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Skippable Boss

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Skippable Boss	comment	Occasionally, games will decide to give you a break and actually feature methods of skipping Boss Battles, most often by talking them out of fighting the player or by finding an alternate path around them. Of course, skipping the boss may not be the best course of action if you earn a nifty reward by defeating it through normal means, or if there's one for 100% Completion. But, hey, that's the penalty you get for taking the easy way out. The Skippable Boss is occasionally the alternative to the Hopeless Boss Fight. It most frequently occurs in (but is not limited to) RPGs. Compare Route Boss, which you only fight on a certain route in the game. If you do the "good" route, you may bypass one or more brutal bosses in the "bad" route. Also compare Boss-Altering Consequence, which may not necessarily let you skip the boss, but may let you cut the battle short by using a One-Hit Kill move on them or otherwise end the battle without killing them depending on the objectives you complete. See also Puzzle Boss and Cutscene Boss. The inverse is any kind of Optional Boss; the difference is that the Skippable Boss is fought by default; the Optional Boss is skipped by default instead. Note that a Speed Run, particularly tool-assisted ones, can make bosses skippable unintentionally.
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Skippable Boss / int_110dcdca	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: An unintentional example is that you can skip the boss of the Skull Woods via a glitch. You won't get its Heart Container, though.
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Skippable Boss / int_144b860d	comment	In Super Adventure Rockman, Mega Man can refuse to fight Quick Man to warn him about Wily's actions. If he is fought instead, Mega Man will receive his Quick Boomerang after his health is lowered enough.
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Skippable Boss / int_1622155	comment	Kirby Super Star: "The Great Cave Offensive" has several examples: In "Sub-Tree", you can instantly kill Bonkers by destroying the bridge it's supposed to land on before it appears; you have to be quick as, if you try destroying it after the miniboss appears, it will just jump safely onto solid ground. Secondly, the Old Tower is not a mandatory area, and as such Chameleo Arm is not a mandatory boss; however, that is not the case when Chameleo Arm needs to be fought in Milky Way Wishes. Lastly, it's also possible to skip quite a few minibosses in the game due to a bug in the system where flying high enough (usually assisted by the Jet ability) can let you completely go over the usual area that would trigger the fight (If the fight is indoors, though, you have no choice but to fight).
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Skippable Boss / int_16c83de8	comment	Star Fox 64 has several bosses that can be skipped: If you go the easy route, any Star Wolf Members you didn't defeat on Fortuna show up again on Bolse. In both cases, you can ignore them (although that means you'll have to let the timer run out on Fortuna). Subverted, however, if you avoid both of those stages, as they'll reappear in the much deadlier Wolfen IIs when you arrive on the advanced Venom route. If you enter one of the Warp Zones, you'll skip the respective level's boss. The boss on Macbeth (a train with a mecha-kite) can be skipped by redirecting it into a fuel depot. You'll even get close to 5 times more points than the boss gives you. However, the last switches used for this don't appear until the boss fight begins, so you can't completely skip it.
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Skippable Boss / int_188ecb94	comment	In Half-Minute Hero, you can avoid fighting the Beautiful Evil Lord by reuniting him with his kidnapped girlfriend Millennia. You can try to defeat him (and you get a special title if you succeed), but you'll have to do a lot of Level Grinding to do so, because he's very powerful when he's angry. Notable in that defeating him won't stop the spell. To him, a world without his beloved Millennia is worthless.
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Skippable Boss / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: Dragon Age: Origins: There's an incident which is a hybrid of this and Hopeless Boss Fight — the fight is not impossible, just really really hard, and you can bypass it altogether by surrendering (or not bothering to fight back). If you win, the story continues; if you lose or surrender, you get sent to jail and have to either break out or get two of your companions to break you out. Later, assuming you skipped the original fight, you encounter the same person again, and can talk her out of fighting you if your persuasion skills are high enough. During the "Urn of Sacred Ashes" quest, you can completely avoid fighting Kolgrim by agreeing to help him. If your Warden is a mage and you choose to go into the Fade yourself to save Connor, you can avoid fighting the Desire Demon at the end by agreeing to converse with it instead. You can then make a deal with it, take a bribe, or intimidate it into leaving. In the Brecilian Forest, the Grand Oak and the Mad Hermit will each try to get you to kill the other to settle their dispute over the Grand Oak's acorn. You could kill one of them... or you could just trade the Hermit one of the items you picked up from various sidequests earlier in the level for the acorn. Or if you have a party member with a good pickpocket skill you can stea the acorn from the hole its stashed in. The Tevinter mage Caladrius will offer to leave quietly (and even provide you with a key piece of evidence for the Landsmeet)... as long as you let him keep the elves he's abducted to turn into slaves. In the Deep Roads, Caridin and Branka are both skippable - but whichever one you skip, you will be forced to fight the other. Players can elect to speak to Flemeth and let her give them her grimoire instead of fighting her as a dragon. In Dragon Age: Origins â€“ Awakening, the Architect will propose an Enemy Mine with you against the Mother, which you can agree to. Doing so, however, will anger some companions into attacking you unless you have enough Persuasion to talk them down. The end of Dragon Age II's second act will most likely end with Hawke battling the Arishok, either in a one-on-one duel or full-party brawl. Or you can just betray your party member Isabela and give her up to the Arishok as punishment for stealing from him. Problem solved. Dragon Age: Inquisition has a number of skippable storyline bosses. Fighting Grand Duchess Florianne can be avoided by having enough sway with the Orlesian court to publicly expose the assassination plot against Empress Celene. Calpernia will walk away if you prove to her that Corypheus plans to sacrifice her. The Guardian of Mythal only has to be fought if Morrigan's Dark Ritual has not been performed in Origins and the Inquisitor had drunk from the Well of Sorrows. In the Trespasser DLC, the fight against Ataashi can be bypassed by setting it free instead.
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Skippable Boss / int_1b8f1d87	comment	The Doom Dog leader, The Animal, from Freeway Fighter. A powerful brawler who's Made of Iron, who takes forever to defeat even if the player have a high Skill stat... but alternatively, they can choose to battle The Animal's mooks in a shootout, and then fight him from up close, which leads to a short struggle before the player's partner, Amber, pulls a Wrench Whack and knock The Animal out cold two pages later.
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Skippable Boss / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Monster Hunter: Technically, every large monster in the games that isn't part of the objective of an Urgent Quest or a "key quest" (quests that are required to unlock Urgent Quests) doesn't need to be fought to progress the story, and it's possible to reach the ending scenes doing only key and Urgent quests. You'll probably still want to fight monsters from non-key quests, however, for their valuable drops that can go towards useful equipment (and, in the case of 3 Ultimate, slaying or capturing at least one specimen of every large monster save for the G3-tier Superbosses is necessary if you plan to unlock and confront Hallowed Jhen Mohran, which itself is a G3-tier superboss).
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Skippable Boss / int_1c880c60	comment	The Gargantis, an immensely powerful monster from Crypt of the Sorcerer which the players must slay, can be defeated if the players collected a Rod of Paralysis. Doing so is harder than it sounds, because they need a Skull Ring (which involves attacking the Keeper of Bones, losing 3 points of LUCK in the process) and then fighting a werewolf and a wood demon, both of them powerful enemies, and then get fried by an unavoidable stray lightning bolt in the Haunted Graveyard. It's Worth It, though.
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Skippable Boss / int_1d7e8257	comment	ULTRAKILL: The Ferryman can be skipped by tossing him a coin. Downplayed with the 1000-THR Earthmover; you can skip the miniboss fight against its security system by shooting a hidden power box, but you're required to defeat the machine itself by going inside of it and destroying its brain.
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Skippable Boss / int_1f7005aa	comment	In Rune Factory Frontier, it is possible to skip the battle against Iris Noire in the Snow Ruins if your friendship with Iris Blanche is high enough.
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Skippable Boss / int_1fb515fe	comment	The fight against WhiteNight in Lobotomy Corporation can be defeated extremely easily if you know what to do: Simply have the 12th apostle pray to One Sin, and WhiteNight will take repeated Pale damage of 666 until dead. Doing so does immediately end the fight with the least amount of bloodshed, but you cannot get the Paradise Lost weapon without killing it conventionally, and the weapon is easily one of the absolute best to obtain. The fight is completely optional, but you are required to trigger it at least once in order to obtain 100% and complete the game properly. Since the boss disables pausing the game or exiting to the menu after triggering it, you have to choose how you want to handle it.
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Skippable Boss / int_20e8e9bd	comment	In Sonic 3 & Knuckles, there's a glitch where you can skip all of Ice Cap Zone with Sonic & Tails right at the first ice block you see. Just have Tails place Sonic on the block and do a spindash. This will allow you to skip the midboss of the level.
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Skippable Boss / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Generally speaking, the only bosses you have to fight in order to progress the story are those of chapters where the goals are either Routnote Defeat all enemies or, more obviously, Defeat Bossnote Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Seizenote Have your main character reach a specified tile and use the "Seize" command chapters very often require you to fight their bosses as well, as said bosses often sit unmoving on the target tile and killing them is almost always the only way to get them off of it. Path of Radiance: you can choose to fight the Raven King Naesala and struggle against the third-deadliest enemy in the whole game, or talk to him using one of your hawks and then Reyson to convince him and his troops to leave the battlefield. Radiant Dawn: If Rafiel is placed in range of Oliver, he will recruit himself onto the player army. Levail is fought in a "Defeat Boss" map... However, the boss in question is the Black Knight. Since he doesn't move, it's easy to avoid fighting him. Shadow Dragon: You can recruit two separate bosses by talking to them with the right people. Tiki can be recruited by Bantu, while General Lorenz can be recruited by either Marth or Caeda. Both cases are even considered canon, since the two are still around in the sequels. Gharnef and, in later versions of the game, Camus, are possible to skip entirely, despite being framed in a pretty boss-like fashion, as they aren't located on a seize point. In Camus's case, this is because he's an Anti-Villain and sparing him is a form of Video Game Caring Potential, whereas Gharnef is impossible to beat without the Plot Coupon Starlight, which can be skipped completely, meaning this avoids an Unwinnable by Design situation. One-off boss Khozen can also be avoided, as he's meant as more of a roving enemy threat than a true boss. In all three cases, they drop fairly valuable items, which is the reason to fight them at all. Fire Emblem Fates: The game has this on several occasions, although sometimes they are optional boss fights and you're clearly not supposed to be able to beat them at that point. In Chapter 12 of Conquest, Ryoma is the boss. However, since it's an escape map, it's possible to avoid In the "Sakura" chapter of Conquest, the objective is to seize the throne, which requires defeating Yukimura. Sakura, who's standing near the middle of the map, as well as her retainers Subaki and Hana, can be skipped. This often happens in Fire Emblem: Three Houses depending on your route. The bosses in question? They're people you had every chance to recruit in the first part but didn't (unless it's Lorenz and/or Ashe depending on the route) so now they are against you. And no, this isn't like Radiant Dawn...this is like Fates. So you don't knock them out. You kill them. They don't retreat. They die. Meaning you have every reason to avoid killing them. It's actually possible to finish some of these battles (keyword: some) without actually killing these characters at all but it's not easy. The Death Knight is a recurring example, since the earlier in the game you face him, the harder he is to defeat. In Chapter 4, he sits at the center of the map, and you are advised to go around him; he will not pursue you except on Maddening, in which he goes after any unit that wanders into his movement range. In Chapter 6, the objective is to either defeat the Death Knight or all other units on the map. In Chapter 8, the Death Knight arrives as a reinforcement, but isn't too hard to avoid. However, in subsequent appearances (save for Caspar and Mercedes' Paralogue, in which defeating the Death Knight with Caspar earns you his weapon), the Death Knight must be defeated. In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, close friends Sigurd and Eldigan eventually find themselves on opposing sides of a grey versus grey struggle, and when Eldigan can no longer resist the pressure from his king to fight Sigurd, he too rides out to do battle with him. Talking to him with Sigurd doesn't help, as Eldigan has too many reasons to be genuinely angry with Sigurd by now, but talking to him with his sister Lachesis does, and he will leave the battlefield to beg mercy from his king one last time. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
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Skippable Boss / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Subverted with four major bosses ("Blights") that are tied to the plot. You can choose to ignore them and head straight to the Final Boss if you wish, but skipping the dungeon bosses will not grant you the magical abilities you would have earned for beating them plus some side quests won't open up until you beat the dungeons. If you get to the final boss without beating any of the major bosses first, they show up and you have to fight them anyway before you can fight the final boss. The Divine Beast Vah Ruta battle can't be initiated until you collect twenty shock arrows. You're supposed to gather the arrows from fighting the nearby Lynel and collecting the loot, but it's also possible to purchase the arrows from certain shops, as well as resort to stealthily collecting the stray shock arrows scattered around the Lynel (though the enemy's senses are honed, so this method is very difficult). However, for first-time players Ruta is likely the first Divine Beast encountered so that early on you probably won't have enough money for the arrows or have explored enough of the map to know what shops sell shock arrows.
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Skippable Boss / int_23553960	comment	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: During the mission to rescue Miller from the Soviets in Afghanistan, moving towards the extraction point Ocelot sets up will trigger an encounter with the Skulls, Elite Mooks that are hard to sneak by, hard to outrun, and very hard to kill so early in the game. If you change the extraction point to another location, however, you can avoid the encounter with them entirely.
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Skippable Boss / int_2797cd40	comment	Lots of bosses in Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance are skippable. Specifically, the following bosses can be skipped: Giant Bat, Golem, Minotaur, Minotaur II, your choice of either Legion (saint) or Giant Merman, and Legion (corpse). And that's not getting into Sequence Breaking...
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Skippable Boss / int_286c790	comment	The two main villains of Night of the Necromancer can both be avoided. Namely, Count Unthank can be taken down with the right items (or at the very least, fought with his stats decreased) while the all-powerful Night King, the Greater-Scope Villain, can be wiped out if the player stole Count Unthank's Codex Mortis to summon a Zerg Rush of vengeful spirits to overwhelm the Witch King.
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Skippable Boss / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls is absolutely replete with these, excepting the third entry (which only features mandatory bosses and optional bosses). In Dark Souls, a normal blind playthrough will likely have you facing off against both the Taurus Demon and the Capra Demon in the Undead Burg; however, getting the Master Key during character creation allows one to skip both. The Gaping Dragon in the Depths is also skippable this way. Similarly, you'll likely fight the Demon Firesage and Centipede Demon back to back to get into Lost Izalith; however, if you join the Chaos Servant covenant and pay the covenant leader 30 Humanity, you can open a shortcut bypassing both. An unintentional example is Ceaseless Discharge, as having enough stamina, HP, fire resistance, and the Dark Wood Grain Ring will let you just run through the lava pit you normally need to kill him to dry up. Dark Souls II: In II, this is built into the structure of the game: if you've collected a million souls over the course of the game (even if you lost half of them to dying at the wrong time), you can skip the whole thing where you need to kill the four Great Soul holders and can just go on to Drangleic proper. Alternatively, you can use bonfire ascetics to kill one of the Great Soul holders four times. The Pursuer can be bypassed by using a different route to access the Lost Bastille, but this will lock off the Soul of a Giant available in the late game in the area behind him. Conversely, this alternate route will require you to fight the Flexile Sentry, so one or the other will be mandatory. Within the Lost Bastille, on the other hand, the area boss can be skipped by use of both types of illusory wall, as well as a key hidden in the area. The Royal Rat Vanguard, the boss of the Grave of Saints, is found down a hole in Majula. He gates access to the Gutter, but if you buy a longer ladder down that same hole, you can bypass the whole Grave of Saints and go directly there.
