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# PhantasyStarOnline2.TropesAToM: The Primordial Darkness has an absolutely ludicrous health pool that puts every other raid boss in the game to shame. The fact that it's also a multi-phase raid ends up turning it into a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] even with copious amounts of cheese strategies.
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# PhantasyStarOnline2.TropesAToM: TropesEToM: The Primordial Darkness has an absolutely ludicrous health pool that puts every other raid boss in the game to shame. The fact that it's also a multi-phase raid ends up turning it into a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] even with copious amounts of cheese strategies.
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# Characters.MagiaRecordWitchesDoppels: Like Walpurgisnacht, it was introduced as a raid boss at the end of the Puella Historia arc.
# Awesome.{{Rayman}}: The Final Boss battle (Reflux again, this time summoning lightning on you then growing gigantic) is no slouch either. It's long and epic with no less than four different phases.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIVLegendsOfTheTitan: There are two bosses which, if approached directly and challenged at once, will be sporting a full HP bar which is often too large for the party's resources to handle. This will mandate walking around the floor or boss room to trigger certain map events that will weaken it to manageable levels, going from this trope to Puzzle Boss. The two bosses in question are Boiling Lizard (Golden Lair) and Warped Savior (Hall of Darkness).
# VideoGame.SeaOfThieves: Played straight with the skeleton fleet battles in the Cursed Sails update, which blurs the line between this and Marathon Level. Multiple player crews are encouraged to cooperate to repeatedly sink one or more ships, typically Galleons, although the Shrouded Spoils update introduced Skeleton Sloops as well. Eventually, once enough waves of ships have been sunk and risen enough, one will rise from the deep with a named Skeleton at the helm to mark that it is the final ship, which will drop the good loot upon sinking.
# Characters.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: the final battle with him has four phases (including the hopeless one) and lasts several hours.
# YMMV.TowerOfFantasy: Even for a World Boss, Abyssal Harrah is very tedious, having two phases each with a mountain of health. The first phase is immobile but has devastating close-range attacks that make it very difficult to fight her with melee weapons, so most players are content to slowly chip away her health with ranged weapons. Even with at least 30 players all doing this, she's got so much HP that it takes upwards of twenty minutes to deplete all of it (before nerfs). The second phase is faster but also lacks the area denial and is easier to fight, but still has a lot of HP that will take more time to deplete. What's worse is that if you want to access the third layer of the Confounding Abyss by yourself, you will need to fight Harrah at least once since she guards the first conventional access point to that layer.
# AntiFrustrationFeatures.CopyKitty: Similarly, the fights against the respective bosses in the World 10 battle depending on your character require you to endure a long process of destroying their outer shells and breaking into their cores to take control of the mecha. Recognizing how frustrating it would be to die at this point, if you manage to die in this phase, you don't have to do the first 2 phases again.
# VideoGame.LittleRedRidingHoodsZombieBBQ: Level 3-1 consists entirely in a fight against a huge, horrific puppet that is walking on the docks besides the player.It then turns into a Puzzle Boss. It stops and begins throwing at the player giant explosive wrecking balls: the player must shoot at them, making them explode while they're swinging back, damaging the puppet in the process.
# Characters.DeltaruneCardKingdom: No matter what approach you go for, Jevil will take a long time to beat. Sparing him requires numerous turns of tiring him out, while his massive HP pool means that fighting won't bring him down in a hurry.
# VideoGame.{{Vanquish}}: The Bogey, despite only being the second boss, can be very frustrating, having high HP, fast flight abilities (making it difficult to hit with heavier weapons), Roboteching beam spams just like the player's Lock-On Laser, EMPs that cause Sam's armor to overheat, a plasma Wave-Motion Gun that can One-Hit Kill, and to top it all off, a Press X to Not Die sequence at the end.
# Characters.{{Okami}}: SequentialBoss: With five forms, he is also a MarathonBoss.
# VideoGame.ArcTheLad: Usually the last boss.
# Characters.YsMemoriesOfCelceta: He has three lifebars (the last form fortunately is a Clipped-Wing Angel), a laundry list of powerful attacks, is hard to hit, your attacks only do minuscule damage even with max EXP, and he can regenerate his HP.
# VideoGame.{{Hellsinker}}: Some bosses (namely Glorious Symbol and Rex Cavalier) can become this if you don't know how to deal with them. But even if you do know how to fight them, most boss fights will still last slightly longer than most shmup bosses do.
# Sandbox.SkylandersKaosAndTheDoomRaiders: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos in Trap Team. He has a stupendous amount of health, keeps players at bay with powerful shockwaves, and heals off nearly 40% of his health every time he changes phases.
# Characters.SilentHill3: The only boss fight in the game with different phases to it, four to be exact, as she'll change up her arsenal and approach against Heather to keep the player guessing.
# VideoGame.KingdomHeartsX: Higher-level Raid Bosses get this way. Most notable is the Fortress Crab, which in its first event appearance had a whopping three million HP and a timer of two hours even at level 1. It has even more in the weekend raid events. Within the story, there's the Darkside encountered in the Corridor of Darkness. Its attacks are on par with or weaker than previous bosses, but it comes with a whopping 40 health bars, as well as the ability to buff its defense and heal itself. It's nowhere near as long as a Raid Boss with HP in the millions, but relative to the rest of the story mode, it's enormous.
# VideoGame.DawnOfWar: Some of the bosses, especially in Dawn of War II and onwards, have a lot of hit points, and unless there are easier ways to take them out, expect to take a while killing them. Daemon Prince Kyras takes the cake, with his ability to summon infinite waves of Bloodletters and Bloodcrushers, along with his ability to summon three towers to shield his life bar from damage. The Great Unclean One from Chaos Rising. He has 2 million hit points at maximum, has several one-shot attacks, can flesh hook and throw characters out of the battle area and get them stuck and has a bug that can reset his hit points in full. He also comes after an extremely boring grind mission that takes upwards of an hour to get through, and the way the game works, if he kills you, you have to do the entire mission from scratch.
# ItsShortSoItSucks.VideoGames: While this trope doesn't apply to Dark Souls III itself, it's a common criticism of the first expansion Ashes of Ariandel. It adds only a couple of new areas and two bosses, one of which is optional and only really consists of fighting an NPC player character and a recurring King Mook simultaneously. While the other boss is generally regarded as one of the best in the series, the general consensus is that's not enough to justify the price tag. Since Ashes of Ariandel is one of the only two expansions Dark Souls 3 is getting it compares poorly to the DLC in the other entries in the series, (Dark Souls had one expansion with four bosses, Dark Souls II had three expansions with three bosses in each one and the Spiritual Successor Bloodborne had one expansion with five bosses) and as such it also raised concerns from fans about the longevity of the game compared to its predecessors.
# AwesomeBosses.OtherGamesNToZ: Radiant Historia's Final Boss battle is incredibly epic and challenging, and one hell of a send off for an amazing game. It's a MarathonBoss with three phases (four if you count the previous battle against the Black Chronicle) with three different movesets for each one, and it becomes fiercer and fiercer while you fight it, meaning that you really have to go all-out in this battle. All of this is set in Historia, with "An Earnest Desire of Grey" blaring in the background. The game itself was already awesome, but this battle takes it to the fullest, and it's especially satisfying after the slog that is the last dungeon.
# Characters.ToontownCorporateClash: Her cheat, Dive, involves her diving into the ground thus making it so you cannot attack her.note Though you can still place Trap gags on her. You can only lure once she gets out, however. Content Sync also makes it so you can only use Gags up to Level 3. She then promotes an available Cog to a Level 7 Executive. To get her out, you have to take out said Cog.note This sometimes doesn't happen, as she can Dive and promote no Cogs should one not be available. When this happens, she gets out after one round. Thing is, Toons are also subjected to drowning at the end of every round, taking 5 damage each, so make sure one of your teammates is stacked on Toon Up.Once the Executive is defeatednote Again, see previous note, Deep Diver jumps out and lands so hard all Toons are slammed with 7 damage each!
# YMMV.Splatoon1: Nearly everyone in the fandom agrees that the final boss of the first game is one of the best ones Nintendo has created; even people who otherwise found the single-player campaign to be sorely lacking had to admit it ended on a high note. The boss itself has plenty of points in the hilarity factor, being a Dumbass DJ who pilots a Humongous Mecha styled like a dance stage controlled by his turntable. Said mecha also comes loaded with a ton of missiles, giant mecha hands to crush you, enemy spawners, Killer Wails (it IS a giant music stage), and a humongous missile. The final boss has to be fought all across a hectic platforming stage that will put everything you've learned in single player to the test, and it lasts a lot longer than the previous bosses to milk the experience for all it's worth. Add some Awesome Music in the mix, and you get a very memorable end boss.
# Characters.OmoriHeadspace: Easily the longest boss fight in the game, having three separate phases with the last having a humongous health bar.
# Undertale.TropesOToZ: This is the only way to describe the No Mercy Run final boss, aka, the hardest boss in the entire game. You only face this rule-breaking MarathonBoss if you kill every single enemy possible, and he'll say anything he can to make you feel bad about it.
# VideoGame.YakuzaLikeADragon: ClimaxBoss: Yosuke Tendo. Also overlaps with MarathonBoss as he has the highest health out of any major boss encounter in the entire game.
# Awesome.{{Rayman}}: The Final Boss battle (Reflux again, this time summoning lightning on you then growing gigantic) is no slouch either. It's long and epic with no less than four different phases.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIVLegendsOfTheTitan: There are two bosses which, if approached directly and challenged at once, will be sporting a full HP bar which is often too large for the party's resources to handle. This will mandate walking around the floor or boss room to trigger certain map events that will weaken it to manageable levels, going from this trope to Puzzle Boss. The two bosses in question are Boiling Lizard (Golden Lair) and Warped Savior (Hall of Darkness).
# VideoGame.SeaOfThieves: Played straight with the skeleton fleet battles in the Cursed Sails update, which blurs the line between this and Marathon Level. Multiple player crews are encouraged to cooperate to repeatedly sink one or more ships, typically Galleons, although the Shrouded Spoils update introduced Skeleton Sloops as well. Eventually, once enough waves of ships have been sunk and risen enough, one will rise from the deep with a named Skeleton at the helm to mark that it is the final ship, which will drop the good loot upon sinking.
# Characters.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: the final battle with him has four phases (including the hopeless one) and lasts several hours.
# YMMV.TowerOfFantasy: Even for a World Boss, Abyssal Harrah is very tedious, having two phases each with a mountain of health. The first phase is immobile but has devastating close-range attacks that make it very difficult to fight her with melee weapons, so most players are content to slowly chip away her health with ranged weapons. Even with at least 30 players all doing this, she's got so much HP that it takes upwards of twenty minutes to deplete all of it (before nerfs). The second phase is faster but also lacks the area denial and is easier to fight, but still has a lot of HP that will take more time to deplete. What's worse is that if you want to access the third layer of the Confounding Abyss by yourself, you will need to fight Harrah at least once since she guards the first conventional access point to that layer.
# AntiFrustrationFeatures.CopyKitty: Similarly, the fights against the respective bosses in the World 10 battle depending on your character require you to endure a long process of destroying their outer shells and breaking into their cores to take control of the mecha. Recognizing how frustrating it would be to die at this point, if you manage to die in this phase, you don't have to do the first 2 phases again.
# VideoGame.LittleRedRidingHoodsZombieBBQ: Level 3-1 consists entirely in a fight against a huge, horrific puppet that is walking on the docks besides the player.It then turns into a Puzzle Boss. It stops and begins throwing at the player giant explosive wrecking balls: the player must shoot at them, making them explode while they're swinging back, damaging the puppet in the process.
# Characters.DeltaruneCardKingdom: No matter what approach you go for, Jevil will take a long time to beat. Sparing him requires numerous turns of tiring him out, while his massive HP pool means that fighting won't bring him down in a hurry.
# VideoGame.{{Vanquish}}: The Bogey, despite only being the second boss, can be very frustrating, having high HP, fast flight abilities (making it difficult to hit with heavier weapons), Roboteching beam spams just like the player's Lock-On Laser, EMPs that cause Sam's armor to overheat, a plasma Wave-Motion Gun that can One-Hit Kill, and to top it all off, a Press X to Not Die sequence at the end.
# Characters.{{Okami}}: SequentialBoss: With five forms, he is also a MarathonBoss.
# VideoGame.ArcTheLad: Usually the last boss.
# Characters.YsMemoriesOfCelceta: He has three lifebars (the last form fortunately is a Clipped-Wing Angel), a laundry list of powerful attacks, is hard to hit, your attacks only do minuscule damage even with max EXP, and he can regenerate his HP.
# VideoGame.{{Hellsinker}}: Some bosses (namely Glorious Symbol and Rex Cavalier) can become this if you don't know how to deal with them. But even if you do know how to fight them, most boss fights will still last slightly longer than most shmup bosses do.
# Sandbox.SkylandersKaosAndTheDoomRaiders: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos in Trap Team. He has a stupendous amount of health, keeps players at bay with powerful shockwaves, and heals off nearly 40% of his health every time he changes phases.
# Characters.SilentHill3: The only boss fight in the game with different phases to it, four to be exact, as she'll change up her arsenal and approach against Heather to keep the player guessing.
# VideoGame.KingdomHeartsX: Higher-level Raid Bosses get this way. Most notable is the Fortress Crab, which in its first event appearance had a whopping three million HP and a timer of two hours even at level 1. It has even more in the weekend raid events. Within the story, there's the Darkside encountered in the Corridor of Darkness. Its attacks are on par with or weaker than previous bosses, but it comes with a whopping 40 health bars, as well as the ability to buff its defense and heal itself. It's nowhere near as long as a Raid Boss with HP in the millions, but relative to the rest of the story mode, it's enormous.
# VideoGame.DawnOfWar: Some of the bosses, especially in Dawn of War II and onwards, have a lot of hit points, and unless there are easier ways to take them out, expect to take a while killing them. Daemon Prince Kyras takes the cake, with his ability to summon infinite waves of Bloodletters and Bloodcrushers, along with his ability to summon three towers to shield his life bar from damage. The Great Unclean One from Chaos Rising. He has 2 million hit points at maximum, has several one-shot attacks, can flesh hook and throw characters out of the battle area and get them stuck and has a bug that can reset his hit points in full. He also comes after an extremely boring grind mission that takes upwards of an hour to get through, and the way the game works, if he kills you, you have to do the entire mission from scratch.
# ItsShortSoItSucks.VideoGames: While this trope doesn't apply to Dark Souls III itself, it's a common criticism of the first expansion Ashes of Ariandel. It adds only a couple of new areas and two bosses, one of which is optional and only really consists of fighting an NPC player character and a recurring King Mook simultaneously. While the other boss is generally regarded as one of the best in the series, the general consensus is that's not enough to justify the price tag. Since Ashes of Ariandel is one of the only two expansions Dark Souls 3 is getting it compares poorly to the DLC in the other entries in the series, (Dark Souls had one expansion with four bosses, Dark Souls II had three expansions with three bosses in each one and the Spiritual Successor Bloodborne had one expansion with five bosses) and as such it also raised concerns from fans about the longevity of the game compared to its predecessors.
# AwesomeBosses.OtherGamesNToZ: Radiant Historia's Final Boss battle is incredibly epic and challenging, and one hell of a send off for an amazing game. It's a MarathonBoss with three phases (four if you count the previous battle against the Black Chronicle) with three different movesets for each one, and it becomes fiercer and fiercer while you fight it, meaning that you really have to go all-out in this battle. All of this is set in Historia, with "An Earnest Desire of Grey" blaring in the background. The game itself was already awesome, but this battle takes it to the fullest, and it's especially satisfying after the slog that is the last dungeon.
# Characters.ToontownCorporateClash: Her cheat, Dive, involves her diving into the ground thus making it so you cannot attack her.note Though you can still place Trap gags on her. You can only lure once she gets out, however. Content Sync also makes it so you can only use Gags up to Level 3. She then promotes an available Cog to a Level 7 Executive. To get her out, you have to take out said Cog.note This sometimes doesn't happen, as she can Dive and promote no Cogs should one not be available. When this happens, she gets out after one round. Thing is, Toons are also subjected to drowning at the end of every round, taking 5 damage each, so make sure one of your teammates is stacked on Toon Up.Once the Executive is defeatednote Again, see previous note, Deep Diver jumps out and lands so hard all Toons are slammed with 7 damage each!
# YMMV.Splatoon1: Nearly everyone in the fandom agrees that the final boss of the first game is one of the best ones Nintendo has created; even people who otherwise found the single-player campaign to be sorely lacking had to admit it ended on a high note. The boss itself has plenty of points in the hilarity factor, being a Dumbass DJ who pilots a Humongous Mecha styled like a dance stage controlled by his turntable. Said mecha also comes loaded with a ton of missiles, giant mecha hands to crush you, enemy spawners, Killer Wails (it IS a giant music stage), and a humongous missile. The final boss has to be fought all across a hectic platforming stage that will put everything you've learned in single player to the test, and it lasts a lot longer than the previous bosses to milk the experience for all it's worth. Add some Awesome Music in the mix, and you get a very memorable end boss.
# Characters.OmoriHeadspace: Easily the longest boss fight in the game, having three separate phases with the last having a humongous health bar.
# Undertale.TropesOToZ: This is the only way to describe the No Mercy Run final boss, aka, the hardest boss in the entire game. You only face this rule-breaking MarathonBoss if you kill every single enemy possible, and he'll say anything he can to make you feel bad about it.
# VideoGame.YakuzaLikeADragon: ClimaxBoss: Yosuke Tendo. Also overlaps with MarathonBoss as he has the highest health out of any major boss encounter in the entire game.
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# Characters.MagiaRecordWitchesDoppels: Like Walpurgisnacht, it was introduced as a raid boss at FinalFantasyXIVRaidAntagonists: MythologyGag: He’s based on the end infamous [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] from Final Fantasy XII. The first couple phases of the Puella Historia arc.
# Awesome.{{Rayman}}: The Final Boss battle (Reflux again, this time summoning lightning on you then growing gigantic) is no slouch either. It's long and epic with no less than four different phases.
fight even retain the original's Damage Sponge properties before the party finally strikes its weak point, damaging the dragon's armored hide.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIVLegendsOfTheTitan: There are two bosses which, if approached directly and challenged at once, will ToTheBitterEnd: FinalBoss: Morganem or to be sporting a full HP bar which is often too large for the party's resources to handle. more precise, Uthurak Incarnate. [[MarathonBoss This will mandate walking around the floor or boss room one battle has an entire CHAPTER dedicated to trigger certain map events that will weaken it to manageable levels, going from this trope to Puzzle Boss. The two bosses in question are Boiling Lizard (Golden Lair) and Warped Savior (Hall of Darkness).
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# VideoGame.SeaOfThieves: Played straight with RingFitAdventure: The final fight against Dragaux has at least 10 healthbars to deplete.
# Trivia.{{Chippy}}: Within theskeleton fleet battles in game's most recent design, Monarch was originally planned to have three forms, but the Cursed Sails update, which blurs last one was cut due to it making the line between this stage [[MarathonBoss way too long]].
# YMMV.TurboOverkill: ArcFatigue: Some criticism has been levied against the Vector-4 section for stretching the climax of the game a bit too much, as it goes on for two hours through three separate areas and is capped off by the absolute [[MarathonBoss MarathonLevel. Multiple player crews are encouraged to cooperate to repeatedly sink Boss]] that is Maw. And there's still one or more ships, typically Galleons, although the Shrouded Spoils update introduced Skeleton Sloops as well. Eventually, once enough waves of ships have been sunk level and risen enough, one will rise from the deep with a named Skeleton at the helm boss to mark that it is the final ship, which will drop the good loot upon sinking.
take care of after that!
# Characters.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: FightingFantasyAntagonistsAllansiaRulers: He is exceptionally resilient, so dealing damage before the final battle with him has four phases (including the hopeless one) and lasts several hours.
# YMMV.TowerOfFantasy: Even for a World Boss, Abyssal Harrahis very tedious, having two phases each with a mountain of health. The first phase is immobile but has devastating close-range attacks that make it very difficult to fight her with melee weapons, so most players are content to slowly chip away her health with ranged weapons. Even with at least 30 players all doing this, she's got so much HP that it takes upwards of twenty minutes to deplete all of it (before nerfs). The second phase is faster but also lacks the area denial and is easier to fight, but still has a lot of HP that will take more time to deplete. What's worse is that if you want to access the third layer of the Confounding Abyss by yourself, you will need to fight Harrah at least once since she guards the first conventional access point to that layer.
# AntiFrustrationFeatures.CopyKitty: Similarly, the fights against the respective bosses in the World 10 battle depending on your character require you to endure a long process of destroying their outer shells and breaking into their cores to take control of the mecha. Recognizing how frustrating it would be to die at this point, if you manage to die in this phase, you don't have to do the first 2 phases again.
advised.
# VideoGame.LittleRedRidingHoodsZombieBBQ: Level 3-1 consists entirely in a fight against a huge, horrific puppet that HexeptaMayorAttack: Anton Frost is walking on the docks besides stand for the player.It then turns into majority of Case 6's second trial. He has a Puzzle Boss. It stops and begins throwing at total of seven cross examinations - though the player giant explosive wrecking balls: the player must shoot at them, making them explode while they're swinging back, damaging the puppet in the process.
sixth one is a repeat of his fifth testimony.
# Characters.DeltaruneCardKingdom: No matter what approach you go for, Jevil will take MegaManBattleNetwork1: While having a long time shit load of health is standard for him, his Bass XX incarnations have so much it is possible to beat. Sparing him requires numerous turns of tiring him out, exhaust a chip folder before killing him.
# YMMV.TheBattleCats: If your cats are strong enough to handle the stage's enemies, then Crazed Tank Cat falls under this. With enough meatshields, it's not hard to prevent the boss from pushing whilehis massive you hold off its support, but with 3.2 million HP pool means that fighting won't bring him down and being fought so early in the game, [[MarathonBoss it takes forever and a hurry.
day to die.]]
# VideoGame.{{Vanquish}}: BowMaster: MetalSlime: The Bogey, despite only Earth Golem, surprisingly enough. Tall as half the screen, [[MarathonBoss huge amount of life]], has a devastating (almost) Always Accurate Attack, often show up in pairs... but they give thousands of gold and experience, and a maxed-out sextuple rapid shot with an electric arrow will fell even two of them in seconds.
# YMMV.Rockman7EP: ContestedSequel: Despite the impressive use of ASM, this mod can feel quite lacking in comparison compared to Rockman 4 Minus Infinity due to the music tracks beingthe second boss, can be very frustrating, reused from Mega Man 7, bosses having high HP, fast flight abilities (making it difficult the same colour as the originals, only one Superboss fight, no Mechanical Arena, and the Wily Fortress level design being criticized for being overly experimental and throwing E-Tanks at you to hit get you through them. That's not even counting the final level and Bass whose [[MarathonBoss sheer tedium in both winning and losing against him makes him the worst boss fight in the game.]]
# VideoGame.GodOfWarII: Alrik the Barbarian King has several phases during his boss fight: first, he stands on his horse, attacking Kratos from afar withheavier weapons), Roboteching beam spams just like bow and arrows. Then, he summons the player's Lock-On Laser, EMPs that cause Sam's armor souls of the dead to overheat, fight for him. When Kratos slays all the revenants he absorbs the souls to turn into a plasma Wave-Motion Gun that can One-Hit Kill, colossus. Then, Kratos depowers him and proceeds to top it all off, a Press X to Not Die sequence at the end.
fight him one on one, steal his hammer and crush him.
# Characters.{{Okami}}: SequentialBoss: With five forms, he is also a MarathonBoss.
# VideoGame.ArcTheLad: UsuallyYakuza1: The very first boss in the last boss.
series to 6 bars of health in a single Boss Fight. Twice as much as the maximum 3 that Ryuji would have in the two seperate instances he's fought during the finale. He's got 7 in Kiwami 2 which arguably makes him tougher than most of the series' Final Bosses.
# Characters.YsMemoriesOfCelceta: He has three lifebars (the last form fortunately is a Clipped-Wing Angel), a laundry list DeathCrusades: Not because of powerful attacks, is hard Lucifer having a billion HP, but because the opening attack by a player targeted all of the enemies in the vicinity. In the end it all added up to hit, your attacks only do minuscule damage even with max EXP, and he can regenerate his HP.
be around 6 hours.
# VideoGame.{{Hellsinker}}: Some bosses (namely Glorious Symbol and Rex Cavalier) can become this if you don't know how to deal with them. But even if you do know how to fight them, most boss fights will still last slightly longer than most shmup bosses do.
# Sandbox.SkylandersKaosAndTheDoomRaiders: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos in Trap Team. He hasWild9: Karn isn't very difficult, he just takes a stupendous amount of health, keeps players at bay with powerful shockwaves, and heals off nearly 40% of his health every long time he changes phases.
to beat.
# Characters.SilentHill3: BanjoKazooie: The second dragon fought (no matter which one) will invariably have twice as many HP as the first one fought; as a result, all cannons will be required during the battle because each of them can only work until the boss fight is hit three times, and the total amount of HP of the boss is 3 x 4 = 12.
