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{{quote|"If you must know, I just walked right past him."|[[FoxTrot|Paige Fox]]}}
 
{{quote|"OH MY!"|[[YoshisYoshi'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.
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** The original ''[[Metal Gear]]'' for the MSX features a boss battle with a tank. While you'll probably take a bit of damage, its possible to just walk around the tank and go to the next area without destroying it.
*** Additionally, there was a glitch in the NES version that allowed you to skip having to blow up the computer by simply turning immediately right when you entered the room (you would glitch into the final boss room). Handy if you never bothered rescuing the scientist (you can only blow up the computer with plastic explosives IF the scientist told you).
* In ''[[YoshisYoshi's Island|Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', the Naval Piranha Plant, which grows into the World 3 boss, can be killed with an egg before one gets so close as to trigger the fight-starting cutscene. Oddly, while this is not the only boss you can see (and throw things at!) before starting the battle, it is the only one you can affect this way: probably because the stage itself makes it a point to teach you about deflecting eggs and making them skip on the water surface, more or less making the way you can bypass the boss fight a [[Final Exam Boss]] in the subject itself.
** This can also be done with fireballs to one of the Koopa kids in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]''.
** An earlier example would be the Fake Bowsers in castles 8-4 and D-4 in the game ''[[Super Mario Bros the Lost Levels|Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]''.
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