7 Pathetic Bosses Who Wouldn't Stop Running Away, the Cowards
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- Boss fight? More like boss flight! Here are the bosses that cheesed it away from you as fast as they could, the cowards!
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If Micolash isn’t on this list I will be so disappointed
Edit: “No one can catch us! No one can stop us now!” - Micolash as he escapes being in the video
I look forward to seeing them in the fan submission video lol
What is micolash
Recurring thing in the souls series it seems
1 - Gwyndolin
Elden Ring - Elden Beast
Bloodborne - Micolash as you and I'm sure half the comments mentioned
Not sure if De/2/3 had candidates.
@@ghostyuki-kfpinquisitor1038don’t recall DS2 having one, though I haven’t played the DLCs all the way through
@@caliburn1123 Micolash, Host of the Nightmare - Bloodborne boss
The fact Micolash wasn’t on the list must be because Luke would spiral into a fit of rage upon remembering that fight
Micolash is so awful, he makes me consider the big sleep
I really appreciate the commitment to the bit in the Assassin's Creed segment. They could have just played one or two seconds of the "Charles Lee" clips at the end and called it a day, but no! They inserted the *entire montage* they'd just shown a few moments earlier. That, my friends, is comedy. Bravo!
but what was his name? i didn’t catch it
@@bostonrailfan2427 Charles Lee, CHARLES LEE! Charles Lee, Lee, Charles, Charles Lee was his name, I think.
If I had to go through old capture to get that many clips I would want to play it twice, too! I bet they’ll find an excuse to use it again.
Hello, new drinking game!
@@edwardmendoza3985 alcohol poisoning is a thing XD
Me before scrolling down: "I wonder if anyone mentioned Micolash?"
Me after scrolling down:"..............oh"
"Inigo stood still a moment, panting. Then he made a half turn in the direction of Count Rugen and executed a quick and well-formed bow. 'Hello,' he said. 'My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'
"And in reply, the Count did a genuinely remarkable and unexpected thing: he turned and ran."
- From _The Princess Bride_ by William Goldman
Micolash is simply the boss that hasn’t Stopped running yet as he still lives rent-free in all our minds, evidently 😂
He is so good, that in Bloodborne-themed cart game he doesn't need vehicle! Can't give here links, so here is name of the video:
Bloodborne Kart: Micolash Joins the Race!
Uh-oh. Jane's gone "Would you kindly" on us. That never ends well.
6:13 "you wouldn't think a giant robot made of rocks would be scared of anything!"
... maybe it thinks you are made of paper?! 😂
To be fair, you kinda are. Have you seen how quickly an Arwing goes down?
Kinda does look like an origami jet tbf.
Also, there are four in the wing, and he only has two arms... Arwings don't have a "hover" function, so he kind of *has* to run if he doesn't want to crashed into in that narrow corridor
“You died as you lived. RUNNING AWAY!”
"Here lies Scout. He ran fast and died a virgin!"
The artist's impression of Kratos borrowing Hermes' legs is... actually quite impressive.
I love the fact that it puts a big stickman smile on Kratos' face, a contender for the least smiley video game protagonist.
@@Darkprosper And let me guess, Asura is the other one.
Just because I'm playing Skyrim again. Alduin, you kick some dragon ass and he flees to another plane of existence.
Micolash ran away from being in this list somehow too.
Conner: "Give me Charles Lee, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry: "Hmm, you know, I think you have something there."
Micolash, Host of the Nightmare from Bloodborne. The frustration from that fight came back the second I read the title if this video.
I actually expected another "WHERE IS CHARLES LEE?" after the outro.
All that chasing, and how do you kill him?
You both walk into a bar. Drink. Then Connor stabs him.
I almost chucked the controller screaming "WTF WAS THE LAST 60 HOURS FOR?"
@@beladendronCharles Lee, obviously.
That Evri joke hit me at a personal level
"You weren't in so we left it in a safe location"
I was in.
