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* This trope may best be illustrated by the fistfight in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''. Snake has just destroyed his biggest, toughest enemy, a rampaging giant robot, and after returning to consciousness, he fights Liquid bare-knuckled and shirtless on the remains of the robot. Although unlike most examples of this trope, Liquid is a legitimate threat and can be a challenging fight; in fact, he can be tougher than Metal Gear Rex was.
* Possibly the earliest known example: In the original NES [[Bionic Commando]], after killing Hitler, you must escape the base. As you climb out of the soon to explode base, you face one last enemy standing in the way of your escape.
* Well after beating the [[The Man Behind the Man|Elder Princess Shroob]] in [[
* After you fight Braska's Final Aeon in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', you meet {{spoiler|Yu Yevon}} in a fight that is mechanically impossible to lose.
** It ''is'' possible, but the boss itself [[Zero Effort Boss|actually cannot defeat you]]. In order to "achieve" a Game Over in that battle, you need to bring [[Taken for Granite|Stonetouch]] weapons and attack your own characters, petrifying and shattering them.
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* {{spoiler|Geldoblame}} in ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''. Despite its mountain of hit points, it barely hits at all, has no defensive capacities, and gets one-shotted by a [[Limit Break|Spirit Attack]]. That being said, it has a kickass battle theme that's only heard here.
* {{spoiler|Nyx}} in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: [[Persona 3]]''.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings]]'' has one of these.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2]]'' has Roxas fight Riku in The World That Never Was after finishing off the [[Sequential Boss]], {{spoiler|Xion}}. It's not a particularly easy fight, but definitely not final boss material.
* At the end of ''[[Live a Live]]'', after a long and difficult battle against the [[Big Bad|Demon Lord Odio]], you either fight Odio's "true form" (a weak human fighter who dies in a few hits), or spare Odio and end up fighting all the game's previous major bosses from the previous chapters (who have ''not'' leveled up in the interrim and thus pose only a very minor threat).
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* {{spoiler|Jowy}} in two of ''[[Suikoden II]]'''s endings.
* {{spoiler|Lucien}} in ''[[Fable|Fable II]]'' with {{spoiler|the Giant Shard}} serving as the actual final boss.
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'', {{spoiler|after defeating Richter, you fight a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] against Lloyd and Marta, followed by a [[Duel Boss]] against Ratatosk, which you don't even have to win.}}
** If you ''win'' that [[Hopeless Boss Fight]], you get the game's absolute ''[[Bad End|worst]]'' ending for your trouble.
* In ''[[Xenosaga|Xenosaga II]]'', {{spoiler|after a difficult two round fight against the Patriarch, Jr. fights Albedo in a battle he can't lose.}}
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