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== Live Action TV ==
* In the season 5 finale of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', a male urophiliac potty-peeper who installs hidden cameras in ladies' bathrooms is quickly and easily apprehended by police. With an overwhelming pile of evidence incriminating him, he folds quickly, about a quarter of the way into the episode's
** The ''[[Law and Order]]'' series have done this on several occasions, of course it's easy to see coming when they manage to try and convict a person [[Spoiled by the Format|in the first half hour]].
* In Season 4 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Spike is watching Buffy from an balcony giving a speech about how he's back and this time he's going to kill the slayer, but is interrupted by being tazered and surrounded by the real season's villains The Initiative.
* For the finale of ''Let's Go [[Kamen Rider]]'', [[Kamen Rider OOO|OOO]] has defeated the [[Big Bad|Great Leader]] of Shocker, blasting him into the distance. Out of the rubble emerges [[Kamen Rider X|King Dark]], ready to fight the Riders not unlike what happened at ''[[Kamen Rider Decade|All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]]''. {{spoiler|However, the Great Leader returns, going [[One-Winged Angel]] to become the Great Colossus, a monstrosity that's even larger than King Dark himself. The Colossus quickly deals with Dark and the rest of the surviving members of Shocker, so the Riders have to deal with him instead.}}
* Subverted in ''[[NCIS]]'', when they capture the mole's boss, and it's someone whose wife is being held hostage. {{spoiler|double subverted when the team realizes he had killed his own wife and ''was'' the actual big bad.}}
* This is what happens to [[Space Pirates|the Raiders]], who were the [[Disc One Final Boss]] on ''[[
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Ace Combat Zero:
* [[Aero Fighters|''Aero Fighters 2'']] has something alike in the level that takes place in Australia, when a warship appears from behind you and starts attacking... just to be rammed and destroyed by the '''real''' boss: a [[Battleship Raid|far larguer helicopter carrier-battleship]].
▲* ''[[Ace Combat Zero the Belkan War]]'' has a secret boss that only appears on the hardest difficulty of the bonus mission. When it appears, it destroys the squadron you would face on any other difficulty before turning on the player. {{spoiler|[[Oh Crap]], it's [[Memetic Badass|Mobius]] [[One-Man Army|One]]!}}
▲* [[Aero Fighters|''Aero Fighters 2'']] has something alike in the level that takes place in Australia, when a warship appears from behind you and starts attacking... just to be rammed and destroyed by the '''real''' boss: a [[Battleship Raid|far larguer helicopter carrier-battleship]].
* In the final level of the ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' arcade [[Beat'Em Up]] by [[Capcom]], you mow down your way to a fat colonel that is getting Aliens for the Weyland-Yutani company. After you take out his last mooks he steps forward to face you... only to be impaled and torn in half by the Alien Queen, which you thought you killed three levels earlier and who isn't a [[Stationary Boss]] like she was earlier due to not being attached to her egg sac anymore. Cue hellish final boss fight.
* ''[[Borderlands]]'' has Commandant Steele yell at you for stealing artifacts the whole game, only to be replaced by [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] when she opens the vault.
* In ''[[Castle Crashers]]'', when you reach the first boss fight, you first see a barbarian about twice the size of the regular [[Mook
** In the Thieves' Forest, a grizzly bear attempts to attack your party, but an off-screen [[Giant Mook]], which is causing the ground to tremble with its footsteeps, freaks out the bear so much that he ''craps himself'' and retreats back into his bush. You run away from this boss in the next stage, then fight him for real in a later level.
* ''[[Castlevania]]'' has a few. In ''Harmony of Dissonance'' you enter the boss room in a later part of the game, and see a Living Armour marching towards you. Looks exactly like the one you fought about twenty levels ago, only with a [[BFS]]... Until it's destroyed in one hit by Talos, the real boss (the big armor that you ran away from at the start of the game).
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* ''[[Contra]]'' series
** ''Shattered Soldier'' has Mr. Heli-Robo, a [[Transforming Mecha]] that chases the player throughout Mission 1. It eventually appears at the end of the stage, where it is promptly crushed by Slave Beast Taka the actual boss.
