Jane swearing made me laugh much harder than I am proud of 😂

Devil May Cry is a series about Big Brother Vergil and his quest to always be a bigger asshole than he was last time.

That "Bass-heel turn" pun was pretty hilarious, lol. The fact that the pun was never pointed out just makes it better.

Totally unrelated to the content, but Jane’s hair looks fantastic

Mike with that old throwback to the whole Metallica / Napster row from the early 2000s was a deep cut. Loved it

There is a Geneva Convention for video games--it's the Geneva Convention! Multiple games have had to remove red crosses to fall in line with Geneva Convention rules surrounding their use.

Ghirahim, from Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword. First fight he literally tells you how to kill him, by his third and last fight he's so, so incredibly difficult that he's even harder than the true final boss he spends all bloody game resurrecting. Plus to make things worse, his third fight is immediately after fighting your way through a whole horde of lower level enemies, so chances are you're not at full health even starting the fight iirc. I still haven't fully gotten over the rage from his fight lmao, but to this day he is still best villain and I love him so much

Ha! I just watched the title under the video window change from "Asshole" to "Jerk" in real time.

"Papa-san?" That strikes me as hilarious. Quality localization work.😂

I miss Jane, with her over the shoulder hair and her catch phrase: "it's me, jane". But this new woman with parted hair seems like a good fit for the team to.

How about Ridley? Coming back every time samus kills him with either new cybernetic enhancements or phazon mutations. Or as an X-Parasite clone

Jack Baker. Dude came back so hard, he made it into DLC.

It's not technically "coming back," but in the later releases of Kingdom Hearts 2 (Remix, Final Mix etc.), you can fight "data" versions of all of the Organisation XIII members, which are even more difficult than their standard encounters

Only liking this in the first 15 seconds for janes hair

Tales of the Abyss has a complete fakeout ending where the characters think they have defeated the final boss and all his generals are dead, but it turns out there are several more hours of gameplay (more than several if you're doing sidequests) and you have to fight pretty much all of them at least once more.

Okay, the house of cards gag was actually pretty funny

You missed out on the biggest one of them all, Kefka from Final Fantasy 6

There’s one thing you forgot about the King Kaliente fight: the arena. In the second fight he, it is comprised of platforms that will sink into the lava, so you got to keep moving.

opting to have Rugal in your king of fighters team is like ballet classes, it's pretty fun but don't let your friends see you doing it. ppl in arcades be like "1v1 no rugal" he is the most unbalanced boss ever and probably the only boss that feels just as strong when you use him as a character

LOL that Freddy Krueger Album is in my bedroom closet, in mint condition!

Should have put Seymour Guado from Final Fantasy X. Can't think of wandering post-mortem as a ghost monster before turning into Seymour Flux as anything more than "asshole behavior".

Gotta give my shout-out to Lance from Pokémon. The only real user of the hyper-rare dragon types in Gen 1 he's a brutal stonewall you have to overcome before your championship match. In Gen 2 they brought him back as the champion himself, upgrading his two Dragonairs to Dragonites and throwing in a Charizard and extra potions because why not?

Almost choked when she said, "bosses who weren't enough of assholes the first time around."

May I suggest a video topic? "Top 7 Oxbox Similes for toughness", "Kevlar coated cryptic crossword" is definitely up there, but for my money "Diamond coated Jason Statham"

Ganondorf could be on this list too, cause he keeps coming back and back and back .... and back

To be fair to the bosses, when they beat me dozens of times I keep coming back and sometimes stronger if I need to grind up some stats… must be real annoying for them.

Panzer Dragoon Saga has a great bit where you stumble across a ship that's salvaged the corpse of the final boss from Panzer Dragoon 2 and is towing it home. After a bit of bovver with the ship, it turns out said final boss is less of a corpse than everyone thought and it wakes up to have a go at you too.

