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It's the next-to-final battle, and the heroes are moving in on the fortress. The [[Big Bad]] dispatches his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], but while they pose a challenge for a while, they too fall. He is obviously miffed, but it's not like he can go out there ''himself''...
The next thing that the fallen minions see is their boss' face looming above them. He informs them that [[You Have Failed Me|they have failed]], and they panic and
A favored trick of [[The Man Behind the Man]], to show that he really ''is'' the biggest threat despite hiding in the back.
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* Subverted touchingly in ''[[Super Robot Wars Reversal|Super Robot Wars R]]'' where the [[Big Bad]] is fatally wounded by the heroes, and her [[Replacement Goldfish]] sacrifice their souls to heal her... but their bodies keep going, still determined to carry out their last wish... Even more touchingly, the [[Big Bad]] asks each of them what they desired, promising to fulfill it when she resurrected them.
* Occurs with a slight twist in ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2''. [[Big Bad|Emperor Griffon]] takes over Gaspard after Gaspard is defeated {{spoiler|and betrays Griffon, making this also an example of [[You Have Failed Me]]}}.
* In Hollow Bastion in the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', after {{spoiler|Riku loses to Sora}} near the beginning, {{spoiler|he takes advice from the mysterious [[Black Cloak]], who convinces him to give in completely to [[The Dark Side]] and possesses him}}, showing up later as the penultimate fight for that world. He proceeds to give Maleficent a
* Arguably what happens to Manah in ''[[Drakengard]]'' towards its first ending. Not obvious in that ending, but later endings seem to suggest that a
{{quote|"She breaks the seal and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}JiCl_l2qqnU becomes a giant.] What monster is this child?!"}}
* After you beat the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Cave Story]],'' he returns and posesses [[The Dragon]] (who'd been trying to convince the hero to leave and not to destroy the island's core), the [[Damsel in Distress]], and the "core" of the island, for a three-on-one fight.
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* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' has Uzuki and Kariya fighting the protagonist over three days. First Uzuki alone, then Kariya alone and both in the same day, and then both of them, somehow upgraded by [[The Dragon]]'s master plan.
* ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' has you fight recurring boss O'Chunks several times. In your penultimate fight with him, fellow [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] member [[Psycho for Hire|Dimentio]] plants a leaf on his head that causes [[Mind Control]] and strengthens him. Subverted in that you fight him once more later, when he's holding nothing back, and he's ''even stronger''.
* One of the purer examples is in ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]'' (especially the first game). Using your possession spell to directly control a minion, that minion is faster, stronger, tougher, can ignore bodily needs almost indefinitely, can deliberately dodge attacks, and can fight intelligently for a change. You ''are'' the
** In the second game, certain creatures also got unique abilities while you possessed them (such as the rogue's camouflage, or the giant's dwarf tossing) and enabled you to disable traps and unlock doors. This last one turned out to be such a [[Game Breaker]] that it was disabled in a later patch.
* The second ''[[Overlord]]'' game requires you to do this to complete a few areas. Most of these sequences are simply a matter of your minions entering an area that is to small for you in order to remove and obstruction and let you in, but there are a couple of longer sequences.
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