5.) M. Bison
You can't really have a final boss list without at least one fighting game. And while Street Fighter II may be a fairly old game, It featured what is probably the bitchiest boss of any fighting game: M. Bison.
Anyway, he looks like a badass with a glowing fist. Big deal. Lost of people have glowing parts. Like Cyclops and his glowing eyes. Or Rudolph the Reindeer and his glowing nose. Or Ron Jeremy and his glowing... anyway, we're not impressed by glowing parts.
What we are impressed by is having a power move that just kills anything. And in this case, that's M. Bison's Psycho Crusher.
For you to accomplish this move, naturally, required a bit of time charging. For the computer to accomplish it, there was no downtime. None. While you were fighting M. Bison, he could walk towards you and then immediately launch into 5 psycho crushers in a row. And this was a problem, because they would set whatever they touched on fire, including you:
Many people called this move "cheap". But the fact remains that you have to respect a boss who can repeatedly turn into a blazing bullet of flaming death. Someone like that simply has to be a final boss. After all, if he were your protagonist, games wouldn't be much of a challenge:
4) Bowser
Bowser is old school. One of the original Final Bosses, you fought him at the end of every single castle in the classic Super Mario Brothers for the NES. The princess may have been in another castle, but Bowser was ubiquitous.
The stuff of nightmares
He's not terribly scary in this initial form, since he's roughly your size, and looks like a small dog with back pimples. And he's also not terribly difficult to defeat, since all you have to do is run past him and touch the stupid switch. And if that was where bowser stopped, he'd never have made this list.
However.
Bowser soon set off on a course of self-improvement, and understood what it takes to be an evil villain worthy of final bosshood. He acquired some crazy mechanical throne devices, since everyone knows that a final boss must drive some sort of evil robot, even if it's an evil robot clown copter:
If the Joker had a helicopter throne, it might look like this.
Bowser also started working out, and bulked up considerably. No longer looking just like a retarded turtle, he finally managed to end up as a properly-sized monster to serve as the final boss in later Mario games like Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy. And it's much more satisfying to beat a large dragon/dinosaur monster that it is to beat a retarded turtle. Otherwise we'd just pick on Strom Thurmond.
Bowser after bulking up:
Bowser after too many steroids:<
Anyway, if nothing else, at least he's reliably unkillable. Bowser has been back probably more times than any other final boss in video game history. And there's a simple reason for that: Mario doesn't have any fucking weapons. No guns. No swords. Not even a cheap-ass switchblade. Until Mario learns to stop bringing a winged cap and fluffy tail to a gunfight, Bowser is going to keep coming back.
3) Ganon
Ganon is another one of those classic final bosses from back in the 8-bit NES days. You fought through nine dungeons filled with traps and enemies, all so you could face off against this evil pig-beast:
His powers including posing as a white house reporter, writing as a conservative columnist, and posing for gay websites. Link entered the dark room, and wowed by Ganon's large trident, repeatedly thrust his "Master Sword" into the pig, along with the occasional money shot-- woops, that's Jeff Gannon, and we wanted Ganon von Ganondorf:
There's our pig-faced boy. Anyway, Link entered the dark room, and wowed by Ganon's large trident, repeatedly thrust his "Master Sword" into the pig, along with the occasional money shot from the silver arrow. The trident soon became old hat, however, and Ganon got bigger and more bad-ass:
In spite of the increase in size, Ganon's diet managed to make him look like less of a pig, with the result that he was now capable of carrying a sword without getting stuck on a roast. And he just kept getting more and more badass. For Ocarina of Time, he picked up a second sword:
And by the time Windwaker came around, Ganon had gone all ninja, and completely towered over the heroes:
From Pig to Ninja. It'd almost be a wonderful disney movie.
2) Diablo
Diablo is the Lord of Terror, and one of the Prime Evils (the other evils being Hate, Destruction, and Telemarketers). Unlike the various other minor characters on this list, Diablo is an evil force from an ancient time, rather than just a random guy who happens to be evil and wants to take over the world. Diablo already is the world, which is why his name is on the box:
Who's the hero? Who cares! Rather than having a hero face various perilous quests with a different enemy to fight each time, the Diablo series has a constant enemy with new heroes each time. This is not about a Superhero saving the world from an endless series of villains. This is about a Supervillain destroying the world in spite of an endless series of heroes. In spite of being killed and trapped in a soulstone, Diablo always manages to take over again, and you can have all the character classes you like, because none of them have names, and few if any of them will return in the next installment.
