History DemonicSpiders / Roguelikes

** Elephants in the earliest versions were [[TheDreaded the most feared and revered animal]] in the history of ''Dwarf Fortress''. Older versions of DF scaled physical strength with size -- and elephants are huge, making them horrifying {{Lightning Bruiser}}s. One good example of this can be seen in ''LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}'', where packs of elephants would suddenly attack dwarves, their enormous tusks gleaming red with blood. Such was their brutality that they were named the king of all beasts, and an undead elephant was a symbol in dwarven culture and society that stood for brutality, terror, death and destruction.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}} Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead]]'' has a number of nasty enemies ready to make your character one of the millions lost to the post-apocalypse.** Bears and moose are fast, tough, and aggressive. They and [[RaisingTheSteaks their zombie counterparts]] are infamous for mauling early-game characters: moose, in particular, have [[MemeticBadass a reputation]] among the community like that of carp in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}} Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead]]'' has a number of nasty enemies ready to make your character one of the millions lost to the post-apocalypse.
** Bears and moose are fast, tough, and aggressive. They and [[RaisingTheSteaks their zombie counterparts]] are infamous for mauling early-game characters: moose, in particular, have [[MemeticBadass a reputation]] among the community like that of carp in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''.

*** If left alive long enough, brutes turn into zombie hulks, which combine the brute's punch with sky-high HP, [[ImmuneToBullets immunity to .22/9mm bullets]], the ability to destroy any barrier, and [[LightningBruiser terrifying speed]]. Skeletal juggernauts [[MightyGlacier trade off speed]] for stretching attacks and even more armor, while kevlar hulks ramp up all these characteristics, being immune to all but the strongest armor-piercing shots.

*** Feral predators are upgraded feral hunters with an attack that [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabs you in the torso]], knocking you over and causing bleeding. They are also much faster than you and have the feral hunter's leap, meaning they can rapidly close in for the kill.
*** Corrosive zombies trade off the spitter zombie's AreaOfEffect acid spit for a rapid acid attack that piles up pain. They are also quite tough (140 HP) and spew acid around themselves when struck, making melee combat even more of a nightmare. They used to have a formidable melee attack that could bring down structures that usually take multiple zombies or a zombie hulk to damage; said attack hit for up to 43 damage, in a game where you're lucky to go past 100 HP. Thankfully, their melee attacks were nerfed in the 0.4 experimentals so they can't knock buildings down any more, but their acid machine gun remains.
*** [[GrenadeSpam Grenadier zombies]] deploy explosive variants of the ever-annoying manhacks, ranging from EMP bombs and tear gas to lethal grenades and C4 charges. Elite grenadier zombies are even worse, as they deploy much deadlier 'hack variants-- if you're unlucky enough, they can send out a ''[[NukeEm mininuke]]'' ''[[OneHitKill manhack]]''. In older experimentals, they spawned more often, making them an incredibly deadly threat. Both Grenadiers and Elite Grenadiers have the nasty tendency to activate the last of their explosives upon being killed, resulting in several explosives going off in quick succession. They would later be removed... only to be replaced by robots that do the same thing.

** The Constant Companion acts as a sort of BorderPatrol that will immediately rip itself out of the zee-floor if you're submerged and have your Terror above 70. It will immediately know where you are, with no amount of sneakiness helping. It will ''[[SuperPersistentPredator never stop chasing you]]'' even if it means pursuing you through an ocean the size of Europe. It has a health pool rivaled only by the nastiest Lorn-Flukes and the BonusBoss. Its charges do massive damage. And if you kill it, and your Terror stays high, it will return eventually. Only the mightiest zubmarines can even hope to survive this thing's assault.

** On the more civilized, yet similarly painful end of things, you have Dreadnoughts. Whether boarded by loot-thirsty devils or brainwashed UncannyValley dwellers who enjoy the light far too much, their ships will be a pain to bring down due to tanking and too much movement, and they have the full front-deck-aft battery of guns so you will be under a constant barrage of ''pain''. The Wreckships that patrol the underwater DerelictGraveyard of Wrack (and can be found in plenty of other unmarked places in the zee) are a similar pain to face despite looking like its captain dragged them out of the zeefloor very, very recently without even patching them, because they have high health for their looks, they pack one of the most painful cannons in the game, can turn around so ridiculously fast you'll never get out of their sights and will [[ChestMonster pass themselves off as regular shipwrecks until you're too close for comfort]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Noita}}'' has the Worms, massive burrowing creatures. They have enough health that they warrant a health bar where other enemies don't, do a lot of damage, and worst of all can appear on any level. The biggest danger with them is their ability to dig through ''any'' material, including the all-but indestructible brickwork surrounding temples. This angers the gods, spawning Temple Guardians in each temple who will attack the ''player'' for something done by a Worm.

*** If left alive long enough, brutes turn into zombie hulks, which combine the brute's punch with sky-high HP, [[ImmuneToBullets immunity to .22/9mm bullets]], the ability to destroy any barrier, and [[LightningBruiser terrifying speed]]. Skeletal juggernauts [[MightyGlacier trade off speed]] for stretching attacks and even more armor, while kevlar hulks turn all these characteristics UpToEleven, being immune to all but the strongest armor-piercing shots.

*** Soulcatchers. They are a nightmare on the battlefield as you likely won't notice that they're there until you're getting stun-locked by a swarm of butterflies while trying to deal with other, more aggressive enemies. They're slow, so it's not like you can't hit them, but they have a ''ton'' of health even before armor enters the picture. Prepare to rely on patience if more than one spawns on the field at once. The Dire Soulcatcher, one of Elysium's mini-bosses, cranks this UpToEleven; not only is it supremely tough to crack, but it also keeps spawning souls that will turn into normal enemies unless you divide your attention and deal with them, ''and'' it can teleport if the enhanced mini-bosses Pact condition is active.

** Barons of Hell aren't as beefy as in the original ''Doom'' (in ''DRL,'' their HP and armor values are equivalent to Mancubi), and their attacks aren't as dangerous as the attacks from the unholy trinity of the VMR. What makes them a huge threat to your survival is that they're the only monster (besides the Bruiser Brothers, which are a boss form of Barons) whose projectile deals acid damage, and they're able to pick up and wear armor themselves, as well as pick up and use healing items. Acid is the most difficult type to obtain resistance to and deals double damage to your armor: couple this with their ability to equip armor and use medkits, and a Baron is capable of taking a ton of punishment while depriving you of armor and health, which can cripple your long-term hope of survival.

