10 Video Game Sub-Bosses Who DESTROYED Players

10. Goro - Mortal Kombat Series

They talk up Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat as this invincible, timeless sorcerer with powers beyond our meagre levels of perception, a final baddie who will inevitably crush our resolve and cost us an entire pocket money’s worth of ten pence in the arcade machine.

Yet, when you reach the doddery old codger, it’s like watching Colin MacGregor in the UFC octagon versus Victor Meldrew, as you plough effortlessly through the coot on your first try.

The same can’t be said of the game’s miniboss, though - Goro, the four-armed behemoth uses equal parts brute strength and bull***t to absolutely annihilate you, tanking hits and blitzing through your health bar in a few hits.

Though later games would feature equally enraging minibosses (Kintaro, in particular, was off the charts in terms of ability to get you screaming at the screen), at least those games also had tough final bosses too (Shao Khan was no pushover).

No other game in the series had such a huge gulf in power between its mini-boss and final boss - going from Goro to Shang Tsung was like going from a radioactive mega-evolved Vin Diesel... to punching an elderly whippet.