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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)
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For the first game in the series, which shares the name, go here.It's Dangerous to Describe 'The Legend of Zelda' Here Alone! Take This.The Legend of Zelda is Nintendo's medieval fantasy Action-Adventure video game series. It's one of its longest running series, beginning in 1986 on the Nintendo Entertainment System.The franchise is, in essence, a mythos in the classical sense of the word. Link and Princess Zelda, respective wielders of the Triforces of Courage and Wisdom, are the eternal heroes destined to be reborn in an endless cycle of reincarnation to defeat Ganon, the evil wielder of the Triforce of Power, in his quest to destroy the kingdom of Hyrule.A given game typically goes like this: an evil wizard/king/thief/monster/thing, variously named Ganon or Ganondorf (but not Gannon), has cast a great evil over the land of Hyrule, and a young boy/man usually in a sort of green Peter Pan/Robin Hood costume must save Hyrule by recovering powerful artifacts that rest in places tainted by Ganon(dorf), typically by traveling across the game's overworld between a series of complex, puzzle-like dungeons that he must successfully navigate to reach the artifact at their end. Princess Zelda is his resourceful ally and sometimes ambiguous love interest. He either must rescue her or is guided by her, if not both at once.The story is repeated in many of the games, showing many eras, generations and Alternate Timelines for the land of Hyrule, and as many young boys (or young men) named Link who find themselves forced to become heroes. While the above conflict is not present in every game, with several installments featuring totally new villains or events, the threat of Ganon is the one that pops up most commonly, and even games with a much different plot tend to be shaped by it in one way or another.On November 7th, 2023, Shigeru Miyamoto announced that a live-action film based on the franchise is in the works by Sony.Created by Shigeru Miyamoto with the help of Takashi Tezuka, the series is now produced by Eiji Aonuma and directed by Hidemaro Fujibayashi. | |
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Coup de Grâce Cutscene | |
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Coup de Grâce Cutscene: Many of Ganondorf's final boss battles. | |
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Overhead Interaction Indicator | |
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Overhead Interaction Indicator: In multiple games, Link can interact with characters with a downward arrow overhead. In both The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the arrow turns blue for NPCs and green for certain objects such as signs. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has yellowish downwards arrows. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a white arrow that turns orange when locked on. | |
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Frozen Foe Platform | |
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Frozen Foe Platform: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Enemies frozen by the Ice Arrow can be used as platforms. This is required in parts of the Great Bay Temple and to reach Ikana Canyon. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Hostile Gorons can't be killed, instead they roll up into a ball that can be climbed on, and they get back up with enough force to send Link flying vertically to gain access to ledges. Once the Gorons stop being hostile, they still allow Link to climb on their backs to send him on his way up, but now they do so willingly. | |
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Cap Raiser: It's common, but not guaranteed that a game in the franchise requires Link to earn larger wallets that will allow him to carry more rupees. The Legend of Zelda: Link can only hold 8 bombs. He can later upgrade his bomb capacity to 12 and then 16 if he finds certain old men in dungeons and pays the 100 rupee fee to upgrade. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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In Twilight Princess, if you run through Castle Town in wolf form, the guards will circle around you, but every one of them is shaking and cowering like mad, and if you make a move, they all scream and go running like crazy. And then there's the soldiers who back out of escorting Ilia to Kakariko Village as soon as they realize that it'll involve actually putting their lives at risk. | |
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The Artifact | |
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The Artifact: The Triforce as a physical object has grown steadily less important to the series' plots ever since Wind Waker, not counting remakes and remasters. However, its image is so intrinsic to Zelda that said image will appear at least once in every game, even ones where it isn't named or has nothing to do with that game's story. | |
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HilarityEnsues | |
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Hilarity Ensues: Go ahead. Attack the Cuccos. Watch a whole flock of angry poultry dashing and flying towards you in retaliation, not stopping until you either leave the screen or drop dead. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Skyward Sword is graphically and thematically more lighthearted than its predecssor Twilight Princess (which is Darker and Edgier than most entries), but that masks the fact that Ghirahim is the most psychotically insane villain seen by players, as he takes pleasure in describing what he wants to do to Link. Additionally, you learn that the planet suffered a class 2 apocalypse, which is why the sky islands exist, and the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire franchise is a bloodthirsty, genocidal demon lord who's brought back to life because he's in the process of digesting Zelda's soul. Also, half of the Ancient Cistern is unexpectedly creepy. While the top half is beautiful, ornate and lit with pleasant, golden light, the bottom half is murky, dark and populated by shambling undead zombie Bokoblins. | |
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Crate Expectations | |
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Crate Expectations: Usually money or consumable items, though occasionally collectables. | |
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Cartoon Bomb | |
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Cartoon Bomb: In most games, bombs are portrayed this way. The cel-shading effects in The Wind Waker and its sequels help too. | |
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Chaos Architecture | |
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Chaos Architecture: Landmarks of Hyrule, such as Lake Hylia, Hyrule Castle, Death Mountain, Kakariko Village, and the Lost Woods, tend to move around from game to game. | |
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You Can't Thwart Stage One | |
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This trope only comes into play once Link is in action. Until that point, the villains' plans tend go incredibly well without many issues plaguing them. Then Link undoes all their damage, seals or kills the evil, and generally gives the story a happy ending. Simply put, staying evil in the Zelda universe guarantees failure in the end, even if your power rivals a goddess' own power. | |
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Magic Wand | |
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Magic Wand: Many, including the Rods of Ice and Fire and the Staves of Byrna and Somaria in A Link To the Past, the Rod of Seasons in Oracle of Seasons, the Wind Waker, and the Dominion Rod in Twilight Princess. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Nintendo released a guide to the series called Hyrule Historia as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration. Among other things, it contains the series' official timeline. | |
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Underwater Ruins | |
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Underwater Ruins: Several water-themed dungeons in the series. | |
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The Overworld | |
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The Overworld: Hyrule Field in Ocarina of Time is possibly the Trope Maker for the Adventure-style overworld. In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker it is The Great Sea, an interesting take on the concept being that you have to traverse by boat. There are small islands that have nuances you can explore, but it's mostly just open seas. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess features the largest, most detailed overworld of any Zelda game until The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild; featuring varied terrain, scores of enemies, and secret grottos. In fact, it was so massive that the game gives you Epona early on; otherwise, getting around could take awhile... In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword it's the Sky, which you have to traverse by giant bird. Similar to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, there are small floating islands strewn out among the clouds. | |
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Alternate Timeline | |
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The supporting cast in the backstory of The Adventure of Link has largely been ignored in other games, with no mention of the King of Hyrule outside of some cartoon and comic adaptations. The general discrepancies between the first two games and the rest of the franchise were retroactively explained by sequestering them into their own branch of the split timeline, referred to as "the era of decline". | |
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Puzzle Reset | |
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Puzzle Reset: Some puzzles have time limits, and will reset if not completed. Also, incomplete puzzles often reset when you leave the area to let you start over. | |
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Dual-World Gameplay | |
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Dual-World Gameplay: A Link to the Past started with its use of the Dark World, and then Ocarina of Time and Oracle of Ages used time travel. Time travel-dual worlding is revisited in Skyward Sword, but only within the radius of "Timeshift Stones." This culminates in the Sandship dungeon, where there is a Timeshift Stone powerful enough to resurrect an entire ship and the kraken-esque monster beneath it. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Impa did not actually appear in a game until Ocarina of Time. This is noteworthy, as the character had otherwise existed in the instruction manual of the first game, and was mentioned by name in Zelda II itself. It took over a decade before she actually got an in-game appearance, but she has continued to appear regularly afterward. | |
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Pyromaniac | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_1c0dbffc | comment |
Pyromaniac: Bombs are one of Link's all-time favorite problem-solvers. In the first game, he also started several forest fires. Lampshaded towards the beginning of Breath of the Wild. | |
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Rate-Limited Perpetual Resource | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_1cf45657 | comment |
Rate-Limited Perpetual Resource: Resources in the franchise are often carried in Empty Bottles, of which each game has a limited number to find. Many powerful Healing Potions and the like are free, but only found in out-of-the-way places that must be revisited each time the player wants to refill a bottle. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: If the player has an abundance of elemental arrows then the shops won't stock more until the player runs low. However, normal arrows are almost always available for purchase regardless of player amount, and more elemental arrows can be acquired at any time from enemies carrying them. Healing fairies will stop spawning if the player has more than 5 in their inventory. They can partially circumvent this by holding some of the fairies in hand. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Healing fairies can always be obtained at fairy fountains in various locations around the world, but the number you can take with you into a dungeon is limited by the number of bottles you have found, the maximum possible being four. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: After reaching the Great Fairy in the Cave of Ordeals, respawning fairies can be found in fountains to be bottled for use. 1 fairy per bottle. The Great Fairy will also grant you her Tears, which act as a Healing Potion that gives a Full Health Bonus, and also must be bottled. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: The Elixir Soup fully refills Link's health and magic, and also makes him more powerful until he gets hit again. Two helpings fit in a bottle, but Link's grandma, who lives in the First Town on an island in the corner of the map, will only give him a refill if he doesn't already have at least one helping. | |
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Camera Centering | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_1dca8d43 | comment |
Camera Centering: Every 3D game with an adjustable camera has a "return to behind-the-head" shortcut. | |
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1.0 | |
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Fishing Minigame | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_1e1d10ee | comment |
Fishing Minigame: Most games since and including Link's Awakening have had one. Averted in The Wind Waker, which apparently has few fish in its ocean, with only monsters, the anthropomorphic Fishmen, and the guardian Jabun inhabiting the waters. | |
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Skeleton Key | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_1f48abcd | comment |
Skeleton Key: The first two Zelda games both had a key item that basically served as infinite keys for the remainder of the game. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_1f48abcd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_1f48abcd | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_20c6638f | type |
Easing into the Adventure | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_20c6638f | comment |
Easing into the Adventure: After the games transitioned to three-dimensions with Ocarina of Time, each game starts off with Link in a domestic community before going off into the world to gradually face greater evils. Breath of the Wild averts this, with Link waking up defenseless in a desolate world where all of the game mechanics are taught by doing and dangers are learned the hard way. While you're isolated in one part of the map for the tutorial stage, there's very little verbal instruction and more encouragement to experiment and figure out survival yourself. | |
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Notice This | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_20e2a53b | comment |
Notice This: Important items nearby may make Link look in their direction as he passes by. Or an arrow showing that the object can be targeted will appear above it. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_20e2a53b | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_216c045b | type |
The Scottish Trope | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_216c045b | comment |
The Scottish Trope: As of the Virtual Console rerelease of Link's Awakening, "Yahoo!" was considered this by Nintendo as far as this franchise is concerned, and it remained that way throughout most of The New '10s, when YAHOO! was still an Internet powerhouse. The Switch remake, which was made after YAHOO!'s fall from prominence in the second half of the decade, ultimately averted this and restored every instance of "Yahoo!" from the original version. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_216c045b | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_225d8ff9 | type |
Ambiguously Human | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_225d8ff9 | comment |
Ambiguously Human: Several races, including the Hylians, Twili, Gerudo, and Sheikah. Generally, it seems that the word "human" refers to Hylians, Sheikah, and Gerudo, each being considered a different race of human, with normal round-eared humans existing in the Zelda universe alongside them. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_225d8ff9 | |
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Flipping Helpless | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_246268be | comment |
Flipping Helpless: The Spiked Beetle, Terrorpin, and Snapper are various enemies in the series that are based on turtles and thus have this weakness. Typically, they can be flipped with the hammer or the shield, or in the latter case, by getting underneath them using a Deku Flower and launching out. | |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_24c277e7 | type |
Arc Hero | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_24c277e7 | comment |
Arc Hero: Since Ocarina, the new Fairy Companion tends to be the main supporting character for each game, providing Link and the player with necessary guidance and information. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time added Navi to personify the new Z-Targeting system. She was the fairy for 'the boy without a fairy' and his guide as he fulfilled his destiny. Tatl in the direct followup Majora's Mask didn't add anything different gameplay-wise, but was friends with Arc Villain Skull Kid and the sister of his fairy companion Tael. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: The King of Red Lions gave character to the sailing mechanics as a talking boat. Getting deeper into the plot, it's revealed he's actually the King of Hyrule trying to awaken and reunite this era's Link and Zelda with their Triforce pieces to end Ganon and bury old Hyrule once and for all. However, when Link is on land, he is unaccompanied. The Minish Cap: Ezlo was the former mentor of Arc Villain Vaati and was the character tied to the growing and shrinking mechanics. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Midna partners with Link and commands his new wolf form, as well as managing teleportation and a few other new twilight abilities. Link's story to save his friends ends about a third through the game, with the rest about her quest to stop Zant and reclaim her throne from him. Unlike Navi and Tatl, she does not give information about enemies or bosses, which makes a degree of sense seeing as she's from another world and wouldn't recognize anything from Hyrule. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Fi, the titular Skyward Sword, personified the new one-to-one motion controls, and various new abilities of the Goddess/Master Sword. She's Link's guide to become Hylia's chosen hero and is the Good Counterpart to Arc Villain Ghirahim. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Ravio makes a case for this role, as the one who runs the item shop and is Link's Lorulean counterpart, intimately tied to the fates of Hilda and Yuga. | |
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Thriving Ghost Town | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_253f0265 | comment |
Thriving Ghost Town: To the extent that Hyrule itself could be called a Thriving Ghost Kingdom. | |
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Palette Swap | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2557e3a9 | comment |
Items and uniforms, especially. Enemies too, in many games; enemy power is shown via Palette Swap. Which color is stronger tends to vary. | |
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Great Escape | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2562da69 | comment |
Great Escape: In Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess. | |
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Winged Humanoid | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2588feac | comment |
Their appearance varies between games. Generally speaking, they're depicted as female winged humanoids in the top-down games (and The Wind Waker), while they're depicted as winged orbs of light starting with Ocarina of Time and continuing into the other 3D games. A Link Between Worlds and the Link's Awakening remake use both: they're glowing orbs when in a bottle and humanoid otherwise. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2588feac | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_259d5879 | comment |
Anachronism Stew: The series absolutely explodes with this trope. While the core of the games is Medieval European Fantasy (albeit a more Greek version than most others), you still have ranches and ghost towns stripped straight from the Old West, boomerangs, steamboats, trains, chancellors with 19th-century top hats, cameras, and even telephones. And that's just barely touching how egregious the anachronisms get in this franchise. "The Group" has a bazooka. Fortunately, that's the most egregious of anything not-magic... except perhaps Goht, the mechanical bull. By Twilight Princess, the Goron people seemed to have not only mastered manipulation of electricity but also understand the principles of electromagnetic attraction. Their mining facility is also remarkably modern-industrial for the Zelda world. The Bombchu Bowling Alley in OoT even features neon lights. In Skyward Sword, the earliest game in the series' internal chronology, Link encounters the remnants of a civilization of robots, making robots one of, if not the oldest races in the world. Based on clues in that game, the world may have undergone a Cataclysm Backstory caused by the demon invasion of the surface, and the advanced tools that Link finds in the various games are Lost Technology. Breath of the Wild includes a ton of advanced, presumably Magitek devices, with the smart tablet-like Sheikah Slate, underground shrines with electricity and elevators, and highly advanced robotic sentries with death lasers. All of these are remnants of a Sheikah technological renaissance that was halted by the king 10,100 years before. Beyond a few tinkerers and mad scientists, everyone else gets by with basic medieval technology and few recognize the work of the Sheikah. It's worth mentioning that Majora's Mask also has a rock band. With electric guitars, keyboards and all. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_259d5879 | |
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Generation Xerox | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_25bc8511 | comment |
Generation Xerox: Link and Zelda always, and sometimes notable supporting characters (like Marin/Malon, Tingle, Beedle, Dampé, and Linebeck). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_25bc8511 | |
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Wave-Motion Gun | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_263bb4ec | comment |
Breath of the Wild includes a ton of advanced, presumably Magitek devices, with the smart tablet-like Sheikah Slate, underground shrines with electricity and elevators, and highly advanced robotic sentries with death lasers. All of these are remnants of a Sheikah technological renaissance that was halted by the king 10,100 years before. Beyond a few tinkerers and mad scientists, everyone else gets by with basic medieval technology and few recognize the work of the Sheikah. | |
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1.0 | |
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Mythology Gag | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_26ac510e | comment |
In what is almost certainly a twofer nod to A Link to the Past and Twilight Princess, Demise suddenly stops to look at your bug-catching net if you pull it out. It can also reflect his lightning strikes. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_26ac510e | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_26c4741a | type |
Advanced Movement Technique | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_26c4741a | comment |
Advanced Movement Technique: In the 3D games, players will usually mash the roll button almost constantly, since rolling is faster than walking. | |
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1.0 | |
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Power Floats | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_287083f7 | comment |
Power Floats: Many instances throughout the series, from mooks to bosses. The Triforce itself hovers over its pedestal, turning slowly. | |
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Dark World | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_294df577 | comment |
While Ganondorf apparently has met his final end a few times, the end of Ocarina of Time and the backstory to A Link to the Past, The Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess has him sealed in a Dark World due to his immense power. Of course, his long isolation there gives him plenty of time to gather his strength, allowing him to break the seal and unleash havoc upon Hyrule once more. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_294df577 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: It's been possible to translate the various versions of the Hylian language since OoT. They're usually a straight cipher for either Japanese kana or the English alphabet, English being more common in later games. | |
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Abnormal Limb Rotation Range | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_294f1400 | comment |
Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Kaepora Gaebora and the other Owls. Link himself in Skyward Sword, under some extreme Wiimote gestures. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_294f1400 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_297ab1b9 | type |
Parental Abandonment | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_297ab1b9 | comment |
Parental Abandonment: Has anyone ever seen Link's parents or Zelda's mother? In A Link to the Past, The Wind Waker, and The Minish Cap, Link is raised by other relatives. In Ocarina of Time, it's revealed that both of Link's parents died during a great war. Link's father presumably died in battle (the game never says what happened to him), and his mother was killed while trying to hide Link in the Kokiri Woods. In Twilight Princess, Link lives in a small village with several families, but he has his own house and no one claims him as a relative. In Skyward Sword, Link is in the same situation, inhabiting a dorm room in the Skyloft Knights academy, but he's not alone; all of the other students are also missing their parents, except for Pipit's mother and Zelda's father. A Link Between Worlds again gives him his own house and an apprenticeship with the local blacksmith, but any family is nowhere to be found. | |
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1.0 | |
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Easter Egg | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_29a39f6 | comment |
The Cave of Ordeals from Twilight Princess. Getting to the bottom means trudging through 50 levels of enemies with limited health and item refills. Fortunately, every tenth floor is a Great Fairy Fountain. And there's an Easter Egg for beating it twice. Completing it multiple times is the only way to hold more than one bottle of Great Fairy's Tears, too. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_29a39f6 | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Lampshaded in Spirit Tracks when Rael asks you to bring Cuccos to the Sand Sanctuary. Apparently, they're needed for research. "They are flightless. But, when cornered, they can call their friends to unleash an amazing power." | |
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1.0 | |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2a552d44 | type |
Recurring Element | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2a552d44 | comment |
Recurring Element: The "Link" and "Zelda" characters are, excepting for the direct sequels, different people in each game (they just happen to look exactly alike and wear the same clothes and have the same name). The Adventure of Link explains the multiple Zeldas as tribute to an ancient Zelda whose brother trapped her with a sleeping spell. | |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2b7d29e1 | type |
Artifact Title | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2b7d29e1 | comment |
Artifact Title: Occasionally. The titular young princess is absent from Link's Awakening, and merely has a cameo in Majora's Mask and Tri Force Heroes. | |
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Faerie Court | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_2ba97f22 | comment |
Faerie Court: There are numerous Great Fairies in the series, who contrast normal fairies, which are tiny Winged Humanoids, by being gigantic, flirtatious humanoids, who may or may not have wings. Their relationship with and authority over normal fairies is not clear. Fairy "Queens" show up in a few games, most notably Wind Waker where she initially appears as an alien figure with four arms, but this is actually a puppet controlled by a childlike figure with mystical coloration. | |
