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You're showing off how awesome you are at a game. You might be on a harder difficulty than you usually play. You might be playing the whole game [[No Damage Run|without getting hit]]. You might even be [[Self
...and then frantically pick it up again when a ''new'' boss comes out of nowhere and starts kicking your ass. ''Huh?'' Where did this guy come from?! You don't know why this boss never showed up before. Maybe you had to be at the hardest difficulty level. Maybe you're doing ''much'' better than you were before. Maybe you completed a [[Sidequest]] that didn't necessarily let you know [[Guide Dang It|this was going to happen as a result]]. Regardless, you have now run into the True Final Boss.
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This can also be annoying if the [[Guide Dang It|Game guide]] intentionally fails to mention this boss.
Compare [[Final Boss]], which it is by definition, and [[That One Boss]], which it will usually become. Also compare [[Bonus Boss]], as by definition the [[True Final Boss]] is technically optional (however, ''do not confuse the two''). May be [[The Man Behind the Man]], or just the original final boss's [[One
If the reward for beating this guy ''[[Bragging Rights Reward|isn't]]'' the [[Golden Ending]] (or some sort of huge bonus feature), there will be [[Angrish|great rage]]. Indeed, if beating the standard [[Final Boss]] nets you some sort of [[Downer Ending]], [[Bittersweet Ending]], or [[Gainax Ending]], nine times out of ten, there's a [[True Final Boss]] waiting in the wings that you'll have to uncover and defeat to get a happy ending that provides some sort of closure to the story. (This goes double if the game was lighthearted up until everything went down the tubes at the "end".)
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'''These examples are pretty much all spoilers. Read at your own risk.'''
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== Action Adventure ==
* ''Ganbare Goemon 3'' lets you fight the recurring Kabuki if you collect all the health power-ups.
* If you get the Tsubaki Mark III in ''[[No More Heroes]]'', you get to fight {{spoiler|"Mister Sir Henry Motherfucker"}}.
* In [[The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games|Oracle of Ages/Seasons]], there is a [[One
* The SNES version of ''[[Sparkster]]'' has this. When you play on Hard, instead of the [[Final Boss]] dying before he launches the missile, he dies right ''after'' he hits the button. Guess what the [[True Final Boss]] is this time? And it really is deserving of [[That One Boss]], as even the [[Unexpected Gameplay Change|mecha battle against Axel Gear]] seems easy compared to this boss.
** When playing a higher difficulty in the Genesis version, you fight a 2nd form of Gedol. {{spoiler|If you get all 7 hidden swords throughout the game, it becomes much easier, as his attacks in both forms will not do as much damage, and it also slightly influences the ending.}}
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* ''[[Contra]]: Shattered Soldier'' has two true final boss fights. The first, if you complete the first five missions with an A ranking, is a [[Sequential Boss]] fight with the "Relic of Moirai", then if you manage to achieve and maintain an S ranking through there, you get to fight his Very Definitely Final Form.
* In the first ''[[Bushido Blade]]'', to get the True Final Boss, you had to ''[[Nintendo Hard|not get hit at all]]''. There was a way to skip most of the opponents by running to a certain area of the map, take your opponent's legs out so they can't follow you, and jump down a well, which makes you fight only one more opponent before going onto the bosses. You still have to avoid getting hit to get the "real" ending for each character.
* The flash game ''[[Amorphous]]'' sometimes surprises you with a Razor Queen instead of the annoying-as-fuck regular Queen. The game's normal "boss", the Queen, is nimble, has the ability to spawn other Queens (via a hostile takeover of another blob), carries two unbreakable claws to your one sword, is smart enough to avoid your swings, and can be beaten [[Single Stroke Battle|samurai style]]. The Razor Queen, on the other hand, is a colossal scorpion-looking ''thing'' with ''four'' huge claws that has an annoying penchant of turning you into Ludicrous Gibs. Beating her does unlock the [[Infinity
* The "Master Program" in ''[[Battle Circuit]]''. You have to finish the game in one credit or get a high enough score.
* ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'' parodies this trope, actually naming the second-to-last event match "The Final Battle" (Versus Bowser, Ganondorf, and King Dedede) and the actual last match "The Final FINAL Battle" (Versus Snake, Sonic, and a GIANT Mario).
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* ''[[Tales of Graces (Video Game)|Tales of Graces]]'' -- the [[Final Boss]] of the original "main" game was {{spoiler|Lambda}}. However, the "Lineage to the Future" makes the [[True Final Boss]] be {{spoiler|The Fodra Queen}}.
* ''[[Tales of Innocence]]'' also threw people for a loop when people played the remake. The DS version ends with Mathias transforming into an [[Eldritch Abomination]] combining three of the protagonists' past lives. However, the remake version has her suddenly get back up and transform ''two times''.
* ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' features the sidequest variant. In order to attain the ending, all you really have to do is just beat Duke and Duke in his [[One
* In ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story (Video Game)|Star Ocean the Second Story]]'', doing a seemingly totally random Private Action will release the "limiter" on the final boss, jacking up his stats and making him nigh-impossible to beat without ridiculous level grinding in the bonus dungeon.
* ''[[Baten Kaitos]] Origins'' typically ends with a [[Anticlimax Boss|slightly anticlimactic]] [[That One Boss|(but still stupidly hard)]] battle against {{spoiler|Verus}}. If you defeated a certain optional boss, though, {{spoiler|Wiseman shows up possessing Verus's corpse and reveals himself to be [[The Man Behind the Man]]. The true final battle that ensues is much more climactic and satisfying}}.
