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* ''Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' has two incarnations of Sylvester where he doesn't move from his spot. The first one serves as the boss of World 3, where he stands atop a cliff, pumping balloons that can damage Speedy if he makes a wrong move, and Speedy has to toss his sombrero at him to damge him. The second one is the penultimate boss of the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, where he operates an exercise bike atop an InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt. Speedy must toss bombs at Sylvester to damage him, while avoiding the lightning that strikes.
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* ''Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' has two incarnations of Sylvester where he doesn't move from his spot. The first one serves as the boss of World 3, where he stands atop a cliff, pumping balloons that can damage Speedy if he makes a wrong move, and Speedy has to toss his sombrero at him to damge him. The second one is the penultimate boss of the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Platform/SegaMasterSystem and UsefulNotes/GameGear Platform/GameGear versions, where he operates an exercise bike atop an InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt. Speedy must toss bombs at Sylvester to damage him, while avoiding the lightning that strikes.
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* ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'': In most versions of the LicensedGame, the final boss, Shere Khan, does not move from his spot. In the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and PC versions, he stands on a cliff on the right side of the screen, flinging embers and blowing fire rings at Mowgli as he tries to keep his balance above a fire pit. In the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, Khan sits on a boulder in the middle of the screen and doesn't attack at all. Mowgli has to dodge the fire around him as he throws fire at Khan.
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* ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'': In most versions of the LicensedGame, the final boss, Shere Khan, does not move from his spot. In the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[Platform/SegaGenesis Genesis]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, Platform/GameBoy, and PC versions, he stands on a cliff on the right side of the screen, flinging embers and blowing fire rings at Mowgli as he tries to keep his balance above a fire pit. In the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem [[Platform/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] and UsefulNotes/GameGear Platform/GameGear versions, Khan sits on a boulder in the middle of the screen and doesn't attack at all. Mowgli has to dodge the fire around him as he throws fire at Khan.
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%%** A fair few in the Sonic series. [[VideoGame/Sonic3DFlickiesIsland Volcano Valley]], [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 the Biolizard]], Ghost Kraken, Ghost Titan, Ghost Pendulum (all 3 ghosts from ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]''), [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Crystal Egg]] (with the tubes around it and spinning flower beam things), and undoubtedly many more.
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%%** A fair few in the Sonic series. [[VideoGame/Sonic3DFlickiesIsland Volcano Valley]], [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 the Biolizard]], Ghost Kraken, Ghost Titan, Ghost Pendulum (all 3 ghosts from ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]''), ''VideoGame/SonicRushAdventure''), [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Crystal Egg]] (with the tubes around it and spinning flower beam things), and undoubtedly many more.
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* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': The Water Lily Siren is a potted plant on a platform, which explains why she doesn't move on her own, because she can't. To get her into the sunbeams that makes her expose her weakpoints.
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** Gleeok, a recurring boss fought in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original]], ''Oracle of Seasons'' (at first, before it goes OneWingedAngel into a {{Dracolich}}), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' remains stationary at the far side of its arena, and attacks Link by spitting fireballs at him.
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** Gleeok, a recurring boss fought in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI the original]], ''Oracle of Seasons'' (at first, before it goes OneWingedAngel into a {{Dracolich}}), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' remains stationary at the far side of its arena, and attacks Link by spitting fireballs at him.
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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': Every 3D game has a boss that simply stands in the same place and shoots at you from a stationary position. In this case, it's a matter of getting around them to their hidden weak points.
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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Every 3D game has a boss that simply stands in the same place and shoots at you from a stationary position. In this case, it's a matter of getting around them to their hidden weak points.
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* ''Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' has two incarnations of Sylvester where he doesn't move from his spot. The first one serves as the boss of World 3, where he stands atop a cliff, pumping balloons that can damage Speedy if he makes a wrong move, and Speedy has to toss his sombrero at him to damge him. The second one is the penultimate boss of the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, where he operates an exercise bike atop an InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt. Speedy must toss bombs at Sylvester to damage him, while avoiding the lightning that strikes.
* ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' has Baphomet (whose only motions are to cast spells or to protect itself with its wings) and Tiamat (whose only motions are to turn around to avoid you, flick its tail at you while otherwise remaining stationary).
* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'': The three fights against the [[spoiler:Mega-Smith]] are a stationary fight, where Smith throws pieces of buildings and copies at you that you have to dodge.
* ''VideoGame/NavalOps'': The Hell Atsche from ''Warship Gunner 2'' is a fortress with a giant laser cannon on top and, due to being a building, naturally cannot move.
* Creator/NipponIchi: In earlier games, most bosses won't move unless your characters are in range to attack in one turn, so you can game this to your advantage by having your magic casters stand outside of this range and nuke them with spells. Later titles have them start moving the after they take damage to prevent this.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' features ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' cameo Zetta as a truly immobile boss. He makes up for it to a degree by having an utterly absurd hit radius on his trademark [[EyeBeams Zetta Beam]], though there's a safe zone he can be attacked from with no fear of retaliation if you can manage to get closer to him.
** ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': All of the World Eaters are immobile. They make up for this by being able to zap you from far away with ''very'' powerful attacks.
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Dr. Peace functions as one, simply shooting at the player from the pitcher's mound in the arena.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' features ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' cameo Zetta as a truly immobile boss. He makes up for it to a degree by having an utterly absurd hit radius on his trademark [[EyeBeams Zetta Beam]], though there's a safe zone he can be attacked from with no fear of retaliation if you can manage to get closer to him.
** ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': All of the World Eaters are immobile. They make up for this by being able to zap you from far away with ''very'' powerful attacks.
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Dr. Peace functions as one, simply shooting at the player from the pitcher's mound in the arena.
* ''VideoGame/{{Odium}}'' has Messiah, who's pinned to a wall (and is annoyingly immune to all attacks that aren't done from up close), and Puppet, who for some reason cannot walk or even turn around. Which means that you can simply make all your men walk behind him and render him a ZeroEffortBoss.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC doesn't move at all. However, it regularly spawns ice blocks to defend itself from incoming plant attacks.
* ''VideoGame/PortalRunner'': The tree in the Medieval world's dark forest, as well as the FinalBoss. Rage also blocks the portal back to the Medieval world, requiring te player to defeat him with Leo.
* ''VideoGame/Prey2006'': At the start of its fight, [[OneBadMother Mother]] is stuck within a massive ball of screens as she oversees the world you're currently stuck on.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has Elizabeth Greene in a massive subterranean organism that bursts out in the middle of Times Square to swat military forces(and you) with its CombatTentacles and more.
* ''VideoGame/Prey2006'': At the start of its fight, [[OneBadMother Mother]] is stuck within a massive ball of screens as she oversees the world you're currently stuck on.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has Elizabeth Greene in a massive subterranean organism that bursts out in the middle of Times Square to swat military forces(and you) with its CombatTentacles and more.
* ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'':
** Chthon, the first boss, just sits in his pool of lava right under the electrical arc that is the only way to kill him.
** Shub-Niggurath, the final boss, not only doesn't move, but doesn't even attack, relying on its [[FlunkyBoss minions]] instead.
** Chthon, the first boss, just sits in his pool of lava right under the electrical arc that is the only way to kill him.
** Shub-Niggurath, the final boss, not only doesn't move, but doesn't even attack, relying on its [[FlunkyBoss minions]] instead.
%%* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': While the game usually gives you the freedom to knock most bosses silly around the battlefield, good luck doing that with any of the giant spiders. [[spoiler:Or the final boss, once he goes OneWingedAngel.]]
* ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'': A handful of boss-type monsters are immobile, though they can attack at range and their slave monsters have no problem with motion.
* ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'': A handful of boss-type monsters are immobile, though they can attack at range and their slave monsters have no problem with motion.
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'':
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'': The final boss stays in one place in the middle of the battlefield while you circle around it and shoot it down with the hovership.
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'': In the arena, Crushto stays in the middle of the arena and turns to face you. This doesn't mean you can afford to be sloppy, though; his machine gun makes a spray of shots that can be tricky to weave between, and he can either suck in air to try and inhale you, or blow air to push you off the edge of the arena. He only moves when entering the arena, and jumping out during tag-team battles.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rengoku}}'': Sphinx in the second game cannot move from the center of the room and relies on ranged plasma rifles.
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'': The final boss stays in one place in the middle of the battlefield while you circle around it and shoot it down with the hovership.
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'': In the arena, Crushto stays in the middle of the arena and turns to face you. This doesn't mean you can afford to be sloppy, though; his machine gun makes a spray of shots that can be tricky to weave between, and he can either suck in air to try and inhale you, or blow air to push you off the edge of the arena. He only moves when entering the arena, and jumping out during tag-team battles.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rengoku}}'': Sphinx in the second game cannot move from the center of the room and relies on ranged plasma rifles.
* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has the behomoth Stomp, who's only partway through a portal from another dimension because the rest of him won't fit and is therefore completely unable to pursue the player around the boss room, and the stalker Shadow-Forger Ihlakhizan, who is tied to four pillars over a deep pit and also completely immobile. This immobility does not make them any less deadly to an inexperienced or underprepared team.
* ''VideoGame/{{Something}}'': Von Toad II's machine in ''Something Else'' can't move but it's quite big. The only way to hit it is to jump on the ball projectiles it shoots out.
* ''VideoGame/SpiralKnights'': The Roarmulus Twins do this until they've been damaged enough.
* ''Franchise/TombRaider'':
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' has two clear examples in Tony and [[NoNameGiven the guy in Temple of Puna]]. Being hit by their respective fiery rain and lightning bolt is certain death, so it only seems fair. Sophia Leigh is also mostly stationary, and doubles as a PuzzleBoss.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation'': The final "boss" consists entirely of escaping the level while under constant fire from an angry Egyptian god.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' has two clear examples in Tony and [[NoNameGiven the guy in Temple of Puna]]. Being hit by their respective fiery rain and lightning bolt is certain death, so it only seems fair. Sophia Leigh is also mostly stationary, and doubles as a PuzzleBoss.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation'': The final "boss" consists entirely of escaping the level while under constant fire from an angry Egyptian god.
* ''VideoGame/{{Vectorman}}'': The Spider Queen, the final boss of the second game, does not move from her spot.
* ''VideoGame/WillRock'': Zeus, the BigBad, is sitting on his huge throne at the top of the tall, monster-infested arena and will throw thunderbolts across the area to smite you. The safest way to kill him is to [[spoiler:reach him, go right between his feet (where you're out of range from many enemies), and shoot him to death]].
* ''VideoGame/WillRock'': Zeus, the BigBad, is sitting on his huge throne at the top of the tall, monster-infested arena and will throw thunderbolts across the area to smite you. The safest way to kill him is to [[spoiler:reach him, go right between his feet (where you're out of range from many enemies), and shoot him to death]].
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* Creator/NipponIchi: In earlier games, most bosses won't move unless your characters are in range to attack in one turn, so you can game this to your advantage by having your magic casters stand outside of this range and nuke them with spells. Later titles have them start moving the after they take damage to prevent this.
** ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' features ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' cameo Zetta as a truly immobile boss. He makes up for it to a degree by having an utterly absurd hit radius on his trademark [[EyeBeams Zetta Beam]], though there's a safe zone he can be attacked from with no fear of retaliation if you can manage to get closer to him.
** ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': All of the World Eaters are immobile. They make up for this by being able to zap you from far away with ''very'' powerful attacks.
* ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'': A handful of boss-type monsters are immobile, though they can attack at range and their slave monsters have no problem with motion.
* ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' has Baphomet (whose only motions are to cast spells or to protect itself with its wings) and Tiamat (whose only motions are to turn around to avoid you, flick its tail at you while otherwise remaining stationary).
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'':
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'': The final boss stays in one place in the middle of the battlefield while you circle around it and shoot it down with the hovership.
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'': In the arena, Crushto stays in the middle of the arena and turns to face you. This doesn't mean you can afford to be sloppy, though; his machine gun makes a spray of shots that can be tricky to weave between, and he can either suck in air to try and inhale you, or blow air to push you off the edge of the arena. He only moves when entering the arena, and jumping out during tag-team battles.
* ''VideoGame/Prey2006'': At the start of its fight, [[OneBadMother Mother]] is stuck within a massive ball of screens as she oversees the world you're currently stuck on.
* ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'':
** Chthon, the first boss, just sits in his pool of lava right under the electrical arc that is the only way to kill him.
** Shub-Niggurath, the final boss, not only doesn't move, but doesn't even attack, relying on its [[FlunkyBoss minions]] instead.
* ''VideoGame/NavalOps'': The Hell Atsche from ''Warship Gunner 2'' is a fortress with a giant laser cannon on top and, due to being a building, naturally cannot move.
* ''VideoGame/{{Odium}}'' has Messiah, who's pinned to a wall (and is annoyingly immune to all attacks that aren't done from up close), and Puppet, who for some reason cannot walk or even turn around. Which means that you can simply make all your men walk behind him and render him a ZeroEffortBoss.
* ''VideoGame/WillRock'': Zeus, the BigBad, is sitting on his huge throne at the top of the tall, monster-infested arena and will throw thunderbolts across the area to smite you. The safest way to kill him is to [[spoiler:reach him, go right between his feet (where you're out of range from many enemies), and shoot him to death]].
%%* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': While the game usually gives you the freedom to knock most bosses silly around the battlefield, good luck doing that with any of the giant spiders. [[spoiler:Or the final boss, once he goes OneWingedAngel.]]
* ''Franchise/TombRaider'':
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' has two clear examples in Tony and [[NoNameGiven the guy in Temple of Puna]]. Being hit by their respective fiery rain and lightning bolt is certain death, so it only seems fair. Sophia Leigh is also mostly stationary, and doubles as a PuzzleBoss.
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation'': The final "boss" consists entirely of escaping the level while under constant fire from an angry Egyptian god.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has Elizabeth Greene in a massive subterranean organism that bursts out in the middle of Times Square to swat military forces(and you) with its CombatTentacles and more.
* ''VideoGame/SpiralKnights'': The Roarmulus Twins do this until they've been damaged enough.
* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has the behomoth Stomp, who's only partway through a portal from another dimension because the rest of him won't fit and is therefore completely unable to pursue the player around the boss room, and the stalker Shadow-Forger Ihlakhizan, who is tied to four pillars over a deep pit and also completely immobile. This immobility does not make them any less deadly to an inexperienced or underprepared team.
* ''VideoGame/{{Something}}'': Von Toad II's machine in ''Something Else'' can't move but it's quite big. The only way to hit it is to jump on the ball projectiles it shoots out.
* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'': The three fights against the [[spoiler:Mega-Smith]] are a stationary fight, where Smith throws pieces of buildings and copies at you that you have to dodge.
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Dr. Peace functions as one, simply shooting at the player from the pitcher's mound in the arena.
* ''VideoGame/{{Vectorman}}'': The Spider Queen, the final boss of the second game, does not move from her spot.
* ''VideoGame/PortalRunner'': The tree in the Medieval world's dark forest, as well as the FinalBoss. Rage also blocks the portal back to the Medieval world, requiring te player to defeat him with Leo.
* ''Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' has two incarnations of Sylvester where he doesn't move from his spot. The first one serves as the boss of World 3, where he stands atop a cliff, pumping balloons that can damage Speedy if he makes a wrong move, and Speedy has to toss his sombrero at him to damge him. The second one is the penultimate boss of the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, where he operates an exercise bike atop an InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt. Speedy must toss bombs at Sylvester to damage him, while avoiding the lightning that strikes.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC doesn't move at all. However, it regularly spawns ice blocks to defend itself from incoming plant attacks.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rengoku}}'': Sphinx in the second game cannot move from the center of the room and relies on ranged plasma rifles.
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%%* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': [[TrueFinalBoss Heavy]] [[KingMook Press]] [[BossBonanza and]] [[spoiler:[[SequentialBoss Ballos' last form]]]], though in the latter's room everything you can step on either moves or damages you.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' (and ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'') has the giant amoeba monster Hamidon, which is game-mechanically not so much a critter as a zone. The Thorn Tree is also stationary, as is the Hydra.
* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' features a number of immobile level bosses.
** In the first game, they are fortified entrances to the enemy bases, but in all other games, they are various {{Cosmic Horror}}s.
** The boss of the Waterfall stage in the first Contra is a stationary CosmicHorror as well.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' (and ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'') has the giant amoeba monster Hamidon, which is game-mechanically not so much a critter as a zone. The Thorn Tree is also stationary, as is the Hydra.
* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' features a number of immobile level bosses.
** In the first game, they are fortified entrances to the enemy bases, but in all other games, they are various {{Cosmic Horror}}s.
** The boss of the Waterfall stage in the first Contra is a stationary CosmicHorror as well.
* ''VideoGame/DarkDevotion'': The Virgin and the Ritualist are traditional examples, not moving from their spots for the duration of their boss fights. Hezek the Baptized and Chimera the King's Steed are only temporarily stationary: both are chained up at the start of their fights, only to break free—in Hezek's case, by [[AnArmAndALeg tearing off his own arm]]—and become mobile after losing a certain amount of health.
* ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}'': Some bosses are unable to move, including the Evil Tree in Moorbridge, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent the Linnorm]] and [[DiscOneFinalBoss Jafgur]] in the first game, and the Newt Kraken [[spoiler:and the Water Dragon]] in the second game.
%%* ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' has seen a couple; the biggest are the Vortex Queen and the Foe Queen's heart.
* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': The Greater Guardian stays at the far end of the room behind several magikal shields while attacking and summoning mooks.
* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'': The final battle with Ezekiel has her morph into a giant blob of flesh that sits in the middle of the arena, firing radial elemental-based attacks at you. At certain points, she splits in half and the top part of her chases you around while the bottom half stays where it is.
* ''VideoGame/ESPRaDe'': In the final stage, the midboss Gogyo Kakushi is a pair of stationary Yaksa members who erect a force field blocking the player from entering Yaksa's headquarters, supported by two turrets and [[FlunkyBoss an indefinite number of infantry and vehicles supplementing their firepower]].
* ''VideoGame/FantasyLife'' treats its rare trees and ores as bosses, giving them a higher number of hit points and RegeneratingHealth. Given their actual nature, one can guess they don't move much.
* ''VideoGame/FestersQuest'': The final boss is a machine which stands in one place, firing straight ahead.
%%* ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' has seen a couple; the biggest are the Vortex Queen and the Foe Queen's heart.
* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': The Greater Guardian stays at the far end of the room behind several magikal shields while attacking and summoning mooks.
* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'': The final battle with Ezekiel has her morph into a giant blob of flesh that sits in the middle of the arena, firing radial elemental-based attacks at you. At certain points, she splits in half and the top part of her chases you around while the bottom half stays where it is.
* ''VideoGame/ESPRaDe'': In the final stage, the midboss Gogyo Kakushi is a pair of stationary Yaksa members who erect a force field blocking the player from entering Yaksa's headquarters, supported by two turrets and [[FlunkyBoss an indefinite number of infantry and vehicles supplementing their firepower]].
* ''VideoGame/FantasyLife'' treats its rare trees and ores as bosses, giving them a higher number of hit points and RegeneratingHealth. Given their actual nature, one can guess they don't move much.
* ''VideoGame/FestersQuest'': The final boss is a machine which stands in one place, firing straight ahead.
* ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'': Most of the bosses in ''Gauntlet Legends 64'' are immobile or move in an extremely limited way. Same goes for most of the sequel bosses, although a few of them can wander about.
%%* ''VideoGame/GGundam'': When Devil Gundam attacks, he fires a powerful motion wave gun and has two gundam heads which act as his invincible shield generators when he takes a certain amount of damage. Once he goes a lower level of health, he switches to a sweeping version of his attack (weaker thankfully) and summons a G-Crossover capable of hitting horizontally or Vertically. %%Describe how he's stationary, then cut the dross.
%%* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': Rock Minotaurs are generally these. If you see a random pile of rocks between you and a grapple point, chances are when you approach it you'll be greeted by a rock minotaur. %%Which is an example how?
* ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'': In the first game, [[spoiler:Sleeper]] just stands in one spot and shoots fireballs at you while you try to break the five pedestals standing around him.
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'': The [[RecurringBoss recurring]] [[CoresAndTurretsBoss Keeper's Core]].
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': The larger bosses, like the Sunless or Shatterer, make a DramaticEntrance and then remain in a single spot for the entire battle despite an Asura WaveMotionGun being aimed at his exact spot. Then again, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality there would be no way to defeat him if he just flew around]].
%%* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': Rock Minotaurs are generally these. If you see a random pile of rocks between you and a grapple point, chances are when you approach it you'll be greeted by a rock minotaur. %%Which is an example how?
* ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'': In the first game, [[spoiler:Sleeper]] just stands in one spot and shoots fireballs at you while you try to break the five pedestals standing around him.
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'': The [[RecurringBoss recurring]] [[CoresAndTurretsBoss Keeper's Core]].
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': The larger bosses, like the Sunless or Shatterer, make a DramaticEntrance and then remain in a single spot for the entire battle despite an Asura WaveMotionGun being aimed at his exact spot. Then again, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality there would be no way to defeat him if he just flew around]].
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* In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', the Russian Boss in the "Showdown" chapter remains seated at his desk the entire time Jacket is fighting him.
%%* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
* ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'': The Idol is an immobile statue that can only attack via spells, making it [[AntiClimaxBoss easy to defeat]] via spamming Area of Effect spells from beyond its visual range after taking care of its guards.
* ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'': In most versions of the LicensedGame, the final boss, Shere Khan, does not move from his spot. In the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and PC versions, he stands on a cliff on the right side of the screen, flinging embers and blowing fire rings at Mowgli as he tries to keep his balance above a fire pit. In the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, Khan sits on a boulder in the middle of the screen and doesn't attack at all. Mowgli has to dodge the fire around him as he throws fire at Khan.
%%* ''VideoGame/KameoElementsOfPower'': Old Marwood.
%%* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
* ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'': The Idol is an immobile statue that can only attack via spells, making it [[AntiClimaxBoss easy to defeat]] via spamming Area of Effect spells from beyond its visual range after taking care of its guards.
* ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'': In most versions of the LicensedGame, the final boss, Shere Khan, does not move from his spot. In the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and PC versions, he stands on a cliff on the right side of the screen, flinging embers and blowing fire rings at Mowgli as he tries to keep his balance above a fire pit. In the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, Khan sits on a boulder in the middle of the screen and doesn't attack at all. Mowgli has to dodge the fire around him as he throws fire at Khan.
%%* ''VideoGame/KameoElementsOfPower'': Old Marwood.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain: Soul Reaver'': The spider-based boss was grafted to a wall over the years and is completely unable to move even if he wanted to.
* ''VideoGame/MapleStory'': Zakum is more or less immobile, attacking with his arms.
%%** As are Pianus, Horntail, and the Balrog.
%%** As are Pianus, Horntail, and the Balrog.
* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' had perfectly-mobile enemies, except at the very end -- the final boss's last two forms did not move (much) because they were too big.
%%* ''VideoGame/AnUntitledStory'': The [=DeepDive=] boss.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'':
%%** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': The last boss.
** ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'': Tropicallo is immobile, and you can't even hit it directly: you have to wear its HP down gradually by attacking its sprouts. This gets extremely tedious in the harder modes, as you have to deal with both the sprouts ''and'' the boss itself having much more HP. This was only partially the case in its appearances in ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', where it would occasionally tunnel to different spots on the map.
%%** ''VideoGame/ChildrenOfMana'':
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'':
%%** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': The last boss.
** ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'': Tropicallo is immobile, and you can't even hit it directly: you have to wear its HP down gradually by attacking its sprouts. This gets extremely tedious in the harder modes, as you have to deal with both the sprouts ''and'' the boss itself having much more HP. This was only partially the case in its appearances in ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', where it would occasionally tunnel to different spots on the map.
%%** ''VideoGame/ChildrenOfMana'':
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* ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'': Most of the bosses in ''Gauntlet Legends 64'' are immobile or move in an extremely limited way. Same goes for most of the sequel bosses, although a few of them can wander about.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' (and ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'') has the giant amoeba monster Hamidon, which is game-mechanically not so much a critter as a zone. The Thorn Tree is also stationary, as is the Hydra.
%%* ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'':
%%** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': The last boss.
* ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'': Tropicallo is immobile, and you can't even hit it directly: you have to wear its HP down gradually by attacking its sprouts. This gets extremely tedious in the harder modes, as you have to deal with both the sprouts ''and'' the boss itself having much more HP. This was only partially the case in its appearances in ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', where it would occasionally tunnel to different spots on the map.
%%** ''VideoGame/ChildrenOfMana'':
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' (and ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'') has the giant amoeba monster Hamidon, which is game-mechanically not so much a critter as a zone. The Thorn Tree is also stationary, as is the Hydra.
%%* ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'':
%%** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': The last boss.
* ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'': Tropicallo is immobile, and you can't even hit it directly: you have to wear its HP down gradually by attacking its sprouts. This gets extremely tedious in the harder modes, as you have to deal with both the sprouts ''and'' the boss itself having much more HP. This was only partially the case in its appearances in ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', where it would occasionally tunnel to different spots on the map.
%%** ''VideoGame/ChildrenOfMana'':
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* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' (and ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'') has the giant amoeba monster Hamidon, which is game-mechanically not so much a critter as a zone. The Thorn Tree is also stationary, as is the Hydra.
%%* ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'':
%%** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': The last boss.
* ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'': Tropicallo is immobile, and you can't even hit it directly: you have to wear its HP down gradually by attacking its sprouts. This gets extremely tedious in the harder modes, as you have to deal with both the sprouts ''and'' the boss itself having much more HP. This was only partially the case in its appearances in ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', where it would occasionally tunnel to different spots on the map.
%%** ''VideoGame/ChildrenOfMana'':
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* ''VideoGame/MapleStory'': Zakum is more or less immobile, attacking with his arms.
%%** As are Pianus, Horntail, and the Balrog.
* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' had perfectly-mobile enemies, except at the very end -- the final boss's last two forms did not move (much) because they were too big.
* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' features a number of immobile level bosses.
** In the first game, they are fortified entrances to the enemy bases, but in all other games, they are various {{Cosmic Horror}}s.
** The boss of the Waterfall stage in the first Contra is a stationary CosmicHorror as well.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain: Soul Reaver'': The spider-based boss was grafted to a wall over the years and is completely unable to move even if he wanted to.
%%* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': [[TrueFinalBoss Heavy]] [[KingMook Press]] [[BossBonanza and]] [[spoiler:[[SequentialBoss Ballos' last form]]]], though in the latter's room everything you can step on either moves or damages you.
* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': The Greater Guardian stays at the far end of the room behind several magikal shields while attacking and summoning mooks.
%%** As are Pianus, Horntail, and the Balrog.
* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' had perfectly-mobile enemies, except at the very end -- the final boss's last two forms did not move (much) because they were too big.
* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' features a number of immobile level bosses.
** In the first game, they are fortified entrances to the enemy bases, but in all other games, they are various {{Cosmic Horror}}s.
** The boss of the Waterfall stage in the first Contra is a stationary CosmicHorror as well.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain: Soul Reaver'': The spider-based boss was grafted to a wall over the years and is completely unable to move even if he wanted to.
%%* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': [[TrueFinalBoss Heavy]] [[KingMook Press]] [[BossBonanza and]] [[spoiler:[[SequentialBoss Ballos' last form]]]], though in the latter's room everything you can step on either moves or damages you.
* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': The Greater Guardian stays at the far end of the room behind several magikal shields while attacking and summoning mooks.
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%%** As are Pianus, Horntail, and the Balrog.
* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsTheSoullessArmy'' had perfectly-mobile enemies, except at the very end -- the final boss's last two forms did not move (much) because they were too big.
* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' features a number of immobile level bosses.
** In the first game, they are fortified entrances to the enemy bases, but in all other games, they are various {{Cosmic Horror}}s.
** The boss of the Waterfall stage in the first Contra is a stationary CosmicHorror as well.
* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain: Soul Reaver'': The spider-based boss was grafted to a wall over the years and is completely unable to move even if he wanted to.
%%* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': [[TrueFinalBoss Heavy]] [[KingMook Press]] [[BossBonanza and]] [[spoiler:[[SequentialBoss Ballos' last form]]]], though in the latter's room everything you can step on either moves or damages you.
* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'': The Greater Guardian stays at the far end of the room behind several magikal shields while attacking and summoning mooks.
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%%* ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' has seen a couple; the biggest are the Vortex Queen and the Foe Queen's heart.
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%%* ''VideoGame/GGundam'': When Devil Gundam attacks, he fires a powerful motion wave gun and has two gundam heads which act as his invincible shield generators when he takes a certain amount of damage. Once he goes a lower level of health, he switches to a sweeping version of his attack (weaker thankfully) and summons a G-Crossover capable of hitting horizontally or Vertically. %%Describe how he's stationary, then cut the dross.
