7 Pathetic Bosses Who Wouldn't Stop Running Away, the Cowards

[@ParadisiacalDreams]

If Micolash isn’t on this list I will be so disappointed Edit: “No one can catch us! No one can stop us now!” - Micolash as he escapes being in the video

[@J3Puffin]

I look forward to seeing them in the fan submission video lol

[@caliburn1123]

What is micolash

[@ghostyuki-kfpinquisitor1038]

Recurring thing in the souls series it seems 1 - Gwyndolin Elden Ring - Elden Beast Bloodborne - Micolash as you and I'm sure half the comments mentioned Not sure if De/2/3 had candidates.

[@KainaX122]

@@ghostyuki-kfpinquisitor1038don’t recall DS2 having one, though I haven’t played the DLCs all the way through

[@ParadisiacalDreams]

@@caliburn1123 Micolash, Host of the Nightmare - Bloodborne boss

[@briarpelt2333]

"Inigo stood still a moment, panting. Then he made a half turn in the direction of Count Rugen and executed a quick and well-formed bow. 'Hello,' he said. 'My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.' "And in reply, the Count did a genuinely remarkable and unexpected thing: he turned and ran." - From _The Princess Bride_ by William Goldman

[@marenrisu9711]

Ah yes the best book of all time^^ written by S.Morgenstern edited by William Goldman

[@CatChaos369]

The fact Micolash wasn’t on the list must be because Luke would spiral into a fit of rage upon remembering that fight

[@saladass1571]

Micolash is so awful, he makes me consider the big sleep

[@MrFutago87]

Me before scrolling down: "I wonder if anyone mentioned Micolash?" Me after scrolling down:"..............oh"

[@cognitivefailure]

I really appreciate the commitment to the bit in the Assassin's Creed segment. They could have just played one or two seconds of the "Charles Lee" clips at the end and called it a day, but no! They inserted the *entire montage* they'd just shown a few moments earlier. That, my friends, is comedy. Bravo!

[@bostonrailfan2427]

but what was his name? i didn’t catch it

[@Amaranthyne]

@@bostonrailfan2427 Charles Lee, CHARLES LEE! Charles Lee, Lee, Charles, Charles Lee was his name, I think.

[@Amaranthyne]

If I had to go through old capture to get that many clips I would want to play it twice, too! I bet they’ll find an excuse to use it again.

[@edwardmendoza3985]

Hello, new drinking game!

[@winnydamarpoe]

@@edwardmendoza3985 alcohol poisoning is a thing XD

[@Sableagle]

Uh-oh. Jane's gone "Would you kindly" on us. That never ends well.

[@AFrailGentleman]

Micolash is simply the boss that hasn’t Stopped running yet as he still lives rent-free in all our minds, evidently 😂

[@DeMuypr]

He is so good, that in Bloodborne-themed cart game he doesn't need vehicle! Can't give here links, so here is name of the video: Bloodborne Kart: Micolash Joins the Race!

[@ryadinstormblessed8308]

6:13 "you wouldn't think a giant robot made of rocks would be scared of anything!" ... maybe it thinks you are made of paper?! 😂

[@FelisImpurrator]

To be fair, you kinda are. Have you seen how quickly an Arwing goes down?

[@edwardnygma8533]

Kinda does look like an origami jet tbf.

[@furrystarcat]

Also, there are four in the wing, and he only has two arms... Arwings don't have a "hover" function, so he kind of *has* to run if he doesn't want to crashed into in that narrow corridor

[@insecdroid]

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare from Bloodborne. The frustration from that fight came back the second I read the title if this video.

[@insaincaldo]

Just because I'm playing Skyrim again. Alduin, you kick some dragon ass and he flees to another plane of existence.

[@lukaszboczar2441]

Don't you send him into that other plane?

[@adhitya2505]

The artist's impression of Kratos borrowing Hermes' legs is... actually quite impressive.

[@Darkprosper]

I love the fact that it puts a big stickman smile on Kratos' face, a contender for the least smiley video game protagonist.

[@jaredcrabb]

​@@Darkprosper And let me guess, Asura is the other one.

[@Mewla_Aliapoh]

Ah, Kos, or some say Kosm… Do you hear our prayers? As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes! Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy. The grand lake of mud, hidden now, from sight. The cosmos, of course! Let us sit about, and speak feverishly. Chatting into the wee hours of... New ideas, of the higher plane!

