Last Ditch Move: Difference between revisions

Before you can have your victory celebration, the fireball kills you. You die. Game over. And you have to go through all that crap again. From the beginning of the level.

 

== Normal Enemy Examples ==

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' has some [[Mook]]s using an [[HP to One]] attack upon death as a plot point. {{spoiler|It hits one character in the throat, and he can't speak afterwards.}}

** Some mooks in ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]] II'' will, just before dying, spray one last round of bullets.

* Almost every Japanese soldier in ''[[Metal Slug]] 3'' lighst a stick of dynamite just before dying and then blows up.

* Too many normal enemies and bosses in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' to count. One of the earliest and nastiest were the bat riders in Zul'Gurub, who at low health gave you about 2 seconds warning before exploding for enough damage to kill anyone but a well-equipped (for the time) tank.

* [[Pokémon|VOLTORB]] used SELFDESTRUCT!

** ''Diablo 2'' has the random monster attributes Fire Enchanted and Cold Enchanted not only giving their wielders elemental damage of the respective type but upon death they pull off this trope: Fire Enchanted monsters cast [[Ludicrous Gibs|Corpse]] [[Action Bomb|Explosion]] on their own corpse while Cold Enchanted monsters fire off a Frost Nova. For low-level characters, the latter is VERY nasty as cold damage slows and such monsters rarely go solo.

* In ''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' for the Wii, Aran Ryan has one of these. In the first round of Career Mode, every time you knock him down he takes a swing at you which doesn't hit. However, in Title Defense mode he has a boxing glove on a rope that he uses like a flail. When you knock him down, he brings out the glove on a rope and tries to whack you one more time before falling down. Of course, it's not really capable of turning the tables, because he can't knock you down with it, and if you time a Star Punch right you'll instantly knock him out.

** Thankfully, this last attack ''can't'' kill you (if it would, you just [[HP to One|end up with a single sliver of life instead]], but it ''can'' wreck your life bonus (and, if you hadn't taken any damage up until then, your hopes of being rewarded with an [[Video Game Lives|extra life]] for [what ''would'' have been] a [[Flawless Victory]].)

* Happens in ''[[Razing Storm]]'' when you defeat the [[Spider Tank]] boss via a [[Kill Sat]]. It drops to the ground (you're on a high platform connecting two skyscrapers) and fires out a [[Macross Missile Massacre|TON of missiles]] in a bid to destroy the platform you and your squad are on, before exploding to bits. If you don't destroy enough of the missiles in time, you get a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] [[Downer Ending]] where your platform is destroyed and your entire squad falls to their death.

* Played straight to the hilt with White, the final boss of the Playstation port of ''[[Fatal Fury|Real Bout Fatal Fury Special]]''. At the end of the second round won against him, he shoots one last fireball out of his cane. Failure to dodge or low-block this fireball [[One-Hit Kill|causes an instant KO]], whereupon White gets up and wins the round.

* [[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]] Huffnpuff will unleash a non-charged attack that deals at least nine damage plus one for every tuff puff he has floating around him ([[Asteroids Monster|which one appears for every one or two hit points he loses]]) for a max of over fifteen when he he gets low on health. This is in a game in which the health max for Mario is sixty and that's only if he has maxed out his health with leveling up and has both of the HP plus badges equipped.

** By the time you've damaged the Egg Viper in ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'' beyond repair, Sonic is left on up to four suspended platforms above a large abyss. But in the words of Tikal, "Watch out! He's up to something!" The Egg Viper's last move is to home in on you and destroy one of the platforms. Jump out of the way, quick!

** ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 4]]'''s [[Final Boss]] does this. {{spoiler|He attempts to smash you with its fist, but shakes the ground as a result. If you don't land the final hit on him fast enough, he'll break the floor open and lead you into a [[Bottomless Pit]], costing you a life}}.

** The final bosses of [[Sonic Rush Series|Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure]] do it as well. The Egg Titan tries to crush the platform Sonic or Blaze is on by ramming into it [[Rule of Three|three times]]. After the third time, you must jump onto its weak point before falling to your doom. The Ghost Titan fires two [[One Hit KO]] laser beams to the edges of Sonic/Blaze's platform and slowly aims them at the center of the stage as the robot collapses, and you must jump into its weak point when it becomes low enough to hit. Both of these attacks are pathetic, and are probably just there to add tension.

* Crocomire will attempt to attack you as a skeleton in [[Super Metroid]], [[Subverted Trope|but instead]] collapses and open the way to new rooms.

 

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