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%%* ''VideoGame/AnUntitledStory'': The [=DeepDive=] boss.
%%* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
%%* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
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%%* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
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%%* ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'': The [[RecurringBoss recurring]] [[CoresAndTurretsBoss Keeper's Core]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}'': Some bosses are unable to move, including the Evil Tree in Moorbridge, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent the Linnorm]] and [[DiscOneFinalBoss Jafgur]] in the first game, and the Newt Kraken [[spoiler:and the Water Dragon]] in the second game.
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* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': The larger bosses, like the Sunless or Shatterer, make a DramaticEntrance and then remain in a single spot for the entire battle despite an Asura WaveMotionGun being aimed at his exact spot. Then again, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality there would be no way to defeat him if he just flew around]].
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%%* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': Rock Minotaurs are generally these. If you see a random pile of rocks between you and a grapple point, chances are when you approach it you'll be greeted by a rock minotaur. %%Which is an example how?
* ''VideoGame/FestersQuest'': The final boss is a machine which stands in one place, firing straight ahead.
* ''VideoGame/FestersQuest'': The final boss is a machine which stands in one place, firing straight ahead.
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* ''VideoGame/FestersQuest'': The final boss is a machine which stands in one place, firing straight ahead.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'': In the first game, [[spoiler:Sleeper]] just stands in one spot and shoots fireballs at you while you try to break the five pedestals standing around him.
* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'': The final battle with Ezekiel has her morph into a giant blob of flesh that sits in the middle of the arena, firing radial elemental-based attacks at you. At certain points, she splits in half and the top part of her chases you around while the bottom half stays where it is.
* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'': The final battle with Ezekiel has her morph into a giant blob of flesh that sits in the middle of the arena, firing radial elemental-based attacks at you. At certain points, she splits in half and the top part of her chases you around while the bottom half stays where it is.
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* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'': The final battle with Ezekiel has her morph into a giant blob of flesh that sits in the middle of the arena, firing radial elemental-based attacks at you. At certain points, she splits in half and the top part of her chases you around while the bottom half stays where it is.
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* ''VideoGame/FantasyLife'' treats its rare trees and ores as bosses, giving them a higher number of hit points and RegeneratingHealth. Given their actual nature, one can guess they don't move much.
* ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'': The Idol is an immobile statue that can only attack via spells, making it [[AntiClimaxBoss easy to defeat]] via spamming Area of Effect spells from beyond its visual range after taking care of its guards.
* ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'': In most versions of the LicensedGame, the final boss, Shere Khan, does not move from his spot. In the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and PC versions, he stands on a cliff on the right side of the screen, flinging embers and blowing fire rings at Mowgli as he tries to keep his balance above a fire pit. In the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, Khan sits on a boulder in the middle of the screen and doesn't attack at all. Mowgli has to dodge the fire around him as he throws fire at Khan.
* ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'': The Idol is an immobile statue that can only attack via spells, making it [[AntiClimaxBoss easy to defeat]] via spamming Area of Effect spells from beyond its visual range after taking care of its guards.
* ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'': In most versions of the LicensedGame, the final boss, Shere Khan, does not move from his spot. In the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and PC versions, he stands on a cliff on the right side of the screen, flinging embers and blowing fire rings at Mowgli as he tries to keep his balance above a fire pit. In the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, Khan sits on a boulder in the middle of the screen and doesn't attack at all. Mowgli has to dodge the fire around him as he throws fire at Khan.
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* ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'': The Idol is an immobile statue that can only attack via spells, making it [[AntiClimaxBoss easy to defeat]] via spamming Area of Effect spells from beyond its visual range after taking care of its guards.
* ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'': In most versions of the LicensedGame, the final boss, Shere Khan, does not move from his spot. In the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis]], UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and PC versions, he stands on a cliff on the right side of the screen, flinging embers and blowing fire rings at Mowgli as he tries to keep his balance above a fire pit. In the [[UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem Master System]] and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, Khan sits on a boulder in the middle of the screen and doesn't attack at all. Mowgli has to dodge the fire around him as he throws fire at Khan.
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* ''VideoGame/DarkDevotion'': The Virgin and the Ritualist are traditional examples, not moving from their spots for the duration of their boss fights. Hezek the Baptized and Chimera the King's Steed are only temporarily stationary: both are chained up at the start of their fights, only to break free—in Hezek's case, by [[AnArmAndALeg tearing off his own arm]]—and become mobile after losing a certain amount of health.
* ''VideoGame/ESPRaDe'': In the final stage, the midboss Gogyo Kakushi is a pair of stationary Yaksa members who erect a force field blocking the player from entering Yaksa's headquarters, supported by two turrets and [[FlunkyBoss an indefinite number of infantry and vehicles supplementing their firepower]].
* In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', the Russian Boss in the "Showdown" chapter remains seated at his desk the entire time Jacket is fighting him.
* ''VideoGame/ESPRaDe'': In the final stage, the midboss Gogyo Kakushi is a pair of stationary Yaksa members who erect a force field blocking the player from entering Yaksa's headquarters, supported by two turrets and [[FlunkyBoss an indefinite number of infantry and vehicles supplementing their firepower]].
* In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', the Russian Boss in the "Showdown" chapter remains seated at his desk the entire time Jacket is fighting him.
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* ''VideoGame/ESPRaDe'': In the final stage, the midboss Gogyo Kakushi is a pair of stationary Yaksa members who erect a force field blocking the player from entering Yaksa's headquarters, supported by two turrets and [[FlunkyBoss an indefinite number of infantry and vehicles supplementing their firepower]].
* In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', the Russian Boss in the "Showdown" chapter remains seated at his desk the entire time Jacket is fighting him.
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* ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland 2'': The first boss is a huge pulsating... something resembling a plant that fills the edge of the screen. It slowly grows tendrils to get at you while you whale (ideally, with the help of the ''Pteranodon'') at its pineapple-like core.
* ''VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames'' has three examples; Razoul in Agrabah Rooftops, Iago in the Sultan's Palace, and Jafar in the final level never move from the positions you see them in when you find them.
* ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'' pits you against the Alien Queen, tied to her egg sac. She's immobile that way, but she still has a number of attacks (claws, teeth, acid, stinger tail) and a host of lesser aliens to help her. Remember the movie -- if you defeat her, rest assured that you haven't seen the [[RecurringBoss last of her]]...
%%* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': The Queen doesn't attack at in the first fight (but lesser aliens are happy to oblige), and she's way more formidable in the second fight.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': Poison Ivy, having merged with a giant mutated plant while under the influence of the Titan formula attacks Batman by firing glowing balls at him. The only way to damage her is by tossing batarangs when the core containing Ivy opens up.
* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': The fight with the titular Arkham Knight consists of him holing up on a perch to snipe Batman while he send goons after him. Batman must get close enough to grapple up to him, upon which the Knight will escape to another part of the arena and repeat the process two more times.
* ''VideoGame/BattleGaregga'': The screen stops for the only time in the game partway through Stage 6, where the player must fight against a [[CoresAndTurretsBoss wall of turrets]] to advance.
* ''VideoGame/BattlestarGalacticaOnline'': The Outposts are of this sort, though their non-unique status means they're more like {{King Mook}}s. They have [[DamageSpongeBoss so much health]] and firepower, though, that you will still need a large party to take one down.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' features both Temperantia and Iustitia who stay still for much of their fight while you stand on a platform and attack them. Fortitudo will remain stationary if you stay on the platform at the beginning of the fight (though he'll come down and chase you if you jump off), and Sapientia's final phase is also like this.
* ''VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames'' has three examples; Razoul in Agrabah Rooftops, Iago in the Sultan's Palace, and Jafar in the final level never move from the positions you see them in when you find them.
* ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'' pits you against the Alien Queen, tied to her egg sac. She's immobile that way, but she still has a number of attacks (claws, teeth, acid, stinger tail) and a host of lesser aliens to help her. Remember the movie -- if you defeat her, rest assured that you haven't seen the [[RecurringBoss last of her]]...
%%* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': The Queen doesn't attack at in the first fight (but lesser aliens are happy to oblige), and she's way more formidable in the second fight.
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': Poison Ivy, having merged with a giant mutated plant while under the influence of the Titan formula attacks Batman by firing glowing balls at him. The only way to damage her is by tossing batarangs when the core containing Ivy opens up.
* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': The fight with the titular Arkham Knight consists of him holing up on a perch to snipe Batman while he send goons after him. Batman must get close enough to grapple up to him, upon which the Knight will escape to another part of the arena and repeat the process two more times.
* ''VideoGame/BattleGaregga'': The screen stops for the only time in the game partway through Stage 6, where the player must fight against a [[CoresAndTurretsBoss wall of turrets]] to advance.
* ''VideoGame/BattlestarGalacticaOnline'': The Outposts are of this sort, though their non-unique status means they're more like {{King Mook}}s. They have [[DamageSpongeBoss so much health]] and firepower, though, that you will still need a large party to take one down.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' features both Temperantia and Iustitia who stay still for much of their fight while you stand on a platform and attack them. Fortitudo will remain stationary if you stay on the platform at the beginning of the fight (though he'll come down and chase you if you jump off), and Sapientia's final phase is also like this.
* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'':
** Gurdy is the first stationary boss you're likely to encounter. She's a big mountain of guts with a human face that attacks by spitting at you and coughing up flies.
** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]'' adds in Mega Maw and his posthumous version, the Gate. They're disembodied heads (the Gate being a skull, actually) that fire BulletHell patterns at you. Mr. Fred is also a stationary boss, but ducks underground occasionally.
** For final bosses, Mom's Heart and [[spoiler:It Lives!]] are stationary, as are [[spoiler:Isaac]] and [[spoiler:???]] in the original game. ''Rebirth'' reworked all four of those encounters, keeping the former two as this trope with better attacks, but giving some movement to the latter two in their third phases.
** [[{{Superboss}} Hush]] is a stationary boss for his first two phases, He starts at the top of the screen, moves the center once he's around 66% health, and only starts freely moving once he's nearly dead.
** Gurdy is the first stationary boss you're likely to encounter. She's a big mountain of guts with a human face that attacks by spitting at you and coughing up flies.
** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]'' adds in Mega Maw and his posthumous version, the Gate. They're disembodied heads (the Gate being a skull, actually) that fire BulletHell patterns at you. Mr. Fred is also a stationary boss, but ducks underground occasionally.
** For final bosses, Mom's Heart and [[spoiler:It Lives!]] are stationary, as are [[spoiler:Isaac]] and [[spoiler:???]] in the original game. ''Rebirth'' reworked all four of those encounters, keeping the former two as this trope with better attacks, but giving some movement to the latter two in their third phases.
** [[{{Superboss}} Hush]] is a stationary boss for his first two phases, He starts at the top of the screen, moves the center once he's around 66% health, and only starts freely moving once he's nearly dead.
* ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'': The [[BigBad Plutonium Boss]] in the original game moves its head around to spit bouncing projectiles around, but otherwise stays in the same spot for the duration of the battle.
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* ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'': The [[BigBad Plutonium Boss]] in the original game moves its head around to spit bouncing projectiles around, but otherwise stays in the same spot for the duration of the battle.
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* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': Poison Ivy, having merged with a giant mutated plant while under the influence of the Titan formula attacks Batman by firing glowing balls at him. The only way to damage her is by tossing batarangs when the core containing Ivy opens up.
* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': The fight with the titular Arkham Knight consists of him holing up on a perch to snipe Batman while he send goons after him. Batman must get close enough to grapple up to him, upon which the Knight will escape to another part of the arena and repeat the process two more times.
* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': The fight with the titular Arkham Knight consists of him holing up on a perch to snipe Batman while he send goons after him. Batman must get close enough to grapple up to him, upon which the Knight will escape to another part of the arena and repeat the process two more times.
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* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': The fight with the titular Arkham Knight consists of him holing up on a perch to snipe Batman while he send goons after him. Batman must get close enough to grapple up to him, upon which the Knight will escape to another part of the arena and repeat the process two more times.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' features both Temperantia and Iustitia who stay still for much of their fight while you stand on a platform and attack them. Fortitudo will remain stationary if you stay on the platform at the beginning of the fight (though he'll come down and chase you if you jump off), and Sapientia's final phase is also like this.
* ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland 2'': The first boss is a huge pulsating... something resembling a plant that fills the entire edge of the screen. It slowly grows tendrils to get at you while you whale (ideally, with the help of the ''Pteranodon'') at its pineapple-like core.
* ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland 2'': The first boss is a huge pulsating... something resembling a plant that fills the entire edge of the screen. It slowly grows tendrils to get at you while you whale (ideally, with the help of the ''Pteranodon'') at its pineapple-like core.
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* ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland 2'': The first boss is a huge pulsating... something resembling a plant that fills the entire edge of the screen. It slowly grows tendrils to get at you while you whale (ideally, with the help of the ''Pteranodon'') at its pineapple-like core.
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* ''VideoGame/BattlestarGalacticaOnline'': The Outposts are of this sort, though their non-unique status means they're more like {{King Mook}}s. They have [[DamageSpongeBoss so much health]] and firepower, though, that you will still need a large party to take one down.
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* ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'' pits you against the Alien Queen, tied to her egg sac. She's immobile that way, but she still has a number of attacks (claws, teeth, acid, stinger tail) and a host of lesser aliens to help her. Remember the movie -- if you defeat her, rest assured that you haven't seen the [[RecurringBoss last of her]]...
%%* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': The Queen doesn't attack at in the first fight (but lesser aliens are happy to oblige), and she's way more formidable in the second fight.
%%* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': The Queen doesn't attack at in the first fight (but lesser aliens are happy to oblige), and she's way more formidable in the second fight.
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%%* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': The Queen doesn't attack at in the first fight (but lesser aliens are happy to oblige), and she's way more formidable in the second fight.
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* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'':
** Gurdy is the first stationary boss you're likely to encounter. She's a big mountain of guts with a human face that attacks by spitting at you and coughing up flies.
** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]'' adds in Mega Maw and his posthumous version, the Gate. They're disembodied heads (the Gate being a skull, actually) that fire BulletHell patterns at you. Mr. Fred is also a stationary boss, but ducks underground occasionally.
** For final bosses, Mom's Heart and [[spoiler:It Lives!]] are stationary, as are [[spoiler:Isaac]] and [[spoiler:???]] in the original game. ''Rebirth'' reworked all four of those encounters, keeping the former two as this trope with better attacks, but giving some movement to the latter two in their third phases.
