I imagine that Bowser opens his letter's with "Yo" because they've been through this enough times. It's kinda like, "Yo, it's that time again. Had to employ the people of Koopa Kingdom somehow"
My favorite thing about the hollow knight fight is the music change, its all "oh here's the final boss go kill it" till it starts stabbing itself and you have this sudden swell of remorseful music as you realize this isn't a fight, its assisted suicide.
@@ILOVETOWEROFPHONESNAPPING It was forced to pretend to be hollow, because the king would have sent their corpse into the abyss along with their other thousand siblings.
@@brandonball5063 that is not true at all. Fanon makes up a lot about pale king. The vessels that died simply couldn’t make it to the top, he took the one that could. He loved hollow and hated the decision he felt he had to make (and he did have to make it. He had no other solutions)
You can't even damage Kala, the final boss of Indivisible. But she's so angry and powerful that she damages herself when she attacks you, so all you have to do is keep guarding until she kills herself. Good work, angry goddess.
@Manek Iridius in the guarding sense, sure. But that's supposed to be more choosing peace. Or you can still attack the dark side until you beat it into submission
how is Indivisible? I took a look at some early gameplay and while the art is nice the combat was not for me; I heard the story wasn't very good either.
@@kori228 the story’s okay - not spectacular, but the gameplay is solid enough, the music is ace and the art style is fun. It’s fun to play so long as you accept the story is just kinda eh. The combat is difficult to get to grips with but once you do it’s a really unique RPG.
7:28 - In Master Kohga's defense, what happened just seconds earlier was *_he got hit in the head by a giant metal ball._* That's _bound_ to cause brain damage.
I actully dont agree that they put him here, the hollow knight stabs himself to stop the radiance, and whenhe stabs his body it's because the radiance poseste him and he tries to kill it before it's to late
@@leif4698 ik my comment is just misswrotten What i meant is that the HK stabs himself out of free will to try to kill the radiance that's contained in his body
Nakayamas line “i… son of a bitch” and just him in general is hilarious to me. I flipping love it. Also- calling claptrap a son of a bitch- made me like him
I like to think that the hollow knight stabbing themself is a representation of what remains of their former self (the pure vessel) trying their hardest to help little ghost in the fight desperately trying to kill the light and infection within them like it's the only way they can fight the radiance with
I’m surprised they mentioned the Hollow Knight instead of the False Knight. The guy literally breaks the ground beneath his feet and falls so hard, he kicks himself out of his armor
yeah but that doesn't 'beat hmself', you still gotta directly beat the snot out of him, otherwise EVERY boss who makes themselves vulnerable after an attack would be included here XP
he soil tirant who in his last faze his main attack is smashing his fase in the flore. or the gruz mouther who only attacks you by slaming her body on the flore and sealing, dameging her unborn children which you kill as well.(sorry for spelling erors)
oh, i just remembered Ozzie in Chrono Trigger! attacking him directly doesn't work at all, but attacking the switches around the room eventually drops him down a trapdoor!
Dr. Robotnik has a pretty big track record of beating himself in Sonic games. Another example occurs in Sonic & Knuckles, where at the end of Lava Reef Zone act 2, you fight him in a mech that has spikes along the top and is immune to lava, but somehow not immune to the bombs it produces
Not just in the games. In what is now commonly called the SatAM Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, there are a few times it's less of the freedom fighters kicking his butt, and more of him having set himself up for self-defeat.
Speaking of Dr. Robotnik, remember the end of Lava Reef, Act 2 playing as Sonic or Tails? All you have to do is avoid the lava and let his attacks hurt himself. Bonus points if you have the flame shield.
I'm sure there must be half a dozen entries for Robotnik/Eggman, both parts of Mania's Hydrocity Zone leap to mind, where you either kite him into his own poorly discarded ordnance, or just flat out steal his ride and batter him into submission with the propeller.
Dude tries to shoot you with a laser, and ends up just destroying his own ship; I can't remember if that was 3 or & Knuckles. Also, in Mania, the Mean Bean Machine fight. He built the thing, he could've just not put the death door under him. Credit where it's due, he fights fair.
quite a lot of bosses in fallout can be talked down. The master in F1, president Eden in F3, Lanius in Fnv as well. The entire think tank from Fnv can be speeched to avoid that end battle. I am unaware of F2 and I don't think it is possible in F4.
@@b.o.7702 the "Far harbor" DLC for fallout 4 has speech check endings for all 3 leaders and the Mechanic can be talked into quitting in the vanilla game. They don't all kill themselves but you don't actually have to kill any of them unless you want to.
Peace Walker from MGS Peace Walker. PW short circuited itself in a nearby body of water to prevent a nuclear launch after Big Boss was unable to stop it. The whole moment was really tense and was just great writing by Hideo.
that was just a cinematic tho, so it didn't really beat itself for you. you still had to deal the finishing blow to it during gameplay to get the ending
Doesn't happen too often, but Nightmare from Devil May Cry 5. If you deal enough damage to Shadow and Griffon, Nightmare will try to heal them, draining his own health in doing so, and this drains about half of what health he has left when using it.