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Skippable Boss / int_2ba3e3b9	comment	Unless you're going for the Chaos path, in which case it's good for your alignment, you can get through Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey without killing Ryan. Also, going through the Chaos Path lets you skip the Final Boss altogether. All three paths (Law, Neutral and Chaos) also let you skip a boss which you fight in the other two (respectively Zelenin, Gore and Jimenez).
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Skippable Boss / int_2c118e4	comment	The first boss in Bunny Must Die is skippable, as it's possible using very well-timed parries to get into the second boss's room first, and thence the rest of the game. However, the first boss takes her position as the FIRST boss very seriously, and she has new dialogue and a much harder fight if you tell her that you've beaten another boss beforehand.
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Skippable Boss / int_2cb2e5e0	comment	Breath of Fire II: There's a Guard Mini-Boss that can be avoided if given the right answer to his question.
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Skippable Boss / int_2cbbbb2e	comment	Axiom Verge 2 doesn't have conventional bosses, instead having large cyborg creatures in arenas that can be bypassed or ignored, but will drop Apocalypse Flasks when defeated. Only two boss fights are mandatory â€” Amashilama in Indra's body and Amashilama in a Siuna â€” and both are impossible to lose, since both have a respawn point located in the boss arena, therefore making it so that you never lose any progress in the fight no matter how many times you die.
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Skippable Boss / int_2ccd14d	comment	In Secret of Evermore, it is possible to skip one boss, the Verminator, and continue on with the game... but if you do, you'll eventually be trapped in a room filled with boxes from which there is no escape. Have fun starting the game over!
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Skippable Boss / int_2dcfb6cb	comment	Nethack, of all games, has a bunch of these: When you confront various major demons in their lairs, a good fraction of them will offer to not fight you if you bribe them. As this amount is a fraction of how much you're visibly carrying, it's possible to skip a fight for the price of a rusty dagger. In addition, as a chaotic character, sacrificing your original species summons a peaceful Yeenoghu or Juiblex, some of the toughest enemies in the game. More specifically, it summons those demons out of their lairs and to your present location, and makes them peaceful to you. Since they'll no longer be in their lair when you inevitably have to go through them, you've skipped the boss by taming it.
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Skippable Boss / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: The fight with Samael in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne can be skipped by choosing not to stop Hikawa's ritual at the Diet Building. Doing so doesn't even lock you into his route, either. Unless you're going for the Chaos path, in which case it's good for your alignment, you can get through Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey without killing Ryan. Also, going through the Chaos Path lets you skip the Final Boss altogether. All three paths (Law, Neutral and Chaos) also let you skip a boss which you fight in the other two (respectively Zelenin, Gore and Jimenez). In Persona, there are two boss battles that can be entirely avoided by choosing the right choices. One is a giant teddy bear and the other is a demon that's really Maki's mother. If you make the wrong choice and start fighting Monster Teddy Bear, then you're on the bad ending route, and if you're fighting Hariti (Maki's mother), then you've lost two of your Ultimate Personae.
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Skippable Boss / int_30065ab	comment	Cuphead has several downplayed examples. First, you don't have to defeat any of the minibosses from the run-and-gun stages; each has a few ways of boosting yourself past them (which allows for a Pacifist Run). Second, later patches allow you to skip phases on a few bosses, which will result in the next phase being a bit harder. The Onion stage of The Root Pack, for example, can be skipped by not attacking the onion, and thus not causing him to cry damaging tears.
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Skippable Boss / int_3038d75c	comment	Subverted in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction: The guardians of The Very Definitely Final Dungeon can be bypassed with a Plot Coupon. The problem? The Big Bad bribes one of the NPCs into handing him the Plot Coupon, which means he gets the free pass instead.
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Skippable Boss / int_318fe3d2	comment	Etrian Odyssey: Not counting the F.O.E. (which act more like skippable Boss in Mook Clothing enemies anyway), there are certain major boss monsters that can be skipped, and it's strongly recommended to do so until your party's cap is high enough to stand a chance against them: The Wyvern in the first game, the Salamander in the second, the mutually-exclusive bosses (with their availability dependant on which faction you start supporting after a major event in the story) in the third, and the Primordiphant in the fifth (later challenged in Superboss form during the Playable Epilogue). The third game also has the sea mini- and main bosses, while the fourth and sixth games have plenty in their Mini-Dungeon strata, but all of them are tied to optional sidequests anyway.
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Skippable Boss / int_33dd1d90	comment	Two of the Antlion Guards in Half-Life 2 can be skipped, as the exits to the arenas in which they are fought are only blocked with physics objects (as opposed to the impervious "gates" used in most sections of the game).
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Skippable Boss / int_35c0d5c2	comment	Wonder Boy in Monster Land: The Sphinx boss in the pyramid will let you pass without a fight if you answer correctly his really zany questions (no, the answer is not "the Man").
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Skippable Boss / int_36028b88	comment	Lady Lotmora from The Keep of the Lich-Lord can be defeated if players find her coffin before facing her, while the Final Boss, Lord Mortis, can be taken down without a fight by finding his throne room and ambushing him.
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Skippable Boss / int_36343514	comment	In Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, fighting Legion is required in order to get the Galamoth soul, which allows Soma to move through an area of stopped time. However, this only allows you to get a hint of how to get the best ending, so if you already know what to do (or have played the game before), Legion isn't necessary.
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Skippable Boss / int_36395288	comment	Kirby: Kirby Super Star: "The Great Cave Offensive" has several examples: In "Sub-Tree", you can instantly kill Bonkers by destroying the bridge it's supposed to land on before it appears; you have to be quick as, if you try destroying it after the miniboss appears, it will just jump safely onto solid ground. Secondly, the Old Tower is not a mandatory area, and as such Chameleo Arm is not a mandatory boss; however, that is not the case when Chameleo Arm needs to be fought in Milky Way Wishes. Lastly, it's also possible to skip quite a few minibosses in the game due to a bug in the system where flying high enough (usually assisted by the Jet ability) can let you completely go over the usual area that would trigger the fight (If the fight is indoors, though, you have no choice but to fight). In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, some of the mid-bosses or bosses in Dededetour! can be skipped altogether upon finding the proper Warp Holes in question. Kirby: Planet Robobot: It's possible to earn the Crash ability before the Invader Armor boss in stage 2 of Patched Plains. Fire the Super Nova attack at the start of the battle to instantly one-shot it. Much like the Mr. Frosty examples from Super Star and Triple Deluxe, the King Doo battle in Patched Plains stage 4 and the second Security Force battle in Access Ark stage 1 can be effectively skipped by entering battle with the Invincible Candy still in effect. Successfully navigating the Remocodroid in stage 2 of the Access Ark to the end and pressing the background switch quickly will drop the Security Force mid-boss down a bottomless pit before it can even get the chance to attack. It's possible to skip fighting Pon & Con altogether in Kirby Star Allies by taking a certain path in Magolor's Guest Star ???? route at the start of Level 3. Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Although unintended by the developers, it's possible to skip the battle with Wild Bonkers in the Abandoned Beach stage by swimming at the edge of the battle arena in just the right way. Fleurina does not need to be fought in The Wastes Where Life Began and her battle can be skipped entirely if the player chooses to do so (the fight must be done to satisfy the mission objective to defeat her with Ring-Mouth Kirby, however).
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Skippable Boss / int_367f632a	comment	Dawn of War: Dark Crusade: You could beat the Eldar stronghold by invading a fortified location that can only be reached through well-guarded chokepoints and spawns fully-reinforced knockback-spamming vehicles and squads far beyond the normal cap in addition to the giant Avatar of Khaine that gives morale immunity to its allies... or you could simply capture the three huge Webway portals that are the Eldar's sole link to their Craftworld and only send out a squad or two at a time to retake. Also, the Tau stronghold in Soulstorm is defeated by destroying a specific building. You could fight your way through the Tau's secondary and main bases as they continuously fire plasma and railguns at you, or you could just send jump troops/artillery to the base of the cliff where the building is located, bypassing the whole defensive network.
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Skippable Boss / int_379065a1	comment	In Disney Magical World, you only have to defeat 1 of the 3 Superbosses to get the sticker for clearing a bonus episode that counts towards 100% Completion. However, you might miss up on some things from the bonus episodes you didn't do, such as items that are exclusive to that episode.
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Skippable Boss / int_37b56f7	comment	In Baldur's Gate II, the red dragon Firkraag gives you the option of fighting one of his minions instead of himself. Depending on when you take the Side Quest in which he appears, this may be a good idea, as he is one of the most powerful opponents in the game. (You can return for him later.)
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Skippable Boss / int_39fe00f1	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition has a number of skippable storyline bosses. Fighting Grand Duchess Florianne can be avoided by having enough sway with the Orlesian court to publicly expose the assassination plot against Empress Celene. Calpernia will walk away if you prove to her that Corypheus plans to sacrifice her. The Guardian of Mythal only has to be fought if Morrigan's Dark Ritual has not been performed in Origins and the Inquisitor had drunk from the Well of Sorrows. In the Trespasser DLC, the fight against Ataashi can be bypassed by setting it free instead.
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Skippable Boss / int_3b7abee2	comment	Half-Life: In Half-Life: Opposing Force, skilled platforming allows you to skip one boss. Since this is a linear game, it makes no difference story-wise whether or not you actually kill the boss; either way, you get to the next level. Two of the Antlion Guards in Half-Life 2 can be skipped, as the exits to the arenas in which they are fought are only blocked with physics objects (as opposed to the impervious "gates" used in most sections of the game). Black Mesa has a way to skip the final battle against the Gonarch, which you can't avoid in the original Half-Life. If you bring a cyanogen gas canister all the way from the Survey Team camp in the chapter prior, you can either use the gas to instantly kill the Gonarch or utilize an alternate route unlocked by delivering the canister to traverse past the arena where you're meant to fight her.
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Skippable Boss / int_3d11078f	comment	Battleblade Warrior has the Lizard Man Champion, a four-armed lizard man warrior who can be avoided entirely by having the players take an alternate route.
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Skippable Boss / int_3d776ce3	comment	A number of the bosses in Alpha Protocol are skippable: The Final Boss will be either Yancy Westridge or Henry Leland, depending on what you're trying to do in the final mission (take down Halbech, take down both Alpha Protocol and Halbech, or take down Alpha Protocol on behalf of Halbech). If you fight one, the other will be skipped. Also during the final mission, there is a sequence in which you have to defeat both Alan Parker and Conrad Marburg before they can destroy the evidence of Alpha Protocol's existence that you want to recover. Depending on your actions earlier in the game, there are multiple ways to eliminate Parker or Marburg or both from the fight: if you killed Marburg in Rome, you will fight Parker alone; if you found out that Madison was Parker's daughter and Marburg killed her, he will turn on Marburg and be killed, so you will fight Marburg alone; if you collected enough of Marburg's dossier, you can persuade him to quit, and you will fight Parker alone; if you can persuade Parker that his grand plan has failed, but that he can still get away if he helps you pin the blame on someone else, he will do a Heelâ€“Face Turn and you will fight Marburg alone; if you collected enough of both men's dossiers, you can persuade Marburg to kill Parker, and you will fight Marburg alone; finally, if you manage to persuade both men to quit, you will fight neither, and the sequence instead will involve killing a horde of Mooks within a certain amount of time.
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Skippable Boss / int_3fd6b9d5	comment	If you are willing to beat Castlevania II: Simon's Quest without the most powerful knife in the game, you can simply walk past Death and claim Dracula's eye without fighting him. The same thing could have been done with Carmilla if her dropped item wasn't required to complete the game.
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Skippable Boss / int_429fe663	comment	Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire: It was obscured at first due to a bug meaning the boss fight happened anyway, but once it was fixed (and clarified that it was a fix and not a new bug), the last true combat boss turned into this. The Guardian of Ukaizo is a mighty construct, with intriguing dialogue on what Ukaizo was when encountered for a second time... and if you, very likely hours earlier in the game, freed the dragon Scyorielaphas, they sweep in during the first encounter — which is done through text, not through the combat system — and keep the Guardian busy, stopping the second encounter.
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Skippable Boss / int_44a5d8c0	comment	In Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, there is a fork in Block 3. Should you take the upper path, you'll eventually reach the boss. Selecting the lower path, on the other hand, takes you immediately to Block 4 without a boss battle. Once on the lower path and reaching that path's Block 5, it's also possible to skip Block 5's second boss in the same way. Takes you to a harder level though. The second block is completely optional, making the fight with Grant also optional.
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Skippable Boss / int_45501b8c	comment	Super Metroid: The Spore Spawn can be bypassed via a complex trick with the Morph Ball. To add insult to injury, you can still grab the goodies it guards too. Crocomire is usually fought in order to reach the Grappling Beam upgrade, but if your wall-jumping abilities are good enough, you can do without it and avoid the fight altogether.
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Skippable Boss / int_46aac2a3	comment	The open-world nature of Elden Ring allows for some freedom of movement and a player with a good eye can find alternate routes around the world that bypass bosses that obstruct the expected route. Most notably, the main bosses of Limgrave, Margit and Godrick, can be skipped if you discover a path that goes around Stormveil Castle, letting the player access Liurnia behind it and allowing them to improve their gear before coming back to them.
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Skippable Boss / int_46f8bfdb	comment	Turrican II has a sort of flying saucer on stage 1-2 which you have to go out of your way to fight. However, if you do, you are rewarded with 4 extra lives when you kill him.
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Skippable Boss / int_49a87cb3	comment	The final confrontation with the Turks in Final Fantasy VII, if you ran the Wutai subquest, can be skipped simply by refusing to fight. However, if you have a Steal materia handy, there's enough loot between the three of them to make it worth the effort anyway. You can also skip the Gongaga and Sunken Plane Turk encounters by simply choosing not to go there. By the time the plot forces you to go to Gongaga, they will be gone, and you don't ever need to go to the Plane at all, and even then once Shinra folds at the end of Disc 2, the Turks won't be there anymore.
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Skippable Boss / int_49a88435	comment	In Final Fantasy XII: Although you encounter both Demon Wall bosses in the story, only the second is mandatory for you to proceed. The first one can be skipped by simply going to the next room. On the flipside, it is also much harder to beat, and the time limit you are given to beat it is also shorter. The Elder Wyrm boss fight, which some people tend to find harder than most of the game's boss fights because of its favour of status-effecting attacks, can be skipped by taking another route to the next area. There are some pretty tough enemies that you have to run past, but it gets you away from the boss.
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Skippable Boss / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Though it is not exactly required to kill most bosses in the game, if you do run dungeons, there exist bosses that will have to be killed in order to unlock another boss encounter, or simply you have to kill that boss because they're in the way. Other bosses are commonly skipped because they are out of the way or are simply notorious for annoying strategies. Almost an entire wiki can be filled with these, but some of the most notorious examples include: There is also the ogre section of Dire Maul, where skipping bosses is actually encouraged. Every boss, barring the last, can be ignored, trapped, or distracted so that you never have to face them. When you do defeat the final boss, all the bosses you skipped offer you tribute, which is usually better than what you would have gotten by killing them.
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Skippable Boss / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun: The Suhalla desert contains several immobile tornadoes that send you back to the north entrance unless you throw water at them, in which case you fight the giant frilled lizard causing the tornado. While only three of these are needed to get through the desert, the last portion has a giant tornado that actually chases you. By running like hell without slowing at any point, it's possible to exit the desert without fighting it. If you backtrack, however, you can't escape it, and must either fight it or be sent back to the northern entrance.
