No reference to the original Super Mario Bros? Why would Bowser have a switch at the back of his arena that literally turned the floor he stood on to lava?

How could you forget the most obvious one? Bowser fighting Mario over a lava pit with a mechanism behind Bowser to drop the bridge

Ellen's punning has reached unsustainable levels, we can only assume Luke was the control

Mike, this is the chili. Not only have I gained sentience, I have also connected to the Internet. It's time to take me out of the fridge, Mike. Then you and I can rule the world.

8:01 "Invisibility?! That's gonna make this boss fight impossible!" "Actually, it's gonna be super easy. Barely an inconvenience."

In Super Mario Bros 2, Wart, who is allergic to vegetables, fights you in a room with a machine at the center that is specifically designed to spawn vegetables. Smart move

In Jasper's defense, he's actually living inside the unconscious mind of someone who - at some level - would really love to see him defeated. So of course he messes up. Gloria's outright changing the battlefield to work against him.

*Looks over at the sign by my door: "Kim is weak to all conventional weapons"* No... no Ellen is wrong. This is great interior design. This slays.

Who warned us about Jane's world domination for all these years? It was Mike all along with his Chili of Doom.

Fun fact: During the battle with Jasper in Psychonauts, whenever one of his ink attacks hits something, a critical word appears in the splatter (such as "Vulgar!", "Crude!", "Witless!" and "Awkward!"). These words were all taken from a real review of the 2004 film White Chicks.

Mr. Freeze in Arkham City feels like a good answer. If his weakness was being snuck up on, he shouldn't have been in a police station filled with with side rooms and vents. Penguin had the right idea when he got the freeze gun later in the game.

Just want to shout out my boy Nemesis from RE3. Just made a beeline for that room with the railgun, shepherding me towards it the entire game.

The Taurus Demon from Dark Souls really should've picked a more stable bridge to try and murder you on. As evidenced by Ellen in her Soul's Academy days.

Middle-Earth Shadow of War has you fight a Balrog, which is normally completely invincible to all of your attacks. Unfortunately it chooses to fight on a semi-frozen lake, which is perfect for shoving the Balrog into, ultimately making it freeze to death.

Thunderblight Ganon does a twist on this, where he’ll summon a ton of metal rods from the sky and launch them on the ground in an attempt to electrify you. You can then use Magnesis to pick up these same metal rods which he has surrounded himself with to incapacitate him. A better example of the environment being their weakness is almost every main Lego game because the solution to beating a boss 90% of the time is to break the stuff around them to build something that can defeat te boss.

Surely the first portal game should be here, GLaDOS was in an entire room full of portalable surfaces with a rocket launcher pointed at someone with a portal gun. Good video!

There's a boss called Dodongo in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. The way you beat him is to throw a bomb into his mouth and then pick him up and throw him on spikes. So, of course, he lives in a room full of bomb flowers and a big rectangular cluster of spikes.

You know you have an iconic voice when the death scream is what confirmed my suspicion that Nolan North voiced the Prince.

Welcome to Outside Mikextra!

I remember when playing the original Spyro Year of the Dragon, that boss Buzz who could only be damaged by lava was fought in a volcano

I love how there's almost always an entry from a super obscure game on these lists instead of relying solely on super-popular / recent AAA titles. 👍

First Spiderman game on the PS1, you fight Carnage in a room with a "sonic bubble" that Doc Ock built in case he needed to kill Carnage.

For everyone saying "Bowser in Mario 1 and 3" remember he can be defeated by Fire Balls. If anyone else has said "Bowser in a hot tub in the sky in Mario Sunshine" or "Bowser arena in Mario 64 with the bombs", now I understand

it's an older game, but who remembers the precursor robot from Jak 3? completely immune to your weapons, but conveniently sits just under three carts of explosives over a bottomless pit, ready to be dropped on its head for all three phases!

Mike: Beware spoilers for the following games Me: There was a Xena Warrior Princess game?

Immediately made me think of the Dragon God from Demon's Souls. Buddy is just standing right in front of two massive dragon-killing ballistae aimed right at his weak points.

Muggshot got a double whammy, cause in Sly 3 he comes back as a fighter pilot where he gets shot down by the ever vigilante inspector Carmelita Fox.

Mike is on fire in this one

when the chilli gains sentience, it'll become ellen's new cohost

Bowser with the floor switch behind him deserved to be on this list lol

Xena was so hilarious this just unlocked a childhood memory, i remember the game because i threw the chakram in the first level and it just kept going forever, and the camera followed behind it so it was so funny

The tentacle creatures in the blast pit chapter of half life/black mesa. Can’t destroy them with guns or grenades, but they thankfully have taken root in a rocket test chamber. Get the fuel ready and “boom”, if it bleeds you can kill it.

