History Main / BossBonanza

* In ''TheBindingOfIsaac'', the [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Womb]] randomly has previous end-of-level bosses spawn in normal rooms. [[PlanetHeck Sheol]] and the [[BonusLevelOfHeaven Cathedral]] have a much higher chance of these encounters. The [[BrutalBonusLevel Chest]] has a boss in ''every single room''.

* The Black Omen in ''ChronoTrigger'', where you fight: Mega Mutant, Giga Mutant, Tera Mutant, Elder Lavos Spawn, Queen Zeal first form, Mammon Machine, and Queen Zeal [[OneWingedAngel second form]]. ''After that'', you fight the BossRush Lavos, although technically you don't fight it in the Black Omen.

** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'', World 6 forces you to fight Bowser Jr., Kamek, and Bowser in World 6. There's little gameplay in between, but you can go back and do whatever you want in between each fight.

** ''MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' has a separate boss fight for each of the seven Koopalings in Bowser's Castle, followed by Fawful, Bowletta, the Essence of Cackletta, and Bowser.

** ''PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'''s Palace of Shadow contains boss fights against Red Bones, Gloomtail, Bowser and Kammy together, Grodus, and The Shadow Queen.

Likely to involve a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere or two, if only because the sheer number of bosses makes each individual boss less significant. On the other extreme, you could end up cutting down well-established villains en masse, which may evoke the feeling of a CosmicDeadline. May also involve a mandatory BossRush (most {{Boss Rush}}es tend to fall into this trope anyway): to fall into this trope and not BossRush, there has to be a substantial amount of new bosses. For example, if the only unique boss is the last boss, it is a BossRush, though, as mentioned above, a BossRush may be considered one giant boss if there's no dangers seperating them and there are enough new bosses fought close together.

* ''KingdomHeartsII'' has [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon The World That Never Was]]. Most worlds thus far have one final boss of moderate-high difficulty right at the end, maybe with an easy mini boss. Not so here. ''Here'', you face every surviving member of Organization XIII, all of which are incredibly powerful, with distinct strategies required for each. All in all, you fight four (five, if you playing the Final Mix) incredibly powerful bosses before you even ''get'' to the PointOfNoReturn.

* Platformer[=/=]rail shooter genre blending ''SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor'' has multiple stage bosses or a series of boss battles in every stage, but they go for broke on the final stage. This stage features an enhanced {{Boss Rush}} (previous bosses in completely new forms) along with new bosses and an ultimate multi-stage final boss.

*** Also, the end of the previous stage, Bowser's Keep, was made of three other bosses: a Magikoopa, Boomer, and Exor. And there was a chance the fight a BossInMookClothing, Chester, right before the Magikoopa.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' has this, too. Let me count the penultimate bosses of this game: that dragon guy, Kary, Tiamat, Kraken, Lich, Deathgaze, and finally Trance Kuja and Necron... Did I forget someone?

* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' starts with having bosses every other level, until a SequentialBoss in the penultimate level and two bosses (one of which optional) in the last one.

* ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'' probably falls into this. You have the Elite Four battle, then immediately afterward, catch the version mascot and then, the battles with N and Ghetsis. Fortunately, there's phlebotinum to heal your Pokemon before pushing onto those last two, so you aren't going in depleted.
** The main series Pokemon games in general are applicable to this trope, as the Elite Four and the Champion are five bosses in one location while the rest of the game has Gym Leaders as one boss per location.

* Pretty much common in ''FinalFantasy'' games as a rule for the series. Perhaps the only semi-aversion is ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' because ''all'' of the bosses in the FinalDungeon save for the Emperor himself were sealed in chests. OTOH FinalFantasyVII only has the SequentialBoss fight with Sephiroth.
** ''FinalFantasyI''. In every other part of the game, each dungeon gets one boss encounter, although the Earth cave gives you a second boss when you return after unlocking more area. The final dungeon, though, has you fight all four {{MiniBoss}}es [[BossRush over again]], in stronger form, plus the main boss. Technically a BossRush, but covered here to put all ''FinalFantasy'' examples together.

