Boss Rush/Playing With

Basic Trope: The player must defeat a series of bosses back-to-back.
 * Straight: Before Bob can challenge Lord Bloodstone, he must face Drake, Skullcrusher, and Lilith in three successive rematches.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Along with those three, Bob must also fight Dr. Destructor, Lord Bloodstone's pet dragon, King Ogre, a coordinated team of Elite Mooks, Lord Bloodstone's most annoyingly persistent band of thugs, a promoted version of the very first Mook Bob fought...
 * Bob must fight all of the game's previous bosses at the same time.
 * Downplayed: Boss Only Level
 * Justified: After being defeated in the past by Bob, the three lieutenants wish to exact their revenge on him.
 * Inverted: Lord Bloodstone separates Bob's Five-Man Band and hunts them down one at a time. You must defeat the same boss with the unique skills of each of the five members.
 * Subverted:
 * Lord Bloodstone's lieutenants arrive to challenge Bob to a rematch... only for them to be quickly occupied by Bob's other party members so that he can face Lord Bloodstone right away.
 * The lieutenants arrive for a rematch, but this time they join forces and fight completely differently
 * Double Subverted:
 * Bob's friends are defeated, quickly, so he must face Lord Bloodstone's lieutenants anyway.
 * The lieutenants simply turned Asteroids Monster, and break up into their original selves after taking damage.
 * Zig Zagged: The climax progresses as follows: the first part of Lord Bloodstone's fight, then Drake's fight, then the second part of Lord Bloodstone's fight, then a Multi Mook Melee, then Lilith and Skullcrusher at the same time, then a brief dungeon-like encounter, then the third part of Lord Bloodstone's fight.
 * Parodied: While Bob fights the first boss in the Boss Rush, the other bosses are shown waiting in line to challenge Bob.
 * Deconstructed: Bob is worn out by the Boss Rush, allowing Lord Bloodstone to easily defeat him.
 * Averted: The game does not include a Boss Rush mode.
 * Enforced: The Boss Rush is added to pad out the game and/or increase replayability.
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: Lord Bloodstone revives his dead lieutenants so that he can use them against Bob once more.
 * Exploited: Lord Bloodstone uses the Boss Rush to stall Bob while his Doomsday Device charges.
 * Defied: Lord Bloodstone is so enraged that he attacks Bob the moment he sees him, avoiding the Boss Rush.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

Return to Boss Rush, where you'll challenge my council of advisors one at a time.