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* Anime example: the undead giant Orz from OnePiece probably took more of a beating than several arc Big Bads put together from all nine Straw Hats, ''and'' [[SuperMode Nightmare Luffy]], and still kept going until his spine was shattered.

* Most Elder Dragons from the ''MonsterHunter'' series would count. Any one that uses the Dragonator, basically. Whereas most fights in the game consist of being acutely aware of attack patterns and attacking when it's open, for these giant guys you just keep shooting cannonballs at them, mostly. It's less a matter of getting killed and more a matter of doing enough damage quickly enough (there is a time limit, if you're too slow you'll just repel them, and if you're really slow you'll outright fail). Notable is Ceadeus in Tri; usually these are unique to online modes, as teamwork is needed to take them down fast enough. However, Ceadeus is unique in that it just options for letting you repeat the quest if you just repel him, having him retain all the damage sustained previously (and barring very high-end online weapons, that will almost certainly happen).

* The sentinel in ''{{Iji}}'' is specially armored and nearly invincible. [[PuzzleBoss You're supposed to just knock it into the electric shocky things]], but that means you miss out on a stat bonus for beating it the hard way. It's so strong that you'll need to start collecting MPFB ammo for two levels in advance just to have a shot.

* [[spoiler:Ming Xiao and the Landshark]] in ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. They have respectively the highest and second-to-highest HP in the game and no real weaknesses, tricks to defeat them or attack patterns, just a HorribleRapeRadius and the prior also spawns {{Mooks}}. Both tend to be ThatOneBoss for that particular reason, the latter even more so because it's part of an EscortMission.

** These are also often refered to as "Tank and Spank" bosses, due to the tactics used to defeat them.

** Actually, if you snipe his three glowing "spikes" with the crossbow or the rocket launcher (or even the pistol) from the floor you can simply hide from his attacks behind the floor spikes and shoot him until his head opens (save your uranium). Jump from a trampoline to get above him and either the Gluon Gun and the Tau Cannon can melt his brain in one go, even on hard difficulty.

* [[GuildWars]] has the infamous Rotscale, a bone dragon that has fairly simple moves, a small entourage of mooks... and over 20,000 HP. In a game where a SERIOUSLY stacked player might get up to 1,500. If you somehow manage not to get mauled by the always-poisoned arena and the mob that's with him, it can still take upwards of ten minutes to whittle him down.

* The bosses of the second and third "episodes" of ''DukeNukem3D'' are both defeated by shooting at them and dodging their non-hitscan projectiles. It's not the case for the first boss, whose main weapon is hitscan and is defeated by shooting at it over a wall.

* Some of the Tarturus bosses and Arcana Priestess in ''{{Persona 3}}'' and most of the mini-bosses in ''{{Persona 4}}''.

If the HP is ''really'' high and the boss doesn't have any interesting moves, you have a MarathonBoss (though Marathon Bosses ''can'' be interesting - a true DamageSpongeBoss seems to only be in the game to provide FakeLongevity.)

Related to SmashMook, WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer, HealthDamageAsymmetry.

If the HP is ''really'' high and the boss doesn't have any interesting moves, you have FakeLongevity.

** No, you moron. The Charger is an example of a BullfightBoss. The Charger is easily killed with a couple of shotgun blasts compared to the tank.

* ''Left4Dead''. The Tank.
* ''Left4Dead2''. A new infected, the Charger, rams a Survivor, picks them up, runs with them, and pounds them into the pavement.

* Every boss in the ''SuperSmashBros'' series, including Master Hand and Crazy Hand from Classic Mode and the entire boss list from the Subspace Emissary.

- DragonQuestIX has the boss fight with the Lleviathan fairly early on. It doesn't doesn't really do anything special, it just hits a single target or your entire party with powerful physical attacks and takes an age and a half to kill.

** In it's first appearance, you can get the Cyberdemon caught up on the building architecture. Then shoot through a tiny gap in the building. Safely pecking it to death with the pistol becomes tedious though.

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