# ThatOneBoss.EldenRing: The Fire Giant which guards the giants' forge has a mammoth health pool, bordering on [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] levels, with even fully upgraded weapons taking a long while to bring him down unless you abuse mechanics like bleed to speed it up. On top of that, he not only does insane damage (enough to two-shot you even with a highly vigor invested character), but he has AOE fire attacks that make it difficult and punishing for melee characters to damage him and which can kill them instantly if they're not careful. His second form is easier to kite, but his defense skyrockets anywhere except his hands and the exposed eye in thegame center of his face-chest, and he can still cast multiple firestorms and rinse the battlefield with different phases high-damage exploding rock shards, prolonging an already-grueling fight. On top of all of that, he's also somewhat of a "Get Back Here!" Boss, as he likes to it, four to be exact, as she'll change up her arsenal and approach against Heather to keep the player guessing.
roll away from you frequently.
# VideoGame.KingdomHeartsX: Higher-level Raid Bosses get this way. Most notable is the Fortress Crab, which in its first event appearance had a whopping three million HP TheLegendOfDragoon: The final boss deserves special mention. Even if your characters are all wearing Magical Rings and a timer of two hours even at level 1. It has even more in the weekend raid events. Within the story, there's the Darkside encountered in the Corridor of Darkness. Its attacks are on par blasting it with or weaker than previous bosses, but it comes with a whopping 40 health bars, as well as Dragoon spells whenever they've built up enough SP, the ability final boss can be expected to buff last forty-five minutes to an hour easily - and not just because of its defense and heal itself. It's nowhere near as long as a Raid Boss with HP in the millions, but relative to the rest enormous quantity of the story mode, it's enormous.
# VideoGame.DawnOfWar: Some of the bosses, especially in Dawn of War II and onwards, have a lot of hit points, and unless there are easier ways to take them out, expect to take a while killing them. Daemon Prince Kyras takes the cake, with his ability to summon infinite waves of Bloodletters and Bloodcrushers, along with his ability to summon three towers to shield his life bar from damage. The Great Unclean One from Chaos Rising. He has 2 millionhit points at maximum, has several one-shot attacks, can flesh hook and throw characters out of either: in its final form, it uses the battle area and get them stuck and has a bug that can reset his hit points in full. He also comes after an extremely boring grind mission that takes upwards of an hour to get through, and the way the game works, if he kills you, you have to do the entire mission from scratch.
# ItsShortSoItSucks.VideoGames: While this trope doesn't apply to Dark Souls III itself, it's a common criticism of the first expansion Ashes of Ariandel. It adds only a couple of new areas and two bosses, one of which is optional and only really consists of fighting an NPC player character and a recurring King Mook simultaneously. While the other boss is generally regarded as one of the best in the series, the general consensus is that's not enough to justify the price tag. Since Ashes of Ariandel is one of the only two expansions Dark Souls 3 is getting it compares poorly to the DLC in the other entries in the series, (Dark Souls had one expansion with four bosses, Dark Souls II had three expansions with three bosses in each one and the Spiritual Successor Bloodborne had one expansion with five bosses) and as such it also raised concerns from fans about the longevity of the game compared to its predecessors.
# AwesomeBosses.OtherGamesNToZ: Radiant Historia's Final Boss battle is incredibly epic and challenging, and one hell of a send off for an amazing game. It's a MarathonBoss with three phases (four if you count the previous battleDragon Block Staff effect against you, so you can't use Dragoon spells. Hope you didn't use the Black Chronicle) with three different movesets for each one, and it becomes fiercer and fiercer while you fight it, meaning that you really have to go all-out in this battle. All of this is set in Historia, with "An Earnest Desire of Grey" blaring in the background. The game itself was already awesome, but this battle takes it to the fullest, and it's especially satisfying after the slog that is the last dungeon.
Psyche Bomb too early.
# Characters.ToontownCorporateClash: Her cheat, Dive, involves her diving into the ground thus making it so you cannot AssassinsCreedValhalla: First, Odin has to disable three of his four legs, then attack her.note Though you can still place Trap gags on her. You can only lure once she gets out, however. Content Sync also makes it so you can only use Gags his neck while he's weak. Then he has to repeat the process. Then Nidhogg revives himself with some assistance from the local souls, potentially all the way up to Level 3. She then promotes an available Cog to a Level 7 Executive. To get her out, you have to take out said Cog.note This sometimes full health if Odin doesn't happen, as she can Dive and promote no Cogs should one not be available. When this happens, she gets out after one round. Thing is, Toons are also subjected to drowning at the end of every round, taking 5 damage each, so make sure one of your teammates is stacked on Toon Up.Once the Executive is defeatednote Again, see previous note, Deep Diver jumps out and lands so hard all Toons are slammed with 7 damage each!
# YMMV.Splatoon1: Nearly everyoneinterrupt in the fandom agrees that the final boss of the first game is one of the best ones Nintendo has created; even people who otherwise found the single-player campaign to be sorely lacking had to admit it ended on a high note. The boss itself has plenty of points in the hilarity factor, being a Dumbass DJ who pilots a Humongous Mecha styled like a dance stage controlled by his turntable. Said mecha also comes loaded with a ton of missiles, giant mecha hands to crush you, enemy spawners, Killer Wails (it IS a giant music stage), and a humongous missile. The final boss has to be fought all across a hectic platforming stage that will put everything you've learned in single player to the test, and it lasts a lot longer than the previous bosses to milk the experience for all it's worth. Add some Awesome Music in the mix, and you get a very memorable end boss.
# Characters.OmoriHeadspace: Easily the longest boss fight in the game, having three separate phases with the last having a humongous health bar.
# Undertale.TropesOToZ: This is the only way to describe the No Mercy Run final boss, aka, the hardest boss in the entire game. You only face this rule-breaking MarathonBoss if you kill every single enemy possible, and he'll say anything he can to make you feel bad about it.
# VideoGame.YakuzaLikeADragon: ClimaxBoss: Yosuke Tendo. Also overlaps with MarathonBoss as he has the highest health out of any major boss encounter in the entire game.time.
# Awesome.{{Rayman}}: The Final Boss battle (Reflux again, this time summoning lightning on you then growing gigantic) is no slouch either. It's long and epic with no less than four different phases.
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# VideoGame.
# Trivia.{{Chippy}}: Within the
# YMMV.TurboOverkill: ArcFatigue: Some criticism has been levied against the Vector-4 section for stretching the climax of the game a bit too much, as it goes on for two hours through three separate areas and is capped off by the absolute [[MarathonBoss Marathon
# Characters.
# YMMV.TowerOfFantasy: Even for a World Boss, Abyssal Harrah
# AntiFrustrationFeatures.CopyKitty: Similarly, the fights against the respective bosses in the World 10 battle depending on your character require you to endure a long process of destroying their outer shells and breaking into their cores to take control of the mecha. Recognizing how frustrating it would be to die at this point, if you manage to die in this phase, you don't have to do the first 2 phases again.
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# YMMV.TheBattleCats: If your cats are strong enough to handle the stage's enemies, then Crazed Tank Cat falls under this. With enough meatshields, it's not hard to prevent the boss from pushing while
# VideoGame.
# YMMV.Rockman7EP: ContestedSequel: Despite the impressive use of ASM, this mod can feel quite lacking in comparison compared to Rockman 4 Minus Infinity due to the music tracks being
# VideoGame.GodOfWarII: Alrik the Barbarian King has several phases during his boss fight: first, he stands on his horse, attacking Kratos from afar with
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# VideoGame.ArcTheLad: Usually
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# VideoGame.
# Sandbox.SkylandersKaosAndTheDoomRaiders: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos in Trap Team. He has
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# ThatOneBoss.EldenRing: The Fire Giant which guards the giants' forge has a mammoth health pool, bordering on [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] levels, with even fully upgraded weapons taking a long while to bring him down unless you abuse mechanics like bleed to speed it up. On top of that, he not only does insane damage (enough to two-shot you even with a highly vigor invested character), but he has AOE fire attacks that make it difficult and punishing for melee characters to damage him and which can kill them instantly if they're not careful. His second form is easier to kite, but his defense skyrockets anywhere except his hands and the exposed eye in the
# VideoGame.
# VideoGame.DawnOfWar: Some of the bosses, especially in Dawn of War II and onwards, have a lot of hit points, and unless there are easier ways to take them out, expect to take a while killing them. Daemon Prince Kyras takes the cake, with his ability to summon infinite waves of Bloodletters and Bloodcrushers, along with his ability to summon three towers to shield his life bar from damage. The Great Unclean One from Chaos Rising. He has 2 million
# ItsShortSoItSucks.VideoGames: While this trope doesn't apply to Dark Souls III itself, it's a common criticism of the first expansion Ashes of Ariandel. It adds only a couple of new areas and two bosses, one of which is optional and only really consists of fighting an NPC player character and a recurring King Mook simultaneously. While the other boss is generally regarded as one of the best in the series, the general consensus is that's not enough to justify the price tag. Since Ashes of Ariandel is one of the only two expansions Dark Souls 3 is getting it compares poorly to the DLC in the other entries in the series, (Dark Souls had one expansion with four bosses, Dark Souls II had three expansions with three bosses in each one and the Spiritual Successor Bloodborne had one expansion with five bosses) and as such it also raised concerns from fans about the longevity of the game compared to its predecessors.
# AwesomeBosses.OtherGamesNToZ: Radiant Historia's Final Boss battle is incredibly epic and challenging, and one hell of a send off for an amazing game. It's a MarathonBoss with three phases (four if you count the previous battle
# Characters.
# YMMV.Splatoon1: Nearly everyone
# Characters.OmoriHeadspace: Easily the longest boss fight in the game, having three separate phases with the last having a humongous health bar.
# Undertale.TropesOToZ: This is the only way to describe the No Mercy Run final boss, aka, the hardest boss in the entire game. You only face this rule-breaking MarathonBoss if you kill every single enemy possible, and he'll say anything he can to make you feel bad about it.
# VideoGame.YakuzaLikeADragon: ClimaxBoss: Yosuke Tendo. Also overlaps with MarathonBoss as he has the highest health out of any major boss encounter in the entire game.
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# SlidingScale.SNKBoss: Has MarathonBoss levels of health, attacks that can wipe out 75% of even the bulkiest character's health bar, has teleportation and unblockable attacks, and zips around at hyperspeed.
# Awesome.ChildrenOfMorta: The Final Battle against Ou has you start out in a fairly difficult fight, than an Unexpected Gameplay Change where you must manuever through darkness to find the rest of the family. After that, Ou reappears, health fully restored. MarathonBoss, right? No, that's when all seven of the Bergsons appear and attack Ou in unison, shredding his health in seconds.
# GameBreaker.FinalFantasy: Quick freezes game-time and lets your character perform two actions without interruption. Sap drains HP in real-time, and nothing resists it (because it is horrendously slow; something like 7.5 damage per second). Using Sap as your first action, and then never taking your second action, will turn anything into a Marathon Zero-Effort Boss. This was unfortunately nerfed in the Pixel Remaster.
# ThatOneAttack.TouhouProject: Rinnosuke's ability to change elemental forms, making what's already a MarathonBoss even more drawn-out. Not only that, his inactive forms actually regenerate HP.
# Characters.ToTheBitterEnd: He has 202,950 HP.
# VideoGame.LunacyStar: Minor case- the final boss can take as much time as the first half of the game.
# YMMV.MegaManUnlimited: Nail Man doesn't leave himself too vulnerable with his Nail Shield, meaning his boss fight can sometimes reach MarathonBoss levels, but nevertheless, there's not much to worry about on it. As long as you watch out the pattern on which his nails fall, avoid the one nail acting as a pretty short-lived hazard, and you pelt him with buster shots after you watch where he falls without getting cornered, he shouldn't be terrible. And the icing on the cake is that Nail Man gives you one of the most useful weapons in the game. There's a few reasons why this boss is fought first, after all.
# Characters.SagaMetroid: This in text form as the final fight sequence with them is by far the longest continual action sequence in the entirety of the series so far.
# VideoGame.SpandexForce: The player's clone has 1000 HP. Considering that the previous boss had 500, beating it will take a while, even if you use Ragnarok at every opportunity as it also blocks about 60% damage from that move.
# Awesome.ChildrenOfMorta: The Final Battle against Ou has you start out in a fairly difficult fight, than an Unexpected Gameplay Change where you must manuever through darkness to find the rest of the family. After that, Ou reappears, health fully restored. MarathonBoss, right? No, that's when all seven of the Bergsons appear and attack Ou in unison, shredding his health in seconds.
# GameBreaker.FinalFantasy: Quick freezes game-time and lets your character perform two actions without interruption. Sap drains HP in real-time, and nothing resists it (because it is horrendously slow; something like 7.5 damage per second). Using Sap as your first action, and then never taking your second action, will turn anything into a Marathon Zero-Effort Boss. This was unfortunately nerfed in the Pixel Remaster.
# ThatOneAttack.TouhouProject: Rinnosuke's ability to change elemental forms, making what's already a MarathonBoss even more drawn-out. Not only that, his inactive forms actually regenerate HP.
# Characters.ToTheBitterEnd: He has 202,950 HP.
# VideoGame.LunacyStar: Minor case- the final boss can take as much time as the first half of the game.
# YMMV.MegaManUnlimited: Nail Man doesn't leave himself too vulnerable with his Nail Shield, meaning his boss fight can sometimes reach MarathonBoss levels, but nevertheless, there's not much to worry about on it. As long as you watch out the pattern on which his nails fall, avoid the one nail acting as a pretty short-lived hazard, and you pelt him with buster shots after you watch where he falls without getting cornered, he shouldn't be terrible. And the icing on the cake is that Nail Man gives you one of the most useful weapons in the game. There's a few reasons why this boss is fought first, after all.
# Characters.SagaMetroid: This in text form as the final fight sequence with them is by far the longest continual action sequence in the entirety of the series so far.
# VideoGame.SpandexForce: The player's clone has 1000 HP. Considering that the previous boss had 500, beating it will take a while, even if you use Ragnarok at every opportunity as it also blocks about 60% damage from that move.
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# Awesome.ChildrenOfMorta: The Final Battle against Ou has you start out in a fairly difficult fight, than an Unexpected Gameplay Change where you must manuever through darkness to find the rest of the family. After that, Ou reappears, health fully restored. MarathonBoss, right? No, that's when all seven of the Bergsons appear and attack Ou in unison, shredding his health in seconds.
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# VideoGame.Rayman1: The final boss.
# VisualNovel.PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll: In a rarity for the series, the culprit of case 3 takes an entire trial day to take down. There's even a save point in the middle of his testimonies.
# VideoGame.MegaManXDive: The entire concept of Jakob's Tower, which are stages consisting of waves of enemies interspersed with [[MarathonBoss rather tanky boss encounters]]. Many of these are designed with wildly fluctuating degrees of difficulty, and it only gets worse the higher you go. Worse, if you run out of time or die, you can't use that character again in ANY Tower stage until the next server reset. At least on the boss stages, the boss's health doesn't refill between tries.
# VideoGame.{{Ys}}: The final bosses of I (excluding the [=TurboGrafx-CD=] version), II, The Dawn of Ys, Oath, and V.
# VideoGame.BrutalMario: The already Bowser's Keep level mentioned below is long enough, but if you choose the normal pathway, you're treated to fighting the seven Koopalings merged together. Said battle can take at least 20 minutes or so if you know what you're doing. In comparison, the secret pathway is another battle with Bowser that takes a
# Characters.
# VideoGame.LunacyStar: Minor case- the final boss can take as much time as the first half of the game.
# YMMV.MegaManUnlimited: Nail Man doesn't leave himself too vulnerable with his Nail Shield, meaning his boss fight can sometimes reach MarathonBoss levels, but nevertheless, there's not much to worry about on it. As long as you watch out the pattern on which his nails fall, avoid the one nail acting as a pretty short-lived hazard, and you pelt him with buster shots after you watch where he falls
# Characters.
# VideoGame.SpandexForce: The player's clone has 1000 HP. Considering that the previous boss had 500, beating it will take a while, even if
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# Roleplay.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: The Nihilus Clan battle was probably the longest boss battle in the history of the forum.
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheFallen: Most of them to some degree, but especially Unknown, which consists of 4 long phases of exploration and combat before you reach the final boss.
# Characters.ACertainMagicalIndexEngland: She No Sells an air raid and gets off from what can only be described as a magic bomb with only Clothing Damage and some bleeding. Touma even lampshades it by comparing her to a boss with tons of HP.
# VideoGame.LittleKingsStory: Some players occasionally go out of their kingdom without their posse. Corobo can hurt enemies with the command action, and doing so makes taking down enemies and bosses far more difficult than if they're fought normally. For example, Duvroc can be taken down with only Corobo, but doing so turns him into a MarathonBoss thanks to his damage output being incredibly low and needing to be mindful of his attacks and minions thanks to his low health.
# GameBreaker.CapcomVs: Tekkaman's super moves are incredibly easy to accumulate, very powerful, can be done from a distance, and extremely hard to completely dodge, which means that even if they're blocked, the chip damage alone is sufficient. Yatterman-1 has super attacks that automatically put him on this list considering how fast and powerful they are. His Yatterman Charge is so useful and powerful that it can take down the Final Boss Yami, in all three of his forms without even breaking a sweat. By far the most formidable character in the original release of TvC, Cross Generation of Heroes, is Karas. His pressure game combined with his speed created nearly inescapable corner traps. If on defense, you had to do everything you could to get out of the corner when fighting him or it was a doomed game. Thankfully, his speed has been significantly reduced for the update Ultimate All-Stars and thus has been brought down to a more reasonable level.
# Characters.IncarnationOfLegends: Artoria is ludicrously overpowered. She has a skill similar to Liaris Freese that works so long as she's fighting alongside her familia on top of massively boosting their Endurance. She has three extremely powerful and useful magics in Excalibur (a Sword Beam that will obliterate even a Monster Rex), Avalon (an incredibly powerful Deflector Shield that also purges all negative effects), and Mana Burst (a chantless spell that expends Mind for a massive increase to Artoria's already monstrous stats). She also has eight Developmental Abilities through her Dragon Core Reactor skill, two of which are at an unheard of D Rank (for context, even Ottar's highest level skill is at E rank). It's little wonder that she's the Empire's strongest.
# Characters.CodexEquusTheDarkPurveyors: AdaptationalBadass: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a bonafide god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magi reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Anime.YuGiOh5Ds: ChekhovsGun: You acquire a Blank Card somewhere in the middle of the plot of WC 2011. Just before the final MarathonBoss, your Blank Card transforms into three very powerful monsters. They turn blank again after the duel.
# VideoGame.MakeAGoodLevelX: As levels have no length limit, some levels have lasted longer than others to the frustration of raocow and Horikawa. Some notable examples include "Swimming in the Sinking Ocean", aka "the Atlantis level", and "A Dreamland Castle Ship" from the first contest, and "Demonic Gathering", "Hey Buddy! Get Your Rip Van Fish Off My Keep", and "Personally, I Think Mario is Missing is a Very Observant and Fantastic Experience. I Captured That Here" from the second contest.The postgame for the second game has THREE relay levels (collaboration levels made by numerous users with one screen each, based off the A2XT relay level) in the final tier: The SMBX Community one ("Juxtaposition"), the talkhaus one ("You Only Have Yourself to Blame"), and the MaFAB one.
# YMMV.RabiRibi: The Chapter 7 endboss in System Interior II is surprisingly easy, considering the Platform Hell that comes before it. It's not an actual character with a level or even a Life Meter, just a network security system that throws some pretty uninteresting bullet patterns at Erina while she floats up and down constantly; all you have to do is Hold the Line until the "boss" "fight" ends. It can still get you killed on higher difficulties if you're not careful, but it's certainly easier and shorter than the previous two bosses before it — one of which copies your Badge abilities and the other of which has six lifebars that are each about as long as those of other bosses — and especially the True Final Boss that comes in the next chapter.
# VideoGame.TouhouPocketWarsEvolution: BossBattle: Many of the bosses are immune to instant death, for obvious reasons. Dual Boss: The first boss fight of the game is one of these. Sequential Boss and MarathonBoss: The final stretch of the Evolution Plus story has you first fight a party of three, another party of three and finally the actual Final Boss. Wake-Up Call Boss: Tenshi, who will likely kick your ass without having a solid number of levels under your belt and a decent understanding of the combat mechanics. Also, Ichirin for the Plus content, who will do the same thing if you jumped straight into to the Plus story without any grinding done before hand.
# AdaptationalBadass.CodexEquus: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magic reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Characters.Yakuza1: The very first boss in the series to 6 bars of health in a single Boss Fight. Twice as much as the maximum 3 that Ryuji would have in the two seperate instances he's fought during the finale. He's got 7 in Kiwami 2 which arguably makes him tougher than most of the series' Final Bosses.
# Funny.Destiny2: The normal way to finish this strike is to defeat Thaviks, which can take up to 10 minutes due to his high health and constant teleporting away in-between phases....or you can simply shoot him while he's climbing on the walls at any point in the fight,making him fall into the Bottomless Pit below.
# VideoGame.EternalTwilight: Even with optimal gameplay, almost every boss is intended to take anywhere from tens of minutes to over an hour, especially on Hell mode.
# StrictlyFormula.VideoGames: Hunters, being a Gaiden Game, skips the first bit and has the fetch quest as the primary objective in the game from the get-go.
# YMMV.IMissTheSunrise: ThatOneBoss: Lazarus. Duel Boss, MarathonBoss, fought under the effects of a jamming pulse, and one of their attacks can leave you a sitting duck if you're unprepared.
# YMMV.AstralChain: The final two forms of the Final Boss, Noah Prime and Final Noah Prime, are far more difficult than any boss prior. Whereas using specific Legions can help against other bosses, here you must use the correct Legion to counter many of its attacks otherwise you can expect to burn through all your healing items and AED charges as its attacks are very punishing and can take off hundreds of HP at a time, or just deliver an outright One-Hit Kill. Furthermore, it has a mountain of hit points and while transforming can help take off a good fraction of the lifebar, it takes so long to charge up the Resonance meter that you can only really use it once in the fight.
# VideoGame.MetroidPrimeFederationForce: The Mainframe has three distinct phases, must be fully depleted of its substantial health to move to its next phase, and takes a lot of time and effort to become vulnerable. For solo players, it can be a long fight.
# Characters.PunishingGrayRavenHumanFactions: Where most bosses have 30 bars of health, or 50 on harder difficulties, Amberia has a whopping 100 bars of health to get through. Worse, during her stint as an event boss, one of her moves is using one of her totems to regenerate her health, making it a race against time to destroy it before she gets too much back.
# Characters.Rayman3HoodlumHavoc: The final battle with him in Hoodlum Havoc has four separate phases until he finally goes down for good.
# Characters.HomestuckGuardians: Their mating apparently lasted for sweeps.
# Literature.NESGodzillaCreepypasta: In Extus, Chimera takes Zachary a long time to kill. And that doesn't count the Boss Rush of Replacement Monsters that precedes it. Red's final form and his absolutely massive health bar. It's implied that, even using Acacius, it took a while to defeat.
# Characters.DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaibaTwelveKizuki: All of the Twelve Kizuki that the Demon Slayer Corps fight (with the exception of Kaigaku) are extremely difficult to bring down, requiring upwards of a dozen chapters just to fend off. And sometimes the Slayers aren't even able to kill them.
# Characters.TerrariaCalamity: The battle tends to play out like this; It's got high health and teleports a lot, but will also hit you pretty infrequently.
# Characters.FinalFantasyVIIOtherCharacters: If you wish to fight Emerald and/or Ruby Weapon, you will be dealing with them for at least 15 minutes each (unless the player does Cait Sith's One-Hit Kill slot move or is underpowered; in the latter, the two Weapons will break AVALANCE apart in only a few moves). Chasing Ultimate Weapon also can take a while.
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheFallen: Most of them to some degree, but especially Unknown, which consists of 4 long phases of exploration and combat before you reach the final boss.
# Characters.ACertainMagicalIndexEngland: She No Sells an air raid and gets off from what can only be described as a magic bomb with only Clothing Damage and some bleeding. Touma even lampshades it by comparing her to a boss with tons of HP.
# VideoGame.LittleKingsStory: Some players occasionally go out of their kingdom without their posse. Corobo can hurt enemies with the command action, and doing so makes taking down enemies and bosses far more difficult than if they're fought normally. For example, Duvroc can be taken down with only Corobo, but doing so turns him into a MarathonBoss thanks to his damage output being incredibly low and needing to be mindful of his attacks and minions thanks to his low health.
# GameBreaker.CapcomVs: Tekkaman's super moves are incredibly easy to accumulate, very powerful, can be done from a distance, and extremely hard to completely dodge, which means that even if they're blocked, the chip damage alone is sufficient. Yatterman-1 has super attacks that automatically put him on this list considering how fast and powerful they are. His Yatterman Charge is so useful and powerful that it can take down the Final Boss Yami, in all three of his forms without even breaking a sweat. By far the most formidable character in the original release of TvC, Cross Generation of Heroes, is Karas. His pressure game combined with his speed created nearly inescapable corner traps. If on defense, you had to do everything you could to get out of the corner when fighting him or it was a doomed game. Thankfully, his speed has been significantly reduced for the update Ultimate All-Stars and thus has been brought down to a more reasonable level.
