If Micolash isn’t on this list I will be so disappointed Edit: “No one can catch us! No one can stop us now!” - Micolash as he escapes being in the video

The fact Micolash wasn’t on the list must be because Luke would spiral into a fit of rage upon remembering that fight

I really appreciate the commitment to the bit in the Assassin's Creed segment. They could have just played one or two seconds of the "Charles Lee" clips at the end and called it a day, but no! They inserted the *entire montage* they'd just shown a few moments earlier. That, my friends, is comedy. Bravo!

"Inigo stood still a moment, panting. Then he made a half turn in the direction of Count Rugen and executed a quick and well-formed bow. 'Hello,' he said. 'My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.' "And in reply, the Count did a genuinely remarkable and unexpected thing: he turned and ran." - From _The Princess Bride_ by William Goldman

Me before scrolling down: "I wonder if anyone mentioned Micolash?" Me after scrolling down:"..............oh"

Uh-oh. Jane's gone "Would you kindly" on us. That never ends well.

6:13 "you wouldn't think a giant robot made of rocks would be scared of anything!" ... maybe it thinks you are made of paper?! 😂

Micolash is simply the boss that hasn’t Stopped running yet as he still lives rent-free in all our minds, evidently 😂

“You died as you lived. RUNNING AWAY!”

The artist's impression of Kratos borrowing Hermes' legs is... actually quite impressive.

Just because I'm playing Skyrim again. Alduin, you kick some dragon ass and he flees to another plane of existence.

Micolash ran away from being in this list somehow too.

I actually expected another "WHERE IS CHARLES LEE?" after the outro.

Conner: "Give me Charles Lee, or give me death!" Patrick Henry: "Hmm, you know, I think you have something there."

Micolash, Host of the Nightmare from Bloodborne. The frustration from that fight came back the second I read the title if this video.

That Evri joke hit me at a personal level

"And Link's like 'Duude" and Zelda's like 'Woooah' and Ganondorf's like '[actual game voice] Aaaaagh'" and I'm like [bursting into laughter] and Luke's like 'No laughing!' That was top KZfaq

Ah, Kos, or some say Kosm… Do you hear our prayers? As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes! Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy. The grand lake of mud, hidden now, from sight. The cosmos, of course! Let us sit about, and speak feverishly. Chatting into the wee hours of... New ideas, of the higher plane!

Fun fact: Gwyndolin's hallway isn't actually endless, it's just really, really, really, really long. It's the single longest hallway in the game and it almost takes 10 minutes to get to the end, but it makes the fight so much easier, though of course if you die you'll have to run the entire gauntlet again.

Luke: "But we have to assume it is rooted in simply being totally spineless." Me: "Made of rock, therefore no bones. Checks out."

11 words: "All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ"

Gwyndolin doesn't flee, he kites you. Like any mage player does to other boss.

11:50 The silliest part of Twilight Princess's battle with Ganondorf is the fact that, during that climactic one-on-one duel, he can be distracted by Link's fishing pole. Try it sometime, if you're of a mind to dust off the old save file; cast your fishing line past him and his eyes will follow the lure, leaving him wide open for attack every time.

You're sure not wrong about that ACIII montage. My main memory of that game really just is, "WHERE IS CHARLES LEEEEEE?!?!" (Meanwhile, somewhere off in the distance: "I'm a general! Whee!!!") Anyway. Oh, boy, I hated that chase sequence. Ubisoft, please. I have notes.

I always remember Clare from Pokémon literally running off to play keep away with the badge you won fair and square 😂

I think you've covered it before but for posterity I'm reminding everyone of how Malak in Knights of the Old Republic made you run through the entire bowels of the Star Forge, fighting dark Jedi and robots as he taunted you and ran away again, before you finally got to face him in the heart of the Forge, where he used jars of living Jedi prisoners as health batteries to top himself up throughout the fight. Absolute king of being a cowardly, annoying boss.

To be fair, if big boy Connor showed his face to mess up mine, I would flee as well. While most other assassins have lean, agile frames, Connor is a muscle bound dude who fights bears with two little knives.

