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How iconic is this guy? You cannot top him, beat him yes, but is there a more iconic boss?
Also in Australia as kids the level bosses we called "Masters" as in "did you beat the 3rd level Master yet?"

the train boss in RKA

Probably Tron Bonne because she's best waifu

I also want to say Beastector but I have to admit Seven Force is better unless you lump all the Beastector fights together

god actually i hate to admit it but i have to give it to Asriel

>>6025376
>because she's best waifu
I like the way you think

>>6025271
Minion from Twisted Metal

>>6025287
Master wasn’t entirely a foreign way to call bosses back in the 80s or 90s. It feel out of use by the 6th generation which most of the current 4chan user base started at

This guy cause he has chainsaw hands

>>6025271
Demonyx from Flying Warriors.
I loved this game as kid. Much like Double Dragon 2 on the NES, the true final boss only appeared on the highest difficulty.
When you reach the end on beginner or medium you face pic related, which is a palette swap of an earlier boss, however...

>>6025591
When you play on Expert you face this ugly motherfucker. He's much tougher and makes for a tense battle.
As an added bonus you get a secret power-up halfway through the battle, which made me grin from ear to ear as a kid.

>>6025287
This thing (which we also called a Master in NA)
or
Sigma's floating head which was using a giant statue as a surrogate and pops out sans face

One of my most remembered would probably be Icon Of Sin in Doom 2 : Hell On Earth
I only mean that in an aesthetic and conceptual sense, because as an enemy encounter he's actually marvelously dull (the Arch-Vile monster is far more interesting in terms of gameplay), but I really love this idea of this absolutely ENORMOUS super demon, bigger than the level itself, his huge teeth, his huge downward facing horns, all the cybernetics wired into his skull, with the big graphically violent hole bored open in his forehead, stretched open by meathooks, where seemingly pure evil magic rages, and he summons or even creates demons by the help of it.
Add to that the evil backmasked chanting, and how to win you need to reach to fire your rocket launcher into his brain through said hole.

In terms of just gameplay, I think I'll have to give points to the giant caterpillar fucker in A Link To The Past, because he manages to be consistently bothersome to fight even if you're really used to the game and you've beat it countless times.
Even advanced speedrunners, who memorize shit by frame, seem to frequently get bumped off the platform.

>>6025287
As a kid me and my brother used to say "ledare" (leader, in Swedish). Don't know if that was any widespread elsewhere in the country.

>>6025271
Almost gave me epilepsy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxzbanwU570

this one had great atmosphere and build-up

>>6025271
That big sewer snake thing from Phantasy Star Online.

>>6025287
We called them bosses in my town, mate. I was part of the SNES generation, so maybe that might be a factor.

The transforming robot in Metal Storm is the first one to come to mind.