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The Bat Man appeared in 1971 TV series called Kamen Rider. The Bat Man (蝙蝠男 Kōmori Otoko) or Human Bat (人間蝙蝠 Ningen Kōmori) is a bat kaijin created by Shocker.
The Bat Man carries in his fangs a sentient virus engineered by Shocker, capable of turning people into vampire-fanged servants under his control. He used an apartment building as a laboratory, until Kamen Rider 1 arrived to investigate one of the "live test subjects" who had attacked him. The Bat Man is injured in a fight and puts himself under a trance-like hypnosis along with the people his bites had infected. After Hongo had left and Ruriko Midorikawa arrived, he woke himself and infected her, in the process revealing that it was Shocker and not Hongo who had killed her father. He attempted to barter her life for Hongo, revealing that he has the antidote for the virus in his claws. Upon gaining this knowledge, Hongo attacked, and in the ensuing fight, the Bat Man is destroyed by Rider 1's Rider Throw. Afterwards, Hongo used its claws to cure the infected people.
He was later resurrected by Shocker as part of the Revived Kaijin Army against Rider 1 but is destroyed again along with his fellow revived Inhumanoids when Tokageron's Barrier Destruction Ball is used against them.
The Bat Man also made a brief return appearance in the monster army of the Kamen Rider vs. Shocker movie, but did not actually have an active participation there.
Powers and Abilities[]
Bat Man can turn his victims into vampire-fanged servants with a virus-transmitting bite; these servants are presumably also capable of transmitting the virus through bites. He is also able to fly and is armed with Razor Sharp Claws.