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{{trope}}
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▲[[File:GoddamnedBats_3228.png|link=Pokémon|right| [[[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]] We can't stop here. <br />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]]''}}
{{quote|"Why do so many games have so many fucking BATS?!"
|'''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.
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A key trait is that they generally don't pose too large of a threat on their own; they're more annoying than deadly. When an enemy starts posing an actual threat, then it's a case of [[Demonic Spiders]] and, in extreme cases, the [[Boss in Mook Clothing]].
Note that this designation applies to ''any'' type of ''non-threatening enemy'' whose purpose is to stall and harass the player.
Common traits of Goddamned Bats may include but are not limited to:
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* [[Blackout Basement|Provides light]] or otherwise makes itself undesirable to kill, while still attacking the player like a rabid monkey.
Other following factors can contribute to a game having
* Player having relatively large health bar, reducing the enemies' relative threat (and thus the need to exterminate them quickly) -- even if it's just [[Scratch Damage]], enduring repeated hits adds up.
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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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[[Category:Older Than the NES]]
[[Category:Scrappy Index]]
[[Category:This Index Is Not an Example]]▼
[[Category:Video Game Characters]]▼
[[Category:Video Game Difficulty Tropes]]
[[Category:YMMV Trope]]
▲[[Category:Video Game Characters]]
▲[[Category:This Index Is Not an Example]]
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