** In Stage 2 of ''Contra 4'', the player has to face a group of four enemy snipers in black who are tougher to kill than the regular [[
* ''[[Dino Crisis]] 2'' has you fighting and constantly running from a one-eyed T-Rex (who's justifiably pissed off seeing as you and your team are the ones responsible for blowing up its eye). What's worse than fighting a T-Rex, you might ask? {{spoiler|Having that T-Rex corner the player about 3/4ths of the way into the game, only to be grabbed, tossed aside, and made into lunch by an even BIGGER dinosaur: Giganotosaurus.}} The "good" news? You get to fight (and more likely run from) it about two rooms later!
* The arcade game ''Dungeon Magic'' (from 1993, but playable now via MAME) has a classic example of this. After chasing the evil wizard Venom through three scenarios, each of which ends with him escaping and leaving you to fight one of his minions, you face off with him. He summons a Demon Lord...which kills him in one blow, and then fights you.
* The first boss of ''[[Dynamite Headdy]]'' shows up at the end of the second world with a new vehicle, only to be squashed by the real boss. He even remains stuck in the boss's underside for the whole fight.
* A variant occurs in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. Diddy enters a boss room, finding it inhabited by a small, insect-sized dragon which buzzes irritatingly around his head, so he jumps on it and squashes it. Then an identical but much larger dragon crawls out of the lava behind Diddy; it's not happy.
* At the end of 1-3 in ''[[Demon's Souls]]'', you find a typical Fat Minister, the likes of which you've been fighting as regular enemies before. At first it looks like he would be the boss, but suddenly he gets stabbed from behind and thrown out by the real boss, The Penetrator.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', {{spoiler|you arrive at the core of the moon just in time to see [[The Man Behind the Man]] get defeated in a cutscene, only for his hatred to take form and become the [[Final Boss]].}}
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* ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' combines this trope with [[Fluffy the Terrible]] {{spoiler|with The Fury from the Necrohol of Nabudis. When entering the boss room, a huge behemoth greets the party... but it suddenly collapses and a [[Killer Rabbit|fuzzy little purple bunny]] shows up and the real battle takes place.}}
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' continues the trend with [[Evil Is Sexy|Jihl]], although many agree that [[Asshole Victim|she]] [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|deserved it]] after some [[Kick the Dog|less than meritorious behavior]].
** In one of the side missions later in the game, your objective is to fight Zenobia, an Undying Cie'
*** In the sequel, though, Zenobia appears to be fightable.
** The last enemy you face during Titan's trials is one of the Undying, which kills the behemoth Titan had intended for you to fight.
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* In ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'', right before you enter the Palace of The Guy the moon, which has been pestering you throughout the game, drops down from the sky to confront you...and then the real boss, the robot dragon from ''[[Mega Man 2]]'', beats it down and the real fight begins.
* In ''Jade Cocoon 2'', all the non story bosses are oversized versions of regular monsters, and before fighting a short fmv clip is played. In one of them a large Dragon fly buzzes at you menacingly. It looks a little out of place in the water world, and seems smaller than other bosses. It then gets eaten by a HUGE frog monster, who then attacks you.
* In Chapter 8 of ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'', the hero faces a crew of evil-but-awesome [[Space Pirates]] (as he describes them) who are somehow [[Monumental Theft|stealing entire constellations]]. After fighting his way through the pirate crew, he moves up to the main deck, looking forward to “swabbing the deck with that jerk” only to find that the captain is [[The Napoleon|a very little guy]]. As Pit tries to understand what he’s saying, a set of huge tentacles comes out of nowhere, and one grabs the Captain - the tentacles belong to a Space Kraken, [[Just Desserts|which subsequently devours the captain]]. Fortunately, as true boss of Chapter 8 its bark is much worse than its bite.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'' does this in the fourth dungeon (which may seem like the final dungeon if you aren't familiar with the series tradition of having ''two'' sets of [[MacGuffin]]). [[Big Bad]] Zant appears, but rather than facing Link directly he just drives his sword into the skull of a dragon skeleton, animating the boss of the dungeon. Even then you may think it's just his [[The Dragon]] and you'll be facing him afterwards, but no.
