History PlayingWith / TurnsRed

** The boss is at half health. Now it can move a bit faster and hit somewhat harder.

** The TacticalSuicideBoss is extremely close to death, and so no longer uses the attack that makes it vulnerable, necessitating a different strategy to finish the battle that may or may not be hinted at.

** [[OneWingedAngel One Winged Angel]]

** The villain realizes that it'll die unless it takes despetate measures and goes berzerk.

* '''Exploited''': A GenreSavvy hero, knowing that the boss will use only use their more powerful attacks at low health, purposefully stalls for time while one of his teammates charges a weapon that can take out 60 percent of the boss's health in one hit.

** As the boss loses pieces of its armor, it becomes faster and can attack much quicker.

* '''Exploited''': A GenreSavvy hero, knowing that the boss will use only use their more powerful attacks at low health, purposefully stalls for time while one of his teammates charges a weapon that can take out 51 percent of the boss's health in one hit.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Inverted''': The boss is slowed amd weakened by its wounds.

* '''Reconstructed''': The boss thought the fight was a game, but now that it's really hurt it flies into a rage, giving the hero the fight of his life.

** At half health the boss uses more powerful moves, but leaves bigger holes in his defence.

* '''Downplayed''': The boss is at half health. Now it can move a bit faster and hit somewhat harder.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The boss is at half health. Now it literally turns red, flies high into the air, drops nuclear bombs, and takes one-tenth damage from all attacks!

* '''Justified''': The boss's [[BloodyMurder blood is corrosive]], and it bleeds over more and more of the stage as it suffers wounds.
** Alternatively: The attack is very painful to the boss, and he doesn't want to use it unless he really has to.
** Alternatively: The boss is a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and the attack would compromise his/her public image. So, s/he uses it only as a last resort.

* '''Subverted''': The boss reaches half health and starts breathing fire, but its BreathWeapon is actually less powerful than the attacks it was using before.

* '''Deconstructed''': The boss's increasingly fevered attacks and thrashing around become genuinely moving in their sheer desperation.
* '''Reconstructed''': The boss thought the fight was a game, but now that it's really hurt it flies into a rage, giving the hero the fight of his life.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The boss's new breath weapon is less powerful than the attacks it was using before. And then the wooden stage ignites... causing even more damage to the boss. But then it gets down to one quarter health and starts using the really powerful attacks.

* '''Defied''': A DuelBoss goes to half health and unleashes a strong attack...then catches himself in anger and stops using the attack, saying that it isn't honorable.
** Alternatively: The Boss gets a therapist to help him work through his mental block preventing him from fighting to his full ability when not injured.

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* '''Justified''': The boss's blood is corrosive, and it bleeds over more and more of the stage as it suffers wounds.

* '''Inverted''': The boss is slowed by its wounds.

** Alternatively: The attack is very painful to the boss, and he doesn't want to use it unless he really has to.

* '''Invoked''': The boss designs weapons that are fueled by blood from its open wounds.
* '''Defied''': A DuelBoss goes to half health and unleashes a strong attack–then catches himself in anger and stops using the attack, saying that it isn't honorable.