Dual Boss: Difference between revisions

* [[Bayonetta]] - Grace & Glory

* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne]]'', Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos were hard bosses that the player has to fight in succession. ...And then all three at the same time, powered up and with more health.

* The two Barons of Hell (AKA the 'Bruiser Brothers') from the original ''[[Doom]]'' at the end of the first episode.

* The vores in ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]'' make their first appearance this way.

* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series:

** ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' featured a fight with Bowser and Bowser Jr. simultaneously. Not that Mario actually had to [[Puzzle Boss|directly fight them...]]

** Bowser teamed up with ''himself from the past'' in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time]]''.

** A disputed example is Eyerok (the two "hand golems") from ''[[Super Mario 64]]'s'' [[Shifting Sand Land]].

** ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]: Shadows of Almia'' has a battle just before the [[Final Boss]] where you fight the three bosses you just fought separately ([[Damage Sponge Boss|Rhyperior]], Magmortar, [[Teleport Spam|Gallade]]) at the same time. If you are playing a WIFI Mission where you have to help Darkrai,<ref>It was here for a limited time only, and it required beating Darkrai.</ref> at the end, when you least expect it... BAM! '''You fight a second Dual Boss''', which is Drapion and Gliscor, the bosses you encountered earlier in the game.

** ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky]]'': The first bosses are a ([[Warmup Boss|very weak]]) Koffing and Zubat at the end of Beach Cave.

* The end of the first "episode" of ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Batman]]'' features a dual boss fight involving Batman, Robin, the Riddler and Two-Face. It's somewhat reminiscent of ''[[Batman Forever]]''.

* At the end of ''[[Icewind Dale]] II'', the player gets to fight the halfbreed twins Isair and Madae (respectively a high-level sorcerer and cleric). They are aided by a wide variety of pretty competent [[Elite Mooks]]

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

** Then there's the Crimson Prankster in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|358/2 Days]]'', who revive each other if not killed in quick succession.

* ''[[Rise of the Triad]]'' has an add-on, appropriately-titled ''Extreme [[Rise of the Triad]]'' (now available as a free download from 3D Realms), where one of the levels forces the player to fight two copies of the game's second boss. Only one of the two bosses needs to be killed by the player to end the level, but it makes the task ''much'' harder than fighting just the one, like in the regular game.

* ''[[Another Century's Episode]]'' likes to dabble with this, sometimes pairing up major antagonists or [[The Dragon|Dragons]] from [[Massively Multiplayer Crossover|different series]] to wail on you.

* The Mu bosses in ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'' are Jack and Silvana, a pair of married vampires. They battle together, complete with a combination attack. When one dies, the surviving spouse flies into a frenzy and [[Turns Red]]. Generally considered [[That One Boss]].

* Gunships and Striders in ''[[Half Life]] 2'' usually appear solo, but on two occasions you are faced with two gunships and once have to defeat several Striders at the same time. In the end of Episode Two you fend numerous Striders as they advance the Rebel base.

* Most of the supervillain fights in ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'' are these.

* In ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]'', Knuckles fights two sub bosses in Launch Base Zone Act 1 instead of Sonic and Tails just having one. If you play as Sonic and Tails together, technically it's Knuckles fighting you as a dual boss. Also Whisker and Johnny in ''[[Sonic Rush Series]] Adventure''.<ref>However, there is a mission that played said Dual Boss, but although it played like normal, you must only defeat Johnny, because if you defeat Captain Whisker, you will fail the mission.</ref>

* ''[[The Little Mermaid (video game)|The Little Mermaid]]'' has Flotsam and Jetsam as the bosses of the second stage.

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpTRU-9LP_Y Apostles of the Seed] Dusk and Dawn from ''[[Hellsinker]]'' tag team at you and also uses various combination attacks.

* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has a few occasions when you can find yourself facing multiple powerful bosses, but a classic example is during the Behaviour Adjustment Facility Trial, where the league must face Siege and Nightstar at the same time after defeating them each separately, and like many examples must be defeated at the same time to prevent regeneration. [[Flunky Boss|There are also continually respawning reinforcements.]] Somewhat subverted however in that the standard strategy has teams fighting them entirely separately, while coordinating the battles to ensure that they go down together.

* ''[[Spiral Knights]]'': the Roarmulus Twins are a pair of gigantic Gun Puppy turrets fought at the end of the Ironclaw Munitions Factory, invulnerable except when one of them hits the other with a rocket. They also appear in the Ironclaw Shadow Lair as the Red Roarmulus Twins. The Gloaming Wildwoods Shadow Lair ends with a pair of Rabid Snarbolaxes (who have Silkwings to heal them).

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