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Warm-Up Boss

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Warm-Up Boss	comment	Usually appearing at the end of the first level/area or the tutorial or prologue section, the Warm-Up Boss is the early, first Boss Battle that represents the first time the player's skill or knowledge is tested in any real way. Notable because the player has likely encountered nothing but extremely basic enemies up until now, and this is the player's first taste of "real" combat, in the sense that this is an enemy that actually has a fighting chance against them. However, given that this is still the beginning of the game, the fight is still rather easy, if not extremely so. In Role-Playing Games, the Warm-Up Boss might mark the first time the player has to pay attention to things like elemental match-ups or healing. In action games, you may have to do a little dodging or defending instead of just straightforward attacking. Has a high probability of showing up at the end of A Taste of Power. Sometimes used as the first encounter with the Goldfish Poop Gang. More likely than other bosses to be a Tactical Suicide Boss or suffer from Boss-Arena Idiocy. See also Breather Boss, for when a boss of this level of challenge shows up later in the game and is expected to be harder. Contrast with Wake-Up Call Boss, an early boss that's surprisingly challenging, and Early-Bird Boss, an early boss that's difficult due to your lack of resources or stronger weapons. If another one like it shows up later, Degraded Boss is likely to be in effect, with the lucky ones getting to be a Mini-Boss and the unlucky ones relegated to Elite Mook or Giant Mook status. For the non-video game equivalent, see Starter Villain.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_110dcdca	comment	A Link Between Worlds: Yuga is fought as the first boss of the game, and specifically serves as something of a forced tutorial on using the painting form.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_11e6bf74	comment	The boss of Palmtree Panic in Sonic the Hedgehog CD,the EGG-HVC-001 (a reference to the Famicom's serial number, HVC-001), is a contender for easiest boss ever that requires some challenge. As in, you can't just attack it whenever. You have to wait for Robotnik to lower his bumper guards. And then after you hit him, you can hit him again any time. And if you run to the right hand side of the screen, you'll be behind him when he lands and can avoid the bumper guards altogether. He can then be defeated in about two seconds. Even worse, getting a Good Future for Palmtree Panic makes the HVC-001 a One-Hit-Point Wonder.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_1271d30d	comment	Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi: The first boss, the Desmodaui Vampire, has no enemies around him, is quite slow and weak and doesn't take much to bring down, and his coffin is right next to the area where you fight him.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_14eb91c0	comment	Shadow Hearts The Yamaraja: Earth from the first game is technically the third boss but since the first two battles, against the Cardinal and Foxface, are of the hopeless kind, they don't count. The fight introduces the concept of ring abnormalities (status ailment that affect the Judgement Ring) that will be present for the entire game. Despite the name, the monster is water aligned and will take huge damage from Zhuzhen's Ogre Flamedance attack. The Gargoyle from Covenant is dark aligned and thus Nicholas and his white magic can easily solo the fight. The Deep One from From the New World could have posed a threat had Johnny fought it by himself. Fortunately, Shania, already on her Thunderbird fusion, joins the battle quickly turning the tide in favor of the heroes.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_16c83de8	comment	Regardless of which route you take through Corneria in Star Fox 64, the level will end with a really easy boss. The one at the end of the Mission Accomplished Route is the Attack Carrier, same one as the first boss of the original game. The Mission Complete route ends with the even more pathetic Granga; you can destroy the mech's legs and render it immobile.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_170b09a7	comment	The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning: The Ice King the first boss fought, his attacks aren't too damaging, and there are several opportunities to recover health and mana during the fight.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_182e71a2	comment	Garam from Battle Clash and Garam mk 2 from its sequel, Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge. Even though Guido's mech is more powerful in the second game, a few well-placed charge shots (as few as two if you're playing as Carol) can bring the battle to a very swift end.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_187d570a	comment	The first mission of Devil May Cry 4 uses the series' main character, Dante, as a warm-up boss for the new playable character, Nero. Especially in the lower difficulty modes, Dante has a limited moveset, and is less aggressive as a testament of being the tutorial boss. Subverted in the harder difficulty modes where he has full access to his arsenal of weapons (even when he doesn't acquire the majority of them until later in the game), and is obviously harder to beat. The difficulty spike in Dante Must Die mode also makes Dante a Wake-Up Call Boss to players who still expect him to play just like a tutorial boss.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_187d570b	comment	In Devil May Cry 5, the Qliphoth Roots fight in Mission 1 simply serves as a way for players to familiarize themselves with the dodging controls and the Exceed mechanic for Nero. The boss is just stationary, its attacks aren't difficult to evade, and it has a low health gauge compared to the bosses that you're gonna be dealing with later on.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_18c6d4fd	comment	Bound by Blades: Gallows is the first actual Ilcyon spawn fought by the Bound, and appropriately it comes with slow, deflectable projectiles, predictable attack patterns, and can't even move around. The only devastating move Gallows has is the 360Â° laser move forcing the player to run in circles, but that one lasts for barely ten seconds and isn't that hard to avoid either.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_1a7918e3	comment	Terranigma has the several early battles against Huballs or Cadets, which barely even count as bosses. At the end of the first section of the game (in the last of the 5 towers), Ark faces off against the first real boss, Shadow Keeper (a giant demonic scorpion). Depending on how much the player has levelled up at this point, Shadow Keeper may be anything from a Wake-Up Call Boss to a Warm-Up Boss. If your player is say, level 5 or below, he's a Wake-Up Call Boss (and will most likely kill you slowly). If you're level 6-8, he'll be a regular boss. If you're level 9 or more, he's a Warm-Up Boss who you'll easily trounce.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Monster Hunter: Monster Hunter (2004) has the Veloci/Gen/Iodromes, weak "boss" monsters that are basically just souped-up versions of small monsters. Even with the weak starting weapons, they can be easily killed in under two minutes. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 has Giadrome, an icy cousin of the first generation's Theropod Bird Wyverns. Other than its icy attacks, it's not too difficult to beat. You even hunt it in this game before going after the other Theropods. Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) introduces the Great Jaggi, which is also a King Mook, but is given more of a unique design from its underlings and more health to make it more of an actual boss monster. Its relatives, the Great Wroggi and Great Baggi, are also King Mooks, but are fought later enough to not count as just warm-ups. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd has the Arzuros, with its simple and slow movement pattern and low health. It's even fought before the Great Jaggi in this game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: The franchise as a whole tends to use this as a Recurring Element; the first boss will almost always be a fighter, brigand, or pirate who is usually depicted as little more than a local raider or bandit chief with an ugly design and a repellant personality, in the process of attacking a small town. Since Heroes Prefer Swords and the above classes use axes (which are grotesquely heavy and inaccurate in older games and have a weapon triangle disadvantage against swords in newer ones), the boss in question will have a laughably bad hit rate, and may even lack a ranged weapon, making it possible to poke them to death with arrows. Examples include Gazzak, Gerrard, Damas, Batta, Groznyi, O'Neill, Zawana, Pugo, Garrick, and Kostas. Batta in Blazing Blade stands out particularly because, due to the game's tutorial mechanics, it's impossible to lose to him on Normal Mode. The game forces you to make the necessary attacks on him, and the fight is scripted to rig the RNG in your favor, making him practically a Cutscene Boss. It's possible to lose to him on Hard, though, but only if you're very reckless and largely because you only have access to a single unit who's made out of tissue paper. Weismann, the first boss of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, is somewhat atypical in that he's a sword armor rather than the usual axe-wielding barbarian, making him much sturdier, especially when accounting for the gate he's standing on. In his case, rather than simply moving the Lord over and having them slash him to death, he serves as a tutorial on an important mechanic: namely, how to easily kill armored enemies, who are weak to the hammer and armorslayer weapons and whose high Defense is no protection against magic. Coincidentally, you have one character with a hammer in their inventory, and two characters with magic swords. In Fire Emblem Engage, Abyme is the game's first real boss you encounter. As an armored unit, she's susceptible to Clanne's magic or Emblem Marth's Rapier, and the only challenge comes from the number of troops she throws at you. However, on the second turn, Alfred and his retainers Etie and Boucheron join the battle to make things easier for you.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_24a9af51	comment	The Halls of Knowledge in Enter the Gungeon ends with Ser Manuel challenging you to "Face me in single combat!" His attack patterns are easier to avoid than some of the Mooks you'll encounter in the first level of the Gungeon itself.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_26674ed5	comment	Olga Gurlukovich pops up during the Tanker Chapter of Sons Of Liberty, basically being an inverse of the Ocelot battle in the first game. Now you'll need to use carefully aimed shots to hit her while she peeks out from cover, then get out of there before she decides to blind you with spotlights or toss grenades at you.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_26933728	comment	In The Addams Family, the earliest boss you can fight is a giant bird on top of a tree, and it's the easiest boss. You just jump on it when it swoops down and avoid the eggs it drops. Like every boss (except the final boss) defeating it earns you a Heart Container.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_280378a8	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction has Tristan, who has only very weak Monster Cards. In the late game, dueling him becomes worth your time as he gives out good cards with no change in his deck.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls: The first game has the Asylum Demon, the second has the Last Giant, and the third has Iudex Gundyr.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_2920ae53	comment	The Battle Cats: The Face is the boss of the first Moon stage in Empire of Cats. He's a very slow target, and although he hits hard and has a lot of HP, he mostly just sits there and dies; even his support is pretty weak. The second boss, Dark Emperor Nyandam, is mostly the same, though a bit harder due to coming with tanky One Horns and having longer range. Among the Crazed Cat bosses, the very first one, the basic Crazed Cat, is by far the easiest. It has no special abilities outside of having a ton of HP and high DPS, its stage gives you an opportunity to save up money and stack up units at the beginning, and its support enemies, Le'boins and Teacher Bears, will die in a single shot from Bahamut Cat and give lots of money on death. It's hard to beat without having all the treasures from Empire of Cats, so it's just making sure that you have the levels and units you need to handle the later Crazed Cats.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_295048d5	comment	Bloodborne has two options; the Cleric Beast (technically optional, but blocks you off from exploring a lot of Yharnam) and Father Gascoigne (mandatory). The first introduces you to the frantic and highly aggressive nature of Bloodborne combat, while the second teaches you about phases and to expect monstrous transformations, as well as giving you a harsh demonstration of how a Hunter's story will usually end.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_29c9f3b1	comment	Fancybot and Stardog in Calculords. Fancybot's cards aren't pitiful, but he can't use them very well - he often forgets to cover one lane and can even skip a turn entirely. Stardog is just a notch above him, employing actual tactics, but her cards are mostly weak.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_2af4f467	comment	The NES game based on G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero ends its first mission with a battle against a Cobra Range Viper. Compared to the other, more famous bosses that appear later in the game, he's pretty pathetic â€” he jumps around and fires a few missiles, and can easily be dispatched in seconds.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_2b3ed0ee	comment	In Astyanax, your first boss fight is against Caesar, a strange beast with a goblin-like head and chicken-like legs. Its head is an easy-to-hit target and it doesn't have many attacks. Once you defeat Caesar, you also have to defeat its rider, who puts up even less resistance. With the right weapon, you can repeatedly cast magic on Caesar and defeat it and its rider without even touching it.