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* The Noob-Smoke tag team from ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception''.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'', Master Hand and Crazy Hand share their stamina, which wasn't true in the previous games.

Often overlaps with DualBoss and WolfPackBoss. Sometimes a subtrope of {{Synchronization}} or SharedLifeEnergy.

* ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' provides a strange example: while no actual life bars are shown (as units only lose morale when battles are over) it can become clear, through testing with SaveScumming or save states on an emulator, that every single unit in a squad has a small life bar that constantly gets depleted during battle, and that [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking its leader always has a bigger one]]. Yet, certain skills treat a squad's life as a single entity. So you can use Revolution (which claims to only halve your current enemy's numbers) at the start of a battle to reduce their number from 6 to 3, or use it when only the leader is standing to make him fall faster.

** Any DualBoss fights in the game (like Kariya and Uzuki, Kitaniji and [[spoiler: Shiki]], or [[spoiler: BonusBoss Hanekoma's simultaneous dual forms]]) have this rule applying for the bosses as well

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': Void Soul and Void [[DopplegangerAttack can split during their]] Bound Pound (their version of the original core's [[BouncingBattler Sprint]]) and Full Smile (their version of [[SpikeBallsOfDoom Laughing Needle]]) attacks. However, attacking the copies counts as hitting the real deal, so there is no need to memorise where the real Void Soul or Void went.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': Void Soul and Void -- Astral Birth [[DopplegangerAttack can split during their]] Deadly Bound (their version of the original core's [[BouncingBattler Sprint]]) and Full Smile (their version of [[SpikeBallsOfDoom Laughing Needle]]) attacks. However, attacking the copies counts as hitting the real deal, so there is no need to memorise where the real Void Soul or Void -- Astral Birth went.

* The Meta-Knights in ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'' are a boss fight consisting of a large group of {{Mook}}s, using the life meter to gauge Kirby's progress as he defeats them.

* In the ''VideoGame/SilentScope'' series, if a boss takes control of a vehicle (truck, fighter jet, helicopter, etc.), both the boss character and the vehicle will share the same lifebar. Shooting the boss takes off more health than shooting the vehicle, and [[BoomHeadshot a headshot will kill the boss]], and however you kill the boss, their vehicle will get destroyed too.

* In the ''VideoGame/SilentScope'' series, if a boss takes control of a vehicle (truck, fighter jet, helicopter, etc.), both the boss character and the vehicle will share the same lifebar. Shooting the boss takes off more health than shooting the vehicle, and [[BoomHeadshot a headshot will kill the boss] and blow up their vehicle]].

* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' have "Horde"-type enemy encounters, which appear as a huge mob of enemies. All of these enemies are counted as one target, and as you wear down the Horde's HP, the enemies decrease in number.

* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters 2003'', in a rare example of this in a fighting game, gives one to bosses Chizuru and Maki...Or any two-fighter team, for that matter (Which isn't possible for a non-CPU player to have in normal gameplay).

* The alternate ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' format Two-Headed Giant works like this. Each side has two players, and instead of each of them starting with 20 life, they share single life total starting at 30.

** ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'' has Rangda Bangda (which also reappears in X5), a giant robotic face that's defeated by destroying both it's eyes and its floating robotic "nose".
* In ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'', Argoyle and Ugoyle, when fought, initially appear to have single health bar. However, when you activate Model H and use it to EnemyScan them, you'll see that each of them has their own health bar.