** [[{{Superboss}} Hush]] is a stationary boss for his first two phases, He starts at the top of the screen, moves the center once he's around 66% health, and only starts freely moving once he's nearly dead.
** Gurdy is the first stationary boss you're likely to encounter. She's a big mountain of guts with a human face that attacks by spitting at you and coughing up flies.
** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]'' adds in Mega Maw and his posthumous version, the Gate. They're disembodied heads (the Gate being a skull, actually) that fire BulletHell patterns at you. Mr. Fred is also a stationary boss, but ducks underground occasionally.
** For final bosses, Mom's Heart and [[spoiler:It Lives!]] are stationary, as are [[spoiler:Isaac]] and [[spoiler:???]] in the original game. ''Rebirth'' reworked all four of those encounters, keeping the former two as this trope with better attacks, but giving some movement to the latter two in their third phases.
** [[{{Superboss}} Hush]] is a stationary boss for his first two phases, He starts at the top of the screen, moves the center once he's around 66% health, and only starts freely moving once he's nearly dead.
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** Gurdy is the first stationary boss you're likely to encounter. She's a big mountain of guts with a human face that attacks by spitting at you and coughing up flies.
** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Rebirth]]'' adds in Mega Maw and his posthumous version, the Gate. They're disembodied heads (the Gate being a skull, actually) that fire BulletHell patterns at you. Mr. Fred is also a stationary boss, but ducks underground occasionally.
** For final bosses, Mom's Heart and [[spoiler:It Lives!]] are stationary, as are [[spoiler:Isaac]] and [[spoiler:???]] in the original game. ''Rebirth'' reworked all four of those encounters, keeping the former two as this trope with better attacks, but giving some movement to the latter two in their third phases.
** [[{{Superboss}} Hush]] is a stationary boss for his first two phases, He starts at the top of the screen, moves the center once he's around 66% health, and only starts freely moving once he's nearly dead.
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* ''VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames'' has three examples; Razoul in Agrabah Rooftops, Iago in the Sultan's Palace, and Jafar in the final level never move from the positions you see them in when you find them.
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* ''VideoGame/BattleGaregga'': The screen stops for the only time in the game partway through Stage 6, where the player must fight against a [[CoresAndTurretsBoss wall of turrets]] to advance.
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* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'': The FinalBoss of ''Treasures of Aht Urghan'', as well as the FinalBoss of the Add-on ''A Crystalline Prophecy''. There are a few other Bosses and not-so-normal enemies that are like this, as well.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'': Malboro and Armstrong.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'': The FinalBoss of ''Treasures of Aht Urghan'', as well as the FinalBoss of the Add-on ''A Crystalline Prophecy''. There are a few other Bosses and not-so-normal enemies that are like this, as well.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'': Malboro and Armstrong.
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* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'':
** The large plant-like Tentacles in the Rocket Silo that rely on sound rather than sight. They are later encountered again in Xen.
** There are two of these bosses in the "Opposing Force" ExpansionPack. One is in a sewage pipe when you fix a gearbox and turn a valve and the other is at the end when you shoot a creature halfway through a portal.
** The large plant-like Tentacles in the Rocket Silo that rely on sound rather than sight. They are later encountered again in Xen.
** There are two of these bosses in the "Opposing Force" ExpansionPack. One is in a sewage pipe when you fix a gearbox and turn a valve and the other is at the end when you shoot a creature halfway through a portal.
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** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': The Combo Cannon and the Reactor fight as parts of the [[BattleshipRaid Halberd]].
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is stationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]]. Meaning?
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is stationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]]. Meaning?
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* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'': The final fight.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The Thorian.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan': Half of the final bosses. And some of the fortress bosses.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The Thorian.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan': Half of the final bosses. And some of the fortress bosses.
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* ''VideoGame/ObsCure'': The final boss is immobile.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].
** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].
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* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': Plant 42, in the remake at least.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Nemesis' final form. It's also [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]].
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': Plant 42, in the remake at least.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Nemesis' final form. It's also [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]].
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* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The final boss is immobile. The strange growth in the apartment complex level of the same game is a pure PuzzleBoss; it doesn't even attack.
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** A fair few in the Sonic series. [[VideoGame/Sonic3DFlickiesIsland Volcano Valley]], [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 the Biolizard]], Ghost Kraken, Ghost Titan, Ghost Pendulum (all 3 ghosts from ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]''), [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Crystal Egg]] (with the tubes around it and spinning flower beam things), and undoubtedly many more.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has plenty of stationary bosses, although some only in relation to the player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'' has several exceptions, like the aparoid queen in the first form. How are these examples?
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has plenty of stationary bosses, although some only in relation to the player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'' has several exceptions, like the aparoid queen in the first form. How are these examples?
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* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion is immobile.
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion is immobile.
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
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* ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'':
** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': The last boss.
** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': The last boss.
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** As are Pianus, Horntail, and the Balrog.
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* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': [[TrueFinalBoss Heavy]] [[KingMook Press]] [[BossBonanza and]] [[spoiler:[[SequentialBoss Ballos' last form]]]], though in the latter's room everything you can step on either moves or damages you.
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* ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' has seen a couple; the biggest are the Vortex Queen and the Foe Queen's heart.
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* ''VideoGame/GGundam'': When Devil Gundam attacks, he fires a powerful motion wave gun and has two gundam heads which act as his invincible shield generators when he takes a certain amount of damage. Once he goes a lower level of health, he switches to a sweeping version of his attack (weaker thankfully) and summons a G-Crossover capable of hitting horizontally or Vertically. Describe how he's stationary, then cut the dross.
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* ''VideoGame/AnUntitledStory'': The [=DeepDive=] boss.
* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'': The [[RecurringBoss recurring]] [[CoresAndTurretsBoss Keeper's Core]].
* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': While the game usually gives you the freedom to knock most bosses silly around the battlefield, good luck doing that with any of the giant spiders. [[spoiler:Or the final boss, once he goes OneWingedAngel.]]
* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': While the game usually gives you the freedom to knock most bosses silly around the battlefield, good luck doing that with any of the giant spiders. [[spoiler:Or the final boss, once he goes OneWingedAngel.]]
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* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': Rock Minotaurs are generally these. If you see a random pile of rocks between you and a grapple point, chances are when you approach it you'll be greeted by a rock minotaur. Which is an example how?
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* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': The Queen doesn't attack at in the first fight (but lesser aliens are happy to oblige), and she's way more formidable in the second fight.
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* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Darkside, the first boss in the series, remains stationary then and during every other time you encounter him.
** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI The first game]] has several, including the Cave of Wonders Guardian (being a cave mouth rooted to the ground), the Parasite Cage, Giant Ursula, Oogie's Manor, Chernabog and the World of Chaos. The Rock and Ice Titans can move ''somewhat'', but are so massive they barely fit in the arena to begin with.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': In addition to the Parasite Cage's return, Marluxia's final form in the remake remains immobile while his large, angelic specter attacks.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'':
*** The Thresholder is a possessed carving on a door and thus stuck in the wall of the Undercroft. It makes up for its lack of mobility by stretching its arms across the room to hit you and summons swarms of Hook Bats. Xemnas stays on his throne while in his odd knight-like form during the final battles, attacking you with the powers of the other Organization members, thrown buildings, and lasers powered by InstantRunes to keep you away. There's also his pet MechanicalAbomination's power core, which is defended by a horde of lesser Nobodies and periodic attacks from its limbs.
*** Genie Jafar floats in one spot during the boss fight against him. However, his desperation move allows him to repel Sora a long distance away and change the arena to throw obstacles.
*** Armored Xemnas sits on a throne during the fights against him, and he refuses to get up. He can telekinetically throw copies of Organization members' weapons across the arena, however, and as with Genie Jafar, this doesn't prevent him from tossing Sora and Riku away to assail them with projectiles.
* The mutant source from ''VideoGame/SARSearchAndRescue'' is confined entirely in a pool of blood, where it cannot exit from, so it's only attack is by sending projectiles at you. [[SequentialBoss Both times]].
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'': Malus, the sixteenth and final colossus, is a tower-like being that cannot move from its spot.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': Plant 42, in the remake at least.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Nemesis' final form. It's also [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': Castellan Salazar and his left hand man [[spoiler:fuse with a giant plant (that is stuck to a wall) in order to make a giant ''talking'' plant... with tentacles]]. The whole chimera stays in the central position of the battlefield.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': In all his battles, Orochi never moves from his resting pit. His eight heads have long, slender necks, so it's not a problem for him.
* The Leviathan's Heart from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' doesn't move by virtue of being a literal heart [[WombLevel inside a huge monster]]. It functions like a ShieldedCoreBoss that [[FlunkyBoss summons Hells]] to distract you while its other two organs either [[PuzzleBoss steal any dropped Red Orbs or your Devil Trigger gauge]].
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** Darkside, the first boss in the series,
** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI The first game]] has several, including the Cave of Wonders Guardian (being a cave mouth rooted to the ground), the Parasite Cage, Giant Ursula, Oogie's Manor, Chernabog and the World of Chaos. The Rock and Ice Titans can move ''somewhat'', but are so massive they barely fit
* ''VideoGame/BladeMaster'' has two of these, though neither of them are pushovers:
** The GiantSquid is stuck in the end of some docks, relying on extending it's CombatTentacles to
**
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'':
*** The Thresholder is a possessed carving on a door and thus stuck
*** Genie Jafar floats in one spot during the boss fight against him. However, his desperation move allows him to repel Sora a long distance away and change the arena to throw obstacles.
*** Armored Xemnas sits on a throne during the fights against him, and he refuses to get up. He can telekinetically throw copies of Organization members' weapons across the arena, however, and as with Genie Jafar, this doesn't prevent him from tossing Sora and Riku away to assail them with projectiles.
* The mutant source from ''VideoGame/SARSearchAndRescue'' is confined entirely in a pool of blood, where it cannot exit from, so
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'': Malus, the sixteenth and final colossus, is a tower-like being that cannot move from its spot.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': Plant 42, in the remake at least.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Nemesis' final form. It's also [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': Castellan Salazar and his left hand man [[spoiler:fuse with a giant plant (that is stuck to a wall) in order to make a giant ''talking'' plant... with tentacles]]. The whole chimera stays in the central position of the battlefield.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': In all his battles, Orochi never moves from his resting pit. His eight heads have long, slender necks, so it's not a problem for him.
* The Leviathan's Heart from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' doesn't move by virtue of being a literal heart [[WombLevel inside a huge monster]]. It functions like a ShieldedCoreBoss that [[FlunkyBoss summons Hells]] to distract you while its other two organs either [[PuzzleBoss steal any dropped Red Orbs or your Devil Trigger gauge]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'':
** The death tank operated by [[spoiler:Coach Oleander's brain]] doesn't move.
** In her first few phases, the Hulking Lungfish doesn't move. She stays on one side of the arena, attacking you from there. However, in her later phases, she does walk around the arena... and trap you with an AdvancingWallOfDoom...
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The Thorian.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' is very fond of this trope:
** Mother Brain is typically found stuck inside a life-support jar and cannot directly attack at all, but waits at the end of a complex and dangerous death course.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has Nettori, a stationary plant-based boss that spews spores and beams to attack.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has a bunch of these bosses, namely the Parasite Queen, the Hive Mecha, the Incinerator Drone and Flaaghra.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' has a large cocoon that hangs from the ceiling and doesn't move, and a large worm that grants the Charge Beam.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread''
*** The Central Units controlling the E.M.M.I.s. They stay in the top center of the chamber they're found in, leaving the fighting to laser turrets.
*** Kraid is literally under restraints that limit his movements, and resorts to long-range attacks.
*** Drogyga also remains in one spot while it's Samus that darts around the room exploiting its weaknesses.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The dragon boss encountered in the mountains doesn't move, only resting itself in the mouth of a massive cave while using its LongNeck to bite, and breathe fireballs. The problem here though is that its stationary body is immune to damage, and its only major weak spot, its head, tends to keep moving around.
* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'':
** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk, bobbing up and down while trying to attack.
** The Zeonix Life System on the other hand is a massive Xirxul heart embedded into the floor, though it's surrounded by organic cannons requiring you to keep on running.
** The Flying Jarmai, a SequentialBoss, in it's third form. Because after blowing up it's abdomen and body, you reduce it to a single severed head to the floor, but alas, it just ''[[TheDeterminator keeps on attacking]]''.
** The Captured Bedlaah is a giant monster entangled in a web, so expectedly it couldn't move around much. It can still attack by shooting spores.
** The Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is simply too huge to even move around, occupying the exit of an entire shaft.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'':
** Mario sometimes has to fight Polluted Piranha Plants, which remain rooted inside large areas of paint, by spraying water into their mouths while they attack by throwing up sludge balls that spawn enemies.
** In Rico Harbor and Noki Bay, Mario encounters Gooper Blooper, who tries to hurt the plumber by hitting him with his tentacles. If the giant squid misses, Mario can jump on the tentacles and pull them off, gradually incapacitating him which allows Mario to pull out the cork from Gooper Blooper's mouth, leading up to the second phase where Mario's adversary can shoot him with ink.
** In Pinna Park, Mario runs into his impostor, Shadow Mario, who summons a giant robot of Bowser called [[RobotMe Mecha-Bowser]]. Mario is offered a ride on the local roller coaster and has to use the F.L.U.D.D. to shoot missiles at the gargantuan machine while simultaneously defending himself from incoming Bullet Bills and occasionally douse the robot's fire breath whenever the plumber gets too close, all while Mecha-Bowser just stands in one spot and breathes fire like a lunatic.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has multiple examples:
** Gleeok, a recurring boss fought in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original]], ''Oracle of Seasons'' (at first, before it goes OneWingedAngel into a {{Dracolich}}), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' remains stationary at the far side of its arena, and attacks Link by spitting fireballs at him.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Vitreous begins its battle while immobile, and only starts moving once all its mooks are dead.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': At the start of the battle, Barinade's main body is linked via tentacles to the ceiling. You must chop it free in order to send it into a suicidal frenzy and kill it.
** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} Of Ages'': The PuzzleBoss Thwomp Head (yes, like [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros the ones from Mario]]) stays completely in the middle of the room, save for one dropping attack. He attacks by throwing bombs and fireballs and rocks at you.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Kalle Demos uses the vines it hangs from the ceiling with to do the damage.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
*** Diababa is stationary (but has a very long reach), due to being a plant rooted to its spot.
*** Morpheel is stationary in its first phase, because most of its body its half-buried in the lakebottom mud, before deciding to get up and actually fight.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Phytops cannot move from the watery pit where it lives, and attacks by lashing out with its long tentacles and by spitting globs of poison. Since Link cannot swim across its pit, he also cannot attack it directly and must go through a complex routine to stun Phytops and make it slump onto the side of the pit in order to reach it.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''
*** Divine Beast Vah Ruta remains in place at the center of a lake while Link and a GuestStarPartyMember attack its weaknesses.
*** The final boss, Dark Beast Ganon, which stays in one spot and attacks by stomping its hooves and firing a laser from its mouth.
* ''VideoGame/MetalShinobiAssassin'' have it's FinalBoss, a gigantic Buddha statue that spam projectile attacks while seated in the background.
* ''VideoGame/PsychoDream'' have a bunch of these bosses, including a hanging, pupa-like winged insect creature in the subway level stuck to a ceiling, whose sole attack is it's extendable head, and the FinalBoss, a robotic-looking abomination as tall as the entire stage it's in, and lashes out with it's ExtendableLimbs as your characters leaps around platforms built around it during the battle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].
** The death tank operated by [[spoiler:Coach Oleander's brain]] doesn't move.
** In her first few phases, the Hulking Lungfish doesn't move. She stays on one side of the arena, attacking you from there. However, in her later phases, she does walk around the arena... and trap you with an AdvancingWallOfDoom...
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The Thorian.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' is very fond of this trope:
** Mother Brain is typically found stuck inside a life-support jar and cannot directly attack at all, but waits at the end of a complex and dangerous death course.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has Nettori, a stationary plant-based boss that spews spores and beams to attack.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has a bunch of these bosses, namely the Parasite Queen, the Hive Mecha, the Incinerator Drone and Flaaghra.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' has a large cocoon that hangs from the ceiling and doesn't move, and a large worm that grants the Charge Beam.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread''
*** The Central Units controlling the E.M.M.I.s. They stay in the top center of the chamber they're found in, leaving the fighting to laser turrets.
*** Kraid is literally under restraints that limit his movements, and resorts to long-range attacks.
*** Drogyga also remains in one spot while it's Samus that darts around the room exploiting its weaknesses.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The dragon boss encountered in the mountains doesn't move, only resting itself in the mouth of a massive cave while using its LongNeck to bite, and breathe fireballs. The problem here though is that its stationary body is immune to damage, and its only major weak spot, its head, tends to keep moving around.
* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'':
** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk, bobbing up and down while trying to attack.
** The Zeonix Life System on the other hand is a massive Xirxul heart embedded into the floor, though it's surrounded by organic cannons requiring you to keep on running.
** The Flying Jarmai, a SequentialBoss, in it's third form. Because after blowing up it's abdomen and body, you reduce it to a single severed head to the floor, but alas, it just ''[[TheDeterminator keeps on attacking]]''.
** The Captured Bedlaah is a giant monster entangled in a web, so expectedly it couldn't move around much. It can still attack by shooting spores.
** The Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is simply too huge to even move around, occupying the exit of an entire shaft.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'':
** Mario sometimes has to fight Polluted Piranha Plants, which remain rooted inside large areas of paint, by spraying water into their mouths while they attack by throwing up sludge balls that spawn enemies.
** In Rico Harbor and Noki Bay, Mario encounters Gooper Blooper, who tries to hurt the plumber by hitting him with his tentacles. If the giant squid misses, Mario can jump on the tentacles and pull them off, gradually incapacitating him which allows Mario to pull out the cork from Gooper Blooper's mouth, leading up to the second phase where Mario's adversary can shoot him with ink.
** In Pinna Park, Mario runs into his impostor, Shadow Mario, who summons a giant robot of Bowser called [[RobotMe Mecha-Bowser]]. Mario is offered a ride on the local roller coaster and has to use the F.L.U.D.D. to shoot missiles at the gargantuan machine while simultaneously defending himself from incoming Bullet Bills and occasionally douse the robot's fire breath whenever the plumber gets too close, all while Mecha-Bowser just stands in one spot and breathes fire like a lunatic.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has multiple examples:
** Gleeok, a recurring boss fought in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original]], ''Oracle of Seasons'' (at first, before it goes OneWingedAngel into a {{Dracolich}}), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' remains stationary at the far side of its arena, and attacks Link by spitting fireballs at him.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Vitreous begins its battle while immobile, and only starts moving once all its mooks are dead.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': At the start of the battle, Barinade's main body is linked via tentacles to the ceiling. You must chop it free in order to send it into a suicidal frenzy and kill it.
** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} Of Ages'': The PuzzleBoss Thwomp Head (yes, like [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros the ones from Mario]]) stays completely in the middle of the room, save for one dropping attack. He attacks by throwing bombs and fireballs and rocks at you.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Kalle Demos uses the vines it hangs from the ceiling with to do the damage.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
*** Diababa is stationary (but has a very long reach), due to being a plant rooted to its spot.
*** Morpheel is stationary in its first phase, because most of its body its half-buried in the lakebottom mud, before deciding to get up and actually fight.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Phytops cannot move from the watery pit where it lives, and attacks by lashing out with its long tentacles and by spitting globs of poison. Since Link cannot swim across its pit, he also cannot attack it directly and must go through a complex routine to stun Phytops and make it slump onto the side of the pit in order to reach it.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''
*** Divine Beast Vah Ruta remains in place at the center of a lake while Link and a GuestStarPartyMember attack its weaknesses.
*** The final boss, Dark Beast Ganon, which stays in one spot and attacks by stomping its hooves and firing a laser from its mouth.
* ''VideoGame/MetalShinobiAssassin'' have it's FinalBoss, a gigantic Buddha statue that spam projectile attacks while seated in the background.
* ''VideoGame/PsychoDream'' have a bunch of these bosses, including a hanging, pupa-like winged insect creature in the subway level stuck to a ceiling, whose sole attack is it's extendable head, and the FinalBoss, a robotic-looking abomination as tall as the entire stage it's in, and lashes out with it's ExtendableLimbs as your characters leaps around platforms built around it during the battle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].
to:
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'':
**The death tank operated by [[spoiler:Coach Oleander's brain]] Leviathan's Heart from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' doesn't move.
** In her first few phases, the Hulking Lungfish doesn't move. She stays on one sidemove by virtue of the arena, attacking you from there. However, in her later phases, she does walk around the arena... and trap you with an AdvancingWallOfDoom...
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The Thorian.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' is very fond of this trope:
** Mother Brain is typically found stuckbeing a literal heart [[WombLevel inside a life-support jar and cannot directly attack at all, but waits at the end of huge monster]]. It functions like a complex and dangerous death course.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has Nettori, a stationary plant-based bossShieldedCoreBoss that spews spores and beams to attack.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has a bunch of these bosses, namely the Parasite Queen, the Hive Mecha, the Incinerator Drone and Flaaghra.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' has a large cocoon that hangs from the ceiling and doesn't move, and a large worm that grants the Charge Beam.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread''
*** The Central Units controlling the E.M.M.I.s. They stay in the top center of the chamber they're found in, leaving the fighting to laser turrets.
*** Kraid is literally under restraints that limit his movements, and resorts to long-range attacks.
*** Drogyga also remains in one spot while it's Samus that darts around the room exploiting its weaknesses.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The dragon boss encountered in the mountains doesn't move, only resting itself in the mouth of a massive cave while using its LongNeck to bite, and breathe fireballs. The problem here though is that its stationary body is immune to damage, and its only major weak spot, its head, tends to keep moving around.
* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'':
** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk, bobbing up and down while trying to attack.
** The Zeonix Life System on the other hand is a massive Xirxul heart embedded into the floor, though it's surrounded by organic cannons requiring you to keep on running.
** The Flying Jarmai, a SequentialBoss, in it's third form. Because after blowing up it's abdomen and body, you reduce it to a single severed head to the floor, but alas, it just ''[[TheDeterminator keeps on attacking]]''.
** The Captured Bedlaah is a giant monster entangled in a web, so expectedly it couldn't move around much. It can still attack by shooting spores.
** The Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is simply too huge to even move around, occupying the exit of an entire shaft.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'':
** Mario sometimes has to fight Polluted Piranha Plants, which remain rooted inside large areas of paint, by spraying water into their mouths while they attack by throwing up sludge balls that spawn enemies.
** In Rico Harbor and Noki Bay, Mario encounters Gooper Blooper, who tries to hurt the plumber by hitting him with his tentacles. If the giant squid misses, Mario can jump on the tentacles and pull them off, gradually incapacitating him which allows Mario to pull out the cork from Gooper Blooper's mouth, leading up to the second phase where Mario's adversary can shoot him with ink.
** In Pinna Park, Mario runs into his impostor, Shadow Mario, who[[FlunkyBoss summons a giant robot of Bowser called [[RobotMe Mecha-Bowser]]. Mario is offered a ride on the local roller coaster and has Hells]] to use the F.L.U.D.D. to shoot missiles at the gargantuan machine distract you while simultaneously defending himself from incoming Bullet Bills and occasionally douse the robot's fire breath whenever the plumber gets too close, all while Mecha-Bowser just stands in one spot and breathes fire like a lunatic.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has multiple examples:
** Gleeok, a recurring boss fought in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original]], ''Oracle of Seasons'' (at first, before it goes OneWingedAngel into a {{Dracolich}}), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' remains stationary at the far side ofits arena, and attacks Link by spitting fireballs at him.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Vitreous begins its battle while immobile, and only starts moving once all its mooks are dead.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': At the start of the battle, Barinade's main body is linked via tentacles to the ceiling. You must chop it free in order to send it into a suicidal frenzy and kill it.
** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} Of Ages'': The PuzzleBoss Thwomp Head (yes, like [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros the ones from Mario]]) stays completely in the middle of the room, save for one dropping attack. He attacks by throwing bombs and fireballs and rocks at you.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Kalle Demos uses the vines it hangs from the ceiling with to do the damage.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
*** Diababa is stationary (but has a very long reach), due to being a plant rooted to its spot.
*** Morpheel is stationary in its first phase, because most of its body its half-buried in the lakebottom mud, before deciding to get up and actually fight.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Phytops cannot move from the watery pit where it lives, and attacks by lashing out with its long tentacles and by spitting globs of poison. Since Link cannot swim across its pit, he also cannot attack it directly and must go through a complex routine to stun Phytops and make it slump onto the side of the pit in order to reach it.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''
*** Divine Beast Vah Ruta remains in place at the center of a lake while Link and a GuestStarPartyMember attack its weaknesses.
*** The final boss, Dark Beast Ganon, which stays in one spot and attacks by stomping its hooves and firing a laser from its mouth.
* ''VideoGame/MetalShinobiAssassin'' have it's FinalBoss, a gigantic Buddha statue that spam projectile attacks while seated in the background.
* ''VideoGame/PsychoDream'' have a bunch of these bosses, including a hanging, pupa-like winged insect creature in the subway level stuck to a ceiling, whose sole attack is it's extendable head, and the FinalBoss, a robotic-looking abomination as tall as the entire stage it's in, and lashes out with it's ExtendableLimbs asother two organs either [[PuzzleBoss steal any dropped Red Orbs or your characters leaps around platforms built around it during the battle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].Devil Trigger gauge]].
**
** In her first few phases, the Hulking Lungfish doesn't move. She stays on one side
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The Thorian.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' is very fond of this trope:
** Mother Brain is typically found stuck
** ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has Nettori, a stationary plant-based boss
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has a bunch of these bosses, namely the Parasite Queen, the Hive Mecha, the Incinerator Drone and Flaaghra.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' has a large cocoon that hangs from the ceiling and doesn't move, and a large worm that grants the Charge Beam.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread''
*** The Central Units controlling the E.M.M.I.s. They stay in the top center of the chamber they're found in, leaving the fighting to laser turrets.
*** Kraid is literally under restraints that limit his movements, and resorts to long-range attacks.
*** Drogyga also remains in one spot while it's Samus that darts around the room exploiting its weaknesses.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The dragon boss encountered in the mountains doesn't move, only resting itself in the mouth of a massive cave while using its LongNeck to bite, and breathe fireballs. The problem here though is that its stationary body is immune to damage, and its only major weak spot, its head, tends to keep moving around.
* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'':
** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk, bobbing up and down while trying to attack.
** The Zeonix Life System on the other hand is a massive Xirxul heart embedded into the floor, though it's surrounded by organic cannons requiring you to keep on running.
** The Flying Jarmai, a SequentialBoss, in it's third form. Because after blowing up it's abdomen and body, you reduce it to a single severed head to the floor, but alas, it just ''[[TheDeterminator keeps on attacking]]''.
** The Captured Bedlaah is a giant monster entangled in a web, so expectedly it couldn't move around much. It can still attack by shooting spores.
** The Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is simply too huge to even move around, occupying the exit of an entire shaft.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'':
** Mario sometimes has to fight Polluted Piranha Plants, which remain rooted inside large areas of paint, by spraying water into their mouths while they attack by throwing up sludge balls that spawn enemies.
** In Rico Harbor and Noki Bay, Mario encounters Gooper Blooper, who tries to hurt the plumber by hitting him with his tentacles. If the giant squid misses, Mario can jump on the tentacles and pull them off, gradually incapacitating him which allows Mario to pull out the cork from Gooper Blooper's mouth, leading up to the second phase where Mario's adversary can shoot him with ink.
** In Pinna Park, Mario runs into his impostor, Shadow Mario, who
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has multiple examples:
** Gleeok, a recurring boss fought in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original]], ''Oracle of Seasons'' (at first, before it goes OneWingedAngel into a {{Dracolich}}), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' remains stationary at the far side of
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Vitreous begins its battle while immobile, and only starts moving once all its mooks are dead.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': At the start of the battle, Barinade's main body is linked via tentacles to the ceiling. You must chop it free in order to send it into a suicidal frenzy and kill it.
** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} Of Ages'': The PuzzleBoss Thwomp Head (yes, like [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros the ones from Mario]]) stays completely in the middle of the room, save for one dropping attack. He attacks by throwing bombs and fireballs and rocks at you.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Kalle Demos uses the vines it hangs from the ceiling with to do the damage.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
*** Diababa is stationary (but has a very long reach), due to being a plant rooted to its spot.
*** Morpheel is stationary in its first phase, because most of its body its half-buried in the lakebottom mud, before deciding to get up and actually fight.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Phytops cannot move from the watery pit where it lives, and attacks by lashing out with its long tentacles and by spitting globs of poison. Since Link cannot swim across its pit, he also cannot attack it directly and must go through a complex routine to stun Phytops and make it slump onto the side of the pit in order to reach it.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''
*** Divine Beast Vah Ruta remains in place at the center of a lake while Link and a GuestStarPartyMember attack its weaknesses.
