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* Andross also pulled this one in ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]''. You even have to beat him the same way as in ''64''.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', thanks to its [[Mind Screw|confusing]] [[Kudzu Plot|cosmology]], has a rather weird example: the [[Big Bad]] of the entire series is Xehanort, who is technically "dead" but acts as the antagonists of most of the games through his [[The Heartless|Heartless]] "Ansem" and his [[Empty Shell|Nobody]] Xemnas. Ansem was [[The Man Behind the Man]] to the Disney villains, and Xemnas' connection to Ansem was a twist to [[Kingdom Hearts II|KHII]]. In ''[[Birth By Sleep]]'', we find out that {{spoiler|Master Xehanort is the original incarnation of Xehanort, who became the current Xehanort when he possessed Terra's body}}, and then ''Dream Drop Distance'' has its primary villain turn out to be {{spoiler|a younger Master Xehanort from an alternate timeline}}. As a result of that, almost every single villain in the series can be traced back to Xehanort directly or indirectly, and his connection to the main villain of the latest game is always played as [[The Reveal]]. If the promised ''Kingdom Hearts III'' is as straightforward with who its villains are as ''Dream Drop Distance'' foreshadowed, it'll be a first.

* Bowser in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''. It turns out {{spoiler|he's the father of Shadow Mario, a.k.a. Bowser Jr.}}

** Bowser also does a hijacking in the original ''[[Yoshis Island|Yoshi's Island]]''. You enter the final area and confront Kamek, the essential main antagonist...who is then stomped on by Baby Bowser. Cue obligatory final battle.

*** Because seriously, "What's a finale without a Bowser appearance, huh? A cruddy finale, that's what!"

** Played with in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''. The heroes go to his castle without even checking if he is the bad guy this time. [[Not Me This Time|He was not.]]

** ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' did this in reverse -- the game opens with Bowser kidnapping the Princess, again, and Mario rescuing her, again. He complains about how annoying this is. At which point the ''real'' villain shatters the Star Road and ejects Bowser from his castle. Bowser [[Enemy Mine|joins your party]] later in the game to serve his own purposes, and he remains firmly against Smithy for the entire game.

** ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'' uses a variation of this: you know from the beginning of the game that Bowser was responsible for transforming the kings of the Mushroom World into animals, but it isn't until you reach World 8 that you find out that {{spoiler|he has kidnapped Princess Peach again.}}

*** {{spoiler|Further played with in that the epilogue consists of a [[Credits Montage]] of the Mario Brothers defeating the real Bowser anyway.}}

** ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'' {{spoiler|subverts this. The final boss, King Boo, only fights in a Bowser costume, but Bowser himself has no part in it.}}

* In ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'', the events aboard the BOTTLE SHIP are the fault of {{spoiler|MB, who is essentially a resurrected Mother Brain}}.

* With no real buildup<ref>he appears on the box art, and that's it</ref>, Carnage randomly appears as the final boss of ''Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety''.

** In a sense, it's played straight. At first, it seems like you're going to stop the Psynergy Vortexes and get the roc feather, but the Vortex subplot is dropped after Konpa Cave {{spoiler|until [[The Stinger]]}}, and the roc feather quest takes a backseat to stopping the Grave Eclipse.

* In ''[[Dawn of War]] II Chaos Rising'' Eliphas was revived by Abaddon to serve Araghast as his 2nd in command. But when the Blood Ravens finally defeat Araghast he leaves him to die, and takes command of the Black Legion forces.

** Even though everyone pretty much shrugged and said "It's probably Reapers" in the first conversation about the Collectors.

* In ''[[Persona 3|Persona 3: The Answer]]'': After destroying the mysterious shadow that you've spent 90% of the game chasing, a new, unconnected [[Big Bad]] takes over: {{spoiler|Yukari Takeba. escaping the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] the party finds itself in requires using all their keys together to open a door either to the past, where they can try to re-write history so that the main character of the main game is still alive, or to the present, where they can go on with their lives. Most of the party agrees on the present, but Yukari wants to bring the main character back, and is desperate to do a [[Face Heel Turn]] and try to ''kill off the rest of the party''. When Akihiko subsequently takes a firm grip on the [[Conflict Ball]], the party splinters, and Aigis and Metis wind up having to kill their friends. They make an [[Unexplained Recovery]] just in time for a [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] to show up as the [[Final Boss]].}}

* The [[Arcade Game]] ''[[Captain America and The Avengers]]'' openly presents Red Skull as the [[Big Bad]]. The NES version [[Reformulated Game|isn't exactly based on it]], but it's not hard to guess who the "Mystery Big Boss" is.

* In a way, this is played with during the final boss fight of [[MadWorld]]. After getting to the final area, you're set to fight the previous champ, and it is never revealed who that is, so one would expect a powerful new face that may reveal something about {{spoiler|Jack's past in the games}}. Then, get ready for this, {{spoiler|'''IT'S THE BLACK BARON.''' Yes, the guy who died multiple times as a joke character to explain how minigames work is the final boss and has no clue who Jack is.}} Oh, and {{spoiler|he's}} surprisingly [[Badass]]. While the main plot continues as expected, the final boss fight is with the least expected person...but one that has been previously established as a villain of sorts.