# Characters.IncarnationOfLegends: Artoria is ludicrously overpowered. She has a skill similar to Liaris Freese that works so long as she's fighting alongside her familia on top of massively boosting their Endurance. She has three extremely powerful and useful magics in Excalibur (a Sword Beam that will obliterate even a Monster Rex), Avalon (an incredibly powerful Deflector Shield that also purges all negative effects), and Mana Burst (a chantless spell that expends Mind for a massive increase to Artoria's already monstrous stats). She also has eight Developmental Abilities through her Dragon Core Reactor skill, two of which are at an unheard of D Rank (for context, even Ottar's highest level skill is at E rank). It's little wonder that she's the Empire's strongest.
# Characters.CodexEquusTheDarkPurveyors: AdaptationalBadass: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a bonafide god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magi reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Anime.YuGiOh5Ds: ChekhovsGun: You acquire a Blank Card somewhere in the middle of the plot of WC 2011. Just before the final MarathonBoss, your Blank Card transforms into three very powerful monsters. They turn blank again after the duel.
# VideoGame.MakeAGoodLevelX: As levels have no length limit, some levels have lasted longer than others to the frustration of raocow and Horikawa. Some notable examples include "Swimming in the Sinking Ocean", aka "the Atlantis level", and "A Dreamland Castle Ship" from the first contest, and "Demonic Gathering", "Hey Buddy! Get Your Rip Van Fish Off My Keep", and "Personally, I Think Mario is Missing is a Very Observant and Fantastic Experience. I Captured That Here" from the second contest.The postgame for the second game has THREE relay levels (collaboration levels made by numerous users with one screen each, based off the A2XT relay level) in the final tier: The SMBX Community one ("Juxtaposition"), the talkhaus one ("You Only Have Yourself to Blame"), and the MaFAB one.
# YMMV.RabiRibi: The Chapter 7 endboss in System Interior II is surprisingly easy, considering the Platform Hell that comes before it. It's not an actual character with a level or even a Life Meter, just a network security system that throws some pretty uninteresting bullet patterns at Erina while she floats up and down constantly; all you have to do is Hold the Line until the "boss" "fight" ends. It can still get you killed on higher difficulties if you're not careful, but it's certainly easier and shorter than the previous two bosses before it — one of which copies your Badge abilities and the other of which has six lifebars that are each about as long as those of other bosses — and especially the True Final Boss that comes in the next chapter.
# VideoGame.TouhouPocketWarsEvolution: BossBattle: Many of the bosses are immune to instant death, for obvious reasons. Dual Boss: The first boss fight of the game is one of these. Sequential Boss and MarathonBoss: The final stretch of the Evolution Plus story has you first fight a party of three, another party of three and finally the actual Final Boss. Wake-Up Call Boss: Tenshi, who will likely kick your ass without having a solid number of levels under your belt and a decent understanding of the combat mechanics. Also, Ichirin for the Plus content, who will do the same thing if you jumped straight into to the Plus story without any grinding done before hand.
# AdaptationalBadass.CodexEquus: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magic reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Characters.Yakuza1: The very first boss in the series to 6 bars of health in a single Boss Fight. Twice as much as the maximum 3 that Ryuji would have in the two seperate instances he's fought during the finale. He's got 7 in Kiwami 2 which arguably makes him tougher than most of the series' Final Bosses.
# Funny.Destiny2: The normal way to finish this strike is to defeat Thaviks, which can take up to 10 minutes due to his high health and constant teleporting away in-between phases....or you can simply shoot him while he's climbing on the walls at any point in the fight,making him fall into the Bottomless Pit below.
# VideoGame.EternalTwilight: Even with optimal gameplay, almost every boss is intended to take anywhere from tens of minutes to over an hour, especially on Hell mode.
# StrictlyFormula.VideoGames: Hunters, being a Gaiden Game, skips the first bit and has the fetch quest as the primary objective in the game from the get-go.
# YMMV.IMissTheSunrise: ThatOneBoss: Lazarus. Duel Boss, MarathonBoss, fought under the effects of a jamming pulse, and one of their attacks can leave you a sitting duck if you're unprepared.
# YMMV.AstralChain: The final two forms of the Final Boss, Noah Prime and Final Noah Prime, are far more difficult than any boss prior. Whereas using specific Legions can help against other bosses, here you must use the correct Legion to counter many of its attacks otherwise you can expect to burn through all your healing items and AED charges as its attacks are very punishing and can take off hundreds of HP at a time, or just deliver an outright One-Hit Kill. Furthermore, it has a mountain of hit points and while transforming can help take off a good fraction of the lifebar, it takes so long to charge up the Resonance meter that you can only really use it once in the fight.
# VideoGame.MetroidPrimeFederationForce: The Mainframe has three distinct phases, must be fully depleted of its substantial health to move to its next phase, and takes a lot of time and effort to become vulnerable. For solo players, it can be a long fight.
# Characters.PunishingGrayRavenHumanFactions: Where most bosses have 30 bars of health, or 50 on harder difficulties, Amberia has a whopping 100 bars of health to get through. Worse, during her stint as an event boss, one of her moves is using one of her totems to regenerate her health, making it a race against time to destroy it before she gets too much back.
# Characters.Rayman3HoodlumHavoc: The final battle with him in Hoodlum Havoc has four separate phases until he finally goes down for good.
# Characters.HomestuckGuardians: Their mating apparently lasted for sweeps.
# Literature.NESGodzillaCreepypasta: In Extus, Chimera takes Zachary a long time to kill. And that doesn't count the Boss Rush of Replacement Monsters that precedes it. Red's final form and his absolutely massive health bar. It's implied that, even using Acacius, it took a while to defeat.
# Characters.DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaibaTwelveKizuki: All of the Twelve Kizuki that the Demon Slayer Corps fight (with the exception of Kaigaku) are extremely difficult to bring down, requiring upwards of a dozen chapters just to fend off. And sometimes the Slayers aren't even able to kill them.
# Characters.TerrariaCalamity: The battle tends to play out like this; It's got high health and teleports a lot, but will also hit you pretty infrequently.
# Characters.FinalFantasyVIIOtherCharacters: If you wish to fight Emerald and/or Ruby Weapon, you will be dealing with them for at least 15 minutes each (unless the player does Cait Sith's One-Hit Kill slot move or is underpowered; in the latter, the two Weapons will break AVALANCE apart in only a few moves). Chasing Ultimate Weapon also can take a while.
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# Roleplay.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: Superboss.RolePlayingGames: The Nihilus Clan battle was probably Ancient Dragon is a brutal [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] with a lot of health and all of its attacks can kill you in one hit unless you have extremely high Fire resistance. The saving grace is that most of its attacks are fairly telegraphed and can thus be avoided rather easily. Except when it decides to fly up and rain fire on the longest arena. Avoiding that can be a struggle. Upon defeat, it drops a Soul of a Giant that makes the Superboss immediately below easier.
# SuperSmashBros.TropesAToD: ContinuingIsPainful: In the fourth game's Classic Mode, accepting a Continue when you lose takes away some of your prize money, a few of your earned rewards (from 1 prize at difficulty 2.0 up to 5 at 9.0), and automatically lowers the difficulty by 0.5. This last part is particularly infuriating for anyone going for the Challenge for beating Classic on 9.0, because a single Game Over anywhere in your run (including Master [[MarathonBoss Core]]) means you must start over from the beginning. Additionally, unlike previous games, there is no benefit to getting a Game Over, since the player always has two stock.note In previous games, if the player got a game over, they would restart with the amount of lives they started the run with, allowing one to replenish their lives.
# Persona5.TropesGToR: The fight against the bossbattle in the history of the forum.
Cruise Ship Palace is really long, even factoring in that it's a Climax Boss. He has five separate phases, more than any other boss, and the last two have quite a bit of health. It can easily take over an hour from the start of the fight to the end of the cutscenes that play after the boss is defeated, assuming you don't skip anything.
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheFallen: Most of them to SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU: ContinuingIsPainful: In Classic Mode, accepting a Continue when you lose takes away some degree, of your prize money, a few of your earned rewards (from 1 prize at difficulty 2.0 up to 5 at 9.0), and automatically lowers the difficulty by 0.5. This last part is particularly infuriating for anyone going for the Challenge for beating Classic on 9.0, because a single Game Over anywhere in your run (including Master [[MarathonBoss Core]]) means you're totally screwed.
# ThatOneAttack.FinalFantasy: The Adamantoises generally don't have attacks that don't suck, butespecially Unknown, which consists the worst by far is Roar. It deals horrifying damage to ALL party members, and, worst of 4 long phases all, tends to inflict Daze on at least one party member. Daze prevents a character hit with it from performing any kind of exploration and combat physical or magical attack. If it lands on the healer or the leader, or anyone at all if the damage from Roar [=KOed=] some characters...well, you're screwed. Everything else the toises have can be dealt with simply, but the best strategy for handling Roar is to kill the monster before you reach it uses it. Good luck with [[MarathonBoss that]].
# VideoGame.YakuzaLikeADragon: ClimaxBoss: Yosuke Tendo. Also overlaps with [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] as he has thefinal boss.
highest health out of any major boss encounter in the entire game.
# Characters.ACertainMagicalIndexEngland: She No Sells an air raid and gets off from what can only be described as a magic bomb UndertaleOtherCharacters: Muffet's fight is significantly longer than most of the mini-bosses you've encountered up to that point, with only Clothing Damage and some bleeding. Touma even lampshades it by comparing her to the Mad Dummy having a long boss fight. Be prepared for a lot of trouble if you don’t have any way of skipping her fight.
# DragaliaLost.TropesKToP: The Astral Raid versions of bosses on Master difficulty, as they not only attack faster, but also have more HP, withtons the time limit being 10 minutes instead of HP.
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# ThatOneBoss.SuperMarioBros: Bowyer, the second boss, mainly because he can shut off one of your attack, magic, or item commands for several turns — and he'll pick which one he shuts off based on which one you've been using the most. While you do get a new party member for this fight, he's capable of shutting off your attack ability, forcing you to drain your limited magic points to zero, while he continues to attack you with powerful magic that hits your entire party and keeping your attack ability locked, leaving you helpless. Then, when you're low on health and magic points and need to use your items to recover, he'll switch on your attack ability and seal your item ability, which prevents you from healing, and forces you to continue fighting him while you're exhausted. He can alternatively seal your special ability, causing the fight to become [[MarathonBoss a long battle of attrition]] as your magic is sealed, limiting you to normal attacks while he can still rain destruction upon you.
# YMMV.{{Skylanders}}: SignatureScene: The final boss of Trap Team, Ultra Traptanium Kaos, is one of the most frequently talked about things in the community, whether that be how good the fight is, or how [[MarathonBoss difficult and long it is]]. Then there's also the fact that after beating him, you're able to trap and then play as Kaos for the first time in the series.
# VideoGame.LittleKingsStory: Some players occasionally go out of their kingdom without their posse. Corobo can hurt enemies with MafiaWars: The San Juan bosses. On the command action, highest level of mastery, they have insane amounts of HP and doing so makes taking take tons of stamina to defeat. You're given four hours for the highest level boss fights, and you will need almost every second.
# VideoGame.GuitarHero: "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" on Guitar Hero 5 and "2112" on Warriors of Rock (though only if all seven songs are played one after the other, such as in the campaign).Warriors of Rock has another in the form of the final battle, but rather than a single track broken up into several parts, it's a trinity of Megadeth tracks (three Megadeth Tracks). Doesn't make it any less epic, though. Likewise "2112" is broken downenemies and bosses far more difficult than if they're fought normally. For example, Duvroc can be taken down with only Corobo, but doing so turns him into a MarathonBoss thanks to his damage output being incredibly low and needing to be mindful its seven parts, so it's not as much of his attacks and minions thanks to his low health.
a marathon as DYFLWD (or "Free Bird" back in [=GH2).=] Granted since these seven individual tracks are pretty short in length.
# GameBreaker.CapcomVs:Tekkaman's From Tatsunoko vs. Capcom:Tekkaman's super moves are incredibly easy to accumulate, very powerful, can be done from a distance, and extremely hard to completely dodge, which means that even if they're blocked, the chip damage alone is sufficient. sufficient. Yatterman-1 has super attacks that automatically put him on this list considering how fast and powerful they are. His Yatterman Charge is so useful and powerful that it can take down the Final Boss [[MarathonBoss Yami, in all three of his forms forms]] without even breaking a sweat. sweat. By far the most formidable character in the original release of TvC, [=TvC,=] Cross Generation of Heroes, is Karas. His pressure game combined with his speed created nearly inescapable corner traps. If on defense, you had to do everything you could to get out of the corner when fighting him or it was a doomed game. Thankfully, his speed has been significantly reduced for the update Ultimate All-Stars and thus has been brought down to a more reasonable level.
# VideoGame.LuigisMansion: The 3DS Hidden Mansion gives all the bosses except Boolossus their gimmicks from its European/Australian [=GameCube=] equivalent, except now these three have a bit extra going for them to drag the fight on:Chauncey will now always break free at around 40-50 HP, which is more important than it seems since Portrait Ghosts have 150 HP in this Hidden Mansion. This guarantees it'll take at least three cycles to beat him. Bogmire now engages in borderline Teleport Spam, and is far more ferocious in breaking free of the Poltergust. The Bowser suit's bombs can now go right to being seconds away from exploding, forcing you to wait for the next bombs to come. On top of this, King Boo now has 750 HP.
# Characters.IncarnationOfLegends: Artoria is ludicrously overpowered. She has a skill similar to Liaris Freese that works so long as she's fighting alongside MapleStoryNPC: Constantly summons her familia on top of massively boosting their Endurance. She has three extremely powerful Chief Knights and useful magics in Excalibur (a Sword Beam that will obliterate even a Monster Rex), Avalon (an incredibly powerful Deflector Shield that also purges all negative effects), and Mana Burst (a chantless spell that expends Mind for a massive increase to Artoria's already monstrous stats). She also has eight Developmental Abilities through Shinsoo as her Dragon Core Reactor skill, two of which are at an unheard of D Rank (for context, even Ottar's highest level skill is at E rank). It's little wonder that she's the Empire's strongest.
boss fight drags on.
# Characters.CodexEquusTheDarkPurveyors: AdaptationalBadass: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a bonafide god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magi reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Anime.YuGiOh5Ds: ChekhovsGun: You acquire a Blank Card somewhere in the middle of the plot of WC 2011. Just before the final MarathonBoss, your Blank Card transforms into three very powerful monsters. They turn blank again after the duel.
# VideoGame.MakeAGoodLevelX: As levels have no length limit, some levels have lasted longer than others to the frustration of raocow and Horikawa. Some notable examples include "Swimming in the Sinking Ocean", aka "the Atlantis level", and "A Dreamland Castle Ship" from the first contest, and "Demonic Gathering", "Hey Buddy! Get Your Rip Van Fish Off My Keep", and "Personally, I Think Mario is Missing is a Very Observant and Fantastic Experience. I Captured That Here" from the second contest.The postgame for the second gameToTheBitterEnd: He has THREE relay levels (collaboration levels made by numerous users with one screen each, based off the A2XT relay level) in the final tier: The SMBX Community one ("Juxtaposition"), the talkhaus one ("You Only Have Yourself to Blame"), and the MaFAB one.
202,950 HP.
# YMMV.RabiRibi: The Chapter 7 endboss in System Interior II is surprisingly easy, considering MakeAGoodMegaManLevelContest: UnexpectedCharacter: Due to the Platform Hell that comes before it. It's not an actual character with a level or even a Life Meter, just a network security system that throws number of characters, many of whom come from different sub-series and in some pretty uninteresting bullet patterns at Erina while she floats up and down constantly; all you have to do is Hold the Line until the "boss" "fight" ends. It can still get you killed on higher difficulties if you're not careful, but cases entirely different continuities, it's certainly easier bound to be surprising who shows up.All of the Robot Masters from the Challenger from the Future and shorter than DOS games show up in the previous two sequels, with Komuso Man and Volt Man, respectively, being devkit bosses before it — one in 2. One of which copies your Badge abilities the devkit bosses for [=MaGMML3=] is Honey Woman, the prototype version of Hornet Man from Mega Man 9, and the other basis of which has six lifebars that Vesper Woman's design from the Archie Comics. Also present is the Mega Mech Shark from the same game; not just a Wily Castle boss, but a [[MarathonBoss massive, multipart boss with three health bars]]! Beck and Rokko Chan are each about as long as those of other bosses — and especially the True Final Boss that comes both playable skins in the next chapter.
sequel, and the latter's cast make some appearances. The Wiki also confirms that they exist in the same setting in the [=MaGMML=] universe. Gordon Freeman can be found in a particularly silly Easter Egg in the second game.
#VideoGame.TouhouPocketWarsEvolution: BossBattle: Many FanDisservice.VideoGames: The Binding of Isaac: After activating the item "Mom's bra", Isaac will wear this piece of clothing as a hat and enemies will be frozen on the spot. It also shows Mom in that bra upon activation. The problem? She is the protagonist's abusive mother, and so portrayed, in detail, as an unattractive woman drawn in the best Grossout Show fashion. One of the bosses added in Afterbirth has a very noticeable ass. The catch is that said boss is Ultra Greed, the giant, dried-up corpse of a child with coins in his eye sockets. And since he is designed to be a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] thanks to the damage scaling mechanic, you'll be looking at his undead, rotting butt a lot.
# Awesome.KamenRiderExAid: Graphite refuses to join forces with the CR Riders like Poppy and Parado and instead faces off in one final battle with Taiga and Hiiro. Due to Gamedeus' power, Graphite is now beyond Level 99, despite this, Brave and Snipe areimmune able to instant death, for obvious reasons. Dual Boss: match him as the battle [[MarathonBoss lasts from literal Dusk to Dawn.]] Graphite reveals his reason to exist, to act as a game enemy and do battle, nothing more. This culminates in him fending off and sending Cronus flying when he tries to interfere with the finishing blow. Why? Because the Riders defeated him, fair and square. Then, due to Gamedeus' power, Graphite's Ultimate Absolute Final Crimson Dragon Slash managed to overpower Cronus' Critical Sacrifice! He then proceeds to just go right into the finishing blow. Nico performing a proper Finishing Move to defeat Graphite with Taiga's Gashacon Magnum: Rider Critical Finish, and the recoil of the shot is so powerful that Nico gets thrown back!
# YMMV.KirbyPlanetRobobot: BestBossEver: In a game within a series filled with them, this one is no exception, but the standout is easily the Final Boss, Star Dream. It's worth mentioning that it's a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] with three forms, hard-hitting attacks, an awesome setting, and epic music. But the real kicker is that it's an Unexpected Shmup Level in the vein of Zero-Two, and the fact that you are basically fighting NOVA of all people... with the entire freakin' Halberd! And that's not even talking about the Soul OS version... There's a very good reason why Star Dream is considered one of the greatest final bosses in the series, if not the best. The first secret bossfight is none other than Dark Matter Blade from Dream Land 2, accompanied with a combined remix of the game is one both of these. Sequential Boss his themes and MarathonBoss: The final stretch a variant of the Evolution Plus story has you first fight a party all of three, his attacks from his origin game. Soon after, Galacta Knight comes back with yet another party remix of three and finally the actual Final Boss. Wake-Up Call Boss: Tenshi, who will likely kick your ass without having a solid number of levels under your belt his theme and a decent understanding dynamic update to his fight in Return to Dream Land.
# Fanfic.HeroesOfTheDeskRepercussions: Anub'arak references being one since "It took twenty-five ofthe combat mechanics. Also, Ichirin for the Plus content, who will do the same thing if you jumped straight into to the Plus story without any grinding done before hand.
# AdaptationalBadass.CodexEquus: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishersthem to kill him. Here, he's a god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magic reserves, and deadly combat skills.
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# Characters.Yakuza1: The very first boss in the series to 6 bars of health in a single Boss Fight. Twice as much as the maximum 3 that Ryuji would have in the two seperate instances he's fought during the finale. He's got 7 in Kiwami 2 which arguably makes him tougher than most of the series' Final Bosses.
# Funny.Destiny2: The normal way to finish this strike is to defeat Thaviks, which can take up to 10 minutes due to his high health and constant teleporting away in-between phases....or you can simply shoot him while he's climbing on the walls at any point in the fight,making him fall into the Bottomless Pit below.
# VideoGame.EternalTwilight: Even with optimal gameplay, almost every boss is intended to take anywhere from tens of minutes to over an hour, especially on Hell mode.
# StrictlyFormula.VideoGames: Hunters, being a Gaiden Game, skips the first bit and has the fetch quest as the primary objective in the game from the get-go.
# YMMV.IMissTheSunrise: ThatOneBoss: Lazarus. Duel Boss, MarathonBoss, fought under the effects of a jamming pulse, and one of their attacks can leave you a sitting duck if you're unprepared.
# YMMV.AstralChain:TrailsSeriesCalvardMiscellaneous: The final two fight against Grendel-Zolga can take a while, partially due to the usual Sequential Boss formula, and partially due to the sudden reappearance of previous bosses from Daybreak and II:It starts the battle as "Grendel-Zolga [=SiN." The=] second part has it return to its usual form. Once the party deplete its HP to certain threshold, it changes the location to the base from Kuro II's prologue, with Van and Elaine as the only available party members. After that, the scene switches again, with Van, Agnès, Feri, and Aaron fighting against Aida-Ghoula and Demon Taikun. Following that, the scene changes to the top of Genesis Tower, with Van, Risette, Quatre, and Judith fighting against the demon forms of Gerard and Melchior. Finally, the Final Boss, Noah Prime and Final Noah Prime, are far more difficult than any boss prior. Whereas using specific Legions can help last showdown is yet another battle against other bosses, here you must use the correct Legion to counter many of its attacks otherwise you can expect to burn through all your healing items and AED charges as its attacks are very punishing and can take off hundreds of HP at a time, or just deliver an outright One-Hit Kill. Furthermore, it has a mountain of hit points and while transforming can help take off a good fraction of the lifebar, it takes so long to charge up the Resonance meter that you can only really use it once in the fight.
# VideoGame.MetroidPrimeFederationForce: The Mainframe has three distinct phases, must be fully depleted of its substantial health to move to its next phase, and takes a lot of time and effort to become vulnerable. For solo players, it can be a long fight.
regular Grendel-Zolga.
# Characters.PunishingGrayRavenHumanFactions: Where most bosses DragaliaLostAntagonistsCampaign: Do not expect Xenos to die quickly, as he has a ton of HP in any encounter, and unlike Asura there's no massive attack buff to help you. It is not uncommon for endgame-geared players to take more than ten minutes ON NORMAL to defeat him, with some Very Hard runs taking upwards of a whole hour!
# VideoGame.CrashFever: Emperor's Live has the first floor consist of a Freyr and two hard hitting flunkies, then multiple bars on everything else.
# PhantasyStarOnline2.TropesAToM: The Primordial Darkness has an absolutely ludicrous health pool that puts every other raid boss in the game to shame. The fact that it's also a multi-phase raid ends up turning it into a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] even with copious amounts of cheese strategies.
# YMMV.FinalFantasyVIINewThreatMod: BreatherBoss: While one huge aim of the Mod is to make any boss a decent challenge by giving them a stat boost and a better moveset, a few of them are still comically out of their league when they fight the party.Yuffie is scripted to heal herself 10 times before finally going down, so in theory her fight should be a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]]. However, she is also facing all 5 party members at the same time. (Red XIII and Barret are controlled by the AI.) Moreover, Red XIII is scripted to use Lunatic High at the beginning of the fight even if he hasn’t learned it yet, Yuffie doesn’t have30 bars of much HP to begin with, and her attacks aren't very threatening. So it’s next to impossible to lose this fight if you know what you’re doing. All in all, the 'boss battle' feels more like Yuffie’s getting a pummeling. Palmer is probably the only boss who hasn’t been made harder compared to the original. While your characters are stronger thanks to the SP system. You do the maths.
# VideoGame.{{Geomon}}: As mentioned above, Alpha Espers have much more health than any other opponent. Since the Shield, Heal, and Revive skills reduce or heal damage based on the user's maximum health,or 50 on harder difficulties, Amberia has a whopping 100 bars of health Alphas with access to get through. Worse, during her stint as an event boss, one of her moves is using one of her totems the combo take ages to regenerate her health, making wear down, if it a race against time can even be done.
# VideoGame.ThousandArms: DifficultyByRegion: In the original Japanese version it was fairly easy todestroy it defeat bosses before she gets too much back.
you could see the full range of their rather extensive combat quotes and animations. Atlus overcompensated for the US version, resulting in a game that, on top of the other issues with its combat system, is notorious for every boss being a tedious [[MarathonBoss Marathon]] Damage-Sponge Boss.
# DarthWiki.PokemonSeasonsAndAges: Given the extremely high level it's at, it can take a long while, upwards of more than half an hour, to defeat Crystaris.
# Characters.Rayman3HoodlumHavoc: LuxarenAllure: Before being made easier, she was known to take ~23 minutes to beat.
# WakeUpCallBoss.{{Metroid}}: Amorbis, the fifth overall boss yet still the first of the Temple Guardians, and therefore the first of many [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] opponents you will face across the game. The reason for this is because you actually have to defeat six giant worms in order to score victory. And good luck figuring out the requirement of the Morph Ball to ultimately defeat them without using a guide. Ironically, they become one of the easiest bosses if you decide to play a No Dark Suit run by using a Ghetto Jump to Sequence Break into Torvus Bog.note A No Dark Suit run only lasts until you acquire the Light Suit, which is normally obtained late in the game.