[@landonweldy5468]

First thing I thought of

[@kcollier2192]

Conner: "Give me Charles Lee, or give me death!" Patrick Henry: "Hmm, you know, I think you have something there."

[@georginaherdman4998]

That Evri joke hit me at a personal level

[@TheROOTminus1]

"You weren't in so we left it in a safe location" I was in. You couldn't be arsed to push the doorbell. And the bin on bin day is NOT a **safe location**

[@bostonrailfan2427]

i’m not British but even i understood that joke 🤣

[@DEEJAYWAL]

For me it was DPD App notification: You're next. We'll be with you in a few minutes. Me: Great. I'll go look out the window. A couple of minutes of empty street later... App notification: Sorry we missed you. Chatbot: What's the problem? Me: explains the situation Chatbot: So you missed the delivery.

[@KERMiTtehDOG]

You guys get your packages thrown in a bush? My local driver loads up the van and drives straight to the nearest car boot sale.

[@DEEJAYWAL]

I had one that could be arsed to push the doorbell, presumably just so he could honestly say he could, but then immediately dropped in a "you were out" card. Unfortunately his cunning plan was foiled because I happened to be walking past the front door at that exact second. When I opened the door a second later he was already getting back into his van. He must have run at a speed that would have left Usain Bolt choking in his dust and given Barry Allen a nasty surprise. "I thought you were out!"

[@braynjohnson4302]

Micolash ran away from being in this list somehow too.

[@mechraiv]

"And Link's like 'Duude" and Zelda's like 'Woooah' and Ganondorf's like '[actual game voice] Aaaaagh'" and I'm like [bursting into laughter] and Luke's like 'No laughing!' That was top KZbin

[@wolfskinchanger]

11:50 The silliest part of Twilight Princess's battle with Ganondorf is the fact that, during that climactic one-on-one duel, he can be distracted by Link's fishing pole. Try it sometime, if you're of a mind to dust off the old save file; cast your fishing line past him and his eyes will follow the lure, leaving him wide open for attack every time.

[@oldvlognewtricks]

Proving Ganondorf is canonically a trout

[@poobrainpony6610]

They know, theyve covered it 5 times now. Youre not telling anyone anything new my dude.

[@wolfskinchanger]

@@poobrainpony6610 I find it's a rare thing that I *do* tell anyone anything new, but there's still a chance, however slim, that my random trivia reaches 1 of today's lucky 10,000.

[@NucularRobit]

Hey, I didn't know that. I've never played that one and don't watch this channel much. So I guess I'm today's winner.

[@deadfIag]

​@@poobrainpony6610take a break from being online

[@griffinraynor8425]

I think you've covered it before but for posterity I'm reminding everyone of how Malak in Knights of the Old Republic made you run through the entire bowels of the Star Forge, fighting dark Jedi and robots as he taunted you and ran away again, before you finally got to face him in the heart of the Forge, where he used jars of living Jedi prisoners as health batteries to top himself up throughout the fight. Absolute king of being a cowardly, annoying boss.

[@orsolyafekete7485]

And the most straightforward way to defeat him then, is kiting him around in circles. Serves him right. Taste your own medicine, oh great Darth Malak! Oh, wait, you can't, you don't have a mouth

[@Joyful_Traitor]

@@orsolyafekete7485 That is how I always killed him run away while taking out the jedi so he can't use them to heal

[@daviddaugherty2816]

I always make sure to thank him for leaving me plenty of spare health around his boss arena. Talk about thoughtful.

[@shotgunshells2]

@@orsolyafekete7485 That's the second best way to beat him. the best way is by laying out as many mines as the game engine can handle.

[@jodinsan]

Luke: "But we have to assume it is rooted in simply being totally spineless." Me: "Made of rock, therefore no bones. Checks out."

[@jmgriffee]

You're sure not wrong about that ACIII montage. My main memory of that game really just is, "WHERE IS CHARLES LEEEEEE?!?!" (Meanwhile, somewhere off in the distance: "I'm a general! Whee!!!") Anyway. Oh, boy, I hated that chase sequence. Ubisoft, please. I have notes.