You couldn't be arsed to push the doorbell.
And the bin on bin day is NOT a **safe location**
Sounds like my local branch of the United States Postal Service. And I've lived in all three ZIP codes in my Seattle suburb. They're equally awful.
i’m not British but even i understood that joke 🤣
For me it was DPD
App notification: You're next. We'll be with you in a few minutes.
Me: Great. I'll go look out the window.
A couple of minutes of empty street later...
App notification: Sorry we missed you.
Chatbot: What's the problem?
Me: explains the situation
Chatbot: So you missed the delivery.
You guys get your packages thrown in a bush? My local driver loads up the van and drives straight to the nearest car boot sale.
Ah, Kos, or some say Kosm… Do you hear our prayers? As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes! Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy.
The grand lake of mud, hidden now, from sight. The cosmos, of course! Let us sit about, and speak feverishly. Chatting into the wee hours of... New ideas, of the higher plane!
First thing I thought of
Gwyndolin doesn't flee, he kites you. Like any mage player does to other boss.
"And another move is to nuke you from enormous distance with a killing ray."
Still not convinced this makes Gwyndolin more of a coward than most player mages.
Pretty sure stretching a hallway into infinity and always going backwards, instead of circling the player counts as running.
@@insaincaldo A circle is just an infinite line curved onto itself
Like the Crystal Mage! I mean, he also uses clones and only teleports if you hit the real him...but it's still running away!
@@clockworkmonsters8590 Are they not more Pinwheel adjacent. Even shows up again in a more suited arena, though the pinwheel enemies that does that are even more pushovers the Sage does it better. Oh boy I can imagine the archives, if the sage there used clones.
11 words: "All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ"
Not a boss
@@goldenfiberwheat238Tell that to the goddamn train and the amount of retries it forced.
Fun fact: Gwyndolin's hallway isn't actually endless, it's just really, really, really, really long. It's the single longest hallway in the game and it almost takes 10 minutes to get to the end, but it makes the fight so much easier, though of course if you die you'll have to run the entire gauntlet again.
Gamer’s weekend reached the end of the hallway in one of their older challenge runs
I think you've covered it before but for posterity I'm reminding everyone of how Malak in Knights of the Old Republic made you run through the entire bowels of the Star Forge, fighting dark Jedi and robots as he taunted you and ran away again, before you finally got to face him in the heart of the Forge, where he used jars of living Jedi prisoners as health batteries to top himself up throughout the fight. Absolute king of being a cowardly, annoying boss.
And the most straightforward way to defeat him then, is kiting him around in circles. Serves him right. Taste your own medicine, oh great Darth Malak! Oh, wait, you can't, you don't have a mouth
@@orsolyafekete7485 That is how I always killed him run away while taking out the jedi so he can't use them to heal
I always make sure to thank him for leaving me plenty of spare health around his boss arena. Talk about thoughtful.
@@orsolyafekete7485 That's the second best way to beat him. the best way is by laying out as many mines as the game engine can handle.
Luke: "But we have to assume it is rooted in simply being totally spineless."
Me: "Made of rock, therefore no bones. Checks out."
I always remember Clare from Pokémon literally running off to play keep away with the badge you won fair and square 😂
"Congrats, you won. That's only Part 1. Now, go get a Dragon Fang."
@@AgentMonochrome
More like "I call shenanigans, take this test I never passed to prove you weren't cheating!"
11:50 The silliest part of Twilight Princess's battle with Ganondorf is the fact that, during that climactic one-on-one duel, he can be distracted by Link's fishing pole.
Try it sometime, if you're of a mind to dust off the old save file; cast your fishing line past him and his eyes will follow the lure, leaving him wide open for attack every time.
Proving Ganondorf is canonically a trout
They know, theyve covered it 5 times now. Youre not telling anyone anything new my dude.
