Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 182 - Anti-Climax Boss

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope list:
Disc-One Nuke
Lampshade Hanging
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
That One Level
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Cruel and Unusual Death
Squishy Wizard
Magic Knight
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Cliffhanger, was The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War), which got 5 votes.

Previous Winners: Day 151 Onwards
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)
Your Soul is Mine - Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) / Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
Pop-Cultured Badass - Deadpool
Acquitted Too Late - Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lightning Bruiser - The Flash (DC Comics) / Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore)
Me's a Crowd - Naruto / Multiple Man (X-Men)
A Taste of Power - Samus (Metroid Series)
Shrinking Violet - Violet (The Incredibles)
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer)
Even the Guys Want Him - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) / Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Mighty Glacier - Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures)
Breather Boss - Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) / Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII)
Big Bad Friend - Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Launcher of a Thousand Ships - Nightwing (DC Comics)
Evil Cripple - Mr. Glass (Unbreakable)
Breather Level - 100 Acre Wood (Kingdom Hearts)
Beef Gate - Automatic 4-Star Wanted Level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
One True Love - Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride) / Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)

Today's trope is Anti-Climax Boss. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnticlimaxBoss

The Climax Boss is the boss at a pivotal moment of the story. The Final Boss is the last challenge of the story. The Anti-Climax Boss is when that boss gets killed with about as much effort as it took to fight some of the tougher Elite Mooks. Or the first level Warmup Boss. Either way, there was a lot of buildup, and what was expected to be a tense, critical, epic battle ended up being a breeze.

TL,DR: A major boss you'd expect to put up a tough fight ends up being really easy.

Nominations:
Mysterio (Spider-Man 2 (PS2))
Nega Scott (Scott Pilgrim VS The World)
Dr Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back)

Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
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Nega Scott (Scott Pilgrim VS The World)
Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby Super Star)
Soul of Cinder (Dark Souls III) [I know that's not the common perception but after beating Lothric/Lorian and the Nameless King shortly beforehand, he seemed easy by comparison]

Dishonorable Mention:
Joker (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
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Almost every JRPG if you do the optional bosses first.
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Every boss in Devil May Cry 2
Joker (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
Birkin Stage 5 (Resident Evil 2)

HMs:
Verdugo (RE4, if you use the Rocket Launcher)
Deathstroke (Batman: Arkham Knight)
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Hbthebattle posted...

Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)

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Yu Yevon
Mettaton NEO (Undertale)
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Mettaton NEO
Yu Yevon
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King Allant (Demon's Souls)

Rankings so far:
Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X) - 4 votes
Nega Scott (Scott Pilgrim VS The World) - 2 votes
Mettaton NEO (Undertale) - 2 votes
Mysterio (Spider-Man 2 (PS2))
Dr Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back)
Bandana Waddle Dee (Kirby Super Star)
Soul of Cinder (Dark Souls III)
Almost every JRPG if you do the optional bosses first.
Every boss in Devil May Cry 2
Joker (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
Birkin Stage 5 (Resident Evil 2)

Giant Spear Man (Wario Land 2)

Referring to the one in The Really Final Chapter obviously.
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Yu Yevon (FFX)
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Sephiroth FF7

Axl_Rose_85 posted...

King Allant (Demon's Souls)

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Yu Yevon (FFX)
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