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== Platformer ==
* The [[Kirby]] games ''Dream Land 2'', ''Dream Land 3'', and ''64'' keep their True Final Boss hidden until you achieve [[One Hundred Percent Completion]].
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** In Ultra, there's the True Arena, a powered up version of the Arena unlocked after defeating the following [[Bonus Boss|semi bonus bosses]]. These are {{spoiler|Wham Bam Jewel, Masked Dedede, and [[Badass|Galacta Knight]].}} Here you will face powered up versions of some of the bosses as well as the three mentioned bosses. Once {{spoiler|Galacta Knight is beaten, you'll see an epic cutscene showing Marx still alive floating in space and merging with the debris of Galactic Nova. He transforms into [[Nightmare Fuel|Marx Soul]], a souped-up resurrected Marx, and you will fight him.}}
* In ''Kirby 64'', not finishing the game with [[100% Completion]] and thus the True Final Boss gets you a fake ending cutscene, that is [[Nightmare Fuel]] to a lot of younger gamers: The fairy queen secretly smiling a pretty creepy [[Slasher Smile]] into the camera from behind her [[Scary Shiny Glasses]], revealing that she's still being [[Demonic Possession|possessed by Zero]]. For many, this was the ultimate motivation to complete the game—Everybody wanted to erase that creepy scene out of history. {{spoiler|Once you ''do'' have all the Crystal Shards, you get to see the Crystal shoot a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|big beam of light]] at the fairy queen, driving Dark Matter out of her body. Dark Matter retreats to the center of the galaxy, and you chase after it and infiltrate it. After you get through the absurdly easy platforming bit, Dedede launches you into the air, and you fall through a void until Ribbon catches you. The Crystal turns into a gun, and a [[Ugly Cute|grotesque-looking cherub thing]] drops its disguise to reveal itself to be a resurrected Zero, hell-bent upon kicking your ass.}}
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* ''[[Ghosts 'n Goblins|Ghosts N Goblins]]'' series always required you to play through the whole game twice (In one sitting) to get the right weapon to kill the [[Final Boss]], but Ultimate Ghosts 'n' Goblins spiced things up by requiring you to find "magic rings", often hidden in impossible-to-reach places, to open the doors leading to Astaroth first and Hades later (the latter one requiring ALL of the 33 rings).
** The spinoff series ''Gargoyle's Quest'' had ''two'' of these in the third game, ''Demon's Crest'' for SNES. If you collected every crest and item, the final boss, Phalanx, would reveal a new form far more challenging than the previous ones. If you beat this and sat through the credits, you got a password unlocking an even harder final boss, [[That One Boss|Dark Demon]], who could be defeated for a different ending.
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** Similarly, the sixth game, ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', prevents the last stage from being played on Easy difficulty and sends you to the bad ending. If you play on Normal or higher, you can still reach the last stage even if you continue (and can continue on the last stage), but you still get the bad ending.
** Finally for the shooting games, the eighth game, ''Imperishable Night'', has an alternate final stage, with an alternate final boss, that you can only get to after beating the game once with the specific choice of characters. Continuing on the playthrough that unlocks the alternative final stage is fine, but continuing too much gets a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] ending. The true final stage itself can't be reached if you continue, and gives you the bad ending if you die on it.
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* ''[[Mushihime-sama]] Futari'' one-upped the genre with ''two'' consecutive true final bosses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ztCxpBmXuA&feature=related which really do have to be seen to be believed.]
** It's also called the hardest video game boss ever, with good reason. There's even a video on Youtube by that name.
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