** Not to mention that he's, [[It Was His Sled|y'know]], {{spoiler|[[Hijacked by Ganon]]}}.
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* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' had {{spoiler|3(!)}} of these: {{spoiler|Boss #5, Letz Shake}}, is taken out by {{spoiler|Henry (whom you don't fight until much later). This is played straight, with your character (and probably yourself) left angry and unfulfilled.}}, and just before the fight with final boss begins {{spoiler|the real final boss punches straight through him, and one cut scene later the real final battle begins}}. {{spoiler|Then, after the final boss, you can watch the ending, where an unnamed assassin kicks down the door while you're...compromised. If you meet the requirements for the [[True Final Boss]], and select the 'real ending' option, he will then be chopped in half by the [[True Final Boss]], starting the fight.}}
** Its sequel ''[[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle]]'' has more, numerically speaking. Out of the 51 ranked assassins in the United States, {{spoiler|numbers 49 through 26 are cheerleaders who work with the 25th ranked assassin, [[Jerk Jock|Charlie MacDonald]], to form a [[Humongous Mecha]]. Assassins ranked 22 through 11 are participating with Travis (ranked 23rd by this point) in a free-for-all battle where they are killed by the tenth ranked assassin, [[Person of Mass Destruction|Dr. Letz Shake]] (ironically, the brain from the machine that Letz Shake used in the last game). Story-wise, the ninth ([[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|Million Gunman]]) and eighth ([[We Can Rebuild Him|Neo Destroy Man]]) ranked assassins are this to Travis, although you do get to fight them as Shinobu. Finally, after [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Henry]] comes out of a coma thanks to Travis, he goes out and kills the fifth and sixth ranked bosses for Travis off-screen, giving the victories to Travis and sending him pictures of the aftermath; he also chides Travis for being upset about it because the game already has 15 bosses and more would be unreasonable.}} All in all, that's {{spoiler|36}} bosses that the player does not get to fight.
* In ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', what you expect to be a rematch against the first-level [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] is interrupted when all four of them get knocked out by the [[Recurring Boss]], who demands one last fight from you.
* ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' has an...interesting variant. Where you THINK you're fighting the chapter boss, and it goes through the entire sequence of the end of a chapter. But for some reason, there's no Peach or Bowser segment... {{spoiler|It turns out, Doopliss has stolen your name, and fooled your party into thinking he's the real you. The rest of the chapter has you getting your "self" back.}}
* Done in ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Warrior Within'' in the [[True Final Boss]] ending. If you got all the health upgrades, as you prepare for {{spoiler|a second battle with Kaileena, the Dahaka attacks again, but by this point you have a weapon that can harm it, so you and Kaileena team up to kill it}}. Earlier in the game, you're about to confront the Crow on an outside ledge, but it just then gets killed by the Dahaka, and yet another [[Escape Sequence]] begins.
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** (cough) Not "out of nowhere". The Kernel has been out to get ''you'' too. You're an unauthorized program and you escaped him once already, while killing his men. Also, at that point, you're trying to ''save'' Thorne, because he is the only one who has the codes to get you ''out'' of the system and back to the physical world. The Kernel doesn't want you to save him.
* The final boss of ''Two Crude Dudes'' for Master System 2 was the evil scientist who'd unleashed all those hideous mutants upon post-apocalyptic New York. He's hilariously easy to beat the crap out of and throw around like a ragdoll...until he suddenly mutates into a gigantic asskicking monstrosity.
* ''[[Clive Barker's Undying]]'' does this with the final boss fight, no less than ''four times''. Here we go:
** First, you fight Bethany, who's been set up to be the final boss all through the game.
** After killing her, {{spoiler|your friend Jeremiah}} appears and reveals that [[The Man Behind the Man|he's been behind the whole thing]]! Looks like he's the final boss...but then Patrick just unceremoniously [[Off with His Head|decapitates him]] [[Talk to the Fist|mid-speech]]...
