History AntiClimaxBoss / VideoGames

* Bossmin, the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/{{Yosumin}}''. The final stained glass stage and penultimate fight against Goldmin are utterly brutal, the former requiring specifically matching ''999 Redmin'', and the latter requiring ''4'' board-wiping Yosumin sets (which can only be gotten either through sheer luck or careful and deliberate planning) and multiple Goldmin, which are somewhat scarce and can easily be removed from the board before you can get to them by the sudden appearance of a Bigmin or accidentally triggering a Badmin. By comparison, Bossmin is a cakewalk, only requiring, among a few relatively easy square sets and the usual stained glass collection, 999 of ''any'' Yosumin and 9 Badmin, which at this point in the game are guaranteed to appear one-at-a-time and you've likely been regularly triggering ''by accident''.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun: Firestorm'': The last mission Cabal deploys against you the gigantic Core Defender. Three times the hitpoints of the second-heaviest unit in the game, weapons so powerful they'll devastate any ground force, level buildings in two hits, and with a longer range than all fixed defenses. Surely it must be suitably defended from air attacks, right? Nope -- scare up a few jumpjet infantry units and down the fearsome Defender goes. And if you don't even want to bother with ''that'', just force-fire artillery on a bridge as it goes across -- and watch it vanish in a splash.
* ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'': The Waterwraith After spending every preceding floor of the cavern it's encountered in as an invincible monstrosity relentlessly stalking the player, literally steamrolling over their armies of the titular creatures, and providing the series' most famous case of NightmareFuel, you reach the final floor. And there you find the Waterwraith's one weakness. And from that point, the boss is turned into such a joke that even the boss music changes to a more cheerful reprise as the creature starts to panic. As one would probably guess, the CurbStompBattle is very satisfying after the aforementioned Nightmare fuel.
* ''VideoGame/StarCraftIINovaCovertOps'': The final mission features two stages: the first has you take out a HumongousMecha, the second has you go in the wreckage to face [[spoiler:General Davis]], who doesn't even have a weapon when you kill her. Particularly annoying about this is the ButThouMust nature: Valerian wants her to face trial for her crimes (something the player is likely to want by that point), and killing her isn't even a cutscene.

* While in the original ''VideoGame/{{Otomedius}}'', the Gofer sisters' Odin Core is most definitely not an anti-climax, the final form of Dark Force in Otomedius Excellent is. After dealing with two difficult forms, the third one is just her child form, shrouded in a bit of black mist and shooting easily dodgeable projectiles.
* The ending of ''VideoGame/AfterBurner Climax'' for the arcade which involves nukes also ends rather anticlimactically even if you let the nukes go off, as your Carrier's [=CWACs=] destroys the missile and takes only mild damage from the shrapnel. But the stage beforehand will make most AB players wonder how he can get past all the [[MacrossMissileMassacre missiles]] and [[MoreDakka flak barrages]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': The Devil's final phase is literally just you shooting at the guy's face while he cries. His only real attack at this point is the flaming blue poker chip from the previous two phases falling on the last platform to stand on, which is ''very'' easy to dodge (technically, his TearsOfBlood are damaging too, but they don't actually come close to hitting you). In fact, for some players, the Devil as a whole might count as this. He's only moderately harder than most earlier bosses, is easier than some, and he also doesn't send randomized minions after you whose attack patterns take longer to learn, like King Dice or Baroness Von Bon Bon.
* While far from a pushover, the FinalBoss battle with Andross in ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' is easier than most of the other bosses in the second half of the game. He's easy on either of the paths: the final stage of the easier one stays in corridor mode, making its attack tough to dodge, but can be killed literally by mashing the fire button as fast as possible (and one bomb or two), whereas the harder path ''does'' up the conditions of the general battle, but essentially has no attacks once you destroy his eyes, meaning that as long as you know how to outmaneuver him, he's basically a sitting duck. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Andross' Brain is faced in All Range Mode, and he's ''fast'' (as fast as your Arwing while boosting, in fact), and can only be hurt by shooting a small greenish spot on the side of his brain, but if he loses his eyes, you can only be damaged by ramming into him or the easily dodged mines he leaves, or getting caught into his tentacles, which ''will'' damage you badly, but that only happens if you carelessly fly low towards him. In other words, the most dangerous element of this fight is [[SuicidalOverconfidence the player's own hubris coming to bite them in the ass.]][[/labelnote]]

* [[spoiler:Gabriel]], the villain of ''Tom Clancy's VideoGame/RainbowSix: Vegas'' 1 & 2, gives you an overly long MotiveRant, then tries to quick-draw his handgun on you. It migh have worked if your character didn't already have his gun pointed at his head.

* In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory2'', your character is challenged to a duel by the father of one of the available love interests, in order to convince [[BoyfriendBlockingDad said father]] that you're "man enough" to marry his girl. Before the fight begins, a giant orc appears and interrupts the fight, threatening both you and the father. The orc is quickly found to be [[FakeUltimateMook a pushover]], as despite [[GiantMook its girth and height]], it is no stronger or more durable than its smaller, more common brethren.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', you can finish the 3-part boss battle in about 10 seconds if you use the hidden blade to counter, or if you get a knockdown-type counter with a sword, sprint over while switching to the hidden blade and nail 'em when they're prone/supine.
** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', the final boss [[spoiler:Rodrigo Borgia, aka the Spaniard, aka Pope Alexander VI]] has a Piece of Eden and a lot of health, but neither helps him much against [[spoiler:[[DopplegangerAttack five Ezios]]]]. After this, you fight him with [[FisticuffsBoss just your fists]], and if you choose, you can beat him by repeatedly kneeing him in the groin.
** In ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'', [[spoiler:his son Cesare Borgia]] essentially acts like a [[EliteMooks Papal Guard]] using a Longsword, except that he's immune to [[OneHitKill executions]] and counter kill attempts. While there are periodic guard spawns, an experienced player can quickly wipe them out in a single kill streak of counter kills and executions, so this final boss fight (as with "The Spaniard" in ''[=AC2=]'') amounts to whittling down his health -- making this one of the only fights in the game where a weapon's Damage stat matters. Story-wise, Ezio was already 48 years old while [[spoiler:Cesare]] was only 31.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' has nearly every boss encounter be this. Leandros, the Templar captain who tries to execute Ezio in the start of the game, is assassinated in the first memory sequence without even a fight. Near the end, Manuel Palaiologos is far easier to kill than the Janissary EliteMooks; a single counter and he's down. You fight BigBad [[spoiler:Ahmet]] while both of you are falling off a mountain and it only lasts about 14-17 seconds. And to top it off, [[spoiler:you don't kill him; he's strangled by a supporting character and then violently thrown off a cliff]]. Lastly, the penultimate memory of Altaïr consists of him walking up to Abbas and [[spoiler:shooting him with the newly created Hidden Gun]].
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'':
*** Daniel Cross, despite being built up as a HeroKiller, [[InformedAbility regularly fails to live up to his hype]]. In his first encounter with Desmond, he gets knocked out cold within seconds of their meeting. In their second, he runs away, [[FlunkyBoss calls for back-up]], and is no harder than any other enemy in the game. In the final encounter, [[spoiler:Daniel begins suffering from the Bleeding Effect, which causes him to go nuts before running away. He doesn't even get a fight, he just gets chased down and assassinated]].
*** [[spoiler:Haytham Kenway]], despite being the best individual fighter amongst the Templars [[spoiler:and the BigBad]], gets a relatively easy fight in the game's climax; both Connor and he have been wounded at the time, so the fight's poor on both sides, and [[PuzzleBoss it consists entirely of countering him three times while standing next to an object so you can hit him with it]]. This is made worse by the fact that the game outright ''tells you to do this at the start of the fight'' [[spoiler:while the actual kill consists of a PressXToNotDie]].

* In ''VideoGame/FragileDreams'', we have [[FinalBoss Shin]]. While tedious, both battles with him can be won without a scratch with a Crossbow (and the Merchant and enemies to grind money are just a minute of backtracking away to buy it), as his only attacks are slow-moving projectiles and a telegraphed laser.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'', the penultimate boss is Piggsy. He's an absolutely insane asylum escapee who wears the head of a pig as some sort of helmet/mask combination, doesn't appear on the radar, wields a chainsaw capable of killing the player in a handful of hits, [[JumpScare jumps out of the shadows to give you heart attacks on top of heart attacks]], and is (just so we're clear) [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment utterly bonkers.]] After you kill him, you finally confront the man who's forced you to become his insane snuff film project. He takes a few potshots at you with his pistol before you gut him like a fish.

* The three house leaders in ''VideoGame/{{Shinobido}}'' can be assassinated like other enemies. On the other hand, the actual ninja leaders like Kabuto, Hebitonbo, and the FinalBoss Garaman can't be wrestled or one-shotted and are immune to sneak attacks.

* In ''VideoGame/WinBack'':
** After several boss battles against the various themed members of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad, the terrorist leader turns out to be just a regular guy with a pistol and a light armor vest, and although he has a boss-like health bar, he still goes down pretty easily.
** The PostFinalBoss battle with TheDragon / TheStarscream, Cecile, is even more pathetic; just shoot out the laser power boxes, then man the machinegun and mow him down.
* In ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2'', you fight [[spoiler:Skorge]], who was built up the be the boss, [[TheDragon in the penultimate chapter]]. The real final boss is [[spoiler:a Lambent Brumak]], which you fight with a [[KillSat Hammer of Dawn]] in an on-rails segment. Even on Insane, this thing is easy. All you need to do is hold down the fire button and it will die.
* The Ork Warboss in ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine'' wasn't nearly as hard as any of the random Ork swarm fights earlier in the game. And the final boss, who is a goddamn [[PhysicalGod Daemon-Prince]], is defeated entirely through a single button mashing spiced with primitive and repetitive QTE.

* ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/RogueSquadron III: Rebel Strike'' has [[spoiler:Sarkli]], a formerly tough boss on [[spoiler:Geonosis]], return for a shootout on Endor. He's so easy to beat you can escape while doing so. And with the bonus missions included, the final boss is the impressive but easy to beat [[spoiler:''Executor'']] capital ship.

* ''VideoGame/XCom'':
** In ''X-COM: UFO Defense'', you [[spoiler:fly to Mars]], go through two gigantic battles, enter the final room... and find the leader of the alien forces... [[spoiler:a giant brain that can't even defend itself]]. Sure, there's a lot of Ethereal Commanders in the room, but you could potentially win by having one {{Redshirt}} enter the room and throw an explosive at the target, [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou no matter how many other aliens remain]].
** The sequel, ''Terror From The Deep'', has an even easier final mission, especially when compared to the rest of the game. Not only is Cthulhu incapable of hurting you, his bodyguards kinda suck too.
* ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' has a very hard, long final level. The final boss fight, however, can be made laughably easy if you position your troops in the right spot and the squad is of an appropriately high level. There is a good chance the squad can kill the boss in their first turn of combat ''before it even moves''.

* After Sturm proved to be a decent challenge in the first ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars]]'' and bordered on SNKBoss in the second, you'd think his successor in ''Dual Strike'' would prove to be at least as much of a challenge. What you instead get is Von Bolt, a frail old man whose day-to-day power - a piddly 10% attack/defense bonus - pales in comparison to Sturm's 20% boosts to both stats ''and'' unrestricted movement across terrain. The differential between their Super Powers simply drives the point home: Sturm not only dropped a meteor on a large clump of your troops, dealing a whopping ''8 damage'' to anything caught in the blast, but his firepower and defense got boosted to even further levels of absurdity. Von Bolt, meanwhile, gets a weak little zap that only deals 3 damage while also disabling anything damaged by it for a turn, something Sturm didn't need because his victims would be too crippled to do much of anything on their next turn anyway other than flee for repairs. The final cherry on top is the fact that, in the final missions in which you square off against him, Von Bolt is actually at a distinct ''dis''advantage due to the way the maps are designed, turning the endgame into a total cakewalk even without ''Dual Strike'''s notoriously broken Tag Breaks and Forces. Fortunately (or perhaps not), the next game in the series, ''Days of Ruin'', would proudly return to the tradition of having a final boss that makes you want to tear your hair out.
* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000ChaosGate'':
** When you finally meet the Chaos Lord Zymran, you'll find he's actually weaker than any of the Terminators guarding him. He only wears the standard power armour, and his weapons are weaker than that of a Terminator or Assault Marine.
** When you face the Greater Daemons, it is possible to kill them with one lucky shot from [[{{BFG}} Multi-Melta]] or just dogpile them with your Terminators and hammer them into ground in a single turn. This is in good part due to ArtificialStupidity: the Daemons will often just sit there until you start attacking them, meaning you have a full turn to unload every single weapon you have into them before they act. Bloodthirster is especially bad, since he ''cannot walk down the stairs'' to engage your team in melee combat, and he cannot fly despite having wings.

* The FinalBoss of ''Gorky 17''/''VideoGame/{{Odium}}''. Lots of health, powerful attacks, powerful armor. ...And he's ''not'' immune to tranquilizing (which renders him unable to act at all for several turns) -- and by that point in the game, you have enough equipment to easily [[ZeroEffortBoss keep him stunned for the entire battle.]] Oops.
* St. Ajora/Altima goes down pathetically easily in the final battle of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', even if you're ''not'' using an overleveled party or [[GameBreaker Thunder God Cid]]. In fact, even with a moderately leveled party (matching the level of the characters you fight in the final dungeon), you can kill both of her forms with just a handful of attacks.
* The final stages of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' is unlocked only by completing the standard 300 missions of the game, including the final boss of the main plot, the challenging Li-Grim. For the bonus missions, the final boss is three pathetically easy judges who will fall quickly to your powerful party.
* Not strictly a boss (rather, an optional encounter) but Asagi Asagiri in ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' is rather anticlimactic. Most event battles (such as your fellow overlords) have enemies well over level 1000 with ultimate equipment, and require the wishmaker to be in the hundreds and pay a few thousand mana to unlock. Asagi's event require a level 1000 wishmaker and costs 100,000 mana, and... she's level 50. Completely alone. Without any noteworthy equipment. Zetta himself mocks her weakness and refuses to let her become a protagonist until he's pounded some actual skill into her. The rest... is history.
* The final mission of ''VideoGame/FrontMission1''. Once the flunkies and the mini-boss are destroyed, the final boss' first form is completely immobile and all its attacks have a maximum radius, so if you've fitted your wanzers with missile launchers, you can chip away his health without him being able to damage you. The second form is more powerful than most standard enemies, but it's a mech that you've fought and beaten several times before [[spoiler:(Driscoll's)]], so you should know what to expect by now. On top of that, this is the only mission where you can deploy all the pilots you've recruited over the course of the game, so you're more than welcome to ZergRush him if that's your style.
* The final boss fight ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' is a battle against [[spoiler:Human Kite/Kyle and The Coon/Cartman with both of them being "possessed" by Mitch Conner]]. You fought them both previously and their tactics haven't changed since then, thus they aren't that difficult to take down. The only challenge comes from one of them cheating by them constantly saying your last hit didn't count and applying status effects on your party because they felt like it. Once [[spoiler:Doctor Timothy/Timmy]] intervenes to stop the cheating, you have the fight in the bag.
* Harebrained Schemes' ''VideoGame/{{Battletech}}'': The FinalBoss is [[spoiler:Victoria, comitting SuicideByCop against Kamea and your mercenary company]]. While the actual in-game challenge would be formidable in the lore, [[RuleOfFun considering what the player is likely to possess by the endgame]] [[spoiler:and Kamea's [[InfinityPlusOneSword Atlas II]]]] her battle is more emotional catharsis than an actual challenge. The boss' AI is also commanded not to engage until the player gets to a certain range, which more or less guarantees the first shot (and kill) goes to the player.

* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'': The final mission of the original game requires you to sail to an island in the center of the map and capture the Dragon City there, which leads to a final battle against 20 Dragons. While Dragons are the strongest units in the game, a decently-sized army led by a high-level Hero won't have too much trouble with them, and without a human leader, the dragons don't get a bonus to their stats or spell assistance. The previous three missions against the rival lords are significantly more challenging, especially Lord Alamar (the Warlock lord) who's likely to have twice as many dragons, as well as dozens of other units, by the time you face him.
* ''VideoGame/CrystalWarriors'' is a game where [[HardLevelsEasyBosses the bosses are a joke compared to the difficult levels]], and the same applies to the final boss, Emperor Jyn. He looks huge and intimidating, and has the highest stats of any enemy in the game, but he can still make only one move per turn and is locked to melee, while you can potentially have up to 9 units ganging up on him. Once his support is down, it's pitifully easy to surround him on all sides with melee units, then have your mages chip him down while [[CombatMedic Iris]] or [[WhiteMage Frye]] heal the units blocking him. Jyn also doesn't move off his castle until you get close, so if you play defensively and lure away his support enemies, they'll be outnumbered by you, and he'll be a sitting duck. The level may have 4 [[DemonicSpiders Pyros]], but it is nothing compared to round 15 before it.

* The two people you must kill at the end of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'' go down in a single well-aimed gunshot each, in contrast to a previous (and connected, storyline-wise) boss-like encounter which can be hard even with super powerful weapons.

* Granted, ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade'' is supposed to be a realistic game, so RankScalesWithAsskicking doesn't always fly, but still, don't expect you go into a nice one-on-one duel with the enemy commander, be it a lord or even a king. They DO tend to do a little more damage to your troops than normal Mooks, but thanks to ArtificialStupidity, they often get run down easily by your RedShirtArmy, especially when they [[TooDumbToLive charge your army all alone with their troops staying back or taking the first line in a siege, only to get crushed in between the attackers and the defenders.]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'': [[ExaggeratedTrope ALL]] of the bosses are like this, mostly because the focus is more on what happens to the protagonist than on the bosses themselves, and because the whole game is a deconstruction of typical western tropes. Basically, the bosses are treated like human {{Macguffin}}s.
* In ''VideoGame/RedFaction: Guerrilla'', after a ridiculous trek up Mount Vogel with you in a missile pod tank against the entire EDF, at the summit of the mountain waits [[spoiler:General Roth]] in a standard tank. By this point in the game, you have two weapons that can simply kill [[spoiler:Roth]] inside the tank and leave the vehicle intact, and a few heavy-duty weapons, including two different rocket launchers, that can simply destroy the tank itself. Even if you didn't bring any of these weapons with you, at close range all he can attempt to do is run you over, since his howitzer can't target you and his tank has no secondary machine gun. It's virtually effortless to circle around and take [[spoiler:Roth]] down with mining charges [[CherryTapping or even the sledgehammer]].

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': The [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever megabeasts]] suprisingly lack ContractualBossImmunity to traps, including cage traps, making a single row of them at the entrance a reliable fortress defense[[note]]Cage traps never fail, unless they have already caught something else[[/note]]. How does one manage to capture a dragon in a flimsy wooden cage [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief is left assumed a secret of dwarven engineering]], much more inexplicable considering other bosses are unaffected by traps altogether.

* [[spoiler:Arch Pandara]] of ''VideoGame/{{Patapon}} 3''. It is NintendoHard getting to it, but he can be beaten with a single strike.

* Nagash in ''VideoGame/WarhammerDarkOmen''. The hordes of mummies you have to negate before you get to him are indeed lethal and tiresome, but the Supreme Lord of Undead himself? Not so much. Granted, he's a superb melee fighter and a capable wizard, but you have a TANK. ''Crunch'', oops.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'':
** The final fight with the Bonnes is against Bruno, what Tron Bonne calls "Her masterpiece." Now, on paper this robot seems pretty tough. It has homing missiles, bomb launchers, anti-air guns (for knocking you off buildings), and twin shield-breaking laser launchers, which, if you got hit, you'd take extra damage from the other weapons. Now, it probably WOULD be a tough boss battle if not for [[BossArenaIdiocy that entrance that you used to reach the boss area in the first place, which can ALSO be used as cover to block practically all of the boss's attacks]], and those that aren't blocked (the homing missiles) CAN BE SHOT DOWN. Yep, the Bonnes would've had a good robot if it wasn't for the environmental factor.
** The FinalBoss, Megaman Juno, is no better. All the player has to do is run around the room in circles all the while shooting him with the Buster, only sometimes jumping to avoid his shockwave attacks to beat him in both his forms, often without taking a scratch.
* There are a number of songs in ''VideoGame/RockBand'' that aren't nearly as difficult as their difficult ranking indicates, which can lead to this trope. In particular, in ''Rock Band 2'', "[[Music/RushBand The Trees]]" is a tier 6 on drums[[note]]but is still easier than some tier 5 songs[[/note]], and a number of songs are placed in the "Impossible" tier, even though only one or two instruments are difficult enough to warrant that rating (for instance, "[[Music/SteelyDan Bodhisattva]]" is a tier 6 song overall, but only the guitar is that difficult. Drums are tough, but bass and vocals are nowhere near "Impossible" level).

* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** The second to last boss of ''Stardust Accelerator'' is a painful survival gauntlet where you have to fight 4 tournament caliber decks, in a row, with no resetting lifepoints and if you lose, it's game over and you have to go through a long cutscene to fight them again. These are: a Zombie deck, which by itself is tougher than anything the game has used before, a Water deck, a Lightsworn deck (an archetype of rare cards deliberately designed to be overpowered before the ban list nerfed it -- this game is before that nerf -- and comprised of cards so rare that it's difficult for a player to fully assemble a Lightsworn deck of their own), and a Dark Armed Dragon deck, modelled after a deck that won multiple real life tournaments. Oh and they have the computer's "luck" to help them out... After that absolute hell, you get to save, then fight the final boss... Jack Atlus, using a poorly built, unoptimised deck that is built for flavor. And it is a joke.
** The final boss of Jaden's story in ''Tag Force 2'' is... Jaden, using whatever deck you built for him. No special top deck hax, the not terribly good AI on his side, and those crappy, crappy E-Hero cards he's forced to use leads to an easy win.
** CCGImportanceDissonance and lack of TheMagicPokerEquation turns a lot of characters with heavy buildup in the various duel sims into this. The original series characters, Asuka, Jack (mishmash of [[ComMons random mediocre monsters]]), Saiou ([[LuckBasedMission gamble deck]] with weak effects), Cobra (extremely restricted archetype with no offensive power), Judai ([[FlawedPrototype horribly inconsistent experimental fusions]]), Aki (most of a Plant Synchro engine but little to use it on), and Rex (strategy relies on having two hard-to-summon monsters simultaneously) are particular offenders. It's even more obvious in the games that let you watch AI Duels, where these formidable enemies often struggle to handle random civilians.
** Henry Tudor is the ClimaxBoss of ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses'''s White Rose route, meaning he'll very likely be the second-last opponent in the game. Unfortunately, his deck lacks any real synergy, and is laden with very high-level monsters that slow his strategies. The field being a mishmash of terrain also means he lacks the field advantage of lesser opponents. He does have some very powerful cards, like Mirror Force, but there's no guarantee he'll draw them, and his Deck Leader has a high rank but only benefits a handful of his monsters. He also suffers from a degree of ArtificialStupidity, which is problematic when many of his cards require strategy.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Casper}}'' on [=3DO=], [=PS1=], and Sega Saturn, the final boss "battle" has you being chased around a maze by Ghost!Carrigan. You go to the bottom of the maze and pick up the key while dropping coins to keep her distracted, then open the chest in the middle of the maze and wait for her to finish picking up the coins, at which point she starts coming after you again and gets sucked into the chest. You don't even have to use the coins. You can just barely outrun (outfloat?) her and she'll probably only get one hit in as you're opening the chest.
* The [[FinalBoss Dark Presence]] in ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' is stationary, its only "attack" is just having chunks of random garbage flying around it, and you have to try real hard to get in its way (in fact, shooting the debris is more challenging and entertaining than the main event, and you don't even need to do that). You have an unlimited supply of ammo and it goes down in about three shots.
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney''
** In the original ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', Redd White. Despite being the second killer, he's also the man responsible for killing Phoenix's mentor, as well as a powerful blackmailer who has leverage on many law enforcement officials. When he's brought to the stand, it's almost trivially easy to poke holes in his testimony, and Mia's spirit ultimately delivers the decisive blow by threatening to release information on his blackmailing to the media unless he confesses.
** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' plays this straight with the true culprit of the final trial, [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]]. Once the killer is brought to the stand, exposing [[spoiler:him]] only requires a single evidence presentation and a cross-examination that is solved by using Apollo's Perceive ability. After the latter, there isn't any climactic evidence presentation necessary to convict the killer, who goes into a VillainousBreakdown after learning that [[spoiler:a jury will decide his fate]]. Similarly, [[spoiler:Valant Gramarye]], who's technically the culprit of the flashback case by virtue of [[spoiler:trying to frame Zak]], decides to turn himself in after a conversation with Phoenix.
* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'':
** [[spoiler:In the eighteenth chapter, when you're playing as the biker, you get to fight the protagonist of the first fifteen chapters of the game -- you're reliving an earlier boss battle, this time from the boss's perspective.]] Simply walk up to the boss, who is a OneHitPointWonder, and kill him with a single melee attack before he manages to do anything. Hilariously, [[spoiler:in the original version of the boss battle, when you were playing as the former protagonist against the biker, the boss never thought of [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim doing anything that simple]] and instead engaged in [[TacticalSuicideBoss overtly complex and ultimately suicidal maneuvering.]]]]
** To a lesser extent, the [[spoiler:female ninja bodyguard of the mob boss]]. As she lunges at you, you simply toss a heavy object at her, at which point she falls down and you can just walk up to her and finish her off.
* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': The Mastermind at the sixth Chapter barely puts up a fight against you, it takes one piece of evidence to figure out who is it and they only try a single flimsy defense that doesn't hold any water, their identity is so intensely foreshadowed it's basically an [[TheUntwist Untwist]]. That aside from the [[BrokenBase many problems]] and the EndingFatigue does not make a very good final fight for the game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Deiland}}'' is a survival/crafting game in which a major threat is revealed near the end. Magic attacks are powered by farmable crystals, but crafting your late-game kit uses up a lot of crystals, so the boss has to beatable without using magic.
* ''VideoGame/TheBattleCats'' has an OptionalBoss that only appears after completing Cats of the Cosmos called Filibuster Obstructa. It’s an all powerful entity and, with the chaos it wields, it might rewrite the laws of reality. Its fight however, isn’t that hard. To make a long story short, despite being able to 1-shot your base from anywhere, which leads to an instant defeat, he can be easily interrupted out of his ''40 second'' attack animation, forcing him to charge it up all over again and, while the enemies that support him are DemonicSpiders, they only come out one at a time and by this point, it’s most likely that one has the cats needed to beat them with little to no effort.
* From ''VideoGame/{{Falskaar}}'' (a mod for ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'':
** While Kolgrim the Orc is by no means weak, he isn't too hard to take down, particularly considering his reputation as Yngvarr's general; lampshaded when Yngvarr comments on his uselessness.
** Yngvarr himself isn't harmless, but isn't much more difficult than the toughest of Falskaar's bandits. It turns out that this was a deliberate ploy on his part to [[spoiler:allow his mages to paralyse everyone and grant him access to the Heart of the Gods... at which point he gets offed by a dragon spirit]].

* After the brutal ThatOneBoss ''Monsoon'' in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', you get to fight the biggest, [[CardCarryingVillain evilest]], most imposing member of the Winds of Destruction, their leader Sundowner... and he's actually pretty easy. Other bosses have to go through phases, but it's entirely viable if not ''easier'' to ignore his shield-gimmick and just flank him. Some players never even get to hear his {{Leitmotif}} insert because he just goes down so fast. While he's not the FinalBoss, he's built up as the BigBad until his death, after which [[DiscOneFinalBoss it turns out]] he's just TheDragon to the real villain.
* [[ThatOneBoss Lu Bu, of all people]], becomes this in the battle of Xia Pi if you do well enough in ''[[VideoGame/DynastyWarriors Dynasty Warriors 5]]''. Instead of staying around to fight, he tries to run off, gets captured, and gets executed for his trouble.
* In ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'', the previously NintendoHard FinalBoss [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Aesir]] has the Eyes of the World he is in possession of destroyed by [[DeathDealer Loki]]]], subsequently losing his powers and becoming completely helpless as [[TheHero Bayonetta]] [[spoiler:and Balder]] take him apart, with his health dropping like a rock at the slightest of scratches. It's also very satisfying after all the hell you've been put through.

* The final form of the Naughty Sorceress in the ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' is a [[spoiler:reality-altering sausage]]. She will kill you unless you have [[spoiler:the Wand of Nagamar]] in your inventory, which turns her attacks against her in a hilarious way and ensures an instant win. Also, Ed the Undying has less HP each round. By the seventh round, it's all but impossible to take more than one turn to kill him.
* In ''VideoGame/ToontownOnline'', the [[spoiler:Chief Justice]] battle isn't even a battle. All it is is you and your friends trying to win a case in court!

* Ragnaros is actually a ''lot'' easier than several other bosses fought within the same dungeon in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. Really, Ragnaros is just....damage-the-snot out of him. Easier said than done, but he's still ''quite'' easy considering he's the lord of all fire elementals and created a volcano just by being summoned.
** Plenty of bosses became this over time when people begun to get used to them and could know the strategies. And in the case of ''Wrath'', all had epic gear from raids being more accessible so they could destroy the bosses ''very'' easily.
** One of the bosses in the Brawler's Guild is Razorgrin, a mighty ThreateningShark bearing the title of "Terror of the High Seas". Sounds fearsome, until you realize you are fighting the shark '''on land'''. The poor thing can only move by slowly flopping about. The fight is basically a joke for ranged characters. Meleers, however, have a harder time of it since they need to fight Razorgrin while being dangerously close to its jaws, which can shred through the heaviest armor like paper in a single bite. Until Blizzard patched the shark to be attackable from behind without fear of getting bitten, Razorgrin was an Anti-Climax Boss for ranged characters yet ThatOneBoss for meleers!
** The FinalBoss of ''Cataclysm'', Deathwing, initially proves quite the challenge, with players on his back trying to pull off pieces of his armor so he can be blasted with an ArtifactOfDoom. The battle afterwards, where he's fallen into the ocean and making his LastVillainStand, is much easier, and is especially disappointing by never serving up grand finale editions of the classic "dragon mechanics"[[note]]breath weapon cone, tail swipes, and an air phase![[/note]], given that he is supposedly the most devastating dragon in multiple worlds. His son Nefarian pretty easily retains the title of "most infamous dragon final boss".
** In Antorus the Burning Throne, final raid of ''Legion'', the Coven of Shivarra is generally considered the hardest fight. This especially stands out when one considers that lore-wise the following two bosses are literal physical gods.

* There's several boss fights in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' that fall into this due to PowerCreep
** Before patch 6.1, there were a few trials and dungeons at the end of 2.0 that fell into this.
*** Cape Westwind, the first 8-man instance, is this so much that it's common when vets find out someone is new to the fight (noted by someone who's watching the minutes long pre-fight cutscene) to tease the newbie by commenting how hard the fight is and talking about all sorts of strategies. This serves to make newbies who don't know better either more anxious or more hyped up for their first 8-man instance. The fight itself can be easily won by simply wailing on the boss and ignoring the mechanics, to the point where the fight itself is often shorter than the pre-fight cutscene.
*** While newbie teasing isn't quite as common in the last two dungeons of the 2.0 MSQ, the boss fights there are equally anti-climatic as bosses can go down quickly and similarly to Cape Westwind, you can basically ignore mechanics.
*** Even when the game was new, Lahabrea being the actual final fight of 2.0 was laughable, especially after battling the Ultima Weapon, the biggest threat to Eorzea at the time.
** [[spoiler:King Thordon]] at the end of the ''Heavensward'' story in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' is pathetically easy, despite being a primal and having a dozen knights aiding him in one portion of the fight. The mechanics the boss throws at you are things you have very likely seen before in other battles and even if you get hit, you won't get damaged too terribly even with gear that barely meets the minimum item level required to enter the fight. Despite the fact that the fight is ''very'' flashy and full of spectacle, it's quite easy. The optional "extreme" version of the same fight is a lot tougher.

* ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'':
** The TrueFinalBoss of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' against Captain K. Rool at the end of the Lost World is considered easier than the normal final boss fight against him. While not a cakewalk by any means, Lost World K. Rool's firing patterns are relatively predictable, he'll frequently shoot a gas to reverse your controls (which isn't that hard to adapt to), and it only takes one hit to defeat him. Considering how hard the {{Brutal Bonus Level}}s you have go through to reach him are, it's thought of as a bit of a letdown. It doesn't help that the GoldenEnding following the fight raises [[EsotericHappyEnding a number of glaringly dark implications]].
** The final boss of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'', [[spoiler:Tiki Tong]]. The stages leading up to him are NintendoHard, at times bordering on PlatformHell, but the fight itself is shorter and easier than most of the other boss fights throughout the game; he dies after seven hits (a tougher, earlier boss takes nine), all of his attacks are ''glaringly'' telegraphed, and all but one are extremely easy to avoid. In addition, a couple of his moves actually involve dropping a health-restoring item onto the arena (they're meant to trick you into getting hurt, but it's fairly easy to nab the item and dodge the hit). If you do lose a life, you're not given the chance to get Diddy Kong back, meaning your health is shot in half, but if you made it that far in this challenging game in the first place, it really shouldn't hold you back. In fact, getting to him is harder than beating him, since you have to pilot a barrel rocket up the face of the tower and have to avoid spikes, moving gears, and columns that come in on both sides that will kill you instantly.
* The final boss of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' is slightly anticlimactic. [[spoiler:It consists entirely of running away from the final boss and waiting for your EleventhHourSuperpower gauge to refill. The abomination is invulnerable to your normal attacks, but the instant the slowly-but-constantly-filling gauge hits max, [[CatAndMouseBoss you get to turn around and watch the boss cringe and try feebly to block your attacks as you beat the living hell out of him]].]]

* After a grueling four-part SequentialBoss battle against [[TheDragon Reflux]], the last enemy pitted against you in ''[[VideoGame/{{Rayman}} Rayman 3]]'' is [[BigBad André]], who can do nothing but beg for mercy until you use a special technique to remove TheCorruption from him.
* ''Franchise/PrinceOfPersia'':
** The final "boss" of ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' merely creates a couple of clones of himself, which put up no more resistance than a standard enemy, and is then rendered defenseless and can be killed with a single attack.
** ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'' has an anticlimax boss as well. [[spoiler:After defeating the Vizier once and for all, the Dark Prince tries to take you over. However, this basically amounts to little more than some more platform jumping inside the Prince's mind (in which it's impossible to die) while he and the Dark Prince trade arguments, and getting to attack the Dark Prince every once in a while while he does nothing to fight back. Finally, you get to a big room with the Dark Prince where once again, he does nothing to fight back (except multiplying every time you hit him). The only way to win is to just ignore him and go up the nearby staircase, while the Dark Prince practically begs you to come back and keep fighting.]]
** In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1'': when you confront your shadow, you're prompted to fight... but any damage you deal you also receive, and if he dies, so do you. As it turns out, the thing to do is simply to [[SheatheYourSword put away your sword]] -- if you don't fight, neither does he. As for the vizier himself, while no particular weakling, he is no stronger than the rest of the enemies you've fought, and is just as vulnerable to the [[Film/ThreeHundred Spartan-approved]] tactic of knocking him down a giant pit.
** This doesn't happen in the SNES version, where the Vizier begins the fight by casting spells at you, and once enough damage is dealt, reveals himself to be a highly skilled, if not annoying swordsman. No pits, although you can pin him against the edge of the screen.
** In the ''Classic'' remake, Jaffar is armed with a deadly magic staff, and there's no pit either.
** In the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS game ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheFallenKing'', the final boss has three [[AttackPatternAlpha attack patterns]], two of which were used by bosses of previous stages. Which means that, once you figure out the third, you can defeat him inside of ''thirty seconds''.
* The master brain in ''VideoGame/SpaceStationSiliconValley'', who, after much ado, is introduced as... Well, exactly what it sounds like: A brain in a jar. The main character, at that point a killer robot with EyeBeams, uses about two seconds to flash-fry him.

* In ''VideoGame/TyTheTasmanianTiger 2'', Boss Cass' last form is... Cass himself. Granted, cassowaries are the most dangerous birds on Earth, but you're using the game's most powerful ''mech''. Beating the snot out of him is very satisfying.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', Mother Brain has absurdly predictable attacks. Occasionally, you can get unlucky and die when it's supposed to just drain your life down to a certain point in preparation for a cutscene, but normally it's almost impossible to lose to this boss; even if you have to fall back to charged shots, it gets to its second phase pretty quick, and once [[spoiler:the titular Metroid revives you and you get the Hyper Beam]], it's almost a joke. However, it's more for the story than the gameplay at this point, so it's still tense.
** The Omega Metroid in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' as well. It can certainly kick your butt if you make too many mistakes, but it's still a ''lot'' easier than many of the previous bosses. It is simply a final challenge during the timed escape after the real final boss, the SA-X.
** The final boss of ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM''. Shortly after the battle against [[spoiler:the Metroid Queen]], you confront [[spoiler:MB, the cybernetic reincarnation of Mother Brain]]. How do you defeat her? [[spoiler:Aim a charged shot at her, which prompts a cutscene where another character tries to deescalate the situation, only for Federation soldiers to kill MB.]] The fight is also something of a GuideDangIt, as [[spoiler:the game throws waves upon waves of enemies at the player [[RedHerring that many thought you had to take out]] in order to get to a second phase, only to accidentally drift their cursor over MB.]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkFIIPfsHos Final "Boss"]] of the arcade version of ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' is an unarmed general ''weaker'' than the generic Mook fought through the game.

* Parodied in the [[StylisticSuck intentionally crappy]] mini-game "Hero Klungo Saves Teh World" in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts'': The boss of the mini-game is [[spoiler:Grunty drawn in craptacular [=2D=], who does nothing but spit a single fireball at you. Jump over it and she dies for no apparent reason]].

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** The original ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros.]]'' has this, making this trope as old as the NES (obviously). You ''can'' kill Bowser with fireballs if you're equipped with a Fire Flower, but all you ''need'' to do to beat him is grab the axe behind him and watch as he falls into the lava pit below. He is almost impossible to lose to if you make it to him with even a normal mushroom. Just charge in, take a hit, and get to the axe. Only Normal (small) Mario has to use any strategy at all, and even then it's usually down to one well-timed jump. Also of note is that this applies to ''all'' eight encounters against him in the game, as well as all twelve encounters in ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels The Lost Levels]]''.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''[='=]s final boss is in comparison much easier than all the other bosses (except for dumb Boom Boom and the flying form is actually harder!) because he [[BossArenaIdiocy suicides himself with butt smashes]]. You can also exploit the fact that you can touch Bowser's lower part of the body and not take damage. If you're in Super form, just crouch. In other words, you just have to wait until when you have to dodge on the very moment Bowser slams through the final layer of the floor and falls to his doom. Remakes of the game patch out this trick, though, so Bowser is less of a pushover there.
** Corona Mountain, the final level of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', can bring gamers to tears, particularly the section where you have to navigate the volcano's interior on a shaky mudboat by squirting water at specific angles. However, if you can make it to Bowser, the final boss fight is a piece of cake; all you have to do is GroundPound the platforms around his hot tub (which is very easy once you learn his pattern, which isn't overly difficult to do) and he's finished.
** Compared to the other Bowser fights in the ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' sub-series, the one in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros2'' is very easy. It consists of Bowser (in giant form) attacking Mario with fireballs from the background while Mario hops from platform to platform in a vertical auto-scrolling sequence, which is less demanding than the father-and-son DualBoss in the DS and Wii U games and the horizontal escape sequence in the Wii version. And the TrueFinalBoss battle (against Dry Bowser) is identical.
** The final Bowser fight in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' is somewhat difficult... at least for the first phase. After a big to-do about him reemerging from the fight even more powerful, the fight changes to a very gimmicky section of ground-pounding meteors at Bowser. He only has one attack and it releases a coin that negates any damage you take. This fight is especially sad due to [[LongSongShortScene the wonderful music that you might not even get through one listen of]].
** The final bosses in ''VideoGame/MarioIsMissing'' and ''Mario's Time Machine'' (the NES versions). Both are supposed to be Bowser. The former is about half Mario's height, looks more like Wendy Koopa, and dies in seconds; the latter looks correct, but still dies in seconds. Their AI is even worse, because it doesn't exist. They just walk back and forth endlessly in a straight line and take damage when jumped on, in a game in which Mario/Luigi can neither get hurt nor die. It's as pathetic as it sounds, and probably explains why the other versions just didn't bother to have a final boss at the end of them.
** The [=RoboBrood=] refight in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' is far easier than the original, due to the new setting and enemy captured to fight it. That's because in the second fight, not only are you on the Moon with low gravity (trivialising the ColossusClimb aspect of the fight in the process), but you're also controlling a Hammer Bro who can rapid fire shoot hammers (which will destroy the leg armour and expose the boss to damage in about 20 seconds). Still, it is found at the end of a BossRush, so perhaps it's meant to be an easy end to a gauntlet of potentially annoying battles.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', the Chaos 6 boss battle in Big's story can be beaten in under 10 seconds. It's also Big's only boss.
** Perfect Chaos himself is not very hard at all and is ''the final boss of the entire game.'' To wit: you cannot actually be damaged in this fight, simply be blown backwards (Super Sonic is invincible, after all). Your enemy is your ring counter (much like it was in the Doomsday Zone of ''Sonic 3 & Knuckles''), which will plunge you into the water when it expires. You collect rings along the way and the objective of the fight is to reach Perfect Chaos as fast as possible while dodging his attacks, so you're encouraged not to shuffle your feet anyway. You damage Perfect Chaos simply by running into him at top speed.
** In ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic and Knuckles]]'', near the end of Sonic's game, you finally get the chance to fight Knuckles -- who's been a thorn in your side in the cutscenes since the beginning of ''Sonic 3'' -- and it's trivially easy to beat him without getting hit once. Then there's the final boss in a normal playthrough of Sonic 3 (without the Lock On), Big Arm: It isn't necessarily ''easy'', per se, but compared to other 16-bit Sonic games, it definitely doesn't feel like final boss material.
** The 3DS version of ''[[VideoGame/SonicGenerations Generations]]'' brought Big Arm back, but as the ''first boss'', so it was given a ridiculously predictable pattern and easily dodgeable attacks. The whole boss fight can be ended in under 30 seconds, and even less if you come back to the boss after unlocking the homing attack.
** The original 16-bit ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' had a fairly easy final boss, too. One of its attacks is an instant kill even with rings, as it crushes you, but this attack is telegraphed with enough time to get out of the way. Its other attack is...four extremely slow-moving projectiles. That's it. Even without rings, it would be extremely easy.
** The final boss of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'', the Psycho-Egg, is just Eggman in his normal vehicle with four panels that flip around and whatnot, and it's a case of dodging predictable attacks and waiting for a chance to hit him, or just taking the hit and then damaging him using invincibility frames. It's not overly hard or very exciting, especially compared to the final bosses of Sonic 2 or 3&K. It's made worse by the fact that [[ThatOneBoss the epic race with Metal Sonic]] comes before the final boss.
** ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance2'' has surprisingly rough boss battles throughout the entire game, mostly because they're all of the GetBackHereBoss variety. The exception is the final boss, which is completely stationary and a complete joke as a result. The BossRush to get to the final boss is actually harder. The TrueFinalBoss is more challenging, though.

* The endboss of ''VideoGame/HeroCore''[='=]s [[HarderThanHard Annihilation mode]] is ridiculously easy compared to the kind of stuff you have to put up with on Hard. Granted, you are fighting it at level 0, but you'd think it would be a slightly more difficult endboss, or one that made Hard seem easy.
* Though not the final boss, Annihilator Iosa from ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' is surprisingly easy for someone who, in the backstory, survived a shot from a weapon that annihilated an ''entire planet''. [[spoiler:You find out that the planet-stopping invulnerability is just a puzzle mechanic. She has the same shielding that all doors have that make them utterly invincible to weapons fire... but still open to being kicked.]] She can only fire horizontally, and there are platforms conveniently located above her head that allow you to dodge her weapons ''and'' fire down lasers onto her.
* The spider in ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}'', being as it's the only recurring enemy in the game, qualifies: its legs are razor-sharp, can ([[NintendoHard and will]]) impale you in a single strike, and it can follow you anywhere. However, the last time you encounter it, it's taken so much punishment that it only has one leg left, which attacks once and then gets stuck.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Croc}}: Legend of the Gobbos'', the [[OptionalBoss Secret Sentinel]] can be wiped out in something like 20 seconds.
* Gnasty Gnorc from the original ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''. He takes ''two'' hits, and spends three quarters of the battle running away from you.
* This trope is a plot point for ''VideoGame/SuperStarWars: Return of the Jedi''. Darth Vader was the final boss in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and was quite challenging. In this game, Vader is fought before the Emperor and goes down very quickly. This shows how Luke has grown stronger between games when he completed his Jedi training.
* The true final boss for ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'', once you've unlocked all of the treasures and [[TreasureMap golden panels]], is the [[GiantMook Giant Spear Man]], a RecurringBoss who only needs to be [[GoombaStomp jumped on]] a few times in order to be beaten.

* In the Super NES game, ''Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose'', Dizzy Devil is defeated via a rather unique way; you have to feed him. That's it, when you feed him enough, the fight is over, and the level is cleared. Before anyone says, "this game is for kids, it should be easy", try playing the game -- ''[[NintendoHard this game is not easy.]]'' Besides, all the other bosses in the game are handled the same way as most bosses, so there's really no excuse.
* ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'': Sort of. After a grueling battle in which [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Dracula]] throws pillars of fire, flames, unkillable blobs, the freaking Moon, and Delicious Fruit at you, he claims that he's tapping into an even more powerful form. Cue transformation into [[spoiler:a Waddle Doo that dies in a single shot]].

