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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Complaining, started by Acebrock on May 2nd 2012 at 5:24:58 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Hmm. Is this an example?

• In Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic fights the Egg Golem in a cutscene... but only in the Dark Side Story. You still fight it as Eggman afterward, though, and you do get to fight it normally as Sonic in the Hero Side Story.

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Trope Repair Shop says: Tropes Are Not Bad

I cut out 99% of the description's complaining with my chainsaw.

The main advantage of a Cutscene Boss is its Cutscene Power to the Max. Yes, this can feel anti-climactic, but there may be very good reasons that the battle was non-interactive.

There may also be some examples that need pruning.

An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.

Removed the following.

• While Assassins Creed Brotherhood does have Cesare Borgia as the final boss, the final hit immediately results in a cutscene (irrespective of where in the fighting area or what weapon was used) where Ezio leaps onto him and pins him to the ground. After a short conversation, Ezio chucks him off of the wall of Viana castle.

It sounds like you do fight him in a battle, it's the penultimate hit that's a cutscene. That's not this trope, that's Coup de Grâce Cutscene.

Or maybe the explanation is bad and it is leigitimate. If that is the case, please add it back in.

Edited by TriggerLoaded Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary situation.

Don't know if it's a good example [since it's followed by two more battles: a dogfight with the Alpha Sections, and the Final Boss - the DomZ priest]:

• In the endgame of Beyond Good And Evil you shoot down General Keck's spider ship, defeat his bodyguards, and get ready to confront him - only to find him dying in the cockpit of the ship.

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