History Characters / SeriousSamBosses

* FinalBoss: Of ''TSE''.

* MoralityPet: Seems to be this for Mental. After Mordekai died in the NoodleIncident above, Mental missed his presence so much that he went out of his way to resurrect him. Even when he returned with some brain damage thanks to a botched ritual, Mental still gave him an incredibly important position.

* CarryingABigStick: Wields a truly massive hammer, which it slams into the ground with enough force to send out damaging shockwaves.

* DropTheHammer: Wields a truly massive hammer, which it slams into the ground with enough force to send out damaging shockwaves.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He first appears to be a well-meaning general who wants to save the world, even through pragmatic means. In reality, however, he is a backstabbing SmugSnake with a god complex who wants to become the last surviving human by finding the Holy Grail selling out humanity to Mental.

* VillainHasAPoint: Both he and Achriman are convinced that humanity has no way of defeating Mental and his forces. As [[VideoGame/SeriousSam3BFE its canonical sequel]] shows, they were correct.

* SavedByCanon: Since Howard makes it to the Tunguska Offensive to recapture Sam at the end of ''4'', which ''Siberian Mayhem'' is a {{Interquel}} to, you'd think he has to escape somehow after his boss fight in the latter, right? [[SubvertedTrope Nope]]. Sam executes Brand with his shotgun, after which Future Sam shows up to reveal that the game takes place in an AlternateTimeline.

* FinalBoss: Of 4.

** In ''4'' He ends up being tied to a rocket and then launched into the portal Mental was using in the end. And considering what a bastard Brand is, it's more than well-deserved.

* DirtyOldMan: Implied. Lord Achriman does not express any explicit desire for anyone, but there's still nontheless the fact that he's one of Mental's oldest servants (making him at least a couple million years old) and brainwashed an large number of [[HotWitch Hot Witches]] to be his personal SlaveMooks, which are referred to as the "Witch-''Brides'' of Achriman" and made to wear {{Stripperific}} outfits.

* MisanthropeSupreme: He has a very low opinion of humans, viewing them as inferior and stupid, and it was his idea to have them converted into zombie-like creatures as part of Mental's army.

* DirtyOldMan: Implied. Lord Achriman does not express any explicit desire for anyone, but there's still nontheless the fact that he's one of Mental's oldest servants (making him at least a couple million years old) and brainwashed an large number of {{Stripperific}} [[HotWitch Hot Witches]] to be his personal SlaveMooks, which are referred to as the "Witch-''Brides'' of Achriman".

* DirtyOldMan: Implied. Lord Achriman does not express any explicit desire for anyone, but there's still nontheless the fact that he's one of Mental's oldest servants (making him at least a couple million years old) and brainwashed an large number of [[HotWitch Hot Witches]] to be his personal SlaveMooks, which are referred to as the "Witch-''Brides'' of Achriman".

* PokeThePoodle: Being the series-wide BigBad, Mental is also sometimes affected by its more humorous qualities. Most notably, he motivated his Zumb'ul soldiers during their training in one of his "[[Creator/ClintEastwood East Clintwood]]" facilities by telling them [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment he'd force them to take photos of bridges]] if they didn't work hard enough. [[FauxHorrific They ''all'' passed]].

* VoiceGrunting: Talks like this.

** He's positioned to become the new BigBad in Achriman's place after his death at the hands of Sam. However, when presenting a captured Sam as a gift to Ugh-Zan VI in the final level, he's flicked off by the colossal boss. The EDF later strappes to a nuke being fired at the portal Mental's army was using.

* BreakThemByTalking: He constantly tries to do this to Sam to make him give up his fight, but it never works.

--> ''"Men shall build the Boat of Sun and sail across the sea of stars. But they shall awake the wrath of One Infinite. The foes of Osiris shall bring destruction to the realms of men. And the Boat of Millions of Years shall have to be awoken."'' - [[{{Seers}} The Sirian Oracle]]

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: The premise of ''Tormental'' is that Sam uses an alien artifact to send a copy of himself into Mental's consciousness. Sam tries to find some kind of weak spot while fighting off Mental's violent thoughts and ideas inside the [[MentalWorld Mentalscape]], all the while being taunted by a fragment of the EvilOverlord.

