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* ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' features unique enemies for some stages such as the [[HelicopterPack helipack]]-equipped Barrier Soldiers (replaced by Propeller Droids in the remake) in Area 5, the [[ThrowABarrelAtIt barrel throwers]] and [[DroneDeployer Remote Control Soldiers]] in Area 6, the Mobile Cannons and Helicopters in Area 7, the shield soldiers and blue [[MadBomber bomb-throwing paratroopers]] in Area 8 (even better, these are only found in the American and European versions), a red version of said bomb-thrower at the beginning of Area 2, and the Construction Soldiers in Area 11. In the remake, most of these are more widely distributed.

* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'': In the first Advance Wars, most enemy COs, including the FinalBoss, are fought at least twice across the campaign. There is one exception to this, as the EvilKnockoff clone of Andy appears for only one mission, and then just vanishes after his defeat.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' features a red troll-like enemy called a Metal Mage in its fourth installment, ''Trap Team'', who doesn't attack but rather casts a protective barrier onto its allies. It is incapable of attacking itself and will teleport away when all the other enemies are defeated. This enemy only appears once in the stage [[LumberMillMayhem Mystic Mill]] and is notably the only [[SupportPartyMember support-based]] enemy to not have a trappable counterpart. What makes this enemy interesting is that it was originally [[WhatCouldHaveBeen intended]] to be a playable Skylander but was scrapped part-way into development, leaving it as a small curiosity.

*** An urban soldier is encountered carrying a railgun, right after Echo is killed at the end of Hangin' in the Hood.

* ''VideoGame/ChaosHeat'' have green-skinned, one-eyed amphibian-humanoid monsters as one of the game's many, many mutant mooks showing up, but they're not encountered anywhere else after that. In contrast, the same level they showed up also introduces LivingGasbag mutant enemies, who becomes recurring mooks in several later areas.

* ''VideoGame/TheCrystalOfKings'' have four Killer Giants encountered in the front of Nightspirit's fortress at the final stage, who despite having a deadly SwordBeam attack, goes down without too much trouble. There's also the Skeleton Gladiator PraetorianGuard enemies only showing up in the fortress.

* ''VideoGame/DustyRagingFist'' have BoxingKangaroo enemies, all of them who wears RedBoxingGloves except one who has [[PowerFist studded gauntlets]] instead. And the feline enemies have been drastically reduced in numbers, with only two brown felines.
* ''VideoGame/DynaGear'' have an underground tunnel where you fight a stone dragon that blasts you with fireballs. It's a one-of-a-kind enemy that goes down as easily as most other mooks.

* ''VideoGame/IsolatedWarrior'' have a legion of PraetorianGuard alien enemies in the final stage, the first which attacks with an EpicFlail. He's also the last, since everyone else uses swords or firearms.

* The first ''VideoGame/KnightsOfValour'' have a single polar bear enemy encountered in a winter stage. Bears become regular enemies in the sequels, however.

* ''VideoGame/LuciferRing'' have precisely ''one'' ChestMonster in the underground caves. It suddenly grow fangs and legs as the player inspects it, dies in a handful of hits, and the level goes on.

* ''VideoGame/PiratesNIX'' have a few one-of-a-kind enemies in a few areas. Notably, a single chef who throws his cleavers at you between hordes of common pirate mooks, two peg-legged pirates in the cavern stages (the only ones of their kind) and a single Aztec chieftain in the final stage.

* ''VideoGame/RagingBlades'' have ghouls in a single area in the Cavern of Vortex, showing up in small numbers alongside the far more frequent skeleton enemies.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowForce'' have those spider-esque enemies with a human's face in the WombLevel which can be encountered in ''two'' areas, in tiny amounts. Firstly as spawns from two MookMaker enemies (and even then they're created only one at a time), and later on there's an area with two more of them.
* ''VideoGame/SlapsAndBeans'' have a level set near a race track where you fight mooks in race track suits. There's only a tiny handful of them, most which you defeat automatically in a cutscene, and when you regain controls there's exactly two left.

