The standard videogame boss is a super-enemy encountered at the end of a stage or by optional means. Yet, some are a huge pain in the ass to overcome. Let's begin.

My Submits:

King Dedede-Kirby's Dreamland
When you first played this game you had no idea what it took to even HIT him. After much experimenting (and losing) you finally figured that the stars were your only way out.

Shadow Queen-Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year Door
Multiple attacks in one phase, high attack power, and more than one target to focus on makes this "C U Next Tuesday" a real pain to beat.

Jafar (Genie Form)-Kimgdom Hearts II
Despite him staying put his bolts of lightning make it impossible to close in on him.

Tabuu-Super Smash Bros. Brawl
You'd think a SSB boss would really recquire a good'ol fashioned tank and spank strategy. But then you see the high health and plethora of instant KO moves, and it feels like an iron boot to the Johnson bag.

Culex-Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
A Square Enix delight. Five attacks a turn and a s**t load of health births the phrase diabolical.

Dragoon-Megaman X4
This battle is basically a slug-fest but when he does (and will) destroy your super suit, gives you no choice but to DANCE FOOL DANCE!

Sephiroth-Kingdom Hearts II
I can sure as hell tell him where to stick that sword!

Norton-Bully
Having to wear him down with a measly slingshot shouts annoying AND tedious.

Puppet Gannon-The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker
STAND STILL SO I CAN SHOOT YOU!

Vox-Ratchet: Deadlocked
Constantly bombing you from above and an intricate laser grid never lets you rest. Plus a horribly high amount of health makes this battle a toughy.

Zombie Bot King-Metal Arms Glitch In The System
Once you get him to finally stop chasing you, you must sling a core charge into his mouth. Easier said than done. Plus your on the clock. If you don't beat him in time, Dozer pays the price (voiced with the talents if Patrick Warburton).

Bowser-Super Mario Sunshine
Treking to four corners of this stage avoiding acid, homing missiles, falling off, and Bowser's fire breath gives you much to keep aware of. Not to mention taking out one of the four corners collapses the floor beneath you.

B2 Brawler and Chainblade-Ratchet and Clank 2
A tag-team match against two baddies who where pests alone. Not fun or very possible to beat without the rhino weapon.

Egg Viper-Sonic Adventure DX
Hitting him is tricky as each attack risks your life and the floor beneath you collapses the longer the battle rages on for. Then when you think you've won, a desperate kamikaze attack by Robotnik spells death.

Dr.'s VS-Lost Planet
Awkward controls and unpredictable attacks makes this battle a tricky endeavor at higher difficulties.

Giant Beetle-Super Mario Galaxy
Timing your ground-pound is essential and annoying to master, especially when he speeds up.

Queen Larsa-Mihishime Futari
Quite indisputidly the hardest boss in all of existence. You're not going to win. I will bet any amount of money on it, I will.

Blacksun256's Submits:

Silver The Hedgehog-Sonic The Hedghog 2006
If he catches you once, he'll keep slamming you against the wall until you die.

General Corrosive (Space Station)-Metal Arms:Glitch In The System
You have to avoid him while trying to collect six computer chips randomly spawned throughout the level. Your reward is controlling the golliath.

Dark Samus-Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
After the horrendous fight with Emperor Ing (read below) you'd think you have done your job and saved the day as you sit back and watch the credits roll. But one more menace remains and your previous battle leaves you ill-prepared for your confrontation with Dark Samus.

Emperor Ing-Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Substantial health and a tedious weakpoint makes you grind your teeth in frustration. Your resources are also wasted on this behemoth as you then must fight Dark Samus afterward.

Optimus Prime-Transformers: The Game
A freaking nuke won't have any affect on him. Not kidding. But throwing a tree at him over a nuke?! Pretty bogus.

Thelightning55's Submits:

Lavos-Chrono Trigger
Three forms to fight through and attacks that pack a fatal blow every term. The developers of this boss were evil, not Lavos.

Plugman-Megaman 9
If you are able to fight your way through his stage (if you are able to), you have to do deal with this tough sumbitch. Kiss your a** goodbuy if that weapon of his traps you in a corner. Making this battle easier requires you to beat another tedious bastard beforehand.

Boost Gaurdian-Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Fighting him in morph ball form is a chore. No weapons bit small bombs at your disposal. You lose health every second and has little vulnerability before resorting to his puddle form again.

Nitrous Oxide-Crash Team Racing
Oxide is fast as hell and throws beakers of deterring chemicles everywhere. Hitting them slows you down. You can't afford to hit a single one.

Aurora Unit 313-Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
He fills your gauge to the point of the corrupting hyper mode which takes a toll on your health bar. Not hard unless playing on the hyper difficulty. Then you should get ready to cry.

Eightball6219's Submits:

He kind of went off on a limb with his submits. He gave me annoying boss concepts than actual bosses which I'm glad he did.

Last Minute Invincibility
You fight them down to near victory but then...INVINCIBILITY! Now you have to change up your strategy or die.

Resurrected Bosses
Bosses brought back late in the game because the developers were lazy.

Super-powered Enemies
Stemming from resurrected bosses. Bosses brought back later in the game but in a weaker state...and sometimes a different color palette.

Movie Monster Bosses
Not only have you failed to thrill me on the big screen, you have also given me a mediocre at best fight with stiff controls.

Unnecessarily Large Bosses
Having zero room to fight off the baddy or to even dodge his attacks! I guess you didn't think he was HARD ENOUGH! (I'm talking to YOU developers!)

Resource Wasting Bosses
Bosses that take so many effing items to conquer and when you're done, you have nearly no chance of surviving the challanges you must face afterwards.

Enemy Summoning Bosses
As if you had enough to worry about. Now you must deal with a boss, dodging his attacks, and killing his minions so they won't interrupt. Now that's just rude!

Kazdan Paratus-Star Wars: Rhe Force Unleashed
You thought his agility made him difficult to hit?! Also try getting past the big robot body gaurd he summons no matter how many times you kill it.

This List Made By:

-albatross412 (author)

-Blacksun256 (collaborator)

-eightball6219 (collaborator)

-Thelightning55 (trial collaborator, made official member at 4:27 6/18/09)

My thanks to these users who made this list the best it can be!

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