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* Played straight and averted at the same time for all the dragons' Super forms in ''Dragon Seeds''. They evolve from Baby, to Adult, and to Senior, gradually becoming more complex and massive each time, with one dragon type even becoming a ''harrier''! From there, they can branch off into two categories: Old, where they retain their Senior form, but lose a bunch of stats and only live for a few more days (dragon years), and Super, which plays the trope straight, and they revert into a more humanoid form that looks relatively small, but becomes biologically immortal and ungodly powerful. So powerful, in fact, that you can't do anything else with the dragon but defend the title of World Dragon Champion (assuming you did get to that point) and duel against another player.

* Nintendo realized in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' that the humanoid Ganondorf was a far more compelling character and thus a better arch-enemy than his boarlike bestial form Ganon, so they saved the duel with Ganondorf for ''last'', following a battle with a giant transforming puppet version of Ganon. In ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' {{spoiler|they did it all over again, giving the big man ''two'' human phases ''after'' you'd already dealt with his bestial form.}}

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'''s [[Bigger Bad|The Imprisoned]] starts off as a giant [[Armless Biped]] covered in black-red scales with only a mouth and legs. Its second form grows arms, and its third form grows a tail, as well as the ability to levitate. {{spoiler|Once it absorbs the Goddess Hylia's soul, it achieves its true form Demon King Demise, which pretty much resembles [[X Meets Y|a cross between]] Ganondorf and [[Street Fighter|Akuma]].}}

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]''