

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. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has Doopliss.In Paper Mario 64, before you battle The Koopa Bros in chapter 1, you have to battle them in a very unconvincing Bowser mecha.Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time has the Elder Princess Shroob, who was sealed inside the Cobalt Star and got released from it after you beat the first Princess Shroob.She's not terribly hard, but your HP will be all but wiped out in the battle's aftermath, so don't use up your healing items! In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Bowletta (Cackletta's spirit inside Bowser's body) is the latter type of Trick Boss.You assume the Czar Dragon to be an arc-ending boss (it's even a Sequential Boss), but, when you try to claim your Plot Coupon from behind it, it's snatched away by The Axem Rangers. Super Mario RPG has one of these in Barrel Volcano.shows up in his Clown Car with Kamek attached and turns Bowser into a giant, who you fight by stealing Jr.'s Clown Car and bashing Bowser on the head with it.

Once you break the bridge, drop Bowser, and leave, Bowser Jr. You come across Bowser standing on a bridge in the final castle. U and New Super Luigi U (which have the same final boss) have this in their own way. 2 is very similar in that regard, except this time, the giant Bowser is a Background Boss. 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.


okay, that's weird, but nothing to worry about.
