Top Ten Disappointing Final Bosses 

Oh my God, that Harley Quinn injecting Joker with the Titan serum storyline sounds so much better than what we actually got! Add on to the fact that, if the rumors and signs are believable, Harley Quinn also had a miscarriage in the Arkham games, and it's safe to say Batman isn't the only one going through some psychological torture.

“That used to be me.” Yeah, from an older kid with a military haircut to a man with a beard and a wife.

I've never played the game, but... *gunshot* "Oh, I'd thought he'd never shut up. Oh, I'm sorry, were you going to kill him?"

"What does a guy have to do to get whipped by a giant tentacled monstrosity?" Play Terraria. Moon Lord's a hell of a challenge.

Well part of Borderland's issue is the fact that they basically cut something like a third of the game due to time and budget constraints, so the parts that might've explained the Destroyer, or at least built up to it, got lost.

Alduin Built up as “The world-eater” aka, a god Then he turns into a basic dragon fight with three powerful warriors beside you

Joshscorcher: Context Honey Josh's wife: *cringes*

Lucien's death cracks me up. It's so anticlimactic to the point that it's hilarious. The music sure helps a lot. doooon~ DON DON

Remember, if you cringe at stuff you did in the past, it means you’ve grown as a person

The first time I played Fable 2, I didn't even know you were supposed to shoot him and thought that the fight would start after he was done talking. So him getting shot by Reaver was jarring to say the least.

How about Top 10 Video Game Fan Theories More Interesting Than The Actual Story?

"If Disney could play loosey-goosey with history" >Shows Hercules Ah yes, my favorite real life story. Hercules.

Here’s a disappointing final boss: Le Paradox from “Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.” Say what you want about that game, but it at least had some solid boss fights, from the flaming battle with El Jefe to the platforming challenge with Ms. Decibel. How do you follow that up with the final boss? A QTE! Lame!

3. I've seen the "message delivery" done better in Shadow of the Colossus, where you face the consequences for killing the Colossi and reflect on the monster you've become. 1. This is my least favorite type of boss fight. The one that stands perfectly still, never attacks, and dies after ONE, HIT, just one! Give Frank Fontaine from Bioshock some credit, at least he puts up a fight and you can actually lose! At least the final battle of Fable 3 made up for that... somewhat. And at least it looks like the franchise seems to have learned from this, and we have a reboot to look forward to. We're counting on you Playground Games, don't you dare let us down.

The final boss of Crash 2: Cortex Strikes Back: The fight against the title villain Cortex just consists of pursuing him with no resistance and hit him 3 times. That's it.

I know she's not a final boss, but I feel like Mother Beast Lusamine from Pokemon Sun and Moon could have been squeezed into the honorable mentions as the final boss of the story.

Oh Hive Mind, I remember how people made fun of how easy it was. One time I wanted to test it with my brother who never played Dead Space before. I loaded the save before the fight, bought medicine and ammo, and challenged my brother to beat it without any explanations on how to play. You know what, he beat it first time despite having problems with healing (he didn't realize there was a quick heal button). It is just sad how easy it is. Side note: I liked your old top disappointing final bosses.

#1: Lucien falls down the pit. Then a familiar laugh echos as someone in a mask rises from the pit. Thank you, Hero for resurrecting me. Now, Jack of Blades is back.

20:46 Also, The Batman’s version of Joker was more of a physical fighter at times and as a result way more likely to throw fists, so him deciding to resort to using that kind of brute strength wasn’t too out of character for him.

The Black Hand/Sauron: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

When you were talking about how they could have done revenge right in the number 3 segment, I couldn’t stop thinking about “The Southern Raiders” from Avatar: The Last Airbender

One way they could have added a lot of tension to the Calamity Ganon fight would have been to have him go full Kaiju and start destroying villages one by one until you stop him.

"Jasper was meant to be a disappointing boss fight so you can't say he's a disappointing fight." Logic.

Given how FF9 was rushed to get it out before the series could properly move on to the PS2, I'm fairly certain Necron suffered from the age-old case of "had ideas but no time to implement them". Consider that the Iifa Tree's roots go down all the way to the core of the planet, and that its purpose is to draw souls away from the crystal that would naturally recycle them. Necron's well of souls where the final boss fight takes place is obviously meant to be connected to this idea, as those souls are trapped there in wailing agony until he's defeated. Kuja is the personal villain, but Necron seems to have been planned as the culmination of the Mist plot that was built up from the game's beginning. Maybe not as the mastermind, but definitely the cap of that plot to free the souls trapped by the Iifa Tree in the first place. Seriously though, disc four is so fucking barren and devoid of content that it becomes *readily* apparent that stuff was cut for time.