*** The final boss, Dark Beast Ganon, which stays in one spot and attacks by stomping its hooves and firing a laser from its mouth.
* ''VideoGame/MetalShinobiAssassin'' have it's FinalBoss, a gigantic Buddha statue that spam projectile attacks while seated in the background.
* ''VideoGame/PsychoDream'' have a bunch of these bosses, including a hanging, pupa-like winged insect creature in the subway level stuck to a ceiling, whose sole attack is it's extendable head, and the FinalBoss, a robotic-looking abomination as tall as the entire stage it's in, and lashes out with it's ExtendableLimbs as
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Bosses like this are very common, and they're usually sitting on a tile with [[GeoEffects terrain bonuses]]. This is especially on "seize tile" maps, to avoid accidentally becoming a SkippableBoss. One of the hallmarks of Hard Mode in the series is that bosses on levels other than "Seize ____" will charge the party when they would have remained still in Normal, and until ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Shadow Dragon]]''[[note]]which clearly shows any stationary boss to have no movement stat[[/note]], you won't know their AI has changed until they do it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}}'': A number of bosses. Sometimes they are a MookMaker who simply doesn't have legs, while others are wired into {{Magitek}} support systems.
* ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}}'': A number of bosses. Sometimes they are a MookMaker who simply doesn't have legs, while others are wired into {{Magitek}} support systems.
* ''VideoGame/KameoElementsOfPower'': Old Marwood.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Darkside, the first boss in the series, remains stationary then and during every other time you encounter him.
** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI The first game]] has several, including the Cave of Wonders Guardian (being a cave mouth rooted to the ground), the Parasite Cage, Giant Ursula, Oogie's Manor, Chernabog and the World of Chaos. The Rock and Ice Titans can move ''somewhat'', but are so massive they barely fit in the arena to begin with.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': In addition to the Parasite Cage's return, Marluxia's final form in the remake remains immobile while his large, angelic specter attacks.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'':
*** The Thresholder is a possessed carving on a door and thus stuck in the wall of the Undercroft. It makes up for its lack of mobility by stretching its arms across the room to hit you and summons swarms of Hook Bats. Xemnas stays on his throne while in his odd knight-like form during the final battles, attacking you with the powers of the other Organization members, thrown buildings, and lasers powered by InstantRunes to keep you away. There's also his pet MechanicalAbomination's power core, which is defended by a horde of lesser Nobodies and periodic attacks from its limbs.
*** Genie Jafar floats in one spot during the boss fight against him. However, his desperation move allows him to repel Sora a long distance away and change the arena to throw obstacles.
*** Armored Xemnas sits on a throne during the fights against him, and he refuses to get up. He can telekinetically throw copies of Organization members' weapons across the arena, however, and as with Genie Jafar, this doesn't prevent him from tossing Sora and Riku away to assail them with projectiles.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' has quite a few:
** [[RecurringBoss Whispy Woods]] and most of its variants. As a tree he stays in one spot, attacking by blowing air or dropping apples. However, there are some games where he uproots himself, to either [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chase the player]] or to leap from the ground.
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': The Combo Cannon and the Reactor fight as parts of the [[BattleshipRaid Halberd]].
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is stationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]]. Meaning?
** ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'' has some examples:
*** Tortletommy stands still underwater, pushing strong currents of water and many [[AquaticMook enemies to avoid]]. [[{{Kevlard}} Tortletommy would probably be too heavy to swim, anyway.]]
*** Great Gear stays on top of the screen, spitting {{spike balls|OfDoom}} to attack. There are weights on the sides attached to chains, pulling Great Gear's rotation. To defeat the boss, [[PuzzleBoss Kirby must destroy the right weights]] to tilt the boss over to expose and AttackItsWeakPoint.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has multiple examples:
** Gleeok, a recurring boss fought in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original]], ''Oracle of Seasons'' (at first, before it goes OneWingedAngel into a {{Dracolich}}), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' remains stationary at the far side of its arena, and attacks Link by spitting fireballs at him.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Vitreous begins its battle while immobile, and only starts moving once all its mooks are dead.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': At the start of the battle, Barinade's main body is linked via tentacles to the ceiling. You must chop it free in order to send it into a suicidal frenzy and kill it.
** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} Of Ages'': The PuzzleBoss Thwomp Head (yes, like [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros the ones from Mario]]) stays completely in the middle of the room, save for one dropping attack. He attacks by throwing bombs and fireballs and rocks at you.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Kalle Demos uses the vines it hangs from the ceiling with to do the damage.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
*** Diababa is stationary (but has a very long reach), due to being a plant rooted to its spot.
*** Morpheel is stationary in its first phase, because most of its body its half-buried in the lakebottom mud, before deciding to get up and actually fight.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Phytops cannot move from the watery pit where it lives, and attacks by lashing out with its long tentacles and by spitting globs of poison. Since Link cannot swim across its pit, he also cannot attack it directly and must go through a complex routine to stun Phytops and make it slump onto the side of the pit in order to reach it.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''
*** Divine Beast Vah Ruta remains in place at the center of a lake while Link and a GuestStarPartyMember attack its weaknesses.
*** The final boss, Dark Beast Ganon, which stays in one spot and attacks by stomping its hooves and firing a laser from its mouth.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Darkside, the first boss in the series, remains stationary then and during every other time you encounter him.
** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI The first game]] has several, including the Cave of Wonders Guardian (being a cave mouth rooted to the ground), the Parasite Cage, Giant Ursula, Oogie's Manor, Chernabog and the World of Chaos. The Rock and Ice Titans can move ''somewhat'', but are so massive they barely fit in the arena to begin with.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': In addition to the Parasite Cage's return, Marluxia's final form in the remake remains immobile while his large, angelic specter attacks.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'':
*** The Thresholder is a possessed carving on a door and thus stuck in the wall of the Undercroft. It makes up for its lack of mobility by stretching its arms across the room to hit you and summons swarms of Hook Bats. Xemnas stays on his throne while in his odd knight-like form during the final battles, attacking you with the powers of the other Organization members, thrown buildings, and lasers powered by InstantRunes to keep you away. There's also his pet MechanicalAbomination's power core, which is defended by a horde of lesser Nobodies and periodic attacks from its limbs.
*** Genie Jafar floats in one spot during the boss fight against him. However, his desperation move allows him to repel Sora a long distance away and change the arena to throw obstacles.
*** Armored Xemnas sits on a throne during the fights against him, and he refuses to get up. He can telekinetically throw copies of Organization members' weapons across the arena, however, and as with Genie Jafar, this doesn't prevent him from tossing Sora and Riku away to assail them with projectiles.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' has quite a few:
** [[RecurringBoss Whispy Woods]] and most of its variants. As a tree he stays in one spot, attacking by blowing air or dropping apples. However, there are some games where he uproots himself, to either [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chase the player]] or to leap from the ground.
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': The Combo Cannon and the Reactor fight as parts of the [[BattleshipRaid Halberd]].
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is stationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]]. Meaning?
** ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'' has some examples:
*** Tortletommy stands still underwater, pushing strong currents of water and many [[AquaticMook enemies to avoid]]. [[{{Kevlard}} Tortletommy would probably be too heavy to swim, anyway.]]
*** Great Gear stays on top of the screen, spitting {{spike balls|OfDoom}} to attack. There are weights on the sides attached to chains, pulling Great Gear's rotation. To defeat the boss, [[PuzzleBoss Kirby must destroy the right weights]] to tilt the boss over to expose and AttackItsWeakPoint.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has multiple examples:
** Gleeok, a recurring boss fought in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda the original]], ''Oracle of Seasons'' (at first, before it goes OneWingedAngel into a {{Dracolich}}), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'' remains stationary at the far side of its arena, and attacks Link by spitting fireballs at him.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Vitreous begins its battle while immobile, and only starts moving once all its mooks are dead.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': At the start of the battle, Barinade's main body is linked via tentacles to the ceiling. You must chop it free in order to send it into a suicidal frenzy and kill it.
** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} Of Ages'': The PuzzleBoss Thwomp Head (yes, like [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros the ones from Mario]]) stays completely in the middle of the room, save for one dropping attack. He attacks by throwing bombs and fireballs and rocks at you.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Kalle Demos uses the vines it hangs from the ceiling with to do the damage.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'':
*** Diababa is stationary (but has a very long reach), due to being a plant rooted to its spot.
*** Morpheel is stationary in its first phase, because most of its body its half-buried in the lakebottom mud, before deciding to get up and actually fight.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Phytops cannot move from the watery pit where it lives, and attacks by lashing out with its long tentacles and by spitting globs of poison. Since Link cannot swim across its pit, he also cannot attack it directly and must go through a complex routine to stun Phytops and make it slump onto the side of the pit in order to reach it.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''
*** Divine Beast Vah Ruta remains in place at the center of a lake while Link and a GuestStarPartyMember attack its weaknesses.
*** The final boss, Dark Beast Ganon, which stays in one spot and attacks by stomping its hooves and firing a laser from its mouth.
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* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Bosses like this are very common, and they're usually sitting on a tile with [[GeoEffects terrain bonuses]]. This is especially on "seize tile" maps, to avoid accidentally becoming a SkippableBoss. One of the hallmarks of Hard Mode in the series is that bosses on levels other than "Seize ____" will charge the party when they would have remained still in Normal, and until ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Shadow Dragon]]''[[note]]which clearly shows any stationary boss to have no movement stat[[/note]], you won't know their AI has changed until they do it.
* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion is immobile.
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
* ''VideoGame/BladeMaster'' have two of these, though neither of them are pushovers:
** The GiantSquid is stuck in the end of some docks, relying on extending it's CombatTemtacles to throttle you from a distance.
** The giant Fish Monster is fought while caught up in a pool, repeatedly sending FishPeople mooks at you during ther battle. As well as clawing you for getting too close and extending it's LongNeck to chomp at you.
* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'': The enormous "Metal Gear" [=DomZ=] stamps its feet, but it otherwise remains in the exact center of its boss arena.
* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion is immobile.
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
* ''VideoGame/BladeMaster'' have two of these, though neither of them are pushovers:
** The GiantSquid is stuck in the end of some docks, relying on extending it's CombatTemtacles to throttle you from a distance.
** The giant Fish Monster is fought while caught up in a pool, repeatedly sending FishPeople mooks at you during ther battle. As well as clawing you for getting too close and extending it's LongNeck to chomp at you.
* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'': The enormous "Metal Gear" [=DomZ=] stamps its feet, but it otherwise remains in the exact center of its boss arena.
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* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Bosses like this are very common, and they're usually sitting on a tile with [[GeoEffects terrain bonuses]]. This is especially on "seize tile" maps, to avoid accidentally becoming a SkippableBoss. One ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': The Thorian.
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** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion is immobile.
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
* ''VideoGame/BladeMaster''''VideoGame/MetalShinobiAssassin'' have two of these, though neither of them are pushovers:
** The GiantSquid is stuck in the end of some docks, relying on extendingit's CombatTemtacles to throttle you from FinalBoss, a distance.gigantic Buddha statue that spam projectile attacks while seated in the background.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' is very fond of this trope:
** Mother Brain is typically found stuck inside a life-support jar and cannot directly attack at all, but waits at the end of a complex and dangerous death course.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has Nettori, a stationary plant-based boss that spews spores and beams to attack.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has a bunch of these bosses, namely the Parasite Queen, the Hive Mecha, the Incinerator Drone and Flaaghra.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' has a large cocoon that hangs from the ceiling and doesn't move, and a large worm that grants the Charge Beam.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread''
*** Thegiant Fish Monster Central Units controlling the E.M.M.I.s. They stay in the top center of the chamber they're found in, leaving the fighting to laser turrets.
*** Kraid isfought while caught up in a pool, repeatedly sending FishPeople mooks at you during ther battle. As well as clawing you for getting too close under restraints that limit his movements, and extending it's LongNeck resorts to chomp at you.
* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'': The enormous "Metal Gear" [=DomZ=] stamps its feet, but it otherwiselong-range attacks.
*** Drogyga also remains in one spot while it's Samus that darts around theexact center of room exploiting its boss arena.weaknesses.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan': Half of the
*
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion is immobile.
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
* ''VideoGame/BladeMaster''
** The GiantSquid is stuck in the end of some docks, relying on extending
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' is very fond of this trope:
** Mother Brain is typically found stuck inside a life-support jar and cannot directly attack at all, but waits at the end of a complex and dangerous death course.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has Nettori, a stationary plant-based boss that spews spores and beams to attack.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has a bunch of these bosses, namely the Parasite Queen, the Hive Mecha, the Incinerator Drone and Flaaghra.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'' has a large cocoon that hangs from the ceiling and doesn't move, and a large worm that grants the Charge Beam.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread''
*** The
*** Kraid is
* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'': The enormous "Metal Gear" [=DomZ=] stamps its feet, but it otherwise
*** Drogyga also remains in one spot while it's Samus that darts around the
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* ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'': [[spoiler:The Brain of the Many and SHODAN]].
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has plenty of stationary bosses, although some only in relation to the player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'' has several exceptions, most notably the aparoid queen in the first form. How are these examples?
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' commonly does this, especially for raid bosses.
** Ragnaros is completely immobile, as are other beings with the same model. He still needs to be tanked, though; many stationary bosses use deadly abilities when not engaged in melee.
** Kologarn of Ulduar, whom you only fight the torso of due to him standing in a massive abyss to fight you. Similar bosses include Kromog in Blackrock Foundry and the Garothi Worldbreaker in Antorus.
** The final battle against [[spoiler:Deathwing is fought as he stands from the torso up in the Maelstrom as his power rips him apart and the raid finishes him off]].
** Many of the Sha Bosses in Pandaria are effectively immobile. Not that they look like they couldn't move, they just won't.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan': Half of the' final bosses. And some of the fortress bosses.
* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The final boss is immobile. The strange growth in the apartment complex level of the same game is a pure PuzzleBoss; it doesn't even attack.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has plenty of stationary bosses, although some only in relation to the player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'' has several exceptions, most notably the aparoid queen in the first form. How are these examples?
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' commonly does this, especially for raid bosses.
** Ragnaros is completely immobile, as are other beings with the same model. He still needs to be tanked, though; many stationary bosses use deadly abilities when not engaged in melee.