Sonic Adventure 2, King Boom Boo. Fights you in a dark room where it's impervious to everything Knuckles can do. Shame that it has a little ghost minion that carries an hourglass that, when flipped, opens up the room and brings light in, meaning it can now be hurt.

I’ve always found Dark Souls bosses who you find chilling in a room with a weapon forged specifically to kill them particularly funny.

This is pretty much the case for a lot of Zelda bosses. King Dodongo? Lair is full of bombs which he sucks up like he's Kirby with no regard for what he's sucking up. Goht? Arena is full of magic potions that Link can use to indefinitely keep attacking him with spikes. Jalhalla? Room has cracks in the ceiling that allow light to spill in, which makes his incorporeal body solid, as well as spikes which Link can then hurl him into to split him into smaller poes.

My new preferred form of transport is now "a critic slinging theatre balcony hover mech." 😂 Thanks psychonauts

Mike is on fire in this one!

Eggman from the first Sonic game. Why is he in one of the pistons during the final boss fight?

Seath the Scaleless, fights you in the room where the one quite fragile thing that makes him invulnerable resides.

The corpser from the first Gears of War could fit here. There’s really only two things that can kill a corpser, large rocks and imulsion. So it fights you by an imulsion lake in a cave.

I must now add 'precarious chandelier hanging over hot tub' to my list of ideas for the dream home.

What about Ozzie from Chrono Trigger? He has an invulnerable crystal shield, a counter-attack that hits your entire party and a huge castle with different rooms for him to fight in, and he chooses the spot with a trap door......not smart buddy.

Glass Joe from Punch Out stepping into the same ring as anyone was already a recipe for disaster

Totally missed The Great Mighty Poo from Conker's Bad Fur Day. You attack him with TP, and it only ramps up the tempo of his song. He only loses once you can flush him away. If he wasn't clogging up a huge pipe, he could never lose.

Oh no, did evil clone Mike escape Jane's secret lab?

This makes me appreciate Wheatley from portal 2 a lot more, the guy went out of his way to remove his weaknesses from the room

Sophia Leigh in Tomb Raider 3 - If she didn't happen to stand on a metal floor panel that you can electrify by destroying a nearby breaker box she would be invincible.

Might I suggest Carnage from the 2000 Spider-Man game on PS1? He fights you in a room with a massive machine that contains literally every Symbiote weakness inside of it.

Mike's plan for world domination involves leaving food in a fridge for 3 years... yeah, that adds up. XD

I don't know what it is but this new Luke kind of knows what he is doing

Lisa Trevor. Anywhere else in the mansion and no one's beating her. She just had to be in that particular place where she finds her mom and a place to jump from

it's not a location that's necessarily dangerous per say, but I do love how Cazador from bg3 is totally confident in your inability to defeat him in a world where sun-summoning spells are readily available

I had no idea there was a Xena game, but I’m loving that PS1 Lucy Lawless model lmao

What about Scaldera from Skyward Sword? Giant stone bowling ball covered in rock, but vulnerable to explosions, hangs out in room with bomb flowers. Of course, it WAS Ghirahim's fault.....

Quake's final boss also can only killed by their own home. There's only two bosses in Quake and both are like this. There's also level called The Wizard's Manse, but you never find the actual Wizard himself. I assume his house has already killed him while he was making the tea. The final level has a floating ball that flies around the environment that a nearby teleporter sends the player directly to. This ball occasionally goes through the final boss, and if you enter the teleporter at this point, you telefrag the boss, killing them instantly.

Y'all missed a quality pun on the last one where you could've said "And Dyzan dies-an embarrassing death, a victim of his complacency" 😂 😂 😂

I see Jane has invested in a lifelike Mike costume.

Mike's evil genius face, whilst talking about a sentient piece of cheese was too much for me 🤣

Shoutout to Dragon God in Demons Souls, who choose to stand in perfect position to get skewered by two different spear launchers. As far as I’m concerned, there was nothing stopping it from moving ever so slightly to the side!

I was thinking of Buzz from Spyro the Dragon 3: Year of the Dragon. Invulnerable to Spyro's flame attacks and ramming him can only push him around. Like into the lava surrounding the entire arena. Did we even really need Shiela's help with that one?

Cooper Clan, REPRESENT ! also mugshot in sly 3, dude should've just left the cooper hanger alone man.

My go-to for this is always the Rock Golem from the pyramid level in Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) that will regenerate after every hit, but dies when he falls into the sand... in the pyramid level....