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_2dd7c752	comment	* Ghostlore ends it's first area with the giant posessed Rafflesia, a Stationary Boss who spews bouncing projectiles that can be side-stepped easily. It has plenty of health, but only serves to help you practice casting stronger attacking spells for later stages.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_30065ab	comment	The first two bosses in Cuphead: The Root Pack are a trio of sentient vegetables who don't move and have rather predictable, easy-to-avoid attack patterns. Goopy le Grande, a Blob Monster, is more mobile than the Root Pack, but most of his time is spent bouncing around, and he's the only boss in the game who doesn't use projectiles or minions to aid him.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_3096472b	comment	Cyber Jenny in Ittle Dew 2. Her melee attacks are very easy to dodge, and while her ranged attacks (a spread of missiles followed by a laser blast) look intimidating, she immediately stops to taunt afterward, giving you plenty of time to smack her around.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: Loki and his Mini-Mecha attack from various angles by causing debris to fall from above and unleashing a Spin Attack requiring an dodge roll to avoid major damage.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_331e008	comment	Nine-Toes in Borderlands. Even first-time players tend to finish him off pretty quickly, though his pet skags can be troublesome.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_331e009	comment	Knuckle Dragger in Borderlands 2 is simply a big bullymong surrounded by smaller bullymongs that you deal with before you even get your Action Skill.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_344f4c2a	comment	Bowser himself fulfills this role in New Super Mario Bros., where you just have to get behind him and press the switch and the fight is instantly over. And just like in the original Super Mario Bros., there is a platform that makes this much, much easier.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_359666b7	comment	Maxim has his own against a Lizardman in Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, shortly before he receives his quest to fight the Sinistrals.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_36395288	comment	The Kirby series has several, many of which return throughout the series. Whispy Woods is the first boss in almost every Kirby game (except in Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, where he's replaced by King Golem, who's basically a reskin with the ability to summon Golems, King Dedede in Kirby: Squeak Squad due to being Demoted to Extra, and in Kirby and the Forgotten Land where he gets replaced as the first boss by the giant gorilla, Gorimondo). He's completely stationary, most of his attacks can be avoided simply by standing right next to him, and his only really dangerous attack is to drop apples. In the Extra Mode of Kirby's Dream Land, though, he can drop Gordos. Notably, many later games add twists and variations to his fight to catch veterans off-guard, such as Twin Woods in Kirby Super Star, his ability to inhale and chew players in Kirby's Return to Dream Land (nailing people who think standing next to him and whaling away will still work), and the considerably more mobile Flowery Woods and Clanky Woods, but in all cases are still easier than bosses later in the game, so they still fit this trope. Among the Mini-Boss encounters, two fit this trope. Fittingly, in Kirby Super Star, they're both encountered in the same round of The Arena. Poppy Bros. Sr., a giant version of the Poppy Bros. Jr. enemies, and generally the first one encountered early in the games. His battle strategy is very simple: he'll jump back and forth in place, occasionally throwing a slow, easily-dodged Cartoon Bomb at Kirby, and dashing towards Kirby or jumping to the other side of the arena after throwing a few bombs. He also has low HP for a miniboss; two to three of his own bombs or a few attacks from most copy abilities will kill him. In Kirby's Dream Land, Poppy is the first enemy to have a noticeably different pattern on Extra Game, introducing the idea of bosses becoming much more threatening in this mode without being too much of a challenge. Mr. Frosty. His battle tactic consists entirely of running forwards and tripping. After getting up, he fires an incredibly-slow block of ice. Then, he restarts the pattern. He also has less health than you'd expect from a miniboss. Later Kirby games give Mr. Frosty more attacks, but he's generally still an easy miniboss to defeat in those games. While most of the enemies are pretty harmless in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, the warm-up boss takes the cake. You walk into a cabin, the door shuts, and a giant N-Z just stands still doing nothing while you attack it.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_37fbc761	comment	EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist: J. Gargon might not be the first boss, but he's still early in the game and forces the player to learn how to dodge or repel rapid-fire attacks.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_38304f2a	comment	In Phantasy Star IV, the Igglanova specimen found underneath the Motavia Academy is a pushover. Its main attack is weak even for an introductory boss, and it will only use the attack if there is no room for it to spawn Xanafalgues, which also go down easily.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	Super Mario 64 has the Big Bob-omb, whose only method of attacking is to pick you up and throw you, which only damages you if you fall off of the top of the mountain. Just get behind him and throw him onto the ground 3 times and he's done.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_3e83e3f6	comment	Dusty Revenge ends it's first stage with a Bar Brawl against Reddo, who's merely a King Mook of the recurring, easily-defeated bull outlaws. While he does have a stronger life bar and slightly better defenses (alongside an Arm Cannon that fires missiles besides the usual bullet projectiles) the fight is still a straightforward fistfight and Reddo goes down without too much trouble.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_4110f1d0	comment	In Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, the first boss fight is the laughable Saber Dragon in Moonguile Forest. Even if you haven't gotten the hang of the card-based battle system, the dragon doesn't hit hard at all and has a crippling weakness to light and water. Granted, almost immediately afterwards it's followed up by the Lord of the Spring.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion has the Goblin Shaman at the end of the Imperial Subterranean tutorial level.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_44ebe34f	comment	In Haven (2020), the first boss fight, against the Bigufurai, introduces Duo attacks, which are the only way to significantly weaken it. Likewise, the second boss, Nokk, has an armored weak point that is only briefly exposed after it attacks, so one Player Character must defend with the Deflector Shields while the other readies an attack for this moment. Unlike most later bosses, neither of these are accompanied by flunkies.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_45501b8c	comment	In Super Metroid, the first enemy you face is an old enemy, Ridley. Unfortunately, you're at minimum strength and he's a giant flying Space Pirate dragon. Thankfully, since heâ€™s there to commit theft rather than to pick a fight, he flies off after either of you takes too much damage (more likely you). When you fight him again later, it's a much different story.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_455ede40	comment	Super Paper Mario: O'Chunks is the very first boss in the game, fought at the Yold Desert in Chapter 1-3. His attacks don't really do much damage, and he's completely helpless if you use Thoreau against him. In terms of chapter bosses, Fracktail is this, fought at the end of the Yold Ruins in Chapter 1-4. He's probably even easier then O'Chunks as his attacks are very predictable, easy to dodge, and the Frackles used against his weak point are just as pathetic as a Goomba. Defeating him grants Mario and Tippi the pathway to the second Pure Heart.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring has the Lordsworn Soldier, who shows up at the end of the tutorial area. How easily you defeat him depends on your mastery of the guard-counter mechanic, and these soldiers show up as regular mooks very soon afterwords.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_4811a5a6	comment	Wyzen in Asura's Wrath has the easiest patterns in the game to look out for, along with being the first of Asura's former allies to die. Even when he's the size of the planet, Asura still destroys him handily.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_48d31b2a	comment	Infernax has two, which depends on whether Alcedor decides to save or kill the possessed man at the start: If Alcedor attempts to save the man, he turns into the demon Paimon. It has rather low health for a boss, has an obvious weak spot, and its fire breath attack is short-ranged, predictable and avoidable. Even if it corners Alcedor, it cannot hit the area at the very rightmost edge of the screen. If the player skips Paimon by killing the possessed man, the Aberration would count as this. Its giant cleaver is a slow and easily-telegraphed attack that can be avoided by either moving and keeping away, or by crouching at a short distance in front of it. The Aberration also gets Left Stuck After Attack, allowing Alcedor to get close to and hit it without retaliation.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_49a84be6	comment	Final Fantasy III's Land Turtle can be beaten fairly easily by equipping the gear you find in the cave and using Arctic Winds on it. He's slightly trickier in the DS remake, when Luneth fights alone, but is fairly simple; the Antarctic Wind will still chop off most of his health.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_49a88442	comment	Each of the bosses in the Sastasha dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV act in this role. Each introduces a basic combat concept - such as close and ranged area of effect markers, trash adds, mid-fight object interaction - in a straightforward manner. This allows players to understand common mechanics of boss fights that will be employed in later content.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft: The bosses in Ragefire Chasm, the first dungeon, have no noteworthy special abilities, and are only distinct from the trash by having more health and doing more damage. It allows people to ease into their roles in the dungeon. In the Brawler's Guild, Bruce, the first boss, is a crocolisk with relatively little HP and only one deadly attack, which can be avoided simply by running away from him (people who die to this attack are often considered Too Dumb to Live). There are simpler fights (such as King Kulaka and Unguloxx), but they mainly test the player's ability to put out damage while staying alive.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_4be1bdd0	comment	The fight against the Vault bandits in Golden Sun. Despite being potentially able to defeat the party, they're just glorified mooks, and the fight against them was the first plot-relevant fight that was actually winnable.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_4edff9aa	comment	Star Fox: The original had the Attack Carrier, the boss of Corneria in the first two routes. The Destructor on Path 3, while much more difficult, it still nothing compared to the bosses from Monarch Dodora onwards. Regardless of which route you take through Corneria in Star Fox 64, the level will end with a really easy boss. The one at the end of the Mission Accomplished Route is the Attack Carrier, same one as the first boss of the original game. The Mission Complete route ends with the even more pathetic Granga; you can destroy the mech's legs and render it immobile. Star Fox Zero has the massive Androsa, which, despite looking cool, has four obvious weak points and gets weaker as you damage it. There is a secret component, but it's just a copy of the equally easy stage two boss. Subverted with the Attack Carrier, which is now the boss of the third to last level of the game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_4f8d35f3	comment	In Brood Star, the Mantis Queen and the Gatling Drone are two of the bosses that the player might encounter at the end of the first level. These two bosses have very simple attack patterns with few bullets, making them very easy to dodge. Later bosses have much more dense and complicated bullet patterns.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_507dfb6a	comment	EarthBound (1994) has the fight with Starman Jr., where Buzz Buzz does all the work for you. However, it teaches you that enemies have abilities that you need to counter, about the rolling HP system, and how shields work.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_512b4b82	comment	The giant bat is the most common, but Arthroverta in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia is significantly easier than almost every boss in the game. It's easier than the first boss of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin to say the least, especially as Ecclesia is a fair bit harder overall.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_5251e609	comment	Arkham Horror and its spin-off, Eldritch Horror has the Blind Idiot God, Azathoth. Most Great Old Ones have weird gameplay effects that will change monsters or gameplay significantly, and in comparison, Azathoth's are quite minor. As such, he is a great first boss for beginners to play, so they can understand how to strategize with other players and get familiar with the game mechanics. Arkham also has Bokrug, which tends to be easier than most other Ancient Ones.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_559a3948	comment	New Super Mario Bros. 2 The Reznors are the very first bosses encountered, fought in the World 1-Tower. There's only 2 of them, and you can easily get from one platform to another, especially with Raccoon Mario. In terms of World Bosses, Roy Kooppa is the boss of World 1 (which is surprising considering he's usually fought later in the earlier games). He's fought very similar in Super Mario World.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_559a396b	comment	New Super Mario Bros. U: The first world boss is Lemmy Koopa, who is fought on flat, basic terrain (with no bottomless pits), is once again on a ball, and mainly throws bombs (which are very easy to avoid).