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Skippable Boss / int_4fcbe146	comment	In Strider, one can jump over the room for the first boss and bypass him entirely. One can also ignore the flying mercenary Solo in Stage 2 and continue ahead, though he'll eventually come back later to pester you. While this can also be done in the final stage, the fact you get to the Boss Rush right after means you have to deal with him and the bosses in question, so it's better to take care of him first.
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Skippable Boss / int_507dfb6a	comment	There's an incredibly easy way to skip one particular boss in EarthBound (1994). Want to know? Simple. You can skip fighting Everdred by not walking up to him.
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Skippable Boss / int_51a9e610	comment	Subverted in High on Life. You can mortally wound one of the bosses (Douglas, while he's masquerading as "Doctor Joopy") before its intended boss battle, while it's completely defenseless; if you do so, it will be dead by the time you reach its arena. The problem is that it'll be replaced by another boss (Douglas' suit, working on autopilot after detecting the death of its owner) that is completely identical gameplay-wise.
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Skippable Boss / int_51e18f55	comment	The Citadel of Chaos has the citadels' most powerful monster, a six-headed Hydra, which is a Hopeless Boss Fight... unless players have the Golden Fleece. Having that at their disposal they can avoid the Hydra. There's also a powerful Clawbeast right before confronting Balthus Dire, which the players can put down in two pages using a Weakness Spell.
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Skippable Boss / int_524f6eb2	comment	In the direct sequel to the above, Legend of Zagor, players assuming the role of Sallazar can use the Teleport Spell to pull a Dungeon Bypass and avoid some of the stronger opponents, although it's not advised because they risk missing necessary items and weapons to help them in the final battle against Zagor. If they do wish to fight, they can purchase a magic Genie in a Bottle to destroy certain enemies instantly (it's a one-use item), cast a Death Spell (again, only available to Sallazar) or just otherwise avoid certain rooms on a second playthrough. And out of the four major guardians of Castle Argent, the last one — the Black Knight — is a compulsory boss only for Braxus the Warrior, whereas players assuming the role of Anvar, Stubble, or Sallazar can simply ignore entering the Knight's chamber.
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Skippable Boss / int_5251e609	comment	In Arkham Horror, it's never necessary to defeat the Ancient One in battle to win the scenario. In the case of Azathoth, this is also the only way to win as Azathoth immediately destroys the world upon awakening instead of affording the Investigators a Last Battle.
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Skippable Boss / int_526d4c5c	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic, the endless stream of droids that stands between you and Darth Malak is meant to be dealt with by using computer spikes to shut down each of the generators, but walking past them and breaking down the door also works.
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Skippable Boss / int_535ba07d	comment	Remnant: From the Ashes: The Undying King is somewhere between this and Superboss as it's kind of 50-50 whether you have to fight him or not. The game's intended route is for you to make a deal to bring him the heart of the Guardian of Corsus in exchange for the Labyrinth Key you need to continue with your journey, but it's perfectly possible to either refuse to bring him the heart (or say you'll get it then give it to the Iskal Queen instead), or simply to piss him off with your rudeness, leading to a boss fight against him. The fight is one of the harder ones in the base game (although it lets you skip Corsus altogether by taking the Key off his corpse) but if you'd rather not put yourself through it you only need to make the deal and uphold your end of the bargain (both options have their own rewards). Brabus, the leader of the Mud Dogs bandit gang, will let you pass without a fight if you're in possession of the pocket watch his father Mud Tooth gave to you and you agree to give it to him. He'll also give you the Bandit armour set in exchange. Of course unlike the Undying King, who's a fixed story encounter, this only applies if his dungeon (Cutthroat Channel/The Depot) spawns in your mandatory path through Earth anyway rather than being an optional side dungeon or even not spawning at all.
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Skippable Boss / int_5546299b	comment	Kero Blaster: The start of White Laboratories features a fake bottomless pit at the very start, and falling into it triggers a fight with a jetpack-wearing, rock-tossing mole. If you manage to jump across the pit the first time, the mole can be avoided. There's little reason to not fight it, since it's weak, it drops a money bag when it dies, and its room features one of the secret areas in Omake Mode. In Omake Mode, the bosses and mini-bosses of Hinterland Fort, OXOX Hotel, and White Laboratories can be skipped by taking the alternate routes through secret areas. You still have to fight a Shield Plant in Hinterland Fort's secret (the difference is that it's invisible) and White Laboratories features an alternate boss fight with a glitched version of Kurono's second phase. In Pink Hour, this applies to the boss at the end of the game. You can bypass it by just jumping over it.
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Skippable Boss / int_559a396b	comment	New Super Mario Bros. U: Larry and Wendy are the respective bosses of Sparkling Waters and Frosted Glacier; since those two worlds are accessed via a road fork in the overworld map (which eventually converges in Soda Jungle), you can skip one of them (and its boss) by completing the other. Since there's no Warp Zone in this game, you have to use secret levels to unlock shortcuts between worlds in order to skip the other bosses prior to Ludwig and onward (Ludwig himself, fought in Meringue Clouds, must be fought no matter what).
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Skippable Boss / int_5627d9fd	comment	In Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth on the Wii, each stage has an alternate route you can take which skips past the stage's mid-boss. Of course, that alternate route isn't going to be any easier.
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Skippable Boss / int_5652af17	comment	Hammerfight gives a skippable boss at the end of the second chapter. However, choosing to fight it commits you, and you need to slay the sophit in order to advance.
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Skippable Boss / int_56569e0a	comment	In Monster Rancher 2, you only need to beat 1 of the 2 possible enemies in the "Legends Cup" in order to "beat" the game, allowing one to avoid the difficult Most and go for the slightly-easier Poritoka.
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Skippable Boss / int_57ad0c07	comment	The Resident Evil series has a long standing tradition of skipping boss fights: For the original Resident Evil, there's four examples: While both scenarios you can optionally weaken it with chemicals, Jill can skip the actual fight against Plant 42 (provided you used the V-Jolt), Barry will automatically kill it with a flamethrower. In Chris' scenario, it must be fought normally. In both scenarios, you can skip the first fight with Yawn by running around him really fast and grabbing the emblem. It's not too hard, but getting bitten by him results in the player getting poisoned, requiring them to detour and grab a serum. He'll still be there until he shows up for his second encounter. The mother Neptune can be fought. Or you can just push a generator into the water and flip a switch, electrocuting it. The last Tyrant fight can be skipped entirely if you get your support character killed earlier, although doing so results in a Bad Ending. Resident Evil 2: Every encounter but the last with Mr. X can be run away from. The alligator can be fought twice, once in each character's scenario, or you can simply reenact the ending to Jaws and blow its head off, killing it permanently. In either of Leon's scenarios, he and Ada will be attacked by Birkin on the tram ride to the warehouse. You can fight him off, or just let Ada deal with him. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis: Many of the encounters with the titular creature can be run from, and since you start off so poorly armed, you need to. He only really has to be fought in front of the church, in the Dead Factory dump room, and in the final encounter. The Gravedigger, the only other boss fight in the game, can actually be skipped in both fights. The first, if you're quick enough in lowering the ladders, you can just simply leave. The second is trickier, because the game can sometimes not feel like doing it, but if you're lucky, a lamp post will get dislodged near a pool of water, and if you shoot it at the right time, you can fry the beast without ever truly fighting it. In Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, with the exception of the Tyrant encounters, Hopeless Boss Steve and Final Boss Alexia, every other Boss Battle is skippable: The Gulp Worm can be skipped not once but twice; the first time by Claire, the second time by Chris. However, doing so the second time results in a couple of items being permanently lost (assuming Claire gave Rodrigo the hemostat earlier; otherwise there's no point in fighting it). Chris can fight the adult Albinoid from a safe distance and afterwards fetch the Eagle Plate unharmed... or he can just jump in, absorb some damage from the electrified pool, and leave with the Plate without even fighting the Albinoid. Same goes with the large Black Widow custodying Alexander's Pierce, except you can fetch the item in question without even getting hit once, so there's even less of a reason to stay and fight the spider in the first place. Resident Evil 4: In Chapter 2-3, the player has to choose between two paths, one of which features the second El Gigante encounter and need never be entered, but if you do, it's possible to simply knock down the two chained doors, grab the gate key and outrun El Gigante to the exit with planning and a little luck. The other path has a small army of Ganados including chainsaw wielding mini-bosses (good thing the player can get position at the higher ground), however, so you're not getting a free pass. If you're going for all the treasures and 100% Completion, you must explore both paths. Ramon Salazar's right hand creature, Verdugo, stalks you in a corridor while you wait for the elevator to conclude Chapter 4-1. Once it arrives you can just get on and forget about him — which is nice, because he's really hard to kill. And, unlike most of these, if you go back, he's still there waiting for you, only now you're cornered, and are very unlikely to stop being so before you die. The remake allows you to skip the mini-boss encounter with the first Chainsaw Man in the opening chapter in the New Game Plus. The encounter has a scripted ending, once you kill enough of the infected villagers, via the church bell ringing; if you bring the sniper rifle with you in the New Game Plus, you can shoot the bell to instantly trigger the scripted ending.
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Skippable Boss / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: The original Metal Gear for the MSX features a boss battle with a tank. While you'll probably take a bit of damage, it's possible to just walk around the tank and go to the next area without destroying it. Additionally, there was a glitch in the NES version that allowed you to skip having to blow up the computer by simply turning immediately right when you entered the room (you would glitch into the final boss room). Handy if you never bothered rescuing the scientist (you can only blow up the computer with plastic explosives IF the scientist told you). Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: During the fight with The Sorrow, the player can simply lay down so Snake's head is under the water and wait until he "drowns". This will skip straight to the end of the scene where the player can use the revival pill and wake up. However, the player won't receive his Spirit camo if this method is used. Alternately, the fight can be shortened dramatically by laying down and then simply swimming the whole way through, which is significantly faster than wading through the water and avoids the Sorrow's own attacks. There are a number of ways to skip The End, the first being that you can snipe him before you even get to his boss fight. Failing that, saving once you do get to him and then turning the game off for a week (Or simply changing the system clock) will cause him to die of old age. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: During the mission to rescue Miller from the Soviets in Afghanistan, moving towards the extraction point Ocelot sets up will trigger an encounter with the Skulls, Elite Mooks that are hard to sneak by, hard to outrun, and very hard to kill so early in the game. If you change the extraction point to another location, however, you can avoid the encounter with them entirely.
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Skippable Boss / int_59215318	comment	In Persona, there are two boss battles that can be entirely avoided by choosing the right choices. One is a giant teddy bear and the other is a demon that's really Maki's mother. If you make the wrong choice and start fighting Monster Teddy Bear, then you're on the bad ending route, and if you're fighting Hariti (Maki's mother), then you've lost two of your Ultimate Personae.
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Skippable Boss / int_59735062	comment	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided takes a page from its predecessor, with its one true boss fight avoidable by obtaining and using said boss's killswitch. All other boss-like encounters occur during optional side missions, and can further be avoided through dialogue. Special mention goes to Karl Montag who can only be fought if the player (1) successfully completes the relevant side quest chain, (2) ends up fighting the preceding boss, and (3) fails to talk their way out of combat with him.
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Skippable Boss / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: Legate Lanius, the final boss for most of the endings, can be convinced to issue a retreat by convincing him several different ways that even if he were to win the Legion would not be able to sustain itself for long (either via lack of manpower to hold all of their territories or having no supply routes, eventually starving) after that and would eventually lose via attrition. Also, if you're fighting for the Legion, Mr. House or Independence, you can also convince General Oliver and his Elite Mooks to stand down either by convincing him he's lost or in the latter two threatening him with your robot army/other allies. In the final expansion pack Lonesome Road, a particularly clever player can out-philosophize Ulysses with his own logic and convince him to stand down. This also applies to every DLC. You can simply walk out on Father Elijah in Dead Money so he'll get himself locked in the vault after you check it first, convince the Think Tank to work for you instead, along with deciding not to pick a fight with Mobius, in Old World Blues, and either convince Salt-Upon-Wounds to flee (if you're evacuating), let Joshua unceremoniously execute him, or convince Joshua to let him run off (if you're attacking the White Legs) in Honest Hearts. It's easier to list the bosses you can not skip (which would be, not counting sidequest bosses and mook rushes, just the Giant Roboscorpion from Old World Blues which doesn't need to be fought with ammo as well).
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Skippable Boss / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale: Papyrus is a Wake-Up Call Boss with tough attack patterns, but he will never actually kill you because he's nice to a fault. He always stops the battle when you fall to 1HP and puts you in a Cardboard Prison you can easily leave. If you get defeated by him three times, any further attempts will ask if you still want to fight, and saying "No" makes him give you a free pass. Muffet can be instantly spared by eating a Spider Donut or drinking a Spider Cider while battling her, which will trigger the early delivery of a memo letting her know you purchased it from the first bake sale. Otherwise, you have to wait quite a while for the memo to arrive. You can also shell out 9999G to buy something from Muffet herself a few rooms before encountering her in the spider's nest, which skips the battle with her entirely (unless you're on the Genocide Route). All of the dog enemies can be instantly spared by keeping the Stick in your inventory and using it to play fetch with them. Endogeny also has the option of using a Hush Puppy, which essentially casts Mute on dog magic.
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Skippable Boss / int_5bd9e7b7	comment	Dark Souls II: In II, this is built into the structure of the game: if you've collected a million souls over the course of the game (even if you lost half of them to dying at the wrong time), you can skip the whole thing where you need to kill the four Great Soul holders and can just go on to Drangleic proper. Alternatively, you can use bonfire ascetics to kill one of the Great Soul holders four times. The Pursuer can be bypassed by using a different route to access the Lost Bastille, but this will lock off the Soul of a Giant available in the late game in the area behind him. Conversely, this alternate route will require you to fight the Flexile Sentry, so one or the other will be mandatory. Within the Lost Bastille, on the other hand, the area boss can be skipped by use of both types of illusory wall, as well as a key hidden in the area. The Royal Rat Vanguard, the boss of the Grave of Saints, is found down a hole in Majula. He gates access to the Gutter, but if you buy a longer ladder down that same hole, you can bypass the whole Grave of Saints and go directly there.
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Skippable Boss / int_5c66fff9	comment	In the Githyanki Base in Neverwinter Nights 2, it's possible to bluff Zaxis into believing that he failed his mission, instantly "killing" him. Until later in the game, when you won't get to fight him anyway.
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Skippable Boss / int_5e3832b5	comment	Cave Story: Early in the game, Recurring Boss Balrog explicitly asks you if you want to fight. If you respond with "no," he says "Oh, okay" and goes about his way. This only works on that one specific occasion; on later encounters he insists on fighting no matter what you do. A late part of the game has two dragons (the Sisters) that you fight if you open a very obvious chest in the middle of the room. Less obviously, you can avoid the chest and continue on.
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Skippable Boss / int_5e91c7a	comment	For the original Resident Evil, there's four examples: While both scenarios you can optionally weaken it with chemicals, Jill can skip the actual fight against Plant 42 (provided you used the V-Jolt), Barry will automatically kill it with a flamethrower. In Chris' scenario, it must be fought normally. In both scenarios, you can skip the first fight with Yawn by running around him really fast and grabbing the emblem. It's not too hard, but getting bitten by him results in the player getting poisoned, requiring them to detour and grab a serum. He'll still be there until he shows up for his second encounter. The mother Neptune can be fought. Or you can just push a generator into the water and flip a switch, electrocuting it. The last Tyrant fight can be skipped entirely if you get your support character killed earlier, although doing so results in a Bad Ending.