The card stacking gag really got me 🤣🤣

Virgil. He goes from a knight to having a katana to being a giant demon king in 5

In Fable, you fight Jack of Blades as the final boss. He keeps levitating so you can’t mêlée him, and spawning minions to attack you, and back then that was a tough fight for me. In the Lost Chapters DLC, he comes back as a f_~

Taniks the scarred came back a whopping THREE times after his initial appearance in destiny 1: first as a raid boss, then as a nightmare, and then as ANOTHER raid boss in destiny 2. Man just doesn’t know when to quit.

I am so glad that Omega Rugal is in this countdown. Dear god - the bane of my existence...

We can't forget the Nemesis Tyrant from OG Resident Evil 3. It was literally designed to be persistent... and with each encounter, it can become even more of a jerk until you eventually "Give it S.T.A.R.S." at the end of the game.

The Riddler from the Batman Arkham games comes to mind. He goes from being just an annoying voice in Asylum, to a one hit chump in City, and then a huge mech suit in Knight.

This video officially features the best bleeped out f**k in KZfaq history. 😁👌

How about Morgott from Elden Ring? You have 2 chances to fight him before you reach his location in Leyndell, one of which is the entrance to Stormveil Castle where you fight another Shardbearer boss after you get inside. But Margit, as he's named in front of Stormveil, is blocking your entry to the castle and serves to test your resolve. And when you meet him in Leyndell... He's pulling out an actual blade to use against you as well as several other moves that drop weapons made of holy light onto your Tarnished body.

I think Culex from the Super Mario RPG Remake should be here, not only was he the toughest boss in the original game, but then he decided that he deserves a 3D upgrade as well

Missed opportunity with Margitt the Fell

“Tempest Keep was merely a setback!” - Kael’thas Sunstrider

I don’t know if this counts, but Junko enoshina from the Danganronpa series. She went from a psychopathic girl with a robot bear to an AI psychopath who can create an army of robot bear at will and can transfer her consciousness to people who “died” in the virtual world.

Figured that "assholes" wasn't gonna stay in the video title lol

Grahf in Xenogears. First time you face him, you actually fight him in your gears while he is just on foot, and the battle is still really tough. Way later on, you fight him in his absurdly powerful gear, the Alpha Weltall. It is arguably one of the hardest boss fights in the entire game.

Seymour from FFX - That git just won't stay in the Farplane

7:08 Okay, I have to know how many takes it took Andy to get past that last alliterative line. If it was the first try, well done O Farrous One!

Rhino is so clumsy that in almost every spider man game he always decides to stop his rampage near explosives

Now I kinda want to see Mike do a cover of "do the freddy"

Jane, I'm pretty sure Mega Man 7 is the one with the typo where it calls him Dr. Willy.🤣

I know it's fairly well known but I always like that the first boss of Final Fantasy 1 is also the Final boss

Armored Core 6 would like a word with you. In fact, they would like to visit 3 more times.

The Butcher in Diablo IV. Rude awakening the first time you encountered him in the original Diablo, but at least that he had a specific lair there that you could avoid at your leisure. This time? Random spawn to curb-stomp you anywhere you least expect it.

In Metroid Prime 2, you fight Dark Samus multiple times, with her getting stronger as the game goes along, with the final encounter being against the clock as well, when she’s at her toughest.

Mike: "...ready to shove that health bar of yours somewhere extremely uncomfortable..." Me: What? Like the back of a Volkswagen?

I’m Hollowknight, there is a whole slew of upgraded bosses. You kill ‘em once and then you kill stronger versions of them in their dreams. False Knight and Failed Champion are good examples.

In the Sonic the Hedgehog series, One of Sonic's enemies is Metal Sonic, a robotic duplicate of the Blue Blur that was created by Doctor Eggman who's capable of going as fast as his organic counterpart. In the game Sonic Heroes, Metal Sonic returns with a stronger body and can turn himself into liquid metal and use Chaos Control. In the final story of the game, Metal Sonic merges with Eggman's fleet to become Metal Overload which requires Sonic, Tails and Knuckles to face him im their super forms after being fought by the other three teams. In the Castlevania series, the main villain is Count Dracula formerly known as Mathias Cronqvist. As part of his transformation into a vampire, he became the champion of the entity called Chaos. As long as his connection remained, Dracula would return once more no matter how many times he was killed. Eventually in one of the Castlevania games Dracula had his connection to the chaotic realm severed and he died for real. But he was later reincarnated as a young man named Soma Cruz.

