, but vampires do not exist in the setting, so they settle for bats that drink blood.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Needing a live bat as an ingredient in a dark spell, Alice leaves a cup of warm blood out in a cave and waits for bats to come.
- Defied: A sapient vampire bat becomes a vegetarian.
- Discussed: "Do you really think bats are going to drink your blood?"
- Conversed: ???
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