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* ''Every'' boss does this in [[Yoshi's Island]]. You don't always fight the first form, actually. Usually you just see the "normal" size boss and then Kamek comes in and says something, then puts [[Everything's Better with Rainbows|rainbow dust]] on the boss to make it grow, which initiates the fight. Bowser gets the biggest tune-up at the end when you fight his normal baby form, and Kamek makes him several times larger than any other boss so far.

* Used in an interesting way in ''[[Temple of Elemental Evil]].'' Towards the end of the game, your party can encounter a human adventurer deep inside one of the Elemental Planes. She explains that she came down there with her party, but they were killed and she barely escaped. She asks to go with you, and if allowed you'll find she's a decent-ish sorceress. But if in dialogue your characters detect something amiss, they can confront her about it. At this point she reveals that she's actually a half-succubus, and wants to come along with the party because she's ''bored.'' If you let her, she'll drop the pretense and switch back into her true form, making her a much more powerful companion.

* Naturally parodied in ''[[Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden]]''. The first form is already one-winged. So what happens when it's time for its true form? {{spoiler|A dinosaur with Barkley's face on it. And not just any dinosaur, but the body of Diablo from [[Primal Rage]]!}}

*** And {{spoiler|Meredith's [[Artifact of Doom]] turns her into a floating [[Power Glows|glowing]] [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red-eyed]] mutant thing. In the end, though, she gets [[Taken for Granite|turned into a statue]]}}.

* Virtually ''every'' human or humanoid boss in ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'' did this. [[The Mafia|Mikba]], [[Recurring Boss|Balio and Sunder]], [[Mad Scientist|the Professor]], {{spoiler|[[Tragic Monster|Teepo]]}}, [[Petting Zoo People|Rei]] - even the main character, Ryu. Just to hit the nail in further, when Balio and Sunder combined to form Stallion ''and'' when Mikba assumed his true form, they each said, "No one has seen us/me in this form and lived!" But considering this game's great love of [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|random bosses]], its not surprising that every boss trope in the book was visited a few times. The rest of the the BoF games are just as full of transforming bosses.

* In ''[[Arc the Lad]] 2'', ''every single human enemy'' will transform into some kind of monster or another before fighting the heroes.

* In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', Grubba is ''already'' a monster, but a roughly-human-sized, comical one. Before you fight him, he turns into a much more menacing-looking giant creature.

** Bowser in the original [[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]] super-sizes, and gains some cool blue flames on his shell, before the final fight with him. ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'''s final boss, the Shadow Queen, also had two forms, starting off as her form where she first possess Peach, then going into her [[That One Boss|notoriously hard true form]]. This is also used in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' when Dimentio possesses Luigi and turns into Super Dimentio.

* In the original ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' series, the final villains (Jacquio, the Demon, some stupid scientist) all go through transformation sequences as Ryu defeats their forms successively.

* In ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' for the Xbox and its [[Updated Rerelease|Updated Rereleases]], humanoid Fiend Alma turns into a scorpion-like thing once her power gets Awakened. After Doku sheds his corporeal shell, he loses his legs to float and gains a nodachi worthy of the One Winged Angel himself. The Vigoorian Emperor goes from a vaguely angelic statue to a bony creature made of skulls. Admittedly, the first two don't occur immediately after they get defeated the first time, but still...

* The end boss of ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' had four different forms, each one [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolizing]] one of the seven days of the creation of the world. None of them actually looked like anything in particular.

** Also counted as a [[Marathon Boss]], since depending on the equipment could take upwards of 4 or more hours (it helps to have a magic regeneration ring and have the white dragon in play, but still...)

** The initial Giygas fits the bill as more alien like, seen in preceding game ''Mother'' as a more humanoid alien with vaguely lengthy appendages (who looks suspiciously almost exactly like Mewtwo), within a chamber attached to a huge machine. The previous information continues to apply.

* ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' {{spoiler|First you fight Ramirez, then he sacrifices his life to control Zelos, the Silver Gigas, and then he crosses the [[Bishonen Line]]}}. Interesting in that the boss's original form is perfectly visible inside his translucent [[One-Winged Angel]] form.

** Interestingly enough, quite a few of the main characters can as well the list includes: Yuri, Kurando, Shaina and {{spoiler|Johnny}}. The most literal version though is Yuri's Seraphic Radiance fusion.

