Fiction
Building on the fear of bats, vampires in stories and films are often portrayed as being able to transform into bats for locomotion.
A modern example associating fear with bats in fiction is DC Comics' Batman. In many adaptations, Batman is said to have chosen to emulate bats to strike fear into the hearts of criminals. In the film Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne, Batman's secret identity, actually develops a fear of bats as a child when he falls into a cave and is attacked by bats. Henri Ducard makes a grown up Bruce Wayne conquer his fear. Scarecrow is also mentioned as being afraid of bats.
In Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls the titular character is revealed to have chiroptophobia despite his otherwise strong affinity for animals.
Hank Hill from King of the Hill has chiroptophobia because according to hank bats freaks him out.
Grif from Red vs. Blue also showed signs of chiroptophobia during the series' fifth season.
Read more about this topic: Fear Of Bats
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)