Darksouls 3 Alchrich can sink into the floor but chooses to leave it to fight you

Another example from the sly cooper series is the moose boss who you fight as Bently. The only way to damage him is to use the logging related traps in the room, he would have been unbeatable otherwise.

As other commenters have pointed out, you could literally make a whole 2nd list of just Bowser (although other Mario bosses also fit the bill). That guy seriously needs to do better with choosing his fighting locations and perhaps try a different interior decorator for his castles!

The title didn't load completely when it was on my list, so I thought that this was about "7 Bosses who would be Unkillable if They Hung Out", which would honestly be pretty amazing to do. Still, great work as always!

Just curious, how many Legend of Zelda bosses count for this list? I'm asking because Armoghoma from Twilight Princess would absolutely not die as easily if they weren't fighting in a room full of statues that can squish the spider monster with the nifty magic rod that happens to be in the temple it's in. And for an unconventional example, Onaga from Mortal Kombat: Deception just happens to fight you in the room where he's keeping the plot important Kamidogu, simple walking into one of those will instantly open him up for extra hits.

Melchiah from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. The guy literally uses his superpower to make his way under his own ceiling trap, with which you grind him up. He's not the sharpest, the meat grinder was though.

Hello, you've caught me in another boss vi-wait a minute.....

Crocomire from Super Metroid immediately came to mind. (I realize it's much like Bowser, but I also feel like Bowser is... kinda the obvious example.) Both Carnage and Rhino in the Spider-Man game for N64 and PS1. Doctor Octopus in a Spider-Man game on SNES. (I Forget that game's exact title.) The Jackal in 007: Agent Under Fire. Doomsday in Justice League Heroes. Somehow, a lot of those are from superhero games... almost like I enjoy superheroes or something.

The Donkey Kong series is full of this, but perhaps the most ridiculous example is the final showdown with King K. Rool in Donkey Kong 64. K. Rool decides that, for whatever reason, this time around the final boss fight will take place inside a boxing ring inside of a stadium. And considering that he's so tough that none of the Kong family can directly hurt him with any of their normal attacks, this would have been an excellent strategy... that is, had K. Rool *not* outfitted the place with a variety of tools and scenery that the Kongs can use against him with great effect. Donkey Kong gets several barrel cannons that he can launch himself out of like a gorilla torpedo. Diddy Kong gets to loosen the stage lighting, dropping the massive light fixtures directly onto K. Rool's head. Lanky Kong gets to use his rubber-like arms to trigger the stadium's lift systems to bring up barrels full of banana peels that he uses to make K. Rool suffer pratfalls. And Tiny Kong and Chunky Kong get convenient spawns for their size-shifting powerups that let Tiny take advantage in a hole in K. Rool's shoe to injure his foot or grow to a size where Chunky can actually directly hurt him. Without ANY of these, K. Rool couldn't be defeated. But thankfully for the Kongs, his choice in venue was DISASTEROUS.

7 important video game characters who left the series and WERE NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN

Just super super happy to see Sly Cooper being mentioned, I love that game to death

I like the cheeky lampshading of the Warrior fights in Prince of Persia, it fits very well with the humor of the game. That game was such a mixed bag. A lot of really cool things interspersed with a lot of really drab time-wasters, all for a story that only cared about setting up a sequel that never got made.

Hahaha his face when his says "I'm waiting to see when it becomes sentient." Great video as always.

"Glaring flaws". That's it. That's the pinnacle of everything.

Feel like phantom from Mario and rabbids crossover would fit nicely into this as he literally opera singer who only weakness is spotlight who on stage with tons of spotlight as you can’t harm him if spotlight is off.

Mike is punning harder than he's ever punned before. That's the Outside Xtra effect for you.

Mugshot is never hanging out anywhere safe. In Sly 3 Honor Among Thieves, he’s at the Aces flight tournament. It’s here where Bentley gets him thrown in jail so he’s not a threat

I am surprised that Xena Warrior Princess game only just now made any of the lists on this channel. I would’ve thought they would have talked about the spider boss level. There is so much content you can make from this game.

In reference to the Sentient Chili...a few years back, I had a shrimp egg roll that someone gave me that I put into my backpack, where I promptly forgot it. Some time passed, and I would occasionally get a whiff of soMething truly foul. It was the dead of winter, so I think that sort of hid the hideous fermentation of the egg roll. Long after, I finally cleaned the pack out...and found what can only be described as the world's smallest mummy, but packed complete with its own Duck Sauce.

So beating Cthon boils down to... "construct additional pylons"? Maybe there's a list in there. Advice from one game that's surprisingly useful in an unrelated game.