@@poobrainpony6610 I find it's a rare thing that I *do* tell anyone anything new, but there's still a chance, however slim, that my random trivia reaches 1 of today's lucky 10,000.
Hey, I didn't know that. I've never played that one and don't watch this channel much. So I guess I'm today's winner.
@@poobrainpony6610take a break from being online
You're sure not wrong about that ACIII montage. My main memory of that game really just is, "WHERE IS CHARLES LEEEEEE?!?!" (Meanwhile, somewhere off in the distance: "I'm a general! Whee!!!") Anyway. Oh, boy, I hated that chase sequence. Ubisoft, please. I have notes.
I’m glad I’m not the only one whose mind immediately went to that Hamilton line!
"And Link's like 'Duude" and Zelda's like 'Woooah' and Ganondorf's like '[actual game voice] Aaaaagh'" and I'm like [bursting into laughter] and Luke's like 'No laughing!' That was top CZcams
Gargarensis from Age of Mythology, that Cyclops runs away from you over the whole campaign. The hero, Arkantos, directly calls his cowardness out at one point, "You always seem to be hiding behind something when I see you, cyclops."
Gnasty Gnorc from Spyro 1? His entire "fight" was just him running away from you
Yeah and he only needs two hits to kill, which is fewer than some of the other bosses - Jacques only needs one hit but is another boss who (as far as I can remember) spends the "fight" retreating from you whilst throwing boxes at you until you reach the final platform and easily kill him there.
Glorified egg thief, who was preceded by two egg thieves.
No Goldeneye?
Alec Trevelyan spends the whole level running away and taking pot shots at you or activating devices while you have to deal with high-level minions he hides behind. The fight only ends when the two of you are on a tiny platform that he can't run away from, and dies instantly.
First one I thought of too!
Upvote!!!
For England James?
@@goldenfiberwheat238 No. For me.
Remember Eric Sparrow, from Tony Hawk's Underground? The entire final level is chasing that irritating coward around as he basically throws molotovs at you.
At least it's that much more satisfying when you play through the whole game a second time, and give Eric what he REALLY deserves.
Molotovs? Geez dude it’s just skate boarding
@goldenfiberwheat238 He does throw stuff at you, multiple times, that make flames in front of where you are skating, and he says stuff like, "Oops, did I drop that?!" He's trying to sabotage you on purpose, and yes, he does go that far.
@@LamanKnight 💀
King Arthur from Sonic and the Black Knight: "YOU SHALL REGRET THE DAY YOU RAISED YOU SWORD AGAINST ME" - Arthur, while riding away from Sonic as fast as his horse can take him
Too slow!
I fucking hated that fight as a kid
In Undertale, the fight against Undyne is quite literally the opposite. In a non-genocide run, you have to keep running away from her to eventually win.
10:02 Now there's an original Westaway piece if ever I saw one.
Too bad the piece of art didn't come with its own theme song
Instantly recognizable art style. The masterful strokes on blood invoke so many feelings in the viewer!
6:13 I think if I was a giant robot made out of rocks I’d probably also be scared of paper
The "Get good, scrub" bit made me lol
I just wanna say I appreciate this channel for actually saying what games are being spoiled at the beginning of the video
To be fair, if big boy Connor showed his face to mess up mine, I would flee as well. While most other assassins have lean, agile frames, Connor is a muscle bound dude who fights bears with two little knives.
You can really feel the 10 years of pent of frustration in that AC 3 segment lol. 100% sync on that game was a nightmare, much like the tank mission in AC Brotherhood. I think Syndicate nailed the 100% sync where it let you go for checkpoints and saved the progress
I think the gang should do a "Draw your favourite Mortal Kombat fatality" competition.
Where's Gnasty Gnorc from the original Spyro game?
There is also the Alfred Boss Fight in Bloodstained Ritual of the night.
He just kept running away in a circle scenario while throwing bombs at you (quite infuriating).
*Micolash howling in the distance*
Would Eva Coré from Mass Effect 3 count? She keeps running away, but does go down fairly easily in the end.
