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(For extra effect, try listening to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=736Ed0Fc8zg this] while reading this page.)
Classic [[Big Bad
This shows the villain means business and it's time for the heroes to end it. And for those with firmer morals, this qualifies the villain as a monster, [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|making it fine to kill him]]. (See also [[Karmic Death]].) This is probably why item 34 in the [[Evil Overlord List]] says "I will not [[Scaled Up|turn into a snake]]. It never helps."
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If there's one ''final'' final form after the heroes beat the bad guy, and it loses handily, it was a [[Clipped-Wing Angel]].
Named in honor of Sephiroth, [[Big Bad]] of the video game ''[[Final Fantasy VII]].''<ref>Okay, named in honor of his theme music, as he has in fact ''seven'' wings, but just one in place of an arm.</ref> Video games in general absolutely ''adore'' having their final boss do this, even when their original form is scary enough anyway. In fact, it's gotten to be somewhat of an arms race: thanks to the popularity of [[Dragonball Z|Frieza]] in 1991, [[Rule of Three|three-form]] bosses are now somewhat common, and those games going for "epic" will sometimes go for even more. In JRPGs, particularly, it is rather common to see two stages of
Sometimes you never even fight their human form at all and they immediately turn into a monster. Can count as [[The Unfought]] if they showed fighting ability in their human form. This is more popular among minor video game villains who will often transform into [[Underground Monkey|tougher]] [[Palette Swap|versions]] of earlier monsters like in the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games, as it takes time to create a unique battle sprite for them.
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