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{{quote|"Going to some other dimension to fight a final battle is such a cliche!"|Xiaomu, ''[[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga: [[Endless Frontier]]'' }}

You're off to fight the [[Final Boss]], so you end up having to go to another dimension. A [[Video Game]] trope, probably caused because the developers want it to be memorable, impressive, and/or [[Rule of Cool|awesome]]. May very well have an [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]] or be a [[High Altitude Battle]]. It might also come with a [[Surreal Theme Tune]]. The main thing, however, is that it's in its own dimension, universe, or whatever. Fighting the boss in a different time period also counts. May also be applied to [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]]es, even though they're not the [[Big Bad|final boss]]. A common part of [[Trippy Finale Syndrome|Trippy Finale Syndromes]]s, it is usually to be found in [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]. Depending on the characteristics of the new dimension, it may or may not invoke [[Interesting Situation Duel]]. Sister trope to [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]. Done wrong, it can lead to [[Disappointing Last Level]].

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== [[Tabletop RPGGames]] ==

* The Judges Guild adventure ''Dark Tower'' (1979), using ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' rules. The final battle against the [[Big Bad]] Pnessutt the Lich took place in the highest level of the Outer Plane of Hades. The party had to activate a planar portal to reach him.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga: [[Endless Frontier]]'' has its final battle in the Einst dimension. It also has the final battle between the Namco characters Reiji and Xiaomu and their foe, Saya, which, while not the final boss of the game, counts because the game's dimension ''is'' an alternate dimension for them. Ironically, the page quote is for the latter, not the former.

** And the former is a [[Call Back]] to the final battle of its predecessor ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]] 2'', which also takes place in the Einst dimension. {{spoiler|This is because the final area in OG Saga is the corpse of the final boss of [[OG 2]].}} Of course, the [[True Final Boss]] takes place [[How Did We Get Back Home?|back in normal space.]]

* The final Specter fight in ''[[Ape Escape]]'' is fought in Dimension X, if the stage name in the NTSC version is to be trusted.

* Cult classic ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' has one of the most fantastic examples of this throughout all [[RPG|RPGs]]s, as the final battle takes place through the course of an entire world's creation, lifetime, and destruction. You go from [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]] to the chaotic upheaval of a world being born, to new life [[The World Is Just Awesome|flourishing across it]]. You see the entirety of history come to pass through archaically-styled still images, ending with a prominent image of Death. And the grand finale of the fight takes place atop a ground composed of the corpses of ''[[Nightmare Fuel|everything that had lived on that world.]]''

* ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]: The Subspace Emissary'' has the final boss fight with Tabuu in the realm of Subspace.

** Any of the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series, actually - the fight with Master Hand (or Crazy Hand) takes place in some sort of other-dimension (this is, of course, before Subspace Emissary came up).

* At the end of ''[[Half-Life]]'', the game's [[Silent Protagonist]] is transported to another dimension (the former [[Trope Namer]] for [[Disappointing Last Level]], Xen Syndrome). In this dimension, his mission is to destroy the game's [[Damage Sponge Boss]], the Nihilanth.

* A rather weird example occurs in ''[[Xenosaga]] Episode 1'', where the space station you're on inexplicably switches to a cloudy battlefield against the final boss.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]''. The final boss battle takes place in an alternate dimension within an alternate dimension. Or something to that effect. Also, inverted in ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', when, after going through the {{spoiler|second-to-}}last dungeon in an alternate dimension, during the boss battle Zant actually transports you to places in Hyrule visited previously during the game.

** The final battle in ''[[Spirit Tracks]]'' is another example. In order to track down Malladus and Cole, you need to use the Compass of Light to follow them into the Dark Realm, a dimension of evil that they fled to immediately after Malladus' resurrection.

* A couple quest bosses in ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'' have you follow them into their own dimension to fight them.

** End battle from Recipe For Disaster: the Culinaromancer, once you've gone and saved all the people he wanted to kill, you have to follow him and kill him and his tasty baked minions.

** The Spirit Beast from Summer's End is only defeatable by going into the Spirit Realm.

** In both Lunar Diplomacy and Dream Mentor you have to go to the Dream World to do the battles, though this is mostly for Dream Mentor as the battle Lunar Diplomacy is really very easy.

* The [[Bonus Boss]] at the end of ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' is one, in Another Day. This is a [[Double Subversion]]: Another Day is a relatively normal [[Alternate Universe]], but the fight takes place in Pork City, an [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield|amazing monochrome battlefield]].

* {{spoiler|Xion}} in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days Over 2|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]''. You are transported to {{spoiler|Wonderland, Halloween Town, Agrabah, and back to Twilight Town again}} in the [[Final Boss]] fight.

* In order to fight [[Eldritch Abomination|Giygas]] in ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'', you have to hop in the Phase Distorter and travel possibly thousands of years into Earth's past. Also, once released from the Devil Machine, it's suggested that he's so large and distorted that he ''is'' an [[Eldritch Location]] dimension in and of himself.

* Malygos in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is found in the Eye of Eternity, his private pocket dimension.

* In ''[[Ultima I]]'', you use a time machine to travel to the past and fight Mondain before he finishes creating the Gem of Immortality (which would make him unbeatable).

* The [[Final Boss]] battle in ''[[Siren (video game)|Siren]]'' takes place in another dimension, and it fits this trope, but it's hardly an example of [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]].

* ''[[Freedom Force]]'', where the Timemaster rips the heroes out of the time continuum.

* ''[[Wario Land]]: Shake It!'' After you beat the boss' first form, he transports you to a battlefield in the clouds.

* ''[[Lost Planet]]'': While the rest of the game has you on the grounds of the planet, {{spoiler|the final level of the first game suddenly adds a new dimension (literally in a way, as this is the only time vertical movement isn't limited by fuel from your [[Mini-Mecha|VS]]) as it takes place alongside a space elevator.}}

* ''[[Wild ArmsARMs 2]]'' has the final battle and final dungeon take place in the area where an alternate universe has started to encroach on the current one -- theone—the final boss ''is'' this alternate universe.

* Magisphere in ''[[SagaSaGa Frontier]]'' is a higher dimension designed explicitly for boss battles. In Red's game, many of the bosses are fought there (and it triples the power of BlackX enemies), while in Blue's game, Magisphere is reserved for the climactic duel between Blue and Rouge.

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