

He turns into a shadowy duplicate of Mario in the middle of your fight with him. He's actually at the physical end of the area, just like a boss would normally be.

Until you realize that Peach is really Kamek in a Paper-Thin Disguise, Kamek sprinkles some magic spell on Bowser, and in a just like Yoshi's Island way, Bowser becomes about fifty feet tall and starts chasing you through the castle in a climactic escape sequence.

Wii has you fight Bowser in the final level, who's suspiciously easy for being the so called 'final boss', attacking just like he did in the NES days (there's Bowser on a bridge, that sort of thing). Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels: You fight a fake Bowser in world 8-4 before the real one.(For 3's, the fact that its Enemy Scan says it uses "powerful lightning based attacks" and it goes down before it uses any should clue you in, while 4's first form is essentially a tutorial on using the Saboteur role.) For the Warmechs in Chapters 7 and 9, you actually end up fighting two of them! The end bosses of Chapters 3 and 4 are typical examples. The general rule of thumb is that if you find yourself saying "Hey, that was surprisingly easy." after a boss battle, it was probably the first stage of a Sequential Boss. A frequent occurrence in Final Fantasy XIII.And Gerogero becomes even more of a joke when you realize that you can kill it with a Phoenix Down. Your fire-tossing buddy with Boost can turn this into a Breather Boss. Then he starts convulsing and "morphs" into the real boss, Gerogero - a giant vomiting zombie that loves status attacks but really hates Ifrit. okay, that's weird, but nothing to worry about. Final Fantasy VIII has the fake President Deling.Then, he fakes you out with what looks like an end-of-battle dialogue before casting protect, shell, and haste on himself and challenging you for real. In this case, he starts the battle doing minimal damage, and essentially just letting you whack at him. In an odd instance in Final Fantasy V, Gilgamesh serves as both the trick boss and the real boss during one of the several battles with him.He goes down fast, then tells you, "Ah yes, you've given me a fine death! A fine death indeed! And only in death can you know the true terror of Scarmiglione!" Presto, instant undead monstrosity. It's a particularly nasty example in the DS version, since Calcabrina can easily kill or seriously injure your characters with just one hit, and if Cecil goes into the following battle against Golbez with anything less than about half his health, that battle is Unwinnable. Final Fantasy IV has an example of the latter type of Trick Boss, with the Calcabrina in the dwarf castle.