While the final boss in Breath of the Wild was disappointing, it doesn’t take away what a (no pun intended) breath taking game Breath of the Wild was and that game won Game of the Year of 2017.

"What does a guy have to do to get whipped by a giant tentacled monstrosity?!?: -Josh Scorcher 2020

Jasper Batt Jr? That's a name I haven't heard of in years

“You know when I said ‘That Stupid Pig was too hard’ I didn’t mean go the OTHER WAY.” -Josh 2020

The DBZA reference put a smile on my face.

A Wallace & Gromit reference? Either Josh or his editor has good taste.

The real treasure of the vault was that it led into the sequel, and gave us handsome jack.

No More Heroes 2 was The Last of Us 2 except actually fun and made much earlier.

I'd argue that Tyreen the Destroyer is a worse boss because it's combining a terrible character with a terrible boss and multiplying the suckage, but...yeah. Original Destroyer deserved the spot for being the OG disappointing boss of Borderlands.

Here's an idea for a series of more comedic lists. Top 10 fails in the Henry Stickmin series, one video per game except for Breaking the Bank because that only has 5 fails.

Those “context” gags were hilarious! Awesome countdown, Joshscorcher! 👍

Man I remember the orginal video was the first of yours I watched. Can't believe it's been so long. Still entertaining to this day. Keep doing your thing man. Good work as always and Godspeed

Having been a long time (7 years) viewer of your content Josh, I'm so glad to see an update to one of your first lists. Good to see many returning faces but also a healthy mix of newer bosses. And the like button was smashed at "Big Lipped Alligator." That made me smile. Keep up the awesome job! (Shout out to the hardworking editors, writers, and Ari!)

The quick time boss for the halo game that the Prometheans were introduced in

Spyro the Dragon / Spyro Reignited Trilogy: Gnasty Gnorc. All you do is chase him and then flame him once. Not awful, but given he’d been hyped through the whole game and then the battle be so mundane was a letdown

We were all a "2010 Josh" at one point in our lives.

The Black Hand from Shadow of Mordor. Built up so high, implied to be Sauron himself (if you read the lore page in the menu), STEALS CELEBRIMBOR FROM YOUR BODY... and it's a QTE boss. In the game with the Nemesis system!

Josh: *Uses a Medabots Clip* Me, a Medabots fan: Ah, a man of culture I see.

I still remember seeing your first disappointing bosses list in 2013. Man, time does fly.

You know, the funny thing is. With Ganon, I FULLY expected them to go with that unused concept for OoT's final boss.... You know, him being SUPER huge, and you had to climb him to hit weak points or something.... Sure, people might have cried out "SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS DID IT FIRST!" But then again, if we had that mentality about everything. Most games wouldn't exist at all. But seriously, that would have been neat. A giant more akin to OoT Ganon's form, using the CLIMBING MECHANIC INTRODUCED IN THIS VERY GAME to take out weak points. All the while perhaps him throwing beams at you as you run to him. Oh, and maybe him throwing you off after each weak point is destroyed. (Although now that I described it, it sounds like a cross between Perfect Chaos, and the giant Oogie Boogie boss in KH1.... Not sure how that would actually play out in practice.)

It's nice to see more quality content in these trying times. Stay awesome, sir

I knew Fable 2 was gonna be on there. I love the game but that ending is *ooooof*

At least for the Dark Beast Ganon entry the BotW2 trailer revealed that Calamity Ganon isn't actually Ganon. So Nintendo has the opportunity to redeem themselves with a hard boss fight with the real Ganon in BotW2. Hopefully they don't blow it.

I have a harder time fighting a red Lynel (the LOWEST level Lynel) than I do fighting Ganon. That said, it is a pretty damn fun boss fight, and it is impressive visually. I just wish, like Josh said, that there was more...urgency or difficulty.

In Breath of the Wild they patched the glitch in the final boss. So you use to be able to leave area of the final phase of the final boss but not anymore.

