I love her check shirt too! Not sure if she has great taste in clothes that suit her or if she just makes everything look elegant. Quite possibly both. (Mind you, I love Andy’s check shirt too, so maybe my fondness for that pattern has some influence as well. I feel obliged to add that Mike’s hoodie looks warm and comfortable!)
Ghirahim, from Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword. First fight he literally tells you how to kill him, by his third and last fight he's so, so incredibly difficult that he's even harder than the true final boss he spends all bloody game resurrecting. Plus to make things worse, his third fight is immediately after fighting your way through a whole horde of lower level enemies, so chances are you're not at full health even starting the fight iirc. I still haven't fully gotten over the rage from his fight lmao, but to this day he is still best villain and I love him so much
And then there's The Imprisoned, which you also have to fight three times, but the fights aren't really meaningfully different enough to make it not feel like you're just doing the same fight three times.
and to add to the pain, the true main antagonist, Demise, turns out to just be The Imprisoned/the avacado with toes who you have already fought three nearly identical times, in a human design! Granted he DOES look cool, but the dude apparently turns out to canonically have the soul/hatred of Ganon, the same villain from almost every other Zelda game. So he isn't even really a new villain technically, he's just Ganon with a facelift underneath being an avacodo with a facelift. And Demise's boss fight is so much easier than Ghirahim's third fight it's actually kinda sad lol
@@enderrmoth4442 Skyward Sword is the first game chronologically and in the final boss fight you're going back in time even further. Demise was the original demon lord whose soul Ganon inherits forevermore afterwards. So it's the other way around.
There is a Geneva Convention for video games--it's the Geneva Convention! Multiple games have had to remove red crosses to fall in line with Geneva Convention rules surrounding their use.
@@Nimble.ninja910The Arma series and Bohemia Interactive were affected by the International committee of the Red Cross enforcing the rules on depictions of the red cross. Bohemia Interactive produced The Laws of War dlc with the ICRC, highlighting the Geneva Convention, and more broadly the Laws of armed conflict apply.
Other M is particularly bad about this with you fighting him multiple time before even realizing it’s him. And when you do, it literally gives you PTSD in game.
It's not technically "coming back," but in the later releases of Kingdom Hearts 2 (Remix, Final Mix etc.), you can fight "data" versions of all of the Organisation XIII members, which are even more difficult than their standard encounters
There’s one thing you forgot about the King Kaliente fight: the arena. In the second fight he, it is comprised of platforms that will sink into the lava, so you got to keep moving.
I miss Jane, with her over the shoulder hair and her catch phrase: "it's me, jane". But this new woman with parted hair seems like a good fit for the team to.
@@draco4569 My personal favorite is poorly-timed bleeping, so you can still hear the cursing and also get a lazy bleep at the end. but bleeps are often not headphone-friendly, so as is is an acceptable alternative for me.
Tales of the Abyss has a complete fakeout ending where the characters think they have defeated the final boss and all his generals are dead, but it turns out there are several more hours of gameplay (more than several if you're doing sidequests) and you have to fight pretty much all of them at least once more.
In Fable, you fight Jack of Blades as the final boss. He keeps levitating so you can’t mêlée him, and spawning minions to attack you, and back then that was a tough fight for me. In the Lost Chapters DLC, he comes back as a f_~
Panzer Dragoon Saga has a great bit where you stumble across a ship that's salvaged the corpse of the final boss from Panzer Dragoon 2 and is towing it home. After a bit of bovver with the ship, it turns out said final boss is less of a corpse than everyone thought and it wakes up to have a go at you too.
Panzer Dragoon Saga was an amazing RPG, especially considering it was only like 20 hours of gameplay. I'm happy to meet one of the 20 other people who have played it.
May I suggest a video topic? "Top 7 Oxbox Similes for toughness", "Kevlar coated cryptic crossword" is definitely up there, but for my money "Diamond coated Jason Statham"
Grahf in Xenogears. First time you face him, you actually fight him in your gears while he is just on foot, and the battle is still really tough. Way later on, you fight him in his absurdly powerful gear, the Alpha Weltall. It is arguably one of the hardest boss fights in the entire game.
Should have put Seymour Guado from Final Fantasy X. Can't think of wandering post-mortem as a ghost monster before turning into Seymour Flux as anything more than "asshole behavior".
Gotta give my shout-out to Lance from Pokémon. The only real user of the hyper-rare dragon types in Gen 1 he's a brutal stonewall you have to overcome before your championship match. In Gen 2 they brought him back as the champion himself, upgrading his two Dragonairs to Dragonites and throwing in a Charizard and extra potions because why not?
There's almost an argument to say that Lance got easier rather than harder. Granted, he has six Pokémon in Gen 2 rather than the five he has in Gen 1, but they all share a type in Gen 2 and it's the underwhelming Flying type - not even Dragon type. Each of his Pokémon are also typically ten levels lower than in Gen 1. Not since I watched an infamous interview with Oprah have I been so disappointed with a celebrity called Lance.
And then in HeartGold and SoulSilver his post-game rematch replaces two of his Dragonites and his Aerodactyl with a Perish Dong Double Team Altaria, a Salamence, and a Swords Dance Garchomp.
