10 Video Game Bosses That Killed You AFTER Being Defeated

3. Kuja - Final Fantasy IX

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Now to be strictly truthful, when a party member loses all their HP in a Final Fantasy game, they generally "pass out" rather than die, but given that it usually results in a Game Over screen, the net result is basically the same.

And so, we have Final Fantasy IX's primary antagonist Kuja, who players encounter several times throughout the game.

During the boss battle against Kuja on Terra, knocking his health down to nothing will be met with a most unfortunate "reward" - he'll cast the devastating Ultima attack which will wipe out your entire party.

This is, thankfully, part of the game's story, so you won't get a Game Over screen as there's absolutely nothing you can do to prevent it. It also happens again near the very end of the game when you encounter and defeat Trance Kuja, the sore loser that he is.

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