History AwesomeBosses / SuperMarioBros

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'': Say what you want about Bowser Jr. being the world boss over and over, and about Worlds 3 and 5 not having a boss at all... but Bowser himself gets an ''amazing'' final boss fight. His grand plan is to have the entire world dance to his rhythm, and the final battle involves using the beats of the music to strike, with the beats becoming more intense as the fight progresses. The preceding level also gets in on the fun, while elements of the game's previous levels coming back.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'': Say what you want about Bowser Jr. being the world boss over and over, and about Worlds 3 and 5 not having a boss at all... but Bowser himself gets an ''amazing'' final boss fight. His grand plan is to have the entire world dance to his rhythm, and the final battle involves utilizing the beats of the music to strike, with the beats becoming more intense as the fight progresses. The preceding level also gets in on the fun, while elements of the game's previous levels coming back.

** Bowser X, the final BonusBoss of the Gauntlet, is well worthy of being the final challenge due to [[FinalExamBoss testing so many of the skills you've learned across the game]]. He forces you to master nearly every one of the Bros. Attacks rather than rely on spamming one constantly, requires careful planning of equipment and badges to avoid running out of turns, and has a wide variety of powerful, tricky to dodge attacks that constantly put pressure on the player, yet, with practice, can be overcome. To say nothing of the fact that you're fighting Bowser ''while you're inside Bowser's body''.

** Bowser Jr., the BonusBoss at the end of the Battle Ring, is the best of them all, and it's one of the most complex fights in the game. First off, he brings his own Junior Clown Car with him, and alternates from jumping in and out of it. He brings lots of crazy attacks to the table, such as having the Bros jump over a circling Bob-omb while he breathes fireballs, or throwing a spiked ball that they need to keep hitting to each other to counterattack, which is all a front while Bowser Jr. charges at them.he's able to steal your Bros. Attacks. You can even pull off a very satisfying vehicular turnabout by ''jumping into the Clown Car'' while he's not in it, and ''chasing Jr. down while throwing everything you can at him''. The fight is definitely the best in the game and possibly the entire ''Mario and Luigi'' series.

With dozens of video game appearances over the years and a starring role in some of the most enduringly popular games in the history of the medium, it's inevitable that the rotund Italian plumber has fought many awesome bosses in his time.

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** From ''VideoGame/BowsersFury'', the Fury Bowser battles have a pure sense of fun and epicness as you fight against the giant beast as a gigantic Cat Mario. The fight's open design allows you to hurt Fury Bowser in multiple ways and interrupt his attack patterns, aligning with the modern standard and offering a perfect feeling of power and control in the fight to contrast the helplessness Fury Bowser can evoke while Mario is small.

** Cortez, the fifth boss, definitely counts. He's a [[SequentialBoss Sequential]] FlunkyBoss that changes patterns entirely every time you "beat" him, with an interesting moveset that involves skill to counter, and also has [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic one of the best boss themes in the game]]. Not to mention that he's also [[ThatOneBoss one of the hardest bosses up to that point]].
** Magnus Von Grapple. Both versions, fought as the second and seventh chapter boss respectively, with [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic one of the best boss themes in the game]], also have quite interesting attacks with some hilarious dialogue. And even though the 2.0 version has [[ThatOneAttack one attack that's hard to avoid]], it doesn't change that it's one of the more challenging bosses.
** Grodus. He's the boss of Chapter 8 (not counting Bowser, who's fought right after with no chance to stop and heal), and boy, does he put up a fight, being a ShieldedCoreBoss that uses several dangerous tricks but isn't unfair at all, and best of all, this is the same asshole that has been hunting you down for nearly the entire game, kidnapped Peach and threatened to rule the world, so beating up his ass results in a very strong CatharsisFactor.

** Amadeus Wolfgeist manages to make The Great Stage a truly [[{{Pun}} great stage]]. His fight has two phases before he even attacks directly, and then he leaps into his piano to possess it like ''Dark Moon'''s bosses. From that point on, it's a surprisingly challenging fight as the piano attacks and you have to perform several steps to get Wolfgeist out of it so you can attack, which can be jarring at first, but turns out to be a really fun challenge. As a bonus, Wolfgeist serves his purpose as a pianist by [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn providing music for the encounter]], including the frenzied ghost-catching theme.
** The other climax bosses guarding the paintings (Ug and Captain Fishook) are pretty fun, too, also borrowing from ''Dark Moon'''s formula very well. To elaborate on both, Ug starts the fight possessing a freaking ''T-Rex skeleton''! You have to franticly wait for him to drop eggs for you to fire into his mouth and after you do, he wises up and destroys one. You then have to use Gooigi in a creative way, get him stuck in the T-Rex's mouth. As for Captain Fishook, he takes it up a notch and possesses the ship you are fighting on. From there, you have to fire bombs thrown by other ghosts into his exposed mouth. Every time you land a hit, Fishook will possess the wall and tip the boat towards him and you have to use the suction shot to hold onto the other side in order to keep from falling in.
** Serpci may not be a portrait-guarding boss like the previous three, but she manages to nonetheless be a very fun and involved fight, with multiple means of attacking you that require you to use every form of movement you have available to you to beat.