Not really a boss. Kai Lang, however, kept running away in cut-scenes all while taunting Shepard for being too slow.
"I'm only seem slow because I'm not running away." was a great comeback.
@@stephenwilhelmI was thinking of Kai Leng too lol
Gets his butt kicked by a terminally ill Drell, runs. Gets his butt kicked inside an Asari temple, calls in an chopper to shoot missiles at your squad and destroy the temple to get a Prothean AI and runs, then finally gets his butt kicked at the Cerberus base but waits until your back is turned to try to kill you and then you make the killing blow.
So fun fact with the Gwyndolin fight:
The corridor isn’t actually infinite. If the fight takes long enough, you will reach the end of the corridor
I will now hear it as Charlesly.
One of my favorite bits with a boss that runs away from you is ULTRAKILL's V2 - a second version of the prototype war machine you play as, V1.
First time you encounter it, it runs away after you hit one of its arms off.
Second time you encounter it, it tries to run away by sliding down the side of a giant pyramid you were fighting it in the top of, and you *go after it,* knocking it off the side of the pyramid and causing it to become little more than a red smear and some scrap metal on the path far below - well, besides the new arm it crafted for itself to catch up to you for a rematch.
And yes, its arms are essentially extra abilities you can use. Your default arm parries projectiles, V2's first arm you hit off it is essentially a more powerful punch and can create an explosion that you don't get hurt by with a little bit of a wind-up, and the one it made to catch up to you is basically a grappling hook that you can use on enemies - smaller ones get pulled to you, you get pulled to larger ones. Useful given the game's healing mechanic of getting enemies to coat you in their fresh blood to restock your fuel.
You actually skiped the worst part of chasing lee. The excruciantingly awkward cutcscene where connor catches up, sits with him in a random inn, has a drink, then stabs him in the chest.
I honestly wasn't sure if I had skiped something xD
I think I got a few for ya. For starters, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Once Goht is unfrozen, it just runs right away in a ring shaped arena. Good news, it doesn't have much of a place to go, and the Goron roll is a great way to chase it down. Probably one of the few times such a boss fight is actually kind of cool.
Then there's the Chariot Master in Kid Icarus Urprising. Good news is he's at least nice enough to let you use one of the horses that pulls his legendary chariot so you can at least keep up.
Actually, while we're at it, how many frikken Machines does Dr Eggman do this across various Sonic the Hedgehog games? I know he does it in Sonic Heroes, Sonic Advance 2, and the daytime bosses of Sonic Unleashed.
First thing that came to mind was f***ing Trevalyan from Goldeneye. I died more to falling off at the end chasing the f***er than from anything else, lol.
I’d like to add Kunikazu Okumura from Persona 5. With most, you collect the treasure and then lead to a boss fight. For Okumura, you start out chasing after the treasure with a time limit and then fighting random employees he sends after you with another time limit.
Some of the nemesis orcs in shadow of Mordor and shadow of war will sometimes decide to run once you have them on the ropes
I had one nemesis orc who only showed up when I battled other nemesis orcs and ran immediately when damaged. Couldn't bring myself to kill or recruit him 😂
Golemech ( the giant robot made of rocks) probably thought he was being chased by a giant robot made of paper or he was running after a giant robot made of scissors... who can tell
"Gwyndolin never actually runs away... because he's too much of a magic wanker for that." - 🤣
I feel truly sorry for whoever had to get the capture for the Charles Less compilation, truly a sacrifice playing that much AC3
So many Sonic Bosses, particularly Advance 2 which is every boss except the final one
Despite what fans say. Twlight princess is a vary, deeply silly game. The chickens with human faces, the clows that shoot you out of a cannon, and the baboon with a big red butt all stand as a testiment to twilght princess having dark themes over tones vary silly under tones.
As a fan, I don’t disagree. Sort of an inversion of the more typical Zelda structure, which is bright and colorful overtones with very dark undertones.
