Cutscene Boss/Playing With

Basic Trope: The Final Boss is defeated in a cut scene.

• Straight: In Tales of Troperia, Bob fights his way through a castle, slashing through hundreds of mooks, and finally reaches the lair of Sir Evil. Instead of a typical battle, the game shows a cut scene of Bob throwing his sword and slaying Lord Evil.
• Exaggerated: Every single battle Bob gets into, even against minor mooks, plays out in a cut scene.
• Downplayed:
  • Bob whittles Sir Evil down to a certain health level in gameplay, then must use a Quick Time Event sequence to finish him off.
  • Alternatively, Coup De Grace Cutscene.
• Justified: The Unfought.
• Inverted: The whole game is cut scenes except for the boss battles.
• Subverted: The cut scene shows Bob slaying Lord Evil in a cut scene, but then Lord Evil transforms into a monstrous form and the real battle begins.
• Double Subverted: The real battle lasts for a few moments with nothing happening, then goes back to a cut scene of Bob defeating Sir Evil.
• Parodied: The gameplay engine (or the cut scene itself) depicts Sir Evil showing Bob a video of how the battle would play out in a cut scene; then Sir Evil keels over defeated.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Bob doesn't defeat any bosses in a cut scene.
• Enforced: The creators had a cool way to kill off the villain that can't be achieved with the usual game mechanics.
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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