* ''VideoGame/SplatterMaster'' have two easy-to-defeat gargoyles on a bridge in the second level.

* ''VideoGame/SuperPunchPatrol'' have a single ''[[FullFrontalAssault naked]]'' mook (disguised as a statue of David) in the final stage, and thankfully he's one-of-a-kind.

* ''VideoGame/ThunderHoop: Strikes Back'' have two flail-wielding mutants who can deflect your shots with their weapons and throw them from a distance as a ranged attack, but they go down as easily as any other mook once you got past their defenses.

* ''VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess'' have certain enemies that shows up in single digits, in a single area and nowhere else. For instance [[DemBones skeletons]] only shows up in the Druid Sorcerer boss fight, King Valerian's army only have two HeavilyArmoredMook sergeants, while there are only two scythe-wielding cultists in the entire game, right before the final boss.

* ''VideoGame/PrimeTarget'' have the henchwomen mooks, rarely-encountered enemies armed with [[FreezeRay Nitrogen Blasters]]. One appears one-third into the game, alongside more common enemies (where you can obtain her Nitrogen blaster after killing her) and a few more shows up in the final level.

* ''VideoGame/PiratesNIX'' have a single ChefOfIron during the pirate raid in Papete (the only mook who wears white, sticking out among the colourfully-dressed pirate mooks like a sore thumb) who attacks by throwing his cleavers, but goes down as easily as any pirate mook. Later the underground cavern contains two minor pirate mooks with two peglegs, and they're the only enemies with this design.

** ''VideoGame/SniperEliteIII'' and ''VideoGame/SniperElite4'' have the Italian Elites, also known as the RSI Parachute Infantry, the Italian versions of the Elites and Jager Troopers. They only appear in one level of each game as a couple of squads at most, with their appearance in ''4'' strictly tied to the Deathstorm 2 DownloadableContent campaign mission.

** In "Ruins", there are two Shambler Kampfhunds that are encountered shortly after Pippa is killed. They behave identically to living Kampfhunds, and they do not have their own entry in the journal.

*** There's a bizarre creature called a Crushblat that you can encounter in a new area of the first level you can only access when get blue Pikmin. It has no fanfare, isn't tough enough to be considered a boss (or miniboss), and doesn't respawn after you kill it.
*** Despite being shown off in the trailers, there are only two Medusal Slurkers in the entire game, one you kill to rescue your first batch of rock Pikmin and one hidden away in one of the trickier-to-reach secret areas. Both of them are a joke, only able to kill Pikmin if you let them.

* The UsefulNotes/NeoGeo platformer ''Top Hunter'' has two unique enemies in the wind stage: a Tatoo guy who dies in one hit and a walking detonator that will eventually go away if you ignore it.

* ''VideoGame/CryOfFear'' has one completely unique enemy called the Upper, who is noteworthy for many reasons. There is only one encountered in the main campaign who makes a JumpScare DynamicEntry with [[SensoryAbuse ear-splitting]], [[HellIsThatNoise agonized wailing]]. Besides that, they act as the generic Slower enemy with the unique feature of doing a handstand and having broken legs. Which serves as heavy {{Foreshadowing}} of [[spoiler:Simon's legs being broken after being hit by a car]].

* Most {{mooks}} in ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/BountyHunter'' belong to one of a handful of alien species (humans, Dugs, Gran, Bith, Ugnauts, Twi'lek, Bando Gora, etc.), but there's exactly one Muttani mook in the whole game. That's [[spoiler:Meeko Ghintee, the BigBad of the first chapter]]. Late in the game, the player travels to [[spoiler:the asteroid prison of Oovoo IV, where Meeko is imprisoned after Jango brings him to justice in the first chapter]]. In a ContinuityNod, [[spoiler:the player can encounter him among the other rioting prisoners, complete with a posted bounty for the crimes that he commits at the beginning of the game]].