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* 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.}}
* In ''[[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman]] 64'', a player who has gotten [[Hundred
* The arcade version of ''[[Golden Axe]]'' ends when you beat Death Adder. When you beat him in the Genesis version, it lets you think the game is over... and then cheerfully informs you that you have to fight Death ''[[Man Behind the Man|Bringer]]'' now.
* Collecting all the 65 weapons in ''[[Drakengard]]'' unlocks a [[Multiple Endings|5th secret ending]] in which you fight {{spoiler|the Queen of the Grotesqueries}}. Though it's a rather unconventional battle, more akin to a [[Rhythm Game]] than to a real boss, it is widely considered [[Nintendo Hard|the hardest challenge in the game]] ''[[Difficulty Spike|by far]]''.
* In ''[[Nie R]]'', the true final boss for Endings C and D is {{spoiler|Kainé}}, who is unlocked in your third playthrough.
* Clearing every Grudge Match in ''[[Custom Robo (Video Game)|Custom Robo]]'' ''Arena'' (which in turn requires beating the game and reaching [[Hundred
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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
* 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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* If you clear Arcade Mode in ''[[Blaz Blue]]: Calamity Trigger'' with 10 or more Distortion Finishes and no rounds lost, you get the displeasure of fighting Unlimited Ragna, who has triple health and permanent [[Super Mode|Blood Kain]].
** And in the console versions of ''Continuum Shift'', beating Hazama with the right amount of Astral Finishes and without losing a round rewards you with a fight against Mu-12. Unlimited Mu-12 that is. If you're using Mu in [[CS 2]] though, you fight Unlimited Ragna instead.
* Every time you clear the story mode of ''[[The Bouncer]],'' you [[New Game
** You actually fight him three times. The first time, he ties a hand behind his back and still hits pretty hard. The second time is the final boss fight, and he's pretty tough. The third time, as the [[True Final Boss]], he decides he doesn't need to hold back ''at all'', and will ''easily'' pummel you with moves you haven't seen before.
* [[Touhou]] has two of these in its first [[Fighting Game]] [[Gaiden Game|side story]] ''Immaterial And Missing Power''. With only two exceptions, each character's story mode lets you fight Yukari if you beat the previous five stages without continuing, and then lets you fight Suika if you don't continue against Yukari. (If you don't fight Yukari you get a bad ending, and if you beat Yukari but don't fight Suika you get another bad ending). Naturally, the two characters without True Final Bosses are...Yukari and Suika.
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** In ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia (Video Game)|Mystery of the Emblem]]'', if the player has all legendary weapons intact and Sirius is alive, Marth finds out that his quest to defeat Hardain was just a distraction so [[Hijacked By Ganon|Garnef could revive Medeus]].
** ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius (Video Game)|Path of Radiance]]'' has something of an [[Anticlimax Boss|anticlimactic]] final boss on Easy and Normal mode, but he springs a cruel surprise on Hard mode: not only does he start moving (with a massive movement range of 10 spaces), after you "beat" him, he immediately invokes a dark god and resurrects with wildly increased stats and fully-replenished (and jacked-up) HP. And it's '''still your turn''', meaning any units that attacked him are unable to act until your next turn! Adding to that, maybe five characters can actually inflict damage on him before he resurrects. (Eagle-eyed players might suspect something is amiss going into the final chapter, as there are [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity|less enemies on the map]] than in Normal mode.)
* ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]: Revenant Wings'' makes the [[Final Boss]] and [[The Dragon]] level 99 if you have [[Hundred
** Similarly in [[Final Fantasy VII]], Safer Sephiroth's HP depends on a variety of things, increasing 30,000 HP for each character at level 99, and increasing 80,000 HP if you cast Knights of the Round on JENOVA.Synthesis. Fortunately, his health is also decreased slightly for every time you killed the head while fighting Bizarro Sephiroth. Ultimately, his health, normally 80,000 HP, can range from 55,100 to 400,000.
