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[[File:GoddamnedBats_3228.png|link=Pokémon|right| [[[[Fear and Loathing Inin Las Vegas]] We can't stop here. <br />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|Cracked.com]]''}}
 
{{quote|"Why do so many games have so many fucking BATS?!"|'''James Rolfe''', ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]''}}
 
 
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Almost every video game has them. These are the enemies that are just a speed bump, even if they are not outright dangerous. They're not difficult to defeat, but because of the frequency with which they appear, they can become a significant hindrance to the player.
 
[[Frank Miller|They're the]] [[All -Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder|goddamn]] [[Memetic Mutation|bats]], [[A Worldwide Punomenon|man]].
 
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]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Piranha Problem|Piranhas]] became this in an episode of [[River Monsters (TV)|River Monsters]], in which Jeremy constantly caught piranhas, when he wasn't just having his bait stolen.
* In ''[[Community (TV)|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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