Well now we simply must get an upgraded (commenter edition) boss video. Perhaps that can be the guaranteed video next week? Get on it, us!

Lleviathan, from Dragon Quest IX, anyone? He's only the 5th or 6th boss you fight during the story (depending on if you count the Wight Knight as a boss or miniboss), but you have to fight him a second time after beating Corvus, the game's final boss, for reasons I won't spoil here. What makes it a real challenge, however, isn't just that he's now somehow as strong as Corvus, but that in order to summon him you have to be wearing some specific gear, including the pitifully weak torso armor, "Silk Robe", and the boss fight begins immediately, giving you no chance to put on your good stuff (you CAN swap weapons during battle, but I didn't know that until much later). Thankfully, if you got your world-saving butt handed to you the first time, like me, he'll still be waiting where you summoned him, so this time you can put on your good stuff for the rematch.

JANE LOOKS SO GOODDDD THIS HAIR IS EVERYTHING OK HER

Here's one that gave me a stroke. The black Rabbit Brotherhood from Lies Of P. The first fight was already a nightmare on account of it being ,as the souls community calls it, a gank boss fight. And when you finally take them down and think that's the end of it... guess what? they come back! And with elemental/status upgrades no less, wooo!

I never thought I'd see a Megaman game in one of these videos. Nice.

You missed *every* final fantasy game. There is always a secondary villain who you have to fight multiple times. I'll nominate Jenova of FF7 for being so central to the actual plot, and her being the last boss in a gauntlet before getting to BBEG.

Seymour Guado from Final Fantasy X. He was hard enough when you faced off against him at the wedding but then he comes back later as a floating monster thing that can party wipe you in one hit, lock out summons and generally be a right Bastard.

Auntie Ethel in BG3. First act you can tell her to get lost. Act 3 you have to deal with her in the mermaid tavern again with a healing buff boss fight.

Bass.exe from the Mega Man Battle Network games. He might be the super boss in each game, but every time he shows up, he has new ways to rapidly deplete your HP.

The Princess from Slay the Princess is basically the definition of this (Without getting too much into spoiler territory)

"If a boss is defeated, they stay defeated" Magman would like to have a word with you

Ganon! All the mofo variations!

Armored Core VI has a good example of this with V.II Snail. 🐌 He actually takes on an upgraded form of the first chapter boss Balteus at the end of your first playthrough (depending on which ending you’re going for).

I was hoping Jane would test the merging with a wolf theory by tying a plush dog to her arm and punching people. 😂

Whoot another hilarious Outsidexbox videoes list! Keep up the Awesome work you people do that make your audience laugh and smile!

Rapper Freddy Krueger is hilarious. "Looka the flicka my wrist!" 🤣

Rocksteady & Bebop from Madness: Project Nexus. They literaly came back 4 times, which three we have to fight them and the last time they are killed by another boss. They don't only come back, they come back better equiped and the arena where we fight them becomes way harder

Your channel is awesome! I've never seen a video I haven't enjoyed.

I am going to need a part 2 to this with... Bass again. Yeah, believe it or not, Bass also appears in the Megaman Battle Network spin-offs as a superboss, where he gets stronger every single time.

id like to take a moment to thank oxbox for sparing us an actual clip of freddy kruger rapping. listening to that would be the most damage freddy could do to a person whos not asleep and mike knew that.

This is every human boss in the Trails of... series. I've only played through 3.5 of the Cold Steel games, but every human boss character seems to smirk and say they're ready to "get fired up", "get serious", or other similar pithy phrase. Then some other event happens that interrupts the fight, postponing it to another day. Rinse and repeat every human boss, but it's okay when monster bosses die.

Mike's house of cards bit is gold 😊

Appreciate the Grenade Man theme during the Megaman segment. Certified banger.

