History Main / ClippedWingAngel

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

* During the ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'' crisis, when Professor Xavier went insane, combined his own powers with those of Nate Gray and Franklin Richards, and nearly killed the heroes of the MarvelUniverse, the monstrous Onslaught soon became its own entity and separated from Xavier. But after getting his armour cracked by the Hulk, his "ultimate" form is revealed to be a cloud of psychic energy. He is killed within the next three pages, [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu though not without the sacrifice of many of Marvel's non-mutant heroes]].

* In the season 3 finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', armless waterbender Ming-hua lures Mako down to an underground pool because she has no way to fight him without water. She makes multiple CombatTentacles from the pool and leaves him out of (what she thinks) his element and into hers; [[JustForPun shockingly]] for her, he's able to use his lightning to take advantage of her {{logical|Weakness}} AchillesHeel. He gets clear of the water, shoots it with lightning, and [[HighVoltageDeath kills her]] almost instantly.

* Most of the game ''[[VideoGame/{{Blood}} Blood II: The Chosen]]'' consists of chasing after a mage named Gideon. When you finally fight him, it is a nightmare. He flies, teleports seemingly at random, casts spells, and fires laser beams from his eyes. If you win, you enter a spirit realm and meet him again, and he transforms into a large spider. This is almost immobile and spits slow moving acid. A bit of bog standard FPS strafing and down it goes.

--> '''Genie''': A lot of grey area in that wish.

* The Shredder in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'' drinks the mutagen and grows into a gigantic mutant form that the Turtles dub the Super Shredder. Unfortunately, the Shredder has become little more than a rampaging beast that brings down the dock above them and himself trying to destroy the Turtles. The Turtles emerge from the wreckage dusty but unharmed, and see Shredder's twitching hand rise from the rubble. Raph exclaims "NoOneCouldSurviveThat!", only for Shredder's hand to fall limp, signifying that, yes, this is the end of the Shredder. The fact that he had previously survived a trash compactor in his original form but was unable to survive a collapsing dock as Super Shredder implies he is much weaker in this form.

** ''VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries'' features a more storyline focused example in Alf Layla Wa Layla and Darkspines Sonic for Erazor Djin and Sonic respectively. Because Erazor botched the ritual to fuse with the World Rings, the form he takes on when he does is a gnarled, unstable mess that Sonic plainly calls an incomplete monster. Darkspines Sonic on the other hand, is formed from only the World Rings of Sadness, Hatred, and Anger tied together with ring genie magic, and while Sonic gains immense power and the ability to fly, he still remains vulnerable and can be killed if he's hit without rings. Thankfully, Sonic is able to keep things together long enough to get the World Rings out of Erazor's hands and undo his transformation.
* Giygas from ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' [[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.]]

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': When Muichiro awakens his Demon Slayer Mark and starts overwhelming Gyokko in their fight, he transforms into his true form, which resembles a massive lamia. However, Muichiro struggles ''far less'' against him than he did against his previous form, due to him abandoning his [[ArtInitiatesLife Demon Art]] in favor of raw strength and speed, as well as his [[VillainousBreakdown escalating anger]] making his movements sloppy and predictable. Muichiro effortlessly decapitates him the second he gets an opening, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill then slices the head into pieces for good measure.]]

* In a ''{{LightNovel/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.

** ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': After Calamity Ganon's cyborg form is defeated, he ''gives up on reincarnation'' to gather enough power to become Dark Beast Ganon, a massive boar-like monster that is the purest embodiment of Hatred and Malice. Sadly for Ganon, his Dark Beast form is so slow that Link mounted on his horse can literally run rings around him while firing Light Arrows at his weak points. Dark Beast Ganon's only attack is a BreathWeapon that Link's mount can also avoid rather easily. While it is ordinarily invulnerable, the fact that it absorbed Zelda means she can cut through its defenses to give Link easy targets to attack.

** ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': After Calamity Ganon's cyborg form is defeated, he ''gives up on reincarnation'' to gather enough power to become Dark Beast Ganon, a massive boar-like monster that is the purest embodiment of Hatred and Malice. Sadly for Ganon, his Dark Beast form is so slow that Link mounted on his horse can literally run rings around him while firing Light Arrows at his weak points. Dark Beast Ganon's only attack is a BreathWeapon that Link's mount can also avoid rather easily. While it is ordinarily invulnerable, the fact that it absorbed Zelda means she can cut through its defenses to give Link easy targets to attack. Arguably this final boss is the second-easiest boss in the game after Kohga.

* ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'': The Merger endstate for the titular Beasts qualifies as this. The Merger destroys the Beast's Lair, forcing the Horror to completely merge with the Beast and allowing it to manifest its full powers on the Physical. But the process destroys the Beast's human body and mind, it's now permanently stuck in a monstrous form, and has the mind of a wild animal with at best a few residual impulses and memories from its human self.