After going on a channel binge and seeing the bosses who had to sing before this video, it reminded me of a game that got re-released on the DS back in 2008 that I find is not well known and should be called "Rapsody: A Musical Adventure" and thought a 7 games that never got the attention they deserved or something along that line.
Belcha from Donkey Kong Country 3 springs to mind. Not only does he supply you with the means with which to beat him, but he ends up defeating himself by throwing himself into a hole with the force of his own belches.
Purple Tentacle from Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. Fires a shrink ray at Dr Ed, neglects to consider the reflector on his head, and subsequently shrinks himself instead...rhyme unintended.
In Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time, Pirate Captain Yosemite Sam obligingly fires his cannonballs into the greedily awaiting maws of your own cannon, before then being sunk by the said balls. Are they Sam's balls? Are they Bugs' balls? It's academic, because Sam's been forcibly relocated from Yosemite to the bottom of the ocean. 10/10 would cannon-troll again
Hahahahah, it’s like that one old cartoon of Yosemite Sam and Bugs reenacting one of the historical turf battles (can’t remember which, I just remember there was a series of battles mentioned relating to turf wars as the intro of the episode) with Bugs’s side as “We” and Sam’s side as “They” (also Sam was a Hessian in this episode). Bugs pulled tricks like that a handful of times in the episode and it was priceless XD
When I saw your comment, I actually thought you were going to mention the other boss battle with Sam where he throws explosives at you, which you casually chuck back at him when he's facing the other way with his eyes closed and his fingers in his ears. Come to think of it, Mugsy also does almost exactly the same thing on the rooftop battle with him. I guess you could also consider this for Marvin the Martian in the Vort-X Room with the Instant Martians as well.
Nostalgia kicked in when I saw the preveiw of the Rhino fight from PS1 Spiderman. That fight taught me how to fight big charging bosses in games afterwards. Thank you for including this, i was so chuffed to see it.
Father Elijah from the Dead Money DLC for Fallout New Vegas, if you remain unnoticed he will enter Sinclair's vault and ends up trapped inside it and ultimately dies in there
Ah, Elijah. I loved it when I overencumbered myself by cleaning that vault out, including all 37 gold bars, and so achingly slowly snuck my way out towards the exit while remaining unseen by him as he made his way to the vault. Reaching that elevator at a slow crawl while his curses rang in my ears and activating it, bringing all that loot with me, was glorious. Granted, their value is relatively miniscule when translated to caps, and doing that kinda defeated the point of the Dead Money's message about letting go, but... they do make a nice treasure hoard in the Lucky 38's presidential suite.
@@marhawkman303 Place? In the sense that they drop straight down to wherever you're standing and careful maneuvering can place them where you want. They didn't have a grab option yet in New Vegas.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing anyone mention the Red Girl from Nier Automata. You aren't suppose to fight it, but rather wait for it to multiply to a point that it begins to tear itself apart.
From a game standpoint, the Hollow Knight stabbing itself is it's attempt to kill itself, though it doesn't actually do damage, nor can you really do much as your attack goes down to 1 while the stabbing happens.
@@TheJdrizle mettaton ex doesn't give you any opportunity to hurt him with his own attacks. The only time you can damage him (without the fight option) is when he brings out his heart, and you aren't even required to shoot his heart to complete his fight. The only way to beat him is to kill him yourself (idk if that's possible) or to get his rating high enough.
If the way Nakayama says 'Son of a bitch' at 2:38 isn't a reference to Stephen Merchant in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, I'll eat my hat. Well, first I'll buy a hat. Then I'll eat it.
Any fighting game where the opponent can "Ring Out". One that stands out in my mind was the final boss of Soul Calibur III's campaign mode. Crouch in the corner and she can jump right over your head and fall out of bounds.
The yeti in Spyro: ripto’s rampage (I think I spelled his name right) he literally kills himself in the cutscene that plays when we get to him by jumping a few times and causing a part of the roof above him to fall on him and crush him flatter then the floor he’s standing on. The best part is that he looks up at the last possible second making a noise that could only be described as his way of saying “What the?”
What about Maiden Astria from Demon's Soul? She basically does the same after you kill her bodyguard (Garl Vinland) saying, "she can no longer defend herself and that you can have your precious Demon's Souls" stabbing you through the 4th wall. She was in another list about bosses you were forced to kill, but in this scenario, it's the option that Luke took in his Demon's Souls playthrough streams.
If you play Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, it is implied that the reason Nakayama is so obsessed with Jack is that he had a very unhealthy crush on him before his death. So it's not just "mad scientist admiring the bad guy", it's "creepy stalker tries to recreate dead love interest in increasingly messed up ways". Fun!
You left out the most iconic self defeating boss. The first titan boss in Batman: Arkham Asylum dies from a heart attack after trying to kill you for a minute
The guy who falls down the stairs is the funniest. And the Zelda boss was funny. Also Hollowknight was cinda crazy. Reminds me of the Abyss watchers from Dark souls 3.
