10 Video Game Boss Transformations You Didn't See Coming
1. Mother Brain - Super Metroid
Super Metroid contains one of the greatest, most iconic, and certainly most surprising boss transformations in video game history, and one that fans still fondly remember almost 30 years later.
At the end of the game, you've finally made it to the antagonistic Mother Brain, and taking her down seems like a trivial task: just keep shooting at her glass housing until it breaks and then give the brain itself both barrels, right?
Except, Mother Brain will then transform into a gigantic, dinosaur-esque bipedal mech for the real final boss fight. Anyone who got this far into the game as a kid will surely still recall their absolute awe at seeing the Mother Brain sprout a body totally of nowhere.
What follows is unsurprisingly a markedly trickier boss fight than simply shooting an inanimate mound of fleshy brain matter, which when you think about it was pretty damn one-sided all things considered.