[@ColinKillick]

I’m glad I’m not the only one whose mind immediately went to that Hamilton line!

[@scarfaceaceo]

I just wanna say I appreciate this channel for actually saying what games are being spoiled at the beginning of the video

[@Jabogers]

Fun fact: Gwyndolin's hallway isn't actually endless, it's just really, really, really, really long. It's the single longest hallway in the game and it almost takes 10 minutes to get to the end, but it makes the fight so much easier, though of course if you die you'll have to run the entire gauntlet again.

[@JoyfulWoodenSled-je2in]

Gamer’s weekend reached the end of the hallway in one of their older challenge runs

[@inscrutablemungus4143]

11 words: "All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ"

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Not a boss

[@FelisImpurrator]

​@@goldenfiberwheat238Tell that to the goddamn train and the amount of retries it forced.

[@maddlespaddles413]

I always remember Clare from Pokémon literally running off to play keep away with the badge you won fair and square 😂

[@AgentMonochrome]

"Congrats, you won. That's only Part 1. Now, go get a Dragon Fang."

[@TheBanishedWind]

@@AgentMonochrome More like "I call shenanigans, take this test I never passed to prove you weren't cheating!"

[@SJrad]

on the topic of Pokemon, roaming legendary Pokemon that flee the first turn unless you have a trapping Pokemon

[@LamanKnight]

Remember Eric Sparrow, from Tony Hawk's Underground? The entire final level is chasing that irritating coward around as he basically throws molotovs at you. At least it's that much more satisfying when you play through the whole game a second time, and give Eric what he REALLY deserves.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Molotovs? Geez dude it’s just skate boarding

[@LamanKnight]

@goldenfiberwheat238 He does throw stuff at you, multiple times, that make flames in front of where you are skating, and he says stuff like, "Oops, did I drop that?!" He's trying to sabotage you on purpose, and yes, he does go that far.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@@LamanKnight 💀

[@NisansaDdS]

I actually expected another "WHERE IS CHARLES LEE?" after the outro.

[@beladendron]

All that chasing, and how do you kill him? You both walk into a bar. Drink. Then Connor stabs him. I almost chucked the controller screaming "WTF WAS THE LAST 60 HOURS FOR?"

[@NutSaxs]

@@beladendronCharles Lee, obviously.

[@Scutumdeorum]

Gwyndolin doesn't flee, he kites you. Like any mage player does to other boss.

[@MrIcePho3nix]

"And another move is to nuke you from enormous distance with a killing ray." Still not convinced this makes Gwyndolin more of a coward than most player mages.

[@insaincaldo]

Pretty sure stretching a hallway into infinity and always going backwards, instead of circling the player counts as running.

[@Scutumdeorum]

@@insaincaldo A circle is just an infinite line curved onto itself

[@clockworkmonsters8590]

Like the Crystal Mage! I mean, he also uses clones and only teleports if you hit the real him...but it's still running away!

[@insaincaldo]

@@clockworkmonsters8590 Are they not more Pinwheel adjacent. Even shows up again in a more suited arena, though the pinwheel enemies that does that are even more pushovers the Sage does it better. Oh boy I can imagine the archives, if the sage there used clones.

[@Omnicras]

Gargarensis from Age of Mythology, that Cyclops runs away from you over the whole campaign. The hero, Arkantos, directly calls his cowardness out at one point, "You always seem to be hiding behind something when I see you, cyclops."

[@Redwolf2495]

King Arthur from Sonic and the Black Knight: "YOU SHALL REGRET THE DAY YOU RAISED YOU SWORD AGAINST ME" - Arthur, while riding away from Sonic as fast as his horse can take him

[@s0ph053]

Too slow!

[@DeerBonesBaby]

I fucking hated that fight as a kid

[@SanTM]

You can really feel the 10 years of pent of frustration in that AC 3 segment lol. 100% sync on that game was a nightmare, much like the tank mission in AC Brotherhood. I think Syndicate nailed the 100% sync where it let you go for checkpoints and saved the progress

[@7_magpies2000]

6:13 I think if I was a giant robot made out of rocks I’d probably also be scared of paper

[@KainaX122]

So fun fact with the Gwyndolin fight: The corridor isn’t actually infinite. If the fight takes long enough, you will reach the end of the corridor

[@BlockBuster-xq4xm]

In Undertale, the fight against Undyne is quite literally the opposite. In a non-genocide run, you have to keep running away from her to eventually win.