*** Brimstone Fiends, Ice Fiends, and Shadow Fiends/Tzitzimimeh are all tier 1 demons most reviled for knowing (and loving to abuse) the spell Torment, which [[PercentDamageAttack cuts your current HP in half]] with every use and is unresistable for most characters. While all monsters who know Torment are bad, Fiends up the ante by adding other nasty attack spells plus summoning hordes of minions. Shadow Fiends are perhaps the worst since they also have the spell Dispel Undead, which deals massive damage to undead characters such as mummies or vampires-- who, incidentally, are the only ones able to reliably resist Torment.

*** Finally, you have the big two: Ancient Liches and Orbs of Fire. Ancient liches are horrifyingly powerful undead sorcerers with broad spell lists; they can summon greater demons to torment you and blast you with hellfire, melt your equipment with acid, cast you into [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Abyss]], raise zombies to mob you, turn invisible at will, or just kill you with high-power conjurations. Orbs of fire lack an ancient lich's versatility, but make up for it with sheer brute force; they are extremely fast, beefy enough to tank several strong hits, have near-perfect elemental resistances, and can either roast you with fire magic or mutate you to death.

*** Zombie bio-operators, while rather rare, can swiftly mangle characters with their brutal bionic martial arts attacks.

** The earliest ones the players encounters are the orc priests, often found before level 5 of the dungeon. They have a smite attack allowing them to kill you with [[HolyHandGrenade holy wrath from their god]] while standing safely behind a couple of regular orcs that shield them from anything you could cast at them. The best defense at this point is having a spell with an area of effect, which is part of the reason Mephitic Cloud (as the only low-level area spell, which has the benefit of disabling casting) is so useful.

** Jellies are usually not a problem for any caster, but trying to fight them in melee temporarily corrodes your equipment, weakening your defense and making your attacks significantly less potent. It gets worse for ranged fighters, as jellies heal by eating the ammo you throw at them -- unless it's rocks, which don't do that much damage in general. Luckily, they are quite slow so unless you get cornered you can usually get them.
*** The advanced jellies are also very nasty. Death oozes are extremely fast, and pack rotting attacks as well as corroding your equipment. Acid blobs spit extremely accurate acid splashes at you; even with corrosion resistance, you'll take a lot of damage. Azure jellies deal horrifying cold damage every time they hit you; expect to take up to ''88 damage per hit'' if you lack cold resistance.

** Liches. Normal liches are fairly tame, possessing only a confusion attack, [[EnergyBall glowing balls]], a healing spell and the ability to paralyze the PC in melee. Then you get master liches, which can do all that, plus summon other undead monsters and curse inventory items (or the PC!) in melee range. Lich kings are when things start getting nasty, with the ability to summon virtually any random monsters, drain stats in melee range, and improved versions of the previous lich abilities. Finally, there's the dreaded emperor lich, with extremely potent versions of all the previous lich abilities, and the ability to cast [[InstantDeathAttack Death Ray]].\\

** Hummerhorns (giant wasps) have a horrifying combination of two abilities; a bite that causes confusion, and the ability to ''self-replicate''. If you have just one of these on your hands and you don't deal with it immediately, you're in for a world of trouble - its confusing bite will hinder you from acting while it happily replicates around you, surrounds you, and bites you to death. Even a high level player can be taken down by these if they haven't taken precautions.

** Quylthulgs are immobile piles of rotting flesh with various teleportation abilities.
** Drolems are the reason you ''never'' go below 2,000 feet without poison resistance. They're dragon golems with powerful poisonous bites and breath weapons - and being golems, they're immune to many things that biological dragons wouldn't be.
** Ancient Multi-Hued Dragons, etc. "Q: How do you kill an Ancient Multi-Hued Dragon? A: You don't."
** "It moves [[LightningBruiser very quickly]]"

** The Shocker is squishy and can be easily taken care of if the layout or player's loadout are appropriate. If neither is, however, you're left with trying to get in melee range of an enemy that will uses its mildly-damaging, unparrie-able, undodgeable AreaOfEffect attack the moment it sees you.

** The "VMR", as the community calls them: Archviles, Mancubi, and Revenants. Archviles have the most HP of any non-boss and non-nightmare monster, are one of the fastest monsters in the game, have a very powerful attack that can only be dodged if your speed is fast enough, and most importantly, are capable of fully reviving nearly any dead monster in their sight, often ''immediately after you've killed them!'' Mancubi have very high HP and high natural armor, and have the deadliest attack of any monster in the game (which consists of them firing three rockets that individually deal very high damage, and have a large splash radius that can result in you getting hit by all three if you're near a wall, resulting in extreme damage if not an instant kill), though they are hindered by their extremely low speed and being easy to corner shoot. Revenants, while not having as high of HP as the other high tier monsters, are fast and shoot a powerful projectile with a splash radius that aims at the tile the player was standing on, which results in their attack never missing. The threat of the VMR can be easily nerfed though, as they all deal fire damage in their projectile attack, and fire damage is very easy to gain resistance to (a simple fireproof armor assembly on Red Armor will give the player a Red Armor with 55% fire resistance, which can even make the full brunt of a Mancubi blast easily brushed off). There's also the Fireangel master trait (if you're a Technician) if you really, ''really'', '''''really''''' hate these guys; it makes you completely immune to splash damage, nerfing them even more at the cost of other master traits. On the other hand, even if you are sufficiently protected against fire damage, you also have to deal with the fact that all of these explosions can and will destroy any nearby items you were hoping to grab, like weapons, armor, ammo, health and mod packs, and powerups; as well as blow any barrels in the vicinity and generally make your life more difficult.

*** The advanced jellies are also very nasty. Death oozes are extremely fast, and pack rotting attacks as well as corroding your equipment. Acid blobs spit extremely accurate acid splashes at you; even with corrosion resistance, you'll take a lot of damage. Azure jellies deal horrifying cold damage every time they hit you; up to ''88 damage per hit'' if you lack cold resistance.

** And then there's Giant Sponges before [=DF2014=]. Yes, sea sponges. Your dwarves' ArtificialStupidity makes them fight sponges to the death -- and since sponges have no vital organs, blood or even targetable limbs, they were effectively immortal before the combat overhaul, so the dwarves either drown trying to reach them or get pushed to death. (Yes, they have a slam attack. [[LogicBomb Despite being immobile]].)

** The exception to the "quadrupeds are {{Mighty Glacier}}s" rule is the leocrotta. It's not only exceptionally powerful, but it's incredibly fast.
** [[ChestMonster Mimics]], which hide in shops and disguise themselves as items. If an item that doesn't belong in the shop, or if it's a general store, then you'll end up stumbling across it and getting attacked.

* A large number of enemies are brutal in the {{roguelike}} ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}''. While common enemies like the [[GoddamnedBats bats]] aren't too difficult to kill, some are just plain evil:
** The [[spoiler:yetis]] in the [[spoiler:Ice Caves from Areas 9 to 12]] are immune to your normal whip attack, somewhat durable, and can ''chain-throw'' you to death easily. Many deaths often result in these evil creatures tossing your corpse back and forth like a baseball.
*** The [[spoiler:Cultists]] in the final areas of the game are worse, as they are not only capable of said chain-throws, they are also ''fast'' and can ''jump'' after you.

