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Dual Bosses may be [[Palette Swap|identical]] or [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|complementary]]: Popular combinations include a [[Mighty Glacier]] paired with a [[Fragile Speedster]], a Warrior with a [[Squishy Wizard]], or similar combination of opposites. Character-wise, they are often twins, siblings, lovers, or just partners or identical constructs/vehicles.
 
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 RedRED (film)]] they begin attacking the player independently -- although it's not uncommon for each boss to fight individually straight from the outset.
 
Defeating one boss often causes the other to [[Turns Red|Turn RedRED (film)]] to maintain pressure on the player. Otherwise, the battle becomes significantly easier once the player has taken one of them out.
 
A particularly difficult Dual Boss is almost certain to become [[That One Boss|Those Two Bosses]].
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** The trick is to completely ignore the cowardly one until you take out the brave one, then wait for him to fly over to revive his other half. It's entirely possible to interrupt the resurrection and kick the crap out of him, and he'll keep trying even as you trounce him.
* Komodo Moe and Komodo Joe, the [[Brains and Brawn]] [[Sibling Team]] from ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]''. One will constantly try to hit you up-close, and the other throws respawning swords from a distance.
* In ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]] 2'', after rescuing all the Little Sisters in a level in you have to deal with a pissed off Big Sister (which is also [[That One Boss]] for a while). Near the end of the game you are in the room with just a pane of glass between you and the thing you came for when suddenly TWO Big Sisters come at you.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' has multiple Tanks attack you after the rescue vehicle arrives. Survival Mode can also see two (or [[Oh Crap|more]] Tanks at once, as does the finale of Swamp Fever in 2.
* ''Halo series'':
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* In the flash game ''[[Epic Battle Fantasy]] 3'', you face a 3 headed dragon. Each head acts as it's own boss, though, with different stats and health bars. When you kill one head, stats are doubled for the two remaining heads, and when you kill one more, the last head has tripled stats.
* ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]'' has [[Those Two Bad Guys|Bill and Ben]], a pair of ninja who you fight on two different occasions. They start out as a single enemy, but split into two after taking sufficient damage, [[Averted Trope|without]] [[Conservation of Ninjutsu|losing any of their deadliness]]. Both times, but especially the second, they qualify as [[That One Boss]].
* Every time the main characters of ''[[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]]'' cross over as bonus battles in other universes, they're usually fought in the order of Flonne -> Etna -> Laharl (with Flonne and Etna acting as backup).
* ''[[The Ninja Warriors Again]]'' for the SNES has a bastardly hard fight against Phobos and Deimos, a pair of giant silver and gold androids in Stage 6.
* ''[[La-Mulana]]'' does this exactly once, with the [[Mini Boss|Mini Bosses]] Gozu and Mezu.
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