Boss

There are many boss enemies in the Mother games.

In Mother, bosses are few and far between, and the main distinction between them and other enemies is that they are encountered only at specific locations. In EarthBound, bosses guard many locations, including all Your Sanctuary locations. Mother 3 has a boss at the end of each chapter except Chapter 6 which contains no enemies; additionally, all of the Seven Needles have a boss encountered nearby. When encountering bosses in EarthBound and Mother 3, the entering battle sound is based on the one heard in Mother.

List of bosses

Mother

	Enemy name	Location
	Lamp	Ninten's house
	Doll	Ninten's house
	Starman Jr.	Choucream Zoo
	Dragon	Magicant Underground
	The Fish	Magicant Underground
	R7037	Yucca Desert
	B.B.'s Boss	Live House
	R7038	Mt. Itoi
	R7038XX	Mt. Itoi
	Giegue	Mt. Itoi

EarthBound

	Enemy name	Location
File:StarmanJunior.gif	Starman Junior	Onett
	Frank	Onett
	Frankystein Mark II	Onett
	Titanic Ant	Giant Step
File:Cop.gif	Cop	Onett (x4)
	Captain Strong	Onett
	Everdred	Burglin Park
	Mr. Carpainter	Happy Happy Village
	Mondo Mole	Lilliput Steps
	Boogey Tent	Threed
	Master Belch	Belch's Base
	Trillionage Sprout	Milky Well
	Guardian Digger	Gold Mine (x5)
	Dept. Store Spook	Grand Department Store
Evil Mani-Mani	Evil Mani-Mani	Moonside
File:ClumsyRobot.gif	Clumsy Robot	Monotoli Building
	Shrooom!	Rainy Circle
	Plague Rat of Doom	Magnet Hill
	Thunder and Storm	Pink Cloud
	Kraken	Seas near Scaraba
	Guardian General	Pyramid
File:MasterBarf.gif	Master Barf	Deep Darkness
File:StarmanDeluxe.gif	Starman Deluxe	Stonehenge
File:ElectroSpecter.gif	Electro Specter	Lumine Hall
	Carbon Dog	Fire Spring
	Diamond Dog	Fire Spring
	Kraken	Sea of Eden (x3)
	Ness's Nightmare	Sea of Eden
Heavily Armed Pokey	Heavily Armed Pokey	Cave of the Past
	Giygas	Cave of the Past

Mother 3

	Enemy name	Location
	Reconstructed Caribou	Mt. Oriander
	Mecha-Drago	Drago Plateau
	Mr. Passion	Osohe Castle
	Clayman	Osohe Castle
	Oh-So-Snake	Osohe Castle
	Cactus Wolf	Death Desert
	Pork Tank	Sunshine Forest
	Jealous Bass	Club Titiboo
	Lord Passion	Osohe Castle
	Fierce Pork Trooper	Highway
	Forlorn Junk Heap	Highway
	Fierce Pork Trooper	Thunder Tower
	Li'l Miss Marshmallow	Thunder Tower
	Mr. Genetor	Thunder Tower
File:AlmostMecha-Lion.PNG	Almost Mecha-Lion	Chimera Laboratory
	Steel Mechorilla	Snowcap Mountain
	New Fassad	Fire Mountain
	Master Eddy	Sea Floor Dungeon
	Zombieshroom	Tanetane Island
	Eerie Smile	Tanetane Island (Zombieshroom)
	Barrier Trio	Tanetane Island
	Masked Man	Chupichupyoi Temple
	Miracle Fassad	New Pork City sewers
	King Statue	New Pork City
	N.K. Cyborg	Empire Porky Building
	PORKY 01-10	Empire Porky Building
	Porky	Below the Empire Porky Building
	Masked Man	Below the Empire Porky Building