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This page discusses bats as they appear as characters in the movie. For species information, see Flying Fox and Vampire Bat.
In the movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, the evil Pure Ones work in alliance with several species of bats, referred to in the art book as the Chiropteran Alliance. The species shown in the film appear to be Flying Foxes and Vampire Bats, with the Flying Foxes even donning blades on their wings. The bats' fur appears to be dyed red and white, the colors of the Pure Ones.
Role in the movie[]
The film first shows bats when Soren is forced to place a fleck on a scale on a pile of flecks. As Soren's gizzard begins to be affected by the flecks' energy, a vampire bat cautiously creeps forward, snatches the fleck away from Soren, and places it on the scale. With the scale apparently full, the vampire bat screeches to signal a large fruit bat, who swoops in through a window and carries the load of flecks away to the main fleck containers.
When Allomere and his two scouts spy on the Pure Ones, they follow a small flock of flying foxes to the Devil's Triangle. There, Allomere, secretly a Pure One collaborator, sends his two friends into a trap; the bats unleash the flecks upon, leaving their fates unknown.

The Pure Ones' hierarchy from the art book, where the Chiropteran Alliance is named.
Later, when Allomere betrays the Guardians, a pair of flying foxes ambush them from the rocks. Equipped with steel blades attached to their wings, the bats engage the guardians. However, they soon prove to simply be a distraction, and the Guardians are forced to the ground as the flecks' full power is released. Nyra is then ordered by Metal Beak to finish the Guardians, upon which she calls to a huge swarm of vampire bats, who stream from the caves to attack.
When Soren and his friends arrive, they attack the vampire bats and manage hold them off for a little while. However, the bats soon get past them; they enter the fleck trap and begin closing in on the Guardians. Soren, however, then disables the trap with a flaming pot, freeing the Guardians and forcing the bats to retreat. Metal Beak watches this happen, and assuming that Soren and his friends were guardians and Allomere had betrayed him, orders the Great Grey killed. Immediately, a pack of flying foxes swarms over Allomere, overpowering him and dragging him away into the caves.
Role in the books[]
Bats are mostly absent in the books, overall. Their main function was to take the blood of owls at St. Aggie's to weaken their urge to fly. Later, Soren was nervous around bats at Bess's library, due to his bad experience with them at St. Aggie's.
Like in real life, it appears that the owls of Ga'hoole eat bats, as it was stated that Otulissa had barbequed bat wings for dinner.
Personality[]
The bats are portrayed as being dark, vicious and mysterious allies of the Pure Ones. They use numbers and ferocity to overwhelm their opponents, shown when a whole pack of them attacked and easily overpowered Allomere, a very large and powerful Great Grey Owl. They never speak, though they do make typical bat sounds; shrieks, screeches, snarls and clicks.
Trivia[]
- Although in real life owls are usually a bat's natural predators, the bats seem more than willing to attack the guardians and Soren's friends. They also are able to easily overpower Allomere, though it should be noted that they did have the element of surprise on their side.
- The bats are completely immune to the power of the flecks, due to their lack of gizzards. This is heavily implied to be the reason why the Pure Ones are allied with them, as they can handle flecks without being affected.
- In the movie, there are creatures from all over the world; vampire bats, which are from South America, Tasmanian Devils, which are from Australia, dingoes (mentioned by Digger), also from Australia, and many species of owl from North America.