* Baby Bowser in ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'' isn't a particularly difficult final boss to begin with, but is made still easier by the fact that you're provided with a near infinite amount of fruit to recover your health with. There's even a [[InvincibilityPowerup Heart Fruit]] available, and taking him out before it wears off is a breeze thanks to the infinite eggs it grants you.
* In ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfLomax'', Evil Ed. All you have to do is to keep spinning around and throwing rocks at him while avoiding occasional bombs. The only thing Ed does is making boulders and bombs appear on the stage. During the first part, he just stands on a floating rock and does nothing while boulders keep coming from left and right. It's made even more ridiculous when you notice that during the second part of the fight, he uses ''hand puppets''.

* Astaroth in ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' is extremely easy to defeat, as long as you have the shield equipped (otherwise, he can't be fought). All he does is shuffle predictably back and forth, occasionally shooting a slow-moving fireball. If that wasn't enough, the game also locks you into facing his direction, so you can keep up a barrage of shields while jumping backward. You'll probably have less trouble with him than some of the game's many DemonicSpiders, even considering the fact that you need to use the game's worst weapon to beat him.
** Sardius in Super Ghouls and Ghosts is a cakewalk, all you have to do is stand under one of his legs and get the timing of the spawning platforms vs. his scatter beam attack right and you'll never get hit. The real challenge comes just before this battle, where you have to take on Astaroth and Neboroth with the Goddess bracelet.
* The final boss of ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdIIAssimilation'' is "Death Mwauthzyx", the giant monster featured in the [[Film/AngryVideoGameNerdTheMovie AVGN movie]]. For a being presented as all-powerful in the film, he's an underwhelming final challenge with very predictable attacks and who spawns lots of mini-clones that can be milked for energy-restoring beers. The final boss of the [[VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures previous game]], [[spoiler:Fred Fucks]], was several times harder despite being a mere human.
* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'':
** The Collector in [=LBP1=] is actually rather easy to beat, possibly to make up for the [[ThatOneLevel Bunker]]...
** The final Titan in [=LBP3=] is pretty easy if you are even only semi-decent at the game.
* In ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'', the finale of Alpine Skyline doesn't even have a proper boss fight like the other chapters, but rather, a LevelInBossClothing where you have to kill the three main purple flowers instead. Each of the flowers goes down in just four hits without much effort, and the only real challenge is getting to the flowers through some new obstacles. Despite the {{Foreshadowing}} building up to the finale as you collect the Time Pieces, the origin of the flowers is never explained beyond that, and the [=NPCs=] are just simply relieved that they're gone at the end.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'': Hands up if you defeated Dr. Neo Cortex on the first try. It's really easy since you only need to keep up with him and spin him thrice, and the only thing that can prevent you from doing so is [[ScrappyMechanic the controls of the jetpack]]. It does not help that the boss before, N. Gin, is qualified as ThatOneBoss by many.
* [[spoiler: Le Paradox]] from ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime''. For someone who has built up since the beginning of the game, all the boss fight amounts to is a bunch of quick time events that give the player too much time for button presses and a few very easy platforming sections. What makes this an even bigger let down is that the previous level is [[BestLevelEver easily among the best in the game]] and the previous boss fight with Ms. Decibel was a bigger challenge than this one.
* Bob the Goldfish in ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' is a ZeroEffortBoss, but he is a goldfish in a bowl, so that's excusable. However, the FinalBoss of the game, Queen Slug-For-A-Butt, is almost equally pathetic. She does have an attack -- summoning insects with her scepter to attack Jim -- but the casting animation is long, and attacking her in the middle of it interrupts her. If you shoot the Queen at any time you can, it is not particularly hard to keep her locked down completely, killing her without even letting her fire off one attack.
* ''VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterWorld'': [[FinalBoss Biomeka]] in the original Japanese version is a complete joke, being an immobile alien with no attacks other than summoning easily-destroyed laser blasters. [[DifficultyByRegion The international version changed this]] by adding a [[InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt conveyor belt]] and moving circular saw to the boss room... which inadvertently turned him into [[ThatOneBoss the opposite trope.]]

* ''Franchise/TombRaider'': Quite a few examples in the series.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'': Natla goes down from just a handful of bullets. Even the basic handguns can take her down.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness'':
*** [[spoiler:Eckhardt]]; as you can literally dodge most of his attacks by just ducking, and even if you do get hit, it doesn't damage you that much anyway.
*** [[spoiler:Joachim Karel]], if he could even count as a boss. All you have to do is run away from him. Considering that he's [[spoiler:a powerful Nephilim]], you'd think he'd be a little more challenging.
** This trope is parodied in the ''Tomb Raider'' [[GameMod custom game]] "Simply Purple". Roaring sounds are heard, the player is bombarded with medipacks and other supplies, ominous music plays, and... the boss is a little dwarf that can't even attack Lara properly.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'': Ganon is either this or a HopelessBossFight, depending on whether you have found the Silver Arrows. Even though he's invisible and constantly teleporting, his projectiles, while easy to hit you, just don't do enough damage to an endgame-ready Link, while his hitpoints are few, meaning that attacking the air and dodging occasionally will be plenty to get in the needed three hits and bring him down.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'': Hot Head, the next to last boss. Despite his only attack (the lava particles from when he submerges) doing '''four''' hearts of damage, it is very possible to stunlock him with the Fire Rod. The flames from the fire rod that stay for a few seconds can stunlock him, giving you free hits on him. It's possible to defeat him after dousing his flame shell, never submerging again.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Ganondorf is a TennisBoss and not even a good TennisBoss. A previous boss called Phantom Ganon, which is supposed to be weaker than the real Ganondorf, is more challenging, as the arena you fight him in is much smaller, giving you less time to react to the blasts; plus he has another phase, a ShellGame with the background paintings, also making him less predictable than Ganondorf. The only advantages the real Ganondorf has over his phantom double are his massive damage and the fact you have to use magic to stun him, but you can replenish both hearts and magic if you still struggle with the fight. Even in his Ganon form, where his attacks will do a massive amount of damage if they connect, he's still a complete joke, as he's incredibly slow with equally slow attacks. Beating him is as simple as rolling under his legs and whaling on his tail over and over again.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'': [[spoiler:Ganon]] from the linked game. His attacks, while strong, are very slow and predictable, allowing you to go up to him, spin attack, then use Pegasus seeds to get away before he launches his attack. To top it all off, he doesn't have a final form and is weaker than the vanilla bosses of each game ''and the boss just before him''.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': Zant takes you to previous boss arenas and requires you to use the same item used against it. Once you figure that out, he becomes simple, and he is not helped by the small number of attacks he possesses. Even the final phase, where he takes out swords, is easy because it boils down to waiting until he stops attacking and hitting him. While he takes a lot of punishment, he can't dish it out, as most of his attacks take a ''quarter'' of a heart, just like those of the weakest enemies.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': The final battle can easily end up as this for aggressive players. When you start actually fighting Malladus, he will almost ''never'' attack if you constantly hit him with your sword (this is actually the point of the battle, to get Malladus to face away from Zelda so she can shoot him in the back). The short "short" sequence before this is also nearly impossible to fail, as Zelda, whom you must defend from Malladus' flaming boulders while she charges her magic, will never die if she gets hit, but simply lose focus. You lose health if Zelda is hit, but the flaming boulders tend to drop recovery hearts.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'':
*** [[spoiler:Calamity Ganon, if you free all the [[HumongousMecha Divine Beasts]] and acquire the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Master Sword]] before facing him. Doing so allows the Divine Beasts to attack Ganon at the start of the fight, cutting his health in half, and gives you an extremely powerful and practically unbreakable weapon to finish him off. And depending on how much of the rest of the game's WideOpenSandbox you've completed (which is likely a sizeable amount if you've managed to free all the Divine Beasts), you may also have a large amount of hearts and good armor, making him even less of a threat. The catch is that you can go straight to him from the very beginning, and he can make you regret it]].
*** [[spoiler:The final battle with Dark Beast Ganon]]. In spite of looking great and its amazing music, the fight essentially boils down to [[spoiler:shooting the glowing weak points on Ganon's body with light arrows. ''[[TooDumbToLive While he hardly ever tries to move or turn around]]''. And even though he hits hard, this is only if he actually hits you, as his only real attack is firing slow, predictable [[SlowLaser mouth lasers]] at you.]] The anticlimax can be somewhat mitigated on speed runs, as your lack of equipment will certainly make the fight much harder, since you risk being killed in one hit if you have weak gear and you must land the last hit while in his line of sight. The rest of the fight is still not too difficult.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames'':
*** ''Link: The Faces of Evil'' has Ganon. All you have to do is throw the Book of Koridai at him, and..."No! Not into the pit! ''It burrrrrns''!!!" Also in ''The Faces Of Evil,'' a single bomb in the Glutko's mouth kills it.
*** ''Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon'': Zelda just has to throw the titular Wand at Ganon to defeat him: "The chains! ''[[BigNo NOOOO!]]'' [[WeWillMeetAgain You haven't seen the last of me!]]"
* ''VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA'': General Kim is the Anticlimax boss of the worst ending, a rather feeble opponent who can be taken down with repeated jumpkicks. If you play each ending in order, General Kim is surprising for two reasons; being the actual BigBad of the final ending, and being a ClimaxBoss requiring more fighting skill than any other fight and a tough driving-shooting challenge.
* ''VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity'' has two ending paths. The "bad" ending ends in a simple 2-dimensional GoodOldFisticuffs fistfight against the police captain in a cramped subway car (where you simply punch him until you back him off the screen and off the train), which is rather anticlimactic compared to some of the insane Kung Fu boss fights earlier in the game (including a sword fight against a 7-foot tall Black Samurai Rap Star). Contrast that with the original ''True Crime: Streets of LA'', where the "true" final boss, General Kim, [[RankScalesWithAsskicking was the best fighter in the game]], and the only opponent you had to beat with strategy (mostly blocking then counterattacking) instead of simply button mashing.
* Even though he's the leader of The Five, and actually knocks Mike on his ass in the cutscene where he's finally introduced, Dr. Victor Batrachian from ''VideoGame/ShadowMan'' is far and away the easiest boss to kill. Given as how he had depopulated an entire prison over the preceding 72 hours without even bothering to unstrap himself from the electric chair, the fact that he comes after you [[ImprobableWeaponUser with a baton]] is a little embarrassing.

* The final boss of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2''. The first 3 are fairly epic in their own right, including an ATV vs Jeep fight in a mall and a sword fight on a burning ship. The pre-boss fight was hell in a handbasket, using a helicopter to fend off other helicopters while attacking several gate locks in order to get at the guy. The final boss? [[spoiler:Dane Vogel in his office, who you can quickly proceed to blow up with a well-placed satchel charge]]. Even the lead-up to it isn't that great, making it feel like the whole thing was just put in for a final mission arc.

* The Shadowlord in ''VideoGame/NieR'' is this, particularly if you are fighting him on a [[NewGamePlus second, third, or fourth playthrough]]. Sold as a badass, protective father in a CrapsackWorld, the final battle consists of dodging (read: rushing through with a spear) insane [[BulletHell waves of magic]] until you get close enough to strike him. After three hits, he's down and the game is over; his badassery from before not even dignified a {{handwave}} (although there was a bit of a hint that he'd [[DespairEventHorizon lost the will to live]]).
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
** Saddler from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. As the final boss in a game filled with tough, memorable boss fights, you'd think his fight would be pretty epic. But that isn't the case, with an obvious weak spot, a surprisingly low amount of health, and attacks that do relatively little damage. Plus, the fight takes place in [[BossArenaIdiocy an area that contains several traps which can be used against him]], making the fight even easier. He provides a more challenging fight against Ada in ''Separate Ways'', but in the last part of the battle (which corresponds to Leon as per the main story), all she has to do is speedrun through the towers of the island's pier while dodging a few enemies to reach the rocket she's supposed to throw to Leon for him to finish Saddler instantly.
** Chief Bitorez "Big Cheese" Mendez can be defeated by four well-placed incendiary grenades, two [[OneWingedAngel for each phase]]. Not counting any acquired from random drops, there are eight fixed grenades you can pick up before the fight.
** Krauser. Remember Leon's advice to Ada that [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight knives work better for close encounters?]] The knife deals a massive amount of damage to Krauser and can trivialize the encounter.
** Birkin's final form in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' is just a giant blob who can't even hit you if you don't stand next to him.
* [[FinalBoss Shredder]] in ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1989'' is this. He has [[OneHitKill very damaging attacks]], but he is the only enemy in the game who can be [[{{Knockback}} knocked back]] by attacks, and his AI is also bad. It's possible to jump onto the right side platform and spam projectiles in his general direction, or even just corner him in the correct spot and smack him whenever he pulls his weapon out.
* [[spoiler:[[PerfectRunFinalBoss Evil Bomber]]]] in ''[[VideoGame/BomberMan Bomberman Hero]]''. After getting 5s on every level on the first five planets to unlock the sixth planet -- the toughest part of which is probably getting 5s on the boss levels -- and going through two of the most insane levels in the game, you get to the last boss and...he's about as tough as Nitros, at worst.

* In ''[[Film/MastersOfTheUniverse Masters of the Unverse: The Movie]]'' on C64, in the fight against Skeletor, all you do is knock him closer to the edge of the stage until he falls off while trying to avoid his EyeBeams.
* Sir Kael, the main villain in episode 2 of ''VideoGame/TheLastResurrection''. When you finally meet up with him, he's standing still, facing the wall and not even noticing you. All you have to do to kill him is ''walk up and touch him''.

* Widget from ''VideoGame/OverlordDarkLegend'' could easily be killed by just standing out of the reach of his flamethrower and letting the red Minions attack him with their fireballs from a small ridge. Since they are standing on a higher level than he is, his close combat attacks won't reach them and he only attacks them with the flamethrower, which they are immune to. Then you have to wait until he dies and realize that this was the final boss.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLittleMermaid'', Ursula's OneWingedAngel form is even easier than her first form. Her only new power is the ability to control the water current, which can be easily overcome, and there are no [[InvincibleMinorMinion starfish]] or [[TheSpiny urchins]] this time.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':
** Arius-Argosax from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2''. As Lucia's final boss and looking so disturbing and freaky, you'd think that this monstrosity could put up a good fight. Instead, despite its size and even if you get hit from its moves, you'll likely be able to kill it by ''standing still, throwing daggers non-stop, and just move out of the way of its poisonous attack or towards the other end of the crevice you're in''.
** Sanctus Diabolica of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' is one of the easiest final bosses (and possibly bosses period) in the series by a wide margin, with attacks that, while reasonably hard hitting, are choreographed from so far away that they can be dodged blindfolded, low defenses, and an "ultimate attack" that can be easily turned back on him to inflict even more damage. He is, in fact, easier than his DiscOneFinalBoss form half-way through the game; which, while not especially challenging, at least has a rectangular arena that makes him harder to catch, a smaller window to attack him in, and no "ultimate attack" besides the Savior's downward punches, which can also be used against him.
* While the game is otherwise known as NintendoHard, ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheBeast'' has a surprisingly easy final boss whose attacks are very predictable and easily avoided. Unlike all the other bosses in the game, this one doesn't require a special weapon to be defeated, either.

* In ''VideoGame/UrbanReign'', after proceeding through most of the game solo taking on various criminals, gang members, psychopaths, martial artists, and a couple of giants that the game simply describes as "monsters", the last boss is none other than [[spoiler:the corrupt Mayor, who dies with about 2-3 punches]]. But he's the only one who uses a gun, and the game doesn't hesitate to make its damage [[OneHitKill realistic]].
* In ''[[VideoGame/CrudeBuster Two Crude Dudes]]'', the last boss is a pint-sized scientist in a labcoat who can't do anything except run around and ineffectually thump you while you kick the bejesus out of him. Unfortunately, once you've had your fun, he [[OneWingedAngel mutates]] into a pretty badass SequentialBoss.
* The final boss of the first ''VideoGame/KunioKun'' game (''Renegade'' being the American localization), an evil Yakuza boss named Sabu, is depressingly easy to beat. Although he's the only baddie who uses a gun and can [[OneHitKill kill with one hit]], he can only shoot along one single trajectory, so all you have to do is duck right in front of him and keep whaling on him until he goes down.
** In ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'' for the NES, the final boss, Slick, is quite easy compared to the second-to-last fight against the Dragon Twins. Even more so if you have two players.
** In the GBA remake Slick is a beast of a fight, using [[UnexpectedGenreChange telekinesis powers]] -- he still isn't as strong as [[ThatOneBoss the Dragon Twins]], but he's not a trivial fight anymore.

* All of the so-called "Kings" in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedProStreet'' are average-at-best letdowns, but Nate Denver, the Speed King, takes the cake. The races he specializes in are long distance sprints across barren highways, emphasizing high top speeds with minimal-yet-hypersensitive turning, essentially supercar territory, and a cutscene at the start of his mission line boasts that "Big" Nate's [[CoolCar tuned '65 Pontiac GTO]] can [[InformedAttribute exceed speeds of 200mph]]. And yet in your big showdown with him, Nate never pushes his ol' Goat past a (comparatively) leisurely 130-140mph, which is painfully slow compared to the Skyline R34s, Murciélagos, and Zondas you've blown past to reach him, [[https://youtu.be/38HfM5wr_cc?t=46s making the final Speed races a cakewalk]].

* In the Adventure mode of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'', both Bowser and the optional Giga Bowser are a joke compared to many of the previous fights in the mode (especially on the higher difficulties, where the team fights can be downright brutal). Both of them are huge targets, which makes them incredibly easy to combo, and also have an easily exploited AI. The only thing that makes them remotely difficult is that in the odd event they do decide to use one of their stronger attacks and manage to connect with it, it can send you flying even at a low percentage.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'': After defeating the nearly impossible Metal Sonic, you are confronted by Dr. Robotnik in his Mecha Suit; you are also put in an InfinityPlusOneSword state known as Hyper Mode. Dr. Robotnik will rarely get an attack off. However, this is probably to make up for the fact that the Death Egg II itself is [[CollapsingLair about to go down]], giving the player a very short window of time in which to defeat him. Hacking has shown that Robotnik has a wide range of (almost instant-kill-inducing) moves, so the decision to make the final stage a CurbStompBattle was probably done so as to frustrate kids less after the difficult Metal Sonic battle.
* In ''VideoGame/XMenVsStreetFighter'', the (pre)-final boss is Apocalypse. While he looks impressive and his ''arm'' is almost as big as you are, he is quite easy to take down with most characters by simply jumping over the arm and using heavy punches repeatedly.

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'', the final boss for Hakumen's Arcade Mode is Ragna. Not the [[SNKBoss Unlimited version]], just normal Ragna. As a result, while not a pushover, Hakumen still has it easier than most. To further reinforce the anticlimax-ness, the fight before him is (non-Unlimited) Nu.

* The demon god Demigra in ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' starts out as a texture-swap of Whis, who is a tricky opponent, but you've already beaten him multiple times in significantly harder missions. Then he goes OneWingedAngel and... he's basically a joke. His strategy is to hover, firing slow-moving projectiles that don't do much damage, while you charge up finishing move after finishing move. There's an EasterEgg ending if you beat him in under two minutes. Some people achieve it by accident.

* Ithaka Wassali from ''VideoGame/GeneTroopers'', a plot-relevant antagonist (in fact she's the HiddenVillain) who can be fought as a proper boss, or, if you took the right steps, have your allies disable her force field the moment you confront her. Without her defense, you put her down in two shots.
* The Pfhor cyborg from ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' is the only boss in the game. It has no attacks and dies with less than one load of your pistol, although its countless guards will kill you if you do something stupid. Very fast.
* The CyberSpace boss-fight with SHODAN in the original ''VideoGame/SystemShock''. If you have upgraded pulsers, you can just park yourself wherever and spam the fire button for a few seconds. It's a little jarring how suddenly the end cutscene starts playing.
* For an insane computer who thought herself as a goddess, SHODAN from ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'' is really a complete pushover, while the game was insanely hard (you always lacked ammunitions). Disable the shield with 3 ICE picks (bypassing the hacking minigame), shoot 2 EMP grenades. Shoot 6 EMP grenades to her shield, shoot her twice. Use your assault rifle with AP cartridges: just pull the trigger, and she is downed... And you still have bullets in your magazine. Deactivate her shield, jump over the ledge, and hit her at close contact. Or, if you're the OSA type, just spam cryokinesis for 12 seconds. And you are not even hit once while doing this!
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv5Wmb7Ga7U This video]] says it all, really, and covers a handful of non-FPS games, too.
* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'':
** In ''F.E.A.R. 2'', [[spoiler:Colonel Vanek goes down after a whack in the face and a shot to the head in a ButtonMashing sequence]].
** Paxton Fettel, the psychic clone-commander from the original, is equally disappointing. After the game shows him as the semi-ultimate bad guy, you find him [[spoiler:shellshocked from Alma's mental effects, and a single shot to the head drops him]].
* ''Franchise/FarCry'':
** [[VideoGame/FarCry1 The first game]]:
*** After fighting against hordes of highly trained, heavily armed mercenaries and mutant trigen monsters with rocket launchers for arms, the final opponent, [[spoiler:Doyle]], is an unarmored scientist with a gun that isn't very impressive at this point.
*** While the BigBad himself is an utter pain normally, he can also be turned into an anticlimax boss if you know his big weakness, [[GroinAttack his groin]].
** ''VideoGame/FarCry3'': The final boss is beaten by a series of QuickTimeEvents, which represent a knife fight. If your reactions are fast enough, you can probably beat him on the first try. If not, it's a matter of learning the pattern. However, there is a big set-piece battle and a couple of cutscenes still to come before the end of the game.
*** [[spoiler:Implied to be the case with [[BigBad Hoyt]] when Jason finally confronts him and engages the usual Boss Battle; however, the moment the sequence ends, Jason is standing in a room filled with the bodies of Hoyt's bodyguards. Jason has become so much of a BloodKnight at this point in the story that he probably ''already'' killed off Hoyt, but [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty his mind couldn't comprehend]] that the man responsible for causing all the pain and anguish that Jason and his friends were put through was just easily killed off. So his mind concocted the entire BossBattle to give him the satisfaction he desired.]]
* The final boss of ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2'' is your typical SuperSoldier GiantMook, but he has a painfully slow attack and can literally be killed in 2 or 3 seconds with the right weapon (i.e. explosive shotgun shells). All of the series' other bosses avoid this with clever programming (they have to be shot 20 times by any weapon, so you can't just headshot them with a rocket launcher and call it a day).
* The final battle of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' consists of about ten seconds of throwing little glowing balls at some metal plates while gunships fire at you. If you want, you can shoot little glowing balls at the gunships, and ''then'' shoot the metal plates.
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/Halo3'', after fighting through hordes of heavily-armed aliens and bringing down not one, but TWO galaxy-threatening {{Big Bad}}s, the final fight is an anticlimactic shootout against [[spoiler:343 Guilty Spark]]. It's anticlimactic not because he turns out to be the final enemy (players have been waiting to take him down ever since the [[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved very first game]]), but because he's ridiculously easy, having terrible aim with his uber beam weapon and making absolutely no attempt to dodge your slow-charging WaveMotionGun. Also sort of sad considering that [[spoiler:Spark is quite possibly the least threatening character in the entire series, and he was really only doing his job protecting the Halo]].
** Neither Truth nor Mercy go out with the bang Regret did. Whereas Regret personally fought Chief using his heavily-armed CoolChair and a compliment of Elite Honor Guards, both of his compatriots become victims of the Flood (and the Arbiter, in Truth's case) before you reach them, and die in cutscenes.
** You never really fight the Didact in ''VideoGame/Halo4'': his last appearance has the player shove a grenade in his armor in a quick-time event, after which he falls off a bridge.

