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* The first boss fight in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode Two'' is against an Antlion Guard and Guardian [[FlunkyBoss along with their normal antlion minions]]. They don't hesitate to attack you at the same time, but you've got a healthy supply of SMG and Shotgun ammo, a safe spot where they can't strike you, and several exploding barrels lying around the valley...

%%* Agni and Rudra from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening''.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' ends with a fight against two Combine Gunships. While they are the most powerful enemies in the game, they make it even more obvious that the game doesn't have any kind of actual ending and you fight them only because the designers had no idea what else you could be doing once you reached the main villain who does not have any combat abilities at all.

* In ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune 2: Double Helix'', you fight a Dual Boss battle against The Torturer (who's armed with an M60 heavy machinegun) and Deviant1 (who's up on a balcony with a sniper rifle) inside a prison yard. Both characters do increased damage, so much so that Deviant1 can kill you with a single shot. They also can absorb more bullets than a normal human, although the difference isn't too unrealistic. The game is otherwise devoid of boss fights (except for 2 battles against an enemy helicopter).

** A couple of bosses in , including Masa and Mune (before they [[FusionDance combine into Masamune]]), and Azala and the Black Tyranno. The Golem Twins, who each counter with "copycat" attacks, are a more infamous example.

** Ormi and Logos in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' each get one solo boss fight but are otherwise fought together pratically every time they appear during the first two chapters of the game. A couple of those times, their employer, Leblanc, joins them to make it a 3-on-3 battle against the three playable characters.

* In ''VideoGame/AtomicHeart'' the twin ballerina robots that play a huge part in the game's promotion are encountered as RouteBoss close to one of the endings of the game.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'': World 7's boss is Boom Boom and his DistaffCounterpart Pom Pom battled at the same time (they were faced individiallu in prior worlds); they reprise this role in [[spoiler:the BrutalBonusLevel, World 8-Crown]]. For some reason, they never team up in the sequel ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'', as the larger number of bosses in the game decreased their recurrence.

** Team Slacker, Stratos and Delilah, are fought together post-game as a BonusBoss in the Underground Tavern. They both can heal each other for 15 HP, and should one fall, the other would revive them, and given that they take two actions per turn at low health, they may revive each other and ''then'' heal, ensuring that both must be taken down in one turn.

*** The [[BonusBoss Darklurker]] will create a clone of itself that shares the same lifebar when you get it to around 50% health.
*** The BonusBoss of ''Crown of the Sunken King'' [=DLC=] are the PowerTrio of graverobbers, each about as strong as a Dragonrider, but extremely deadly altogether as their fighting styles complement each other.
*** Lud and Zallen, ''another'' BonusBoss, now of ''Crown of the Ivory King'' [=DLC=], are elephant-sized, spellcasting [[PantheraAwesome sabertooth tigers]], though Zallen initially is lazing on the wall and only joins Lud when the latter is clearly in trouble. If you kill either one, the remaining one gets enraged and [[TurnsRed buffs up]] to the point his health starts ''regenerating''.

*** [[PsychoElectro Larxene's]] [[BonusBoss Absent Silhouette]] invokes this by splitting into two copies of herself. There's a reaction command that merges her copies back together.

** In its SpiritualSequel ''VideoGame/ExitFate'', you get to fight a duo ([[RecurringBoss repeatedly]]), and there's a secret Dual BonusBoss battle.

** In the post-epilogue, the party must defeat [[spoiler:Rasheed and Reffian in order to recruit them]] and unlock the [[BonusBoss cameo boss battles]].

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' has the first stage of the FinalBoss fight, a match against [[spoiler:Artorius and Innominat]]. There's also the BonusBoss against [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TalesofXilla Jude and Milla]]]].

* The [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]] Grindcore Minks and [[spoiler: Hanemoka's dual noise forms]] from ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. Also not-bonus-bosses [[spoiler:Kariya and Uzuki]] and [[spoiler:Shiki and Megumi]].

** Jarien and Sothos, BonusBoss in Scarlet Stratholme.

* [[BonusBoss The Corners]] from ''VideoGame/{{Iconoclasts}}'' share a health meter, but fight as a duo. On low health, they start to use their attacks in tandem.

* The two Barons of Hell (AKA the 'Bruiser Brothers') from the original ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' at the end of the first episode.

** The game has Eliza and [[spoiler:her BackupTwin, Isabella]] as the penultimate battle of the game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Vendetta}}'' had the Rude brothers, a giant and a dwarf. The health bar only applied to the giant. Get that bar to zero and the dwarf would die with his brother even if you didn't hit him once, but if you hit him enough times he'd die, leaving his brother still standing. The bonus stage had the player fight every boss two at a time; three in the case of the Rude brothers.

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** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': Bowser teams up with ''himself from the past'' at the end of Thwomp Volcano.

* ''Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade'' has a battle against two knights; Hell Knight and Black Knight. You fight them right before the hell entrance. The duo later returns during the FinalBoss fight in which they are his summons.

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has a few examples, with the most [[ThatOneBoss notorious]] being the mandatory Godskin Duo - two separate bosses, the Godskin Noble and the Godskin Apostle, put together, with a shared health bar. Similar to [[VideoGame/DarkSoulsI Ornstein and Smough]], the two bosses require totally different strategies for beating them which become almost incompatible when put together, with the Apostle being slow to move but with wide-reaching attacks, while the Noble is mostly melee-only but with the ability to close the distance between itself and the player rapidly, as well as some ''nasty'' quick attacks. To add to the fun, ''the shared health bar is independent of the life status of the two actual beings you're fighting'', and they'll only fully die once the shared life bar is depleted - they can each re-summon the other if one of them dies, and if ''both'' of them die before the health bar is fully gone then the boss fight doesn't end and instead one of them will come back to life out of nowhere.

* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'': Each of the first three games has a MiniBoss fight against two characters: [[spoiler:Ren and Tlachtga in Lost Shinjuku]] (first game and the remake ''Millenium Girl''), [[spoiler:Artelinde and Wilhem in Frozen Grounds]] (second game and the remake ''Fafnir Knight''), and [[spoiler:the Deep One and the Deep Lady in Molten Caves]] (third game). In the first two cases, the paired characters use skills based on certain explorer classes, so they also qualify as {{Mirror Boss}}es; and by the time you face them you realize their intentions aren't as benevolent as you originally thought. In the third case, the paired characters already pose themselves as evil characters, but at one point [[spoiler:you may choose to join their faction's side if you wish]]. The third game has a second example should you instead stick with the faction of Armoroad until the end: [[spoiler:Automaton King and Olympia]], serving as the dual FinalBoss.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomRush: Vengeance'' gives us the first one in the series with the Ghost Kings. Two ghosts that slowly move down each lane, ignoring troops, but individually have less health than other bosses in the franchise. The main catch is that the Purple Ghost King is [[{{Intangibility}} immune to physical damage]] while the Blue Ghost King is [[AntiMagic immune to magic]].

* At the end of the Way of the Wang DLC fron ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior2'', after completing all the trials, your final challenge before claiming the [[AnAxeToGrind Fist of Gozu]] is [[spoiler:fighting both corrupted versions of Kamiko from the regular game at once]].