Taniks the scarred came back a whopping THREE times after his initial appearance in destiny 1: first as a raid boss, then as a nightmare, and then as ANOTHER raid boss in destiny 2. Man just doesn’t know when to quit.
opting to have Rugal in your king of fighters team is like ballet classes, it's pretty fun but don't let your friends see you doing it. ppl in arcades be like "1v1 no rugal" he is the most unbalanced boss ever and probably the only boss that feels just as strong when you use him as a character
I think Culex from the Super Mario RPG Remake should be here, not only was he the toughest boss in the original game, but then he decided that he deserves a 3D upgrade as well
How about Morgott from Elden Ring? You have 2 chances to fight him before you reach his location in Leyndell, one of which is the entrance to Stormveil Castle where you fight another Shardbearer boss after you get inside. But Margit, as he's named in front of Stormveil, is blocking your entry to the castle and serves to test your resolve. And when you meet him in Leyndell... He's pulling out an actual blade to use against you as well as several other moves that drop weapons made of holy light onto your Tarnished body.
The Riddler from the Batman Arkham games comes to mind. He goes from being just an annoying voice in Asylum, to a one hit chump in City, and then a huge mech suit in Knight.
We can't forget the Nemesis Tyrant from OG Resident Evil 3. It was literally designed to be persistent... and with each encounter, it can become even more of a jerk until you eventually "Give it S.T.A.R.S." at the end of the game.
I am going to need a part 2 to this with... Bass again. Yeah, believe it or not, Bass also appears in the Megaman Battle Network spin-offs as a superboss, where he gets stronger every single time.
I don’t know if this counts, but Junko enoshina from the Danganronpa series. She went from a psychopathic girl with a robot bear to an AI psychopath who can create an army of robot bear at will and can transfer her consciousness to people who “died” in the virtual world.
Auntie Ethel in BG3. First act you can tell her to get lost. Act 3 you have to deal with her in the mermaid tavern again with a healing buff boss fight.
Here's one that gave me a stroke. The black Rabbit Brotherhood from Lies Of P. The first fight was already a nightmare on account of it being ,as the souls community calls it, a gank boss fight. And when you finally take them down and think that's the end of it... guess what? they come back! And with elemental/status upgrades no less, wooo!
The Butcher in Diablo IV. Rude awakening the first time you encountered him in the original Diablo, but at least that he had a specific lair there that you could avoid at your leisure. This time? Random spawn to curb-stomp you anywhere you least expect it.
Apparently the butcher in d4 is a big reason for a large portion of hardcore characters biting the dust because of the randomness. Reminds me of the nemesis in d3 torment.
Armored Core VI has a good example of this with V.II Snail. 🐌 He actually takes on an upgraded form of the first chapter boss Balteus at the end of your first playthrough (depending on which ending you’re going for).
In the Sonic the Hedgehog series, One of Sonic's enemies is Metal Sonic, a robotic duplicate of the Blue Blur that was created by Doctor Eggman who's capable of going as fast as his organic counterpart. In the game Sonic Heroes, Metal Sonic returns with a stronger body and can turn himself into liquid metal and use Chaos Control. In the final story of the game, Metal Sonic merges with Eggman's fleet to become Metal Overload which requires Sonic, Tails and Knuckles to face him im their super forms after being fought by the other three teams. In the Castlevania series, the main villain is Count Dracula formerly known as Mathias Cronqvist. As part of his transformation into a vampire, he became the champion of the entity called Chaos. As long as his connection remained, Dracula would return once more no matter how many times he was killed. Eventually in one of the Castlevania games Dracula had his connection to the chaotic realm severed and he died for real. But he was later reincarnated as a young man named Soma Cruz.
Seymour Guado from Final Fantasy X. He was hard enough when you faced off against him at the wedding but then he comes back later as a floating monster thing that can party wipe you in one hit, lock out summons and generally be a right Bastard.
Bass.exe from the Mega Man Battle Network games. He might be the super boss in each game, but every time he shows up, he has new ways to rapidly deplete your HP.
Lleviathan, from Dragon Quest IX, anyone? He's only the 5th or 6th boss you fight during the story (depending on if you count the Wight Knight as a boss or miniboss), but you have to fight him a second time after beating Corvus, the game's final boss, for reasons I won't spoil here. What makes it a real challenge, however, isn't just that he's now somehow as strong as Corvus, but that in order to summon him you have to be wearing some specific gear, including the pitifully weak torso armor, "Silk Robe", and the boss fight begins immediately, giving you no chance to put on your good stuff (you CAN swap weapons during battle, but I didn't know that until much later). Thankfully, if you got your world-saving butt handed to you the first time, like me, he'll still be waiting where you summoned him, so this time you can put on your good stuff for the rematch.
I’m Hollowknight, there is a whole slew of upgraded bosses. You kill ‘em once and then you kill stronger versions of them in their dreams. False Knight and Failed Champion are good examples.
Boktai 2 has an enemy that fits the bill: the vampire. Although those are technically two different characters, the first time you fight him it's Ringo and the second time it is Dainn who has taken over Ringos body. But they both share the same moveset, besides the fact that Dainn is stronger and the last boss before the final boss (off the main game).
