10 Best Boss Fights NOBODY Saw Coming

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[@tentayeprimo6674]

Aizawa is great because he genuinely didn't know he was even going to be the final boss until like 2 hours before you even show up. And when you get there, he STILL doesn't know why he's the final boss, but goddamn if he doesn't give you one of the best final boss fights in the whole series.

[@sorahearts3317]

Akuma's first appearance

[@theepilogue2190]

YES

[@MaxWeb2599]

Agheels entrance has the Plus side of coming so out of nowhere that it's almost hilarious.

[@pockylovingranger]

While also mowing down those poor minions that just happen to be in his landing spot xD

[@UKProgRock]

Pretty sure the Majima & Saejima appearence in Yakuza: Like A Dragon should be on here. I had to go back and grind for hours in order to get to a level where I could take them.

[@devinco1]

Oh hey I know that story.

[@lorddmarek]

You guys allergic to 2D games? Mother Brain and the chozo statue in super metroid were so outta nowhere the first playthrough!

[@TheItalianScarecrow]

I can still feel my heartbeat.

[@arztje]

When "Rick The Door Technician" first came out and I saw he was just a simple trooper whom I just force choked and threw over the ledge - I laughed out loud at the game trolling me.

[@dungeonpastor]

Snuggly is not the crow that carries you. At all

[@eldudereno204]

that boss Laura in The Evil Within, was so damn hard.

[@PikaLink91]

Chakravartin's final form was a huge disappointment though. In a game with over the top boss fights in both size and scale you go from fighting a planet sized god to fighting a human sized one.

[@paulellington1505]

Another one of Jules' jewels 💎 Maybe you should sneak in a one per list jokes into a few videos for old times sake 🤣

[@gamingtheologian8515]

No mention of Necron in Final Fantasy IX?

[@weezyyeswes]

1:20 into the video. Guy on Horse tries to ambush the people huddle up to the fire. He takes one swipe then gets laid out by the dragon coming from out of nowhere. You couldn't remake the scene again no way. 😂🤣😭

[@lady_draguliana784]

I was tickled pink that Control referenced the SCP Foundation so *directly* with the fridge! 🤣

[@zerokiryu3645]

Honorable Mention to the sercret Boss Baal, from Disgaea Hour of Darkness. To be fair he doesn't come out of "Nowhere", there are little hints and such dropped in the game conversation with npc's and secret areas that allude to him but I can honestly say 99.9999% of anyone that challenged him was unprepared. The 1st problem was that you most likely already beat the game so you thought you were the cream of the crop having fought the Seraph of Celestia who was about lv 90 or so which made you think everything else was a walk in the park. 2nd was the fact that you most likely did most of the Dark Assembly Bills that gave you extra content including raising the difficulty about 10x over to give your self a challenge. 3rd mistake is after unlocking the seals to fight him, and aquiring new characters (level 2000 and 2500 respectively), you likely only noticed the level 2200 enemies right before his fight and expected a level 3k boss. Yeah no, your main protagonist himself states in disbelief, that this guy is level 4000!? At the absolute lowest difficulty at that. He has around 200k in all stats, 3)200% in all stat aptitudes (in comparison to the 90-110% you passively got beating the main game) and has the 2nd strongest weapons in the game with the 2nd most movement of about 10 spaces. His AoE is large and he can solo your entire party with a single attack if they are in range. Add to the fact that when you EVENTUALLY beat him and want to go back to farm him or vent for the stress of him wrecking you, you made your 4th(?) Mistake and likely didn't save walking straight into his PHASE 2 "Prinny Baal" with the STRONGEST monster weapons + armor and a BASE Level of 6000😱😭 with 4x the stats that his former self had. Ooh I'm getting war flash backs. Don't even get me start on NG+ Etna mode when you lose the ability to use the main character or any of the support you likely had during the main game run unless it was the generic characters you made. 😭

[@HC_Constance]

So many fromsoft games on this list, yet it doesn't include black flame freide. The game gives you an item to distract from the fact that there was no text saying you won... so sneaky.

[@deondraemcknight232]

Asuras wrath is such a kickass game a remake/remaster would be awesome

[@Just4Fun-Zocker]

But this time Capcom should only sell the first episode of the first part for full price and then charge 10 Euro/Dollar/whatever per episode for the rest, so that in the end you need to pay 230 Euro/Dollar/whatever to get the full game.

[@LoverOfBellies]

You could have made a list for No More Heroes

[@H8Magnet]

The former was my biggest challenge in the game, took me a handful of tries.