[@aikan7457]

The "Get good, scrub" bit made me lol

[@Brasc]

10:02 Now there's an original Westaway piece if ever I saw one.

[@stone5against1]

Too bad the piece of art didn't come with its own theme song

[@ka-mai]

Instantly recognizable art style. The masterful strokes on blood invoke so many feelings in the viewer!

[@entropic-decay]

One of my favorite bits with a boss that runs away from you is ULTRAKILL's V2 - a second version of the prototype war machine you play as, V1. First time you encounter it, it runs away after you hit one of its arms off. Second time you encounter it, it tries to run away by sliding down the side of a giant pyramid you were fighting it in the top of, and you *go after it,* knocking it off the side of the pyramid and causing it to become little more than a red smear and some scrap metal on the path far below - well, besides the new arm it crafted for itself to catch up to you for a rematch. And yes, its arms are essentially extra abilities you can use. Your default arm parries projectiles, V2's first arm you hit off it is essentially a more powerful punch and can create an explosion that you don't get hurt by with a little bit of a wind-up, and the one it made to catch up to you is basically a grappling hook that you can use on enemies - smaller ones get pulled to you, you get pulled to larger ones. Useful given the game's healing mechanic of getting enemies to coat you in their fresh blood to restock your fuel.

[@robertwoods3871]

Gnasty Gnorc from Spyro 1? His entire "fight" was just him running away from you

[@AmeenaWordweaver]

Yeah and he only needs two hits to kill, which is fewer than some of the other bosses - Jacques only needs one hit but is another boss who (as far as I can remember) spends the "fight" retreating from you whilst throwing boxes at you until you reach the final platform and easily kill him there.

[@ShadowOfCicero]

Glorified egg thief, who was preceded by two egg thieves.

[@KurtHectic9]

After years of lurking and watching videos, I was finally compelled to get some merch from you guys. The "games are back tee" was too good to pass up. You guys are the best.

[@TheRealCodeBlack]

Crash Bandicoot, the Wrath of Cortex is funny because every boss fight is against Crunch, and in absolutely none of them does he fight Crash directly. Two of the fights straight up have him supe himself up with elemental power, and then spend half of it running away: the water one has him shoot at you from distant platforms, then teleport away the moment Crash gets within spinning distance. The fire one has him chase you for a bit, but then you get your hands on a squirt gun and you get a whole segment where you're chasing him down like a sibling with a super soaker.

[@souledgekirby]

No Goldeneye? Alec Trevelyan spends the whole level running away and taking pot shots at you or activating devices while you have to deal with high-level minions he hides behind. The fight only ends when the two of you are on a tiny platform that he can't run away from, and dies instantly.

[@neilmcgrory1720]

First one I thought of too!

[@jordanbisasky4586]

Upvote!!!

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

For England James?

[@joshfuiava7581]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 No. For me.

[@rebeccaverrall3658]

Another fun one is Captain Madison in the Sastasha dungeon from FFXIV, not only does he run away from you in ONE fight, if you later return and do the hard version of Sastasha, he runs away from you then as well too! Only to meet an untimely end at the hands of the Kraken boss at the end.

[@SapphireDragon357]

Here I was thinking of Grynewaht, but to be fair to him, when he is actually a dungeon boss, he's done running away.

[@mantis638]

I’d like to add Kunikazu Okumura from Persona 5. With most, you collect the treasure and then lead to a boss fight. For Okumura, you start out chasing after the treasure with a time limit and then fighting random employees he sends after you with another time limit.

[@louisewilson2044]

To be fair to Ganondorf most of his encounters involving Link and Zelda with light arrows usually ends with the Master Sword being lodged in his head. So I don't blame him for choosing to flee this time.

[@jaredcrabb]

And same with Hermes running from Kratos. Those 2 are more sane than most bosses.

[@philippegauvin-vallee9371]

To be fair, if big boy Connor showed his face to mess up mine, I would flee as well. While most other assassins have lean, agile frames, Connor is a muscle bound dude who fights bears with two little knives.