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Warm-Up Boss / int_56fb2dc5	comment	Dead of Winter has the mission "We need more samples." It simply requires the player to kill zombies and roll dice for success after doing so. Since there's no penalty for failure, it tends to be a very short game and help introduce players to playing.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_5779deb9	comment	The version of the aforementioned giant bat from the original Castlevania is notable in that he only qualifies for this trope because the game is nice enough to hand you the axe subweapon a couple screens before the fight. Without the axe, he's a significant challenge, as the only time he's within attack range is when he's swooping down to crash into you. The axe's high trajectory lets you hit him while he's flying overhead, and makes the fight a cakewalk.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim has Mirmulnir, the first dragon battle. He is simply a level-appropriate dragon, but the player has Irileth and the Whiterun guard as backup. Should the player skirt the main story until they are level 80, fighting the dragon won't be that hard. Should the player rush straight to this battle and be only level 3 or 4, he still will be phenomenally easy.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear games all have a habit of throwing some Elite Mooks at you for Cannon Fodder, then throwing a gunfight against a boss at you to where just blindly mashing the fire button will get you steamrolled and you instead need the games quirkier gun tactics to win: Revolver Ocelot in the first game fights you in an arena where a hostage strapped to some C4 is in the middle of the room and likes to keep his distance. You'll have to rely on cover until he runs out of bullets and then use the run and shoot mechanic to land hits, because you risk hitting the hostage if you take potshots from a distance, and using grenades will set off the C4. Olga Gurlukovich pops up during the Tanker Chapter of Sons Of Liberty, basically being an inverse of the Ocelot battle in the first game. Now you'll need to use carefully aimed shots to hit her while she peeks out from cover, then get out of there before she decides to blind you with spotlights or toss grenades at you. Ocelot again fills this role in the third game, mostly to teach you two important things about this game's bosses. You can always cheat or find creative ways to battle bosses, in this case by shooting down beehives or standing out in the open to have an outright Showdown at High Noon (complete with a tumbleweed), and to expect the bosses to cheat as well: Ocelot's guards will fire at you even in spite of Ocelot's insistence of a fair fight.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_591aa39f	comment	Metal Slug: Practically all the first bosses. Tetsuyuki, the first boss of the first game, is a crashed plane whole sole attack is a single plasma cannon that fires stronger-than-average projectiles which are easy to avoid, and when damaged to half its health it instead unveils a Wave-Motion Gun that turns out to be avoidable simply by ducking. The inexplicable presence of several platforms that helps you dodge it's attacks and the amount of rebel sergeants it regularly dispenses (mooks which drops extra grenades and rockets when slain) makes the whole thing even easier. Both 2 and X contains a mid-boss in the first stage, the Mosque Artillery, a trio of missile turrets firing rockets that can be destroyed, and conveniently granting you a special weapon (Heavy Machine-Gun in 2, Enemy Chaser in X) right before the battle. The Keesi (fought at the end of 2's first stage) is another pushover, since its Weaponized Exhaust can be avoided just by staying under the plane, while the Iron Nokana 2.0 (fought at the end of X) is slightly harder, but not by much. Huge Hermit from 3, a Giant Enemy Crab. Despite being an Advancing Boss of Doom, you're automatically granted a Slug before the battle (with a cannon that's firing backwards 24-7) and the Hermit's fireballs can be dodged easily. It becomes even easier once it stops using the fireballs and starts using the large cannon - if you still have a Slug at that point, you've already won. Brave Gurerrier from 4 is a Cool Airship with three phases, the first which is borderline walk in the park; two of its three attacks are cannons that can fire only in a straight line, a guaranteed miss as long as you don't stand anywhere below, and the third drops bouncing mines which can be destroyed via machine-gun. The second phase releases a missile that can be dodged by jumping, and occasionally dispenses some easily-killed mooks as backup. The third phase is the only part worthy of respect, but it's small potatoes compared to later bosses. Metal Rear from 5, a sized-up Slug whose turrets and cannons are mostly avoidable just by running around. The game introducing a new "Slide" function makes dodging even easier; and halfway into the battle a prisoner will suddenly grant you a Super Grenade; the moment you obtained said weapon, the battle will be over in less than 30 seconds. Bull Drill from 6, a weaponized giant excavator, relies extensively on ground-based projectiles you can jump across and flings destroyable boulders in your direction. Worm Mecha from 7, a robot Sand Worm whose body comes in segments. Each segment has pathetic health and you're granted a Slug before the fight allowing you to make short work of said boss.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4 Shadow Yosuke is your first introduction to general Boss Fight 101, involving using attacks and guards in response to the boss's behavior to bring him down. Shadow Chie is more or less the same but with Yosuke in the party as well. Shadow Yukiko on the other hand...
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Warm-Up Boss / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 Shadow Kamoshida is made into as much of a Hate Sink as possible so the player will want to take him down. While Kamoshida has so much health that a player can't just brute force their way through, the mechanics introduced that get around this are still very straightforward. All of the strategies required to beat him are very clear (and the characters even spell them out during in-game dialogue), Kamoshida can't hit any party member's weakness, and the method to soften him up doesn't take that long. However, it does teach players about how major boss fights aren't going to be straightforward slugfests, about how they might have to deprive themselves of a party member for a while with special actions, and that managing party health is crucial. Shadow Madarame, the second major boss fight. This battle requires a player to manage not only their party line-up, but type weaknesses of both the enemies and their characters. Madarame starts as four portraits, each with its own set of weaknesses and elements that it absorbs as HP, meaning a player can't just use one catch-all technique to beat him. And he'll often use his own unique ability to make a party member weak to everything, which forces a player to manage an enemy getting more turns. In Royal, Madarame's new second phase is more of the same, since his clones use fire, ice, lightning, and wind. Each party member besides Joker can hit one of these weaknesses, but they're also weak to one of those elements as well. This makes the player not only consider each party member's weakness, but also which Personas that Joker has and what weaknesses he can deal with as the only character that both must be in the party and that can change which Persona (and thus his elemental affinity) he's using.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Napstablook in Undertale has easy to avoid attack patterns when they aren't wasting turns by apologizing, and the method to spare them is easy to figure out.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_5b698717	comment	Pac-Man World 2: Clyde (though for whatever reason his name's mixed up with Blinky, the red ghost) is the first member of the Ghost Gang fought. Predictably, he's rather of a pushover, what with blatantly hinting at how to defeat him.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_5e3832b5	comment	The first encounter with flying mutant toaster Balrog in Cave Story, and if that wasn't easy enough, he even asks you if you want to fight him (and if you say no, he'll run off). You'll meet him again, three or four more times, in more difficult forms, but compared to the other bosses in the game (e.g. Monster X, the Core, or the Doctor), all of his forms are enough of a pushover to make him qualify as a permanent Warm-Up Boss.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_6053d9f9	comment	Silent Hill Silent Hill: The Split Head is just a tutorial battle that teaches the player that unlike other Survival Horror games like Resident Evil, you can actually move and shoot at the same time. Silent Hill 2: You don't even have to attack Pyramid Head, just dodge and run until he gets bored and makes a quick exit. Silent Hill 3: The Split Worm is a Call-Back to the Split Head from the first game and it isn't any more dangerous, despite being a train-sized annelid monster. A few rounds from your handgun will lend it. Silent Hill: Origins: Momma maybe a bit faster than most bosses on this series but she can easily be beaten by just retreating into a corner and shooting her until she drops.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_61111ba2	comment	Jiu Xiao: The first boss, the Yao-shou general, is fought within minutes into the game, and is a pushover that you slice up in no time. You even lampshade how easy the battle is to your comrades.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_61f47475	comment	The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night: The first boss, the Assassin, is an easy battle that you'll be done with in three minutes tops, and eventually battles with ordinary Dreadwing enemies will emulate this boss.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_62862142	comment	The prequel, Dusty Raging Fist, have it's first boss being a gigantic deer mech who attacks with slow, painfully predictable, projectile-based moves, whose purpose is for players to familiarize with jumping and kicking moves with the boss serving as a punching bag. Same thing even applies to the second boss, Raiden, a rather straightforward boss battle in a narrow tunnel who's not as mobile as later bosses, making him an easy target. His thunderbolts can be bypassed by dashing or interrupted easily, his melee attacks predictable, he frequently pauses mid-battle after moving around too much, and he's even easier once he supersizes himself because when enlarged he's unable to use any ranged attacks at all.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_629cd094	comment	The Ogre in Dragon Age: Origins, who later becomes a Degraded Boss. The Ogre performs this duty again in Dragon Age II, but those who played the first game would remember how to fight them, so it's potentially not as bad.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_62bf541	comment	Super Mario Bros. has the Goomba posing as the first Fake Bowser. There is a platform above that makes jumping over him 10 times easier.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_62bf542	comment	Super Mario Bros. 2 has the first of many Birdos at the end of the first level. She just shoots eggs (which are used to defeat her) and is fought on flat terrain.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_62bf543	comment	In terms of World Bosses though, Larry Koopa is this in Super Mario Bros. 3 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. His attacks are very basic compared to the rest of the Koopalings (a simple jump and a blast from the wand).
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Warm-Up Boss / int_62e9d405	comment	Spyro the Dragon (1998) has Toasty — you have to work hard to get hit in this "battle".
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Warm-Up Boss / int_63ac9abe	comment	In the Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog, the Green Hill Zone boss is even easier, as Eggman just floats around at different heights. The only attack he does is floating across the bottom of the screen, and even then it's more like an invitation to attack.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_63ac9abf	comment	The Egg Mobile-D from Emerald Hill Zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Both the wrecking ball and the drill tank make a comeback in Sonic Advance as sort of a Shout-Out, and they're even further weakened by halving their health from eight hits to four.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_6715932e	comment	In Spirit Hunter: NG, Yuri is the first spirit to be fought in the game. The 'fight' against her is short and relatively simple and exists to demonstrate the (slightly revamped) Puzzle Boss mechanics. She also doesn't have much of a backstory and doesn't require a lengthy investigation for Akira to understand her history and motives.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_68ff28c8	comment	Silent Hill: The Split Head is just a tutorial battle that teaches the player that unlike other Survival Horror games like Resident Evil, you can actually move and shoot at the same time.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_68ff28ca	comment	Silent Hill 3: The Split Worm is a Call-Back to the Split Head from the first game and it isn't any more dangerous, despite being a train-sized annelid monster. A few rounds from your handgun will lend it.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_6af78ff5	comment	The first Alpha Metroid in Metroid II: Return of Samus and Metroid: Samus Returns. Despite it having a fast ramming attack in the latter, the Melee Counter and missiles make short work of it.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_6bff288f	comment	Banjo-Tooie: The first of three not-so-difficult fights with Klungo happens before even entering the Hub Level.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4's first boss battle, with the raider leader Gristle and his minions, is a Curb-Stomp Battle thanks to the Power Armor and Minigun you just acquired. But then a Deathclaw emerges from the sewer, and it is almost certain to make short work of first-time players.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_6d2d7713	comment	Pixelvader: The first boss, thanks to not having much HP and a very simple bullet pattern.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_6f0994aa	comment	Beacon of Hope has Rotty the giant rotary phone, who has two telegraphed attacks and very slow-moving projectiles.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_702a974	comment	Shadow of the Colossus has two (which is probably fair, since there are no non-boss enemies in the game). Valus and Quadratus are both very straightforward fights where you mount the colossus, find the weak points and stab them. All other colossi require at least some use of the terrain.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_70643a1e	comment	Thumper: A triangular boss appears at the start of multiple levels to introduce a new gimmick.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_71aaab18	comment	Tin Star features "Tiny" Johnson as the first of the Showdown at High Noon boss battles. He's a big target, is very slow on the draw, and has no gimmick to back him up.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_71b1808d	comment	Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy: The dark eco plant in the Forbidden Jungle is the first boss, and isn't particularly challenging as its fight is intended to test Jak's basic moves. It's also the only boss in the game as well as the main Jak and Daxter series whose strategy doesn't require shooting at it (it's not possible to do so at this early point anyway).
