History Main / ReactorBoss

* The final boss of Chapter 5 of ''{{Mother 3}}'' is Mr. Genetor, which is Thunder Tower's generator.

** Similarly in the penultimate level of ''Halo3'', you have to destroy the reactor of the Flood-infested High Charity, setting off a chain reaction to destroy the massive ship. Could be considered as a fight against the Gravemind itself, as the ship is literally covered wall-to-wall in Flood biomass.

* Inverted in CityOfHeroes where the final mission of one trial requires you to defend the reactor for 30 minutes. Generally considered one of the most boring missions in the game.
* In GunstarHeroes, you destroy one after docking with the spaceship.
* Super Star Wars, Super Empire Strikes Back and Super Return of the Jedi had the Tractor Beam Generator, Carbonite Freezing Chamber and Endor Shield Generator as bosses.
** Arguably the inspiration behind this trope- the ''VideoGame/StarFox'' examples at least- was ''StarWars Return Of The Jedi'', and to a lesser extent ''A New Hope''.

* ''HalfLife 2'' ends with you grabbing glowing energy balls with your gravity gun and shooting them at a giant glowing energy ball which is apparently some kind of main reactor for the Citadel. This lasts for several seconds while you destroy the floating pieces of metal surrounding the reactor, and then you hit the reactor itself and win. There are also two gunships shooting at you while this occurs.
** It's actually the Citadel's main [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporter]], as evidenced by Breen's slow ascent into the thing. In Episode 1, there's a mission revolving around the Citadel's power core, but you're trying to ''stop'' it from blowing up (at least, before you can evacuate the city).

** Revisited in ''KirbysEpicYarn'' with the halberd reactor and the Shmup level at the same time.

* ''Resistance: Fall of Man'' ends with you and a squad of British commandoes attempting to destroy the Chimera Master Tower's main reactor. This is actually one of the better ReactorBoss fights out there, as it involves a small war between the British commandoes and a small army of Chimera Advanced Hybrids, a couple Titans, and even an Angel or two.

** It's actually the Citadel's main [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporter]], as evidenced by Breen's slow descent into the thing. In Episode 1, there's a mission revolving around the Citadel's power core, but you're trying to ''stop'' it from blowing up (at least, before you can evacuate the city).

** It's predecessor, Starfox had two reactor bosses. One in the Space Armada and one in Sector Z, which was twice as hard. Macbeth's boss could also be seen as a reactor boss.

* The first two ''{{Xargon}}'' games literally had a reactor guarded by swarms of {{Mook}}s as the "final boss." The third & final game looked like the reactor was the final boss, [[SubvertedTrope but then you got to keep walking]] and face [[BigBad Xargon]] himself.

* ''StarFox 64'' had a ReactorBoss late in the game, with the Bolse satellite. (Any remaining members of the Star Wolf team--all of them, if you didn't take a route through Fortuna--would also appear). This reactor would eventually start fighting back, as any panels on the core that were blown up would start firing lasers. Arguably, the mothership from Katina also might count, since it doesn't directly attack, instead just releasing {{Mook}}s and then revealing its core after you destroyed the four hatches or took too long, at which point you had all of one minute to destroy said core. (Yes, it would eventually reveal the core even if you didn't shoot the hatches, presumably to keep you from running up the score. Which was annoying, since it was tough to hit the medal total before this happened.)

** Arguably the inspiration behind this trope- the ''StarFox'' examples at least- was ''StarWars Return Of The Jedi'', and to a lesser extent ''A New Hope''.

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See also CoresAndTurretsBoss. Very common in a ShootEmUp.

* ''HalfLife 2'' ends with you grabbing glowing energy balls with your gravity gun and shooting them at a giant glowing energy ball which is apparently some kind of main reactor for the Citadel. This lasts for several seconds while you destroy the floating pieces of metal surrounding the reactor, and then you hit the reactor itself and win. There are also two gunships shooting at you while this occurs

* ''HalfLife 2'' ends with you grabbing glowing energy balls with your gravity gun and shooting them at a giant glowing energy ball which is apparently some kind of main reactor for the Citadel. This lasts for about several seconds while you destroy the floating pieces of metal surrounding the reactor, and then you hit the reactor itself and win.
** Said task is made a bit harder however, by having Gunships constantly firing at you.
*** You can destroy the Gunships, you know. ThisTroper always did that first, and wasn't aware you could hit the reactor while the ships were still alive.

* Gang Garrison 2 has an original gamemode not in Team Fortress 2, where the goal is to destroy the enemy team's generator while defending your own.

See also CoresAndTurretsBoss.

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