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1.0 | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Majora, Zant, and Ghirahim are possibly the most psychotic characters Link has encountered in his many adventures. The first is an Omnicidal Maniac who wants to obliterate the world with a moon for kicks, the second is a deranged, power-hungry man willing to do anything to become king and possibly has an unhealthy obsession with Midna, and the third is a creepy Blood Knight who threatens to torture Link for getting in the way of his plans. | |
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Ghost Ship | |
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Ghost Ship: Present in both The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass: The ship that appears in The Wind Waker guards a chart that leads to one of the fragments of the Triforce of Courage. It can only be entered after the Ghost Ship Chart is found. The ship in Phantom Hourglass lurks the waters of the Ocean King's domains to steal life force and give it to Bellum. | |
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Same Plot Sequel | |
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Same Plot Sequel: Certain games (especially those involving Ganon and the Triforce) fall into this. Skyward Sword justifies it by revealing that many of the games are the result of a cyclical curse placed by Demise, causing the same events to be repeated for eternity. Ocarina of Time closely follows the structure of A Link to the Past: gather three Plot Coupons, get the Master Sword, enter a Dark World / Bad Future, go through a harder set of dungeons, and fight Ganon. The differences lie in Ocarina of Time’s greater emphasis on characters and fleshing out each region of Hyrule. Twilight Princess, in turn, sticks closely to Ocarina of Time’s story, complete with a companion character, Link originating from a forest, Nostalgia Level dungeons, and another trip through Hyrule Castle to fight Ganondorf. However, Twilight Princess differentiates itself with its Darker and Edgier tone, larger overworld, heavier themes, and more plot-driven progression. Skyward Sword itself is a Same Plot Prequel that follows many of the same beats as A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time. Three Plot Coupons, a reveal halfway through, Zelda going missing for an extended period, time travel shenanigans, and a Big Bad that seeks to revive a Demon King, the latter of whom is revealed to be the original incarnation of Ganon himself. Additionally, the "Sacred Flames" arc of the game closely follows the second half of The Wind Waker, as Link travels to new areas to power up his sword and learns more about his destiny. A Link Between Worlds is a deliberate example, as the game reuses the overworld from A Link to the Past. Most of the game follows the story to a T with only minor alterations: three Plot Coupons, Master Sword, Dark World, more dungeons, and The Very Definitely Final Dungeon. However, the final act throws in several major reveals that heavily subvert and deconstruct its predecessor's plot. Tears of the Kingdom is a combination of the narratives from Ocarina of Time and Skyward Sword. Once again, we see the founding of Hyrule in the distant past by a race from the Sky and a black, scaly Demon King that threatens the land. Ganondorf's initial scheme to overthrow King Rauru by swearing fealty to him is reminiscent of his plan in the child portion of Ocarina of Time, complete with a scene of him bowing in front of Rauru, followed by Zelda attempting to warn the king of Ganondorf's treachery, only to be ignored. Finally, Link's storyline sees him rushing to awaken each of the Sages in order to find Zelda, restore Hyrule, and defeat Ganondorf once and for all— a dead ringer for the adult portion of Ocarina of Time. | |
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Set Bonus | |
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The Triforce went through an inversion, then reversion of this trope. In the first game, it's made known that there are two different Triforces that are basically equal in influence. The second game introduces the third Triforce and reveals that all three have a Set Bonus, where the person who has all three and summons the Golden Power is functionally Omnipotent. Then, the Timey-Wimey Ball gets thrown into the series, where it's revealed that there's multiple timelines — each with its own Golden Power (although there's no overlap between the timelines, thus never more than one unified Triforce). And then at last, in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, it's revealed that there is at least one twin of Hyrule... complete with its own unified Triforce. | |
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Camera Lock-On | |
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The ghost-like Poes of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask turn invisible and float away if you Z-target them. | |
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Stock Video Game Puzzle | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_30a57d1a | comment |
Stock Video Game Puzzle: Every single one in the blasted book, what with the series basically being the Trope Maker and Trope Codifier for a large portion of them. | |
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Bow and Sword in Accord | |
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Bow and Sword in Accord: All the Links make use of a variety of ranged weapons as well as a sword. | |
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Tropical Island Adventure | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_318d4432 | comment |
Tropical Island Adventure: Link's Awakening, Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass all take place on tropical islands, being departures from the Medieval European Fantasy setting of the rest of the series. Oracle of Ages also has a section where Link is shipwrecked on a tropical island known as Crescent Island where the third dungeon is located, has his stuff stolen by the local lizard-like Tokay and has to get it back, and Breath of the Wild has a trial on a tropical island known as Eventide Island, which also functions as a No-Gear Level. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: A pretty common setting for the series, with Skyward Sword, The Wind Waker, Breath of the Wild, and even the original game all taking place after some cataclysm or societal collapse. Not that the apocalypse seems to bother the people much. | |
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Heroic Ambidexterity | |
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Heroic Ambidexterity: Link has traditionally been left-handed; but in the earliest games, because of technical limitations, his sprite would switch hands depending on which way it was facing, and in later games, to accommodate motion controls, he reverted to being right-handed in order to match the majority of players (although handedness doesn't actually affect gameplay). Shigeru Miyamoto decided that he's ambidextrous in order to smooth over the inconsistencies. | |
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No Hero Discount | |
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No Hero Discount: You can save the world as long as you have enough Rupees. | |
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Grim Up North | |
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Grim Up North: The northern part of the world map will generally have some sort of foreboding mountain or volcano. | |
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Sword Beam | |
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Sword Beam: In the first game and some of the others, usually only when you are at full health, as well as in the Animated Adaptation. | |
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Super Drowning Skills | |
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Super Drowning Skills: In the 2D games, Link cannot touch water without certain items or he'll drown. Taken to the logical extreme in Oracle of Ages, where you needed two separate items in the game for two different depths of water. | |
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Sequential Boss | |
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Sequential Boss: Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a bit of an exception, since there is an escape sequence between his two forms. Twinrova before him, however, is two forms right after each other. Also, Phantom Ganon is first fought as he rides with his stallion and then when he's alone floating. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess does this for every boss except the second, in some cases even tricking you (and Link) into thinking the battle is over: Zant himself is a Final-Exam Boss with minor variations (namely, that he mimicks the behavior of some bosses and minibosses, and that he warps Link into a previous location at the start of a new phase). Ganondorf's battle consists of a fight with Puppet Zelda, then Beast Ganon, then Ganondorf on a horse, and finally Ganondorf himself in a Sword Fight. And all of this takes place in direct succession of one-another. Played for laughs with Armogohma, whose second form (his eye on legs) runs away to a sillier version of the boss music and dies very easily. The final battle with Majora from Majora's Mask features three forms, named "Majora's Mask," "Majora's Incarnation," and "Majora's Wrath". The Shadow Nightmares in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening probably take the prize, having six forms (although the last two forms can be one-shotted with the right weapons). Some of them even reference bosses from A Link to the Past. Veran from The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages probably comes second after the Nightmares, and none of her forms are one-hits. You have to fight Veran-possessing-Ambi, Veran's "True Form (and despair!)", and her final battle (in which she shapeshifts between three forms), one after the other, without healing. And if it's a linked game, you then go on to face Twinrova and Ganon! Hooray! Vaati from The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap does not like to die. His first form is a humanoid boss version of Patra, and his second form is a giant eye. He appears to die after this, bringing down the castle with him, but just as Link is almost to safety, a third form appears that looks like another giant eye, this time with arms. Woe be to you if you used up all of your potions and fairies already. And even then, he's not dead yet. With the exception of Scaldera and The Imprisoned, every boss in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has two phases. This started as early as Zelda II: The Adventure of Link; that game had the Iron Knuckle Knight, who you have to defeat on horseback before you can fight him normally. | |
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Eternal Equinox | |
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Eternal Equinox: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Averted given that it uses a day/night cycle, but takes place over only during an interval of three days, so there wouldn't be as much noticeable variation in times for sunset and sunrise. Played straight in Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, and Breath of the Wild, which also have day and night. Skyward Sword has both day and night, but you never see the transition from one to the other (since you can only change time by sleeping), so it's unknown if this is happening or not. The rest of the series takes place exclusively in daylight. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Massively idealistic. At its core, The Legend of Zelda is a fairly simplistic fairy tale about a knight saving a princess and the whole world from a monster, complete with standard happy endings for everyone. Even the darker games are dripping with idealism and are outright themed around hope in the bleakest of circumstances. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Hyrule Historia states that one of the timelines in the series is created when Link fails to stop Ganon in Ocarina Of Time and creates the Imprisoning War (a.k.a. leads up to A Link Into The Past). | |
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Karl Marx Hates Your Guts | |
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Karl Marx Hates Your Guts: Generally speaking, prices for certain items are the same in every store in each game. There are exceptions, though. | |
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Plot Tumor | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3b16449 | comment |
Plot Tumor: The Master Sword didn't even appear until A Link to the Past when you needed it to battle Agahnim, but it was emphasized even then that it only repelled his magic, it couldn't actually harm his body. To defeat Ganon, you had to strike him with the Master Sword to stun him, then shoot him with a Silver Arrow. And you could even have blacksmiths temper the sword to power it up. Ever since Ocarina of Time, though, the Master Sword is a Cosmic Keystone that is just as important as the Triforce to the cosmology and fate of Hyrule, its usage determining the fate of entire dimensions, races, and the space-time continuum. It's the only weapon that can harm Ganon(dorf), and if you're looking at powering it up, it's going to take divine intervention. Breath of the Wild averts this, as the Master Sword is completely optional, and the final form of Ganon can only be defeated by the Light Arrows granted within that sequence. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3b5fcbb7 | comment |
Artifact of Doom: Majora's Mask. To put it in perspective; everything wrong in Termina when you get there? All of it was done either directly or indirectly by the Skull Kid wearing the Mask. And on top of ruining everyone's lives, he's planning to drop the frickin' moon, destroying the entire land of Termina. And he can do it. Oh, and it's not just a power-up artifact of doom: the mask is intelligent, and is possessing the Skull Kid. And when Majora decides he's outlived his usefulness, the mask discards the kid like an old pair of socks. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has the Fused Shadows, which are hyped up to be an Artifact of Doom by the Light Spirits that Link rescues throughout the game. However, they all agree that, despite the potential for evil the Shadows hold, Link needs to collect them in order to have a chance of challenging Zant's power. Their power is proven when Link fights the creatures that possess them, which have grown into horrific beasts of great power: a Deku Baba, one of the least dangerous monsters in the game, became an enormous three-headed creature that could swallow a man whole when it grabbed a Shadow. We never do see them exert a corrupting power over Link or Midna, though... presumably they were too pure-hearted to be affected (and Midna is eventually revealed to be the rightful possessor of their power anyway, so it makes sense it wouldn't affect her). The Mirror of Twilight from Twilight Princess turns demure, unassuming Yeta into the crazy ice-monster Blizzeta. | |
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Recurring Riff | |
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Recurring Riff: The main motif and overworld theme of the first Zelda game can be heard in numerous songs throughout the series. The dungeon theme of the first Zelda is a lot less recurring, but it still notably pops in up a couple of later games. The "Puzzle Solved" and "Major Item Found" jingles have been present in every single game from the very first one onward. | |
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Canon Identifier | |
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Canon Identifier: The Links all have the same Canon Name, but typically pick up some sort of title, which makes it easier to specify which game's protagonist you're talking about (e.g. The Hero of Time for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Hero of Winds for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, etc). | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: It's like a mish-mash of Medieval, Pirate, and Arabian themes, with a few borderline Easter Egg modern inventions (Game Boy Advance, telephones, colour film cameras, and locomotives) thrown in for good measure. Notable examples include: Link's Awakening is probably the most eclectic of the bunch, having phone booths, a photography sidequest, and a mechanical crane game. It's somewhat justified since it's all the Wind Fish's dream. Majora's Mask has a mechanical bull as a boss, some industrial-looking locations (Pirates' Fortress and Great Bay Temple), and a Mini-Game area with neon lights (also present in Ocarina of Time). The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap both have robots as bosses. The one in The Wind Waker, in particular, seems to have full-speech capabilites, as it speaks to the player. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has a miniboss (Phantom Zant) which is actually a 3D hologram like those common in Star Wars. It's even colored blue, has scanlines, and flickers just like a Star Wars hologram. The internal game name of the miniboss, Zant Hologram, acknowledges its high-tech qualities. In Skyward Sword there's an entire area of the game based on technology. And keep in mind that the game only has four main areas (the Sky and the three regions of the Surface) that you frequently revisit, so that means one fourth of the game is technology-based. And not only is it chronologically the first Zelda game, but you actually have to travel to the past in order to see the technology, due to it actually being Lost Technology. In addition, Skyloft has electric lighting, indoor plumbing, and a computer-looking device (in Beedle's Air Shop). Contrary to popular belief, the trains in Spirit Tracks don't look particularly out of place for Hyrule, as trains existed in real life since the 16th century in Germany. However, the game also features hot-air balloons (which date from 1783) and tanks (which date from 1915), co-existing alongside the aforementioned medieval-inspired kingdom. Exaggerated in Breath of the Wild. as the entire game is rife with thinly-veiled science-fiction trappings. To wit: the people of Hyrule used their advanced technology to build four Humongous Mecha and an army of robot drones to protect them from an Eldritch Abomination. However, before their weapons could be deployed, the enemy used a Computer Virus to take control of the machines and destroy the land. The hero, equipped with a Data Pad (complete with blue Tron Lines), must now go to various locales to download maps, data, and apps, regain control of the mecha, and defeat the eldritch horror. Just give Link a neuro-link and he can be a William Gibson character. | |
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SwordInTheStone | |
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The Master Sword, aka "The Blade of Evil's Bane", is as legendary as the Triforce itself. It is inscribed in Hyrule's lore that evil ones cannot touch it, nor can anyone, save for the Chosen Hero, draw it from the Pedestal of Time. | |
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Grave Clouds | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3c85bc3e | comment |
Grave Clouds: Kakariko Graveyard gets these before entering the Shadow Temple for the first time. They also appear when Link opens the Royal Tomb. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3c85bc3e | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3d649526 | type |
Elemental Motifs | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3d649526 | comment |
Elemental Motifs: The Goron, despite being a race of rock people, are strongly associated with fire and the goddess Din (also associated with fire), as they live in an extremely hot volcanic region. The Zora are a race of Fish People who usually live underwater and are associated with the goddess Nayru (water). The Kokiri/Koroks are "children of the forest" who are in tune with the land and earth, and are guarded by the Great Deku Tree away in a Hidden Elf Village. They are appropriately associated with the goddess Farore. The Rito are bird people who can fly, and are appropriately associated with wind. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3d649526 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3d649526 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e353a08 | type |
Accidental Kidnapping | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e353a08 | comment |
Accidental Kidnapping: What kicks off the plot for The Wind Waker. The Helmaroc King, a minion of Ganon, mistakenly kidnaps Link's younger sister, Aryll, after nearly succeeding with Tetra, and his quest to give the bird and its master their much-deserved punishments begins. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e353a08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e353a08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e353a08 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e5425c9 | type |
Elemental Nation | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e5425c9 | comment |
Elemental Nation: Hyrule is the Light Realm, Lorule and the Twilight Realm are associated with darkness. Hyrule's provinces are also usually split up into Volcano/Mountain, Forest, Water, etc. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e5425c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e5425c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e5425c9 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e848d5c | type |
Cast of Snowflakes | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e848d5c | comment |
Cast of Snowflakes: Part of the charm of the 3D Zelda games are seeing what crazy character designs the developers came up with for each and every NPC. They seem to be getting more outlandish with every installment. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e848d5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3e848d5c | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f1aadeb | type |
Strictly Formula | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f1aadeb | comment |
Strictly Formula: Enter dungeon. Get item. Beat boss with item. Use item to enter next dungeon. Repeat. And there's the other formula of "visit three dungeons, villain gains upper hand/escapes, visit three to seven more dungeons, final boss" that has been present since A Link To the Past. Skyward Sword mixed things a little by making the outside of the dungeons just as complex as the inside. However, critics and fans don't agree whether that changes the pattern in a meaningful way or not. Breath of the Wild broke with this tradition and focused instead on the open world (though dungeons still have their place). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f1aadeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f1aadeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f1aadeb | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f2503af | type |
Ability Required to Proceed | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f2503af | comment |
Ability Required to Proceed: Since the days of A Link to the Past, most Zelda dungeons follow a simple pattern: "Explore to find a major item. Use item to explore further and find a big key. Use key to open the unopenable door and fight the boss using said item. Then use item again to reach next dungeon." The most flagrant example may be the hookshot in Ocarina of Time, without which you cannot even enter the Forest Temple. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f2503af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f2503af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3f2503af | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3fe13b23 | type |
Bootstrapped Theme | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3fe13b23 | comment |
The iconic series Main Theme, which eventually became Link's leitmotif too. It's the only leitmotif that can be tracked down to the very first NES game. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3fe13b23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3fe13b23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_3fe13b23 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_402b438d | type |
Clothes Make the Legend | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_402b438d | comment |
Clothes Make the Legend: Link's signature outfit is a green cap and tunic, and several games make a special point of making him switch from regular clothes to the green gear as he embarks on his quest. Averted in Breath of the Wild, which has an entirely different outfit (marking Link as a Champion in this game's story), which features a blue tunic (and no cap) in its place. There, the green ensemble is relegated to an optional 100% Completion prize, and is based more on the humbler early games' depiction. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_402b438d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_402b438d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_402b438d | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_409c3edf | type |
Zip Mode | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_409c3edf | comment |
Zip Mode: The games feature a variety of ways to speed your trek across the land of Hyrule. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_409c3edf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_409c3edf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_409c3edf | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4160410d | type |
Damsel in Distress | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4160410d | comment |
Zelda has progressively become more active in the games as the series went on. Originally just a classic Damsel in Distress, in Ocarina of Time, she gained the badass (though in drag) alter-ego Sheik, who admittedly didn't do much against the actual Big Bad but was instrumental in Link dealing the final blow. But in the later games, starting with Wind Waker, it became her schtick to fire Light Arrows at Ganon during the final battle, and in Spirit Tracks she even helps Link push his sword into Malladus' head. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4160410d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4160410d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4160410d | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_41be2c1b | type |
Spoiler Title | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_41be2c1b | comment |
Spoiler Title: For Link's Awakening and Twilight Princess, this is the second meaning of their Double Meaning Titles. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_41be2c1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_41be2c1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_41be2c1b | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_434c3481 | type |
Crosshair Aware | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_434c3481 | comment |
Crosshair Aware: Aiming your bow at a rock-throwing Bokoblin in Skyward Sword while it's unarmed will cause it to retreat. Most enemies will also readily avoid your Beetle. The ghost-like Poes of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask turn invisible and float away if you Z-target them. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_434c3481 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_434c3481 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_434c3481 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_43d5d6d5 | type |
Sticks to the Back | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_43d5d6d5 | comment |
Sticks to the Back: Jarring in Ocarina of Time, where Link is often depicted with his sword strapped to his back, but has no such strap in-game. Majora's Mask fixes this, as does the 3DS remake of Ocarina of Time. Not one game in the series explains how his shield stays put. In real life, they're usually strapped across the chest. Link apparently Velcros it to his scabbard. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_43d5d6d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_43d5d6d5 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_442304c0 | type |
Toggling Setpiece Puzzle | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_442304c0 | comment |
Toggling Setpiece Puzzle: Various dungeons and temples in the series feature puzzles and setups where you have to alternate the state of objects and mechanisms by pressing switches or performing a similar action. Examples include color-coded blocks or plates that can be toggled on or off, changing the level of water, or even flipping the layout of a whole dungeon. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_442304c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_442304c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_442304c0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_44e2f510 | type |
Villain-Beating Artifact | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_44e2f510 | comment |
Villain-Beating Artifact: The Master Sword is the only thing that can hurt Ganon. Usually in concert with the Light Arrows, which are needed to weaken him enough to get close enough with the sword. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_44e2f510 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_44e2f510 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_44e2f510 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4508b16b | type |
The Guards Must Be Crazy | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4508b16b | comment |
The Guards Must Be Crazy: Once again, the Hyrulean guards. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4508b16b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4508b16b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4508b16b | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4536fd29 | type |
Energy Weapon | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4536fd29 | comment |
Energy Weapon: All throughout the series, from laser barriers in The Wind Waker to Beamos in multiple games which shoot lasers. A Link to the Past has the enemy called the Laser Eye, which is an eye that shoots lasers. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4536fd29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4536fd29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4536fd29 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_45c341d | type |
Insect Queen | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_45c341d | comment |
Insect Queen: The Gohmas are generally portrayed this way (mostly as an Arachnid Queen, but fits nonetheless). They appear as bosses of the dungeon in which their offspring appear as enemies, and they often release their offspring as a Flunky Boss. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_45c341d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_45c341d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_45c341d | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_463b32b8 | type |
Save the Princess | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_463b32b8 | comment |
Save the Princess: It's been getting better as the series has progressed in terms of plot complexity. The games started with the simple "save Zelda from Ganon", but in some games, the Princess doesn't even get kidnapped until later in the plot. This is even completely subverted in Spirit Tracks, where the princess is actually your Exposition Fairy. Link's Awakening and Majora's Mask avert this entirely, albeit by virtue of lacking the eponymous Princess to begin with. In Hyrule Warriors, it's also averted. Zelda disappears after the first stage in story mode, but only because she slipped away. She later joins the fight as Sheik. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_463b32b8 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_463b32b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_463b32b8 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471a505f | type |
Four Is Death | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471a505f | comment |
Four Is Death: In addition to Majora's Mask and Breath of the Wild making frequent use of both grim themes and the number four, the series has a pretty consistent application of this trope by making its deathly, spooky dungeons the fourth ones in a sequence. In Ocarina of Time, the fourth dungeon encountered overall is the haunted Forest Temple, which is abandoned, ruined, and features undead enemies and surrealist haunted-house mechanics. Also, the fourth full dungeon in the adult half of the game is the Shadow Temple, a vicious, gothic torture center for criminals with more undead enemies inside. In Majora's Mask, the fourth big dungeon isn't very spooky, but the area it's in is objectively the most deathly place in the game, being barren and featuring a graveyard and ghosts, and ReDead zombies and Gibdo mummies. The fourth dungeon in The Wind Waker is the Forsaken Fortress (Link storms it early in the game, but he's unable to conquer it until after claiming the Master Sword), the base of operations of the Big Bad (Ganondorf) and the place where the girls kidnapped by the Helmaroc King are kept captive; and until its completion, it keeps the flow of time unnaturally static in its area of the sea so it's Always Night. Tellingly, one of the islands that surround it is the Four-Eye Reef, whereas all other Eye Reefs (1 to 3, 5 and 6) are placed in relatively safe, lively parts of the Great Sea. The fourth dungeon in Twilight Princess is the Arbiter's Grounds, which blends the locale of a prison with themes of haunted Egyptian tombs and has several undead enemies. The fourth dungeon in Phantom Hourglass is the Ghost Ship, the haunted vessel that steals the life force of the unlucky seamen and travelers it approaches (including Tetra, whose life force is unusually high due to her Zelda lineage). It is overrun by Reaplings and inhabited by the Diabolical Cubus Sisters. The fourth dungeon in Skyward Sword, the Ancient Cistern, initially seems to defy this, looking like a beautiful Buddhist temple with lots of water. Then you go to the depths, where the water is stagnant and poisonous and undead Bokoblins swarm, while the boss above is a robot possessed by dark energy and lets out a ghostly child giggle when defeated. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471a505f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471a505f | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471fdb9e | type |
Defeat Equals Explosion | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471fdb9e | comment |
Defeat Equals Explosion: Every game except the N64 titles, where the enemies dissolve into flames instead. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471fdb9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471fdb9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_471fdb9e | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_47d56aac | type |
Fish People | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_47d56aac | comment |
Fish People: The Zoras, which come in two flavors. The ugly fish-monster enemies that debuted in the first game, and the beautiful friendly race that debuted in Ocarina of Time. Due to this disparity, the former were retroactively explained as biologically distinct River Zoras, while the latter became Sea Zoras. The western fan community sometimes instead use the term "Zola" for the former, due to a misprint in the first game's manual. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_47d56aac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_47d56aac | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_480ee6dc | type |
InsurmountableWaistHighFence | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_480ee6dc | comment |
Insurmountable Waist-High Fence: Though Link has no problems at all with ladders, steep mountain trails, and vine-covered walls, he is unable to pass man-made fences without the aid of his horse. This is averted in Skyward Sword, where Link is actually able to move around it automatically, and in Breath of the Wild, where he can climb over fences and pretty much anything else he wants. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_480ee6dc | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_480ee6dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_480ee6dc | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4817407 | type |
Clam Trap | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4817407 | comment |
Clam Trap: In several games, there is a recurring aquatic enemy known as a Shell Blade, which is a huge clam that snaps at you or charges forward to ram the player and is defeated by hitting the soft parts inside the shell. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4817407 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4817407 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4817407 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_482c31d4 | type |
No Hugging, No Kissing | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_482c31d4 | comment |
No Hugging, No Kissing: In (almost) every game, Link and Zelda never express romance, though there's an undercurrent in several games. However, this is averted to various degrees in Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, and most famously the ending of Zelda II, where Zelda and Link kiss behind a curtain. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_482c31d4 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_482c31d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_482c31d4 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_485eb589 | type |
Sealed Evil in a Can | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_485eb589 | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Can: While Ganondorf apparently has met his final end a few times, the end of Ocarina of Time and the backstory to A Link to the Past, The Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess has him sealed in a Dark World due to his immense power. Of course, his long isolation there gives him plenty of time to gather his strength, allowing him to break the seal and unleash havoc upon Hyrule once more. There's also Vaati, except he's sealed in the Four Sword rather than any alternate dimension. Malladus, Bellum, and Ocarina's Bongo Bongo are sealed deep beneath the worlds of their respective games. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_485eb589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_485eb589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_485eb589 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_486466ee | type |
Dual Boss | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_486466ee | comment |
Dual Boss: Some boss battles have Link facing two symmetrical opponents: Twinrova, Twinmold, Fraaz, etc. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_486466ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_486466ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_486466ee | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4910eb39 | type |
Distant Sequel | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4910eb39 | comment |
Distant Sequel: Most games are implied to take place anywhere between a few lifetimes to centuries away from each other, as Link, Zelda and Ganondorf all reincarnate over and over again throughout Hyrule's history, and events from various games often feature as legends of ancient deeds in chronologically later installments. While clear amounts of time are never given, games at the far end of the franchise's timelines, such as Spirit Tracks and The Adventure of Link, take place centuries, and likely millennia, after games such as Skyward Sword and The Minish Cap that are set in the early parts of the setting's history. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker takes place a very long time after a great flood destroyed Hyrule at some point after Ocarina of Time, long enough that Hyrule itself, Link and his deeds and the Triforce have all long passed into legend, and that language drift has caused the dialect of Hylian spoken in Ocarina of Time to become an incomprehensible dead language to the people of the game's present. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one to effectively the franchise as a whole. Exactly how long after the other games Breath of the Wild takes place, and which branch of the timeline it falls under is not stated, but 10,000 years have passed since the ancient, technologically advanced Hylian civilization sealed the Calamity Ganon away in the game's backstory, with another 100 years since Ganon revived again and incapacitated Link. This is on top of the amount of time that would have been needed for the medieval Hyrule seen in most games to develop the technology needed to create robots, Giant Mecha and other such wonders to begin with, making the amount of time that must gone by between the times of the other Zelda stories and Breath of the Wild vast indeed. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4910eb39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4910eb39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4910eb39 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_49d59be9 | type |
Scenery Porn | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: The console games after the leap to 3D indulge heavily in this. Even the N64 games were considered this before technology marched on. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_49d59be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_49d59be9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_49d59be9 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4a7c6f60 | type |
Personal Space Invader | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4a7c6f60 | comment |
Personal Space Invader: ReDeads and Like-Likes, quite infamous among the fandom. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4a7c6f60 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4a7c6f60 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4a7c6f60 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4a852053 | type |
The Hero's Journey | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4a852053 | comment |
The Hero's Journey: In almost every game, with the possible exception of Majora's Mask. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_4a852053 | featureApplicability |
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Compilation Re-release | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition (Compilation Re-release of The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Nintendo GameCube, 2003) | |
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One Head Taller | |
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One Head Taller: Gender inverted; Zelda is often depicted as being a bit taller than Link. | |
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Call to Adventure | |
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Call to Adventure: Has been getting steadily more complex. It used to be a bunch of random (but extremely insistent) strangers ordering poor Link to save the world, but now we have mysterious sidekicks, kidnapped sisters/lovable village scamps/possible love interests, and so on. | |
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Pickup Hierarchy | |
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Pickup Hierarchy: Primary: Spiritual Stones, Medallions, Triforce Pieces, Boss Remains, Pearls, Fused Shadows, pieces of the Mirror of Twilight, Servant Spirits, Pure Metals, Force Gems, Essences, Siren Instruments; and that's before most weapons/items... Secondary: Heart Pieces, Gold Skulltulas, Stray Fairies, Bunnies, Stamps, Poe Souls, Ship/Train Parts, Secret Seashells, various capacity upgrades... Tertiary: Bombs, Arrows, Rupees, Seeds, and so on... Extra: Biggoron's Sword and its ilk. It's safe to say there's a lot of stuff to collect in every Zelda game you play. | |
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Fire Is Masculine | |
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Fire Is Masculine: The Gorons are a One-Gender Race who all refer to themselves with male pronouns and have stereotypically masculine designs and voices. With very few exceptions (such as Yunobo in Breath of the Wild), they are known to be Hot-Blooded and vigorous. They have been shown to be fire-resistant which allows them to thrive in volcanically-active environments. The Sage of Fire in Ocarina of Time is the Goron patriarch Darunia. | |
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Fire, Water, Wind | |
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Fire, Water, Wind: The Three Golden Goddesses. Din is often associated with fire, Nayru with water, and Farore with wind/nature. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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It is worth noting that many of the songs introduced in A Link to the Past didn't become true leitmotifs until Ocarina of Time; Link's Awakening lacks many of these themes, using entirely different songs for the File Select and Great Fairy Fountains. | |
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Surprisingly Creepy Moment | |
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Surprisingly Creepy Moment: There's a lot of foreboding and horror for a series that, before Spirit Tracks, was ostensibly given an E rating. Ocarina of Time is rather infamous for this, particularly for the Shadow Temple and the Bottom of the Well, which are decorated with bones, blood and torture devices. The Bottom of the Well is also home to Dead Hand, a miniboss who frankly would have looked right at home in a horror game. Skyward Sword is graphically and thematically more lighthearted than its predecssor Twilight Princess (which is Darker and Edgier than most entries), but that masks the fact that Ghirahim is the most psychotically insane villain seen by players, as he takes pleasure in describing what he wants to do to Link. Additionally, you learn that the planet suffered a class 2 apocalypse, which is why the sky islands exist, and the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire franchise is a bloodthirsty, genocidal demon lord who's brought back to life because he's in the process of digesting Zelda's soul. Also, half of the Ancient Cistern is unexpectedly creepy. While the top half is beautiful, ornate and lit with pleasant, golden light, the bottom half is murky, dark and populated by shambling undead zombie Bokoblins. | |
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Loads and Loads of Sidequests | |
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Loads and Loads of Sidequests: Most entries in the series feature several sidequests ranging from simple Collection Sidequests to potentially massive Fetch Quests, but three entries in the series stand out: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is rather known for the huge amount of Sidequest Sidestories it features. Fortunately, this is the first game in the series to include a daily planner (the Bomber's Notebook) to help keep track of them all. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has lots of extra content besides the usual ones. These include completely optional islands with their own puzzles and enemy matches, treasure charts to find sunken treasure, and the notoriously long Nintendo Gallery. Even just filling the Great Sea's map can take a while. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a quest log right from the beginning. Considering the 120 shrines, 900 Korok seeds, the Hyrule Compendium, and all of the other things the game throws at you, it's pretty safe to say it was needed. | |
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Sound of No Damage | |
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Sound of No Damage: Used for both Link's shield deflecting projectiles and enemies getting hit in armored areas. | |
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Greater-Scope Paragon | |
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Greater-Scope Paragon: The Golden Goddesses, Din, Nayru, and Farore, representing Power, Wisdom, and Courage respectively, and the creators of Hyrule and the Triforce, the series' biggest McGuffin. They rarely directly act upon Hyrule, instead using intermediaries such as the Goddess Hylia (who served as the progenitor for the Hylian Royal Family, and was the one who originally sealed away Demise, the franchise's own Greater-Scope Villain) and the Light Spirits who sealed away the interlopers within the Twilight Realm for trying to steal the Triforce. One of the few exceptions was when they flooded Hyrule in the The Wind Waker's backstory to prevent Ganondorf from taking it over. Hylia herself serves as this apart from being the origins of Princess Zelda's bloodline, as her personal weapon, the Goddess Sword, was what later became the Master Sword over the course of Skyward Sword, the Blade of Evil's Bane and signature weapon of many Links afterwards. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks has the Spirits of Good, who originally sealed away the Demon King Malladus and sent the Lokomo to look after what would later become New Hyrule, before returning to the heavens after exerting too much of their power, and the creators of the Spirit Train, Bow of Light, and the Compass of Light. They also created the Lokomo Blade, a sacred sword that serves as the strongest weapon in the game. The Hero of Men mentioned in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, who was the first person to wield the Picori Blade (which would later become the Four Sword) and the Light Force granted by the Minish, and used them to seal away the Army of Evil inside the Bound Chest during the titular War of the Bound Chest. The theories on his exact identity identify him as either King Gustaf or Swiftblade the First, who both existed long ago and help Link from beyond the grave, but have limited influence in the present otherwise. A few of the Links and Zeldas end up taking this role to one another when their plots have close ties to one another: The Link from Skyward Sword takes on this role to all the other Links, as he was the very first to wield the Master Sword and used it to defeat Demise, the franchise's own Greater-Scope Villain. The Hero of Time serves as this in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, as he was the one who originally defeated Ganon during The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time using the Master Sword, and assisted in sealing him away, but has no influence on the plot otherwise due to returning to the past at the end of the game, which caused the Triforce of Courage he was carrying to split into eight pieces. He also takes on this role in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, where he passes down sword techniques to his direct descendant, the Link of that game, but has no direct influence on the plot otherwise. The Hero of Winds from the Wind Waker takes on this role in Spirit Tracks, as he and Tetra were the original founders of the nation of New Hyrule following their defeat of Ganon, and Tetra in particular made a deal with Anjean of the Lokomo that the Royal Family would always protect the Spirit Flute. However, by the time of the game, both appear to be long deceased. The Link from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past serves as this in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, as he was the one who defeated Ganon where the Hero of Time had failed in the Defeat Timeline more than a century prior. The Link from The Minish Cap to the Links of the Four Swords subseries, as he was the one who first wielded the Four Sword and used it to seal away Vaati centuries ago. | |
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But Thou Must! | |
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But Thou Must!: Several dialogues require Link to agree with, or accept, the requests given to him by the main character. If he tries to refuse, the characters will insist on the importance of said requests. | |
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Reincarnation | |
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Reincarnation: Appears several times. Link and Zelda are constantly reincarnated to defy Ganon. In Spirit Tracks, the Lokomo ascend to a higher plane at the end of the game and say they will return in a new form without memories of their previous life. In Skyward Sword, the goddess Hylia is reborn as that game's Zelda. | |
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Conservation of Competence | |
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Conservation of Competence: The Hylian Royal Guards are undoubtedly one of the worst military forces in all of fiction, at least when Link is around. When they're not being slaughtered in droves by whichever villain the game features, they're either standing around, walking back and forth in pointless patrols, or brainwashed and attacking Link (in which case it's Link who slaughters them in droves). They have lost every war they have ever fought, and breaking into and out of their "heavily"-guarded fortresses is a frequent early-game challenge for child Links. (If Ganon is ever in control of Hyrule Castle, on the other hand, it will be The Very Definitely Final Dungeon.) Their best contributions consist of them acting as meat shields, getting slaughtered to a man just to buy the sages, gods, or Royal Family a little more time against Ganon's army. In complete contrast, Princess Zelda—their supposed leader—seems to have gotten more powerful over the course of the series. This eventually leads up to situations like the ones in Spirit Tracks and Twilight Princess, in which Zelda is a potent sorceress and archer while the guards are incompetent morons whose uselessness is repeatedly lampshaded. In Twilight Princess, if you run through Castle Town in wolf form, the guards will circle around you, but every one of them is shaking and cowering like mad, and if you make a move, they all scream and go running like crazy. And then there's the soldiers who back out of escorting Ilia to Kakariko Village as soon as they realize that it'll involve actually putting their lives at risk. | |
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Gotta Catch Them All | |
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Gotta Catch Them All: The Triforce pieces/pendants/whatever. Also, whatever collectibles were scattered about starting with Link's Awakening and only getting deeper since. Link's Awakening: Up to 26 Secret Seashells (50 in the remake) can be collected for a sword upgrade, but only 20 are necessary and the rest disappear once the sword is obtained. Ocarina of Time: 100 Gold Skulltula tokens. Every ten up to 50 gives a special item, and getting all 100 gives effectively unlimited money. Majora's Mask: The 24 collectable masks. The last one can only be gotten by getting and relinquishing the rest. Also, 15 Great Fairy fragments in each temple, a large number of upgrades and hidden areas, and the Bomber's Notebook tasks. The Wind Waker: The Nintendo Gallery, which makes figurines for you based on photos you take of NPCs and monsters. Thankfully, the HD remake gives you more room in your camera to make this faster. The Minish Cap: Kinstones, which unlock other goodies, some plot relevant. Twilight Princess: Golden Bugs and Poe Souls, besides the required Tears of Light, Fused Shadows, and Mirror Fragments. Skyward Sword: Bugs again, as well as Tears during Silent Realm missions. A Link Between Worlds: Baby Maiamais, which are necessary to upgrade your items. Breath of the Wild: Korok seeds, used to upgrade your inventory space. 900 of them. Though thankfully you only need about half of them to max out your storage. The rest are just there for the sake of completionists and to make achieving the minimum more casual by providing more options and making it less of a matter of scouring the map. | |
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Plot Coupon That Does Something | |
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Tears of the Kingdom has the Secret Stones, of which there are seven. In a twist, it isn't Link who is receiving them, but the Sages themselves. What Link receives is the Sage Vows, which represent the bond between him and the Sages and allow him to summon avatars based on them (serving as the game's equivalents of the Champions' Powers in Breath of the Wild). | |
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Speaking Simlish | |
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Speaking Simlish: Midna's voice clips in Twilight Princess are scrambled syllables of English phrases, giving off this effect. Same goes for Fi in Skyward Sword, though hers are instead reversed Japanese phrases. | |
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Plot Coupon | |
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Plot Coupon: Every game in the franchise uses it. The Legend of Zelda: Eight Pieces of the Triforce. Adventure of Link: The Six Crystals, or rather the six statues to put the crystals in (you have the crystals at the outset). A Link to the Past: Three Pendants of Virtue first, then the Seven Crystals/Maidens. Link's Awakening: Eight Instruments of the Sirens. Ocarina of Time: Three Spiritual Stones followed by the Six Medallions (you get Rauru's medallion free when you draw the Master Sword for the first time). Majora's Mask: Four Mask Remains. Oracle of Seasons/Ages: Eight Essences of Nature/Time. The Wind Waker: Three Goddess Pearls, then the Two Sages, and finally the Eight Pieces of the Triforce. Four Swords Adventures: Six Shrine Maidens, then Zelda; at the same time, four sacred Jewels. The Minish Cap: Four Elements, the same jewels as above. Twilight Princess: Three Fused Shadows, then the Four Mirror Fragments (the first of which is already in the proper place when you find it). Phantom Hourglass: Three Spirits, then the Three Pure Metals. Spirit Tracks: Four Force Gems (or, more precisely, the energy from them, which reattaches the broken segments of the Tower of Spirits) and the four glyphs to find them, followed by the Bow of Light, and then the Compass of Light. Skyward Sword: Two surface maps (there are three in total, but one is given for free), then the three flames (and accompanying harp songs), then the four parts of the Song of the Hero, and finally the three pieces of the Triforce. A Link Between Worlds: Three Pendants of Virtue (although Zelda gives you the Pendant of Courage before you even know you need them, and, yes, these are the same pendants from A Link to the Past), then seven paintings containing the Seven Sages. Breath of the Wild shakes this up, as the player will only really need the Paraglider to get off the Great Plateau—the four Divine Beasts and Master Sword are optional. Tears of the Kingdom has the Secret Stones, of which there are seven. In a twist, it isn't Link who is receiving them, but the Sages themselves. What Link receives is the Sage Vows, which represent the bond between him and the Sages and allow him to summon avatars based on them (serving as the game's equivalents of the Champions' Powers in Breath of the Wild). | |
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Money for Nothing | |
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Money for Nothing: All too common in early installments, the player could amass far too much money very early on in the game and have nothing to spend it on later. First attempted a fix in Link's Awakening, with the Bow (costing a whopping 900 Rupees), but properly dealt with in A Link Between Worlds, where money is necessary to rent items that, in previous games, would have been in dungeon chests instead. | |
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Redshirt Army | |
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Redshirt Army: The entire Hyrulean army. It's a wonder that they still bother. | |
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All the Worlds Are a Stage | |
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All the Worlds Are a Stage: In many 3D titles — Ganon's Tower in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, the Moon in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Sky Keep in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and the two DLC dungeons (Trial of the Sword and Final Trial) in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Almost all of them reunite assets and themes seen in the respective games' previous dungeons, serving as a final test standing between Link and the Final Boss (the Trial of the Sword, being a Multi-Mook Melee challenge, reunites overworld themes instead). | |
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Die, Chair, Die! | |
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Die, Chair, Die!: Pots, boxes, and grass. And chairs and tables and couches and who knows what else. Link's destructive tendencies see some lampshading and punishment in later games, such as rich NPCs making you pay for the fancy pots you destroy in their homes. | |
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Charged Attack | |
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Charged Attack: The "whirling blade", introduced in A Link to the Past: after briefly gathering power, Link swings his sword in a 360-degree arc to strike multiple enemies with a stronger-than-normal cut. | |
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Warrior vs. Sorcerer | |
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Warrior vs. Sorcerer: | |
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Slippy-Slidey Ice World | |
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Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Uncommon for this series, with most games relegating ice to a single dungeon. It usually shows up in mountainous areas when they're not the standard Death Mountain: there's the Snowhead region in Majora's Mask, the Snowpeak mountain range in Twilight Princess, and Lorule's Death Mountain in A Link Between Worlds. | |
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Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" | |
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Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Chicken? Cucco. Bats? Keese. Skeletons? Stalfos. Mummy? Gibdo. Zombie? Redead. Dinosaur? Dodongo. Venus Flytrap? Deku Baba or later in the timeline, Boko Baba. | |
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Non-Linear Sequel | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5b0e3d8a | comment |
Non-Linear Sequel: Half, maybe two-thirds of the time. Part of why the timeline is such a mess. | |
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Foreboding Architecture | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5b3d0d9f | comment |
Foreboding Architecture: Whatever Ganon is using as his home base tends to be a towering, scary place. Sometimes it's even Hyrule Castle itself! | |
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Central Theme | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: A number of mainline games can be said to have one. A Link to the Past: Prisons. Wrongful imprisonment. Guilt and innocence, and how abuse of power can blur the line between the two. Having to choose between doing the right thing or obeying the law. Ocarina of Time: Coming of Age Story. Breath of the Wild: Solitude and survival in the wild. Tears of the Kingdom: Hands, representing things you can do, and joining hands with others to accomplish common goals. | |
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Sword Fight | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5d310fb8 | comment |
Ganondorf's battle consists of a fight with Puppet Zelda, then Beast Ganon, then Ganondorf on a horse, and finally Ganondorf himself in a Sword Fight. And all of this takes place in direct succession of one-another. | |
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Inexplicable Treasure Chests | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5e2ae7ee | comment |
Inexplicable Treasure Chests: Why do so many items appear just sitting around in Temples? Or holes in the ground, or in the middle of nowhere...? | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5f3bb274 | comment |
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Crosscheck with Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl — Sheik is actually Zelda, and Ganondorf is the Man Behind the Man in Twilight Princess. Also, literally any game in any connection with The Wind Waker (Super Smash Bros., once again, counting) literally goes out of its way to make sure that everybody knows about Tetra's heritage. | |
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Free-Sample Plot Coupon | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5f4219a2 | comment |
A Link Between Worlds: Three Pendants of Virtue (although Zelda gives you the Pendant of Courage before you even know you need them, and, yes, these are the same pendants from A Link to the Past), then seven paintings containing the Seven Sages. | |
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Named After Somebody Famous | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5f930b19 | comment |
Named After Somebody Famous: Miyamoto says the titular princess is named after F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife. Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams, was named after Princess Zelda and appears in commercials for Ocarina of Time 3D. | |
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Implied Love Interest | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_5fc3ab7f | comment |
Implied Love Interest: Link and Zelda in many (but not all) of the games. They're even the trope page image. The biggest examples are Spirit Tracks and Skyward Sword. Averted in Twilight Princess, where Link has an explicit love interest, Ilia, and a completely separate Implied Love Interest in Midna. Played with in Breath of the Wild, where Zelda (as well as two other girls) is confirmed to be in love with Link, but Link's own feelings are left to the player to decide through dialogue options. | |
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Uniqueness Decay | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_608b26d | comment |
Uniqueness Decay: The Triforce went through an inversion, then reversion of this trope. In the first game, it's made known that there are two different Triforces that are basically equal in influence. The second game introduces the third Triforce and reveals that all three have a Set Bonus, where the person who has all three and summons the Golden Power is functionally Omnipotent. Then, the Timey-Wimey Ball gets thrown into the series, where it's revealed that there's multiple timelines — each with its own Golden Power (although there's no overlap between the timelines, thus never more than one unified Triforce). And then at last, in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, it's revealed that there is at least one twin of Hyrule... complete with its own unified Triforce. Hylians. In earlier games, they were considered the more "magical" humans whose pointy ears supposedly allowed them to hear the voices of the gods. Over time, however, Hylians became no more special than regular humans, with Zelda and Link being some of the only ones who are remotely magical or remarkable at all compared to the more fantastical races in the series. | |
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Magic Potion | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_60bba69b | comment |
Magic Potion: The series has traditionally included a number of potions buyable from certain shops. You need at least one empty bottle to buy one, and can then story it indefinitely until you want to use it. The common types are the red potion, which heals you; the green potion, which refills either you magic meter or stamina bar; and the blue potion, which does both things at once. Less common variants include purple and yellow potions. In Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks, they're stronger healing potions; in A Link Between Worlds, the purple kind creates an attack that damages all enemies in your vicinity and the yellow kind turns you invincible. | |
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Ruritania | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_60cc14ba | comment |
Ruritania: Hyrule, a monarchy with a lot of Greek influences in its architecture, monsters, and naming schemes, that is constantly conquered, has quirky customs, a bloody history, and borders a desert country inhabited by Arab-like peoples. | |
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Brainy Pig | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_614d9a06 | comment |
Brainy Pig: Inverted, where recurring Big Bad Ganondorf is a cunning Sorcerous Overlord, but his beast form Ganon is almost always a raging, primal giant boar or Pig Man who relies solely on brute strength (in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games this was because the ritual required for his resurrection had been botched). | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Ingo, Mido, Skull Kid, Linebeck, Byrne, and Groose. Though in the case of Mido, Linebeck and Groose, they aren't evil. Just jerks. For example, Linebeck starts out as a greedy son of a gun, but he then does a mini heel-face and turns out to be pretty cool. | |
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Multi-Stage Battle | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_62203642 | comment |
Multi-Stage Battle: The series has this with Ocarina of Time (the final battle with Ganondorf) and Twilight Princess (battles with Zant and Ganondorf). | |
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Silver Bullet | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_628d08d4 | comment |
Silver Bullet: The Silver Arrow plays a crucial part in slaying Ganon in both the original Legend of Zelda and A Link to the Past. Stab him as many times as you want with any sword in those games. Without the Silver Arrow finishing him off, Ganon will keep coming for more. | |
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Evil Tower of Ominousness | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_65163c3a | comment |
Evil Tower of Ominousness: Ganon(dorf) often resides in a tower before the Final Boss. The Wind Waker's last dungeon is even called Ganon's Tower. | |
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Accidental Proposal | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6547ce31 | comment |
Accidental Proposal: Several times in the series. | |
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Changing Gameplay Priorities | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_65c4d0fa | comment |
Changing Gameplay Priorities: Perhaps the series' biggest draw is how it models character growth without simply resorting to bigger numbers. As Link starts any of his adventures, he can only take a couple of hits and his pockets are empty. The world is filled with places he can't get to, doors he can't open, and things he can't yet do. Each new treasure he finds lets him get to things he couldn't reach before. | |
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Stealth-Based Mission | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6638c7f7 | comment |
The Hylian Royal Guards are undoubtedly one of the worst military forces in all of fiction, at least when Link is around. When they're not being slaughtered in droves by whichever villain the game features, they're either standing around, walking back and forth in pointless patrols, or brainwashed and attacking Link (in which case it's Link who slaughters them in droves). They have lost every war they have ever fought, and breaking into and out of their "heavily"-guarded fortresses is a frequent early-game challenge for child Links. (If Ganon is ever in control of Hyrule Castle, on the other hand, it will be The Very Definitely Final Dungeon.) Their best contributions consist of them acting as meat shields, getting slaughtered to a man just to buy the sages, gods, or Royal Family a little more time against Ganon's army. In complete contrast, Princess Zelda—their supposed leader—seems to have gotten more powerful over the course of the series. This eventually leads up to situations like the ones in Spirit Tracks and Twilight Princess, in which Zelda is a potent sorceress and archer while the guards are incompetent morons whose uselessness is repeatedly lampshaded. | |
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Missing Mom | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Even in the games where Zelda's father is present, she never ever has a mother (at least not one who is still alive). | |
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Wide-Open Sandbox | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_681077c5 | comment |
The rest of the game downplays the trope significantly compared to the first few hours and the rest of the series; every item is available from the start (since it's a Wide-Open Sandbox), but side quests and main quests where they're needed usually give them a ready source of the item in question (e.g. shock arrows in Zora's domain). | |
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Hello, [Insert Name Here] | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_68913e61 | comment |
Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Although the name "Link" is used extensively here and on many a fansite, you get to name the lad in almost every game (he takes the name from your save file; in Twilight Princess, you also get to name his horse). Canonically, this is justified by saying "Link" is merely the pseudonym used in the retelling of the legend of the various boys who inherited the spirit of the hero through the ages, their actual names lost to the mists of time. Averted in Breath of the Wild, where "Link" is actually the hero's given name due to the game's use of spoken dialogue for the first time in the series. | |
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Stationary Enemy | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_68bbaaf | comment |
Stationary Enemy: Deku Babas, a type of Man-Eating Plant, can't move from their base, but can still lunge as far as their stem will reach. In the 3D games, some Living Statue enemies don't move from their position on the floor but rotate, shooting lasers at Link if they see him. | |
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Counterpart Artifacts | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_68c86317 | comment |
Counterpart Artifacts: The iconic Triforce. Zelda has the Triforce of Wisdom, Ganon, the Triforce of Power, and Link, the Triforce of Courage. The "Triforce" name does indicate all three are needed. | |
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Be the Ball | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_68e0e408 | comment |
Be the Ball: The Gorons curl themselves up into balls in order to move at high speeds and to attack their enemies. | |
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Cosmic Horror Story | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6a1c2a6 | comment |
Cosmic Horror Story: Majora's Mask. The world Link is trying to save is already doomed due to some unexplained, malevolent force of destruction, and the best he can hope for is to buy enough time (via Time Travel) to find the Macguffins and call upon giant, godlike entities. This is taken even further by the main antagonist being an insane, reality-warping, eerily childish Eldritch Abomination, plus the Moon itself having a Nightmare Face and containing an Eldritch Location inside of it and one of your only allies being a creepy, mysterious mask salesman with an oddly complete knowledge of Majora's Mask and a Hair-Trigger Temper. And even to the end of the game, there is no adequate explanation of what Majora's Mask is, what the Happy Mask Salesman's deal is, why the Moon's face is so horrific, what exactly the nature of Termina's existence is, and how Link ended up there. | |
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Dub-Induced Plot Hole | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6a85e9e1 | comment |
The details of the backstory told in A Link to the Past has caused confusion, particularly in regards to games that precede it. Ganondorf is described as having found the Triforce "quite by accident" and managed to clutch it in his "bloodstained hands" after killing his way through his minions. Then, he found himself trapped in the Sacred Realm, which became corrupted into the Dark World, leading into the Imprisoning War and the forging of the Master Sword. Several of these details are proven false, or at least misleading, in later games — not the least of which is that Ganon found the Sacred Realm on purpose and the Master Sword was forged not to stop Ganon, but the Demon King Demise, his predecessor. Some, but not all, of these changes are due to inaccuracies in the English translation of the manual. | |
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Only the Chosen May Wield | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6aada778 | comment |
Only the Chosen May Wield: Although the methods for testing the wielder's worth are different each time, only the appointed hero can use the Master Sword. | |
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The Reveal | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: Ever since A Link to the Past, almost every game has had at least one of these, ranging from "oh, that's pretty interesting" to "HOLY CRAP, DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?!" A Link to the Past: Agahnim is actually Ganon's alter ego. Link's Awakening: The whole game is the product of the Wind Fish dreaming; defeating the Nightmares will result in the Wind Fish waking and, thus, the disappearance of Koholint Island. Ocarina of Time: Sheik is Zelda, and Ganondorf only obtained part of the Triforce. Majora's Mask : Skull Kid was the "human" puppet of the titular mask. Oracle of Ages/Seasons: The evil plans of the villains in both games were part of a plot to resurrect Ganon. The Wind Waker: The King of Red Lions is King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule, and Tetra is Zelda. Four Swords Adventures: Ganon had been manipulating Vaati behind the scenes. The Minish Cap: Ezlo was Vaati's mentor before Vaati turned him into a hat, Vaati was originally a Minish, and the Light Force is within Princess Zelda. Twilight Princess: Ganondorf gave Zant his powers, and Midna is the Twilight Princess. Phantom Hourglass: Oshus is the Ocean King. Spirit Tracks: Byrne used to be a Lokomo. Skyward Sword: Zelda herself is the goddess Hylia in human form, Ghirahim is the Evil Counterpart to Fi, Demise creates Ganon as the reincarnation of himself and his hatred, and the Old Woman at the Sealed Temple is actually Impa. A Link Between Worlds: Lorule used to have a Triforce before its people destroyed it to prevent further bloodshed (which ultimately sent the kingdom on a downward spiral to ruin), Hilda sent Yuga and manipulated Link in order to obtain Hyrule's Triforce to save Lorule, and Ravio is Lorule's equivalent of Link. | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b2b3b59 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b35788c | type |
Lava Adds Awesome | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b35788c | comment |
Lava Adds Awesome: Any fire-base dungeon, especially volcano dungeons. Usually, you also have to fight burning bats and huge monsters that set themselves on fire. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b35788c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b35788c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b35788c | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b7c9f96 | type |
The Lost Woods | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b7c9f96 | comment |
In several games, Link can obtain potions from a witch (usually named Syrup) who lives by herself either in The Lost Woods or just outside of Kakariko village. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b7c9f96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b7c9f96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6b7c9f96 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Link got his original name as a nod to him being an avatar connecting the player with the games' universe. The word "links" is also translated as "left" in German and Dutch, referencing Link's trademark left-handedness. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6c953892 | type |
Henotheistic Society | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6c953892 | comment |
Henotheistic Society: Hylians and Hyrulians as a whole generally worship the three Golden Goddesses Din, Nayru, and Farore. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword introduces a fourth goddess named Hylia, who had previously only been alluded to by having a lake and species named after her. Hylia is an Ethnic God for the Hylians who the original Zelda is a reincarnation of. By The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hylia worship prioritizes worship over the Golden Goddesses. Although they haven't been completely forgottennote Zelda speaks about Nayru in one memory (either by mentioning "the Goddess of Wisdom" in the English version, or by calling her name in the Japanese and French versions for example) so it's safe to assume Din and Farore are remembered as well., only statues and churches for Hylia are seen throughout Hyrule. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6c953892 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6c953892 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6c953892 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6dc206c9 | type |
Marathon Level | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6dc206c9 | comment |
Marathon Level: The Palace of Winds in The Minish Cap. Twilight Princess's City in the Sky. The Cave of Ordeals from Twilight Princess. Getting to the bottom means trudging through 50 levels of enemies with limited health and item refills. Fortunately, every tenth floor is a Great Fairy Fountain. And there's an Easter Egg for beating it twice. Completing it multiple times is the only way to hold more than one bottle of Great Fairy's Tears, too. Vaati's Palace from Four Swords. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6dc206c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6dc206c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6dc206c9 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6de71c57 | type |
Disc-One Final Boss | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6de71c57 | comment |
Disc-One Final Boss: Agahanim in A Link to the Past, Zant in Twilight Princess, Byrne in Spirit Tracks, and the third Ghirahim fight in Skyward Sword. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6de71c57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6de71c57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6de71c57 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6e7a3cd | type |
Underground Monkey | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6e7a3cd | comment |
Underground Monkey: They're usually not elemental, but different colored enemies indicate different strengths, especially in early games. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6e7a3cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6e7a3cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6e7a3cd | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6ec989d8 | type |
Guide Dang It! | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Guide Dang It!: Typically, the games each have a couple of things you probably wouldn't normally think to do, but overall the puzzles are solvable with no external help. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6ec989d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6ec989d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6ec989d8 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6fc2ca79 | type |
Fictionary | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6fc2ca79 | comment |
Fictionary: Hylian, which is just a substitution cypher for Japanese when it appears in-game (except in Twilight Princess and Breath of the Wild, where it's based on English). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6fc2ca79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6fc2ca79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_6fc2ca79 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_70321789 | type |
Video Game Remake | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_70321789 | comment |
Link's Awakening (Video Game Remake, Nintendo Switch, 2019) | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_70321789 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_70321789 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_70321789 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7215c26c | type |
Man-Eating Plant | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7215c26c | comment |
Deku Babas, a type of Man-Eating Plant, can't move from their base, but can still lunge as far as their stem will reach. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7215c26c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7215c26c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7215c26c | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_726df893 | type |
Equipment Upgrade | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_726df893 | comment |
Equipment Upgrade: The series often has sidequests where equipment can be upgraded. The best examples being The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, which both had multiple upgrade sidequests for the sword (after the Master Sword was picked up, it could be sharpened and tempered) and fairies/a collection sidequest respectively for the other equipment. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_726df893 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_726df893 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_726df893 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72a3f091 | type |
Giant Eye of Doom | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72a3f091 | comment |
Giant Eye of Doom: Gohma, the first boss in Ocarina of Time. Wart in Majora's Mask as well. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72a3f091 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72a3f091 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72a3f091 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72d43279 | type |
Blocking Stops All Damage | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72d43279 | comment |
Blocking Stops All Damage: If Link can block an attack with his trusty shield, it always stops all damage, and his upgrades to his shield allow him to block more stuff. Skyward Sword gave him a shield gauge that shows how much the shield can take before destruction, but the best shield in the game is invulnerable. Breath of the Wild takes this up to eleven, with it being possible to perfectly block a high-speed Guardian laser with a humble wooden pot lid, with a perfect guard never dealing damage to whatever Link is using. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72d43279 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72d43279 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_72d43279 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7302acc9 | type |
Ermine Cape Effect | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7302acc9 | comment |
Ermine Cape Effect: It's an important plot point if Zelda is not wearing her dress. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7302acc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7302acc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7302acc9 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_735b4101 | type |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_735b4101 | comment |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Items and uniforms, especially. Enemies too, in many games; enemy power is shown via Palette Swap. Which color is stronger tends to vary. Dialogue text will often have important words highlighted in a different color than the rest of the words, sometimes using appropriate colors (like "forest" in green, "lake" in blue, etc). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_735b4101 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_735b4101 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_735b4101 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_737394ab | type |
Iconic Item | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_737394ab | comment |
Iconic Item: Link's green tunic and hood and, to a lesser extent, the Master Sword. The Triforce also serves as the Iconic Item for the entire series. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_737394ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_737394ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_737394ab | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_73ff2cc5 | type |
