7 WTF Enemies Who Wandered in From a Different Genre 

That boss fight was basically freeing the dragon from it's enslavement from bowser

Literally just dark eater midir

same.

@@averageaudiophile4505 Looks very much like Fatalis too

Yeah, first time I faced him I exclaimed out loud, "What is this Dark Souls-ass boss?"

That does make the small ones popping out of the guy make more sense.

The alien look like a fat Xenomorph and the little ones look almost identical to facehuggers

Wonder why they changed it? It doesn't make any more sense either way lol.

I remember playing the arcade version on Taito Legends 2 for the PS2, and yeah, I was super confused. I saw they were talking about Growl, but then showed the shell monster. I remembered the huge worm thing tearing out of the guy's back and the horrifyingly eerie background and ambiance of the whole fight. Freaked me out as a kid.

Fun Fact: Growl was the trope-namer for "Giant Space Flea From Nowhere"

Hahaha it's at the perfect point in the game too, right when things are tilting over to Lovecraftian eldritch alien horrors from the victorian gothic supernatural style It's usually right around then or after you have enough insight to see the amygdalas too

The celestial minions are former humans / failed experiments (anyone you sent to the clinic is experimented on and becomes one of them) and they totally fit with the mythos theme. It's basically From Software saying "yeah guys we do know Lovecraft outside of Cthulhu and the other pop culture stuff" to actual mythos fans. **SPOILER** Iosefka is an imposter the real Iosefka was the imposter's first experiment and was mutated into a celestial minion. We know this because one of the celestial minions drops a vial of her blood.

apparently yes: you've wandered into Monster Hunter.

Dark Souls: The Preview

Miyamoto is a f***ing mad genius sometimes.

Honestly, when I first saw it, I was like "Wait, is that Fatalis?"

"I'm sorry, uh I think I wondered into a souls-borne, I meant to be in Mario, ah I'll just leave"

Steve Irwin: non-pacifist run

You mean "killing innocent people that are mind controller by an alien"?

I mean, it's saving the natural world.

@@darkfang25 I grapple the poacher !

It's amazing. The arcade version was included in a Taito(?) arcade collection along with Rastan Saga 2, and it's got to be seen to be believed. It's got massive amounts of enemies who look like a leather fetish club decided to take you to PoundTown (only not the sexual kind). It's a blast.

Lmao, was gonna comment on that.

Also, for some reason, they're called "ghosts" in-game. Just to add to the confusion...

​@@williamjones5334 Just means that the people of Termina are most likely to label such a creature a ghost. Edit: auto correct thought I wanted to say creator instead of creature.

You can't forget about how they also came with a ball of light from the sky.

An updated version of the model can be found in the files of Twilight Princess but is never used in the game its self.

In every Zelda game, over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, we see a world with mostly the same level of technology and societal development. Sometimes things like Pictograms exist and sometimes they don't, Sheikah tablets are obviously advanced but don't seem to impact that much else about how those with access to that tech live, same goes for Zonai. They're all in a vaguely medieval state of existence with some tech bordering on sci-fi and references to aspects of modern society not really impacting that too much. Then there's Clock Town, which feels firmly set in the technological and societal equivalent to the 1800s. It's the sort of setting I wish they'd return to - a game where a good half of the action seems to take place in a very complex and "alive" town rather than in the lonely fields of Hyrule/Termina.

...and "It Came from the Desert" was based on the movie "Them!" which was about giant ants that were mutated from the radiation of all of the atomic bomb testing during the cold war.

One of the first games I ever played, and a formative experience for my expectation for the future quality of games and the wide variety of activities you should be able to do in them.

I'm just happy to see C&C get recognized

I had that game for Amiga.

Why are you in a room lit by candlelight??

@@mar_speedman Rolling blackouts in my country.

@@xenogil180 😣😖

@@xenogil180 And here I was thinking there was no way it was a blackout if you could watch the video >.>

@@mar_speedman Yes, a blackout doesn't affect a smartphone the same way as a computer

I think maybe that was Chet miyamoto he works at the London zoo.

what jokes?

@@renesilva9705 did you watch the video lol

I'll be honest, I expected a phone call from "Mr. Miyamoto" only for them to realize it was Hideo Kojima trolling them.

@@hanzgrueber145 They're playing along with the conceit of Mr. Miyamoto calling them up.

I'm pretty sure they didn't spend the money for multiple takes for any of those cut-scenes. Think it was all done in a single room in the space of an afternoon.

didnt he have a nearly heartstroke/

@@josephhawthorne5097 I like to imagine that it actually went down like this: Tim Curry: "Right, I'm ready for a second take." Crew: "Second take? What second take? We're done here."

