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** Right before the final BonusBoss of the Seraphic Gate, one of the encounters is ''usually'' a Loki Shade, a PaletteSwap of an end game boss. Tough, but doable. However, there is a small chance that you will fight ''[[KillerRabbit Hamsters]]'' instead. Normal looking, regular sized hamsters. Their small size means most attacks will simply whiff over their heads, and they possess an array of devastatingly powerful spells and attacks, including [[ThatOneAttack Furry One]], which unleashes a stampede of hamsters on your hapless party ForMassiveDamage. Prepare to die.

* The Sootie family in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'''s BonusDungeon Sphere 211. A single one can easily kill a level 255 party (which is downright absurd, considering the fact that the game's uber-BonusBoss [[ValkyrieProfile Freya]] can't even damage characters that the normal enemy Sootie Sister could kill in one or two blows), and they are a pain in the ass to even hit. DemonicSpiders much?

* In ''VideoGame/KartiaTheWordOfFate'', it's the Fynus phantoms that show up at the final stages of the game. Where before your characters were in immune to the enemies and could wipe out even the toughest enemies in 3 or 4 hits, the Fynus have defense ratings so high that if you don't the Pair rune equipment, top tier arena or Level 20 phantom equipment, they're immune to attacks from all but your strongest physical characters (Toxa, Kun, Lacryma and Alana) using the best non-Pair rune crafted weapons. The final bosses in comparison are easy to beat.

** Royal Sentinels in Anor Londo. Regular Sentinels are nasty already, but Royal Sentinels are brutal. They have all the power of the Sentinels, but even more HP and the ability to use the Emit Force and Heal miracles. Emit Force will knock you flat on your ass if you're in range, and they love to use Heal just when you're about to finish them off. To add insult to injury, they spawn in the hall right before [[ThatOneBoss Ornstein and Smough]], meaning that while you're trying to summon your co-op partner, they'll be smashing around trying to wear you down.

** ''VideoGame/PersonaQ'' has large shadows in each dungeon, which have much more HP than any other shadow and can act twice per turn (although they have a chance to waste an action).

*** As if the other varieties of Deathclaws weren't bad enough, the rare Mythic Deathclaw is the toughest non-Legendary variant. They are at least as strong, fast and enduring as ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'''s Legendary Deathclaw, and also level with the player, meaning they never lose the skull tag on their name and are immune to the Awareness perk.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' keeps up the tradition with the Tyrants, which function much like those in the first ''Xenoblade''. Most of them are at least kind enough to be the same level as the other indigens in the area, and not all of them attack on sight or proximity. The game also continues the tradition of having indigens thirty levels higher than your party at the time you first enter the area. Nothing like getting smacked for 7,000 damage by a level 50 Immortal Inctus when you're trying to fight level 8 Scirpos.

*** Ascended Sleepers are already a nasty foe, being high-health spellslingers that pile tons of damaging effects on you. Fortunately, they're very rare, only appearing naturally once you're over level 20. However, many Dagoths appear identical to Ascended Sleepers despite being much more powerful.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', Ascended Sleepers can be this, being nasty high-health spellslingers that pile tons of damaging effects on you. Fortunately, they're very rare, only appearing naturally once you're over level 20 (they also appear, completely unchanged, as named bosses).

** Ditto ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' and its Dragons, with the exception that their appearance as random encounters is triggered by the plot rather than by character level.
*** High-level draugrs(overlord and deathlord flavors) are definitely this. Once you reach a high-enough level, these draugr which previously served as an area's boss now becomes a mook, and they're still every bit as tough as they were before.

*** PoweredArmor Raiders an be encountered rather early on while you're still stuck with a weak pistol, sawed-off shotgun and/or hunting rifle, usually wield heavy weapons such as the Fat Man or Minigun, take many hits to break through their armor when you lack armor-piercing weaponry, and are nearly impossible to hit in VATS while their armor is intact.

* Pi'illodactyls in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam''. They randomly spawn as a background enemy in battles on Mount Pajamaja or Somnom Woods (the latter of which gets their stronger recoloured versions), and can be mostly ignored. Except when you hit them with a Taunt Ball to bring them into the foreground, you realise the hard way they've got about three times the stats of anything else you fight in the area (except the boss), have about three or four hard to dodge attacks that can do plenty of damage and can theoretically wipe out your entire group. Heck, they're even harder than foes you fight about 10 hours later! Have fun.

*** Assaultrons, though rare, are the game's most dangerous robotic enemy. They are [[LightningBruiser extremely fast and durable]], hit very hard with melee attacks, with higher level variants using electrified hands or blade arms, and have a scorching {{Wave Motion| Gun}} EyeBeam as a ranged attack, which will OneHitKill the Sole Survivor if it makes direct contact. If their legs are destroyed, they will continue to pursue by crawling. At low HP, they can [[ActionBomb self-destruct]] in a deadly explosion, which the Legendary variants always do when defeated.

*** Assaultrons, though rare, are the game's most dangerous robotic enemy. They are [[LightningBruiser extremely fast and durable]], hit very hard with melee attacks, with higher level variants using electrified hands or blade arms, and have a scorching WaveMotionGun EyeBeam as a ranged attack, which will OneHitKill the Sole Survivor if it makes direct contact. If their legs are destroyed, they will continue to pursue by crawling. At low HP, they can [[ActionBomb self-destruct]] in a deadly explosion, which the Legendary variants always do when defeated.