Prepare to have Robotnik/Eggman appear on the list again, as in _Shadow the Hedgehog_ when you fight him whilst piloting the Egg Dealer (kinda like a mobile slot machine). All you have to do is hit the buttons on the machine, and if you play your slots right, he will attack himself.
@@metaloverlord99 True, but you know how Eggman has to press the buttons for the slots? He has to fall flat on his face. Bonus: if you’re on your last life while fighting him, the first thing he does is attack himself with missiles.
Better yet, one of the slot’s outcomes is called ‘Shadow Fever’, and it maxes out Shadow’s Dark meter, making Shadow invincible for a limited amount of time.
The worst part of The Hollow Knight's fight? You have to watch as your sibling, maybe even twin, repeatedly tries to kill themself so that they don't hurt you.
Nakayama's death actually made me uncomfortable. Idk why it hit me like that, but there are people who have died that way, and that just kind of bummed me out when it happened.
@@STRAKAZulu yeah, that’s exactly why I laughed so hard 😂😂 I’m totally gearing up for a final boss fight...and then he falls down the stairs. After a moment of stunned silence, I HOWLED with laughter.
I'm curious how you think that would go. Cus all I can think is just them explaining the plot and then saying. "So yeah that would be awesome as a movie." Maybe one of their off the cuff videos?
For example the game DuckTales. Always seemed to me it would have been great as a cartoon. Or that rubbish Avengers game that came out last year, probably should have just made a movie...
I'd love to see a TV series based on my favourite game the Witcher ... Or they should totally make one for the last of us, attack on Titan would make a cool TV show. Wait I'm totally confused
@@user-fv1nh4ko5p i see where you are coming from, but it’s kinda like in Hollow Knight which made it on here as Father, like the Hollow Knight, had a battle but killed him self at the end
@@Heisenbones21 difference is the hollow knight repeatedly stabs himself throughout the battle, whereas (from what I hear) Father shoots himself only at the end, once the battle is already over
Even funnier, you can shoot Nakyama on his way down, killing him before he's finished. But the quest doesn't register until he's at the bottom of the stairs.
Fine if you switched in a Ghost-type, but otherwise... oof. Especially bad before Gen 5, since it also halved the target's Defense for the damage calculation.
Sirrus and Achenar from Myst. They give you the information you needed to free their father, who ends up eliminating any chances of escape they had. They seemed to seriously think that telling you about the fireplace pages and the green book only after you inevitably discover their crimes was a good idea.
Another boss that defeats itself is the 2nd Red Dragon in the Dragon's Den, the bonus dungeon of Final Fantasy VI Advance. It starts its battle by making itself invincible and pumping up the power of its attacks to massive levels. The way to win is to load up on healing, physical defense/evasion and fire protection, as well as the Reraise spell, and just hunker down. Reraise is useful because its last attack is the Ultima spell, followed by a Flare spell.
Technically, Yu Yevon from Final Fantasy X qualifies- his "Gravija" spell hits everyone in the battle, INCLUDING HIMSELF. Don't even HAVE to cheese him with a Zombie Attack into Phoenix Down combo!
Mother 3's Porky, who locks himself in a giant sphere to protect himself leading to him being trapped in said sphere forever, ending the battle or Masked man, who kills himself with lightning (My apologies if either of these abttles were on the first video, I forgot)
Golem Overlord in Chrono Trigger. Charges up a super attack, giving you free rein to pound him to dust. If for some reason you don't, it's crippled by its acrophobia, something it probably should have thought about before fighting you on a currently flying airship.
An alternate to this could be bosses that give us the tools to defeat them. For example, Agahnim in A Link To The Past is invincible to all attacks except deflections of his own magic. Or Bowser in Super Mario World, who cannot be beat except by throwing his MechaKoopas back at him
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I imagine that Bowser opens his letter's with "Yo" because they've been through this enough times. It's kinda like, "Yo, it's that time again. Had to employ the people of Koopa Kingdom somehow"
"Comes with a good pension and healthcare package."
i like the idea he made his economy by employing everyone as guards or.... maybe doctors?
I feel like an abduction-based economy is doomed to failure...
@@CasualNotice Well he started, then realised started making farms and such, then towns, cities, proper military, and science so now he has airships
@@nerosoul2506 and don't forget that in his mind, everyone part of the Koopa Kingdom is his family!
I love that there is actually a health bar that takes damage as he falls down the stairs lol
i know right stupid profesor
I like how "The Fall of Nakayama" ended up being a Spoiler Title
and a pun
My favorite thing about the hollow knight fight is the music change, its all "oh here's the final boss go kill it" till it starts stabbing itself and you have this sudden swell of remorseful music as you realize this isn't a fight, its assisted suicide.
Hollow knight dies game +25 assist
totally ignored that my first time, still don’t care. It pretended to be hollow, it suffers the cobsequences
@@ILOVETOWEROFPHONESNAPPING It was forced to pretend to be hollow, because the king would have sent their corpse into the abyss along with their other thousand siblings.