*** The horrors vary wildly: while some are easy, some have very nasty attacks. What pushes the latter into this territory are the ones that spawn with a crapload of resistances.

* ''VideoGame/DeadCells'' has the Slasher and Shocker enemy types. The former deals high damage, possibly [[OneHitKill OHKOing or 2HKOing a player]] and has decent range on all of it's attacks, high health and a quick combo that he can turn around mid-swing. And the latter has a AOE attack that it spams the moment it sees the player and can be nigh impossible to avoid depending on the layout of the level and the player's loadout. In addition to this both can spawn as soon as the third level depending on the path the player chooses.
** The game also has the scorpion enemy, which are encountered only in the second and third level on one path, but deals fairly high damage and (the most important part) also inflict poison with its hits, making it able to bypass the [[HPToOne sudden death prevention]] mechanic and kill an already-wounded player in one blow.

''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' has quite a few.

** The Snow Wolves in the Abandoned City. Roaming around in packs, they are hard to hit due to their erratic zigzag movement and can easily overwhelm unprepared players with their spread shots, which they can fire in quick succession. If you get cornered by a bunch of them shooting bullets at you while a Snow Tank revs up its chaingun in your direction, be prepared for a one-way trip back to the Campfire.

* ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' has the dreaded Boarding Drone. Unlike normal boarding parties, the drone doesn't get teleported in, instead getting fired through your ship's hull (and ignoring shields), automatically breaching whatever room it hits. Since it's a robot, it can't be suffocated; you either have to knock drone control offline (which immobilizes it) or destroy it (which means the enemy will just fire ''another'' drone, punching ''another'' hole in your ship). And they have boosted health, meaning most races can't go one-on-one and expect to live. The only bright side is that a Defense Drone mk1 can shoot them down, but it doesn't mean much when they'll just keep firing until one gets through.
** AE now gives us another boarding drone with the Ion Intruder, which is arguably much worse. Instead of slowly dealing damage to a system it *instantly* ionizes a system for 3 Ion damage, removing and locking 3 power bars for 15 seconds ( which is enough enough to lose 2 layers of shields). The catch? Even if you send crew, this still happens and it will now also stun them for 5 seconds in a breached room. Afterwards, the drone will just go to another room to ionize that system too, and than will cycle back to the breached room in most cases. While it does have less health than the normal boarding drone, the instant inoization and the stun makes it rather difficult to fight. If one of those lands on your shields or weapons, you better hope you can finish the enemy or run away very soon.
** Ion Storms, a randomly occurring environmental effect in Nebula nodes. Running into one cuts your reactor output in half and depowers systems at random accordingly. This works on your enemy, too, but they can generally manage greater reactor output than you can. When you have to juggle power between your weapons, shields, engines, and life support, you can expect the enemy waiting for you to put some big holes in your hull before you make it out of there. Fortunately, having the Long-Range Scanners augment you can see the storms from afar and avoid them accordingly.
** [[spoiler:Crystal ships]] only show up near the end of ThatOneSidequest, but they are very capable of putting a serious crimp in said sidequest. They're armed to the teeth with weapons unlike any you've seen before: their main weapons ignore one layer of shields and don't run on ammo, while they also have bombs that lock down a room, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the room until the effect wears off. For your sake, let's hope the final quest marker is close to the entrance, or you could very well be doing that huge sidequest again.

* [[VideoGame/{{Angband}} "Q: How do you kill an Ancient Multi-Hued Dragon? A: You don't."]]
* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' has several, especially in ''Wrath of the Lamb'', and all of which can make your life miserable.
** Trites from ''Wrath of the Lamb'' are literal spiders with upside-down humanoid faces and blood on their teeth. They have a fairly large amount of health, and have a very erratic and tough leaping attack like that of a Hopper, but farther and faster. The worst part is that they can be found immediately as the game starts, should you start in the Cellar.
** Knights are found in The Depths and onwards, and amble around the room until you cross a cardinal direction to them in a medium range, at which point they charge you until they hit something. They can also only be hit from the back, and often hide in between thin rocks, making it extremely difficult to circle them and maybe impossible depending on your speed and shot speed. They have an upgrade in the form of Selfless Knights, which are even more aggressive and even harder to circle around.
** Mask + Hearts from ''Wrath of the Lamb'' are a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin floating mask and disjointed human heart]] that act as one being. The invulnerable mask chases you around the room similar to the Knight, but faster, while the heart attempts to hide from you and shoots in the four cardinal directions rapidly if you corner it. Often the masks will chase you into a corner of the room while the hearts huddle in the opposite corner, and should you dodge all the masks, you will take damage from the hearts' shots.
** Babies teleport around the room, screaming and shooting blood tears at you. Their teleports make them a tricky target to hit, and the constant confusing volleys of shots makes it very difficult to dodge. Their upgrade in ''Wrath of the Lamb'', the Angelic Baby, is far worse as it has a triple shot that further crimps your dodging ability.
** Hangers from ''Wrath of the Lamb'' are one of the worst by far. They dangle from the ceiling and slowly edge around the room, shooting triple shots whenever it locks onto you. Every time it shoots you, you lose three cents, two of which are dropped for you to possibly reclaim and one which is lost forever. Touching one of these Hangers results in incredibly fast money drain in addition to damage. To make matters worse, they are orbited by an Eternal Fly, which blocks shots that hit it and breaks free to hit you when its parent Hanger dies. And Hangers come in groups of two or three, often in rooms with turrets.
** Holy Leeches, also from ''Wrath of the Lamb'', are incredibly difficult. They are upgraded Kamikaze Leeches, which rush at you very quickly and explode, dealing large amounts of damage. They also have an Eternal Fly to block shots, and have upgraded health. They spawn in groups of five, meaning you will inevitably be cornered.
* [[VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}} Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead]] has a number of nasty enemies:
** Bears and moose are fast, tough, and aggressive. They (and [[NonHumanUndead their zombie counterparts]]) are prone to mauling early-game characters.
** Among the mutant wildlife, giant wasps and black widows are aggressive and venomous. The latter can occasionally be found in basements, usually in a massive horde, and the player will likely be slowed by blundering into webs the instant they use the stairs.
** Most of the special undead give some players good reason to use the available mod that disable them. Zombie brutes and hulks will [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom send you flying]], and shock brutes combine this with a potentially stunning area-of-effect electric attack. While acid damage has been [[{{Nerf}} Nerfed]], spitters can still provide area denial by spraying acid at range. Zombie bio-operators, while rather rare, can mangle characters with brutal efficiency. The experimental versions also added nasty things like [[GrenadeSpam grenadier zombies]], which also deploy explosive variants of the ever-annoying manhacks.
** [[BlobMonster Blobs]] are merely a self-replicating annoyance. Fungal monsters are self-replicating and potentially lethal, mostly through the indirect hazard of [[BodyHorror unearthly fungal infection]].
** For Nether monsters, there's the flying eye with its potentially nasty EyeBeams, the fast and aggressive mi-go, and the MightyGlacier that is the shoggoth.
** And finally, anything with a gun. From bandits to military robots, most characters can't take more than a couple shots even with decent armor. Turrets in particular are the main reason to be careful around [[AbandonedLaboratory Abandoned Laboratories]].
* ''VideoGame/DeadCells'' has the Slasher andSshocker enemy types. The former deals high damage, possibly [[OneHitKill OHKOing or 2HKOing a player]] and has decent range on all of it's attacks, high health and a quick combo that he can turn around mid-swing. And the latter has a AOE attack that it spams the moment it sees the player and can be nigh impossible to avoid depending on the layout of the level and the player's loadout. In addition to this both can spawn as soon as the third level depending on the path the player chooses.

