History DemonicSpiders / TurnbasedStrategy

** The winged return in force in ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten''. Their base evilty (as in the one they always have) halves the accuracy of all attacks made from an adjacent space, making them a pain for most melee classes, especially axe users. The game also loves throwing them in with "No Ranged" Geo Effect panels, making them infinitely more aggravating. The game also has Ninjas. Now, Ninjas have been in every Disgaea game to date, but never have they had the ability that, like the Winged above, halves accuracy of certain attacks (from the front this time). Normally, these enemies only appear in small sqauds. However, Chapter 4 breaks this rule by having just about nothing BUT Ninjas (labeled [[BadassNormal Office Workers]]), in almost painfully small maps where being anywhere but in the frontal cone is either painful or impossible. And don't get me started when [[ItGotWorse a Winged magichanges with a Ninja...]]

** The whole damn Catholic Church is a DemonicSpider ([[SouthPark no pun]]). The Papal favor rates are entirely random to start with, and are almost entirely random throughout the game, as you can LOSE favor for not building enough churches, or even while building plenty of churches. It can get to a point where you can be struggling merely to exist, and the Pope will FORCE you to devote your glorious faction leader to a pointless Crusade of Buttfuck, Nowhere or else be excommunicated. Even worse is when another Catholic faction decides it wants your land, attacks you, you attack it back, manage to retake your land, then while you're besieging your old capital, the Pope tells you to STOP FIGHTING WITH SAID FACTION and that if you attack them again within 10 turns, you will be EXCOMMUNICATED! Even just taking back your old capital will get you punished, and in the end THEY will get off with HUGE Papal favor!

** And ''X-Com: Apocalypse'' continues the fine tradition with Brainsuckers, which don't transform targets into more brainsuckers, nor do they have a 100% success rate, but make up for it by the fact that some enemies can fire them at you. Y'know, in case the little buggers can't reach you on their own. And while the Chryssalids and Tentaculats (Along with their zombie hosts) could only do melee harm, Brainsucked soldiers can and will shoot at their former comrades. This gives them the dubious honor of being a horrible combination of the mind control the first two games' psychics had and the BodyHorror of their predecessors.

* Warhammer40000ChaosGate has the Flamers. These demons are tougher than your average space marine, quite fast, can set your guys on fire (meaning they take damage and are effectively helpless until it goes out), cannot be set on fire themselves and, worst of all, they will simply set you on fire if you try attacking them in melee.

*** The Draco Zombies from the same game are borderline [[Bossinmookclothing boss in mook clothing]]. Incredibly tough, take ages to kill, and their attacks are nigh-undodgeable and ''ignore defense''. And the final floor of the [[BonusDungeon lagdou ruins]] is ''filled'' with them. The only saving grace is their weakness to bishops and arrows.

*** The Draco Zombies from the same game are borderline [[BossInMookClothing]]. Incredibly tough, take ages to kill, and their attacks are nigh-undodgeable and ''ignore defense''. And the final floor of the [[BonusDungeon lagdou ruins]] is ''filled'' with them. The only saving grace is their weakness to bishops and arrows.

*** The Draco Zombies from the same game. Incredibly tough, take ages to kill, and their attacks are nigh-undodgeable and ''ignore defense''. And the final floor of the [[BonusDungeon lagdou ruins]] is ''filled'' with them. The only saving grace is their weakness to bishops and arrows.

*** The Draco Zombies from the same game. Incredibly tough, take ages to kill, and their attack ''ignores defense''. And the final floor of the [[BonusDungeon lagdou ruins]] is ''filled'' with them. The only saving grace is their weakness to bishops and arrows.

*** The Draco Zombies from the same game. Incredibly tough, take ages to kill, and their attack ''ignores defense'. And the final floor of the [[BonusDungeon lagdou ruins]] is ''filled'' with them. The only saving grace is their weakness to bishops and arrows.

*** The Draco Zombies from the same game. Incredibly tough, take ages to kill, and their attack ''ignores defense'. And the final floor of the ''BonusDungeon lagdou ruins'' is ''filled'' with them. The only saving grace is their weakness to bishops and arrows.

** The literal spiders (okay, Bael) in ''FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', provided they bear the Sharp Claw weapon. Like Wyvern Knights, things are nasty early game where most units have barely 20HP, they are practically [[OneHitKill 1HKO'd]] since the Sharp Claw has 14 attack before the damage calcuation is factored. They get easier later on, thankfully, and they also are balanced out by a low accuracy.

** The winged return in force in Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten. Their base evilty (as in the one they always have) halves the accuracy of all attacks made from an adjacent space, making them a pain for most melee classes, especially axe users. The game also loves throwing them in with "No Ranged" Geo Effect panels, making them infinitely more aggravating. The game also has Ninjas. Now, Ninjas have been in every Disgaea game to date, but never have they had the ability that, like the Winged above, halves accuracy of certain attacks (from the front this time). Normally, these enemies only appear in small sqauds. However, Chapter 4 breaks this rule by having just about nothing BUT Ninjas (labeled [[BadassNormal Office Workers]]), in almost painfully small maps where being anywhere but in the frontal cone is either painful or impossible. And don't get me started when [[ItGotWorse a Winged magichanges with a Ninja...]]