I mean the org XIII data battles from Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix + and Kingdom Hearts 3 Re+Mind are just absolutely brutal in terms of difficulty spike , wicked fun, but cruel nonetheless XD
id like to take a moment to thank oxbox for sparing us an actual clip of freddy kruger rapping. listening to that would be the most damage freddy could do to a person whos not asleep and mike knew that.
An interesting example would be your nemesis from Shadow of Mordor. Basically the game tracks which uruk captain you pissed off the most, and when you go to the final battle, you have to face them helming a small army.
They have a hard time staying dead, too. Between the entire series, I killed mine at least 5-6 times. Granted, that's about how many times he killed me. I was going for the achievement to promote a grunt to the highest rank. I got it, but at what cost...?
In Metroid Prime 2, you fight Dark Samus multiple times, with her getting stronger as the game goes along, with the final encounter being against the clock as well, when she’s at her toughest.
Rocksteady & Bebop from Madness: Project Nexus. They literaly came back 4 times, which three we have to fight them and the last time they are killed by another boss. They don't only come back, they come back better equiped and the arena where we fight them becomes way harder
Sekiro has a couple bosses who come back stronger. One of notable note is Genichiro. Who was already pretty tough at the beginning of the game, only to return, suffering from acute glow-up syndrome, and then a glow-down at the end of the game. This is without mentioning is super glow up in the free dlc of the game, at the end of the boss rush named after himself.
What about the Black Rabbit Brotherhood in Lies of P? Massive pain in the butt in the first encounter turning into a 1 on 4 with special powers in the second one...
I'll have to add Vergil from DMC3. The first time you fight him, he's laughably easy (despite the fact he narratively wins). When you fight him as the final boss, he's unbelievably hard, graduating to the hardest enemy in the entire series.
Troupe Master Grimm is a fight that becomes manageable but is a major challenge. Go further down his questline and you fight Nightmare King Grimm who has faster versions of the attacks wity harder patterns and does double damage.
In the Dark Arisen expansion for Dragon's Dogma, the boss (Daimon) at the end of it is pretty tough. When you defeat him, you get to watch a cutscene, then loot the nearby chests and head out the exit which loops you back up o the isle's surface to watch another little cutscene. Expansion finished? Nope - at this point if you re-enter the dungeon, you'll see the zones have all respawned with different (generally tougher) monsters and can go through the whole thing again to fight the same boss. But instead of the cutscene from before, this time he upgrades into a second form with different attacks, one of which is a bigger, much scarier version of the biggest, scariest move he has in his first form. That said, as a bow-using character I actually find the second form easier than the first, as it's quite slow-moving and has none of the agility of the first form so takes less time to stun-lock and render helpness before my barrage >:).
Blade Bearer and Cannoneer, from Code Vein Considered by many to the hardest bosses in the game, as well as an obvious tribute to Ornstein and Smough, the infamous duo from Dark Souls, these two return in one of the post-game dungeons, where they pull the trick of giving the powers of the boss that dies first to the one that's still alive.
This is every human boss in the Trails of... series. I've only played through 3.5 of the Cold Steel games, but every human boss character seems to smirk and say they're ready to "get fired up", "get serious", or other similar pithy phrase. Then some other event happens that interrupts the fight, postponing it to another day. Rinse and repeat every human boss, but it's okay when monster bosses die.
Someone already did say it.. But throw my vote in if you make a part 2 to this video. Virgil, specifically the final boss version of him in Devil May Cry 3, is hard as nails generally. Compared to his other fights in the game (you fight him twice, and actually fight him 3 times in DMC1), he is amped up quite a lot!
A nice game with a boss that keeps coming back is project wingman with crimson squadrons: “crimson 1” or even “frost” crimson 1 being a obsessive ace of a pilot who will go to any lengths to kill you. Even “nuking” a city with cordium.
!!! 17:40 !!!! OKAY CALL TO ARMS !!! Please hear me out. As a community we NEED to make this frame of Rugal from the King of Fighters go Viral meme, OR \ AND the very next frame that pops up right after with his hand up and the "Taste my fury line" BECAUSE ...now i may be crazy here but i just see a SWOLE ASS SANJI from one peice and i just cannot unsee it, ESPECIALLY after the "taste my fury line" popped up. Its LEGIT PERFECT GUYS!!❤ I know im not crazy and cannot be the only one whos going to see this now lol FOR REAL THOUGh LETS COME TOGETHER AND MEME THE HELL OUT OF THESE RUGAL FRAMES AND LEAN HARD INTO THE SANJI ASPECT I KNOW WE CAN DO IT!!
You missed *every* final fantasy game. There is always a secondary villain who you have to fight multiple times. I'll nominate Jenova of FF7 for being so central to the actual plot, and her being the last boss in a gauntlet before getting to BBEG.
To whoever came with the cards pyramid bit and to Mike, who absolutely delivered, that whole thing was hilarious! Also absolutely fantastic look Jane was sporting today!
Every single time Vergil comes back in (almost) every single Devil May Cry game because in two of the five games he does it three times per game, and the next time after that I lost count, frankly. I think six times in one game, under two different identities. It's kind of his whole thing. And I love it.