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Warm-Up Boss / int_71ce786b	comment	Mushroom Men: In order to win your first Plot Coupon, you are thrown into a miniature "tournament" against a larger mushroom man, whom you must defeat. The hero, Pax, is... really, really confused and a little annoyed about having to fight someone out of the blue.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_7312d300	comment	Infinitode 2 has Broot, the boss faced in 1.8. As the game mentions, it is slow, heavy and simple. It shouldn't be difficult to win if you've placed several well-upgraded towers.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_7357234c	comment	Beyond Good & Evil throws you into a boss fight against a DomZ monster, after fighting off several of its flunkies. That teaches you about on foot combat. Not half an hour later, it throws you into a boss fight against a flying serpent, which teaches you about hovercraft combat.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_73b74949	comment	Borderlands: Nine-Toes in Borderlands. Even first-time players tend to finish him off pretty quickly, though his pet skags can be troublesome. Knuckle Dragger in Borderlands 2 is simply a big bullymong surrounded by smaller bullymongs that you deal with before you even get your Action Skill.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_74a4c704	comment	The Darkside Heartless at the end of Sora's dream in Kingdom Hearts and its Nobody counterpart Twilight Thorn in Roxas' dream in Kingdom Hearts II. Each one is a huge enemy that requires the player to not only make use of jumping and attacking at the right time, but also paying attention to what the boss is doing to avoid getting wailed on in kind.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_74f7210c	comment	Link is the first opponent in the 1P mode of Super Smash Bros. 64 and usually just meanders around, occasionally throwing out an attack or two. Even on higher difficulties he'll allow you to get used to your character's moveset and often won't bother to recover when knocked off stage.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_7529056	comment	In terms of World Bosses, Roy Kooppa is the boss of World 1 (which is surprising considering he's usually fought later in the earlier games). He's fought very similar in Super Mario World.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_7668653a	comment	Similarly, Mass Effect 2 throws a YMIR mech at you in Freedom's Progress; it later goes on to turn up as a particularly tough enemy.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_7682fdc7	comment	Something series: The four Red Birdos in Something. Since they are Mooks, they go down very easily. Bigeye in Something Else. He's a giant eyeball with no projectile attacks.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_77aa72de	comment	I Wanna Be the Guy has Mike Tyson. He's not really easy so much as easier, but compared to any other boss he's cake.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_792239e5	comment	Vidarr in Tales of Symphonia, is your typical JRPG first boss, which easily puts him in this category, particularly since his most powerful attack is telegraphed a mile away. However, on higher difficulties, he potentially can kill... your CPU allies. His attacks are still telegraphed a mile away. If you also have a New Game Plus option that reduces your EXP and set the difficulty to Mania, he becomes a serious Damage-Sponge Boss, and if you cast a mid- or high-level spell at just the right time, Kratos won't show up, leaving you with no healer and no room for error. Chances are, he still won't kill a player-controlled character, even with all of those Self Imposed Challenges added on.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_7a93a957	comment	Both the wrecking ball and the drill tank make a comeback in Sonic Advance as sort of a Shout-Out, and they're even further weakened by halving their health from eight hits to four.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_7f34e3b4	comment	Pizza Tower has its first boss, Pepperman. His attack pattern is fairly simple, consisting of shoulder-bashes, butt-stomps, and summoning art-themed minions. His attacks also give him long and frequent vulnerability windows, and his only real gimmicks are having to carve statues to stun him at points, and having to deliver a finishing blow before he regenerates his last hit point. Later bosses have more complex and harder to dodge attacks, have shorter vulnerability windows and/or must be manually stunned before you can land a damaging hit, and a couple force a gameplay change with the Revolver weapon.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: Joe Cobb and his fellow Powder Gangers in Fallout: New Vegas, who you fight shortly after the (optional) tutorial quests. Fallout 4's first boss battle, with the raider leader Gristle and his minions, is a Curb-Stomp Battle thanks to the Power Armor and Minigun you just acquired. But then a Deathclaw emerges from the sewer, and it is almost certain to make short work of first-time players.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Bros. has the Goomba posing as the first Fake Bowser. There is a platform above that makes jumping over him 10 times easier. Super Mario Bros. 2 has the first of many Birdos at the end of the first level. She just shoots eggs (which are used to defeat her) and is fought on flat terrain. Boom-Boom is the very first boss that is encountered in the Fortress/Tower levels of Super Mario Bros. 3 and New Super Mario Bros. U. In both cases, the terrain is flat, there is no bottomless pits, and it's just Boom-Boom flailing around. Bowser Jr. fulfills the exact same role as the tower mini-boss on New Super Mario Bros.. In terms of World Bosses though, Larry Koopa is this in Super Mario Bros. 3 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. His attacks are very basic compared to the rest of the Koopalings (a simple jump and a blast from the wand). Iggy Koopa is this in Super Mario World, as he simply just needs to be pushed over a boat into the lava and just tosses balls. The Irony? Larry is the last of the Koopalings fought and is designed to be a harder version of Iggy. Super Mario 64 has the Big Bob-omb, whose only method of attacking is to pick you up and throw you, which only damages you if you fall off of the top of the mountain. Just get behind him and throw him onto the ground 3 times and he's done. The first time you fight Petey Piranha in Super Mario Sunshine. Petey is slow and weak, and his weak point (open mouth) is easy to attack. There's also the Polluted Piranha, which can be defeated in under one minute. Bowser himself fulfills this role in New Super Mario Bros., where you just have to get behind him and press the switch and the fight is instantly over. And just like in the original Super Mario Bros., there is a platform that makes this much, much easier. Dino Piranha from Super Mario Galaxy and Peewee Piranha in Super Mario Galaxy 2 as the first Power Star missions in both games. Both Dino and Peewee have their tails as the primary weakness, so you simply have to attack them from behind. Super Mario 3D Land has the return of the Fake Bowser (or Tail Bowser; his true form being once again a Goomba). He's relatively easy to dodge and get through, compared to the rest of the Bowser fights. New Super Mario Bros. 2 The Reznors are the very first bosses encountered, fought in the World 1-Tower. There's only 2 of them, and you can easily get from one platform to another, especially with Raccoon Mario. In terms of World Bosses, Roy Kooppa is the boss of World 1 (which is surprising considering he's usually fought later in the earlier games). He's fought very similar in Super Mario World. New Super Mario Bros. U: The first world boss is Lemmy Koopa, who is fought on flat, basic terrain (with no bottomless pits), is once again on a ball, and mainly throws bombs (which are very easy to avoid).