Just Eat Him | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_73ff2cc5 | comment |
Just Eat Him: Like-Likes don't seem to be able to keep Link down, and usually opt instead to strip him of his shield or clothes (or Rupees for some varieties). No idea why those would be more nutritional than Link. Originally, they only "ate magic", and devoured Link's Magic Shield because it was the only easily-accessible edible item. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_73ff2cc5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_73ff2cc5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_73ff2cc5 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7568eb84 | type |
Human Subspecies | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7568eb84 | comment |
Most games treat Hylians — Link and Zelda's kind, and the setting's "main" race — as a Human Subspecies. They're known for their long, elfish ears and their ability to "hear the gods" better than round-eared humans. Other than those differences, however, they're usually interchangable with non-Hylian, round-eared humans. There aren't any physical or social differences and they interbreed just fine. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7568eb84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7568eb84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7568eb84 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_772e049b | type |
Maid and Maiden | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_772e049b | comment |
Maid and Maiden: Fulfills the imagery with Impa as The Maid and Zelda as The Maiden. In some incarnations, Impa totally fulfills the stereotype by being much older and portly and is officially Zelda's attendant. In other versions, she's a Ninja Maid since the series is in the Action Adventure Genre. The romantic element, if any, is only hinted at here. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_772e049b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_772e049b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_772e049b | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_78f31439 | type |
CommonplaceRare | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_78f31439 | comment |
Commonplace Rare: Bottles. In every game that they were featured in, Bottles seem to be something that should be easy to get. But as it so-happens, the Bottles tend to be only possessed by a few (if that many) people in Hyrule. And these people normally require some quest or mini-game to be completed (the main exception being a bottle salesman who sells you one bottle early in the game). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_78f31439 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_78f31439 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_78f31439 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7a292811 | type |
Reviving Enemy | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7a292811 | comment |
Reviving Enemy: The Stalfos are usually this (falling apart into a pile of bones and reassembling themselves if their remains aren't dealt with). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7a292811 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7a292811 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7a292811 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7aed96a9 | type |
White Magic | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7aed96a9 | comment |
Theurgy: It is stated in several games that Link and Zelda are reincarnations of a legendary hero and princess who carry the blood of the goddess Hylia. Zelda's magic is often White Magic related to sealing away evil, and Link's magical ability often originates from deities in some form, whether that's Hylia Herself or the trio of Golden Goddesses (Din's Fire, Farore's Wind, Nayru's Love). The Triforce itself is an artifact of the Golden Goddesses. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7aed96a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7aed96a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7aed96a9 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b047cb2 | type |
Legendary Weapon | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b047cb2 | comment |
Legendary Weapon: The Master Sword, aka "The Blade of Evil's Bane", is as legendary as the Triforce itself. It is inscribed in Hyrule's lore that evil ones cannot touch it, nor can anyone, save for the Chosen Hero, draw it from the Pedestal of Time. The Four Sword is Link's most commonly-used weapon when the Master Sword isn't in play. It has a very different pedigree, but a similar level of power. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b047cb2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b047cb2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b047cb2 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b69e38b | type |
Named by the Dub | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b69e38b | comment |
Named by the Dub: An accidental version happened in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The translator mistook the context of the carpenter Bremor saying "tetsuya" (meaning a long, sleepless night) and thought it was the name of the carpenter nagging him (Tetsuya is indeed a common Japanese name) resulting in Bremor complaining about his co-worker "Brac". The name Brac would eventually be removed from later releases of the game. The Big Bad of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and the franchise's overall Greater-Scope Villain was originally not named Demise but was rather titled the Being of Demise. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b69e38b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b69e38b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7b69e38b | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ba4675e | type |
Pinball Spin-Off | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ba4675e | comment |
Pinball Spin-Off: Averted; a Zelda arcade pinball game was planned, but Gottlieb could not secure the rights. It was eventually released as Gladiators instead. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ba4675e | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ba4675e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ba4675e | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7dbd52b8 | type |
Light Is Good | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7dbd52b8 | comment |
Light Is Good: The Light Spirits, the Light Arrow, Rauru (the Sage of Light), and the Sols. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7dbd52b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7dbd52b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7dbd52b8 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e02bded | type |
Fetch Quest | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e02bded | comment |
Fetch Quest: Overworld segments between dungeons usually utilize fetch quest objectives for plot elements or unanticipated roadblocks to story progress, with Link either going out for an item per procedure or having to make a detour for an uncooperative or needy NPC. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e02bded | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e02bded | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e02bded | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e1f3c45 | type |
Power-Up Magnet | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e1f3c45 | comment |
Power-Up Magnet: One of the abilities of the hookshot and boomerang. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e1f3c45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e1f3c45 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e1f3c45 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e7d59e0 | type |
Mooks Ate My Equipment | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e7d59e0 | comment |
Mooks Ate My Equipment: Like-Likes cam swallow Link and take his shield or special tunics or other items, depending on the game. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e7d59e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e7d59e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7e7d59e0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7eaf99d | type |
Malevolent Architecture | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7eaf99d | comment |
Malevolent Architecture: For some reason, almost all of Hyrule's "temples" are labyrinthine deathtrap and monster repositories. Occasionally justified with the temples either being tests of courage for the Hero set out by various goddesses, prisons for evil spirits or simply corrupted by evil power. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7eaf99d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7eaf99d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7eaf99d | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: In order of appearance and type: "Harsh" types: Princess Zelda in the Animated Adaptation, Princess Ruto, Tatl, Tetra, Midna, and Linebeck. "Sweet" types: Ilia, Ciela, and Princess Zelda. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ef728b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ef728b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7ef728b1 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: It happens so often through the series that one wonders if Ganon didn't plan it from the beginning. In Ocarina of Time, Ganon reaches the Temple of Time because Link left the door open while time traveling. Oooops. The hordes of evil are unleashed from their seal when Link retrieves the Master Sword in the submerged Hyrule Castle in The Wind Waker. Crap. Vaati in The Minish Cap ends up finding the Elemental Sanctuary because Link visited it several times to infuse the Minish Sword with the power of the elements. Goddamnit. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7fbb2a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7fbb2a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_811dfb3f | type |
Voice Grunting | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_811dfb3f | comment |
Voice Grunting: The games with any "voice acting" use this exclusively, with the exceptions of the Tetra and the pirates in "Navi Trackers", certain cutscenes in Breath of the Wild, Midna in Twilight Princess, and Fi and Zelda in Skyward Sword, the last three speaking (or singing) Simlish. In some games, the voice grunts are actually bits of Japanese. (For instance, Zelda's "NÄ“!" in Skyward Sword, which basically translates to "Hey!") | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_811dfb3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_811dfb3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_811dfb3f | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_82108e3d | type |
Attack Its Weak Point | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_82108e3d | comment |
Attack Its Weak Point: Most boss battles in the series function this way. Breath of the Wild mostly averts this: while there are weak points that can be exploited to deal higher damage, they're almost never the only way to hurt bosses. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_82108e3d | featureApplicability |
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BFS | |
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BFS: Some examples include the Biggoron's Sword, the Great Fairy's Sword, and the blade used by the Fierce Deity. | |
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Pun | |
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Demise makes some appear during the 2nd part of his battle. He uses it to charge his sword. You can use it too for the same purpose. | |
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Player Death Is Dramatic | |
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Player Death Is Dramatic: This series is the Trope Codifier, as almost every game takes dying seriously in some form. See the trope page for more details. | |
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Our Humans Are Different | |
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Our Humans Are Different: Most games treat Hylians — Link and Zelda's kind, and the setting's "main" race — as a Human Subspecies. They're known for their long, elfish ears and their ability to "hear the gods" better than round-eared humans. Other than those differences, however, they're usually interchangable with non-Hylian, round-eared humans. There aren't any physical or social differences and they interbreed just fine. Two of the franchise's other recurring races, the Sheikah and the Gerudo, also strongly resemble pointy-eared humans, and their exact relationship with each other, humans and Hylians is never explained. They're effectively human in most respects, with the main differences being that the Sheikah are rather Long-Lived and have red eyes and Mystical White Hair, while the Gerudo are all women — a male is born among them only every century or so, and they normally have children by coupling with Hylians. | |
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Alternate Universe | |
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Alternate Universe: The various Dark Worlds in A Link to the Past, Twilight Princess, Spirit Tracks, and A Link Between Worlds. | |
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Super Spit | |
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Super Spit: The land or water-dwelling octopus-like creatures known as Octoroks spit rocks that can do damage. | |
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Dramatic Thunder | |
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Dramatic Thunder: Clashes with Ganondorf sometimes uses lightning as a backdrop, just in case fighting a thirty-foot-tall man-bear-pig wasn't freaky enough. Demise makes some appear during the 2nd part of his battle. He uses it to charge his sword. You can use it too for the same purpose. | |
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Interspecies Romance | |
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Interspecies Romance: Gets mentioned (and usually poked fun at) in several games. In Link's Awakening, there's a subquest where you have to deliver a picture from a shy man and his female penpal. Said penpal turns out to be a talking goat in Animal Town (who sends him back a photo of Princess Peach to boot). In Majora's Mask, Treasure Chest Shop Owner (a female Terminan) will flirt with you while you're wearing the Zora Mask. She does it to Goron Link in the remake too. In Oracle of Seasons, Link needs to go on a date with a Subrosian (mysterious, subterranean people who wear cloaks, eat metal, and bathe in molten lava) in order to proceed and can ask her for further dates as well. Vaati, a Picori who used black magic to assume humanoid form and first introduced in The Minish Cap, is explicitly stated as kidnapping Hylian girls because he's attracted to them. In Ocarina of Time, Link gets an Accidental Marriage to Princess Ruto of the Zoras. In The Wind Waker, there a subquest about a Hylian girl falling in love with a Moblin. A book mentioned in the The Minish Cap, also covers a Hylian and Moblin romance. In Twilight Princess, there's the hinted romantic attraction between Link (Hylian) and Midna (imp/Twili). And there's Link spending one-third of the game as a wolf (though Midna treats him more like a pet dog at this stage). In Oracle of Ages, Link gets propositioned by a tree. A tree wearing ganguro-gal makeup. In Breath of the Wild, it's spelled out that Mipha, a Zora, was planning to propose to Link before being killed by Calamity Ganon. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Unless you count sequels, expect Hyrule to look different each time. Death Mountain is almost consistently to the North, and the Master Sword just a bit West-Southwest of it, but most other landmarks will not sit still. The most likely explanation is a combination of factors: Hyrule changing its physical location (Twilight Princess), the passage of time itself (A Link to the Past, The Wind Waker), and the evolution of the series to the point where Hyrule is no longer represented as a square/rectangular map (Ocarina of Time versus the original game). | |
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Humanoid Abomination | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_851dda8f | comment |
Ganon himself by the time of Breath of the Wild has become a vaguely boar-shaped mass of dark energy as possibly the purest embodiment of Demise's hatred curse. However, the forms he takes when fought fit more into the categories of Humanoid Abomination and Animalistic Abomination. | |
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Vague Hit Points | |
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Vague Hit Points: Hyrule Warriors uses quarter hearts as the smallest visual unit of the Life Meter, it's not the smallest actual unit. Every quarter heart is worth 100 HP, which the player will only be able to notice if they enter a keep with a damage barrier, which deals small increments of Hit Points per second, so they're damaged without otherwise visual change. If the character is hit by an attack that activates the Last Chance Hit Point, that would leave the character with 1 hp, but it would be displayed as 1 quarter heart. The exact number of Hit Points is shown in the pause menu/results screen for the Wii U only, as the Nintendo Switch uses percentages instead. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: While Link's hitpoints are evident by his heart meter, the hitpoints of his weapons are not. The only visible indicator of how much durability his weapons have before they shatter is a sparkle on the inventory screen when they're brand new and a red flash on that same menu when they're a hit or two away from breaking. | |
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Grappling-Hook Pistol | |
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Grappling-Hook Pistol: Hookshot is the most common name, though the Switch Hook is used in Oracle of Ages, and the Clawshot in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword takes it to extreme levels, as you can use two of them in tandem. There's also the Griphook in Tri Force Heroes, which is basically the Hookshot and Clawshot combined. | |
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Songs in the Key of Panic | |
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Songs in the Key of Panic: Since the 3D games, minigames and timed switches use this method to tell you to hurry up. Then there's Majora's Mask, which takes the whole concept of limited time and uses it to mess with your head. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Bongo Bongo in Ocarina of Time qualifies. An ancient, cyclopic spirit of darkness that manifests as a hanging, decapitated corpse with severed hands. Bellum from Phantom Hourglass, a tentacled monstrosity with eyes where they shouldn't be. It isn't really evil or malicious and probably doesn't even have agency in any human sense, it just is. Malladus, Majora, and Dethl are a demonic, misty skull with a habit of possessing people, an evil, insane Trickster god◊, and a giant, shadowy manifestation of nightmares◊, respectively. Ganon himself by the time of Breath of the Wild has become a vaguely boar-shaped mass of dark energy as possibly the purest embodiment of Demise's hatred curse. However, the forms he takes when fought fit more into the categories of Humanoid Abomination and Animalistic Abomination. | |
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Cool Key | |
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Cool Key: Boss Keys tend to be this, as they are far more elaborate than the standard keys you find. | |
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Stab the Sky | |
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Stab the Sky: Almost every time Link gets a sword, he thrusts it into the air. This is also a game mechanic in Skyward Sword. | |
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Mini-Boss | |
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Mini-Boss: A staple since Link's Awakening, with mini-bosses usually featuring halfway through dungeons as the last obstacle to the new item earned within. In most games, the mini-bosses are closer to regular tough enemies that are seen elsewhere, but Majora's Mask has three mini-boss types that all come closer to full boss fights, and Twilight Princess features a unique, developed mini-boss encounter for almost every dungeon. | |
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Mistaken for Granite | |
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Mistaken for Granite: Armos enemies usually appear as inanimate statues before springing to life when approached. Some decayed Guardians in Breath of the Wild also do this, appearing to be inanimate legless husks like the many scattered around the map, but waking up when approached. Some fully-functional legged Guardians even pose as Decayed Guardians. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: The first four games come an indeterminate amount of time after (a what-if ending of) Ocarina of Time (the fifth), while the sixteenth title, Skyward Sword, is said to come before any other game. And while some games are obvious sequels to each other, it's still hard to tell which games are supposed to happen when unless you're looking at the timeline. | |
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Down the Drain | |
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Down the Drain: The water dungeons usually follow this as constructed reservoirs and the like, with the Water Temple being the most well-known (read: notorious) example. | |
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Holy Burns Evil | |
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Holy Burns Evil: The Master Sword is explicitly imbued with the "Power to Repel Evil", thanks to the combined blessings of four different goddesses. This gives it the rare ability to defeat even purely evil beings such as Ganon and Demise. The Light (sometimes Silver) Arrows have similar power. The Four Sword, the Lokomo Sword, the Phantom Sword, the Picori Blade, and presumably others, are all holy swords created for a similar purpose to the Master Sword and also can't be used by someone evil or unworthy. The swords do have a finite amount of power, though. Defeating or sealing a significantly powerful enemy or threat (such as Ganon, when a Hero could not be found) robbed the Master Sword of a great portion of its power, forcing the Hero of the Winds to go on a quest to recharge it. | |
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Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic | |
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Sliding Scale of Realistic vs. Fantastic: Fantastic. | |
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Identical Grandson | |
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Identical Grandson: While not all of the Zeldas look alike, there are a number (such as Minish Cap Zelda◊, Wind Waker Zelda, Spirit Tracks Zelda◊, and the one from before the Great Flood) that are so identical that they even wear the same exact clothes. | |
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Non-Standard Game Over | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_8e0430ab | comment |
Non-Standard Game Over: Occurs in Majora's Mask, Spirit Tracks, Skyward Sword, and The Minish Cap with special game over scenes. | |
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Prison Episode | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_8e6a882b | comment |
Prison Episode: Prison settings are presented in The Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, and A Link to the Past. | |
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Invincible Villain | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_8f0c88f | comment |
Invincible Villain: Ganon has shades of this. After being pelted with holy arrows, exposed to powerful magics, and stabbed lord knows how many times with the ultimate sword of good, Ganon tends to stay alive through it all. This is taken to scary limits at the end of Ocarina, when he is shown after being sealed away. He showed no signs of being harmed at all despite receiving a stab wound to the face moments earlier*:though this could be explained in part by the game aiming for a kid-friendly rating and the graphical limitations of the N64. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
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Pintsized Powerhouse: The Cuccos; hit one too much and its friends will peck your hearts out. | |
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Medieval Stasis | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_8f37b | comment |
Medieval Stasis: With occasional Schizo Tech. Wild mass guessing ensued. | |
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Token Good Teammate | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_8f612013 | comment |
The highly memetic phrase "IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYBODY", originally spoken by a surprisingly generous Moblin in the first game, has appeared in many other titles. Interestingly, earlier games correct the grammar by changing the wording, but later ones lean more into the "Blind Idiot" Translation that made the original line so memorable in the first place. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: The master lockpicker who opens a chest for you requests that you "keep it a secret from everyone else." The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Before Zelda gives you her Info Dump after your first meeting with her, she asks "Please keep this a secret from everyone." The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: After Kafei reveals his backstory and why he's in hiding, he tells you "Keep what we just talked about a secret from everyone." The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: After Zant traps Hyrule Castle in a force field, Link can talk to a Goron on a balcony in Castle Town who's apparently the only one who's noticed the problem. The Goron remarks "I have kept this a secret from the others. Yes, it is a secret to everybody." The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Both a Kikwi and a Parella use the phrase as they're about to give Link some sensitive information. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: After rescuing her and later finding her in a cave, the thief girl gives you 100 rupees and says, "How about we just keep this a secret to everybody." The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Oaki, a Korok, tasks you with helping him decorate a hidden chamber he's made inside the Great Deku Tree's mouth. After you complete it, he happily declares "It's a secret to everybody that I built a room in here!" | |
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Giant Space Flea from Nowhere | |
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Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Many examples, particularly Mini Bosses. Sometimes, like in Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess, all of the bosses are explicitly under the villain's control, but sometimes a boss will emerge with connection to anything and no reason to be there other than providing a climax for the dungeon. | |
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Our Fairies Are Different | |
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Our Fairies Are Different: Their appearance varies between games. Generally speaking, they're depicted as female winged humanoids in the top-down games (and The Wind Waker), while they're depicted as winged orbs of light starting with Ocarina of Time and continuing into the other 3D games. A Link Between Worlds and the Link's Awakening remake use both: they're glowing orbs when in a bottle and humanoid otherwise. The Great Fairies vary even more. They're usually depicted as floating, humanoid women, but even their size can vary depending on the game, such as the massive Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask fairies compared to the Twilight Princess fairies, who stand around Link's height. The ones in The Wind Waker have four arms and only vaguely resemble humans. | |
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Fairy Battle | |
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Fairy Battle: Used in Zelda II whenever you find a fairy in the overworld. | |
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Precursors | |
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Precursors: The series is a fan of this trope. Enemies like the Armos and Beamos (any robotic enemy, really) are leftovers from a more advanced group, one example being the Minish. | |
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Mook Bouncer | |
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Mook Bouncer: The Wallmasters aren't just a type of Ambushing Enemy; they also tend to place Link back at the entrance of a dungeon. | |
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Love Interests | |
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Love Interests: Although it's implied that Link ends up with Zelda at the end of some games, along the way, Link often meets other girls with whom he has chemistry with as well. Ocarina of Time has at least three different girls who qualify, and that's only counting the ones roughly his age | |
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Prolonged Video Game Sequel | |
