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[Seraphinox]

Alright people

I wanna hear who your favourite Fire Emblem bosses are. They can be any boss from any chapter, and just list the games you wanna list.

Fe:6

Ilia Route, Chapter 19. Sigune, the Falcon Knight in the blizzard chapter, I really like her design, and then you fight her, and without a single shred of backstory she comes out with

"...Well, well... So I'm the one... to die... But maybe... I was already dead... A long time... ago..."

I wish bosses like these had more time to be fleshed out, or atleast had conversations with other characters, to flesh out who they are.

Fe:7

Hmm, Denning just because it's Denning.

Also Ursula, I quite like her design as well.

Fe: 8 Caellach

SImply for the Joshua interaction, sad that we never find out more than that.

[kirant]

FE6 - Gale/Galle
I don't care if he's technically not the map's boss. That was a well written decision. I'm not even sure if it was intentional (as hacking the game can show you he seemed at one point to be designed as a PC), but the fact that he twists the knife in that you can't recruit him, against all logic of Fire Emblem, made it pretty great and interesting to read.

FE7 - Uhai
Gentleman boss is fairly common overall, but I thought they did Uhai pretty well given the few lines they could provide

FE8 - Orson or Selena
I think these should be self evident. Orson is a man who descended into madness, while Selena stood by the rule of her emperor, rational or not. Both are given healthy backstories, even if you have to search a little to find them.

[arimibn]

FE7: Lloyd. Come on guys. It's the White Wolf. He's frikkin awesome.

FE8: Valter and Calleach. Valter is just that dude who makes me really wanna fight him. (You know, instead of the typical boss you fight just to clear the chapter.) Whereas Calleach is pretty much the main rival of my main in ever single FE8 run I've ever done. Lol

FE9: Homasa. HE JUST LOOKS SO BA MAN.

FE10: The Black Knight. ...He's the Black Knight. Need I explain? Lol

FE11: Camus the Sable. Camus just stands out to me. Lol

FE12: Yeahhhhh...Never finished it.

FE13: Goku. ...What? OH you meant Non-DLC/Spotpass/Streetpass wise? Well in that case Grima. That fight was so epic. XD Every time I hit da dragon...there's a friggin shockwave. Made me feel like a DBZ char.

[AbsolutelyTotalSilence]

FE7: Seconding Denning, Uhai and Lloyd, but on top of that, Limstella also turned out to have a pretty interesting plot role towards the end of the game. Oh, and Batta The Beast, naturally.

FE8: Carlyle's character motivations were definitely unique as far as bosses go, and he came across differently than Orson, whose betrayal was kinda obvious.

FE9/10: Black Knight, hands down.

FE11: Horace wasn't really a boss per se...but he had honor. Camus was another of the few bad guys in Shadow Dragon that really had a personality.

FE13: Cervantes' mustache, it's science!

You know, most of the bosses people liked were the ones that either had endearing traits that made them not seem like horrible people (Denning, Cervantes) or had regrets about their loyalties (almost everyone else on this page).

And then you have the Black Knight, who's just an exceptionally executed villain to start with.

[Fire Blazer]

Dang, I straight-up missed this topic. Sour about that.

Gonna keep it short for now.

FE7: Fire Dragon. Though obviously Lloyd and Linus are up there. Fire Dragon coming down and just roaring with that hellish flames and all-too-fitting music though. Can't ignore that climax.

FE8: Caellach. One of the fans of his history with Joshua (before it became like, a thing... >_<'). Lyon is up there as well but for some reason he just goes down too easily. And I think because I generally hated the desert chapter killing Caellach at the end was just more memorable and satisfying than fighting that like... glass cannon Lyon.

FE9: Ashnard. Dat sword and music.

FE10: The Black Knight. Dat sword and music. It was a little more epic this time but mostly I can't remember enough about FE10 to pick anyone else...

FE11: Camus. Music. Duh.

FE12: ...Idk. Can't decide. I guess Hardin is up there.

FE13: Again, can't decide. Between Mustafa, Walhart, the cool-looking Valkyrie girl whose name I can't rememberand Grima? *shrug*

[Cero]

FE6: Zephiel. I found the battle to actually be difficult somewhat and along with that music spells for epic boss battle.

FE7: Denning because sniper boss.

FE8: Selena. She was a cool character and I like her backstory. Plus I actually find it fun dealing with her Bolting.

FE9: Black Knight. 'nuff said.

FE10: I don't really have one. Mainly because I hate all the endgame boss fights because it's all just a Nihil **** fest. And I don't remember any interesting bosses before the abuse of Nihil.

FE11: Camus. cool paladin fight and has one of the best tracks in the game playing over his fight.

FE12: Hardin. Hardin was all around great in this game and his music complemented the fight well.

FE13: Nothing memorable enough.

[Rujio]

FE7: Uhai, Sonia, Lloyd, Linus... basically the Black Fang members.
FE8: I was plenty happy to kill Valter the first time around; guys like Selena, Orson, and Lyon were nice for story reasons, and I was also quite happy to kill Formortiis.
FE10: All of the Senators, guys like Jarrod, Levail (IMO a better boss than BK that chapter)... again lots of guys
FE11: Other than recruitable guys, Camus is the only one that comes to mind.
FE13: "that cool looking valkyrie girl whose name I can't remember" for being the only villain in the game I cared at all about, and being possibly the best written character in the game. All the other bosses were just like "oh, hey, i get to obliterate you with 11 mov MU now *yawn*"

[bblues]

6 - Brunya, Gale the unrecruitable.
7 - Lloyd and Linus, Limstella, Nergal (first FE, it felt major, **** the dragon.)
8 - Selena, Caellach/Valter as a combo was pretty cool.
9 - Ashnard was a great '1vs1', Burger King too. I realise they're not completely 1vs1, but you know that's the angle it was going at.
10 - Levail, Dheginsea, Burger King. The tower was kind of just like one big boss, really.
13 - Mustafa, Pheros were both decent. Also, they had unique portraits iirc.

