8 Video Game Bosses That Kill You From Beyond The Grave

Let’s face it - nobody likes a sore loser, because there’s a sure dignity in taking your lumps and accepting defeat whenever it comes around.

But the rules are a little different where life-or-death stakes are concerned and grace basically goes out the window. This was evidenced by these eight video game bosses, each of whom tried to cheekily off you even once their goose was already firmly cooked.

These bosses all found a way to launch one final salvo even after their life bar was depleted, their heart had stopped, they had no breath left in their body, and the fight was well and truly over.

Well, not quite.

These bosses all offered up one final bastardly salvo - a last-ditch effort to take you with them and rob you of the opportunity to lovingly piss on their grave. Metaphorically speaking, that is - probably.

While it’s entirely possible to avoid being killed by these bosses with their posthumous final attacks, there’s a good chance that they caught you off-guard the first time and left you furiously lamenting the sheer brazen cheek of it...

There's no dick move in a boss battle quite like a Big Bad who's a total sore loser and decides to just torch the Earth as they shuffle off their mortal coil. And that's absolutely what happens with Ninja Gaiden II's appropriately monikered git of a boss, the Nuclear Armadillo.

Even if you're able to deplete the fire-spewing abomination's health bars to zero - which is no easy feat to begin with - there's one cheeky final surprise lying in wait - a damn nuclear detonation.

That's right, after dropping down dead, the Nuclear Armadillo fulfils the eventuality of its name by near-instantly self-destructing, kamikaze-style, and in turn taking bamboozled players with it, causing instant death to the unprepared.

And because nothing in a Ninja Gaiden game is ever easy, this of course forces you to start the entire battle from the beginning.

Hilariously though, the means of surviving the blast are almost so mind-bogglingly simple you couldn't be remotely blamed for failing to even consider it.

All you need to do is hold down the block button and this will inexplicably allow you to withstand the detonation, taking not even a shred of damage from the awesome blast.

There's video game logic and then there's... whatever the fresh hell this nonsense is.