# VideoGame.HeroCore: SequenceBreaking: You can bypass most of the game and get to the finalbattle boss with him Expelling.[[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]]: Fittingly, the Plasma Hydra in Hoodlum Havoc has four separate phases until he finally goes down for good.
Hard Mode. Also, Tetron and the Guardian.
# Characters.HomestuckGuardians: Their mating apparently lasted for sweeps.
# Literature.NESGodzillaCreepypasta: In Extus, Chimera takes Zachary a long timeOnePieceKaido: VillainousRROD: =] While Kaido's [[MarathonBoss ability to kill. And soak up hits]] is to say the least, impressive, as the Onigashima arc goes on and he continues taking damage and fighting, it becomes more and more clear that doesn't count his stamina levels are starting to peter out. In the Boss Rush of Replacement Monsters end, Kaido's flame clouds holding Onigashima aloft disappear before Luffy knocks him out, indictating that precedes it. Red's final form Kaido may have only gotten knocked out because his stamina flatlined at the worst possible moment.
# YMMV.WarioWare: DisappointingLastLevel: When it comes to the microgames, compared to the Marathon Level status of Wario's Adventure (Mega Microgame$!) andhis absolutely massive health bar. It's implied that, even using Acacius, it took a while to defeat.
# Characters.DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaibaTwelveKizuki: AllBeing Nosy (Touched) and the lengthy but challenging Dance Party Endings of Wario Mambo (Twisted), and Wario Dance Company (Smooth Moves and Gold), Get It Together!'s Potty Pursuit is much shorter and more straightfoward than any of the Twelve Kizuki Final Boss microgames that proceeded it. This is likely because of the Demon Slayer Corps fight (with inclusion of "Showdown", a lengthy [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] against Pyoro.
# DeathOfAThousandCuts.VideoGames: In Borderlands you can knife any of theexception vehicles until it explodes. Hell, Brick can PUNCH a car to make it explode.In addition, a major part of Kaigaku) are extremely difficult to bring down, requiring upwards of a dozen chapters just to fend off. And sometimes the Slayers aren't even able boss fights is [[MarathonBoss making sure you have enough ammo to kill them.
# Characters.TerrariaCalamity: The battle tends to play out like this; It's got high health and teleports a lot, but will also hitthem]]. On Mayhem 4 for Borderlands 3, any boss you pretty infrequently.
# Characters.FinalFantasyVIIOtherCharacters: If you wish to fight Emerald and/or Ruby Weapon, you will be dealing with them for at least 15 minutes each (unless the player does Cait Sith's One-Hit Kill slot move or is underpowered; in the latter, the two Weapons will break AVALANCE apart in only a few moves). Chasing Ultimate Weapon also cancould marginally take in a while.satisfactory time period gets 800% HP and 1000% Armor and Shields, so... you're gonna be shooting for a while. Those big numbers might as well lose a whole digit off the end for all that matters on 4.
# SuperSmashBros.TropesAToD: ContinuingIsPainful: In the fourth game's Classic Mode, accepting a Continue when you lose takes away some of your prize money, a few of your earned rewards (from 1 prize at difficulty 2.0 up to 5 at 9.0), and automatically lowers the difficulty by 0.5. This last part is particularly infuriating for anyone going for the Challenge for beating Classic on 9.0, because a single Game Over anywhere in your run (including Master [[MarathonBoss Core]]) means you must start over from the beginning. Additionally, unlike previous games, there is no benefit to getting a Game Over, since the player always has two stock.note In previous games, if the player got a game over, they would restart with the amount of lives they started the run with, allowing one to replenish their lives.
# Persona5.TropesGToR: The fight against the boss
# VideoGame.
# ThatOneAttack.FinalFantasy: The Adamantoises generally don't have attacks that don't suck, but
# VideoGame.YakuzaLikeADragon: ClimaxBoss: Yosuke Tendo. Also overlaps with [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] as he has the
# Characters.
# DragaliaLost.TropesKToP: The Astral Raid versions of bosses on Master difficulty, as they not only attack faster, but also have more HP, with
# ThatOneBoss.SuperMarioBros: Bowyer, the second boss, mainly because he can shut off one of your attack, magic, or item commands for several turns — and he'll pick which one he shuts off based on which one you've been using the most. While you do get a new party member for this fight, he's capable of shutting off your attack ability, forcing you to drain your limited magic points to zero, while he continues to attack you with powerful magic that hits your entire party and keeping your attack ability locked, leaving you helpless. Then, when you're low on health and magic points and need to use your items to recover, he'll switch on your attack ability and seal your item ability, which prevents you from healing, and forces you to continue fighting him while you're exhausted. He can alternatively seal your special ability, causing the fight to become [[MarathonBoss a long battle of attrition]] as your magic is sealed, limiting you to normal attacks while he can still rain destruction upon you.
# YMMV.{{Skylanders}}: SignatureScene: The final boss of Trap Team, Ultra Traptanium Kaos, is one of the most frequently talked about things in the community, whether that be how good the fight is, or how [[MarathonBoss difficult and long it is]]. Then there's also the fact that after beating him, you're able to trap and then play as Kaos for the first time in the series.
# VideoGame.
# VideoGame.GuitarHero: "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" on Guitar Hero 5 and "2112" on Warriors of Rock (though only if all seven songs are played one after the other, such as in the campaign).Warriors of Rock has another in the form of the final battle, but rather than a single track broken up into several parts, it's a trinity of Megadeth tracks (three Megadeth Tracks). Doesn't make it any less epic, though. Likewise "2112" is broken down
# GameBreaker.CapcomVs:
# VideoGame.LuigisMansion: The 3DS Hidden Mansion gives all the bosses except Boolossus their gimmicks from its European/Australian [=GameCube=] equivalent, except now these three have a bit extra going for them to drag the fight on:Chauncey will now always break free at around 40-50 HP, which is more important than it seems since Portrait Ghosts have 150 HP in this Hidden Mansion. This guarantees it'll take at least three cycles to beat him. Bogmire now engages in borderline Teleport Spam, and is far more ferocious in breaking free of the Poltergust. The Bowser suit's bombs can now go right to being seconds away from exploding, forcing you to wait for the next bombs to come. On top of this, King Boo now has 750 HP.
# Characters.
# Characters.
# Anime.YuGiOh5Ds: ChekhovsGun: You acquire a Blank Card somewhere in the middle of the plot of WC 2011. Just before the final MarathonBoss, your Blank Card transforms into three very powerful monsters. They turn blank again after the duel.
# VideoGame.MakeAGoodLevelX: As levels have no length limit, some levels have lasted longer than others to the frustration of raocow and Horikawa. Some notable examples include "Swimming in the Sinking Ocean", aka "the Atlantis level", and "A Dreamland Castle Ship" from the first contest, and "Demonic Gathering", "Hey Buddy! Get Your Rip Van Fish Off My Keep", and "Personally, I Think Mario is Missing is a Very Observant and Fantastic Experience. I Captured That Here" from the second contest.The postgame for the second game
# YMMV.
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# Awesome.KamenRiderExAid: Graphite refuses to join forces with the CR Riders like Poppy and Parado and instead faces off in one final battle with Taiga and Hiiro. Due to Gamedeus' power, Graphite is now beyond Level 99, despite this, Brave and Snipe are
# YMMV.KirbyPlanetRobobot: BestBossEver: In a game within a series filled with them, this one is no exception, but the standout is easily the Final Boss, Star Dream. It's worth mentioning that it's a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] with three forms, hard-hitting attacks, an awesome setting, and epic music. But the real kicker is that it's an Unexpected Shmup Level in the vein of Zero-Two, and the fact that you are basically fighting NOVA of all people... with the entire freakin' Halberd! And that's not even talking about the Soul OS version... There's a very good reason why Star Dream is considered one of the greatest final bosses in the series, if not the best. The first secret boss
# Fanfic.HeroesOfTheDeskRepercussions: Anub'arak references being one since "It took twenty-five of
# AdaptationalBadass.CodexEquus: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers
# Characters.
# Funny.Destiny2: The normal way to finish this strike is to defeat Thaviks, which can take up to 10 minutes due to his high health and constant teleporting away in-between phases....or you can simply shoot him while he's climbing on the walls at any point in the fight,making him fall into the Bottomless Pit below.
# VideoGame.EternalTwilight: Even with optimal gameplay, almost every boss is intended to take anywhere from tens of minutes to over an hour, especially on Hell mode.
# StrictlyFormula.VideoGames: Hunters, being a Gaiden Game, skips the first bit and has the fetch quest as the primary objective in the game from the get-go.
# YMMV.IMissTheSunrise: ThatOneBoss: Lazarus. Duel Boss, MarathonBoss, fought under the effects of a jamming pulse, and one of their attacks can leave you a sitting duck if you're unprepared.
# YMMV.AstralChain:
# VideoGame.MetroidPrimeFederationForce: The Mainframe has three distinct phases, must be fully depleted of its substantial health to move to its next phase, and takes a lot of time and effort to become vulnerable. For solo players, it can be a long fight.
# Characters.
# VideoGame.CrashFever: Emperor's Live has the first floor consist of a Freyr and two hard hitting flunkies, then multiple bars on everything else.
# PhantasyStarOnline2.TropesAToM: The Primordial Darkness has an absolutely ludicrous health pool that puts every other raid boss in the game to shame. The fact that it's also a multi-phase raid ends up turning it into a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] even with copious amounts of cheese strategies.
# YMMV.FinalFantasyVIINewThreatMod: BreatherBoss: While one huge aim of the Mod is to make any boss a decent challenge by giving them a stat boost and a better moveset, a few of them are still comically out of their league when they fight the party.Yuffie is scripted to heal herself 10 times before finally going down, so in theory her fight should be a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]]. However, she is also facing all 5 party members at the same time. (Red XIII and Barret are controlled by the AI.) Moreover, Red XIII is scripted to use Lunatic High at the beginning of the fight even if he hasn’t learned it yet, Yuffie doesn’t have
# VideoGame.{{Geomon}}: As mentioned above, Alpha Espers have much more health than any other opponent. Since the Shield, Heal, and Revive skills reduce or heal damage based on the user's maximum health,
# VideoGame.ThousandArms: DifficultyByRegion: In the original Japanese version it was fairly easy to
# DarthWiki.PokemonSeasonsAndAges: Given the extremely high level it's at, it can take a long while, upwards of more than half an hour, to defeat Crystaris.
# Characters.
# WakeUpCallBoss.{{Metroid}}: Amorbis, the fifth overall boss yet still the first of the Temple Guardians, and therefore the first of many [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] opponents you will face across the game. The reason for this is because you actually have to defeat six giant worms in order to score victory. And good luck figuring out the requirement of the Morph Ball to ultimately defeat them without using a guide. Ironically, they become one of the easiest bosses if you decide to play a No Dark Suit run by using a Ghetto Jump to Sequence Break into Torvus Bog.note A No Dark Suit run only lasts until you acquire the Light Suit, which is normally obtained late in the game.
# VideoGame.HeroCore: SequenceBreaking: You can bypass most of the game and get to the final
# Characters.
# Literature.NESGodzillaCreepypasta: In Extus, Chimera takes Zachary a long time
# YMMV.WarioWare: DisappointingLastLevel: When it comes to the microgames, compared to the Marathon Level status of Wario's Adventure (Mega Microgame$!) and
# Characters.DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaibaTwelveKizuki: All
# DeathOfAThousandCuts.VideoGames: In Borderlands you can knife any of the
# Characters.TerrariaCalamity: The battle tends to play out like this; It's got high health and teleports a lot, but will also hit
# Characters.FinalFantasyVIIOtherCharacters: If you wish to fight Emerald and/or Ruby Weapon, you will be dealing with them for at least 15 minutes each (unless the player does Cait Sith's One-Hit Kill slot move or is underpowered; in the latter, the two Weapons will break AVALANCE apart in only a few moves). Chasing Ultimate Weapon also can
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# Characters.DarkSoulsIIEnemyNPCsAndBosses: Due to its massive health bar and the scale of its attacks, almost always forcing you to reposition yourself every time it strikes, this boss is one of the longest fights in a Souls game, taking anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. God bless you if you brought in additional phantoms, in which case its health is multiplied.
# YMMV.YakuzaLikeADragon: Tendo can also be a candidate for this because of his One-Hit KO God's Right Hand attack, not taking into account the amount of health that can make him worthy of being a MarathonBoss. He also is only weak to (magic-based) Lightning attacks (Essence of Electromagnetic Shield, Essence of Orbital Laser, Fulminating Forecast), so you'll very likely be in for a long, brutal fight if you have anything else than three Enforcers and an Idol, and even if you do, you're just making it slightly less slow going. If you have neither, but managed to acquire Ichiban's Essence of Orbital Laser via the Company Management minigame (which is one of the most powerful magic-based Lightning attacks in the entire game, but also the most expensive at a whopping 200 MP), expect to be using many more MP restoration items than the fight's sheer length is already likely to demand.
# Characters.YuGiOhArcVYuyaCounterparts: It takes eleven duelists facing him in seven separate rounds in a Duel spanning four episodes to finally bring Zarc down.
# VideoGame.CTwelveFinalResistance: SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Right before the confrontation against the Alien Leader, Vaugh can enter an armoury filled with a mountain of weaponry, ammunition, shield packs, health boosts and various goodies. Which he will need in the next area, fighting the Final Boss which is an extremely powerful MarathonBoss.
# YMMV.ClusterTruck: ThatOneBoss: Truck Satan is a brutal MarathonBoss that lasts longer than any level in the game, all the while forcing the player to dodge lasers, fire, lava, his mace, and exploding trucks.
# VideoGame.StarFox1: Yes, you can guess how annoying the slot machine is.
# VideoGame.HeroCore: SequenceBreaking: You can bypass most of the game and get to the final boss with Expelling.MarathonBoss: Fittingly, the Plasma Hydra in Hard Mode. Also, Tetron and the Guardian.
# VideoGame.HercsAdventures: The Serpent in Colchis takes a lot of time to be defeated, as you have to destroy each of his segments plus his head twice, and since it just keep moving and spawning snakes it takes a while.
# Characters.AsurasWrath: One-man variant. The final fight with him causes the entire episode to last nearly a full hour, counting the cutscenes.
# YMMV.PhantasyStarOnline: Dark Falz's third form was a nightmare for android players, particularly HUcasts and HUcaseals. He jumps around the arena, rarely sticking in melee range for long, and flickers between semi-invulnerability (he's still vulnerable to techs - which androids don't have - and weapon specials - which runs off of MST, something Androids don't have) and vulnerability every 5 seconds or so. Since android hunters lack any weapon that has a range longer than a handgun (and aren't particularly accurate with ranged weapons either), this made damaging him extremely difficult. Add into this that Dark Falz is a MarathonBoss and androids have limited capability to heal themselves, and it basically meant that androids often had to be 5-10 levels higher than anyone else before they could solo Falz and move onto the next difficulty.
# NintendoHard.RolePlayingGames: Bloodborne, from the same lineage as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, is also actually somewhat easier than its parents (especially for seasoned Souls veterans) thanks to its faster-pace gameplay and healing system that rewards aggressive play, along with its addition of effective ranged weapons. Guess what? It's still Nintendo Hard — especially once New Game Plus comes around, which is so difficult that Hidetaka Miyazaki himself admitted that he could barely beat it.It doesn't help that New Game Plus adds some minor Fake Difficulty elements in the form of freaking enormous health pools that turn every single enemy into damage sponges and every single boss into a tedious MarathonBoss, even with good gear.
# YMMV.LiterallyEveryFNFModEver: Little Man, the bonus song for Week 2, is a progressive track that lasts for a whopping seven and a half minutes, making it the MarathonBoss of the mod as it currently stands. Not only is it chock-full of references and memes from a variety of sources, it's quite the challenge to beat despite its recurring leitmotif, which is modified in ways that evoke some of SiIvaGunner's longer rips.
# VideoGame.GuitarHero: "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" on Guitar Hero 5 and "2112" on Warriors of Rock (though only if all seven songs are played one after the other, such as in the campaign).Warriors of Rock has another in the form of the final battle, but rather than a single track broken up into several parts, it's a trinity of Megadeth tracks (three Megadeth Tracks). Doesn't make it any less epic, though. Likewise "2112" is broken down into its seven parts, so it's not as much of a marathon as DYFLWD (or "Free Bird" back in GH2). Granted since these seven individual tracks are pretty short in length.
# VisualNovel.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth: Quercus Alba, current ambassador of Allehbast, is the leader of the international smuggling ring Franziska has been investigating since before the game even started. He ordered the murder of Cece Yew, thus kickstarting the KG-8 incident in the game's backstory. He personally kills Manny Coachen and Mask☆DeMasque II, kickstarting Case 5. He's also responsible for the counterfeit bill chaos in the Republic of Zheng Fa. And it takes a significantly long amount of time to prove all of his misdeeds because of his stubbornness and his extraterritorial rights as an ambassador.
# Characters.TeamGarcias: The Garcias managed to trick Team Gan Gan Galaxy into a rigged gauntlet match where there are no breaks in between the next opponent. They nearly won this way.
# YMMV.SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor: EndingFatigue: One small criticism is the length of the game. An average run takes about 2 hours and 40 minutes, which feels too long by Shoot 'Em Up, Rail Shooter, and Run-and-Gun standards. You could be watching a movie with a runtime like that. Not helping much is that most of the stages are Marathon Levels, complete with MarathonBosses.
# Characters.StarTrekOnlineIconiansAndServants: Once she's finally drawn in for a fight the game lets you participate in, she's very durable. And reluctant to stay long.
# Characters.DarkSoulsIIIEnemiesAndBosses: Any attacks to parts of Wolnir that are not his bracelets will deal minimal damage. Destroying the bracelets, on the other hand, will take off more than a third of his entire health bar. You can, however, defeat him without destroying the bracelets, but good luck in doing so.
# Characters.TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth: Downplayed. While the fight against it is still longer than a normal fight, it lacks the scaling damage resistance that the canon final bosses have, meaning that it's a relative Glass Cannon.
# VideoGame.TerminatorResistance: SuperPrototype: The T-850 infiltrator is one sent from the future by Skynet, as a result it's tougher than an entire squad of T-800s and is fought as a MarathonBoss that's very tough even with an entire squad of Resistance fighters backing you up. The giant Centurion Spider Tank from the Annihilation Line DLC is implied to be one. It's the only one Skynet has ever fielded in the franchise's history, making its first appearance mere days before Skynet's defeat, but damn if it isn't powerful and terrifying.
# Characters.FinalFight2: Despite having only one phase, he has a lot of healthbars and takes forever to kill.
# Characters.{{Lufia}}: Goldiark has 8000 HP, which is not only nearly four times more than the boss preceding it, but is also double that of the Super Boss!
# Characters.LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName: He has a whopping four phases to his (final) boss fight with 12 health bars in total, more than any other boss in Gaiden.
# VideoGame.TheHalloweenHack: Dr. Andonuts has tons of HP, so much so that not even PSI Bitchkill will kill him in one hit.
# Characters.GoldenSunBosses: Has 16,000 HP, which he recovers 200 at a time.
# Characters.FateGrandOrderORT: The most extreme case in the game. When you finally get to fight it properly, it has 10 break bars of 1.000.000 HP each (which the game encourages you to solo by the way, as you're trying to use as few servants as possible), then you are treated to five break bars of 1.200.000 HP each, and after that a single break bar of 2.000.000 HP. If you clear all that without losing all your servants before clearing this last bit, then you get a proper party boss fight with 3.000.000 HP. And after THAT, you have to fight ORT-Xibalba (aka this thing reviving itself from the dead), which has 6 break bars with 1.600.000 HP total, and deliberately slows you down by doing stuff like preventing you from using Arts Cards or forcing you to clear the last Break Bar with a solo. It is, bar none, the longest main story fight yet, by a long, LOOOONG shot.
# VideoGame.StarwardRogue: The Warden has far more health than the other bosses, and also has four durable mooks fighting with him. Terminus, on the other hand, is technically a fight against 3 different bosses.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIIHeroesOfLagaard: While a lot of bosses suffer from HP bloat in the remake, the three elemental Dragons get particularly nasty about it. The main issue is that they also summon a core that casts an elemental attack that grows stronger for every turn the core is alive, so you can't just ignore it or it will become too strong to handle. The cores have a non-trivial amount of HP, so you're going to need to take time off the main body to fight it, and the dragon can regenerate it periodically during the fight. All this, while the dragon continues to harass you with deadly attacks. The Great Dragon is the worst of them all, sporting 72,000 HP and a core with 13,000, on top of sky-high Strength that can one-shot your more fragile party members. You have a Guest-Star Party Member to help you out, but she's so poorly optimized she might as well be a meat shield.
# YMMV.TurboOverkill: ArcFatigue: Some criticism has been levied against the Vector-4 section for stretching the climax of the game a bit too much, as it goes on for two hours through three separate areas and is capped off by the absolute MarathonBoss that is Maw. And there's still one more level and boss to take care of after that!
# Characters.LibraryOfRuinaAbnormalities: BossRush: To fully upgrade a Floor to its' fullest capacity, you must defeat a melting-down Angela/Roland in a MarathonBoss-esque sequence, where they'll use the E.G.O. based on the Abnormalities faced on said floor back-to-back, as well as an additional one only used during their suppressions.
# SequentialBoss.PlatformGame: Mr. Dark assaults you for a bit, then disappears and sics three mash-ups of the previous bosses on you. Rayman 2: The Great Escape: You fight Golgroth on the Crow's Nest, then both of you fall into a lava-filled chamber for Round 2. Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc: The battle against Reflux gets a bit ridiculous. First, you fight his normal form, then he transforms into a giant, warty monster. After that, he grows some wings and you have to work your way up to his level and shoot missiles at him. Then, you have a dogfight with him and, finally, use the same plane to kill a ton of Hoodlums before they regenerate his health.
# YMMV.YakuzaLikeADragon: Tendo can also be a candidate for this because of his One-Hit KO God's Right Hand attack, not taking into account the amount of health that can make him worthy of being a MarathonBoss. He also is only weak to (magic-based) Lightning attacks (Essence of Electromagnetic Shield, Essence of Orbital Laser, Fulminating Forecast), so you'll very likely be in for a long, brutal fight if you have anything else than three Enforcers and an Idol, and even if you do, you're just making it slightly less slow going. If you have neither, but managed to acquire Ichiban's Essence of Orbital Laser via the Company Management minigame (which is one of the most powerful magic-based Lightning attacks in the entire game, but also the most expensive at a whopping 200 MP), expect to be using many more MP restoration items than the fight's sheer length is already likely to demand.
# Characters.YuGiOhArcVYuyaCounterparts: It takes eleven duelists facing him in seven separate rounds in a Duel spanning four episodes to finally bring Zarc down.
# VideoGame.CTwelveFinalResistance: SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Right before the confrontation against the Alien Leader, Vaugh can enter an armoury filled with a mountain of weaponry, ammunition, shield packs, health boosts and various goodies. Which he will need in the next area, fighting the Final Boss which is an extremely powerful MarathonBoss.
# YMMV.ClusterTruck: ThatOneBoss: Truck Satan is a brutal MarathonBoss that lasts longer than any level in the game, all the while forcing the player to dodge lasers, fire, lava, his mace, and exploding trucks.
# VideoGame.StarFox1: Yes, you can guess how annoying the slot machine is.
# VideoGame.HeroCore: SequenceBreaking: You can bypass most of the game and get to the final boss with Expelling.MarathonBoss: Fittingly, the Plasma Hydra in Hard Mode. Also, Tetron and the Guardian.
# VideoGame.HercsAdventures: The Serpent in Colchis takes a lot of time to be defeated, as you have to destroy each of his segments plus his head twice, and since it just keep moving and spawning snakes it takes a while.
# Characters.AsurasWrath: One-man variant. The final fight with him causes the entire episode to last nearly a full hour, counting the cutscenes.
# YMMV.PhantasyStarOnline: Dark Falz's third form was a nightmare for android players, particularly HUcasts and HUcaseals. He jumps around the arena, rarely sticking in melee range for long, and flickers between semi-invulnerability (he's still vulnerable to techs - which androids don't have - and weapon specials - which runs off of MST, something Androids don't have) and vulnerability every 5 seconds or so. Since android hunters lack any weapon that has a range longer than a handgun (and aren't particularly accurate with ranged weapons either), this made damaging him extremely difficult. Add into this that Dark Falz is a MarathonBoss and androids have limited capability to heal themselves, and it basically meant that androids often had to be 5-10 levels higher than anyone else before they could solo Falz and move onto the next difficulty.
# NintendoHard.RolePlayingGames: Bloodborne, from the same lineage as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, is also actually somewhat easier than its parents (especially for seasoned Souls veterans) thanks to its faster-pace gameplay and healing system that rewards aggressive play, along with its addition of effective ranged weapons. Guess what? It's still Nintendo Hard — especially once New Game Plus comes around, which is so difficult that Hidetaka Miyazaki himself admitted that he could barely beat it.It doesn't help that New Game Plus adds some minor Fake Difficulty elements in the form of freaking enormous health pools that turn every single enemy into damage sponges and every single boss into a tedious MarathonBoss, even with good gear.