@@brandonball5063 that is not true at all. Fanon makes up a lot about pale king. The vessels that died simply couldn’t make it to the top, he took the one that could. He loved hollow and hated the decision he felt he had to make (and he did have to make it. He had no other solutions)
You can't even damage Kala, the final boss of Indivisible. But she's so angry and powerful that she damages herself when she attacks you, so all you have to do is keep guarding until she kills herself. Good work, angry goddess.
ahh truly the most epic final boss of an rpg. One so angry they just kill themselves from pure rage.
Truly, youa re the greatest hero of the land.
@Manek Iridius in the guarding sense, sure. But that's supposed to be more choosing peace. Or you can still attack the dark side until you beat it into submission
how is Indivisible? I took a look at some early gameplay and while the art is nice the combat was not for me; I heard the story wasn't very good either.
@@kori228 the story’s okay - not spectacular, but the gameplay is solid enough, the music is ace and the art style is fun. It’s fun to play so long as you accept the story is just kinda eh. The combat is difficult to get to grips with but once you do it’s a really unique RPG.
@@bellarmire Fully Agreed
7:28 - In Master Kohga's defense, what happened just seconds earlier was *_he got hit in the head by a giant metal ball._* That's _bound_ to cause brain damage.
I’ll be honest, I’m not convinced he had a brain to damage.
Fair
Seems he recovered somehow though, he was way more competant in TOTK.
The Master from the OG Fallout. You can talk him to death by pointing out that Super Mutants are sterile. He suicides at that.
Best thing is? It is actually not entirely true.
Was that not in the original video?
You do the same thing with President Eden in Fallout 3 too.
@@johnoneil9188 really?
@@Narutokyubi50 Yeah, in Fallout 2 it is heavily implied that the infertility is temporary and goes away after a time.
What if master kohga never remembers his mistakes because he is constantly dropping giant balls on his head.
Makes sense why hes such an idiot
He would'nt remember because he will have more skull fractures then a robot BECAUSE ROBOTS DONT HAVE SKULLS
@@frankgrimes7388 no, Link stayed in the exact place and didn't move, Koha was just an idiot
@@frankgrimes7388 no link shooted him and appretto he forgot he had buolder ON HIS DESD dropped it
@@frankgrimes7388 This was written by a yiga clan member
Most bosses on this list: Comedy pratfall.
Hollow Knight: Tragic Backstory.
I actully dont agree that they put him here, the hollow knight stabs himself to stop the radiance, and whenhe stabs his body it's because the radiance poseste him and he tries to kill it before it's to late
@@gekoraz5593 Actually, HK actually stabs himself out of free will
@@leif4698 ik my comment is just misswrotten
What i meant is that the HK stabs himself out of free will to try to kill the radiance that's contained in his body
I've never played that game and that hurt to watch 😭
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Nakayamas line “i… son of a bitch” and just him in general is hilarious to me. I flipping love it.
Also- calling claptrap a son of a bitch- made me like him
"Vemons face on the big screen, now that's scary" Spidey have you LOOKED AT BLACK CATS FACE?!
Ikr!?! I physically recoiled when she showed up.
She looks like the genderbend version of the “stonks” meme!
I'd forgotten how bad the graphics were. I remember loving the game though.
I thought the exact same thing 😬
What about her hands? They're basically just tentacle heads
I like to think that the hollow knight stabbing themself is a representation of what remains of their former self (the pure vessel) trying their hardest to help little ghost in the fight desperately trying to kill the light and infection within them like it's the only way they can fight the radiance with
Black Cat's face in that Spider-Man game is sheer nightmare fuel.
Dude, I owned that game for the PC, and my copy did NOT look like that, what the hell was up with that character skin
The PC was a bit of an overhaul but still couldn't give anyone fingers.
@@UrbanJediWill yeah the PC and sega Dreamcast versions had much better textures the footage in this video is from the PlayStation version
Exactly what I thought
Just seen it as i read this lol
Fun fact: Nakayama's jack obsession is brought back in Telltale's Tales from the Borderlands. Very very fun game - one of my favourite telltale games.
I’m surprised they mentioned the Hollow Knight instead of the False Knight. The guy literally breaks the ground beneath his feet and falls so hard, he kicks himself out of his armor
Yep. And Failed Champion does not learn from that mistake.
yeah but that doesn't 'beat hmself', you still gotta directly beat the snot out of him, otherwise EVERY boss who makes themselves vulnerable after an attack would be included here XP
he soil tirant who in his last faze his main attack is smashing his fase in the flore. or the gruz mouther who only attacks you by slaming her body on the flore and sealing, dameging her unborn children which you kill as well.(sorry for spelling erors)
@@sarafontanini7051 Well the Hollow Knight doesn’t kill himself either. He actually takes less damage while he does the stabbing animation
@@plamenkirilov5813 They don't damage or hinder themselves when they do that.
The fact you beat Rhino twice more in the sequel game, Spiderman 2 (2004) in exact same way. I think it's good for him to have such a thick skull.
No inclusion of the Taurus Demon? You know, the one that threw itself into the abyss rather than fight the fearsome Ellen?