* ColonyDrop: [[spoiler: How he destroys Earth at the end of ''Videogame/SeriousSam3BFE'', using its own moon no less. Also counts as TheresNoKillLikeOverkill, since at that point Sam was already [[SoleSurvivor the only human left]].]]
* TheCoup: According to [[TheMole Charlie]], whenever he decides not to completely wipe out an advanced species, one of Mental's favoured tactics is to help [[RenegadeSplinterFaction religious fanatics]] overthrow their own government. The [[ScorpionPeople Arachnoids]] were victims of this. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for [[TheQuisling Brand]], Mental isn't interested in human followers.]]

* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Mental had successfully wiped out the human race by the end of ''BFE'', the sole exception being Sam himself. He was literally seconds away from killing Sam as well, had he not made it to the [[TimeMachine Time-Lock]] at the last possible moment.]]

--> '''Sam:''' Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
--> '''Mental:''' {{I am not your father}}.
--> '''Sam:''' Oh, yeah. [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack That's the other movie.]] Anyways, I do have a few things I'd like to confess.
--> '''Mental:''' Well, that's what the confessional is for, isn't it my son?
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Going hand in hand with him being TheGhost, Mental seems content to have his minions do all the dirty work. [[spoiler: When he finally decides to take matters into his own hands, it's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. See ColonyDrop.]]

* PsychopathicManchild: He makes mooks based off horror movies, like Curcubito the Pumpkin, lives in a building with [[Franchise/StarWars Dark Vader]] and [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Lex Luthor]], and [[spoiler: destroys entire planets by throwing their own moons at them.]] Also, when ordering helicopters for his army, he simply told his staff to make a fleet of "big mofos of helicopters".

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: A ''freaking huge'' [[WickedWasps wasp]].
* BeeAfraid: A giant [[MookMaker mook-making]] bee.

!!Voiced by: Creator/BillWise
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* PowerFloats: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. He starts to float and sparkle at the start of his "BossFight" as if he's powering up, but it turns out that this is all he can actually ''do''.

* BewareMyStingerTail: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. You'd expect a [[ScorpionPeople Scorpion Person]] who literally has the word in his name would make use of it, but he never does.

* HomingProjectile: The [[EnergyBall Energy Balls]] fired from his Energy Launcher home in on the player.

* [[{{Mutants}} Mutant]]: [[OurOrcsAreDifferent He's an orc]] like the rest of Altani, which here are Zorgs that mutated themselves with the [[MutagenicGoo Ooze]] in an attempt to regrow their skin.

The [[FinalBoss Final Bosses]] of ''Bogus Detour'', fought at the end of the Moon Base levels. A pair of repurposed machines from Mental-Altani's "Mech Replacement Program", Director Doppler sends them both after Sam while he has the [[WeaponOfMassDestruction IRPDs]] fueled for launch.

* NoCureForEvil: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Orc Scientists will continuously show up to repair them throughout the fight, making them invulnerable at the same time.

!!!Voiced by: Simon Paisley Day
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* AliensAreBastards: He's the mastermind behind [[WasOnceAMan turning humans into zombie-like creatures in Mental's army]]. He also [[spoiler: killed [[NewMeat Kenny]]]] for seemingly no other reason other than to spite Sam.

* ClimaxBoss: While he isn't the FinalBoss, the fight with Achriman was built up for most of the game, concludes the long search for the [[MacGuffin Holy Grail]] and is followed by the revelation that [[spoiler: the entire mission was a lie and that [[TheQuisling General Brand]] was the villain shown in the opening sequence.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Claims that humanity has no hope of defeating Mental in this war. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, [[VideoGame/SeriousSam3BFE he was right]]. Good thing humanity has a second chance via the [[TimeMachine Time-Lock]].]]