Late but Oh my God I remember that old countdown! It was when it was fairly new and was actually how I found you! Been a fan ever since! ^0^

18:42 Good looking then, great looking now. All still the same Scorcher.

HA NICE! Huge upgrade from the original version of this countdown in every way, you've grown a lot! And it's pretty damn solid to see you place Jasper Jr. higher this time lol

A remake of the countdown that was my introduction to your channel. I've been subbed ever since :)

for me Sauron in Shadow of Mordor (1.0 NO DLC) is the most disappointing Final Boss of all time, the dark lord himself being reduced to nothing but a QTE... Tolkien would be FURIOUS! *shows clip of Bilbo trying to take The Ring from Frodo in Rivendell*

Probably the worst part of The Destroyer in Borderlands 1 is that it’s a massive bullet sponge. It took me forever to kill it. Sure, it came out of nowhere, but it definitely set the tone for future final bosses in the series as the start of the traditional last obstacle. Also, the opening of that first vault would cause Eridium to be a thing, so it’s not THAT disappointing.

So does that mean you’ll remake Top 15 craziest video game characters?? Cuz that thing needs an update, BAD.

Wizpig: "You can't beat me!" Dark Beast Ganon: "I can't beat you!" There's *one* point you can give to Asgard's Wrath. As much as it's ending grinded your gears, at least it didn't provide a final boss battle worthy of this list. Also, a friendly reminder that the original Fable's final boss is a dragon, which you actually have to fight. Now for some *other* dishonourable mentions: The Biobliterator from Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal: Strafe and shoot to win. Most unfortunate is that you can only replay *this* boss on a completed file, and not the great fight with Dr. Nefarious that precedes it. The Time Eater from Sonic Generations (Home Console and PC): It has pathetically ineffectual attacks, there's literally zero strategy to winning and your friends actively refuse to shut up about homing shots. Mithos Yggdrasil from Tales of Symphonia: He starts out perfectly reasonable for a final boss, but then he suffers a reverse difficulty spike come the second stage of the battle. Demon God Demigra from Dragon Ball Xenoverse: After all the buildup to his appearance and all the strings he pulled to break free of his prison, he's easy to dodge, easy to hit, and after a while Goku drops in just to make him that much more of a joke.

Just from seeing Titan Joker in the thumbnail, I instantly agree. Man, what a disappointing final boss to an otherwise great game. As for me, as much as I love BotW, the final boss, Dark Beast Ganon, is severely underwhelming and can be beaten in my sleep, despite looking amazing visually. Thankfully, Nintendo would eventually redeem themselves with the Champions Ballad DLC’s final boss, Monk Maz Koshia, who is WAY harder and more satisfying than Ganon ever will be. Edit: And lo and behold, he’s on the list as well!

Jasper Batt Jr. should take a lesson from Henry to make a satisfying final fight

Ahhh...Fond Memories. Awesome Job! Keep It Up!

I was partly expecting Alduin from skyrim. It's got a lot of cool setup. Making you feel like a badass fighting alongside the spirits of Sovengarde just for it to be a normal dragon fight like the dozens of dragons you've slain already. Just with a few new attacks

"Context, Honey"

It's sad that for all these years people complained about like No More Heores 2 sucking because it's shoehorned message ruining the end fights, and yet it's still kinda happening. Looking at you, Super Hot 2, where you purposefully slog for 100% and then when you beat the game, it locks you out for a LITERAL 24 hours to keep you from playing it again.

#3 i remember Autarch of Flame's countdown of the NMH bosses and how he argued that the battle against Alice Twilight was a more effective way of doing the, "revenge is unsatisfying," message. Maybe the game should've done away with Jasper entirely and allowed the game to end there?

Holy shit Josh still out here making videos in 2020. Good shit dude idk why I'm not subbed

Polygon Man from PlayStation All-Stars: Am I A Joke To You?

Final bosses are some of the most epic parts I look forward to in a video game and there's a lot of great ones to choose from like Josh has shown in his best boss fight. However they're plenty of bad and dissapointing ones as well and when gamers like myself encounter those I just ask what were they thinking?

