Final Boss BGM

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This article is about the musical theme from Super Mario Bros. 2. For other musical themes that also play during the final boss, see Category:Battle themes.
"Final Boss BGM"
"Final Boss BGM" in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
"Final Boss BGM" in Super Mario Bros. 2
The image for "Final Boss BGM" from Super Mario Bros. 2 on Nintendo Music
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Koji Kondo
First appearance Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987)
Latest appearance Super Mario Maker 2 (3.0.0) (2020)

"Final Boss BGM"[1] is a musical theme composed by Koji Kondo for Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2, where it plays during the final boss battle against Wart.

History[edit]

Super Mario series[edit]

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic marks the first appearance of "Final Boss BGM". When that game was later redeveloped as Super Mario Bros. 2, the theme was given slightly more enhanced instrumentation, which is the version that subsequent appearances of the theme in the Super Mario franchise are based on. The Super Mario Bros. 2 version is also included in the official albums FAMICOM 20TH ANNIVERSARY GAMEMUSIC DVD, Game Sound Museum: Mario Bros. / Super Mario USA, and Famicom Sound History Series: Mario the Music.

Super Mario All-Stars[edit]

In the SNES remake of Super Mario Bros. 2 in Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, and Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition, an arrangement of "Final Boss BGM" plays for the same purpose as in the original game.

Icon of an audio speaker. Final Boss BGM - The arrangement heard in Super Mario All-Stars
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Super Mario Advance[edit]

In the Game Boy Advance remake of Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Advance, an arrangement of "Final Boss BGM" plays for the same purpose as in the original game. This arrangement plays in a slightly higher pitch, aside from the drums and percussion.

Icon of an audio speaker. Final Boss BGM - The arrangement heard in Super Mario Advance
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Super Mario Maker 2[edit]

In Super Mario Maker 2, the original version of "Final Boss BGM" plays whenever the "Final Boss" sound effect is triggered while the player is in their SMB2 form.

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic Family Computer Disk System 1987 Original Koji Kondo
Super Mario Bros. 2 Nintendo Entertainment System 1988 Arrangement "Final Boss BGM"[1] Koji Kondo
Super Mario All-Stars Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1993 Arrangement Soyo Oka
Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1994 Past arrangement (Super Mario All-Stars) Soyo Oka
Super Mario Advance Game Boy Advance 2001 Arrangement
Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition Wii 2010 Past arrangement (Super Mario All-Stars) Soyo Oka
Super Mario Maker 2 Nintendo Switch 2020[g 1] Past arrangement (Super Mario Bros. 2) "Final Boss" Koji Kondo
  1. ^ Added in the 3.0.0 update on April 22, 2020

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
FAMICOM 20TH ANNIVERSARY GAMEMUSIC DVD 2004 Past arrangement (Super Mario Bros. 2) 「ラストボス」 (Rasuto Bosu) Koji Kondo
Game Sound Museum: Mario Bros. / Super Mario USA 2004 Past arrangement (Super Mario Bros. 2) 「ラストボス」 (Rasuto Bosu) Koji Kondo
Famicom Sound History Series: Mario the Music 2004 Past arrangement (Super Mario Bros. 2) 「ラストボス」 (Rasuto Bosu) Koji Kondo

Other media[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Nintendo Music 2025[g 1] Original "Final Boss BGM" Koji Kondo
  1. ^ Added on February 24, 2025

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ラストボス[1]
Rasuto Bosu 		Last Boss

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Nintendo Music
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Recurring themes and sound effects
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong (NES) "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Ice Cave Chant" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Snakey Chantey (Rattle Battle)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. "Coin" • "Game Start"
Mario Bros. (NES) "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Golden Hammer" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "1-Up" • "Castle BGM" • "Course Clear" ("Power Up") • "Ending" • "Fireball" • "Ground BGM" ("Game Over" · "Player Down") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Pause" • "Pipe Travel / Power-Down" • "Timer Warning" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World Clear"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" ("Course Clear") • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fireworks" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "Music Box" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)" • "World Clear"
Super Mario Land "Chai Ōkoku BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Dragon Coin" • "Ending" • "Forest of Illusion (Map Screen)" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi ni noru toki" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario 64 "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Lethal Lava Land" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Course Clear" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll" • "Star Catch Fanfare" • "Toad's Message"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Castle Theme" • "Course Clear" • "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Paah" • "Switch On!" • "Tower Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy "Buoy Base Galaxy" • "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "Space Junk Road" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" ("Game Over") • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Bowser's Galaxy Generator" • "Puzzle Plank Galaxy" • "Slimy Spring Galaxy" • "Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer Theme" • "Teleporter Melody"
Super Mario 3D Land "Beach Theme" • "Castle Theme" • "Main Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Victory Parade"
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme" ("Athletic Theme")
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Title Theme"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Awards Ceremony (1st – 3rd Place)" • "Donut Plains" • "Ghost Valley" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "D.K.'s Jungle Parkway" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Mario Kart 64 Title Screen" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Staff Credits" • "Starting Grid (Time Trials / Battle)" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Koopa Castle Course" • "Peach Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "Baby Park" • "Mario Bros. Circuits" • "Peach Beach"
Mario Kart DS "Cheep Cheep Beach" • "Luigi's Mansion" • "Peach Gardens" • "Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Coconut Mall" • "Luigi Circuit" • "Maple Treeway" • "Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "Neo Bowser City" • "Piranha Plant Slide" • "Rainbow Road" • "Toad Circuit"
Mario Kart 8 "Cloudtop Cruise" • "Mario Circuit" ("Mario Kart Stadium") • "Mario Kart 8 Title Screen"
Yoshi franchise Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Goal!" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Stage Start" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" ("Yoshis on the Beach") • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)"
Wario franchise WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Drifting Away" • "Pyoro" • "Title Theme" ("Dr. Crygor")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Mario vs. Donkey Kong series Mario vs. Donkey Kong "Mini Mario Stage"
Super Smash Bros. series Super Smash Bros. Melee "Rainbow Cruise"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Important Item Acquired" • "Magic Whistle Melody" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Drawing Board 1" • "Gnat Attack: Level 1" • "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom"
Miscellaneous "Galop infernal" • "Mute City" • "Title BGM (Excitebike)" • "Totakeke's theme"
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Protagonists Mario • Luigi • Toad • Princess Toadstool
Supporting characters Ōsamaa • Shireikana • Subcon • Yoshib
Bosses Birdo • Mouser • Tryclyde • Robirdob • Fryguy • Clawgrip • Mask Gate • Wart
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Worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7
Other locations Subcon • Subspace
Forms Invincible Mario • Small Mario • Super Mario
Music "Bonus Chance" • "Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Other Gallery (Advance) • Game Sound Museum: Mario Bros. / Super Mario USA • Glitches (Advance) • Life Meter • Life, Advanced Stories • Mario Bros.b • Multimedia (Advance) • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Pre-release and unused content (Advance) • Staff (Advance) • Super Mario Advance (book) • Super Mario Advance Bath and Shower Foam • Super Mario All-Stars (+ Super Mario World · Limited Edition) • Super Mario All Stars Video • The Music Man • Yoshi Challengeb • Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
a Exclusive to BS Super Mario USA
b Exclusive to Super Mario Advance
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