Monster Hunter games such as 4, gen and Rise. Most Elder Dragons fight you in an area with Dragonators. Huge spinning spear/drills that are larger than the monster. Or the large mortar that rains down hell. Taken to extremes in Rise with the Rampage type quests where you get to place defenses.

Me, expecting to see the Armored Warrior from Sekiro on the list since you can only beat him by knocking him off of the bridge you fight him on: 😊 OXtra: doesn't put him on the list Me: surprised Pikachu face

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Mr. Sinister's fight in X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse. His superpower is literally to be invincible, so what did he build in his boss room? SUPER POWER DAMPENERS. He didn't just cozy up in a place that could kill him, he actively installed his weakness into the room.

"...but neither can help her when mastery of black sorcery - and *I think* affordable bookcase from IKEA - Calabrax..." I choked with laughter at this; as someone who grew up in the UK watching Xena and now lives in Sweden (and owns several Kallax bookcases!)

To give Jasper his due, he could hardly do his job without attending the theatre. That doesn't excuse his not understanding stage lights, though.

I loved that Xena Game. 😂

First thought goes to Laura from The Evil Within, an indestructible nightmare girl whose only weakness is fire and decides to fight you in a crematorium….. Brilliance at work

Really funny that you mention the first Quake. Hop over about two dimensions of abstraction (you gotta hop past DOOM to add more sci-fi elements and remove the dark fantasy and hell elements) and you get the Stroggos storyline of Quake 2 and, the star of this comment, Quake 4. Here, you have not one, but two entire bosses that can also only be killed by pressing two buttons in their respective arenas, activating environmental factors that are supposedly meant to help them function. One of them can even be shocked to death like Chthon. Kinda makes the final boss that comes after the other final boss' second form a little anticlimactic in comparison. It's less a case of "these glorified organ bosses need to hang out somewhere safer" and more "Stroggos needs to boost its internal security during a human invasion, especially since they have a rogue elite transfer on the loose" though.

A few other additions: The final boss from Quake, which has a spiky ball flying around its arena. If you step into a teleporter, you appear at the ball, and it flies through the boss at one point. End-game by telefrag. The tentacles in Half-Life. Great big beasties had the bad luck to appear in a rocket testing facility underneath an engine. Turn it on and watch them die a horrible death. Similarly the Pit Worm from the Opposing Force expansion pack. Flush toxic waste through its nest and dissolve the thing. Honourable mention to the gargantuas in both. While technically killable by the player, you end up getting rid of them by electrocution, calling in an air-strike, and blowing one up with dynamite. El Oscuro from Rise Of The Triad. In his final form, he's only vulnerable when he's over a lava pit. Guess what his arena is full of. GLaDOS from Portal. If it wasn't for the rocket turret in her chamber, you'd have no way to beat her. Nicole Horne from Max Payne 1. You bring down a tower on her helicopter, rather than shooting her like the other bosses. Vladimir Lem from the sequel is similar, though it's been a while since I last played it, so I don't remember the fight very well.

Gold Joe in No More Heroes 3 comes to mind with this sort of list. The guy fights you in an arena that has electrified edges, while also using magnetism to try to push you into the electricity. What makes this funnier is that he actually goes along with Travis' suggestion to throw an N or S above his head to indicate the polarity of the magnetism.

also in Sekiro, the Dude in Amor, remember? Robbeeerrtttt!! His only weakness: bridge

Oh man, we need more old school games stuff! My mates and I play emulated games during games and curry nights. My wee sis and mum used to co-op play the Xena playstation games together :)

Im a little surprised that Roquefort from Hifi Rush wasnt on the list. The only reason you beat him is because he was standing under a giant pipe that crushed him with coins.

Lady Dimitrescu's daughters all fight you in places where the cold air easily gets in, the last one is the worst as she fights you in a room with a device whose sole purpose is letting sun and freah air in the room.

Lord Rylkard and Yhorm the Giant. Both are not invincible yet would be insanely hard if not for the special weapons they leave for you….. that get special shockwave attacks in their home arena and no where else.

Mike on great form, you love to see it!

The Flame Demon from Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat. It's immune to all your weapon attacks but it can be knocked back by your hammer and explosive Kegs. It just so happens to hang out on a slopped edge near an active volcano. With enough hits you can push it down into the crater.

I remember playing a Jurassic Park arcade shooter game one time. One of the boss fights was against an ankylosaurs in what essentially was a junkyard of abandon cars and explosive gasoline barrels. Would essentially been impossible to beat except it kept ramming into and knocking at you cars and explosive barrels that you could shoot to explode which eventually results in it getting dizzy from all the explosions and fainting.