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Skippable Boss / int_5e91c7b	comment	Resident Evil 2: Every encounter but the last with Mr. X can be run away from. The alligator can be fought twice, once in each character's scenario, or you can simply reenact the ending to Jaws and blow its head off, killing it permanently. In either of Leon's scenarios, he and Ada will be attacked by Birkin on the tram ride to the warehouse. You can fight him off, or just let Ada deal with him.
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Skippable Boss / int_5e91c7d	comment	Resident Evil 4: In Chapter 2-3, the player has to choose between two paths, one of which features the second El Gigante encounter and need never be entered, but if you do, it's possible to simply knock down the two chained doors, grab the gate key and outrun El Gigante to the exit with planning and a little luck. The other path has a small army of Ganados including chainsaw wielding mini-bosses (good thing the player can get position at the higher ground), however, so you're not getting a free pass. If you're going for all the treasures and 100% Completion, you must explore both paths. Ramon Salazar's right hand creature, Verdugo, stalks you in a corridor while you wait for the elevator to conclude Chapter 4-1. Once it arrives you can just get on and forget about him — which is nice, because he's really hard to kill. And, unlike most of these, if you go back, he's still there waiting for you, only now you're cornered, and are very unlikely to stop being so before you die. The remake allows you to skip the mini-boss encounter with the first Chainsaw Man in the opening chapter in the New Game Plus. The encounter has a scripted ending, once you kill enough of the infected villagers, via the church bell ringing; if you bring the sniper rifle with you in the New Game Plus, you can shoot the bell to instantly trigger the scripted ending.
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Skippable Boss / int_5fc2e660	comment	Daggers of Darkness has enemies that can be pacified by gems and flowers, most notably the powerful wizard Zizzadek, which isn't a compulsory battle that the player can circumvent across.
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Skippable Boss / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins: There's an incident which is a hybrid of this and Hopeless Boss Fight — the fight is not impossible, just really really hard, and you can bypass it altogether by surrendering (or not bothering to fight back). If you win, the story continues; if you lose or surrender, you get sent to jail and have to either break out or get two of your companions to break you out. Later, assuming you skipped the original fight, you encounter the same person again, and can talk her out of fighting you if your persuasion skills are high enough. During the "Urn of Sacred Ashes" quest, you can completely avoid fighting Kolgrim by agreeing to help him. If your Warden is a mage and you choose to go into the Fade yourself to save Connor, you can avoid fighting the Desire Demon at the end by agreeing to converse with it instead. You can then make a deal with it, take a bribe, or intimidate it into leaving. In the Brecilian Forest, the Grand Oak and the Mad Hermit will each try to get you to kill the other to settle their dispute over the Grand Oak's acorn. You could kill one of them... or you could just trade the Hermit one of the items you picked up from various sidequests earlier in the level for the acorn. Or if you have a party member with a good pickpocket skill you can stea the acorn from the hole its stashed in. The Tevinter mage Caladrius will offer to leave quietly (and even provide you with a key piece of evidence for the Landsmeet)... as long as you let him keep the elves he's abducted to turn into slaves. In the Deep Roads, Caridin and Branka are both skippable - but whichever one you skip, you will be forced to fight the other. Players can elect to speak to Flemeth and let her give them her grimoire instead of fighting her as a dragon.
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Skippable Boss / int_62bf541	comment	Super Mario Bros. set the tradition in itself and subsequent 2D Mario games, as well as two of the 3D games, to allow the player to skip boss battles if you find a way to Warp Zone to a later world (said way will depend on the game you're playing). The remaining 3D games allow this via Fractional Winning Condition, as most of them guard only one of many Plot Coupon items, and you can make your way to the end by gathering others of the same kind by achieving different objectives. The only games to avert this trope with all of their bosses are Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
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Skippable Boss / int_62e9d405	comment	Every boss in Spyro The Dragon, except Gnasty Gnorc. This is because bosses make up their own levels and just serve to collect more stuff. All they leave are gems. If you have enough gems/dragons/eggs/etc. to pass to the next hub, you can skip any remaining levels.
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Skippable Boss / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates: The game has this on several occasions, although sometimes they are optional boss fights and you're clearly not supposed to be able to beat them at that point. In Chapter 12 of Conquest, Ryoma is the boss. However, since it's an escape map, it's possible to avoid In the "Sakura" chapter of Conquest, the objective is to seize the throne, which requires defeating Yukimura. Sakura, who's standing near the middle of the map, as well as her retainers Subaki and Hana, can be skipped.
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Skippable Boss / int_68cc5557	comment	Shadow Dragon: You can recruit two separate bosses by talking to them with the right people. Tiki can be recruited by Bantu, while General Lorenz can be recruited by either Marth or Caeda. Both cases are even considered canon, since the two are still around in the sequels. Gharnef and, in later versions of the game, Camus, are possible to skip entirely, despite being framed in a pretty boss-like fashion, as they aren't located on a seize point. In Camus's case, this is because he's an Anti-Villain and sparing him is a form of Video Game Caring Potential, whereas Gharnef is impossible to beat without the Plot Coupon Starlight, which can be skipped completely, meaning this avoids an Unwinnable by Design situation. One-off boss Khozen can also be avoided, as he's meant as more of a roving enemy threat than a true boss. In all three cases, they drop fairly valuable items, which is the reason to fight them at all.
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Skippable Boss / int_691c1a3a	comment	In Half-Life: Opposing Force, skilled platforming allows you to skip one boss. Since this is a linear game, it makes no difference story-wise whether or not you actually kill the boss; either way, you get to the next level.
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Skippable Boss / int_698a3e12	comment	In the spin-off book series, Sorcery!, the first book ends with an unavoidable battle against a powerful Manticore... unless players took the role of wizards. They can simply cast a blocking spell and flee, preventing the Manticore from chasing after them.
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Skippable Boss / int_69a9d669	comment	Breath of Fire III: Out of the 12 bosses in the Boss Rush at the end of the game, only 2 must be confronted if one knows the correct path through the labyrinth housing them.
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Skippable Boss / int_69e47d85	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins â€“ Awakening, the Architect will propose an Enemy Mine with you against the Mother, which you can agree to. Doing so, however, will anger some companions into attacking you unless you have enough Persuasion to talk them down.
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Skippable Boss / int_6bef8832	comment	In Baldur's Gate III, the final boss can be this. Right before facing the Netherbrain, Gale asks the player to let him perform a Heroic Sacrifice, climbing the brain stem and detonating the Fantastic Nuke in his chest out of range of the party or any innocents. The player can accept or refuse this offer.
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Skippable Boss / int_6bf2d08	comment	Super Mario Maker: Bowser and Bowser Jr. are both programmed the same as other enemies, so by default they can be avoided if the level gives the player the option. Designers who intend to make them unskippable can resort to some workarounds, like making them guard a Key that opens an important door, putting them in a Clown Car so the player has to beat them to reach an exit that is otherwise inaccessible, or blocking the path to force them to break the obstructing floor or wall with their attacks. Or, of course, doing what the original game did and putting them on the drawbridge at the end of a castle, so that reaching the goal is defeating them. Super Mario Maker 2 adds Boom Boom, Pom Pom, Meowser, and (with a post-release update) the seven Koopalings, who can be skipped as well if the level gives the player that chance.
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Skippable Boss / int_6c1d09b1	comment	The Master in Fallout can either be killed normally in a fight (a very difficult fight) or be blown up by a bomb hidden in his lair that can be activated by the player. The Vault Dweller can, in fact, show him evidence that his plan to create a new society of Super Mutants is doomed to fail as Super Mutants are sterile due to the FEV "fixing" their gametes. Said ending is rather mournful as he shows his hidden humanity and kills himself to stop his plan.
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Skippable Boss / int_6c1d09b2	comment	President Dick Richardson of Fallout 2 can be killed by shooting him (which causes his secret service to come and try to kick your ass)... or by making his death look like an "a freak heart attack" with 8 super stimpaks. His main muscle Frank Horrigan however...
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Skippable Boss / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, the player can convince Colonel Autumn into walking away via a speech check in the final mission. This can also be done with General Jingwei in the Operation Anchorage DLC, whereby passing a speech check he'll kill himself.
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Skippable Boss / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: Two bosses can be bypassed by giving chems to Mama Murphy before fighting them: she'll instruct you to say "remember the quarry and Lilly June on the rocks" to Skinny Malone, which somehow convinces him to give you ten seconds to leave before he attacks (not pursuing you if you get out of the arena by then), and when hunting for a Courser chip, she'll tell you the Trigger Phrase to shut the Courser down without a fight.. In the Nuka-World DLC, while he isn't the final boss you can talk down Oswald the Outrageous through passing a hard speech check or by finding a holotape left by his girlfriend Rachel, at which point he agrees to leave with his ghouls.
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Skippable Boss / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Path of Radiance: you can choose to fight the Raven King Naesala and struggle against the third-deadliest enemy in the whole game, or talk to him using one of your hawks and then Reyson to convince him and his troops to leave the battlefield.
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Skippable Boss / int_71430cc0	comment	Breath of Fire: Breath of Fire II: There's a Guard Mini-Boss that can be avoided if given the right answer to his question. Breath of Fire III: Out of the 12 bosses in the Boss Rush at the end of the game, only 2 must be confronted if one knows the correct path through the labyrinth housing them.
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Skippable Boss / int_74a4c704	comment	Some mini-bosses in Kingdom Hearts can be skipped, such as the shark in Atlantica or several Sabor encounters in Deep Jungle. You can also skip every single boss in the Olympus Colosseum, Atlantica, Monstro, and Halloween Town. The game does take into account what happens if you don't do this.
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Skippable Boss / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: An unintentional example is that you can skip the boss of the Skull Woods via a glitch. You won't get its Heart Container, though. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Subverted with four major bosses ("Blights") that are tied to the plot. You can choose to ignore them and head straight to the Final Boss if you wish, but skipping the dungeon bosses will not grant you the magical abilities you would have earned for beating them plus some side quests won't open up until you beat the dungeons. If you get to the final boss without beating any of the major bosses first, they show up and you have to fight them anyway before you can fight the final boss. The Divine Beast Vah Ruta battle can't be initiated until you collect twenty shock arrows. You're supposed to gather the arrows from fighting the nearby Lynel and collecting the loot, but it's also possible to purchase the arrows from certain shops, as well as resort to stealthily collecting the stray shock arrows scattered around the Lynel (though the enemy's senses are honed, so this method is very difficult). However, for first-time players Ruta is likely the first Divine Beast encountered so that early on you probably won't have enough money for the arrows or have explored enough of the map to know what shops sell shock arrows. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Like in Breath of the Wild, neglecting the questlines to solve the regional anomalies will force you to fight the Temples' associated bosses back to back during the endgame. However, you will at least manage to skip the Mini-Boss battles against Yunobo (in his brainwashed form), Moragia and Sludge Like.
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Skippable Boss / int_750beb7a	comment	Tomb Raider: The T-Rex encounter in the first three games can be ignored entirely (the dinosaur in the 2nd game is optional since it guards a secret), although you will have a much harder time trying to navigate the area as you pick up key items while being attacked. Larson on his second encounter can be ignored by just running past him and grabbing the Scion, which triggers the end of the level, so killing Larson is purely optional. In the Anniversary remake, the T-Rex can no longer be ignored. You can also ignore Natla after you knock her down the first time and focus on escaping, as she won't be able to hit you from the platforms you need to use to escape.
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Skippable Boss / int_7529056	comment	Super Mario World gives you the option to skip Lemmy's castle level (and thus Lemmy himself) by reaching the following world (Twin Bridges) through an alternate route. You can also avoid fighting Reznor in Chocolate Island by unlocking and playing a secret level that takes you directly to that world's castle (Wendy's). Lastly, if you manage to unlock the secret exit from the last non-castle level of Valley of Bowser, you'll be able to jump straight to Bowser's Castle (specifically the Front Door entrance) while skipping Larry and his castle.
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Skippable Boss / int_7579423f	comment	In the Banjo-Kazooie games, all bosses except Gruntilda can be skipped as long as the player has enough Jiggies to open all levels so the ones guarded by the bosses aren't required. The exceptions are Klungo and Old King Coal in Banjo-Tooie, the former because he always gets in the way of the main characters as they advance through new areas of the game, and the latter since he not only guards a Jiggy but also Chuffy the Train (who provides internal access to Grunty Industries, and there the characters have to learn an ability that is vital to access the last level).
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Skippable Boss / int_76456c33	comment	Devil Summoner has a case in the late-game dungeons Toa TV Station and the Radio Tower. Speedy, Julia and Mikiya are the bosses of Toa TV and servants of the Orgone Ghost, the boss of the Radio Tower. Due to the layout of the dungeons, it's entirely possible to just ignore the three of them and make a beeline for the Orgone Ghost, but taking the time to fight them makes the Ghost easier to defeat.
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Skippable Boss / int_76686539	comment	In Mass Effect, you can convince the Final Boss to commit suicide. But regardless of which way you kill him, Sovereign will still assume direct control of his cybernetics after he's dead, so you still have to fight the One-Winged Angel form.
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Skippable Boss / int_76a68629	comment	Eye of the Dragon has, what else, a fearsome Black Dragon who breathes poison... but turns out asleep when the player enters its chamber. It can be avoided with a simple LUCK test.
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Skippable Boss / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: In Mass Effect, you can convince the Final Boss to commit suicide. But regardless of which way you kill him, Sovereign will still assume direct control of his cybernetics after he's dead, so you still have to fight the One-Winged Angel form. Players can convince the Final Boss to do the same in Mass Effect 3, though it's not much of a boss fight.
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Skippable Boss / int_7cabe488	comment	Henry can avoid and hide from the Projectionist in Bendy and the Ink Machine rather than kill him in Chapter 3. However, by doing so, the player will miss out on an achievement.
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Skippable Boss / int_7cda381e	comment	Assassin's Creed: Odyssey has several boss fights that can be skipped with the right dialogue options: If you made the right choices during the main story, the final battle against Deimos will be skipped in favor of them reconciling with you. Pythagoras can be persuaded into giving the Staff of Hermes. Otherwise, you will have to fight him for the Staff. If you did exactly what Hermes asked of you and chose the right dialogue options during the first installment of The Fate of Atlantis, he will refuse to fight you during the climax.
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Skippable Boss / int_7f3f750	comment	In Superman 64, the final boss, Braniac, will only attack you if you use heat vision on him. You can just walk past him to read the papers on Lex's desk to win the game.
