Some games will give the One-Hit-Point Wonder access to a Single-Use Shield, body armor, or other powerups that allow them to take extra hits, but they still count as examples of this trope, provided that the character does not start off with said method of taking an extra hit. Modern tactical shooters also use this feature as well, even if Instant Death Bullet itself also grates on the "realism" bit.
In older video games, this was frequently true of the protagonist (though almost always with Video-Game Lives to compensate) nowadays, the Player Character is usually only a One-Hit-Point Wonder if the programmers/developers want the game to be Nintendo Hard.Īs mentioned above, this is more common in older games (especially the Golden Age of Arcade Games), and part of what makes a game Nintendo Hard. Needless to say, this rarely applies to bosses, unless they are of the Zero-Effort variety. The Angry Video Game Nerd on Silver Surfer for the NESĪ character who dies from a single hit or other incident of damage.
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