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"Modern Major Enemy"

A few months ago, I was watching a friend stream “Minishoot’ Adventures” (an action adventure game with shoot-’em-up gameplay mechanics), and she referred to one of the foes in it as a “major enemy”. On a whim, I decided to write up a small parody of the “Major-General’s Song” from The Pirates of Penzance themed around that. She found it amusing enough to still refer to it weeks later, so now I’m writing it down here for posterity:

I am the very model of a modern major enemy

I stand in my boss area and do what they demand1 of me

I dwarf the player by my size and firepower2 ability,

Although I do lack somewhat in the matter of agility.

I can withstand a hundred hits from any cannon, big or small

And shoot out bullets any way, in patterns very beautiful,

I have no weakness and no way for anyone to kill me dead,

Except for this one tiny spot which happens to be glowing red.


  1. This rhymes better in the General American dialect of English. ↩︎

  2. The second “e” should be practically silent. I believe that some would write it down as “firepow’r”. ↩︎

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