Only a few video game bosses are so iconic that players won’t mind fighting them in future titles. Therefore, they keep coming back despite taking some major fat losses. You have to praise these bosses though; despite losing in every game, not only do they keep coming back for more, but they do it in style.
Because they always come back with a different attitude, set of powers, or a renewed sense of fashion. This way they get more motivation to take over the world or just ruin the player’s day. Maybe they just want to show off the new look to the players before they get beaten again? In any case, these bosses always follow the latest trends.
8 Ganondorf – The Legend of Zelda
Ganondorf is almost unrecognizable in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. He used to be in the form of a man with a glorious fiery mane. Breath of the Wild turned him into some sort of bumblebee. It’s called Calamity Ganon in that game, but it’s unmistakable, it’s still Ganondorf with the face and mane included.
Before that, Ganondorf has also had numerous redesigns dating back to the 1986 original for the NES and Game Boy Advance. Initially, Ganon looked more like a semi-animal monster, but his new Ganondorf iteration introduced the more iconic fiery mane look. It has stuck ever since and has been used in future titles – albeit with significant changes.
7 Virgil – Devil May Cry
He’s already been there in 2001 Devil May Cry as the fearsome sword-fighting edgelord villain, though frankly, Vergil is still unmistakable in his looks. He still sports that white hair causing non-fans to mistake him for Dante (aka the good Vergil). However, his original appearance was a bit generic.
In the 2001 game, he looked more like the usual angry guy with a big sword. All this turned into Devil May Cry 3 after he became an otaku and brandished a katana. Since then, that’s been his go-to get-up with a few coat color changes, a few updated demon shapes, and a more mature phase in Devil May Cry 5.
6 Bowser – Super Mario Bros.
Bowser is in a similar spot to Ganondorf. The Super Mario Bros. franchise just keeps bringing him back as the main villain, as it’s probably hard to create a more iconic nemesis for an Italian plumber with a fixation on mushrooms and coins. But despite his countless changes, Bowser is still the most recognizable villain in gaming.
There’s no doubt about that pointy turtle shell and the cranky look on his face. He’s seen many generational and graphical updates from his original 8-bit and 16-bit form, but he’s gotten a lot of powerful upgrades, some of which even include real wings and red-hot eyes.
5 Rathalos – Monster Hunter
Rathalos, also known as Monster Hunter‘s posterboy, is a wyvern monster who just doesn’t know when to stop. Or rather, its species as a whole remains so persistent in the franchise that it must be present in every game. Not just in one shape, but in several variants, including one blue and one pink.
The color also determines how they behave when hunting or during their mating rituals. Needless to say, this monster has its own personality that many players will recognize. Each game changes the design and adds some claws or new markings or maybe a new color to spice things up.
4 Albert Wesker – Resident Evil
Like a Resident Evil villain, Wesker deserves to keep coming back as he’s one of the few in the franchise who isn’t an eyesore. He has his skin intact and has good style, even though he looks like he belongs in a 2000s action movie. That’s exactly what Wesker has looked like in most of his Resident Evil apparitions.
However, his powers and rogues became increasingly sinister. At one point, he was even qualified enough to be on the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 by what he has injected into his bloodstream. Either way, it would be interesting to see how far the franchise can push Wesker’s technical prowess while keeping his human facade.
Speaking of someone who sacrificed their humanity to become powerful, Liquid Snake knows no bounds. He even went so far as to take over an old man’s body so he could continue his feud with Solid Snake. This happened after Revolver Ocelot used Liquid Snake’s severed arm on itself; and the rest, as they say, are nanomachines.
But of course Liquid Snake looked much nicer before taking Ocelot’s aging form. He had long, wavy blond hair and the skills and intelligence to rival Solid Snake as the clone of Big Boss. His other forms include his lord of the flies childhood as seen in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.
2 Cyber Demon – Doom
As far as boss fights go, Cyberdemon was one of the most memorable in the demise franchisee. That’s because this demonic champion sums it up demiseaesthetics in a nutshell. He is an unholy union between machine and evil. It’s just that its original shape didn’t convey this look too much because of the outdated graphics technology at the time.
Then Cyberdemon was reinvented in Downfall 3 and Doom 2016 like a formal boss before Eternal doom eventually brought him back to his original mini-boss form which is a faithful reproduction of the original but in contemporary graphics.
1 diablo
There have been only three major ones diablo games (and an upcoming fourth), but in each of them Hell’s head honcho has gone through an iteration. The first is the original form, the second is based on the corrupt hero of the first, and the third took on a female form because of its new barrel.
There is also a form in it heroes of the storm and Diablo Immortalbut it takes the other forms. Anyway, Diablo’s looks will undoubtedly get another dramatic facelift when he reappears in the near future Diablo 4. Everyone is pretty sure he will, according to the title of the game.
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