History Main / DemonicSpiders

* For Halo Wars there's Hawks, The Arbitor, Locusts, and vultures..

*** Your best friend for that mission is Tali (with possibly Garruus or Kaidan as backup). Overload, Sabotage, and AI Hacking should shut down those drones quite handily, especially if you let them bunch up in the hallway where a single Sabotage will knock out a half-dozen drones' weapons at once.

* Cougars in RedDeadRedemption. The can appear just about anywhere on the map, and attack incredibly quickly without much warning. If you're riding your horse, the couger will kill it with pounce. If you're on foot, it can kill you in two. Even the super-cheap Dead Eye ability, a cougar attack has a decent shot at taking you out. Oh, and some areas are so thick with them, four separate cougar attacks in quick succession is not at all uncommon.

->So this is the first enemy in the game and I can't even get near him because he's shooting bullets all over the place and running away like an asshole.
->-- '''TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' on the ''DieHard'' game for the NES.

** Even worse are the ninjas of the series, which jump around all over the place, stay behind cover half the time, sometimes throw knives, and tend to pop up at close range and give you a facelift before you have time to react, especially in ''Crisis Zone''. And there's no warning before they attack.

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** The infamous [=ReDeads=] of Ocarina of Time. What's so bad about [=ReDeads=]? [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=75 This is]].

* ''AdventureQuest'' is usually a fun game, but Sneaks have been known to send unsuspecting players into apoplectic fits. They're nearly impossible to hit except with ranged attacks, most of which are near-useless in any other context. But even they have nothing on Xyfrags, which only took 30% damage and had thousands of HP. The entire fandom cheered in unison when they were removed from the game.
** They're still there. The slimy bastards are so much of a problem that there is a weapon with a trigger effect specifically meant to kill Xyfrang. It doesn't help that once you get to the level you will begin to (rarely) see Xyfrang, the weapon becomes utterly useless.

** Outcast and Academy feature [=AT-STs=]. Sometimes you have added firepower (a walker of your own, or a gun emplacement) to take them out, but when you don't, your options are: (a) spend a few minutes throwing your saber at it (for some reason you can't just throw it at the legs to disable the thing in a single strike); (b) shoot at it with the guns that [[GunsAreUseless you never use after you get the saber]], until you run out of ammo (long before it dies), leaving you to spam the repeater's alt fire for quite a bit; or (c) [[PlayingTennisWithTheBoss play tennis with its blaster cannons]] where one mishap can kill you (and it STILL takes a decent amount of time). As it stands, they are arguably harder then the actual bosses in either game.

** The original Wolfenstein3D had the mutants. For starters, they don't have an alert sound so they can easily ambush you; in addition, they fire their pistols faster than an [[EliteMook Officer]] and will keep firing at you mercilessly. Thankfully, they only show up in Episode 2 (and the secret level of Episode 6) in the original game.

** No love for the Aeolus' big brother? The Deimos is basically a heavily armored Aeolus with more guns. Thankfully, most of the time they are either on your side, or if it shows up as an enemy, you will have the support of friendly ships capable of destroying it by themselves.

** The last dungeon also has the Wicked Mask/Deathmask. It has 37000 HP, more than almost any other enemy in the game, and casts Reflect on itself. It then proceeds to bounce spells such as Bio, Holy, and Flare off of itself and onto the party. In the DS version of the game, this is made even worse by the fact that they now know Laser Barrage, an attack that can hit the entire party for around 2000 damage. Thankfully, unlike the aforementioned Red Dragons, you can cast Stop on them.

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[[caption-width:350:Not really a spider, but it certainly is demonic.]]

*''DragonAge'' has many enemies who can pin a character down and maul them until they die, with very few ways to stop this. The first time you encounter this is a boss, where an Ogre will pick up a random party member and punch them in the face until death. You can only stop this by stunning the creature somehow, and most of the creatures that have this ability are incredibly hard to stun.

*** Oddly enough, every single one of these enemies are fought as the Werehog... [[SoYeah Huh.]]

* Practically ''every'' enemy in ''{{N}}'' is one of these. Except for Thwumps and Floorchasers. Those are GoddamnedBats. Everything else is a Demonic Spider. Granted, this game ''is'' NintendoHard, you're a OneHitPointWonder, and have no defenses (other than running), SoYeah. To elaborate:

** Even worse, the NES games had no MercyInvincibility, and enemies could respawn if the screen scrolled far enough forwards ''or'' backwards. Imagine getting hit by the aforementioned hawk, and being knocked back, causing ''another'' hawk to spawn and attack, causing the ''original'' hawk to spawn and attack...Juggled to death doesn't even being to describe the infuriating circumstances.

** Second game: Sidearm Modulas, Lou Guards (similar to the Missile Hulks from the first game, except their missiles are undodgeable unless you hide behind something, they're also more damaging although fewer are fired at a time), Diamond Claws (similar to the [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Lifters]], but with returning homing plasma), Seekers, Red Hornets (especially in swarms), Spiders and their Spawns, BPER Bots, and Boarsheads (Heavy Drillers on steroids with Smart Missiles).

*** Even worse is Togekiss. Take that same 60% flinching [=STABed=] attack (backed with a base special attack stat of 120), throw in a Thunder Wave and you've got an enemy that allows you to attack only ''30% of the time''. And it can ''heal itself''.