00:07Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're counting down our picks for the top ten
00:11funniest boss fights in video games. But before I cleanse this planet for good,
00:16I'm gonna avenge my daughter. Please, my lord, let me live. I'll never go back there again.
00:30For this list, we'll be looking at some of the most hilarious big bads we've encountered over
00:34the years. Some of them will be end bosses, so be warned that there are some spoilers.
00:39Did a different bad guy have you cracking up? Let us know in the comments.
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01:02Francis isn't like the hulking monsters and sinister maniacs who make up most of the video
01:06game world's rogues gallery. A geeky chameleon who spends most of his time on his laptop,
01:11he's perhaps one of the least intimidating bosses you're ever likely to encounter.
01:22The closer our heroes get to him, the more pathetic he becomes, describing his
01:26kidnap victim as his only offline friend, and setting his fort security so that only, quote,
01:32Francis or hot babes can enter. When this leads to him coming face to face with Princess Peach,
01:37he immediately becomes tongue-tied. After losing that fight, he actually pops up again later on,
01:42but doesn't fare much better. He's the kind of villain that it's hard not to laugh at.
01:50The End Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater
02:08Like cardboard boxes and elaborate geopolitical conspiracies, wacky boss fights are a trademark
02:14of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, and the third game brought us the world's oldest sniper, The End.
02:25While the player can engage him in an epic, nail-biting sniper battle, they can also just set the internal
02:31clock on their console forward a little and watch him die of old age. It's the same sort of metagag
02:37which made Psycho Mantis such an iconic boss in the 1998 game. A psychic who would taunt the player
02:44about the contents of their memory card, Psycho Mantis could only be defeated by switching controller
02:49ports. Bob the Killer Goldfish, Earthworm Jim franchise.
03:09When your hero is a space-traveling worm, it's always going to be a challenge to provide them with an
03:14antagonist who's even sillier than they are. Enter Bob the Goldfish.
03:24Confined to his glass bowl, Bob is jealous of Jim's suit and plots to steal it for himself.
03:29Naturally, Bob can't put up much of a fight and relies upon his feline bodyguards to battle Jim on
03:35his behalf. Once his goons have been dispatched, the actual showdown with Bob tends to be a bit of a
03:40comic anticlimax. Never more so than when Jim simply grabs Bob out of his bowl and swallows him whole.
03:52Handsome Jack, Borderlands 2.
03:59Stop us if you've heard this one before. A crooked one-time casino owner becomes president,
04:04boasting of his own importance and denigrating everyone else around him. We are of course talking
04:08about handsome Jack. He's a monster of a man who gleefully threatens people's lives for not
04:18bringing him pretzels quickly enough. Quick with a clever line and dementedly committed to his own
04:23vision of personal greatness, Jack sure is evil. But he's also very entertaining. Like a true villain,
04:29he remains monologuing right up to the moment the player puts a bullet in his brain. By that point,
04:34you may have grown so fond of his egotistic ramblings that you almost don't want to pull the trigger.
04:39Almost. You want to prove me wrong? You want to stop the greatness that is handsome Jack? Well,
04:47come and get me. Jinro Ku, Ghosts of Tsushima. You want to fight me? Yes, it's the only way.
04:54If that's your wish, I accept. With its painterly visual style and somber echoes of Akira Kurosawa films,
05:01funny isn't really the first thing that comes to mind when you think of this samurai epic.
05:06Ghosts of Tsushima, however, still knows how to pull off a great gag once in a while.
05:15When Jinro Ku challenges you to a duel, the scene is perfectly set for a classic sword fight.
05:20The two fighters stare each other down under the moonlight on a quiet hillside, slowly unsheathing
05:26their blades. The tension builds steadily up to a breaking point, and then… Jinro Ku throws down
05:31his sword and begs for his life. It's a perfectly executed bit of Indiana Jones-ish misdirection.
05:37I know! Please, my lord, let me live! I'll never go back there again!
