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== Non Video Game Examples ==
* In ''[[Sword Art Online]]'', Heathcliff (the avatar of Kayaba Akihiko, the [[Big Bad]] of the anime) would be an SNK Boss to any real game's definition. Posing as a player initially, he knows every secret of the game and every monster's weakness (seeing as he's the game's designer) and as such, he has accumulated the best armor and weapons. He's also leader of the most powerful guild in the game, meaning he has a small army of [[Unwitting Pawn]]s able to accumulate more and more power. He's one of two players with a Unique Skill, his being a [[Shield Bash]] and his other skills are above what is possible for other players of his Level. Worst of all, he literally cannot be harmed at first, given his "admin privileges".<ref>This basically means that, as a developer, he can bend or break the rules in any way he wants; he could, for example, make his hit points and mana infinite, reduce a foe's to 1 apiece, or, in the case where he used this "power", increase his Speed score to avoid being hit, which would have blown his cover. While developers do indeed use this sort of thing in real MMORPGs, this sort of abuse of it is forbidden.</ref> While he was willing to relinquish that last one for the second duel against Kirito, the hero's victory was still far from easy.
** And then there was the ''[[intended]]'' final boss for the game, which he decided not to use; it was downloaded into the game by the [[Big Bad]] of ''Sword Art Online The Movie -Ordinal Scale-'', who discovered it by data mining. While it wasn’t much of a talker, being driven simply by the server’s AI, it was a ''terror''. It’s Life Counter was ten bars long, and the initial attack force - Agil, Kirito, Lisbeth, Silica, and Sinon - could barely reduce even one of them. Even if it did take damage, it could summon the [[Mook Medic|Great White Holy Tree]], whose magical dew could heal the boss. And then there were its offensive attacks… To start with, it was able to attack the heroes before they even landed in the [[Boss AreaRoom]], meaning it attacked before the fight even started. It had plenty of typical video game style attacks, like a sword and spear, but its [[Eye Beams]]s (from [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|all ten of its eyes]]) were like a [[Bullet Hell]] attack that honed in on the players. It also had the Great Black Holy Tree, which could spam AoE attacks. It could also use something called the Great Separation, causing the ground to fall out under a foe’s feat or cause the walls to grab and crush them. Finally, it had [[Barrier Warrior|a special defensive technique]], wherein it summons six magic stones around its body to create a barrier to block attacks. Kayaba had [[Even Evil Has Standards|feared his design had made it too powerful]], and that its game-breaking attacks would mean no player would ''ever'' defeat it, and to be frank, had they followed the original rules of the game, they would ''not'' have. To defeat it, they had to “cheat” a little on their own (keep in mind, this is ''not'' a true video game, but an anime where the villain uses the game as a weapon) and called in backup from ''every single surviving ally in the history of the franchise'', bringing in a literal army [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|to finally overpower it and bring it down.]]