The Battle Didn't Count, and events unfold exactly the same as if you had lost the battle.Someone or something else pulls a Diabolus Ex Machina and finishes you off.The boss will simply reveal that he is Not Left Handed and summon his Cutscene Power to the Max to knock your party senseless, if your party members didn't already collapse from their own exhaustion.In any case, since a Hopeless Boss Fight is one the game expects you to lose, the game will react to its defeat in one of several ways: In this special case, defeating the boss may net you a cool reward of Experience Points or rare items. Sometimes, the apparently invincible boss can technically be defeated, if you have a precisely tuned tactical setup, access to a Disc One Nuke, the advantage of a New Game+ or endless hours of Level Grinding behind you. If the monster will become defeatable as you gain power, it's a Beef Gate. Not all Hopeless Boss Fights exist to defeat you at a specific point to advance the plot there may also be Border Patrol, confronting players who try to go Off the Rails in certain areas with a Hopeless Boss Fight, from which the only option is to Run or Die. More fiendishly, some games can silently observe the player's efforts to determine whether they put up a decent struggle before going down, with a genuine Game Over issued if they died too quickly, or make the objective to survive for a fixed amount of time, with any deaths resulting in game over. Often, Genre Savvy players may confuse a hopelessly difficult boss with this and give up fighting on the assumption that the battle is intended to be hopeless. This is another reason why these tend to appear at the beginning of the game, as you haven't even acquired any serious healing items or abilities yet. Ideally, the game should make it somewhat obvious to the casual gamer the fight is probably intended to be hopeless, lest you waste your serious healing items and abilities. They have the odd tendency to be Climax Bosses: If they were the Big Bad or The Dragon, players will get to fight them after this Final Boss Preview by the end of the game as a straight up Final Boss (or Penultimate Boss). Since games like to pretend to be fair, your opponent in the Hopeless Boss Fight tends to return later in the game for a proper battle. Done well, this defeat will strike fear into the heart of the player, having learned firsthand just how powerful this boss really is done poorly, it feels like a cheap trick designed to advance the plot, Suspension of Disbelief be damned. These bosses tend to make their appearance near the beginning of the game, before the characters have had a chance to earn Experience Points or Level Up, or otherwise become more powerful than their predefined starting levels - this makes narrative sense as well, because this is when the characters would be least likely to survive an encounter with them anyway. Odds are good you won't be able to damage or hit him at all - he'll quickly reduce it to Scratch Damage or just ignore it outright as he launches One-Hit Kill (if not Total Party Kill!) attacks on your team, and if you aren't able to run from this battle on turn one, it's Game Over on turn two. This is a boss with Nigh Invulnerability, if not sheer invulnerability outright. There are two ways to accomplish this: One is the Cutscene Boss, where the player has no control over the battle's outcome at all - and the other is the Hopeless Boss Fight. The storyline requires the defeat of the main characters in order to make a point or explain a key event, regardless of whether or not the player would allow their party to fall in battle. Sometimes the plot demands that you fail. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.
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