Also, in terms of being a giant horned monster, Diablo pretty much puts Bowser to shame. He's much larger, much scarier, and rather than being a bumbling planner, he just destroys everything. His castle doesn't have lots of cute puzzles. It has a fuckton of enemies and a giant pentagram. And he doesn't spit a tiny fireball at you. Diablo IS fire. He'll put fire everywhere:
I went down, down, down, in that burnin' ring of fire.
In the original Diablo, his fire attack automatically hit you no matter where on the screen you were. In Diablo 2, his fire was complimented by a deadly stream of lightning. And as soon as Diablo 3 comes out, no doubt more ass will be kicked.
1) Sephiroth
It's quite possible that this pick for number 1 doesn't surprise you. Nor should it; Sephiroth is pretty much universally acknowledged as one of the most bad-ass characters in all of videogaming. You could run down the bad-ass villain checklist, and Sephiroth passes every category with flying colors.
Huge sword? Check. Wears lots of black? Check. Government super-soldier gone wrong? Check. Bizarre genetic creation? Check. Bad-ass theme song? Check. Part ninja? Check. Part alien? Check. Callous disregard for human life? Check. Willing to burn down your hometown just to taunt you? Check. He's well-nigh a demigod. And as if all that wasn't enough, when you're fighting him, he throws a fucking planet at you:
Calculus can kill.
Destroying half the solar system and dropping a planet on your year is probably out of the realm of possibility for all other supervillains, let alone videogame final bosses. But Sephiroth will do this a few times in the same battle. It's no wonder that in Kingdom Hearts, long after you've beaten the game, you can still be levelling up forever and not be able to face Sephiroth in the arena without getting your ass kicked in 10 seconds flat. He's not the final boss of Kingdom Hearts, because the creators figured someone might want to have a chance in hell of beating the game.
Billiam(1 year ago)
Good boss list. I think that Metal Gear should be on there though...
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diablo from d2 was definitely badass, i'd throw in that giant baby from half life, my friend tells me it wasnt a baby, but it had a big head and was wack thats for sure
F4g(1 year ago)
Kefka from FF6 was a much better final boss than pussy Sephiroth.
Lunyka(1 year ago)
Erm.... Just to let you know, any badass villains list should include Kefka in a way that beats Sephiroth. At most he looks cool and kills a flower girl. Kefka from FF3/6 is indeed more badass then Sephiroth. Sure he might but tough, but being tough does not a badass villain make, it is the things they do. Also Kefka's final form is pretty god damned tough in itself~
Seph(1 year ago)
Kefka? Really? The guy who giggles like an asthmatic female hyena? I mean, poisoning the town was cool and all, but a badass Kefka is not.
Anonymous(1 year ago)
HAY GUISE FF7 IS TEH BEST GAME EVAR!
Seriously though: Sephiroth? A man dressed in lady's clothing is the most badass villain of all time? Well, screw that shit, here's Anonymous's list of the most badass final bosses:
__5. Master D__
After fighting through an entire evil base of cyborgs, robots, and evil minions, you finally come face to face with the lord of this place - Master D, a villain so badass he bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler. After using your robo-arm to free him (because you're an idiot), Master D readies his flying battle fortress to attack you. After a long and harrowing fight, you crash his ship then run after him. As he tries to escape (no doubt, wanting to spread his evil ways to other countries), you shoot him with a bazooka. In the face. Which you see happening. On the goddamn "kid-friendly" Nintendo.
Truly, is there nothing more badass than dying in way which makes Nintendo look like a bunch of hypocrital assholes?
Anonymous(1 year ago)
__4. Halo__
That sounded like a rhetorical question. The answer is: "yes, there are more badass things", followed by a "shut up and let me continue".
So, in Halo 1 you fight as Master Chef, using your great culinary skills to fight through a horde of evil robot cyborg minions with the final reveal that no, you are a robot cyborg (the ninth MJOLNIR Mark IV cyborg, in fact).
Anyway, the final boss is the titular Halo: a four-armed, evil robot cyborg which bears a striking resemblance to an angel. Unlike most boss fights, Halo immediately gets down and dirty and strikes charging you, wielding his four monofilament laser whips with exacting damage. A real bitch to fight and the kicker is this: once he's down to half health, he grows a new set of arms and then duplicates himself!
Truly, a legendary boss.
__3. The T-Brick__
Motherfucking T-Brick! Always coming when I need a Line Brick. FUCK YOU!