Sho Minamimoto in both TWEWY games. The first has the more traditional approach where after being defeated the first time he comes back as Taboo Minamimoto who's stronger, can read your psych inputs, and has all the same buffs the Taboo Noise thoughout the game get. In Neo you can fight an alternate universe version of him as the game's hardest super boss
My first thought actually wandered to the invisible beast from Metroid Dread. The difference between a tail stab and a deadly laser barrages is staggering.
For a commenter edition, I suggest Squid Baron from the Shantae series. He first appears in Risky's Revenge, then in "tougher" appearances in Shantae And the Pirate's Curse/Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.
Squid Baron should definitely be on here because in "Pirate's Curse" he has a whole sub-plot (breaking the fourth wall) about this. At first, he's afraid of becoming a rematch boss and tries to get out of it. Later, he embraces the role and aims to be the greatest rematch boss he can be.
Final Fantasy XIV has Zenos, who you fight a couple of times. The first fights are scripted to loose against him because plot, and when you eventually beat him at the end of Stormblood he kinda gets inside a legendary dragon he caught like a Pokémon, so you have to fight against him again with like zero time for a break. And then he comes back for Endwalker, stalking you like the creep he is until you can finally fight him at the literal end of the universe while he is dressed up like a grim reaper. But that's where he dies for good at last (or so I hope).
I know it's only a single game, but Saren from ME1. You have to fight him three times in the same game basically in a row, unless you max out a particular skill so you can get out of one of them.
This could apply to multiple bosses in Hollow Knight, but in particular I think Troupe Master Grimm deserves a mention! Also shoutout to the comments mentioning Taniks (Destiny / Destiny 2) and Lleviathan (Dragon Quest IX)
I was absolutely certain the MM7 entry was about the hardest Wily saucer fight in the series. He didn't even need the stompy mech to beat you. Or Bass. Or anything.
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Mike with that old throwback to the whole Metallica / Napster row from the early 2000s was a deep cut. Loved it
Was coming in to say precisely the same thing
I believe it's not legally required to bring up Metallica whenever the name Napster is invoked 😄(which is not often)
Totally unrelated to the content, but Jane’s hair looks fantastic
Jane looks fantastic full stop!! 😍
I love her check shirt too! Not sure if she has great taste in clothes that suit her or if she just makes everything look elegant. Quite possibly both.
(Mind you, I love Andy’s check shirt too, so maybe my fondness for that pattern has some influence as well. I feel obliged to add that Mike’s hoodie looks warm and comfortable!)
Jane always be stylin' for us. uwu
I was JUST thinking this
So true
That "Bass-heel turn" pun was pretty hilarious, lol. The fact that the pun was never pointed out just makes it better.
It was pretty Bassed
Ghirahim, from Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword. First fight he literally tells you how to kill him, by his third and last fight he's so, so incredibly difficult that he's even harder than the true final boss he spends all bloody game resurrecting. Plus to make things worse, his third fight is immediately after fighting your way through a whole horde of lower level enemies, so chances are you're not at full health even starting the fight iirc.
I still haven't fully gotten over the rage from his fight lmao, but to this day he is still best villain and I love him so much
And then there's The Imprisoned, which you also have to fight three times, but the fights aren't really meaningfully different enough to make it not feel like you're just doing the same fight three times.
@@Irisverse swear it feels like double that number. Did something significant? Time to fight that avocado with toes again!
I remember all the rage I felt fighting him every time, and then to find out he wasn’t even the true main antagonist
and to add to the pain, the true main antagonist, Demise, turns out to just be The Imprisoned/the avacado with toes who you have already fought three nearly identical times, in a human design! Granted he DOES look cool, but the dude apparently turns out to canonically have the soul/hatred of Ganon, the same villain from almost every other Zelda game. So he isn't even really a new villain technically, he's just Ganon with a facelift underneath being an avacodo with a facelift.
And Demise's boss fight is so much easier than Ghirahim's third fight it's actually kinda sad lol
@@enderrmoth4442 Skyward Sword is the first game chronologically and in the final boss fight you're going back in time even further. Demise was the original demon lord whose soul Ganon inherits forevermore afterwards. So it's the other way around.
There is a Geneva Convention for video games--it's the Geneva Convention! Multiple games have had to remove red crosses to fall in line with Geneva Convention rules surrounding their use.
Play the Arma 3 Laws of War DLC. It’s good. You might learn something.
That has nothing to do with the Geneva Conventions and everything to do with trademarks of the International Order of the Red Cross.
@@rorythomas9469i’ve play don’t see what your point was, this actually happened, game companies actually had to remove crosses at one point in time.
@@Nimble.ninja910The Arma series and Bohemia Interactive were affected by the International committee of the Red Cross enforcing the rules on depictions of the red cross. Bohemia Interactive produced The Laws of War dlc with the ICRC, highlighting the Geneva Convention, and more broadly the Laws of armed conflict apply.
How about Ridley? Coming back every time samus kills him with either new cybernetic enhancements or phazon mutations. Or as an X-Parasite clone
Yeah, but he's always fun to fight.
@mage1439 The Proteus fight is kind of bullshit imo. Dude takes out a whole ass energy tank with 1 attack
Other M is particularly bad about this with you fighting him multiple time before even realizing it’s him. And when you do, it literally gives you PTSD in game.