** ''FinalFantasyVIII'' had a [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon last dungeon]] full of semi-optional bosses who need to be defeated to unlock abilities for the final battles.
** ''FinalFantasyIX'' has this, too. Let me count the penultimate bosses of this game: that dragon guy, Kary, Tiamat, Kraken, Lich, Deathgaze, and finally Trance Kuja and Necron... Did I forget someone?
** ''FinalFantasyXIII'' ends with Orphan's Cradle. Travel to successive areas of the Cradle requires teleportation, which drops you in a room with a powerful monster and no explanation before taking you to your destination. You end up fighting three bosses because of these teleports (including a DualBoss), in addition to the FinalBoss.

** ''SuperMarioRPG'' has the Factory stage. Just getting in requires that you defeat an evil alarm clock, followed by Domino & Cloaker, a [[DualBoss Dual]] SequentialBoss (whose second stage is another DualBoss). Inside the Factory proper, Mario has to fight through four levels of factory management, the first three of which [[FlunkyBoss have bodyguards]] while the Factory Chief has [[DualBoss his own autonomous secret weapon]].

* The currently final levels of ''BrutalMario'' have this, Bowser's Castle having 8 different bosses in it including the end one. Then again, so do a lot of SuperMarioWorld game mods, ASuperMarioThing has a significant amount of bosses in the void level as well. And Super Mario Infinity has more than a few, one of the last levels has about SIXTEEN boss fights in it, albeit with them all being with one of exactly two different characters.

* ''KingdomHeartsII'' has [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon The World That Never Was]]. Most worlds thus far have one final boss of moderate-high difficulty right at the end, maybe with an easy mini boss. Not so here. ''Here'', you face every surviving member of Organization XIII, all of which are incredibly powerful, with distinct strategies required for each. All in all, you fight four (five, if you playing the Final Mix) incredibly powerful bosses before you even ''get'' to the PointOfNoReturn.

Likely to involve a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere or two, if only because the sheer number of bosses makes each individual boss less significant. On the other extreme, you could end up cutting down well-established villains en masse, which may evoke the feeling of a CosmicDeadline. May also involve a mandatory BossRush (most {{Boss Rush}}es tend to fall into this trope anyway): to fall into this trope and not BossRush, there has to be a substantial amount of new bosses. For example, if the only unique boss is the last boss, it is a BossRush.

Likely to involve a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere or two, if only because the sheer number of bosses makes each individual boss less significant. On the other extreme, you could end up cutting down well-established villains en masse, which may evoke the feeling of a CosmicDeadline. May also involve a mandatory BossRush (most {{Boss Rush}}es tend to fall into this trope anyway): to fall into this trope and not BossRush, there has to be new bosses.

** The repurposed Peach's Castle in ''MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' holds Junker, Blizzard Midbus, Dark Star, Dark Fawful, Dark Bowser, and the Dark Star Core.

* At the end of ''VideoGame/CaveStory, you have to fight Misery, the Doctor (who is a SequentialBoss himself, constituting two forms) and the Undead Core. If you're going for the best ending, then at the end of the new area you need to fight the Heavy Press and Ballos, a four form SequentialBoss.

* ''TheBindingOfIsaac'' has boss fights in every other room in its last level.

* Platformer/Rail shooter genre blending "Sin and Punishment: Star Successor" has multiple stage bosses or a series of boss battles in every stage, but they go for broke on the final stage. This stage features an enhanced {{Boss Rush}} (previous bosses in completely new forms) along with new bosses and an ultimate multi stage final boss.

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However Akamatsu plays the thing as a {{multi mook melee}} boss fight and then plain boss fights for the genre itself.

* ''{{Okami}}'' has the final area were you end up fighting [[BossRush five bosses you faced]] (Ninetails, Blight, True Orochi, Crimson Helm and Spider Queen) before facing Yami, the final boss.

** ''FinalFantasyI''. In every other part of the game, each dungeon gets one boss encounter, although the Earth cave gives you a second boss when you return after unlocking more area. The final dungeon, though, has you fight all four {{MiniBoss}}es [[BossRush over again]], in stronger form, plus the main boss.

* In the final level of ''{{Street Fighter 2010}}'', you have to beat [[BossRush every previous boss]] and the final boss all within the same time limit. Not helped by [[TimeKeepsOnTicking the time limit still counting down through the cutscene before the final boss]].