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* ''KidIcarusUprising'', with the battles versus Dark Pit, Medusa, [[spoiler: and Hades.]]

* ''TheMunchables'': King Pumpkin.

* The first phase of ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'''s final battle plays out just like the other Bowser battles, even relinquishing the [[MacGuffin Grand Star]] at the end. [[spoiler:.. but it's a trap, and Bowser eats the Grand Star, [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grows gigantic once again,]] and initiates the final phase inside a ''black hole'']].

* Something similar happens with Gergoth in ''CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'', you fight him on the top floor of the Condemned Tower, and during the fight you and he end up falling all the way down to the bottom floor once he TurnsRed
* Goriath did this in ''KirbysReturnToDreamland'' by smashing the snowy floor after you hit him enough. It turns from snow to icy to both.

* ''StarWars'' '''loves''' this.
** Episode I had a textbook type one between Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul.
** Episode III went for type four in the first half, then switched to style one, when Obi-Wan fought General Grievous off in a saber duel back at the Separatist lair, then chased him down throughout Utapau's cities, and finally shot him to death in a landing pad.
*** Stage One was used again for the duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan.
** Episode V had Luke Skywalker fight Darth Vader in various parts of Cloud City, primarily because of types three and five.

* The first two thirds of the final battle against [[BigBad Bowser]] at the end of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' both take place on two individual planets, but the third and final stage takes place inside a Sun!
** The first phase of ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'''s final battle plays out just like the other Bowser battles, even relinquishing the [[MacGuffin Grand Star]] at the end.[[spoiler:.. but [[NotSoFastBucko it's a trap]], and Bowser eats the Grand Star, [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grows gigantic once again,]] and initiates the final phase inside a ''black hole!'']]

* Goriath did this in ''KirbysReturnToDreamland'' by smashing the snowy floor after you hit him enough. It turns from snow to icy to both etc.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series has this with ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' (the final battle with [[spoiler: Ganondorf]]) and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' (battle with Zant).

* ''{{Harvest}}'': The FinalBoss.

* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs''

* The second form of [[spoiler: Queen Sectonia]] in ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe does this, moving Kirby onto a new set of platforms and changing attack patterns every time they lose a fourth of their health.

* ''SlyCooper 3'' went with style one when Sly first fights General Tsao on top of a forest of vines, then on the ground level of said forest. Same game, but with the Mask of Dark Earth in style four, first in a bar as a coyote, then as Carmelita in a mountain-like dune.

* The first two thirds of the final battle against [[BigBad Bowser]] at the end of ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' both take place on two individual planets, but the third and final stage takes place inside a Sun!

* Each time Thugly in ''DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' TurnsRed, he smashes the floor of the arena, sending the battle down to a lower level, though the change in terrain has no tactical effect on the battle in progress.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series has this with ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' (the final battle with [[spoiler: Ganondorf]]) and ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' (battle with Zant).

* ''DarthWiki/Revenant'': A number of location-changes occur during Ichigo's battles with Ginjo.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series has this with [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]] (the final battle with [[spoiler: Ganondorf]]) and [[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]] (battle with Zant).

* The first nine books of Literature/TheWheelOfTime all end with a battle, and most of them are this trope:

* Something similar happens with Gergoth in CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow, you fight him on the top floor of the Condemned Tower, and during the fight you and he end up falling all the way down to the bottom floor once he TurnsRed

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' (the final battle with [[spoiler: Ganondorf]]) and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' (battle with Zant).

* ''GodOfWar II'' followed the third style, with Kratos' fight against the Colossus of Rhodes, while GodOfWar III had Kratos versus Zeus in a merge of the third and fifth styles.

* ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series has this with [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]] (the final battle with [[spoiler: Ganondorf]]) and [[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]] (battle with Zant).

* Goriath did this in ''Kirby'sReturnToDreamland'' by smashing the snowy floor after you hit him enough. It turns from snow to icy to both etc.

* Goriath did this in ''KirbyReturnToDreamland'' by smashing the snowy floor after you hit him enough. It turns from snow to icy to both etc.

** The first phase of ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'''s final battle plays out just like the other Bowser battles, even relinquishing the [[MacGuffin Grand Star]] at the end.[[spoiler:.. but it's a trap, and Bowser eats the Grand Star, [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grows gigantic once again,]] and initiates the final phase inside a ''black hole!'']]

A location change during a BossBattle, ranging from two to three areas in total, adding for nice variation in a brawl. This could occur in several different flavors:

# One fighter runs away and is encounter in another area later on.

** Episode I had a textbook stage one between Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul.
** Episode III went for Stage Four in the first half, then switched to style one, when Obi-Wan fought General Grievous off in a saber duel back at the Separatist lair, then chased him down throughout Utapau's cities, and finally shot him to death in a landing pad.

** Episode V had Luke Skywalker fight Darth Vader in various parts of Cloud City, primarily through Stages Three and Five.