After playing TOTK, yeah the final phase of the final boss suffered the same thing as Calamity Ganon where it's much easier than the previous phase, but they make up for it by making it more cinematic AND sort of forcing you to actually fly through the volley of fireballs.

you left out the worst part about yu yevon despite how annoying and unfair he is, he is suceptable to the zombie status, so you can actually one shot him using a zombie attack and a Phoenix down.

Thank you SO MUCH for elaborating a bit more on why the Titan Joker boss doesnt work. Dissing it has been such a dead horse for this type of videos, so its nice to see someone take a slightly different route. Dont go dissing on "The Batman" though. That was my first Batman Animated experience and I will be in complete denial of its flaws 'till the cows come home.

To me, Dark Beast Ganon was an endgame spectacle more than anything and I enjoyed it for that!

17:48- "Why should the game sacrifice a satisfying boss fight for the sake of a message?" Try asking that to the folks at Naughty Dog.

Shocked N'Zoth wasn't on the list. The old god had more build up than the Lich king, Deathwing, and the Burning Legion combined. Much of Warcraft's lore was shaped by him. Was Ctrl+Alt+Del to death in BFA.

lmaoooo this WHOLE VIDEO I was like 'where's Lucien tho' and you delivered

*Sees number 5. Remembers what Josh said years ago on a different countdown. Specifically WTF endings.* Josh: “How do you make beating up the Pope suck?!”

A remake of the first video game countdowm I ever watched. The one that got me into Josh's channel, as well as RabbidLuigi and Autarch, and really the Chaos Theater in general

11:46 Pffffff hahahaha, i haven't thought about this movie in years and it's so accurate comparing that to the fist fight, well done

Yea, the Joker-Titan fight could have worked if there was just more oomph to it. Like he fakes out the player making them think he'll mindlessly charge around, but then surprise them with a different attack, something that would fit within his character. It also would have been cool had the game offered a secret ending of sorts where Batman let himself transform and went toe to toe with the mutated Joker. It might not be exactly a thematic moment for the two rivals, but that would have at least been kind of fun to have a boss fight where you're on equal footing and able to just smash up the world as you beat up the boss. As for other disappointing bosses, I'd say the battle with John/The Beast in Infamous 2's good path was a bit lacking. You just mostly followed after him and Lucy, fending them off while charging up the Ray-Field Inhibitor, then Cole beats up John a bit before finally activating the RFI to put an end to everything and cure the plague that is sweeping across the country and the world at large. The evil ending, while not much better in terms of a challenging boss with Nix, at least felt more thematically impactful when Cole has to face down his best friend, Zeke, and kill the last tie Cole has to his life from Empire City. Kessler in the original game might not have done much other than summon weird shadow clones, but at least there was something that made him feel like an even greater being than Cole, his past self. Likewise, Augustine from Second Son felt like she was cutting loose with her incredible powers over concrete as she decided Delsin was a lost cause in her grand scheme.

The final battle with Abby in tlou2 is also disappointing due to how easy it is compared to 2 other boss battles in the game that required more extra thought. Against the Rat King, you're constantly on the run while shooting and/or throwing bombs. Against Ellie in the theatre, you have to either stealth her or stagger her before striking. But against Abby on the beach, which is the climax, you just dodge and strike. That's it. They could have at least added some extra to it, by let's say, Lev jumping in to help Abby, or have Abby stealing Ellie's knife and force you to be creative like in the theatre confrontation. As much as I love tlou2, that climax was challenge-wise a major let-down.

"context honey!" I died laughing! Good one Josh!

I'd've chucked on Alduin, from Skyrim (pretty sure I suggested that last time, too). He's built up as a living apocalypse, a demigod who exists to destroy the world, and uet he's just another dragon in a game where killing dragons is a lot of what you're doing already. Just . . . yawn.

As much as Breath of the Wild is my new favorite Zelda game, you do indeed have a point, Josh!

"Victory lap" bosses have always rubbed me the wrong way. All that tension and build-up and then the game throws a fight at you where you either can't lose or have to be severely incompetent to fail. -Plus at that point I usually just want to be able to hit the bathroom.-

The Dead Space Hivemind definitely needed another stage or two to make it harder to deal with. What we got works for a first form, but there was a lot more they could've done with it.

Josh is back again with another top 10.