Well yeah, it has to work for everyone and the rest of us aren't as scary as Ellen
I recently started playing this game after watching Ellen play, and the same thing happened to me. I could not stop laughing.
Or maybe the Dragonrider from DS2
I never had that happend to me.
i really wanted to bring up pinwheel and i don't know why
Saw Nakayama on the title screen and had to come watch that death scene. Greatest villain ever.
Same
Every sixth boss when Ellen plays Dark Souls. She's much more terrifying in person than you would imagine. :)
All that fear of creepy crawlies only fuels her rage
@Smoke 003723 all in due time, my friend.
I'm honestly shocked this hasn't been hearted yet
@Smoke 003723 and this would've been the list for it! Sure its a bit specific to her that's a minor detail
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oh, i just remembered Ozzie in Chrono Trigger!
attacking him directly doesn't work at all, but attacking the switches around the room eventually drops him down a trapdoor!
Dr. Robotnik has a pretty big track record of beating himself in Sonic games. Another example occurs in Sonic & Knuckles, where at the end of Lava Reef Zone act 2, you fight him in a mech that has spikes along the top and is immune to lava, but somehow not immune to the bombs it produces
Not just in the games. In what is now commonly called the SatAM Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, there are a few times it's less of the freedom fighters kicking his butt, and more of him having set himself up for self-defeat.
8:47 I can imagine Link giving the big metal rock a little nudge, and dead.
Speaking of Dr. Robotnik, remember the end of Lava Reef, Act 2 playing as Sonic or Tails? All you have to do is avoid the lava and let his attacks hurt himself. Bonus points if you have the flame shield.
I'm sure there must be half a dozen entries for Robotnik/Eggman, both parts of Mania's Hydrocity Zone leap to mind, where you either kite him into his own poorly discarded ordnance, or just flat out steal his ride and batter him into submission with the propeller.
Sonic and Knuckles has many of those. The bosses for Mushroom Hill Act 2, Flying Battery Act 1 and Sandopolis Act 1 kill themselves as well.
Dude tries to shoot you with a laser, and ends up just destroying his own ship; I can't remember if that was 3 or & Knuckles. Also, in Mania, the Mean Bean Machine fight. He built the thing, he could've just not put the death door under him. Credit where it's due, he fights fair.
As the saying goes, never interrupt your opponent when he's making a mistake.
President Eden: Fallout 3. He says we can't destroy him but with a little Spock circular logic he will destroy himself and the entire base.
quite a lot of bosses in fallout can be talked down. The master in F1, president Eden in F3, Lanius in Fnv as well. The entire think tank from Fnv can be speeched to avoid that end battle. I am unaware of F2 and I don't think it is possible in F4.
@@b.o.7702 the "Far harbor" DLC for fallout 4 has speech check endings for all 3 leaders and the Mechanic can be talked into quitting in the vanilla game. They don't all kill themselves but you don't actually have to kill any of them unless you want to.
@@clarenceschaffner2342 oh yeah, I forgot those
Classic, the Master in fallout can be defeated in a very similar manner!
@@shaggyspade2468 -The Master was Fallout 1, my dude-
Edit: solved.
Peace Walker from MGS Peace Walker. PW short circuited itself in a nearby body of water to prevent a nuclear launch after Big Boss was unable to stop it. The whole moment was really tense and was just great writing by Hideo.
that was just a cinematic tho, so it didn't really beat itself for you. you still had to deal the finishing blow to it during gameplay to get the ending
The Taurus Demon yeeting himself off that bridge will never not be funny. Happened to me and im glad it happened on camera for oxtra 😂
Does that mean you just lost internet access for yourself since you said it?
@@frankgrimes7388 Not if we yeet you out of the internet first
god, Kohga was HILARIOUS bc he was so confident in defeating Link
Yeah and all it took to beat his first phase was his weakness for bananas 🤣🤣🤣
Okay so now we have to talk about the gargoyle at the start of Conker's Bad Fur Day. Guy just laughs himself to death.
I do this quite frequently myself
I think that was in the non-commenter edition of this topic
The way you damage Bowser in Super Mario Galaxy also essentially boils down to tricking him into ground-pounding into danger.
In Mass Effect 1, you could convince Saren to defeat himself for you with a maxed out Paragon/Renegade score and enough in the speech skill.
Eh, Matriarch Benezia is a better example, since Sovereign immediately takes control of the implants he gave Saren and you have to fight him anyways.
@@TigerofRobare If you fight that Sovereign version regardless, I'd say skipping a phase still counts as "defeating itself".
I was just going to say that lmao
I also wanted to mention this. Oh well, I have to wait for next video.
Yeah... Sorta.. Before Sovereign takes him over an turns his zombie cyber body into a glorified Hopper with upgraded agility an firepower
Doesn't happen too often, but Nightmare from Devil May Cry 5. If you deal enough damage to Shadow and Griffon, Nightmare will try to heal them, draining his own health in doing so, and this drains about half of what health he has left when using it.
"Rhino burger coming up!" "Bleaghga ngggrrrr mmmleaaggit!" Classic.
