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== Batman/Mothman connection? ==

For the benefit of anyone who wants to edit this article (I won't be signing on as an editor myself because the behaviour of some of your more obsessive and less pleasant long-time editors makes trying to edit articles on topics like this a pointless waste of time for anyone who isn't truly passionate about the subject, and/or at least borderline autistic), the connection between Batman and Mothman seems to be this.

Batman's comic-book adversary Killer Moth has been around under various aliases since 1951, but he was always one of the many obscure Batman baddies most people have never heard of, and his only connection with the sixties TV series was to appear in a 15-minute pilot shot as test footage for new character Batgirl that was never aired. His costume does include wings, but otherwise its bright colours are a very poor fit with the reported appearance of the dark, shadowy Point Pleasant bogeyman. And he was never actually called Mothman, so he isn't very likely to have been the direct inspiration for the nickname.

On the other hand, here's a quote from Chapter 12 of Gray Barker's 1970 book "The Silver Bridge", which, though far less well-known than John Keel's "The Mothman Prophecies", predates it by 5 years and was the first book-length treatment of these events. Although marketed as non-fiction, it includes numerous passages that are clearly very fictional indeed, so it's hardly the most reliable of sources. But I think it's reasonable to assume he's telling the truth about not particularly fantastical details such as this:

"The phone rang. It was Channel 13, Huntington, whose news editor had already seen the brief AP item, and was trying to get the whole story. They carried the “Batman” TV show, and had coined a name for the bird-like creature, as a promo for the series. They thought “Mothman” might be a good appellation."

So there you go: it was a catchy nickname directly inspired by the Batman TV show, and not at all by the D-list Batman supporting character Killer Moth, whose vague similarity to Mothman appears to be purely coincidental. I hope this will be helpful to anyone who fancies having an edit-war with those nasty little boys who have successfully dissuaded people like me from wasting our time trying to improve Wikipedia. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/86.141.29.155|86.141.29.155]] ([[User talk:86.141.29.155#top|talk]]) 09:05, 15 January 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

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