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{{trope}}
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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.]]
[[File:SuperEffectiveZubats.png|link=Pokemon|frame|[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|We can't stop here. This is Zubat country.]]]]
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{{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|''"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]]''}}
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== Video Game Examples ==
* [[Goddamned Bats/Action Adventure|Action Adventure]]
* [[Goddamned Bats/Action Adventure|Action Adventure]]
** [[Goddamned Bats/Castlevania|Castlevania]]
** [[Goddamned Bats/Castlevania|Castlevania]]
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== Non-Video Game ==
== Non-Video Game ==
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
=== [[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.
* ''[[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 ==
=== 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.
* 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.


== [[Web Comics]] ==
=== [[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!!!!]
* ''[[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.}}
** {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|Which become]] [[Boss in Mooks Clothing|Bosses in Mooks Clothing]] after Jade prototypes her kernelsprite.}}

== [[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.


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