Look at you all lit up!
10:20
XD
"Aww, did you hurt your tusky wusky?"
After going on a channel binge and seeing the bosses who had to sing before this video, it reminded me of a game that got re-released on the DS back in 2008 that I find is not well known and should be called "Rapsody: A Musical Adventure" and thought a 7 games that never got the attention they deserved or something along that line.
Granted this isn’t every time you fight him, but Little Horn from the Binding of Isaac tends to bomb himself out of existence more often than not
The same is true of, I think it's Pride?
@@dweebicusmaximus no ,he is immune against his own bombs,bomberman on the other hand is not.
@@dweebicusmaximus Wrath.
Pride takes surprisingly little (if any) damage from bombing himself
well little horn gets a pass he looks like hes tiny. and also i do that too
Belcha from Donkey Kong Country 3 springs to mind. Not only does he supply you with the means with which to beat him, but he ends up defeating himself by throwing himself into a hole with the force of his own belches.
Purple Tentacle from Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. Fires a shrink ray at Dr Ed, neglects to consider the reflector on his head, and subsequently shrinks himself instead...rhyme unintended.
I love how comedic the death of Professor Nakayama in borderlands is.
In Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time, Pirate Captain Yosemite Sam obligingly fires his cannonballs into the greedily awaiting maws of your own cannon, before then being sunk by the said balls. Are they Sam's balls? Are they Bugs' balls? It's academic, because Sam's been forcibly relocated from Yosemite to the bottom of the ocean. 10/10 would cannon-troll again
Hahahahah, it’s like that one old cartoon of Yosemite Sam and Bugs reenacting one of the historical turf battles (can’t remember which, I just remember there was a series of battles mentioned relating to turf wars as the intro of the episode) with Bugs’s side as “We” and Sam’s side as “They” (also Sam was a Hessian in this episode). Bugs pulled tricks like that a handful of times in the episode and it was priceless XD
Yosemite is gorgeous this time of year.
Now THIS is a deep cut of a game
When I saw your comment, I actually thought you were going to mention the other boss battle with Sam where he throws explosives at you, which you casually chuck back at him when he's facing the other way with his eyes closed and his fingers in his ears. Come to think of it, Mugsy also does almost exactly the same thing on the rooftop battle with him. I guess you could also consider this for Marvin the Martian in the Vort-X Room with the Instant Martians as well.
The rhino fight was shocking to say the least
Nostalgia kicked in when I saw the preveiw of the Rhino fight from PS1 Spiderman. That fight taught me how to fight big charging bosses in games afterwards. Thank you for including this, i was so chuffed to see it.
Papu Papu in Crash Bash, he literally smashes so hard that the column drops the rock on him.
Father Elijah from the Dead Money DLC for Fallout New Vegas, if you remain unnoticed he will enter Sinclair's vault and ends up trapped inside it and ultimately dies in there
I try never to be cruel in Fallout, but Elijah? Well I couldn't pass up such poetic justice.
Yes, make him beg for mercy...
Ah, Elijah. I loved it when I overencumbered myself by cleaning that vault out, including all 37 gold bars, and so achingly slowly snuck my way out towards the exit while remaining unseen by him as he made his way to the vault. Reaching that elevator at a slow crawl while his curses rang in my ears and activating it, bringing all that loot with me, was glorious.
Granted, their value is relatively miniscule when translated to caps, and doing that kinda defeated the point of the Dead Money's message about letting go, but... they do make a nice treasure hoard in the Lucky 38's presidential suite.
@@Brasc can you place them for decor?
@@marhawkman303 Place? In the sense that they drop straight down to wherever you're standing and careful maneuvering can place them where you want. They didn't have a grab option yet in New Vegas.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing anyone mention the Red Girl from Nier Automata. You aren't suppose to fight it, but rather wait for it to multiply to a point that it begins to tear itself apart.
King Wart from Super Mario Bros 2. He literally sets up two pipes that pop out vegetables for you to happily forcefeed him
Ehh...even so, it's a chore trying to get them into his stupid bubble belching mouth.
From a game standpoint, the Hollow Knight stabbing itself is it's attempt to kill itself, though it doesn't actually do damage, nor can you really do much as your attack goes down to 1 while the stabbing happens.
I humbly submit the dummy from Undertale who blows himself up with rockets and magic missiles.
Yes! XD
You can end just about any boss fight in Undertale without dealing any damage if you’re good enough at talking
@@normalhuman9878 Naruto would be a natural at Undertale.
What about mettaton ex
@@TheJdrizle mettaton ex doesn't give you any opportunity to hurt him with his own attacks. The only time you can damage him (without the fight option) is when he brings out his heart, and you aren't even required to shoot his heart to complete his fight. The only way to beat him is to kill him yourself (idk if that's possible) or to get his rating high enough.
Minor contradiction: When the Hollow Knight is impaling itself, it causes any dealt attacks in its duration to always deal 1 damage.
If the way Nakayama says 'Son of a bitch' at 2:38 isn't a reference to Stephen Merchant in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, I'll eat my hat. Well, first I'll buy a hat. Then I'll eat it.
