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* In ''[[Tomb Raider]]: Legend'', the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|"unknown entity"]] is invincible when first encountered in a flashback, and if it touches you, it's [[Game Over]]. Easy to accidentally run the wrong way, too.
* ''[[Metroid]]'' series:
** 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...
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*** 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.
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* Midway through ''[[Clash at Demonhead]]'', you face one of the [[Big Bad]]s in a hopeless boss fight. You have to "die" and continue here to continue the story; ie an early example of [[Fission Mailed]].
* ''[[You Have to Burn The Rope]]'' more or less subverts this trope. Your normal attacks can't harm the Grinning Colossus enough to even remotely get his healthbar down, but on the other hand {{spoiler|once you burn the rope, you give that Colossus a one-hit kill.}}
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