Top 10 Lists : The Top 10 Final Bosses You Did Not See Coming. *Spoiler*

While Ganondorf is usually the boss of the Zelda games, his part in Twilight Princess seem like it was added in at the last minute. Throughout the whole game, you are fighting against the Twilight King Zant. It is not until you fight Zant do you find out that Ganondorf is behind everything. If this was your first Zelda game and didn't know anything about the Zelda games and characters, Ganondorf is a surprise. But if you play any Zelda game before, you will expect him to pop out in the end, which is why Ganondorf comes in at number ten.

You defeated your enemies, lit three of the four lighthouses that will save your world, you are at the top of the last lighthouse and are ready to turn it on, only to have the person who made you start your journey waiting there. The Wise One, the floating rock with the eyeball who you come across within the first two hours of Golden Sun 1 and don't see since, is waiting for you at the end of Golden Sun 2. Oh, but it not The Wise One you fight, but rather a three-headed dragon that he summoned. Doom Dragon: An unexpected summon from an unexpected final enemy.

Never thought you be fighting yourself, or rather a past you. Meet Red, the character you played as in Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow. In those games, you built Red up from a no one to the Pokemon champion. Of course you can't help but make a connection with said character. As you play through Gold and Silver, you get to see what happened to the characters, Gym Leaders, and your Rival from the first games, but never anything about Red until the very end when you battle him.

War. What is it good for? Why a fun and challenging game of course. As you go through the missions, you get a sense that someone *might* be behind the war. As you fight the other OC, they may or may not tell you anything depending on which OC you use to fight them and how many turns it takes to beat them. If you make the wrong choices and take to long, like I did, you get *No* information on Sturm until he shows up as the Final Boss.

This is assuming that you never heard of this game or beated Okami. Unlike other fighting games where the final boss is show in the opening, in one of the character's prologue, or a change/fusion of a know character (Cyber-Akuma). While Yami is shown in the Jap. opening, Yami was not in the remake U.S. opening. There is also no another character or background that hints at something from Okami is in it. If you never played Okami or hear anything from this game, when you get to Yami, you would probably saw something along the lines of "The Final Boss is a giant ball?" And even if you played Okami, Yami appearing at the end will be something you still won't see coming.

Sonic and friends are in a race for the Chaos Emeralds against Jet and his team. After the final race, Babylon Garden appears, which is what Eggman was after. After beating jet in one final race, we are believe to have one final race against Eggman for the treasure of Babylon Garden. However, the final race is against.....a genie in a bottle? The genie believe that they are greedy and you must race him while boosting into his bottle to win the race. The thing is, not once is there any mention of the genie or a guardian of Babylon Garden at all in both story lines.

The whole game has you fighting the X, who have taken on the forms of pass enemies, and the SA-X, which is a copy of you. You spend the whole game running from your copy as you slowly gathering your strength through upgrades until you are on equal footing with your evil clone. Once you got all the upgrades, it time for the final battle with SA-X, and what a battle it is. Lasers and missions everywhere, both you and SA-X jumping and using the Screw Attack while moving from platform to platform in the huge room, and SA-X even turns into a monster as the battle goes on. Once you defeated your clone and set the base to self-destruct, all that left is your run back to your ship. A simple task, if it wasn't for the Omega Metroid, who name was only mention along side 3-4 other Metroids by Adam near the end. If you've played other Metroid games before, you may of guess that something would have appear during the self-destruct, but after spending the whole game fighting X's, having a normal Metroid as the Final Boss is a little unexpected.

Thousands of years before the start of the game, there was war between humans and the Winglies. That war remains in the forefront of the story as the humans need the help of the Winglies to fight a new species called the Virage. Of course, their are many twist in the plot and the story itself would take to long to explain here. Just know that at the end of the game, you are fighting your father, who is trying to bring the God of Destruction to life, inside the moon (Yes, you are fighting your father inside the moon). However, it is not your father or the God of Destruction that the Final Boss. It is the ghost of the Wingly Emperor from the war thousands of years ago. Even after fighting on the moon, this Final Boss was a surprise.

In Dragon Warrior II, you are trying to save the world from a evil wizard named Hargon......and that it. It a simple story, but for a game that came out in 1990, a simple story now was a huge story back then. Your team are two princes and a princess from three different kingdoms banding together to fight a evil wizard that is trying to rule the world. Simple. You and your teammates go to towns and dungeons to gather information and equipment. Simple. You get to the wizard stronghold and fight the wizard himself. Simple.

Then the wizard uses his last breath to summon something that was never mention until it summoned.

Really, I have no information on this thing, even the guide I have for it have nothing on it.

Wow....just wow. I can easily bet that anyone who played this game never saw this Final Boss coming. In this game, the world is one big desert. Leaving the towns that provide solitude to go into the "Sea of Sand" is just asking for death from either the wastelands or the monsters that live there. However, there are people who go out into the wastelands for their lies treasures that are said to be able to bring unmatched power. Those that go into the wastelands are called "Drifters." In the game, you control four drifters who end up going from treasure hunters to the worlds only hope. At the end of the game, you are fighting a demon from another dimension who is trying to create a clone of the world in order to rule it in her dimension. This cloning process is also killing our planet. So to save the world, we have to fight the clone of the planet we are trying to save. What a twist, the Final Boss is the planet itself.

Didn't see any of these coming did you? With these bosses beaten, you have save the world, but at the cost of spending time after you turn the game off thinking "Why was ____ the Final Boss? What was the point of fighting it?" To that my answer is: No Idea. We have no idea what the producers were thinking and a part of a good story is trying to figure it out afterward. Just enjoy the game and don't let rack your brain too much.

List by lightdragoon88 (06/09/2010)

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