Fake Ultimate Mook: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Fighting Game]] ==

** Fights against a giant opponent tend to be this. Even if they can potentially hit hard, their size makes them very easy to juggle and it doesn't take much distance to send them flying or falling out of the stage boundaries. Better yet, [[Artificial Stupidity|they still have the same AI as a regular opponent]], making it easy for them to simply fall into the pit while trying to land an attack.

* This is the reason why [[Everything's Worse with Bears|Kuma/Panda]] is often regarded as a [[Joke Character]] in ''[[Tekken]]''; it's big and has long, easy combos, but its limbs are too short to actually reach its opponent.

* ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' has a kind of early-game enemy called Slavens, which are described as being "beasts of burden gone feral" that are twice as tall as your characters, but that are barely any more dangerous than the wolves or bats from the areas they show up in.

** The T-Rex you run into in the very first wild area of the game, however, is very much ''[[Boss in Mook Clothing|not]]'' this trope, which is why the thing doesn't attack first.

** Also averted in that you can run into some absurdly powerful monsters early on too. The Macalania woods are a deathtrap at low level, and you can run into a '''fucking''' Tonberry amidst Fake Ultimate Mooks in Mushroom Rock Road even at level 2.

* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' has quite a few early on. Somewhat useful for emphasizing [[Break Meter|the stagger system]], in which enemies suddenly become weak if you can keep a good chain of attacks coming.