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* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]] 2'' ends a later stage with yet another appearance by the [[Recurring Boss]]. His conversation with the heroes lasts for a good half-minute before he is taken down and replaced by the [[Noble Demon]] [[Expy]] [[The Rival|Rival]] from the first game. Oh, and did we mention an almost exact thing happens in the next level, this time without even the excuse of being a different character?
* ''[[Winback]]'': First, Cecile, the [[Dragon]], [[Turned Against Their Masters|turns against]] and kills the [[Big Bad]], Kenneth. Then Dan, [[The Mole]] and [[Man Behind the Man]], shows up and shoots Cecile in revenge for his brother. Then you fight Dan as the apparently [[Final Boss]], but after you defeat him, it turns out that Cecile is [[Not Quite Dead]], although he's an [[Anticlimax Boss]] if you figure out how to get past the [[Laser Hallway|laser fences]].
* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' tries to set you up expecting a rematch with {{spoiler|a [[Back
** {{spoiler|YMMV on if this counts, since the one who knocked him out was The Composer, who is [[The Unfought]].}}
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]: The Burning Crusade'', the apparent final boss of the Arcatraz dungeon is an insane [[Blood Elf]] who hides in a magical bubble and releases three random minibosses (and an obnoxious but allied Gnome) from the cells around him. After defeating them, the "real" final boss, a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] (a [[Mind Rape]] insect mage) (and presumably the reason the Elf was crazy, given all that babbling about a "master"), is released; he kills the crazy elf rather swiftly then moves on to you.
** The Trial of the Crusader raid has another, rather sad one. A gnome warlock named Wilfred Fizzlebang, rather confident about his abilities and his supposed immense power. He intends to summon a Doomguard (a rather powerful demon, but not ridiculously powerful, however). Instead, he accidentally summons a huge Eredar Lord, a much more deadly demonic sorcerer, and proceeds to attempt to convince said demon (who is about 20 times bigger than him) that HE, the gnome, is in charge here. Needless to say, he gets swiftly killed by his summoned demon, who then proceeds to blast away at the players.
** In the ''Cataclysm'' expansion, there's another example of this in the Stonecore. The very first pull in the instance has you fight Milhouse Manastorm (incidentally the same gnome as in the Burning Crusade example above), who fights until he's at half health and runs to the next trash pull. Finally, you have him and his group of adds cornered, and he's channeling a powerful spell. But as soon as you engage him, a giant gyreworm named Corborus bursts out of nowhere, knocking the gnome and his group far away, never to be seen again. You fight the worm (who puts up a decent fight, especially on heroic mode).
* In ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'', when you get to the boss room in Baby Bowser's castle, it looks as though you are about to confront Kamek, but then Bowser wakes up, complains about the noise, and proceeds to stomp Kamek flat and kick him away. Kamek later shows up all fine just to provide a segue to the second phase of the battle and take Bowser away when he's defeated.
** Similarly, at the end of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', just right before you even get to [[Big Bad|Bowser,]] you see [[Overlord, Jr.|Bowser Jr.]] once more, but instead of fighting him, he simply flies away in his spaceship, and as a result you actually end up fighting Bowser directly.
* In the first two stages of ''[[The Punisher]]'' arcade game by Capcom, Frank Castle and Nick Fury run after mafia boss Bruno Costa, eventually cornering him and setting up for a not so intimidating boss battle. Suddenly, a laser sweeps away Bruno and his henchmen in a single hit, and a huge robot sent by the Kingpin engages the player instead.
* A Olympus Coliseum mission in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* ''[[One Piece]]: Unlimited Cruise Episode 2'' plays this pretty straight with the battle against Donquixote Doflamingo. At first it looks like you're going to fight against Bellamy, the relatively weak and easily dispatched villain from the Jaya arc. All of a sudden, a pink arm rises from the boss container and takes control of Bellamy. This is followed by the rest of Doflamingo's body, which proceeds to [[That One Boss|KICK. YOUR. ASS.]]
