Basic Trope: Video game boss is introduced by name and title.
- Straight:
- Exaggerated: The subtitle consists of many, many words...
During The Festival of The Tenth Month, When They Were Totally Not Expecting It.
- Downplayed:
- The subtitle consists of single word...
- The subtitle is the boss's official title or rank:
- Justified:
- The subtitle and the name is provided by Mission Command, the character also see it in his screen.
- The subtitles are provided by the ring's jumbotron.Any questions?
- Inverted: The player character has the subtitle which appears when he fights a boss, and it explains why he fights the boss...
- Subverted: Every boss leading up to Evulz gets a subtitle. The man himself has, when the player finally reaches him, built up enough Villain Cred that he only needs:
- Double Subverted: ...at least, until his second phase, when he goes One-Winged Angel.
- Parodied:
- The subtitle doesn't bother trying to make the boss more intimidating...
- The name of the boss is already a description.
- They mix up the name and the subtitle.
- The subtitle is a Captain Obvious statement.
- The subtitle is full of redundancy.
- The subtitle is misspelled.
- The words are mixed in a way the subtitles don't make sense anymore.
- A weak Small Name, Big Ego Mook has a more intimidating title than all of the dangerous bosses combined.
- When the boss arrives, the subtitle either annoys or crashes the boss. Later the boss gets rid the subtitle before going to fight.
- When the subtitles show, Evulz takes them and throws at them on the heroes.
- The boss simply writes his subtitle on a sheet of paper to scare the heroes.
- Evulz' subtitle is so long that it doesn't all fit on the screen.
- The video game has Boss Subtitles services who provide these to people the same way companies provide résumés in real life. Evulz gave them a big amount of money so the subtitles would make him look the most badass way possible.
- Mission Control tries to write what Evulz insists on calling himself, but Even the Subtitler Is Stumped.
- The Subtitles make fun of the boss.
- Zig Zagged: Some bosses come with subtitles, others don't.
- Averted: No bosses are given subtitles in a genre where it's taken for granted.
- Enforced: The game has minimalist plot and/or minimalist interface, and the subtitles are the means to convey the sheer badassery of the bosses.
- Lampshaded:Bob: "You're going down, Godslayer Evulz!"Emperor Evulz: "It appears that I'm famous around these parts."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The Mission Command is purposefully feeding Bob wrong information via the subtitles to goad him into fighting beings who have never done what their subtitles indicate. Cue Bob's Heroic BSoD when he realizes that he has been duped.
- Defied: Evulz instantly attacks the subtitle, destroying it.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "We already know who Evulz is and how he slaughtered Gods. Why do you need an unskippable cutscene which describes him in golden Papyrus letters?"
- Played For Laughs:
- The title is written like this:
- Alice laughs and lets Evulz know. He angrily demands that whoever wrote that be executed. Then he fixes the title himself, resulting in this
- The titles reflect what the currently active character thinks of the boss, resulting in titles like this:
- The titles are mundane job descriptions:
