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[[File:MagusBarrier5 2687.png|link=Chrono Trigger|frame|Aww, not again!]]
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=== Action Adventure ===
* The eponymous final boss in ''[[Metroid Prime]]'', in its first form, is only weak to the sort of attacks it's using at the time. In later stages of the battle with this form, it'll occasionally switch, and then immediately switch ''again'', sometimes back to the weakness/attack setup it had before, trying to trick you into having the wrong beam ready.
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* The Barroth of ''[[Monster Hunter]] Tri'' is weak against water while covered in mud, and weak against fire when not. He flings his mud off by shaking in one of his attacks, and sometimes rolls in mud to cover himself back up. You generally just have to pick either a fire or a water element weapon and try to attack just parts that are covered/uncovered, but Bowgunners can bring both Water and Fire shots.
* The [[Final Boss]] of the first ''[[Overlord (2007 video game)|Overlord]]'' game does this every so often. The color of his shield matches that of the Minion type needed to break through it.
=== First-Person Shooter ===
* In ''[[BioShock (series)]]'', the final boss Frank Fontaine supercharges himself with "Adam" (the game's genetic version 'magic') giving him various powers over fire, ice and electricity, teleportation, etc. His body glows with a different colour depending on the power he's using: {{color|red|red}} for fire, {{color|blue|blue}} for ice, white for electricity. Since you also get [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|fire/ice/electricity powers]] through using Adam, plus an artificial version of these elemental weapons with your chemical-thrower, guess which powers he is resistant to depending on the colour he gives off and which he is weak against?▼
** Of course in his electrical form which has no earth equivalent, it's usually best just to shoot him full of holes...▼
=== Hack and Slash ===
* The final boss of ''[[Castle Crashers]]'' uses this tactic in one of several forms. However, he also not only transfers the damage the wrong attack did to you, he also makes it harder for the attack that would do the proper damage hard to do.
=== Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ===
* ''[[RuneScape]]'' has Dagannoth and Gelatinnoth Mothers who change color depending if they're weak to air, earth, water or fire spells, ranged attacks or special and melee damage.
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* While not any bosses (unless they've been forgotten), in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' there are several types of enemies which become more resistant to magic types they've been struck with. The death knight talent Acclimation also makes causes them to develop greater magical resistance for each time that kind of energy strikes them. There isn't a corresponding weakness however, so being struck by multiple types of magic just makes the effect stronger.
** Chromaggus, the gigantic Draekadon (two-headed dragon-like Core Hound) second-to-last boss of Blackwing Lair will change his resistances and weakness to elemental damage during the fight. When he shimmers, they change: he'll be weak to one type and nearly immune to the rest. It changes every so often, so players have to keep on their toes.
=== Platform Game ===
* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' forces you to switch hedgehogs when it stops taking damage from high speed rams/chaos spears/telekinetic rocks. There is always a set order of which hedgehog can damage him: Silver, then Shadow, then Sonic.
** Metal Madness, the penultimate boss from ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'' has this as well.
* In ''[[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards]]'', Miracle Matter has a form mimicking each of Kirby's copy abilities in that game, and each form is only vulnerable to its own type of damage, whether by spitting back its projectiles or using the ability copied from those projectiles. Its intermediary form is completely invulnerable but also doesn't move or attack.
=== Real Time Strategy ===
* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Freedom Force]] vs. the 3rd Reich'', which leads to the possibility of [[Reality Warper|turning the most powerful being on Earth]] [[Weaksauce Weakness|into a vase]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|of flowers]].
=== Role-Playing Game ===
* The [[Trope Namer]] is the move Barrier Change used by Magus in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''. This fight is the most famous example of this trope. Magus was in fact ''healed'' by [[Elemental Powers]] which did not match the element of his barrier, and changing his barrier also inflicted high elemental damage to your entire party.
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* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Epic Battle Fantasy]] 3'' does this. It takes him a ''long'' time to change, though, and once he's been scanned once you don't need to scan him again.
* The final boss of ''[[Magical Starsign]]'' changes its own weakness.
* Tarvos the Avenger in ''[[.hack|.hack//Quarantine]]''. Fortunately, the game tells you what, if anything, every enemy you face is tolerant (immune) to by way of glowing orange text next to its lifebar.▼
** On that note is the recurring boss within The World itself: The One Sin. Rumored to be very, very powerful, it can only be damaged by an element that is opposite itself when it fights. The last person who defeated it was Balmung; his unique angel-like look is the prize for defeating it. Apparently it was so powerful a semi-famous player poet composed a poem and gave Balmung (and Orca) nicknames "Descendants of Fianna" and it stuck.▼
** The One Sin makes a gameplay appearance in [[.hack GU|.hack//G.U. Reminisce]]. True to its name, it can only be hurt by elements opposite of its color, and even then, you need to defeat its two shields before it momentarily opens up to reveal the core. An even nastier variant, The One Godeater, appears in .hack//G.U. Redemption. Now, it only responds to either Darkness or Light spell. This narrows down to two elements, but the boss itself is [[Harder Than Hard|very, very hard]] even with that advantage.▼
* The [[Bonus Boss]] Nightmare in [[Alter AILA]] Genesis, 150% damage for a specific element. 1% for everything else▼
=== Third-Person Shooter ===
* Every boss in the ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' [[Video Game|game]] has layers of force fields, each one that can only be destroyed by a specific weapon. (For instance, a {{color|blue|blue}} shield will only be vulnerable to the Arc Laser.)▼
=== Other Game Genres ===
▲* The [[Bonus Boss]] Nightmare in [[Alter AILA]] Genesis, 150% damage for a specific element. 1% for everything else
* The skindancer in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' reflexively changes resistances to take less damage from whatever attack form was used on him last.
▲* In ''[[BioShock (series)]]'', the final boss Frank Fontaine supercharges himself with "Adam" (the game's genetic version 'magic') giving him various powers over fire, ice and electricity, teleportation, etc. His body glows with a different colour depending on the power he's using: {{color|red|red}} for fire, {{color|blue|blue}} for ice, white for electricity. Since you also get [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|fire/ice/electricity powers]] through using Adam, plus an artificial version of these elemental weapons with your chemical-thrower, guess which powers he is resistant to depending on the colour he gives off and which he is weak against?
▲** Of course in his electrical form which has no earth equivalent, it's usually best just to shoot him full of holes...
▲* Every boss in the ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' [[Video Game|game]] has layers of force fields, each one that can only be destroyed by a specific weapon. (For instance, a {{color|blue|blue}} shield will only be vulnerable to the Arc Laser.)
▲* Tarvos the Avenger in ''[[.hack|.hack//Quarantine]]''. Fortunately, the game tells you what, if anything, every enemy you face is tolerant (immune) to by way of glowing orange text next to its lifebar.
▲** On that note is the recurring boss within The World itself: The One Sin. Rumored to be very, very powerful, it can only be damaged by an element that is opposite itself when it fights. The last person who defeated it was Balmung; his unique angel-like look is the prize for defeating it. Apparently it was so powerful a semi-famous player poet composed a poem and gave Balmung (and Orca) nicknames "Descendants of Fianna" and it stuck.
▲** The One Sin makes a gameplay appearance in [[.hack GU|.hack//G.U. Reminisce]]. True to its name, it can only be hurt by elements opposite of its color, and even then, you need to defeat its two shields before it momentarily opens up to reveal the core. An even nastier variant, The One Godeater, appears in .hack//G.U. Redemption. Now, it only responds to either Darkness or Light spell. This narrows down to two elements, but the boss itself is [[Harder Than Hard|very, very hard]] even with that advantage.
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