Basic Trope: A video game boss who actively subverts or even outright breaks the mechanics and rules of the game.
- Straight: In Destiny Duel III, the Final Boss, Blackhole, is difficult to defeat, due to him countering your every move, having an impossibly high attack strength, and possessing a Super Move that fills the entire screen.
- Exaggerated:
- Blackhole is capable of defeating the player in one hit, instantly.
- Blackhole is capable of defeating the player in an unskippable cutscene during the fight (and said cutscene plays at random).
- Downplayed:
- Blackhole's A.I. is very powerful, but he is balanced for multiplayer.
- Blackhole has a ton of cheap moves, but his A.I. is very poor.
- Blackhole either only has ridiculous attack or ridiculous defense.
- Each of Blackhole's stats are only slightly increased, but he'd stick out like a sore thumb of steel in the game's intricate multiplayer balance.
- Justified:
- The Blackhole that serves as the end boss is a powered up version of the one that is available in multiplayer, reflecting him showing his true power.
- The Blackhole ranks higher on the Super Weight scale than the other characters.
- The Blackhole is a Jerkass God that can punish a player with ease.
- The Blackhole is the only supernatural character in a Low Fantasy setting.
- Inverted:
- Zero-Effort Boss
- The player becomes the nigh-unstoppable badass during the final battle, thus Instant-Win Condition.
- Subverted: Blackhole's attack strength is very high... but his defense is low and his attacks leave him vulnerable.
- Double Subverted: ... for Round 1. Once you beat him for the first round, he decides it's time to stop playing around, and shows off his full power.
- Parodied:
- Blackhole is obviously Cherry Tapping, including attacking you with his pinky or his little toe.
- Blackhole fights with a different genre's rules while you're still in fighting game rules!
- Zig-Zagged: (continued from "Double Subverted") And then in Round 3 he thinks he overdid it, and goes back to using less than his full power.
- Averted: The boss is different for every character, but it's always a playable character.
- Enforced:
- "How will we keep gamers coming back for their quarters again and again? I know! Make the boss real hard!"
- "Since this is a Gacha Game, we need to make the boss extremely hard to obtain so we can keep the gamers coming back!"
- Lampshaded: "You will die a thousand deaths before my awesome power!"
- Invoked: The creators of Duel Destiny III have mentioned that they always believe in giving the gamers a challenge...
- Exploited:
- Blackhole is so blatantly overpowered and cheating so the player decides to cheat back using their cheat devices.
- Alternately, the player spends a lot of their money to buy multiple SNK Boss units to defeat Blackhole.
- Defied: The creators of Duel Destiny III do not want to be unfair to the player, so Blackhole is no harder than the other opponents.
- Discussed: "What're we gonna do? He's so powerful, we gotta give him everything we've got!"
- Conversed: "ARGH! Stupid freaking Blackhole! Another quarter..."
- Deconstructed: Blackhole is hated by the community, who advocate using cheap methods to defeat him, or even recommend against pumping quarters into the machine.
- Reconstructed:
- However, the Hardcore crowd loves him, considering him to be a Worthy Opponent for their skill.
- The company takes note, and in Duel Destiny IV, the new final boss, Deathwing, is more balanced, but still tough. Blackhole is now made an optional Superboss for those who crave more challenge post-game.
- The company, after seeing so many complaints, release a notice about a small exploit they built in that prevents him from using his super, making him balanced even for casual players.
- Played for Laughs: Blackhole is a boss, not necessarily the final boss, of a fighting game in a similar vein to I Wanna Be the Guy, thus his difficulty is cheap to the point of hilarity.
- Played for Drama: If you lose and don't continue (or can't continue) against Blackhole, you get the Bad Ending.
Back to SNK Boss to witness my limitless power!