[@lizardguyNA]

I think I got a few for ya. For starters, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Once Goht is unfrozen, it just runs right away in a ring shaped arena. Good news, it doesn't have much of a place to go, and the Goron roll is a great way to chase it down. Probably one of the few times such a boss fight is actually kind of cool. Then there's the Chariot Master in Kid Icarus Urprising. Good news is he's at least nice enough to let you use one of the horses that pulls his legendary chariot so you can at least keep up. Actually, while we're at it, how many frikken Machines does Dr Eggman do this across various Sonic the Hedgehog games? I know he does it in Sonic Heroes, Sonic Advance 2, and the daytime bosses of Sonic Unleashed.

[@hectorwhoz]

10:05 that's a really good artist impression of how that scene went LOL

[@AngelBeatYunara]

*Micolash howling in the distance* Would Eva Coré from Mass Effect 3 count? She keeps running away, but does go down fairly easily in the end.

[@stephenwilhelm]

Not really a boss. Kai Lang, however, kept running away in cut-scenes all while taunting Shepard for being too slow. "I'm only seem slow because I'm not running away." was a great comeback.

[@Sharkwizard]

@@stephenwilhelmI was thinking of Kai Leng too lol Gets his butt kicked by a terminally ill Drell, runs. Gets his butt kicked inside an Asari temple, calls in an chopper to shoot missiles at your squad and destroy the temple to get a Prothean AI and runs, then finally gets his butt kicked at the Cerberus base but waits until your back is turned to try to kill you and then you make the killing blow.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

"Gwyndolin never actually runs away... because he's too much of a magic wanker for that." - 🤣

[@Fierrum]

There is also the Alfred Boss Fight in Bloodstained Ritual of the night. He just kept running away in a circle scenario while throwing bombs at you (quite infuriating).

[@homerman76]

Reminds me of El Jefe from Sly Cooper Thieves in Time. Big scary warlord Tiger, scared of facing one sneaky Racoon in close combat, running away several times throughout the fight instead of taking his beating like a man.

[@AK-tr6lo]

Some of the nemesis orcs in shadow of Mordor and shadow of war will sometimes decide to run once you have them on the ropes

[@JoeJaJoeJoe]

I had one nemesis orc who only showed up when I battled other nemesis orcs and ran immediately when damaged. Couldn't bring myself to kill or recruit him 😂

[@thijsv948]

To be fair, it was _extremely_ satisfying to see Hermes go down, and I was only watching my friend playing at the time

[@crescentmoonrising4852]

So many Sonic Bosses, particularly Advance 2 which is every boss except the final one

[@bearcataquatic]

You actually skiped the worst part of chasing lee. The excruciantingly awkward cutcscene where connor catches up, sits with him in a random inn, has a drink, then stabs him in the chest. I honestly wasn't sure if I had skiped something xD

[@maxvel0city906]

Conner: "Give Me Lee!" Me: hands Connor a Copy of "super smash bros Melee."

[@CatChaos369]

“Charles Lee” Me an idiot “Charlie?”

[@pockylovingranger]

Lolololol

[@bentoth9555]

Harley Quinn isn't the neglected girlfriend of The Joker. She's the abused girlfriend.

[@jennypaxton8159]

And she finally did escape him, iirc.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

​@@jennypaxton8159Depends on the iteration.

[@jennypaxton8159]

@@michaelandreipalon359 It’s DC, everything depends on the iteration…

[@aardbei54]

At least Poison Ivy is actually good for her

[@riksweeney]

I think the gang should do a "Draw your favourite Mortal Kombat fatality" competition.

[@laterferaligatr2947]

"To catch a fly from the ass of Zeus is not worth my time" is one of the most badass lines ever

[@lnsflare1]

In all fairness to the Star Fox Golem, you're in a spaceship while it's on foot and had no ranged weapons. It's only options are to run in front of you and let you shoot it at will while it tries to make you fly into pieces of the architecture it is collapsing in its wake or to run behind you while playing the Benny Hill theme.

[@rachelrezko4229]

The joke setup for the end of the Ganondorf listing was impeccable! I can't imagine anyone not laughing.

[@slenderslayer8203]

Despite what fans say. Twlight princess is a vary, deeply silly game. The chickens with human faces, the clows that shoot you out of a cannon, and the baboon with a big red butt all stand as a testiment to twilght princess having dark themes over tones vary silly under tones.