I'll take a hat
And eat it
Any fighting game where the opponent can "Ring Out". One that stands out in my mind was the final boss of Soul Calibur III's campaign mode. Crouch in the corner and she can jump right over your head and fall out of bounds.
That Black Cat character model is terrifying.
I’m glad someone else noticed. It’s just doesn’t seem like it’s from a console release. More like from an indie developer making a horror game.
It was PS1.
@@scottylewis8124 yeah ps1 sure had some funky graphics Ron’s weird warped face from Harry Potter comes to mind
The yeti in Spyro: ripto’s rampage (I think I spelled his name right) he literally kills himself in the cutscene that plays when we get to him by jumping a few times and causing a part of the roof above him to fall on him and crush him flatter then the floor he’s standing on. The best part is that he looks up at the last possible second making a noise that could only be described as his way of saying “What the?”
What about Maiden Astria from Demon's Soul? She basically does the same after you kill her bodyguard (Garl Vinland) saying, "she can no longer defend herself and that you can have your precious Demon's Souls" stabbing you through the 4th wall.
She was in another list about bosses you were forced to kill, but in this scenario, it's the option that Luke took in his Demon's Souls playthrough streams.
If you play Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, it is implied that the reason Nakayama is so obsessed with Jack is that he had a very unhealthy crush on him before his death. So it's not just "mad scientist admiring the bad guy", it's "creepy stalker tries to recreate dead love interest in increasingly messed up ways". Fun!
Hollow Knight fans after the second entry: WHO DARES AWAKEN US FROM OUR SLUMBER!?
*cries in silksong*
@@fujisama8594 I shall join you in your cries
@@fujisama8594 **cries with you**
Frick this im goin to heven
Takes out gun
@@fujisama8594 *crying intensifies*
In Fallout 3 DLC "anchorange" if you pass the speech check the hardest boss in the game kills himself
Hollow knight’s false knight should really stop hitting the ground with his weapon
You left out the most iconic self defeating boss. The first titan boss in Batman: Arkham Asylum dies from a heart attack after trying to kill you for a minute
"...but that wouldn't cut it in hard as nail platformer..."
*I see what you did there*
Hah! The main weapon of the game is the Nail!!
The guy who falls down the stairs is the funniest. And the Zelda boss was funny.
Also Hollowknight was cinda crazy. Reminds me of the Abyss watchers from Dark souls 3.
Prepare to have Robotnik/Eggman appear on the list again, as in _Shadow the Hedgehog_ when you fight him whilst piloting the Egg Dealer (kinda like a mobile slot machine). All you have to do is hit the buttons on the machine, and if you play your slots right, he will attack himself.
To be fair, there's still some effort on your part.
@@metaloverlord99
True, but you know how Eggman has to press the buttons for the slots? He has to fall flat on his face. Bonus: if you’re on your last life while fighting him, the first thing he does is attack himself with missiles.
Coin operated self-destruct.... Not one of my better ideas.....
Better yet, one of the slot’s outcomes is called ‘Shadow Fever’, and it maxes out Shadow’s Dark meter, making Shadow invincible for a limited amount of time.
Maybe so...but it forces you to hear, "You know what they say, the more the merrier" repeatedly.
The worst part of The Hollow Knight's fight? You have to watch as your sibling, maybe even twin, repeatedly tries to kill themself so that they don't hurt you.
Watching that health bar deplete as Nakayama fell down the stairs there... phenomenal.
Nakayama's death actually made me uncomfortable. Idk why it hit me like that, but there are people who have died that way, and that just kind of bummed me out when it happened.
His death actually made me laugh. A clumsy death like that was just perfect.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, like Peter griffin
@KillerGray we lost a great man that day
YES! I was hoping Professor Nakayama would make the list. 😆 I laughed SO HARD when I fought him.
Wait, you actually fought him?! In my game, he tripped and broke his neck!
@@STRAKAZulu yeah, that’s exactly why I laughed so hard 😂😂 I’m totally gearing up for a final boss fight...and then he falls down the stairs.
After a moment of stunned silence, I HOWLED with laughter.
I'll play this on my off day
"Fought"
I think the best part of that "fight" is his health bar that goes down with each stair he hits.
Never played several of these games but damn I laughed so hard when that first guy killed himself by falling down the stairs.
I will never stop asking you to do a list about the seven video games that would make great movies or TV series
I'm curious how you think that would go. Cus all I can think is just them explaining the plot and then saying. "So yeah that would be awesome as a movie." Maybe one of their off the cuff videos?
@@darrienjones8917 I would love that
Anything by Quantum Dreams
For example the game DuckTales. Always seemed to me it would have been great as a cartoon. Or that rubbish Avengers game that came out last year, probably should have just made a movie...
I'd love to see a TV series based on my favourite game the Witcher ... Or they should totally make one for the last of us, attack on Titan would make a cool TV show. Wait I'm totally confused
The electrocutioner in Arkham origins, pretty sure he took 1 punch after bragging about how great he was.
