History Main / BossArenaRecovery

* ''DeadSpace''. Particularly the battle with the Leviathan.

** ''Skyward Sword'' subverts this in the harder difficulty as far as hearts are concerned, unless you have the heart medal. And for the BossRush, even that doesn't work. The final two bosses don't have anything in the area that can provide health or ammo (but ammo isnt required either).

* ''[=~Vampire: the Masquerade~=] - Bloodlines'' mocks the player using this trope. In the fight against plague spreader Bishop Vick, a few human shamble around the room. They look like free blood refills, but drinking even a little will cause your character to stand in place and vomit uncontrollably until you're killed. Serves you right for forgetting [[spoiler:that he's spreading a massively infectious virus]].

* A strange version of this appears in ''[=~Yoshi's Story~=]'' with the boss Cloud N. Candy (which is a giant ball of cotton candy). The only way to beat it is to eat it, which heals you.

* Similarly, extra {{Mooks}} present during boss fights in BeatEmUp games with a focus on grapples and throws (like Mike Haggar in ''FinalFight'') tend to function less as enemies and more as ammunition.

** Averted in ''Minish Cap'': the final boss has nothing around his arena that you can milk for health or ammo.

* Most bosses in ''{{Prototype}}'' periodically send waves of very, very weak mooks at you. The mooks are there so that you have something to eat to get your health back up.

* ''{{Kirby}}'' boss battles are ''made'' of this trope. Since you're theoretically supposed to be able to defeat bosses without any of your [[MegaManning copy abilities]], your only offensive option may be slurping up CirclingBirdies or MookMaker offspring and launching them back at your opponent.

* In ''CaveStory'', not so much the arena as the boss itself. With a few exceptions, the bosses all [[FlunkyBoss spawn mooks]] or spam projectiles, either of which can be destroyed for powerups.

*** From the same game, the Final Boss arena seems to avert this. Until you figure out you can [[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel ''use your hookshoot on Princess Zelda to strip hearts from her]] to heal yourself!'']]

* Most of the boss battles in ''NoMoreHeroes'' have at least one chest with a full-health recover and one with a full battery recharge.

* Nearly each boss battle in ''{{Unreal II The Awakening}}''. However, due to the speed of the playable character and the amount of damage dealt by the bosses, most of those tend to overlap with AfterBossRecovery... Except that after defeating a boss, your health and inventory are always automatically recovered anyway. Especially {{egregious}} example is the [[GiantSpider boss of the Hell level]] - the arena includes stations that allow you to regenerate health and shields... [[TooDumbToLive Provided that you don't move.]]

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Examples:

* Most of the boss battles in NoMoreHeroes have at least one chest with a full-health recover and one with a full battery recharge.

* In Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the final battle with [[spoiler:Emperor Palpatine]] would be much harder if it weren't for the health you get from killing his guards, who are occasionally sent into the arena as [[spoiler:Palpatine]] levitates up and watches.

* In {{Iji}}, the first three bosses have enough health items scattered about their arenas to fill you to full multiple times, and the latter three bosses drop one or two roughly every time you "deal damage" (or at least every time you hit them with the thing you were intended to beat them with, or in the case of the final boss every time he reaches that point in his attack cycle]]
* ''{{Odin Sphere}}'' has a fairly bizarre example of this; during every boss fight (if you had the foresight to bring seeds) you can kill the {{Mooks}} that the boss summons/appear with the boss, then use the released Phozons to grow fruit, which can then be used to heal.
* In ''{{Billy Hatcher And The Giant Egg}}'', there are ''always'' several eggs lying around the boss arena, which will often reappear. Justified though, because you'd be [[UnwinnablE f*** ed]] without them.

* [[MetalGearSolid Metal Gear Solid]] spawns ammo during boss fights (for example, Stinger missiles during the boss fight against the helicopter because they are the only effective weapon against it).

*** .......It deposits them ''from it's nose''.

* Most games in the ''{{Metroid}} Prime'' subseries have at least one boss whose shots you can shoot out of the air for ammo and health. Almost every single major boss in ''2'' and ''3'' have these. In ''2'', it's due to the DarkWorld which steadily takes away health, meaning that sometimes you have to fight the battle with no safe zones. In ''3'', it's because you need health to activate Hyper Mode, which is required to kill most bosses.

* ''SmashTV'' is one of the earliest games to do this.

* ''[=~Vampire: the Masquerade~=] - Bloodlines'' mocks the player using this trope. In the fight against plague spreader Bishop Vick, a few human shamble around the room. They look like free blood refills, but drinking even a little will cause your character to stand in place and vomit uncontrollably until you're killed.