History Main / HopelessBossFight

** The boss of the mission "Horrible History of Household Hell" is Oetaru, a monster that resembles a cross between a sea serptent and [[EvilIsVisceral a human ear canal]]. It's also impossible to kill; your only options are to [[ShootTheDog pacify it by making one of your allies into a human sacrifice]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run away and leave it to rampage]], or [[ItsAWonderfulFailure wait for it to rupture your inner ears with a sonic attack]].

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'' has the special enemy encounter "Something Truly Evil". When you cross paths with it, your spells become useless, you lose the ability to run away for the duration of the fight, and your combat options are limited to "BLEED FOR ME", "CRY FOR ME", "SUFFER FOR ME", "GIVE UP FOR ME", and "DIE FOR ME". With the exception of the last option, which [[PressXToDie does exactly what it says]], each of these options force you to sacrifice your Stamina and Reason until you either die, go insane, or manage to satisfy it and end the encounter ([[ImplacableMan but it will return]]).

* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho: Dark Tournament Saga'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 2}}, every fight against Toguro save the last one is a Hopeless Boss Fight. The final match with Toguro is merely ThatOneBoss.

* ''VideoGame/StellaGlow'' in the beggining of the game you have to fight a witch called Hilda, you can't win this fight since Hilda and her follower are way too strong at this point, the fight finishes at some point by a cutscene.

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* In ''VideoGame/MonsterRacers'', you face off against world champion Reinhart in Ayers Rock shortly after winning the Star Cup. He has a level 35 Furion, whose stats are far and away higher than any of your monsters at this point, and it will outrun you effortlessly. You won't lose any Will for losing the race, and Reinhart will praise your effort in spite of your loss.
* A rare case in a "realistic" racer, in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted'', your first race is rigged such that you can never win.
** In one case for ''Need For Speed: Carbon'', you can't ever get away from your pursuer in the very first race.
* A very bizarre example exists in the Megadrive/Genesis port of arcade game ''[[VideoGame/MonacoGP Super Monaco GP]]''. G. Ceara, [[BlatantLies who is in no way]] [[CaptainErsatz supposed to be]] [[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne late F1 legend Ayrton Senna]] is ''supposed'' to be set up this way. He appears during your [[NewGamePlus second racing season]] and is supposed to defeat you in the first few races no matter how fast you drive until you lose your contract to drive the best car in the game. Upon doing that, he will then become beatable normally for you to earn back your position with the top team. However, the way he's coded, if you can drive a string of perfect races early on, you can defeat him and bypass this entire scenario. Nothing changes except that you don't change teams.
* ''VideoGame/RacingLagoon'', a battle against [[spoiler:Kyoji Nanba]]'s monster RX-7 is likely to be unbeatble. It's possible to win with a lot of turbos, but the result's not different.
* ''[[VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport Forza Horizon]]'' starts with you [[FinalBossPreview racing festival champ Darius Flynt]]; it's also the tutorial, so the best you can really do is stay on his tail.
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* A really strange version occurs in ''Revenge of Meta Knight'', one of the games in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar''. The first time you face down Heavy [[strike:Mole]] Lobster on the ship, he actually ''isn't'' invincible to your attacks or strong enough to KO you with one hit. Your attacks are as effective as normal. However, while you're fighting, Meta Knight is having a dialogue with his crew on the bottom of the screen. The dialogue doesn't last very long, and the second it ends, Kirby gets blown off the ship. So the player hypothetically ''could'' defeat the boss, but there isn't nearly enough time.

** In the ''Meta Knightmare Ultra'' mode of the remake, ''Kirby Super Star Ultra'' for the DS, you actually do have to beat the boss, both here and at the later point in the game where you'd face him for real as Kirby.

* ''Warsong'' (''VideoGame/{{Langrisser}}'' in Japan) had a non-boss version of this. In the first scenario you are supposed to escape, but a clever strategist can beat all the enemies instead. This has no effect on the plot except for a sentence or two.

* VR boxing game ''VideoGame/CreedRiseToGlory'' mirrors the film ''Film/{{Creed}}'' in one notable way: it enforces the canon outcome of the film's climactic fight against Conlan on the player. The player must go the distance against Conlan for 10 rounds, but Conlan cannot be knocked down until round 10. Once he does finally get knocked down, the match instantly ends and commentators will declare Conlan the winner.