Professor Nakayama is the second best quest in BL2- right after Shoot This Guy In The Face.
Perhaps you're wondering about the moral implications of shooting a defenseless man and SHOOT ME IN THE FACE!
The first Titan from Arkham Asylum has a heart attack if you take enough damage. Don’t know if it counts as the first boss though, that might be Bane.
In Hotline Miami, you do fight Father but, eventually, he shoots himself.
Doesn’t really count because you still have a fight they just kill themselves because they were gonna die by the character’s hands
@@user-fv1nh4ko5p i see where you are coming from, but it’s kinda like in Hollow Knight which made it on here as Father, like the Hollow Knight, had a battle but killed him self at the end
@@Heisenbones21 difference is the hollow knight repeatedly stabs himself throughout the battle, whereas (from what I hear) Father shoots himself only at the end, once the battle is already over
@@sekoia2812 yes but technically the battle is short and it does fit in with the title
Gentlemen, it has been great discussing video game bosses with you I hope we get to argue again some day, goodbye
I have never seen anything borderlands but the nervous villain is my new comfort character
The Taurus Demon from Ellen’s Souls Academy! Just jumps right off the boss area instead of facing Ellen’s might
Even funnier, you can shoot Nakyama on his way down, killing him before he's finished. But the quest doesn't register until he's at the bottom of the stairs.
I cant tell you how many times koga from the original Pokemon used selfdestruct on his weezing when I was younger
Fine if you switched in a Ghost-type, but otherwise... oof. Especially bad before Gen 5, since it also halved the target's Defense for the damage calculation.
Can we talk about how the Master of the Yiga clan is the only clan member who cannot straight-up one-shot you?
The Kayren in Witcher Two. Sure, you lop off its tentacles, but it does most of the damage by thrashing around and collapsing a bridge on itself.
I remember doing the jinroku quest in ghost of tsushima. I would recommend the black and white style. I loved it
If we count bosses breaking the floor underneath themselves then False Knight from Hollow Knight works as well.
Failed champion and soul master and soul tyrant break floor
Sirrus and Achenar from Myst. They give you the information you needed to free their father, who ends up eliminating any chances of escape they had. They seemed to seriously think that telling you about the fireplace pages and the green book only after you inevitably discover their crimes was a good idea.
How about the Ceaseless Discharge?! Very large epic scale boss and he can literally take a few steps to the right and die. Sad backstory too
Mostly because "The Ceaseless Discharge beat himself right in front of the player" would get the video demonetized.
Another boss that defeats itself is the 2nd Red Dragon in the Dragon's Den, the bonus dungeon of Final Fantasy VI Advance. It starts its battle by making itself invincible and pumping up the power of its attacks to massive levels. The way to win is to load up on healing, physical defense/evasion and fire protection, as well as the Reraise spell, and just hunker down. Reraise is useful because its last attack is the Ultima spell, followed by a Flare spell.
Man, that Black Cat. Never has Silent Hill included a more terrifying opponent.
Technically, Yu Yevon from Final Fantasy X qualifies- his "Gravija" spell hits everyone in the battle, INCLUDING HIMSELF. Don't even HAVE to cheese him with a Zombie Attack into Phoenix Down combo!
Mother 3's Porky, who locks himself in a giant sphere to protect himself
leading to him being trapped in said sphere forever, ending the battle
or Masked man, who kills himself with lightning
(My apologies if either of these abttles were on the first video, I forgot)
The snatcher. He breaks the fourth wall before giving you an item that he should be actively avoiding at all times, a blue potion.
Golem Overlord in Chrono Trigger. Charges up a super attack, giving you free rein to pound him to dust. If for some reason you don't, it's crippled by its acrophobia, something it probably should have thought about before fighting you on a currently flying airship.
And in the same vein, Dalton, as when he tries to summon the golem atop the Epoch later, sucks himself into a black hole and is never seen again.
In fairness, Golem Overlord didn't have a choice. Dalton says fight, it fights. Unless paralyzed with fear, of course.
Jin: Starts walking
Samurai: *"Ayo homie chill, I was just messin' with ya!"*
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An alternate to this could be bosses that give us the tools to defeat them.
For example, Agahnim in A Link To The Past is invincible to all attacks except deflections of his own magic. Or Bowser in Super Mario World, who cannot be beat except by throwing his MechaKoopas back at him
Man that 2000 Black Cat was ripped.
koga get concussions from the big rocks and forgets to stop summoning the rocks
Just need a final paper to defeat itself
I feeeeeeeeeel you
"Time for the Yiga clan to elect a new leader." The one time I bet they said thank you Link!
remembers the first time coming up against Nakayama and laughing at the result
Some of these are more like, "boss gives you ammo to defeat it with" which is basically like 80% of classic platforming bosses.
Crash 2. Tiny Tiger Jumps into a dark pit all by himself.
You forgot about the vacuum from "It takes too", he literally gives you the weapons to kill him
Ceaseless Discharge from Dark Souls is my favorite type of this
I remember the BOW boss I laughed at how easy that was in the end