** And in ''OgreBattle64'', the petrification status effect lasts ''even after the battle ends.'' The unlucky unit afflicted with it stops gaining EXP and is treated as dead. On the plus side, the computer treats a petrified opponent as dead and you can easily wipe out enemy units that way (though you won't get EXP for them.)

** ''SuperRobotWarsZ 2'' has the [=DAMONs=], EldritchAbomination {{Mooks}} with high dodge, armor, a very powerful and very low-energy barrier effect, and powerful attacks that drain both Will and Energy. Also, they turn up a ''lot''. Have fun.

** Wyvern/Draco/Dragon Knights are pretty nasty opponents, they have very high strength and defense which makes them difficult for your melee units to kill. They are also flying units so they can just zoom in at any opportunity to harass you once a unit is in their range. And despite being flying units, their defense is often so high that they can ''laugh'' at their apparent [[KryptoniteFactor weakness to arrows]], unlike their [[FragileSpeedster Pegasus Knight]] counterparts. And they love to pick off weaker units and healers thanks to their higher movement range and the fact that in most games they wield lances so getting ambushed by one with a Javelin is not uncommon. And in the non-GBA installments, they will (or at least attempt to if they have movement spaces left) fly away from their target to terrain non-traversable by ground units after attacking, [[SpitefulAI denying you the opportunity to finish them off when your turn comes]]. And they often spawn in said terrain so they will almost always get the first strike. The third thru fifth games were by far their worst. Magic, especially Wind (and Thunder in [=FE10=]) Magic, and Wyrmslayer swords are about the only effective tools to dispose of them.

** The literal spiders (okay, Bael) in ''Fire Emblem 8'', provided they bear the Sharp Claw weapon. Like Wyvern Knights, things are nasty early game where most units have barely 20HP, they are practically [[OneHitKill 1HKO'd]] since the Sharp Claw has 14 attack before the damage calcuation is factored. They get easier later on, thankfully, and they also are balanced out by a low accuracy.

** The literal spiders (okay, Bael) in ''Fire Emblem 8'', provided they bear the Sharp Claw weapon. Like Wyvern Knights, things are nasty early game where most units have barely 20HP, they are practically [[OneHitKill 1HKO'd]] since the Sharp Claw has 14 attack before the damage calcuation is factored. They get easier later on, thankfully.

* Malboros of ''FinalFantasy'' fame are pretty much guaranteed to be this in every game they show up in, but the worst case is the ''Cassie'' variety in ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance2''. They can heal each other and use a number of buffs, put your characters to sleep or ''Charm'' up to 4 of them at once. ''At a 100% sucess rate''. At the same time, they wear Ribbons, making them completely immune to Debuffs. And did I mention none of these abilities cost any mana?

** ''SuperRobotWarsAlpha'' has the [[MacrossPlus Ghost X9]]. They have one of the highest dodge rates in the game and extremely good movement; without the Strike spirit command, they will fly around depleting your units' health until you manage to land a hit; units with lower armor will be hard-pressed to survive, and they can drain valuable energy from counterattacking Supers.
** ''SuperRobotWarsZ 2'' has the [=DAMONs=], EldritchAbomination {{Mooks}} with high dodge, armor, and attack coupled with a very powerful and very low-energy barrier effect.

** Wyvern/Draco/Dragon Knights are pretty nasty opponents, they have very high strength and defense which makes them difficult for your melee units to kill. They are also flying units so they can just zoom in at any opportunity to harrass you once a unit is in thier range. And despite being flying units, they're defense is often so high that they can ''laugh'' at thier apparent [[KryptoniteFactor weakness to arrows]], unlike thier [[FragileSpeedster Pegasus Knight]] counterparts. And they love to pick off weaker units and healers thanks to their higher movement range and the fact that in most games they weild lances so getting ambused by one with a Javelin is not uncommon. And in the non-GBA installments, they will (or at least attempt to if they have movement spaces left) fly away from their target to terrain non-traversable by ground units after attacking, [[SpitefulAI denying you the opportunity to finish them off when your turn comes]]. And they often spawn in said terrain so they will almost always get the first strike. The third thru fifth games were by far their worst. Magic, especially Wind (and Thunder in [=FE10=]) Magic, and Wyrmslayer swords are about the only effective tools to dispose of them.
** Now for Mamkutes/Manaketes/Dragons/Dragon Tribe Laguz, These guys only appear in a couple of games, most notably's Marth's and Roy's, and usually in the last quarter of the game. But these guy are often the hardest hitting emenies in the games outside bosses, since many of them have attacks that ignore both defense AND resistance. Some of them are even ''immune to magic'', killing the mage stragety and forcing to use a melee character and/or the mentioned Wrymslayer, and to make it worse, even with that sword they can still take at least two good hits to kill unless the unit crits or is very overleveled thanks to having even higher stats than the ''Wyvern Knights''. The only upside to them is the fact that thier hit rate is atrocious, but without dragonslaying weapons or strong magic, trying to take those monsters down is very risky and tedious.