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Best Recurring Miniboss?

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Over the years that Final Fantasy games have been spit out by Square, we've seen games where many times you fight the same boss over and over and over again.

For example:
Final Fantasy V: Gilgamesh
Final Fantasy VI: Ultros
Final Fantasy VII: The Turks
Final Fantasy VIII: Seifer
Final Fantasy IX: Beatrix
Final Fantasy X: Seymour
Final Fantasy XII: The Judges

Out of these recurring mini-bosses who don't happen to be the main boss in the end, who did you have the most fun/memories going against? Overall, who was the best of the best when it came to battling them 3...maybe more times in a game?
 
Beatrix was my favourite, you know she's going to be a challenge and she always ends up kicking your arse, just like the perfect boss should, you don't constantly win against her, unlike the others - which forces the designers to create new forms for the other bosses. She stays the same, and she's able to defeat 4 of your guys effortlessly. That, and she has amazing lines.
 
The Turks for me...next would be Seifer. It was fun encountering The Turks - what with all their funny little quirks and mishaps. Then there's Seifer who did intimidate me at first, but I thought he was just too cool.
 
Aerith Gainsborough said:
Beatrix was my favourite, you know she's going to be a challenge and she always ends up kicking your arse, just like the perfect boss should, you don't constantly win against her, unlike the others - which forces the designers to create new forms for the other bosses. She stays the same, and she's able to defeat 4 of your guys effortlessly. That, and she has amazing lines.
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...AND you get to control her more than once.

Beatrix for me, too.

EDIT:
Even though I voted for Seifer, I meant Beatrix.
 
The Turks are cool, Ultros as a receptionist provides a good laugh, but Beatrix is my favourite. As already mentioned she repeatedly beats your party senseless, is pretty powerful and gets all the best lines. She's one of the best NPCs in the series (OK she's not strictly an NPC as you play as her for a short while in FFIX. but you get what I mean).

Though when she finally realises that Brahne is a nutjob and that she might be better off on your side I did resist the urge to shout at the screen "Took you long enough to realise!" XD
 
The Turks. Their whole attitude, the way they complimented each other. The respect you gain for each other by the end of the game.

I definitely disagree with the above folks on Beatrix though, no offense. I liked Beatrix a lot. What I hated, and puts her out of the running in my opinion, is that you have no choice but to lose. It's cheap and I hate bosses like that. So while she rocked, the tactics they gave her stunk.
 
For me it would have to be the Turks. I always love running into them and they may not always be a challenge to beat, It feels almost different every time I fight them, it's doesn't feel like "Didn't I already beat these guys?" or "Oh crap, I have to fight them again?"
 
Yeah the Turks were cool a lot of fun to fight, not a real threat but still loads of fun, also I enjoyed kicking Seymour's ass after his long speeches :).
 
I got sick of the Judges pretty fast. With a busy schedule, I only played the game in spurts and never was able to piece the Judges together as well as opponents in other games (not to mention the fact that they are under-characterized, although the little we are given is intriguing). So seeing the different Judges didn't delight me as much as, say, seeing the Turks whom I was able to get familiar with. They just seemed sort of like checkpoints in racing games.

On another note, I think the poll should have also included the Black Waltzes from FFIX. I got real sick of them pretty fast. They were boring, whereas Beatrix was fun to interact with (on a story-wise level).
 
I liked fighting Gilgamesh. He just strikes me in a way that I prefer him over the others... Plus he's got that sword thing goin' on when you fight him twice in FFXII... I wonder where he actually came from?
 
Gilgamesh from V only because he cracked me up on more than one occasion.

Beatrix comes in second since she was just awesome.

Riku said:
Even though I voted for Seifer, I meant Beatrix.
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I fixed it for you. :)
 
I would have to go with the Turks on this one but Beatrix was a close second. The turks made me laugh when I fought them and I liked there music too for some reason. Beatrix was just a badass and when you got to control her, you just owned everyone. Her climhazzard was dominant. Gilgamesh was too pathetic for me to be a good reoccuring boss. All he did was strike you for weak damage everytime.
 
Rydia said:
Gilgamesh from V only because he cracked me up on more than one occasion.
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THis was definitely my reason for choosing him as well. I mean he starts out as a bad ass guy and all that jazz, but later on in the game when you start to seehis connection with Ex-Death, Gilgamesh is nothing more than Ex-Death's bitch. When Ex-Death calls him, Gilga runs. When Ex-Death yells, Gilgamesh cries.

Always a hilarious battle when you took on the 4-armed (was it 4?) man.
 
My vote goes to The Turks. I loved running into the Turks. There was always something amusing about them. The Turk's theme also added that cool, rebel quality about them. My favorite scene before fighting the Turks was in Gongaga. Reno and Rude are discussing who do they think is hot. Rude said he thought Tifa was good-looking, and Reno said: "Oh, yeah, Tseng likes that Aeris chick." (Something along the lines.)
 
I enjoyed battling the Turks myself. Nice comical battles with them, I just couldnt take them seriously no matter what. As for fed up with ... Id say Seymour. I just couldnt stand him full stop and battling him roiyally pissed me off.
 
I like fighting the Turks & the constant banter that went on between them and you're party eventually leading to an understanding between them and you. I just thought they were the coolest ever

Gilgamesh amused me in XII and thats about it

I think my most annoying recurring encounter would have to be Seifer *sigh* it's him AGAIN - it was just once too often with that guy. Raijin & Fujin irritated me abit aswel
 
I have to say the Judges. I was going for Gilgamesh but Gabranth's speeches in FFXII got them the vote.
 
Square sure loves to recycle boss fights. Even Kingdom Hearts has its fair share of reoccuring boss battles.

Anywho, I'm going with the Turks. Not much of a challenge, but I enjoyed the dialogue that accompanied each battle with 'em.

Seymour would be my next choice.
 
I liked the Judges battles. Their speeches were nice and I really enjoyed fighting the three of them. I especially liked fighting Gabranth (probably because Ghis and Bergan were chickens because when you fought them two you also had to fight 3 imperial soldiers)
 
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