Dealer's Leader

"You're heading for the Chokey, young lady!"

The **Dealer's Leader** is the boss of The Squat, and the third boss in Mother Russia Bleeds.

## Appearance

She is a large woman of a brawny build who has a scar on her face, missing teeth & golden teeth, brown hair tied into a bun/ponytail, a tattoo of a crossed out smiley face on her upper arms, and a crossed out tally mark tattoo on her forearms.

Like the rest of her subordinates, she wears a sleeveless white shirt and a black leather vest. She wears red pants and black boots, as well as black fingerless gloves with studded knuckles.

## Personality

Judging by her condescending way of speaking and the swagger of her movements, she is an arrogant person who also has no issue with risking her own life. She is also cruel and sardonic, given how she has no reaction to her underlings getting killed by The Harvester, and she mockingly bids the player characters adieu when she escapes from the pool if the player characters take too long to defeat her.

She also seems to dislike rats, given how she repeatedly refers to the protagonists as them in a derogatory manner when conversing with them before her battle.

## Enemy Behavior

She will try and approach the nearest player character, and when in range, preform a mighty horizontal chop attack that sends them flying, which can be a death sentence, considering the presence of the Harvester in her battle. Also, when she is shoved into the Harvester, she will point, then preform a lunging punch attack that is very powerful and will send anyone it hits flying.

She is immune to every unarmed melee attack, with the exception of dash attacks and focus punches, and even then, those will only cause her to be knocked back, she is however, vulnerable to attacks from weapons.

## Description

She is the boss of Chapter 3, The Squat, where her battle has the unique quality of being a timed battle, due to the Combine Harvester approaching from behind.

She must be defeated by being knocked into the Harvesters blades, as she is completely immune to your basic attacks, and must be defeated with attacks like dash punches, loaded punches, and other special attacks, as well as attacks from weapons, which are provided by the Bat carrying enemies that will ocassionally spawn in.

Once she has been pushed into the Harvester for the final time, her remains will clog up the blades, preventing it from moving further and enabling the protagonists survival.

## Strategy

The best way to kill the Dealer's Leader is to quickly kill every other enemy in her arena, as they WILL attack you while you are trying to knock her into the Harvester's blades, and once it is just you and her, the best way to knock her into the blades is with a Dash Punch, as she is very unlikely to counter them and they can be preformed on her in rapid succession, unlike a Loaded Punch, which both takes some time to properly start and runs the risk of her just counter attacking and cancelling said attack.

## Gallery

### Gameplay

The Dealer's Leader and two of her underlings, plus Natasha.The Dealer's Leader, pointing before preforming her lunging punch.The Dealer's Leader lunging for her punch attack.The Dealer's Leader sending Boris, Ivan, and Sergei flying.The Dealer's Leader escaping.The Dealer's Leader sneeringly bids Boris and her minions adieu.Ditto.
### Misc.

A comparison of the dash-punch sprite of the Dealer's Leader and Balrog/M. Bison's Dash Straight, notice the position of their legs and their arms, as well as how the back of their heads are facing the screen.
## Trivia

* Ironically, despite being the leader of a group of skinheaded women, she herself is not bald like her underlings.
* She is the only human female boss in Mother Russia Bleeds.
* She is the only boss who cannot be directly damaged, as even the Government Officer, who automatically dodges attacks when he isn't stunned by the Flash Grenades, can still sometimes get hit, and damaged by attacks.
* Her appearance might be partially inspired by the depiction of Agatha Trunchbull in the 1996 film adaptation of the Roald Dahl book *Matilda*, given how both characters are hulking women who wear their hair in a bun.
* Her boss theme is titled "Killing Pool", which refers to the battle against her taking place in a swimming pool.
* She is the only boss with an actual time limit, as if you do not defeat her in time, the Harvester will eventually reach the end of the emptied out pool you fight her in, and she will escape from the pool and leave everyone for dead as everyone is killed by the Harvester.
* The animation of her Lunging Punch attack is near identical to the *Street Fighter* character Balrog/M. Bison's Dash Straight special move.

## References

1. ↑ https://motherrussiableeds.fandom.com/wiki/It's\_Sharp