# YMMV.LiterallyEveryFNFModEver: Little Man, the bonus song for Week 2, is a progressive track that lasts for a whopping seven and a half minutes, making it the MarathonBoss of the mod as it currently stands. Not only is it chock-full of references and memes from a variety of sources, it's quite the challenge to beat despite its recurring leitmotif, which is modified in ways that evoke some of SiIvaGunner's longer rips.
# VideoGame.GuitarHero: "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" on Guitar Hero 5 and "2112" on Warriors of Rock (though only if all seven songs are played one after the other, such as in the campaign).Warriors of Rock has another in the form of the final battle, but rather than a single track broken up into several parts, it's a trinity of Megadeth tracks (three Megadeth Tracks). Doesn't make it any less epic, though. Likewise "2112" is broken down into its seven parts, so it's not as much of a marathon as DYFLWD (or "Free Bird" back in GH2). Granted since these seven individual tracks are pretty short in length.
# VisualNovel.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth: Quercus Alba, current ambassador of Allehbast, is the leader of the international smuggling ring Franziska has been investigating since before the game even started. He ordered the murder of Cece Yew, thus kickstarting the KG-8 incident in the game's backstory. He personally kills Manny Coachen and Mask☆DeMasque II, kickstarting Case 5. He's also responsible for the counterfeit bill chaos in the Republic of Zheng Fa. And it takes a significantly long amount of time to prove all of his misdeeds because of his stubbornness and his extraterritorial rights as an ambassador.
# Characters.TeamGarcias: The Garcias managed to trick Team Gan Gan Galaxy into a rigged gauntlet match where there are no breaks in between the next opponent. They nearly won this way.
# YMMV.SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor: EndingFatigue: One small criticism is the length of the game. An average run takes about 2 hours and 40 minutes, which feels too long by Shoot 'Em Up, Rail Shooter, and Run-and-Gun standards. You could be watching a movie with a runtime like that. Not helping much is that most of the stages are Marathon Levels, complete with MarathonBosses.
# Characters.StarTrekOnlineIconiansAndServants: Once she's finally drawn in for a fight the game lets you participate in, she's very durable. And reluctant to stay long.
# Characters.DarkSoulsIIIEnemiesAndBosses: Any attacks to parts of Wolnir that are not his bracelets will deal minimal damage. Destroying the bracelets, on the other hand, will take off more than a third of his entire health bar. You can, however, defeat him without destroying the bracelets, but good luck in doing so.
# Characters.TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth: Downplayed. While the fight against it is still longer than a normal fight, it lacks the scaling damage resistance that the canon final bosses have, meaning that it's a relative Glass Cannon.
# VideoGame.TerminatorResistance: SuperPrototype: The T-850 infiltrator is one sent from the future by Skynet, as a result it's tougher than an entire squad of T-800s and is fought as a MarathonBoss that's very tough even with an entire squad of Resistance fighters backing you up. The giant Centurion Spider Tank from the Annihilation Line DLC is implied to be one. It's the only one Skynet has ever fielded in the franchise's history, making its first appearance mere days before Skynet's defeat, but damn if it isn't powerful and terrifying.
# Characters.FinalFight2: Despite having only one phase, he has a lot of healthbars and takes forever to kill.
# Characters.{{Lufia}}: Goldiark has 8000 HP, which is not only nearly four times more than the boss preceding it, but is also double that of the Super Boss!
# Characters.LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName: He has a whopping four phases to his (final) boss fight with 12 health bars in total, more than any other boss in Gaiden.
# VideoGame.TheHalloweenHack: Dr. Andonuts has tons of HP, so much so that not even PSI Bitchkill will kill him in one hit.
# Characters.GoldenSunBosses: Has 16,000 HP, which he recovers 200 at a time.
# Characters.FateGrandOrderORT: The most extreme case in the game. When you finally get to fight it properly, it has 10 break bars of 1.000.000 HP each (which the game encourages you to solo by the way, as you're trying to use as few servants as possible), then you are treated to five break bars of 1.200.000 HP each, and after that a single break bar of 2.000.000 HP. If you clear all that without losing all your servants before clearing this last bit, then you get a proper party boss fight with 3.000.000 HP. And after THAT, you have to fight ORT-Xibalba (aka this thing reviving itself from the dead), which has 6 break bars with 1.600.000 HP total, and deliberately slows you down by doing stuff like preventing you from using Arts Cards or forcing you to clear the last Break Bar with a solo. It is, bar none, the longest main story fight yet, by a long, LOOOONG shot.
# VideoGame.StarwardRogue: The Warden has far more health than the other bosses, and also has four durable mooks fighting with him. Terminus, on the other hand, is technically a fight against 3 different bosses.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIIHeroesOfLagaard: While a lot of bosses suffer from HP bloat in the remake, the three elemental Dragons get particularly nasty about it. The main issue is that they also summon a core that casts an elemental attack that grows stronger for every turn the core is alive, so you can't just ignore it or it will become too strong to handle. The cores have a non-trivial amount of HP, so you're going to need to take time off the main body to fight it, and the dragon can regenerate it periodically during the fight. All this, while the dragon continues to harass you with deadly attacks. The Great Dragon is the worst of them all, sporting 72,000 HP and a core with 13,000, on top of sky-high Strength that can one-shot your more fragile party members. You have a Guest-Star Party Member to help you out, but she's so poorly optimized she might as well be a meat shield.
# YMMV.TurboOverkill: ArcFatigue: Some criticism has been levied against the Vector-4 section for stretching the climax of the game a bit too much, as it goes on for two hours through three separate areas and is capped off by the absolute MarathonBoss that is Maw. And there's still one more level and boss to take care of after that!
# Characters.LibraryOfRuinaAbnormalities: BossRush: To fully upgrade a Floor to its' fullest capacity, you must defeat a melting-down Angela/Roland in a MarathonBoss-esque sequence, where they'll use the E.G.O. based on the Abnormalities faced on said floor back-to-back, as well as an additional one only used during their suppressions.
# SequentialBoss.PlatformGame: Mr. Dark assaults you for a bit, then disappears and sics three mash-ups of the previous bosses on you. Rayman 2: The Great Escape: You fight Golgroth on the Crow's Nest, then both of you fall into a lava-filled chamber for Round 2. Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc: The battle against Reflux gets a bit ridiculous. First, you fight his normal form, then he transforms into a giant, warty monster. After that, he grows some wings and you have to work your way up to his level and shoot missiles at him. Then, you have a dogfight with him and, finally, use the same plane to kill a ton of Hoodlums before they regenerate his health.
to:
# ThatOneSidequest.FinalFantasy: The Cactuar searching sidequest from X is back with a vengeance. This time, however, it encompasses the entirety of Spira, so have fun to decipher cryptic messages to find the little green buggers. There is still an annoying (if optional to complete) minigame to play, and the sidequest is capped off by two bosses, one of which is truly hard [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]], being only behind Via Infinito bosses in terms of difficulty.
# Characters.DarkSoulsIIEnemyNPCsAndBosses: Due to its massive health bar and the scale of its attacks, almost always forcing you to reposition yourself every time it strikes, this DestinyTheVex: The Templar's boss fight is a multi-phase one where Guardians have to defend objectives for a number of cycles, destroy a certain type of enemy or risk a Total Party Wipe, then take on the longest fights in a Souls game, taking anywhere from 10 Templar itself, all while trying to 20 minutes. God bless avoid getting into contact with Vex enemies that set you if you brought in additional phantoms, in which case its health is multiplied.
# YMMV.YakuzaLikeADragon: Tendo can also be a candidateup for this because of his the Templar's One-Hit KO God's Right Hand attack, not taking into account the amount of health that can make him worthy of being a MarathonBoss. He also is only weak to (magic-based) Lightning attacks (Essence of Electromagnetic Shield, Essence of Orbital Laser, Fulminating Forecast), so you'll very likely be in for a long, brutal fight if you have anything else Kill. Take more than three Enforcers and an Idol, eight minutes to defeat it when it spawns, and even if you do, you're just making it slightly less slow going. If you have neither, but managed to acquire Ichiban's Essence of Orbital Laser via the Company Management minigame (which is one of the most powerful magic-based Lightning attacks in the entire game, but also the most expensive at a whopping 200 MP), expect to be using many more MP restoration items than the fight's sheer length is already likely enemies will appear to demand.
overwhelm you.
# AwesomeMusic.ScottPilgrim: "Boss Battle" screams Final Boss like no other, befitting Scott's [[MarathonBoss epic battle]] against Gideon.
# Characters.YuGiOhArcVYuyaCounterparts: It takes eleven duelists facing PathOfExile: You have to fight him three times, knocking off about a third of his health bar each time. And he has a lot of health.
# AwesomeMusic.XenobladeChroniclesX: In the Forest, the vocal version of "CODENAMEZ", is fittingly tense for the context inseven separate rounds in a Duel spanning four episodes to finally bring Zarc down.
which it plays, that being squad missions against [[MarathonBoss Nemeses]]. The mostly-spoken lyrics highlight just how grim humanity's situation is.
# VideoGame.CTwelveFinalResistance: SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Right before the confrontation against the Alien Leader, Vaugh ForumFantasy: The superbosses can enter an armoury filled with take a mountain of weaponry, ammunition, shield packs, health boosts and various goodies. Which he will need in the next area, fighting the Final Boss which is an extremely powerful MarathonBoss.
# YMMV.ClusterTruck: ThatOneBoss: Truck Satan is a brutal MarathonBoss that lasts longer than any level in the game, all thewhile forcing the player to dodge lasers, fire, lava, his mace, defeat, but special mention goes to Felix Falora, who has a whopping 500,000 HP and exploding trucks.
can take up to an hour to defeat normally, unless you used Voidpulse, which, due to a formula error that caused it to do much more damage than normal.
# VideoGame.StarFox1: Yes, you can guess how annoying DisgaeaD2ABrighterDarkness: At the slot machine is.
# VideoGame.HeroCore: SequenceBreaking: You can bypass mosttime of writing, no one has beaten Baal in under 30 minutes thanks to a combination of the game and get to removal of the final boss with Expelling.MarathonBoss: Fittingly, the Plasma Hydra in Hard Mode. Also, Tetron damage formula changes from Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, his insane stats, and the Guardian.
# VideoGame.HercsAdventures: The Serpent in Colchis takesfact that he goes through six forms (each with a lot of time to be defeated, as you have to destroy each of his segments plus his head twice, and since it just keep moving and spawning snakes it takes a while.
nasty evility) before finally being defeated.
# Characters.AsurasWrath: One-man variant. The final fight RabiRibi: She has six life bars, with him causes the entire episode to last nearly a full hour, counting the cutscenes.
# YMMV.PhantasyStarOnline: Dark Falz's third form was a nightmare for android players, particularly HUcasts and HUcaseals. He jumps around the arena, rarely stickingan Unexpected Gameplay Change in melee range for long, and flickers between semi-invulnerability (he's still vulnerable to techs - which androids don't have - and weapon specials - which runs off of MST, something Androids don't have) and vulnerability every 5 seconds or so. Since android hunters lack any weapon that has a range longer than a handgun (and aren't particularly accurate with ranged weapons either), this made damaging him extremely difficult. Add into this that Dark Falz is a MarathonBoss and androids have limited capability to heal themselves, and it basically meant that androids often had to be 5-10 levels higher than anyone else before they could solo Falz and move onto the next difficulty.
# NintendoHard.RolePlayingGames: Bloodborne, from the same lineage as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, is also actually somewhat easier than its parents (especially for seasoned Souls veterans) thanks to its faster-pace gameplay and healing system that rewards aggressive play, along with its addition of effective ranged weapons. Guess what? It's still Nintendo Hard — especially once New Game Plus comes around, which is so difficult that Hidetaka Miyazaki himself admitted that he could barely beat it.It doesn't help that New Game Plus adds some minor Fake Difficulty elements in the form of freaking enormouseach health pools bar where you're briefly tackling a shooting-style fight similar to Lilith's second battle and an Attack Reflector that turn every single enemy into damage sponges and every single boss into a tedious MarathonBoss, even with good gear.
# YMMV.LiterallyEveryFNFModEver: Little Man, the bonus song for Week 2, is a progressive track that lasts for a whopping seven and a half minutes, makingmakes it the MarathonBoss of the mod as it currently stands. Not only is it chock-full of references and memes from a variety of sources, it's quite the challenge to beat despite its recurring leitmotif, which is modified in ways that evoke some of SiIvaGunner's longer rips.
# VideoGame.GuitarHero: "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" on Guitar Hero 5 and "2112" on Warriors of Rock (though only if all seven songs are played oneso you can't burst her down right after the other, such as in the campaign).Warriors said shooter. Fortunately, each of Rock has another in the form of the final battle, but rather than a single track broken up into several parts, it's a trinity of Megadeth tracks (three Megadeth Tracks). Doesn't make it any less epic, though. Likewise "2112" is broken down into its seven parts, so it's not as much of a marathon as DYFLWD (or "Free Bird" back in GH2). Granted since these seven her individual tracks are pretty short in length.
# VisualNovel.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth: Quercus Alba, current ambassador of Allehbast, isbars has a lot less health than usual, to the leader of the international smuggling ring Franziska has been investigating since before the game even started. He ordered the murder of Cece Yew, thus kickstarting the KG-8 incident point where a skilled player can burst one down in the game's backstory. He personally kills Manny Coachen and Mask☆DeMasque II, kickstarting Case 5. He's span of a 1-2 attacks. She'll also responsible for the counterfeit bill chaos in the Republic of Zheng Fa. And it takes heal you a significantly long amount of time to prove all of his misdeeds because of his stubbornness and his extraterritorial rights as an ambassador.
bit between health bars.
# Characters.TeamGarcias: The Garcias managed DustyRevenge: William's life meter is massive, allowing him to trick Team Gan Gan Galaxy into a rigged gauntlet match where there are no breaks in between the next opponent. They nearly won this way.
# YMMV.SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor: EndingFatigue: One small criticism is the length of the game. An average run takes about 2 hourstank explosions, bullets, fists and 40 minutes, which feels too long by Shoot 'Em Up, Rail Shooter, and Run-and-Gun standards. You could be watching a movie with a runtime all sorts of projectiles like that. Not helping no tomorrow. Yet his attacks mostly revolves around swinging his sword around and the occasional projectiles. It's as repetitive as it sounds.
# VideoGame.BeyondTheBeyond: KingMook: A few forced encounters against enemy soldiers. Two of these are guarding a specific location and give no outright indication of just how muchis that most of tougher they are, having several times the stages are HP of normal men and bordering on [[MarathonBoss Marathon Levels, complete Boss]] status (or at least Bait-and-Switch Boss), capable of one-shotting weaker team members with MarathonBosses.
their arrows. Another one of these guys shows up later with several regular soldiers with him, and it is plainly obvious this time because he is quite noticeably taller than the others. You can be easily smashed by either encounter if you think it'll be over in a couple of rounds.
# VideoGame.KirbyPlanetRobobot: Story Mode: The penultimate level has a final encounter with an Invader Armor, rematches against three of the fourth Holo Defense API summons (Sphere Doomers, Ice Dragon, and Kracko, in that order), yet another Security Force miniboss, and ends with a fight against an updated Gigavolt, all with Robobot Armor. The following boss level has a rematch with Mecha Knight and the supposed final boss fight against President Haltmann. After that comes the [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] that is Star Dream.
# Characters.StarTrekOnlineIconiansAndServants: Once she's finally drawn in for a fight DigimonAdventure2020EnemyDigimon: Usually the game lets you participate in, she's very durable. And reluctant strongest opponents the heroes face up until then and take considerable effort to stay long.
take down, especially when they digivolve on the spot.
# Characters.DarkSoulsIIIEnemiesAndBosses: Any attacks to parts of Wolnir that are not TekkenKazuyaMishima: EmpoweredBadassNormal: Per his bracelets will deal minimal damage. Destroying possession of the bracelets, on the other hand, will take off more than a third Devil Gene, Kazuya has an array of power and abilities at his entire health bar. You can, disposal, and unlike Jin, he fully embraces his nature as a devil. Even without that, however, defeat him he's an exceptionally strong and skilled martial artist who actually prefers to fight without destroying using his demonic abilities up until 7. The climax of The Dark Awakens in 8 shows this in full; having been Brought Down to Normal by Angel Jin's power of purification, Kazuya dismisses the bracelets, but good luck in doing so.
Devil Gene as a means to an end before serving as a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] that requires Jin to utilize every technique at his disposal—Mishima and Kazama Style alike—before he's finally defeated.
# Characters.TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth: Downplayed. While IncarnationOfLegends: SuperpowerLottery: Artoria is ludicrously overpowered. She has a skill similar to Liaris Freese that works so long as she's fighting alongside her familia on top of massively boosting their Endurance. She has three extremely powerful and useful magics in Excalibur (a Sword Beam that will obliterate even a [[MarathonBoss Monster Rex]]), Avalon (an incredibly powerful Deflector Shield that also purges all negative effects), and Mana Burst (a chantless spell that expends Mind for a massive increase to Artoria's already monstrous stats). She also has eight Developmental Abilities through her Dragon Core Reactor skill, two of which are at an unheard of D Rank (for context, even Ottar's highest level skill is at E rank). It's little wonder that she's the fight Empire's strongest.
# XenobladeChroniclesX.TropesKToZ: Completing the game adds five powerful Tyrants to the world: Dadaan, the Strongest Prone, who summons his squad and will scrap your Skell with his bazooka if you try to use one againstit is still longer than a normal fight, it lacks him; Lugalbanda, the scaling damage resistance Wanderer-King, which can debilitate you with Eye Beams and summon ovis to eat for healing; Gradivus, the Headless Emperor, a Barrier Change Boss millesaur with a permanently destroyed neck and [[MarathonBoss 100 million HP]]; Leva'el, the Terminus, a Xern that summons squads of enemy Skells and Satellis units and has a One-Hit Kill Kill Sat attack; and Nardacyon, the canon final bosses have, meaning Shadowless, a souped-up version of the Chapter 7 boss and a Lightning Bruiser extraordinaire that it's is summoned if you try to fight its pilot Nahum, the Red Hare while you're in a relative Glass Cannon.
Skell. Some of these Tyrants drop unique weapons or special augments that add reflect effects to certain auras and Overdrives, and most of them drop unique holofigures.
# VideoGame.TerminatorResistance: SuperPrototype: The T-850 infiltrator RabiRibi: Forgotten Cave II, also in Chapter 6, is one sent a Boss Rush with your only reliefs being that there are Auto-Save checkpoints and each defeated boss restores a large chunk of your health. Oh, and many of the bosses's attacks here slap you with Skill Ban if they connect, preventing Erina from using any of her attacks for several seconds. At the future by Skynet, as a result it's tougher than an entire squad of T-800s and is fought as a MarathonBoss that's very tough even with an entire squad of Resistance fighters backing end, you up. fight a brainwashed Rumi, who boasts [[MarathonBoss six]] lifebars.
# WhatCouldHaveBeen.RatchetAndClank: The Thug Leader giantCenturion Spider Tank from the Annihilation Line DLC is implied to be one. It's the only one Skynet has ever fielded robot fight late in the franchise's history, making its first appearance mere days before Skynet's defeat, game was originally going to be a chase sequence, with Ratchet using a speeder while shooting back at the robot while it was chasing them throughout the city, but damn if it isn't powerful was cut due to being out of place in the game, and terrifying.
lacking any strong firepower. It was replaced with Ratchet fighting it on foot and using nearby turrets to bring it down. Also, the robot was initially going to have an even bigger health bar, but it was shortened because [[MarathonBoss the fight was long enough as is.]]
# Characters.FinalFight2: Despite having only one phase, he has a lot of healthbars and takes forever to kill.
HomestuckAgentsAndMonarchs: His duel with PM goes on for three years in-universe.
# Characters.{{Lufia}}: Goldiark has 8000 HP, which is FinalFantasyRecurringMonsters: TookALevelInBadass: In XIII, the baby Adamanchelid can deal a Total Party Kill if you challenge it the first time you encounter one, and the adult Adamantortoise can do the same even to a party with maxed out Crystarium. The even stronger Long Gui and Shaolong Gui are effectively Super Bosses. Taken to infinity and beyond in XV. The Adamantoise becomes a lvl. 99 Superboss with a whopping 5 million HP that takes players on average about [[MarathonBoss an hour to defeat]].
# ThatOneBoss.{{Fighting}}: Eternal Champions: The Eternal Champion himself. He can use any of his moves regardless of his energy meter, does a ton of damage with every hit, can actually make himself invincible at any point in the match for a few seconds, and requires a lot of hits to take down. Oh, and there are FIVE FORMS, all of them with their own moves. And there's no continues once you reach him; lose, and it's game over. Yikes. He's even worse in the sequel. While he doesn't cheat quite as blatantly, he's still ridiculously overpowered. And this time, he comes with NINE forms. And then you have to fight the Dark Champion, who not onlynearly four times has the same number of forms, but is even more powerful than the boss preceding it, but Eternal Champion. Oh, and unless you're on the lowest difficulty, there's still no continuing. So, that's a total of eighteen bosses you have to beat on one credit. If a fighting game is also double that allowed to have a [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]], these two would be some of the Super Boss!
clearest examples ever.
# Characters.LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName: He {{Iji}}: On the lowest difficulty, he has a whopping four phases to his (final) boss fight with 12 900 health bars in total, more than any other boss in Gaiden.
a game where most enemies don't break 15. For comparison, Iosa's exoskeleton had 400 health.
# VideoGame.TheHalloweenHack: Dr. Andonuts has tons DeadlyPremonition: Forrest Kaysen, Phase 3. And if you screw up the last bit, he regains all of HP, so much so that not even PSI Bitchkill will kill him in one hit.
his health and you have to start over. George's final form may count as well, if you get too used to attacking its weak point.
# Characters.GoldenSunBosses: Has 16,000 HP, which DevilMayCryVergil: He becomes this at the end of 3. If you don't deal him enough damage when his guard is open (which is not often), they will be nullified quickly since he recovers 200 at a time.
heals when in Devil Trigger. Of course, he is even less open when his health is low.
# Characters.FateGrandOrderORT: The DevilMayCryVillains: Argosax has a ton of health, but most extreme case in the game. When you finally get to fight it properly, it has 10 break bars of 1.000.000 HP each (which the game encourages you to solo by the way, as you're trying to use as few servants as possible), then you are treated to five break bars of 1.200.000 HP each, and after that a single break bar of 2.000.000 HP. If you clear all that without losing all your servants before clearing this last bit, then you get a proper party boss fight its heads can be safely blasted with 3.000.000 HP. And after THAT, you have to fight ORT-Xibalba (aka this thing reviving itself the rocket launcher from the dead), which has 6 break bars with 1.600.000 HP total, and deliberately slows you down by doing stuff like preventing you from using Arts Cards or forcing you to clear the last Break Bar with a solo. It is, bar none, the longest main story fight yet, by a long, LOOOONG shot.
outside their attack range.
# VideoGame.StarwardRogue: SteelEmpire: The Warden Final Boss has far more health several phases, the very last section of which has no less than the other bosses, and also has four durable mooks fighting with him. Terminus, on the other hand, is technically a fight against 3 different bosses.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIIHeroesOfLagaard: While a lot of bosses suffer from HP bloat5 (where it changes its attack pattern per phase). Taken even further in the 3DS remake, which adds even more phases to it.
# ThatOneLevel.RhythmGame: "MILF", thethree elemental Dragons get particularly nasty about it. third and final song of Week 4. It's basically "Dad Battle", but faster, more aggressive, and more note-heavy. The main issue is that they notes are much more varied too, with having to flip between fast-paced hold notes followed by storms of regular notes. You'll also summon a core that casts an elemental attack that grows stronger for every turn the core is alive, so you can't just ignore it or it will become too strong to handle. The cores have a non-trivial amount of HP, so you're going to need to take time off the main body to fight it, and the dragon can regenerate it periodically during the fight. All this, while the dragon continues to harass you be harmonizing with deadly attacks. The Great Dragon is the worst of them all, sporting 72,000 HP and a core with 13,000, on top of sky-high Strength that can one-shot your more fragile party members. You have a Guest-Star Party Member to help you out, but she's so poorly optimized she might as well be a meat shield.
# YMMV.TurboOverkill: ArcFatigue: Some criticism has been levied against the Vector-4 section for stretching the climax of the game a bit too much, as it goes on for two hours through three separate areas and is capped off by the absolute MarathonBoss that is Maw. Andopponent, Mommy Mearest, almost constantly, meaning there's still one more level and boss hardly a moment to take care of after that!
catch your breath. It's also the first playable song in the game to go on for [[MarathonBoss two minutes]]. And we haven't even mentioned the beatdrop yet!
# Characters.LibraryOfRuinaAbnormalities: BossRush: To DragonsDogmaDarkArisen: OneWingedAngel: Upon defeating him for a second time, the face on his stomach grows more prominent and his entire combat style changes, with fully upgrade restored and [[MarathonBoss enormously buffed health]]. This "awakened" form poses a Floor challenge even to its' fullest capacity, those who have struck the level limit, as he has a penchant for spamming magic attacks and setting you must defeat on fire when you try to scale him.
