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Revision as of 00:19, 18 April 2014
Man-Bat (real name Hugh Janus" "Kirk" Langstrom) is an enemy to Batman, who first appeared in Detective Comics #400, illustrated by Neal Adams.
In other media
Man-Bat has appeared numerous times in the animated Batman cartoons, the associated toys, and in the video games.
Television
Batman: The Animated Series
- In the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Doomsday Sanction," Professor Milo mentions that Dr. Langstrom's research has proven useful to his experiments splicing together human and animal DNA for the Cadmus Project. This ended with a disaster when a mutated warthog was mentioned to have destroyed his lab.
- In Batman Beyond, a new trend called "splicing" involved fusing together animal and human DNA. The new Batman Terry McGinnis, ends up captured by the leader of the splicers, Abel Cuvier aka Chimera, and is injected with vampire bat DNA and ends up resembling Man-Bat. He is later turned back to normal by Wayne.
The Batman
- See: Man-Bat (The Batman)
Film
Man-Bat was considered as an antagonist in the third and fifth films of the Burton/Schumacher Batman series but ultimately wasn't used.
Video games
- In the Super Nintendo game The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Man-Bat is one of the bosses. In this game he speaks, although in the show he never spoke in Man-Bat form.
- Man-Bat is perhaps the only major Batman villain never to even be referenced in either Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City.
- It is possible that Man-Bat is referenced in Batman: Arkham Origins as Aflred describes seeing a "king bat" nesting in the Batcave. Leading to some fans speculating that Man-Bat does in fact exsist in the Arkham universe and is nesting in the Batcave.
LEGO Batman: The Video Game
- See: Man-Bat (LEGO Batman: The Video Game)
Toys
- Man-Bat has made several appearances as an action figure as part of Hasbro's Batman: The Animated Series and Dark Knight lines, Mattel's The Batman line, DC Direct's Arkham Asylum line, Art Asylum's minimates line, and the HeroClix line.
- Man-Bat is also one of the action figures from the line, Secret Files 1: Batman Rogues Gallery. The Man-Bat version of this is the brown skinned/fur with green pants.
- An unproduced prototype figure of Man-Bat for Kenner's Super Powers Collection was unearthed after the line's cancellation.
- Man-Bat was also featured in Mattel's DCSH line. The brown version was scheduled for series 8, but was dropped and replaced by Catwoman. A white version of Man-Bat was featured as a San Diego Comic Convention exclusive in packaging designed by Frank Varela of Mattel Toys.