"Papa-san?"
That strikes me as hilarious. Quality localization work.😂
It's not technically "coming back," but in the later releases of Kingdom Hearts 2 (Remix, Final Mix etc.), you can fight "data" versions of all of the Organisation XIII members, which are even more difficult than their standard encounters
Saix and Luxord can be especially annoying if you aren't using the methods used to cheese them
I shudder at the thought of doing the larxene data fight ever again at lv 1
However: there is one (or thirteen) guy who always comes back: Xehanort
And after that is yozora. Really can’t get a break.
Never before had I hated Vexen so much
There’s one thing you forgot about the King Kaliente fight: the arena. In the second fight he, it is comprised of platforms that will sink into the lava, so you got to keep moving.
I miss Jane, with her over the shoulder hair and her catch phrase: "it's me, jane". But this new woman with parted hair seems like a good fit for the team to.
Dane Jouglas > Jane Douglas. But they're both pretty good.
Jane swearing made me laugh much harder than I am proud of 😂
Personally, I find bleeped-out cursing to be a lot funnier than actual cursing.
@@draco4569 My personal favorite is poorly-timed bleeping, so you can still hear the cursing and also get a lazy bleep at the end. but bleeps are often not headphone-friendly, so as is is an acceptable alternative for me.
The intro to the Titanfall Show of the Week video is still my favourite 30 seconds of Oxboxtra.
That opening came in a little hot!
...Same
Ha! I just watched the title under the video window change from "Asshole" to "Jerk" in real time.
From back to front I see. Weird how it's kinda seen as more acceptable
Tales of the Abyss has a complete fakeout ending where the characters think they have defeated the final boss and all his generals are dead, but it turns out there are several more hours of gameplay (more than several if you're doing sidequests) and you have to fight pretty much all of them at least once more.
I love that game. Wasn’t prepared for that reveal.
Jack Baker. Dude came back so hard, he made it into DLC.
You missed out on the biggest one of them all, Kefka from Final Fantasy 6
I was thinking Seymour in FFX
@@matthewmcginnis3059Same.
Wait, he says. Do I look like a waiter?
@@matthewmcginnis3059 I think the most annoyingly recurring villain in a FF was Seifer.
immediately thought of Seymour @@matthewmcginnis3059
In Fable, you fight Jack of Blades as the final boss. He keeps levitating so you can’t mêlée him, and spawning minions to attack you, and back then that was a tough fight for me. In the Lost Chapters DLC, he comes back as a f_~
Panzer Dragoon Saga has a great bit where you stumble across a ship that's salvaged the corpse of the final boss from Panzer Dragoon 2 and is towing it home. After a bit of bovver with the ship, it turns out said final boss is less of a corpse than everyone thought and it wakes up to have a go at you too.
Panzer Dragoon Saga was an amazing RPG, especially considering it was only like 20 hours of gameplay. I'm happy to meet one of the 20 other people who have played it.
@@Artificer1911 we need a secret handshake or something
Only played the first disc and i'm super sad it will never get a port or emulation :(. Would have loved to finish it.
@@sambridgettanother one here!! *waves*
May I suggest a video topic? "Top 7 Oxbox Similes for toughness", "Kevlar coated cryptic crossword" is definitely up there, but for my money "Diamond coated Jason Statham"
Maybe a short?
Grahf in Xenogears. First time you face him, you actually fight him in your gears while he is just on foot, and the battle is still really tough. Way later on, you fight him in his absurdly powerful gear, the Alpha Weltall. It is arguably one of the hardest boss fights in the entire game.
Should have put Seymour Guado from Final Fantasy X. Can't think of wandering post-mortem as a ghost monster before turning into Seymour Flux as anything more than "asshole behavior".
Kefka Palazzo from FF6 has him beat by miles for asshole behavior.
Okay, the house of cards gag was actually pretty funny
Yeah, came here to say that as well, can always count on Mike to nail those sorts of bits
Gotta give my shout-out to Lance from Pokémon. The only real user of the hyper-rare dragon types in Gen 1 he's a brutal stonewall you have to overcome before your championship match. In Gen 2 they brought him back as the champion himself, upgrading his two Dragonairs to Dragonites and throwing in a Charizard and extra potions because why not?
There's almost an argument to say that Lance got easier rather than harder. Granted, he has six Pokémon in Gen 2 rather than the five he has in Gen 1, but they all share a type in Gen 2 and it's the underwhelming Flying type - not even Dragon type. Each of his Pokémon are also typically ten levels lower than in Gen 1. Not since I watched an infamous interview with Oprah have I been so disappointed with a celebrity called Lance.
And then in HeartGold and SoulSilver his post-game rematch replaces two of his Dragonites and his Aerodactyl with a Perish Dong Double Team Altaria, a Salamence, and a Swords Dance Garchomp.
The card stacking gag really got me 🤣🤣
Taniks the scarred came back a whopping THREE times after his initial appearance in destiny 1: first as a raid boss, then as a nightmare, and then as ANOTHER raid boss in destiny 2. Man just doesn’t know when to quit.