@@toxicinferno I'd imagine that too, if I thought for a second that Tim Curry would stop gleefully hamming it up for long enough, whether they're filming or not, for the crew to get a word in edgeways. "Tim, Tim, Tim! We stopped filming 30 minutes ago, you can stop now!" "SPAEEAEECE!"

That's the best take because he's playing a nutter that gleefully laughs as he claims space from the capitalists.

No kidding! I certainly went “What the actual hell?!” the first time I saw that level.

Oh yeah, that level GENUINELY spooked me.

Oh, you mean the Bunmawashi Dolls, who made their first and (so far) only appearance in that level

There are no aliens in Doom

He already made an airtight case, doesn’t need any more data points really.

What video is that mentioned in I wanna watch

​@@timburlingame5893 Simply displaced, native hell-residents

Technically inter-dimensional aliens but they can hardly be the subject of this topic since they are the staple enemy in that game.

Yep. Zeltik actually has a whole video explaining it.

It looked familiar while playing and I didn't know why so thanks for this.

And just like the cryptid the aliens are based on, they are often forgotten

In actuality those aliens are malicious spirits the two Gorman Brothers summoned and sicced on Romani Ranch to run Romani and her older sister out of business. And since that is the case, we should now ask what do the Gorman Brothers do with the cows they abduct? And what did they do to Romani (should she get abducted) that leaves her in the state she's in when they release her. It's not a pleasant sight what Romani is like if you fail to stop the ghost from abducting her and her cows. Also you get the Garo Mask from the Gorman Brothers who wear a pair of said mask when they attack Cremia and Link (should the later succeed in repelling the ghosts) as they're trying to deliver her milk to Termina. The Garo Mask itself allows Link entry into Ikana Canyon and he can encounter/battle the ninja-like Garo spirits that haunt the place. So the conclusion one could make here is this: The two dudes who look like jerkish versions of Mario and Luigi were ninjas at some point in the past before they became ranchers.

@@rjfrost7090 That's just a theory and honestly one that seems extremely unlikely. If they had the ability to summon spirits like that why would they only ever do it one specific night of the year. Also, if you open up the pathway after the first night, won't Romani be traumatized? If so, it makes no sense for them to do that when they're already ruining the business with the boulder. Not to mention the pictures with ufos and stuff in the house. People have debunked that theory. Zeltik had done a video on them and had talked about that theory but ultimately found it to be very unlikely.

The aliens must have taken her brain and mind controlled her lol

To be fair: This tactical stealth espionage series also sees Snake fighting zombie super soldiers, a team of brainwashed female cyber-furries, and a bisexual vampire, so... is a literal dragon really that out of place?

@@ASpooneyBard yes, because most other stuff in that case is kinda possible. Except maybe vampire. But they are a somewhat close relative to normal humans.

He also seems to be everywhere like Yakuza's Goro Majima.

I think he just hacked their phones so that all they can call is him.

@@LeeDeeThe1 Considering the first two calls were from him and Ellen's call went to the zoo, he might just be having a day off chilling at the zoo.

That last call was a hilarious swerve tbh. 🤣

A gag?? Is Miyamoto phoning Oxtra to bestow definitive canon a JOKE to you? The man is a legend, show some respect, smh

Wut?

Honestly, anyone new to the series will feel confused at the bullcrap pulled by the Metal Gears and other supernatural opponents. When I first played MGS5, I promise you, seeing a man permanently on fire wipe out special forces yet not be enough to prevent me from escaping with an amputated arm definitely got to my head a little. As did Sahalanthropus a couple dozen hours later.

THIS ONE! Put it in the Commentators Edition!

The real kicker was finding out Rathalos is actually fucking bulletproof, meaning that even a machine gun can't stop the Rathalos World Tour

@@wolfwarrior1176 In MGS Peace Walker, you can encounter monsters from Monster Hunter, such as Rathalos and a Metal Gear styled after a monster. Edit: I double checked just to be sure, you specifically fight a Rathalos, a Tigrex, and a monster based off of Metal Gear Rex.

They were a secret bonus thing from a standalone expansion pack that you accessed by doing a secret thing in the main menu (shift-clicking a speaker). I'm not surprised even people who played them might now think they were a fever dream, since if they forgot about how to get to them just replaying the game won't help - they won't be there.

To be fair the series had so completely jumped the shark at that point that giant nuclear ants really weren't *that* out of place. I mean, did you see Tim Curry?

@@Christian-rn1ur ...it jumped the shark at the first game? Technically second if you count the original C&C as the "first game" of the Red Alert series?

I'm pretty sure we're told they come every year around the carnival.

