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* Malus, the Sixteenth Colossus from ''ShadowOfTheColossus''.
* In ''{{Resident Evil 4}}'', the castle boss. Prince Slazar and his left hand man [[spoiler: fuse with a giant random plant (that is stuck to a wall) in order to make a giant ''talking'' plant........with tentacles]]

* A handful of boss-type monsters (MVPs) in ''RagnarokOnline'' are immobile, though they can attack at range and their slave monsters have no problem with motion.

* [[SealedEvilInACan The World]] from HouseOfTheDead four.

* StarFox has plenty of stationary bosses, although some only in relation to the player. Free-range bosses usually move around, but ''Assault'' has several exceptions, most notably the aparoid queen in the first form.

* While RadiantHistoria 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.]]

** [[spoiler:Wheatley]] in ''{{Portal 2}}''.

* [[spoiler:Glados]] from ''Portal''

** The final form of Birkin in ''ResidentEvil 2'' - the trick is to shoot him a lot.
** Plant 42 from the first ResidentEvil, well in the remake at least.

* [[EldritchAbomination The World]] from HouseOfTheDead four.

* The final fight in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha A's''.

** The Combo Cannon, the Halberd Reactor, and Computer Virus, all from ''Kirby Super Star (Ultra)''.

* WorldOfWarcraft: Ragnaros is completely immobile, as are other beings with the same model. He still needs to be tanked though.

* We also have a huge live 'processing plant' in ''Quake 4''. The final boss of ''SilentHill3'' was immobile, too. Not to mention the strange growth in the apartment complex level of the same game (Glutton?), which was a pure PuzzleBoss; it even did not attack. The final boss of ''Obscure'' was also immobile.

* The first boss in ''Adventure Island 2'' for the NES was one of these. It was a huge pulsating... something resembling a plant that filled the entire edge of the screen. It'd slowly grow tendrils to get at you while you wailed (ideally, with the help of the Pteranodon) at its pineapple-like core.

* Half of the ''MegaMan'' final bosses. And some of the fortress bosses. [[MegaManX Rangda]] [[ThatOneBoss Bangda]]!!! *shakes fist*

A ''Stationary Boss'' is basically a fight where the boss remains in one place. It might be because the boss is too big to move and be a fair fight or because it's merged with something and can't move. Most often overlaps with PuzzleBoss or BackgroundBoss. If the boss is edging ever closer and you must defeat him in a time limit he may also be an AdvancingWallOfDoom. In older games, large bosses were largely stationary due to sprite limit count (and having to use background tiles as an alternative) and difficulty to animate background tiles.