*** Assaultrons, though rare, are the game's most dangerous robotic enemy. They are [[LightningBruiser extremely fast and durable]], hit very hard with melee attacks, with higher level variants using electrified hands or blade arms, and have a scorching WaveMotionGun EyeBeam|s as a ranged attack, which will OneHitKill the Sole Survivor if it makes direct contact. If their legs are destroyed, they will continue to pursue by crawling. At low HP, they can [[ActionBomb self-destruct]] in a deadly explosion, which the Legendary variants always do when defeated.

*** Assaultrons, though rare, are the game's most dangerous robotic enemy. They are [[LightningBruiser extremely fast and durable]], hit very hard with melee attacks, with higher level variants using electrified hands or blade arms, and have scorching WaveMotionGun EyeBeams as a ranged attack, which will OneHitKill the Sole Survivor if they make direct contact. If their legs are destroyed, they will continue to pursue by crawling. At low HP, they can [[ActionBomb self-destruct]] in a deadly explosion, which the Legendary variants always do when defeated.

*** Assaultrons, though rare, are the game's most dangerous robotic enemy. They are [[LightningBruiser extremely fast and durable]], hit very hard with melee attacks, with higher level variants using electrified hands or blade arms, and have scorching EyeBeams as a ranged attack, which can OneHitKill the Sole Survivor. If their legs are destroyed, they will continue to pursue by crawling. At low HP, they can [[ActionBomb self-destruct]] in a deadly explosion, which the Legendary variants always do when defeated.

*** As if the other varieties of Deathclaws weren't bad enough, the rare Mythic Deathclaw is the toughest non-Legendary variant. They are at least as strong, fast and enduring as ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'''s Legendary Deathclaw, and also level with the player, meaning they never lose the skull tag on their name.

*** ''Far Harbor'''s Fog Crawlers have LightningBruiser stats that make Deathclaws seem like base Mirelurks, are able to very quickly get into InstantDeathRadius range, and have a ShockwaveStomp that causes major damage well above ground level. The Enraged versions have astronomical Damage Resistance that makes them nearly impervious to non-armor-piercing weapons and able to take multiple mini-nuke blasts without breaking stride (even the Mysterious Stranger [[ScratchDamage only puts a dent in its HP]]). One story quest has a mandatory confrontation, which may as well be an outright boss battle. Atom help you if you encounter a Legendary variant.

*** ''Far Harbor'''s Fog Crawlers have LightningBruiser stats that make Deathclaws seem like Mirelurks, are able to very quickly get into InstantDeathRadius range, and have a ShockwaveStomp that causes major damage well above ground level. The Enraged versions have astronomical Damage Resistance that makes them nearly impervious to non-armor-piercing weapons and able to take multiple mini-nuke blasts without breaking stride (even the Mysterious Stranger [[ScratchDamage only puts a dent in its HP]]). One story quest has a mandatory confrontation, which may as well be an outright boss battle. Atom help you if you encounter a Legendary variant.

*** ''Far Harbor'''s Fog Crawlers are bigger and more LightningBruiser-ish than Deathclaws, able to very quickly get into InstantDeathRadius range, and have a ShockwaveStomp that causes major damage well above ground level. The Enraged versions have astronomical Damage Resistance that makes them nearly impervious to non-armor-piercing weapons and able to take multiple mini-nuke blasts without breaking stride (even the Mysterious Stranger [[ScratchDamage only puts a dent in its HP]]). One story quest has a mandatory confrontation, which may as well be an outright boss battle. Atom help you if you encounter a Legendary variant.

*** ''Far Harbor'''s Fog Crawlers are bigger and more LightningBruiser-ish than Deathclaws, able to very quickly get into InstantDeathRadius range, and have a ShockwaveStomp that causes major damage well above ground level. The Enraged versions have astronomical Damage Resistance that makes them nearly impervious to non-armor-piercing weapons and able to take multiple mini-nuke blasts without breaking stride (even the Mysterious Stranger [[ScratchDamage only puts a dent in its HP]]). One story quest has a mandatory confrontation, which may as well be an outright boss battle.

*** ''Far Harbor'''s Fog Crawlers are bigger and more LightningBruiser-ish than Deathclaws, able to very quickly get into InstantDeathRadius range, and have a ShockwaveStomp that causes major damage well above ground level. The Enraged versions have astronomical Damage Resistance that makes them nearly impervious to non-armor-piercing weapons and able to take multiple mini-nuke blasts without breaking stride. One story quest has a mandatory confrontation, which may as well be an outright boss battle.

*** ''Far Harbor'''s Fog Crawlers are bigger and more LightningBruiser-ish than Deathclaws, able to very quickly get into InstantDeathRadius range, and have a ShockwaveStomp that causes major damage well above ground level. The high-tier versions have astronomical Damage Resistance that makes them nearly impervious to non-armor-piercing weapons and able to take multiple mini-nuke blasts without breaking stride. One story quest has a mandatory confrontation, which may as well be an outright boss battle.