Right!? The real heroes. Link who?

Nah, Romani says they come every year around carnival time

hmmm how many souls had he collected by that point i wonder?

Either that or Skyrim lol. Could be either or as far as inspiration

@@CrazeeAdam Yep! When I got there, I was thinking: "Paarthurnax in a Mario game is just an overload of awesome."

It weirdly fittet to Odeysee due to it's drastic Variety in Artstyle and Setting

@@seretith3513 yeah, each world had a different aesthetic... this was the Dark Souls planet. :D

It would have been really funny if Nintendo put a campfire right before the dragon

Thank you for your service, patching up all the poor Dark Souls animals

@@4stringsnomercy431 xD I try my best.

It reminds me more of Fatalis from monster hunter

Like Dark Souls 2 and 3.

Dun…dun…DUNNNN!!

Yes!!! I immediately thought of that classic the second I saw Them!

Did you hear any bells start to toll, by chance?

Sakurai has a weird sense of humor 😶

That was my first thought. Also one of the standard enemies are Metroids, which is also true of the older Kid Icarus games

To be fair, considering how weird and future-fantastical Kid Icarus already is, aliens isn't quite that absurd.

Funny that they’re not even the first set of aliens you fight, what with the space pirates. Although the Aurom are also especially alien, as none of them really even look like living creatures. More like drones.

I really want to try that game

OMG yes. Please. 🤣

I love how every RA game they decided to up the cheesiness by a factor of 4.

Well, all you'd have to do is recolor it with white scales and red lightning and you'd have White Fatalis

Face seems a bit to broad to be fatalis if you ask me, also his neck looks to short but that could just be the perspective

@@chainsawboy2388 i mean in terms of general appearance.

You are wrong in so many levels

​@@theanimatormustachegrunt3307Like how? The size, the proportions, and the lighting aren't exact to Fatalis. But that face is way too similar

or even Mad Mew Mew, which is a switch exclusive boss in undertale, it being an excluvise because of the gimmick in the fight being that the soul is split in 2 and each joycon controls a half of the soul

Monster Hunter World has entered the chat

@@FelisImpurrator I hated the Behemoth fight in MHW... ugh...

I would love to watch Bahamut team up with Bahamut Zero for a nice friendly match of Tennis.

@@DragoKirby Would a moon or an asteroid be the tennis ball?

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor No, it would just be a regular sized tennis ball lmao.

and I now must try this! ...eventually XD

*sigh* I miss manuals..

Yah. With all the access to wikis and tutorials, there isn’t really a need for manuals, but sometimes you just want something to hold, you know?

I was thinking the same thing

I thought the exact same thing lol.

Luke is absolutely correct, Godzilla would beat King Kong. Godzilla is a GIANT NUCLEAR LIZARD WITH NUCLEAR BREATH while Kong is just a very big monkey. Yes Kong does sometimes have electric powers- but this was added in the first time he and Godzilla fought just to give Kong some kind of fighting chance.

@@revaryk6868 100% agree. I'm mostly interested in the full analytics breakdown he was talking about. I'm a numbers person and data analyst. 😄

Definitely to be "that guy" Kong is faster and stronger than Godzilla (per Toho and their iterations anyway), but Godzilla is more durable and does have a nuclear death beam. Kong is nimble enough to dodge it, but basically fucked when hit. Also, thank you for mentioning Godzilla's inherent radiation. Not adequately dealt with since the original. That Guy out. 🖐🎤

@@Gojira_San in my humble opinion it would have been way cooler to have cannon height king kong fight godzilla like it's god of war or shadow of the colossus, using his monke skills to climb the colossal death lizard, trying to get godzilla to hit himself or utilizing simple physics to increase the impact of his own attacks, thus showcasing his superior intellect. as for the radiation that should not be a huge issue for kong, alpha particles could easily be blocked by his fur and even beta radiation probably wouldn't penetrate deeply enough to cause damage to vital tissue, gamma rays would still go through, but those rarely interact with matter at all so the damage would be minor.

@@windhelmguard5295 Oh I'm not disputing any of that. I loooooove the movie, don't get me wrong, but your God of War scenario has long been a dream of mine as well. As for the radiation, I was speaking more to it's effects on people rather than Kong. Like how in Gojira his mere presence caused radiation burns and sickness, and then never again in the franchise. Different Godzillas, I know, but I thought it was an interesting characteristic.

That is the one boss that I filtered out of my own memory for a while until it was confirmed through external sources that it was indeed part of True Crime: Streets of L.A.

Came to the comments to see if this was mentioned. Was not disappointed.

You're Godzilla right.

As a fan of the Big G myself, I can only say HELL YEAH!