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Warm-Up Boss / int_82ca6aa3	comment	DoDonPachi II: Bee Storm's very first boss (who you face before you even start the first stage) is, of all things, the True Final Boss of DoDonPachi. Fortunately, you only face his first form, and he goes down quickly without much resistance.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_85248c6a	comment	Whispy Woods is the first boss in almost every Kirby game (except in Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, where he's replaced by King Golem, who's basically a reskin with the ability to summon Golems, King Dedede in Kirby: Squeak Squad due to being Demoted to Extra, and in Kirby and the Forgotten Land where he gets replaced as the first boss by the giant gorilla, Gorimondo). He's completely stationary, most of his attacks can be avoided simply by standing right next to him, and his only really dangerous attack is to drop apples. In the Extra Mode of Kirby's Dream Land, though, he can drop Gordos. Notably, many later games add twists and variations to his fight to catch veterans off-guard, such as Twin Woods in Kirby Super Star, his ability to inhale and chew players in Kirby's Return to Dream Land (nailing people who think standing next to him and whaling away will still work), and the considerably more mobile Flowery Woods and Clanky Woods, but in all cases are still easier than bosses later in the game, so they still fit this trope.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_85698529	comment	Paper Mario: The Goomba King is the first real boss in the game, since you can't win the initial Bowser battle and can't lose the first fight with Jr. Troopa. However, while you can technically lose, it's highly unlikely â€” the Goomba King has relatively weak attacks, and although he fights alongside the Red and Blue Goombas, they're injured from their earlier fight with Mario and are easy to defeat. The battle teaches you that your attacks can do things other than just directly damage enemies, as hammering the Goomnut Tree can take out his flunkies and make the fight even easier. The Magikoopa fight qualifies, as it comes immediately after you get the Action Command function.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_85c18772	comment	Star Fox Zero has the massive Androsa, which, despite looking cool, has four obvious weak points and gets weaker as you damage it. There is a secret component, but it's just a copy of the equally easy stage two boss. Subverted with the Attack Carrier, which is now the boss of the third to last level of the game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, and VII all have an initial boss that switches between an attack form and a defense form. When in the latter form, the player is instructed to withhold attacks until it changes back — thus, it serves as a tutorial for the Active Time Battle system that Final Fantasy IV introduced.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_87056d17	comment	Sonic Adventure starts with an incredibly easy fight against Chaos 0, who you fight before you even enter the first level.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_87216cf7	comment	The Mantis Warrior from Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom moves as slowly as Dando and shoots streams of fire that Ryu can easily jump over. He can only be harmed while he's attacking, and will block all other damage when he isn't.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_88156ac9	comment	Battle Garegga's first boss, MD-113 "Nose Lavagghin", is a bomber that can be easily defeated by continuously shooting at its center, especially with a ship that uses piercing shots. However, doing this instead of destroying the boss's many components means you miss out on hundreds of thousands of points that could contribute to an early 1-Up.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_8886a671	comment	The Yamaraja: Earth from the first game is technically the third boss but since the first two battles, against the Cardinal and Foxface, are of the hopeless kind, they don't count. The fight introduces the concept of ring abnormalities (status ailment that affect the Judgement Ring) that will be present for the entire game. Despite the name, the monster is water aligned and will take huge damage from Zhuzhen's Ogre Flamedance attack.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_8cadb510	comment	While most of the enemies are pretty harmless in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, the warm-up boss takes the cake. You walk into a cabin, the door shuts, and a giant N-Z just stands still doing nothing while you attack it.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Persona 4 Shadow Yosuke is your first introduction to general Boss Fight 101, involving using attacks and guards in response to the boss's behavior to bring him down. Shadow Chie is more or less the same but with Yosuke in the party as well. Shadow Yukiko on the other hand... Persona 5 Shadow Kamoshida is made into as much of a Hate Sink as possible so the player will want to take him down. While Kamoshida has so much health that a player can't just brute force their way through, the mechanics introduced that get around this are still very straightforward. All of the strategies required to beat him are very clear (and the characters even spell them out during in-game dialogue), Kamoshida can't hit any party member's weakness, and the method to soften him up doesn't take that long. However, it does teach players about how major boss fights aren't going to be straightforward slugfests, about how they might have to deprive themselves of a party member for a while with special actions, and that managing party health is crucial. Shadow Madarame, the second major boss fight. This battle requires a player to manage not only their party line-up, but type weaknesses of both the enemies and their characters. Madarame starts as four portraits, each with its own set of weaknesses and elements that it absorbs as HP, meaning a player can't just use one catch-all technique to beat him. And he'll often use his own unique ability to make a party member weak to everything, which forces a player to manage an enemy getting more turns. In Royal, Madarame's new second phase is more of the same, since his clones use fire, ice, lightning, and wind. Each party member besides Joker can hit one of these weaknesses, but they're also weak to one of those elements as well. This makes the player not only consider each party member's weakness, but also which Personas that Joker has and what weaknesses he can deal with as the only character that both must be in the party and that can change which Persona (and thus his elemental affinity) he's using.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_90f94684	comment	In Fire Emblem Engage, Abyme is the game's first real boss you encounter. As an armored unit, she's susceptible to Clanne's magic or Emblem Marth's Rapier, and the only challenge comes from the number of troops she throws at you. However, on the second turn, Alfred and his retainers Etie and Boucheron join the battle to make things easier for you.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_91c0063d	comment	The attack helicopter in Shadow Complex at the end of the prologue.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_91e45f5	comment	Averted in the first case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, where the culprit isn't the first witness as you've come to expect, but rather the main character's boss and co-counsel Kristoph Gavin, who turns out to be the Big Bad of the game as a whole.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_951c41c1	comment	Weismann, the first boss of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, is somewhat atypical in that he's a sword armor rather than the usual axe-wielding barbarian, making him much sturdier, especially when accounting for the gate he's standing on. In his case, rather than simply moving the Lord over and having them slash him to death, he serves as a tutorial on an important mechanic: namely, how to easily kill armored enemies, who are weak to the hammer and armorslayer weapons and whose high Defense is no protection against magic. Coincidentally, you have one character with a hammer in their inventory, and two characters with magic swords.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_95a46db4	comment	For the participants of the bike grand prix in Doctor Slump, Daigoro Kurigashira, who guards the first checkpoint, counts as this. While each participant is required to perform the task that is written on a piece of paper placed on his desk at the checkpoint, the punishment for failing it amounts to a one-minute delay, after which the participant gets to continue racing, if with a slight disadvantage due to said one-minute delay. No such leniency is granted for the participants at any other checkpoint.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_98e97d58	comment	Rune Factory 5: The Nine-Tailed Fox, the boss of the Whispering Woods, moves around quickly but telegraphs all of its attacks by ringing the bells on its neck, giving you a few seconds to dash out of the way and follow up with a combo.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_9ac13a99	comment	Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E. has the Toiletnator serve as the boss of the tutorial level, befitting his Butt-Monkey status in the show the game is based on.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls series tends to put one of these at the end of each game's tutorial level/Noob Cave. Specific examples: Morrowind has Boss Crito in Arkngthand, the first dungeon the player is required to visit during the main quest. He's a bit more challenging than his Mooks scattered throughout the rest of the ruin. Oblivion has the Goblin Shaman at the end of the Imperial Subterranean tutorial level. Skyrim has Mirmulnir, the first dragon battle. He is simply a level-appropriate dragon, but the player has Irileth and the Whiterun guard as backup. Should the player skirt the main story until they are level 80, fighting the dragon won't be that hard. Should the player rush straight to this battle and be only level 3 or 4, he still will be phenomenally easy.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry: The first mission of Devil May Cry 4 uses the series' main character, Dante, as a warm-up boss for the new playable character, Nero. Especially in the lower difficulty modes, Dante has a limited moveset, and is less aggressive as a testament of being the tutorial boss. Subverted in the harder difficulty modes where he has full access to his arsenal of weapons (even when he doesn't acquire the majority of them until later in the game), and is obviously harder to beat. The difficulty spike in Dante Must Die mode also makes Dante a Wake-Up Call Boss to players who still expect him to play just like a tutorial boss. In Devil May Cry 5, the Qliphoth Roots fight in Mission 1 simply serves as a way for players to familiarize themselves with the dodging controls and the Exceed mechanic for Nero. The boss is just stationary, its attacks aren't difficult to evade, and it has a low health gauge compared to the bosses that you're gonna be dealing with later on.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Since the first trainers you encounter beforehand tend to have extremely low-level bug PokÃ©mon that can be beaten without much effort, the first gym leader is typically the first battle in which you're required to utilize strategy and type match-ups. However, if you chose the wrong starter Pokemon or rush in without having leveled up much, it could easily be a Wake-Up Call Boss. A notable example from the first game PokÃ©mon Red and Blue and their remakes: Brock, the first gym leader. Due to type advantages, a Squirtle or Bulbasaur trainer will be able to wipe the floor with him. Even a Charmander trainer can get around the type disadvantage due to both of Brock's Mons having a low Special stat and no actual Rock-type moves. (You just need to beware of damaging Onix while using Bide.) The remakes take it even farther, where Charmander can learn Metal Claw, which is super effective against Rock-types. This is subverted in Yellow, as your starter PokÃ©mon is Pikachu that only has Electric-type attacks, which have no effect on his PokÃ©mon, or Normal-type moves which are not very effective. Catching the Fighting-type Mankey (or a Nidoran and teaching it Double Kick) can solve this problem, though those options require some Level Grinding. In PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon, Nihilego serves as one for the post-game Ultra Beast quest. There's only one to have to catch, whereas all the others except the last one require catching at least two each, and as many as four for one of them in each version. Furthermore, it is five levels lower than the next lowest-leveled Ultra Beast, its Beast Boost boosts a defensive stat rather than an offensive one, and other than Power Gem the moves you encounter it with are unlikely to give you much trouble. It also helps that you're already familiar with it, since you fight (but don't catch) another one halfway through the main story, and it plays a big role in the climax of the main story, too. PokÃ©mon Ranger: Shadows of Almia has an encounter with a Tangrowth at the end of the Ranger School tutorial section. Most of the PokÃ©mon you've had to capture so far have been barely threatening, with some not even attacking you. Tangrowth is the first enemy who puts up an actual fight, and can be a challenge for new players, but more experienced ones will have no trouble evading its pollen attacks and looping it. This is discussed in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, where during her rematch Katy states that since her Gym's the closest to the Academy she's been mandated by the Champion Geeta to be the Paldean League's designated Warm Up Boss, something she finds frustrating since she doesn't enjoy being the resident jobber.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_9fa025d	comment	Mother 3: The game has something like this in the form of the Mole Cricket, the only enemy you fight in the prologue. Nicely subverted/lampshaded in that he comes back toward the end of the game, demanding a rematch, but his stats are exactly the same. The Reconstructed Caribou you fight early in the first chapter is also a fairly easy boss, unless you've been avoiding fights. As he's incredibly vulnerable to Duster's Wall Staples technique, he mostly exists to teach the player that all those "Useless Useful Spells" like buffs, debuffs, and inflicting status ailments that are typically worthless in RPGs are, in fact, not only useful but necessary in this game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_9fcc8c53	comment	Glass Joe in Punch-Out!!, and his successor, Gabby Jay in Super Punch-Out on SNES. They're both rather frail boxers who take a while to mount any offense; their special punch merely consists of them taunting you, leaving themselves wide open to an easy knockdown.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a321a398	comment	Super Mario 3D Land has the return of the Fake Bowser (or Tail Bowser; his true form being once again a Goomba). He's relatively easy to dodge and get through, compared to the rest of the Bowser fights.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a4514a75	comment	Iji: Elite Krotera is a Tasen Elite with more HP, an easily-dodged super move, and a crippling weakness to the heads of the turrets he keeps summoning. He's also a Skippable Boss if playing a pacifist run. He's a far cry from later bosses, including the one two sectors over.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a599305d	comment	Mega Man Zero follows the trend, though played with when it gets to Mega Man Zero 3: In that game, the first boss (Omega) follows the trend, but he's also the Final Boss, with the first stage of the latter fight just being a beefed-up version of the beginning battle with a Palette Swap, more health, upgraded faster moves and one entirely new technique. Weil admits Omega's just been holding back his true power, and gives him the all-clear to kick it into high gear. Twice.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a6543322	comment	Every Stage 1 boss in the Touhou Project series. They're the first spellcard users you encounter in the games, but their patterns are (usually) trivial to dodge. This sometimes extends to the Stage 2 boss, at least when they're not the Wake-Up Call Boss.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a796bde8	comment	Revolver Ocelot in the first game fights you in an arena where a hostage strapped to some C4 is in the middle of the room and likes to keep his distance. You'll have to rely on cover until he runs out of bullets and then use the run and shoot mechanic to land hits, because you risk hitting the hostage if you take potshots from a distance, and using grenades will set off the C4.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a7bb2a13	comment	Mega Man ZX and Advent: To drive it home, the first and second bosses in the former get a variation each that become Mini Bosses in the latter, and the latter's first boss is the only one Grey/Ashe have to defeat in just their regular un-Megamerged formsnote One medal is obtained by defeating Hedgeshock the same way.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Garland, the very first boss you fight in Final Fantasy, goes down with little effort for a properly prepared party. His One-Winged Angel form, which you fight at the very end of the game, is orders of magnitude tougher. Final Fantasy III's Land Turtle can be beaten fairly easily by equipping the gear you find in the cave and using Arctic Winds on it. He's slightly trickier in the DS remake, when Luneth fights alone, but is fairly simple; the Antarctic Wind will still chop off most of his health. Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, and VII all have an initial boss that switches between an attack form and a defense form. When in the latter form, the player is instructed to withhold attacks until it changes back — thus, it serves as a tutorial for the Active Time Battle system that Final Fantasy IV introduced. Final Fantasy VIII has Ifrit. He hits harder than previous enemies, has a special attack, and likely can't be beat in a direct hit race without the need to heal thanks to his higher hit points. But the heroes are given his weakness even earlier in the game, and were taught lessons on how to beat him. So much so, he even speaks special dialogue when his weakness is used against him, to let the player know they are doing it right. In Final Fantasy XIII, the Shiva Sisters serve as this for the Eidolon battles. These are Puzzle Bosses with a time limit where you can't win by attacking alone. You need to use Libra to figure out the strategy that 'impresses' them. Shiva is both easy to impress and almost impossible to die to; one of the Sisters will continuously heal you if your health drops. Klikk in Final Fantasy X. One might also argue for Sinspawn Ammes or Geosgaeno, but given that they're a Foregone Victory and Hopeless Boss Fight respectively, they don't quite fit the trope, and therefore Klikk is the first "proper" Boss Battle without training wheels. Tros, who is fought almost immediately after, also has elements of this, teaching the player about Trigger Commands, which are special commands just for that particular fight.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a90d239a	comment	The first boss of Psychonauts is a relatively tame encounter with a giant, mutated Censor. It's mostly a matter of killing it until it dies. The REST of the bosses, on the other hand...
