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* If you play through [[ResidentEvil Resident Evil 4]] without the infrared scope the Regenerators and Iron Maidens become this. Especially when Ashley is around and you fall on top of one or have to go through shitty broken doors.

* The Agents from ''TheMatrix'', providing the page quote. The sequels [[VillainDecay downgrade]] them to {{Elite Mook}}s at best, though [[BigBad Smith]] remains the most dangerous of them all.

* {{Roza}} [[http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2007-05-08 You can't beat this guy. Just run!]]

* Invoked in ''{{Halo}}'' when you first encounter [[TheVirus The Flood]]. After the cutscene introducting them, the game changes your mission objectives to, quite simply, "Escape!". You can ''try'' to kill every Flood you see, but the cost in health and ammo will be high; you're better off running from most of them and fighting only when you can't avoid it.

* MassEffect2. [[spoiler: After you defeat the Human Reaper, Shepard must then haul his/her ass to the Normandy while all the hell in the Collector Base comes after him/her. Though it's a scene, it can be pretty heart-pumping, then TearJerking when only Shepard makes it back to the Normandy...]]

* CyranoDeBergerac: At act I, [[GiftedlyBad Actor Montfleury]] makes his choice after [[HeroicSociopath Cadet]] [[JerkAss Cyrano]] claps a third time: He runs for his life. It was the correct choice.

* RunOrDie: At act I, [[GiftedlyBad Actor Montfleury]] makes his choice after [[HeroicSociopath Cadet]] [[JerkAss Cyrano]] claps a third time: He runs for his life. It was the correct choice.

Of course, none of this will keep our heroes from fighting it sooner or later. If encountered early in the story, it may require a HeroicSacrifice from one character to allow the rest to escape. If the sacrificial character is wounded, he may insist that IWillOnlySlowYouDown; either way, expect him to tell the enemy that YouShallNotPass before making his LastStand. If no sacrifical characters are available, then someone may show up unexpectedly and tell the heroes to ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive. If the foe isn't fought until later in the story, it will probably be after the heroes have discovered its AchillesHeel, or somehow dramatically increased their PowerLevel (though a SuperMode, DangerousForbiddenTechnique, or whatever), and it will ''still'' be a difficult fight. If it's fought both early and late, then the latter fight will be a HeroicRematch.

* The "Tycoon Wil" scenario in SagaFrontier2 - it's a HopelessBossFight in which all you can do is defend until the "Run" option comes up enough times for the ending cutscene to trigger.

* The Agents from ''TheMatrix'', providing the page quote. The sequels [[VillainDecay downgrade]] them to {{Elite Mook}}s at best.

* The Bugs in David Weber and Steve White's ''In Death Ground''. Given the colonies the military had to protect, [[ToServeMan running was the ''worst'' option.]]

* The Bugs in David Weber and Steve White's ''In Death Ground''. Given the colonies the military had to protect, [[ToServeMan running was the ''worst'' option].]]

** Partly downgrade, but also expand their opposition from standard Zion rebels to also include One!Neo, virus!Smith, and the Merovingian's goons.

* In RobertEHoward's "Shadows in the Moonlight" and "Pool of the Black Ones", ConanTheBarbarian resorts to this. Then, both times it was effectively an EldritchAbomination.

In VideoGames, may be a UnbeatableBossFight.