* The final shootout against [[spoiler:Sgt. Duvall]] in ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}''. You're equipped with an assault rifle (and can even bring a rocket launcher into the fight). He's got a pistol. For some reason, he can survive a ridiculous amount of damage, but that doesn't really help him since he can barely hurt you. It's probably so he's able to get through most of his long, pre-scripted MotiveRant before you manage to kill him.

* ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho'' has [[spoiler:the Firstborn]] as its final boss, aka [[spoiler:the very first being created by God, prior to Adam and Eve]], and it is extremely powerful -- it manages to [[spoiler:[[PlayerPunch kill both Cole and Jones by blasting them with lightning, causing them to explode into tiny little bits]]]]. Of course, once you actually start to fight it, its lightning blasts are unable to insta-kill your characters [[CutscenePowerToTheMax as seen in the aforementioned cutscene]], and all you need to do to defeat it is to use the supernatural powers of the remaining characters. Some consider it the easiest boss in the game. Also, it takes the form of [[spoiler:a small child]]. This wouldn't be so much of an anti-climax if you haven't seen the concept art of what the final boss was originally going to look like, however.

* The FinalBoss in ''VideoGame/TimeShift'' is the giant mechanical fortress you encounter at the very beginning, destroying the whole city. Instead of fighting it in a cool freeform boss battle, it's a stationary target that you just shoot at a few times from a rooftop a couple hundred feet away. What's worse is that you've known from the start of the game that the villain has the same kind of timesuit as you, and even though his is a beta version, you've been facing hundreds of SuperpoweredMooks with time powers reverse-engineered by the BigBad. So naturally the player expects an epic one-on-one battle against your evil counterpart, but no, what you get is not a battle but an execution.
* The final boss of the hastily released, shoddily built ''[[VideoGame/Area51FPS Blacksite: Area 51]]'' has literally ''no AI''. After his short scripted behavior runs out, he literally can't do anything except stand in one spot and shoot at you.
* ''VideoGame/IronStorm'': The "final boss" of this AlternateHistory game is a "rival fight" against a special forces officer who has some interesting tricks; he is equipped with multiple weapons (assault rifle, sniper rifle, machine pistol, and grenades), never stops running in circles around you, and can take several dozen bullet hits before dying. However, his head is completely unprotected and all it takes is a few bullets to the face to drop him. Pretty poor compared to the game's earlier 3 bosses, who are all equipped with full body metal armor and full-auto mini-rocket launchers.
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'':
** The Destroyer, the final boss, is [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination an H.P. Lovecraft-esque alien abomination]]... which has one way to seriously damage you, a ranged attack launched from its tentacles. These are very easily shot off and take forever to regenerate. With the tentacles dealt with, you can just plink The Destroyer in its weak point until it's dead, periodically taking cover to easily avoid its other, highly predictable attacks]].
** Also Skagzilla. You place a corpse to lure him out, and a giant Skag the size of a building leaps out and does [[RoarBeforeBeating a huge epic screech]] [[spoiler:which exposes his auto-crit weak spot for a good fifteen seconds]].
** Intentionally played for laughs with Slither. The god of a bandit cult, you arrive at the boss area to see an ominous crucifix, which fire swirls under as some of the most epic and ominous music the game has plays, and what emerges is... [[spoiler:a scythid crawler, one of the weakest enemies in the game. And no, it's not a case of it turning out to be a KillerRabbit -- it can take quite a bit more punishment than a normal one and deal a bit more damage, but it's still pathetically easy]]. Even the quest giver is openly disappointed by this.
* In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'':
** Wilhelm is set up as a devastating combatant -- the Guardian Angel is terrified of him, and the four protagonists from [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} the previous game]] combined couldn't defeat him. But the actual boss fight is underwhelming, being [[GoddamnedBoss annoying at worst]]. [[spoiler:There's an in-story reason for this: letting you defeat him is part of Handsome Jack's BatmanGambit, as the power core Wilhelm gives you upon defeat ends up being sabotaged. Jack had also weakened Wilhelm with poison beforehand so that he would go down easier, but any indication of this was left out of the game for some reason, possibly by accident.]]
** The final boss, The Warrior, can also qualify; just stand in the middle area, shoot his weak spot whenever he appears, and if you're fast-ish, he'll just flinch instead of attack.
** After defeating [[spoiler:Jackenstein]], [[spoiler:Professor Nakayama]] reveals himself, prepared to duel you mano a mano. Before the fight can truly begin... [[spoiler:he trips down the stairs in front of him and takes repeated health damage until he dies. There is absolutely nothing you can do to speed this up or stop it, you just watch the BigBad of the DLC trip and break his neck.]]
* ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' plays it for laughs. One of the sidequests involves breaking into a heavily secured lab to destroy an unspeakable horror locked in a heavily secured lab. Multiple characters warn you that you should absolutely never enter the lab and face the monster. If you do, you find that the monster is a clone of the Destroyer from the first game...[[spoiler:and it's about 1/20th the size of the real version, has only one attack that does piddling damage, and can be destroyed in roughly half a dozen shots]].
* ''VideoGame/BioShock'':
** [[spoiler:Fontaine]] in [[VideoGame/BioShock1 the first game]]. It's rather easy to beat him on Hard with the Chemical Thrower in rather short order, without even using any medkits or EVE hypos.
** In ''VideoGame/BioShock2'', the final battle [[spoiler:just throws a bunch of Mooks at you in a HoldTheLine mission -- something you've been through at least a dozen times before. You can even equip the Natural Camouflage tonic, stand somewhere out-of-the-way, and shoot out the pipes at the end to win with the least effort possible]].
** Most solo Boss battles, such as the first Big Daddy or Subject Omega, can be defeated with the drill alone -- as the drill stops all opponents except the Big Sister moving while at the same time dealing large amounts of damage, all you need to do is go up to your enemy and start drilling.
** Subject Omega is especially weak compared to your character at this point since [[spoiler:you have the "Summon Elanor" plasmid, which summons your Big Sister/Daughter to fight]]. In fact, several Let's Plays ended up having Omega killed offscreen by [[spoiler:Elanor]], never even seeing the boss.
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.
** The ending involves BigBad Bob Page lobbing threats at you while he's encased in a shielded anti-chamber, as he tries to merge with Helios. He never gets close to achieving his goal -- no matter which ending you take (merge with Helios, destroy the communications hub, disable the shield unit), Page goes out like a whimpering punk. The worst is Morgan Everett's ending (kill Page) -- to do so, you simply run around Area 51 to deactivate some power units. Page dies miserably seconds after you deactivate the final device.
** [[TheDragon Walton Simons]] is supposed to be the brawn to Bob's brains and the true physical challenge you have to overcome, which would've made Page's non-involvement more forgivable — after all, he's the mastermind, defeating him should be an ideological victory. Unfortunately, Simons, for all his bragging about wielding newer and improved version of augmentation technology, is a pushover. He has a powerful weapon, and he's accurate with it, but because of bugs, he doesn't use his augs properly, meaning you can kill him with a single missile, and his AI is really dopey, so he behaves almost like a rank-and-file mook.
** In ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'': JC Denton (an optional boss and the protagonist of the first game) is really weak for a PhysicalGod.
** Maggie Chow from the original game also qualifies. She is armed with a CoolSword, but has no ranged weapons, and isn't remarkable in any other way. You can take her down with a single tranquilizer dart, or a single hit from your own Dragon Tooth Sword -- and you can draw and swing it faster than she does hers.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'', the final boss of the game is the exact same weaponry (tanks and helicopters) that you've been fighting throughout the entire game. The only difference is that you get to rearm anti-aircraft guns to take them out.
* In ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick VideoGame/AssaultOnDarkAthena'', you have bad guys who will do 1-2 blocks of your 5-6 blocks of health with every punch they land, mech suits, turret spiders, and big daddies {there's one level where you hijack one and carry a little girl on your shoulder}. The final boss is invincible -- until you realise you can just walk up and pistol whip her out the elevator shaft.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', [[spoiler:Admiral Havelock]]. [[GuideDangIt It's not even that easy to provoke him to a fight]] -- you either kill him on the spot or walk past him to the final objective. If you do fight him, he goes down in a couple blows.
* The final boss in ''VideoGame/NosferatuTheWrathOfMalachi'' is extremely easy if you have the Chalice: around 2 hits will usually kill him.
* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTrespasser'''s final boss (or technically only boss, since you aren't required to fight other large dinosaurs), the Alpha Raptor, is a slightly enlarged raptor that only takes a few more bullets to kill than a regular one, but is easier to hit due to its size.
* ''VideoGame/AlphaPrime'' has as its boss [[spoiler:a man enslaved by an alien entity and turned into a giant abomination]]. Which shoots easy-to-avoid fireballs and goes down with a single hit from fixed lasers.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger'': In the "Revenge" path, the final duel is a complete cakewalk, both for in-story and narrative reasons. Put simply, winning that fight isn't fulfilling, and considering that a major theme of the story is the futility of revenge, it isn't meant to be. The "real" last fight, against Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is significantly more difficult and rewarding.
* ''VideoGame/Killer7'' is mostly a game based on plot, so a lot of these show up. The most notable is [[spoiler:the very last opponent in the game. The Last Shot Smile simply runs away and, when cornered, stands still and waits to be shot to death. It has no attacks at all, and all it does is make you wonder who the heck it is]].
* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'', [[spoiler:General Adams]] isn't very tough, being fairly immobile and taken out with two explosive shots on even the hardest difficulty.

* Bane, the final boss in ''VideoGame/BatmanDoom'', has 250 hit-points and a relatively simple pattern that consists of keeping a safe distance from him, wait for him to [[BullfightBoss lunge at you]] or [[TalkToTheFist start talking smack]], then bop him one when he's open.
* Tchernobog, the final boss of ''VideoGame/Blood1997'', had to get buffed a few times in patches due to how generally ineffectual he was at launch. Funnily, his anticlimax nature actually becomes more pronounced on higher difficulties. His BossOnlyLevel is a BossRush where you have to face off against the prior three bosses... only due to ''Blood'''s fondness for the DegradedBoss, anyone good enough to get to Tchernobog on a higher skill has gone through levels where they had to beat ''multiples'' of the first two bosses, making a single one of each a relative breeze. Consequently, beating all three of them without expending too much in the way of resources will leave a whole level's worth of ammo, armor, and health to throw at Tchernobog, and Tchernobog's health is surprisingly low (in fact, it's the second lowest of the game's bosses). With enough Tesla Cannon ammunition and the Guns Akimbo hidden in his boss room, it is not at all unfeasible to kill Tchernobog before he even leaves his spawn area.

** The final Bowser fight in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' is somewhat difficult... at least for the first phase. After a big to-do about him reemerging from the fight even more powerful, the fight changes to a very gimmicky section of ground-pounding meteors at Bowser. This fight is especially sad due to [[LongSongShortScene the wonderful music that you might not even get through one listen of]].

* ''AntiClimaxBoss/RolePlayingGames''

