Every time I start a Hard Mode run on Stranger's Wrath HD, my boss bounties are always taken alive.

Until I come across him.

MEAGLY FRIGGIN MCGRAW.

Every single time I fight him, I can only kill him, since he has the habit of shaking off the knock-out effect of both a Thudslug and a Zappfly together. This starts off a Neutral run in terms of how I capture a bounty (most alive and a couple dead, thanks to how difficult the later ones, starting with Meagly,...