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Skippable Boss / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: The Master in Fallout can either be killed normally in a fight (a very difficult fight) or be blown up by a bomb hidden in his lair that can be activated by the player. The Vault Dweller can, in fact, show him evidence that his plan to create a new society of Super Mutants is doomed to fail as Super Mutants are sterile due to the FEV "fixing" their gametes. Said ending is rather mournful as he shows his hidden humanity and kills himself to stop his plan. President Dick Richardson of Fallout 2 can be killed by shooting him (which causes his secret service to come and try to kick your ass)... or by making his death look like an "a freak heart attack" with 8 super stimpaks. His main muscle Frank Horrigan however... In Fallout 3, the player can convince Colonel Autumn into walking away via a speech check in the final mission. This can also be done with General Jingwei in the Operation Anchorage DLC, whereby passing a speech check he'll kill himself. Fallout: New Vegas: Legate Lanius, the final boss for most of the endings, can be convinced to issue a retreat by convincing him several different ways that even if he were to win the Legion would not be able to sustain itself for long (either via lack of manpower to hold all of their territories or having no supply routes, eventually starving) after that and would eventually lose via attrition. Also, if you're fighting for the Legion, Mr. House or Independence, you can also convince General Oliver and his Elite Mooks to stand down either by convincing him he's lost or in the latter two threatening him with your robot army/other allies. In the final expansion pack Lonesome Road, a particularly clever player can out-philosophize Ulysses with his own logic and convince him to stand down. This also applies to every DLC. You can simply walk out on Father Elijah in Dead Money so he'll get himself locked in the vault after you check it first, convince the Think Tank to work for you instead, along with deciding not to pick a fight with Mobius, in Old World Blues, and either convince Salt-Upon-Wounds to flee (if you're evacuating), let Joshua unceremoniously execute him, or convince Joshua to let him run off (if you're attacking the White Legs) in Honest Hearts. It's easier to list the bosses you can not skip (which would be, not counting sidequest bosses and mook rushes, just the Giant Roboscorpion from Old World Blues which doesn't need to be fought with ammo as well). Fallout 4: Two bosses can be bypassed by giving chems to Mama Murphy before fighting them: she'll instruct you to say "remember the quarry and Lilly June on the rocks" to Skinny Malone, which somehow convinces him to give you ten seconds to leave before he attacks (not pursuing you if you get out of the arena by then), and when hunting for a Courser chip, she'll tell you the Trigger Phrase to shut the Courser down without a fight.. In the Nuka-World DLC, while he isn't the final boss you can talk down Oswald the Outrageous through passing a hard speech check or by finding a holotape left by his girlfriend Rachel, at which point he agrees to leave with his ghouls.
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Skippable Boss / int_803beb04	comment	In a peculiar example, Earthworm Jim does this with Psy-Crow. Provided you beat him in any "Andy Asteroids" level, you won't have to fight him. If you fail to beat him in the race, however, you'll have to fight him, and he gets harder every time you lose a race.
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Skippable Boss / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Bros. set the tradition in itself and subsequent 2D Mario games, as well as two of the 3D games, to allow the player to skip boss battles if you find a way to Warp Zone to a later world (said way will depend on the game you're playing). The remaining 3D games allow this via Fractional Winning Condition, as most of them guard only one of many Plot Coupon items, and you can make your way to the end by gathering others of the same kind by achieving different objectives. The only games to avert this trope with all of their bosses are Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Super Mario World gives you the option to skip Lemmy's castle level (and thus Lemmy himself) by reaching the following world (Twin Bridges) through an alternate route. You can also avoid fighting Reznor in Chocolate Island by unlocking and playing a secret level that takes you directly to that world's castle (Wendy's). Lastly, if you manage to unlock the secret exit from the last non-castle level of Valley of Bowser, you'll be able to jump straight to Bowser's Castle (specifically the Front Door entrance) while skipping Larry and his castle. Super Mario 3D Land: in one of the Special World airships, a boss battle with Boom Boom can (and must, if you want to get all the Star Medals) be skipped by taking another route. Two other boss battles (against Bowser in World 1 and against Pom Pom in World 4) can be skipped by finding a secret red pipe in the worlds' corresponding second level, though again this is counterproductive for the purpose of 100% Completion. New Super Mario Bros. U: Larry and Wendy are the respective bosses of Sparkling Waters and Frosted Glacier; since those two worlds are accessed via a road fork in the overworld map (which eventually converges in Soda Jungle), you can skip one of them (and its boss) by completing the other. Since there's no Warp Zone in this game, you have to use secret levels to unlock shortcuts between worlds in order to skip the other bosses prior to Ludwig and onward (Ludwig himself, fought in Meringue Clouds, must be fought no matter what). Super Mario 3D World: Bowser and his Cool Car can be skipped by finding a hidden Warp Pipe in 1-2 that takes you straight to World 2. World 4's boss, Boss Brolder, can also be bypassed this way, with a Warp Pipe hidden in 4-2 that leads to World 5. Super Mario Maker: Bowser and Bowser Jr. are both programmed the same as other enemies, so by default they can be avoided if the level gives the player the option. Designers who intend to make them unskippable can resort to some workarounds, like making them guard a Key that opens an important door, putting them in a Clown Car so the player has to beat them to reach an exit that is otherwise inaccessible, or blocking the path to force them to break the obstructing floor or wall with their attacks. Or, of course, doing what the original game did and putting them on the drawbridge at the end of a castle, so that reaching the goal is defeating them. Super Mario Maker 2 adds Boom Boom, Pom Pom, Meowser, and (with a post-release update) the seven Koopalings, who can be skipped as well if the level gives the player that chance. Luigi's Mansion: The original game allows one to skip five of the Portrait Ghosts, as their major rewards are highly-valuable diamonds but not room keys (one of them, Sue Pea, is in fact a full-fledged Optional Boss due to how out-of-the-way in the game's progress she is). The trope is averted in the game's sequels, as all bosses and mini-bosses in them are required. Super Mario RPG: You can skip Dodo twice (First time you get a nice item, second just run into him with a Super Star). Also, if you get past Booster in a mini-game, you can get a nice accessory. Paper Mario 64: Way into Chapter 2, you're stopped by a large vulture named Buzzar. She doesn't necessarily work for Bowser, she just has a wanted poster from him, so she doesn't quite have an idea of who Mario is. Naturally, she asks who you are, since your face and the one on the poster are identical. Answer Mario or Peach to fight her, or answer Luigi to pass by with no troubles.
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Skippable Boss / int_85698529	comment	Paper Mario 64: Way into Chapter 2, you're stopped by a large vulture named Buzzar. She doesn't necessarily work for Bowser, she just has a wanted poster from him, so she doesn't quite have an idea of who Mario is. Naturally, she asks who you are, since your face and the one on the poster are identical. Answer Mario or Peach to fight her, or answer Luigi to pass by with no troubles.
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Skippable Boss / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV: While the fight itself is unavoidable, two of the bosses (Calcobrena, Dr. Lugae) have stronger forms that you can skip if you kill the enemies in the first stage in the right order. Although in the second case, this means the remaining enemy will probably go kamikaze on one of your characters, knocking him out right before you get into another, much more troubling boss fight. Also, their entries in the Bestiary will be lost for good since the second phase of their battle counts as a separate battle. The Demon Wall is intended to be mandatory, but in the SNES and PlayStation versions it's possible to get the Dark Crystal early, allowing players to skip the Sealed Cave and thus spare the Demon Wall. The Brachioraidos in the GBA remake not only can be skipped, it's advised. And for good reason.
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Skippable Boss / int_8c02bb93	comment	X-Men (1993): All the Mini-Boss battles (Juggernaut in the Savage Land, and both Sabertooth and Juggernat in Excalibur's Lighthouse) can be skipped if you know how. The Juggernaut fight in the Lighthouse can be bypassed by using Nightcrawler's teleportation ability, the other two fights require using Iceman's Ice Platform assist at the right place to get past them.
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Skippable Boss / int_8d318bad	comment	Super Mario RPG: You can skip Dodo twice (First time you get a nice item, second just run into him with a Super Star). Also, if you get past Booster in a mini-game, you can get a nice accessory.
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Skippable Boss / int_8d36db52	comment	In the end-game of Tyranny the Player Character, the Fatebinder, is in open rebellion against Kyros, the Evil Overlord they so far has served and therefore must face all of Kyros's generals, the Archons, in turn. But if the player has made and makes the right choices, it is actually possible to convince most of the Archons to step down peacefully and serve the Fatebinder rather than Kyros.
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Skippable Boss / int_8da0ea80	comment	PokÃ©mon Red and Blue: You can avoid the second Rival battle by not exploring Route 22 the first time you pass through Viridian City. In Yellow, this will have an effect on his final line-up. Downplayed with Misty, Lt. Surge, Eirika, Koga, and Sabrina. You can put off all of their Gym battles for a bit if you want to do things out of order, but eventually you will have to wheel back and take them out in order to unlock important HM moves and the Viridian City Gym.
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Skippable Boss / int_8f8233e	comment	As of the Wounds of Eventide DLC for Blasphemous, Esdras of the Anointed Legion does not need to be fought. If the player finds the Resting Place of the Sister before triggering this fight, Esdras will make a Heelâ€“Face Turn. You still receive the reward for winning the fight, but not the achievement for killing the boss. This is the first step towards the Golden Ending, to boot.
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Skippable Boss / int_98c55b59	comment	The final boss in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura can be persuaded that his plan is unsound and will then allow the player to kill him without resistance.
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Skippable Boss / int_99c9c59	comment	Knights of Doom, as unforgivingly difficult as it is, thankfully allows players to collect Rust Powder early in the adventure, which can help them defeat an otherwise almost-invincible Iron Golem halfway into the story. It's an almost impossible (if not tediously long) fight for players who didn't have the powder, or foolishly wasted it on lower-ranked enemies.
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Skippable Boss / int_9aeeca73	comment	In the epilogue of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, you engage Letho in conversation where you get the chance to listen to his side of the story. Afterwards, Geralt can decide whether to have a duel to the death or let him go, upon which he promises to never bother you again (at least until the third game, where he shows up in a sidequest).
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Skippable Boss / int_9b602c3f	comment	Deltarune: The miniboss battle against Tasque Manager can be skipped if you answer her questions about the paintings in her room correctly. (Technically, the battle still starts, but Tasque Manager begins with a full Mercy gauge and can be spared immediately, ending the fight before she or her minions can do anything.) However, most players will probably not succeed the quiz unless they specifically take the time to take notes on all the paintings before interacting with the Tasque Manager.
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Skippable Boss / int_9df3213f	comment	Pikmin 2: There are several Burrowing Snagrets through the Snagret Hole that can be skipped even for 100% Completion as long as they're not internally guarding anything important; the one in Valley of Repose and the one found alongside the (mandatory) Pileated Snagret in Hole of Heroes can be skipped as well. The Titan Dweevil is the only boss that needs to be killed to get the "rescue Louie" ending in the game; the player can repay the debt by getting the treasures in the regular floors of the caves and skip to the geyser of the boss floor to leave, and then go straight to Dream Den while avoiding the other caves in its area. Neither of the two treasures that unlock new areas are guarded by a boss: one is the game's first and only boss-less cave, and the other is in the overworld. Skipping all bosses is not possible for the best ending, since every one of them drops a treasure and all 201 treasures are needed to obtain it.
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Skippable Boss / int_9df32140	comment	Pikmin 3 makes all six of its main bosses mandatorynote They either directly carry an item that unlocks a new area, Charlie, or advance the story of finding Olimar and the Cosmic Drive Key, but has optional minibosses such as the Bug-Eyed Crawmad, series-veteran Burrowing Snagret, and the Shaggy Long Legs. Some of them require going out of the way of the main boss's path to find them, and none of them drop anything other than fruit. However, in order to achieve the game's best ending, collecting all the fruit (including the samples guarded by all bosses and minibosses) will be necessary.
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Skippable Boss / int_9e003c9	comment	In Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, with the exception of the Tyrant encounters, Hopeless Boss Steve and Final Boss Alexia, every other Boss Battle is skippable: The Gulp Worm can be skipped not once but twice; the first time by Claire, the second time by Chris. However, doing so the second time results in a couple of items being permanently lost (assuming Claire gave Rodrigo the hemostat earlier; otherwise there's no point in fighting it). Chris can fight the adult Albinoid from a safe distance and afterwards fetch the Eagle Plate unharmed... or he can just jump in, absorb some damage from the electrified pool, and leave with the Plate without even fighting the Albinoid. Same goes with the large Black Widow custodying Alexander's Pierce, except you can fetch the item in question without even getting hit once, so there's even less of a reason to stay and fight the spider in the first place.
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Skippable Boss / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: PokÃ©mon Red and Blue: You can avoid the second Rival battle by not exploring Route 22 the first time you pass through Viridian City. In Yellow, this will have an effect on his final line-up. Downplayed with Misty, Lt. Surge, Eirika, Koga, and Sabrina. You can put off all of their Gym battles for a bit if you want to do things out of order, but eventually you will have to wheel back and take them out in order to unlock important HM moves and the Viridian City Gym. The original PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire has a couple of subversions. The remakes avert it outright by adding NPC Roadblocks that prevent you from proceeding until you defeat the gym leaders in question. Brawly can be bypassed temporarily since his Gym rewards the ability to use Flash, which is very helpful but not strictly necessary. However, Norman won't battle you until you've circled back and picked him off. Winona's gym battle is technically skippable since there's nothing preventing the player from simply ignoring her gym and walking to Route 120, but as all eight gym badges are needed to battle the Elite Four, the game cannot be completed until the player returns and battles her. The eighth gym leader actually has dialogue for if you beat him having skipped Winona, reminding you that you need to wheel back and take care of her before challenging the Elite Four.
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Skippable Boss / int_a0eaffc6	comment	It started all the way with the very first book, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, where the player obtains a magic spell from Di Maggio's spellbook right in the second room they can enter, which they can use in the final battle to defeat a dragon, should they still remember the incantation. And the Warlock himself, powerful as he is, can be defeated with a gem called the Cyclops' eye.
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Skippable Boss / int_a2c37f38	comment	The final confrontation with the ultimate boss of Planescape: Torment can be resolved without violence in about four different ways. And each of those ways have a couple of different ways of going about it. Indeed, not fighting the boss gives you a somewhat better ending than if you killed it. Indeed, of all the antagonists in the game there are only three which can't be skipped through dialogue or wit: The night hag Ravel Puzzlewell, the fallen angel Trias, and a zombie which happens to hold the key to escape the first place you visit.
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Skippable Boss / int_a321a398	comment	Super Mario 3D Land: in one of the Special World airships, a boss battle with Boom Boom can (and must, if you want to get all the Star Medals) be skipped by taking another route. Two other boss battles (against Bowser in World 1 and against Pom Pom in World 4) can be skipped by finding a secret red pipe in the worlds' corresponding second level, though again this is counterproductive for the purpose of 100% Completion.
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Skippable Boss / int_a3984fe3	comment	Fake Happy End: On later New Game Plus runs, the player can choose to get Karin to come clean about the truth behind the tower early so the party can reconcile early. This means Red can't use this information to turn the party against Karin, so she gives up on antagonizing the party and doesn't bother challenging them to a boss fight.
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Skippable Boss / int_a4514a75	comment	Iji features ways to bypass some of the bosses to faciliate a Pacifist Run: If you can maintain a truce with the Tasen when you encounter Krotera, one of his subordinates will shoot him in the back, killing him for you. By careful cracking, you can completely bypass the second battle against Asha the Assassin by destroying a power core guarded by an otherwise impassible barrier that he keeps locked. By this point he has dedicated himself as your arch rival, determined that only he can be the one to defeat you. If you bypass the fight, he becomes so overwhelmed with despair that nobody takes him seriously anymore that he kills himself.
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Skippable Boss / int_a606596a	comment	In Chrono Cross, it is possible to get the Black Dragon's relic without fighting him: just bring along a party of non-humans. Unfortunately, doing so means he'll never leave the area, and the player will never obtain a rare item required to forge Prism equipment (the best in the game).