[@HowToTrainYourDuncan]

As a fan, I don’t disagree. Sort of an inversion of the more typical Zelda structure, which is bright and colorful overtones with very dark undertones.

[@tornadoawe]

At least for the critical path (the storyline of Ilias, Midna, Zant and Ganondorf), they try to keep it serious. Meanwhile in Spirit Tracks, Zelda's just like "I'm a ghost now, lmao. ... could you maybe help me not be?"

[@littlefurnace]

Honourable mention, basically every Spyro boss. But Gnasty Gnorc in particular.

[@Platypus3691215]

Where's Gnasty Gnorc from the original Spyro game?

[@jaybutler779]

The Elden boss had the audacity to have a beautiful stadium then run away from you to the other end of the lands between, only to fly away the second you get back in range

[@LeRoiEnJaune]

First thing that came to mind was f***ing Trevalyan from Goldeneye. I died more to falling off at the end chasing the f***er than from anything else, lol.

[@lou5y]

Micolash is a much more infuriating example than Gwyndolin. It's not even a contest, since Gwyndolin at least stands still for a few seconds between teleports, whereas Micolash just sprints all over, his arena is a small maze, and there are puppet enemies to dodge everywhere. Oh, and he also has an even more annoying one-shot laser.

[@pouncingmoggy]

Kohga in Tears of the Kingdom. The amount of times he just zooms off to a different corner of the Depths. >:0

[@FuncleChuck]

15:56 she said the thing

[@RedLeif1]

I'm surprised the Wavecrest from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days didn't make this list, considering you spend more of that boss fight flying after him than attacking, and the thing is a late-game boss.

[@gamepassghost]

Right. I used to work with a guy called Charles Lee, but that’s a story for another time. My heart can’t do it, what it can do though is absolutely salute Luke on going out the way he came in, through plate glass conveniently unbreakable until a cutscene. My FUDGING hero. 🙌

[@xizar0rg]

The "would you kindly" at the end is a nice reference to Fontaine, and having had to chase him down forever.

[@lemmingrad]

Makes me remember the speedrun glitch shortcut called “Last Chance, Kid!”

[@Mr_J_Ralph]

I feel truly sorry for whoever had to get the capture for the Charles Less compilation, truly a sacrifice playing that much AC3

[@Illegalglokk]

Gwyndolin only teleports away because his whole gimmick is that he makes the hallway longer than it actually is and so he can defend himself with king ranged spells and his burst fire bow

[@Illegalglokk]

Also my goat Gwyndolin mentioned 🗣️🗣️

[@FlamingoSandwich]

Golemech ( the giant robot made of rocks) probably thought he was being chased by a giant robot made of paper or he was running after a giant robot made of scissors... who can tell

[@Haysey_Draws]

Spiders aren't more afraid of us, they are just looking for Charles Lee

[@Kilthan2050]

Batlin, elizabeth, abraham, Hook, and Forskis in Ultima 7. The latter four run from toy the whole game, you’re tracking them down. And then, when you confront all 5, Batlin runs away and then you have to spend half of Ultima 7 part 2 chasing him down, only for him to go out like a chump for betraying his boss

[@CelticVictory]

In fairness, bullies do tend to talk behind your back and evade when confronted.

[@tripplec6798]

right at the start of this I had a feeling there was some lego batman boss but could not remeber who. As soon as the music could be heard the memories came back. The Legendary Trio: Raikou Entei and Suicunce from Heartgold/Soulsilver. I say they count given how other legendries you have to go to where they are living at and fight them meanwhile the trio hooves it even when froze or paralyzed. I think the brid and emotion trio also do this in their games as well but those three are the more memorable.

[@jaredcrabb]

And the originals. Pretty sure after gen 2 all games had fleeing legendaries.

[@ivansobubblehead]

Jane: smartest host of ox, world domination planner also Jane: 6 - 1 = 6

[@B.J.Camire]

No mention of Krauser from Resident Evil 4? The man's so good at running away that even after you "kill" him, you still have to defeat him in Separate Ways!

[@jaredcrabb]

And he probably still managed to run from death. Not like the ps2 game where you just bribe him.

