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Author: OmarKarindu

Aug 21st 2011 at 9:20:06 AM

Mario Bros. Series
* Every Koopaling in ''NewSuperMarioBrothersWii'' is fought twice in each stage; the second time, Kamek alters the battle. In all but two cases, the only change is that he alters the terrain, while the Koopalings attack just as they did the first time.
* In ''SuperMarioBrothers3'', every world's one or two fortresses ended with a battle against Boom Boom, who occasionally got upgrades like wings or greater speed in later battles.
* The American ''SuperMarioBrothers2'' used this to the point of overkill: not only did all but one of the x-1 and x-2 worlds pit the player against some variety of palette-swapped Birdo enemies who shared the exact same attack pattern with different projectile types, but two of the World Bosses -- Mouser and Triclyde -- are fought twice in battles with only minor changes to terrain or number of hit points.
* And of course the original ''SuperMarioBrothers'' and most of its EnhancedRemake counterparts used only one boss template, Bowser, who is fought with only minor changes -- new environmental hazards, and, after world 4, a new hammer attack -- ''eight times''.  The "Lost Levels" MissionPackSequel doesn't change this and adds further such battles.
  
* The original game in the ''LegendOfZelda'' series reused two end bosses in this fashion. Aquamentus, the dragon at the end of level one, is also the level seven boss, but he [[VillainForgotToLevelGrind isn't upgraded at all]]. Gleeok guards the Triforce in levels four and eight, and also pops up as a DegradedBoss in level 6; the only difference is that he gains a head each time he returns. Another boss, Gohma, returns in degraded form with a palette swap and added hit points. And in the final level, there are several examples of the Lanmola and Patra MiniBoss enemies with slightly different patterns or rates of movement.
* In the first several PunchOut games, where the use of blatant PaletteSwaps means that virtually every boxer resembles an earlier one. The patterns may be sufficiently different that this no longer holds. In the NES game, though, three fighters return as themselves in the final circuit with altered gimmicks and patterns. The Wii game goes even further by having the player go through literal rematches with upgraded versions of every fighter in the game.