** "VMR", as the community calls them -- Archviles, Mancubi, and Revenants. Archviles have the most HP of any non-boss and non-nightmare monster, are one of the fastest monsters in the game, have a very powerful attack that can only be dodged if your speed is fast enough, and most importantly, are capable of fully reviving nearly any dead monster in their sight, often ''immediately after you've killed them!'' Mancubi have very high HP and high natural armor, and have the deadliest attack of any monster in the game (which consists of them firing three rockets that individually deal very high damage, and have a large splash radius that can result in you getting hit by all three if you're near a wall, resulting in extreme damage if not an instant kill), though they are hindered by their extremely low speed and being easy to corner shoot. Revenants, while not having as high of HP as the other high tier monsters, are fast and shoot a powerful projectile with a splash radius that aims at the tile the player was standing on, which results in their attack never missing. The threat of the VMR can be easily nerfed though, as they all deal fire damage in their projectile attack, and fire damage is very easy to gain resistance to (a simple fireproof armor assembly on Red Armor will give the player a Red Armor with 55% fire resistance, which can even make the full brunt of a Mancubi blast easily brushed off). There's also the Fireangel master trait (if you're a Technician) if you really, ''really'', '''''really''''' hate these guys; it makes you completely immune to splash damage, nerfing them even more at the cost of other master traits. On the other hand, even if you are sufficiently protected against fire damage, you also have to deal with the fact that all of these explosions can and will destroy any nearby items you were hoping to grab, like weapons, armor, ammo, health and mod packs, and powerups; as well as blow any barrels in the vicinity and generally make your life more difficult.
** Arachnotrons, which while lacking any special traits, are fast, have high HP and armor, and have a rapid fire weapon that can deal high plasma damage and is difficult to dodge all the blasts. Fortunately for the player, Arachnotrons are extremely weak in melee (having a weak melee attack and taking 50% more damage from melee attacks), which can be enough to keep them from being demonic spiders, except that too many of them in one place will fuck you up bad, especially if you are a melee build that relies on the Berserker trait, as the spiders' blasts do just enough damage to fuck you up, but not enough individually to trigger berserk.
** If a monster has Nightmare in front of its name, you're ''not'' going to have a good day. Pretty much every one of them has more HP, speed and even stronger attacks than their original incarnations. This turns into even more of a nightmare with monsters that are already demonic spiders all their own, such as Archviles and Arachnotrons.
** Barons of Hell can also qualify. While their HP isn't as outstanding as it was in the original Doom (in DRL, their HP and armor values are equivalent to Mancubi), and their attacks aren't as dangerous as the attacks from the monsters above, they have two unique traits that make them a huge threat to your survival. The first trait is that they're the only monster whose projectile deals acid damage (besides the Bruiser Brothers, which are a boss form of Barons). Acid damage is by far the most difficult type to obtain resistance to (the opposite of the fire damage from the VMR), and acid deals double damage to your armor (just two hits from a Baron is enough to possibly bring Red Armor from full to below 50% durability). As such, Barons will nearly always hit you hard, and will brutalise your armor (which in turn, softens you up for them and the other demonic spiders). The other trait Barons have are that they are able to pick up and wear armor themselves, as well as pick up and use healing items, which has a twofold effect. Combined with their already high HP and natural armor, an armored Baron can take a ridiculous amount of hits to kill. And when you bring a Baron to near death, they can use a large medkit and bring themselves back up to full health instantly. Besides this making them being capable of taking even more hits to kill, it deprives you of armor you may need (you can get the armor they wear when you kill them, though the armor would be severely damage if not destroyed), and of the medkits that are vital to survival. Overall, while they may not provide the immediate threat the other demonic spiders do, they provide a greater threat to your long term survival, and a bad encounter with them can cripple your chances of ultimately winning even if you survived the encounter.

*** Finally, you have the big two: Ancient Liches and Orbs of Fire. Ancient liches are horrifyingly powerful undead sorcerers with broad spell lists; they can summon greater demons to torment you and blast you with hellfire, melt your equipment with acid, cast you into [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Abyss]], raise zombies to mob you, turn invisible at will, or just kill you with high-power conjurations. Orbs of fire lack an ancient lich's versatility, but make up for it with sheer power; they are extremely fast, beefy enough to tank several strong hits, have near-perfect elemental resistances, and can either roast you with brutally powerful fire magic or mutate you to death.

** Elephants in the earliest versions were [[TheDreaded the most feared and revered animal]] in the history of ''Dwarf Fortress''. Older versions of DF scaled physical strength with size -- and elephants are huge, making them horrifying {{Lightning Bruiser}}s. One good example of this was Boatmurdered; packs of elephants would suddenly attack and eat dwarves, their enormous tusks gleaming red with blood. Such was their brutality that they were named the king of all beasts, and a undead elephant was a symbol in itself in dwarven culture and society to mean brutality, terror, death and destruction.

** The [[spoiler:LegionsOfHell, appropriately enough]]. Not because they are individually tough, not because they fly, only partly because they're stealthy and avoid traps, but mostly because some of them set everything nearby on fire AND breathe massive bursts of fire. On the positive side, you'll never get more than a few dozen on any one map, and if you defeat them all you can then amuse yourself by chucking garbage and enemies into Hell. Post-2010 update, however,the number of demons is now either ''several billion'' or ''infinite'', and some of them, lacking multiple body parts or vital organs and blood, are functionally immortal. Evidently, Toady One decided the old Hell was too easy.