* ''[[Romancing Sa Ga]]: Minstrel's Song'' has an optional True Final Boss. If you manage {{spoiler|to acquire all ten Fatestones (something that requires quite a bit of planning and cannot be accomplished until you have cleared the game at least twice), you can offer them all up to the final boss,}} vastly increasing his powers. The jump in strength for each stone beyond the fifth gets larger and larger, and the jump to the tenth is what makes 10FS Saruin a True Final Boss.
* ''[[Mana Khemia Alchemists of Al Revis]]''. The [[Final Boss]] is {{spoiler|your ''main character'' fighting against his friends trying to [[I Know You Are in There Somewhere Fight|snap him out]] of making a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}. The only way to fight the [[True Final Boss]] is to {{spoiler|increase one character's [[Relationship Values]] with the main character to maximum, releasing him from the hold of his ''powers''}}. The latter (italicized to avoid confusion) given "physical form" is the [[True Final Boss]].
* In the first ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' game, {{spoiler|Tyr/Myrna's [[One
* ''[[Disgaea 2]]'' has a rare example of this (rare for the series anyway, which tends much more towards Bonus Bosses) if you go for the Worst Ending. Upon defeating Zenon, you end up fighting {{spoiler|Rozalin/the real Overlord Zenon,}} who is at level ''2000.'' (Compare with the previous fight with an enemy at level 90.) And unlike the other storyline fights with enemies at this level, you're supposed to win this one. Granted, it'll take a lot of grinding of a sort just to unlock this fight, but it can still catch you off guard. Luckily, there's a way to back out of qualifying for this ending. Which is a ''good'' thing, as your reward for victory is some [[Nightmare Fuel]].
** ''[[Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten]]'' puts you up against against a different, much higher-leveled final boss if you clear the second to last stage using only the main character at level 500 or higher. {{spoiler|You fight the messengers of [[God Is Evil|God]]. Unfortunately, your reward is a [[Downer Ending]].}}
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** Kirby ''Superstar'' requires you to complete each of its modes, including mini-games, before revealing ''another'' mini-game in which you must [[Run the Gauntlet]], defeating every enemy in the game in random sequence, keeping accumulated damage between battles.
** 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 [[Hundred Percent 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.}}
** You also can not retreat from this battle. If you pause, your only options become the usual continue, and "FIGHT IT OUT!"
* ''[[Ghosts N Goblins (Video Game)|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).
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== Puzzle Game ==
* Beating the story mode of ''[[Super Mario Bros|Dr. Mario 64]]'' without continuing would pit you against Vampire Wario if you were Mario or Metal Mario if you were Wario.
* In most versions of ''[[Puyo Puyo|Puyo Puyo Tsuu]]'', racking up 180,000 points before reaching the final stage, without using any continues, replaces Satan with [[Paper
** ''Tsuu'' also has a secret reverse example of this if you really go out of your way to suck. If you can manage to beat every opponent on the first floor ''without'' scoring enough points to advance to floor 2, you're pit against Masked Satan... and then get [[Nonstandard Game Over|thrown out of the tower for sucking so hard]]. [http://www.nicozon.net/player.html?video_id=sm8203476 Video here.] (Note that this is only possible in versions of ''Tsuu'' that require 30,000 points to advance to floor 2.)
** In Fever, if you are playing Raffine's storyline, {{spoiler|if you purposly lose 7 times, and defeat Ms. Accord without losing,}} the character who replaces Popoi is none other than '''Carbuncle!''' In fact, {{spoiler|defeat Carbuncle and you will unlock him as a selectable character.}}
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== Rhythm Game ==
* The ''Guitar Freaks'' and the ''Drum Mania'' series has a hidden and otherwise unreachable track for anyone who gets an "S" ranking on all of the three tracks he played normally.
* The many Extra Stage songs of the [[Rhythm Game|BEMANI]] series (''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'', ''[[Beatmania]] IIDX'', etc.) almost always require you to score a high enough grade on your last song (or all of your songs). Usually, these Extra Stages force you to play under modifiers that make the song even harder; for instance, Extra Stages in DDR force you to play with the x1.5 speed and Reverse mods, as well as a life meter that doesn't replenish. And in some of these games, this same requirement can be used to reach what is called the One More Extra Stage, or OMES for short; in DDR, this is a fairly easier song in which ''[[One
* In ''[[Pump It Up]] Exceed 2'', if you get an 'S' ranking on both songs on Remix Station, you get to play a ''literally impossible'' song, RAW (which is also the opening theme). The steps, which include quintuple jumps and hitting all 10 panels at once, aren't meant to be played, but spell out a message.
* ''[[DJMAX]] Technika'' 's Technical courses have you select three songs, do those songs, then face a boss song (that is not revealed until you get to it). However, clearing the first two stages with at least 95% of your hits being rated "MAX" will bring up an alternate fourth song. For example, the Customizer course's normal final boss is "Son of Sun," and the TFB is "Sin."
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== Western RPG ==
* ''[[Neo Quest]]'', one of two online [[Neopets]] RPGs, features this, with an extra boss added for each difficulty. There are three levels to choose from: Normal, Hard, and [[Harder Than Hard|InSaNe]]. On Normal, you'll only fight the standard [[Final Boss]], Jahbal. On Hard, it's Jahbal, immediately followed by [[Man Behind the Man|Mastermind]]. The penultimate battle consists of Jahbal, then Mastermind, then [[Nightmare Fuel|Xantan Reborn]], a strengthened version of the first boss you fought, [[Captain Obvious|Xantan]]. You get no break between the three, and losing to Mastermind (or anyone, if you're playing on InSaNe) [[Restart At Level One|completely erases your save data]]. Have fun with that.
* ''[[Infinity Blade]]'' has the God Kings. After you've played through the castle your first 15 or so times, you can actually buy the [[Infinity
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