Evolution of Scary Nintendo Boss Battles (1994 - 2018) 

there's an unspoken rule that kirby final bosses have to be significantly scarier than everything else in the game

I fucking love giygas. The theme, the place, the fact he can shape into anything he wants and that makes me love him

Start of giygas battle: “I don’t understand what’s so scary about this” *30 seconds later* “Ah. Now I get it”

Every other boss on this list: “Fear me!” Kirby and Earthbound bosses: “That’s cute”

Every creepy boss in this video: WE ARE SCARY! Giygas: *Are you sure about that?*

It's hard to have an evolution with Giygas as the starting point.

Nintendo in 2018: Hey this boss is like, an evil Kirby. Nintendo in 1994: Space alien with abusive parents loses his mind as you watch in awe.

Other bosses: booo.... We are scary... Gygas: hold my porky

Giygas is terrifying on a meta level. Imagine having a game creator basically using a nightmare image of a part of a movie he mis-remembered as a template for a final boss. Maybe it was therapy for him, but he's now successfully transferred his nightmare onto thousands, if not millions of people.

You can always count on Kirby, the cutest of all Nintendo franchises, to have nightmare fuel final bosses...

Giygas will forever be my favorite boss in Nintendo history, the buildup to him throughout the whole game is incredible, the fact that throughout the entire game you’re constantly progressing forward to new areas, but when you reach the Cave Of The Past, you truly have reached your final destination, your basically lifeless shells of you former selves and have no way to turn back, and then you get to kick Porkys shit in, and Giygas is so strong against you that you have to abuse his triggers against human love by praying for your life to beat him. What a game

The dragon really wasn’t scary, it was actually really cool to see.

I have two words to describe the giygas boss fight FEETUS DELETUS

Seeing Giygas at 12 AM, as 5 years old, was really bizzare. If you can't agree it wasnt scary, then its admittable it was bizzare

Earthbound creator: ok we need a final boss for the game Guy: ok listen, let's make a distorted version of the final boss of the first make so children never gonna slepp again Earthbound creator : YOU FRICKIN GENIUS

nobody: mad jack: *donald duck noises*

I love Nintendo for how it's so colorful, kid friendly, and makes happy worlds but Jesus Christ they can makes some Nightmare fuel

The fact that Giygas is the very first and most scary boss in the entire Nintendo History... damn... Makes me feel proud of this game. Such a Masterpiece 👌

Everyone sleeping on the massive revelation that Kirby's species and the Dark Matter that has been the main antagonists of the entire series are one in the same. By killing Void Termina, he basically destroyed the soul of one of his own kind, or possibly even himself from another timeline.

Every creepy bosses in the video: WE ARE SCARY Giygas: hold my beer

4:09 scariest moment in my childhood.

Creepy bosses: **exists** Giygas: Cute, but utterly stupid

The artists and creators behind Ruined Level of Odyssey didn’t have to go in as hard as they did. Stunning as heckness for a Mario level

gigyas is actually so scary it’s literally the emobodiemnt of evil

nobody: Marx soul: **eternal screaming**

"Evolution of Scary Nintendo Boss Battles" Giyga: Let me introduce myself...

people: Earthbound isn't a horror game me: well... yes but actually no

You know the term ‘Save the best for last?’ The opposite is true for this video.

0:00 Mom: Oh it's Rated E Kid: For Electronic Death!

1:42 well, I didn’t want to sleep tonight anyway

Every Other Nintendo creepy boss: Doing their scary business Giygas: *I am going to end this men's whole career* Edit: thanks for the likes I suck at getting them

Gigyas gave me nightmares for months as a kid and he still does scare me today

-Dead Hands -Giygas -Dark matter -Majora's Wrath The older games are more creepy, aren't they ?