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* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series has its fair share.
** In the ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasy1 original Final Fantasy]]'' on the NES, it's very well possible to defeat the final boss, Chaos, in one turn. A Master in particular can defeat him in one attack, potentially depleting all of his 2,000 HP. Later releases buff the HP of Chaos and other bosses, so this no longer applies — notably, the ''Pixel Remaster'' version gives him 20,000 HP while your party is at around the same power level it'd be in the NES version, turning him into a grueling final boss if you're not prepared.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII''
*** After fighting your way through the Ice Cavern and defeating the [[MightyGlacier Adamantoise]], the traitorous General Borghen appears at the exit to fight the party. While the Adamantoise can be a nasty EarlyBirdBoss, Borghen is a complete pushover. [[spoiler:And when you meet him as a zombie in hell, he's once again a pushover compared to the other bosses of the dungeon.]]
*** [[spoiler:The Emperor himself]] is barely more threatening than the mooks with him in the battle. [[spoiler:He doesn't stay dead for long, though.]]
** In a very stunning moment, the UselessUsefulSpell in ''Final Fantasy Legend'' '''actually works''' on the final boss! This is a bug, though; the Saw is supposed to instantly kill any enemy with defense below the user's strength, but instead it only kills enemies with a defense ''above'' that value. Since the final boss has sky-high defense... (This is not the case if you choose to fight him fair and square, however.)
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'':
*** The very first boss, the Minotaur, is undead, and vulnerable to your Cure spell. Chances are you'll be hoarding your casts till Fireburg, but you can spare one to take him on with, right? Failing that, just have Kaeli cast Life, since she leaves the party right after anyways.
*** The Dark King is weak to the hero's Cure. [[note]]Though this is due to a bug, rather than by design.[[/note]] Cast Cure on the boss to break the damage limit and do over 10,000 damage. You can potentially kill him in two-three casts if your level is high enough. Even more amusing: the Dark King has multiple OneWingedAngel forms. However, they all use the same HP counter -- the Dark King merely changes form depending on how damaged he is. If your Cure spell does enough damage, the Dark King will actually skip forms trying to keep up.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'':
*** [[spoiler:In the World of Ruin, you were told the Eight Dragons were powerful creatures by several [=NPCs=], but unfortunately, most of them have many glaring weaknesses, taking the challenge out of them. Holy Dragon can be muted, Skull Dragon can be Rasped to death, Blue, Red and Ice Dragons fall to PoorPredictableRock, and Earth Dragon can be cheesed with the Angel Feather relic equipped on your entire party.]]
*** [[spoiler:the final stage in Kefka's four-form boss fight can be considered anticlimactic. There are multiple methods to defeat it in one turn, the blindness that it can cast on you doesn't work in the original SNES version, and if you prepare, you'll have ample time to heal from the Fallen One attack. The boss's signature attack, Goner, can't even kill you, and when you compare this form to the third form, Rest, which ended off its fight casting an instant-kill attack twice, it can be considered underwhelming. However, when it comes to story purposes, (the boss's grand entrance and lively as well as somber boss theme), this battle isn't anticlimactic.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Palmer easily qualifies. Most players who get into the boss fight against Palmer expect him to be strong since they had fought Shinra villains (the [=TURKs=] and Rufus) previously and they were able to hold their own in a fight. However, Palmer in battle is downright pathetic. His only attack is shooting his mako gun that has a fire, ice, or lightning effect and can be nerfed with M Barrier or nullified/absorbed with certain armor or materia. His only redeeming feature is having a big chunk of HP.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has the first fight against Seifer, which is also a DuelBoss. Sadly, it mostly just serves to show that Squall is Seifer's superior; with a bit of grinding it's actually possible to have higher stats than Seifer in every way, including health. Fortunately the game gives you several rematches, and none of them are this easy.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'':
*** The fight against [[spoiler:Seymour Omnis]] is a joke considering that his previous appearances have been ThatOneBoss for many players. It makes it even easier if you utilize his own built-in ElementalRockPaperScissors that '''YOU''' can manipulate to choose his weakness...or just summon [[GameBreaker Anima]]. And then there's [[spoiler:Yu Yevon]]...
--->'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]]:''' And now, the final battle! The group has battled all over the planet, fighting demons, dragons, monsters, unholy abominations, and finally we reach the [[TheChessmaster ultimate puppetmaster]]. The [[GodIsEvil Demonic Deity]] that perverted the entire world in its image. ''This'' is the ultimate evil that dominated the wills of men, leveled entire continents, [[KneelBeforeZod brought the world to its knees]], killed millions, [[OverlyLongGag and commanded the destiny of all life in Spira]] and '''[[PostFinalBoss what is this?]]'''
*** The whole boss rush after [[spoiler:Braska's Final Aeon counts. Yu Yevon possesing Aeons looks cool and all, but you ''can't'' lose because you have permanent Auto-Life. This is most likely because developers realized that completing post-game content and strengthening Yuna (as her stats determine those of her Aeons') would heavily penalize players, but many will tell you that the execution is lacking.]]
*** Omega Weapon in original versions of the game. As the boss of BonusDungeon full of hardest encounters in the game and with highest encounter rate, you'd expect hard fight. It ''does'' hit rather hard and its Nova attack will wipe out most parties that didn't fiercely grind in MonsterArena, but its HP caps at 99999, so badly wounded Auron with Celestial Weapon can kill it in one hit. The developpers realized this as well, as subsequent releases of the game make it much harder, with raised stats and ten times as much HP.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', [[spoiler:the final form of Orphan is quite weak compared to its first form and Barthandelus. It can be pretty easily defeated within one or two staggers, and is vulnerable to several status effects.]] As an homage to the ''Final Fantasy Legend'' final boss, it is possible to kill it with Vanille's Death Full ATB Skill while it is staggered; however, the chances of that happening are pretty slim.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2:'' If you prioritize story progression over character development, then the final boss fight can be Very Hard. If you end up with a high-level party because you've been on a long Fragment hunt or something ... not so much.
* In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', you eventually have to storm the last Eternian stronghold. One of the paths pits you against a menacing-looking Zombie Dragon. If you know [[ReviveKillsZombie Square Enix]], two Phoenix Downs is all you need.
* Compared to the likes of Geist the Bloody, the ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'' demo version of Ba'al v: Urchin is a total joke. Yes, it's the last boss you fight, but it has a Light weakness that is disappointingly easy to exploit and not enough Physical Defense to tank it. Its gimmick is that it can evoke copies of your characters to parallel that character's attacks with Dark, but a decent setup can vaporize those and still deal terrible, terrible damage to the Ba'al.
* After the intensely difficult task of acquiring all of the [[MacGuffin demon's souls]] in the [[VideoGame/DemonsSouls aptly named title]], you take a trip to the FinalBoss, [[spoiler:King Allant, who has almost no offensive ability whatsoever aside from some sluggish lunges with the Soulbrandt sword, as he is in a captive and weakened slug-like form, effectively letting you punch him to death, if you so desire it.]]
* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'':
** OD-10 from Cube's chapter. The entire chapter lacked battles, so Cube is incapable of having leveled up. But OD-10 is pretty disappointing, nonetheless. It has eight little spheres around it, healing OD-10, whenever they get hit. The spheres can be easily taken out with one attack. OD-10 itself has no attack that damages Cube a whole lot and can be easily defeated by having Cube stand right next to it and letting OD-10 hit him. His counter is always activated and eventually deals enough damage to kill it.
** [[spoiler:Streibough]] in Oersted's chapter. The final boss of the scenario and, while the emotional aspect is there, a pitiful battle in general. The boss is not a fighter, anyway, and one or two attacks can easily kill.
** In the Final chapter, after defeating the BigBad of the game, Odio the Lord of Dark, the boss then turns into [[spoiler:his original Oersted form]]. This boss is still intent on fighting and the player can, but the parameters have been altered to their original form, making this a pitifully easy battle to win, even if it's a DuelBoss. However, this counts as a BadEnding.
** If the player chooses to not fight the BigBad in his changed form, but let him live, he will send all of the previous bosses at the player in a BossRush. But they are rehashes and, with your leveled-up party, are nowhere near the threat they were in the original chapters.
** The Gamahebi in Oboromaru's chapter can be this, [[GuideDangIt if the player has gone through the scenario, in a specific manner]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'':
** In the first game, the final boss just stands there occasionally sending demons or firing fireballs at you. Its human bodyguards present a much greater threat.
** ''Gothic 2'' had a similar issue, especially if you're a mage. The final boss is an undead dragon, and most players pick up the spell "destroy undead" at some time or other. They fixed this in the expansion by giving all dragons insane regeneration and high armour.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'':
*** The final battle against [[BigBad Mankar Camoran]] is fairly anticlimactic. He's a decently leveled character, but he is not overly challenging. The only caveat is that he's [[AntiMagic resistant to magic weapons]] (which you'll almost certainly be wielding by default at this point) and is backed up by his two kids, who keep respawning after you kill them.
*** The expansion {{Big Bad}}s aren't much better. Jyggalag is the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of Order (''Shivering Isles'') and Umaril the Unfeathered is an ancient Ayleid sorcerer (''Knights of the Nine''). Both are far easier to defeat than they should be, but by then the player character can be very tough anyway and it seem they simply haven't kept up.
*** Mannimarco is the ArcVillain of the Mages Guild questline and also seriously fails at delivering the level of threat he was renowned for in-story, being a fairly generic mage. Thankfully, there's a mod that overhauls him and his entire dungeon to be suitably terrifying and difficult.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'':
*** This strikes twice at the end of the main quest. The only plot relevant Dragon Priest (extremely powerful undead sorcerers) is easily the weakest of them all and [[BigBad Alduin]] only appears to differ from the elite Ancient Dragons (which you've likely been slaughtering in droves) by having a few more hit points. It's even worse during the final battle in the afterlife, since you are assisted by the souls of three legendary Nord warriors
*** Ulfric Stormcloak, should you choose to side against the Stormcloaks in the CivilWar questline, is hilariously weak. Ulfric is one of the first [=NPCs=] you encounter which, due to a quirk in the game's LevelScaling system, means that he is scaled to be challenging to a level 1 character no matter when you face him. This was adjusted in a patch, but he's still quite weak, wearing almost no armor and wielding a steel axe with a very minor enchantment.
** Both of the main bosses in the ''Dawnguard'' DLC fall into this - after surviving a much more challenging set of waves of enemy units, [[spoiler: Vythar]] is standing on a balcony that overlooks a large cliff. One use of Unrelenting Force is all it takes to finish him off, since one thing vampirism doesn't grant immunity to is fall damage, and after defeating Naaslarum and Voslarum, his gear can be collected. [[spoiler:Lord Harkon]] also feels underwhelming as a result, no matter how many of his vampiric abilities he uses, since he doesn't send waves of enemies to wear you down.
** The final boss of the Thieves Guild storyline, [[spoiler: Mercer Frey]], gets a huge amount of buildup, and a big deal is made about how you can't fight [[spoiler: him]] 1-on-1. However, [[spoiler: he's]] no different from any other mook aside from being able to turn invisible, and if one merely climbs the stairs on either side of the statue, the fight can be ended easily with Unrelenting Force. Admittedly, the main reason you can't fight [[spoiler:Mercer]] 1-on-1 seems to be [[spoiler:his [[MindControl Agent of Treachery]] Nightingale power, which he ends up using to turn Brynjolf and Karliah against each other, leaving him to fight the Dragonborn without his ace in the hole.]]
* Monstar in ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'' is an intentional example. He only has 20 HP, low for that point in the game, and he has one attack, whick looks flashy and ultra-powerful, but ends up only doing [[ScratchDamage 1 point of damage]]. Once you defeat it, it's revealed that the creature was being controlled by a gang of Star Kids wanting to keep intruders out.
* [[spoiler:Doopliss]] in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is ''also'' an intentional example. Not only do you get to him shockingly quick, but he has a piddling 40 HP and his idea of a decent attack is turning into a shadow of Mario and throwing your own ''standard attacks'' at you. Compared to the previous boss who had 60 HP and an arsenal of buffs he's not very imposing, and even the narration remarks how refreshingly easy of a battle it was. [[spoiler:Then "Mario" and your party leave, the camera stays fixated on the shadow of Mario, and you're suddenly controlling that. Cue entire second half of a chapter where you have to fight your own friends and the guy who [[GrandTheftMe stole your body]], with the [[HeelFaceTurn defected former member]] of the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Shadow Sirens]] lending you a hand. The rematch with the boss isn't much more difficult than it was the first time, but by then you damned well worked for that victory]].
** Depending on the situation, [[spoiler:[[{{Superboss}} Bonetail]]]] may fall into this. The [[BonusDungeon Pit of 100 Trials]] is an optional but ''insanely'' difficult challenge, with its great depths in playtime, lack of save and recovery blocks, and the progressive DemonicSpiders, despite the breathers with badges every 10 floors, with the challenge culminating in a fight against the boss at the 100th floor guarding the game’s greatest badge. However, rather than [[spoiler:Bonetail]] himself, the brutal enemies may actually take the cake in difficulty. Despite having the highest stats in the whole game, it’s not all that easy for him to fit in ThatOneBoss category when compared to [[spoiler:the Shadow Queen]] and even [[spoiler:his younger brother Gloomtail]]. The former can attack three times per turn (2/3 times [[LifeDrain drains HP]]) and the latter, despite being obviously weaker and easier, has two incredibly powerful moves his older bro lacks. However, the strain of completing the previous 99 floors of the Pit of 100 Trials contributes to the difficulties faced when fighting [[spoiler:Bonetail]], as items, FP, and HP are more likely to be depleted by the time he is reached than when the player confronts [[spoiler:the Shadow Queen]], having save and recovery blocks right beforehand. Despite this, other than stats, one of the things that makes [[spoiler:Bonetail]] stand out is its unique fire breathing, which can give you one of four negative status ailments. However, using the Feeling Fine badges will leave only the freeze breath to give a status effect, making him much easier to handle, with his only standouts being using an occasional freeze breath and at random intervals recovering his HP (20 to be exact and two times possible at most).
* The final boss in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' has three phases. The first phase can beaten after just one Vellumental summoning and two 1000 Fold attacks. After this, all the Toads you collected leave, and you can't use any weapons or items. This basically means every coin you've collected, every Toad you've found, every weapon you equipped, and every item you bought throughout the game was completely meaningless. The two phases after the first phase are just simple mini-games that involve a little bit of jumping, button mashing, and rotating.
* The FinalBoss [[spoiler:Pope Zera]] in ''VideoGame/GrandiaII'' is initially very tough, having [[spoiler:superimposed his will over the dark god Valmar]]'s. But after the first time you beat him, the [[spoiler:Valmar]] portion breaks apart and he flees, leaving [[spoiler:the pieces of Valmar you collected earlier in the game behind him]] to stall you. Every single one turns out to be stronger than he is, the only dangerous spell he has is the game's ultimate explosion-damage spell, but you can see it coming a mile away and all your characters are faster than him, fast enough to knock him out of it and cost him a turn while he's charging up. He also has a meager 32000 HP, which makes it possible to kill him in two to four turns if you're strong enough. But the two most glaring weaknesses he has are that 1: He is a single target, while all other bosses had multiple parts or allies to prevent you from just cancelling all their attacks, and 2: he is ''not'' affected by ContractualBossImmunity to Millenia's [[GameBreaker Spellbinding Eye]], which renders him completely immobile for several turns. {{Lampshaded}} in that the characters themselves mock him for being so pathetic before delivering the final blow. His mind may have been strong enough [[spoiler:to bend a god to his will]], but he forgot he was a puny human beneath all that bluster.
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
** [[spoiler:Mettaton NEO]], available only in the [[LeaveNoSurvivors Genocide Run]]. The previous boss, [[spoiler:Undyne the Undying]], was the second-hardest boss fight in the entire game, so one may think that this boss ramps up the difficulty even further. Not at all; [[spoiler:He can be killed in a single turn. In fact, if you try to wait for him to attack, ''he does not attack at all.'' It is [[ZeroEffortBoss impossible to lose]].]]
** The Pacifist Run's final boss, [[spoiler:[[TragicVillain Asriel Dreemurr]]]], also counts. His presentation and music are very impressive, and his attacks are quite difficult to dodge, but all challenge is instantly thrown out the window when [[spoiler:you realize that [[ZeroEffortBoss you can't actually lose the fight]].]] [[spoiler:Whenever you "die", you simply get right back up and continue to fight the boss.]]
** As ''Undertale'' is a game that encourages the player to avoid lethal solutions entirely, most later bosses on a Neutral run can end up being this to a player who doesn't shy away from killing but doesn't actively go out of their way to kill enough monsters to trigger a No Mercy run (which has new, [[ThatOneBoss very powerful]] bosses). They are designed to be challenging to a level 1 player, where you have 20 HP, while even a relatively modest level 6 (out of 20) doubles that and gives you additional defense.
* In ''VideoGame/ReturnToKrondor'', the final boss, 7-foot-tall pirate leader Bear, dies automatically after you click the cursor on him to attack him (due largely to your character having been transformed into a absurdly overpowered avatar with 16 attacks per turn and a huge flaming greatsword).
* The four dragons in ''VideoGame/LunarDragonSong''. The plot makes you expect one hell of a fight, as do the graphics -- the dragon is so big your characters are shrunk slightly to fit them on the screen. But the dragon will go into rest mode, not to awaken until the next turn ends, if you hit it hard enough... which is easy to do. Rinse, repeat. Unless you're underlevelled, the dragons are the easiest bosses in the game. One exception to the rule is the Black Dragon, who will eventually take a form of a darkened version of Jian who won't be stunned like the other dragons while in this form and also inherits Jian's special ability of attacking three times at once and stacking damage. This, however, is hardly an exception, because once you learn Dark Jian only attacks when your Jian attacks and mimics every other command Jian does, you can make your Jian stall by using items or cards while Dark Jian will continuously heal himself with HP Gabryel and Flora can tear through anyways.
* Rhapthorne in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII''. After Dhoulmagus put up ''SUCH'' a fight, and several other of the people Rhapthorne is either directly controlling or influencing putting up another fight (Sir Leopold, Jessica[[note]]Though most of the challenge in THAT fight is crowd control and how you are missing your crowd control ''character''[[/note]], Marcello), the only way you can't finish the battle in less than 10-15 turns is if you decide to gimp yourself or refuse to exploit tension.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'': Just like Rhapthorne, Corvus doesn't appear to get that much stronger when he goes into his second form. (He has less health than a mere ClimaxBoss, King Godwyn... and that's not even ''adding'' the health from his first form. Heck, Godwyn even has more HP than [[TheDragon Barbaros]] in his second form!) He more or less just gains a few new attacks, can inflict status ailments, etc... but once more, he doesn't really offer that much new to the game. Kind of a shame that this was intended to be the hardest game.
** That is, until you reach the first [[WakeUpCallBoss Grotto or Legacy Bosses]]. Corvus was practically just put there to make sure you're ready for them.
** [[TheDragon Barbaros]], again. Almost a case of OverratedAndUnderleveled.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' has both a BigBad and TheDragon, but it's possible to kill them both without ever meeting them. [[spoiler:You can kill Lou Tenant near the vats by hacking into the computers near his office and activating the base's self-destruct command. The Master, for some reason, has a live nuclear warhead in his Vault compound, which you can set the timer on and then get out of there.]] Fighting them straight-up, though, is another story.
** Similarly, the final boss of ''Fallout 2'' was absolutely brutal, and borderline impossible... unless you hack the turrets in his room and convince a squad of Enclave soldiers to back you with a high Science and Speech skill, respectively. After that, he can still kill you easily if you're not careful, but he'll go down fairly easily.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' gives your character a whole lot of motivation to kill [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Benny]], but dealing him his death is rather simple. He can go out with a whimper through OutWithABang, or dismissed to crucifixion. If you face him in combat on his own turf, his weak trophy gun makes him no tougher than the rest of his gang. He was [[InformedAbility supposedly an expert]] knife-fighter from his tribal days, but can be faced in [[GladiatorGames single combat in an arena]] with mediocre unarmed skill.
** There's also Caesar, who, should you go out of your way to assassinate him, is a pushover compared to his [[PraetorianGuard Praetorians]] and [[TheDragon Dragon]]. Of course, the actual challenge is simply getting there and getting out, considering he has an entire camp of Legionnaires surrounding him. (And in fairness, he's in his 50s and [[spoiler:[[DarkLordOnLifeSupport he has a brain tumor]]]], that'd probably impede his fighting skills a bit.)
** His counterpart, [[GeneralFailure General Lee Oliver,]] isn't much better (though, oddly, Oliver can beat Caesar in a fight without much trouble). The only challenge in the fight is his rangers, which, if you're at the point of facing Oliver, you've already killed plenty of. If you've gotten your hands on upgraded Securitrons, they become a greater threat to you than Oliver, in the five seconds of them [[MacrossMissileMassacre indiscriminately bombarding his position with rockets.]]
** If you choose to fight him, Salt-Upon Wounds in ''Honest Hearts'' is as tough an opponent a boss is likely to be by himself. However, you're fighting alongside [[MadeOfIron the Burned Man]] himself, who will [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] him and his mooks easily even if you do nothing at all.
** ''Old World Blues'' has Dr. Mobius after the [=GIANT ROBO-SCORPION=] in the [=FORBIDDEN ZONE=] -- which is, yes -- [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment FORBIDDEN TO YOU]]! You don't even have to fight Dr. Mobius if you don't want to. [[spoiler:Indeed, it turns out that the threatening messages he keeps sending out were recorded when he [=OD=]'d on Psycho and didn't know what he was doing, and he was just trying to protect you from being 'studied' by the Think Tank to figure out a way to leave Big Mountain.]] If you do, he's a pushover. [[spoiler:And after that, you'll either have to talk down or fight the Think Tank.]]
*** Even if you do choose to fight the [[spoiler:Think Tank]], it is ridiculously easy once [[spoiler:you've retrieved your actual brain]], to the point that TalkingTheMonsterToDeath is really just there for some VideoGameCaringPotential. This is ''also'' acknowledged in that they aren't especially equipped for battle and haven't had a combat drill in decades, which sends them into a panic once it turns out their safeguards for this don't work anymore.
---->[[spoiler:'''Doctor Klein:''' DOES THIS WEAPON HAVE SOFT LOCK? ANYONE?]]
** Father Elijah, the final boss of Dead Money, is pretty easy to kill in combat alone (plus you can hack a terminal to cause the turrets in the room to shoot him). The hardest part of the fight is escaping the vault after your bomb collar's detonation sequence is activated, since you have 60 seconds to go back the way you came (even though the entrance is 20 steps away, but is blocked by a laser barrier). However, you don't even need to fight him in the first place. As soon as the door opens, you can start your escape, and by the time Elijah realizes you tricked him into coming into the vault and starts the 60 second timer, you'll be less than 10 seconds from the elevator (which is a one-way trip, trapping Elijah in the vault forever). Of course, [[ThatOneLevel after everything you went through to get here]], you deserve a break.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'':
*** Despite being an advanced A.I., [[BigBad President Eden]] can be convinced to commit suicide with just two mid-level Speech checks. The argument that convinces him to kill himself isn't particularly impressive either, as it basically just amounts to telling him that he sucks and should die. And if your Science skill is high enough, you don't even have to attempt those. Furthermore, Eden's self-destruction code is in Autumn's office, not exactly well-hidden either.
*** [[TheDragon Colonel Autumn]] is one dude with a coat and a laser pistol, with two standard Enclave soldiers flanking him. It's often theorized that ''3'''s [[DisappointingLastLevel ending levels]] were balanced around the assumption that the player would be doing a LowLevelRun, and consequently even a mid-level character (much less one that's managed the AbsurdlyLowLevelCap) can end up blowing his head off in a single shotgun blast.
*** As for the {{Optional Boss}}es from the [=DLCs=]: General Jingwei at the end of ''Operation Anchorage'' can be convinced to [[{{Seppuku}} fall on his sword]] if you have a high enough Speech Skill. If not, prepare for a [[MarathonBoss long fight]]. The Alien Captain at the end of ''Mothership Zeta'' has the same stats as the unshielded alien {{mook}}s.
* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the end boss is easier to fight than most of the bosses who came before him, especially if you found enough secrets to jack your stats up much higher than they would normally be by the end of the game. The real fun, though, is in the multiple ways you can win the fight, including several ways you can [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath convince him to give up and merge back with you.]]
** Even more amusing: Remembering that [[KnightTemplar Vhailor]] is said to gain more power when he faces great injustice, reviving him, and siccing him on the Transcendent One. Vhailor will ''literally'' gain enough power to kill a god single-handedly when faced with the level of evil the Transcendent One represents, while you laugh and laugh and laugh.
* [[spoiler:Charles]] in ''VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures'' Episode Two.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]: ''"SISSY BOSS FIGHT!!!"''
* The [[ClippedWingAngel final form]] of Emperor Ix in ''[[VideoGame/SonicChronicles Sonic Chronicles: the Dark Brotherhood]]'', where his two previous forms did ridiculous damage if you missed even one tap or drag on the touch screen, and had defense like crazy. Of course, this is because Super Sonic has been activated for the final fight, and by the end of the game you have the eye-hand coordination to pull off the simple rapid tapping patterns. In fact, the boss is designed for you to beat it in one round (because he regenerates to full health after the turn), and you have more than enough chances to do him in even if you somehow screw up the first round.
* The Forbidden in ''VideoGame/BlackSigil: Blade of the Exiled'' is pathetically easy, easier than some enemies in the final dungeon.
* The final battle against Belial in ''VideoGame/LandsOfLore 2''. If you're good, you will finish him off with a single blow. It might very well be a glitch though, because if you're playing evil, you're in for a very tough fight, followed by another one against the Draracle.
* One of the final areas of ''VideoGame/EyeOfTheBeholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon'' is filled with giants who fill the entire corridor (crawling) and [[SmashMook deliver punches]] that damage your whole party and may very well kill your [[SquishyWizard less rugged mages]] in one blow. Depending on whether the {{Random Number God}}s like you, they may only punch once in so many turns. In contrast, the final boss is a wizard [[spoiler:who is really a disguised dragon]] but who is also not even half the threat of a single giant.
** This is not because of the boss (the dragon's fire breath ''hurts'') but because of the level design. The final boss is in an area where you can sidestep all his attacks, and the giants are not.
* From ''VideoGame/Persona3'', the members of Strega have spent the entire game hounding your team, even [[spoiler:killing one of your members]]. Yet when you finally get the chance to face them outside of a cutscene, they're... well, ''pathetic''. There are random encounters that are more complicated and dangerous than them.
