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Often overlaps with the [[Puzzle Boss]], but sometimes it's so obvious the game doesn't intend it to be a puzzle. The [[Ring Out Boss]] is almost always based around a form of this, where the boss has to be killed by being pushed back into obstacles in the arena.
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*** ''Seasons'': The Dodongo fight is like the original, but you need to use the Power Bracelet to throw him into the spikes after he swallows the bomb. Why are there spikes there? There's also the random giant metal spike ball in the area of the fifth boss, Digdogger. Good thing you got those Magnetic Gloves beforehand, and no, the spike ball doesn't reappear later. Both Agahnim and the Poe Sisters would have fared better if they didn't fight in areas with torches.
*** ''Ages'': Smog adverts this by making you play a 'game', changing the arena to try to get his separate parts together. The game, being more puzzle-orintated than Seasons, avoids this.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'':
*** The game's Gohma incarnation fights you in an arena filled with giant, hammer wielding statues, the only way to kill it and the only such devices in the game.
*** Dangoro, the Goron miniboss from [[Death Mountain]], is also this.
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** Easily the biggest example from the [[Mega Drive]] era would be the Sandopolis miniboss from ''Sonic and Knuckles'', which is completely invincible to the heroes' attacks but definitely not invincible to the pit of quicksand you can lead or knock it into.
*** From the same game, the "normal" boss of Death Egg (before the final boss sequence) automatically deflects all attacks and drops robotic minions on you, which are the only things that can damage it. The only reason you can even do so is because he picked a room that happens to let you [[Gravity Screw|flip the gravity]].
** In the boss fight for the [[Slippy
** ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' isn't immune either. Dr. Eggman's "latest and greatest invention" includes buttons that couldn't possibly benefit him, most notably the ones that trigger Shadow Fever. It may have been used in order to power up those Shadow androids he made, but he really should have had the foresight to disable that feature when the real Shadow showed up.
* Several times in ''[[Resident Evil]]''.
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