Gnasty Gnorc from Spyro 1? His entire "fight" was just him running away from you

I just wanna say I appreciate this channel for actually saying what games are being spoiled at the beginning of the video

You can really feel the 10 years of pent of frustration in that AC 3 segment lol. 100% sync on that game was a nightmare, much like the tank mission in AC Brotherhood. I think Syndicate nailed the 100% sync where it let you go for checkpoints and saved the progress

Remember Eric Sparrow, from Tony Hawk's Underground? The entire final level is chasing that irritating coward around as he basically throws molotovs at you. At least it's that much more satisfying when you play through the whole game a second time, and give Eric what he REALLY deserves.

No Goldeneye? Alec Trevelyan spends the whole level running away and taking pot shots at you or activating devices while you have to deal with high-level minions he hides behind. The fight only ends when the two of you are on a tiny platform that he can't run away from, and dies instantly.

King Arthur from Sonic and the Black Knight: "YOU SHALL REGRET THE DAY YOU RAISED YOU SWORD AGAINST ME" - Arthur, while riding away from Sonic as fast as his horse can take him

Gargarensis from Age of Mythology, that Cyclops runs away from you over the whole campaign. The hero, Arkantos, directly calls his cowardness out at one point, "You always seem to be hiding behind something when I see you, cyclops."

The "Get good, scrub" bit made me lol

10:02 Now there's an original Westaway piece if ever I saw one.

Crash Bandicoot, the Wrath of Cortex is funny because every boss fight is against Crunch, and in absolutely none of them does he fight Crash directly. Two of the fights straight up have him supe himself up with elemental power, and then spend half of it running away: the water one has him shoot at you from distant platforms, then teleport away the moment Crash gets within spinning distance. The fire one has him chase you for a bit, but then you get your hands on a squirt gun and you get a whole segment where you're chasing him down like a sibling with a super soaker.

I think the gang should do a "Draw your favourite Mortal Kombat fatality" competition.

6:13 I think if I was a giant robot made out of rocks I’d probably also be scared of paper

There is also the Alfred Boss Fight in Bloodstained Ritual of the night. He just kept running away in a circle scenario while throwing bombs at you (quite infuriating).

In Undertale, the fight against Undyne is quite literally the opposite. In a non-genocide run, you have to keep running away from her to eventually win.

I’d like to add Kunikazu Okumura from Persona 5. With most, you collect the treasure and then lead to a boss fight. For Okumura, you start out chasing after the treasure with a time limit and then fighting random employees he sends after you with another time limit.

So fun fact with the Gwyndolin fight: The corridor isn’t actually infinite. If the fight takes long enough, you will reach the end of the corridor

One of my favorite bits with a boss that runs away from you is ULTRAKILL's V2 - a second version of the prototype war machine you play as, V1. First time you encounter it, it runs away after you hit one of its arms off. Second time you encounter it, it tries to run away by sliding down the side of a giant pyramid you were fighting it in the top of, and you *go after it,* knocking it off the side of the pyramid and causing it to become little more than a red smear and some scrap metal on the path far below - well, besides the new arm it crafted for itself to catch up to you for a rematch. And yes, its arms are essentially extra abilities you can use. Your default arm parries projectiles, V2's first arm you hit off it is essentially a more powerful punch and can create an explosion that you don't get hurt by with a little bit of a wind-up, and the one it made to catch up to you is basically a grappling hook that you can use on enemies - smaller ones get pulled to you, you get pulled to larger ones. Useful given the game's healing mechanic of getting enemies to coat you in their fresh blood to restock your fuel.

You actually skiped the worst part of chasing lee. The excruciantingly awkward cutcscene where connor catches up, sits with him in a random inn, has a drink, then stabs him in the chest. I honestly wasn't sure if I had skiped something xD

Where's Gnasty Gnorc from the original Spyro game?

*Micolash howling in the distance* Would Eva Coré from Mass Effect 3 count? She keeps running away, but does go down fairly easily in the end.

