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* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'': [[spoiler:Humphrey the whale]] is a MarathonBoss with three whole phases, each one a significant challenge to the player. Once the player drains the health of his third form, they will transition to his final phase: A fight with his uvula. It only takes one hit to defeat it, finally ending the fight.

* The Golden Diva in ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'' doesn't look so tranquil once she's down to two hit points. And when she's down to ''one'' hit point, she simply becomes… pathetic. [[spoiler:She just becomes a pair of lips that don't deal any damage.]]

* Giygas from ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' [[TheGreys wasn't nearly so monstrous]] in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'', being an angry little alien creature in a life support capsule who wanted to punish humanity for stealing the power of [[PsychicPowers Psionics/PSI]]. However, after being reminded of his love for his human foster parents, George and Maria, Giygas' intense hatred and his unstable mental state from that little reminder eventually destroyed him in body and mind. As a result, Giygas was reduced to what could only be described as an AlmightyIdiot [[MadeOfEvil made of evil and madness itself]], taking the form of a swirling, dark-red mass with a distorted face screaming in agony. In this terrifying form, Giygas is incomprehensibly powerful and impossible to defeat through conventional means ([[spoiler:it ultimately takes prayer to destroy him, since he's MadeOfEvil after all]]), but he has no more capability of sustaining his mental functions, and can no longer perceive the world around him. In fact, all throughout the final battle with him, he rants incoherently while firing off inexplicably powerful attacks, most likely not knowing what's there (though he does acknowledge [[TheHero the main hero, Ness]], by name). Giygas needs a special "Devil's Machine" to help him keep his mental state and form coherent, as outside of it, he is mindless and irrational, and capable of destroying the entire cosmos [[ObliviouslyEvil while absolutely oblivious as to what he's doing]]. [[spoiler:Some people even believe that this nigh-unstoppable horror is being manipulated by the cowardly fat kid who created the Devil's Machine for him: Porky Minch.]]

* ''Film/{{Hulk}}'': Bruce Banner's depraved father David exposes himself to Gamma Rays and gains the power to absorb and transform into any form of matter and energy. In the Climax he confronts his son and goads the Hulk into a fight. He proves almost unstoppable,

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* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the finale of the quest "The Break of Dawn" sees the Dragonborn go up against the necromancer Malkoran who uses powerful ice magic, including the spell Ice Storm, a ThatOneAttack used in potent hands. However, once he is defeated, he transforms into a Shade (the monsters who he created in his dungeon). In this form, he forsakes the ice magic for lighting spells and a fiery aura. Since he isn’t using ice magic, he’s much easier to defeat in this form.

* The PlayerCharacter can get in on this in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' 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.

** In pretty much every appearance of Death where he has two forms, the first form is the harder of the two. This is because the first form uses Death's classic tactic of floating around out of your reach throwing out tons of scythe projectiles, but the second tends to stay close to the ground and fight in melee, which is much easier to deal with.

* The final transformation of Zophar at the end of ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'' and its remake.

* In the campaign modes of ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', ''Dark Crusade'' and ''Soulstorm''. After gaining all the wargear upgrades for your Chaos Lord, you have the option of gaining one last piece of wargear that turns him into a Daemon Prince, the ambition of all Chaos worshippers, and it's not worth getting ''ever''. A Daemon Prince is a massive improvement over a Chaos Lord in a normal tabletop game, but by the end of a ''Dawn of War'' campaign, the Chaos Lord in either campaign will have gained a massive increase to his damage per second, and it will actually be higher than what he'll have as a Daemon Prince. Becoming a Daemon Prince also causes him to lose any abilities his wargear gives him and stops him from being healed by your buildings. The only thing gained is an HP boost, which is not worth it.

