Top Tier Tiny Terror!

Presenting
The One and Only
Small and Sinister
Master of  the Microscopic
Tiny Tyrant of all Time...
DRUM ROLL PLEASE!

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Master Jinx himself

Probably the second hardest boss in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Jinx is tiny.  It's hard to make out what he is and left highly to interpretation.  He appears to have a red cape and a funky green hairdo, but to be honest, it's anybody's guess.  With a plethora of instant kill moves, many of which are difficult to block, this little guy means to show you up not once, not twice, but three times.  That's only after you've earned the honor to meet him through battle.

Thanks for tuning in, this concludes Tiny Terror Week.  Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Tiny Terror Five

Half-Life 2 had some notably scary enemies.  Headcrabs were among the smallest.  However, the scariest part of Half-Life 2 for me was Ravenholm and its poison headcrabs.  These things dropped you down to 1 life instantly.  Granted the life recovered slowly, but they made this nasty hiss/rattle sound and it freaked me out.

Tomorrow is the Final Tiny Terror.  The Tiniest, Terroryest Tiny Terror of all.  Look forward to it.

Tiny 4 Terror

The single most broken character to play in Timesplitters as is the monkey.  He's fast, he's too short to hit, and he's got guns.  I really have nothing else to say.  This guy is scary because he's small.  Oh and he has guns.

Wait, I thought of something scarier.

The Ninja Monkey.

Tiny Terror Three

The last Metroid is in captivity.  The galaxy is at peace.

That is until PETA comes after Samus for exterminating the entire metroid species for the 50 billionth time.  Now some metroids are not tiny, not tiny at all.  Metroid Prime from its namesake game fills an entire two story room.  However, when you say Metroid to a fan, the first thing they think of are the little ones.

Vicious little space vampires that suck your life force dry, these foes are usually encountered late game, and are by no means instant death, but they drain your health faster than anything else in the game.  Samus Aran, star of these critters titular games, is often tasked with killing all of them, over and over again.  Despite their vicious nature and her indiscriminate genocide of their kind, fans always tend to remember the soft spot that Samus Aran had for one little baby metroid in Metroid II that was a major part of the plot for the best game in the series, Super Metroid (Metroid III).

Tiny Terror Two

Throughout the Final Fantasy series there have been some keepers and ever since it's debut in FF5, the tonberry has been one of them.  Deceptively easy looking, this short fellow will kill you... run... oh but swipe a megalixer first and then morph it to a ribbon.  Then run.

Tiny Terror Week; Blog Response

Back on Earth...

My friend the Bengineer recently hosted a Big Bosses week, and I think he did a decent job with his choices.  But my 1-up manship knows no bounds, therefore in response I decided to do my own Big Bosses week.  Feeling that was redundant, I now have a new theme.  Tiny Terror week.  This is for all those baddies in videogames, though short of stature, did not lack deadly skill.  I have six wonders of the microscopic video game world that I will be releasing from now, til Friday.

Starting with...

Kamikaze Grunt!  Grunts from the Halo series are short, but usually not deadly.  Even the elite grunt forces are usually not much of a challenge.  But in Halo 3, our grunt friends take on a new hobby: suicide bombing.  The only thing scarier than seeing one of these guys lit up is hearing the bone-chilling screams of their highly similar counterparts from the game Serious Sam.