Boss Subtitles: Difference between revisions

Bosses have a number of ways to announce their presence, but nothing quite says "[[Boss Battle]]" like splashing a banner across the screen to say:

 

{{center|'''Boss Name'''}}

 

*** Scott is shocked when Knives' subtitle finally changes to "18 years old". He comments on Ramona's age being listed as "Unknown," and he reads "Knows everybody" off of Comeau's box.

* Protagonist example, ''[[The Authority]]'' are introduced using a mix of these and a [[Batman Cold Open]]. Midnighter's subtitle ("Night's Bringer of War") is probably the best of the lot.

** "Scott Summers, Cyclops, Optic Blasts, leader of the X-men. Owns a jetpack."

** "Kurt Wagner, Nightcrawler, Teleportation, fan of Errol Flynn movies."

** From ''Goemon's Great Adventure'' there's "Ukulele Hawaiian GODS OF WIND AND THUNDER." What else would you expect from a [[Widget Series|series]] like ''Ganbare Goemon''?

* Every normal stage in the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' and ''[[Mega Man X]]'' series opens like this, with just the boss name. Later installments in the X series add a descriptive subtitle.

* The ''[[Touhou]]'' games do this whenever the protagonist reaches the boss battle at the end of a given stage. Mid-bosses usually do not get subtitle introductions (unless they're also the main boss of a stage). Because of the format of the games, pretty much every character has at least one of these.

* Taito's widescreen shooter ''[[Darius]]'' (and its sequels) introduces the stage's boss with this: "WARNING! A HUGE BATTLESHIP (boss's name) IS APPROACHING FAST."

* Before a boss appears in ''[[Gunstar Heroes]]'', you're given a warning that names the boss and their attacks. A lot of them tend to have silly names and attacks, but that won't stop them from beating the crap out of you if you don't know what you're doing.

* ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'' has Boss Scrolls, with a illustration of each enemy (including bosses) when fighting them for the first time along with their name in Japanese (regardless of whether the game is the English version), right when Boss Subtitles would normally occur. It also has this for many characters when you first meet them. Including ''a slip of paper''.

* When someone important shows up in ''[[Killer7]]'', they get one of these. Even if they're scheduled to die in a few moments (take a bow, {{spoiler|Toru Fukashima and Trevor Pearlharbor}}). This also happens when a new version of a Heaven's Smile appears for the first time.

* ''[[The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]]'' introduces each new gang with a quick shot of the gang and their tag.

(Line of proverbial advice) }}

* [[Clock Tower (series)|Clock Tower]] 3 has this. First, it shows the title of the boss, then underneath, a count of their victims shows. The count disappears and is replaced with their extremely exaggerated prison sentence in years, which then reduces to 0 as the bosses health meter fills up. The bigger a sentence, the more health the boss will have.

 

== Web Original ==

* An FAQ for ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'' actually did this. Many of these were pretty good, like "Fairytale Pirate [[Peter Pan|Captain Hook]]", "Evil form of a lost friend, Dark Riku", or "The one behind it all, [[Big Bad|Marluxia]]."

* Used for major fights in all three seasons of [[The Massive Multi Fandom RPG (Roleplay)|The Massive Multi Fandom RPG]], sometimes getting creative, such as when a character's paranoid boss battle expectations come true:

'''TZEENTCH'S HORRORS''' }}

 

 

* Chapter 12 of ''[[Drowtales]]'' used this during a fight when over a dozen new characters were introduced.

* Every villain in ''[[Titanzer]]'' gets introduced with subtitles, like [https://web.archive.org/web/20111114160213/http://titanzer.com/2011/03p13/ so].

* Pages in ''[[Bibliography (web comic)|Bibliography]]'' get a short message indicating their name and codex if they haven't introduced themselves yet.