And that's the canon ending, that leads to all the Nier games

Not to mention it's implied that you are fighting the main character of Drakengard 3

And it's one of the bosses in FF14 as the Nier crossover with it (Best raids in the game NGL)

Isn't that game also has giant babies and kid soldier as enemies.

@@unknownuser494 Yeah, and a companion who (in the uncensored Japanese version) is a pedophile, and another companion who is implied to eat children.

"Perhaps in another world, we could have been mortal enemies," to belabour the point.

Thanks for posting this so I didn't have to.

Was looking for this. Probably my fiest WTF moment in gaming. Maybe giant baby in earthbound but it's earthbound so you know.

Well, the game was co-developed by Squaresoft.

"I HUNGER FOR HELIUM"

reminds me of an old cartoon, "spider-man and his amazing friends"... two kids (one boy and one girl) accidentally come back in time, and need some special things to fix their spaceship and get home... and one of the things they needed was Ivory!

Finally another iconoclast fan

@@lb6987 There are *dozens* of us!

It was a callback to the original Castlevania games. Not exactly from a different genre if you look at it that way.

@@celestialstar6450 Wasn't Bloodstained supposed to be 8-bit in the first place?

That Sh*t was tough the first time. Speaking of I gotta check out that "journey" update...

@@MasterZebulin Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is, not Ritual of the Night. They're separate, but related, series.

@@azuredragoon2054 Wait, I was thinking of something entirely different?

And a link to Cinemaware’s “It Came From The Desert”

That's my issue with half this list though. A lot of it is tongue-in-cheek non-canon Easter eggs. I feel like the concept fell apart after the first few.

@@MorinehtarTheBlue I agree. Things like the evil alien controlling the poachers is a real "where the hell did you come from?" moment. DLC or time limited events where you fight "cool thing that is currently relevant" like Godzilla vs King Kong* are just "we're building/cashing in on hype from some other thing that's happenening". There's no reason to be surprised, because you already know that it's in the public eye. Easter eggs like the RA ants are a bit better, but... They're kind of on the level of a bloopers reel. It's just a fun thing the devs threw in because they could. It's not actually part of the bigger picture. It has no effect on anything in the product/franchise before or after, and is just there for a laugh. *And yes, Godzilla obviously wins every fight. It has "radioactive breath", regeneration that can rival comic book super heroes (at the end of the original movie, it was destroyed on a cellular level, yet still managed to revive in time for the many sequels), hide thick enough to withstand direct hits from tanks and artillery, etc. Kong is literally just a large ape, and even if "yeah, it was nuclear radiation" is on the level of "a wizard did it", at least there is some kind of excuse as to why Godzilla functions at all, and it clearly shows that normal rules do not apply anymore. Meanwhile we're supposed to believe that an animal that is literally just a massively upscaled version of an existing primate somehow exists naturally even though, according to the square-cube law, it would have it's volume (and thus it's mass) increased exponentially, causing it to collapse under it's own weight and... I'll just join Luke in the side room.

Seriously, King Kong is just an ape that happens to be really big. Godzilla is a fucking mutant killer lizard thing with laser breath. The laser breath alone gives 'Zilla a huge advantage.

@@HylianFox3 Not just any kind of laser, but a radioactive laser. Apparently Toho have revealed the reason his normal mouth beam looks blue is because it actually is invisible, since it's just high energy radiation. The blue glow is Cherenkov radiation as a result of near-lightspeed particles passing through the air.

I still think it would've been cool if they gave Kong electrokinesis like in the old movie to even the odds a bit.

Godzilla is a Lovecraftian old one on par with Cthulhu that can only be driven away but never truly killed. King Kong is a mortal animal that died in his first movie.

@@patrickmccurry1563 Godzilla can be killed. It's just that it'd take so much effort to do it that there aren't really singular entities that can.

"I am Gorb!" ~Gorb

What, you don't understand how Gorb is secretly God?

You cam fight Giant Bloody Eyeball, Giant Bloody Eyeball 2, Clown, Possessed Capitalists (works for Magalor and Haltmann), and Evil God

@GlitchX Kirby is very, very close to becoming a horror game

I was going to say, and I'm sure the other comments will agree, if you want to give Luke a hundred and fifty minutes to describe the various attributes of kaiju and how they should and shouldn't go together, I'll be there.

Same. Not quite as interested as when my husband goes on a kaiju rant (cause I'm biased obviously) but interested. And maybe I could watch it with him and have him argue or agree with the points to me.

Not the most out of place Kirby boss.

Actually when you ground pounds its skull, you flatten a bump the crown made on its head, putting the bone back in place, so, in a way, you're basically helping the dragon.

