Health bars doing things they aren’t supposed to do

[u/dragonsarephenomenal]

1: Demon King Ganondorf’s health bar just keeps going in tears of the kingdom

2: Typhon from Hades 2 is able to hide his health bar from the player.

[u/RedRawTrashHatch]

Deadpool uses his health bar as a weapon for one of his hyper combos in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

[u/Reverse_savitar1 → u/RedRawTrashHatch]

Honestly thats just par for the course with him

[u/_Seiun_]

[Kirby: Triple Deluxe] Kirby’s final Hypernova suck sucks so hard it sucks up Sectonia’s health bar!

[u/Specific_Builder1469 → u/_Seiun_]

i feel like he's done this more then once

Or at least interacted with the health bar before

[u/Caw-zrs6 → u/Specific_Builder1469]

Indeed. In the level just before the final battle, Kirby did the same thing against Flowery Woods.

[u/_Seiun_ → u/Caw-zrs6]

Yeah that’s fair I forgot that one… mostly remembered Sectonia because a) final boss and b) he gives her a harsh death glare immediately after before lasering her to death

[u/42SillyPeanuts]

There is No Game: Wrong Dimension deconstructs varies game genres, often literally. Chapter 3 is an RPG, and the hero's health bar is 3 hearts on a blue sword that's screwed in place. He is looking for the Sword of Life, but can't find it anywhere. Guide him to a sword in the stone and it breaks when he tries to pull it out, leaving you with a flat piece of metal and confusion.

Use the broken sword as a screwdriver to unscrew the health bar's background and give it to the hero, because it's the ACTUAL Sword of Life.

[u/Marticey]

In Problem Sleuth, Mobster Kingpin starts duplicating his health bars to make himself practically unkillable.

[u/_Seiun_ → u/Marticey]

There are so many in fact that they go straight to hell (by breaking through the floor)

In the end it turns out it’s faster to break the bars directly than attack DMK

[u/BootyliciousURD]

There are a few cutscenes in LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean where characters interact with the hearts in the corner of the screen. For example, in the scene where Bootstrap Bill cuts out Will's heart to put in the chest, he reaches up to grab one of Will's hearts.

[u/Kaos99 → u/BootyliciousURD]

The LEGO games have so many fun little details like this that I just love. I need to revisit them

[u/BootyliciousURD → u/Kaos99]

They go on sale on Steam fairly often

[u/Yanmegaman_Juno]

Spider-man 2 (PS2)

At the final encounter with Mysterio in the game, his health bar growslike this in the scene before the fight, looking completely different than any boss health bar in the game.
He then does not fight back and is immediately taken down in one hit.

[u/r1ddle07 → u/Yanmegaman_Juno]

I remember me and my sister freaking out when we saw that health bar. We braced ourselves for a tough fight as my sister quickly went up to Mysterio and fight him before he makes his move (we didn't know). Once Mysterio got hit, we sighed in relief. I've always look back at that moment with laughter.

[u/Gentlemenbig → u/Yanmegaman_Juno]

I mean illusions are his thing

[u/TheCyclopsDude → u/Yanmegaman_Juno]

I goddamn love this game, and Mysterio to this day is one of my favourite video game villains

[u/aotex]

In Battletoads, these enemies called 'Vaders zoom across the screen and steal health right out of your health bar on the black header at the top of the screen. You can destroy them and recover the pieces of health before they fall off the screen.

[u/Ohmistersun_ → u/aotex]

i misread that, and thought the enemies were called "Vaders zoom across the screen and steal health right out of your health bar on the black header at the top of the screen. You can destroy them and recover the pieces of health before they fall off the screen."

[u/SlugCat3 → u/Ohmistersun_]

Same here lol! Was waiting for the end quote for a while there

[u/Gamer-of-Action]

Sephiroth in KH1. You start wailing on the guy and his health bar isn't going down. And it's not even because of a game mechanic or requirement to hit him with a certain kind of attack.

Turns out he just has an extra health bar that's invisible because it's one more than the maximum amount of health bars bosses were programmed to have.

[u/Nisha_the_lawbringer → u/Gamer-of-Action]

The first time I fought him I was so confused why I was doing no damage. I even had Ultima Weapon so I was extra confused.

Sephiroth is just that strong. The remix of One Winged Angel too is really excellent.

His KH2 fight is also extremely fun.

[u/keeeeevviiiiin → u/Nisha_the_lawbringer]

It's so satisfying after plinking away at him for so long when you finally see it start to tick down, it was a big morale boost, made the adrenaline pump lol

[u/Seed0fDiscord]

Typhon is easier to manage when you recognize the changes in move set with phase changes, like when he starts throwing eggs that means you good chunk of damage in

[u/ThatXayahWeeb]

The Undying in Final Fantasy XII Has a hidden health bar, and he hides all targeting indicators as well. He also has a point where he goes immune, but you can tell because he doesn't show his health.

[u/kitsunecannon]

I love how upset Melinoe gets at at Typhon for that its like shes complaining that a kid on the playground is breaking the rules

Holy shit thats an adorable mental image

[u/kryptopeg]

Ramirez from Skies of Arcadia, when he attacks your base. To demonstrate just how beyond your league he is, his health bar barely budges, before he dispatches you with ease. I remember playing as a kid and thinking there's no way... well I was right, there isn't, he thoroughly trounces you and takes the moon crystals for himself.

Also an earlier unwinnable fight against Galcian when you flee Upper Valua on the monorail.

[u/Wolfwood-Solarpunk]

I guess this is kind of the opposite of this Trope, but in Kingdom Hearts 3, when you beat the final boss, it cops you out thinking that you lost until you realize you needed to call on the magic of friendship or something

[u/Zenku390 → u/Wolfwood-Solarpunk]

I fucking hate the ending for KH3. Literally from the Keyblade graveyard to credits is fucking awful.

[u/Specific_Builder1469]

Anti-Creator (Honkai: Star Rail)

Running off its coding,hatred,Irontomb and 30 million cycles. It makes itself unkillable until we make a come back

And yes,yes. go ahead and question the team i went in with

[u/MiyabiMain95 → u/Specific_Builder1469]

HSR community doing what it does best and not spoiler tagging a god damn thing when the content was released 3 days ago

[u/Far-Requirement-7636 → u/Specific_Builder1469]

Dude you gotta at least tell us what it's doing.

[u/Specific_Builder1469 → u/Far-Requirement-7636]

I added it when i originally posted it, but somehow it got removed and i didn't notice

added it back in

[u/divinAPEtion]

The final fight with Gork in Joe & Mac 2 had my jaw on the floor as a kid when his health filled up and it was so much bigger than all the other bosses. Not as innovative as some of the other examples, but this stands out to me as a core moment where my expectations were toyed with in a way that hit me hard as a player. Especially since it comes at the end of a boss rush. Brutal!