History Main / HarmlessEnemy

*** The Hydrocity Zone features the Mega Chopper, a piranha enemy that latches onto the player, draining coins and making you unable to jump, duck, or Spin Dash. However, you can randomly mash the controls for a bit to make the Mega Chopper fall off, and if you're playing co-op with Sonic and Tails, the second player can use Tails to destroy the Mega Chopper as long as there isn't one attached to him as well.

* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': The Carabosse enemies are completely incapable of harming Miriam, using an attack that appears to inflict a StatusAilment but in fact does nothing at all. Whether this was DummiedOut accidentally or intentional is anyone's guess.

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game for the {{UsefulNotes/Intellivision}} has spiders that steal the player's arrows, of which there is a limited supply. The game also has bats which follow the player around and make an annoying flapping noise. The only "harm" they can do is tempt the player into wasting an arrow on them, which can also wake up other monsters sleeping nearby.

* ''VideoGames/WWEVideoGames'': In Smackdown vs Raw 2011's edition of Road to Wrestlemania, one of the stories involved trying to break Wrestling/TheUndertaker's Wrestlemania streak. The Raw before Wrestlemania involved the player facing Paul Bearer in a backstage brawl, in which the player has to knock him out in under ninty seconds. Paul Bearer will spend most of that match running away begging you not to hurt him as opposed to attacking you. The most he'll do is reverse your moves but he won't try and hit you.

* The Mame enemies in ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' are a group of {{Enemy Mime}}s that do nothing but perform their mime routines and get in the player's way without actually hurting them.
* The Engineers/Huragok in ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' can't harm [[PlayerCharacter Noble Six]] directly, but can nonetheless be a serious nuisance as they provide Overshields to nearby enemies, making them several leagues tougher to kill. Their first in-game appearances in ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'' averted this, however, as they were [[ActionBomb Action Bombs]] outfitted with exploding plates.

** The Mega Chopper from ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' reappears in ''VideoGame/SonicMania'' with the same attack pattern, again in the Hydrocity Zone.
* A recurring trend in the original ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' trilogy was that most of the enemies in beginning stages run and mock Spyro instead of attacking him.
** ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998''

*** The second Hub Level Peace Keepers has Foot Soldiers, who run and hide when they see Spyro. When They are cornered, they ineffectually moon Spyro before dying.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'':
** The series' MascotMook Wanderin' Gooms are ''completely'' incapable of attacking Wario in any way. Even if they walk into you they get stunned.
** Konotakos aren't able to harm Wario at all. Even if stuck to him when they explode, it merely stuns him.
** D.D.s and Guraguras can be rendered this via an easy-to-abuse glitch, done by scrolling them off and on the screen with the right timing, that despawns their boomerang or mace and leaves them unable to attack.
** The Minotaur boss can't directly harm Wario, but instead attacks by picking him up and attempting to toss him in the lava for a OneHitKO.
* Mice in ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' can only bounce Wario back a bit. They're commonly used as a GoombaSpringboard or as an obstacle that can knock Wario off ledges.
* Since ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' lacks CollisionDamage unlike other ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games, [[TheGoomba Waddle Dees]] not holding spears are completely harmless, only serving as fodder for Kirby to turn into yarn balls to throw at other enemies.
* The Carabosse enemies in ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' are completely incapable of harming Miriam, using an attack that appears to inflict a StatusAilment but in fact does nothing at all. Whether this was DummiedOut accidentally or intentional is anyone's guess.

* The first enemy to appear in ''[[VideoGame/AdventuresOfLolo The Adventures of Lolo]]'' is Snakey, who does nothing but stand there. His sole function is to block Lolo...or [[HelpfulMook be turned into an egg]].
* The aliens in ''VideoGame/{{Arkanoid}}'', which are destroyed on contact with the Vaus or the ball (but deflect the ball in the process). ''Arkanoid II'' adds aliens which bounce off the Vaus rather than disintegrate.