** This trope applies to all bosses fought outside the Tartarus, despite them being the plot critical fights. WordOfGod is that since the player has a lot less time to prepare for them, they were made easier on purpose.
* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': [[spoiler:Adachi]] is ''very'' easy to beat for having been the murderer you spent the whole game tracking down, having attacks that only do mild damage and only one turn to your team's four. This is perhaps justified considering that he doesn't have the same level of combat experience that your team does, since he only entered the TV World for the first time recently. However, after defeating him, he's revealed to have been possessed by a much stronger enemy with more hard-hitting attacks and two moves per turn. [[spoiler:And even then, it's only an alter-ego of the game's TrueFinalBoss.]]
* ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'' has the Merciful Clergyman, the boss of the second dungeon. For a boss, he doesn't have all that much HP, and doesn't hit very hard outside of him main gimmick: he'll place a "vow" on the party, preventing you from using a certain command. (Like Attack, Skill, or Items) What makes him such a joke is that [[LoopholeAbuse he has no vow against Poison damage]], and he happens to be very vulnerable to Poison.
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'':
** The boss battle against [[TheStarscream the traitor]] is even easier, as not only do they have an extremely predictable attack pattern, but at this point in the game, the player likely has every resource available to defeat them. [[spoiler:Goro alternates between two sets of attack patterns (physical barrier + two physical attacks, magical barrier + two mid-level magic spells when his health falls halfway), and his most dangerous attacks (Desperation, which spikes attack at the cost of defense, and Leviatine, a very powerful Almighty attack) are situational (he'll do the former if he knocks down a party member; he'll do the latter once he's low on health).]]
** The last Mementos quest is the toughest and the only quest ranked at the highest S-Rank(''[[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'' demotes the boss to an A-Rank while adding in more difficult S-Rank targets), pitting the team against [[GagPenis Mara]]. Mara will always open the battle with Tarukaja (increases its Attack), which the player can easily remove through Tarunda (decreasing opponent's Attack) or Dekaja (nullifies opponent's buffs). Cue Mara using Tarukaja again, followed by Dekaja, and a pitifully easy battle.
** The Mementos targets for Takemi and Iwai's Confidants are rather easy compared to other Targets. This may be because their Confidants are among the first to open up, although they have steep stat requirements for the events unlocking the requests (Takemi's requires Rank 4 Charm, while Iwai's requires maxed out Guts).
** The new 3rd semester FinalBoss of ''Royal'' has three forms, and while the first one puts up a fight, the second form is more of an interactive cutscene than a battle, and the third outright ''is'' a CutsceneBoss. A bit of a let down for the final opponent, [[spoiler: who is a Persona-user who evolves their Persona for the second and third phases]].
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'': It's accepted by many that the endgame bosses starting with, depending on route, Lucifer or Sabaoth are the toughest. On Neutral, however, there's an extra boss fought in between Lucifer and the Godly bosses: Kuzuryu, the gigantic dragon controlled by Lucifer that had gone berserk after his death and threatens to destroy the world and kill everyone. Stephen and even Daleth ask Aleph to kill it...only for a joke of a fight to start that, if the party is strong enough, can be auto-battled -- while Lucifer had deadly status attacks and Satan and YHVH can one hit kill a character, Kuzuryu has nothing going for it.
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'': The FinalBoss, Kagutsuchi. While having an awesome premise, two forms, all of the high-tier elemental skills, and extremely powerful Almighty attacks exclusive to him... there's nothing much really to him. Buffing and debuffing as normal generally works, as he rarely cancels them, and provided you do that, even his ultimate attacks do little damage.
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'': Pillar [[spoiler:Zelenin]], the final boss of the Chaos path. Notably, the fight is more or less identical to the fight against Judge [[spoiler:Zelenin]], which could potentially be the ''first'' boss after the alignment lock if you're on the Neutral path. (The first objective after the alignment lock is to collect four {{MacGuffin}}s and these can be collected in any order; this boss guards one of them in the Neutral path, though it is notably the only one that's a true boss rather than a MiniBoss and can come as a shock to NewGamePlus players who had already played the Chaos path and were expecting the same MiniBoss that guarded that one on that path.) While it's still no cakewalk, it pales in comparison to the FinalBoss of the other two paths (which legitimately rivals the {{Optional Boss}}es in difficulty).
* From ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', we have the bosses of the "Errand for the Apocalypse" quest: the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse [[DualBoss all fought at once]]. Players who have challenged the individual riders in their respective 1/256 chance battles may go in expecting a battle that requires being CrazyPrepared, only to discover that the four Riders are actually quite weak in this battle: They lack the terrifying high-end attacks that they use when fought individually, and have no more than 2000 HP each, making them easy to kill with a few AreaOfEffect attacks by a team capable of handling the individual Riders.
* ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'':
** The first game has one in Ravana, who is somehow both this and, story-wise, the ClimaxBoss. While his first form is rather tricky, players of ''Nocturne'' will immediately recognize the gimmick from the Ongyo-ki fight, and the second form is only challenging due to the unique [[spoiler:(until you reach the final boss, anyway)]] ailment he inflicts, which is an incurable (by the player, at least) version of Panic. Other than that, it's a rather simple fight, with his strongest attack being easily [[NoSell no-sold]] by throwing up a Void/Drain Force.
** The second game has its FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Brahman]]. It has five very predictable forms that can be taken out easily provided you can spread around resistances, as each form uses a different element. Its ultimate attacks are simply a buffed Megidolaon with no extra fluff and a skill that maxes its stats and minimizes yours, which can easily be canceled out with Dekaja and Dekunda. Though it should be noted that it's not entirely the boss's fault -- the preceding boss, [[spoiler:Meganada]], is widely considered to be one of the toughest bosses in both games, and in beating it, you're probably more than prepared for what comes next.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has, at the end of the suicide mission, the [[spoiler:Human Reaper]]. [[spoiler:It's basically a fetus. A giant, EldritchAbomination robot fetus. Made of people.]] If you just want to get it over with, using the M-920 Cain (read: [[AwesomeButImpractical portable mini-nuke launcher]]) takes off 2/3 of its HP. However, unless you have your Heavy Weapon Ammo research ''completely'' maxed, you can only fire it once. Not like you really need to, anyway. It's easy enough to beat ''without'' firing a nuclear bomb at it.
** In the ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' DLC, the titular boss is really ineffective: slow, not giving much of a punch, fragile. But you still have to pass through three stages like this.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
** Kai Leng, who was built up as a badass in cutscenes where he: kills [[spoiler:Thane/Kirrahe/the Salarian councilor]], outsmarts Shepard, shows off abilities similar to a [[McNinja Phantom]][[note]]such as invisibility, the ability to deflect bullets with a forcefield, and the ability to kill anyone with one swing of his sword[[/note]], and seriously wounds and possibly kills [[spoiler:[[SmugSuper Miranda]]]]. When he actually confronts you in gameplay, [[CutscenePowerToTheMax he loses all of the abilities he had in cutscenes]], instead favoring just running around and taking potshots at you with his PowerPalms, which is ''weaker'' than the version used by normal Phantoms. It's almost impossible to lose to him in both fights unless you do absolutely nothing [[note]]and even then, your squadmates will usually take him out themselves if fully leveled on Normal or below[[/note]] or run into a grenade thrown by one of his [[FlunkyBoss flunkies]]. One of the upgraded forms of the Lash ability from the Omega DLC pierces shields and barriers as long as they have health. Kai Leng only has shields and health. If you have a fast enough recharge time, you can kill him so quickly that [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable the game fails to recognise it and you have to load a save]].
** The Illusive Man. Either you just shoot him in a quick-time trigger or he shoots himself.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'':
** Darth Nihilus. You spend half the game scared to death of facing him because the dude eats planets. But then, you reach him. You have back-up, he can't feed on your character because the Exile's Force connection is... peculiar [[spoiler:([[ShadowArchetype the same as his]])]], and he goes down in maybe 30 seconds.
** There's even an option to sacrifice one of your teammates to weaken his power, which is completely pointless and makes you wonder just how underlevelled the devs seemed to think you would be at that point. Note that the Exile near the end of this game can easily destroy most other "bosses", except maybe Darth Sion and Traya. But that only serves to improve the constant feeling near the end of [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome how awesome your character is]], nothing quite like defeating Atris [[SingleStrokeBattle with a single blow]]. Or just use Force Crush, which cannot be defended against. EvilIsCool indeed!
** Traya is ridiculously easy to defeat. All you have to do is walk around the three lightsabres she floats in front of her and it becomes a CurbStompBattle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' himself, in the first incarnation, is painfully easy to defeat. His only ranged attack is a simple blockable instant hit explosion but can be prevented by going melee, he's fairly susceptible to common magic, and has pretty low armor class. Doesn't help that there is an easy way to lure him out without waking his {{mook}}s. Excusable because [[spoiler:in actuality, the body you're fighting is that of a helpless child]].
* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'':
** The Summoner. You fight through a reality-bending Escher twister full of demons in search of a power-mad sorcerer, who keels over in two or three hits on Normal difficulty. The weakest super-unique creature in the game, hands down. Only the non-boss uniques in the first act are squishier.
** Diablo himself on higher difficulties: he's not easy, but the Super Uniques you fight in the Chaos Sanctuary are much harder. It doesn't help that you can heal up near the seals, since he will never go near them, and ranged characters can even snipe at him while out of range from his attacks.
** Baal is even worse than Diablo: His attacks aren't all that strong, and the worst he can do is use a pair of curses that give mana burn and half physical resist & speed, respectively. Even worse, the last 2 Super Unique monsters you fight in Baal's throne room before you face him are much stronger.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterRacers'' has the Legendary Racer, [[spoiler:Misaki]]. After [[ThatOneBoss That One]] DuelBoss, you face someone who is not very fast, lacks an on-start NitroBoost or other such gimmicks, has no terrain bonus, and.... well, is just one racer as opposed to three. Exactly the opposite of the previous fight, making this even less climatic.
* A variation occurs in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeam''. If you get a Grass-type as a result of the personality quiz at the beginning of the game, Groudon becomes a cakewalk. See, by that point in the game, you'll be used to the bosses being a DifficultySpike, and have prepared accordingly. Additionally, the villagers will have already told you how powerful Groudon is, and just before you reach him [[TheWorfEffect you'll find Alakazam, Charizard, and Tyranitar barely concious.]] Finally, you'll have had to go through a slew of powerful defensive Mons on your way through the dungeon. Then when you finally get to him, [[spoiler:his ability kicks in, allowing you to spam Solarbeam at him.]]
** Even if you're not a Grass Type, Groudon starts so many squares away that if you have Iron Thorns or Silver Spikes, you can toss so many at him that he'll go down in a round or two of hits when he finally gets to you.
** And in the post-game, there's the Western Cave dungeon. Before unlocking it, you see a cutscene where Mewtwo throws Charizard and Blastoise for a CurbStompBattle. Then, when you unlock the dungeon, you go through 98 floors of powerful enemies, monster houses and such, where you're certain to gain at least five levels for your team along the way. Then, at the very end, you get to Mewtwo...who doesn't have much in the way of attacks and is easily beatable in a few attacks thanks to the levels you gain on the way to him.
* ''VideoGame/FableII'' ends in this way. After being transported to the Tattered Spire to confront [[BigBad Lucien]], he is killed by the player (or by Reaver, if you take too long) by simply shooting him once. ''VideoGame/FableIII'' lampshades the hell out of it ("What kind of rubbish game lets you kill the villain in one hit?!")
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' is a brutal MultiversalConqueror. He's also [[TheManBehindTheCurtain four feet tall and barely tougher than his henchmen]]. However, after you beat him, you face a tough, suitably epic fight against the GreaterScopeVillain. But even then, Microwave can hold him down single handedly.
* Abazigal from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal''. Out of the game's storyline villains, we have Illasera the WarmUpBoss (who is a near-ZeroEffortBoss for anyone who brought their party over from ''Shadows of Amn''), Yaga-Shura the PuzzleBoss (whom you fight alongside his huge army of not-insignificant mooks), Sendai the SequentialBoss who is also a MookMaker, and [[spoiler:Baltazhar]], who teleports around a lot and uses a lot of weird special attacks (and is immune to [[TimeStandsStill Time Stop]]). Abazigal... is a PaletteSwap of the dragons you meet in ''Shadows of Amn'' with more HP. He stands still. He wing buffets you. He shields himself with outdated protective spells and has a slightly annoying lightning breath that will be lucky to kill your party mage at this point in the game. What doesn't help is that the stage's MidBoss, Draconis, is the game's ThatOneBoss and a ''lot'' more annoying to fight.
** In standard ''BGII'', the "place trap" ability of thieves can make ''any'' fight an Anti-Climax Boss if they're positioned right and you have a chance to plant them before the fight. This is especially grim when fighting [[spoiler:Irenicus]] on the Great Tree, since you can walk past him before he becomes hostile, cover the place in the nastiest traps you have available, and then finish off the surrounding parasites, at which point there's a short conversation, he becomes hostile, and:
--->[[spoiler:'''Irenicus:''']] I have enough power to deal with you!\\
''SNAPSNAPSNAPSNAPSNAP''\\
[[spoiler:'''Irenicus:''']] Apparently, no I don't. ''[dies]''
* The boss of Tanglewood in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn''. It's your typical WarmupBoss and it's in the beginning of the game, but it's anticlimatic due to Garet and Isaac assisting you with their strength and summons, allowing you to win the fight in just a few turns.
** In a series with {{Superboss}}es being noticeably more difficult then the rest of the game, the Ogre Titans stand out as easier than the storyline bosses. You need the InfinityPlusOneSword that they are weak to to fight them in the first place, they start the fight off slow to allow you to buff, and only use physical attacks (which do minimal damage thanks to the easy buffs).
** Blados and Chalis. No OneHitKO attacks and no Djinn screws, both of which are standard for ''Golden Sun'' bosses. At worst, they can do some ManaBurn and some StatusEffects, which can be healed or even ''ignored'' if you aren't depending heavily on Psynergy. The second battle is even worse, as they have barely changed at all, while your group has leveled up and gained new allies, weapons, and Djinn. [[spoiler:Their [[BrainwashedAndCrazy new ally]] is more dangerous, but the battle can be ended by just beating the main two first.]]
* One of ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'''s final bosses is armed only with an easily dodgeable rocket launcher with a very slow rate of fire. If you can get into the room that he is holed up in, he panics, curls up into a ball, and can be defeated with a single punch. The other final boss is somewhat more challenging.
** Though the other isn't much of a challenge either. He uses weapons that have a high fire rate, though they don't do much damage and are easy to avoid, especially considering that all bosses in the game show you where they're aiming. He doesn't cower in the corner when you reach him, but he can't take much damage, and almost never decides to melee attack you.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 2}}'' played with this a little bit, featuring a PuzzleBoss that could ''only'' be killed with an [[OneHitKill Instant Death]] ability.
* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', the character who for story purposes is TheDragon turns out for gameplay purposes to be the final boss. It's a nice two-stage fight, which might lead some to think an even bigger one is coming up. [[spoiler:But he just gets killed in a cut scene. Completely justified because his Clan is [[TheChessmaster Ventrue]], a Clan that usually never bothers to get their hands dirty because they specialize in MindControl, [[TheChessmaster gambits]], and having lots of {{Mooks}} at their command.]]
* Mewtwo in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium''. One on his side, six on yours (that can include one of him). To reach him, you need to fight some of the [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard most blatant cheaters ever]] and he doesn't feel that powerful in comparison.
* Discounting endless LevelGrinding and some GameplayDerailment, some bosses in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' are not as difficult as some players perceive them to be.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'':
*** The eighth Gym Leader of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is Giovanni. He also just so happens to be the leader of Team Rocket, and you already had a few serious encounters with him in Celadon and Saffron City, so you can expect this to be one doozy of a fight, right? ...well, no, actually. His team consists entirely of Ground-types with low to average Special stats, so you can easily steamroll him with a Water or Grass-type. In fact, you should already have a Pokémon with Surf (a strong Water-type move) to even be able to reach him. He also suffers from ArtificialStupidity, as he still uses the same AI from his prior encounters, which includes a tendency to use a Guard Spec at random to try to block incoming crits. When his team is as slow and frail as it is, he has no time to be wasting turns on mildly shoring up his defenses, especially not when other trainers at that point at least use healing items. ''Yellow'' makes Giovanni considerably tougher on the whole, largely by way of significantly improving his team's movesets (nearly all of them have Earthquake, and Nidoking and Nidoqueen gain Thunder to at least have a fighting chance against Water-types) and swapping out his Rhyhorn for a Persian, which has an always-critting Slash on its side, but he's still not as tough as some of the fights before him. ''[=FireRed=] and [=LeafGreen=]'' also improved his team's movesets, giving the mighty Earthquake to his entire team, but strangely swapped out his Rhydon for its unevolved form, Rhyhorn.
*** Lance, the most powerful member of the Elite Four and the game's only Dragon-type trainer, certainly looks like he'd be a powerhouse at first blush, but then you break down his team a bit. Aerodactyl is a joke, with nothing but various Normal moves to work with, and Gyarados is strong on paper but has a x4 Electric weakness to worry about. Of his actual Dragon-types, his two Dragonair are unevolved and therefore have mediocre stat totals with no real strong points. This leaves Dragonite, and while it may have gigantic stats, its movepool consists of two Psychic-type boosting moves and two Normal-type attacking moves, meaning it has no STAB and can't hit anything effectively, and can be walled fairly easily by Rock and Ghost-types or taken down in a single shot by an Ice Beam or Blizzard. This is even worse if you've brought one of the game's many Poison-types against him, at which Dragonite will do nothing but spam boosting moves. Notably, when the UpdatedRerelease of ''Yellow'' showed up, nearly all his team's moves had been swapped out, and in future appearances, he'd be buffed even further.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'':
*** Olivine Gym and by extension its leader Jasmine. Jasmine's Pokémon are level 30-35 - way ahead of the last gym (and even the ''next'' gym). She's also using the newly discovered Steel Type - so surely this should be a difficult gym of the likes you have little to no experience facing, right? Wrong - Jasmine's the only opponent in the gym. And since all fire types are special in this game, a good fire type (Such as a Typhlosion with Flame Wheel) will ''wreck'' her Pokémon. If Steelix ''doesn't'' get knocked out, it might even [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use Sunny Day]], which will ensure its demise. This is changed in the remake, in which Jasmine at least puts up ''more'' of a fight due to the physical/special split, and [[ScissorsCutsRock short of massive overleveling]], her Pokémon might actually be able to get a few hits in on you.
*** The entire Johto Elite Four is this. They're about ten to fifteen levels lower than every other Elite Four in the series (partly because you then explore a second region afterwards), have fairly predictable teams with weak Pokémon (and to make it more blatant, the fairly weak Bruno is the only non-champion member returning from the last game) and are generally pretty easy to defeat with less than half a team. Champion Lance puts up more of a fight, however, owing to the three Dragonite on his team.
*** While Mewtwo is often a powerful opponent that's hard to beat and harder to catch, getting to it in ''[=HeartGold/SoulSilver=]'' is far more difficult than actually fighting it. Its moveset at the level it's fought at (70) leaves it with Psycho Cut, [[StatusBuff Amnesia]], Power Swap, and Guard Swap. The latter two merely swap your status buffs and its own, and Psycho Cut runs off its weaker Attack stat. If all that weren't enough, sticking a Dark-type in front of Mewtwo leaves it utterly unable to fight back.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'':
*** One of the criticisms of ''Ruby and Sapphire'' was that the person who meets the default Rival archetype (Brendan or May) doesn't even fully evolve his/her Pokémon and is only fought a very small number of times. This is what makes more people consider Wally as the rival, since he actually challenges you in Victory Road while Brendan or May give up.
*** With proper training and knowledge of opponents, using [[LethalJokeCharacter Shed]][[OneHitPointWonder inja]] can turn almost any battle, ''including the Champion'' into this. To clarify, Shedinja has only one hit point, so any attack it suffers will one-hit KO it; ''however'', to compensate, it has the ability Wonder Guard, which makes it immune to any attack that isn't super-effective. This means that several of your opponents, even late in the game, will be absolutely helpless against it. Wallace, for instance, only has one team member who's even remotely capable of damaging it (Luvdisc, who can use the [[StatusEffects confusion]]-inducing Sweet Kiss). As soon as she goes down, you've already won.
*** Tate and Liza have only two Pokémon, at a point in the game when most gym leaders have at least four, and both of them are weak to Surf, a powerful move that you are required to have in order to get to the gym in the first place. Oh, and you face them in a double battle, which makes it even ''easier'' because Surf can hit both of their mons at once, making it entirely possible to win the battle with one attack. ''[[UpdatedRerelease Emerald]]'' gives them four more Pokémon, but ''[[VideoGameRemake Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]'' revert them back to two.
*** Maxie and Archie only have three Pokémon and all of them are used by the other members of Team Magma / Aqua. Even in the remake, where they have Mega Evolution for their last battle, they can be taken out easily. Maxie has it the worst since his signature 'Mon has a quadruple weakness to Water in a region flooded with the stuff.
*** The whole Hoenn Elite Four is like this (except Steven), but Glacia is probably the worst. She specializes in the Ice-type, giving her team loads of common weaknesses. Glacia is especially bad when you consider that Hoenn only has two families of Ice-Types, making her team ''very'' repetitive, and her Pokémon are also saddled with poor stats. In the remakes, she at least gets a pair of Froslass to add to her team... but in the original ''Ruby and Sapphire'', Froslass didn't exist yet. This means that one of the Elite Four has two Pokémon (a pair of Sealeo) who ''aren't even fully evolved'' on her team.
*** Zinnia in the remakes' Delta Episode. Faced at the climax of the plot, she's a powerful Lorekeeper with a team of powerful dragons that wants to stop a catastrophe by harnessing the power of Rayquaza. Her team includes Mega Salamence, Noivern, Altaria, Goodra, and Tyrantrum. With such a setup and such a GameBreaker Pokémon on her team, you'd think this would be a challenging boss battle, right? It would be... if not for the fact you'll more than likely sweep all of her Pokémon with your newly-acquired [[OlympusMons Mega Rayquaza]].
*** After Zinnia, you face Deoxys, a powerful Mythical Pokémon previously only encountered via real life limited-time events. At level 80, ten levels higher than Rayquaza, you'd expect a great challenge. And you get that... if you try and catch it there and then. Unfortunately, in a straight-up battle, while Deoxys is quick and powerful, [[GlassCannon it can't take hits very well]], meaning just about anything from Mega Rayquaza will knock it out... assuming it doesn't get one-shot by Deoxys, that is. Even then, Deoxys's only attacks are [[AwesomeButImpractical Hyper Beam]] (which leaves it a sitting duck for a turn) and [[SecretArt Psycho Boost]] (which gets less dangerous the more often it's used).
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': The final battle with N. His legendary dragon can be easily defeated by your own due to ArtificialStupidity (it loves to use its signature move, which you're resistant to and can power up your own dragon's signature move as well), and most of his other Pokémon can be one-shotted with the proper type matchups. [[BaitAndSwitchBoss But then you face the real]] FinalBoss, [[ThatOneBoss who isn't nearly as much of a pushover]]...
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'':
*** For the eighth Gym Leader, Marlon is practically a pushover. You could probably beat his entire Gym with little more than one strong Electric Type and a Grass on the side for the few trainers that have Water/Ground hybrids. There are only two edges he really has -- one is that all three of his Pokémon know Scald, which is useful against Pokémon that use physical attacks, which you likely aren't going to use against Water Types save Thunder Punch, Seed Bomb, Power Whip and such. The second is that his Jellicent is very bulky and can use Recover, but even then it's mostly an issue of being stalled out moreso than being disadvantaged.
*** The Champion, Iris, has been deemed as this by quite a few players. For starters, she's only one level higher than the Elite Four before her. In addition, while it looks like they overpower her like crazy, all her Pokémon are either weak to type coverage that's relatively simple to obtain (Ice and Fighting-type attacks in particular, both of which are more than easily obtainable), very slow and easy to hit (Lapras, Aggron, and Druddigon), or both. Most of them also have rather underwhelming movesets in the initial battle, at least on Normal Mode. The rematches and Challenge Mode do buff her movesets up considerably, though.
*** There's also Black/White Kyurem. Similar to the Pokémon Stadium example above, unlike the past main series Pokémon games where you have to capture the Legendaries, this one forces you to actually fight and KO it. Despite being a Legendary Pokémon, you still have a possible team of six Pokémon (or one really over-leveled one if you're the kind of person who only uses starters) in a battle system more designed around using a team instead of one on one. It's completely possible to [[OneHitKO OHKO]] it on the first turn with the right move even if you're a little below the intended level for fighting it.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'':
*** Whereas some of the prior villain leaders were nasty pieces of work and Ghetsis in the original ''Black and White'' is ThatOneBoss, Lysandre in ''X'' is a complete joke. You fight him literally right after you get Xerneas, which wouldn't be so egregious if he didn't have a Mienshao, a Honchkrow, and a Mega Gyarados, all of which the Life Pokémon treats as fodder via Moonblast. Pyroar will survive this move on the first shot, but even if Xerneas can't take it down, that still leaves the rest of your team. He's less of a comedy in ''Y'', as Yveltal doesn't have the same killing power against Honchkrow and Gyarados.
*** And we have the Champion from ''X and Y'', Diantha, who is widely considered even worse. With Pokémon weak to Steel, Ice and Fairy-type attacks up the alley, and some with unorthodox movesets, there are quite a few Pokémon that can tear through her with little concern. Her ace, Mega Gardevoir, while strong, doesn't come out until last, and although it can hit pretty hard, its physical Defense leaves something to be desired, leaving it easy prey for an Iron Head or Shadow Claw.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'':
*** The final Totem Pokémon, Totem Kommo-o, has a quadruple weakness to Fairy and appears in an area with the Fairy-type TM, Dazzling Gleam. Dazzling Gleam can be learned by a lot of Fairy-types and even a few Pokémon that aren't part Fairy. If that wasn't enough, you also get Fairium Z just before fighting it, and its two allies, Hakamo-o and Scizor, are both Level 32 and essentially sitting ducks. This is mitigated somewhat in ''Ultra Sun and Moon'', where it's given Poison Jab (super-effective against Fairy-types), a Roseli Berry (which lessens the power of super-effective fairy attacks), and is fought before receiving Fairium Z rather than after, and its ally Scizor is much higher leveled.
*** The PostFinalBoss encounter with Tapu Koko. You're introduced to the powerful guardian deity (which is capable of taking on [[EldritchAbomination the Ultra Beasts]]) at the very start of the game, and now you fight it... yet despite this build-up, in addition to there only being one of it versus what is likely a full party of six, you've just become the Champion, and thus any one member of your team will likely knock it down in a few shots.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'':
*** [[spoiler:Chairman Rose]] has a team of powerful Pokémon at his command, and a number of moves to go with, but the most glaring problem is the one shared with [[spoiler:his employees]]: a {{crippling|Overspecialization}} overreliance on Steel-type Pokémon and no attempt to cover for their weaknesses. Caught a Gigantamax Centiskorch or Machamp in the Wild Area? Fully evolved an Arcanine or Conkeldurr? Started with Scorbunny? Gee willikers, [[spoiler:he didn't think his plan to start a second Darkest Day all the way through... The narrative even pushes this considering Eternatus uses ''Flamethrower.'']]
*** [[spoiler:Eternamax Eternatus]] is particularly intimidating with insane stats, a horrific visage and powerful moves to go with it. Against any trainer with a single Pokémon, it would have caused no end of havoc and panicked reaching for the Revives. The big reasons it's more of a PaperTiger than anything is that [[spoiler:it's fought as a Max Raid Battle and you and Hop are supported by Zacian and Zamazenta, two immensely powerful OlympusMons with anti-Dynamax moves and none of the lousy AI that plagues the other Max Raid Battle allies.]] Sure, you ''can'' help them, but [[spoiler:the cover Legendaries]] do enough lifting that [[ZeroEffortBoss the fight basically plays itself.]] It's great for spectacle... and not much else. [[spoiler:At least regular Eternatus can pose a threat to a reasonably-leveled trainer...]]
** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'':
*** Geeta is significantly underpowered for a supposed Champion. Most of her team just doesn't have good stats, with only Kingambit standing out in that regard, and they also aren't used well--Veluza uses Mold Breaker instead of its signature ability of Sharpness, making its offense completely mediocre, and she sends out Glimmora, a Pokémon designed for use as a lead due to its GlassCannon stat layout and ability to automatically set Toxic Spikes, last (and not Kingambit, a Pokémon designed to be used for a LastStand). Add in Gogoat and Avalugg, two ''very'' mediocre Pokémon, and you have a recipe for an easy 6-0. It also doesn't help that, due to her Pokémon's typings, ''5'' of them are weak to the basic ''STAB'' ''moves'' of Skeledirge, the final evolution of ''one of the starters'', meaning many players are likely to already have something that can easily sweep her team![[note]]Houndoom and Volcarona can pull off a similar feat, and Houndour is also available very early in the game.[[/note]] Even the rematch with her at the Academy Ace Tournament doesn't do much to improve her status, as she merely levels up her team by around five levels higher than when you originally faced her at the Pokémon League, with the same strategies as before.
*** The FinalBoss of the Operation Starfall plot, [[spoiler:Cassiopeia/Penny]], is also disappointingly easy; especially right after winning the battle with [[spoiler:Clive/Director Clavell]], who was a [[ThatOneBoss more appropriately challenging boss beforehand.]] Their team consists of nothing but [[spoiler: evolutionary forms of Eevee]]. Their stats aren't that impressive despite being in the 60s level range, and they also have terrible movesets, knowing weak moves like Quick Attack that they should've forgotten long ago. With the right Pokémon and moves as well as being at comparable or higher levels, you can easily defeat her team without much difficulty and thus complete the plot.
** In general, any battle with a legendary Pokémon (such as Mewtwo or any cover legendary) can become this if you decide to just lob a [[InfinityPlusOneSword Master Ball]] (which can capture any Pokémon without fail) at them.
* Malpercio in Algorab Village in ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean''. This is a fight against the BigBad, the evil god you've been trying to stop the whole game, who's ravaged the home of the Children of the Earth...and he hits about as hard as the regular encounters in the area, moves once per turn, and only has one finisher.