17:26 The Moment You've Been Waiting For

Everybody gangsta until blizzeta says "NOT TAKE MIRROR" with red eyes and a devil face

The final of Earthbound traumatized me even now. Everytime I close my eyes I can still see this Hell 👀😭

7:38 Donald is that you??? XD

Title: Scariest Nintendo bosses Me: *PTSD flashbacks to Smithy's final form from super Mario rpg legend of the seven stars*

That baby bowser boss fight for a kid was terrifying when he started running towards you

1:21 Oh no, Nintendo is high on CRACK!

Oh boy, the deep web bosses created by Nintendo...

Stranger things: We have the scariest creatures in histo- Earthbound: Hold my beer. Giygas: *distorted voice* Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooo :)

Dead Hand deeply scarred me for life as a kid, the whole shadow temple dungeon I had to have my brother clear it for me

- Giygas is 100% the scariest boss in this video. - I'd say Baby Bowser's fight is scary when you're younger and not skilled enough to stop him from steamrolling you to the ground... but it's far less scary than that scrapped design! - Zero bleeds. For Nintendo standards, that's considered creepy... also if Zero's here then why isn't 02? - Yeah, Dead Hand is creepy looking. That for sure earned its spot in this video. - I know nothing of Mad Jack... but I don't think they should be in this video. Oh well. - Only Majora's Wrath? Why not the whole fight? It's just unsettling. There are veins hanging from the backside of Majora! - King Boo himself isn't scary, but the idea of Bowser's disembodied head is! Even though I'd argue it's just a puppet Bowser in this fight, it still is kinda creepy. - That cutscene scared me real bad as a kid. Thanks, Giga Bowser. - Shadow Queen?... Eh, I guess there's a tiny bit of creepiness. - Oh, a jumpscare... Okay, I'll be honest, if I didn't already know it was there, it would have gotten me. - Okay, sure, Mimi does that freaky animation before transforming, but I always feel like people tend to overreact or overexaggerate how scary it is. - Ah, yes, Marx Soul's death shriek. Another one of my childhood nightmares. Kirby's for kids. - Like I said, King Boo's not scary. - The DRAGON!? Are you SERIOUS!? Fine, admittedly, I've heard at least one case of someone finding its looks to be scary in a weird way, so maybe others feel the same way, but come on! This was just too awesome to be scary! - Void Termina... yeah it's creepy to think Hyness sacrificed the three mage sisters AND himself to summon this thing. Honestly, I'm more freaked out by that unsettling smile it sometimes uses. (Hey wait, isn't that 02's smile? I guess he is in the video after all hahaha.)

why isn't Whitney's miltank on this list

Everyone is talking about Gigyas while I am still having nightmare about Marx’s death screech.

Imagine being one of those parents who bought Earthbound for their children thinking it was a cute game about a boy and his friends

I’ve always felt uncomfortable facing Giygas, you know very little about him and his origins throughout MOTHER and MOTHER 2/EarthBound. He’ll always remain as the scariest thing for me. It’s.... not... right... go.... b.. a.. c.. k..

Scary Nintendo bosses: im scary! Giygas: *pure mortals*

Giygas was probably the scariest honestly, (Edit): 770 likes? Thanks guys!!!

25:28 Everything from that point looks like something straight from an anime

That Mad Jack part unlocked a hidden memory from when I was little bitty! I remember playing that part over and over. I remember the sights, th sounds, everything!

it's hard to take mad jack seriously when he screams like donald duck.

ギーグ自体怖いのもあるけどそれよりもギーグと戦うまでの流れが怖すぎるんだよなぁ（ネス達4人が機械の身体に意識を移植して最低国突入→機械的な背景とBGM→一転して生々しいかんじの道からの脳みそ）

It's so weird seeing the gigyas fight without all the team members taking around 100 damage while some random guy takes 8217172 damage

Every other boss: I'm scary Mad Jack: Quack Quack I am high on crack

Scarest for me 1. Majora (literally just an abomination and just not right) 2. Marx soul (earrape scream then is sliced in half) 3. Giygas (was so powerful that his body couldn't contan his own power and turned into that thing)

I remember fighting Giygas and freaking out as he looked so terrifying to little me

