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{{quote|"OH MY!"|[[Yoshi's Island|Kamek]], once you skip a boss.}}
Occasionally, games will decide to give you a break and actually feature methods of skipping [[Boss Battle|boss battles]], most often by [[Talking Your Way Out|talking them out of]] fighting the player or by using some [[Boss Arena Idiocy|convenient environmental feature]] to instantly destroy them.
Of course, skipping the boss may not be the best course of action if you earn a nifty reward by defeating it through normal means, or if there's one for [[
The [[Skippable Boss]] is occasionally the alternative to the [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] or the [[Bonus Boss]]. It most frequently occurs in (but is not limited to) [[Role Playing Game|RPGs]]. See also [[Puzzle Boss]].
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'''Nizbel:''' Hey! I meant you gotta go through me! Whaddaya think I was standing here looking all vicious for? }}
* Although not technically a boss, there's a seemingly unskippable fight towards the end of ''Custom Robo'' for Gamecube that can actually be skipped if you're incredibly insistent with an apparent [[But Thou Must!]] question.
* The final confrontation with the Turks in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', if you ran the Wutai subquest, can be skipped simply by refusing to fight. However, if you have a Steal materia handy, there's enough loot between the three of them to make it worth the effort anyway.
* The second time Tiger Joe shows up in ''[[God Hand]]'', you can run right past him and exit the stage without so much as one punch.
* In the second ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' expansion, ''Hordes of the Underdark'', if you're incredibly rich you can make a donation to learn the final boss's [[I Know Your True Name|true name]]. With this in hand, you can order him to give up - or even become your subordinate as you take over his plans.
** And in the Githyanki Base in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'', it's possible to bluff Zaxis into believing that he failed his mission, instantly "killing" him. Until later in the game, when you won't get to fight him anyway.
* The three Machina Arma wielders from ''[[Baten Kaitos|Baten Kaitos Origins]]'' can technically be skipped the second time around. Beating them, however, was good for experience and venting frustration (all three had previously been [[Hopeless Boss Fight|impossible to beat]]), and beating them but sparing their lives afterward resulted in three extra scenes at the end of the game.
* Several bosses in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' can be bribed rather than defeated by conventional means.
** One in particular can be killed with some [[Revive Kills Zombie]] shenanigans. In fact, ''not'' doing this causes you to miss out on a few [[Lost Forever|Lost Forevers]].
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* Subverted in ''[[Diablo]] 2: Lord of Destruction'': The guardians of [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] can be bypassed with a [[Plot Coupon]]. The problem? {{spoiler|1=The [[Big Bad]] bribes one of the NPCs into handing him the [[Plot Coupon]], which means he gets the free pass instead.}} Enjoy your boss fight!
* In ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', The Elder Wyrm boss fight, which some people tend to find harder than most of the game's boss fights because of it's favour of status effecting attacks, can be skipped by taking another route to the next area. There are some pretty tough enemies that you have to run past but it gets you away from the boss.
* In ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', it is possible to get the Black Dragon's relic without fighting him: just bring along a party of non-humans. Unfortunately, doing so means he'll never leave the area, and the player will never obtain a rare item required to forge Prism equipment (the best in the game).
* ''[[Fire Emblem]] 7'' has a few of these, usually in timed missions:
** Carjiga in chapter 4 Lyn's route
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* All the bosses in the first ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' (except the last). This is because bosses make up their own levels and just serve to collect more stuff. All the bosses leave are gems. If you have enough gems/dragons/eggs/etc. to pass to the next hub, you can skip any remaining levels.
* Despite that it is not exactly ''required'' to kill most bosses in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', if you do run dungeons, there exist bosses that will have to be killed in order to unlock another boss encounter, or simply you have to kill that boss because they're in the way. Other bosses are commonly skipped because they are out of the way or are simply notorious for annoying strategies. Almost an entire wiki can be filled with these, but some of the most notorious examples include:
** "The Fish Boss" in Zul'Gurub due to the fact that the boss is an Optional Boss Fight and is out of the way.
** Jin'do the Hexxer in Zul'Gurub which became [[That One Boss]] for many players due to having a very annoying strategy to defeat. He is not required to reach Hakkar, and in fact is practically the [[True Final Boss]] of the dungeon but he was still skippable.
** Father Flame in Upper Blackrock Spire, but intended boss that was to be summoned in the famous "Leeroy Jenkins" Video. Once most people got all the gear they got from that boss nobody wanted to do that boss encounter.
** There is also a dungeon called Dire Maul, where skipping bosses is actually encouraged. Every boss, barring the last, can be ignored, trapped, or distracted so that you never have to face them. When you do defeat the final boss, all the bosses you skipped offer you tribute, which is usually better than what you would have gotten by killing them.
* The final mission of the Faultline arcs in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has three villains fighting over who gets to take the [[MacGuffin]] from you. You can ignore them, rescue their hostage, and give it to her to destroy.
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