8 Un-Killable Video Game Enemies (You Can Totally Kill)

The inability to stop something from relentlessly pursuing you is pretty bone-chilling in its own right, but when this something is a flying dichromatic mask with a permanent smile of pure evil...well, that's just rubbing it in even further.

Super Mario Bros. 2 is quite the black sheep of the Mario franchise, considering it wasn't originally even a Mario game to begin with. While most of the series' iconic enemies, such as Koopas, Goombas, Piranha Plants and the like, are featured in pretty much every game, Mario Bros. 2 has a roster of baddies all of its own.

And one of these is Phanto, who will go apesh*t and zip around the screen after you when you take the key in the same room.

The only way to deal with this vengeful visage is to use a tricky combination of the stopwatch and star powerups - the former to lock him in place, and the latter to actually kill him with.

But don't celebrate prematurely, as the moment you enter the next room with the key, the bloody thing is back to stay.