Board Thread:King for A(nother) Day Discussion/@comment-45194116-20200612233822/@comment-72.71.227.138-20200623153802

you gotta have Ridley (I accidentally hit enter writing this), Gonarch from Half-Life, Nightmare from Metroid Fusion, and Emperor Bulbax from Pikmin 2, just to represent their baseline example games from their sheet, there's also tons more options for Metroid and Half-Life bosses, mostly from Metroid Prime like Dark Samus and Sylux. And there's also more options like the CyberKing depending on if non-game alien sources other than Men in Black are counted. Also Dr. Loveless for a Will Smith source, and the Harvester Queen from Independence Day is perfect since she fits into both the Will AND Alien sources, I checked her abilities on the Independence Day Wiki and attacking her to take down her shield generator sounds like such a Subspace thing, she's perfect.

ZUN: Tons of options, I just don't know Touhou very well, and other bullet hells even less. However Flandre Scarlet and Sakuya Izayoi are definitely the most famous and most liekly to be antagonistic, Cirno is also up there. I did have an idea for the original bosses from Highly Responsive to Prayers for legacy reasons but they would be kinda hard to translate. The closest I've settled on and who seems to have the most appearances anyway, makes the most sense to reappear, and appearancewise would be the best to translate into a Subspace enemy is Mima, a spirit Reimu sealed away but came back a couple of times in the PC-98 games. I say she's the easiest to translate because she could have generic attacks just based on her knife and general design, and could also use her danmaku patterns in other attacks, considering how much she seemed to have appeared in the PC-98 games and my limited knowledge, she seems like a good legacy pick for ZUN and I feel it's only right to give him a character from a retro entry since he's the literal creator and all.

Thanos: Because Disney and Marvel, he ALREADY has a lot of concepts right out of the gate. Seeing as how he's a villain, his story would probably start with him fighting The Avengers, but only Tony Stark actually presents enough a threat to Thanos enough to become a boss fight. On the Disney side we have a LOT of options like Jafar, Maleficent (who could incorporate attacks and abilities from both her animated and live action incarnations ), Hades, Tamatoa , Marshmallow , Maui , and both Syndrome and the Omnidroid. Star Wars is fairly simple, Palpatine, but prequel version so that he can also attack with his lightsaber as well as his force lightning, and because he's just better in every way anyway. Aside from Vader of course, which I would like to see Thanos and Vader face off in general, most of the rest of Star Wars villians either are too minor or not very good fighters, aside from Kylo Ren who could probably show up to get in your way of getting to Vader because of course.

Wario Partners, LLP: Count Cannoli, plus since he actually has Goodstyle this time around, he could actually show up and battle as The Silver Zephyr , and maybe appear as him for his first boss fight. Also Rudy the Clown, the Black Jewel , Shake King , Captain Syrup, she could maybe control a minion the first phase and then once it gets broken just go Wily Capsule second phase. I just really like the idea of them fighting off their investors as they get more and more pissed they're not paying up, and all of them would of course make good boss fights.

King Dedede: Oh god TOO many options. Whispy Woods, Marx , Dark Matter attempting to possess him yet again, Galacta Knight , this is a series kind of KNOWN for having too many bosses. I REALLY like the idea of him finally figuring out N.M.E. is owned by Nightmare and then having to fight him  with his anime appearance but game abilities.

Solid Snake: A Gekko, Gray Fox , Metal Gear RAY , and Castlevania bosses like Dracula , Death and The Creature. Due to the stealth emphasis a lot of iconic Metal Gear bosses like The End or Sniper Wolf really wouldn't be fit for Subspace bosses. As for Psycho Mantis I feel like he's too gimmicky but we can use that to our advantage by using his hallucinagens, game warping and general mind fuckery to give Snake a boss fight where you fight Pyramid Head in Silent Hill, but due to his extreme plot armor, while the boss health still acts normally, it basically acts like one for all of Silent Hill instead with his attack patterns never changing but enemies from Silent Hill 2 like the Bubble Heads and Lying Figures entering the fight in the second phase, and Flesh Lips hanging from the ceiling and causing contact damage in the third phase.

DJ Professor K: There's a LOT of Sega stuff he can pull from, but the closest thing to a main boss in Jet Set Radio would probably be Zero Beat, who would act like a moveset clone of K without specials.All the rest of the main antagonists in Jet Set would basically all be the same aside from maybe Captain Onishima , who would probably just send his Police Force after you in droves in his boss fight while shooting at you, then his second phase would be him coming down to kick your ass himself poorly. As for the rets of the bosses, probably go with ones from Streets of Rage, Dynamite Headdy, Virtua Fighter, Ristar, Phantasy Star and of course SEGATA SANSHIRO!!! He has the problem of having a lot of sources, but no obvious bosses unless they're researched.