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A location change during a [[Boss Battle]], ranging from two to three areas in total, adding for nice variation in a brawl. This can occur for several different reasons: 

# The fighters themselves end up dragging their brawl further into the area they're already in, with the main location being the same, but in a different scenario. 
# The fighters might cause enough damage to the area that they end up literally breaking down onto another place, floor or level. 
# Something happens that suddenly separates the opponents and prompt the two to find each other in a different area. 
# One fighter runs away and is encountered in another area later on. 
# One fighter chases down the other and resumes the brawl in a separate location from where the chase started. 
# Finally, the fight itself is interrupted by something (usually an explosion or [[Collapsing Lair]] effect of sorts), and the combatants are forced to hold off their brawl and escape to another area, only to continue clawing out each others' throats almost immediately thereafter. 
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' '''loves''' this. 
** Episode I had a textbook type one between Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul. 
** Episode III went for type four in the first half, then switched to style one, when Obi-Wan fought General Grievous off in a saber duel back at the Separatist lair, then chased him down throughout Utapau's cities, and finally shot him to death in a landing pad. 
*** Stage One was used again for the duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan. 
** Episode V had Luke Skywalker fight Darth Vader in various parts of Cloud City, primarily because of types three and five.

== [[Literature]] ==
* The first nine books of [[The Wheel of Time]] all end with a battle, and most of them are this trope:
** "The Eye of the World": Rand more-or-less accidentally Travels from one fight to another.
** "The Great Hunt": The [[Melee a Trois|manysided]] battle of Falme rages back and forth all over the town.
** "The Dragon Reborn": Rand chases Ishamael through the Stone of Tear.
** "The Shadow Rising": Rand chases Asmodean through Rhuidean.
** "The Fires of Heaven": Rand chases Rahvin through the Royal Palace in Caemlyn.
** "Lord of Chaos": Aversion. The Battle of Dumai's Wells start out at the wells and stays there.
** "A Crown of Swords": Rand chases Sammael through Illian and Shadar Logoth.
** "The Path of Daggers": Rand and the renegade Asha'man chase each other through the Sun Palace in Cairhien.
** "Winter's Heart": Rand's allies and enemies sneak around trying to ambush each other in the forests around Shadar Logoth.

== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[God of War]] II'' followed the third style, with Kratos' fight against the Colossus of Rhodes, while [[God of War]] III had Kratos versus Zeus in a merge of the third and fifth styles. 
* ''[[Sly Cooper]] 3'' went with style one when Sly first fights General Tsao on top of a forest of vines, then on the ground level of said forest. Same game, but with the Mask of Dark Earth in style four, first in a bar as a coyote, then as Carmelita in a mountain-like dune.
* ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]]'' gets this with the final boss, which goes from a shrine to a dark pit to a circular room (with a creepy infant doll in the center), to a ''freaking huge'', open area containing a colossus.
* The Egg Dragoon fight in ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' is a variation of type two, with Eggman destroying the platform you're standing on twice during the fight.
* The first two thirds of the final battle against [[Big Bad|Bowser]] at the end of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' both take place on two individual planets, but the third and final stage takes place inside a Sun!
** The first phase of ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'''s final battle plays out just like the other Bowser battles, even relinquishing the [[MacGuffin|Grand Star]] at the end.{{spoiler|.. but [[Not So Fast Bucko|it's a trap]], and Bowser eats the Grand Star, [[Make My Monster Grow|grows gigantic once again,]] and initiates the final phase inside a ''black hole!''}}
* Each time Thugly in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' [[Turns Red]], he smashes the floor of the arena, sending the battle down to a lower level, though the change in terrain has no tactical effect on the battle in progress.
* Goriath did this in ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'' by smashing the snowy floor after you hit him enough. It turns from snow to icy to both etc.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series has this with [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]] (the final battle with  {{spoiler|Ganondorf}}) and [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]] (battle with Zant).
* ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'', with the battles versus Dark Pit, Medusa,  {{spoiler|and Hades.}}

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