** Adventurers' worst nightmares are bogeymen, who spawn in mid-sized numbers, are VERY good at dodging, can teleport to you if you run away, and only appear in total darkness. Despite being small, they can sometimes KICK IN YOUR SKULL THROUGH A STEEL HELMET. And they don't need to be great, because they dodge enough that it is almost impossible to hit one! Oh, and some can fly. The only good thing about them is that even a single companion will stop them from spawning, but it is very possible to be attacked and killed while you go to a fortress to get a companion who won't get killed on your first quest, or while going back to civilization after all of your companions died in a quest. Not much fun, but lots of [[InsistentTerminology Fun]].

* The soldier ant in ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'' has no special/magical abilities—and yet is the most common cause of deaths in the game, thanks to their speed and numbers. It's not the only monster with a reputation, but fights for the spot of worst creature with floating eyes, leprechauns, nymphs, gremlins, eels, krakens, mind flayers, master mind flayers, green slimes, cockatrices, chickatrices, black dragons, liches, arch-liches, rust monsters, disenchanters, iron golems, air elementals, the [[http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Gnome_With_The_Wand_Of_Death Gnomes With The Wand Of Death]], and minotaurs to an extent. By this point, the astute reader has picked up that ''Nethack'' isn't a "game" as much as an extremely prolonged form of masochism. Ask any serious player.
** You left out Vrocks. [[MookMaker They summon other Vrocks]]. The summoned Vrocks then go on to summon even more Vrocks.

** Nymphs don't directly hurt you, but you'll be wishing they did. [[BanditMook They steal items]], up to and including the weapon out of your hand and the armor off your back. They can also immobilize you, during which time they'll steal literally everything you have. Even worse, they'll teleport away as soon as you get ready to hit them back. If you get unlucky, it's very likely you'll end up running around the floor in your skivvies with whatever weapon you can grab off the floor, hoping you can corner her and get a good hit in to kill her before you run into whatever ''other'' DemonicSpiders are on the floor. Leprechauns are similar but less ''evil'', preferring instead to steal gold.
*** On the bright side, both Nymphs and Leprechauns tend to spawn sleeping, where you can slip by them if you don't wake them up. That won't help you, of course, when a water nymph pops out of the fountain you were dipping your longsword in.
** Most quadruped enemies are {{Mighty Glacier}}s; slow, but obscenely powerful once they get close. Except ''[=NetHack=]'' tends to deemphasize the 'glacier' part, while focusing on the might. The most infamous of these is the mumak, a ferocious war elephant with a headbutt attack that does ''4d12'' damage. At the levels you're likely to start encountering them, a couple of those can almost certainly kill you, and they get multiple attacks per turn, at least one of which will be a headbutt.
*** Then, you have the exception to the rule: the leocrotta. It's not only exceptionally powerful, but it's incredibly fast.
*** ''Nethack'', at least, includes one way to relieve yourselves of your most hated Demonic Spiders: A scroll of genocide can wipe out an entire species (for example, one type of lich) or an entire ''class'' of monsters (for example, ''all'' liches), depending on how blessed it is. Unfortunately, this won't work on some enemies.

** The [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Nazgul aka the Ringwraiths.]] If they hit you, you get infected by the Black Breath, which slowly drains your stats and hard-earned experience. If you hit ''them'' it destroys your weapon and gives you Black Breath, and it doesn't even hurt them if it isn't a magical weapon. Magical weapons count...but they get damaged, and it's very hard to fix them. This is in addition to the other magical attacks and summons they can do. Oh, and even if you luck out and "kill" them, they'll keep coming BackFromTheDead until Sauron is killed. Permanently, as Sauron will keep coming back until the One Ring is either used or destroyed. Not a bad depiction of them, actually.
** The [=RNGs=], when you first meet them, in the forest. One is easy to kill. But they breed, so if they are awake you'll be facing more than one. They hit to confuse, meaning you can't aim attacks, or use any escape/healing magic. (And they occur several levels before confusion resist becomes common.) Oh, and they can move through trees, so that forest that's limiting your sightlines and probably hindering your movement? Yeah, the'll come straight through that.
** TOME 4 has...any mages and ranged attackers. The systems was designed such that those enemies are always deadly. When you get to the second half of the game, add Orc Berserkers and Elite Berserkers. And the horrors.
*** Although the archers' threat are lessened if you're capable of doing ranged attack, they can still be a pain if you fight them in dark dungeons without good light source or spells, since [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard they can see you when you can't see them]].
*** Mages can do a lot of damage, and when faced with corruptors and blood mages, they are capable of inflicting you with diseases and even lower your resistance, which means that all following up attacks will deal even more damage.
*** Berserkers have loads of health, can rush you from a few squares away, and deal a crap ton of damage per hit.
*** The horrors vary wildly, some are easy, some has very nasty attacks, but the worst thing is if you face ones in the latter category that is generated with crapload of resistance.

** The regular Crystal Caves are bad enough with [[DangerousTerrain the sticky webbing on the ground]] hampering your movement in places, but it also contains two kinds of enemies you'll quickly learn to respect: literal DemonicSpiders with quick, erratic movement skittering about and [[BeamSpam Laser]] [[FrickinLaserBeams Crystals]] that can either pick you off at a distance or even [[OneHitKill kill you instantly]] if you so much as ''brush against them''. Now try entering the level with a [[EvilWeapon Cursed]] [[StuckItems Weapon]] in your inventory and watch as all the enemies become much, ''much'' deadlier: the Crystal Spiders now have a chance of replicating when killed, the Laser Crystals shoot much faster and more often on top of blinking around randomly, sometimes right on top of you if you get within melee range, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and both types now have reversed color schemes]]. Oh, and the ''entire floor'' is now completely webbed up [[SarcasmMode for your convenience]].