"Gwyndolin never actually runs away... because he's too much of a magic wanker for that." - 🤣

Some of the nemesis orcs in shadow of Mordor and shadow of war will sometimes decide to run once you have them on the ropes

Another fun one is Captain Madison in the Sastasha dungeon from FFXIV, not only does he run away from you in ONE fight, if you later return and do the hard version of Sastasha, he runs away from you then as well too! Only to meet an untimely end at the hands of the Kraken boss at the end.

So many Sonic Bosses, particularly Advance 2 which is every boss except the final one

Reminds me of El Jefe from Sly Cooper Thieves in Time. Big scary warlord Tiger, scared of facing one sneaky Racoon in close combat, running away several times throughout the fight instead of taking his beating like a man.

I feel truly sorry for whoever had to get the capture for the Charles Less compilation, truly a sacrifice playing that much AC3

I think I got a few for ya. For starters, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Once Goht is unfrozen, it just runs right away in a ring shaped arena. Good news, it doesn't have much of a place to go, and the Goron roll is a great way to chase it down. Probably one of the few times such a boss fight is actually kind of cool. Then there's the Chariot Master in Kid Icarus Urprising. Good news is he's at least nice enough to let you use one of the horses that pulls his legendary chariot so you can at least keep up. Actually, while we're at it, how many frikken Machines does Dr Eggman do this across various Sonic the Hedgehog games? I know he does it in Sonic Heroes, Sonic Advance 2, and the daytime bosses of Sonic Unleashed.

First thing that came to mind was f***ing Trevalyan from Goldeneye. I died more to falling off at the end chasing the f***er than from anything else, lol.

Golemech ( the giant robot made of rocks) probably thought he was being chased by a giant robot made of paper or he was running after a giant robot made of scissors... who can tell

Honourable mention, basically every Spyro boss. But Gnasty Gnorc in particular.

I will now hear it as Charlesly.

Harley Quinn isn't the neglected girlfriend of The Joker. She's the abused girlfriend.

After years of lurking and watching videos, I was finally compelled to get some merch from you guys. The "games are back tee" was too good to pass up. You guys are the best.

10:05 that's a really good artist impression of how that scene went LOL

Jane: smartest host of ox, world domination planner also Jane: 6 - 1 = 6

I'm surprised the Wavecrest from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days didn't make this list, considering you spend more of that boss fight flying after him than attacking, and the thing is a late-game boss.

The joke setup for the end of the Ganondorf listing was impeccable! I can't imagine anyone not laughing.

15:56 she said the thing

Kohga in Tears of the Kingdom. The amount of times he just zooms off to a different corner of the Depths. >:0

"Git Good, Scrub!" Oh, the pain!

The "would you kindly" at the end is a nice reference to Fontaine, and having had to chase him down forever.

Officer Tenpenny from GTA: San Andreas leads you on a wild goose chase across Los Santos before falling off an overpass and dying

Every boss you face in the Transformers 2007 and ROTF games (consoles and PC) pretty much ran away from you. One good example in a mission while you play as Barricade in the Decepticon campaign for the 07 game had you chase Bumblebee around the map in not just one, but two separate missions

To be fair to Ganondorf most of his encounters involving Link and Zelda with light arrows usually ends with the Master Sword being lodged in his head. So I don't blame him for choosing to flee this time.

Conner: "Give Me Lee!" Me: hands Connor a Copy of "super smash bros Melee."

Despite what fans say. Twlight princess is a vary, deeply silly game. The chickens with human faces, the clows that shoot you out of a cannon, and the baboon with a big red butt all stand as a testiment to twilght princess having dark themes over tones vary silly under tones.

Luke: "gwyndolin is the biggest runner" Micolash: laughs in Kos. Or, Kosm, as some say

Anyone from GTA 4 could qualify. Dimitri near the end of the bad ending of the game

Batlin, elizabeth, abraham, Hook, and Forskis in Ultima 7. The latter four run from toy the whole game, you’re tracking them down. And then, when you confront all 5, Batlin runs away and then you have to spend half of Ultima 7 part 2 chasing him down, only for him to go out like a chump for betraying his boss

Dr Robotnik, in the labyrinth zone, is still the most annoying and difficult chase sequence I've had to deal with.