# OnePieceWholeCakeIslandArc.TropesKToN: Luffy spent amelting-down Angela/Roland in a MarathonBoss-esque sequence, where they'll use whopping 11 hours fighting Charlotte Cracker with assistance from Nami. He spent most of that time eating all the E.G.O. based on Biscuit Armor constructs Cracker would make, and took advantage of a rare switch of offense battling that Cracker made to beat him. This is almost certainly the Abnormalities faced on said floor back-to-back, as well as an additional one only used during their suppressions.
# SequentialBoss.PlatformGame: Mr. Dark assaults you forlongest time Luffy had spent fighting a bit, then disappears and sics three mash-ups of the previous bosses on you. Rayman 2: The Great Escape: You fight Golgroth on the Crow's Nest, then both of you fall into a lava-filled chamber for Round 2. Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc: The single adversary.His battle against Reflux gets Katakuri lasts just about as long, and the majority of it consists of Luffy taking and resisting Katakuri's attacks, having only been able to lay a bit ridiculous. First, you hand on the Sweet Commander a couple of times in quick succession.
# Roleplay.SmashRonpa: The third and fourth trials both broke Dis-1's 14-hour record, both lasting into Sunday.
# Characters.DragonQuestIV: Psaro's Final Boss fighthis normal form, then has the distinction of being a One-Winged Angel that averts Transformation Is a Free Action. While he transforms into originally presents himself as a giant, warty monster. After that, he grows some wings and clone of Estark, you have to work your way up to sever each of his level arms and shoot missiles at him. Then, you have a dogfight with him and, finally, use the same plane then his head... only for his torso to kill sprout a ton of Hoodlums face and keep fighting. He then proceeds to grow back each arm, elongate his legs, and finally manifest a second head atop his body before they regenerate finally going down for good. Mechanically, it's a boss fight with seven phases.
# BetterThanItSounds.FanWorks: Fanfic Theater 3015: Several years ago, a group of people got together online to poke fun at bad stories. In 2015, the group reformed. The Multipart Blitz: A [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] in the form of spring cleaning. This was a mistake. Troll Shuffle: A celebration of a holiday in reality is a trip into Hell.
# VideoGame.{{Okami}}: The Mini-Boss battles during the Bandit Spider challenges are very lenghty, since both the minibosses involved and the enemies have their HP significantly buffed. Among the regular bosses, Orochi stands out for the need to destroy the seal (within a bell) in hishealth.central belly, and then the eight heads one by one. There's also Yami, which has to be fought across five lenghty phases, and in them Amaterasu has to retrieve the stolen brush techniques one by one, which further prolongs the fight.
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# YMMV.YakuzaLikeADragon: Tendo can also be a candidate
# AwesomeMusic.ScottPilgrim: "Boss Battle" screams Final Boss like no other, befitting Scott's [[MarathonBoss epic battle]] against Gideon.
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# AwesomeMusic.XenobladeChroniclesX: In the Forest, the vocal version of "CODENAMEZ", is fittingly tense for the context in
# VideoGame.
# YMMV.ClusterTruck: ThatOneBoss: Truck Satan is a brutal MarathonBoss that lasts longer than any level in the game, all the
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# VideoGame.HeroCore: SequenceBreaking: You can bypass most
# VideoGame.HercsAdventures: The Serpent in Colchis takes
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# YMMV.PhantasyStarOnline: Dark Falz's third form was a nightmare for android players, particularly HUcasts and HUcaseals. He jumps around the arena, rarely sticking
# NintendoHard.RolePlayingGames: Bloodborne, from the same lineage as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, is also actually somewhat easier than its parents (especially for seasoned Souls veterans) thanks to its faster-pace gameplay and healing system that rewards aggressive play, along with its addition of effective ranged weapons. Guess what? It's still Nintendo Hard — especially once New Game Plus comes around, which is so difficult that Hidetaka Miyazaki himself admitted that he could barely beat it.It doesn't help that New Game Plus adds some minor Fake Difficulty elements in the form of freaking enormous
# YMMV.LiterallyEveryFNFModEver: Little Man, the bonus song for Week 2, is a progressive track that lasts for a whopping seven and a half minutes, making
# VideoGame.GuitarHero: "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" on Guitar Hero 5 and "2112" on Warriors of Rock (though only if all seven songs are played one
# VisualNovel.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth: Quercus Alba, current ambassador of Allehbast, is
# Characters.
# YMMV.SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor: EndingFatigue: One small criticism is the length of the game. An average run takes about 2 hours
# VideoGame.BeyondTheBeyond: KingMook: A few forced encounters against enemy soldiers. Two of these are guarding a specific location and give no outright indication of just how much
# VideoGame.KirbyPlanetRobobot: Story Mode: The penultimate level has a final encounter with an Invader Armor, rematches against three of the fourth Holo Defense API summons (Sphere Doomers, Ice Dragon, and Kracko, in that order), yet another Security Force miniboss, and ends with a fight against an updated Gigavolt, all with Robobot Armor. The following boss level has a rematch with Mecha Knight and the supposed final boss fight against President Haltmann. After that comes the [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] that is Star Dream.
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# XenobladeChroniclesX.TropesKToZ: Completing the game adds five powerful Tyrants to the world: Dadaan, the Strongest Prone, who summons his squad and will scrap your Skell with his bazooka if you try to use one against
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# WhatCouldHaveBeen.RatchetAndClank: The Thug Leader giant
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# ThatOneBoss.{{Fighting}}: Eternal Champions: The Eternal Champion himself. He can use any of his moves regardless of his energy meter, does a ton of damage with every hit, can actually make himself invincible at any point in the match for a few seconds, and requires a lot of hits to take down. Oh, and there are FIVE FORMS, all of them with their own moves. And there's no continues once you reach him; lose, and it's game over. Yikes. He's even worse in the sequel. While he doesn't cheat quite as blatantly, he's still ridiculously overpowered. And this time, he comes with NINE forms. And then you have to fight the Dark Champion, who not only
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# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIIHeroesOfLagaard: While a lot of bosses suffer from HP bloat
# ThatOneLevel.RhythmGame: "MILF", the
# YMMV.TurboOverkill: ArcFatigue: Some criticism has been levied against the Vector-4 section for stretching the climax of the game a bit too much, as it goes on for two hours through three separate areas and is capped off by the absolute MarathonBoss that is Maw. And
# Characters.
# OnePieceWholeCakeIslandArc.TropesKToN: Luffy spent a
# SequentialBoss.PlatformGame: Mr. Dark assaults you for
# Roleplay.SmashRonpa: The third and fourth trials both broke Dis-1's 14-hour record, both lasting into Sunday.
# Characters.DragonQuestIV: Psaro's Final Boss fight
# BetterThanItSounds.FanWorks: Fanfic Theater 3015: Several years ago, a group of people got together online to poke fun at bad stories. In 2015, the group reformed. The Multipart Blitz: A [[MarathonBoss Marathon Boss]] in the form of spring cleaning. This was a mistake. Troll Shuffle: A celebration of a holiday in reality is a trip into Hell.
# VideoGame.{{Okami}}: The Mini-Boss battles during the Bandit Spider challenges are very lenghty, since both the minibosses involved and the enemies have their HP significantly buffed. Among the regular bosses, Orochi stands out for the need to destroy the seal (within a bell) in his
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# YMMV.IdleChampionsOfTheForgottenRealms: The Tomb of the Nine Gods, unsurprisingly. You need to beat level 250, and several boss encounters such as the Stone Juggernaut, the three Hags with extremely damaging lightning attacks, or Acererak and the Soulmonger are difficult and/or long, requiring sufficiently leveled characters to beat. The "The Soulmonger Calls" variant is worse, where you need to beat level 275 where all characters have 50% their max HP and any character who dies is gone for the whole adventure. The "Azaka's Procession" variant is even worse, where you need to beat level 300 with your center slot being taken up by Azaka's dead body.
# Characters.DragonsDogmaDarkArisen: Upon defeating him for a second time, the face on his stomach grows more prominent and his entire combat style changes, with fully restored and enormously buffed health. This "awakened" form poses a challenge even to those who have struck the level limit, as he has a penchant for spamming magic attacks and setting you on fire when you try to scale him.
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure: As per tradition in the series. In case you die in a phase, you can restart again from the beginning of that phase rather than having to replay the entire sequence.
# VideoGame.SecondExtinction: The mutant T-Rex, who only have a handful of attacks (consisting of biting and trampling at you) but tanks your grenades, bullets and everything you throw at it like no tomorrow.
# VideoGame.XMenMutantApocalypse: AdaptationalBadass: While definitely a Badass in the comics, Final Boss Magneto gets this cranked up to eleven in the game. He's given twice as much health as the two bosses detailed directly below, Apocalypse and Exodus, as well as Juggernaut, all of whom are better at taking a beating than he is in the comics. Despite this toughness upgrade, he is also allowed to keep his signature Deflector Shield, meaning that in spite of all that health you'll only have a short window of opportunity in his attack patterns to hit him. Unsurprisingly, he's the only boss in the game that qualifies for MarathonBoss status.
# Characters.DragonsDogmaDarkArisen: Upon defeating him for a second time, the face on his stomach grows more prominent and his entire combat style changes, with fully restored and enormously buffed health. This "awakened" form poses a challenge even to those who have struck the level limit, as he has a penchant for spamming magic attacks and setting you on fire when you try to scale him.
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure: As per tradition in the series. In case you die in a phase, you can restart again from the beginning of that phase rather than having to replay the entire sequence.
# VideoGame.SecondExtinction: The mutant T-Rex, who only have a handful of attacks (consisting of biting and trampling at you) but tanks your grenades, bullets and everything you throw at it like no tomorrow.
# VideoGame.XMenMutantApocalypse: AdaptationalBadass: While definitely a Badass in the comics, Final Boss Magneto gets this cranked up to eleven in the game. He's given twice as much health as the two bosses detailed directly below, Apocalypse and Exodus, as well as Juggernaut, all of whom are better at taking a beating than he is in the comics. Despite this toughness upgrade, he is also allowed to keep his signature Deflector Shield, meaning that in spite of all that health you'll only have a short window of opportunity in his attack patterns to hit him. Unsurprisingly, he's the only boss in the game that qualifies for MarathonBoss status.
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# YMMV.IdleChampionsOfTheForgottenRealms: DemBones.VideoGames: In Paper Mario: The Tomb Thousand-Year Door, along with the introduction of the Nine Gods, unsurprisingly. You need to beat level 250, other members of the "Bones" family (Dull, Red and several boss encounters such as Dark), a Superboss is featured in the Stone Juggernaut, the three Hags with extremely damaging lightning attacks, or Acererak and the Soulmonger are difficult and/or long, requiring sufficiently leveled characters to beat. The "The Soulmonger Calls" variant is worse, where you need to beat level 275 where all characters have 50% their max HP and any character who dies is gone for the whole adventure. The "Azaka's Procession" variant is even worse, where you need to beat level 300 with your center slot being taken up by Azaka's dead body.
# Characters.DragonsDogmaDarkArisen: Upon defeating him for a second time, the face on his stomach grows more prominent and his entire combat style changes, with fully restored and enormously buffed health. This "awakened"form poses of a challenge even to those who have struck skeletal dragon named Bonetail, the level limit, as he has eldest brother of Hooktail and Gloomtail residing in the bottom floor of the Pit of 100 Trials. It is considered to be one of the game's toughest bosses, [[MarathonBoss carrying a penchant for spamming magic hit point count of 200]] and its breath attacks and setting you on fire when you try to scale him.
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure: As per tradition in the series. In case you die in a phase, you can restart again from the beginning of that phase rather than having to replay the entire sequence.
# VideoGame.SecondExtinction: The mutant T-Rex, who only have a handful of attacks (consisting of biting and trampling at you) but tanks your grenades, bullets and everything you throw at it like no tomorrow.
# VideoGame.XMenMutantApocalypse: AdaptationalBadass: While definitely a Badass in the comics, Final Boss Magneto gets this cranked up to eleven in the game. He's given twice as much health as the two bosses detailed directly below, Apocalypse and Exodus, as well as Juggernaut, all of whom are better at taking a beating than he is in the comics. Despite this toughness upgrade, he is also allowed to keep his signature Deflector Shield, meaning that in spite of all that health you'll only have a short window of opportunity in his attack patterns to hit him. Unsurprisingly, he's the only boss in the game that qualifies for MarathonBoss status.carrying various status ailments.
# Characters.DragonsDogmaDarkArisen: Upon defeating him for a second time, the face on his stomach grows more prominent and his entire combat style changes, with fully restored and enormously buffed health. This "awakened"
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure: As per tradition in the series. In case you die in a phase, you can restart again from the beginning of that phase rather than having to replay the entire sequence.
# VideoGame.SecondExtinction: The mutant T-Rex, who only have a handful of attacks (consisting of biting and trampling at you) but tanks your grenades, bullets and everything you throw at it like no tomorrow.
# VideoGame.XMenMutantApocalypse: AdaptationalBadass: While definitely a Badass in the comics, Final Boss Magneto gets this cranked up to eleven in the game. He's given twice as much health as the two bosses detailed directly below, Apocalypse and Exodus, as well as Juggernaut, all of whom are better at taking a beating than he is in the comics. Despite this toughness upgrade, he is also allowed to keep his signature Deflector Shield, meaning that in spite of all that health you'll only have a short window of opportunity in his attack patterns to hit him. Unsurprisingly, he's the only boss in the game that qualifies for MarathonBoss status.
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# Characters.MagiaRecordWitchesDoppels: Like Walpurgisnacht, it was introduced as a raid boss at the end of the Puella Historia arc.
# Awesome.{{Rayman}}: The Final Boss battle (Reflux again, this time summoning lightning on you then growing gigantic) is no slouch either. It's long and epic with no less than four different phases.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIVLegendsOfTheTitan: There are two bosses which, if approached directly and challenged at once, will be sporting a full HP bar which is often too large for the party's resources to handle. This will mandate walking around the floor or boss room to trigger certain map events that will weaken it to manageable levels, going from this trope to Puzzle Boss. The two bosses in question are Boiling Lizard (Golden Lair) and Warped Savior (Hall of Darkness).
# VideoGame.SeaOfThieves: Played straight with the skeleton fleet battles in the Cursed Sails update, which blurs the line between this and Marathon Level. Multiple player crews are encouraged to cooperate to repeatedly sink one or more ships, typically Galleons, although the Shrouded Spoils update introduced Skeleton Sloops as well. Eventually, once enough waves of ships have been sunk and risen enough, one will rise from the deep with a named Skeleton at the helm to mark that it is the final ship, which will drop the good loot upon sinking.
# Characters.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: the final battle with him has four phases (including the hopeless one) and lasts several hours.
# YMMV.TowerOfFantasy: Even for a World Boss, Abyssal Harrah is very tedious, having two phases each with a mountain of health. The first phase is immobile but has devastating close-range attacks that make it very difficult to fight her with melee weapons, so most players are content to slowly chip away her health with ranged weapons. Even with at least 30 players all doing this, she's got so much HP that it takes upwards of twenty minutes to deplete all of it (before nerfs). The second phase is faster but also lacks the area denial and is easier to fight, but still has a lot of HP that will take more time to deplete. What's worse is that if you want to access the third layer of the Confounding Abyss by yourself, you will need to fight Harrah at least once since she guards the first conventional access point to that layer.
# AntiFrustrationFeatures.CopyKitty: Similarly, the fights against the respective bosses in the World 10 battle depending on your character require you to endure a long process of destroying their outer shells and breaking into their cores to take control of the mecha. Recognizing how frustrating it would be to die at this point, if you manage to die in this phase, you don't have to do the first 2 phases again.
# VideoGame.LittleRedRidingHoodsZombieBBQ: Level 3-1 consists entirely in a fight against a huge, horrific puppet that is walking on the docks besides the player.It then turns into a Puzzle Boss. It stops and begins throwing at the player giant explosive wrecking balls: the player must shoot at them, making them explode while they're swinging back, damaging the puppet in the process.
# Characters.DeltaruneCardKingdom: No matter what approach you go for, Jevil will take a long time to beat. Sparing him requires numerous turns of tiring him out, while his massive HP pool means that fighting won't bring him down in a hurry.
# VideoGame.{{Vanquish}}: The Bogey, despite only being the second boss, can be very frustrating, having high HP, fast flight abilities (making it difficult to hit with heavier weapons), Roboteching beam spams just like the player's Lock-On Laser, EMPs that cause Sam's armor to overheat, a plasma Wave-Motion Gun that can One-Hit Kill, and to top it all off, a Press X to Not Die sequence at the end.
# Characters.{{Okami}}: SequentialBoss: With five forms, he is also a MarathonBoss.
# VideoGame.ArcTheLad: Usually the last boss.
# Characters.YsMemoriesOfCelceta: He has three lifebars (the last form fortunately is a Clipped-Wing Angel), a laundry list of powerful attacks, is hard to hit, your attacks only do minuscule damage even with max EXP, and he can regenerate his HP.
# VideoGame.{{Hellsinker}}: Some bosses (namely Glorious Symbol and Rex Cavalier) can become this if you don't know how to deal with them. But even if you do know how to fight them, most boss fights will still last slightly longer than most shmup bosses do.
# Sandbox.SkylandersKaosAndTheDoomRaiders: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos in Trap Team. He has a stupendous amount of health, keeps players at bay with powerful shockwaves, and heals off nearly 40% of his health every time he changes phases.
# Characters.SilentHill3: The only boss fight in the game with different phases to it, four to be exact, as she'll change up her arsenal and approach against Heather to keep the player guessing.
# VideoGame.KingdomHeartsX: Higher-level Raid Bosses get this way. Most notable is the Fortress Crab, which in its first event appearance had a whopping three million HP and a timer of two hours even at level 1. It has even more in the weekend raid events. Within the story, there's the Darkside encountered in the Corridor of Darkness. Its attacks are on par with or weaker than previous bosses, but it comes with a whopping 40 health bars, as well as the ability to buff its defense and heal itself. It's nowhere near as long as a Raid Boss with HP in the millions, but relative to the rest of the story mode, it's enormous.
# VideoGame.DawnOfWar: Some of the bosses, especially in Dawn of War II and onwards, have a lot of hit points, and unless there are easier ways to take them out, expect to take a while killing them. Daemon Prince Kyras takes the cake, with his ability to summon infinite waves of Bloodletters and Bloodcrushers, along with his ability to summon three towers to shield his life bar from damage. The Great Unclean One from Chaos Rising. He has 2 million hit points at maximum, has several one-shot attacks, can flesh hook and throw characters out of the battle area and get them stuck and has a bug that can reset his hit points in full. He also comes after an extremely boring grind mission that takes upwards of an hour to get through, and the way the game works, if he kills you, you have to do the entire mission from scratch.
# ItsShortSoItSucks.VideoGames: While this trope doesn't apply to Dark Souls III itself, it's a common criticism of the first expansion Ashes of Ariandel. It adds only a couple of new areas and two bosses, one of which is optional and only really consists of fighting an NPC player character and a recurring King Mook simultaneously. While the other boss is generally regarded as one of the best in the series, the general consensus is that's not enough to justify the price tag. Since Ashes of Ariandel is one of the only two expansions Dark Souls 3 is getting it compares poorly to the DLC in the other entries in the series, (Dark Souls had one expansion with four bosses, Dark Souls II had three expansions with three bosses in each one and the Spiritual Successor Bloodborne had one expansion with five bosses) and as such it also raised concerns from fans about the longevity of the game compared to its predecessors.
# AwesomeBosses.OtherGamesNToZ: Radiant Historia's Final Boss battle is incredibly epic and challenging, and one hell of a send off for an amazing game. It's a MarathonBoss with three phases (four if you count the previous battle against the Black Chronicle) with three different movesets for each one, and it becomes fiercer and fiercer while you fight it, meaning that you really have to go all-out in this battle. All of this is set in Historia, with "An Earnest Desire of Grey" blaring in the background. The game itself was already awesome, but this battle takes it to the fullest, and it's especially satisfying after the slog that is the last dungeon.
# Characters.ToontownCorporateClash: Her cheat, Dive, involves her diving into the ground thus making it so you cannot attack her.note Though you can still place Trap gags on her. You can only lure once she gets out, however. Content Sync also makes it so you can only use Gags up to Level 3. She then promotes an available Cog to a Level 7 Executive. To get her out, you have to take out said Cog.note This sometimes doesn't happen, as she can Dive and promote no Cogs should one not be available. When this happens, she gets out after one round. Thing is, Toons are also subjected to drowning at the end of every round, taking 5 damage each, so make sure one of your teammates is stacked on Toon Up.Once the Executive is defeatednote Again, see previous note, Deep Diver jumps out and lands so hard all Toons are slammed with 7 damage each!
# YMMV.Splatoon1: Nearly everyone in the fandom agrees that the final boss of the first game is one of the best ones Nintendo has created; even people who otherwise found the single-player campaign to be sorely lacking had to admit it ended on a high note. The boss itself has plenty of points in the hilarity factor, being a Dumbass DJ who pilots a Humongous Mecha styled like a dance stage controlled by his turntable. Said mecha also comes loaded with a ton of missiles, giant mecha hands to crush you, enemy spawners, Killer Wails (it IS a giant music stage), and a humongous missile. The final boss has to be fought all across a hectic platforming stage that will put everything you've learned in single player to the test, and it lasts a lot longer than the previous bosses to milk the experience for all it's worth. Add some Awesome Music in the mix, and you get a very memorable end boss.
# Characters.OmoriHeadspace: Easily the longest boss fight in the game, having three separate phases with the last having a humongous health bar.
# Undertale.TropesOToZ: This is the only way to describe the No Mercy Run final boss, aka, the hardest boss in the entire game. You only face this rule-breaking MarathonBoss if you kill every single enemy possible, and he'll say anything he can to make you feel bad about it.
# VideoGame.YakuzaLikeADragon: ClimaxBoss: Yosuke Tendo. Also overlaps with MarathonBoss as he has the highest health out of any major boss encounter in the entire game.
# Characters.SwordArtOnlineBosses: In the end, it ends up taking over an hour to defeat. And the hour in question is spent trying to escape the Boss Room.
# SlidingScale.SNKBoss: Has MarathonBoss levels of health, attacks that can wipe out 75% of even the bulkiest character's health bar, has teleportation and unblockable attacks, and zips around at hyperspeed.
# Awesome.ChildrenOfMorta: The Final Battle against Ou has you start out in a fairly difficult fight, than an Unexpected Gameplay Change where you must manuever through darkness to find the rest of the family. After that, Ou reappears, health fully restored. MarathonBoss, right? No, that's when all seven of the Bergsons appear and attack Ou in unison, shredding his health in seconds.
# GameBreaker.FinalFantasy: Quick freezes game-time and lets your character perform two actions without interruption. Sap drains HP in real-time, and nothing resists it (because it is horrendously slow; something like 7.5 damage per second). Using Sap as your first action, and then never taking your second action, will turn anything into a Marathon Zero-Effort Boss. This was unfortunately nerfed in the Pixel Remaster.
# ThatOneAttack.TouhouProject: Rinnosuke's ability to change elemental forms, making what's already a MarathonBoss even more drawn-out. Not only that, his inactive forms actually regenerate HP.
# Characters.ToTheBitterEnd: He has 202,950 HP.
# VideoGame.LunacyStar: Minor case- the final boss can take as much time as the first half of the game.
# YMMV.MegaManUnlimited: Nail Man doesn't leave himself too vulnerable with his Nail Shield, meaning his boss fight can sometimes reach MarathonBoss levels, but nevertheless, there's not much to worry about on it. As long as you watch out the pattern on which his nails fall, avoid the one nail acting as a pretty short-lived hazard, and you pelt him with buster shots after you watch where he falls without getting cornered, he shouldn't be terrible. And the icing on the cake is that Nail Man gives you one of the most useful weapons in the game. There's a few reasons why this boss is fought first, after all.
# Characters.SagaMetroid: This in text form as the final fight sequence with them is by far the longest continual action sequence in the entirety of the series so far.
# VideoGame.SpandexForce: The player's clone has 1000 HP. Considering that the previous boss had 500, beating it will take a while, even if you use Ragnarok at every opportunity as it also blocks about 60% damage from that move.
# Characters.BrutalOrchestra: It has 300 health, more than both of the final bosses, though it's mitigated by the fact that it frequently damages itself.
# Roleplay.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: The Nihilus Clan battle was probably the longest boss battle in the history of the forum.
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheFallen: Most of them to some degree, but especially Unknown, which consists of 4 long phases of exploration and combat before you reach the final boss.
# Characters.ACertainMagicalIndexEngland: She No Sells an air raid and gets off from what can only be described as a magic bomb with only Clothing Damage and some bleeding. Touma even lampshades it by comparing her to a boss with tons of HP.
# VideoGame.LittleKingsStory: Some players occasionally go out of their kingdom without their posse. Corobo can hurt enemies with the command action, and doing so makes taking down enemies and bosses far more difficult than if they're fought normally. For example, Duvroc can be taken down with only Corobo, but doing so turns him into a MarathonBoss thanks to his damage output being incredibly low and needing to be mindful of his attacks and minions thanks to his low health.
