History Main / RingOutBoss

* Not just for bosses anymore. The arcade game ''GoldenAxe'' was filled with this. It was cake to navigate the game if you kick, throw, or let someone run past you, off the edge of a bottomless pit. It worked like everywhere on every enemy. [[hottip:*:Although, it does still work on a pair of bosses late in the game if you don't scroll the screen over so much that the pit is too far off the edge.]]
** In StreetsOfRage games, you can sometimes throw enemies into pits. Kills them instantly.

* In Lego Batman, Bane is totally immune to your attacks- the only way to beat him is to make him run into stuff and stun himself so you can drop things on him.
** That's the DS version, right? Bane is never fought in the console versions - he throws a tantrum when Penguin abandons him and accidentally KO's himself with a police car. The writers must've been taking cues from [[BatmanAndRobin Shumacher]] here...

* Burner Man in ''Game/MegaMan and Bass''. Shoving him onto spikes using the Ice Wall does a good deal more damage than anything else you can throw at him.

** ''NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' is an inversion. Lemmy tries to ring ''you'' out.

** Notably averted with Night Terror in ''Soul Caliber 3'' where uniquely of all enemies if you knock him off you just flies back in.

* The [[SuperMarioBros Mario series]] loves this. You've got [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Big Bully, Chief Chilly,]] [[SuperMarioGalaxy Topmaniac]], [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Roger the Potted Ghost (and Shy Guy cohorts), Big Guy the Stilted]] and a few others.

* The [[SuperMarioBros Mario series]] loves this. You've got [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Big Bully, Chief Chilly,]] [[SuperMarioGalaxy Topmaniac]], [[YoshisIsland Roger the Potted Ghost (and Shy Guy cohorts), Big Guy the Stilted]] and a few others.

* Belcha, the first boss of ''[[DonkeyKongCountry Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble]]'', is a large barrel which must be pushed into a lower portion of the floor at the end of his room. You don't have the leverage or strength to do so, and thus you must feed him beetles that occasionally fall from the ceiling - Belcha's [[MeaningfulName belches) steadily push him backwards whenever he eats one. Curiously the pit contains no hazards of its own and is no deeper than Belcha is tall. Considering Belcha's lack of mobility, however, the poor chap will never escape his comitragically small ditch.

* The [[SuperMarioBros Mario series]] loves this. You've got [[SuperMario64 Big Bully, Chief Chilly,]] [[SuperMarioGalaxy Topmaniac]], [[YoshisIsland Roger the Potted Ghost (and Shy Guy cohorts), Big Guy the Stilted]] and a few others.

** Inverted with Big Bob-omb in ''SuperMario64'', throwing him off the mountain will heal him.

* All of the Bowser fights in ''SuperMario64'' are type 2 that resemble type 1 fights. You have to avoid throwing Bowser off the cliff, but rather throw him into the bombs surrounding said cliff.

* A lot of boss fights in the ''DoubleDragon'' series feature a convenient nearby pit (often with a conveyor belt leading into it) that you can knock the boss into if you don't feel like spending several minutes beating down his health bar.

* Chance in the final battle of ''SyphonFilter 2'' is wearing [[ZeroPunctuation "Impenetrable Bullshit Armor"]], so you need to shoot him with a shotgun to knock him into a helicopter's spinning blades.

* Belcha, the first boss of ''[[DonkeyKongCountry Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble]]'', is a large barrel which must be pushed (upright!?) into a lower portion of the floor at the end of his room. Curiously the pit contains no hazards of its own and is no deeper than Belcha is tall. Considering Belcha's lack of mobility, however, the poor chap will never escape his comitragically small ditch.

* FinalFantasyX has an inversion of this trope. The Chocobo Eater boss (a fiend with really long arms) likes rushing your entire party to smash them into a nearby chasm. Getting pushed all the way into the chasm forces you to advance to the next plot point on foot through an abandoned road with no reward. While you can push the Chocobo Eater right back, it can't be thrown into the ocean.

* In ''KingsQuest The Mask Of Eternity'', the only way to defeat the skeleton with the chainmail in the Dimension of Death is to knock him back until he falls off of the tower you're fighting on.

* In the first {{Boktai}}, you fight Muspell, who is very much a BullfightBoss. While you can just attack him normally, having him roll into the nearby lava will make the fight end a lot faster.

* The first boss in ''[[SpyroTheDragon Spyro: Year of the Dragon]]'' is Gulp, who you must defeat by knocking him into the lava surrounding the arena. Your attacks have no damaging effect at all- all they do is knock him backwards. Knocking him into the lava makes the way clear for Sheila the Kangaroo to push him deeper into the lava.

* Not just for bosses anymore. The arcade game ''GoldenAxe'' was filled with this. It was cake to navigate the game if you kick, throw, or let someone run past you, off the edge of a bottomless pit. It worked like everywhere on every enemy.

Very much a subtrope to RingOut, as that is the aim in one of these battles, albeit often with a foe who can come back a few times before being killed. Related to BossArenaIdiocy, as it's only due to the dangerous and (for the enemy) stupid design of their battle arena that they can even be killed at all.

* Squirt from the same game is an inversion; he tries to ring ''you'' out. You kill him directly with damage, but he cannot damage you; instead, he tries to knock you off the ledge you're on by spewing streams of water at you.

* The easiest way to beat AxCrazy Burner Man from ''[[MegaMan Mega Man & Bass]]'' is to push him off the platform into SpikesOfDoom using the Ice Wall weapon. Of course, for him, the spikes aren't fatal (though it does take a large chunk off his health bar) and you can beat him without doing this, if you want.

* All of the Bowser fights in ''[[SuperMarioBros Super Mario 64]]'' are type 2 that resemble type 1 fights. You have to avoid throwing Bowser off the cliff, but rather throw him into the bombs surrounding said cliff.

* Burner Man in MegaMan and Bass. Shoving him onto spikes using the Ice Wall does a good deal more damage than anything else you can throw at him.

* Inverted in ''SuperSmashBros.'': Bosses are the only fighters you have to beat with something other than a Ring Out.

** SonicCD does this kind of boss slightly differently- the boss of the metallic, industrial-type zone ([[DidNotDoTheResearch I forget the name]]) is stationary and more or less invulnerable to Sonic's attacks- instead, his platform slowly wears away on the conveyor belt floor.