15 Final Boss Battles That Almost Ruined Great Video Games

6. Joker - Batman: Arkham Asylum

Rocksteady learnt one hell of a lesson coming off the back of Arkham Asylum; "When you've got the Joker running the operation, Bat-fans want to either take him down immediately, or outwit him. What they don't want, is to fight a weird Joker-meets-Bane hybrid."

Alas, the Clown Prince would be given his due in the subsequent entries, but this final encounter morphed him into one giant mound of muscle and elongated smiles. Because video games.

It might have ended with a stupidly cool 'Batman moment' as Bats covers his hand in explosive gel and knocks Joker across the room, but aside from that, it was a re-run of the Bane and 'titan soldier' fights you'd already done a handful of times before.