* You know Zouken Matou, big bad of the Heavens Feel route in [[Fate/stay night]]? Yea, turns out Sakura wasn't as brain dead as he assumed. Cue bridge drop with {{spoiler|Saber vs. Shirou and Sakura vs. Tohsaka, while the ''real'' [[Big Bad]], Kotomine, shows up. And then after that, Shirou still has to beat what is essentially the devil.}}
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel'', sometimes a nearby duelists with a story connection to the person you challenge will make your opponent go away and you'll have to fight them instead. An example would be Marik and Bakura or Mokuba and Seto Kaiba. You could try to challenge Bakura, but then Marik shows up out of nowhere and drives him away with possibly the worst excuse ever to trick someone with this line,"[[Not Even Bothering with an Excuse|If I recall correctly, there is something you need to take care of right away...you don't have the luxury of wasting any time here, correct."]] This works and you face Marik.
** Every now and then, a Rare Hunter will show up to give an in-story example, and will replace any character.
** Any character that has an alternate ("Yami") form can do this to themselves. Yami Yugi and Yami Bakura are their default forms, but can switch out with Regular Yugi or Bakura. Marik can switch out with Yami Bakura, who is a lot more aggressive. These examples mean minimal, though, as they use the same decks.
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* In ''[[Star Wars: The Force Unleashed]] 2'', while {{spoiler|rescuing General Kota}} on Cato Neimoidia, you end up with him in a gladiator arena, surrounded by the corpses of countless warriors and wild beasts. Suddenly, a large gate nearby opens up, and out steps a rancor. Starkiller smirks and readies his blades... and then, from beneath the ground, a ''humongous'' hand reaches up, smashes the rancor into the ground, and pulls it under. And then said hand's owner comes out to play. Say hello to the Gorog.
* In ''[[Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure]]'', the final boss is apparently your [[Arch Enemy]] Weasleby. However, {{spoiler|after beating on him for a while he suddenly starts twitching a whole bunch before his head pops off, with Henry's [[Kid Sidekick]] Cole coming out of his body. After a speech in which Cole reveals that HE'S the real [[Big Bad]], he summons out a massive Mech.}}
* Subverted in ''[[
* The first ''[[Mass Effect]]'' made you think that the entire final battle was going to be against Saren while the fleet dealt with Sovereign. While it is possible to get into a final boss fight with Saren, either way you get into a fight when Sovereign takes over Saren's body.
* In ''[[Sonic Colors]]'', Eggman tries to use mind control to force a fight between Sonic and Tails, but when the device he's using breaks down, he's got a regular boss ready to go.
** In ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'', when you reach [[Final Boss|Sky Sanctuary]] with Knuckles, it looks like you're going to fight the Eggrobo yet again, shortly before [[The Dragon|Mecha Sonic]] shows up and destroys it.
* ''[[Ape Escape]] 2'' has Hikaru finally meet Specter after defeating the Freaky Monkey Five. Specter talks about how he'll beat Hikaru with a powerful mecha...when Yellow Monkey, the one who run after you beat him, appears again, and [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant size]]. After Yellow destroys the mecha because he's told not to eat more Vita-Z bananas Specter leaves you to deal with the new problem.
* In ''[[Adventure Quest]]'',
* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'': {{spoiler|So, you've defeated the Elite Four and are on your way to challenge the Champion. Not easy by any means, but at least you know what to expect! You heal up your Pokemon and ascend the staircase...wait, what's N doing here? [[You Can't Thwart Stage One|Oh crap!]] At least you know who the Final Boss is now, though! Wait, ''Ghetsis''?! ''[[Trick Boss|Oh crap...!]]''}}
* Used creatively in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4''. The boss of mission five appears to be two luminescent [[Horny Devils]] with ice powers, fought in a snowing courtyard, but as you fight them they seem unusually pathetic, rarely ever attacking and doing little when they do. Damage them enough, though, and {{spoiler|a massive toad demon with ice powers will suddenly lunge out of the blizzard, trying to swallow you whole. He's the actual boss - the devils were just his lures.}}
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* In ''[[Solatorobo]]'', Red finally wises up and answers the third guardian's riddle, gaining the last piece of the Flute without having to fight him. However, at that exact moment Blanck shows up and a boss battle against him ensues.