Anonymous(1 year ago)
__2. ARC (Andromeda Research Corporation)__
From the amazing game Uplink.
Okay, so imagine this: you're a world renowned hacker. You've destroyed the Global Criminal Database, can hack banks on a whim, and are essentially a living god on the internet. What happens next?
I'll tell you what happens next: ARC DESTROYS THE INTERNET! That's right, these guys are so evil they destroy the internet! "OH NOES SEPHIROTH DESTROYS THE PLANET!" Yeah well screw that FF7 fanboy: ARC DESTROYS THE INTERNET! In terms of disasters, destroying the internet rates well above destroying the planet.
Anonymous(1 year ago)
__1. John Bigbooty__
Okay, so technically John Warfin is the evil leader of the evil Red Electroids, but let's be serious here: the true brains behind the operation is the unfortunately name John Bigbooty. He's the one who sets the evil (by way of the eighth dimension) plans in motion, he's the one who most understands the danger posed by Buckaroo Bonzai, and he's the one who actually stole the Oscillation Overthruster. Without John Bigbooty, John Warfin would have been stuck in prison and we wouldn't have ourselves a movie. So thank you John Bigbooty, greatest of all final bosses, for giving us this amazing movie.
minimimitchi(1 year ago)
F you,anon. why don't you go post that where someone will care? and BTW,Sephiroth is difinastely the most pwn baddie of all. if you disagree with the masses in this way, prepare to be round-house kicked in the face by Chuck Norris,because when chuck norris does pushups, he doesn't push up, he pushes the world down.
minimimitchi(1 year ago)
oops i meant definitely. lol
Sumo_FFA(1 year ago)
In response to the stupidiots (yes I can make up words) who support Sephiroth:
Kefka is the closest thing fiction has ever come to pure evil, with the possible exception of Cthulhu (who is not a final boss as far as I know). Also, Kefka worked very hard to become the God Of Magic, and you all have to admit: at the end of FFVI, KEFKA IS GOD.
Sephiroth is merely a superpowered emo pussy with an Oedipus Complex. Think about it.
And while you're thinking about it, listen to Dancing Mad: 17 minutes (no looping) of pure badass boss theme. Then listen to One Winged Angel: 7 and a half minutes, or 4 without looping, of less than badass boss theme. Which would you prefer?
Sumo_FFA(1 year ago)
Oh, and minimimitchi: This is the Internet. People care about the stupidest things here.
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Malcolm Christiansen(1 year ago)
Ben, someday our forum will get made, and we will be able to make fun of these people in a far more orderly fashion.
Also, I don't really have a preference between Kefka and Sephiroth. But I CAN tell you that whoever calls one of them the most evil person in fiction hasn't read much.
Tamerlin(1 year ago)
You know I really think you forgot to stress the totally big bad final boss faux Latin chanting + his name in Sephiroth's theme song. It already was a badass theme song but that really made it fitting for the son of two mad scientists that was injected with the cells of an alien bent on stealing/destroying all life-force on the planet.
Disclaimer: This comment expresses no opinion about the order or placement of any characters on this list. It is only meant as a reference to missed opportunities.
P.S now I really regret never finishing the game that changed my life. Though I was only ten and not a native English speaker I think I should be proud that I almost found the temple of the ancients. I wasted three years of on and off searching on the wrong hemisphere though.
PcGamesGalaxy(12 months ago)
Diablo's final boss was easy to defeat.
Without cheats,easy mode of course!
Darkmage(10 months ago)
Fucking Sephiroth! That bastard plagued my life for so long. I never did finish FFVII even tho it was my fave because you had to go and breed a Gold Chokobo and get the Nights Of The Round power to have half a chance at beating Sephiroth. And breeding a gold Chokobo... Not fucking easy!!
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Oh please. Sephiroth? You gotte be a Final Fantasy VII fanboy if you think Sephiroth is really even in the top 100.
For starters, compared to OTHER Final Fantasy villains, Sephiroth is low-power, and probably the biggest failure of them all. Especially when he goes up the REAL best FF villain: Kefka. Sephiroth does not: Become a god, the source of all magic, destroy the world, commit numerous genocides onscreen, murder a sympathetic villain turned good guy, vaporize his own personal soldiers just for laughs, have a truly epic final battle, or cause tremendous problems in the back stories and current stories of the majority of the cast of PCs in his game.
Kefka does ALL of those things.
Another reason why Kefka is better than Sephiroth: Kefka won, Sephiroth didn't.
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