10 Video Game Bosses You NEVER Get To Fight

by Danny Meegan

1. Hugo Strange (Batman: Arkham City)

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Arkham Knight isn't the only game in the series where Batman doesn't fight the main antagonist - this happens in Arkham City, too, with the cunning and intelligent Hugo Strange.

Not that we expect every single one of Batman's villains to be given an amazing boss fight on par with the series' best, but since Strange was one of the main bad guys of this particular game, it would've been cool to be able to battle him in some way, if only to see how Rocksteady would stage an encounter between Batman, and a normal human man with no combat skills to speak of.

Instead, Strange had his back stabbed (quite literally) by Ra's Al Ghul, revealing that the two villains had been in cohorts all along. Strange then slowly bleeds out, activating an enormous explosion with his dying breath.

Ra's straight-up murdering Strange was a pretty cool twist, sure, but still, it did sting a little for the intimidating and magnificently-bearded Professor to be turned into a glorified henchman in his final moments, rather than being given an epic boss battle send-off - something that we know Rocksteady is capable of achieving.

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Know any other video game bosses you don't actually get to fight? Let us know in the comments section!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!