Dual Boss: Difference between revisions

A Dual Boss is a pair (or group) of bosses that you must fight at the same time (not [[Sequential Boss|one at a time]]). These are two or more ''fully powered'' bosses, as opposed to a [[Flunky Boss]] who decided to bring his [[Mooks]] along for the ride.

Dual Bosses usually start out fairly, alternating attacks every few seconds or hits (with the exception of the occasional [[Combination Attack]]) in patterns that give the player opportunities to evade or strike back. This teamwork disintegrates as their health declines however, and as they [[Turns Red|Turn Red]] they begin attacking the player independently -- although it's not uncommon for each boss to fight individually straight from the outset.

Compare [[Cognizant Limbs]], [[Wolfpack Boss]].

* [[Bayonetta]] - Grace & Glory

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'':

** [[Goldfish Poop Gang|The Turks]] on multiple occasions.

* ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]''

** The original arcade game has a recurring pair of Road Warrior-lookalikes who first appear at the end of Round 2, as well as twin sumo wrestlers at the end of Round 4. The third stage also ends with a battle against a trio of claw-wielding acrobats.

** Summon Spirit Celsius with her partner Fenrir

** Alice and Decus in ''Dawn of the New World'' {{spoiler|Oh, and Lloyd and Marta}}... you get the picture, right?

* ''[[Tales of Xillia (Video Game)|Tales of Xillia]]'' has the {{spoiler|final}} boss fight against {{spoiler|Gaius and Musee}}.

** There's also the earlier fights against Wingull and Presa, Jiland and Celsius, and Presa and Agria, to name a few.

* ''[[Jet Force Gemini]]'' brings us the Escebone Mantises, a twin pair of [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|gigantic cyborg mantids]]. [[That One Boss|They're quite hard to beat.]]

* ''[[Touhou]]'':

** Something like this returns in ''Imperishable Night''. In Final A of any pairing, you get to fight Eirin again, this time with Kaguya, after the former is defeated.

** In ''Touhou'' fangame ''Mystical Chain'', all boss fights are like this, but it also has a slightly off-kilter example in its fight with Fujiwara no Mokou and Kaguya Houraisan: it's really them fighting ''each other'', and [[Ignored Enemy|you're just collateral damage]].

** The DS version has the Archeofangs, two very annoying bosses who need to be defeated within mere seconds of each other (or at the same time) or the one alive will revive the other at full HP. Doing this is much harder than say, ''FFV's'' Gargoyles, because the two Archeofangs have different stats and weaknesses. To make matters worse, they also [[Mana Drain|drain your MP]] throughout the fight as well. Fortunately, their attacks tend to be relatively weak.

* ''[[Breath of Fire]] III''

** Also, the Ammonites.

* ''[[Streets of Rage]]'':

** Volcanic Lord and Blizzard Lord from.

** The KH series has a few more which are essentially two-part bosses, such as Barbossa and Clayton.

** ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]'' gives Aqua a wonderful fight against [[Hercules (Disney)|Hades and the Ice Colossus]], a copy of the Ice Titan, during her storyline.

** KH series loves this, especially to up the power on some arena bosses, who were usually a problem alone, but as a pair are [[Blatant Lies|quite more fun]]. KH1 had [[Final Fantasy VII|Cloud]] and <s>Squall</s> [[Final Fantasy VIII|Leon]]. KH2 had [[Final Fantasy VII|Tifa and Yuffie]]. BBS had [[Hercules (Disney)|Hades]] and [[Final Fantasy VII|Zack]].

* ''[[Last Scenario (Video Game)|Last Scenario]]'' has two [[Dual Boss]] fights and [[Nintendo Hard]] [[Wolfpack Boss]] fights.

* In its [[Spiritual Sequel]] ''[[Exit Fate (Video Game)|Exit Fate]]'', you get to fight [[Those Two Bad Guys]] ([[Recurring Boss|repeatedly]]), and there's a secret [[Dual Boss]] [[Bonus Boss]] battle.

* ''[[Star Wars]] [[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' series:

** on Korriban, if you decide to go Light-Side completely, then after {{spoiler|getting the star map in Naga Sadow's tomb, you may end up fighting both Yuthara and Uthar at the same time}}, although they can both be easily weakened earlier- or you can persuade one of them to join you on the Light Side...

* The boss of the oil refinery in ''[[Shatterhand (Video Game)|Shatterhand]]''.

* Two mobsters in level 3 (Cemetery) of ''[[The Simpsons (Video Game)|The Simpsons Arcade Game]]''.

* The Architect's twin pet dragons found in the Silverite Mines in ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins - Awakening''.

* ''[[Dark Souls]]'': The Bell Gargoyles on the roof of the church in Undead Parish. Once you get the first one down to half its health, [[Oh Crap|another one]] appears that [[Breath Weapon|breathes fire]] along with its halberd and axe-tail attacks, also with half a health bar. It's almost impossible to fight both of them with the area attack fire breath and tremendous physical attacks, so it's pretty much compulsory to summon Knight Solaire to tank their attacks while you hack away at their backs.

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