Boss Rush/Playing With

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Basic Trope: The player must defeat a series of bosses back-to-back.

  • Straight: Before Bob can challenge Lord Bloodstone, he must face Drake, Skullcrusher, and Lilith in three successive rematches.
  • Exaggerated:
  • Downplayed: Boss-Only Level
  • Justified: After being defeated in the past by Bob, the three lieutenants wish to exact their revenge on him.
  • Inverted: Lord Bloodstone separates Bob's Five-Man Band and hunts them down one at a time. You must defeat the same boss with the unique skills of each of the five members.
  • Subverted:
    • Lord Bloodstone's lieutenants arrive to challenge Bob to a rematch... only for them to be quickly occupied by Bob's other party members so that he can face Lord Bloodstone right away.
    • The lieutenants arrive for a rematch, but this time they join forces and fight completely differently
  • Double Subverted:
    • Bob's friends are defeated, quickly, so he must face Lord Bloodstone's lieutenants anyway.
    • The lieutenants simply turned Asteroids Monster, and break up into their original selves after taking damage.
  • Zig Zagged: The climax progresses as follows: the first part of Lord Bloodstone's fight, then Drake's fight, then the second part of Lord Bloodstone's fight, then a Multi Mook Melee, then Lilith and Skullcrusher at the same time, then a brief dungeon-like encounter, then the third part of Lord Bloodstone's fight.
  • Parodied: While Bob fights the first boss in the Boss Rush, the other bosses are shown waiting in line to challenge Bob.
  • Deconstructed: Bob is worn out by the Boss Rush, allowing Lord Bloodstone to easily defeat him.
  • Averted: The game does not include a Boss Rush mode.
  • Enforced: The Boss Rush is added to pad out the game and/or increase replayability.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: Lord Bloodstone revives his dead lieutenants so that he can use them against Bob once more.
  • Exploited: Lord Bloodstone uses the Boss Rush to stall Bob while his Doomsday Device charges.
  • Defied: Lord Bloodstone is so enraged that he attacks Bob the moment he sees him, avoiding the Boss Rush.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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