Not really a chase, but in the video game Chicken little Ace in Action (based on the Disney film, seriously) the second "boss" Sleazel Weasel keeps hiding behind various force fields at the end of platforms, you have to fight against teleporting in enemies to get at him, and when you do he runs past you lickety split, and you have to do it all over again!

No mention of Krauser from Resident Evil 4? The man's so good at running away that even after you "kill" him, you still have to defeat him in Separate Ways!

Right. I used to work with a guy called Charles Lee, but that’s a story for another time. My heart can’t do it, what it can do though is absolutely salute Luke on going out the way he came in, through plate glass conveniently unbreakable until a cutscene. My FUDGING hero. 🙌

Dr. Robotnik in the original Sonic the Hedgehog's Labyrinth Zone.

Gwyndolin only teleports away because his whole gimmick is that he makes the hallway longer than it actually is and so he can defend himself with king ranged spells and his burst fire bow

Shocked by the omission of Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye 64.

"Neglected girlfriend of an actual clown" is SUCH an understatement 🤣

I don't know what it is but Jane swearing never gets old 😅

In fairness, bullies do tend to talk behind your back and evade when confronted.

Tabaxi monks at level 9: *100 ft of movement speed without touching their action OR bonus action* Zoomies!!

right at the start of this I had a feeling there was some lego batman boss but could not remeber who. As soon as the music could be heard the memories came back. The Legendary Trio: Raikou Entei and Suicunce from Heartgold/Soulsilver. I say they count given how other legendries you have to go to where they are living at and fight them meanwhile the trio hooves it even when froze or paralyzed. I think the brid and emotion trio also do this in their games as well but those three are the more memorable.

Philip from the game Library of Ruina is a recurring boss who’s somewhat infamous in the fandom for… ALWAYS RUNNING AWAY BEFORE YOU BEAT HIM It does tie into a character arc of him realizing that hes a pathetic coward, but you still fight him 3 more times after that, and he STILL runs away!!!

The Elden boss had the audacity to have a beautiful stadium then run away from you to the other end of the lands between, only to fly away the second you get back in range

12:11 as frustrating as chasing Harley is I have to admit I love that the music played is from the 1989 Batman movie with Jack Nicholson as the Joker when he is at the top of the cathedral.

The editing for that Assassin's Creed part with all the....Charlie Lows? said by Connor was very well done.

In all fairness to the Star Fox Golem, you're in a spaceship while it's on foot and head no ranged weapons. It's only options are to run in front of you and let you shoot it at will whole it tries to make you fly into pieces of the architecture it is collapsing in it's wake, or to run behind you while playing the Benny Hill theme.

The Pale Lurker from Hollow Knight isn’t technically a boss but regardless I think it’s fitting. Literally all they do is run away from you and throw spike balls around to try and slow you down.

Dr Eva Coré from ME3 Mars mission. Made worse if you’ve imported a previous save, and have equipped on of the several pistols which are too slow to take her down in time

Twilight princess's "NO LAUGHING" caught me cackling and made me laugh even more. Good stuff

I'll be honest, I reckon most bosses end up pretty scared of you by the end. I'd be scared of something if I killed it 18 times and it still wanted to cut my legs off.

Back when I played AC3, I had a weird glitch occur during the final chapter where all of the foreground sound cut out, and no amount of reloading would fix it. It made the "fight" against Charles more entertaining because everything sounded so weird

I don't know how Micolash, Host of the Nightmare didn't make this list!

Gnasty Gnorc from Spyro the Dragon. He stands on a platform that you can't reach until you lower it, all the while shooting at you with laser beams. The instant you do lower the platform (and doing so requires a lot of running to catch thieves), he runs away, and he's _really_ fast!