>imagine not being able to spell "Cthulhu".
Next you're going to tell me you can't even pronounce "R'lyeh" with perfect correct enunciation as per the tongue of the Deep Ones.

For real, I like games that take their lifebars seriously, like God Hand. Mooks have regular green bars over their heads. Incarnated demons (some scripted, some born out of you defeating them in a particularly humiliating way or just plain bad luck) get a slightly bigger and ornate blood red lifebar over their heads.

Once the enemy becomes important enough they get a top-of-screen lifebar, which can be complimented by their portrait, and, for chapter bosses, their top-screen lifebar and portrait are all ornate and pimped out.