* In the ''[[Gungrave]]'' series, many bosses become like this due to the series' [[Psycho Serum]] / [[Phlebotinum]] / [[Green Rocks|green rock]], the Seed drug. All of the "Big Four" bosses Grave fights usually morph to a mutated "overkill form" in the second round or as soon as he encounters them. Oddly enough, the final boss of the second game doesn't transform, he just gets some new attacks during the second phase of the fight.

* In ''[[Diablo]]'', the Dark Wanderer character (Diablo in the Diablo 1 Warrior's body) slowly transforms into Diablo starting from the beginning, up until just before Act 3 is completed. Similarly, Baal, having taken over Tal Rasha's body in a similar way, slowly transforms him beginning with his release prior to the completion of Act 2, until the final form seen in the opening movie (and final battle) of the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. King Leoric, the Skeleton King, also underwent a similar transformation, though he was able to resist full possession by Diablo. The Warrior's use of the soulstone may have made him more vulnerable to this though. Prince Albrecht succumbed immediately though, similar to how Griswold instantly became a zombie.

** King Leoric was able to resist because at the time Diablo had just reawakened in the Soulstone. Prince Albrecht could not resist because as an infant he had little if any willpower to resist. The Warrior fell relatively easy because most the deeds Diablo caused Tristan were perpetrated to strengthen Diablo as well as perpetuate a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to attract a hero powerful enough to kill him in Prince Albrecht's altered form and who would think that they were able to imprison Diablo in there mind, body and soul. Diablo by this time became powerful enough to gradually takeover the Warrior's body gaining a much more powerful host.

** In ''[[Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles]]'', there was Segei Vladimir, who went from a scary and intimidating [[Renegade Russian]] to a horrific-looking Tyrant after losing control of the T-Virus.

** Special mention has to go to Morpheus Duvall of [[Resident Evil Dead Aim]]. A Sephiroth pretty boy who is obsessed with beauty turns himself into a transgender electrical Tyrant, and then mutates into an absolutely enormous green blob with large claws, rib cage halves sticking out of its back and a malformed head popping in and out of its torso as it drags itself along at a lumbering pace.

* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' has several examples. In the first game there's Geldoblame, Fadroh, and the final boss Malpercio (who started out as a giant monster to begin with). The second game has all of Malpercio's Afterlings. The oddest example would be one from the first game, in that {{spoiler|after Kalas's [[Face Heel Turn]], he grows a second wing, as he only had one wing to begin with and had to make due with a mechanical prosthetic for the other. So... he goes from being a One-Winged Hero to a Two-Winged Villain.}}

** Fadroh transforms into a huge, vaguely jester-looking giant monster with a crotch-mounted eye. His main special attack consists of leaning back and firing [[Eye Beams]] from his pelvis.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has several bosses that transform during battles; Illidan Stormrage shifts into and out of his fully demonic Metamorphosis form (as opposed to his normal half-night elf, half demon form); similarily Leotheras the Blind shifts between being a Blood Elf and a Demon (until eventually splititng into two separate forms); similarily several dragon bosses who start out in humanoid forms. Saidan Dathoran/Balnazaar and {{spoiler|Baeren Westwind/Mal'ganis}} revert to their true demon forms mindway through battle, being previously disguised as humans.

** Demonology Warlocks can learn the "Demon form" talent that transforms them into a demon for a short period, buffing their armour and spellcasting.

** A few other bosses go through consecutive transformations throughout the fight. Thus, [[Eldritch Abomination]] C'thun starts out as a giant eye, before turning into a huge bloated body with a lot of teeth and eyes. Even more proeminent with Yogg'saron, whose first form is humanoid, and second form is... well... his title is "The Beast of a Thousand Maws" and it fits him to a T.

** [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|The Black Knight]] is a regular NPC you fight in a mounted duel after a short (but annoying) quest chain. Being an agent of the Lich King, he comes back zombified as the final boss of the Trials of the Champion instance, resurrecting the announcer who he force choked earlier as a ghoul. You kill him, but you can't loot him. Because he's back AGAIN, only this time, he's a skeleton. And then he summons about 10 ghouls. And then you kill him. And THEN he comes back as a ghost, even more powerful than the ten ghouls of the previous phase. Which you kill. He finally stays dead - until tomorrow, when you do the instance again!