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Prolonged Video Game Sequel: At least three The Legend Of Zelda games were designed with this trope in mind: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past has a longer main quest than the first two games, which is reflected in the presence of two overworlds, between which Link can explore up to 12 dungeons, the highest number of any Zelda game. It also features more sidequests (which, to be fair, were barely present at all in the previous titles), as well as more overworld activity. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has the same amount of dungeons as Ocarina of Time (nine), but the main quest is overall longer due to the exploration of the Twilight segments, the horse track battles, bigger landscapes, and other factors. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is larger than all the other previous Zelda titles combined. While it only has five dungeons, the world is enormous to the point that the starting area is as large as the Twilight Princess map, and there are tons of sidequests, over a hundred mini-dungeons and an endless list of collectibles. The following DLCs added even more content. | |
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Light Liege, Dark Defender | |
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Light Liege, Dark Defender: Zelda and Impa in their many incarnations. In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Princess Zelda's personal bodyguard is the ultra-serious and threatening Impa from the Sheikah clan, while Zelda herself is very cheerful and friendly. The same dynamic between Princess Zelda and Impa also takes place in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and was later extended to the whole Sheikah tribe in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, where they are a race of albino Ninjas who have worked in the shadows to create dangerous Magitek technology to help defend the Hylians. | |
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Ominous Fog | |
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Ominous Fog: Phantom Hourglass has it around the Ghost Ship. | |
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Inescapable Ambush | |
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Inescapable Ambush: Some rooms lock down tight and won't let you leave until everything inside is dead. | |
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Exposition Fairy | |
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Exposition Fairy / Fairy Companion: In order of appearance: The cartoon: Spryte, who set the stage for another American adaptation fairy... A Link to the Past adaptation: Epheremelda, the Fairy Companion in the Nintendo Power comic illustrated by Shotaro Ishinomori, which inspired back in Japan... Link's Awakening manga by Ataru Cagiva: Felicia, making the concept of the Fairy Companion popular enough along with the previous entries to become a Canon Immigrant at last with... Ocarina of Time: Navi, the Trope Codifier. Majora's Mask: Tatl. The Wind Waker: The King of Red Lions. Four Swords Adventures: Whichever maiden you've just rescued, who takes the form of an actual fairy. The Minish Cap: Ezlo. Twilight Princess: Midna. Phantom Hourglass: Ciela, Leaf, Neri, and Linebeck. Spirit Tracks: Zelda. Skyward Sword: Fi. Hyrule Warriors: Proxi, also acting as the Voice for the Voiceless. | |
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Animated Armor | |
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Princess Zelda as well. Indeed, she gets kidnapped repeatedly, but the girl has shown she is a decent archer, knows a bit of magic, has some Sheikah training in Ocarina of Time, and is willing to fight with a sword in Twilight Princess. Even in Spirit Tracks, as an Animated Armor, when you attack her too much, she'll go berserk on Link, and even safe zones can't protect him from her wrath! | |
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Peter Pan Parody | |
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Peter Pan Parody: Miyamoto confirms that Link's iconic green tunic and elf ears is a send-up to Peter Pan. This is further emphasized by later games giving him a Fairy Companion, and the introduction of Dark Link is more than likely inspired by Peter's troubles with his own shadow. | |
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Bathos | |
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Bathos: The series always has some sort of bathos involved, ever since Link's Awakening. It's most evident in cutscenes: For example, in Majora's Mask, there's a scene where you encounter a dying Zora just off the coast of the beach. You push him to shore, where he tells you how pirates had stolen his girlfriend's eggs and he tried to get them back, but he was mortally wounded and is close to death. However, the way he tells his story is to get up and rock out on his electric guitar. After he's done, he promptly keels over and dies. Another one is in Wind Waker: Here, Link places the last of the goddess pearls he's collected up to that point in an ancient statue. At first, it seems like it's about to explode, but then it stops for a moment. Just as Link thinks it's okay to get close, it promptly explodes and launches him off the island. However, the statue also causes the Tower of The Gods to emerge from the waves. It's as majestic as it sounds... until Link goes splat against the side of the rising structure. Twilight Princess: At one point, you find yourself in an abandoned village, having been tasked to kill 20 Bulblins (orc-like creatures) in a western-style shoot-out in order to save the last resident (an elderly lady). This particular scene is also accompanied by a western soundtrack. Later on, you're given a similar task that's accompanied by the same music piece. This time, however, you're tasked with talking to and befriending 20 of the old lady's cats. Skyward Sword has a scene where an ancient ruin is revealed. However, the way it is revealed involves putting a stone into a statue... The statue then shoots a single cannonball, which it hits a floating island. At first, nothing happens, but after a few seconds, the ruin reveals itself. | |
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Big Bad | |
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The Big Bad of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and the franchise's overall Greater-Scope Villain was originally not named Demise but was rather titled the Being of Demise. | |
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Sword of Plot Advancement | |
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Sword of Plot Advancement: The Master Sword in most games where it appears; the Phantom Sword in Phantom Hourglass. | |
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Stock Money Bag | |
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Stock Money Bag: Wallets (which resemble drawstring pouches) always have a rupee on them. The denomination of rupee (determined by its color) indicates the relative capacity of the wallet. As with most examples, this serves as a necessary visual cue, as otherwise they could easily be confused with bomb bags or other items in Link's Hyperspace Arsenal. | |
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Solitary Sorceress | |
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Solitary Sorceress: In several games, Link can obtain potions from a witch (usually named Syrup) who lives by herself either in The Lost Woods or just outside of Kakariko village. There's also the occasional fortune teller who is similarly isolated, such as Astrid from Phantom Hourglass. Impa, of all people, falls under this Skyward Sword. | |
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Eating the Enemy | |
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Eating the Enemy: The Like Like, a Blob Monster that appears throughout the series, is a downplayed example. When it sees Link, it will indeed swallow him up. But then it'll spit him out, but not without eating his shield. In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, upon saving Bow-Wow, a Chain Chomp Expy, in the Moblin Cave, he'll then be able to devour all enemies, including the Goponga Flowers blocking Bottle Grotto. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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The Link from Skyward Sword takes on this role to all the other Links, as he was the very first to wield the Master Sword and used it to defeat Demise, the franchise's own Greater-Scope Villain. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Zelda, depending on which game she's in. In the original games, she's merely the Damsel in Distress. Other games, she's either a badass (especially when she's Sheik) or Genki Girl. | |
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Giant Spider | |
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Giant Spider: Many enemies and bosses, most notably the various versions of Gohma and the Skulltulas. Twilight Princess features the largest and most realistic spider in the series so far, Armogohma. | |
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Iconic Starter Equipment | |
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Iconic Starter Equipment: Generally averted with the Master Sword, the Sword of Plot Advancement in most of the series, with Link using it in most official art, and the sword is a veritable part of the series iconography. There are exceptions though. Link from Wind Waker uses the early-game Hero's Sword in all of his official art, and Link from Twilight Princess uses the early game Ordon Sword in most of his official art as well, though he does have a few pieces with the Master Sword. That, said, some games do feature swords that are more powerful than the Master Sword, but these are typically (a) upgrades to the Master Sword itself, or (b) have some tradeoff that might make the player want to switch back to the Master Sword, such as the Biggoron's Sword from Ocarina of Time, which is a two-handed sword that prevents Link from using his shield. Link's iconic outfit is his green tunic. In some games he can find other outfits that offer some benefit over his standard one, meaning that the players will rarely use his default one after acquiring them. Twilight Princess averts this because while Link's alternate outfits of the Zora Armor and Magic Armor give him the ability to breathe underwater and invincibility, respectively, they each have their respective downsides of making him extremely weak to fire and ice attacks and draining his rupees, giving players a reason to equip his standard outfit again. In Ocarina of Time, Link can swap out his green Kokiri Tunic for the Goron or Zora tunics, which respectively grant him the ability to withstand high temperatures and breathe underwater. Unlike in Twilight Princess, there's no benefit to switching back to the default outfit, meaning that once you acquire them, you'll probably be wearing the Goron or Zora Tunics for the rest of the game. This makes for an awkward moment with the introduction to The Wind Waker, in which young boys are said to wear green tunics to mark their coming of age in commemoration of the green-clad Hero from Ocarina of Time who defeated Ganon, even though many players probably defeated Ganon wearing the red Goron or blue Zora Tunic in the latter game. Zigzagged in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with most official art depicting him wearing the Champion's Tunic and Hylian Trousers. The Champion's tunic averts this, due to it not being starter equipment as well as offering good protection at each upgrade level without compromising stealth too much, so players have a reason to keep using it throughout the game, but the Hylian Trousers play this straight since they are one of the first items of clothing you can acquire and have only modest defense and stealth, and no protection from extreme elements, meaning that players will likely be wearing something else most of the time. Link is also depicted without any headgear, even though it is usually optimal to equip one since doing so will raise your defence and/or offer some other benefit. | |
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Bicolor Cows, Solid Color Bulls | |
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Bicolor Cows, Solid Color Bulls: Cows are usually black-and-white. Elsie, the one cow who isn't black-and-white, is blue-and-white. Minotaurs (bulls) are black. | |
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Hyperspace Arsenal | |
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Hyperspace Arsenal: In all games, Link has always been able to carry quite a bit of stuff, though for some reason in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, his wallet is rather limited until he gets a bigger one. Skyward Sword plays with this a little by limiting some of Link's inventory to "pouches" he has to find throughout the game. He starts off with four and has a maximum of eight, limiting the number of items he can carry. Of course, he's still managing to fit everything from his shield to quivers and bomb bags inside a small belt pouch... Also, major pieces of equipment like the bow, clawshots, and gust bellows are part of a separate inventory that don't use the pouches. | |
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Interface Spoiler | |
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Interface Spoiler: If there are empty spots in your item and quest menu, rest assured that they will be filled up later on. Notably averted in the Oracle games in which you get several more item spaces than you actually need, and Twilight Princess, where the item menu is a circle where the items are evenly spaced, and the quest menu puts all the Plot Coupons in one space where they float around. Link's Awakening actually has more items than inventory spaces — one has to be traded away for another (and traded back if you need it again, as buying a new one will make the game Unwinnable). | |
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Time Travel | |
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Time Travel: Everywhere in the series, and has been the central mechanic of three games (Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Oracle of Ages). | |
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Black Magic | |
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Ganondorf is frequently shown using some kind of Black Magic to do evil. | |
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Long-Lived | |
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Two of the franchise's other recurring races, the Sheikah and the Gerudo, also strongly resemble pointy-eared humans, and their exact relationship with each other, humans and Hylians is never explained. They're effectively human in most respects, with the main differences being that the Sheikah are rather Long-Lived and have red eyes and Mystical White Hair, while the Gerudo are all women — a male is born among them only every century or so, and they normally have children by coupling with Hylians. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Music is reused throughout the series. The most common examples: The iconic series Main Theme, which eventually became Link's leitmotif too. It's the only leitmotif that can be tracked down to the very first NES game. Zelda's Theme (a.k.a Zelda's Lullaby), for the titular princess. Its first appearance was in A Link to the Past, but it was codified in Ocarina of Time (which is the reason why most fans refer to it by its alternative title). The series' Big Bad has his own: Ganon's Theme. It was also created in A Link to the Past. Great Fairy Fountain is almost always used as the File Select theme and the fairy's leitmotif. And yep, appeared in A Link to the Past first too. Kakariko Village. It has had several arrangements, depending on the setting of the titular village. Guess which game it first appeared in. It is worth noting that many of the songs introduced in A Link to the Past didn't become true leitmotifs until Ocarina of Time; Link's Awakening lacks many of these themes, using entirely different songs for the File Select and Great Fairy Fountains. Ocarina of Time also introduced the cozy Inside a House theme, which has recurred ever since. | |
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Electric Jellyfish | |
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Electric Jellyfish: The Bari species of jellyfish are electric. | |
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Fantastic Naming Convention | |
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Fantastic Naming Convention: Goron leaders usually have names that begin with 'Dar', with known characters of this mold being Darunia, Darmani, Darbus, and Daruk. | |
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First Town | |
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The First Town is a plateau that the player can't get off until they unlock the glider, by completing several Shrines (effectively self contained puzzle rooms). Each shrine grants the player a new ability for their Sheikah slate and is solved only using that ability. | |
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Power-Up Mount | |
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Power-Up Mount: Riding Epona allows the player to jump over fences. | |
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Odd Name Out | |
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Odd Name Out: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is the only entry in the main series to not have The Legend of Zelda in its title. It's also the only numbered title in the series (outside Japan, where A Link Between Worlds is titled Triforce of the Gods 2). | |
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Doomed by Canon | |
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Doomed by Canon: Skyward Sword is the first game in the chronology, and its ending establishes why Ganon is a recurring threat for Hyrule, and why a Link and Zelda are bound to face it through the generations. This is a tamer danger than what has been fought throughout the game, but almost all future games in the story have a conflict due to Skyward Sword. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: There's a recurring element throughout the series of shooting arrows into eyes. Find an eye-shaped thing in a dungeon? Shoot an arrow into it to solve the puzzle. Fighting a boss with one large eye? Shoot an arrow into it to beat it. It's easy to forget how disturbing this is. | |
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CozyCatastrophe | |
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Cozy Catastrophe: Despite After the End being a common setting for the series, the people usually aren’t negatively affected much. In fact one of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker’s central themes is that life ultimately moves on after disaster. | |
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Multiple-Choice Past | |
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Multiple-Choice Past: The Master Sword. The manual for A Link to the Past says it was forged by the people of Hyrule. Princess Zelda in Twilight Princess says the Master Sword was forged by the ancient sages. Skyward Sword has that game's Link forge the Goddess Sword into the Master Sword himself. The Triforce was said to have disappeared into the Golden Realm shortly after Hyrule was created (ALTTP). Or that it was hidden away there (OoT). Or, even, that there were only two pieces (Zelda 1). It was hidden in Skyloft, a place shrouded in legend on the surface world. Among the myths is that the streets are paved in gold. The end of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword ends with the implication that Link and Zelda will stay on the surface to establish the Kingdom of Hyrule together. In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the Zonai king Rauru is introduced as the co-founder of Hyrule with Queen Sonia. Hidemaro Fujibayashi, who directed both games, has mentioned the possibility of Rauru and Sonia refounding Hyrule after the original was destroyed. | |
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Double-Meaning Title | |
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Double-Meaning Title: The series loves this trope. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: The title can mean either "link" as in "connection", or "Link" as in The Protagonist. Same with the sequel, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening has several meanings. It can refer to Link awakening in Marin's house at the beginning of the game, it can refer to Link awakening the Wind Fish, or it can refer to how the game is just a dream, and therefore Link awakens from the dream at the end. In The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, the title either refers to Ezlo, a Minish who became a cap or the magical cap created by Ezlo that empowers the villain. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: In addition to the title artifact, the title can refer to Link as its wielder. He's called "Wind Waker" and "waker of the winds" in-game. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: The title can refer to both Zelda, the princess of a realm which has been overtaken by Twilight, and Midna, whose actual royal title is Twilight Princess. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: In an interview, the devs mentioned that in addition to "Skyward" meaning "towards the sky", they picked up from the American team that "ward" means "to defend", giving it the double meaning of "Protector of the/from the sky". The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The title is meant to refer to the After the End version of Hyrule with its relative lack of civilization. The "breath" part of the title is also meant to sound like "breadth," in reference to the massive Wide-Open Sandbox nature of the game world compared to previous games. Lastly, the Divine Beasts, constructed to look like wild animals, use a Breath Weapon attack on Calamity Ganon right before Link faces him. | |
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Shifting Sand Land | |
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Shifting Sand Land: Since the beginning, typically termed the Gerudo Desert. | |
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Chest Monster | |
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Chest Monster: In Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, some chests freeze Link (like a Freezard's breath) instead of containing items. In Link's Awakening and the Oracle games, Zol enemies could be hiding in chests. Other types of trapped chests exist as well, but aren't related to enemies. | |
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Infinity +1 Sword | |
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Extra: Biggoron's Sword and its ilk. It's safe to say there's a lot of stuff to collect in every Zelda game you play. | |
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Cool Sword | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_a6275bef | comment |
Cool Sword: The Master Sword, the Four Sword, the Great Fairy Sword, the Double Helix Sword, the Razor and Gilded Swords, the Lokomo Sword, the Phantom Sword, Biggoron's Sword... basically, any major sword upgrade. | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
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Animated Adaptation: The games had a cartoon series back in The '80s, along with Super Mario Bros' own adaptations. | |
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MacGuffin | |
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MacGuffin: The Triforce Zig Zags in this category throughout the series. In the first three games it definitely qualifies, while in games like Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, or Skyward Sword, it affects the plot more deeply. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Is present everywhere. Link almost always starts out with three Heart Containers. (There are exceptions, however, as early as Zelda II starting him off with four.) Bosses usually die after three rounds of a battle. There are three Golden Goddesses of the Triforce: Din, the Goddess of Power; Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom; and Farore, the Goddess of Courage. Link occasionally must collect three items for the plot. A Link to the Past and A Link Between Worlds has the pendants of virtue, Ocarina of Time has the three Spiritual Stones, The Wind Waker has the three Goddess Pearls, Phantom Hourglass has the three pure metals. Twilight Princess has two instances of this with three pieces of the Fused Shadow and three pieces of the Mirror of Twilightnote technically four, but the first one is already in its proper place when you find it. Skyward Sword does it with the three Ancient Tablets, the three Sacred Flames, the three parts of the Song of the Hero, and the three parts of the Triforce. | |
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Rewarding Vandalism | |
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Rewarding Vandalism: Such a perennial favorite that it is a minor shock when someone calls you out for destroying scenery for your own benefit: Also, sometimes you get money from people for keeping their secret places that you just discovered for yourself. Subverted in the first game and the Oracle games, where you sometimes have to pay for the door you just destroyed. | |
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Hidden Elf Village | |
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The Kokiri/Koroks are "children of the forest" who are in tune with the land and earth, and are guarded by the Great Deku Tree away in a Hidden Elf Village. They are appropriately associated with the goddess Farore. | |
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Roguish Romani | |
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Roguish Romani: The Gerudo are a Culture Chop Suey of Roma and Arabs (with some Latin and German spliced in). They're primarily Arabic inspired in design and culture, but they also have some Romani inspirations. Primarily, they're introduced in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a tribe of thieves living nearby to the European-esque country of Hyrule. Centuries later in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild they're no longer thieves and have lost most of their Roma elements. | |
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Intra-Franchise Crossover | |
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Intra-Franchise Crossover: In Hyrule Warriors all the playable characters that aren't legacy characters or original come from the Adult Link games, Ocarina of Time (original and popular), Twilight Princess (popular) and Skyward Sword (modern). There's an entire mode dedicated to the orginal NES The Legend of Zelda but outside of these four games most other Zelda games are barely referenced. The Majora's Mask DLC added content including characters from the Dark Horse game. Taken further with Hyrule Warriors Legends which adds content from Wind Waker and, with DLC, Link's Awakening, Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks and A Link Between Worlds. | |
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Plague Doctor | |
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Plague Doctor: The Wizzrobes occasionally sport a similar outfit, particularly in The Wind Waker. | |
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Final Boss | |
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The Final Boss of the Champion's Ballad DLC in Breath of the Wild can be distracted by Mighty Bananas, just like the Yiga Blademasters. It Only Works Once though. | |
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Arc Villain | |
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Arc Villain: A game that doesn't have Ganondorf, Vaati, or Twinrova often produces a new villain to serve as the Big Bad. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: The Nightmare/Dethl is a shadowy monster that plagues Koholint Island with monsters and tries to keep Link from awakening the Wind Fish. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: The Skull Kid is using the power of the titular Artifact of Doom to crush Termina with the Moon. However, the Skull Kid has become possessed by Majora's Mask, who is the Final Boss of the game. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: Onox seeks to overturn the seasons of Holodrum in Seasons, while Veran travels through time to change Labrynnna's past for the worse in Ages. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass: Bellum, a life force-consuming Eldritch Abomination. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Malladus, a demon king trying to escape from his prison and pull a Grand Theft Me on Princess Zelda. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Ghirahim seeks to revive his master Demise, the villain whose power will bring rise to Ganondorf as revenge for being defeated. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Yuga, a native of Lorule who kidnaps the sages of Hyrule and seeks to take the Triforce. The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes: The Lady, who cursed Princess Styla. | |
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Ghost Butler | |
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Ghost Butler: There are two cases of this: one where iron bars or some similar obstruction blocks regular doors until a Mini-Boss is defeated or a puzzle is solved, and one where the big door to the boss just slams shut and becomes locked for no apparent reason. | |