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* ''VideoGames/WWEGames'': In Smackdown vs Raw 2011's edition of Road to Wrestlemania, one of the stories involved trying to break Wrestling/TheUndertaker's Wrestlemania streak. The Raw before Wrestlemania involved the player facing Paul Bearer in a backstage brawl, in which the player has to knock him out in under ninty seconds. Paul Bearer will spend most of that match running away begging you not to hurt him as opposed to attacking you. The most he'll do is reverse your moves but he won't try and hit you.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' features Wanderin' Gooms, which are completely incapable of attacking Wario in any way.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* ''WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' features Wanderin' Gooms, which are completely incapable of attacking Wario in any way.

* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' often has inanimate objects that the player can 'fight', but they do not attack back at all and are typically just for receiving quest drops.

* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' had the Nobleman, a starter enemy who had only two moves: Trip, which knocked you down but did no damage, and, if reduced to half hitpoints, Spare Me, which caused him to [[CowerPower fall to the ground crying]] and would end the battle and give you a large amount of money if you didn't interrupt it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Zombidle}}'': The only things that can do damage are on your side. Combat is not a matter of killing enemies but doing damage fast enough, as not killing bosses in the time limit simply pushes you down a level.

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A type of enemy in video games that is completely incapable of damaging the player. Usually, they attack in an unconventional way (such as draining {{Mana}} or causing InterfaceScrew), but some serve no purpose other than to be destroyed by the player for points.

* ''VideoGame/CaveStory:'' The Chinfish (or the Egg Fish) is a UniqueEnemy in the Mimiga Village fishing hole, who never attacks or interacts with the player character, but can still be destroyed for XP.

* ''VideoGame/{{Amorphous}}'' has the basic Glooples. Colliding into them will "bump" you, stunning you for a bit without killing you (but leaving you very open to more dangerous things). Getting bumped also counts as a form of harm, and even getting touched by one of these will disqualify you for the "Badass" achievement where you need to complete a level without getting harmed. On uncommon occasions, the basic Glooples can [[FusionDance glom together]] into increasingly deadly forms if they bump into each other.

*** Arctic Cannon Larvae shoot snowballs, instead of the rocks like similar enemies do. Instead of crushing your Pikmin to death like the rocks will, these will simply roll them up and carry them along until the snowball hits an obstacle and breaks, depositing your Pikmin safe and sound -- but potentially quite far away.

* ''VideoGame/BurritoBison'': The only enemies that cause harm as the cops, who greatly reduce your speed and interrupting your run. All other enemies instead boost your speed when they explode.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': While most of PNF-404's fauna is notable for its aggressive and predatory natures and their tendency to gobble the titular creatures in vast amounts, numerous creatures throughout the games are completely unable to directly harm player characters or their Pikmin. Some can cause harm in more indirect ways, such as the Breadbugs ({{Bandit Mook}}s who steal treasures back to their dens), the Puffy Blowhogs (who shoot guest of air that knock Pikmin about and scatter them) and the Swarming Sheargrubs (who consume [[PowerUp nectar]] before Pikmin can and cling on fruit to make it heavier and require more Pikmin to carry back), but others (like the butterfly-like Spectralids, the nectar-carrying Honeywisps or the timid, leaf-like Skitterleaves) cannot even do that, and largely serve as extra sources of nectar and/or Pikmin seeds that need to be chased down before they escape.

** Water balls in the ''Amplified'' DLC create a puddle of water upon colliding with the player, slowing them a bit. They do no damage otherwise.

*** The game also features extremely rare unnamed green Shy Guys (known as Itsunomanika Heihō in Japanese guides), which hide behind foreground objects such as crystals in underground stages. If Yoshi comes into contact with them, they'll switch places with Baby Mario, who will be quickly stolen by a [[TeleportingKeycardSquad suddenly appearing Bandit]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Slimes are a kind of AsteroidsMonster that attack players by ramming into them and usually come in three sizes, huge, normal and small, the larger ones splitting into two to four slimes of the next size tier down upon death. The larger kinds deal damage like all hostile mobs do -- the huge ones dealing more than the normal ones -- but small slimes cannot deal any damage. They will still tackle the player, but they cannot do more than lightly push them back -- which, however, can still be threat if the player is standing next to a cliff or another high drop.

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