** In the Season 5 premiere, "Evolution," [[spoiler:after successfully stealing most of the Miracuolous in the Season 4 finale, Hawkmoth, now calling himself Monarch, learns this the hard way and contributed to his defeat and his loss of the Rabbit Miraculous to be recovered by Ladybug in that episode. He's much more careful about it after that.]]

** In the Season 5 premiere, [[spoiler:after successfully stealing most of the Miracuolous in the Season 4 finale, "Evolution", Hawkmoth, now calling himself Monarch, learns this the hard way and contributed to his defeat and his loss of the Rabbit Miraculous to be recovered by Ladybug in that episode. He's much more careful about it after that.]]

The villain (perhaps after already going into another OneWingedAngel form and ''still'' losing to the heroes) shape shifts into an ultimate SuperMode. So awe-inspiring is this new form the [[RedSkyTakeWarning very skies weep blood]], so terrifying that it [[ShapeShifterMashup combines the power of every monster]], and the hero and his love [[StockKisses kiss each other goodbye]].

* At the climax of ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' by Creator/CSLewis, the villainess [[ScaledUp turns into a massive serpent]] but is promptly dispatched by the heroes. It doesn't help that one of the heroes, recently freed from said baddie's clutches, WouldntHitAGirl but has no such qualms about killing snakes.

* At the climax of ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' by Creator/CSLewis, the villain [[ScaledUp turns into a massive serpent]] but is promptly dispatched by the heroes. It doesn't help that one of the heroes, her recently freed captive, WouldntHitAGirl but has no such qualms about killing snakes.

* When the One Ring is destroyed in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Sauron briefly rises as a gigantic terrifying cloudy figure visible for hundreds of kilometers… and is promptly blown away and dispersed by a wind out of the West. [[spoiler:Saruman]] did the same thing when he died, except the shade was man-sized — part of the repeating motif of [[spoiler:Saruman]] as a far lesser version of Sauron. The wind is part of Manwë's domain, so his power as the mightiest of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Valar]] might have something to do with it. And both of them are lesser versions of Morgoth, whose shade still exists beyond the door of night and will come back some day to be KilledOffForReal.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Typically a person only wears one [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] at a time. If you wear more than two at once, you risk severely weakening yourself. In "Kwami Buster", Marinette dons almost all of them to fight the titular villain, but to make sure she doesn't wind up too weak to fight, she first utilizes the Mouse miraculous to [[MesACrowd make several copies of herself]] that can evenly bear the burden at no more than two Miraculous a clone.
** [[spoiler:After successfully stealing most of the Miracuolous in the Season 4 finale; the Season 5 premiere, "Evolution," has Hawkmoth, now calling himself Monarch, learn this the hard way and contributed to his defeat and his loss of the Rabbit Miraculous to be recovered by Ladybug in that episode. He's much more careful about it after that.]]

** After Erza [[AwesomeByAnalysis explains how she figured out the weakness]] of his [[AttackReflector magic]] and has him dead to rights, Midnight of the Oracion Seis reveals his final trump card: When the clock strikes [[MeaningfulName midnight]], he transforms into a [[EldritchAbomination horrifying monster]] that proceeds to both beat Erza and Jellal into submission while subjecting them to [[BodyHorror horrific torment]]...and then Erza [[MagicalEye opens her fake eye]] and the entire scene changes as it cuts to her striking down a shocked Midnight. As a confused Jellal tries to process what just happened, it's revealed that "transformation" was all just a powerful illusion created by Midnight [[MasterOfIllusion reflecting light into his foes' eyes]] meant to MindRape them into defeat, and Erza's fake eye [[NoEyeInMagic can see through any visual-based magical illusions]].

*** However, this only occurred in the [[AdaptationExpansion anime adaptation]]. Inuyasha simply overpowered Bankotsu with his physical sword attack in the original manga.

*** It's averted in certain cases; oftentimes the final boss cannot be beaten without some type of ungodly powerful weapon (for instance, Nemesis's final form requires a conveniently-placed railgun the size of a car to defeat).
*** Averted in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''. [[spoiler:[[BigBadWannabe Simmons]] and [[BigBad Carla]] become both monstrous and impossible to defeat through conventional means. In fact, the former is killed because he intermittently reverts to something closely resembling his human form, allowing Leon, Helena, and Ada to exploit his weaknesses.]] Even so, it takes [[spoiler:a train, hundreds of bullets, two mini-guns, a lightning bolt, a rocket launcher, and three highly trained agents alongside with some insane amount of luck to take Simmons down, and in the case of Carla, it takes freezing and destroying her body at least three times to make her death stick]].