Final Boss, New Dimension: Difference between revisions

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But in a sense it can mean bringing the fight to them and minimalizing damage to your own world. Maybe the [[Final Boss]] can only exist in that dimension and may be just using pawns to spread its influence and envelop the other dimension so it can exist there also.

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== Anime & Manga ==

* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', the final battle takes place in a pocket universe.

* In ''New [[Getter Robo]]'', the Oni Gods are faced in a universe made of Getter Energy.

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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.

== Video Games ==

* The [[Bonus Boss]] Culex in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]: Legend of the Seven Stars'' is fought inside an alternate dimension that appears to be somewhere in the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' universe, probably near the ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' reality/world/whatever, judging by the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|music]].

** 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.]]

** 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.

* Cult classic ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' has one of the most fantastic examples of this throughout all [[RPG|RPGs]], 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).

** 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.

* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series is fond of this trope.

** In the "Dawn of Souls" remake of ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'', once the party encounters Chaos, they are spontaneously whisked away into a psychadelic warp zone. In both the original and the remake, the entire final dungeon is {{spoiler|The Temple of Fiends/Chaos Shrine 2000 years in the past.}}

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** The last few parts of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII-2]]'''s amazingly long [[Final Boss]] sequence are in [[Place Beyond Time|Valhalla]].

* ''[[Dynamite Headdy]]'' has a battle on an [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]].

* 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.

* In ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'' the final battle indeed takes place in another dimension. In fact it's the name of the final level!

* ''[[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.

** 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.

** 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 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.

* {{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.

* 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]].

* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', [[Eldritch Abomination|Lavos]], is fought inside his first form's shell. His final form, however, is fought as both he and the party are thrown across corridors of time, with various eras flashing by at high-speed.

** The final boss of the sequel, ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', complements the concept by luring you into the darkness ''beyond'' time, where timelines discarded or destroyed by temporal paradoxes end up.

* ''[[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.

* For some reason, the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|totally inexplicable]] final boss of ''Super Adventure Island 2'' is some kind of one-eyed giant scorpion which you fight somewhere in space.

* ''[[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.}}

* In ''[[Baldur's Gate]] 2'', you fight the final boss in hell. Which, yes, is another dimension.

** And in the expansion you have the final showdown in Bhaal's old divine realm, the titular ''Throne of Bhaal''.