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Skippable Boss / int_a68c19b8	comment	In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, close friends Sigurd and Eldigan eventually find themselves on opposing sides of a grey versus grey struggle, and when Eldigan can no longer resist the pressure from his king to fight Sigurd, he too rides out to do battle with him. Talking to him with Sigurd doesn't help, as Eldigan has too many reasons to be genuinely angry with Sigurd by now, but talking to him with his sister Lachesis does, and he will leave the battlefield to beg mercy from his king one last time. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
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Skippable Boss / int_a74ec89b	comment	Castlevania: Circle of the Moon allows you to skip the notorious Twin Zombie Dragons and Death (emphasized by them not showing up in the end Credits Montage), but this requires going through the Underground Waterway without the Cleansing item rewarded for beating Death, an arguably harder feat that requires a firm knowledge of the Waterway's layout and likely much trial and error since until cleansed, it's filled with toxic red water that will rapidly sap your health every time you set foot into it. Many players have done this by accident, not realizing the water was supposed to be cleansed.
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Skippable Boss / int_a78204b0	comment	This trope is bait-and-switched in Magi-Nation. Warrada will make Tony Jones an offer in the Orothean Shadow geyser - he agrees to leave forever and she won't fight him. However, it turns out that was the Disc-One Final Dungeon... you have one more to beat after that. If you took up her offer, she will jump you and call you out on going back on your word. At this point however she's more or less a distraction.
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Skippable Boss / int_a7bb29af	comment	Mega Man X2: After defeating two of the maverick bosses, the X-Hunters will challenge you to battle for Zero's parts. If you ignore the challenge and skip the X-Hunter fights, you'll fight a Brainwashed and Crazy Zero just before the Final Boss. Inversely, if you accept the challenge and defeat all 3 X-Hunters, you'll skip the fight against Zero and proceed straight to the real Final Boss battle.
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Skippable Boss / int_a7bb29b2	comment	It is possible to skip various bosses in Mega Man X5. Either launch the Enigma laser or shuttle early, or let Eurasia fall to Earth.
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Skippable Boss / int_a7bb29b3	comment	Mega Man X6 lets you skip upwards of seven of the bosses. All you actually need to do is defeat Nightmare Zero and High Max and you can skip straight to Gate's laboratory, but defeating High Max requires at least one boss's weapon to make him vulnerable to the X-Buster. Gate will also invite you to his lab if you farm 5000 Nightmare Souls. But if you don't have a Maverick weapon, or the Shadow Armor and a specific set of parts, the lab stages are Unintentionally Unwinnable.
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Skippable Boss / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy IV: While the fight itself is unavoidable, two of the bosses (Calcobrena, Dr. Lugae) have stronger forms that you can skip if you kill the enemies in the first stage in the right order. Although in the second case, this means the remaining enemy will probably go kamikaze on one of your characters, knocking him out right before you get into another, much more troubling boss fight. Also, their entries in the Bestiary will be lost for good since the second phase of their battle counts as a separate battle. The Demon Wall is intended to be mandatory, but in the SNES and PlayStation versions it's possible to get the Dark Crystal early, allowing players to skip the Sealed Cave and thus spare the Demon Wall. The Brachioraidos in the GBA remake not only can be skipped, it's advised. And for good reason. The fourth fight with Gilgamesh in Final Fantasy V is skippable if you don't take a certain chest; however, skipping it will make the Excalipoor and Genji Equipment lost permanently, as well as making a certain boss fight much later on play differently. Also, in the waterfall dungeon late in the game, Leviathan is unsealed at the end. You don't actually have to fight him, you can just continue the main quest and come back later to fight him for his summon. The final confrontation with the Turks in Final Fantasy VII, if you ran the Wutai subquest, can be skipped simply by refusing to fight. However, if you have a Steal materia handy, there's enough loot between the three of them to make it worth the effort anyway. You can also skip the Gongaga and Sunken Plane Turk encounters by simply choosing not to go there. By the time the plot forces you to go to Gongaga, they will be gone, and you don't ever need to go to the Plane at all, and even then once Shinra folds at the end of Disc 2, the Turks won't be there anymore. Final Fantasy VIII's last dungeon strips your party of most of your abilities as soon as you go in, and there are numerous bosses scattered about the place that must be killed to get them back. Or not — if you know what you're doing, you can eliminate the only two mandatory bosses that stand in the way of the Big Bad, and fight her with the bare minimum commands needed to win. Several bosses in Final Fantasy X can be bribed rather than defeated by conventional means. Evrae Altana in the Via Purifico can either be fought the long and relatively difficult way, which involves fighting your way across a series of rooms, or killed near-instantly by two Phoenix Downs. In fact, skipping the "proper" fight allows you to grab a few chests with equipment that would've been lost forever otherwise. In Final Fantasy XII: Although you encounter both Demon Wall bosses in the story, only the second is mandatory for you to proceed. The first one can be skipped by simply going to the next room. On the flipside, it is also much harder to beat, and the time limit you are given to beat it is also shorter. The Elder Wyrm boss fight, which some people tend to find harder than most of the game's boss fights because of its favour of status-effecting attacks, can be skipped by taking another route to the next area. There are some pretty tough enemies that you have to run past, but it gets you away from the boss.
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Skippable Boss / int_aa1d4fb4	comment	Suikoden III has quite a bit of boss battles, usually in the form of fighting human characters. Your character has an option to pick what to say, and that will determine your fight (which may actually be a BAD idea, as some of them are rather difficult unless you level grind).
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Skippable Boss / int_ab050879	comment	Vault of the Vampire has the champion of Count Heydrich, the skeleton Lord Major Thassalos, who is a difficult fight for players without the Shatter spell. But if they do have it, then Thassalos would be killed in two pages without a fight.
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Skippable Boss / int_ab07b0d7	comment	The NES version of Double Dragon: It's possible to dispatch Abobo quickly by tricking him onto the conveyor belt in his boss room and simply jump-kicking him once to knock him down. Most of the time, he's too slow getting back up to avoid being carried off the belt and into a bottomless pit. At the end of Mission 2, you can avoid fighting Chin by climbing back down the ladders you used to reach him just after he exits the door. A more violent but faster option is to stun him with a kick, then use the shoulder throw to throw him off the roof you're fighting on—no more boss.
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Skippable Boss / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights: In the second expansion, Hordes of the Underdark, if you're incredibly rich, you can make a donation to learn the final boss's true name. With this in hand, you can order him to give up — or even become your subordinate as you take over his plans. In the Githyanki Base in Neverwinter Nights 2, it's possible to bluff Zaxis into believing that he failed his mission, instantly "killing" him. Until later in the game, when you won't get to fight him anyway.
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Skippable Boss / int_b165d668	comment	Scorpion Swamp, probably the worst offender of the lot; their meeting with Grimslade will invoke the wizard summoning an insanely powerful demon with 16 Skill. But the demon battle can be avoided with the same outcome by bribing Grimslade with the right items.
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Skippable Boss / int_b29ee516	comment	There are two boss fights that are completely optional in River City Ransom. Benny & Clyde are found on a dead end area, and you can immediately run from them rather than fight. In fact, if you don't defeat them here, they don't subsequently appear in front of the sauna just before River City High. Even if they do reappear in front of the sauna, you can just run past them while they're monologuing and not bother with them (however, as they carry around better cash than the mooks you mow down, and they're just as weak as their first appearance, they're more like a PiÃ±ata Enemy at this point). Within River City High itself, there are four floors. The third floor has Tex, leader of the Cowboys gang, who appears after you beat all of the gang members on the floor. Alternately, you can just take the stairs immediately upon entering the floor to go to the fourth floor, where the Dragon Twins await.
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Skippable Boss / int_b35adcc6	comment	Luigi's Mansion: The original game allows one to skip five of the Portrait Ghosts, as their major rewards are highly-valuable diamonds but not room keys (one of them, Sue Pea, is in fact a full-fledged Optional Boss due to how out-of-the-way in the game's progress she is). The trope is averted in the game's sequels, as all bosses and mini-bosses in them are required.
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Skippable Boss / int_b36c38cd	comment	The alligator can be fought twice, once in each character's scenario, or you can simply reenact the ending to Jaws and blow its head off, killing it permanently.
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Skippable Boss / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: In Sonic 3 & Knuckles, there's a glitch where you can skip all of Ice Cap Zone with Sonic & Tails right at the first ice block you see. Just have Tails place Sonic on the block and do a spindash. This will allow you to skip the midboss of the level. Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood has the party approached by a Swatbot with memory issues. Telling it that it's programmed to fight makes it fight you, while telling it that it's served its purpose causes it to self-destruct. Later on, when you first encounter Shadow, if you tell him you don't want to fight him, you won't. Shadow will say something, and then it skips straight to the dialogue that happens after the fight.
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Skippable Boss / int_b5a2b326	comment	During the final leg of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, you fight a number of Sixth House nobles to weaken Dagoth Urnote which is doubly mechanically broken — the weakening doesn't happen unless you enter the same game cell as Dagoth Ur before killing the Sixth House nobles as scripts can't affect creatures in different cells unless you've been to that cell, and if you do, the final quest breaks as Dagoth Ur's first iteration loses more health than he has and so is dead when you arrive, breaking the scripts that are supposed to happen on you killing him.. You don't have to fight most of them and, if you do stumble upon them, it is possible to safely talk your way past a few, such as Dagoth Uthol.
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Skippable Boss / int_b70c0e83	comment	Metroid: Zero Mission has a worm that appears at least twice, but you don't need to kill it to proceed in the game... although you get a very helpful Charge Beam if you do. By Sequence Breaking, it's also possible to get the Super Missiles early, allowing you to skip Imago (which is the "proper" way to obtain Super Missiles) unless you're going for 100% items.
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Skippable Boss / int_b7c72249	comment	In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Scylla and Granfaloon only guard unnecessary items, Karasuman only blocks a direct path through the Clock Tower to the Castle Keep, any Inverted Castle boss that doesn't guard a piece of Dracula is skippable, and the Saturn-only Skeleton Leader boss doesn't really get you anything either. Also, it's possible to navigate the game's Blackout Basement using only the Power of Mist, making Olrox and the Echo of Bat skippable as well.
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Skippable Boss / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: During the fight with The Sorrow, the player can simply lay down so Snake's head is under the water and wait until he "drowns". This will skip straight to the end of the scene where the player can use the revival pill and wake up. However, the player won't receive his Spirit camo if this method is used. Alternately, the fight can be shortened dramatically by laying down and then simply swimming the whole way through, which is significantly faster than wading through the water and avoids the Sorrow's own attacks. There are a number of ways to skip The End, the first being that you can snipe him before you even get to his boss fight. Failing that, saving once you do get to him and then turning the game off for a week (Or simply changing the system clock) will cause him to die of old age.
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Skippable Boss / int_bc6f33c7	comment	Caverns of the Snow Witch: Right before battling the Snow Witch, players must fight and defeat her pet, a white rat that can transform into a powerful White Dragon... or alternatively, having taken a detour before entering the Witch's chamber, collect a vial of Minotaur horn powder (the players have a possibility of missing said vial because they're only allowed to pick three items earlier) to sprinkle on the rat, breaking its transformation and preventing the White Dragon from being summoned. Later in the same book, towards the end, the player must cross a cavern guarded by a powerful Banshee (another monster with maximum stats), but if players have a Dragon Egg potion they can avoid the Banshee immediately.
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Skippable Boss / int_be4aef7e	comment	Cry of Fear gives the player the option to outright skip the Carcass boss battle and Simon will simply escape from it. Choosing to do this will end with the player recieving one of the bad endings, however.
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Skippable Boss / int_becc7f75	comment	Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis had a difficult fist-fight against a Nazi that could be avoided by crushing him with a boulder (and a lesser opponent which could be defeated by toppling a stone slab onto him), but in order to get maximum "Indy points", you had to go through the game multiple times, actually fighting the boss at least once. Also, the majority of fights could be skipped outright by using the "Sucker Punch" option, which downed the enemy immediately. You got no Indy Points, though, and the above-named Giant Mook just shrugs it off and laughs.
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Skippable Boss / int_c08f5913	comment	Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Although unintended by the developers, it's possible to skip the battle with Wild Bonkers in the Abandoned Beach stage by swimming at the edge of the battle arena in just the right way. Fleurina does not need to be fought in The Wastes Where Life Began and her battle can be skipped entirely if the player chooses to do so (the fight must be done to satisfy the mission objective to defeat her with Ring-Mouth Kirby, however).
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Skippable Boss / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger features two skippable bosses. In one, you fight Magus in North Cape after the fall of Zeal... and you can skip this by convincing him to join forces instead. The second is Lavos. When you arrive in 1999 AD via Epoch, you can crash it into Lavos and skip his first form. However, doing so eliminates your ability to return to the End of Time for saving and healing; on the plus side, whether or not you crash the Epoch changes the ending. And a subverted skippable boss earlier as well:
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Skippable Boss / int_c1b43f85	comment	Super Mario 3D World: Bowser and his Cool Car can be skipped by finding a hidden Warp Pipe in 1-2 that takes you straight to World 2. World 4's boss, Boss Brolder, can also be bypassed this way, with a Warp Pipe hidden in 4-2 that leads to World 5.
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Skippable Boss / int_c2463c53	comment	The fourth fight with Gilgamesh in Final Fantasy V is skippable if you don't take a certain chest; however, skipping it will make the Excalipoor and Genji Equipment lost permanently, as well as making a certain boss fight much later on play differently. Also, in the waterfall dungeon late in the game, Leviathan is unsealed at the end. You don't actually have to fight him, you can just continue the main quest and come back later to fight him for his summon.
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Skippable Boss / int_c2463c55	comment	Several bosses in Final Fantasy X can be bribed rather than defeated by conventional means. Evrae Altana in the Via Purifico can either be fought the long and relatively difficult way, which involves fighting your way across a series of rooms, or killed near-instantly by two Phoenix Downs. In fact, skipping the "proper" fight allows you to grab a few chests with equipment that would've been lost forever otherwise.
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Skippable Boss / int_c3089669	comment	The final enemy of Beneath Nightmare Castle, Xakhaz the Necromancer, and one of the strongest villains in the entire franchise, can actually be destroyed without a hitch if players collects a glass orb of green gas right in the first few pages, and holds on to it all the way until the final encounter. If they still have the green gas, they can destroy Xakhaz rightaway, Holy Hand Grenade-style.
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Skippable Boss / int_c4be079a	comment	Sword of the Samurai has the unavoidable Arena of Battle where the players face the Dai-Oni and his followers, a Boss Bonanza of three powerful enemies. But the players can summon allies of their own — by calling for the fight allies, they can defeat at least two before the final confrontation, with the best outcome being destroying all three followers of the Dai-Oni, and still having a ki-rin to drain the Dai-Oni's magic.
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Skippable Boss / int_c51b8d7a	comment	The fight with Samael in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne can be skipped by choosing not to stop Hikawa's ritual at the Diet Building. Doing so doesn't even lock you into his route, either.
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Skippable Boss / int_c5656ebe	comment	Clash at Demonhead: You can skip right past Pandar, since he doesn't have one of the Medallions that you need to disarm the Doomsday Device.
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Skippable Boss / int_c669daba	comment	The final boss of Stormslayer, Balthazar Sturm, is a Sequential Boss who transforms from one elemental form to another to attack the player, but players can summon elementals of their own to fight on their behalf.
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Skippable Boss / int_c72021c5	comment	Most of Deus Ex's bosses aren't required to be killed and can simply be evaded and ignored, making the game well-suited to a Pacifist Run, which is a fan-favourite Deus Ex playthrough. 2027, a mod for Deus Ex, has Magnus as this, which can be done by evading him, killing him when he is technically not a boss at the time, or making the right choices throughout the game.