* [[Abobos Big Adventure]] first has Jaws being eaten by the larger Big Daddy. Later just as it seems you are about to fight the giant Contra end-boss alien {{spoiler|he gets inhaled by Kirby, and things get ''nuts''}}
* [[The Unfought|The Panther King]] from ''[[
* Halfway through playing in single-player in ''[[Digimon Battle Spirit]]'', one of your next opponents may be blasted off the stage by Impmon before the battle can start. If you manage to defeat him and collect 300 D-Spirit in total by the end of the playthrough, you can then unlock Impmon as a playable character.
* In [[Dead Space 2]], it looks like the majority of the game is leading up to a dramatic final confrontation with Tiedemann before you {{spoiler|destroy the Marker}}. Then you get there {{spoiler|and Tiedemann is already horribly mauled and barely able to stand, then proceeds to ''shoot you through the chest twice'' with Javelins. A quick-time-event lets you pull them out, steal the Javelin gun and shank him in return.}} Game over right? {{spoiler|Nope. You hallucinate about Nicola one more time, only now she wants to absorb you into the Marker body and mind and you have to [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|hallucinate-fight her in your psyche]], after which you sit down to accept your imminent demise as the station explodes.}} And THEN the credits roll. {{spoiler|And ''then'' Ellie comes [[Big Damn Heroes|crashing through the ceiling in a ship]] to rescue you.}}
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** {{spoiler|1=The Alien.}}
** Reaching the third Chimerabot in Wily Stage 4 without taking damage for the entire game has {{spoiler|1=Shadow Man}} destroying it {{spoiler|1=with a [[Diagonal Cut]]}}.
* ''[[Monster Hunter 3]]'' gives little cut-scenes every time you encounter a new large monster. Late game you are sent to hunt a Deviljho only to get a cut scene with a Great Jaggi, the first large monster you hunt in the game, instead. Just as the Great Jaggi and it's pack are about to attack the Deviljho leaps from above and kills it in a single hit scattering the other Jaggi, and after making a meal of the Great Jaggi it roars at you an the fight starts.
== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' pulls this twice in consecutive season finales. First {{spoiler|Luthor}} sets himself up as the ultimate villain of the Cadmus arc, only for {{spoiler|Brainiac}}, of all people, to come in from nowhere in a plot twist tied to an episode of ''Superman'' that aired ''eight years before.'' Then in season five, after an entire arc {{spoiler|dedicated to Luthor's attempts to revive Brainiac}}, it looks like he's finally succeeded...until it resurrects {{spoiler|[[Darkseid]] instead.}}
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' builds up Tombstone through the first season and most of the second as New York's resident [[Magnificent Bastard]] crime-king [[Big Bad]], with it seeming that the series will come to a head with him against Spidey, {{spoiler|but then he's deposed by the Green Goblin's [[Xanatos Gambit]], and Gobby's the final villain instead.}}
* Happens ''twice'' in succession during the climactic episodes of [[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]. [[Knight Templar]] [[Chessmaster]] Nerissa was [[Big Bad]] for most of the season, but near the end former [[Big Bad]] Phobos returns, steals her [[Amplifier Artifact]] and seals her inside it, resuming his [[Evil Overlord]] throne. {{spoiler|And then in the last episode, Phobos's previously loyal [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Cedric senses opportunity, goes all [[Scaled Up]], and ''eats'' both Phobos and the artifact, acquiring both Phobos's throne and nearly limitless power}}.
* In ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'', Aggregor is the [[Big Bad]] for most of the first season, and later, {{spoiler|he's within inches of acquiring [[Physical God]] levels of power when a desperate Kevin powers up directly from the Ultimatrix and beats him to a pulp- but thanks to how Kevin's powers work, suffers from [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|great insanity]] in the process, becoming a villain again ''and'' [[Big Bad]] to boot.}}
* {{spoiler|Doctor Frankenwagon and his Monster}} from ''[[Pixar Shorts|Monster Truck Mater]]''.
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