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Warm-Up Boss / int_a95d1979	comment	The Deep One from From the New World could have posed a threat had Johnny fought it by himself. Fortunately, Shania, already on her Thunderbird fusion, joins the battle quickly turning the tide in favor of the heroes.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ab2077e2	comment	The Legend of Tian-ding: "Piggy" Wang, the game's first boss (and one hell of a Fat Bastard) is a surprisingly good punching bag for players. He's hopelessly immobile due to being confined to a rickshaw, his cane and pistol attacks can be dodged with jumping and dashing moves, his massive girth makes him a target for melee and projectile attacks and by getting behind him (easy with the jump trick), then Wang is a sitting duck to a dozen concentrated punches that shaves his health away before he can recover. Most of the battle is a practice for the players to master Tian-ding's jumping moves, rapid-fire fists, and using his sash to ensnare boss-level enemies, a trick he needs to take on later boss opponents. The only danger comes from the two turrets on either side of the screen and his giant weaponized statue, but they're nowhere as challenging as later bosses' attack patterns - and that's not getting into how you can deflect the statue's projectiles into hurting Wang for you.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ab515a31	comment	All of House of the Dead games have a boss with an easily visible weakpoint and revealing movements, so that the player can get the weakpoint system of the bosses down. This also goes for its spiritual clone/parody CarnEvil. Although sometimes you have to listen to their quotes.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ad619422	comment	The Masked Man in Jade Cocoon (Who ISN'T Lui, by the way). He's the only boss in the entire game who doesn't summon minions to fight for him, and even facing him just as Levant with the starting equipment he is fairly easy to defeat. Fighting him is optional, but you score a very handy water-elemental spear for the trouble (or lack thereof).
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ae050a9f	comment	Ocarina of Time: The first boss, Gohma, is a complete pushover. The battle mainly serves to teach the player that the usual strategy for bosses is to Attack Its Weak Point.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ae806378	comment	No More Heroes III Gold Joe is easier than the first boss (Mr. Blackhole). All his attacks end with a flourish that leave him open for a counterattack and his gimmick, magnetizing the metallic floor of the area, can be easily turned against him by reversing the polarity and sending him crashing into the electric fence that surrounds the arena.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_af552e7e	comment	The Parasite Queen in the Space Pirate ship in the beginning of Metroid Prime.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_af5943a5	comment	In Unlimited World Red, the first boss you fight is Vegapunk's Dragon. It has only a few different moves, and all of them have lengthy charge-up times that are unmistakably different from each other, allowing you to figure out exactly how to dodge it. It is also the only boss in the game with two bars of health, with all other bosses having 3. That being said, this game's difficulty is well above average, and even Vegapunk's Dragon can annihilate you if you don't take the battle seriously.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_af6a4464	comment	In The Secret World, the first bosses in most dungeons act something like this in normal or elite versions. (Less so in nightmares.)
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b0028436	comment	In the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Fan Game Your Bizarre Adventure, Leaky Eye Luka is the first major boss the player fights in the story mode. He has no Stand, which significantly limits his moveset and makes him fairly easy to fight. In fact, he's not much more powerful than the guards at the very beginning of the game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b044a55a	comment	The opening of Lufia & The Fortress of Doom ends with fighting the four Sinistrals...except A Taste of Power is fully in effect for Maxim's party, and the Sinistrals are actually weaker than when you fight them at the end of the game with a party that's likely many levels below Maxim's party.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b0ec0986	comment	At the end of the Birth by Sleep tutorial level in which you play as Ventus, you'll have the option of fighting either Terra or Aqua in a practice duel.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b11626d	comment	Paper Mario: The Origami King: The Earth Vellumental is the first boss fight in the game and serves as a primer on the unique boss fight mechanics, such as how to position Mario in front of its weak points (especially its tail) instead of its invulnerable shell, as well as using 1,000-Fold Arms to initiate a rush attack when the boss charges a super-move (and therefore how to recognize cues to do the same in later boss fights), and unlike subsequent bosses there's no weakness to have to exploit to make headway in the fight. Its attacks are also weaker than later bosses as well, punishing players less for making mistakes.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b20c928e	comment	The Crown of Wu's first boss is a slightly stronger version of those common robot soldiers, with a force-field around itself that deflect attacks but otherwise doesn't have any special abilities on it's own. For the boss fight Wukong simply need to hit a bunch of switches to remove the force-field, and then take the boss down like any ordinary mook.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b3309b69	comment	Skeleton T in Puyo Puyo is typically this. He's slow and doesn't even rotate his Puyos.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: The most famous one is the Green Hill Zone boss in the Genesis version of Sonic the Hedgehog, Eggman wielding a wrecking ball (Egg Mobile-H). It's very predictable and easy to avoid, and often pops up in later games to fill the same role. In the Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog, the Green Hill Zone boss is even easier, as Eggman just floats around at different heights. The only attack he does is floating across the bottom of the screen, and even then it's more like an invitation to attack. The boss of Palmtree Panic in Sonic the Hedgehog CD,the EGG-HVC-001 (a reference to the Famicom's serial number, HVC-001), is a contender for easiest boss ever that requires some challenge. As in, you can't just attack it whenever. You have to wait for Robotnik to lower his bumper guards. And then after you hit him, you can hit him again any time. And if you run to the right hand side of the screen, you'll be behind him when he lands and can avoid the bumper guards altogether. He can then be defeated in about two seconds. Even worse, getting a Good Future for Palmtree Panic makes the HVC-001 a One-Hit-Point Wonder. The Egg Mobile-D from Emerald Hill Zone in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Both the wrecking ball and the drill tank make a comeback in Sonic Advance as sort of a Shout-Out, and they're even further weakened by halving their health from eight hits to four. Sonic Adventure starts with an incredibly easy fight against Chaos 0, who you fight before you even enter the first level.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b52f14ad	comment	Loopmancer have it's first boss, a gigantic Dumb Muscle mutant brute simply called "Big Guy". No projectile moves, can be jumped over easily if he tries a charging tackle, really slow response rates and a sitting duck to most of your rapid-slashes when backed into a corner, and an easy punching bag early in the game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b539293b	comment	One Piece: Bartholomew Kuma, the first boss of One Piece: Unlimited Cruise, is kind of the first boss version of the Anticlimax Boss. Anyone who has read or watched One Piece knows how much of a scary badass this guy is, and so when the fight actually starts, it's a surprise that the big guy turns out to be a complete pushover. Once you unlock him in multiplayer though, he regains his badass status. Smoker plays this role in Unlimited Adventure, and is similarly toned down from his fairly powerful canon incarnation. In Unlimited World Red, the first boss you fight is Vegapunk's Dragon. It has only a few different moves, and all of them have lengthy charge-up times that are unmistakably different from each other, allowing you to figure out exactly how to dodge it. It is also the only boss in the game with two bars of health, with all other bosses having 3. That being said, this game's difficulty is well above average, and even Vegapunk's Dragon can annihilate you if you don't take the battle seriously.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind has Boss Crito in Arkngthand, the first dungeon the player is required to visit during the main quest. He's a bit more challenging than his Mooks scattered throughout the rest of the ruin.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b65ae944	comment	Silent Hill: Origins: Momma maybe a bit faster than most bosses on this series but she can easily be beaten by just retreating into a corner and shooting her until she drops.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b70c0e83	comment	Kraid in his Super Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission appearance. His attacks aren't terribly damaging and he dies pretty quickly to missiles. And he is massive, and this is compared to Ridley, who is much smaller than Kraid, yet possesses more strength and health than him. This doesn't really apply to Zero Mission's hard mode, though.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b87de35b	comment	The first time you fight Petey Piranha in Super Mario Sunshine. Petey is slow and weak, and his weak point (open mouth) is easy to attack. There's also the Polluted Piranha, which can be defeated in under one minute.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_b8e7bb8	comment	An oddity for Super Sentai, Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger has Jagged, one of three Deathgalien Team Leaders, who falls to the Zyuohgers in the first episode, functioning as the Monster of the Week. The remaining two Team Leaders remain as Co-Dragons throughout the series.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ba666650	comment	Ocelot again fills this role in the third game, mostly to teach you two important things about this game's bosses. You can always cheat or find creative ways to battle bosses, in this case by shooting down beehives or standing out in the open to have an outright Showdown at High Noon (complete with a tumbleweed), and to expect the bosses to cheat as well: Ocelot's guards will fire at you even in spite of Ocelot's insistence of a fair fight.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_babc3924	comment	In Dream Team: Antasma takes this role. He goes down in two attacks and he can't hurt you. Justified, as it was a dream of Luigi's. Smouldergeist is this for 'real' world combat and Dreamy Mario is this for dream world combat. Possibly also Robo Drilldigger for giant Luigi battling. They can all turn into either That One Boss or a Wake-Up Call Boss on Hard Mode. For Giant Battles, it's the Robo-Drilldigger. Has lower HP and defense compared to the later giant bosses, and its attacks are easy to counter. Chances are, the only way it can actually damage you is an unblockable Always Accurate Attack that will trigger the tutorial for the Rhythm Mushroom ability.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_bb5b818a	comment	Mega Man Powered Up has Proto Eye, a bigger yet laughably easier version of Big Eye.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_bbe0b9d0	comment	Prince of Persia: Though not a Boss Battle, the Mook guarding the exit route in the first level is the first enemy you should have to fight (though there is a way to get around him).