Taniks was a strike Boss in D1 if I remember correctly
Can't wait to fight Taniks: The last disciple of Witness in The Final Shape
I am so glad that Omega Rugal is in this countdown. Dear god - the bane of my existence...
opting to have Rugal in your king of fighters team is like ballet classes, it's pretty fun but don't let your friends see you doing it. ppl in arcades be like "1v1 no rugal" he is the most unbalanced boss ever and probably the only boss that feels just as strong when you use him as a character
Well, if you're playing a hacked version that has boss Rugal avaiable, you asked for it
Ganondorf could be on this list too, cause he keeps coming back and back and back .... and back
*roles SpongeBob meme* How MANY Times Do Got teach lesson OLD MAN
LOL that Freddy Krueger Album is in my bedroom closet, in mint condition!
Now THAT is a flex.
Probably best to keep it in mint condition.......
In a box.....
Under lock and key.....
Never to be opened again XDXDXDXDXDXDXD
LOL
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I think Culex from the Super Mario RPG Remake should be here, not only was he the toughest boss in the original game, but then he decided that he deserves a 3D upgrade as well
How about Morgott from Elden Ring? You have 2 chances to fight him before you reach his location in Leyndell, one of which is the entrance to Stormveil Castle where you fight another Shardbearer boss after you get inside. But Margit, as he's named in front of Stormveil, is blocking your entry to the castle and serves to test your resolve.
And when you meet him in Leyndell... He's pulling out an actual blade to use against you as well as several other moves that drop weapons made of holy light onto your Tarnished body.
Only liking this in the first 15 seconds for janes hair
Right? LOVE when girls' hair is long and a simple kind of straight, like this... :)
SAME!
The first 40 seconds were hilarious to me. No censorship, just pure anger
It's no hime cut, but...
The Riddler from the Batman Arkham games comes to mind. He goes from being just an annoying voice in Asylum, to a one hit chump in City, and then a huge mech suit in Knight.
We can't forget the Nemesis Tyrant from OG Resident Evil 3. It was literally designed to be persistent... and with each encounter, it can become even more of a jerk until you eventually "Give it S.T.A.R.S." at the end of the game.
I am going to need a part 2 to this with... Bass again. Yeah, believe it or not, Bass also appears in the Megaman Battle Network spin-offs as a superboss, where he gets stronger every single time.
7:08 Okay, I have to know how many takes it took Andy to get past that last alliterative line. If it was the first try, well done O Farrous One!
This video officially features the best bleeped out f**k in TH-cam history. 😁👌
Almost choked when she said, "bosses who weren't enough of assholes the first time around."
I don’t know if this counts, but Junko enoshina from the Danganronpa series. She went from a psychopathic girl with a robot bear to an AI psychopath who can create an army of robot bear at will and can transfer her consciousness to people who “died” in the virtual world.
Yeah, let's not count her child devotee and the cosplayer...
Virgil. He goes from a knight to having a katana to being a giant demon king in 5
Auntie Ethel in BG3. First act you can tell her to get lost. Act 3 you have to deal with her in the mermaid tavern again with a healing buff boss fight.
She never gets the chance in my games. I always overpower myself before her fight to curb stomp her
Here's one that gave me a stroke. The black Rabbit Brotherhood from Lies Of P. The first fight was already a nightmare on account of it being ,as the souls community calls it, a gank boss fight. And when you finally take them down and think that's the end of it... guess what? they come back! And with elemental/status upgrades no less, wooo!
The Butcher in Diablo IV. Rude awakening the first time you encountered him in the original Diablo, but at least that he had a specific lair there that you could avoid at your leisure. This time? Random spawn to curb-stomp you anywhere you least expect it.
Apparently the butcher in d4 is a big reason for a large portion of hardcore characters biting the dust because of the randomness. Reminds me of the nemesis in d3 torment.
I never thought I'd see a Megaman game in one of these videos. Nice.
Armored Core VI has a good example of this with V.II Snail. 🐌 He actually takes on an upgraded form of the first chapter boss Balteus at the end of your first playthrough (depending on which ending you’re going for).
“Tempest Keep was merely a setback!” - Kael’thas Sunstrider
I dunno about you, but I always thought Tempest Keep was the harder fight. Unless they brought him back for a third plus time after I stopped playing.
Missed opportunity with Margitt the Fell
In the Sonic the Hedgehog series, One of Sonic's enemies is Metal Sonic, a robotic duplicate of the Blue Blur that was created by Doctor Eggman who's capable of going as fast as his organic counterpart. In the game Sonic Heroes, Metal Sonic returns with a stronger body and can turn himself into liquid metal and use Chaos Control. In the final story of the game, Metal Sonic merges with Eggman's fleet to become Metal Overload which requires Sonic, Tails and Knuckles to face him im their super forms after being fought by the other three teams.
In the Castlevania series, the main villain is Count Dracula formerly known as Mathias Cronqvist. As part of his transformation into a vampire, he became the champion of the entity called Chaos. As long as his connection remained, Dracula would return once more no matter how many times he was killed. Eventually in one of the Castlevania games Dracula had his connection to the chaotic realm severed and he died for real. But he was later reincarnated as a young man named Soma Cruz.
