9 Incredible Video Game Bosses You Never Got To Fight

9. The Humongous Mecha - Alice: Madness Returns

In this wonderfully dark version of Wonderland, Alice and the Mad Hatter are making their way through the great industrial maze of the factory when they are cornered by the March Hare and the Doormouse, piloting a giant, imposing, mecha robot. They taunt the pair, and the player, picking up Hatter with a hook, promising to destroy us.

Well, that’s what we were promised, but it’s not quite what we got.

In one of those blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments, Hatter frees himself and manages to instantly destroy the mecha with a giant teapot, killing its pilots.

That’s it! No epic insane battle between a handful of fiction’s most iconic characters.

Originally the Mecha was supposed to be a boss battle. It would pound the ground around Alice, and she was supposed to shoot at its chest to defeat it. Maybe the dev team ran out of time to put the fight in, maybe the fight was just too frustrating for the early game, perhaps the team wanted to subvert the cliche trope of having a boss fight at the end of the level.

Whatever the reason, the whole thing feels very sudden, jarring, and completely unfair at the time.