Other bosses: We are scary! Gyigas and Mother 3 unused final boss background: *Are we a joke to you?!*

giygas then immidiately babay bowser makes me question shiromi's humanity and sense of fear

The ruined dragon is not creepy it's cool

Its funny that the very first two bosses on this list were the only two to give me nightmares at a young age. Something about Giygas, even after 15 years or so, still disturbs me on a deep level, more so than anything i see in RE or SH

Giygas no matter what will always be the most unnerving and disturbing boss in ANY video game in human history

Void Termina was the longest boss battle I ever witnessed in Kirby..but it was EPIC

こういうのって平和で優しい絵柄のゲームだと思ってやってた時ほど、怖く怖く感じますよね

5:10 Rated "E" for everyone.

You’re the best player in Kirby star alies that I ever seen

Everyone: Giygas is the scariest boss in nintendo history Me: Mimi's... trans...formation....

90% of giygas 5%of other bosses

No one is gonna talk about super metriods bosses?

Giygas never really freaked me out, because I could never see him as a face. I saw an angry ghost dude pointing sideways with his arms sticking out

How are supposed to evolve when the most horrifying thing is right at the start?

It's a good thing Giygas is here but where is 02?

"Earthbound is for kids" Me: Hey man, ia'm in the last boss of Earthbound. Come see!

Casual gamer: Kirby is such a fun and easy game Final bosses in true arenas: aRe YoU sUrE aBoUt ThAt

I feel like if Giygas would made today it wouldn't be as scary. There is something about the fact that he was done on 16-bit hardware and whatnot that makes him scarier. Adding stuff like a clear chin or eyes makes him look more human. When the simplicity of his appearance makes him all the more terrifying.

Scary is pretty subjective. The fight with the dragon in Odyssey was more epic than anything else, at least for me.

3:15 nah, its not scary, ITS EPIC!

The bosses in the video: Boo! Giygas back in those days: Hold my PSI

Mad jack: flalakdcjfnensis My mind: whoa there Donald Duck calm down

I just love how Marx got so popular so recently.

Blizzeta. When I saw her face for the first time, I was so scared I didn't looked at myself in the mirror for a long time. Even if I defeated her.

When I did event match 51 for the first time and saw Giga Bowser, I got so scared that I erased my save data. When I got the courage to play again, and look at event match 51, I was shocked that he really existed. It took awhile to get over it. I really wanted to beat event match 51.

I quite like Dead Hand. Had a charm to him that not many scary characters can portray

Haters: **NiNtEnDo GaMeS aRe FoR kIdS** Me: *this video*

タイトルが思いっきり日本語なのに中身が英語という謎

You forgot to add the ice boss from Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon. That thing is terrifying.

when i was 7 and played earthbound thanks to that i couldnt sleep for the entire night.

てか1番最初のやつ任天堂とは思えないほどホラーだなw 当時の子供達は泣かなかったのかな…？

絶対MOTHERあるわーとか思ってたら初っ端で怖すぎた

Giygas is terrifying enough to make people go insane

I know Super Paper Mario came out almost 2 DECADES AGO but… Mimi still scares me

15:35 it might not seem scary but thinks what’s happening first she snaps her neck her eye bleed and then she tore of her face

When I first played Earthbound ages ago I couldn't sleep near a TV once I beat it for almost 3 years because I was scared good ol' Giygas would appear on the screen. I'm much much older now but I still have low-key anxiety whenever I replay Earthbound.

Jubileus: My boss battle never ends Void Termina: I'm about to end this man's whole career

Mad Jack freaked me out as a kid. Especially when the music doesn't start right away. It's like Tiny's too scared to register it right away.

I love how the Kirby games always have some kind of eldritch horror as the final boss.

Ima just be honest.... The only scary ones on here were Giygas and Dead Hand.

Imagine if you were fighting giygas and the music just changed to sanctuary guardian for no reason

The weird fact that giygas’s body resembles a fetus