Jasper Batt Jr
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As the final boss of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Jasper has a laughable and over the top reason for acting revenge; Travis managed to kill of his father and 2 brothers, who were the other shareholders of the pizza company owning Santa Destroy.
With his 3 forms each getting more ridiculous, the battle can either be a breeze on Easy, or a serious challenge on Normal. Add in a kickass theme and you've got a worthy yet quirky foe.
Orphan of Kos
2
Rounding up the end of The Old Hunters, Fishing Hamlet is the final area where intimidating fish men will fuck you up, especially the giants. At the beginning of an ocean, a child is born from what seems to be Kos, or Kosm's corpse, and it's desperate for parenting.
In fact, the Orphan of Kos is so pissed of at your presence that he uses his massive placenta to break you. He is my favorite (final) boss fight of Bloodborne, has a delicious twisted lore background, a great design, and with his high difficulty, he is easily one of the best boss battles ever for me.
Sigma
3
The rebelling Reploid leader known as Sigma has a tragic past and a relentless tendency to keep returning from the death with a new body in order to rule over mankind. In part 4, he is the mastermind that manipulates Repliforce and Maverick Hunters to go to war with each other.
His 3 battle phases are varied, challenging and scary, and especially his final form is an intimidating and confusing battle, which is comprised of several grotesque Sigma forms which was actually epic in design back then, that it's still a fight well worth revisiting, despite the terrible voice acting and dialogue of preparing to become "space dust".
Jack Norman
4
Resident Evil is well known for it's great creature design, and has seen plenty of memorable boss fights, such as Nemesis, Birkin, Krauser and Albert Wesker. But a lesser familiar final boss just might be my favorite in terms of challenge, score and buildup.
Of course Chris's "Disco ball" quote is amazing, but the epic score, the pain in the ass on Infinite mode, the teleporting movements and the realization that we are dealing with the most advanced tyrant yet makes Jack Norman a worthy way to finish of Revelations.
Death
5
Castlevania is another franchise well known for it's boss fights, and there are many incarnations of Dracula, but also others like Medusa, the Mummy, the Creature(Frankenstein) and the most prominent and prince of darkness's right hand is Death.
My favorite incarnation of him is in Dawn of Sorrow, where a new sick battle song accompanies the difficult fight, as he uses his scythe and sickles to keep you running, while occassionally morphing into a monstrosity further.
Dark Samus
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Sometimes, all you need to carry a boss battle is it's theme song.
Despite being a cliche clone version of a protagonist like SA-X before it, Dark Samus is actually the final boss Metroid Prime from the first title, and remains the main antagonist throughout each part until the very end of Corruption.
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