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[[folder: Metroidvania]]

* Conjuctuvitus can become invincible and summon her tentacles to attack the Beheaded between her phases.
* Scarecrow can plant seeds to summon Jerkshrooms (and in case of his upgraded Boss Rush version, even a Yeeter).
* Hand Of The King turns invincible between phases and summons various early-to-mid game enemies. [[spoiler: TrueFinalBoss, The Collector, does the same, but with wider range of possible foes. ]]
* Dracula, in his second form, can clap his hands to summon various of his undead soldiers, such as Bone Throwers, Axe Armours, Harpies, Mermen, Lancers and even Werewolves.

* ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'': The second and fourth stage boss are assisted by weaker mooks popping out to attack you, but the third stage boss makes it a key part of his strategy, ducking behind cover and repositioning while a horde of his minions swarm out to attack you.

* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' and its Episodes, antlion guards are usually fought alongside regular antlions, with the exception of the [[PrisonLevel Nova Prospekt]] chapter, in which the standard antlions are temporary allies.

* The third Greater Fiend in the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} version of ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'', Marbus is interesting about this. The first time you enter his realm, he taunts you, but rather than fight, summons a previously killed boss to fight you (Yep, he's a Flunky Boss that uses ''other bosses as flunkies''). You kill the boss and leave with a plot coupon, then return to face another previously defeated boss, then he just gets ticked off and finally attacks you, while summoning a seemingly infinite stream of lesser fiends in groups of three. There's also Masakado the samurai, second boss of the game. On difficulties above normal, ''every'' boss has flunkies that drop by at every 25% of the life bar you knock off them.

* In ''VideoGame/AmidEvil", the Scrounge, boss of second episode, stands out among the bosses because of this aspect, able to summon horses of his Sons as a distraction or cannon fodder.

** P-2 has [[spoiler: Flesh Panopticon, a supposedly upgraded version of Flesh Prison made to contain an even greater prisoner. It also has eye minions, but they are not as numerous, have more health, and their gaze turns all damage you receive into hard damage, removing your ability to regenerate until you do something stylish as long as they have a direct contact with you. ]]

* ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' has a great number of these:
** Trigger Twins can dance to summon a couple of Bullet Kins.
** Bullet King can be backed up by his Chancellor should you hit him. The Chancellor isn't actually as dangerous as Bullet Kin.
** Ammoconda summons unique turrets that look like snake eggs and can launch arrow-like projectiles at heroes. It can consume them for a boost in health, speed and damage.
** Beholster summons one of his Beadies every time he fires his signature handgun.
** Treadnaught comes equipped with special projectiles that spawn Tankers upon hitting something.
** Mine Flayer can spawn, well, living mines that either stay stationary or seek out the player and detonate when he comes into their range.
** [[spoiler: Blockner]] fights alongside two Gun Nuts. Notably, he can't summon more reinforcements and they are absent when you fight [[spoiler: his ghost form]].
** [[spoiler: Old King]] has his own Chancellor that is only slightly more dangerous than that of Bullet King.
** [[spoiler: Resourceful Rat]] can summon his own robotic minions.
** Every [[spoiler: Past Boss]], with the exception of [[spoiler: Agunim and Cannon]], is this, able to summon unique flunkies thematically connected to them.
** [[spoiler: The Lich can call forth Tombstoners, his own PraetorianGuard]].

** Pretty much every [[spoiler: Past Boss]], with the exception of [[spoiler: Agunim and Cannon]], is this, able to summon unique flunkies thematically connected to them.

** Pretty much every ||Past Boss||, with the exception of ||Agunim and Cannon||, is this, able to summon unique flunkies thematically connected to them.

** Trigger Twins can dance to summon a clue of Bullet Kins.

** Ammoconda summons unique turrets that look like snake eggs and can launch arrow-like projectiles at heroes. It can costume them for a boost in health, speed and damage.

** [[spoiler: Resourceful Rat]] can summon his own skeletal minions.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has Koloktos occasionally summon a few [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Zombie Bokoblins]] to attack Link. Moldarach will start summoning Arachas once its claws are ripped.

** [[spoiler: The Lich can call forth Tombstoners, his own Praetorian Guard]].

* ''VideoGame/ULTRAKILL'' doesn't have these in the main game, but each [[BrutalBonusLevel Prime Sanctum]] has one as it's first major challenge.
** P-1 has [[spoiler: Flesh Prison, a tetrahedron flesh automaton that can summon flying eyes or, on Violent, mini Malicious Faces. Not only do these provide additional firepower, but the boss can heal by sacrificing them for portion of health. ]]
** P-2 has [[spoiler: Flesh Panopticon, a supposedly upgraded version of Flesh Prison made to contain an even greater prisoner. It also has eye minions, but they are not as numerous, have more health, and their gaze turns all damage you receive into hard damage, removing your ability to regenerate until you do something stylish as long as they have a direct contact with you. ]]

** There are a few bosses (Soul Warrior, Broken Vessel/Lost Kin, The Collector and [[spoiler:Grey Prince Zote]]) who periodically spawn weak enemies.

* All ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' bosses.
* All bosses in ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'' except for the first boss and the FinalBoss.

*** Gerald Lightseeker, a more proper boss, doesn't actually summon enemies himself, but should any of separately spawned ones come near him, he can buff them by giving them 80% armor.

** The [[VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater fifth game]] has [[BigBad Ouse]]/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Ose]] Kurosawa, during her actual final battle.

* ''VideoGame/ToontownOnline'' has literal flunky bosses; Cog Buildings can have Flunkies as bosses when there's a Flunky invasion. The CJ also has lawyers throwing evidence at Toons, as well as the scale to [[NonStandardGameOver try to put the scales in the Cogs' favor so that you go sad.]]

* In ''VideoGame/BattleCircuit'', [[EvilIsSexy Barbara]] summons jellyfish and Bike Gals.

** The Sculptor summons rock clones of Astrake and Reffian.

* In the NES version of ''[=RollerGames=]'', the leaders of the "evil teams" (as well as the FinalBoss) would hang back and make you fight some of their flunkies before attacking you themselves. Ms. Georgia of Bad Attitude would sit on top of the roof of a garage and order her mooks around, getting visibly frustrated as you defeated more of them. Guru Drew of the Maniacs would wander underneath the floor you were fighting on and try to stab you with his spear. The Skull, leader of the Violators, was the only one who didn't show up at all until you dealt with his mooks first.