At least for the critical path (the storyline of Ilias, Midna, Zant and Ganondorf), they try to keep it serious.
Meanwhile in Spirit Tracks, Zelda's just like "I'm a ghost now, lmao. ... could you maybe help me not be?"
I'm surprised the Wavecrest from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days didn't make this list, considering you spend more of that boss fight flying after him than attacking, and the thing is a late-game boss.
Crash Bandicoot, the Wrath of Cortex is funny because every boss fight is against Crunch, and in absolutely none of them does he fight Crash directly. Two of the fights straight up have him supe himself up with elemental power, and then spend half of it running away: the water one has him shoot at you from distant platforms, then teleport away the moment Crash gets within spinning distance. The fire one has him chase you for a bit, but then you get your hands on a squirt gun and you get a whole segment where you're chasing him down like a sibling with a super soaker.
Anyone from GTA 4 could qualify. Dimitri near the end of the bad ending of the game
Harley Quinn isn't the neglected girlfriend of The Joker. She's the abused girlfriend.
And she finally did escape him, iirc.
@@jennypaxton8159Depends on the iteration.
@@michaelandreipalon359 It’s DC, everything depends on the iteration…
At least Poison Ivy is actually good for her
Conner: "Give Me Lee!"
Me: hands Connor a Copy of "super smash bros Melee."
“Charles Lee”
Me an idiot “Charlie?”
Lolololol
Tabaxi monks at level 9: *100 ft of movement speed without touching their action OR bonus action* Zoomies!!
Hey, that's one of my DM's favorites! Nice.
Honourable mention, basically every Spyro boss. But Gnasty Gnorc in particular.
Reminds me of El Jefe from Sly Cooper Thieves in Time. Big scary warlord Tiger, scared of facing one sneaky Racoon in close combat, running away several times throughout the fight instead of taking his beating like a man.
Another fun one is Captain Madison in the Sastasha dungeon from FFXIV, not only does he run away from you in ONE fight, if you later return and do the hard version of Sastasha, he runs away from you then as well too! Only to meet an untimely end at the hands of the Kraken boss at the end.
Here I was thinking of Grynewaht, but to be fair to him, when he is actually a dungeon boss, he's done running away.
15:56 she said the thing
Jane: smartest host of ox, world domination planner
also Jane: 6 - 1 = 6
Batlin, elizabeth, abraham, Hook, and Forskis in Ultima 7. The latter four run from toy the whole game, you’re tracking them down. And then, when you confront all 5, Batlin runs away and then you have to spend half of Ultima 7 part 2 chasing him down, only for him to go out like a chump for betraying his boss
Gwyndolin only teleports away because his whole gimmick is that he makes the hallway longer than it actually is and so he can defend himself with king ranged spells and his burst fire bow
Also my goat Gwyndolin mentioned 🗣️🗣️
Dr. Robotnik in the original Sonic the Hedgehog's Labyrinth Zone.
Officer Tenpenny from GTA: San Andreas leads you on a wild goose chase across Los Santos before falling off an overpass and dying
Not really a chase, but in the video game Chicken little Ace in Action (based on the Disney film, seriously) the second "boss" Sleazel Weasel keeps hiding behind various force fields at the end of platforms, you have to fight against teleporting in enemies to get at him, and when you do he runs past you lickety split, and you have to do it all over again!
Kohga in Tears of the Kingdom. The amount of times he just zooms off to a different corner of the Depths. >:0
Dr Robotnik, in the labyrinth zone, is still the most annoying and difficult chase sequence I've had to deal with.
The Pale Lurker from Hollow Knight isn’t technically a boss but regardless I think it’s fitting. Literally all they do is run away from you and throw spike balls around to try and slow you down.
Shocked by the omission of Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye 64.
The joke setup for the end of the Ganondorf listing was impeccable! I can't imagine anyone not laughing.
