The power to separate and disperse into a swarm of bats. Technique of Bat Physiology. Variation of Animal Swarming.
Also Called[]
- Bat/Chiroptera Swarm Form/Scattering
Capabilities[]
The user can disperse their body into a swarm of bats, scattering into large area while retaining control over their fragments instead of staying in relatively cohesive form and reforming from any part.
Applications[]
- Hive Mind
- Reforming
- Spying/scouting large areas at once.
- Defensive dispersing making the user very hard to hurt and especially capture/kill since finding all of the fragments is practically impossible using normal methods.
Techniques[]
- Flash Step: By transforming into bats and back while moving around the battlefield.
Associations[]
- Aim Dodging
- Animal Swarming
- Avian Swarming
- Bat Physiology
- Disassembly
- Safe Mode
- Scattering
- Vampire Physiology: A common power of vampires.
Limitations[]
- There's a limit for how far the scattered parts can be from any other part.
- May need most of the scattered pieces together to be able to reform.
- Amount of scattered pieces may be limited by the user's body size.
- May require enhanced coordination to control all the fragments.
Known Users[]
See Also: One to Million to One
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Ian (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)
- Baek-Ji (Hero Killer)
- Alucard (Hellsing)
- Gasper Vladi (High School DxD)
- Gekko Moriah (One Piece); via the Kage Kage no Mi
- Mosquito (Soul Eater); 400 years ago form
Cartoons
- Dracula (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)
- Zats (Maya and the Three)
Comics
- Batman (DC Comics); via the Hellbat Suit
- The Red Death (DC Comics)
Tabletop Games
- Camazotz Fera (World of Darkness)
Movies
- Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
- Vlad III Tepes/Dracula (Dracula Untold)
- Mina Harker (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Literature
- Sally von Humpeding (Discworld)
Live Television
- Alexander Lucard/Count Dracula (Dracula: The Series)
- Broodwing (Power Rangers S.P.D.)
Video Games
- Destra (Battle Chasers Nightwar)
- Bayonetta (Bayonetta); via Bat Within
- Alucard (Castlevania)
- Dracula (Castlevania)
- Trevor Belmont/Alucard (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2); via Bat Cloud
- Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers)
- Lilith (Darkstalkers)
- Demitri Maximoff (Darkstalkers)
- Nevan the Lightning Witch (Devil May Cry 3)
- LadyDevimon (Digimon)
- Myotismon (Digimon)
- Vampire Lords (The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard)
- Scions of the Blood Matron (The Elder Scrolls: Online)
- Vampires (inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood); via Shadow Swarm
- Kain (Legacy of Kain)
- Elise (MadWorld)
- Antasma (Mario & Luigi: Dream Team)
- Cackletta (Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga)
- Suika Ibuki (Touhou Project)
- Flandre Scarlet (Touhou Project)
- Remilia Scarlet (Touhou Project)
- Vagullion (Ys Origin)
Western Animation
- Lenore (Castlevania Netflix Series)
Gallery[]
Cole MacGrath (inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood) was turned into a vampire by Bloody Mary, so he is able to turn himself into a flock of bats.
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Gekko Moriah (One Piece) commanding his Doppelman clone to scatter into shadow bats.
Alucard (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2)'s Bat Cloud ability in action.
Dracula (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) demonstrates.
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Vlad III Tepes/Dracula (Dracula Untold)
Gasper Vladi (High School DxD)
Mina Harker (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
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Kain (Legacy of Kain) can dematerialize and reform in bats
Myotismon (Digimon)