Seymour Guado from Final Fantasy X. He was hard enough when you faced off against him at the wedding but then he comes back later as a floating monster thing that can party wipe you in one hit, lock out summons and generally be a right Bastard.
Bass.exe from the Mega Man Battle Network games. He might be the super boss in each game, but every time he shows up, he has new ways to rapidly deplete your HP.
Lleviathan, from Dragon Quest IX, anyone? He's only the 5th or 6th boss you fight during the story (depending on if you count the Wight Knight as a boss or miniboss), but you have to fight him a second time after beating Corvus, the game's final boss, for reasons I won't spoil here. What makes it a real challenge, however, isn't just that he's now somehow as strong as Corvus, but that in order to summon him you have to be wearing some specific gear, including the pitifully weak torso armor, "Silk Robe", and the boss fight begins immediately, giving you no chance to put on your good stuff (you CAN swap weapons during battle, but I didn't know that until much later). Thankfully, if you got your world-saving butt handed to you the first time, like me, he'll still be waiting where you summoned him, so this time you can put on your good stuff for the rematch.
I’m Hollowknight, there is a whole slew of upgraded bosses. You kill ‘em once and then you kill stronger versions of them in their dreams. False Knight and Failed Champion are good examples.
I know it's fairly well known but I always like that the first boss of Final Fantasy 1 is also the Final boss
The Bass/Treble fusion not being called Alto seems like a missed opportunity.
Armored Core 6 would like a word with you.
In fact, they would like to visit 3 more times.
Boktai 2 has an enemy that fits the bill: the vampire. Although those are technically two different characters, the first time you fight him it's Ringo and the second time it is Dainn who has taken over Ringos body. But they both share the same moveset, besides the fact that Dainn is stronger and the last boss before the final boss (off the main game).
I mean the org XIII data battles from Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix + and Kingdom Hearts 3 Re+Mind are just absolutely brutal in terms of difficulty spike , wicked fun, but cruel nonetheless XD
Now I kinda want to see Mike do a cover of "do the freddy"
id like to take a moment to thank oxbox for sparing us an actual clip of freddy kruger rapping. listening to that would be the most damage freddy could do to a person whos not asleep and mike knew that.
Jane, I'm pretty sure Mega Man 7 is the one with the typo where it calls him Dr. Willy.🤣
Not a typo, translator was calling him a knob.
An interesting example would be your nemesis from Shadow of Mordor.
Basically the game tracks which uruk captain you pissed off the most, and when you go to the final battle, you have to face them helming a small army.
They have a hard time staying dead, too. Between the entire series, I killed mine at least 5-6 times. Granted, that's about how many times he killed me. I was going for the achievement to promote a grunt to the highest rank.
I got it, but at what cost...?
JANE LOOKS SO GOODDDD THIS HAIR IS EVERYTHING OK HER
Seymour from FFX - That git just won't stay in the Farplane
In Metroid Prime 2, you fight Dark Samus multiple times, with her getting stronger as the game goes along, with the final encounter being against the clock as well, when she’s at her toughest.
Rocksteady & Bebop from Madness: Project Nexus. They literaly came back 4 times, which three we have to fight them and the last time they are killed by another boss. They don't only come back, they come back better equiped and the arena where we fight them becomes way harder
Sekiro has a couple bosses who come back stronger. One of notable note is Genichiro. Who was already pretty tough at the beginning of the game, only to return, suffering from acute glow-up syndrome, and then a glow-down at the end of the game.
This is without mentioning is super glow up in the free dlc of the game, at the end of the boss rush named after himself.
Jane, Yes, the Treble Hook pairs with Bass to complete the fish pun. It is three hooks joined together.
Rhino is so clumsy that in almost every spider man game he always decides to stop his rampage near explosives
What about the Black Rabbit Brotherhood in Lies of P? Massive pain in the butt in the first encounter turning into a 1 on 4 with special powers in the second one...
I'll have to add Vergil from DMC3. The first time you fight him, he's laughably easy (despite the fact he narratively wins). When you fight him as the final boss, he's unbelievably hard, graduating to the hardest enemy in the entire series.
Figured that "assholes" wasn't gonna stay in the video title lol
Troupe Master Grimm is a fight that becomes manageable but is a major challenge. Go further down his questline and you fight Nightmare King Grimm who has faster versions of the attacks wity harder patterns and does double damage.
In the Dark Arisen expansion for Dragon's Dogma, the boss (Daimon) at the end of it is pretty tough. When you defeat him, you get to watch a cutscene, then loot the nearby chests and head out the exit which loops you back up o the isle's surface to watch another little cutscene. Expansion finished? Nope - at this point if you re-enter the dungeon, you'll see the zones have all respawned with different (generally tougher) monsters and can go through the whole thing again to fight the same boss. But instead of the cutscene from before, this time he upgrades into a second form with different attacks, one of which is a bigger, much scarier version of the biggest, scariest move he has in his first form.
That said, as a bow-using character I actually find the second form easier than the first, as it's quite slow-moving and has none of the agility of the first form so takes less time to stun-lock and render helpness before my barrage >:).
Appreciate the Grenade Man theme during the Megaman segment. Certified banger.