# GameBreaker.CapcomVs: Tekkaman's super moves are incredibly easy to accumulate, very powerful, can be done from a distance, and extremely hard to completely dodge, which means that even if they're blocked, the chip damage alone is sufficient. Yatterman-1 has super attacks that automatically put him on this list considering how fast and powerful they are. His Yatterman Charge is so useful and powerful that it can take down the Final Boss Yami, in all three of his forms without even breaking a sweat. By far the most formidable character in the original release of TvC, Cross Generation of Heroes, is Karas. His pressure game combined with his speed created nearly inescapable corner traps. If on defense, you had to do everything you could to get out of the corner when fighting him or it was a doomed game. Thankfully, his speed has been significantly reduced for the update Ultimate All-Stars and thus has been brought down to a more reasonable level.
# Characters.IncarnationOfLegends: Artoria is ludicrously overpowered. She has a skill similar to Liaris Freese that works so long as she's fighting alongside her familia on top of massively boosting their Endurance. She has three extremely powerful and useful magics in Excalibur (a Sword Beam that will obliterate even a Monster Rex), Avalon (an incredibly powerful Deflector Shield that also purges all negative effects), and Mana Burst (a chantless spell that expends Mind for a massive increase to Artoria's already monstrous stats). She also has eight Developmental Abilities through her Dragon Core Reactor skill, two of which are at an unheard of D Rank (for context, even Ottar's highest level skill is at E rank). It's little wonder that she's the Empire's strongest.
# Characters.CodexEquusTheDarkPurveyors: AdaptationalBadass: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a bonafide god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magi reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Anime.YuGiOh5Ds: ChekhovsGun: You acquire a Blank Card somewhere in the middle of the plot of WC 2011. Just before the final MarathonBoss, your Blank Card transforms into three very powerful monsters. They turn blank again after the duel.
# VideoGame.MakeAGoodLevelX: As levels have no length limit, some levels have lasted longer than others to the frustration of raocow and Horikawa. Some notable examples include "Swimming in the Sinking Ocean", aka "the Atlantis level", and "A Dreamland Castle Ship" from the first contest, and "Demonic Gathering", "Hey Buddy! Get Your Rip Van Fish Off My Keep", and "Personally, I Think Mario is Missing is a Very Observant and Fantastic Experience. I Captured That Here" from the second contest.The postgame for the second game has THREE relay levels (collaboration levels made by numerous users with one screen each, based off the A2XT relay level) in the final tier: The SMBX Community one ("Juxtaposition"), the talkhaus one ("You Only Have Yourself to Blame"), and the MaFAB one.
# YMMV.RabiRibi: The Chapter 7 endboss in System Interior II is surprisingly easy, considering the Platform Hell that comes before it. It's not an actual character with a level or even a Life Meter, just a network security system that throws some pretty uninteresting bullet patterns at Erina while she floats up and down constantly; all you have to do is Hold the Line until the "boss" "fight" ends. It can still get you killed on higher difficulties if you're not careful, but it's certainly easier and shorter than the previous two bosses before it — one of which copies your Badge abilities and the other of which has six lifebars that are each about as long as those of other bosses — and especially the True Final Boss that comes in the next chapter.
# VideoGame.TouhouPocketWarsEvolution: BossBattle: Many of the bosses are immune to instant death, for obvious reasons. Dual Boss: The first boss fight of the game is one of these. Sequential Boss and MarathonBoss: The final stretch of the Evolution Plus story has you first fight a party of three, another party of three and finally the actual Final Boss. Wake-Up Call Boss: Tenshi, who will likely kick your ass without having a solid number of levels under your belt and a decent understanding of the combat mechanics. Also, Ichirin for the Plus content, who will do the same thing if you jumped straight into to the Plus story without any grinding done before hand.
# AdaptationalBadass.CodexEquus: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magic reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Characters.Yakuza1: The very first boss in the series to 6 bars of health in a single Boss Fight. Twice as much as the maximum 3 that Ryuji would have in the two seperate instances he's fought during the finale. He's got 7 in Kiwami 2 which arguably makes him tougher than most of the series' Final Bosses.
# Funny.Destiny2: The normal way to finish this strike is to defeat Thaviks, which can take up to 10 minutes due to his high health and constant teleporting away in-between phases....or you can simply shoot him while he's climbing on the walls at any point in the fight,making him fall into the Bottomless Pit below.
# VideoGame.EternalTwilight: Even with optimal gameplay, almost every boss is intended to take anywhere from tens of minutes to over an hour, especially on Hell mode.
# StrictlyFormula.VideoGames: Hunters, being a Gaiden Game, skips the first bit and has the fetch quest as the primary objective in the game from the get-go.
# YMMV.IMissTheSunrise: ThatOneBoss: Lazarus. Duel Boss, MarathonBoss, fought under the effects of a jamming pulse, and one of their attacks can leave you a sitting duck if you're unprepared.
# YMMV.AstralChain: The final two forms of the Final Boss, Noah Prime and Final Noah Prime, are far more difficult than any boss prior. Whereas using specific Legions can help against other bosses, here you must use the correct Legion to counter many of its attacks otherwise you can expect to burn through all your healing items and AED charges as its attacks are very punishing and can take off hundreds of HP at a time, or just deliver an outright One-Hit Kill. Furthermore, it has a mountain of hit points and while transforming can help take off a good fraction of the lifebar, it takes so long to charge up the Resonance meter that you can only really use it once in the fight.
# VideoGame.MetroidPrimeFederationForce: The Mainframe has three distinct phases, must be fully depleted of its substantial health to move to its next phase, and takes a lot of time and effort to become vulnerable. For solo players, it can be a long fight.
# Characters.PunishingGrayRavenHumanFactions: Where most bosses have 30 bars of health, or 50 on harder difficulties, Amberia has a whopping 100 bars of health to get through. Worse, during her stint as an event boss, one of her moves is using one of her totems to regenerate her health, making it a race against time to destroy it before she gets too much back.
# Characters.Rayman3HoodlumHavoc: The final battle with him in Hoodlum Havoc has four separate phases until he finally goes down for good.
# Characters.HomestuckGuardians: Their mating apparently lasted for sweeps.
# Literature.NESGodzillaCreepypasta: In Extus, Chimera takes Zachary a long time to kill. And that doesn't count the Boss Rush of Replacement Monsters that precedes it. Red's final form and his absolutely massive health bar. It's implied that, even using Acacius, it took a while to defeat.
# Characters.DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaibaTwelveKizuki: All of the Twelve Kizuki that the Demon Slayer Corps fight (with the exception of Kaigaku) are extremely difficult to bring down, requiring upwards of a dozen chapters just to fend off. And sometimes the Slayers aren't even able to kill them.
# Characters.TerrariaCalamity: The battle tends to play out like this; It's got high health and teleports a lot, but will also hit you pretty infrequently.
# Characters.FinalFantasyVIIOtherCharacters: If you wish to fight Emerald and/or Ruby Weapon, you will be dealing with them for at least 15 minutes each (unless the player does Cait Sith's One-Hit Kill slot move or is underpowered; in the latter, the two Weapons will break AVALANCE apart in only a few moves). Chasing Ultimate Weapon also can take a while.
# VideoGame.EnchantedArms: The Emperor of Earth, as well as Bonus Boss Omega and Infinity.
# Characters.DarkSoulsIIEnemyNPCsAndBosses: Due to its massive health bar and the scale of its attacks, almost always forcing you to reposition yourself every time it strikes, this boss is one of the longest fights in a Souls game, taking anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. God bless you if you brought in additional phantoms, in which case its health is multiplied.
# YMMV.YakuzaLikeADragon: Tendo can also be a candidate for this because of his One-Hit KO God's Right Hand attack, not taking into account the amount of health that can make him worthy of being a MarathonBoss. He also is only weak to (magic-based) Lightning attacks (Essence of Electromagnetic Shield, Essence of Orbital Laser, Fulminating Forecast), so you'll very likely be in for a long, brutal fight if you have anything else than three Enforcers and an Idol, and even if you do, you're just making it slightly less slow going. If you have neither, but managed to acquire Ichiban's Essence of Orbital Laser via the Company Management minigame (which is one of the most powerful magic-based Lightning attacks in the entire game, but also the most expensive at a whopping 200 MP), expect to be using many more MP restoration items than the fight's sheer length is already likely to demand.
# Characters.YuGiOhArcVYuyaCounterparts: It takes eleven duelists facing him in seven separate rounds in a Duel spanning four episodes to finally bring Zarc down.
# VideoGame.CTwelveFinalResistance: SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Right before the confrontation against the Alien Leader, Vaugh can enter an armoury filled with a mountain of weaponry, ammunition, shield packs, health boosts and various goodies. Which he will need in the next area, fighting the Final Boss which is an extremely powerful MarathonBoss.
# YMMV.ClusterTruck: ThatOneBoss: Truck Satan is a brutal MarathonBoss that lasts longer than any level in the game, all the while forcing the player to dodge lasers, fire, lava, his mace, and exploding trucks.
# VideoGame.StarFox1: Yes, you can guess how annoying the slot machine is.
# VideoGame.HeroCore: SequenceBreaking: You can bypass most of the game and get to the final boss with Expelling.MarathonBoss: Fittingly, the Plasma Hydra in Hard Mode. Also, Tetron and the Guardian.
# VideoGame.HercsAdventures: The Serpent in Colchis takes a lot of time to be defeated, as you have to destroy each of his segments plus his head twice, and since it just keep moving and spawning snakes it takes a while.
# Characters.AsurasWrath: One-man variant. The final fight with him causes the entire episode to last nearly a full hour, counting the cutscenes.
# YMMV.PhantasyStarOnline: Dark Falz's third form was a nightmare for android players, particularly HUcasts and HUcaseals. He jumps around the arena, rarely sticking in melee range for long, and flickers between semi-invulnerability (he's still vulnerable to techs - which androids don't have - and weapon specials - which runs off of MST, something Androids don't have) and vulnerability every 5 seconds or so. Since android hunters lack any weapon that has a range longer than a handgun (and aren't particularly accurate with ranged weapons either), this made damaging him extremely difficult. Add into this that Dark Falz is a MarathonBoss and androids have limited capability to heal themselves, and it basically meant that androids often had to be 5-10 levels higher than anyone else before they could solo Falz and move onto the next difficulty.
# NintendoHard.RolePlayingGames: Bloodborne, from the same lineage as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, is also actually somewhat easier than its parents (especially for seasoned Souls veterans) thanks to its faster-pace gameplay and healing system that rewards aggressive play, along with its addition of effective ranged weapons. Guess what? It's still Nintendo Hard — especially once New Game Plus comes around, which is so difficult that Hidetaka Miyazaki himself admitted that he could barely beat it.It doesn't help that New Game Plus adds some minor Fake Difficulty elements in the form of freaking enormous health pools that turn every single enemy into damage sponges and every single boss into a tedious MarathonBoss, even with good gear.
# YMMV.LiterallyEveryFNFModEver: Little Man, the bonus song for Week 2, is a progressive track that lasts for a whopping seven and a half minutes, making it the MarathonBoss of the mod as it currently stands. Not only is it chock-full of references and memes from a variety of sources, it's quite the challenge to beat despite its recurring leitmotif, which is modified in ways that evoke some of SiIvaGunner's longer rips.
# VideoGame.GuitarHero: "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" on Guitar Hero 5 and "2112" on Warriors of Rock (though only if all seven songs are played one after the other, such as in the campaign).Warriors of Rock has another in the form of the final battle, but rather than a single track broken up into several parts, it's a trinity of Megadeth tracks (three Megadeth Tracks). Doesn't make it any less epic, though. Likewise "2112" is broken down into its seven parts, so it's not as much of a marathon as DYFLWD (or "Free Bird" back in GH2). Granted since these seven individual tracks are pretty short in length.
# VisualNovel.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth: Quercus Alba, current ambassador of Allehbast, is the leader of the international smuggling ring Franziska has been investigating since before the game even started. He ordered the murder of Cece Yew, thus kickstarting the KG-8 incident in the game's backstory. He personally kills Manny Coachen and Mask☆DeMasque II, kickstarting Case 5. He's also responsible for the counterfeit bill chaos in the Republic of Zheng Fa. And it takes a significantly long amount of time to prove all of his misdeeds because of his stubbornness and his extraterritorial rights as an ambassador.
# Characters.TeamGarcias: The Garcias managed to trick Team Gan Gan Galaxy into a rigged gauntlet match where there are no breaks in between the next opponent. They nearly won this way.
# YMMV.SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor: EndingFatigue: One small criticism is the length of the game. An average run takes about 2 hours and 40 minutes, which feels too long by Shoot 'Em Up, Rail Shooter, and Run-and-Gun standards. You could be watching a movie with a runtime like that. Not helping much is that most of the stages are Marathon Levels, complete with MarathonBosses.
# Characters.StarTrekOnlineIconiansAndServants: Once she's finally drawn in for a fight the game lets you participate in, she's very durable. And reluctant to stay long.
# Characters.DarkSoulsIIIEnemiesAndBosses: Any attacks to parts of Wolnir that are not his bracelets will deal minimal damage. Destroying the bracelets, on the other hand, will take off more than a third of his entire health bar. You can, however, defeat him without destroying the bracelets, but good luck in doing so.
# Characters.TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth: Downplayed. While the fight against it is still longer than a normal fight, it lacks the scaling damage resistance that the canon final bosses have, meaning that it's a relative Glass Cannon.
# VideoGame.TerminatorResistance: SuperPrototype: The T-850 infiltrator is one sent from the future by Skynet, as a result it's tougher than an entire squad of T-800s and is fought as a MarathonBoss that's very tough even with an entire squad of Resistance fighters backing you up. The giant Centurion Spider Tank from the Annihilation Line DLC is implied to be one. It's the only one Skynet has ever fielded in the franchise's history, making its first appearance mere days before Skynet's defeat, but damn if it isn't powerful and terrifying.
# Characters.FinalFight2: Despite having only one phase, he has a lot of healthbars and takes forever to kill.
# Characters.{{Lufia}}: Goldiark has 8000 HP, which is not only nearly four times more than the boss preceding it, but is also double that of the Super Boss!
# Characters.LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName: He has a whopping four phases to his (final) boss fight with 12 health bars in total, more than any other boss in Gaiden.
# VideoGame.TheHalloweenHack: Dr. Andonuts has tons of HP, so much so that not even PSI Bitchkill will kill him in one hit.
# Characters.GoldenSunBosses: Has 16,000 HP, which he recovers 200 at a time.
# Characters.FateGrandOrderORT: The most extreme case in the game. When you finally get to fight it properly, it has 10 break bars of 1.000.000 HP each (which the game encourages you to solo by the way, as you're trying to use as few servants as possible), then you are treated to five break bars of 1.200.000 HP each, and after that a single break bar of 2.000.000 HP. If you clear all that without losing all your servants before clearing this last bit, then you get a proper party boss fight with 3.000.000 HP. And after THAT, you have to fight ORT-Xibalba (aka this thing reviving itself from the dead), which has 6 break bars with 1.600.000 HP total, and deliberately slows you down by doing stuff like preventing you from using Arts Cards or forcing you to clear the last Break Bar with a solo. It is, bar none, the longest main story fight yet, by a long, LOOOONG shot.
# VideoGame.StarwardRogue: The Warden has far more health than the other bosses, and also has four durable mooks fighting with him. Terminus, on the other hand, is technically a fight against 3 different bosses.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIIHeroesOfLagaard: While a lot of bosses suffer from HP bloat in the remake, the three elemental Dragons get particularly nasty about it. The main issue is that they also summon a core that casts an elemental attack that grows stronger for every turn the core is alive, so you can't just ignore it or it will become too strong to handle. The cores have a non-trivial amount of HP, so you're going to need to take time off the main body to fight it, and the dragon can regenerate it periodically during the fight. All this, while the dragon continues to harass you with deadly attacks. The Great Dragon is the worst of them all, sporting 72,000 HP and a core with 13,000, on top of sky-high Strength that can one-shot your more fragile party members. You have a Guest-Star Party Member to help you out, but she's so poorly optimized she might as well be a meat shield.
# YMMV.TurboOverkill: ArcFatigue: Some criticism has been levied against the Vector-4 section for stretching the climax of the game a bit too much, as it goes on for two hours through three separate areas and is capped off by the absolute MarathonBoss that is Maw. And there's still one more level and boss to take care of after that!
# Characters.LibraryOfRuinaAbnormalities: BossRush: To fully upgrade a Floor to its' fullest capacity, you must defeat a melting-down Angela/Roland in a MarathonBoss-esque sequence, where they'll use the E.G.O. based on the Abnormalities faced on said floor back-to-back, as well as an additional one only used during their suppressions.
# SequentialBoss.PlatformGame: Mr. Dark assaults you for a bit, then disappears and sics three mash-ups of the previous bosses on you. Rayman 2: The Great Escape: You fight Golgroth on the Crow's Nest, then both of you fall into a lava-filled chamber for Round 2. Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc: The battle against Reflux gets a bit ridiculous. First, you fight his normal form, then he transforms into a giant, warty monster. After that, he grows some wings and you have to work your way up to his level and shoot missiles at him. Then, you have a dogfight with him and, finally, use the same plane to kill a ton of Hoodlums before they regenerate his health.
# VideoGame.RobotWants: Most bosses in Fishy, and Tom Stone/Kitty in Ice Cream.
# YMMV.IdleChampionsOfTheForgottenRealms: The Tomb of the Nine Gods, unsurprisingly. You need to beat level 250, and several boss encounters such as the Stone Juggernaut, the three Hags with extremely damaging lightning attacks, or Acererak and the Soulmonger are difficult and/or long, requiring sufficiently leveled characters to beat. The "The Soulmonger Calls" variant is worse, where you need to beat level 275 where all characters have 50% their max HP and any character who dies is gone for the whole adventure. The "Azaka's Procession" variant is even worse, where you need to beat level 300 with your center slot being taken up by Azaka's dead body.
# Characters.DragonsDogmaDarkArisen: Upon defeating him for a second time, the face on his stomach grows more prominent and his entire combat style changes, with fully restored and enormously buffed health. This "awakened" form poses a challenge even to those who have struck the level limit, as he has a penchant for spamming magic attacks and setting you on fire when you try to scale him.
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure: As per tradition in the series. In case you die in a phase, you can restart again from the beginning of that phase rather than having to replay the entire sequence.
# VideoGame.SecondExtinction: The mutant T-Rex, who only have a handful of attacks (consisting of biting and trampling at you) but tanks your grenades, bullets and everything you throw at it like no tomorrow.
# VideoGame.XMenMutantApocalypse: AdaptationalBadass: While definitely a Badass in the comics, Final Boss Magneto gets this cranked up to eleven in the game. He's given twice as much health as the two bosses detailed directly below, Apocalypse and Exodus, as well as Juggernaut, all of whom are better at taking a beating than he is in the comics. Despite this toughness upgrade, he is also allowed to keep his signature Deflector Shield, meaning that in spite of all that health you'll only have a short window of opportunity in his attack patterns to hit him. Unsurprisingly, he's the only boss in the game that qualifies for MarathonBoss status.
# Characters.MagiaRecordWitchesDoppels: Like Walpurgisnacht, it was introduced as a raid boss at the end of the Puella Historia arc.
# Awesome.{{Rayman}}: The Final Boss battle (Reflux again, this time summoning lightning on you then growing gigantic) is no slouch either. It's long and epic with no less than four different phases.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIVLegendsOfTheTitan: There are two bosses which, if approached directly and challenged at once, will be sporting a full HP bar which is often too large for the party's resources to handle. This will mandate walking around the floor or boss room to trigger certain map events that will weaken it to manageable levels, going from this trope to Puzzle Boss. The two bosses in question are Boiling Lizard (Golden Lair) and Warped Savior (Hall of Darkness).
# VideoGame.SeaOfThieves: Played straight with the skeleton fleet battles in the Cursed Sails update, which blurs the line between this and Marathon Level. Multiple player crews are encouraged to cooperate to repeatedly sink one or more ships, typically Galleons, although the Shrouded Spoils update introduced Skeleton Sloops as well. Eventually, once enough waves of ships have been sunk and risen enough, one will rise from the deep with a named Skeleton at the helm to mark that it is the final ship, which will drop the good loot upon sinking.
# Characters.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: the final battle with him has four phases (including the hopeless one) and lasts several hours.
# YMMV.TowerOfFantasy: Even for a World Boss, Abyssal Harrah is very tedious, having two phases each with a mountain of health. The first phase is immobile but has devastating close-range attacks that make it very difficult to fight her with melee weapons, so most players are content to slowly chip away her health with ranged weapons. Even with at least 30 players all doing this, she's got so much HP that it takes upwards of twenty minutes to deplete all of it (before nerfs). The second phase is faster but also lacks the area denial and is easier to fight, but still has a lot of HP that will take more time to deplete. What's worse is that if you want to access the third layer of the Confounding Abyss by yourself, you will need to fight Harrah at least once since she guards the first conventional access point to that layer.
# AntiFrustrationFeatures.CopyKitty: Similarly, the fights against the respective bosses in the World 10 battle depending on your character require you to endure a long process of destroying their outer shells and breaking into their cores to take control of the mecha. Recognizing how frustrating it would be to die at this point, if you manage to die in this phase, you don't have to do the first 2 phases again.
# VideoGame.LittleRedRidingHoodsZombieBBQ: Level 3-1 consists entirely in a fight against a huge, horrific puppet that is walking on the docks besides the player.It then turns into a Puzzle Boss. It stops and begins throwing at the player giant explosive wrecking balls: the player must shoot at them, making them explode while they're swinging back, damaging the puppet in the process.
# Characters.DeltaruneCardKingdom: No matter what approach you go for, Jevil will take a long time to beat. Sparing him requires numerous turns of tiring him out, while his massive HP pool means that fighting won't bring him down in a hurry.
# VideoGame.{{Vanquish}}: The Bogey, despite only being the second boss, can be very frustrating, having high HP, fast flight abilities (making it difficult to hit with heavier weapons), Roboteching beam spams just like the player's Lock-On Laser, EMPs that cause Sam's armor to overheat, a plasma Wave-Motion Gun that can One-Hit Kill, and to top it all off, a Press X to Not Die sequence at the end.
# Characters.{{Okami}}: SequentialBoss: With five forms, he is also a MarathonBoss.
# VideoGame.ArcTheLad: Usually the last boss.
# Characters.YsMemoriesOfCelceta: He has three lifebars (the last form fortunately is a Clipped-Wing Angel), a laundry list of powerful attacks, is hard to hit, your attacks only do minuscule damage even with max EXP, and he can regenerate his HP.
# VideoGame.{{Hellsinker}}: Some bosses (namely Glorious Symbol and Rex Cavalier) can become this if you don't know how to deal with them. But even if you do know how to fight them, most boss fights will still last slightly longer than most shmup bosses do.
# Sandbox.SkylandersKaosAndTheDoomRaiders: As Ultra Traptanium Kaos in Trap Team. He has a stupendous amount of health, keeps players at bay with powerful shockwaves, and heals off nearly 40% of his health every time he changes phases.
# Characters.SilentHill3: The only boss fight in the game with different phases to it, four to be exact, as she'll change up her arsenal and approach against Heather to keep the player guessing.
# VideoGame.KingdomHeartsX: Higher-level Raid Bosses get this way. Most notable is the Fortress Crab, which in its first event appearance had a whopping three million HP and a timer of two hours even at level 1. It has even more in the weekend raid events. Within the story, there's the Darkside encountered in the Corridor of Darkness. Its attacks are on par with or weaker than previous bosses, but it comes with a whopping 40 health bars, as well as the ability to buff its defense and heal itself. It's nowhere near as long as a Raid Boss with HP in the millions, but relative to the rest of the story mode, it's enormous.
# VideoGame.DawnOfWar: Some of the bosses, especially in Dawn of War II and onwards, have a lot of hit points, and unless there are easier ways to take them out, expect to take a while killing them. Daemon Prince Kyras takes the cake, with his ability to summon infinite waves of Bloodletters and Bloodcrushers, along with his ability to summon three towers to shield his life bar from damage. The Great Unclean One from Chaos Rising. He has 2 million hit points at maximum, has several one-shot attacks, can flesh hook and throw characters out of the battle area and get them stuck and has a bug that can reset his hit points in full. He also comes after an extremely boring grind mission that takes upwards of an hour to get through, and the way the game works, if he kills you, you have to do the entire mission from scratch.
# ItsShortSoItSucks.VideoGames: While this trope doesn't apply to Dark Souls III itself, it's a common criticism of the first expansion Ashes of Ariandel. It adds only a couple of new areas and two bosses, one of which is optional and only really consists of fighting an NPC player character and a recurring King Mook simultaneously. While the other boss is generally regarded as one of the best in the series, the general consensus is that's not enough to justify the price tag. Since Ashes of Ariandel is one of the only two expansions Dark Souls 3 is getting it compares poorly to the DLC in the other entries in the series, (Dark Souls had one expansion with four bosses, Dark Souls II had three expansions with three bosses in each one and the Spiritual Successor Bloodborne had one expansion with five bosses) and as such it also raised concerns from fans about the longevity of the game compared to its predecessors.