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Warm-Up Boss / int_bcac4ef2	comment	Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes: The giant demon Azexes is the first real boss of the game. He has a lot of HP, but all he does is teleport around while slowly charging up and firing energy balls, leaving himself wide open to attack. The scariest thing he'll do is throw two energy balls at once. Azexes shows up again as the boss of Aidan's chapter â€” he has more HP and can summon walls, then turn them into fireball projectiles, but he's still not particularly hard.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c0be6a01	comment	In Darksiders II, the first real boss, the Crowfather shapeshifted into War, uses easy-to-avoid though somewhat damaging attacks. It's a good thing they are easy to dodge too, since the fight also demonstrates to those still used to playing as War in the previous game that Death is faster and more fragile than his brother.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger has an optional Warm-up Enemy named Gato that you can face during the Millennial Fair at the beginning of the game, well before you'll face any actual monsters. Gato teaches you about how enemy placement works in a fight, and how enemies will have different attacks you have to contend with. He's also not that hard to defeat, and even if you do lose, there's some free healing just outside of his area.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c1caa781	comment	Mega Man & Bass has the Green Devil, fought at the end of the opening stage. Unlike other Devil bosses, this one is stationary and has easily avoidable attacks.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c2463c46	comment	Garland, the very first boss you fight in Final Fantasy, goes down with little effort for a properly prepared party. His One-Winged Angel form, which you fight at the very end of the game, is orders of magnitude tougher.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c2463c55	comment	Klikk in Final Fantasy X. One might also argue for Sinspawn Ammes or Geosgaeno, but given that they're a Foregone Victory and Hopeless Boss Fight respectively, they don't quite fit the trope, and therefore Klikk is the first "proper" Boss Battle without training wheels. Tros, who is fought almost immediately after, also has elements of this, teaching the player about Trigger Commands, which are special commands just for that particular fight.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c2ff3947	comment	Ninja Gaiden (NES) has the Barbarian, a hulking warrior who moves slowly and only swings his axe while standing, allowing Ryu to duck under his attacks and slash him to death without taking any damage.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c40207f9	comment	In Duke Nukem Forever, a boss is the first thing you fight in the entire game. Needless to say, it isn't meant to be difficult. What's funny is that it's apparently the final boss of the Game Within a Game Duke is playing.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c5656ebe	comment	In Clash at Demonhead, Gazh, the boss of Route 11, is usually the first one that players fight. He's a simple Bullfight Boss who's protected from attacks from behind, and his only attack is to fire a stream of fireballs every time he gets shot in the face.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c6e9c6cc	comment	Dino Piranha from Super Mario Galaxy and Peewee Piranha in Super Mario Galaxy 2 as the first Power Star missions in both games. Both Dino and Peewee have their tails as the primary weakness, so you simply have to attack them from behind.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c834792e	comment	Spyro the Dragon: Most of the games include one of these. Spyro the Dragon (1998) has Toasty — you have to work hard to get hit in this "battle". Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! has Crush — his fireball attack can be a bit difficult at times, especially when he does three in a row, but one can still easily beat him in less than three minutes. Spyro: Year of the Dragon has Buzz — for the first half of the battle, he can't even really hurt you unless he knocks you into the lava with his harmless ramming attack, or you mysteriously forget how to run when he rolls after you. You'll be done with him in two minutes — he's so weak that he even comes back later as a mook used by another boss. The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night: The first boss, the Assassin, is an easy battle that you'll be done with in three minutes tops, and eventually battles with ordinary Dreadwing enemies will emulate this boss.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c8b1bf83	comment	Monster Hunter Freedom 2 has Giadrome, an icy cousin of the first generation's Theropod Bird Wyverns. Other than its icy attacks, it's not too difficult to beat. You even hunt it in this game before going after the other Theropods.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c9633211	comment	No More Heroes: The game starts off with the first ranked match against Death Metal. In terms of characterization and hostility, he's up there with the rest of the game's bosses, but quite simple to defeat. Lampshaded in that Travis seems aware that he's just a warm-up boss and spends half of the battle giving an internal monologue that suggests he's not paying any attention to the fight. Dr. Peace does nothing but stand in the middle of the arena and rotate between three easy to dodge attacks, making it very easy to defeat him without taking a single hit, even on Bitter mode.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_c96cfe29	comment	The Armos Knights in A Link to the Past. Though there are six of them, all you have to do against them is shoot them with arrows until they die (although the last one left does Turn Red, literally).
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Warm-Up Boss / int_cc03218d	comment	Ganryu 2 have it's first boss, which is merely a regular version of the recurring ninja mook with more health and slightly more frequent projectile attacks. His only new move is a Rolling Attack that can be easily hopped over.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_cd44d3d6	comment	Crash Bandicoot (1996): Papu-Papu is the first villain to be fought. He spins around with his staff in his hut, and after he slams it down, you jump on him three times (five in the Japanese and N-Sane Trilogy version) to beat him.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_cf0603d0	comment	Heavy Weapon has the Twinblade, a Future Copter with two homing missile launchers as its only weaponry... both of which can be destroyed, along with the missiles they launch. In the rematch against it, it gets two plasma cannons that can't be destroyed. However, it's an Early-Bird Boss in the Boss Blitz mode, where you don't get any power-ups prior to facing it.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d02cde59	comment	Art of Fighting starts the player off against Ryukahu Todoh, whose strength and speed are on par with Ryo and Robert, but is only able to use a single special attack against them.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d0a5a846	comment	Most of the stage 1 bosses in the Gradius franchise counts. The first boss in the SNES port of Gradius III, the Goliath, is possibly the easiest first stage boss in the franchise. Jarring, as it was a Wake-Up Call Boss in the Arcade version.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d301a809	comment	Monster Hunter (2004) has the Veloci/Gen/Iodromes, weak "boss" monsters that are basically just souped-up versions of small monsters. Even with the weak starting weapons, they can be easily killed in under two minutes.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d302abbf	comment	Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) introduces the Great Jaggi, which is also a King Mook, but is given more of a unique design from its underlings and more health to make it more of an actual boss monster. Its relatives, the Great Wroggi and Great Baggi, are also King Mooks, but are fought later enough to not count as just warm-ups.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d502170c	comment	In PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon, Nihilego serves as one for the post-game Ultra Beast quest. There's only one to have to catch, whereas all the others except the last one require catching at least two each, and as many as four for one of them in each version. Furthermore, it is five levels lower than the next lowest-leveled Ultra Beast, its Beast Boost boosts a defensive stat rather than an offensive one, and other than Power Gem the moves you encounter it with are unlikely to give you much trouble. It also helps that you're already familiar with it, since you fight (but don't catch) another one halfway through the main story, and it plays a big role in the climax of the main story, too.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d56f8815	comment	OMORI: Boss and Ye Olde Sprout Mole are both the game's tutorial bosses: Boss teaches you how the battle system and Omori's Last Chance Hit Point ability work, and Ye Olde Sprout Mole shows the player how the energy bar works and how to execute team attacks.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d59d9e99	comment	The Dobkeratops at the end of the first stage of R-Type is a pushover. Despite its size and frightening appearance, its attacks are easy to dodge, and it can be taken down in mere seconds.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d607c683	comment	No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: On lower difficulty levels, Skelter Helter. He serves mainly as a tutorial to the game's controls and is therefore rather easy to beat. At least until you fight him on Bitter...
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d646deb4	comment	Arc Angle's first boss is the Sleeping Spire, who has absolutely no attacks but instead sics the level's enemies and Mini-Boss on you, which have easily telegraphed and reflectable patterns. Instead of sending their attacks back to them as per normal, you instead reflect them to the boss to damage it.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d6e2146d	comment	Diablo III has two of them, the first being the necromancer Jondar, who you fight with the help of your first companion Kormac; and the Skeleton King, the first proper boss of the game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_d7081096	comment	Mother: EarthBound (1994) has the fight with Starman Jr., where Buzz Buzz does all the work for you. However, it teaches you that enemies have abilities that you need to counter, about the rolling HP system, and how shields work. Mother 3: The game has something like this in the form of the Mole Cricket, the only enemy you fight in the prologue. Nicely subverted/lampshaded in that he comes back toward the end of the game, demanding a rematch, but his stats are exactly the same. The Reconstructed Caribou you fight early in the first chapter is also a fairly easy boss, unless you've been avoiding fights. As he's incredibly vulnerable to Duster's Wall Staples technique, he mostly exists to teach the player that all those "Useless Useful Spells" like buffs, debuffs, and inflicting status ailments that are typically worthless in RPGs are, in fact, not only useful but necessary in this game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_da02c1ef	comment	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: The game has the first fight with the Goldfish Poop Gang, Lord Crump. This time around, however, you have full use of action commands. There are numerous enemies/minibosses in the early game that use special music to show that they are there to show you how to do stuff, such as Gus, the Bristles, and the Gold Fuzzy. The first giant Blooper in Rogueport Sewers also fits this trope. It is also the first boss to have a chance to beat the player.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_dab32c2	comment	Mega Man 7 has two of these in its opening level: Mad Grinder and the first fight against Bass. The former is a big, slow, and easy target with simplistic attacks, while the latter only jumps straight up and shoots straight forward.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_dab32c3	comment	Mega Man 8 has Yadokargo, fought at the end of the opening stage. He has simplistic attacks and both the Mega Ball and fully-charged Mega Buster stun him to expose his weak point.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_dab32e3	comment	Mega Man X: Each game has an "intro level" with a fight against this kind of bosses. They're big, slow and easy targets with simplistic attacks. The exception is the very first game's intro boss, Vile, who's a Hopeless Boss Fight instead. The sixth game gives a combo of both: After you fight a giant, berserking construction robot, you meet one of the main villains, High Max, who you literally can't harm - he'll just fight you for a few seconds and then go away. Also, X5 has an optional tutorial level, at the end of which is a watered-down Magma Dragoon from X4.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_de669380	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation: Fred Fucks (or The Nostalgia Critic in the original) is a rather simple miniboss with one attack who goes down quickly, fought in the tutorial level.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_defedb34	comment	The Gargoyle from Covenant is dark aligned and thus Nicholas and his white magic can easily solo the fight.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_df238852	comment	The first bosses from Muramasa: The Demon Blade qualify: Momohime fights the Blue Monk, a revenge-seeking cyclops yokai. He's a big sluggish target that telegraphs all of his attacks (he always prays before taking action) making them really easy to dodge. He can also be stun-locked by a flurry of slashes before he gets to do anything. Kizuke has to deal with Kurozaru, the leader of the Skull Valley Ozaru ninjas. Like the Blue Monk, he's also a big target that telegraphs all of his attacks that invariably involve his pair of pinwheel shurikens. The difference is that Kurozaru is slightly faster.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_e0ede500	comment	Sinjid: The Gel Skeleton in Battle Arena is the first boss fought in the game, and has the most simplistic attack patterns out of all of them. He can be somewhat troublesome due to his fast attacks, but he's a cakewalk when compared to the other bosses in the game. Mad Lord Yuji has average stats, simple attack patterns, and his Rage ability slows him down and has an obvious tell (he literally Turns Red), making his attacks easy to avoid if you know what you're doing.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_e15a3879	comment	In the case of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time: It's Baby Bowser who serves this role, and you learn the bare basics of battling while fighting solo (Luigi is only at the sidelines at every occasion). Junior Shrooboid is the Warm-Up Boss for the adult Mario.