* [[BigBad Akuro]] in ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'', once you figure out how to stop ThatOneAttack. His fire and lightning attacks can be stopped with Galestorm, which you're required to get, and stopping said attacks leaves him vulnerable. If he uses his ice attack, you have to back up and avoid his hands, which isn't that hard. Did the sidequest to get Fireburst? You can stop his ice attack, too. Worried about [[{{Mana}} ink?]] The hands drop it (along with health) if they're attacked. [[spoiler:Of course, once you defeat him, he powers up...]]
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'':
** The Gaping Dragon and Dark Sun Gwyndolin are jokes. In both cases, the environment actually helps you. The Gaping Dragon's attacks are easy to avoid thanks to the huge boss arena and the fact that it takes a few seconds to recover after trying to charge you. Gwyndolin only uses easy to avoid ranged attacks and has no melee attacks, in an endless corridor with plenty of columns for you to hide behind. The battles are more tedious than difficult, since Gaping Dragon has high health and Gwyndolin is a GetBackHereBoss who teleports away every time you come near him.
** Quelaag isn't a very difficult boss either, especially for ranged characters, since her only ranged attack is slow and has extremely short range. Even melee characters shouldn't have any trouble as long as they avoid her shockwave attack.
** Pinwheel is a near-memetic example of this trope, especially compared to [[ThatOneLevel the dungeon he's in]]. By the time you get to him, you should be leveled up and have good enough weapons to curb-stomp him into the ground immediately. This is because he can be encountered very early in the game and was balanced as such, but most players encounter him later due to how unintuitive and difficult it is to get to him at all. His attack patterns and damage are fine, he just has low health by late game standards (about as much as the Taurus Demon or Capra Demon) and thus by the time players encounter him he goes down in two combos.
** The final boss [[spoiler:Gwyn, Lord of Cinder]] becomes this if you're good at parrying or exploit GoodBadBugs.
** The towering Ceaseless Discharge can be taunted into falling off a cliff, with only a few hits from your sword necessary to serve as 'encouragement'.
** Seath the Scaleless is blind and immobile, only capable of pivoting on the spot, and has a huge blind spot that none of his attacks can reach on his left flank.
** The Bed of Chaos only takes ''three hits'' to kill, but ''good Lord'' does it ever [[FakeDifficulty make you work for them]].
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'':
** The Old Iron King, the boss residing at the end of the [[ThatOneLevel notoriously-frustrating]] Iron Keep, is decidedly less difficult than most of the encounters before reaching him, most notably the [[ThatOneBoss agonizing fight with the Smelter Demon]] earlier on. Being a large, immobile target with highly-telegraphed attacks and residing in an arena with a wall fixture that the player can hide behind to avoid most of his attacks does not do him any favors. Most players consider the real "boss" of Iron Keep to be [[BottomlessPits the hole in the Old Iron King's boss arena]], which is very easy to accidentally fall into or have him knock you into.
** The ''Dark Souls II'' equivalent of Pinwheel is often cited as the fight against Prowling Magus and his congregation midway through traversing Brightstone Cove Tseldora. The NPC summon outside the boss arena, Benhart of Jugo, is entirely capable of slaying the boss and most of his minions ''by himself'' if you so desire.
** Later on, the brutal, dreary [[ThatOneLevel Shrine of Amana,]] a BubblegloopSwamp level from Hell which features bottomless pits masked by shallow water everywhere and highly-aggressive enemies that aggro extremely quickly, is rounded out with an encounter with the Demon of Song, who is a large frog-like creature with slow, easily-to-dodge attacks and a moderately low health pool. It's not quite a pushover, but next to the madness you had to trudge through to face it, it pales in comparison. It also has permanent "wet" status, making it cripplingly weak to Lightning damage. A good bow or crossbow with a supply of Lightning Arrows or Bolts will let you shoot the thing to death without it even getting near you. A competent cleric will be able to cook the thing well done in just a few spell casts.
** The FinalBoss herself, [[spoiler:Queen Nashandra,]] can also be viewed as a wash compared to previous encounters, especially for ranged builds that can stay out of the curse buildup zones she spawns in, as her beam attacks take ages to come out and she is cripplingly slow. The DualBoss fight before her is several times more difficult than she actually is. [[spoiler:Which is presumably why she got you to kill them for her]]. As if she wasn't easy enough, there's also a bug that lets you completely break her AI and have her just stand there and do nothing the entire time you wail on her.
** King Vendrick is an [[InvokedTrope invoked]] example. Throughout the game he is built up as the FinalBoss, similar to Gwyn of the first game. He was the king of Drangleic in a golden age, until he went to a pointless war against the giants and directly caused the kingdom's downfall. After finding the four great souls needed to reach Drangleic Castle, you make your way to the undead crypt and fight the Royal Aegis, Vendrick's final defender. Finally you have reached the king. [[spoiler:And you find him as a Hollowed corpse mindlessly walking around in circles, so Hollow that he doesn't even attack you until you attack him first]]. He is by far one of the toughest bosses in the game, hitting hard enough that he will very likely one-shot you and having sky-high defense that has to be reduced by having a certain item in your inventory before you do more than ScratchDamage (each copy of the item you have reduces his defense by half, and you'll need a minimum of four copies out of the five in the game to start doing decent damage), but he's still basically just [[spoiler:a really big version of the normal Hollow enemies]].
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'': Yhorm the Giant is one of the Lords of Cinder, the four main enemies you need to kill. He's a towering, seemingly invincible juggernaut, and he ''is''...unless you pick up and use his AchillesHeel, which is obligingly located within the boss arena, and/or finished Siegward's questline, in which case you also have a backup AchillesHeel covered in plate armour running around and backing you up.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'':
** The secret final boss, [[spoiler:Moon Presence]], is laughably easy especially since it immediately follows the fight with [[spoiler:Gehrman, The First Hunter]], one of the more challenging bosses in the game if you haven't become overpowered after completing the DLC. The boss is not very fast and most of its attacks are simple flails that have gaping blind spots on the boss's sides, and it's only actually dangerous move (a shockwave that instantly reduces the player's health to 1) has a very long windup animation that leaves it vulnerable for several seconds of free damage.
** The Witch of Hemwick is generally considered to be the easiest boss in the base game, only slightly beaten out by the entry below. The Mad Ones summoned by the Witch are not very dangerous as long as you keep your distance, which isn't hard, because they merely walk toward you instead of running. The only real danger with the Witch is if you don't manage to kill the second Witch in time, leading to the first Witch coming back to life. [[spoiler: And if you decided to empty your Insight to 0, the Mad Ones won't even spawn at all, leaving the Witches as the only enemies]].
** The Chalice Dungeons caps off its progression with the secret optional boss [[spoiler:Pthumerian Queen Yharnam]], the easiest boss in the entire game by a pretty significant margin - it's entirely possible to oneshot the boss with the correct builds. Considering that it also happens to be the final boss of the [[ThatOneLevel Defiled Chalice]] and follows directly after the [[ThatOneBoss headless Bloodletting Beast, Defiled Watchdog, and Defiled Amygdala]] fights, the final fight being essentially a cakewalk BreatherBoss is ''well-earned''.
* Despite their colossal size, both Balor and [[spoiler:Tirnoch]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'' (respectively ClimaxBoss and FinalBoss) are quite easy. Some mook encounters can be more difficult than those two fights.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' typically [[EasyLevelsHardBosses doesn't slouch on its boss fights,]] but there exist a couple notable exceptions:
** Behemoth, the last boss encounter of Hollow Bastion, is quite pathetic in comparison to the gauntlet of bosses that precede it, namely [[ThatOneBoss Dragon-Maleficent and]] [[spoiler:[[ThatOneBoss Ansem-Riku]]]], in numerous ways - it slogs around its boss arena at a snail's pace, takes ages to turn around, its only offensive attacks are its slow stomps and an easily-telegraphed homing energy shot, it keels over when hit a few times, allowing you to pile on more damage for a good ten seconds or so[[note]]It does follow this up with a high-damage area-of-effect lightning strike, but it is easily telegraphed and avoided[[/note]], and it's cripplingly weak to Gravity magic. Any damage Behemoth actually manages to do becomes moot when you realize you can heal up the entire party ''twice'' in the time it takes for him to get off one measly attack. The only nuisance with the fight is the fact that you have to hit the horn on its head to damage it, which is high up above the ground... except this is easily mitigated by simply [[ColossusClimb jumping up onto its back]] and wailing away at it on its shoulders. Behemoth is so laughably easy that it shows up at least a few more times as a DegradedBoss during the final level and Coliseum tournaments.
** The [[MarathonLevel Hades Cup]] in the Olympus Coliseum sports several encounters that earn their chops as certified {{Superboss}}es - the DualBoss of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Leon]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]], the rematch with Cerberus, and the encounter with Hades himself are all quite challenging. The very last opponent in the Hades Cup is the Rock Titan, who has HP and attack strength that rivals that of the other bonafide {{Superboss}}es... and attacks that take weeks to connect and can be seen from a mile away, making it very unlikely that it will manage a single hit on you while you and your companions hack away at it for a good ten minutes until it crumbles to dust.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'':
** [[spoiler:Mithos]]. Not only is he the final boss of the game, but he's the BigBad for the end of the game too. He's easily beatable by the time you finish the game, and can be beaten with relative ease with just spellcasters (yes, that includes Colette). He has a somewhat annoying status effect-inflicting attack in his first form -- Rejection -- but isn't too hard.
** The [[DuelBoss duel-battle]] against [[spoiler:Kratos]] late in the game. It's presented as a very important battle, in terms of emotions for the characters and storyline, as defeating this boss means you will be offered a pact with Origin, so you can obtain the Material Blade. Since it's a duel, you only get to fight as [[TheHero Lloyd]]. Problem this, the boss is a pushover -- he still uses some of the spells he used when you were fighting him with a full team the last few times, but lacks the bigger damaging spells like Judgement and doesn't even use his [[LimitBreak Overlimit]]. The battle is likely made easier, to compensate for the fact that one has to fight it solo, but fails to live up to the in-game tension that was being built up. The post-battle scene also implies that the boss wasn't going all-out, after all, due to being a DeathSeeker.
** Despite being the penultimate plot-mandated Summon Spirit to obtain, the battle against Luna and Asuka. They are fought only ''after'' having gotten the other elemental Summon Spirits, which includes Shadow, whose element they are weak to. The player also has obtained the Tethe Seal: Dark skill for Sheena and the Amethyst, a skill and accessory that make the target's/wearer's attacks Dark-elemental, which means you go into the battle with more than enough options to make whatever weapon your party has equipped strong against the Light Summon Spirits.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' turns [[spoiler:the real Maxwell]] into a pitifully easy boss in [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Milla's route]], because it skips the previous three phases that were [[HopelessBossFight unwinnable]] on Jude's route ''and'' the boss is also very susceptible to the Four Elemental Spirits, which the player had quite some time getting used to using in-battle, making the boss a pushover.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' has two notable ones as a form of GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
** [[spoiler:Therion Teresa]], despite being a Therion, proves to be the weakest of them all. The boss is of all things, weak to ''void'' damage meaning your party will probably run circles around them. [[spoiler:Teresa armatized with a therion, it was intended to be done with Malaks - and she's not in her best mind at all.]] However, this turns out to be a trap - since the boss right ''after'' this is considered to be one of the hardest (non-optional) battles in the game.
** [[spoiler:Aifread]]. The entire game is spent listening to Eizen and his crew hyping him up as this badass. Yet, like the example above, the boss is weak to void, is somewhat slow, and is more of a BreatherBoss if anything. [[spoiler:By this point it's a MercyKill. You aren't fighting Aifread at full strength, you're fighting a twisted parody of him after he had been tortured by the abbey's experiments.]]
*** The same can be said of Shenlong, a dragon who, when you first fight it, is a HopelessBossFight. When you finally do manage to fight it in a sidequest, it's significantly easier since by that point, you've chased it around so much it's tired, and InUniverse, it's a MercyKill.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'':
** ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork1'' was rather weak in terms of boss health -- nobody surpassed 1000HP in the game, unlike the sequels. The final boss, the Life Virus, was basically a glorified virus with a very predictable moveset and a shield that went down long enough to whale on its health and waste it in so early as ''one turn flat'' with the proper battlechips. To be honest, you can soley rely on the Program Advance Guts Shoot -- it does 500 damage, so two hits of that will pulverize ''any'' boss lacking a protective barrier or guard.
** In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork2'', after a [[MarathonLevel long, LOOOONG]] day of backtracking back and forth through the entire net, you finally come face-to-face with Gospel's Supreme Commander, [[spoiler:(not really)]] Freezeman! ...Unfortunately, what could have been a climactic fight is rendered an utter joke by two simple facts: He's Aqua Element. And standing on Ice Panels. Both of these cause you to take [[ElementalRockPaperScissors double damage from Elec attacks]], ''and they stack.'' 3 guesses as to how you take him down in a matter of seconds.
** Falzar from ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork6CybeastGregarAndCybeastFalzar'' is a letdown of a final boss compared to previous ones in the series, having less than 2000 HP (which was the standard amount for every game past the first), easily avoided attacks, and not being a particularly difficult target (Evasiveness being the usual justification for less HP). Its opposite version counterpart, Gregar, puts up much more of a fight in every regard, although it is relatively easy as well.
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' vanilla campaign: [[spoiler:Blackguard Aribeth]] does not have any resistance whatsoever to Harm, a cleric spell that drains the target down to their last few HP. Also, the cleric henchman automatically prepares this spell every day and uses it against opponents without needing to be told to. Net result: near-instantaneous surrender or death, and you don't even need to know the spell yourself.
** Thanks the lack of {{Useless Useful Spell}}s, plenty of bosses in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' can wind up dying in just a few rounds. A cleric PC is particularly well-equipped, with Harm to kill tough enemies, Slay Living to kill strong-willed enemies, and Heal to kill undead. The only threatening bosses for a cleric by the third act of the game are the dragons.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': Unless you're spectacularly underleveled, [[spoiler:Galcian, of all people]] is this when not in HopelessBossFight mode. His attacks are easy to recover from, contain no debilitating Status effects (aside from the entirely-blockable [[UselessUsefulSpell Eterni spells]]), and he goes down after a couple [[LimitBreak Pirate's Wraths]] and [[ColonyDrop Prophecies]]. [[spoiler:Guess that's why he's not the final boss...]]
* The Imp in ''Monster Girl Quest'', which Luka feels "great power" coming from in an earlier scene. Doubles as a ZeroEffortBoss, as all you need to do is attack. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill If you choose to hit her with your most powerful technique instead]], she is so terrorized that she starts running away ([[MookHorrorShow though not fast enough]]). [[spoiler:Quadruples as a BaitAndSwitchBoss and a BreatherBoss, because what the power is ''really'' coming from appears right after it and right before you fight the Four Heavenly Knights.]] [[spoiler:Alice the 16th]] also counts, but for a different reason. It's not at all that she's weak, but rather ''you're too strong''. It's possible to win with Sylph and Undine alone because of how powerful Luka's control over the spirits is.
* The final boss of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', [[spoiler:Knight-Commander Meredith]], could conceivably have been difficult to beat, since she's both a CowardlyBoss and a FlunkyBoss who summons dozens of the fantasy equivalent of {{Humongous Mecha}}s to fight you. But not only does the fight avert the ArbitraryHeadcountLimit that has held firm for most of the rest of the game, allowing ''every one of your companions to fight her simultaneously'', but, depending on your choices, you'll also be backed up by Knight-Captain Cullen, Guardsman Donnic and the city guards, your surviving sibling, and Zevran and Nathaniel, if they both survive Origins and Awakening respectively. She goes down without much fuss. (For extra anti-climactic flavor, there comes a point in the fight where the boss will stun everyone so she can engage in EvilGloating, during which she doesn't defend herself. If you have multiple party members who, due to either class talents or items, are immune to stun effects, they can easily [[KilledMidSentence kill her in mid-sentence]].)
* The Guardian, the final boss from the Descent DLC from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''. While it's an enormous RockMonster with [[MultiArmedAndDangerous about a dozen limbs]] and can take you down quickly if you make a mistake, it's also got an enormous WeakPoint and will fold like a cheap lawn chair once you target that point.
* Vlad from ''VideoGame/NetHack'' resides in the bottom half of the dungeon and, while not the final boss, is a required kill. However, he is so easy at that point that some people have used a "Vladsbane", which is basically a [[CherryTapping random, weak object made even weaker if possible]], to defeat him. Some forks of the game, such as [=UnNetHack=], have made an effort to increase his danger level, and eventually he was upgraded considerably in version 3.6.1 of regular ''VideoGame/NetHack'' to make him more of a challenge.
* The Legendary Golem in ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryOceans''. This thing was the antagonist's trump card, and it seemed like a pretty good one: it took all of the final bosses of the DS games working together to merely seal it away the first time, and the ensuing battle created the world. But well, [[YouCantThwartStageOne he's back]], and there's little that our heroes can do to stop him besides going up there and giving him an old-fashioned beatdown. Here we go! Punch punch punch. Punch punch punch. [[StunLock Punch punch punch.]]
* ''VideoGame/EvilIslands'':
** [[spoiler:Erfar the Silvertongue.]] FlunkyBoss extraordinaire aside, he will likely drop from a single attack. He doesn't even have the dignity to leave something decent behind, instead granting only one coin.
** [[FinalBoss The Curse]], mixed, oddly enough, with a HopelessBossFight. It's shaped up to be a huge threat that had wiped out almost an entire race in the past. You're given the game's most powerful weapons and spells before the final fight and... you can't damage the Curse with them, and it kills you in a single hit. The only thing you can do (and all you need to do) is to leave [[TheArchmage Tka-Rik]] to fight the Curse, cast Weaken on it and/or Strength on him, and heal him, and it'll be over in a few moments.
* Done intentionally in ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' twice: almost every opponent in the [[AnotherDimension B-Ball Dimension]]'s Arena goes down extremely easily (particularly the second-to-last one, which does nothing for three turns and then blows itself up), with the exception of the very last one. Also, the monster that guards [[spoiler:the all-powerful b-ball Shimmerglobe]] is a single Ball Spider -- a regular enemy from much earlier in the game that is inexplicably treated as a boss.
* ''VideoGame/CitizensOfEarth'''s actual final boss is a CutsceneBoss, where the hardest part is hoping that a GameBreakingBug doesn't trigger and crash the game. The boss right before that, [[spoiler:Secretary Supreme]], is not that hard either due to the game going out of its way to avoid {{damage sponge boss}}es.
* Both [[FinalBoss final bosses]] in ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' are real pushovers. The context of these boss fights is that [[spoiler:near the end, you can chose to [[DuelingPlayerCharacters root for one of two opposing people]]: The [[PureIsNotGood Batter]] and the [[WhatTheHellHero Judge]]]]. No matter who you choose, the fight will be very easy. The bosses both have an absurdly low HP stat equivalent to the very first boss, and if that wasn't enough, you will additionally get a huge advantage depending on who you choose. If you choose to play as the [[spoiler:Judge]], he will be at an extremely high level; his strongest attack can 2HKO the boss. In case you want to stretch out the suffering a little, he also has a Palsy-inflicting attack the boss is '''not''' [[ContractualBossImmunity immune]] to. Meanwhile, [[spoiler:the Add-Ons]], which would have balanced out the fight, are nowhere to be found. If you choose to play as the [[spoiler:Batter]], you will outnumber the boss four to one. And if even that wasn't enough, you can cheese the boss battle entirely by choosing to play as the character you are rooting against, and then lose on purpose. Not that it would be necessary.
* ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'':
** The Untouched Inquisitor, in terms of story, is one of the most vile players in this whole game, having purged the Dome of Light, an utterly devoted and joyful church of the same religion he had, because his twisted mind saw sin in it. All the lore you find within the now-forgotten Dome speaks of his destruction of the place, how he sacrificed everyone inside to fit his version of holiness and made restless phantoms out of everyone involved so that his "Untouched" could flourish. The Untouched Inquisitor, in terms of gameplay, is probably the easiest boss due to his somewhat predictable (if high-range) attacks and frankly unimpressive damage, and the only difficulties he poses are the fact he can float around (giving melee builds some difficulty) and that he has decent knockback to his strikes. Ultimately, the fails to match up to the lore that hypes him up and ends up eclipsed to [[ThatOneBoss the once-proud, now enslaved pet of the Dome whose will he personally broke]].
** [[spoiler:[[DualBoss The Unskinned and the Architect]]]] fall under this as well. They simply don't put up that much of a fight, because one of them is [[TheBrute a dumb brute whose style of attack you've already seen several times]], and the other's attack style relies more on positioning and traps, and thus isn't much of a threat to someone who's learned proper positioning, and gets utterly gimped to uselessness if her brutish partner dies. The fact the lore makes the pair one of the most powerful entities in the whole island does not help them much. Neither does their story-wise position: they're stuck between [[ThatOneBoss the most infamously hard boss of the game (who is related by family to one of the pair)]] and either TheDragon to the final enemy and the entity responsible for sinking your ship at the start, or a triple encounter that is significantly harder and also a big WhamEpisode as a whole.
* In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', after an entire game of buildup, the final boss fight against [[spoiler:STORM]] ends up being a purely defensive "survive a certain number of turns" mission, with several minigames mixed in between phases. The atmosphere is suitably dramatic, but for players anticipating an epic final challenge it can be somewhat of a letdown. [[spoiler:Thankfully, the postgame unlocks two new endings, which both have more traditional and challenging {{True Final Boss}}es.]]
* Out of all the three final bosses in ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', the Masked Mage, Kevin and Charlotte's final boss, happens to be considered the easiest, posing very little threat compared to the Dragon Lord and the Dark Majesty. This owes to the fact that he's simply a slow-moving wall of health that mostly uses powerful offensive spells on occasion. One of the heroes who happens to be linked to him story-wise can learn an attack that deals maximum amounts of damage to this boss.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'' has at least two:
** Class VII[[note]][[TheHero Rean]], Jusis, Gaius, Sara, and Millium[[/note]] as well as Aurelia, fight against Arianrhod and the Stahlritter at Juno Naval Fortress at the climax of chapter 3. Many remember Arianrhod as being ThatOneBoss in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsToAzure Trails to Azure]]'' due to how absurd her health was, including the fact that she has two phases: one with the helmet on and [[TheGlovesComeOff one with the helmet off.]] So many people expected that with all four of them, this would have been one of the most epic and anticipated fights in the series. It unfortunately doesn't live up to the hype, mostly thanks to the numerous amounts of GameBreaker setups the player has access to at this point, and Aurelia is PurposelyOverpowered for this portion of the game. In fact, the Aion Type Alpha-II in the Divine Knight fight, literally the next fight, posed more of a challenge.
** The FinalBoss battle is easier than the battles you fight to reach it, which are against groups of hard enemies. After each battle two or three of the party say TheRestShallPass, and the party is down to four for the final fight. The boss has a huge health pool (over one million HP), but it doesn't hit very hard, and there's one of it and four in the party, so it's easy for the party to heal and buff each other while they grind the boss down.
* ''VideoGame/YourBizarreAdventure'' (a ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' FanGame): Despite his formidable [[FightingSpirit Stand]] abilities, ability to inflict bleed damage, and status as the storyline's FinalBoss, the Boss of Passione can be easily defeated by exploiting his predictable AI. If left to his own devices, he invariably delivers a series of normal attacks that conclude with a heavy punch that can be perfect blocked, leaving him open to whatever the player can throw at him for a time. Thus, continuously blocking until an opening presents itself takes a lot of the challenge out of the battle.
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* SEGA Saturn platformer ''VideoGame/{{Bug}} Too!'' has [[spoiler:three stoned caterpillars]] for a final boss. Yes, really.

