History Recap / QuakeIIBossLevels

** In "Final Showdown", there's [[SelfInsertFic the developer room]], which features all of Id's staff who worked on the game, plus a further room showing two "slaves" and a Tank with two Iron Maidens. This egg is absent from the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version.

** In the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version of the unit. Not only there are ''way'' more enemies in "Inner Chamber" than the PC version (in order to account for the lack of the City unit), but the ending of the game was also expanded. Instead of exiting to an escape pod once you destroy the Makron, you insert the A-M Bomb you picked up from the Guardian into a mechanism, and then escape through a shuttle, much like the one found at the end of the PC version's ''Ground Zero'' ExpansionPack.

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** In the Playstation version of the unit. Not only there are ''way'' much more enemies in "Inner Chamber" than the PC version (in order to account for the lack of the City unit), but the ending of the game was also expanded. Instead of exiting to an escape pod once you destroy the Makron, you insert the A-M Bomb you picked up from the Guardian into a mechanism, and then escape through a shuttle, much like the one found at the end of the PC version's ''Ground Zero'' ExpansionPack.

** In "Final Showdown", there's [[SelfInsertFic the developer room]], which features all of Id's staff who worked on the game, plus a further room showing two "slaves" and a Tank with two Iron Maidens. This egg is absent from the Playstation version.

* KaizoTrap: After defeating the Makron in the last level, you get access to an EasterEgg secret room. A few of the portraits can kill you if you stand near them long enough, like Todd Hollenshead's or Tim Willits's.

* TakeYourTime: After you kill the Makron, the whole place begins to shake, and you get a warning to get to an escape pod immediately. While the ending cutscene shows the whole asteroid-base [[CollapsingLair exploding]] as soon as you eject, you can actually stay in the level as long as you want and nothing will happen.

* AdaptationExpansion: In the Playstation version of the unit. Not only there are ''way'' much more enemies in "Inner Chamber" than the PC version (in order to account for the lack of the City unit), but the ending of the game was also expanded. Instead of exiting to an escape pod once you destroy the Makron, you insert the A-M Bomb you picked up from the Guardian into a mechanism, and then escape through a shuttle, much like the one found at the end of the PC version's ''Ground Zero'' ExpansionPack.

* EasterEgg: In "Final Showdown", there's [[SelfInsertFic the developer room]], which features all of Id's staff who worked on the game, plus a further room showing two "slaves" and a Tank with two Iron Maidens. This egg is absent from the Playstation version.

* AdaptationExpansion: Not only there are ''way'' much more enemies in "Inner Chamber" than the PC version (in order to account for the lack of the City unit), but the ending of the game was also expanded. Instead of exiting to an escape pod once you destroy the Makron, you insert the A-M Bomb you picked up from the Guardian into a mechanism, and then escape through a shuttle, much like the one found at the end of the PC version's ''Ground Zero'' ExpansionPack.

The levels of the unit are "Inner Chamber" and "Final Showdown", and the main objective is the destruction of the Makron. '''As these are end-game levels, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff there won't be marked spoilers after this point]], so proceed with caution. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned'''.

* ALadyOnEachArm: The invulnerable Tank in the secret chamber of the final level has two Iron Maidens with him.

* EasterEgg: In "Final Showdown", there's [[SelfInsertFic the developer room]], which features all of Id's staff who worked on the game, plus a further room showing two "slaves" and a Tank with two Iron Maidens.

* ALadyOnEachArm: The unattackable Tank in the secret chamber of the final level has two Iron Maidens with him.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Makron (Supreme Strogg Leader).
* BookEnds: The PlayerCharacter starts and ends the game getting out of a pod.

* EasterEgg: In the "Final Showdown" level, there's [[SelfInsertFic the developer room]], which features all of Id's staff who worked on the game, plus a further room showing two "slaves" and a Tank with two Iron Maidens.

* OneWingedAngel: Inverted with The Makron. His first form is a massive (approx. 30 feet tall) robot with two chainguns and a BFG. After you destroy him, this is revealed to be a HumongousMecha and his real form is only about 8 feet tall (though no less deadly).
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: At the end, the protagonist's escape pod crashes on some planet. The hatch is knocked away, and a hand rises out. It ends with it clenching into a fist.
* SequentialBoss: The Makron has two forms: a power suit called Jorg, and the Makron itself with several weapons he wasn't using when using the suit.

* AWinnerIsYou:
** The full game didn't fare much better in that regard. The player is treated to a cutscene of an escape pod launching and crashing, followed by Bitterman's hand reaching out from the wreckage.

At last! After crossing through Stroggos, Bitterman finally found the Makron's hideout, and the time has come for its disposal.

* TakeYourTime: After you kill the Makron, the whole place begins to shake, and you get a warning to get to an escape pod immediately. While the ending cutscene shows the whole astroid-base [[CollapsingLair exploding]] as soon as you eject, you can actually stay in the level as long as you want and nothing will happen.