[@lunades22]

Twilight princess's "NO LAUGHING" caught me cackling and made me laugh even more. Good stuff

[@stevenharper9108]

I will now hear it as Charlesly.

[@tylerrauch7920]

Glad you included Charles Lee; I legitimately almost put AC3 down forever after spending multiple hours on that “boss battle”. I’d like to suggest the Folding Screen Monkeys from Sekiro. While not at all game breaking and I’m fact it can be pretty easy to back your way into figuring it out, it can be a total pain trying to get that one last monkey while being swarmed by the 3 apparition monkeys

[@Matthew-pd4zx]

I don't know how Micolash, Host of the Nightmare didn't make this list!

[@Zayphar]

"Git Good, Scrub!" Oh, the pain!

[@apjtv2540]

I'll be honest, I reckon most bosses end up pretty scared of you by the end. I'd be scared of something if I killed it 18 times and it still wanted to cut my legs off.

[@jaredcrabb]

Or the rest of my kind. Like Hermes running from Kratos. Hes the only sane boss in the series it seems.

[@timalice-2833]

12:11 as frustrating as chasing Harley is I have to admit I love that the music played is from the 1989 Batman movie with Jack Nicholson as the Joker when he is at the top of the cathedral.

[@CyborgCharlotte]

“You died as you lived. RUNNING AWAY!”

[@Bluesit32]

"Here lies Scout. He ran fast and died a virgin!"

[@alexstockwell4349]

Dr. Robotnik in the original Sonic the Hedgehog's Labyrinth Zone.

[@autobothypershift8171]

Every boss you face in the Transformers 2007 and ROTF games (consoles and PC) pretty much ran away from you. One good example in a mission while you play as Barricade in the Decepticon campaign for the 07 game had you chase Bumblebee around the map in not just one, but two separate missions

[@scottylewis8124]

Anyone from GTA 4 could qualify. Dimitri near the end of the bad ending of the game

[@JoeJaJoeJoe]

Officer Tenpenny from GTA: San Andreas leads you on a wild goose chase across Los Santos before falling off an overpass and dying

[@marhawkman303]

Star Trek Online, there's a boss fight where you're literally chasing the other ship AT WARP SPEED while shooting at them!!!!

[@marhawkman303]

@@SimuLord TNG had beaming while at warp, sooo.... Oh and TOS actually had combat at warp speed.

[@boobah5643]

@@SimuLord Dude, watch "Encounter at Farpoint" again. Shooting photon torpedoes at Q wasn't very helpful, but I'm pretty sure it counts as 'combat.'

[@SheepyFields]

Philip from the game Library of Ruina is a recurring boss who’s somewhat infamous in the fandom for… ALWAYS RUNNING AWAY BEFORE YOU BEAT HIM It does tie into a character arc of him realizing that hes a pathetic coward, but you still fight him 3 more times after that, and he STILL runs away!!!

[@kaya_nori]

This comment is for Ellen: how about the Templar Octienne from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning? Annoying magical gnome, constantly trying to fly away from you and send a magic missile in your face?

[@aardbei54]

Octienne was such an asshole about it, too. In a game literally full of mages who (try to) teleport away when you get near them, he stands out as being the only one who actually *teleports outside of the arena multiple times*. And it's not like he does it once and teleports back in like Malwyn or the Whispering Witch, either

[@krimzonknight]

"Neglected girlfriend of an actual clown" is SUCH an understatement 🤣

[@fizjovigordariuszdziaa8166]

What about Elden Beast? Most difficult part of the fight is chasing it around arena.

[@jaredcrabb]

Renalla too. And Placidusax for that matter. Though he runs to turn himself into a sharp meteor.

[@JanusHoW]

Where is Charles Lee?! Also, the best bit of camera work in all of video games is the moment when Hermes says "Today you may defeat me..." and the camera pans to his feet...which is quickly followed by Kratos "de-feeting" the poor sod.

[@andrewowens4421]

Like, you knew what Kratos was gonna do. That pan shot practically screamed "I'm gonna steal his kicks."

[@Kagane1001]

Luke: "gwyndolin is the biggest runner" Micolash: laughs in Kos. Or, Kosm, as some say

[@kralik394]

6:15 You can actually see Inner Luke going "Don't say paper. Don't say paper." And winning!