Speaking of, there’s also King Behemoth from the same game

That's very much not an enemy from another genre, might wanna look at the title of the video again

Presumably the aliens have been economising their space ships as much as possible for weight, since fuel is at a premium. As a result, they've made extremely thin hulls that are impervious to all variety of beam weapons, those being the standard armament where they come from, but which are very vulnerable to kinetic projectile weaponry. ("So they explode when they hit any space junk?") ...Well, obviously they have some kind of repellent shield for use at high velocity, but the shield in question interacts poorly with gas, and as such isn't used when within an atmosphere. As to the other two, I presume that in the Mario universe physics work on a level of "anything going down beats anything coming up", hence head-jumping, and that yes, Pac-Man is a massive sphere with an eight foot diameter, whose incredible maw gulps and digests gold.

We've created atomic bombs, jets faster than the speed of sound, and a fusion of chocolate and peanut butter. When's the last time you saw someone walking around a store in steel armor?

"WTF is Mario's buttocks made of?" is a phrase I needed to read today. Thank you.

I was just coming into the comments to mention Omega Flowey. Thank you my best friend Flow-Obliveratrix for mentioning this brilliant boss monster from an even more brilliant game. Nye he he!

Nah, wouldn't count that as being from a different *GENRE* just because he looks different in that form. The game continues playing exactly the same.

If they mentioned him, they would alert the horde.

Except that he really doesn't feel out of place at all.

Nah the little blue aliens fit into the lore very well

I, too, was surprised to not see the game in the spoiler list intro.

I remember that Final Fantasy IV works similar too - it starts as a fantasy game and in the end you literally find a spaceship and fly to the moon. And one boss which you infiltrate and fight from its insides is a literal giant 🤖. And not just Final Fantasy, but also Might & Magic games did it too - fantasy games, but sometimes you entered some scifi environment with hostile 🤖s suddenly.

Yeah but the Tekken series also has a kangaroo and an allosaurus in boxing gloves, two sapient bears, and a baby T-rex that farts people into unconsciousness. And those are just in the first handful of games.

@@dairoleon2682 and in 5 you fight Heihashi's father who have A MOUTH IN HIS BELLY WHO LAUNCHES A DEADLY LASER!

@@BeanManolo plus whatever nonsense Yoshimitsu happens to be in that particular game.

I dont remember Astyanax having a alien final boss.

In Might & Magic 7, which has a standard medieval fantasy world setting, the final area of the game is, yep, a crashed alien spaceship. However it doesn't come out of nowhere, it's foreshadowed in the game's intro and then later in the game after you pass a certain point in the story.

I think that all M&M games have some scifi locations with hostile 🤖s. Even M&M8, which looks the most fantasy, ends with an antagonist, Destroyer of the worlds, being just some 🤖.

It's the Kreegans, right? I'm more familiar with the Heroes of Might and Magic games than the main series, but Heroes 3's Inferno faction are mostly not actually demons but space aliens who made pacts with devils... and in the later entries, the Kreegans have been banished to hell long enough to evolve into being true demons themselves. I'm not sure if the same story bylines hold outside of Heroes, but yeah finding out the demon army is actually satanic space aliens is a trip.

@@ChonkyTatzelwurm Kreegans appeared since M&M 6. But aside of Kreegans, there are remains of the ancients, who are opposite of Kreegans - aliens, who created all other civilisations. And these remnants are in form of dungeons with robots and scifi stuff. Also I think that the first M&M takes place in some sort of dome. And Kreegans outside of Heroes 3 are very different. Because as you said, while in M&M they are space aliens, Heroes of might & magic dumbed them down into just generic demons, especially in Heroes IV, where they also joined undeads for some reason. But we can thank fans for it, as they hated the idea of making Heroes 3 more similar to M&M with hating the new cybernetic Forge faction which was supposed to be added in Armageddon blade expansion set. So developers abandonded the idea of mixing scifi with fantasy and not just for Heroes, but also M&M 9 is only fantasy.

@@reginaldcz6332 I had to look up the Forge. I can't say I've been the most attentive to games news, certainly not when I was a ten-year-old lad marveling at Heroes 3, so I'm not surprised that I had no idea about it. Its sad that it never saw the light of day, but I can also understand why there was backlash. I have a feeling that Heroes 3 had a lot of fans that were fans of Heroes specifically, not Might and Magic as a whole, and without the context of technology within mainline M&M the announcement of the Forge was probably outright shocking.

Fun fact, the '98 Godzilla got added into canon as "Zilla". It's tiny, jumps a lot, and gets clowned on in less than a minute in its first and only film appearance.