This is taking me back I remember that video so clearly from middle school I'm surprised this just showed up in a random ds2 related search

The "Context, honey!" moments were funny

wasnt expecting you to bring up hari-hara from dds1. nice just finished 1 yesterday and i gotta say; she was the best part of the whole dungeon because sahasrara as a dungeon is hands down the worst part of an otherwise great game, and she's only really a challenge if you dont have enough soma/great chakra's to restore MP so AT LEAST the last boss of the worst dungeon in the game is kind of a relief after the hell hole you crawled up through

10: The idea of the coveted vault housing a horror beyond human comprehension is not a bad twist, but if you were to stick with subverting expectations, it would have been better to make the abomination a average sized humanoid. That way, instead of the tired trope of a boss that simply sits there and eats your attacks, you would be a able to make a boss where you would have to keep track of the boss and take advantage of it's mistakes. Plus the possible twist that the horror in the vault was a vault hunter like yourself would be a nice lesson about the consequences of greed, and how you shouldn't let the promises of riches blind you to the dangers of your actions. 9: Agreed, they should have done something like what the remake of resident evil 3 did where you would have to use a super weapon to take the beast down. Considering a mining laser can double as poor man's BFG that's kinda a missed opportunity. 8. That tends to happen when the sequel is just more of the same. 7. It feels like Nintendo held back out of fear of making the final boss too hard. The final boss should not feel like super baby mode. 6. This feels more like a quick time event than an actual boss fight. A quick time event you can't fail apparently. 5. The fight should have been more like the Mr. freeze boss fight from Batman: Arkham City. It would have given the Pieces of Eden far more weight if it made the pope too strong to take head on, and instead forced you to hide in the shadows and take advantage of your environment, like and actual assassin. 4. That's a lot of disappointing bosses. I agree that a final boss with little to no build up is annoying, but I guess it just doesn't bug me as much as it does you. 3. Making a boss battle bad just to make a statement is both poor story telling and poor game design. You don't need to make poor game choices simply to make your audience feel something that can be conveyed though a number of better methods. 2. I actually find your take on Titan Joker to mesh rather well with the story the game presents. That simple change in story might have actually changed the tone of the boss fight for the better. 1. The same rule as the number three spot. If you wanted to subvert expectations than why not do it twice by having Lucien float back up Ganondorf style after his cut-scene style death. You could have the boss fight be similar to what Nintendo did with Ganondorf in ocarina of time, with Lucien only being vulnerable to certain methods of attack during specific spells. That's all my thoughts on the list. Great countdown.

Just watching the video, learning about some fights I've never faced before while laughing along with those I've played through. Get to the Joker fight and start chuckling as I watch Josh rage. "We are two of a kind, violent unsound of mind, you're the yin to my yang can't you see? And if I were to leave..." Wait, what? Turns out the real final boss is not singing along to Miracle of Sound when his music comes on.

It's funny in a way, about a decade since your original "Disappointing Bosses" list (apologies for reminding you if you wanted to fully suppress the rest of it), and the number 1 is still the same.

I think a pretty lame boss I’ve personally fought in a video game was Valkog from Rogue Galaxy. It wasn’t an epic final battle where you get to show off the powers of your main character, it was just a normal sized human slashing at a mutant battleship with a face with an extremely oversized sword while you try in vain to dodge occasional spikes that the boss launches at you.

Alright! A joshscorcher countdown on my birthday! Booyah!

This video really takes me back to when I first discovered the RU-vid countdown community years ago.

And the The Joker turned himself into a deathclaw, funniest shit I've ever seen

Nice I'm not the only one who remembers Medabots (Medarots in Japan)

Cloud of Darkness actually works pretty good as the incarnation of pure Darkness. I mean her name makes it obvious. It works well also as the last move of Xande before he dies. But yeah a lot of the final bosses of final fantasy are outta nowhere

Yu Yevon might have been very disappointing, but he does NOT come out of nowhere. We're constantly told about him throughout the game and, in the final act, we find out that he IS the one behind everything and we actively know this. It was even hinted in said final act that we would have to sacrifice the Aeons since we knew he would try to possess them in order to re-make Sin.

You’ve got to admit Jasper’s second phase has great music

If there's ever a anniversary addition or something else of the fable games I think for Fable 2 they need to redo the Lucian fight where you still shoot him but it has a little effect on him and he starts pulling out super powerful magic spells. Then he could bring you to a new arena where you and the other three heroes have to combine your skills to put him down.