** Kologarn of Ulduar, whom you only fight the torso of due to him standing in a massive abyss to fight you. Similar bosses include Kromog in Blackrock Foundry and the Garothi Worldbreaker in Antorus.
** The final battle against [[spoiler:Deathwing is fought as he stands from the torso up in the Maelstrom as his power rips him apart and the raid finishes him off]].
** Many of the Sha Bosses in Pandaria are effectively immobile. Not that they look like they couldn't move, they just won't.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan': Half of the' final bosses. And some of the fortress bosses.
* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The final boss is immobile. The strange growth in the apartment complex level of the same game is a pure PuzzleBoss; it doesn't even attack.
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* ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'': [[spoiler:The Brain of the Many and SHODAN]].
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has plenty of stationary bosses, although some only in relation to the player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault''''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden''' has several exceptions, most notably the aparoid queen in of these. In the first form. How are these examples?
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' commonlygame, fighting the Masked Devil sort-of counts, as the actual target (which does this, especially for raid bosses.
** Ragnaros is completely immobile, as are other beings withmost of the same model. He still needs to be tanked, though; many attacking) is a stationary bosses use deadly abilities when not engaged in melee.
** Kologarn of Ulduar, whom you only fight the torso of due to him standing in a massive abyss to fight you. Similar bosses include Kromog in Blackrock Foundry and the Garothi Worldbreaker in Antorus.
**statue. The final battle against [[spoiler:Deathwing is fought as he stands from the torso up in the Maelstrom as his power rips him apart and the raid finishes him off]].
** Many of the Sha Bosses in Pandaria are effectively immobile. Not that they look like they couldn't move, they just won't.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan': Half of the' final bosses. And some of the fortress bosses.
* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The finaldemon boss is immobile. The strange growth in also stationary, too. In ''Ninja Gaiden 2'', a boss about midway through the apartment complex level of the same game is a pure PuzzleBoss; it stationary, as are two of the three forms of the final boss. ''Ninja Gaiden 3'' only has one stationary boss, being the second form of the three-part final boss.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The dragon boss encountered in the mountains doesn'teven attack.move, only resting itself in the mouth of a massive cave while using its LongNeck to bite, and breathe fireballs. The problem here though is that its stationary body is immune to damage, and its only major weak spot, its head, tends to keep moving around.
* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has plenty of stationary bosses, although some only in relation to the player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault''
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' commonly
** Ragnaros is completely immobile, as are other beings with
** Kologarn of Ulduar, whom you only fight the torso of due to him standing in a massive abyss to fight you. Similar bosses include Kromog in Blackrock Foundry and the Garothi Worldbreaker in Antorus.
**
** Many of the Sha Bosses in Pandaria are effectively immobile. Not that they look like they couldn't move, they just won't.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan': Half of the' final bosses. And some of the fortress bosses.
* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The final
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The dragon boss encountered in the mountains doesn't
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* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': In all his battles, Orochi never moves from his resting pit. His eight heads have long, slender necks, so it's not a problem for him.
* ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend''have has a couple:
* ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend''
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'':
** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].
* ''VideoGame/PsychoDream'' have a bunch of these bosses, including a hanging, pupa-like winged insect creature in the subway level stuck to a ceiling, whose sole attack is it's extendable head, and the FinalBoss, a robotic-looking abomination as tall as the entire stage it's in, and lashes out with it's ExtendableLimbs as your characters leaps around platforms built around it during the battle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'':
** The death tank operated by [[spoiler:Coach Oleander's brain]] doesn't move.
** In her first few phases, the Hulking Lungfish doesn't move. She stays on one side of the arena, attacking you from there. However, in her later phases, she does walk around the arena... and trap you with an AdvancingWallOfDoom...
* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': Plant 42, in the remake at least.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Nemesis' final form. It's also [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': Castellan Salazar and his left hand man [[spoiler:fuse with a giant plant (that is stuck to a wall) in order to make a giant ''talking'' plant... with tentacles]]. The whole chimera stays in the central position of the battlefield.
* The mutant source from ''VideoGame/SARSearchAndRescue'' is confined entirely in a pool of blood, where it cannot exit from, so it's only attack is by sending projectiles at you. [[SequentialBoss Both times]].
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'': Malus, the sixteenth and final colossus, is a tower-like being that cannot move from its spot.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The final boss is immobile. The strange growth in the apartment complex level of the same game is a pure PuzzleBoss; it doesn't even attack.
** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].
* ''VideoGame/PsychoDream'' have a bunch of these bosses, including a hanging, pupa-like winged insect creature in the subway level stuck to a ceiling, whose sole attack is it's extendable head, and the FinalBoss, a robotic-looking abomination as tall as the entire stage it's in, and lashes out with it's ExtendableLimbs as your characters leaps around platforms built around it during the battle.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'':
** The death tank operated by [[spoiler:Coach Oleander's brain]] doesn't move.
** In her first few phases, the Hulking Lungfish doesn't move. She stays on one side of the arena, attacking you from there. However, in her later phases, she does walk around the arena... and trap you with an AdvancingWallOfDoom...
* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': Plant 42, in the remake at least.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Nemesis' final form. It's also [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': Castellan Salazar and his left hand man [[spoiler:fuse with a giant plant (that is stuck to a wall) in order to make a giant ''talking'' plant... with tentacles]]. The whole chimera stays in the central position of the battlefield.
* The mutant source from ''VideoGame/SARSearchAndRescue'' is confined entirely in a pool of blood, where it cannot exit from, so it's only attack is by sending projectiles at you. [[SequentialBoss Both times]].
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'': Malus, the sixteenth and final colossus, is a tower-like being that cannot move from its spot.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The final boss is immobile. The strange growth in the apartment complex level of the same game is a pure PuzzleBoss; it doesn't even attack.
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** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog18Bit'' has a final boss which is basically Robotnik standing in a tube while jet blasts shoot up from the floor in a pattern and an occasional energy ball flies across the screen.
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** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog18Bit'' has a final boss which is basically Robotnik standing in a tube while jet blasts shoot up from the floor in a pattern and an occasional energy ball flies across the screen.
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* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' has quite a few:
** [[RecurringBoss Whispy Woods]] and most of its variants. As a tree he stays in one spot, attacking by blowing air or dropping apples. However, there are some games where he uproots himself, to either [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chase the player]] or to leap from the ground.
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': The Combo Cannon and the Reactor fight as parts of the [[BattleshipRaid Halberd]].
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is stationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]]. Meaning?
** ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'' has some examples:
*** Tortletommy stands still underwater, pushing strong currents of water and many [[AquaticMook enemies to avoid]]. [[{{Kevlard}} Tortletommy would probably be too heavy to swim, anyway.]]
*** Great Gear stays on top of the screen, spitting {{spike balls|OfDoom}} to attack. There are weights on the sides attached to chains, pulling Great Gear's rotation. To defeat the boss, [[PuzzleBoss Kirby must destroy the right weights]] to tilt the boss over to expose and AttackItsWeakPoint.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden''' has several of these. In the first game, fighting the Masked Devil sort-of counts, as the actual target (which does most of the attacking) is a stationary statue. The final demon boss is also stationary, too. In ''Ninja Gaiden 2'', a boss about midway through the game is stationary, as are two of the three forms of the final boss. ''Ninja Gaiden 3'' only has one stationary boss, being the second form of the three-part final boss.
* ''VideoGame/KameoElementsOfPower'': Old Marwood.
** [[RecurringBoss Whispy Woods]] and most of its variants. As a tree he stays in one spot, attacking by blowing air or dropping apples. However, there are some games where he uproots himself, to either [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chase the player]] or to leap from the ground.
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': The Combo Cannon and the Reactor fight as parts of the [[BattleshipRaid Halberd]].
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is stationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]]. Meaning?
** ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'' has some examples:
*** Tortletommy stands still underwater, pushing strong currents of water and many [[AquaticMook enemies to avoid]]. [[{{Kevlard}} Tortletommy would probably be too heavy to swim, anyway.]]
*** Great Gear stays on top of the screen, spitting {{spike balls|OfDoom}} to attack. There are weights on the sides attached to chains, pulling Great Gear's rotation. To defeat the boss, [[PuzzleBoss Kirby must destroy the right weights]] to tilt the boss over to expose and AttackItsWeakPoint.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden''' has several of these. In the first game, fighting the Masked Devil sort-of counts, as the actual target (which does most of the attacking) is a stationary statue. The final demon boss is also stationary, too. In ''Ninja Gaiden 2'', a boss about midway through the game is stationary, as are two of the three forms of the final boss. ''Ninja Gaiden 3'' only has one stationary boss, being the second form of the three-part final boss.
* ''VideoGame/KameoElementsOfPower'': Old Marwood.
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* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has quite a few:
** [[RecurringBoss Whispy Woods]] and mostplenty of its variants. As a tree he stays in one spot, attacking by blowing air or dropping apples. However, there are some games where he uproots himself, to either [[AdvancingBossOfDoom chase the player]] or to leap from the ground.
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': The Combo Cannon and the Reactor fight as parts of the [[BattleshipRaid Halberd]].
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus isstationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]]. Meaning?
** ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'' hasbosses, although some examples:
*** Tortletommy stands still underwater, pushing strong currents of water and many [[AquaticMook enemiesonly in relation to avoid]]. [[{{Kevlard}} Tortletommy would probably be too heavy to swim, anyway.]]
*** Great Gear stays on top ofthe screen, spitting {{spike balls|OfDoom}} to attack. There are weights on the sides attached to chains, pulling Great Gear's rotation. To defeat the boss, [[PuzzleBoss Kirby must destroy the right weights]] to tilt the boss over to expose and AttackItsWeakPoint.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'''player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'' has several of these. In exceptions, like the aparoid queen in the first game, fighting form. How are these examples?
* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'':
** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk, bobbing up and down while trying to attack.
** The Zeonix Life System on theMasked Devil sort-of counts, as other hand is a massive Xirxul heart embedded into the actual target (which does most floor, though it's surrounded by organic cannons requiring you to keep on running.
** The Flying Jarmai, a SequentialBoss, in it's third form. Because after blowing up it's abdomen and body, you reduce it to a single severed head to the floor, but alas, it just ''[[TheDeterminator keeps on attacking]]''.
** The Captured Bedlaah is a giant monster entangled in a web, so expectedly it couldn't move around much. It can still attack by shooting spores.
** The Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is simply too huge to even move around, occupying the exit of a shaft.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'':
** Mario sometimes has to fight Polluted Piranha Plants, which remain rooted inside large areas of paint, by spraying water into their mouths while they attack by throwing up sludge balls that spawn enemies.
** In Rico Harbor and Noki Bay, Mario encounters Gooper Blooper, who tries to hurt the plumber by hitting him with his tentacles. If the giant squid misses, Mario can jump on the tentacles and pull them off, gradually incapacitating him which allows Mario to pull out the cork from Gooper Blooper's mouth, leading up to the second phase where Mario's adversary can shoot him with ink.
** In Pinna Park, Mario runs into his impostor, Shadow Mario, who summons a giant robot of Bowser called [[RobotMe Mecha-Bowser]]. Mario is offered a ride on the local roller coaster and has to use the F.L.U.D.D. to shoot missiles at the gargantuan machine while simultaneously defending himself from incoming Bullet Bills and occasionally douse the robot's fire breath whenever the plumber gets too close, all while Mecha-Bowser just stands in one spot and breathes fire like a lunatic.
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'': [[spoiler:The Brain of theattacking) Many and SHODAN]].
* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion isa immobile.
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' commonly does this, especially for raid bosses.
** Ragnaros is completely immobile, as are other beings with the same model. He still needs to be tanked, though; many stationarystatue. bosses use deadly abilities when not engaged in melee.
** Kologarn of Ulduar, whom you only fight the torso of due to him standing in a massive abyss to fight you. Similar bosses include Kromog in Blackrock Foundry and the Garothi Worldbreaker in Antorus.
** The finaldemon boss battle against [[spoiler:Deathwing is also stationary, too. In ''Ninja Gaiden 2'', a boss about midway through fought as he stands from the game is stationary, torso up in the Maelstrom as are two his power rips him apart and the raid finishes him off]].
** Many of thethree forms of the final boss. ''Ninja Gaiden 3'' only has one stationary boss, being the second form of the three-part final boss.
* ''VideoGame/KameoElementsOfPower'': Old Marwood.Sha Bosses in Pandaria are effectively immobile. Not that they look like they couldn't move, they just won't.
** [[RecurringBoss Whispy Woods]] and most
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': The Combo Cannon and the Reactor fight as parts of the [[BattleshipRaid Halberd]].
** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is
** ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'' has
*** Tortletommy stands still underwater, pushing strong currents of water and many [[AquaticMook enemies
*** Great Gear stays on top of
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'''
* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'':
** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk, bobbing up and down while trying to attack.
** The Zeonix Life System on the
** The Flying Jarmai, a SequentialBoss, in it's third form. Because after blowing up it's abdomen and body, you reduce it to a single severed head to the floor, but alas, it just ''[[TheDeterminator keeps on attacking]]''.
** The Captured Bedlaah is a giant monster entangled in a web, so expectedly it couldn't move around much. It can still attack by shooting spores.
** The Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is simply too huge to even move around, occupying the exit of a shaft.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'':
** Mario sometimes has to fight Polluted Piranha Plants, which remain rooted inside large areas of paint, by spraying water into their mouths while they attack by throwing up sludge balls that spawn enemies.
** In Rico Harbor and Noki Bay, Mario encounters Gooper Blooper, who tries to hurt the plumber by hitting him with his tentacles. If the giant squid misses, Mario can jump on the tentacles and pull them off, gradually incapacitating him which allows Mario to pull out the cork from Gooper Blooper's mouth, leading up to the second phase where Mario's adversary can shoot him with ink.
** In Pinna Park, Mario runs into his impostor, Shadow Mario, who summons a giant robot of Bowser called [[RobotMe Mecha-Bowser]]. Mario is offered a ride on the local roller coaster and has to use the F.L.U.D.D. to shoot missiles at the gargantuan machine while simultaneously defending himself from incoming Bullet Bills and occasionally douse the robot's fire breath whenever the plumber gets too close, all while Mecha-Bowser just stands in one spot and breathes fire like a lunatic.
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'': [[spoiler:The Brain of the
* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion is
** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' commonly does this, especially for raid bosses.
** Ragnaros is completely immobile, as are other beings with the same model. He still needs to be tanked, though; many stationary
** Kologarn of Ulduar, whom you only fight the torso of due to him standing in a massive abyss to fight you. Similar bosses include Kromog in Blackrock Foundry and the Garothi Worldbreaker in Antorus.