* The soldier ant in ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'' has no special/magical abilities—and yet is the most common cause of deaths in the game, thanks to their speed and numbers. It's not the only monster with a reputation, but fights for the spot of worst creature with floating eyes, leprechauns, nymphs, gremlins, eels, krakens, mind flayers, master mind flayers, green slimes, cockatrices, chickatrices, black dragons, liches, arch-liches, rust monsters, disenchanters, iron golems, air elementals, the [[http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Gnome_With_The_Wand_Of_Death Gnomes With The Wand Of Death]], and minotaurs to an extent. By this point, the astute reader has picked up that ''Nethack'' isn't a "game" as much as an extremely prolonged form of masochism. Ask any serious player.
** You left out Vrocks. [[MookMaker They summon other Vrocks]]. The summoned Vrocks then go on to summon even more Vrocks.
** Werecreatures (wererats, werejackals, and werewolves) can infect you with lycanthropy for every attack that hits. Lycanthropy causes you to randomly polymorph into one of the same types of monster that attacked you, unless you have protection from shape changers. Wererats and werejackals have such terrible carrying capacity that you'll almost certainly by incapacitated as soon as you shift, while werewolf transformations will destroy any shirt, armor, or cloak you're wearing. Even worse, lycanthropy is nigh-impossible to cure; if you can't pray for whatever reason, you just have to hope you run across a sprig of wolfsbane or a bottle of holy water.
** Nymphs don't directly hurt you, but you'll be wishing they did. [[BanditMook They steal items]], up to and including the weapon out of your hand and the armor off your back. They can also immobilize you, during which time they'll steal literally everything you have. Even worse, they'll teleport away as soon as you get ready to hit them back. If you get unlucky, it's very likely you'll end up running around the floor in your skivvies with whatever weapon you can grab off the floor, hoping you can corner her and get a good hit in to kill her before you run into whatever ''other'' DemonicSpiders are on the floor. Leprechauns are similar but less ''evil'', preferring instead to steal gold.
*** On the bright side, both Nymphs and Leprechauns tend to spawn sleeping, where you can slip by them if you don't wake them up. That won't help you, of course, when a water nymph pops out of the fountain you were dipping your longsword in.
** Most quadruped enemies are {{Mighty Glacier}}s; slow, but obscenely powerful once they get close. Except ''[=NetHack=]'' tends to deemphasize the 'glacier' part, while focusing on the might. The most infamous of these is the mumak, a ferocious war elephant with a headbutt attack that does ''4d12'' damage. At the levels you're likely to start encountering them, a couple of those can almost certainly kill you, and they get multiple attacks per turn, at least one of which will be a headbutt.
*** Then, you have the exception to the rule: the leocrotta. It's not only exceptionally powerful, but it's incredibly fast.
*** ''Nethack'', at least, includes one way to relieve yourselves of your most hated Demonic Spiders: A scroll of genocide can wipe out an entire species (for example, one type of lich) or an entire ''class'' of monsters (for example, ''all'' liches), depending on how blessed it is. Unfortunately, this won't work on some enemies.
** [[ChestMonster Mimics]], which hide in shops and disguise themselves as items. If an item that doesn't belong in the shop, or if it's a general store, then you'll end up stumbling across it and getting attacked.
** Every monster in this game that aren't GoddamnBats are Demonic Spiders. Arguably the only monster that doesn't leave you feeling sore if you aren't properly prepared would be the Grid Bugs, tiny little bugs who occasionally hit for a whole point of damage, and Lichens, which, while similar to much more deadly fungi, only has a passive that makes you stick to it and dies in a couple hits (Sometimes dropping vegan food that never rots!).
** Giant eels, electric eels, and krakens only live in water, which should make them mostly harmless, right? Wrong. When you pass by them, they'll pop out and grab you. If you can't get away from them or kill them within a few turns, they'll drag you into the water and drown you.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfMajEyal'':
** The [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Nazgul aka the Ringwraiths.]] If they hit you, you get infected by the Black Breath, which slowly drains your stats and hard-earned experience. If you hit ''them'' it destroys your weapon and gives you Black Breath, and it doesn't even hurt them if it isn't a magical weapon. Magical weapons count...but they get damaged, and it's very hard to fix them. This is in addition to the other magical attacks and summons they can do. Oh, and even if you luck out and "kill" them, they'll keep coming BackFromTheDead until Sauron is killed. Permanently, as Sauron will keep coming back until the One Ring is either used or destroyed. Not a bad depiction of them, actually.
** The [=RNGs=], when you first meet them, in the forest. One is easy to kill. But they breed, so if they are awake you'll be facing more than one. They hit to confuse, meaning you can't aim attacks, or use any escape/healing magic. (And they occur several levels before confusion resist becomes common.) Oh, and they can move through trees, so that forest that's limiting your sightlines and probably hindering your movement? Yeah, the'll come straight through that.
** TOME 4 has...any mages and ranged attackers. The systems was designed such that those enemies are always deadly. When you get to the second half of the game, add Orc Berserkers and Elite Berserkers. And the horrors.
*** Although the archers' threat are lessened if you're capable of doing ranged attack, they can still be a pain if you fight them in dark dungeons without good light source or spells, since [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard they can see you when you can't see them]].
*** Mages can do a lot of damage, and when faced with corruptors and blood mages, they are capable of inflicting you with diseases and even lower your resistance, which means that all following up attacks will deal even more damage.
*** Berserkers have loads of health, can rush you from a few squares away, and deal a crap ton of damage per hit.
*** The horrors vary wildly, some are easy, some has very nasty attacks, but the worst thing is if you face ones in the latter category that is generated with crapload of resistance.
* ''VideoGame/ZAngband'' has [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes The Disembodied Hand That Strangled People]]. The name says it all.

* The Slimes in ''VideoGame/{{Rogue}}'', due to their tendency to replicate themselves and surround you.
* A large number of enemies are brutal in the {{roguelike}} ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}''. While common enemies like the [[GoddamnedBats bats]] aren't too difficult to kill, some are just plain evil:
** The [[spoiler:yetis]] in the [[spoiler:Ice Caves from Areas 9 to 12]] are immune to your normal whip attack, somewhat durable, and can ''chain-throw'' you to death easily. Many deaths often result in these evil creatures tossing your corpse back and forth like a baseball.
*** The [[spoiler:Cultists]] in the final areas of the game are worse, as they are not only capable of said chain-throws, they are also ''fast'' and can ''jump'' after you.

** Jellies are usually not a problem for any caster, but trying to fight them in melee temporarily corrodes your equipment, weakening your defense and making your attacks significantly less potent. It gets worse for ranged fighters, as jellies heal by eating the ammo you throw at them-- unless it's rocks, which don't do that much damage in general. Luckily, they are quite slow so unless you get cornered you can usually get them.

** Orcs from some of the mods can veer into this; not only are they bad-tempered, fast-moving and obscenely tough, but they turn up in swarms, right from the first winter, they are immune to automated traps, and they can kick open locked doors. The only reason forts with orcs modded in survive more than an in-game year is that they are still susceptible to the more...''elaborate'' deathtraps from the twisted imaginations of DF players, such as drowning chambers, drop chutes, and atomsmashers.

*** Since the 2012 version (0.34.11), zombies in some evil biomes may spontaneously rise from the dead. The catch is that "zombie" does not necessarily have to be a whole creature -- body parts, bones, skin, hair, and even ''mussel shells'' can rise from the dead. That angry goblin corpse that your swordsdwarf killed? [[NiceJobBreakingItHero You've only made more zombies by cutting it up.]] Worse, if a zombie kills a living creature, that living creature will itself become a zombie, eventually spiralling into an uncontrollable ZombieApocalypse.

* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' has several, especially in ''Wrath of the Lamb'', and all of which can make your life miserable.
** Trites from ''Wrath of the Lamb'' are literal spiders with upside-down humanoid faces and blood on their teeth. They have a fairly large amount of health, and have a very erratic and tough leaping attack like that of a Hopper, but farther and faster. The worst part is that they can be found immediately as the game starts, should you start in the Cellar.
** Knights are found in The Depths and onwards, and amble around the room until you cross a cardinal direction to them in a medium range, at which point they charge you until they hit something. They can also only be hit from the back, and often hide in between thin rocks, making it extremely difficult to circle them and maybe impossible depending on your speed and shot speed. They have an upgrade in the form of Selfless Knights, which are even more aggressive and even harder to circle around.
** Mask + Hearts from ''Wrath of the Lamb'' are a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin floating mask and disjointed human heart]] that act as one being. The invulnerable mask chases you around the room similar to the Knight, but faster, while the heart attempts to hide from you and shoots in the four cardinal directions rapidly if you corner it. Often the masks will chase you into a corner of the room while the hearts huddle in the opposite corner, and should you dodge all the masks, you will take damage from the hearts' shots.
** Babies teleport around the room, screaming and shooting blood tears at you. Their teleports make them a tricky target to hit, and the constant confusing volleys of shots makes it very difficult to dodge. Their upgrade in ''Wrath of the Lamb'', the Angelic Baby, is far worse as it has a triple shot that further crimps your dodging ability.
** Hangers from ''Wrath of the Lamb'' are one of the worst by far. They dangle from the ceiling and slowly edge around the room, shooting triple shots whenever it locks onto you. Every time it shoots you, you lose three cents, two of which are dropped for you to possibly reclaim and one which is lost forever. Touching one of these Hangers results in incredibly fast money drain in addition to damage. To make matters worse, they are orbited by an Eternal Fly, which blocks shots that hit it and breaks free to hit you when its parent Hanger dies. And Hangers come in groups of two or three, often in rooms with turrets.
** Holy Leeches, also from ''Wrath of the Lamb'', are incredibly difficult. They are upgraded Kamikaze Leeches, which rush at you very quickly and explode, dealing large amounts of damage. They also have an Eternal Fly to block shots, and have upgraded health. They spawn in groups of five, meaning you will inevitably be cornered.
* ''VideoGame/{{DRL}}'' have a number of really nasty monsters that can end your run in a hurry.
** "VMR", as the community calls them -- Archviles, Mancubi, and Revenants. Archviles have the most HP of any non-boss and non-nightmare monster, are one of the fastest monsters in the game, have a very powerful attack that can only be dodged if your speed is fast enough, and most importantly, are capable of fully reviving nearly any dead monster in their sight, often ''immediately after you've killed them!'' Mancubi have very high HP and high natural armor, and have the deadliest attack of any monster in the game (which consists of them firing three rockets that individually deal very high damage, and have a large splash radius that can result in you getting hit by all three if you're near a wall, resulting in extreme damage if not an instant kill), though they are hindered by their extremely low speed and being easy to corner shoot. Revenants, while not having as high of HP as the other high tier monsters, are fast and shoot a powerful projectile with a splash radius that aims at the tile the player was standing on, which results in their attack never missing. The threat of the VMR can be easily nerfed though, as they all deal fire damage in their projectile attack, and fire damage is very easy to gain resistance to (a simple fireproof armor assembly on Red Armor will give the player a Red Armor with 55% fire resistance, which can even make the full brunt of a Mancubi blast easily brushed off). There's also the Fireangel master trait (if you're a Technician) if you really, ''really'', '''''really''''' hate these guys; it makes you completely immune to splash damage, nerfing them even more at the cost of other master traits. On the other hand, even if you are sufficiently protected against fire damage, you also have to deal with the fact that all of these explosions can and will destroy any nearby items you were hoping to grab, like weapons, armor, ammo, health and mod packs, and powerups; as well as blow any barrels in the vicinity and generally make your life more difficult.
** Arachnotrons, which while lacking any special traits, are fast, have high HP and armor, and have a rapid fire weapon that can deal high plasma damage and is difficult to dodge all the blasts. Fortunately for the player, Arachnotrons are extremely weak in melee (having a weak melee attack and taking 50% more damage from melee attacks), which can be enough to keep them from being demonic spiders, except that too many of them in one place will fuck you up bad, especially if you are a melee build that relies on the Berserker trait, as the spiders' blasts do just enough damage to fuck you up, but not enough individually to trigger berserk.
** If a monster has Nightmare in front of its name, you're ''not'' going to have a good day. Pretty much every one of them has more HP, speed and even stronger attacks than their original incarnations. This turns into even more of a nightmare with monsters that are already demonic spiders all their own, such as Archviles and Arachnotrons.
** Barons of Hell can also qualify. While their HP isn't as outstanding as it was in the original Doom (in DRL, their HP and armor values are equivalent to Mancubi), and their attacks aren't as dangerous as the attacks from the monsters above, they have two unique traits that make them a huge threat to your survival. The first trait is that they're the only monster whose projectile deals acid damage (besides the Bruiser Brothers, which are a boss form of Barons). Acid damage is by far the most difficult type to obtain resistance to (the opposite of the fire damage from the VMR), and acid deals double damage to your armor (just two hits from a Baron is enough to possibly bring Red Armor from full to below 50% durability). As such, Barons will nearly always hit you hard, and will brutalise your armor (which in turn, softens you up for them and the other demonic spiders). The other trait Barons have are that they are able to pick up and wear armor themselves, as well as pick up and use healing items, which has a twofold effect. Combined with their already high HP and natural armor, an armored Baron can take a ridiculous amount of hits to kill. And when you bring a Baron to near death, they can use a large medkit and bring themselves back up to full health instantly. Besides this making them being capable of taking even more hits to kill, it deprives you of armor you may need (you can get the armor they wear when you kill them, though the armor would be severely damage if not destroyed), and of the medkits that are vital to survival. Overall, while they may not provide the immediate threat the other demonic spiders do, they provide a greater threat to your long term survival, and a bad encounter with them can cripple your chances of ultimately winning even if you survived the encounter.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonOfTheEndless'' has a few:
** Hurna Riders (goblins riding Rhinos). Each time a door is opened, you gain resources for that turn, but monsters can spawn from any unpowered rooms that aren't occupied by heroes. Hurna Riders have the ability to smash down doors in a few hits. They target a random locked door and attempt to reach it and smash it down, and if they succeed at doing so, it can spawn a huge amount of monsters ([[DisasterDominoes including more Hurna Riders to smash more doors]]!) that will eventually overwhelm you.
** Chimera Kamikazes, specifically the elite variants. They deal an incredible amount of damage to all heroes in the room should they blow up, sometimes enough for a TotalPartyKill.
** Chimera Hydras. They have a lot of health, prioritize killing heroes and [=NPCs=], hit hard and from a distance, and worst of all slow down all heroes in the room they're in, making it even harder to escape from, ensuring that they and the other monsters can catch up to you and tear you apart.
** Chimera Keepers. [[MagikarpPower Let them grow too big]] and they can destroy a team of four heroes easily due to their high regenerating health and heavy area damage. Even worse is the fact that they provide regeneration and attack boost to all other monsters in the dungeon while reducing the chance of dust drops. They also spawn in dark rooms, forcing your heroes to get through the waves of monsters to even reach them.
* [[VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}} Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead]] has a number of nasty enemies:
** Bears and moose are fast, tough, and aggressive. They (and [[NonHumanUndead their zombie counterparts]]) are prone to mauling early-game characters.
** Among the mutant wildlife, giant wasps and black widows are aggressive and venomous. The latter can occasionally be found in basements, usually in a massive horde, and the player will likely be slowed by blundering into webs the instant they use the stairs.
** Most of the special undead give some players good reason to use the available mod that disable them. Zombie brutes and hulks will [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom send you flying]], and shock brutes combine this with a potentially stunning area-of-effect electric attack. While acid damage has been [[{{Nerf}} Nerfed]], spitters can still provide area denial by spraying acid at range. Zombie bio-operators, while rather rare, can mangle characters with brutal efficiency. The experimental versions also added nasty things like [[GrenadeSpam grenadier zombies]], which also deploy explosive variants of the ever-annoying manhacks.
** [[BlobMonster Blobs]] are merely a self-replicating annoyance. Fungal monsters are self-replicating and potentially lethal, mostly through the indirect hazard of [[BodyHorror unearthly fungal infection]].
** For Nether monsters, there's the flying eye with its potentially nasty EyeBeams, the fast and aggressive mi-go, and the MightyGlacier that is the shoggoth.
** And finally, anything with a gun. From bandits to military robots, most characters can't take more than a couple shots even with decent armor. Turrets in particular are the main reason to be careful around [[AbandonedLaboratory Abandoned Laboratories]].

