Bahamut (Final Fantasy VIII boss)

Bahamut is an optional boss in Final Fantasy VIII. Before being able to fight, the player must answer three questions and fight a Ruby Dragon after each answer. Defeating it nets it as a Guardian Force.

Battle
At the start of the battle, there will be a brief conversation:

Bahamut: 'I am...Bahamut.' Squall: 'The Great GF...Bahamut.' Bahamut: '...GF? I...?' 'Using my powers...' '...it is you humans...I fear...'

For a King of GF, Bahamut is susceptible to Blind, cast this to avoid its Claw Swipe. Its magic attacks can be countered by status defense on Lightning and Wind, and having Auto-Haste helps when Bahamut decides to cast Stop. Mega Flare is a non-elemental attack that will ignore Spirit stats; however the damage may be lessened by being Shelled and using the Defend command.

Upon its defeat, Bahamut will say:

Bahamut: 'Have you seen the light...?'

Trivia

 * In Ultimecia Castle is another boss, called Tiamat who looks surprisingly similar to Bahamut, she even has a similiar move to Bahamut's Megaflare (D-A-R-K-F-L-A-R-E).
 * The first line of Bahamut's Scan description in the English language release of Final Fantasy VIII actually contains a grammatical error, reading "Called the King of GF; its Mega Flare ignores all defence, giving a powerful blo". In the PlayStation Greatest Hits release this error was corrected so that the first line ends with simply "ignores all defense."