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** [[Stationary Boss|Targitzan]]. He's a giant totem composed by a head and four rotating pieces. As you shoot at the (literal) targets, the boss's height decreases.

** Old King Coal, a monster [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|made of coal]] loses body parts as you hurt him, first one arm, which he dismisses casually, then his other arm, which he's perturbed by, but otherwise unfazed, then the ''entire upper half of his body'', whereupon he suddenly starts wondering if you'd like to sit down and talk about this.

* ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'': Similar to the Banjo Tooie example, also made by Rare, this game has King Kut-Out (a cardboard cut-out of the [[Big Bad]], King K. Rool) loses fist one arm, then the other, then his head, whereupon he dies. Given that the Kongs were firing themselves out of cannons at him, this is, perhaps, understandable.

* Mangoruby in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]''. The electrified caterpillar's body will explode into parts as it's hit by Donkey and Diddy, but this makes it faster and more vicious as a result.

** The final boss of the Tournament of Champions five man dungeon, the Black Knight, goes through three incarnations as you battle him. First he is an armored Death Knight, then after you beat him down, he comes back as a skeleton. Finally he's a malevolent ghost. "My rotting flesh was just getting in the way."

*** It should be noted that, as both his name and the name of one of the player achievements associated with the fight would suggest, this boss is an obvious [[Pop Culture Reference]] to the infamous ''Monty Python'' Black Knight mentioned under the film tab above.

* ''[[Spyro the Dragon|Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon]]'' has the Golems, one of which ''deliberately'' breaks off a body part to free itself from entrapment and later replaces it by assimilating nearby wreckage. Then its big brother gets about a third of its total body mass broken off in the course of the level where you fight it, and ''keeps on going'' after the level ends, playing the trope very literally.

* ''[[Clean Asia]]'': The boss in China stage comes with four tentacles that spray bullets. Destroying them all makes the boss unleash an [[The Same but More|even bigger]] spray of bullets.

** The sub-boss of [[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Lava Reef]] has two bullet firing tentacles that can be destroyed. It doesn't make any difference to the fight if you do or don't (save for making one less obstacle to avoid), as the boss ends once you've hit the giant hand six times either way.

** The [[Final Boss]] of the Death Egg Zone in ''S3&K'' will start attacking you with just his giant fingers. Once you smash those off one by one, he reveals he's turned the Master Emerald into a powerful laser cannon.

* Every nonhuman enemy (except the final boss, who possesses instant regeneration) in ''[[Valkyrie Profile 2]]'' is subject to this: all major body parts have their own hidden HP count and are severed when it is depleted, allowing the party to end up fighting huge dragons with only a single limb left if they so desire. This also ties in with [[Randomly Drops]], in that severed enemy parts have a set percentage of becoming items, but thankfully never dropping below a 15% chance (due to the difficulty of actually chopping off the right enemy part without killing the enemy outright, as you can't specifically target the body parts themselves, and exactly what you end up hitting is determined by what attacks you use and the enemy's position.)

* Done rather brutally in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]] 3'', where during the battle with Hades, Kratos must ''rip whole chunks of flesh off his body''. Then you have to "kill" the chunks before they slide across the floor and reattach themselves to Hades' body.

** The original game has the giant armored Minotaur fought in the temple. You knock off pieces of its armor until the beast itself finally becomes vulnerable to damage.

* Gets done to a ridiculous extent in the ''[[Monster Hunter]]'' series. Almost every boss has "breakable" parts, which either scar or are removed outright from the body after enough damage is on a centralized area. It gets ridiculous when you break a monster's beak, back, claws, and sever its tail, yet it still continues to attack without showing an ounce of pain. There is also a monster, the Barroth, which can have ''part of its skull severed'' and it still fights at full force.

* [[Baten Kaitos]] gives us the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1dZk_yqmb4 Magnus Giganticus boss battle]. Magnus Giganticus is a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Gigantic Magnus]] produced when {{spoiler|the fourth end magnus was unsealed.}} As you fight Magnus, its four corners are torn off one by one until you're fighting a jagged edged rhombus with magical powers.

* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' has the Cardinal Virtues, a quartet of huge bosses that you face throughout the game. As the fight progresses, you rip off parts of their body using [[Prehensile Hair]], which at best makes them [[Turns Red|turn red]]. However, at the end of each fight, despite having at least 50% of their body gone, they give their last words as though they weren't in some sort of excruciating agony.