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Author: STUART

Oct 18th 2009 at 7:05:03 AM

DamageSponge is a good idea since with BruteForceBoss you're going to get people who don't read the trope and assume it refers to a boss that ''uses'' brute force (such as the above reply).

* The Nihilanth in Half-Life provides a cruel example of '''combining''' this with PuzzleBoss: you have to jump through a set of hoops just to unlock the path up to his WeakSpot, then you have to do a ''ridiculous'' (as in "use up all the ammo of all your weapons, including rocket launchers") amount of damage to it to finish the game. Oh, and did I mention you have to do this ''in mid-air''? This boss is so notoriously difficult that the most common approach to beating him (after turning on cheats) is to maneuver yourself so that you get stuck in his head, then hitting the weak spot repeatedly with your crowbar.
*I feel like I've detailed this somewhere else on this site, but CounterStrike Condition Zero Deleted Scenes has a boss that stands at a pedestal and requires you to dart from spot to spot and shoot at him until he dies. The kicker is that, despite being what appears to be for all intents and purposes an ordinary human, he can take *'''14 shots''' from the Desert Eagle '''''to the head'''''* and not die.