History Main / LoneWolfBoss

** Many examples also exist in the ''Videogame/MarioAndLuigi'' series, like Popple from Superstar Saga, possibly Trunkle from the same game, Bowser in all three games, Durmite/whatever in Bowser's Inside Story, the Tower of Yikk (Who is the second giant Bowser boss though the Tower of Yikk does use Fawful’s minions in some of its attacks) in the same game, Mom Piranha and the Piranha Bean in Superstar Saga, Mrs. Thwomp in Partners in Time, and Broque Monsieur in Bowser's Inside Story have no connection to the Big Bad whatsoever, and most have no connection to the storyline at all.

*** Miklan is the only Part 1 antagonist not affiliated with the Flame Emperor in some way, being a bandit leader who stole the Lance of Ruin for his own ends.

** ''VideoGame/WarioLand 2'': The Bubble King and Ghost bosses, which initially start by capturing the Big Bad (temporarily). Kind of their own antagonists, considering that beating them gets an alternate ending.

* The Ox in the Metropolis level in ''VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage''. Also the Sleepyhead Rhynoc and twin dragons in ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon.

** Gohdan from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' is a creature born of the Gods' need to test the potential hero. As such, he is not fought again at Ganon's Castle.

** Several bosses from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', such as Major Burrows and Buggaboom, have to be defeated because they're threatening innocent characters for personal reasons, not because [[GalacticConqueror Bowser]] told them to do so.
** The Bubble King and Ghost bosses from ''Videogame/WarioLand 2'', which initially start by capturing the Big Bad (temporarily). Kind of their own antagonists, considering that beating them gets an alternate ending.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' has the pirates who are terrorizing Pravoka, Astos the Dark Elf and the Vampire in the Earth Cave, none of whom are connected to Garland or the Four Fiends.

** The Hydra in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' is merely a monster that Kratos encounters at the very beginning of the game while sailing to Athens and has no relation with Ares or his attack on Athens. The novelization confirms Ares has nothing to do with the Hydra, even asking if the other gods were responsible for it and its implied that [[spoiler:Athena might have been the one to send it in order to convince Poseidon to grant his magic to Kratos progress in his quest]].

*** Miklan is the only Part 1 antagonist not affiliated with the Flame Emperor in some way.

** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' has almost all of its bosses being either Ing or Ing-possessed creatures. The exceptions are Dark Samus, who appears three times doing her own thing, the Alpha Blogg, a creature that doesn't get possessed and is simply left as a trap, and the Caretaker Class Drone, a random machine that attacks Samus.

* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': The anniversary lore post and Bestiary confirm that various Pre-Hardmode bosses are parts of Cthulhu, who is also the same being as the Moon Lord, the FinalBoss. Most of the main bosses are parts of him, mechanical recreations of him, or a cultist directly serving under him. However, the Wall of Flesh and Plantera are unrelated Guardian entities over Hell and the Jungle respectively and the Golem is just a defense mechanism in a temple, none of which are directly allied with Cthulhu. All of the optional bosses are either random large monsters (King Slime, Queen Bee, Queen Slime, Duke Fishron, the event bosses) or a fae that's just pissed off at you for killing a type of butterfly (Empress of Light), none of which having any ties to Cthulhu either.

** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has Francis, the third boss. He is not allied with Count Bleck; he's just some StrawFan who kidnapped your ExpositionFairy. [[spoiler: Though he can appear in [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Castle Bleck]] if you’re stupid enough to tell [[PaperThinDisguise an obviously disguised Mimi]] you’d rather not meet him.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Only a few of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] are related to the mystery surrounding the Author of the Journals, even counting the ones that the Author interacted with in the past. (Some episodes have the Pines discover an entirely "new" anomaly, such as the two living video games or the Summerween Trickster.) None of the villains are allied with [[BigBad Bill Cipher]] except for other major antagonist Gideon (even that doesn't stick), and when Bill's true minions finally do show up, it's only for the last few episodes of the series.

* ''WebAnimation/GamingAllStars'': The vast majority of villains in ''The Ultimate Crossover'' and ''Remastered'' aren’t connected to or even ''aware'' of [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Polygon]] [[VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale Man]] or [[VideoGame/StarFox Andross]]]]. The same could be said for ''2'', in which most of the antagonists (''maybe'' other than [[VideoGame/SaintsRowIV Zinyak]], [[VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans Crypto]], and [[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved the Covenant]]) have no affiliation with [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings Giygas]]]].

* The Ox in the Metropolis level in ''VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage''.

** Crocomire in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' does not seem to be affiliated with the SpacePirates at all, mostly just being a random Zebes creature until Samus shows up and attacks it.

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* Almost every enemy in ''Videogame/{{The Battle Cats}}'' has no lead-up, no further backstory besides the [[TranslationTrainWreck Engrish]] provided in the Enemy Dictionary, and is never mentioned again after their defeat.

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* In ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'', the culprit of Case 3, [[spoiler:Lance Amano]], is the only killer who is not connected to the smuggling ring that is the OverarchingVillain of the game. [[spoiler:His father, however, is part of the conspiracy, and his attempt to prevent his son from being arrested ends up getting him arrested, too]].
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->''"Meet Konk. He likes to think of himself as [[TheRival some rival]] to Starfy. ...But [[HarmlessVillain he's really harmless]], so he's more entertaining than anything else. He doesn't have anything to do with [[BigBad Mashtooth]] or those others..."''

