History Main / SharedLifeMeter

* Both Joe and Silvia share life and VFX meters in ''ViewtifulJoe'' 2.

* ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has Neku and his partner sharing one life meter that stretches across both screens of the DS. It even empties at both ends depending on who's getting hurt, with one character displaying their injured idle animation if his or her half of the life bar is completely empty.

* ''{{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 (and Flandre lacks her HealingFactor from her own boss fight.)

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has several {{Wolfpack Boss}}es, which are pretty straightforward affairs: know the mechanics and focus them one by one, which makes the fight easier (Maulgar) or harder (Karathress, Iron Council). Not so with the Illidari Council, who share life meter by sharing any damage between the 4 of them. The worst part is how the fight defies ShootTheMedicFirst, and due to other factors, you will most likely have to focus fire on the Tank boss.

** Gemini Man, from MegaMan3.

* The Komodo Bros in ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'' 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.

** The Trial of the Yuangol in the ''Mists'' dungeon Temple of the Jade Serpent. Both start out vulnerable, but as they take more damage they eventually develop into a buff that makes them temporarily invulnerable, requiring the party to alternate targets.
* The three main characters of ''{{Gobliiins}}'' all share a life meter, though this was removed for future games in the series.

* Life Points in ''TabletopGame/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.

* ''{{Drakengard}}'': Caim and his dragon share a life bar both when he's riding and on the ground, though Caim has the opportunity to replenish it (by killing enemies such as archers, who can take out them very quickly when airborne).

* In ''SuperSmashBros for [=3DS=]\[=WiiU=]'', Master Hand and Crazy Hand share their stamina, which wasn't true in the previous games.

The fight with the twins in DeadRising2 works this way. Both bosses fight you at the same time and have individual health bars, but killing one of them causes the other to commit suicide.

* The first two games in the ''SeriousSam'' series will occasionally lock Sam in an arena and hurl massive amounts of enemies that have to be killed, using a boss life meter to gauge the player's progress.

* ''MuramasaTheDemonBlade'' is...complicated about this. Bosses have two health bars, one large one and one small one (that keeps feeding the large bar whenever it's depleted while slowly depleting itself in the process.) Whenever multiple bosses are fought at once, they have separate large bars, but they all get health from the same small bar (although the small bar is then split up into separate bars, one for each boss, denoting their own portions of the health meter.)

* The Supernaut from ''ReworkTheDeadEvil'' is a partial example, requiring the player to reduce it's health bar by shooting off it's scales one by one. However, the player doesn't need to remove them all to defeat it.

* In ''WorldInConflict'', an infantry unit has a single life bar, but the health of each individual soldier is tracked separately. This is clearly demonstrated by 100% accurate attacks with no splash damage only killing one soldier at a time (such as a sniper or a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill heavy tank's HEAT shells]]). Medics can heal only living infantry, and replacements can be airdropped in to replace casualties.

* ''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.

* Larry Jr. in {{VideoGame/The Binding of Isaac}}, as well as the various challenges in Rebirth's Boss Rush.

* 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.

* The Dark Lords fight in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' is a little strange about this. There are four lords to beat, all sharing a life meter, and seemingly the player has to defeat them all to win, but they actually respawn a while after death (but without adding any more health to the life meter,) which can lead to the player having to fend off ''five or more'' lords if the fight drags on too long, and emptying the life meter causes any surviving lords to drop dead regardless.

* The Dark Lords fight in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' is a little strange about this. There are four lords to beat, all sharing a life meter, and seemingly the player has to defeat them all to win, but they actually respawn a while after death, which can lead to the player having to fend off ''five or more'' lords if the fight drags on too long, and emptying the life meter causes any surviving lords to drop dead regardless.

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* ''AbobosBigAdventure'' features this when ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' absorbs [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Krang]] and commandeers his giant robot suit. The player then has to attack and destroy the robot suit's head and right arm, along with beating Kirby himself, all of which share a life meter.