Charles Lee?
Charles Lee!
Charlesly
"Git Good, Scrub!" Oh, the pain!
I'll be honest, I reckon most bosses end up pretty scared of you by the end. I'd be scared of something if I killed it 18 times and it still wanted to cut my legs off.
Or the rest of my kind. Like Hermes running from Kratos. Hes the only sane boss in the series it seems.
The "would you kindly" at the end is a nice reference to Fontaine, and having had to chase him down forever.
Makes me remember the speedrun glitch shortcut called “Last Chance, Kid!”
No mention of Krauser from Resident Evil 4? The man's so good at running away that even after you "kill" him, you still have to defeat him in Separate Ways!
And he probably still managed to run from death. Not like the ps2 game where you just bribe him.
Philip from the game Library of Ruina is a recurring boss who’s somewhat infamous in the fandom for… ALWAYS RUNNING AWAY BEFORE YOU BEAT HIM
It does tie into a character arc of him realizing that hes a pathetic coward, but you still fight him 3 more times after that, and he STILL runs away!!!
I didn't know my dad was a video game boss 😞😭
Dr Eva Coré from ME3 Mars mission. Made worse if you’ve imported a previous save, and have equipped on of the several pistols which are too slow to take her down in time
To be fair to Ganondorf most of his encounters involving Link and Zelda with light arrows usually ends with the Master Sword being lodged in his head. So I don't blame him for choosing to flee this time.
And same with Hermes running from Kratos. Those 2 are more sane than most bosses.
Micolash is a much more infuriating example than Gwyndolin.
It's not even a contest, since Gwyndolin at least stands still for a few seconds between teleports, whereas Micolash just sprints all over, his arena is a small maze, and there are puppet enemies to dodge everywhere.
Oh, and he also has an even more annoying one-shot laser.
After years of lurking and watching videos, I was finally compelled to get some merch from you guys. The "games are back tee" was too good to pass up. You guys are the best.
I don't know how Micolash, Host of the Nightmare didn't make this list!
10:05 that's a really good artist impression of how that scene went LOL
What about Elden Beast? Most difficult part of the fight is chasing it around arena.
Renalla too. And Placidusax for that matter. Though he runs to turn himself into a sharp meteor.
The Elden boss had the audacity to have a beautiful stadium then run away from you to the other end of the lands between, only to fly away the second you get back in range
"Neglected girlfriend of an actual clown" is SUCH an understatement 🤣
In all fairness to the Star Fox Golem, you're in a spaceship while it's on foot and head no ranged weapons. It's only options are to run in front of you and let you shoot it at will whole it tries to make you fly into pieces of the architecture it is collapsing in it's wake, or to run behind you while playing the Benny Hill theme.
Star Trek Online, there's a boss fight where you're literally chasing the other ship AT WARP SPEED while shooting at them!!!!
Which they couldn't actually do on any canon show, at least pre-whatever "canon is for suckers" junk came out starting in 2009.
@@SimuLord TNG had beaming while at warp, sooo.... Oh and TOS actually had combat at warp speed.
@@SimuLord Dude, watch "Encounter at Farpoint" again. Shooting photon torpedoes at Q wasn't very helpful, but I'm pretty sure it counts as 'combat.'
In fairness, bullies do tend to talk behind your back and evade when confronted.
Every boss you face in the Transformers 2007 and ROTF games (consoles and PC) pretty much ran away from you. One good example in a mission while you play as Barricade in the Decepticon campaign for the 07 game had you chase Bumblebee around the map in not just one, but two separate missions
Seishiro Munakata from Yakuza 4. HEUUUUUUUGH. Let's not forget that to add insult to injury, he'll shoot you from afar and you can't block the attack.
I bid £10 for the “Kratos and Hermes” on marker.
I don't know what it is but Jane swearing never gets old 😅
The Charles Lee chase made me so angry it was the first and only time I experienced true gamer rage and had to walk away for a while.