* One enemy that sticks out in particular in ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' is the Veteran Shotgun Kin. Enemies with the Veteran tag [[LeadTheTarget lead their shots.]] Shotgun Kin fire a spread of five bullets in an arc. Put two and two together, and you have an enemy that, while merely troublesome on its own, can quickly turn into a nightmare with even a small amount of backup, especially when you're forced to dodge-roll, as the Veteran Shotgun Kin has a nasty tendency to fire where you'll land before the rolling animation is complete. It also detonates into a pseudo-random spray of bullets when killed, and you can potentially encounter ''four or more'' of the damn things ''in one room.''
** King Bullats are resilient {{Asteroids Monster}}s that shoot ricocheting projectiles in a circular arc, almost guaranteed to nail you in the back when you think you've dodged it, and when killed, it spawns multiple Bullats of all types, from explosive ones to spiritual ones that shoot multiple ghostly bullets after death.
** Lead Maidens encountered in the Gungeon Proper are invulnerable to bullet projectiles when closed. When they open and make themselves vulnerable, they also fire three salvos of arrow-shaped bullets in all directions, which ''all converge on you at once'' when it closes up again. Unless you can find some really good cover, you're likely to get hit by one of these things.
** Lore Gunjurers are different from their SquishyWizard counterparts in that they can take an unreasonable amount of punishment and summon three different types of quick, unpredictable projectiles, all of which home in on you and take the form of one of the FighterMageThief class types. The Fighter bullet mercilessly zooms towards the player at high speeds, the Mage bullet fires bullets of its own while slowly advancing towards the player (and charging at it once it runs out of shots), and the Thief bullet ''teleports behind you,'' causing you to roll opposite the direction you are anticipating. It doesn't help that Lore Gunjurers are often situated with their brethren, allowing them to pop off multiples of these attacks at once while you're distracted by all the other hazards.
** Lead Cubes in the Forge [[spoiler:and their fleshy counterparts in Bullet Hell,]] at least if you're not playing as [[spoiler:The Bullet.]] They are {{Invincible Minor Minion}}s that cannot be damaged until the room is cleared (upon where it becomes meaningless to attack them, as they make no effort to fight back and [[GoldenSnitch the room is essentially conquered at this point]], unless you're ''that'' desperate for money), and they zip towards the player at high speed, causing CollisionDamage. It wouldn't be so bad, except the rooms can be quite spacey, especially in the Forge [[spoiler:and Bullet Hell]], so you often won't see these things coming until they're suddenly charging after you, requiring split-second reflexes or just plain [[LuckBasedMission dumb luck]] to not get hit by one, especially with other distractions to worry about. [[spoiler:The Flesh Cubes are even more insane in this regard - they leave behind a blazing fire trail when darting about the room, and release bullets when they collide with an obstacle or wall.]]
** Shelletons, when spawned naturally and not through an [[MookMaker Ammomancer]]. They soak up tons of damage, fire off the most confusing spread pattern of nearly all the enemies in the game, and have an irritating {{Eye Beam}} attack that tracks your movement. And you have to destroy the head once you blast away its body, otherwise it reassembles itself and regains all of its hit points.
** Revolvenants, who appear in the Forge [[spoiler: and Bullet Hell]]. They have two attacks: The first and more common one is to launch a string of bullets at you. Following that, each bullet shoots more bullets out to the side perpendicular to the main string for a few seconds. The second attack is to surround you in a circle of bullets that follows you. Two large bullets then move through the center, so you have to dodge roll over them. Finally, the remaining bullets all move through the center together.

* ''VideoGame/DeadCells'' has the Slasher andSshocker enemy types. The former deals high damage, possibly [[OneHitKill OHKOing or 2HKOing a player]] and has decent range on all of it's attacks, high health and a quick combo that he can turn around mid-swing. And the latter has a AOE attack that it spams the moment it sees the player and can be nigh impossible to avoid depending on the layout of the level and the player's loadout. In addition to this both can spawn as soon as the third level depending on the path the player chooses.
** The game also has the scorpion enemy, which are encountered only in the second and third level on one path, but deals fairly high damage and (the most important part) also inflict poison with its hits, making it able to bypass the [[HPToOne sudden death prevention]] mechanic and kill an already-wounded player in one blow.
* ''VideoGame/{{Noita}}'' has the Worms, massive burrowing creatures. They have enough health that they warrant a health bar where other enemies don't, do a lot of damage, and worst of all can appear on any level. The biggest danger with them is their ability to dig through ''any'' material, including the all-but indestructible brickwork surrounding temples. This angers the gods, spawning Temple Guardians in each temple who will attack the ''player'' for something done by a Worm.