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Living Statue | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_ae0bbe52 | comment |
In the 3D games, some Living Statue enemies don't move from their position on the floor but rotate, shooting lasers at Link if they see him. | |
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Accidental Marriage | |
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In Oracle of Ages, Link gets propositioned by a tree. A tree wearing ganguro-gal makeup. | |
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Variable Mix | |
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Variable Mix: The series has been increasingly embracing this to an awesome degree. | |
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Divine Conflict | |
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Divine Conflict: Skyward Sword's backstory, between Hylia and Demise. The game itself establishes that the entire series is this, as on his deathbed, Demise curses Hylia's reincarnation Zelda to forever be in conflict with his own reincarnation, Ganon. | |
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Go for the Eye | |
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Go for the Eye: A perennial favorite. For example, Gohma's weak spot whenever she appears is her eye, and every boss in Majora's Mask 3D gains an extra weak spot in the form of a giant Majora eye. | |
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Retcon | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia published alongside Breath of the Wild retconned certain things stated by Hyrule Historia, such as shifting Link's Awakening's place on the Downfall timeline, and stating that Demise's curse in Skyward Sword did not start Ganondorf's cycle of reincarnation, but that Ganon himself was responsible through his own hatred and power. | |
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The Man Behind the Monsters | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b3462e22 | comment |
The Man Behind the Monsters: In most games, that honor goes to Big Bad Gannon, who either creates them, unleashes them on an unsuspecting world, or both. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Toilet Horror | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b3ca047c | comment |
Toilet Horror: Several games feature a ghostly/zombiefied hand that appears out of toilets called ??? which is based on some Japanese ghost stories. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Friendly Shopkeeper | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b3ce318 | comment |
Friendly Shopkeeper: While many shopkeepers in the franchise can be friendly, the Treasure Chest Shop Gal from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask deserves special mention, as she'll compliment Link to him and all his mask transformations and be very flirtatious for a couple of them, she'll even give discounts depending on the form. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Colony Drop | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b3eecaae | comment |
Majora's Mask. To put it in perspective; everything wrong in Termina when you get there? All of it was done either directly or indirectly by the Skull Kid wearing the Mask. And on top of ruining everyone's lives, he's planning to drop the frickin' moon, destroying the entire land of Termina. And he can do it. Oh, and it's not just a power-up artifact of doom: the mask is intelligent, and is possessing the Skull Kid. And when Majora decides he's outlived his usefulness, the mask discards the kid like an old pair of socks. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b3eecaae | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Tennis Boss | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4215a8d | comment |
Tennis Boss: Starting with Agahnim from A Link to the Past, though most often it's Ganondorf and his Phantom. Their attacks can only be thrown back with the Master Sword, since it has the power to repel evil. The Cubus sisters in Phantom Hourglass give it the name "Dead Man's Volley", as the shots ricochet even between themselves. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4215a8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4215a8d | |
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Feathered Fiend | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b42e16fb | comment |
Feathered Fiend: Several throughout, from Kargorocs to the Helmaroc King. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b42e16fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b42e16fb | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b465f5e5 | type |
Level-Map Display | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b465f5e5 | comment |
Level-Map Display: The world map can be viewed at any time via the menu screen. From Ocarina of Time onwards, a mini map display — complete with arrows marking your point of entry (represented in blue) and your current heading (the yellow one) — usually occupies the lower left corner of the screen for faster, easier navigation. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b465f5e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b465f5e5 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4cbb37f | type |
Good Morning, Crono | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4cbb37f | comment |
Good Morning, Crono: In almost every game since A Link to the Past, Link begins the game asleep. Or at least, he is first able to be controlled after he wakes up. Apart from the CD-i games, but nobody counts those, and we all try to forget those. Eiji Aonuma even lampshaded during E3 2016 that for as many conventions of the series as Breath of the Wild breaks, it does keep that one. Tears of the Kingdom averts this by having the game begin with Link and Zelda exploring underneath Hyrule Castle (Link does end up waking up in a different location not long after that, so it's not a complete aversion). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4cbb37f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4cbb37f | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4fddee | type |
McGuffin | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4fddee | comment |
The Golden Goddesses, Din, Nayru, and Farore, representing Power, Wisdom, and Courage respectively, and the creators of Hyrule and the Triforce, the series' biggest McGuffin. They rarely directly act upon Hyrule, instead using intermediaries such as the Goddess Hylia (who served as the progenitor for the Hylian Royal Family, and was the one who originally sealed away Demise, the franchise's own Greater-Scope Villain) and the Light Spirits who sealed away the interlopers within the Twilight Realm for trying to steal the Triforce. One of the few exceptions was when they flooded Hyrule in the The Wind Waker's backstory to prevent Ganondorf from taking it over. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b4fddee | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6203862 | type |
Interquel | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6203862 | comment |
Interquel: According to Hyrule Historia, Twilight Princess is this to Majora's Mask and Four Swords Adventures. A Link Between Worlds is somewhere between the Oracle games and the original NES game.note Hyrule Historia stated the Oracle games were this to A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, but The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia retconned these games to take place after Link's Awakening with a new Link.) | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6203862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6203862 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6844837 | type |
Evil Is Bigger | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6844837 | comment |
Evil Is Bigger: Played straight with Ganondorf, as he usually towers over both Link and Zelda, even in his human form. Subverted with some of the Zelda races. The Gorons, a race of huge, rock-eating mountain-dwellers, are usually among the friendliest races in the entirety of Zelda lore. Even in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, when they're portrayed as less friendly, it's only because they've run into problems on Death Mountain and are trying to protect the physically weaker Hylian race from the danger that lurks there. The Gerudo in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while tough and almost intimidatingly tall and muscular, are a friendly race of fiery redheads that live in the desert. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6844837 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6844837 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6844837 | |
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Artificial Gill | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6abc661 | comment |
Artificial Gill: Various items are required to grant full swimming throughout the series, though they don't always come with the ability to breathe underwater. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6abc661 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6abc661 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6f33a21 | type |
Rainbow Speak | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6f33a21 | comment |
Rainbow Speak: Most plot-important items or events are highlighted, occasionally color-coding them based on important aspects (for example, "Link" shown in green, "Zelda" shown in blue, and "Ganon" shown in red). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6f33a21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b6f33a21 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b7059ab0 | type |
Dungeon Crawling | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b7059ab0 | comment |
Dungeon Crawling: The games tend to feature elaborate dungeons filled with traps and puzzles that Link needs to brave in order to find the objects of his quests. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b7059ab0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Xenafication | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b76b06ba | comment |
Xenafication: Zelda has progressively become more active in the games as the series went on. Originally just a classic Damsel in Distress, in Ocarina of Time, she gained the badass (though in drag) alter-ego Sheik, who admittedly didn't do much against the actual Big Bad but was instrumental in Link dealing the final blow. But in the later games, starting with Wind Waker, it became her schtick to fire Light Arrows at Ganon during the final battle, and in Spirit Tracks she even helps Link push his sword into Malladus' head. Also happened to Impa, who went from a frail old woman in the first two games to an Amazonian ninja in Ocarina of Time and Skyward Sword. Though the latter actually had her in both roles. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b76b06ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b76b06ba | |
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Healing Potion | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b7d85d68 | comment |
Healing Potion: The red potion you can carry in bottles. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b7d85d68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b7d85d68 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b8f8de7d | type |
Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b8f8de7d | comment |
Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction: Throughout the series, the size of your average rupees has varied up to the size of Link himself. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b8f8de7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b8f8de7d | |
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Pointy Ears | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b95d100b | comment |
Pointy Ears: Many species in the game, such as Hylians, Breath of the Wild's Gerudo, and Sheikah, have them. They also serve to mark the difference between Hylians and regular humans. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b95d100b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b95d100b | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b9743771 | type |
Beast in the Maze | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b9743771 | comment |
Beast in the Maze: The player character must traverse labyrinth-like dungeons to find a monster affiliated with or controlled by the Big Bad. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b9743771 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b9743771 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b97a2fa7 | type |
Forced Transformation | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b97a2fa7 | comment |
And one Cucco you can talk to refers to her species as chickens. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b97a2fa7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b97a2fa7 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b9d334b2 | type |
Aerith and Bob | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: Link and Zelda are both normal, if rare, names, but Malon? Midna? Kafei? Laruto? And on the "regular" names from Hyrule, the series gleefully mixes Western and Japanese names in a way you probably wouldn't expect from a kingdom trapped in Medieval Stasis. For the most glaring example, the second-ranked Knight of the Cobble Kingdom in Phantom Hourglass is Doylan. The first-ranked is named Max. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b9d334b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_b9d334b2 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_ba236071 | type |
It Makes Sense in Context | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_ba236071 | comment |
Steal from the afro-wearing merchant bird in Twilight Princess? Prepare to be continuously pecked any time you enter the "shop" until you pay up. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_ba236071 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_ba236071 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bb660963 | type |
Color-Coded Characters | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bb660963 | comment |
Color-Coded Characters: The oracles, Naryu, Din, and Faore, have clothing and hair based on their namesakes. Naryu is blue, Din is red (though she wears pink and has orange hair), and Farore is green. The great fairies from Majora's Mask are similar to the Oracles in this regard, sharing the same model between them but having different colors. Odds are that you will never see Link in any color other than green unless duplication, shadow counterparts, certain powerups, or alternate universes are involved. Or the incredibly distant future. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bb660963 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bb660963 | |
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One-Gender Race | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bbcdd673 | comment |
One-Gender Race: The Gerudo (most prominent in Ocarina of Time) are almost all female. One man is born to the race every hundred years, and the only known male Gerudo in the whole series is Ganondorf. It's implied by a Gossip Stone in Ocarina (and outright stated in Breath of the Wild) that the Gerudo mate with Hylians. It also appears as though all Gorons are male. Every Goron is referred to as a "brother" by each other and so far, no definitely female Gorons have come forth. However, a Goron freely wanders the otherwise females-only Gerudo Town in Breath of the Wild without explanation. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bbcdd673 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bbcdd673 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc0ad0c0 | type |
Money Spider | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc0ad0c0 | comment |
Money Spider: Enemies don't always drop currency, but fighting monsters is a pretty reliable way to get some. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc0ad0c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc0ad0c0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc2c77d5 | type |
Living Structure Monster | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc2c77d5 | comment |
Living Structure Monster: Several games contain enemies called Flying Tiles. From a distance they're just ordinary floor tiles, but as you approach they levitate up, start spinning, then hurl themselves at you. There's a miniboss in Oracle of Seasons and Link's Awakening (Facade), a giant face who appears in the floor and is killed with bombs. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc2c77d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc2c77d5 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc5ddda5 | type |
Thematic Series | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc5ddda5 | comment |
Thematic Series: A Zig-Zagged Trope compared to Final Fantasy or Fire Emblem. The main series is connected into a branching timeline, and characters such as Link and Zelda recur between installments. However, these recurring characters are different individuals in most games, and most games, including the more "direct" sequels, focus on recontextualizing common elements of courage, power, and wisdom rather than connecting several games into a singular narrative. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc5ddda5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bc5ddda5 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bd3dc623 | type |
Fiendish Fish | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bd3dc623 | comment |
Fiendish Fish: Skullfish are recurring enemies resembling skeletal fish with jaws bristling with sharp teeth. They're generally entirely skeletal besides the usual Glowing Eyelights of Undeath, but the ones in Twilight Princess still have some sort of fleshy core inside their ribcages. They are, of course, highly aggressive. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bd3dc623 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bd3dc623 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bda2d236 | type |
Big Boo's Haunt | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bda2d236 | comment |
Big Boo's Haunt: Several games in the series have at least one dark/shadow-themed dungeon, starting with the Shadow Temple in Ocarina of Time. In these dungeons, undead enemies like Poes, Wallmasters, and ReDeads roam, and puzzles focus on either tackling invisible hazards or rerouting light beams. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bda2d236 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bda2d236 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_be102b6a | type |
Götterdämmerung | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_be102b6a | comment |
Götterdämmerung: It isn't as apparent from a single game, and requires a look at the timeline to become really noticeable. In the earliest games in the timeline, there is always an explanation for why there are monsters everywhere, and Link has direct divine intervention and Supernatural Aid to help him. Later on, the fact that the world is crawling with monsters is taken for granted by the populace, and Link is reduced to scrounging for remnants of ancient power that can be used in his struggle against evil. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf24f6ac | type |
Nerf Arm | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf24f6ac | comment |
Dark Link can be easily defeated with the Broken Goron's Sword (due to the fact that his attempts to stand on your sword fail without, y'know, an actual blade). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf24f6ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf24f6ac | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf4a990 | type |
Despotism Justifies the Means | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf4a990 | comment |
Despotism Justifies the Means: Ganondorf, befitting his obsession with power, seeks to conquer Hyrule with no intentions of being a benevolent ruler. Other villains with a similar goal aren’t much different, especially Zant. This is Downplayed in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, which reveals he initially had sympathetic motives before succumbing to his lust for power. He’s also portrayed much more sympathetically in this game and to some extent genuinely believes that restoring Hyrule is what’s best for the people. Of course he never takes responsibility for forcing the gods to destroy Hyrule in the first place and it’s clear that, at the end of the day, he just wants Hyrule for himself. This is played completely straight in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, where he makes no pretenses of his goals not being completely selfish. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf4a990 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf698238 | type |
When All You Have Is a Hammer… | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf698238 | comment |
When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Most bosses follow the "expose the weak point with the dungeon's item, then whack it with your sword" schema. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Sliding Scale of Continuity | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_bf996668 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Continuity: The games tend to be standalone, but there are three timelines that diverge at Ocarina of Time. | |
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Womb Level | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c03860d2 | comment |
Womb Level: Jabu Jabu's Belly. | |
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What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c104b27e | comment |
There's a lot of foreboding and horror for a series that, before Spirit Tracks, was ostensibly given an E rating. | |
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Ice Crystals | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c172a0a3 | comment |
Ice Crystals: Common throughout the series. In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, a crystal-shaped chunk of ice tops the Ice Staff. In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, due to system limitations, ice normally appears in blocky shapes. However, anything frozen in red ice is trapped in a crystalline shape. Kotake's and Twinrova's Ice Staff also has a crystal on the end. In The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games, actual ice crystals appear as a breakable object in the Sword and Shield Maze of Seasons, and they are said to have the power to freeze anything. In-game, they function as part of a puzzle to cool a lava floor leading to deeper parts of the dungeon. In The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, ice crystals form natural blockages in the Temple of Droplets, including sealing the Water Element in one larger giant block. Smaller ones can be melted with the Flame Lantern. In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Chillfos and White Wolfos are enemies made out of crystal-shaped ice, and Blizzeta shapes her icy pillars into the typical crystal shape (at least on the bottom) so she can spear Link with them. | |
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Cataclysm Backstory | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c267c2b4 | comment |
Cataclysm Backstory: Two notable examples are Demise's fight against the Goddess Hylia in Skyward Sword and the battle to seal Ganon in the backstory of A Link to the Past. There's also whatever Ganon did in the backstory of Breath of the Wild. | |
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Interchangeable Antimatter Keys | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c2dbd1f8 | comment |
Interchangeable Antimatter Keys: A staple of the series since Day One. The first two titles even had keys that worked in any dungeon. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c2dbd1f8 | |
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Good Colors, Evil Colors | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c32201f6 | comment |
Good Colors, Evil Colors: Usually, Link's basic colors are green and blue. Zelda's are pink and white. Ganondorf's, black and red. Neat, huh? In Breath of the Wild, the Champions led by Zelda, including Link, all wear light blue and white to match Zelda, while everything Ganon touches is a sickly magenta and black with his essence. | |
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Playing Card Motifs | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c32ff95d | comment |
Playing Card Motifs: Meta example. The internal codename for Ocarina of Time 3D is "Queen", Wind Waker HD and Breath of the Wild are both "King", A Link Between Worlds is "Jack", and Majora's Mask 3D is "Joker". And Tri-Force Heroes is "Alice", referring to the source material's playing card motifs. | |
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Informed Attribute | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c3448a6f | comment |
Informed Attribute: The Zelda family are said to be more active and even vital to the final defeat of the game's final enemy but many Zeldas have either not done anything at all (one even SLEEPING through the whole game) and others bearly get to do anything before they are kidnapped and don't do anything until saved. | |
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Ninja | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c37813c5 | comment |
Ninja: The Sheikah, the Yiga, and the Garo. | |
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1.0 | |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c3e4b9fd | type |
Final-Exam Boss | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c3e4b9fd | comment |
Zant himself is a Final-Exam Boss with minor variations (namely, that he mimicks the behavior of some bosses and minibosses, and that he warps Link into a previous location at the start of a new phase). | |
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God in Human Form | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c5a7def5 | comment |
God in Human Form: Skyward Sword reveals that Zelda is the human form of Hylia, the goddess who saved humankind from Demise. | |
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Broken Bridge | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c5f23623 | comment |
Broken Bridge: Very often Link cannot progress or do dungeons out of order due to some obstacle either needing a later item to pass or needing to clear a specific dungeon to open the way. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was made in response to complaints of this trope being overused in later games (especially The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) so, aside from needing the Paraglider to leave the opening area, the game is completely open ended to the point of being able to challenge the Final Boss as soon as you leave the Great Plateau. | |
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Blackout Basement | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c75c63a3 | comment |
Blackout Basement: Several areas in the series are underground, and thus it's more difficult to explore them due to the limited sight. They range from small grottos from large subterranean dungeons. The Lantern item in Twilight Princess is specifically designed for spaces like this to feature, and Thyphlo Ruins and the first minutes of Vah Rudania in Breath of the Wild have complete blackness that requires Link to use a light source so he can get around. The Depths from Tears of the Kingdom take this to the extreme, being a cave the size of the entire land of Hyrule that is pitch black except in a few places, and must be slowly lit up using lightroots. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c75c63a3 | |
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Shout-Out | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Mostly to Mario: Some houses in A Link to the Past contain portraits of him. Link's Awakening has several enemies straight up lifted out of the Mario series (some can even be killed by jumping on them via the Roc's Feather), the Chain of Deals sidequest starting out with a Yoshi plushie, and one character sending a fake picture of herself to her penpal where she looks like Princess Peach (she's actually a goat). Then there's the characters of Tarin and the Henhouse Keeper, who respectively resemble Mario and Luigi physically. In Majora's Mask the Happy Mask Salesman has a Mario mask on his bag. It's confirmed by the longtime developers of the Zelda series that the trading sequences present in several games are inspired by Straw Millionaire, a Japanese Buddhist folk tale. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c75df49a | |
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Fairy in a Bottle | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c7a74f72 | comment |
Fairy in a Bottle: They either heal you to full or Auto-Revive you, depending on the game. Usually, fairies can be used electively for a heal, but are more useful for preventing game-overs. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c7a74f72 | featureApplicability |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c7a74f72 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c9218d81 | type |
MagicMeter | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c9218d81 | comment |
The Link of Wind Waker is not actually an incarnation of the legendary hero and is only a kid who proved his worth to the gods, simply gaining a Magic Meter powering his Deku Leaf and elemental Trick Arrows in the process. | |
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Magic Music | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c928d01d | comment |