* In the campaign modes of ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', ''Dark Crusade'' and ''Soulstorm''. After gaining all the wargear upgrades for your Chaos Lord, you have the option of gaining one last piece of wargear that turns him into a Daemon Prince, the ambition of all Chaos worshipers and it's not worth getting ''ever''. A Daemon Prince is a massive improvement over a Chaos Lord in a normal tabletop game, but by the end of a ''Dawn of War'' campaign, the Chaos Lord in either campaign will have gained a massive increase to his damage per second, and it will actually be higher than what he'll have as a Daemon Prince. Becoming a Daemon Prince also causes him to lose any abilities his wargear gives him and stops him from being healed by your buildings. The only thing gained is an HP boost, which is not worth it.

* In the campaign modes of ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', Dark Crusade and Soul Storm. After gaining all the wargear upgrades for your Chaos Lord, you have the option of gaining one last piece of wargear that turns him into a Daemon Prince, the ambition of all chaos worshipers. It's not worth getting; while a Daemon Prince is an improvement over a Chaos Lord in a normal game, by the end of the campaign, the Chaos Lord in either campaign will have gained a massive increase to his damage per second, and will actually be higher than what he'll have as a Daemon Prince, and becoming a Daemon Prince causes him to lose any abilities his wargear gives him. The only thing gained is an HP boost, which is not worth it.

* Neo-Geildon in the Kyoryugers Vs. Go-Busters movie managed to transform into [[spoiler:Neo-Messiah in the end]], and it's pretty useless against the comedic [[spoiler:[[ResshaSentaiTokkyugers ToQgers]]]].

* Jafar runs into this in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Aladdin tricks him into becoming a genie, then [[SealedEvilInACan seals him in a lamp]] — and Jafar was doing just fine [[ScaledUp as a giant snake]]. It would seem that Aladdin is [[BatmanGambit a good judge of character]]. Then subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''. After being freed from the lamp by Abis Mal, Jafar's genie form is ''extremely'' dangerous due to his RealityWarper powers, especially taking into consideration the fact that because he's a genie, he's incapable of killing; as is said no fewer than three times in the film, [[FateWorseThanDeath "You'd be surprised what you can live through."]] Point of reference: during the final fight, he quickly knocks out Genie, unravels Carpet into thread, and turns the palace grounds into a lava pit that the heroes are almost burned alive in. They win only because of Iago's timely intervention and exploiting Jafar's single AchillesHeel, destroying his dark lamp, though not before Jafar brutally attacks the parrot for betraying him.

* Jafar runs into this in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Aladdin tricks him into becoming a genie, then [[SealedEvilInACan seals him in a lamp]] — and Jafar was doing just fine [[ScaledUp as a giant snake]]. It would seem that Aladdin is [[BatmanGambit a good judge of character]]. Then subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''. After being freed from the lamp by Abis Mal, Jafar's genie form is ''extremely'' dangerous due to his RealityWarper powers, especially taking into consideration the fact that because he's a genie, he's incapable of killing; as is said no fewer than three times in the film, [[FateWorseThanDeath "You'd be surprised what you can live through."]] Point of reference: during the final fight, he quickly knocks out Genie, shatters Carpet into a million pieces, and turns the palace grounds into a lava pit that the heroes are almost burned alive in. They win only because of Iago's timely intervention and exploiting Jafar's single AchillesHeel, destroying his dark lamp, though not before Jafar brutally attacks the parrot for betraying him.

* In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', the BonusBoss “Soul of [=TORment=]” first appears as some kind of immense, [[DanceBattler Dance Battling]] skeleton/angel monstrosity, but when you finally exhaust its massive HP pool, it shrieks that it’s going to unleash its true form… and turns into an onion. An onion with a smiley face that goes down in a single hit. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes (slightly) more sense in context.]]

** Happens to Frieza as well. After Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan in the Namek Saga of ''Z'', Frieza can barely even hurt Goku with only 50% of his power, let alone kill him. Goku gives Frieza enough time to reach his full power, at which point he is Goku's equal for a short time (though Goku was holding back to test Frieza and avoid causing too much damage while the others were still on the planet). However, staying in that form burns up his energy at an accelerated rate. Because Frieza's already burnt so much energy from the arc-long fighting (as well as losing emotional stability at that level of power), Goku's greater stamina wins out.