** Many examples also exist in the ''Videogame/MarioAndLuigi'' series, like Popple from Superstar Saga, possibly Trunkle from the same game, Bowser in all three games, Durmite/whatever in Bowser's Inside Story, the Tower of Yikk (The second giant Bowser boss though The Tower of Yikk does use Fawful’s minions in some of its attacks) in the same game, Mom Piranha and the Piranha Bean in Superstar Saga, Mrs. Thwomp in Partners in Time, and Broque Monsieur in Bowser's Inside Story have no connection to the Big Bad whatsoever, and most have no connection to the storyline at all.

* Papu Papu, the first boss of ''VideoGame/{{Crash Bandicoot|1996}}''. Every other boss in the game is either a scientist working with the [[BigBad Neo Cortex]], or an animal Cortex mutated. Papu Papu, on the other hand, is just the leader of a WackyWaysideTribe that Crash stumbles through.

** Many examples also exist in the ''Videogame/MarioAndLuigi'' series, like Popple from Superstar Saga, possibly Trunkle from the same game, Bowser in all three games, Durmite/whatever in Bowser's Inside Story, the Tower of Yikk (second giant Bowser boss) in the same game, Mom Piranha and the Piranha Bean in Superstar Saga, Mrs. Thwomp in Partners in Time, and Broque Monsieur in Bowser's Inside Story have no connection to the Big Bad whatsoever, and most have no connection to the storyline at all.

->''"Meet Konk. He likes to think of himself as some rival to Starfy. ...But he's really harmless, so he's more entertaining than anything else. He doesn't have anything to do with Mashtooth or those others..."''

* The only boss in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' that is related in some way to the [[BigBad Panther King]] is the Experiment, found and fought in the WarArc chapter; and it's because it and the Tediz were created by Ze Professor so they could ''[[TheStarscream defeat the Panther King]]'' (Conker still has to defeat them because they are threatening the otherwise peaceful kingdom).

* Papu Papu, the first boss of ''VideoGame/{{Crash Bandicoot|1996}}''. Every other boss in the game is either a scientist working with the [[BigBad Neo Cortex]], or an animal Cortex mutated. Papu Papu, on the other hand, is just the leader of a WackyWaysideTribe that Crash stumbles through.
* Dante plays this role in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' (and he is That One Boss to boot). Nero thinks he is the Big Bad at first, since the first thing he does is interrupting a sermon and killing the local pope. He's actually just here to get Yamato back and discover what the Order of the Sword (for which Nero works) is up to. Then Nero discovers that the Not Quite Dead Pope in question is the real Big Bad, so Dante sort of becomes an AloofAlly.

** Several minibosses in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', given the nature of the game's villain. Among them, the ancient creatures and peoples of Ikana Canyon stand out, including Captain Skull Keeta, Igos du Ikana, and all of the Garos.

* In ''VideoGame/ClashAtDemonhead'', Rowdy is a boss monster faced on an off-road route and must be defeated to free the Hermit and obtain Force Powers. He's the only boss that isn't affiliated with the Demon's Battalion, and doesn't get the standard "boss" music.
%%* Bull from ''Videogame/TyTheTasmanianTiger''.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''
** The Hydra in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' is merely a monster that Kratos encounters at the very beginning of the game while sailing to Athens and has no relation with Ares or his attack on Athens. The novelization confirms Ares has nothing to do with the Hydra, even asking if the other gods were responsible for it and its implied that [[spoiler:Athena might have been the one to send it in order to convince Poseidon to grant his magic to Kratos progress in his quest]].
** The Dissenter in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarGhostOfSparta'' is a Ares worshiper that sics a lion on Kratos in an attempt to kill him. He is a mere obstacle that has nothing to do with Kratos' quest to rescue his brother Deimos.

* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Battles against random bandits not affiliated with the story's main villains are ubiquitous, usually early in the game. ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade The Blazing Blade]]'' actually somewhat subverts this by having a ''series'' of bandits stretched out over multiple chapters during Lyn's story, thus averting the "lone" aspect of it.

** Several bosses from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', such as Major Burrows and Buggaboom, have to be defeated because they're threatening innocent characters for personal reasons, not because [[GalacticConqueror Bowser]] told them to do so.
** The Bubble King and Ghost bosses from ''Videogame/WarioLand 2'', which initially start by capturing the Big Bad (temporarily). Kind of their own antagonists, considering that beating them gets an alternate ending.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' Kamoshida is the only main target who is not connected with the conspiracy in any way.[[spoiler:Even Madarame and Kaneshiro, who were seemingly independent, had been threatened into funding the conspiracy, while Sae was used as an UnwittingPawn]].

** {{Implied|Trope}} with Shan Yu. He has his own army of Heartless, but is never seen making contact with Pete or Maleficent to make any sort of deal. He's trying to conquer [[Disney/{{Mulan}} The Land of Dragons]] on his own, and only battles Sora because he's in the way.
** Hades is shown working with Pete during the first visit to [[Disney/{{Hercules}} Olympus Coliseum]] on a joint venture to take care of both Sora and Hercules, but on the second visit appears to have ended the alliance to focus on Herc.

* There were a few villains on ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' that were standalones, such as Abracadaver, Roach Coach and (on the reboot) Man-Boy, the Gnat and the Fashionistas. The regular recurring villains would show alliances to each other in "Telephonies" and "Meat the Beat-Alls."