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[[caption-width-right:300:Where's [[SuperMarioBros3 Kuribo's Shoe]] when you need it?]]

** Boss Bass in ''SuperMarioBros3'' will swallow Mario whole if he attempts to jump on him. (Or if Mario just happens to be in its way.)

** ''MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' and its sequels feature Goombas that wear German-style spiked helmets.

** Level 5 includes one in a narrow path where you're [[IndyEscape pursued by a boulder]]. You're going to lose a lot of lives if you don't notice you can also ''[[AttackRoll roll]]'' into them, FridgeLogic be damned.

** Level 5 includes one in a narrow path where you're pursued by a boulder. You're going to lose a lot of lives if you don't notice you can also ''roll'' into them, FridgeLogic be damned.

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** ''SuperMarioWorld'' also introduced Spike Tops and Bony Beetles, which were immune not only to jumps, but Mario's fireballs as well.

** Both ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' games have helmeted Goombas. They don't hurt you if you bounce on them, but it can throw you off balance and possibly make you fall from the platform you're standing on. To defeat them, you have to spin-attack them to flip them over, then jump on their undersides.
** ''SuperMarioGalaxy2'' has the Pupdozers, which can only be killed by ground pounding them from underneath via flippable gravity-reversing platforms. Thankfully, these enemies only appear in the one area where these platforms are found.

** Similarly, ''SuperMarioBros2'' has the Porcupo.

** In ''SuperMarioRPG'', you can damage Spinies in battle with punches and fireballs, but Jump attacks do 0 damage. Equipping the Jump Shoes remedies this.

** In ''PaperMario'', Mario's two standard attacks are jump and hammer, and many enemies are immune to one or the other. The ones immune to jump attacks are almost always things covered with spikes, such as "Spiky Goomba", while the ones immune to hammering are usually flying.

*** [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Ditto the]] PaperMario [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment games.]]
** But the worst are the Bristles from ''PaperMario: The Thousand-Year Door''. Spikes on top AND on the sides, and with a defense of 4, even with the Spike Shield badge, a normal jump attack won't be able to damage them unless you can increase your attack power by at least 2. The normal ones have only 2 HP and can easily be defeated by a POW Block, but the Dark Bristles in the Pit of 100 Trials...

* Inverted in ''IWannaBeTheGuy'', where the is only one type of enemy in the game you can GoombaStomp: the Bullets Bill that the Snifit fires at you.
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* The Zoomers in ''Metroid'', which also happen to be the [[TheGoomba Goomba]], seeing as you don't kill enemies by jumping on top of them.

** [[FridgeLogic Odd, considering]] [[{{SonicTheHedgehog}} the hog himself has spikes on his back]]

** [[FridgeLogic Odd, considering [[SonicTheHedgehog the hog himself]] has spikes on his back]]

* ''DonkeyKongCountry'' has Zingers, and their [[Expy expies]], Buzzes. The red ones are [[InvincibleMinorMinion Invincible Minor Minions]], but the rest can be killed with invincibility or by throwing something at them.

* ''DonkeyKongCountry'' has Zingers. The red ones are [[InvincibleMinorMinion Invincible Minor Minions]], but the rest can be killed with invincibility or by throwing something at them.

* ''SuperMarioBros'' has the TropeNamer, a red and yellow animal covered in spikes, as well as its counterpart, the Buzzy Beetle (an enemy that cannot be killed with fireballs, but can be stomped on).

* Some {{Pokemon}} like Dribflim have the Aftermath ability, which hurts your Pokemon after you've knocked it out.
** Others, including the [[GoddamnedBats incredibly common]] Tentacool, have the Liquid Ooze ability. If you use a draining move like Leech Seed or Giga Drain, instead of healing your own Pokemon like the move usually does, it damages your Pokemon instead.
** And then there's Carvanha and Sharpedo's Rough Skin ability, which deals damage whenever a "direct attack" is used. Other Pokemon have abilities that occasionally deal status effects to the opponent when hit with a direct attack.

* ''SuperMarioBros'' has the TropeNamer, a red and yellow animal covered in spikes.

* ''CrashBandicoot 2'' offered several varieties of TheSpiny, to acommodate the fact that the player could perform several types of attacks. For example, a basic turtle could either have the sides of his shell laced with deadly spikes (making the full-frontal spin attack impossible), and another could have a spinning sawblade on its back instead (which prevents players from defeating the enemy by jumping). Some enemies even switch back and forth between these two modes, especially in later levels of the game. There's even a third mode, tall enemies with spikes on their head and neck, forcing you to slide into them.

** Boss Bass in ''SuperMarioBros3'' will swallow Mario whole if he attempts to jump on him.

** Also, Kirby can use certain powers to turn ''himself'' into a Spiky.

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** Similarly, ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' has the Porcupo.
** Boss Bass in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' will swallow Mario whole if he attempts to jump on him.

** In ''Super Mario RPG'', you can damage Spinies in battle with punches and fireballs, but Jump attacks do 0 damage. Equipping the Jump Shoes remedies this.

* [[InvincibleMinorMinion Gabyoalls]] in the MegaMan series - small robots patrolling a floor that are immune to the default Mega Buster and try to crash into Mega Man. They're usually destroyable with Robot Master weapons, but that uses up limited [[{{Mana}} weapon energy]].

* ''SonicTheHedgehog'' has several such enemies. Most can be dealt with by rolling into them or by waiting until a specific moment to jump on them. ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'''s Marble Garden Zone features a subversion in Spiker, an enemy that closely resembles the ubiquitous SpikesOfDoom but whose spikes you harmlessly bounce off.