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== Ganondorf / Ganon ==
* [[Big Bad|Ganondorf/Ganon]] in any game he's in tends to fit the bill. Be warned, as he is always the [[Final Boss]], spoilers may be unmarked:
** Ganon in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]''. Mano-a-mano versus Ganon? Check. Great music to accompany a final battle? Check. Ring of fire around you and Ganon? Check. Zelda actually helps you for once? Check. Top it all off with Link stabbing Ganon right in the head for the finishing blow. Add it up and you get a boss fight worthy to end a classic game.
*** Also, it's so dark you can't really see more than Ganon's silhouette and glowing eyes. That is, until a lighting strikes every now and then and you get to see his blue pig like figure for a fraction of a second while he is swinging his blades and making that noise. That is some epic atmosphere.
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*** You also get to Finish him off when you finally knock him down, with the classic "Ending Blow" move, triggering a seamless switch into Ganon's dying cutscene when you plunge into him.
*** The awesomeness of the final fight is severely mitigated if {{spoiler|you distract Ganondorf with the Fishing Rod from the very beginning of the game. Of course, if you don't do that...}}
** After the big disappointment with Calamity Ganon in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild| Breath of the Wild]]'', Ganondorf redeems himself in spades in [[[[The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom|Tears of the Kingdom]]'', with what is arguably the best Ganondorf Boss Fight in the franchise. First of all, before you can even fight him, you have to deal with the Demon King’s Army, which is like the [[Level in Boss Clothing| Monster Forces]] you’ve encountered previously, but in this case its three waves, but at least you have the Sages to help. Then, a [[Boss Rush]] of the Temple bosses appear, but you only have to fight the ones whom you didn't fight before. Finally, Ganondorf appears as the living corpse he was in the opening cutscene of the game, before assuming his true form as the Embodiment of Hate in all his [[Evil Is Hammy| arrogant and exuberant glory]]. A [[Sequential Boss]], of course, the first phase of the fight isn’t all-that different from Phantom Ganon (detailed below), except in this one the actual Sages are there. In the second phase, however, his appearance changes to a larger version with flames for his hair and beard, looking more like Demise than Ganondorf, and his Life Bar grows until it is literally off the screen. While this part of the fight seems like a straight-up swordfight, Ganondorf is hard to hurt here because he can perfect-dodge Link’s attacks as well as Link can dodge his! Naturally, Ganondorf does Gloom damage, which normally would not be a problem at this point of the game (unless you are a true masochist, you’ve stocked up on Gloom Recovery food and elixirs) but in the third phase of the fight, Ganondorf’s attacks actually destroy (not disable) Link’s Heart Containers, meaning the damage his inflicts cannot be healed at all. You get them back at the fourth phase of the fight, however, which is in fact the easiest part of the battle but also the most fun. Ganondorf takes a One-Winged Angel form here, and for once, it is not a giant pig-monster, it is the Demon Dragon. For this fight, Link rides on the back of the Dragon of Light far over the skies of Hyrule and launches himself onto the villain’s back in order to strike the clusters of Malice (not Gloom) again and again until finally, Ganondorf is vanquished. A thrilling - and Catharsis-fueled - grand finale to this epic part of the franchise.
== [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]] ==
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