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Obviously overlaps with [[Sequential Boss]] and [[Puzzle Boss]]. For the television version, see [[Final Exam Finale]]. For the dungeon version previously listed below, see [[All the Worlds Are A Stage]].
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* Sasuke's fight with Itachi in ''[[Naruto]]'' is a lot like this. Sasuke uses every skill he has ever learned (swordfighting, Sharingan, summoning, shuriken, the Art of the Shadow Shuriken, Chidori, several fire style attacks, kunai, kunai bombs, and a new lightning technique called Kirin) and ''still'' gets his rear end handed over to him. Interestingly, he actually wounded Itachi with an exploding [[Fuuma Shuriken]], but the fact that Itachi's leg was impaled is completely ignored for the rest of the fight.
* El Toro in ''Wrath of the Black Manta''. He only has 4 life boxes, but he can only be hurt by specific ninja arts... in order. If you use the wrong technique, he immediately regenerates to FULL life. More annoyingly, this happens even if you use the right technique, but from the wrong side of the screen!
* {{spoiler|Henry}} in ''[[No More Heroes]]'' is the pinnacle of real difficulty. You have to manage to learn how to Dark Step, emergency evade and slash the hell out of him. He manages to be completely fair, despite his various unblockable attacks and his dreaded yet awesome [[One
* Yami in ''[[Okami]]'' manages to work in a use for every single Celestial Brush technique in the game, even if it has to make up completely new functions in some cases (for example, {{spoiler|the Crescent technique normally just turns day to night, but in this battle, it summons Susano to slice the boss vertically}}), and the one and only Brush Technique that the [[Sequential Boss]] battle didn't require, and is otherwise useless ({{spoiler|Sunrise}}), is its [[Achilles Heel|ultimate weakness]] in its final form.
* The final boss battles in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' and ''Banjo-Tooie''. In fact, this is taken to the ''literal'' extent in ''Tooie'', as Gruntilda will go easier on you if you correctly answer the trivia questions she asks ''during the fight!''
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* The True Destroyer in ''[[Romancing Sa ga 3]]''. However, completely optional if you kill the Abyss Devil Lords beforehand.
* ''[[Metroid Prime]]'', from the game which is named after it, required you to use all of your beam weapons against it in the first form, and all of your visors against it in the second.
** The first form of Gorea from ''Metroid Prime Hunters'' required you to use all six of your beam weapons against it in a game of [[Elemental Rock
** The last form of the Emperor Ing in ''[[Metroid Prime]] 2'' subtly changed colour to reveal which beam it was weak to, though the Annihilator Beam will hurt it whether light or dark.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'':
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** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap]]'': The first fight with Vaati requires a jar of winds, you need a bow for his next stage, and his final form requires the Cane of Pacci. The ability to multiply is also required for form 2 and 3.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'' demands you ''must'' have the Silver Arrows to ensure Ganon bites the dust. No arrows? You're ''screwed.''
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'': Ghirahim will always try to anticipate and block your sword strikes and jabs. You have to confuse him until you can land a hit. As for {{spoiler|the final battle with Demise}}, you can use the power of lightning he keeps channeling through his blade against him by pointing the Master Sword to the heavens until it gets struck by a thunderbolt, then send a massive shockwave back at him.
* [[Tarot Motifs|"The Emperor"]], the final boss from ''[[House of the Dead]] 2'', is a variation; his second attack pattern is to throw at you metallic clones of the previous bosses. These can only be stopped by shooting at their specific weak point, which you saw at the end of the original levels.
** Taken even more literally by [[Edutainment Game|Typing of the Dead]], where all the bosses test one particular area of typing <ref>Judgment: reflexes; Hierophant: not looking at the keyboard; Tower: decision making; Strength: sentences; Magician: accuracy</ref>, and The Emperor is a test of pretty much everything.
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