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* The Meta Crew in ''KirbysAdventure'' are a boss fight consisting of a large group of {{Mook}}s, using the life meter to gauge Kirby's progress as he defeats them.

* Julius, Yoko and Alucard all share the same HP and MP meters in ''CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow's'' Julius Mode.
** Same with ''CastlevaniaIII'', where Trevor and whoever he's allied with share a life bar.
* The Noob-Smoke tag team from ''MortalKombatDeception''.

* The Twin Devil in ''MegaMan9'', justified by being two entities controlled by a single core.

* The stage 4 boss of ''VideoGame/JoeAndMac'' is a quartet of Ichthyosaurs with the same life bar, with the player having to beat all of them to win.

** ''MegaManZero 2'' has the DualBoss fight with Kuwagust and Herculious. When one of them is defeated, the two will perform a [[KaizoTrap last ditch suicide attack on Zero]], crashing into each other and exploding.
** ''MegaManZero 3'': Crea and Prea share a single life bar. Interestingly, they also lack MercyInvincibility.
** ''MegaManZX'' series: Whenever the two are fought together, Prometheus and Pandora share a life bar. Whereas each of them alone has 2 layers of life bars, them combined has just 3. In the first game they just attack alternately, while in the second they get {{Combination Attack}}s.

* [[VideoGame/MegaMan1 The first]] ''MegaMan'' game has CWU-01P, a series of robots encased in bubbles.
** ''MegaMan2'' has the Boobeam Trap and Picopico-kun in Wily's Castle, the former being a series of turrets on the walls that all have to be destroyed, the latter featuring wall panels that combine into flying robots.
** ''MegaMan4'' has the Cockroach Twins, two robots fought one after the other.
** ''MegaManX'' has Rangda Bangda (which also reappears in X5), a giant robotic face that's defeated by destroying both it's eyes and its floating robotic "nose".
* In ''MegaManZX Advent'', Argoyle and Ugoyle, when fought, initially appear to have single health bar. However, when you activate Model H and use it to EnemyScan them, you'll see that each of them has their own health bar.

* ''DiabloIII'': Champion packs of enemies with the Health Link modifier share a single common health pool. This makes the individual champions seem very robust, since the damage they take is shared between the entire group, effectively tripling or quadrupling the hit points of any single monster. The effect has a fun side effect though, since when the shared health pool is emptied, all of the Champions will die in rapid succession, sometimes almost simultaneously.

* The Sisters from ''CaveStory'' are of the first variety.

* The second boss of the GameBoy version of ''{{Battletoads}}'' has a first form with one life bar, but requiring the player to destroy multiple turrets on it before moving on to the second form.

* ''CrashBandicoot2'': The Komodo Bros share a life bar. Moe is invulnerable, but Joe isn't - and to damage them you have to smack Joe, which will spin towards Moe, hurting them both.

* ''{{Touhou}}'' fangame ''Takkoman'' features this during the BossRush in the second-to-last stage, throwing bosses two at a time at the player but giving them a shared health bar. Strangely, this actually makes the bosses ''easier'' to beat together than if they were fought separately, especially if the player melee attacks them when they're grouped together, which does twice the damage.

* ''{{Touhou}}'' fangame ''Takkoman'' features this during the BossRush in the second-to-last stage, throwing bosses two at a time at the player but giving them a shared health bar. Strangely, this actually makes the bosses ''easier'' to beat, especially if the player melee attacks them when they're grouped together, which does twice the damage.

* Life Points in ''YuGiOh'' work sort of like this. Monsters battling each other remove Life Points from each player, and when a player's Life Points reach zero they lose, along with all the monsters they were controlling.

* ''MegaMan2'' has the Boobeam Trap and Picopico-kun in Wily's Castle, the former being a series of turrets on the walls that all have to be destroyed, the latter featuring wall panels that combine into flying robots.
** The first ''MegaMan'' game has CWU-01P, a series of robots encased in bubbles.
** ''MegaManX'' has Rangda Bangda (which also reappears in X5,) a giant robotic face that's defeated by destroying both it's eyes and its floating robotic "nose".

* ''WarcraftIII'' has the Spirit Link ability, which spreads damage across multiple units.

* In ''MegaManZX Advent'', Argoyle and Ugoyle, when fought, initially appear to have single health bar. However, when you activate Model H and use it to EnemyScan them, you'll see that each of them has their own health bar.
* As of the Soulstorm expansion, the total health of squads in ''DawnOfWar'' is visible (the earlier games only showed it when the squad was down to a single unit), though individual unit's lifebars are still visible.

* ''TheLastRemnant'' has this for the squads you build to fight enemies. An especially lucky enemy roll could leave five characters badly injured but alive... ,sharing all of ''one'' HP. Conversely, some enemy attacks can KO individuals without doing much damage, couple that with healing spells not automatically reviving fallen units and you can end up with a single wakeful character while the other four are KO'd

An alternative to this is when multiple enemies technically have their own life meter, but for the sake of avoiding MultipleLifeBars they've all been combined into one giant life meter, and emptying it involves defeating any individual enemy (or it might involve one giant enemy [[SubsystemDamge with multiple destructible parts that have to be taken out.]])

An alternative to this is when multiple enemies technically have their own life meter, but for the sake of avoiding MultipleLifeBars they've all been combined into one giant life meter, and emptying it involves defeating any individual enemy (or it might involve one giant enemy with multiple destructible parts that have to be taken out.)

!!Examples of characters combining their health bars into one.

An alternative to this is when multiple enemies technically have their own life meter, but for the sake of convenience they've all been combined into one giant life meter, and emptying it involves defeating any individual enemy (or it might involve one giant enemy with multiple destructible parts that have to be taken out.)