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== Tabletop RPG ==

* 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.

* Judges Guild adventure ''Dark Tower'' (1979), using ''[[Dungeons & 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.

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** The final dungeon and boss also reside in an alternate dimension: Smithy's home dimension, in fact.

* ''[[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.]]

** 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.]]

** In OG Gaiden, after defeating Dark Brain, you're taken to another dimension to fight the [[True Final Boss]], which is... {{spoiler|Shu Shirakawa & his Neo Granzon}}.

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

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** 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.

** In the final battle in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]'', Link {{spoiler|enters a portal in The Sealed Grounds to the dimension where The Imprisoned was...well, imprisoned, to fight [[Bigger Bad|Demise]].}}

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

* A couple quest bosses in ''[[RuneScape]]'' 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.

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* 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|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 ''[[~~Earthbound~~]]'', 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.

* In order to fight [[Eldritch Abomination|Giygas]] in ''[[EarthBound]]'', 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).

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* The [[True Final Boss]] of ''[[Contra]]: Shattered Soldier''.

* Pretty much all of the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' games do this.

* ''[[Wild ~~Arms~~ 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—the final boss ''is'' this alternate universe.

* ''[[Wild ARMs 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—the final boss ''is'' this alternate universe.

** Or rather, the boss that resolves the main plot. Shortly afterwards, you're [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|abruptly thrust]] into a one-on-one fight with the ''real'' final boss, {{spoiler|which takes place either inside the protagonist's soul or on the edge of the Event Horizon. It's not entirely clear which, if not both.}} Bonus points for being taken out of one alternate universe to a seperate plane of existence.

* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' has you follow the final boss into a pocket dimension where her race has been hiding since the fall of their Empire. There's a bit of running round and slayage to do before you fight her, but only as a prelude...

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* The final boss in ''[[Rune Factory: Frontier]]'' is hidden in a seperate dimension called the Era of Disconnect so that it can't consume energy in the regular world.

* In ''Super [[Fantasy Zone]]'', the typical bright environment goes away after the [[Boss Rush]], and the final battle is fought in the Shadow World.

* Magisphere in ''[[~~Saga~~ 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.

* Magisphere in ''[[SaGa 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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