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Skippable Boss / int_c77b15f0	comment	The final opponent in Crusader: No Remorse is a difficult opponent, but you don't need to fight her at all. Your objective at that point is not to defeat her, but to get through the door she's guarding. If you run past her, grab the keycard next to her, shut off the alarm, run past her again to unlock the door, and then go through it, you go straight to the ending animation where you escape the exploding station in the last life pod, leaving your opponent behind (The ending itself does not change whether you kill her yourself or leave her to die).
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Skippable Boss / int_c7a2f584	comment	In Axiom Verge, neither the aborted clone nor Xedur Hul have to be fought, and each gives an achievement for not killing them.
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Skippable Boss / int_c7beb97e	comment	The remake allows you to skip the mini-boss encounter with the first Chainsaw Man in the opening chapter in the New Game Plus. The encounter has a scripted ending, once you kill enough of the infected villagers, via the church bell ringing; if you bring the sniper rifle with you in the New Game Plus, you can shoot the bell to instantly trigger the scripted ending.
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Skippable Boss / int_c84a9c92	comment	Pikmin (2001): The first Armored Cannon Beetle can be skipped by just taking the ship part it's guarding, but it requires an effective distraction so the Pikmin taking the part aren't attacked.
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Skippable Boss / int_c91b9f4	comment	In the Game Boy Color version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Transfiguration Class quest entails tracking down a purple rabbit and returning it to the classroom. Trying to capture the rabbit from the front will trigger a Mini-Boss fight, which can be skipped by grabbing it from behind or from the side instead. Either way, the rabbit ends up in your inventory for you to return to Professor McGonagall.
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Skippable Boss / int_c98d3e0e	comment	The original Metal Gear for the MSX features a boss battle with a tank. While you'll probably take a bit of damage, it's possible to just walk around the tank and go to the next area without destroying it. Additionally, there was a glitch in the NES version that allowed you to skip having to blow up the computer by simply turning immediately right when you entered the room (you would glitch into the final boss room). Handy if you never bothered rescuing the scientist (you can only blow up the computer with plastic explosives IF the scientist told you).
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Skippable Boss / int_cba48b98	comment	The second time Tiger Joe shows up in God Hand, you can run right past him and exit the stage without so much as one punch.
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Skippable Boss / int_cd44d3d6	comment	Crash Bandicoot (1996): Collecting all gems prior to reaching The Great Hall unlocks a new path that allows Crash to escape with Tawna and completely skip the last fight with Cortex.
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Skippable Boss / int_d0a5a846	comment	In the arcade version of Gradius III and Gradius ReBirth, there are secret levels you can enter that will allow you to skip the current stage's boss.
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Skippable Boss / int_d14bb14a	comment	Muffet can be instantly spared by eating a Spider Donut or drinking a Spider Cider while battling her, which will trigger the early delivery of a memo letting her know you purchased it from the first bake sale. Otherwise, you have to wait quite a while for the memo to arrive. You can also shell out 9999G to buy something from Muffet herself a few rooms before encountering her in the spider's nest, which skips the battle with her entirely (unless you're on the Genocide Route).
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Skippable Boss / int_d180a59d	comment	In Digimon World Dawn/Dusk, you can either fight GranDracmon for his hacking services after tracking the Kowloon Co. to their lair or you can pay him 100,000 bits up front to skip the battle and obtain the unique Kowloon Blade.
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Skippable Boss / int_d29994ae	comment	Live A Live: Amakusa Shiro can be skipped should the player fight Gennai before attempting to free the prisoner from his cell. In fact, skipping him is required to complete the chapter's Pacifist Run, as fighting him triggers the prisoner to join Oboromaru, preventing him from saving Oboromaru later in the chapter and forcing a fight in which Oboromaru must kill. In the SNES original version of the game, it's possible to skip the fight against Miyamoto Musashi by going through the door rather than interacting with him to trigger the fight. This is no longer possible in the remake, however, where the door is locked until Musashi is defeated.
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Skippable Boss / int_d37b7be6	comment	The Pit Fiend from Deathtrap Dungeon guards a chamber that players must pass, but the fight itself can be avoided if the players simply throw a Monkey Bone Charm into the Fiend's mouth. It's a one-use-item only, however.
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Skippable Boss / int_d5164c46	comment	Played for drama in Hades. The Final Boss can be skipped, but only once, and only during a particular run at the very end of the story. When Hades has decided that he'll just let Zagreus go in spite of all of the warnings, Hades will keep his back turned and let Zag walk out the door, without a boss fight. It's right after this that Zagreus finds Persephone ready to come back to the Underworld, so it all works out in the end.
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Skippable Boss / int_d5f41057	comment	In Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, many levels have alternate versions. Going to the alternate versions often means fighting one boss instead of another. However, a couple of routes have no bosses at all, most notably Stage 5'. However, you don't get to play Stage 5' until you've beaten Dracula, presumably because the developers wanted you to go to Stage 5 normally the first time around and fight Death. Yes, on replays, Death is skippable. The level itself is so much harder than the other Stage 5. One of the routes in Stage 2' allows you to reach Stage 3' without having to fight the Bone Golem.
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Skippable Boss / int_d8cdb74	comment	Mega Man Zero features a variation, where (roughly) half of the selectable missions in the game will be skipped if the player fails the first mission to protect the La RÃ©sistance base. This is so that, in failing the mission, the player cannot reap rewards from the Bosses in the missions that were skipped.
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Skippable Boss / int_dab32e3	comment	Mega Man X Mega Man X2: After defeating two of the maverick bosses, the X-Hunters will challenge you to battle for Zero's parts. If you ignore the challenge and skip the X-Hunter fights, you'll fight a Brainwashed and Crazy Zero just before the Final Boss. Inversely, if you accept the challenge and defeat all 3 X-Hunters, you'll skip the fight against Zero and proceed straight to the real Final Boss battle. It is possible to skip various bosses in Mega Man X5. Either launch the Enigma laser or shuttle early, or let Eurasia fall to Earth. Mega Man X6 lets you skip upwards of seven of the bosses. All you actually need to do is defeat Nightmare Zero and High Max and you can skip straight to Gate's laboratory, but defeating High Max requires at least one boss's weapon to make him vulnerable to the X-Buster. Gate will also invite you to his lab if you farm 5000 Nightmare Souls. But if you don't have a Maverick weapon, or the Shadow Armor and a specific set of parts, the lab stages are Unintentionally Unwinnable.
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Skippable Boss / int_dbce0953	comment	Pikmin: Pikmin (2001): The first Armored Cannon Beetle can be skipped by just taking the ship part it's guarding, but it requires an effective distraction so the Pikmin taking the part aren't attacked. Pikmin 2: There are several Burrowing Snagrets through the Snagret Hole that can be skipped even for 100% Completion as long as they're not internally guarding anything important; the one in Valley of Repose and the one found alongside the (mandatory) Pileated Snagret in Hole of Heroes can be skipped as well. The Titan Dweevil is the only boss that needs to be killed to get the "rescue Louie" ending in the game; the player can repay the debt by getting the treasures in the regular floors of the caves and skip to the geyser of the boss floor to leave, and then go straight to Dream Den while avoiding the other caves in its area. Neither of the two treasures that unlock new areas are guarded by a boss: one is the game's first and only boss-less cave, and the other is in the overworld. Skipping all bosses is not possible for the best ending, since every one of them drops a treasure and all 201 treasures are needed to obtain it. Pikmin 3 makes all six of its main bosses mandatorynote They either directly carry an item that unlocks a new area, Charlie, or advance the story of finding Olimar and the Cosmic Drive Key, but has optional minibosses such as the Bug-Eyed Crawmad, series-veteran Burrowing Snagret, and the Shaggy Long Legs. Some of them require going out of the way of the main boss's path to find them, and none of them drop anything other than fruit. However, in order to achieve the game's best ending, collecting all the fruit (including the samples guarded by all bosses and minibosses) will be necessary.
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Skippable Boss / int_dddc4aa0	comment	It's possible to skip fighting Pon & Con altogether in Kirby Star Allies by taking a certain path in Magolor's Guest Star ???? route at the start of Level 3.
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Skippable Boss / int_e04f934e	comment	This often happens in Fire Emblem: Three Houses depending on your route. The bosses in question? They're people you had every chance to recruit in the first part but didn't (unless it's Lorenz and/or Ashe depending on the route) so now they are against you. And no, this isn't like Radiant Dawn...this is like Fates. So you don't knock them out. You kill them. They don't retreat. They die. Meaning you have every reason to avoid killing them. It's actually possible to finish some of these battles (keyword: some) without actually killing these characters at all but it's not easy. The Death Knight is a recurring example, since the earlier in the game you face him, the harder he is to defeat. In Chapter 4, he sits at the center of the map, and you are advised to go around him; he will not pursue you except on Maddening, in which he goes after any unit that wanders into his movement range. In Chapter 6, the objective is to either defeat the Death Knight or all other units on the map. In Chapter 8, the Death Knight arrives as a reinforcement, but isn't too hard to avoid. However, in subsequent appearances (save for Caspar and Mercedes' Paralogue, in which defeating the Death Knight with Caspar earns you his weapon), the Death Knight must be defeated.
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Skippable Boss / int_e144ba19	comment	The end of Dragon Age II's second act will most likely end with Hawke battling the Arishok, either in a one-on-one duel or full-party brawl. Or you can just betray your party member Isabela and give her up to the Arishok as punishment for stealing from him. Problem solved.
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Skippable Boss / int_e26a4546	comment	Tenchu: In the 4th mission in Fatal Shadows, there's an alternative path to the boss that lets Rin Stealth Kill him in a cutscene, effectively saving the player a rather troublesome boss fight. Tenchu Z expands on that and allows the player to choose whether they want to fight the bosses of discreetly kill them. In Shinobi Hyakusen, given its a compilation of stages created by the game's Level Editor, one can kill the bosses as if they were simple mooks as long as the player has not been spotted. In missions other than "Kill the Boss" and "Kill them All", one can get to the objective and finish the stage without even meeting the boss.
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Skippable Boss / int_e5d56d1c	comment	Most of the bosses in DUSK can either be walked past, or otherwise be able to have them die to each other. The only bosses mandatory to fight head-on are the final two, Jakob and Nyarlathotep.
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Skippable Boss / int_e5de68d1	comment	In the X Men game for Sega Genesis: Mojo. There's a hidden dead-end cave above his room where you can pick up a little health for the fight with him. However, if playing Nightcrawler, you can teleport right through the dead end to the next room and skip him altogether. Also in the first level, if you jump to the top of the trees right before the mid-boss area and use Iceman to make a bridge across to the other trees, you can skip the fight with Juggernaut. If you are at the third level and jump on top of the rocks right before the mid-boss area, then call Iceman to make a bridge across to the other rocks, you can skip the fight with Sabretooth. In the fourth level, there is a huge gap where you have to fight a couple of Sentinels to pass, but if you use Nightcrawler's jump kick or Wolverine's jump punch, you can dive across the gap without fighting the Sentinels. This makes all of these levels considerably easier.
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Skippable Boss / int_e79477d2	comment	Black Mesa has a way to skip the final battle against the Gonarch, which you can't avoid in the original Half-Life. If you bring a cyanogen gas canister all the way from the Survey Team camp in the chapter prior, you can either use the gas to instantly kill the Gonarch or utilize an alternate route unlocked by delivering the canister to traverse past the arena where you're meant to fight her.
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Skippable Boss / int_e9ec19e1	comment	A variant in Spec Ops: The Line near the end of the penultimate chapter, Walker has a hallucination of Lugo coming to kill him which serves as a Climax Boss, as he has more health than any other enemy in the game and is brandishing an enormous gun. If Walker gets killed, rather than the game showing the normal death screen, the game simply "rewinds" back to immediately before the encounter and Walker only has to fight a normal Heavy Trooper instead.
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Skippable Boss / int_eaaf321d	comment	The three Machina Arma wielders from Baten Kaitos Origins can be skipped the second time around. Beating them but sparing their lives afterward results in three extra scenes at the end of the game.
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Skippable Boss / int_eb6719f6	comment	Final Fantasy VIII's last dungeon strips your party of most of your abilities as soon as you go in, and there are numerous bosses scattered about the place that must be killed to get them back. Or not — if you know what you're doing, you can eliminate the only two mandatory bosses that stand in the way of the Big Bad, and fight her with the bare minimum commands needed to win.
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Skippable Boss / int_ebaf064d	comment	In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, some of the mid-bosses or bosses in Dededetour! can be skipped altogether upon finding the proper Warp Holes in question.
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Skippable Boss / int_ec0ead64	comment	Similarly, Howl of the Werewolf has Countess Isolde, who is another optional encounter; it's possible to defeat Count Varcolac without meeting Countess Isolde even once.
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Skippable Boss / int_ecd2d797	comment	Baldur's Gate: In Baldur's Gate II, the red dragon Firkraag gives you the option of fighting one of his minions instead of himself. Depending on when you take the Side Quest in which he appears, this may be a good idea, as he is one of the most powerful opponents in the game. (You can return for him later.) The Ascension mod for Throne of Bhaal allows you to skip the boss fight with Balthazar if you're a good-aligned character and are able to convince him to join forces with you against the game's Big Bad. If you're an evil-aligned character, you instead get the option to recruit Irenicus and Bodhi when said Big Bad summons them for a rematch against you. The whole trilogy gives the player plenty of opportunities to play a Guile Hero and talk their way out of potential fights, though most of these fights are parts of side quests. You still have to fight many of the plot-important fights. It's actually possible to talk your way out of a fight with Marl (who hates adventurers because his son went out adventuring and got himself killed), get him calmed down and drink together to the memory of his son — and then turn on him and kill him anyway, for the extra XP. Due to a programming oversight in the original game (fixed in the expansion), you don't suffer any consequences to your reputation for this. In Baldur's Gate III, the final boss can be this. Right before facing the Netherbrain, Gale asks the player to let him perform a Heroic Sacrifice, climbing the brain stem and detonating the Fantastic Nuke in his chest out of range of the party or any innocents. The player can accept or refuse this offer.
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Skippable Boss / int_ee04f49a	comment	Deus Ex Universe: Most of Deus Ex's bosses aren't required to be killed and can simply be evaded and ignored, making the game well-suited to a Pacifist Run, which is a fan-favourite Deus Ex playthrough. 2027, a mod for Deus Ex, has Magnus as this, which can be done by evading him, killing him when he is technically not a boss at the time, or making the right choices throughout the game. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided takes a page from its predecessor, with its one true boss fight avoidable by obtaining and using said boss's killswitch. All other boss-like encounters occur during optional side missions, and can further be avoided through dialogue. Special mention goes to Karl Montag who can only be fought if the player (1) successfully completes the relevant side quest chain, (2) ends up fighting the preceding boss, and (3) fails to talk their way out of combat with him.
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Skippable Boss / int_ee344d3d	comment	In The Evil Within, during the rematches with Laura and the Keeper, there's nothing stopping you from avoiding them until the exit to their arenas open, then getting out of dodge. You'll miss out on a pair of achievements and some Keys, but that's about it.