* In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' (and the [[Video Game Remake|Remakes]]), Red, the main character from the previous games, becomes this. You only meet him after getting all the Kanto badges (which only become available after beating the normal final boss) and going to Mt. Silver. After you defeat him, you get the second "ending", and the credits roll.
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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
** 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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** And the trend continued with ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'', where you must complete the three different storylines, each of which had their own different final bosses, to unlock the last episode where the three hedgehog heroes ([[That One Level|after the worst level in the game]]) take on the ultimate final boss.
** Played with in the 8-bit ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'', wherein beating the boss of Scrambled Egg Zone (Mecha Sonic/Silver Sonic) with all the Emeralds collected allowed the player to move on to the true final level, Crystal Egg Zone (which has the same amount of Acts as the others), fight the real final boss, and properly save Tails.
* ''Earthworm Kim'', [[Earthworm Jim (Video Game)|Earthworm Jim]]'s [
* In a form of [[Easy Mode Mockery]], ''[[Mega Man X]] 8'' features {{spoiler|Sigma}} as the [[Final Boss]]. The [[True Final Boss]] can only be fought on Normal and Hard modes.
* ''[[Meat Boy (Video Game)|Super Meat Boy]]'' has a second, much more difficult battle against Dr. Fetus once you beat most of the Dark World levels.
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* [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team (Video Game)|Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team]] has [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Deoxys]], who can only be fought once every single Pokemon in that game is fought and recruited (the final boss for Story Mode is Rayquaza).
* In ''[[Doom the Roguelike]]'', nuking the Cyberdemon while under the effects of an Invulnerability Sphere will reveal the secret stairs to the next level, wherein resides the Ultimate Evil. {{spoiler|It's John Carmack, and he has a rocket launcher and summons Barons of Hell.}}
** This came out of an [[Good Bad Bugs|unintended feature]] in earlier versions of the game, where nuking the Cyberdemon still counted as a win, despite the fact you just killed yourself. In later versions, this was changed to marking it as a "partial" victory on your record, since you did technically commit suicide. Now, if you want to try to win that way and survive, the [[True Final Boss|true final boss]] is there to make sure you're not just taking the cheap way out. Unfortunately for people actually trying to face the true final boss, you have to get lucky enough to find an Invulnerability Sphere on the level before the Cyberdemon, making it a [[Luck
* In ''Ancient Domains of Mystery'', the goal of the game is to close the Chaos Gate and keep it from reopening. If you have completed a number of [[Guide Dang It|obscure and difficult]] tasks, you may instead enter the Chaos Gate and kill [[Big Bad|Andor Drakon]].
** And there are 3 Ultra endings that require even ''more'' obscure and difficult requirements!
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== Vehicular Combat ==
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Rogue Squadron]] III: [[Rebel Strike]]'', while not technically a boss, there is a bonus extension to one level if and only if, you meet the requirements for a silver medal or higher. Earn a bronze medal and the level is finished and you win. Earn a silver or better and you play a short mission in a TIE Bomber and gain an opportunity to unlock said Bomber for use in other missions.
* ''[[Ace Combat Zero]]'' plays with this. If you've beaten the game enough to unlock the SP Mission "[[Boss Rush|The Gauntlet]]" on the highest difficulty, played that mission on said highest difficulty setting, and defeated [[That One Boss|Espada Squadron]] in less than 1 minute during the mission, then the game's penultimate boss Wizard Squadron appears. Do you have to fight them, too? Nope, instead a single F-22 Raptor appears from behind them and utterly slaughters Wizard Squadron in all of about 15 seconds. Then that F-22's pilot sets his sights on you. Good luck with [[Shout
* ''[[Air Force Delta]] Strike'' features NAVIGATOR on the final mission for 3rd Element. The only way to get to this boss is by using 3rd Element pilots for almost all of the space-based part of the game.
* ''[[Naval Ops|Warship Gunner 2]]'' after the final boss has one where you have to sink a superweapon.
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