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[[File:SuperEffectiveZubats.png|link=Pokemon|frame|[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|We can't stop here. This is Zubat country.]]]]
{{quote|''"Every first-person game seems to have these tiny little enemies that hop at your face, are hard to hit and, worse of all, are unsatisfying to kill."''|'''David Wong''', ''[[Cracked.com]]''}}
|'''David Wong''', ''[[Cracked.com]]''}}
{{quote|"Why do so many games have so many fucking BATS?!"|'''James Rolfe''', ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]''}}
|'''James Rolfe''', ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]''}}
They're probably not going to ''kill'' you like a extremely overpowered mook, but they're certainly going to harass you and slow you down.
The boss version of this trope is the [[Goddamned Boss]], who is an absolute pain in the butt to fight. For a [[Narrative Tropes]] version of this, you want [[The Usual Adversaries]]. For ''actual'' bats, see [[Bat Out of Hell]]. Do not confuse with the [[Batman|goddamn Batman]].
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== Video Game Examples ==
* [[Goddamned Bats/Action Adventure|Action Adventure]]
** [[Goddamned Bats/Castlevania|Castlevania]]
** [[Goddamned Bats/The Legend of Zelda|The Legend of Zelda]]
** [[Goddamned Bats/Metroid|Metroid]]
** [[Goddamned Bats/Mega Man|Mega Man]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Adventure Game|Adventure Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Beat Em Up|Beat Em Up]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Collectible Card Game|Collectible Card Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Driving Game|Driving Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Fighting Game|Fighting Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/First Person Shooter|First Person Shooter]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Third Person Shooter|Third Person Shooter]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Interactive Fiction|Interactive Fiction]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Platform Game|Platform Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Puzzle Game|Puzzle Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Real Time Strategy|Real Time Strategy]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Roguelike|Roguelike]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Role Playing Game|Role Playing Game]]
** [[Goddamned Bats/Final Fantasy|Final Fantasy]]
** [[Goddamned Bats/Pokémon|Pokémon]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Shoot Em Up|Shoot Em Up]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Simulation Game|Simulation Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Stealth Based Game|Stealth Based Game]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Survival Horror|Survival Horror]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Tabletop Games|Tabletop Games]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Turn Based Strategy|Turn Based Strategy]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Real Life|Real Life]]
== Non-Video Game ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has a villain whose main method of 'attack' is to hide behind a cloud of regenerating shadow bats as hard as bricks and run away when his opponent's not looking. Cue the protagonist spending the entire fight wandering around the forest looking for his enemy.
=== Board Games ===
* In the 1978 Avalon Hill board game [http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22 Magic Realm] the giant bats are among the most dangerous of all monsters. They are too fast to run away from or hit reliably, kill unarmored characters instantly, and wound to death those with heavy armor.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* [[Piranha Problem|Piranhas]] became this in an episode of [[River Monsters]], in which Jeremy constantly caught piranhas, when he wasn't just having his bait stolen.
* In ''[[Community]]'', [[Refuge in Audacity|the hippies]] act as this when the group plays an important video game created by Pierce's elitist father.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004566 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMPS!!!!]
** {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|Which become]] [[Boss in Mooks Clothing|Bosses in Mooks Clothing]] after Jade prototypes her kernelsprite.}}
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[[Category:Scrappy Index]]
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