Hopeless Boss Fight: Difference between revisions

* In ''Ys Seven'', there's the first fight with {{spoiler|Scias in Altago Palace where you MUST lose after his HP is at half, since ALL attacks are BLOCKED (0 Damage) from then on ALONG WITH an attack that does 2k+ damage to you.}}

* Argus Finch in ''[[Harry Potter (video game)|Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone]]'' (as in, the video game adaptation from 2001). In one part of the game, Harry has to get through the Forbidden Corridor, and has to sneak past Hogwart's grouchy old caretaker to do so. If Finch even ''sees'' Harry here, he'll kick you out of the Corridor and you have to start over. To stay out of his sight, you have to climb over bookshelves and onto ledges while collecting keys needed to open the doors needed to traverse the Corridor (which despite its name, is ''several'' corridors) and the tokens to recharge your Cloak of Invisibility (a limitation on the Cloak that isn't in the books, of course) and you also have to avoid [[Cats Are Mean| Finch's cat]], who can climb onto places its master can't and screeches if it sees Harry. Arguably one of the most frustrating parts of the game, the only competition there being the broom-riding mini-game.

* Downplayed a little with Genichiro, the [[Starter Villain| tutorial boss]] in ''[[Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice]], at least the first time you fight him. It is ''technically'' possible - but difficult - for the player to beat him, but even if that happens, [[Gameplay and Story Segregation| Wolf still loses the duel in the following cutscene]], and Genichiro still lops his arm off. But take heart, you'll be able to kick his ass ''twice'' later in the game.

** In ''[[Metroid|Super Metroid]]'', the eponymous Super Metroid is impossible to harm, and quickly reduces Samus to only 1 hp before it (presumably) [[Mercy Rewarded| recognizes her as the one who rescued it]] in the previous game, and flies away. Until...

*** The battle with the Mother Brain begins as a hopeless boss fight, indestructible and using a wicked beam that pins Samus against the wall. After reducing her to 1HP and preparing to fire again, the Super Metroid returns and attacks it (trying to defend the human it views as its mother), draining it into helplessness, then feeds that power into Samus to restore her. The Mother Brain awakens and kills the metroid. An [[Mama Bear|angry Samus]] (and likely an [[Player Punch|angry player]]) then opens the proverbial can with a new blaster weapon - the Mother Brain's super-beam, which smacks it around like a tetherball.

*** You still have to fight well enough to survive her uber-attack at least once, and you have to do enough damage to trigger the uber-attack (Mother Brain will not use it until she's taken a lot of damage). If you don't survive the first one, the cutscene will not happen and you just get a standard [[Game Over]]. If you do really well, you can survive this attack multiple times, but the battle remains hopeless until your energy has brought down low enough for the cutscene to take place.

** Ridley at the beginning of ''Super Metroid'' is also nearly impossible to beat: You can take enough damage (until you are below 30 Energy, more specifically) or hit him 100 times, whichever comes first, since both events cause him to fly away.

*** There's an amusing little twist on this one: if you do manage to hit him enough times, he will drop the Metroid briefly before picking it up, suggesting you at least hurt him.

** Likewise, at the end of ''Metroid Fusion'', {{spoiler|you face the Omega Metroid}}, and must let it claw you down to 1 HP, at which point {{spoiler|the erstwhile [[Big Bad]], SA-X, attempts to kill the Omega Metroid and is struck down with one blow, giving Samus the chance to absorb it and regain the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Ice Beam]]}}.