*** Omega Weapon in original versions of the game.. As the boss of BonusDungeon full of hardest encounters in the game and with highest encounter rate, you'd expect hard fight. It ''does'' hit rather hard and its Nova attack will wipe out most parties that didn't fiercely grind in MonsterArena, but its HP caps at 99999, so badly wounded Auron with Celestial Weapon can kill it in one hit. The developpers realized this as well, as subsequent releases of the game make it much harder, with raised stats and ten times as much HP.

*** [[Spoiler:In the World of Ruin, you were told the Eight Dragons were powerful creatures by several [=NPCs=], but unfortunately, most of them have many glaring weaknesses, taking the challenge out of them. Holy Dragon can be muted, Skull Dragon can be Rasped to death, Blue, Red and Ice Dragons fall to PoorPredictableRock, and Earth Dragon can be cheesed with Angel Feathers equipped.]]

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', [[spoiler:the final stage in Kefka's four-form boss fight can be considered anticlimactic. There are multiple methods to defeat it in one turn, the blindness that it can cast on you doesn't work in the original SNES version, and if you prepare, you'll have ample time to heal from the Fallen One attack. The boss's signature attack, Goner, can't even kill you, and when you compare this form to the third form, Rest, which ended off its fight casting an instant-kill attack twice, it can be considered underwhelming. However, when it comes to story purposes, (the boss's grand entrance and lively as well as somber boss theme), this battle isn't anticlimactic.]]

* ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance2'''s BigBad is Queen Diedrianna. She has great stats, great armor, and great weapons... but then so do the mooks by that stage of the game. And for that matter, so does your squad. And unless you've done something wrong, there's ''eighteen'' mercs in your squad by this point. Her swarm of EliteMooks are much more of a problem than she is, especially as she doesn't join the fight until you actively shoot at her. And she succumbs with ridiculous ease to a single mustard gas grenade.

* In ''VideoGame/WarriorsOfFate'', the final boss, Akkila Orkhan (a fictional version of Cao Cao) is pathetically easy to kill with only a small health bar and a minor thrown bomb attack. However he is also at TimeLimitBoss and if you don't kill him within the fifteen second time limit he escapes and you get the BadEnding. He is still easy to beat even within those fifteen seconds.

* All of the so-called "Kings" in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedProStreet'' are average-at-best letdowns, but Nate Denver, the Speed King, takes the cake. The races he specializes in are long distance sprints across barren highways, emphasizing high top speeds with minimal-yet-hypersensitive turning, essentially supercar territory, and a cutscene at the start of his mission line boasts that "Big" Nate's [[CoolCar tuned '65 Pontiac GTO]] can [[InformedAttribute exceed speeds of 200mph]]. And yet in your big showdown with him, Nate never pushes his ol' Goat past a (comparatively) leisurely 130-140mph, which is painfully slow compared to the Skyline R34s, Murciélagos and Zondas you've blown past to reach him, [[https://youtu.be/38HfM5wr_cc?t=46s making the final Speed races a cakewalk]].

* In ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Battle of Aces'', Material D, the Ruler of Darkness, is normally a decent fight, being a far more powerful EvilTwin of Hayate... except in [[spoiler:Reinforce]]'s story mode, where she serves as the final boss. This is because the game hands you [[spoiler:Unison Reinforce]], who has all eighteen skills in the game, making her a fast, tanky, barrier breaking, auto-guarding, {{Mana}} saving, healing, speedy {{Mana}} and SprintMeter-recovering PurposelyOverpowered character with high damage on all ranges that could use her plentiful stocks of Super Modes with impunity since she gets them all back after every round. Needless to say, you'd have to try hard just to lose a round.

* Ithaka Wassali from ''VideoGame/GeneTroopers'', a plot-relevant antagonist (in fact she's the HiddenVillain) can be fought as a proper boss, or, if you took the right steps, have your allies disable her force field the moment you confront her. Without her defense, you put her down in two shots.

*** [[spoiler:Implied to be the case with [[BigBad Hoyt]] when Jason finally confronts him and engages the usual Boss Battle; however the moment the sequence ends, Jason is standing in a room filled with the bodies of Hoyts' Bodyguards. Jason has become so much of a BloodKnight at this point in the story that he probably ''already'' killed off Hoyt, but [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty his mind couldn't comprehend]] that the man responsible for causing all the pain and anguish that Jason and his friends were put through: was just easily killed off. So his mind concocted the entire BossBattle to give him the satisfaction he desired.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare]]'' ends with [[spoiler:you pulling out a pistol and shooting the BigBad and his two bodyguards in the back while they're distracted by an allied helicopter. Even if you're really slow and give the BigBad enough time to turn around and shoot you, you can still survive a shot or two from his Desert Eagle, giving you plenty of time to still cap him.]] The way the scene is set up, it manages to be surprisingly not anti-climactic. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Rather the opposite]].
* ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDuty Call of Duty: World At War]]'' sort of avoids and uses this trope at the same time by not having a final boss. The last level is just like any other mission, except that [[spoiler:the game ends with your character getting shot but successfully hoisting the Soviet flag on top of the Reichstag.]]

** Many consider the boss of ''VideoGame/{{DOOM}}'''s third episode, the Spider Mastermind, easier than the boss of the second episode, the Cyberdemon. The Mastermind's biggest advantage is an autotracking chaingun attack, but the giant green outhouse in the middle of the arena means there's plenty of cover. If you found the {{BFG}} hidden earlier in the episode you can sprint up in the creature's face and 1HKO it before its AI has registered that the fight has started.

** Fanmade [=WADs=] and official expansions tend to inherit the problem of only really having the above trio to serve as bosses, despite usually being [[SequelDifficultySpike much harder]] to keep pace with the advancements in player skill and modern control methods. Unless they're willing to program in an entirely new boss, the most they can do is add more enemies to try to support the existing bosses, and/or put them together in combination with each other. ''[[VideoGame/FinalDoom The Plutonia Experiment]]'''s final boss, for instance, is basically just a Cyberdemon standing in front of a copy of the Icon of Sin--once the Cyberdemon goes down, the Icon of Sin becomes almost a formality.

** ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' repeated history with the Spider Mastermind as the final boss and comparatively disappointing. The two previous boss fights were both two-stage encounters and therefore more difficult that the Mastermind's single-stage fight. It's still a hectic and challenging single-stage fight, but it's very easy to end it thinking "wait, why isn't it [[TurnsRed turning red]]?"

** The [[VideoGame/QuakeI first game]]'s final boss Shub-Niggurath... she is inert. Literally. She does nothing but stay there with her tentacles swaying in the air; the challenge is in fighting a ton of [[BossInMookClothing high-level enemies]] standing between you and the teleporter, but when you do reach it, the horrible EldritchAbomination, biggest of all [[BigBad bads]], ruler of an entire evil dimension and invader of worlds is killed... by [[TeleFrag telefragging]].

** The Destroyer, the final boss, is [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination an H.P. Lovecraft-esque alien abomination]]... which has one way to seriously damage you, a ranged attack launched from its tentacles. These are very easily shot off and take forever to regenerate. With the tentacles dealt with, you can just plink The Destroyer in its weak point until it's dead, periodically taking cover to easily avoid its other, highly predictable attacks.]]

** Intentionally played for laughs with Slither. The god of a bandit cult, you arrive at the boss area to see an ominous crucifix, which fire swirls under as some of the most epic and ominous music the game has plays, and what emerges is... [[spoiler:a scythid crawler, one of the weakest enemies in the game. And no, it's not a case of it turning out to be a KillerRabbit -- it can take quite a bit more punishment than a normal one and deal a bit more damage, but it's still pathetically easy.]] Even the quest giver is openly disappointed by this.

** Wilhelm is set up as a devastating combatant -- the Guardian Angel is terrified of him, and the four protagonists from [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} the previous game]] combined couldn't defeat him. But the actual boss fight is underwhelming, being [[GoddamnedBoss annoying at worst]]. [[spoiler:There's an in-story reason for this: letting you defeat him is part of Handsome Jack's BatmanGambit, as the power core Wilhelm gives you upon defeat ends up being sabotaged. Jack had also weakened Wilhelm with poison beforehand so that he would go down easier, but any indication of this was left out of the game for some reason, possibly by accident]].

** In ''VideoGame/BioShock2'', the final battle [[spoiler:just throws a bunch of Mooks at you in a HoldTheLine mission -- something you've been through at least a dozen times before. You can even equip the Natural Camouflage tonic, stand somewhere out-of-the-way, and shoot out the pipes at the end to win with the least effort possible.]]

** Subject Omega is especially weak compared to your character at this point since [[spoiler: you have the "Summon Elanor" plasmid, which summons your Big Sister/Daughter to fight]]. In fact, several Let's Plays ended up having Omega killed offscreen by [[spoiler:Elanor]], never even seeing the boss.

** [[TheDragon Walton Simons]] is supposed to be the brawn to Bob's brains and the true physical challenge you have to overcome, which would've made Page's non-involvement more forgivable - after all, he's the mastermind, defeating him should be an ideological victory. Unfortunately, Simons, for all his bragging about wielding newer and improved version of augmentation technology, is a pushover. He has a powerful weapon, and he's accurate with it, but because of bugs he doesn't use his augs properly, meaning you can kill him with a single missile, and his AI is really dopey, so he behaves almost like a rank-and-file mook.

* In the original ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'', [[spoiler:General Adams]] isn't very tough, being fairly immobile and taken out with two explosive shots on even the hardest difficulty

** Otto Giftmacher of [=E4M9=] is by far the easiest boss in the game due to him carrying a Rocket Launcher as his only weapon and his rockets don't have the {{Hitscan}} ability of the bullet-based guns. The relatively slow velocity of the rockets make them pretty easy to dodge and he has the least amount of maximum health compared to the other bosses (even Dr. Schabbs has more health than Otto). In addition, the room he's in has no Mooks to provide support for him and contains four cutaway walls flanking the north and south sides that provide easy cover from his rockets and there's another adjacent room with two more cutaway walls, giving you plenty of space to prepare for his rockets.
** Dr. Schabbs of [=E2M9=], while having more health than Otto Giftmacher, is still a relatively easy boss to deal with (unless you play on [[HarderThanHard Death Incarnate difficulty]], in which he becomes a DamageSpongeBoss, somehow having the highest maximum health out of any boss in both ''Wolfenstein 3D'' and ''Spear of Destiny''). He only attacks by throwing syringes at you and like Otto, they are not hitscan, giving you time to dodge them. The only real difficulty in this level are the mutants who flank him for support to challenge you and [[DemonicSpiders they are considerably more dangerous than Schabbs]].

* [[ThatOneBoss Lu Bu, of all people]], becomes this in the battle of Xia Pi if you do well enough in [[VideoGame/DynastyWarriors Dynasty Warriors 5]]. Instead of staying around to fight, he tries to run off, gets captured, and gets executed for his trouble.

** One of the bosses in the Brawler's Guild is Razorgrin, a mighty ThreateningShark bearing the title of "Terror of the High Seas". Sounds fearsome, until you realize you are fighting the shark '''on land'''. The poor thing can only move by slowly flopping about. The fight is basically a joke for ranged characters. Meleers, however, have a harder time of it since they need to fight Razorgrin while being dangerously close to its jaws, which can shred through the heaviest armor like paper in a single bite. Until Blizzard patched the shark to be attackable from behind without fear of getting bitten, Razorgrin was an Anti climax Boss for ranged characters yet ThatOneBoss for meleers!

* Many of the raid bosses in ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' briefly turned into this due to an oversight on a single item: Donal's Chestplate of Mourning. This cleric-only breastplate allowed the wearer to cast a mana-free spell that completely healed the target, though the drawback was that it took 30 seconds to cast - longer than most tanks could survive without other sources of healing. Of course, if you have ten clerics with the chestplate, then it's a simple matter of getting the timing down by having the clerics each click their chestplate three seconds after the last one did, resulting in the tank recovering full hit points every three seconds. It was especially trivial because this rotation could be kept up indefinitely since it consumed no mana or charges. This oversight was eventually rectified by the game's developers so that any given player could only be healed by the Chestplate once every seven minutes.

** [[spoiler: King Thordon]] at the end of the ''Heavensward'' story in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' is pathetically easy, despite being a primal and having a dozen knights aiding him in one portion of the fight. The mechanics the boss throws at you are things you have very likely seen before in other battles and even if you get hit, you won't get damaged too terribly even with gear that barely meets the minimum item level required to enter the fight. Despite the fact that the fight is ''very'' flashy and full of spectacle, it's quite easy. The optional "extreme" version of the same fight is a lot tougher.

*** Tate and Liza have only two Pokémon, at a point in the game when most gym leaders have at least four, and both of them are weak to Surf, a powerful move that you are required to have in order to get to the gym in the first place. Oh, and you face them in a double battle, which makes it even ''easier'' because Surf can hit both of their mons at once, making it entirely possible to win the battle with one attack.

*** The whole Hoenn Elite Four is like this (except Steven), but Glacia is probably the worst. She specializes in the Ice-type, giving her team loads of common weaknesses. Glacia is especially bad when you consider that Hoenn only has two families of Ice-Types, making her team ''very'' repetitive, and her Pokémon are also saddled with poor stats. In the remakes, she at least gets a pair of Froslass to add to her team... but in the original Ruby and Sapphire, Froslass didn't exist yet. This means that one of the Elite Four has two Pokémon (a pair of Sealeo) who ''aren't even fully evolved'' on her team.

*** Geeta is significantly underpowered for a supposed Champion. Most of her team just doesn't have good stats, with only Kingambit standing out in that regard, and they also aren't used well--Veluza uses Mold Breaker instead of its signature ability of Sharpness, making its offense completely mediocre, and she sends out Glimmora, a Pokémon designed for use as a lead due to its GlassCannon stat layout and ability to automatically set Toxic Spikes, last (and not Kingambit, a Pokémon designed to be used for a LastStand). Add in Gogoat and Avalugg, two ''very'' mediocre Pokémon, and you have a recipe for an easy 6-0. It also doesn't help that, due to her Pokémon's typings, ''5'' of them are weak to the basic ''[=STAB=]'' ''moves'' of Skeledirge, the final evolution of ''one of the starters'', meaning many players are likely to already have something that can easily sweep her team![[note]]Houndoom and Volcarona can pull off a similar feat, and Houndour is also available very early in the game.[[/note]] Even the rematch with her at the Academy Ace Tournament doesn't do much to improve her status, as she merely levels up her team by around five levels higher than when you originally faced her at the Pokemon League, with the same strategies as before.

* ''VideoGame/DangerGirl'': Each and every one of the girls have their own designated bosses; Sydney Savage gets to fight Assassin X, a badass {{ninja}} who spam shurikens and TeleportSpam, JC battles the brutal military powerhouse known as the Hammer Commander, and the protagonist Abbey Chase? She fights Natasia Kasle just like in the comics, except now Kasle is a pathetic GetBackHereBoss who throws mooks at Abbey while fleeing for her life in an Indian Temple, before escaping to the edge of a pit where she's easily blown apart in a shootout before falling through the pit. And that's the game's FinalBoss!

** The boss that the Narukagami clan face in VideoGame/BushidoBlade 2 ''tries'' to put up a fight, but one blow to his armored front stuns him, and one more blow to his unprotected back kills him. The end.
* In the Adventure mode of ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', both Bowser and the optional Giga Bowser are a joke compared to many of the previous fights in the mode (especially on the higher difficulties, where the team fights can be downright brutal). Both of them are huge targets, which makes them incredibly easy to combo, and also have an easily exploited AI. The only thing that makes them remotely difficult is that in the odd event they do decide to use one of their stronger attacks and manage to connect with it, it can send you flying even at a low percentage.

* ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' 3 has True Ogre, who is considerably easier to beat than both his standard form and the Heihachi battle that precedes both fights.

** Masked Prince in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTsu'' is faster and better at chaining than any other opponent, a worthy TrueFinalBoss for the game. Masked Prince in ''Box's'' Scramble mode, on the other hand, is a downgrade from the four (potentially five) ''Yo~n''-rule opponents that precede him, as they have special attacks and abilities while he uses ''Tsu'' rules and has nothing that they don't have.

*** Ulfric Stormcloak, should you choose to side against the Stormcloaks in the {{Civil War}} questline, is hilariously weak. Ulfric is one of the first [=NPCs=] you encounter which, due to a quirk in the game's LevelScaling system, means that he is scaled to be challenging to a level 1 character no matter when you face him. This was adjusted in a patch, but he's still quite weak, wearing almost no armor and wielding a steel axe with a very minor enchantment.

** [[spoiler:Erfar the Silvertongue.]] {{Flunky Boss}} extraordinaire aside, he will likely drop from a single attack. He doesn't even have the dignity to leave something decent behind, instead granting only one coin.

* In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', after an entire game of buildup, the final boss fight against [[spoiler:STORM]] ends up being a purely defensive "survive a certain number of turns" mission, with several minigames mixed in between phases. The atmosphere is suitably dramatic, but for players anticipating an epic final challenge it can be somewhat of a letdown. [[spoiler:Thankfully, the postgame unlocks two new endings, which both have more traditional and challenging [[TrueFinalBoss True Final Bosses]].]]

*** The FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Cassiopeia/Penny]], from the Operation Starfall plot is also disappointingly easy, especially right after winning the battle with [[spoiler:Clive/Director Clavell]], who was a [[ThatOneBoss more appropriately challenging boss beforehand.]] Her team consists of nothing but evolutionary forms of Eevee. Their stats aren't that impressive despite being in the 60s level range, and they also have terrible movesets, knowing weak moves like Quick Attack that they should've forgotten long ago. With the right Pokemon and moves as well as being at comparable or higher levels, you can easily defeat her team without much difficulty and thus complete the plot.

** As ''Undertale'' is a game that encourages the player to avoid lethal solutions entirely, most later bosses on a Neutral run can end up being this to a player who doesn't shy away from killing but doesn't actively go out of their way to kill enough monsters to trigger a No Mercy run (which has new, [[ThatOneBoss very powerful]] bosses). They are designed to be challenging to a level 1, where you have 20 HP, while even a relatively modest level 6 (out of 20) doubles that.

* The four dragons in ''VideoGame/LunarDragonSong''. The plot makes you expect one hell of a fight, as do the graphics -- the dragon is so big your characters are shrunk slightly to fit them on the screen. But the dragon will go into rest mode, not to awaken until the next turn ends, if you hit it hard enough... which is easy to do. Rinse, repeat. Unless you're underlevelled, the dragons are the easiest bosses in the game.
** One exception to the rule is the Black Dragon, who will eventually take a form of a darkened version of Jian who won't be stunned like the other dragons while in this form and also inherits Jian's special ability of attacking three times at once and stacking damage. This, however, is hardly an exception, because once you learn Dark Jian only attacks when your Jian attacks and mimics every other command Jian does, you can make your Jian stall by using items or cards while Dark Jian will continuously heal himself with HP Gabryel and Flora can tear through anyways.

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': The Devil's final phase is literally just you shooting at the guy's face while he cries. His only real attack at this point is the flaming blue poker chip from the previous two phases falling on the last platform to stand on, which is ''very'' easy to dodge (technically, his TearsOfBlood are damaging too, but they don't actually come close to hitting you). In fact, for some players, the Devil as a whole might count as this. He's only moderately harder than most earlier bosses, is easier than some, and he also doesn't send randomized minions after you whose attack patterns take longer to learn, like King Dice or Baroness Von Bon Bon.

* After the brutal ThatOneBoss ''Monsoon'' in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', you get to fight the biggest, [[CardCarryingVillain evilest]], most imposing member of the Winds of Destruction, their leader Sundowner... and he's actually pretty easy. Other bosses have to go through phases, but it's entirely viable if not ''easier'' to ignore his shield-gimmick and just flank him. Some players never even get to hear his {{Leitmotif}} insert because he just goes down so fast. While he's not the FinalBoss, he's built up as the BigBad until his death, after which it turns out he's just TheDragon to the real villain.

* In ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIIMonsterLair'', the FinalBoss's first phase is a legitimate challenge, with the dragon's hard-to-dodge OneHitKill fire breath and the rider's tornado spells, but his OneWingedAngel phase is pathetic, as his only attack aside from CollisionDamage is a barrage of [[SwordBeam sword-cast lightning bolts]] than can easily be dodged due to [[CrosshairAware the flashes indicating where they'll strike next]].

* For the first day or so after the Vampire/Werewolf war in ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' ended, the boss of the war, a sparkly vampire by the name of Edvard, was the weakest war boss in the entire game (900 hit points and rather pathetic damage) in a TakeThat against ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. He's since been upgraded to regular war boss status with 20,000 HP.

** The Cyberdemon itself poses comparatively little threat, though he was seen as ThatOneBoss in the early days of the franchise. He's the embodiment of a DamageSpongeBoss, with the highest health in the game (beating out even the Spider Mastermind) and rockets that chop off half your health in a single direct hit. But as he's usually fought in a massive open area, and his rockets, though faster than most projectiles in the game, [[PainfullySlowProjectile are not hitscan weapons]], he tends to be fairly easy for anyone who knows how to circlestrafe properly or anyone with a mouse-and-keyboard setup. Without the BFG, he's mostly a waiting game of how long it takes to whittle him down while he spams rockets ineffectually; with it, he's a downright pushover. Many fanmade maps tend to treat him as less a boss and more a beefy EliteMook (same with the Spider Mastermind, to a lesser extent).
** Both of the above are exacerbated in ''VideoGame/DoomII'', where basically every encounter with the Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind has some kind of gimmick making them way easier than they should be. For instance, in MAP 20, you encounter both of them in the same room... and hostile to each other, at which point the challenge becomes "wait for ten seconds and then kill the badly-injured survivor."

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': The Devil's final phase is literally just you shooting at the guy's face while he cries. His only real attack at this point is the flaming blue poker chip from the previous two phases falling on the last platform to stand on, which is ''very'' easy to dodge (technically, his TearsOfBlood are damaging too, but they don't actually come close to hitting you). He also doesn't send randomized minions after you whose attack patterns take longer to learn, like King Dice or Baroness Von Bon Bon. With how hectic the bosses from Inkwell Isle can get, many fans found themselves disappointed that the last and final boss was the least exciting.

** There's also [[spoiler:[[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Morpho Knight]] in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies''. Despite the massive lore surrounding it and making it surprise reveal as the FinalBoss of the Guest Star mode, your fully maxed out attack power, speed, and health will make the battle against it a complete pushover, considering that it basically fights the same as Meta Knight but with slow sword-slashing attacks in place of being able to duplicate itself. [[spoiler:The game's final update would make up for this by giving Morpho Knight an EX form, which is ''[[ThatOneBoss far]]'' [[ThatOneBoss more deadly]] than the original form.]]

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''[='=]s final boss is in comparison much easier than all the other bosses (except for dumb Boom Boom and the flying form is actually harder!) because he [[BossArenaIdiocy suicides himself with butt smashes]]. You can also exploit the fact that you can touch Bowser's lower part of the body and not take damage. If you're in Super form, just crouch. In other words, you just have to wait until when you have to dodge on the very moment Bowser slams through the final layer of the floor and falls to his doom.

** In the ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasy1 original Final Fantasy]]'' on the NES, it's very well possible to defeat the final boss, Chaos, in one turn. A Master in particular can defeat him in one attack, potentially depleting all of his 2,000 HP.

* [[FinalBoss Shredder]] in ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' (1989) is this. He has [[OneHitKill very damaging attacks]], but he is the only enemy in the game who can be [[{{Knockback}} knocked back]] by attacks, and his AI is also bad. It's possible to jump onto the right side platform and spam projectiles in his general direction, or even just corner him in the correct spot and smack him whenever he pulls his weapon out.