*** Finally, [[Big Bad]] Tyrant skips the formalities and {{spoiler|nukes his own city before absorbing the souls of it's dead}} to become a 30 foot tall (but otherwise identical) version of himself.

* ''[[Panzer Dragoon]] Saga''. In a single, long, psychedelic battle you first fight {{spoiler|the five extreme forms of your own dragon}}, then Sestren - the final final boss, who changes into an even more horrible form.

* In ''[[Blue Dragon]]'', [[Big Bad]] Nene {{spoiler|merges with a giant eternal engine to supply himself with infinite magic power}} for the climactic showdown. And {{spoiler|the REAL final boss, Destroy. When Deathroy (the little guy by Nene's side for the whole game) swallows Nene's soul, he reveals his true form as the monster that previously ended the world.}}

* The final boss of ''[[Vandal Hearts]] 2'' has two [[One-Winged Angel]] forms; you fight his human form earlier in the game.

* Celestia Lindwurm, final boss of the shmup ''[[eXceed]] 3rd: Jade Penetrate'', transformed from a girl with wings into... a girl with larger bizarre-looking wings. Then [[Updated Rerelease|Black Package]] came along, and she instead becomes a something like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdC6xM0H3nQ fifty-winged angel].

* In most every [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] game that came out after ''Secret of the Ooze'', Shredder would turn into Super Shredder. In the SNES version ''Turtles in Time'' he would do this without you even fighting him as normal Shredder.

* In ''[[Overlord]] 2'' the final boss encounter is {{spoiler|the Great Devourer. The Emperor, having gathered magic from across his kingdom, submerges himself in it and is transformed into a massive, glowing, zombie-spewing larva}}. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD9ozfDzRsM&feature=related Link].

* Oogie in ''[[Nightmare Before Christmas Oogies Revenge|Oogie's Revenge]]'' turn into a giant monster after merging himself with mountons of bugs and trash.

** 4. The fourth game shows the metal form heavily damaged with wires coming out.

** 5. As a sort of [[Bishonen Line]] effect, the fifth game gives it a giant ''purple'' form.

* In ''[[Body Harvest]]'', the war with the aliens seems to be effectively over as Adam derails their last desperate plan and kills their leader, the colony [[Hive Mind]]. [[Evil Twin|The Man In The Black Suit]] who's been menacing you throughout the entire course of the game then shows up and glibly informs you that upon the Hivemind's death [[Dragon Ascendant|he inherited all its powers]], promptly transforming into the alien behemoth Tomegatherion, the [[True Final Boss]].

* ''[[Rise of the Kasai]]'' features four bosses(two are fought at the same time) who transform before the battle even begins because...who can blame them? The heroes just infiltratied their impenatrable fortresses and slaughtered their mook armies. Three transform into dragons, and the final one {{spoiler|transforms into a hideous spider like monster with the animated corpses of its mooks fused to its legs}} still lashing out at the heroes.

* In the Wii shooter [[Conduit 2]], John Adams (yes, THAT John Adams) infiltrates Atlantis, bringing several of his Trust soldiers in to fight you while he tries to snipe you from far away. After you damage him enough, you knock him back through a portal and end up in Agartha, the center of the Earth. There, Adams is no longer a chubby old man, but a giant, armored and horned alien. He laughs and comments on how it had been a while since he had been in his "true" form.

* In the Wii version of ''[[A Boy and His Blob]],'' the Emperor of Bloblonia begins as a single blobby mass on a giant throne who goes down in a single hit. [[spoiler: He then flees back to [[Where It All Began]], and his form as the [[True Final Boss]] is an immense, be-tentacled writhing black beast that can only be defeated with the power of [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha|Mecha-Blob.]]

* Ursula does this as the [[Final Boss]] of the ''[[The Little Mermaid (video game)|Little Mermaid]]'' game, like she does in the movie.

* Doctor Tongue in ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]'' quaffs his mad scientist potions and becomes, first, a giant spider, then a giant floating head of himself - that fires tongues!

* In ''[[Solatorobo]]'', when you come to finally fight against Bruno, who up until then had been a regular-looking Caninu, he's been transformed into a hulking monster {{spoiler|by Lares}}. Although Bruno does state that it's his true form, it's debatable whether this is true, or if {{spoiler|Lares}} is simply using him as a puppet.

* Arfoire from ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]].'' Her final form? A dragon. It seems rather typical, but the game was also made to make fun of all video games.