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_e1a38d23	comment	Monster Hunter Portable 3rd has the Arzuros, with its simple and slow movement pattern and low health. It's even fought before the Great Jaggi in this game.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_e566c7bc	comment	This is discussed in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, where during her rematch Katy states that since her Gym's the closest to the Academy she's been mandated by the Champion Geeta to be the Paldean League's designated Warm Up Boss, something she finds frustrating since she doesn't enjoy being the resident jobber.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_e5feb1e	comment	In the Ace Attorney series, the first culprit is usually pretty easy to take down, and any new mechanics introduced by a game in the series usually make it pretty clear where a contradiction is. Also, most of the games will outright show you who the first criminal is so you aren't guessing wrong while getting the hang of it. Winston Payne fills this role as the first prosecutor you face in the first four games of the series, making his reputation as a "rookie killer" an Informed Ability. The fifth and sixth games replace him with his younger brother Gaspen, who's meaner but just as pathetic, and the first case of both The Great Ace Attorney games are prosecuted by the Paynes' slightly more competent ancestor Taketsuchi Auchi. Frank Sahwit as a witness and culprit (no, that's not a spoiler) in the first game. You don't even have to press him. Averted in the first case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, where the culprit isn't the first witness as you've come to expect, but rather the main character's boss and co-counsel Kristoph Gavin, who turns out to be the Big Bad of the game as a whole.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_e605dad8	comment	Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! has Crush — his fireball attack can be a bit difficult at times, especially when he does three in a row, but one can still easily beat him in less than three minutes.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_e64a6382	comment	In Arknights, the first Reunion leader fought is Crownslayer. Unlike other Reunion leaders, or even most other enemies, Crownslayer doesn't attack your operators. Instead, she has a special ability which lets her pass through an operator that's blocking her. It has a long cooldown, so it can easily be dealt with while still punishing those who get careless, and the stage where she's first fought provides a way to stun her for a short time, but it does introduce the fact that Reunion leaders will have powerful abilities can ruin your day if you don't prepare.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_e68decb8	comment	Assuming you don't rush out of the solar system right away, your first real fight in Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is against an Ilwrath ship which is already in a bad spot — it enters the fight missing some crew and with a malfunctioning cloaking device. Meanwhile, you have brought a Human Cruiser with you, which sports a nuclear armament in the form of homing missiles, and it's also possible to find a Spathi ship that you can convince to join up with you beforehand.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_eb6719f6	comment	Final Fantasy VIII has Ifrit. He hits harder than previous enemies, has a special attack, and likely can't be beat in a direct hit race without the need to heal thanks to his higher hit points. But the heroes are given his weakness even earlier in the game, and were taught lessons on how to beat him. So much so, he even speaks special dialogue when his weakness is used against him, to let the player know they are doing it right.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_eb6802b4	comment	In Final Fantasy XIII, the Shiva Sisters serve as this for the Eidolon battles. These are Puzzle Bosses with a time limit where you can't win by attacking alone. You need to use Libra to figure out the strategy that 'impresses' them. Shiva is both easy to impress and almost impossible to die to; one of the Sisters will continuously heal you if your health drops.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_eb6a75b6	comment	The Mad Bomber from Popful Mail. It has an easily predictable pattern, and takes only 10 hits to defeat with Mail's basic longsword.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ecccafaa	comment	Spyro: Year of the Dragon has Buzz — for the first half of the battle, he can't even really hurt you unless he knocks you into the lava with his harmless ramming attack, or you mysteriously forget how to run when he rolls after you. You'll be done with him in two minutes — he's so weak that he even comes back later as a mook used by another boss.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man Mega Man 7 has two of these in its opening level: Mad Grinder and the first fight against Bass. The former is a big, slow, and easy target with simplistic attacks, while the latter only jumps straight up and shoots straight forward. Mega Man 8 has Yadokargo, fought at the end of the opening stage. He has simplistic attacks and both the Mega Ball and fully-charged Mega Buster stun him to expose his weak point. Mega Man & Bass has the Green Devil, fought at the end of the opening stage. Unlike other Devil bosses, this one is stationary and has easily avoidable attacks. Mega Man Powered Up has Proto Eye, a bigger yet laughably easier version of Big Eye. Mega Man X: Each game has an "intro level" with a fight against this kind of bosses. They're big, slow and easy targets with simplistic attacks. The exception is the very first game's intro boss, Vile, who's a Hopeless Boss Fight instead. The sixth game gives a combo of both: After you fight a giant, berserking construction robot, you meet one of the main villains, High Max, who you literally can't harm - he'll just fight you for a few seconds and then go away. Also, X5 has an optional tutorial level, at the end of which is a watered-down Magma Dragoon from X4. Mega Man Zero follows the trend, though played with when it gets to Mega Man Zero 3: In that game, the first boss (Omega) follows the trend, but he's also the Final Boss, with the first stage of the latter fight just being a beefed-up version of the beginning battle with a Palette Swap, more health, upgraded faster moves and one entirely new technique. Weil admits Omega's just been holding back his true power, and gives him the all-clear to kick it into high gear. Twice. Mega Man ZX and Advent: To drive it home, the first and second bosses in the former get a variation each that become Mini Bosses in the latter, and the latter's first boss is the only one Grey/Ashe have to defeat in just their regular un-Megamerged formsnote One medal is obtained by defeating Hedgeshock the same way.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: The Parasite Queen in the Space Pirate ship in the beginning of Metroid Prime. In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, you fight a Berserker Lord tricked out with Phazon armor that can only be hurt by deflecting its shots. In Super Metroid, the first enemy you face is an old enemy, Ridley. Unfortunately, you're at minimum strength and he's a giant flying Space Pirate dragon. Thankfully, since heâ€™s there to commit theft rather than to pick a fight, he flies off after either of you takes too much damage (more likely you). When you fight him again later, it's a much different story. Kraid in his Super Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission appearance. His attacks aren't terribly damaging and he dies pretty quickly to missiles. And he is massive, and this is compared to Ridley, who is much smaller than Kraid, yet possesses more strength and health than him. This doesn't really apply to Zero Mission's hard mode, though. The first Alpha Metroid in Metroid II: Return of Samus and Metroid: Samus Returns. Despite it having a fast ramming attack in the latter, the Melee Counter and missiles make short work of it.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_f33b3f7b	comment	Ninja: Shadow of Darkness: The first boss is a Minotaur-crocodile hybrid who breathes slow, easy-to-dodge fireballs, and there is plenty of area for you to run around him in circles and fling throwing knives at him. His only dangerous attack is his Tail Slap, which can be avoided if you keep a safe distance from him. Heck, the second boss, a two-headed Cerberus, is arguably easier than the first. You fight it (them?) in a much smaller arena, but since it lacks a ranged attack (unlike the previous boss' powerful tail) you can easily land punch after punch on it or blast it from up close with your smoke bombs or ground pound. Even better, you can obtain a battleax in an area not too far from the boss arena, and since you don't need to keep your distance, if you still have that ax with you, that will come in handy whacking away massive chunks of the Cerberus' health. It's only ranged attack is firing an easy-to-dodge eye laser, which ends up working in your favour because the Cerberus needs to stay still while firing the laser, allowing you to land several more hits by sneaking up on it. At any rate, the boss fights only become challenging from the third Wake-Up Call Boss onwards.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_f355621e	comment	Dando, the first boss of Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos, is slightly trickier. He doesn't have any weapons, but he will occasionally charge toward the walls and knock Ryu down if he's clinging onto one.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_f3cbb86a	comment	BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm has the trio of Blind Diggers that ambush you at the end of the tutorial dungeon. Theyâ€™re the first enemies with four digits of health, and they have an attack that can stun you, but none of their attacks do much damage and theyâ€™re easy to take down if you focus on one at a time.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_f4ba2731	comment	In Dream Drop Distance, Ursula herself fills this role!
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Warm-Up Boss / int_f69d81fc	comment	The Wood Man Guard and Shadow Fang are your introductory bosses for Vindictus, if you didn't fight the Giant Spider at the end of the tutorial stage.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: The Darkside Heartless at the end of Sora's dream in Kingdom Hearts and its Nobody counterpart Twilight Thorn in Roxas' dream in Kingdom Hearts II. Each one is a huge enemy that requires the player to not only make use of jumping and attacking at the right time, but also paying attention to what the boss is doing to avoid getting wailed on in kind. At the end of the Birth by Sleep tutorial level in which you play as Ventus, you'll have the option of fighting either Terra or Aqua in a practice duel. In Dream Drop Distance, Ursula herself fills this role!
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Warm-Up Boss / int_f97683ef	comment	Hollow Knight has the False Knight, who while big and scary is also clumsy and slow, teaching the players about attack telegraphs and dodging.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_fa132e37	comment	Dark Devotion: Child of the Limbo, the first boss, is a lot easier than the rest of the gameâ€™s bosses. It moves slowly, its attacks are highly telegraphed and easy to dodge, and it has no ranged attacks or gap-closing abilities. Its defeat marks the end of the tutorial area and the beginning of the game proper.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_fa31ee5b	comment	Bartholomew Kuma, the first boss of One Piece: Unlimited Cruise, is kind of the first boss version of the Anticlimax Boss. Anyone who has read or watched One Piece knows how much of a scary badass this guy is, and so when the fight actually starts, it's a surprise that the big guy turns out to be a complete pushover. Once you unlock him in multiplayer though, he regains his badass status.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_fa5e90fd	comment	New players in City of Heroes generally end up in the former Scrappy Level The Hollows, and complete the Frostfire mission more than once. Although he has a few pets, he's a generally easy boss compared to the other Archvillain level foes that are found later on, and his level is awesome.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_fc751c49	comment	Gundam Breaker 3 has Tiger, a loud-mouthed braggart who interrupts your game and claims to be the local Ace Pilot, challenging you at the end of the first mission, "Encounter." Despite piloting a custom mobile suit made up of various impressive-looking Zeon parts, including a dangerous Sazabi core body, his Gunpla turns out to be poorly optimized: it's huge, slow, and its attacks are extremely telegraphed. Even with the hodgepodge of Starter Equipment given to you at the start of the game, it's very easy to beat him in under a minute. It turns out that he's more of a Paper Tiger and your newfound ally Misa even calls him a loser who only picks on newbies for easy wins. She's right, too—the moment you wipe the floor with him, Tiger abandons the fight and he won't show up ever again for the rest of the game, not even for a rematch. This is not a surprise as he's a Dirty Coward down to the marrow and wouldn't even consider challenging someone who can actually put up a fight.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_fd3487b9	comment	In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Bowser is once again the first boss, but doesn't really qualify â€” your only option each turn is to attack, and even if you mess up every one of your attacks and get hit by every one of his, he will still hit 0 before you do. Instead, this title goes to Tolstar. He's the first enemy with a real chance to defeat the Mario Bros., and his spike ball attacks teach you to pay attention to how enemies telegraph who they're going to attack.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Link is the first opponent in the 1P mode of Super Smash Bros. 64 and usually just meanders around, occasionally throwing out an attack or two. Even on higher difficulties he'll allow you to get used to your character's moveset and often won't bother to recover when knocked off stage. Petey Piranha in Super Smash Bros. Brawl: The Subspace Emissary. His attacks are slow, easily dodged, obviously telegraphed and he has three gigantic hitboxes. You also fight him as Kirby, which means that you can just get up in his face and deliver a continuous stream of pummeling during the fight. Once you know his painfully predictable pattern, it's very easy to not take a single percentage point of damage during the curbstomping you give him.
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Warm-Up Boss / int_ff9ca30	comment	In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, you fight a Berserker Lord tricked out with Phazon armor that can only be hurt by deflecting its shots.
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