[Golden Warrior]

I'll only list the ones I've beaten.

FE4: Chapter One's Gandolf. Just because of the name. XD

FE7: Lloyd, because... swordmaster + goatee = Epic.

FE8: Lyon. Before he's the demon king and stuff. I like the class.

FE9: Black Knight, duh.

FE11: Camus has the best backstory and I feel kinda bad for killing him.

FE12: (Yeah, I beat it. >_>) Katarina. Not only is she recruitable later, but her backstory is by far the largest of any boss in the game.

That's it for me.

[boney]

Bernard in FE7, Gheb in FE8

honorable mentions to bazba in fe8, who looks like greil

[Fire Blazer]

maybe the nose, but...

[kirant]

Oh? We keep going?

FE9: Black Knight
FE10: None
FE13: Anna. No, seriously. I finally got to beat up someone who was on a chapter merely built around questioning if you could prepare properly.

[Swordsalmon]

Harold, Denning, Binks. I need no one else!

[Fire Blazer]

EDIT: guys don't read I'm crazy probably none of this makes sense and I'm at like 20% brain power so yeah

QUOTE

FE10: None

lol, that's borderline insult to FE10 XD

to me it's not that the Black Knight was a great, super outstanding boss...

it was just in a game like FE10

he stood out slightly more than the others. mainly cuz of that short cutscene like right before you actually fight him. lol. the only other bosses I can remember are the last few bosses on those final maps (and I can't even remember the cool dude with the Wishblade so meh >_<').

aaanyhow

I'd prefer to see a final boss that isn't based around either like crazy powerful (usually dark) magic, dragons, or a heavy-knight armored dude (*can't think of a single FE boss that doesn't really fit into those categories*)

note that I can't remember FE2's final boss right now

but FE1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 13 had dragons of some sort as either the final boss or a penultimate boss or something (Medeus, Medeus, Idoun, Fire Dragon, Dheginsea, Medeus, Medeus, Grima... so much Medeus lol)

FE2 idk

FE4, 5, 7, and 10 had crazy magic people as final or penultimate bosses (Yurius or Julius or whatever his name was localized as, Nergal, Sephiran, Ashera...)

FE8 was unique and had a Demon King except said Demon King needed like 4x more HP to feel epic IMO

and as for knightly guys, don't forget FE3's/12's Hardin, FE6's Zephiel, FE9's Ashnard, and FE9/10's Black Knight, which can fit as "heavily armored slow-moving dudes", they all had a sort of impenetrable armor gimmick (whether it was the dark orb or blessed armor or w/e), Ashnard was a bit more unique in that he rode a dragon and had a huge ass epic sword but he was still a King

FE14 needs a boss like a super epic swordmaster or lancemaster or someone who has a deeper role than just being an antagonist King/Conqueror/Magician or dragon/demon of lore IMO

Preferably something more like... Duke from Tales of Vesperia, who isn't just an enemy, or at least not at first, I'd like to see more use out of the NPC phase. FE allegiances tend to be pretty simple, I'd like to see NPC's who go enemy, enemies who go ally and back, allies who go enemies, more separate factions. FE7 wasn't greaaaat but at least you had like Athos in the background, Elbert and his knights (who I'd love to have seen more characterization for since you only really meet Elbert himself and Harken), the Black Fang and the secret leader and there was the whole drama with the BF mains not appreciating how the BF was going with Sonia working under Nergal to use it for his purposes and bla bla bla I just like things to be slightly more complicated and it helps make deeper characters and a deeper world (whereas FE13 was pretty cut-throat with who was the enemy and not and given how some of the newer features work I can understand that but the older games have less excuse I think and okay now I'm just spewing nonsensical madness LOOK I'M HUNGRY AND THIRSTY I CAN'T HELP IT QQ)

[Rujio]

FE2 had... Doma, I think? Not really sure what he is, though.

[Cero]

QUOTE (Blazer @ Jul 11 2013, 04:17 PM)

EDIT: guys don't read I'm crazy probably none of this makes sense and I'm at like 20% brain power so yeah QUOTE FE10: None lol, that's borderline insult to FE10 XD to me it's not that the Black Knight was a great, super outstanding boss... it was just in a game like FE10

Well the boss fight is cool and all but is completely bogged down by the fact that every freaking boss by this point in FE10 has Nihil. Nihil basically ruins boss fights. It just becomes hi hi hit hit hit etc, until the other dies because you have healing and they don't. I liked it back in FE9 where only like 2 Nihil scrolls are in your possession and like only 1 boss actually used it.

[Fire Blazer]

that's actually a good point

but tbh it was FE10 so I wasn't particularly praising it regardless and rarely got skill activations anyhow. In general the FE10 skill system was okay but I felt like it was just a thing in the back of the game that hardly came into play. I couldn't even tell you what FE10's Aether looked like, and I can only remember skills like Astra and Mercy (or whatever Elincia's skill was) because I either watched videos of it or it activated all the time lol

[bblues]

I'd say I remember, but I turned animations off, I think on the map it was just an uppercut/slash thing, followed by a downwards slash.