[@kamensentai13]

Aizawa would of been a great fight in gaiden especially after the reveal ending of gaiden

[@LeroyzkiSmithsonian]

Wouldn’t have made sense, he was already irrelevant after Yakuza 5. Plus it was barely a reveal, it was very vague.

[@user-lm3nr1yc2t]

Donkey Kong had the one hitter quitter in punch out to i lost like 15 times before beating him

[@Hadeshi.]

Star Rail 2.2 i wasnt expecting to fight Argenti, he showed up out of nowhere, it was so random. 😂😂

[@krvgames9258]

Nobody saw Donkey Kong coming. He’s in the background! That’s like saying Mr. Grizz from Splatoon 3 is a villain that no one saw coming and that it was a big surprise to find out Mr. Grizz is a bear. People correctly assumed that Mr. Grizz was going to be the villain in Splatoon 3 and that it was pretty obvious what species he is, because his name is Mr. Grizz, as in Grizzly Bear. So saying that Donkey Kong in the Wii remake of Punch-Out is a boss that no one saw coming when you can see him in the background doesn’t make Donkey Kong a boss no one saw coming. Like if he wasn’t in the background where people can see him, then yeah Donkey Kong would be a boss no one saw coming.

[@xalier7382]

The #1 ranked yapper is here!

[@dungeonpastor]

Really don't like the lack of endings. 😢

[@lady_draguliana784]

Rick the Door Tech is probably my all-time favorite boss battle! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michaelmoore7356]

Fighting Solomon Grundy in the basement/dungeon of the Iceberg Lounge in Batman: Arkham City.

[@frz3rbRnotaku1]

What I didn't see coming was having to fight Laura AND the box head guy in Evil Within 2. Funny thing is when I played I was thinking. "Thankfully I dont' think I'm gonna run into the first games bosses" Nope Wrong.

[@batjohnthebro3818]

I thought the anchor in Control was WAY more frustrating than the Former. But maybe that’s just me.

[@kowell]

Final fantasy 9 final boss. Like where the hell did that guy came from anyway?

[@Vasif_Bugrahan_Alparslan]

The two dragons that come out of the frozen lake in Skyrim.

[@user-lm3nr1yc2t]

Im playing infinite wealth now going down memory road on Kazuma Kiryu side missions really got me sad

[@MacOriginalGamer]

"Well DAMN, Rick!" - Negan

[@davewiik9662]

The guardian apes wild movements threw me forever

[@Eddiember]

You beat the BBEG, freed your friend, and have found the Treasure.... you have won... Then "The Crab Who Stole the Whorl" suddenly shows up and ruins literally everything. Another Crab's Treasure.

[@Spawnwick_Boseman446]

Clayface in arkham city comes to mind

[@joels5150]

Agheel, Oh Agheel…Feral Flame of Agheel.

[@annasahlstrom6109]

You fight the Former twice in Control and it is so hard both times!

[@GogetaSupremacy]

Peak in the thumbnail

[@MoonFaceNick]

Don’t wanna spoil it but the last boss in Another Crab’s Treasure was pretty left field

[@LeroyzkiSmithsonian]

How about Marauder Shields, the final boss of the Mass Effect trilogy?

[@Matteso586]

Tseng in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

[@timcasey8314]

I’d rather put hot sauce in my eyes than hear anything more about Dark Souls

[@djcjr1x1]

Yeah Former from Control freaked me out.😲🤕

[@ROCKONplaceboforever]

Cool list 🎮

[@tubensalat1453]

Control is underrated?

[@sheemalmighty]

Morgan Freeman in South Park: The Factured But Whole should of been on this list

[@theepilogue2190]

YEAH BUDDY

[@nellurban7826]

The Rat King in Last of Us 2?

[@itay3894]

Mass Effect : Seren last fight

[@sainlovesluppi487]

Poor Tango Games hopefully Microsoft lets another company they own take up the Evil Within series

[@ryuiichikune6250]

Volo legends arceus

[@brittenogilvie8086]

Former is a part of the base game, not the DLC

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

Yes, nothing makes me feel like a powerful Jedi like getting my @$$ handed to me every 20 minutes or so. I suck at these games.

[@weRnd1000]

The Rock

[@timcasey8314]

Am I the only one that skips through ALL of the Souls/Bourne options? It’s been done to death

[@ninjamonkey3817]

Except that Agheel isn't a dragon, he's a wyvern.

[@spiritwolf3103]

Day 12 of asking for 'Games where the bad ending is the canon ending'. Include Shadow Hearts series.

[@aerodzee6553]

I don't think the words "epic boss fight" and "quick-time-events" were ever meant to be used in the same sentence.