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List of the various foes encountered in ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' and ''Baldur's Gate II''.
'''Warning: Spoilers ahead!'''
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* [[Lightning Bruiser]] - When you fight him at the end of the first game, he's a [[Made of Iron]] boss-level fighter who also starts the fight with an innate Haste spell effect on him. Unless you Dispel him immediately, he's faster than almost anything else in the game, and can gib anything short of an endgame-level hero in 1 hit.
* [[Magikarp Power]] - With ''Ascension'' installed, if you keep his Sword of Chaos, which can be found in the ''first dungeon'' of ''Shadows of Amn'', he will be able to restore some of its original power and upgrades it to a +4 weapon with several nifty abilities.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Not Quite Dead]] - You have to kill him twice before he can ''join your party''.
* [[Purposefully Overpowered]] - As a teammate, he's about as powerful as one can get before crossing into sheer broken ridiculousness. Numerically, his stat total is 96, a fair bit higher than any other character. Justified, of course, by how powerful he is in the story.
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* [[Badass Boast]] - Spoken while annihilating several enemy mages.
{{quote|'''Irenicus:''' I cannot be caged! I cannot be controlled! Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools!}}
* [[Chewing the Scenery]] - When you are voiced by David Warner, it's inevitable.
{{quote|You will suffer. You will ''all'' suffer!}}
* [[Complete Monster]] - If there's anyone who proves that a villain can be both this and a [[Magnificent Bastard]], he's the one.
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* [[Deader Than Dead]] - {{spoiler|First, you need to kill him. Then you need to kill him in Hell. Then he dies in yet ANOTHER place in Hell, and dies for real.}}
** {{spoiler|1=And even then, not necessarily... Following the logic train here, he's not ''really'' dead, just in another even lower abyssal plane. There are also some game mods for ToB that have Irenicus return as a character. One has him in cahoots with Melissan, returning during the final battle at the Throne of Bhaal (the Ascension mod), where another has him return as a playable character that can be obtained shortly after beginning T o B, though he of course only agrees to join you for his own [[The Chessmaster|reasons]].}}
** Let's just say that in the ending of
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]] - He's treated like this by the fanfic community around half the time. The other half, he's a [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Enemy Mine]] - Irenicus' alliance with the Drow is made possible by their mutual hatred of the elves.
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* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]] - If you have an addon for ''Ascension'' (appropriately titled ''Redemption''), it's possible to turn him against Amellysan and redeem him.}}
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]] - His slaughter of the Cowled Wizards, arguably.
* [[Large Ham]] - A great example of how one can be [[Large Ham]] without raising one's voice.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]] - He commits absolutely unforgivable crimes, murders anyone without hesitation, ruthlessly sacrifices his sister, and yet he does it with such charisma and flair it's hard to not admire his skill, just a little. Being played by David Warner helps.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]] - Performing his "experiments" on Imoen, without a hint of compassion.
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{{quote|Once my lust for power was everything. And now I hunger only for revenge. AND [[Punctuated for Emphasis|I! WILL! HAVE IT!]]}}
* [[Silence, You Fool]] - "Silence, dog! You have no purpose but to die by my hand."
* [[That Man Is Dead]] - What Irenicus says about Joneleth when Ellesime confronts him at the end.
* [[Unknown Rival]] - Not really an example, but Irenicus stops caring about you after he steals your soul, to a point where he's absolutely surprised you'd come after him to get it back (he was hoping you'd have just crawled off and died without your soul).
* [[We Are as Mayflies]] - Irenicus despises being a human (or the equivalent of a human) partially because of his limited lifespan.
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* [[I Have Your Wife]] - Bodhi kidnaps whoever you're having a romance with.
* [[Lady Macbeth]] - In her backstory. It's suggested that Bodhi was the one who encouraged Irenicus' move to [[The Dark Side]], in what was ''probably'' a non-romantic way.
* [[Large Ham]] - Good thing she has fangs, because she certainly likes to chew the scenery.
* [[Like Brother and Sister]] - She and Irenicus constantly refer to themselves as siblings, but it's never made clear whether this is literally true or not.
* [[Mercy Lead]] - Sorta. When Bodhi releases the party into the Spellhold maze so that she can hunt them, she declares she'll come after them after a certain unspecified amount of time. In an unmodded game, she doesn't decide time's up until the party reaches a certain specific area of the dungeon, which could be quickly or after [[Take Your Time|quite a long while]].
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* [[A God Am I]] - You better believe it. Noticing a pattern in the villains?
* [[Big Bad]] - Of ''Throne of Bhaal''.
* [[Boss Rush]] - {{spoiler|In a semi-official Ascension mod, she first summons Irenicus and Bodhi. If possible she'll also turn Imoen into the Slayer, forcing you to either [[Player Punch|put her down]] or play keep-away until she snaps out of it. When you defeat them, she then summons all of the Five at once to attack you. Then, once two of the Five get finished off, she steps into the battle, summoning demons to aid her as her health goes down}}.
* [[Chaotic Evil]]
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]
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Associated Tropes for all of them:
* [[Five-Bad Band]] - Well, obviously.
** The [[Big Bad]]: Balthazhar. Fought last, most powerful, only revealed after other four are dead.
** [[The Dragon]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Abazigal]].
** [[The Brute]]: Yaga-Shura.
** The [[Evil Genius]]: Sendai fits best, given her status as [[Puzzle Boss]] and [[Sequential Boss]] who throws all her minions at you first. She's really one of the dumber ones of the five in terms of planning, however.
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* [[Our Dragons Are Different]] - Blue dragon
* [[Shock and Awe]]
* [[That One Boss]] - His 'doorguard' and son Draconis is an epic-level mage and can turn himself invisible at will while in dragon form, and tends to move around the stage and use hit-and-run attacks. He is consequently one of the most annoying bosses in the game. Abazigal himself, by comparison, [[Breather Boss|stands still and lets you wail on him, and just has a lot of HP]].
* [[This Cannot Be!]] - Word for word.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]] - The only Bhaalspawn boss that can potentially be instantly killed by Vorpal weapons, dragon-form only.
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* [[Soul Jar]] - A variation of this is the explanation for his [[Nigh Invulnerable|Nigh Invulnerability]].
* [[This Cannot Be!]] - Word for word, when you defeat him. If he weren't so [[Genre Blind]], he'd realize that rendering himself invulnerable by [[Soul Jar|putting his essence into his heart]] and keeping it in a secret location hardly makes him invincible.
* [[You Are Too Late]] - The whole portion of ToB that deals with him is a bit of a [[Shaggy Dog Story]]. The heroes go to great lengths to help people in the besieged city of Saradush, then to even greater lengths to defeat Yaga-Shura and lift the siege, and succeed in doing both, only for {{spoiler|his army to succeed in razing the city and killing everyone inside anyway}}. But then again, the heroes were playing into Amelissan's scheme to kill all Bhaalspawns in the city and Yaga-Shura himself.
'''Sendai:'''
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