Great video, ty

In the Dark Arisen expansion for Dragon's Dogma, the boss (Daimon) at the end of it is pretty tough. When you defeat him, you get to watch a cutscene, then loot the nearby chests and head out the exit which loops you back up o the isle's surface to watch another little cutscene. Expansion finished? Nope - at this point if you re-enter the dungeon, you'll see the zones have all respawned with different (generally tougher) monsters and can go through the whole thing again to fight the same boss. But instead of the cutscene from before, this time he upgrades into a second form with different attacks, one of which is a bigger, much scarier version of the biggest, scariest move he has in his first form. That said, as a bow-using character I actually find the second form easier than the first, as it's quite slow-moving and has none of the agility of the first form so takes less time to stun-lock and render helpness before my barrage >:).

No Champion Gundyr?

Boktai 2 has an enemy that fits the bill: the vampire. Although those are technically two different characters, the first time you fight him it's Ringo and the second time it is Dainn who has taken over Ringos body. But they both share the same moveset, besides the fact that Dainn is stronger and the last boss before the final boss (off the main game).

SEYMOUR in FFX You fight him like 4 times. Just stay in the far plane will you

Sekiro has a couple bosses who come back stronger. One of notable note is Genichiro. Who was already pretty tough at the beginning of the game, only to return, suffering from acute glow-up syndrome, and then a glow-down at the end of the game. This is without mentioning is super glow up in the free dlc of the game, at the end of the boss rush named after himself.

“He could be bass like the fish” 😂

I'll have to add Vergil from DMC3. The first time you fight him, he's laughably easy (despite the fact he narratively wins). When you fight him as the final boss, he's unbelievably hard, graduating to the hardest enemy in the entire series.

The fact the Duragon C. Mikado is not on this list shows how underrated The Bouncer was that game gets none of the love it deserves

Awesome video

Idk how i never realized that Miles technically faced Rhino in the first game. What a crazy turn around for him the second time lol

Inner. Agent. 3. Good lord that hurt

Jane, Yes, the Treble Hook pairs with Bass to complete the fish pun. It is three hooks joined together.

I mean the org XIII data battles from Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix + and Kingdom Hearts 3 Re+Mind are just absolutely brutal in terms of difficulty spike , wicked fun, but cruel nonetheless XD

The Bass and Treble theme is so good!

Cyber Akuma and Omega Regal kicked my bootie so hard. Ahhh the memories..... lol

Dagoth Ur from _Morrowind_ gives you a single doorway to celebrate beating him before coming back as a teleporting spellslinger that literally cannot die.

!!! 17:40 !!!! OKAY CALL TO ARMS !!! Please hear me out. As a community we NEED to make this frame of Rugal from the King of Fighters go Viral meme, OR \ AND the very next frame that pops up right after with his hand up and the "Taste my fury line" BECAUSE ...now i may be crazy here but i just see a SWOLE ASS SANJI from one peice and i just cannot unsee it, ESPECIALLY after the "taste my fury line" popped up. Its LEGIT PERFECT GUYS!!❤ I know im not crazy and cannot be the only one whos going to see this now lol FOR REAL THOUGh LETS COME TOGETHER AND MEME THE HELL OUT OF THESE RUGAL FRAMES AND LEAN HARD INTO THE SANJI ASPECT I KNOW WE CAN DO IT!!

Every single time Vergil comes back in (almost) every single Devil May Cry game because in two of the five games he does it three times per game, and the next time after that I lost count, frankly. I think six times in one game, under two different identities. It's kind of his whole thing. And I love it.

Can't wait for Cyber-Akuma and Super Bass to return in "7 Assholes Who Punched You With a Rocket Fist (From Across The Room)"

The Bass/Treble fusion not being called Alto seems like a missed opportunity.

For a commenter edition, I suggest Squid Baron from the Shantae series. He first appears in Risky's Revenge, then in "tougher" appearances in Shantae And the Pirate's Curse/Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.

Oh god, no. Jane's going to be experimenting on cephalopods now... We may be about to witness the time bending creation of Cthulu dad.