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** Many lines of extraplanar beings follow this rule. for example the [[Lawful Neutral]] Modrons: the lowest have basic geometric shapes with eyes and arms; the higher you rise in their ranks, the more humanoids they are.
** Daelkyr of ''[[Eberron]]'', the ultimate rulers of the plane of madness, lords and creators of monstrosities such as beholders and mind flayers, resemble "perfectly formed athletic human males, possessing unearthly beauty."
* Shows up occasionally in the ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' universes with certain daemons and Chaos-possessed folk, mostly involving Slaanesh.
** Generally proceeds like this: the weakest or stupidest daemons are entirely inhuman and animalistic. Daemonic foot-soldiers are bestial humanoids, but lack intelligence beyond basic tactics. Greater daemons are gigantic bestial humanoids that are basically avatars of their respective god and can lead entire armies of their ilk - depending on the god they might also be dangerously intelligent. Daemon princes are humans raised up to daemonic level - they're on par with greater daemons, but generally more humanoid and more dangerously intelligent. Finally in Warhammer 40,000 there are the Daemon Primarchs, who were demigods before they were raised to daemonhood and are now some of the most dangerous beings in existence. They can assume human or indeed any form seemingly at will, and will kill almost anything that gets in their way.
** Daemonic possession usually inverts the line - as the daemonhost becomes more dangerous, its form becomes less and less human until it reaches [[One-Winged Angel]] status. If the host is destroyed the wrong way, though, the daemon proper might emerge crossing the [[Bishonen Line]].
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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]''
** The final boss of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' first fights in his original black-cloaked form, then changes into an armored knight on a throne which is itself on the head of a robot dragon; after several fights against said dragon and knight, the final fight is against him in a recolored version of his original outfit, with an upgraded version of his original fighting style.
** While Heartless, as a rule, grow more massive and horrifying the stronger they are, the most powerful of them all, {{spoiler|Ansem/Xehanort's Heartless}}, is visually indistinguishable from a <s>[[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]</s> normal human, though he's the exception to the rule. However, while the usual Nobody [[Mooks]] of the [[
** Before Xemnas however, was Marluxia. The first fight is straight up against him, using his own [[Green Thumb|flower magic]] and wielding a [[Sinister Scythe]]. The second has him on a sinister, large, floating mech with [[Sinister Scythe|scythes for arms]]. The third fight takes place on top of the remains of said mech, only this time Marluxia has a creepily beautiful angel-like familiar wielding a gigantic [[Sinister Scythe|scythe]] backing him up and basically doing all the fighting for him.
** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]'', the digitized {{spoiler|Sora's Heartless}} first takes the form of a [[Warmup Boss|Darkside]] with glowing tattoo-like markings, but after taking a beating transforms into {{spoiler|a dark copy of Sora}}, then finally {{spoiler|''[[Dual Boss|three]]'' dark copies of Sora.}}
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* In the episodic computer game ''Time Runners'', the main character (a teenager from Earth) travels through time and dimensions to fight monstruous "Chronodemons": a robot, a cyborg, a sentient spider, a necromancer, a mutated human and a zombie pharaoh. For the final duel, is pitted against the creator of the Chronodemons: an exact lookalike of him.
* Used in, of all things, the DS version of ''[[Nicktoons Unite!|Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' with [[Big Bad]] Globulous Maximus, who goes from a gooey cyclops meteor taking up the entire screen to a flying slime man the size of [[SpongeBob SquarePants]].
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'': In the boss fight against {{spoiler|Ocelot, he slowly regresses in his mind to his [[Bishonen]] [[I Was Quite a Looker|younger days]]. However, since this is only in his mind, he remains looking like an old man, and only his movements become more 'bishounen'. Note also that the Life Bars change as well!}}
* The fianl boss of ''[[Castle Crashers]]'' is an evil wizard who first fights you by controlling crystals on a throne, then fights you on foot with a magic wand, then bloats up like a balloon and drops magical bombs, and finally becomes an enormous bat creature. When you defeat that, he regresses back through his balloon form to his normal form, where he summons a [[BFS|gigantic sword]] for one final battle.
* In ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'' there are gigantic battleship-sized Orbital Frames, but the most powerful Orbital Frames ever made are comparatively small and bipedal. They get more powerful when they ''lose'' a lot of their armor and look even more human-like.
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