Blade Bearer and Cannoneer, from Code Vein
Considered by many to the hardest bosses in the game, as well as an obvious tribute to Ornstein and Smough, the infamous duo from Dark Souls, these two return in one of the post-game dungeons, where they pull the trick of giving the powers of the boss that dies first to the one that's still alive.
This is every human boss in the Trails of... series. I've only played through 3.5 of the Cold Steel games, but every human boss character seems to smirk and say they're ready to "get fired up", "get serious", or other similar pithy phrase. Then some other event happens that interrupts the fight, postponing it to another day. Rinse and repeat every human boss, but it's okay when monster bosses die.
Someone already did say it.. But throw my vote in if you make a part 2 to this video. Virgil, specifically the final boss version of him in Devil May Cry 3, is hard as nails generally. Compared to his other fights in the game (you fight him twice, and actually fight him 3 times in DMC1), he is amped up quite a lot!
A nice game with a boss that keeps coming back is project wingman with crimson squadrons: “crimson 1” or even “frost” crimson 1 being a obsessive ace of a pilot who will go to any lengths to kill you. Even “nuking” a city with cordium.
!!! 17:40 !!!! OKAY CALL TO ARMS !!! Please hear me out. As a community we NEED to make this frame of Rugal from the King of Fighters go Viral meme, OR \ AND the very next frame that pops up right after with his hand up and the "Taste my fury line" BECAUSE ...now i may be crazy here but i just see a SWOLE ASS SANJI from one peice and i just cannot unsee it, ESPECIALLY after the "taste my fury line" popped up. Its LEGIT PERFECT GUYS!!❤ I know im not crazy and cannot be the only one whos going to see this now lol FOR REAL THOUGh LETS COME TOGETHER AND MEME THE HELL OUT OF THESE RUGAL FRAMES AND LEAN HARD INTO THE SANJI ASPECT I KNOW WE CAN DO IT!!
You missed *every* final fantasy game. There is always a secondary villain who you have to fight multiple times.
I'll nominate Jenova of FF7 for being so central to the actual plot, and her being the last boss in a gauntlet before getting to BBEG.
I was hoping Jane would test the merging with a wolf theory by tying a plush dog to her arm and punching people. 😂
The Princess from Slay the Princess is basically the definition of this (Without getting too much into spoiler territory)
To whoever came with the cards pyramid bit and to Mike, who absolutely delivered, that whole thing was hilarious!
Also absolutely fantastic look Jane was sporting today!
Mike's house of cards bit is gold 😊
Well now we simply must get an upgraded (commenter edition) boss video. Perhaps that can be the guaranteed video next week? Get on it, us!
Every single time Vergil comes back in (almost) every single Devil May Cry game because in two of the five games he does it three times per game, and the next time after that I lost count, frankly. I think six times in one game, under two different identities. It's kind of his whole thing. And I love it.
Cyber Akuma and Omega Regal kicked my bootie so hard. Ahhh the memories..... lol
The Bass and Treble theme is so good!
I bet the house of cards was tedious to set up, but I do enjoy the creative visual gags they make.
Sho Minamimoto in both TWEWY games. The first has the more traditional approach where after being defeated the first time he comes back as Taboo Minamimoto who's stronger, can read your psych inputs, and has all the same buffs the Taboo Noise thoughout the game get.
In Neo you can fight an alternate universe version of him as the game's hardest super boss
Your channel is awesome! I've never seen a video I haven't enjoyed.
The fact the Duragon C. Mikado is not on this list shows how underrated The Bouncer was that game gets none of the love it deserves
My first thought actually wandered to the invisible beast from Metroid Dread. The difference between a tail stab and a deadly laser barrages is staggering.
For a commenter edition, I suggest Squid Baron from the Shantae series. He first appears in Risky's Revenge, then in "tougher" appearances in Shantae And the Pirate's Curse/Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.
Squid Baron should definitely be on here because in "Pirate's Curse" he has a whole sub-plot (breaking the fourth wall) about this. At first, he's afraid of becoming a rematch boss and tries to get out of it. Later, he embraces the role and aims to be the greatest rematch boss he can be.
Heldalf in Tales of Zestiria, once powered up. 😢 He resists absolutely EVERYTHING
Final Fantasy XIV has Zenos, who you fight a couple of times. The first fights are scripted to loose against him because plot, and when you eventually beat him at the end of Stormblood he kinda gets inside a legendary dragon he caught like a Pokémon, so you have to fight against him again with like zero time for a break. And then he comes back for Endwalker, stalking you like the creep he is until you can finally fight him at the literal end of the universe while he is dressed up like a grim reaper.
But that's where he dies for good at last (or so I hope).
I know it's only a single game, but Saren from ME1. You have to fight him three times in the same game basically in a row, unless you max out a particular skill so you can get out of one of them.
Inner. Agent. 3.
Good lord that hurt
This could apply to multiple bosses in Hollow Knight, but in particular I think Troupe Master Grimm deserves a mention!
Also shoutout to the comments mentioning Taniks (Destiny / Destiny 2) and Lleviathan (Dragon Quest IX)
Ganon! All the mofo variations!
I was absolutely certain the MM7 entry was about the hardest Wily saucer fight in the series. He didn't even need the stompy mech to beat you. Or Bass. Or anything.