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* Goetia, the DiscOneFinalBoss of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', is initially a HopelessBossFight, until his old master pulls a HeroicSacrifice that begins depleting his power. This brings him down to the status of ThatOneBoss, as he starts the battle with a massive self-buff that, for the first few turns, makes him pretty much invincible and allows him to wipe out your entire starting lineup in one shot. After you defeat him, he comes back once more, now on the BishonenLine as the King of Men. In this form, he's decayed much further: his amazing self-buff is gone completely, he's lost a third of his HP, and his overall attacks aren't nearly as terrifying. Even he basically admits that he knows he's going to die, and he just wants to go out on his own terms.
** This is repeated for [[spoiler:Lostbelt ORT]], the DiscOneFinalBoss of the second arc. After being defeated, it summons a Servant version of itself as a last-ditch effort to kill you; while it's technically weaker in this state ("just" 1.6 million HP as opposed to the over 20 millions of its living version), it's still immensely powerful.

* This occurs in LetsPlay/{{Critikal}}'s video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFKrhimgBwk GTA Vacation Ruined]]". After going through his two first forms -- a chimpanzee able to drive cars and operate firearms and a giant whale able to leap dozens of meters into the air, crushing cars and smacking into helicopters, the protagonist "transmogrifies into his true final form": [[spoiler:a cormorant. A completely normal, relatively small bird lacking any superpowers who immediately and anticlimactically gets shredded by a helicopter's blades.]]

** [[spoiler:Kaname Tousen]], after revealing he has been made a Visored, says that he has a ''Resurreccion'' to go along with it. He turns into an insectoid monster, with new, gigantic eyes. As he's about to finish off Komamura, Hisagi sneaks up on him and stabs him through the head. Hisagi claims that if [[spoiler: Tousen]] hadn't been distracted by his new form, he would have easily sensed the attack and dodged it. Yes, [[spoiler: [[{{Irony}} a blind man gained sight, only to be defeated by an attack he would have seen coming otherwise]].]]

* The big bad guy of the ''Anime/{{Scryed}}'' anime, [[spoiler:Kyouji Mujo]], manages to gain the powers of a very powerful Alter and nearly kills Kazuma with it, only for Kazuma to get another powerup and throw him into the Alter Dimension. He comes back even more powerful and monstrous, but his powers are utterly useless and his giant form is incapable of dodging Kazuma's final attack.
* In a ''{{Literature/Slayers}}'' OAV, Lina and Naga are up against a powerful vampire. Partway through the battle, the vampire reveals that he hasn't been using his true form, and promptly goes into an impressively large transformation sequence… before promptly shrinking down into the form of a small bat. Lina gets annoyed and smacks it with a slipper.

** The PlayerChaarcter can get in on this with the Dragon Head and Dragon Torso stones, which allow the Unkindled One to transform into a DraconicHumanoid. Unfortunately, the laundry list of drawbacks — inability to wear ''any'' clothes, low damage output, alarmingly long charge times on attacks, and so on — mean that actually doing so will typically be followed swiftly by death.

** Speaking of [[spoiler:said cowardly fat kid]], he also subverts this in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''. [[BigBad Porky]] [[SpellMyNameWithAnS (or Pokey)]] goes through a OneWingedAngel phase first, appearing first as a normal chubby boy, and second as a [[spoiler:feeble yet immortal old man inside a huge mechanical spider]]. But at some critical point during the final battle, Porky seals himself inside an "Absolutely Safe Capsule". While inside, he can't do any damage to the protagonists — or anyone, for that matter. However, he's invincible in this form — but, in a way, he's "defeated" at that point, because said capsule is inescapable, [[AndIMustScream meaning he's stuck inside forever]].

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'':

* In ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 3'', True Ogre is usually regarded as one of if not the weakest characters '''in the entire game.''' In fact, he's regarded as possibly the weakest final boss in the entire franchise. This is especially jarring considering his original form is [[SNKBoss very hard to beat]].

* The [[http://www.lifeinagame.com/pages/episode62.html final form of Lollerskates]] in ''WebVideo/LifeInAGame'' is... himself, with a mask, an [[AttackItsWeakPoint incredibly obvious weak point]], and the moves of [[Franchise/StreetFighter Dan]].