** The final
** Many of the
* ''VideoGame/KameoElementsOfPower'': Old Marwood.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Geneforge}}'': A number of bosses. Sometimes they are a MookMaker who simply doesn't have legs, while others are literally wired into {{Magitek}} support systems.
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* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The dragon boss encountered in the mountains doesn't move, only resting itself in the mouth of a massive cave while using its LongNeck to bite, and breath fireballs. The problem here though is that it's stationary body is immune to damage, and it's only major weak spot, it's head, tends to keep moving around.
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* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': The dragon boss encountered in the mountains doesn't move, only resting itself in the mouth of a massive cave while using its LongNeck to bite, and breath breathe fireballs. The problem here though is that it's its stationary body is immune to damage, and it's its only major weak spot, it's its head, tends to keep moving around.
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** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': The Thresholder is a possessed carving on a door and thus stuck in the wall of the Undercroft. It makes up for its lack of mobility by stretching its arms across the room to hit you and summons swarms of Hook Bats. Xemnas stays on his throne while in his odd knight-like form during the final battles, attacking you with the powers of the other Organization members, thrown buildings, and lasers powered by InstantRunes to keep you away. There's also his pet MechanicalAbomination's power core, which is defended by a horde of lesser Nobodies and periodic attacks from its limbs.
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** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'':
*** The Thresholder is a possessed carving on a door and thus stuck in the wall of the Undercroft. It makes up for its lack of mobility by stretching its arms across the room to hit you and summons swarms of Hook Bats. Xemnas stays on his throne while in his odd knight-like form during the final battles, attacking you with the powers of the other Organization members, thrown buildings, and lasers powered by InstantRunes to keep you away. There's also his pet MechanicalAbomination's power core, which is defended by a horde of lesser Nobodies and periodic attacks from itslimbs.limbs.
*** Genie Jafar floats in one spot during the boss fight against him. However, his desperation move allows him to repel Sora a long distance away and change the arena to throw obstacles.
*** Armored Xemnas sits on a throne during the fights against him, and he refuses to get up. He can telekinetically throw copies of Organization members' weapons across the arena, however, and as with Genie Jafar, this doesn't prevent him from tossing Sora and Riku away to assail them with projectiles.
*** The Thresholder is a possessed carving on a door and thus stuck in the wall of the Undercroft. It makes up for its lack of mobility by stretching its arms across the room to hit you and summons swarms of Hook Bats. Xemnas stays on his throne while in his odd knight-like form during the final battles, attacking you with the powers of the other Organization members, thrown buildings, and lasers powered by InstantRunes to keep you away. There's also his pet MechanicalAbomination's power core, which is defended by a horde of lesser Nobodies and periodic attacks from its
*** Genie Jafar floats in one spot during the boss fight against him. However, his desperation move allows him to repel Sora a long distance away and change the arena to throw obstacles.
*** Armored Xemnas sits on a throne during the fights against him, and he refuses to get up. He can telekinetically throw copies of Organization members' weapons across the arena, however, and as with Genie Jafar, this doesn't prevent him from tossing Sora and Riku away to assail them with projectiles.
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** [[BonusBoss Hush]] is a stationary boss for his first two phases, He starts at the top of the screen, moves the center once he's around 66% health, and only starts freely moving once he's nearly dead.
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** [[BonusBoss [[{{Superboss}} Hush]] is a stationary boss for his first two phases, He starts at the top of the screen, moves the center once he's around 66% health, and only starts freely moving once he's nearly dead.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Rengoku}}'': Sphinx in the second game cannot move from the center of the room and relies on ranged plasma rifles.
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* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC doesn't move at all. However, it regularly spawns ice blocks to defend itself from incoming plant attacks.
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* ''Cheese Cat-Astrophe Starring WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' has two incarnations of Sylvester where he doesn't move from his spot. The first one serves as the boss of World 3, where he stands atop a cliff, pumping balloons that can damage Speedy if he makes a wrong move, and Speedy has to toss his sombrero at him to damge him. The second one is the penultimate boss of the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem and UsefulNotes/GameGear versions, where he operates an exercise bike atop an InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt. Speedy must toss bombs at Sylvester to damage him, while avoiding the lightning that strikes.
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%%* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
%%** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': Plant 42, in the remake at least.
%%** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Nemesis' final form. It's also [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]].
%%** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': Plant 42, in the remake at least.
%%** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Nemesis' final form. It's also [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]].
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%%** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
%%** ''VideoGame/Portal2'' has [[spoiler:Wheatley]].
%%** [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]] in the first game.
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%%* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
%%** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'': The FinalBoss of ''Treasures of Aht Urghan'', as well as the FinalBoss of the Add-on ''A Crystalline Prophecy''. There are a few other Bosses and not-so-normal enemies that are like this, as well.
%%** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'': Malboro and Armstrong.
%%* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'':
%%** The large plant-like Tentacles in the Rocket Silo that rely on sound rather than sight. They are later encountered again in Xen.
%%** There are two of these bosses in the "Opposing Force" ExpansionPack. One is in a sewage pipe when you fix a gearbox and turn a valve and the other is at the end when you shoot a creature halfway through a portal.
%%* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'': The final fight.
%%** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'': The FinalBoss of ''Treasures of Aht Urghan'', as well as the FinalBoss of the Add-on ''A Crystalline Prophecy''. There are a few other Bosses and not-so-normal enemies that are like this, as well.
%%** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'': Malboro and Armstrong.
%%* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'':
%%** The large plant-like Tentacles in the Rocket Silo that rely on sound rather than sight. They are later encountered again in Xen.
%%** There are two of these bosses in the "Opposing Force" ExpansionPack. One is in a sewage pipe when you fix a gearbox and turn a valve and the other is at the end when you shoot a creature halfway through a portal.
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%%* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''
%%** ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'': Princess from the mansion is immobile.
%%** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
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%%** ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'': The Machinist's Robot.
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%%* ''VideoGame/StarFox'' has plenty of stationary bosses, although some only in relation to the player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'' has several exceptions, most notably the aparoid queen in the first form.%%How are these examples?
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%%* ''Franchise/MegaMan': Half of the' final bosses. And some of the fortress bosses.
%%* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
%%* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The final boss is immobile. The strange growth in the apartment complex level of the same game is a pure PuzzleBoss; it doesn't even attack.
%%* ''VideoGame/ObsCure'': The final boss is immobile.
%%* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'': A huge live processing plant.
%%* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': The final boss is immobile. The strange growth in the apartment complex level of the same game is a pure PuzzleBoss; it doesn't even attack.
%%* ''VideoGame/ObsCure'': The final boss is immobile.
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%%** A fair few in the Sonic series. [[VideoGame/Sonic3DFlickiesIsland Volcano Valley]], [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 the Biolizard]], Ghost Kraken, Ghost Titan, Ghost Pendulum (all 3 ghosts from ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]''), [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Crystal Egg]] (with the tubes around it and spinning flower beam things), and undoubtedly many more.
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%%** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar (Ultra)'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'': The Combo Cannon and the Reactor fight as parts of the [[BattleshipRaid Halberd]].
%%** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is stationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]].%%Meaning?
%%** ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': Computer Virus is stationary because it's a parody of an [[RPGElements RPG battle]].%%Meaning?
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%%* ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'':
%%** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'': The last boss.
%%** ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'': The two AdvancingWallOfDoom bosses.
%%** ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'': The boss guarding Chartmoon Tower (except for some very brief attack animations, he is never off screen); ditto the Benevodon of darkness Zable Fahr; ditto Zehnoa, the fireplace boss; ditto one of the final bosses.
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%%** As are Pianus, Horntail, and the Balrog.
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%%* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': [[TrueFinalBoss Heavy]] [[KingMook Press]] [[BossBonanza and]] [[spoiler:[[SequentialBoss Ballos' last form]]]], though in the latter's room everything you can step on either moves or damages you.
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%%* ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' has seen a couple; the biggest are the Vortex Queen and the Foe Queen's heart.
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%%* ''VideoGame/GGundam'': When Devil Gundam attacks, he fires a powerful motion wave gun and has two gundam heads which act as his invincible shield generators when he takes a certain amount of damage. Once he goes a lower level of health, he switches to a sweeping version of his attack (weaker thankfully) and summons a G-Crossover capable of hitting horizontally or Vertically.%%Describe how he's stationary, then cut the dross.
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%%* ''VideoGame/AnUntitledStory'': The [=DeepDive=] boss.
%%* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
%%* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead4'': The World.
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%%* ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'': The [[RecurringBoss recurring]] [[CoresAndTurretsBoss Keeper's Core]].
%%* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': While the game usually gives you the freedom to knock most bosses silly around the battlefield, good luck doing that with any of the giant spiders. [[spoiler:Or the final boss, once he goes OneWingedAngel.]]
%%* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': While the game usually gives you the freedom to knock most bosses silly around the battlefield, good luck doing that with any of the giant spiders. [[spoiler:Or the final boss, once he goes OneWingedAngel.]]
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%%* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'': Rock Minotaurs are generally these. If you see a random pile of rocks between you and a grapple point, chances are when you approach it you'll be greeted by a rock minotaur.%%Which is an example how?
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%%* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': The Queen doesn't attack at in the first fight (but lesser aliens are happy to oblige), and she's way more formidable in the second fight.
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* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'':
** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk, bobbing up and down while trying to attack.
** The Zeonix Life System on the other hand is a massive Xirxul heart embedded into the floor, though it's surrounded by organic cannons requiring you to keep on running.
** The Flying Jarmai, a SequentialBoss, in it's third form. Because after blowing up it's abdomen and body, you reduce it to a single severed head to the floor, but alas, it just ''[[TheDeterminator keeps on attacking]]''.
** The Captured Bedlaah is a giant monster entangled in a web, so expectedly it couldn't move around much. It can still attack by shooting spores.
** The Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is simply too huge to even move around, occupying the exit of an entire shaft.
** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk, bobbing up and down while trying to attack.
** The Zeonix Life System on the other hand is a massive Xirxul heart embedded into the floor, though it's surrounded by organic cannons requiring you to keep on running.
** The Flying Jarmai, a SequentialBoss, in it's third form. Because after blowing up it's abdomen and body, you reduce it to a single severed head to the floor, but alas, it just ''[[TheDeterminator keeps on attacking]]''.
** The Captured Bedlaah is a giant monster entangled in a web, so expectedly it couldn't move around much. It can still attack by shooting spores.
** The Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is simply too huge to even move around, occupying the exit of an entire shaft.
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* ''VideoGame/BladeMaster'' have two of these, though neither of them are pushovers:
** The GiantSquid is stuck in the end of some docks, relying on extending it's CombatTemtacles to throttle you from a distance.
** The giant Fish Monster is fought while caught up in a pool, repeatedly sending FishPeople mooks at you during ther battle. As well as clawing you for getting too close and extending it's LongNeck to chomp at you.
** The GiantSquid is stuck in the end of some docks, relying on extending it's CombatTemtacles to throttle you from a distance.
** The giant Fish Monster is fought while caught up in a pool, repeatedly sending FishPeople mooks at you during ther battle. As well as clawing you for getting too close and extending it's LongNeck to chomp at you.
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* ''VideoGame/OrientalLegend'' have a couple:
** Silver Horn's father, a monstrous demon whose body sticks out from a chasm, relies on firing projectiles and trying to claw at you.
** In the Silken Cave, you face a GiantSpider stuck inside a pool that repeatedly spits ProjectileWebbing and lashing out with it's legs.
** Silver Horn's father, a monstrous demon whose body sticks out from a chasm, relies on firing projectiles and trying to claw at you.
** In the Silken Cave, you face a GiantSpider stuck inside a pool that repeatedly spits ProjectileWebbing and lashing out with it's legs.
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%%** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': Castellan Salazar and his left hand man [[spoiler: fuse with a giant plant (that is stuck to a wall) in order to make a giant ''talking'' plant... with tentacles]].%%Is it stationary?
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': All Orochi battles.
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': All Orochi battles.
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* ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland2'': The first boss is a huge pulsating... something resembling a plant that fills the entire edge of the screen. It slowly grows tendrils to get at you while you whale (ideally, with the help of the ''Pteranodon'') at its pineapple-like core.
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* ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland2'': ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland 2'': The first boss is a huge pulsating... something resembling a plant that fills the entire edge of the screen. It slowly grows tendrils to get at you while you whale (ideally, with the help of the ''Pteranodon'') at its pineapple-like core.
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* ''VideoGame/MetalShinobiAssassin'' have it's FinalBoss, a gigantic Buddha statue that spam projectile attacks while seated in the background.
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* The mutant source from ''VideoGame/SARSearchAndRescue'' is confined entirely in a pool of blood, where it cannot exit from, so it's only attack is by sending projectiles at you. [[SequentialBoss Both times]].
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** The first game has several, including the Cave of Wonders Guardian (being a cave mouth rooted to the ground), the Parasite Cage, Giant Ursula, Oogie's Manor, Chernabog and the World of Chaos. The Rock and Ice Titans can move ''somewhat'', but are so massive they barely fit in the arena to begin with.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': Marluxia's final form in the remake remains immobile while his large, angelic specter attacks.
%%** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' has Thresholder and Xemnas' odd knight-like form in the final battles.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': Marluxia's final form in the remake remains immobile while his large, angelic specter attacks.
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** [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI The first game game]] has several, including the Cave of Wonders Guardian (being a cave mouth rooted to the ground), the Parasite Cage, Giant Ursula, Oogie's Manor, Chernabog and the World of Chaos. The Rock and Ice Titans can move ''somewhat'', but are so massive they barely fit in the arena to begin with.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': In addition to the Parasite Cage's return, Marluxia's final form in the remake remains immobile while his large, angelic specter attacks.
%%** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' has ** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': The Thresholder is a possessed carving on a door and Xemnas' thus stuck in the wall of the Undercroft. It makes up for its lack of mobility by stretching its arms across the room to hit you and summons swarms of Hook Bats. Xemnas stays on his throne while in his odd knight-like form in during the final battles.battles, attacking you with the powers of the other Organization members, thrown buildings, and lasers powered by InstantRunes to keep you away. There's also his pet MechanicalAbomination's power core, which is defended by a horde of lesser Nobodies and periodic attacks from its limbs.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': In addition to the Parasite Cage's return, Marluxia's final form in the remake remains immobile while his large, angelic specter attacks.