05:43LeChuck, The Secret of Monkey Island. LeChuck is an undead pirate captain with a devilish mind,
05:57a horde of ghostly crewmates at his command, and a few nasty voodoo tricks up his sleeve.
06:01All things considered, he should make for a formidable foe.
06:11Having gone through the classic video game bad guy playbook of capturing the hero's girl,
06:16LeChuck makes it all the way to the altar with his kidnapped bride-to-be.
06:20When our hero Guybrush crashes the party, however, he discovers that Elaine has already rescued herself.
06:25Rather than an epic battle, the player then gets drawn into a verbose insult match. Thankfully,
06:31this is a talent that Guybrush has been honing with his insult sword-fighting lessons earlier in the game.
06:40Colonel Autumn, Fallout 3.
06:42You again. I can't say I'm surprised. You and your ilk seem hell-bent on destroying everything our
06:49government has worked to achieve. There's nothing to stop me from killing you this time. Let's end this.
06:54You've trudged across Fallout's irradiated wasteland and survived countless deadly encounters,
06:59making all kinds of grisly moral compromises in the process. Finally, you're standing face-to-face
07:05with the man responsible for starting the whole thing, Colonel Autumn.
07:09Stop? Now? Are you out of your mind? There's nothing else to be done. We will push forward,
07:16and we will prevail.
07:17While gamers might have expected some sort of epic showdown with the game's big bad,
07:22Fallout 3 chooses to play it as a dark joke, allowing the player to use the VAT mechanic,
07:27take aim at Colonel Autumn's head, and blow him away like they would any other enemy. Ultimately,
07:32Autumn is just another human being, not a supervillain or a monster. This makes for a grimly funny anticlimax.
07:38If that's not really your style of comedy, you do get the chance to insult him for a bit first.
07:43The chain of command must be upheld. I wouldn't expect you to understand.
07:48Rabbid Kong. Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle.
07:57Combining the odd world of Super Mario and those raving Rabbids was always going to lead to a lot of
08:02bizarre sights. The game's submersive sense of humor, however, is all part of its overall wacky charm,
08:08and nowhere is that more perfectly encapsulated than in the boss battle against the hulking Rabbid Kong.
08:19After scaling a giant tower in preparation for his last stand, Rabbid Kong is unceremoniously toppled
08:25by a chaos-hungry Rabbid Peach. He still manages to pose for a selfie on the way down, though.
08:45The Great Mighty Poo Conquers Bad Fur Day.
08:57The Great Mighty Poo Conquers Bad Fur Day.
09:03There are few games in existence as infamous as Conquer's Bad Fur Day. The game's plot sees Conquer
09:09trying to make it home to his girlfriend after a night of heavy drinking, only to find himself
09:14pursued by the Panther King. As he gets increasingly sidetracked from his main mission, Conquer faces
09:19off against all kinds of bizarre bad guys. But nowhere is the game's childish, weird-out sense of humor more
09:26overt, however, than the battle with the Great Mighty Poo.
09:30A huge supply of tish comes from my chocolate starfish.
09:35It's not a nickname. He's a literal pile of opera singing excrement who must be defeated using toilet
09:40paper and a Great Mighty Flush. Gross.
09:54Morgan Freeman. South Park. The Fractured But Whole.
09:58I wouldn't do that if I were you. You're digging your own grave, kid.
10:04In true South Park style, the hardest boss fight in the whole game comes courtesy of someone no
10:09right-minded human being would ever dream of tussling with. That's right, we're talking about
10:13the man who convincingly voiced God himself, Morgan Freeman.
10:24It's an optional boss fight, but the player best be ready should they choose to take on the beloved
10:28actor. If signature moves like the glistening freckles don't get you, the million dollar
10:33bitch slap just might. The game has lots of hilarious showdowns, but this one most effectively
10:38captures the what the heck am I watching feeling of all the show. It also makes for one of the
10:42most
10:43unforgettable boss fights in recent memory. You have potential, kid.
10:47Maybe I'll leave the old taco shop to you in my will.
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