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{{trope}}
For one reason or another, you felt like replaying this game you like. You have just beaten [[That One Boss]] and now you're almost at the end of the game. OK, you did things differently this time around, like [[Daikatana|not waiting for your buddy Superfly]], and caused Atlantis to sink (you were pretty sure there wasn't anything important or powerful in there). But now you're about to face the final boss and beat the game agai- what trial? GUILTY? CREDITS!?
That's right, No Final Boss for You. It's when a game with a final boss denies you that final boss because you did something different. Probably something
Contrast with [[True Final Boss]], which is a special final boss fight that occurs if you've done everything ''right.''
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* If you don't {{spoiler|travel to the past and}} defeat Wiseman in a sidequest in ''[[Baten Kaitos]] Origins'', then you won't get to fight {{spoiler|Verus-Wiseman}} at the end of the game.
* In ''[[Resident Evil 1]]'', if you don't do the sidequests to get the good ending, you'll miss out on the final Tyrant fight.
* In the ''[[Tony
* The [[Harder Than Hard|Trauma]] mode ending from ''[[Painkiller]]'' skips the game's final chapter (including the final boss) entirely, and instead gives you a genuinely happy ending where Daniel gets let into Heaven to reunite with his wife.
* The Good Cop endgame of ''[[True Crime: New York City]]'' has no final boss, just a subway chase that ends with [[The Mole]] / [[Big Bad]] dying in a cutscene. In contrast, the Bad Cop endgame has a final punchout against your [[Jerkass]] boss Captain Navarro.
* ''[[Astro Boy Omega Factor]]'' stops you from seeing the last level (and thus the final battle) on the first playthrough ("Birth"), because {{spoiler|Death Mask judges all robots on Earth as guilty and obliterates the lot of them - including Astro}}. Only by playing through "Rebirth", the second playthrough, can you complete the game.
* The ''[[Bubble Bobble]]'' series:
** ''Bubble Symphony'': Get {{spoiler|all four [[Plot Coupon|big keys]]}} or players can't access the last world.
** ''Bubble Memories'': It's also a case of [[Unstable Equilibrium]] too: {{spoiler|complete the game with [[No Death Run|only one credit]]}}.
* In ''[[Vanguard Bandits]]'' [[You Lose At Zero Trust|if your party's morale is low enough]] on the Kingdom Branch, you'll be set unto the Bad Ending and won't fight the normal final boss.
* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]: Hordes of the Underdark'' [[Expansion Pack]] you can engineer this yourself: by obtaining a couple of very valuable pieces of information you can end the [[Final Boss]] during the pre-battle banter.
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