Rasputinian Death: Difference between revisions

** ''Attempted'' on [[Made of Iron|Joshua]] [[Implacable Man|Graham]], or as he's better known, [[Shrouded in Myth|the Burned Man]]. He survives (among other things) a hanging and at least five .308 rounds from NCR snipers on different occasions. Then, having [[You Have Failed Me...|failed Caesar and the Legion]] at the Battle of Hoover Dam, he's covered in pitch, lit on fire, and thrown into the Grand Canyon. ''It doesn't work''.

** Even Graham is absolutely nothing compared to Frank Horrigan, the Enclave's walking super weapon from Fallout 2. The only real way for the player to inflict decent damage on him is to repeatedly shoot him in the eyes with the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Gauss rifle]], while up to five of your companions also unload their weapons him. This will usually fail. However, you can also reprogram the seven minigun turrets in the room and convince a squad of four Enclave soldiers armed with the most powerful guns in the game to help you. Meaning Frank's death will almost certainly consist of nineteen targets firing on him simultaneously with the most powerful weapons in the entire game until ''finally'' he goes down, likely after being shot thousands of times. Apparently, ''this isn't enough''. So he gets shot more, torn apart, and finally ''nuked'', with whatever's left of him sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

* In ''[[Haunting Ground]]'', {{spoiler|Lorenzo}}, the game's final boss, is put through a rock crusher, thrown into a pit of lava, ''comes back as a flaming skeleton'', before finally disintegrating into dust. Not to mention all of the previous times you could have [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|kicked him]], laid traps for him, or [[Pet Interface|sicked the dog on him]].

* Ganondorf in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]'': it takes four phases to take this guy down. First he [[Demonic Possession|possesses]] Zelda, gets [[Beat the Curse Out of Him|beaten out of her]], transforms into [[One-Winged Angel|Ganon]] recieves another beating from Link. Midna then uses the [[MacGuffin|Fused Shadows]] on him, after predictably surviving that, gets his [[Annoying Arrows|body filled with light arrows]], falls off his horse (which looked rather painful as well) gets in a rather [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome sword fight with Link]] which ends with him getting stabbed through the chest with the Master Sword. Then he ''stands up'', gives his [[Famous Last Words|last]] [[As Long as There Is Evil|words]] gets the Triforce of Power taken from him (which had been keeping him alive through this) we then see (the dead) Zant break his own neck ([[Mind Screw|for no explained reason]]) After which Ganondorf eventually dies. {{spoiler|He is ''still'' standing.}}

* Really, just about every RPG end boss that goes through multiple forms before finally going down (read: almost all of them) qualifies for this trope.

 

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