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Skippable Boss / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: In Super Adventure Rockman, Mega Man can refuse to fight Quick Man to warn him about Wily's actions. If he is fought instead, Mega Man will receive his Quick Boomerang after his health is lowered enough. Mega Man X Mega Man X2: After defeating two of the maverick bosses, the X-Hunters will challenge you to battle for Zero's parts. If you ignore the challenge and skip the X-Hunter fights, you'll fight a Brainwashed and Crazy Zero just before the Final Boss. Inversely, if you accept the challenge and defeat all 3 X-Hunters, you'll skip the fight against Zero and proceed straight to the real Final Boss battle. It is possible to skip various bosses in Mega Man X5. Either launch the Enigma laser or shuttle early, or let Eurasia fall to Earth. Mega Man X6 lets you skip upwards of seven of the bosses. All you actually need to do is defeat Nightmare Zero and High Max and you can skip straight to Gate's laboratory, but defeating High Max requires at least one boss's weapon to make him vulnerable to the X-Buster. Gate will also invite you to his lab if you farm 5000 Nightmare Souls. But if you don't have a Maverick weapon, or the Shadow Armor and a specific set of parts, the lab stages are Unintentionally Unwinnable. Mega Man Zero features a variation, where (roughly) half of the selectable missions in the game will be skipped if the player fails the first mission to protect the La RÃ©sistance base. This is so that, in failing the mission, the player cannot reap rewards from the Bosses in the missions that were skipped.
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Skippable Boss / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Metroid: Zero Mission has a worm that appears at least twice, but you don't need to kill it to proceed in the game... although you get a very helpful Charge Beam if you do. By Sequence Breaking, it's also possible to get the Super Missiles early, allowing you to skip Imago (which is the "proper" way to obtain Super Missiles) unless you're going for 100% items. Super Metroid: The Spore Spawn can be bypassed via a complex trick with the Morph Ball. To add insult to injury, you can still grab the goodies it guards too. Crocomire is usually fought in order to reach the Grappling Beam upgrade, but if your wall-jumping abilities are good enough, you can do without it and avoid the fight altogether. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: None of the Metroid Hatcher fights in the game are mandatorily fought, though it's recommended to defeat at least the first of them (namely the one from Pirate Homeworld, serving as the planet's second boss) since doing so leads to a shortcut to the then-following objective.
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Skippable Boss / int_f0688fff	comment	The original PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire has a couple of subversions. The remakes avert it outright by adding NPC Roadblocks that prevent you from proceeding until you defeat the gym leaders in question. Brawly can be bypassed temporarily since his Gym rewards the ability to use Flash, which is very helpful but not strictly necessary. However, Norman won't battle you until you've circled back and picked him off. Winona's gym battle is technically skippable since there's nothing preventing the player from simply ignoring her gym and walking to Route 120, but as all eight gym badges are needed to battle the Elite Four, the game cannot be completed until the player returns and battles her. The eighth gym leader actually has dialogue for if you beat him having skipped Winona, reminding you that you need to wheel back and take care of her before challenging the Elite Four.
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Skippable Boss / int_f239c112	comment	In Enchanted Scepters, of the four elemental demons guarding the titular scepters, only the Fire Demon has to be fought directly, whereas the Earth Demon can be tricked into jumping off a bridge by solving its riddle, the Air Scepter can be obtained without having to fight the Air Demon by praying at the altar in the Temple of Doom, and the Water Demon can be killed in its sleep with the trident obtained from the queen of the underwater city. Likewise, the Black Knight in the underground area can be taken out in one turn by breaking the mirror he materializes from.
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Skippable Boss / int_f3cbb86a	comment	BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm has one in its final main storyline dungeon. Along the path leading to the final bossâ€™ lair, thereâ€™s a Save Statue sitting all by itself at the center of a large, suspiciously arena-like platform. Attempting to use the statue instead triggers a fight with a tough-as-nails â€œsecurity systemâ€� called the Overtaken Dragon. If youâ€™re savvy to the trap, or get your ass kicked by the dragon a few too many times, then youâ€™re free to walk right past the statue and skip the battle entirely. Thereâ€™s no reward for fighting it, either â€“ itâ€™s just there to wear you down before the main event.
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Skippable Boss / int_f4a04cd2	comment	Resident Evil 3: Nemesis: Many of the encounters with the titular creature can be run from, and since you start off so poorly armed, you need to. He only really has to be fought in front of the church, in the Dead Factory dump room, and in the final encounter. The Gravedigger, the only other boss fight in the game, can actually be skipped in both fights. The first, if you're quick enough in lowering the ladders, you can just simply leave. The second is trickier, because the game can sometimes not feel like doing it, but if you're lucky, a lamp post will get dislodged near a pool of water, and if you shoot it at the right time, you can fry the beast without ever truly fighting it.
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Skippable Boss / int_f4c27f14	comment	Return to Firetop Mountain has the Chaos Beast Lord, the most powerful enemy of Firetop Mountain, who can be bribed by a black sword, whereupon he will let players pass without any questions.
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Skippable Boss / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Like in Breath of the Wild, neglecting the questlines to solve the regional anomalies will force you to fight the Temples' associated bosses back to back during the endgame. However, you will at least manage to skip the Mini-Boss battles against Yunobo (in his brainwashed form), Moragia and Sludge Like.
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Skippable Boss / int_f891a20d	comment	Terraria: King Slime, Queen Bee, Queen Slime, The Empress of Light and Duke Fishron do not need to be fought for any reason related to the main plot. They hold no items that you require to progress, and summoning them has no effect on the world. Eye of Cthulhu can be skipped if it refuses to spawn naturally, as its drops can just as easily be obtained from the Eater of Worlds/Brain of Cthulhu. However, once conditions are met, the Eye spawns reliably enough that this is easier said than done. Skeletron, guardian of the Dungeon, used to be this. Though the Dungeon has some nice equipment and you do have to beat Skeletron to get to it, it doesn't relate to game progression in any way. The 1.2 update added several pieces of endgame content to the Dungeon and its mobs, and currently Skeletron must be defeated if you want to reach the True Final Boss. In an example of Sequence Breaking, you can avoid fighting the Eater of Worlds/Brain of Cthulhu entirely — both uniquely hold items required to make pickaxes that can mine stronger ores than gold/platinum — if you manage to fish up the Reaver Shark, a pickaxe which can mine any pre-Hardmode ore. You just need to survive the Underworld long enough to dig up enough Hellstone for some Molten armor with at-best Platinum gear. 1.4 removed this sequence break by nerfing the Reaver Shark's Pickaxe power: It's now only on par with a Platinum Pickaxe (And thus you must get the Nightmare/Deathbringer Pickaxe to mine Hellstone).
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Skippable Boss / int_f97683ef	comment	Hollow Knight: The False Knight, who is normally required to be fought for progression, can be skipped after only one phase of the fight by destroying a breakable wall in his arena. The player will not pick up the City Crest needed to enter the City of Tears, but it is possible to enter that area through other means. Downplayed with the Watcher Knights. It is possible to kill one of them with a chandelier in a hidden area before the battle, but no matter what the player will need to at least fight the other five. Gruz Mother can be skipped entirely by entering the area she guards from the other side, although it's a long detour to get through there. The Mantis Lords canalso be skipped — they guard the earliest entrance to Deepnest, but that area can also be accesed from two other entrances in the Fungal Wastes and a third in the Queen's Gardens. However, beating them does give access to the earliest convenient entrance, and has the secondary bonus of making the mantis enemies non-hostile going forward.
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Skippable Boss / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Radiant Dawn: If Rafiel is placed in range of Oliver, he will recruit himself onto the player army. Levail is fought in a "Defeat Boss" map... However, the boss in question is the Black Knight. Since he doesn't move, it's easy to avoid fighting him.
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Skippable Boss / int_fa5e90fd	comment	The final mission of the Faultline arcs in City of Heroes has three villains fighting over who gets to take the MacGuffin from you. You can ignore them, rescue their hostage, and give it to her to destroy.
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Skippable Boss / int_fab472d2	comment	In Dark Souls, a normal blind playthrough will likely have you facing off against both the Taurus Demon and the Capra Demon in the Undead Burg; however, getting the Master Key during character creation allows one to skip both. The Gaping Dragon in the Depths is also skippable this way. Similarly, you'll likely fight the Demon Firesage and Centipede Demon back to back to get into Lost Izalith; however, if you join the Chaos Servant covenant and pay the covenant leader 30 Humanity, you can open a shortcut bypassing both. An unintentional example is Ceaseless Discharge, as having enough stamina, HP, fire resistance, and the Dark Wood Grain Ring will let you just run through the lava pit you normally need to kill him to dry up.
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Skippable Boss / int_fada66d	comment	Kirby: Planet Robobot: It's possible to earn the Crash ability before the Invader Armor boss in stage 2 of Patched Plains. Fire the Super Nova attack at the start of the battle to instantly one-shot it. Much like the Mr. Frosty examples from Super Star and Triple Deluxe, the King Doo battle in Patched Plains stage 4 and the second Security Force battle in Access Ark stage 1 can be effectively skipped by entering battle with the Invincible Candy still in effect. Successfully navigating the Remocodroid in stage 2 of the Access Ark to the end and pressing the background switch quickly will drop the Security Force mid-boss down a bottomless pit before it can even get the chance to attack.
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Skippable Boss / int_faf84cd	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: The Gargoyle is a Side Quest Optional Boss in Hollywood who's been attacking local vampires and needs to be neutralized. It has a Hair-Trigger Temper but can be talked — carefully — into pulling an Enemy Mine with the Anarchs instead. The Southland Slasher can be fought and killed... or he can be convinced away from his path of vigilantism, or simply left to his own devices. Pisha can be fought, but it's actually better for the player not to do so, as she is a quest-giver and gives you some of the most useful items in the game—one of which is the equivalent of a self-refilling health potion. If you side with one of them, you won't have to fight LaCroix or Ming Xiao, who usually make up both halves of the final mission's bosses. However, seeing as they're the Big Bads of the game, you'll be rewarded with a pretty bad Downer Ending no matter which of the two you choose.
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Skippable Boss / int_fcb5e92	comment	Jewel Master have a dragon boss that upon defeat, turns into a far more powerful Dracolich form and continues attacking. Unless you knew how to obtain the Blade Ring, in which case if you do, you can cancel the Dracolich's transformation and end the battle right there.
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Skippable Boss / int_fcf43f47	comment	Fighting Fantasy: The series as a whole generally offers ways to avoid fighting enemies and risking death if the player knows what he is doing. Given that the final boss is ridiculously hard, this is usually the only way to win these things. In the first book, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, when you finally meet the title warlock, you can fight him straight off (which is not easy), cleverly reduce him to roughly half power (which is a relatively easy fight), or depending on choices made earlier on in the adventure, kill him instantly without risk. You get the same ending whichever way you use.
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Skippable Boss / int_fd8ef85e	comment	The Tank in Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 will always be encountered if it spawns in the map and there's no way to get by it without alerting it. While you should gun it down before it kills everyone, a coordinated team can run past it and keep running to the safe room while avoiding the common and special infected. This trick can't be done in finales since Tanks must be killed in order to progress in the rescue phase and there's nowhere to run to anyway.
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Skippable Boss / int_fdd0275	comment	Island of the Undead has the Master of Water, the only Wizard players can avoid without fighting, which is entirely optional.
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Eye of the Dragon / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Howl of the Werewolf / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Legend of Zagor / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Return to Firetop Mountain / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
The Keep of the Lich-Lord / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Vault of the Vampire / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
CastlevaniaTheAdventureReBirth	seeAlso	Skippable Boss
TwentyTwentySeven	seeAlso	Skippable Boss
Arkham Horror (Tabletop Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
A Link to the Past: Randomizer (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Action 52 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Alan Wake (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Alex Kidd (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Alien Vs. Predator (Jaguar) (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Alpha Protocol (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Alter A.I.L.A. (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
An Untitled Story (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Anbennar (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Angry Birds Epic (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Arc Angle (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Armello (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Armored Core (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Armored Core (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Ashes 2063 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Axiom Verge 2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Balatro (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Banjo-Kazooie (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Banjo-Tooie (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Bastion (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Brain Dead 13 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Cave Story (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Cavern of Dreams (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Cognitive Dissonance (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Crash Bandicoot (1996) (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Crusader (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Cry of Fear (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Dark Savior (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Dark Souls (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Dark Souls II (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Deathloop (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Devil May Cry (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Devil Summoner (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Devil Survivor 2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Diablo II (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Digimon World Dawn/Dusk (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Double Dragon I (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Dragon Quest Monsters (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Dragon Quest VI (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
DUSK (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Earthworm Jim (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Emperor: Battle for Dune (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Epic Mickey (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Fear Effect (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Final Fantasy VII (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
FreeSpace (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Freedom Planet (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Friday Night Funkin' Lullaby (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Friday Night Funkin Mob Mod (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Ghost of Tsushima (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
God Hand (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
God of War (PS4) (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Golden Sun (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Golden Sun: The Broken Seal (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Grand Dad Reboot (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Grezzo 2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Gunlord (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Gunstar Heroes (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Hades (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Hellsinker (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Hero-U (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Hitman: Blood Money (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Hunt Down the Freeman (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Iji (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Infernax (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Ittle Dew (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Jade Cocoon (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Kero Blaster (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Kirby: Triple Deluxe (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Kraven Manor (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Kuon (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Legionwood (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Level Up (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Little Big Adventure (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Lobotomy Corporation (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Luigi's Mansion (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Magi-Nation (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Mega Man X (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Mega Man X2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Mega Man Xtreme (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Mega Man Zero (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Mega Mari (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Megami Tensei (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Megami Tensei II (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Metroid Dread (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Metroid: Zero Mission (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Monster Hunter: World (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Monster Party (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
My House (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
NeoQuest (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Nightmare of Decay (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Ocarina of Time: Randomizer (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Oracle of Tao (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Pac-Man Party (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Paper Lily (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Paper Mario 64 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Persona (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Phoenotopia: Awakening (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Pikmin 2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Pikmin (2001) (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Pikmin 3 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Poacher (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
PokÃ©mon Red and Blue (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Power Rangers: Super Legends (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Psychic Puppets (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Radiant Silvergun (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Raft (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Raptor: Call of the Shadows (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Ravensword: Shadowlands (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Rayman (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil 0 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil 2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil 4 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil 4 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil: Outbreak (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Resident Evil (Remake) (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Riviera: The Promised Land (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Rune Factory Frontier (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Saint Seiya Ougon Densetsu (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Shadow Hearts (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Shin Megami Tensei I (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Shovel Knight (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Shrek 2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Sonic Superstars (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Soul Hackers (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Space Station Silicon Valley (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Spelunky (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Star Fox (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Star Fox 64 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
StarTropics (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Streets of Rage Remake (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Suits: Absolute Power (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Super Mario 3D Land (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Super Mario 3D World (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Super Mario Maker (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Super Mario RPG (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Super Mario World (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Super Metroid (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Superman 64 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Sweet Home (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Sweet Home (1989) (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
System Shock (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Telepath RPG: Servants of God (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
TerraTech (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
The Last Express (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
The Nameless Mod (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
The Wheel of Time (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Tomb Raider I (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Tomb Raider III (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Tribal Hunter (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Tyranny (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Under Mine (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Undertale Yellow (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Vampire: The Masquerade â€“ Redemption (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Wadanohara (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Wanderers of Sorceria (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Wasteland (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Way Walkers University (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Wizard101 (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
X-Men (1993) (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Xain'd Sleena (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Yooka-Laylee (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Zanac (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Zeus: Master of Olympus (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Child of Light / Videogame / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
DRL (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds / Videogame / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Baldr Sky (Visual Novel) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Loren: The Amazon Princess (Visual Novel) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss
Deus Ex: Invisible War (Video Game) / int_8c039bf3	type	Skippable Boss

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