** [[spoiler:Dhaos]] does this in reverse in the later versions of ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', his second form being monstrous and his third being angelic, the result of him praying to his god for more power. This trope is still played straight in the fight against Dhaos. His monstrous form is difficult to hit and quite strong. The angelic form can be pinned down in a corner and made incapable of fighting back.

* The Golden Diva in ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'' doesn't look so tranquil once she's down to two hit points. And when she's down to ''one'' hit point, she simply becomes… pathetic. [[spoiler:She just becomes a pair of lips that doesn't deal any damage.]]

* The ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' movie. After the titular heroes hit Koopa with a [[EvolutionaryLevels de-evolution ray]], he transforms into a Tyrannosaurus. They then shoot him again, turning him into primordial ooze.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' has [[spoiler: the BigBad, Fecto Forgo. After [[KingOfBeasts Leongar]] is defeated, it breaks out of its sealed prison and absorbs him, along with several other members of the Beast Pack. This results in it becoming a giant deformed BlobMonster that moves slowly can only attack by dashing and throwing slime. Only after it absorbs its other half, Elfilin, does it becomes a true OneWingedAngel and an UltimateLifeForm.]]

* In most insects' life cycles, the final imago is the most impressive stage, going from a usually squishy and defenseless larva to an adult equipped with a tough exoskeleton, wings, and sometimes powerful offensive or defensive weapons like stingers. However, most ''Neuroptera'' ([[AntlionMonster antlions]] and lacewings) flip the script. Their larvae are voracious predators that will kill and devour anything they can get their lethal venomous jaws on. The adults are pathetic, frail creatures that can barely fly straight, '''are outright incapable of eating''', and only live long enough to procreate and die. The same could be said of those few butterfly and moth species that boast powerful venomous defenses, such as the puss caterpillar (''Megalopyge opercularis''), which is meaningfully known as the "asp caterpillar" as a result of its venomous spines capable of causing intense agony, but evolves into a completely harmless moth.

* In most insects' life cycles, the final imago is the most impressive stage, going from a usually squishy and defenseless larva to an adult equipped with a tough exoskeleton, wings, and sometimes powerful offensive or defensive weapons like stingers. However, most ''Neuroptera'' ([[AntlionMonster antlions]] and lacewings) flip the script. Their larvae are voracious predators that will kill and devour anything they can get their lethal venomous jaws on. The adults are pathetic, frail creatures that can barely fly straight, '''are outright incapable of eating''', and only live long enough to procreate and die.

* Jafar runs into this in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Aladdin tricks him into becoming a genie, then [[SealedEvilInACan seals him in a lamp]] — and Jafar was doing just fine [[ScaledUp as a giant snake]]. It would seem that Aladdin is [[BatmanGambit a good judge of character]]. Then subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar''. After being freed from the lamp by Abis Mal, Jafar's genie form is ''extremely'' dangerous due to his RealityWarper powers, especially taking into consideration the fact that because he's a genie, he's incapable of killing; as is said no fewer than three times in the film, [[FateWorseThanDeath "You'd be surprised what you can live through."]] Point of reference: during the final fight, he quickly knocks out Genie, shatters Carpet into a million pieces, and turns the palace grounds into a lava pit that the heroes are almost burned alive in. They win only because of Iago's timely intervention and exploiting Jafar's single AchillesHeel, destroying his dark lamp.

* In the final Bowser minigame of ''VideoGame/MarioParty 5'', Bowser consumes a potion that causes him to grow to Giga Bowser-proportions… only to crash through the floor and get stuck.

** After you beat Crocomire in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' it falls into some acid and all the flesh melts off its body. Then, after an ominous pause, its skeleton crashes through the wall on the opposite side and the boss music starts up again… before the skeleton just collapses.