The Above Avatar Becomes a Video Game Boss

An Eldritch Abomination and the Greater-Scope Villain of an Roguelike game. The players must, over the course of the game's main story, prevent the boss' minions and cultists from summoning it into the game's world via their rituals, as the boss will be almost unstoppable should it enter reality. The boss is encountered mainly through 'Avatars of Blood'; weakened versions of the Boss' true self, which can be defeated and banished to slow the countdown towards a permanent game over.

In combat, the boss' Avatars utilise blood-themed attacks and spells, such as sacrificing a fifth of its current health to cut your attributes in half, or forcibly draining blood from your character to heal itself. Additionally, it can fly or float about to avoid attacks - however, it must rest on the ground from time to time, and is vulnerable under these circumstances.

If the boss is summoned fully into reality due to the player's failure to defeat the boss' cult, a Hopeless Boss Fight results - the boss' true form is both all but immune to damage, never misses its attacks, and cannot be blocked. Upon the PC's death, a series of cutscenes play, in which the boss and its cult wreak worldwide chaos and slaughter any resistance left on the world, before forcibly converting any survivors into members of the cult. This game over finishes with the boss directly addressing the player, mocking them for their failure before permanently deleting the active save file, forcing the player to start again.

A boss taking up an entire stage. The point of the stage isn't actually defeating them, as they're invincible. Instead, you have to guide an extremely weak NPC to the end of the stage without you or them dying. Combined with stage hazards, the boss' ability to drain your health from across the room you're in, and other enemies, the stage is extremely difficult, but at least it has the liberty of being optional.

And you can't play the stage again if you lose, preventing you from getting that 100% completion award. Have fun!

Edited by Routeferret on Jun 4th 2020 at 11:21:41 AM

The player character has a glider to move around. You must deal damage whilst avoiding objects falling from above.

A tutorial boss who throws lampshades as their attacks. Nearly impossible to lose.

a Bonus Boss magician who drops the best magical gear if you are a mage, and has the strength and prowess to back it up

A dual-boss that works in conjunction, perhaps either taking turns in fighting the player or fighting at once. Could have a teamwork-based ultimate attack. If the player defeats either one, they'll get a different "rage" phase based on the one remaining seeking revenge for their partner.

(Guessing here)

A boss that appears to be just a young girl at first sighting, until you get close and the ink starts up. Wake-Up Call Boss.

The time traveling duo that appear multiple times to interfere with your actions but are not particularly good at their job and end up only being a distraction that hinders rather than being a real threat.

A climax boss in a Nintendo Hard JRPG that bends reality and breaks the fourth wall.

a Bonus Boss in a mind screw and terrifying area of whats otherwise a cute and cartoony game. it is known as the only thing that can give you a Game Over.

Three characters fought one at a time, in random order. Fought late-game before the final boss.

• Jack flies around the stage and occasionally attacks with a strong water attack.
• Merlie attacks with long-range magic attacks and sometimes uses various illusions like invisibility. Attacks aren't that strong, however
• Alice is a strong character with high defense and shooting attacks, but somewhat slower than the others.

One of the most prominent of the Big Bad’s henchmen, his boss battle consists of dodging his projectiles while finding a way to damage him.

The Dragon, and a powerful warrior in a suit of armor. Is most likely the boss before the Big Bad.

a Flunky Boss that will continuously summon more minions (and turn your friends into minions) until he is defeated

the reality-warping True Final Boss, the Man Behind the Man whom you would've never expected

Edited by KungFuCutBug on Oct 3rd 2020 at 3:56:53 PM

A Optional Boss who is difficult due to his absurd amount of items he has on him.

Edited by Superjohn on Oct 3rd 2020 at 2:57:52 PM

a Hopeless Boss Fight in each and every encounter til the last- then, Jason is a Mighty Glacier with slow speed, but massive strength in both offense and defense.

A Flunky Boss, always with another specialized Awe (each of which has its own pattern of movement and attack) behind them. They're also capable of Interface Screw attacks. They also can go back to earlier points in the fight, resetting the field to what it was at that point. However, their actual health pool is quite small, not much larger than the higher health Mooks.

Damage-Sponge Boss

This would be you run of the mill boss battle with three opponents serving as the boss.

This boss could be a High-Altitude Battle with Shock and Awe.

Edited by tzaoray on Oct 4th 2020 at 9:32:11 PM

A middle-of-the-game boss found in a Circus of Fear level. He attacks with things like fire-breath, spinning pins and squirting water flowers, but is pretty easily defeated when you learn the strategies. Oh, and his theme is some super-upbeat circus music.

that one Mook that becomes a boss

A bonus puzzle boss/wave based fight in which you must hack certain points at certain times...or you can just throw some water on the central unit.

[Megidolaon] [Megidolaon] [Megidolaon] [Megidolaon] [Megidolaon] [Megidolaon] [Megidolaon] [Megidolaon]

...No, really.

A Penultimate Final-Exam Boss with mutliple OP attacks.

a ‘boss’ of an Unexpected Gameplay Change segment. boss is in quotes because the gameplay changes into survival horror, in the middle of a maze.