# AwesomeBosses.OtherGamesNToZ: Radiant Historia's Final Boss battle is incredibly epic and challenging, and one hell of a send off for an amazing game. It's a MarathonBoss with three phases (four if you count the previous battle against the Black Chronicle) with three different movesets for each one, and it becomes fiercer and fiercer while you fight it, meaning that you really have to go all-out in this battle. All of this is set in Historia, with "An Earnest Desire of Grey" blaring in the background. The game itself was already awesome, but this battle takes it to the fullest, and it's especially satisfying after the slog that is the last dungeon.
# Characters.ToontownCorporateClash: Her cheat, Dive, involves her diving into the ground thus making it so you cannot attack her.note Though you can still place Trap gags on her. You can only lure once she gets out, however. Content Sync also makes it so you can only use Gags up to Level 3. She then promotes an available Cog to a Level 7 Executive. To get her out, you have to take out said Cog.note This sometimes doesn't happen, as she can Dive and promote no Cogs should one not be available. When this happens, she gets out after one round. Thing is, Toons are also subjected to drowning at the end of every round, taking 5 damage each, so make sure one of your teammates is stacked on Toon Up.Once the Executive is defeatednote Again, see previous note, Deep Diver jumps out and lands so hard all Toons are slammed with 7 damage each!
# YMMV.Splatoon1: Nearly everyone in the fandom agrees that the final boss of the first game is one of the best ones Nintendo has created; even people who otherwise found the single-player campaign to be sorely lacking had to admit it ended on a high note. The boss itself has plenty of points in the hilarity factor, being a Dumbass DJ who pilots a Humongous Mecha styled like a dance stage controlled by his turntable. Said mecha also comes loaded with a ton of missiles, giant mecha hands to crush you, enemy spawners, Killer Wails (it IS a giant music stage), and a humongous missile. The final boss has to be fought all across a hectic platforming stage that will put everything you've learned in single player to the test, and it lasts a lot longer than the previous bosses to milk the experience for all it's worth. Add some Awesome Music in the mix, and you get a very memorable end boss.
# Characters.OmoriHeadspace: Easily the longest boss fight in the game, having three separate phases with the last having a humongous health bar.
# Undertale.TropesOToZ: This is the only way to describe the No Mercy Run final boss, aka, the hardest boss in the entire game. You only face this rule-breaking MarathonBoss if you kill every single enemy possible, and he'll say anything he can to make you feel bad about it.
# VideoGame.YakuzaLikeADragon: ClimaxBoss: Yosuke Tendo. Also overlaps with MarathonBoss as he has the highest health out of any major boss encounter in the entire game.
# Characters.SwordArtOnlineBosses: In the end, it ends up taking over an hour to defeat. And the hour in question is spent trying to escape the Boss Room.
# SlidingScale.SNKBoss: Has MarathonBoss levels of health, attacks that can wipe out 75% of even the bulkiest character's health bar, has teleportation and unblockable attacks, and zips around at hyperspeed.
# Awesome.ChildrenOfMorta: The Final Battle against Ou has you start out in a fairly difficult fight, than an Unexpected Gameplay Change where you must manuever through darkness to find the rest of the family. After that, Ou reappears, health fully restored. MarathonBoss, right? No, that's when all seven of the Bergsons appear and attack Ou in unison, shredding his health in seconds.
# GameBreaker.FinalFantasy: Quick freezes game-time and lets your character perform two actions without interruption. Sap drains HP in real-time, and nothing resists it (because it is horrendously slow; something like 7.5 damage per second). Using Sap as your first action, and then never taking your second action, will turn anything into a Marathon Zero-Effort Boss. This was unfortunately nerfed in the Pixel Remaster.
# ThatOneAttack.TouhouProject: Rinnosuke's ability to change elemental forms, making what's already a MarathonBoss even more drawn-out. Not only that, his inactive forms actually regenerate HP.
# Characters.ToTheBitterEnd: He has 202,950 HP.
# VideoGame.LunacyStar: Minor case- the final boss can take as much time as the first half of the game.
# YMMV.MegaManUnlimited: Nail Man doesn't leave himself too vulnerable with his Nail Shield, meaning his boss fight can sometimes reach MarathonBoss levels, but nevertheless, there's not much to worry about on it. As long as you watch out the pattern on which his nails fall, avoid the one nail acting as a pretty short-lived hazard, and you pelt him with buster shots after you watch where he falls without getting cornered, he shouldn't be terrible. And the icing on the cake is that Nail Man gives you one of the most useful weapons in the game. There's a few reasons why this boss is fought first, after all.
# Characters.SagaMetroid: This in text form as the final fight sequence with them is by far the longest continual action sequence in the entirety of the series so far.
# VideoGame.SpandexForce: The player's clone has 1000 HP. Considering that the previous boss had 500, beating it will take a while, even if you use Ragnarok at every opportunity as it also blocks about 60% damage from that move.
# Characters.BrutalOrchestra: It has 300 health, more than both of the final bosses, though it's mitigated by the fact that it frequently damages itself.
# Roleplay.ShiftingWorldsAnathemusMythos: The Nihilus Clan battle was probably the longest boss battle in the history of the forum.
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheFallen: Most of them to some degree, but especially Unknown, which consists of 4 long phases of exploration and combat before you reach the final boss.
# Characters.ACertainMagicalIndexEngland: She No Sells an air raid and gets off from what can only be described as a magic bomb with only Clothing Damage and some bleeding. Touma even lampshades it by comparing her to a boss with tons of HP.
# VideoGame.LittleKingsStory: Some players occasionally go out of their kingdom without their posse. Corobo can hurt enemies with the command action, and doing so makes taking down enemies and bosses far more difficult than if they're fought normally. For example, Duvroc can be taken down with only Corobo, but doing so turns him into a MarathonBoss thanks to his damage output being incredibly low and needing to be mindful of his attacks and minions thanks to his low health.
# GameBreaker.CapcomVs: Tekkaman's super moves are incredibly easy to accumulate, very powerful, can be done from a distance, and extremely hard to completely dodge, which means that even if they're blocked, the chip damage alone is sufficient. Yatterman-1 has super attacks that automatically put him on this list considering how fast and powerful they are. His Yatterman Charge is so useful and powerful that it can take down the Final Boss Yami, in all three of his forms without even breaking a sweat. By far the most formidable character in the original release of TvC, Cross Generation of Heroes, is Karas. His pressure game combined with his speed created nearly inescapable corner traps. If on defense, you had to do everything you could to get out of the corner when fighting him or it was a doomed game. Thankfully, his speed has been significantly reduced for the update Ultimate All-Stars and thus has been brought down to a more reasonable level.
# Characters.IncarnationOfLegends: Artoria is ludicrously overpowered. She has a skill similar to Liaris Freese that works so long as she's fighting alongside her familia on top of massively boosting their Endurance. She has three extremely powerful and useful magics in Excalibur (a Sword Beam that will obliterate even a Monster Rex), Avalon (an incredibly powerful Deflector Shield that also purges all negative effects), and Mana Burst (a chantless spell that expends Mind for a massive increase to Artoria's already monstrous stats). She also has eight Developmental Abilities through her Dragon Core Reactor skill, two of which are at an unheard of D Rank (for context, even Ottar's highest level skill is at E rank). It's little wonder that she's the Empire's strongest.
# Characters.CodexEquusTheDarkPurveyors: AdaptationalBadass: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a bonafide god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magi reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Anime.YuGiOh5Ds: ChekhovsGun: You acquire a Blank Card somewhere in the middle of the plot of WC 2011. Just before the final MarathonBoss, your Blank Card transforms into three very powerful monsters. They turn blank again after the duel.
# VideoGame.MakeAGoodLevelX: As levels have no length limit, some levels have lasted longer than others to the frustration of raocow and Horikawa. Some notable examples include "Swimming in the Sinking Ocean", aka "the Atlantis level", and "A Dreamland Castle Ship" from the first contest, and "Demonic Gathering", "Hey Buddy! Get Your Rip Van Fish Off My Keep", and "Personally, I Think Mario is Missing is a Very Observant and Fantastic Experience. I Captured That Here" from the second contest.The postgame for the second game has THREE relay levels (collaboration levels made by numerous users with one screen each, based off the A2XT relay level) in the final tier: The SMBX Community one ("Juxtaposition"), the talkhaus one ("You Only Have Yourself to Blame"), and the MaFAB one.
# YMMV.RabiRibi: The Chapter 7 endboss in System Interior II is surprisingly easy, considering the Platform Hell that comes before it. It's not an actual character with a level or even a Life Meter, just a network security system that throws some pretty uninteresting bullet patterns at Erina while she floats up and down constantly; all you have to do is Hold the Line until the "boss" "fight" ends. It can still get you killed on higher difficulties if you're not careful, but it's certainly easier and shorter than the previous two bosses before it — one of which copies your Badge abilities and the other of which has six lifebars that are each about as long as those of other bosses — and especially the True Final Boss that comes in the next chapter.
# VideoGame.TouhouPocketWarsEvolution: BossBattle: Many of the bosses are immune to instant death, for obvious reasons. Dual Boss: The first boss fight of the game is one of these. Sequential Boss and MarathonBoss: The final stretch of the Evolution Plus story has you first fight a party of three, another party of three and finally the actual Final Boss. Wake-Up Call Boss: Tenshi, who will likely kick your ass without having a solid number of levels under your belt and a decent understanding of the combat mechanics. Also, Ichirin for the Plus content, who will do the same thing if you jumped straight into to the Plus story without any grinding done before hand.
# AdaptationalBadass.CodexEquus: Lewis Legend is a superpowered elite zombie who can wield a guitar-gun and drive an elephant-themed Mini-Mecha, and is a MarathonBoss who takes seven finishers to kill him. Here, he's a god who embodies the harmful, enduring aspects of fury, especially when it's applied to things like music and technology. Lewis' Elephant-themed Mini-Mecha is depicted here as a powerful 'One-Winged Angel' form where he transforms into a gigantic, demonic, twisted, Elephant-like beast with pieces of technology forcibly grafted onto his body. He's also a skilled guitarist who was tutored by Blue Suede Heartstrings himself, and was a powerful Super-Soldier in his youth, which granted him enhanced physical capabilities, greater magic reserves, and deadly combat skills.
# Characters.Yakuza1: The very first boss in the series to 6 bars of health in a single Boss Fight. Twice as much as the maximum 3 that Ryuji would have in the two seperate instances he's fought during the finale. He's got 7 in Kiwami 2 which arguably makes him tougher than most of the series' Final Bosses.
# Funny.Destiny2: The normal way to finish this strike is to defeat Thaviks, which can take up to 10 minutes due to his high health and constant teleporting away in-between phases....or you can simply shoot him while he's climbing on the walls at any point in the fight,making him fall into the Bottomless Pit below.
# VideoGame.EternalTwilight: Even with optimal gameplay, almost every boss is intended to take anywhere from tens of minutes to over an hour, especially on Hell mode.
# StrictlyFormula.VideoGames: Hunters, being a Gaiden Game, skips the first bit and has the fetch quest as the primary objective in the game from the get-go.
# YMMV.IMissTheSunrise: ThatOneBoss: Lazarus. Duel Boss, MarathonBoss, fought under the effects of a jamming pulse, and one of their attacks can leave you a sitting duck if you're unprepared.
# YMMV.AstralChain: The final two forms of the Final Boss, Noah Prime and Final Noah Prime, are far more difficult than any boss prior. Whereas using specific Legions can help against other bosses, here you must use the correct Legion to counter many of its attacks otherwise you can expect to burn through all your healing items and AED charges as its attacks are very punishing and can take off hundreds of HP at a time, or just deliver an outright One-Hit Kill. Furthermore, it has a mountain of hit points and while transforming can help take off a good fraction of the lifebar, it takes so long to charge up the Resonance meter that you can only really use it once in the fight.
# VideoGame.MetroidPrimeFederationForce: The Mainframe has three distinct phases, must be fully depleted of its substantial health to move to its next phase, and takes a lot of time and effort to become vulnerable. For solo players, it can be a long fight.
# Characters.PunishingGrayRavenHumanFactions: Where most bosses have 30 bars of health, or 50 on harder difficulties, Amberia has a whopping 100 bars of health to get through. Worse, during her stint as an event boss, one of her moves is using one of her totems to regenerate her health, making it a race against time to destroy it before she gets too much back.
# Characters.Rayman3HoodlumHavoc: The final battle with him in Hoodlum Havoc has four separate phases until he finally goes down for good.
# Characters.HomestuckGuardians: Their mating apparently lasted for sweeps.
# Literature.NESGodzillaCreepypasta: In Extus, Chimera takes Zachary a long time to kill. And that doesn't count the Boss Rush of Replacement Monsters that precedes it. Red's final form and his absolutely massive health bar. It's implied that, even using Acacius, it took a while to defeat.
# Characters.DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaibaTwelveKizuki: All of the Twelve Kizuki that the Demon Slayer Corps fight (with the exception of Kaigaku) are extremely difficult to bring down, requiring upwards of a dozen chapters just to fend off. And sometimes the Slayers aren't even able to kill them.
# Characters.TerrariaCalamity: The battle tends to play out like this; It's got high health and teleports a lot, but will also hit you pretty infrequently.
# Characters.FinalFantasyVIIOtherCharacters: If you wish to fight Emerald and/or Ruby Weapon, you will be dealing with them for at least 15 minutes each (unless the player does Cait Sith's One-Hit Kill slot move or is underpowered; in the latter, the two Weapons will break AVALANCE apart in only a few moves). Chasing Ultimate Weapon also can take a while.
# VideoGame.EnchantedArms: The Emperor of Earth, as well as Bonus Boss Omega and Infinity.
# Characters.DarkSoulsIIEnemyNPCsAndBosses: Due to its massive health bar and the scale of its attacks, almost always forcing you to reposition yourself every time it strikes, this boss is one of the longest fights in a Souls game, taking anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. God bless you if you brought in additional phantoms, in which case its health is multiplied.
# YMMV.YakuzaLikeADragon: Tendo can also be a candidate for this because of his One-Hit KO God's Right Hand attack, not taking into account the amount of health that can make him worthy of being a MarathonBoss. He also is only weak to (magic-based) Lightning attacks (Essence of Electromagnetic Shield, Essence of Orbital Laser, Fulminating Forecast), so you'll very likely be in for a long, brutal fight if you have anything else than three Enforcers and an Idol, and even if you do, you're just making it slightly less slow going. If you have neither, but managed to acquire Ichiban's Essence of Orbital Laser via the Company Management minigame (which is one of the most powerful magic-based Lightning attacks in the entire game, but also the most expensive at a whopping 200 MP), expect to be using many more MP restoration items than the fight's sheer length is already likely to demand.
# Characters.YuGiOhArcVYuyaCounterparts: It takes eleven duelists facing him in seven separate rounds in a Duel spanning four episodes to finally bring Zarc down.
# VideoGame.CTwelveFinalResistance: SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Right before the confrontation against the Alien Leader, Vaugh can enter an armoury filled with a mountain of weaponry, ammunition, shield packs, health boosts and various goodies. Which he will need in the next area, fighting the Final Boss which is an extremely powerful MarathonBoss.
# YMMV.ClusterTruck: ThatOneBoss: Truck Satan is a brutal MarathonBoss that lasts longer than any level in the game, all the while forcing the player to dodge lasers, fire, lava, his mace, and exploding trucks.
# VideoGame.StarFox1: Yes, you can guess how annoying the slot machine is.
# VideoGame.HeroCore: SequenceBreaking: You can bypass most of the game and get to the final boss with Expelling.MarathonBoss: Fittingly, the Plasma Hydra in Hard Mode. Also, Tetron and the Guardian.
# VideoGame.HercsAdventures: The Serpent in Colchis takes a lot of time to be defeated, as you have to destroy each of his segments plus his head twice, and since it just keep moving and spawning snakes it takes a while.
# Characters.AsurasWrath: One-man variant. The final fight with him causes the entire episode to last nearly a full hour, counting the cutscenes.
# YMMV.PhantasyStarOnline: Dark Falz's third form was a nightmare for android players, particularly HUcasts and HUcaseals. He jumps around the arena, rarely sticking in melee range for long, and flickers between semi-invulnerability (he's still vulnerable to techs - which androids don't have - and weapon specials - which runs off of MST, something Androids don't have) and vulnerability every 5 seconds or so. Since android hunters lack any weapon that has a range longer than a handgun (and aren't particularly accurate with ranged weapons either), this made damaging him extremely difficult. Add into this that Dark Falz is a MarathonBoss and androids have limited capability to heal themselves, and it basically meant that androids often had to be 5-10 levels higher than anyone else before they could solo Falz and move onto the next difficulty.
# NintendoHard.RolePlayingGames: Bloodborne, from the same lineage as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, is also actually somewhat easier than its parents (especially for seasoned Souls veterans) thanks to its faster-pace gameplay and healing system that rewards aggressive play, along with its addition of effective ranged weapons. Guess what? It's still Nintendo Hard — especially once New Game Plus comes around, which is so difficult that Hidetaka Miyazaki himself admitted that he could barely beat it.It doesn't help that New Game Plus adds some minor Fake Difficulty elements in the form of freaking enormous health pools that turn every single enemy into damage sponges and every single boss into a tedious MarathonBoss, even with good gear.
# YMMV.LiterallyEveryFNFModEver: Little Man, the bonus song for Week 2, is a progressive track that lasts for a whopping seven and a half minutes, making it the MarathonBoss of the mod as it currently stands. Not only is it chock-full of references and memes from a variety of sources, it's quite the challenge to beat despite its recurring leitmotif, which is modified in ways that evoke some of SiIvaGunner's longer rips.
# VideoGame.GuitarHero: "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)" on Guitar Hero 5 and "2112" on Warriors of Rock (though only if all seven songs are played one after the other, such as in the campaign).Warriors of Rock has another in the form of the final battle, but rather than a single track broken up into several parts, it's a trinity of Megadeth tracks (three Megadeth Tracks). Doesn't make it any less epic, though. Likewise "2112" is broken down into its seven parts, so it's not as much of a marathon as DYFLWD (or "Free Bird" back in GH2). Granted since these seven individual tracks are pretty short in length.
# VisualNovel.AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth: Quercus Alba, current ambassador of Allehbast, is the leader of the international smuggling ring Franziska has been investigating since before the game even started. He ordered the murder of Cece Yew, thus kickstarting the KG-8 incident in the game's backstory. He personally kills Manny Coachen and Mask☆DeMasque II, kickstarting Case 5. He's also responsible for the counterfeit bill chaos in the Republic of Zheng Fa. And it takes a significantly long amount of time to prove all of his misdeeds because of his stubbornness and his extraterritorial rights as an ambassador.
# Characters.TeamGarcias: The Garcias managed to trick Team Gan Gan Galaxy into a rigged gauntlet match where there are no breaks in between the next opponent. They nearly won this way.
# YMMV.SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor: EndingFatigue: One small criticism is the length of the game. An average run takes about 2 hours and 40 minutes, which feels too long by Shoot 'Em Up, Rail Shooter, and Run-and-Gun standards. You could be watching a movie with a runtime like that. Not helping much is that most of the stages are Marathon Levels, complete with MarathonBosses.
# Characters.StarTrekOnlineIconiansAndServants: Once she's finally drawn in for a fight the game lets you participate in, she's very durable. And reluctant to stay long.
# Characters.DarkSoulsIIIEnemiesAndBosses: Any attacks to parts of Wolnir that are not his bracelets will deal minimal damage. Destroying the bracelets, on the other hand, will take off more than a third of his entire health bar. You can, however, defeat him without destroying the bracelets, but good luck in doing so.
# Characters.TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth: Downplayed. While the fight against it is still longer than a normal fight, it lacks the scaling damage resistance that the canon final bosses have, meaning that it's a relative Glass Cannon.
# VideoGame.TerminatorResistance: SuperPrototype: The T-850 infiltrator is one sent from the future by Skynet, as a result it's tougher than an entire squad of T-800s and is fought as a MarathonBoss that's very tough even with an entire squad of Resistance fighters backing you up. The giant Centurion Spider Tank from the Annihilation Line DLC is implied to be one. It's the only one Skynet has ever fielded in the franchise's history, making its first appearance mere days before Skynet's defeat, but damn if it isn't powerful and terrifying.
# Characters.FinalFight2: Despite having only one phase, he has a lot of healthbars and takes forever to kill.
# Characters.{{Lufia}}: Goldiark has 8000 HP, which is not only nearly four times more than the boss preceding it, but is also double that of the Super Boss!
# Characters.LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName: He has a whopping four phases to his (final) boss fight with 12 health bars in total, more than any other boss in Gaiden.
# VideoGame.TheHalloweenHack: Dr. Andonuts has tons of HP, so much so that not even PSI Bitchkill will kill him in one hit.
# Characters.GoldenSunBosses: Has 16,000 HP, which he recovers 200 at a time.
# Characters.FateGrandOrderORT: The most extreme case in the game. When you finally get to fight it properly, it has 10 break bars of 1.000.000 HP each (which the game encourages you to solo by the way, as you're trying to use as few servants as possible), then you are treated to five break bars of 1.200.000 HP each, and after that a single break bar of 2.000.000 HP. If you clear all that without losing all your servants before clearing this last bit, then you get a proper party boss fight with 3.000.000 HP. And after THAT, you have to fight ORT-Xibalba (aka this thing reviving itself from the dead), which has 6 break bars with 1.600.000 HP total, and deliberately slows you down by doing stuff like preventing you from using Arts Cards or forcing you to clear the last Break Bar with a solo. It is, bar none, the longest main story fight yet, by a long, LOOOONG shot.
# VideoGame.StarwardRogue: The Warden has far more health than the other bosses, and also has four durable mooks fighting with him. Terminus, on the other hand, is technically a fight against 3 different bosses.
# VideoGame.EtrianOdysseyIIHeroesOfLagaard: While a lot of bosses suffer from HP bloat in the remake, the three elemental Dragons get particularly nasty about it. The main issue is that they also summon a core that casts an elemental attack that grows stronger for every turn the core is alive, so you can't just ignore it or it will become too strong to handle. The cores have a non-trivial amount of HP, so you're going to need to take time off the main body to fight it, and the dragon can regenerate it periodically during the fight. All this, while the dragon continues to harass you with deadly attacks. The Great Dragon is the worst of them all, sporting 72,000 HP and a core with 13,000, on top of sky-high Strength that can one-shot your more fragile party members. You have a Guest-Star Party Member to help you out, but she's so poorly optimized she might as well be a meat shield.
# YMMV.TurboOverkill: ArcFatigue: Some criticism has been levied against the Vector-4 section for stretching the climax of the game a bit too much, as it goes on for two hours through three separate areas and is capped off by the absolute MarathonBoss that is Maw. And there's still one more level and boss to take care of after that!
# Characters.LibraryOfRuinaAbnormalities: BossRush: To fully upgrade a Floor to its' fullest capacity, you must defeat a melting-down Angela/Roland in a MarathonBoss-esque sequence, where they'll use the E.G.O. based on the Abnormalities faced on said floor back-to-back, as well as an additional one only used during their suppressions.
# SequentialBoss.PlatformGame: Mr. Dark assaults you for a bit, then disappears and sics three mash-ups of the previous bosses on you. Rayman 2: The Great Escape: You fight Golgroth on the Crow's Nest, then both of you fall into a lava-filled chamber for Round 2. Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc: The battle against Reflux gets a bit ridiculous. First, you fight his normal form, then he transforms into a giant, warty monster. After that, he grows some wings and you have to work your way up to his level and shoot missiles at him. Then, you have a dogfight with him and, finally, use the same plane to kill a ton of Hoodlums before they regenerate his health.
# VideoGame.RobotWants: Most bosses in Fishy, and Tom Stone/Kitty in Ice Cream.
# YMMV.IdleChampionsOfTheForgottenRealms: The Tomb of the Nine Gods, unsurprisingly. You need to beat level 250, and several boss encounters such as the Stone Juggernaut, the three Hags with extremely damaging lightning attacks, or Acererak and the Soulmonger are difficult and/or long, requiring sufficiently leveled characters to beat. The "The Soulmonger Calls" variant is worse, where you need to beat level 275 where all characters have 50% their max HP and any character who dies is gone for the whole adventure. The "Azaka's Procession" variant is even worse, where you need to beat level 300 with your center slot being taken up by Azaka's dead body.
# Characters.DragonsDogmaDarkArisen: Upon defeating him for a second time, the face on his stomach grows more prominent and his entire combat style changes, with fully restored and enormously buffed health. This "awakened" form poses a challenge even to those who have struck the level limit, as he has a penchant for spamming magic attacks and setting you on fire when you try to scale him.
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure: As per tradition in the series. In case you die in a phase, you can restart again from the beginning of that phase rather than having to replay the entire sequence.
# VideoGame.SecondExtinction: The mutant T-Rex, who only have a handful of attacks (consisting of biting and trampling at you) but tanks your grenades, bullets and everything you throw at it like no tomorrow.
# VideoGame.XMenMutantApocalypse: AdaptationalBadass: While definitely a Badass in the comics, Final Boss Magneto gets this cranked up to eleven in the game. He's given twice as much health as the two bosses detailed directly below, Apocalypse and Exodus, as well as Juggernaut, all of whom are better at taking a beating than he is in the comics. Despite this toughness upgrade, he is also allowed to keep his signature Deflector Shield, meaning that in spite of all that health you'll only have a short window of opportunity in his attack patterns to hit him. Unsurprisingly, he's the only boss in the game that qualifies for MarathonBoss status.