Magic Music: Excluding Phantom Hourglass, some form of this trope has appeared in every Zelda game so far. | |
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1.0 | |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c98c0b08 | type |
The Legend of X | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c98c0b08 | comment |
The Legend of X: Zelda, named for the princess. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c98c0b08 | |
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Legacy Character | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: Due to the sprawling (and branching) timeline of the series, Nintendo confirmed there are multiple Links and Zeldas. In the case of Zelda, this is simply because all princesses of Hyrule are named Zelda; Link is more of a wild card, and seems to appear by lucky happenstance (or, more likely, divine intervention). There's also a viable option presented by Skyward Sword: Demise's curse means that Ganondorf will always be there to haunt Link and Zelda. So while there's always a Zelda, the fates don't allow Ganondorf to reappear until a new Link appears, which itself appears to be by chance. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_c9e5a0db | |
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Critical Annoyance | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cabaf736 | comment |
Critical Annoyance: The incessant beeping sound that appears when you're down to low health. It's not as high-pitched in later games, though and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would later axe it entirely, barring a sound effect that plays upon taking damage that puts you at critical health. | |
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Counter-Attack | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cb42ed9f | comment |
Counter-Attack: Some of Link's techniques in the games, like the Parry from The Wind Waker. note This same move ended up being divided into two bonus combo moves in the form of the Back Slash and Helm Splitter in Twilight Princess. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cb42ed9f | |
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Stranger Safety | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cbed680d | comment |
Stranger Safety: Many fans have commented on Link's ability to just walk into anyplace. Few NPCs will care that much about you breaking pots and taking the goodies inside, or just walking around. Bedrooms aren't off-limits. Some places can only be entered during the day, though. This is especially apparent in Breath of the Wild, where you can talk to people for the first time while they're sleeping in their beds and they won't react as if you've snuck into their homes. | |
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Temple of Doom | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_ce1b6f32 | comment |
Temple of Doom: Several dungeons in the series, starting from The Adventure of Link, consist of ancient temples filled with traps, puzzles and hazards.note Note that in both The Adventure of Link and A Link to the Past, the temples were renamed "palaces" outside Japan due to censorship. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_ce1b6f32 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cf6d4bad | type |
Steampunk | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cf6d4bad | comment |
Steampunk: Elements of this began to appear after about 2000. Spirit Tracks has a train, Phantom Hourglass has a steamboat, and Termina in Majora's Mask is borderline Industrial Revolution, especially with the Great Bay temple. | |
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Item Get! | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cf8a91be | comment |
Item Get!: Link reacts to new items and treasures in the most enthusiastic way possible (and the music agrees) in every game. Increasingly lampshaded as the series goes on. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cf8a91be | featureApplicability |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cf8a91be | |
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Take Your Time | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cfd569ac | comment |
Take Your Time: No matter how much your Exposition Fairy is nagging you to Continue Your Mission, Dammit!, feel free to Side Quest, Fetch Quest, and get Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer to your heart's content, unless there is actually some kind of timer on the screen. Averted in Majora's Mask, where you are in fact under a strict time limit. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cfd569ac | featureApplicability |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_cfd569ac | |
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Sigil Spam | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d026cad8 | comment |
Sigil Spam: The Triforce is only the most prominent example. This series loves its recurring symbols. An incomplete but extensive list can be found here. To a lesser extent, you have the Hylian crest (like the one on Link's shield) and the Sheikah symbol/Lens of Truth eye. | |
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Kill Enemies to Open | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d03c7b28 | comment |
Kill Enemies to Open: Most of the games in the saga make use of this trope. Usually, the locks activate after you find an important treasure, or just before you get said treasure. | |
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The Walls Have Eyes | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d35ee7e7 | comment |
The Walls Have Eyes: All over the damn place. You would be hard-pressed to find a Zelda game where there aren't eyes as switches. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d35ee7e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d35ee7e7 | |
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You Have to Burn the Web | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d402a6f | comment |
You Have to Burn the Web: Ocarina of Time was one of the first video games to do this, showing up in the first dungeon. Later games have used the mechanic as well (except The Minish Cap, where webs are sucked up with the Gust Jar instead). | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d402a6f | featureApplicability |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d42fb539 | type |
Our Monsters Are Weird | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d42fb539 | comment |
Our Monsters Are Weird: The four biggest examples are the Like Likes, Pols Voices, Octorocks, and Digdogger. | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d42fb539 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d5a84e45 | comment |
Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": On the flipside, there's also a recurring enemy that's a floating skull surrounded by flames of varying colors. What are they called? Bubbles. And one Cucco you can talk to refers to her species as chickens. | |
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d5a84e45 | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d6514291 | type |
Named After First Installment | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d6514291 | comment |
Named After First Installment: The first game was simply titled The Legend of Zelda.note Except for Japan, where The Legend of Zelda was a subtitle and the full title was Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda The second game, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, included Zelda in the title, but using The Legend of Zelda as the series title was firmly established beginning with The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. | |
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| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_d66ed827 | type |
Color-Coded Stones | |
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Color-Coded Stones: Tends to do this for their goddess related objects. Used in Ocarina of Time with the green Spiritual Stone of Forest (Kokiri Emerald), red Spiritual Stone of Fire (Goron Ruby), and blue Spiritual Stone of Water (Zora Sapphire). Skyward Sword brought this back with the Emerald Tablet for the Forest, Ruby Tablet for the Volcano, and (for the first time) Amber Tablet representing Yellow for the Desert. The Wind Waker: Has the three "goddess pearls", each with a different color (red, green, and blue). In fact, this trend to have color coded stones of power in the Zelda series has been around since A Link to the Past, starting with the three pendants of virtue. | |
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Magic Map | |
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Magic Map: In dungeons Link finds maps of them that reveal rooms he's been in and when paired with the compass reveal all the dungeon's treasures as well. | |
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Lethal Lava Land | |
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Lethal Lava Land: Starting with Ocarina of Time, this always overlaps with the eponymous Death Mountain trope. | |
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Limited Sound Effects | |
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Limited Sound Effects: There are only three sounds your sword makes when it hits something, but more than three materials. | |
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Magic Is Feminine | |
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Magic Is Feminine: While mages of both sexes appear throughout the games, Link and Zelda's dynamic has always been that of a Master Swordsman/Multi-Melee Master (who fights with some magic) who saves a princess who possesses light magic of divine in nature. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword reveals that Zelda and Link are the reincarnations of the goddess Hylia and her chosen hero respectively, explaining why this dynamic recurs throughout the centuries. | |
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The Catfish | |
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The Catfish: In The Legend of Zelda fishing minigames, there is often a big fish of this sort that will earn you the maximum prize for catching it. It's usually the "Hylian Loach", and it has a tendency to be utterly impossible to catch, unless you have a special lure that the fishing hole's proprietor may or may not approve of, in which case it's merely nigh-impossible to catch. The trope is inverted in Twilight Princess with the Ordon Catfish — they're common, easy to catch, and unpopular with NPCs due to their sliminess. They're also not very big. The Hylian Loach fits the bill for this trope better. | |
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Full Health Bonus | |
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Full Health Bonus: In all of the 2D games, as well as The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Hyrule Warriors, Link's sword can create a Sword Beam when swung, but only if his hearts are full. In every game starting with The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, finding a sword upgrade is required before this technique can be used. The bonus finally made its proper debut in the 3D titles with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: when using the "Throw" options while wielding the Master Sword, Link will instead cast a Sword Beam rather than throw the sword when at full health. | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spin-Off: Link's Crossbow Training (of Twilight Princess), Hyrule Warriors (of the franchise as a whole), Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (not of a specific game, but starring a recurring character), and an actual board game. | |
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Lethal Joke Item | |
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Lethal Joke Item: In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the final Arena-style sword battle with Ganondorf can be made ridiculously easy by using your fishing rod as one of these. The fishing rod has no practical use in battle, since you normally use it only for fishing, but if you pull it out, Ganondorf will stand and stare at the line while you wave it around, completely oblivious to the fact that he should be fighting you. You then quickly whip out your sword and slash at him while he's caught unawares...rinse and repeat, because he never catches on. There is also the curious property of bottles in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, where you can swing them to reflect energy ball attacks in boss battles. These examples are in turn somewhat of a a Call-Back to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, where you could deflect the dark wizard Agahnim's projectiles with the Master Sword...or the Butterfly Net, which was normally just used to catch insects and fairies in bottles. Later games had the bottles themselves do the catching and deflecting. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening has two: the Shovel, which deflects Agahnim's Shadow's projectiles, and the Boomerang, which normally doesn't affect bosses, but takes down the final boss in one hit. Both The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games have the Whimsical Ring. It decreases your attack power... though each swing of your sword has a 1 in 256 chance of causing a One-Hit Kill, to which not even the final boss is immune. In Seasons, some Subrosians steal your Roc's Feather and leave you with an item called the Fool's Ore. All you can do with it is swing it like your sword, which does nothing. However, if you find an enemy to use it on, you can kill it in 1 hit. The only enemy, however, is the Fire Pokey (which you sometimes dig up), and you can't leave the area until you get the Roc's Feather back, which replaces the Fool's Ore. Following this trend, in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the net you use for catching bugs will also distract Demise during the first half of the battle, and not only does it deflect the projectiles he fires in the second half, it's the only way to do so — your shield can only block them and trying to use your sword just gets yourself electrified. | |
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Hijacked by Ganon | |
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Hijacked by Ganon: Trope Namer and Trope Codifier. Eventually given an in-universe justification in Demise's curse. | |
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Mana Potion | |
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Mana Potion: In games that use magic, enemies often drop bottles that restore the Mana Meter. Some games also let you carry potions in bottles. | |
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Impossible Item Drop | |
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Impossible Item Drop: Most enemies (and random objects like pots or bushes) drop rupees, arrows, bombs, magic potion vials, and hearts at random. Even better, whenever you get a new item (bow, bomb bag, slingshot, etc...) that consumes something, whatever it is suddenly starts appearing everywhere in spite of its not showing up before. | |
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Divine Birds | |
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Divine Birds: Many entries in the series feature birds which offer Link some help in either direct or indirect form, from the bird statues in Link's Awakening and A Link to the Past which dispense advice, to the live bird in the latter game who serves as a Warp Whistle, to the owl-shaped save points in Majora's Mask, to the Loftwings (based on shoebills) in Skyward Sword. Even the royal crest of Hyrule, which was founded by the avatar of the goddess Hylia, features a pair of stylized wings, implied to be from the Loftwings introduced in Skyward Sword. | |
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Continuity Creep | |
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Continuity Creep: Zigzagged. Early in the series' history, every game's place in the timeline was explicitly defined in relation to the others: Zelda II was a sequel to the first game, A Link to the Past was a prequel, and Link's Awakening was a sequel to A Link to the Past (while leaving room for the possibility of adventures taking place between those two games). It wasn't until Ocarina of Time that things started to get confusing, particularly with the unclear placement of the Oracle games and the introduction of the parallel timelines, as well as having fewer official statements of each game's placement. Later games would start to make things clearer. Of course, Breath of the Wild then further complicated matters as a Distant Sequel with references to and elements from all timelines, with queries of whether it takes place at the end of a particular timeline or all of them being met with a Shrug of God. | |
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Continuity Drift | |
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Continuity Drift: In The Legend of Zelda, the Triforce was originally a single triangle split into two halves. Since The Adventure of Link, all games have established that there were three triangles in total, rather than the Triforce being a single piece. The supporting cast in the backstory of The Adventure of Link has largely been ignored in other games, with no mention of the King of Hyrule outside of some cartoon and comic adaptations. The general discrepancies between the first two games and the rest of the franchise were retroactively explained by sequestering them into their own branch of the split timeline, referred to as "the era of decline". The details of the backstory told in A Link to the Past has caused confusion, particularly in regards to games that precede it. Ganondorf is described as having found the Triforce "quite by accident" and managed to clutch it in his "bloodstained hands" after killing his way through his minions. Then, he found himself trapped in the Sacred Realm, which became corrupted into the Dark World, leading into the Imprisoning War and the forging of the Master Sword. Several of these details are proven false, or at least misleading, in later games — not the least of which is that Ganon found the Sacred Realm on purpose and the Master Sword was forged not to stop Ganon, but the Demon King Demise, his predecessor. Some, but not all, of these changes are due to inaccuracies in the English translation of the manual. | |
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Updated Re-release | |
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The Wind Waker: The Nintendo Gallery, which makes figurines for you based on photos you take of NPCs and monsters. Thankfully, the HD remake gives you more room in your camera to make this faster. | |
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Continuity Snarl | |
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Continuity Snarl: The timeline, at least until the revelation in the 25th anniversary artbook of the master timeline thus far. As the article puts it, it's like someone pulled random scattered pages out of three mega-Door Stopper Hyrulean history booksnote for separate histories, no less and then shuffled them. While Professor Nintendo finally saw fit to step in and show us which page goes where and give us a number of chapter titles, the snarl will reemerge whenever a new game is released, as its place in the timeline is viciously fought over (along with the merits of the timeline itself). | |
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Culture Chop Suey | |
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Culture Chop Suey: Probably more than one example, but Link's regular use of a boomerang in a relatively (at least in the earlier games) medieval setting stands out the most. | |
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Functional Magic | |
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Functional Magic: Most magic depicted in series is either Inherent Gift, Theurgy, or some combination of the two, with some Magic Music for good measure. Device Magic, some light Rule Magic, and Alchemy also show up on occasion. Inherent Gift: Magic use in the Zelda series is often restricted to certain individuals, or occasionally races. When individuals are shown using magic, whether they were born with the ability or learned it because their race as a whole is capable of doing so is generally not elaborated upon. Ganondorf is frequently shown using some kind of Black Magic to do evil. The Seven Sages of Ocarina of Time, individuals representing the six races of Hyrule in that game, have abilities that, when combined, help seal Ganondorf away. The Champions of Breath of the Wild all have single-application magical abilities (with the exception of Link, depending on your view) that are seen nowhere else in their respective races. The origins of the Champions' powers and their connections to earlier depictions of magic in the series, if any, are never elaborated upon, and only one of the powers, Daruk's Protection, is shown to be heritable as Daruk's ancestor Yunobo is shown to also be able to do it. Some of the Sheikah (and their defectors in Breath of the Wild) have been depicted using ninjutsu-type abilities, such as flash-stepping, Doppelganger Spinning, teleportation, and even some limited summoning of inanimate objects. Rule Magic: It's uncommon, but has appeared in Wind Waker and Breath of the Wild. The Link of Wind Waker is not actually an incarnation of the legendary hero and is only a kid who proved his worth to the gods, simply gaining a Magic Meter powering his Deku Leaf and elemental Trick Arrows in the process. The four Champions' abilities in Breath of the Wild, despite apparently being the result of Inherent Gifts, end up getting conferred onto Link, implying that they're not strictly limited to certain indviduals. The only rule of these abilities is that they can only be used three times (once in the form of Mipha's Grace) before having to recharge. Whether the Champions themselves had these limits on their abilities is not known. Magic Music: Since Ocarina of Time, some kind of musical element driving magic has been relatively common in the Zelda series. The songs played on the Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, Spirit Flute, or Goddess's Harp have all had effects ranging from opening ways to areas, summoning your horse, or contacting a friend, to changing the direction of the wind, the time of day, or summoning storms. This is downplayed somewhat in Twilight Princess, as the role of music is limited to Wolf Link activating Howling Stones. Theurgy: It is stated in several games that Link and Zelda are reincarnations of a legendary hero and princess who carry the blood of the goddess Hylia. Zelda's magic is often White Magic related to sealing away evil, and Link's magical ability often originates from deities in some form, whether that's Hylia Herself or the trio of Golden Goddesses (Din's Fire, Farore's Wind, Nayru's Love). The Triforce itself is an artifact of the Golden Goddesses. Device Magic: Appears in the form of various artifacts that often originate from the Sheikah, as well as some of the items that Link uses on his journey, such as the Gale Boomerang in Twilight Princess, as well as the Wind Waker and the Spirit Flute. Breath of the Wild features numerous Sheikah artifacts from 10,000 years ago in the game's plot, ranging from the Sheikah Slate that Link and Zelda are shown using and the Ancient Armor and weapons, to the mecha-like Divine Beasts, Guardians, and Shrines. All of these are made out of mysterious ancient materials that far surpass other contemporary materials in all aspects at the time of the game's scenario. Hyrule Historia suggests that certain magical items seen in pre-BotW games, such as the Ocarina of Time, Gossip Stones, Howling Stones, Sheikah Stones, and others may be made of the same material as Skyward Sword's Timeshift Stones, bringing some Alchemy into play. | |
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Humans Are Special | |
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Humans Are Special: While the gods created the Triforce, its unlimited power can never be used by any deity. This was specifically devised to give mortals hope, and so that they may shape their lives in Hyrule and destinies however they please. They can make their world into a idyllic paradise, or a chaotic nightmare, if they so choose. | |
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Unstoppable Mailman | |
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Unstoppable Mailman: Aside from Majora's Mask, where he doesn't deliver letters to you, the mailman in the games will always be able to find you to deliver letters. He wants to stop and flee Termina before it's destroyed, but there's still mail that has to be delivered tomorrow. It takes an order from Madame Aroma, the Mayor's wife, to finally get him to abandon his duties and evacuate. | |
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Technicolor Blade | |
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Technicolor Blade: The Master Sword is bluish. | |
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Themed Cursor | |
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Themed Cursor: In the Wii and DS games, they use these to show off the new controls. Twilight Princess has Navi as the Wiimote pointer. Phantom Hourglass used the Exposition Fairies as indicators of where you touch. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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Translation Convention: Whenever a character talks, we're supposed to think they're speaking Hylian. Jarringly apparent when a voiced character talks (except for Midna and Fi, who speak Simlish instead). This even appears to be the case with Breath of the Wild, which features fully-voiced cutscenes. | |
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Bag of Holding | |
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Bag of Holding: Implied in the games. Subverted in Skyward Sword, where your items get transported to the Item Check if your adventure pouch is full, and Breath of the Wild has a limiting inventory for weapons, that even when fully expanded, can quickly fill up. | |
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The Hero | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_e49686 | comment |
The Hero: Link is often "The Hero" in a literal sense — of Hyrule, Time, Winds, or chosen by the Gods. He may start out as an unassuming Farm Boy, but heroism is inevitably his destiny. | |
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Desert Bandits | |
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Desert Bandits: The Gerudo race lives in the desert and are known throughout Hyrule as a band of thieves. They've moved away from this by the time of Breath of the Wild and utterly disavow their associations with Ganon, disgusted that he once took a Gerudo form. | |
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Pimped-Out Dress | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_e5448c9 | comment |
Pimped-Out Dress: Zelda has had those since at least the second game, and her standard dress since Ocarina. Occasionally combined with Battle Ballgown in some of the newer games. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Link's determination is outweighed only by his courage. Curses, giant monsters, long falls, dangerous terrains, being flung across the ocean... the Links go through a lot. Ghirahim comments on this in Skyward Sword: "But instead of scurrying away like any creature with a basic instinct to survive, you just kept coming back. Again...and again...and again." Ganon is a tough son of a gun as well and keeps charging forward despite horrible injuries. In every instance that has the Triforce, it's no coincidence that these two almost always end up possessing the Triforces of Courage and Power, respectively. Considering these typically embody the power of their respective goddesses, who helped create the entire world, it's no surprise that nothing can keep Ganon sealed. | |
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Gender Incompetence | |
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Gender Incompetence: It does this with the members of the Triforce. The bearer of wisdom is always female while the other two are male and while all three are portrayed as powerful in their own right the bearer of wisdom, no matter how strong and combat-ready she gets, will always be weak to sustained attack while the other two don't have the same weakness. | |
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The Maze | |
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The Maze: The Lost Woods overlap with this, in every incarnation. | |
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Fanservice Pack | |
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Fanservice Pack: Straight-up admitted by Yoshiaki Koizumi (who was in charge of Link's character design) — Link's adult character design from Ocarina of Time onward was a result of his wife's request for a Bishōnen Nintendo hero. | |
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Plot Tailored to the Party | |
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Plot Tailored to the Party: Many of the items in the games have to have certain markings or items in the wall to be useful, or are most useful when used on said markings or items. This is most pronounced in Twilight Princess, in which several items are either completely useless (such as the Dominion Rod) or so badly outclassed by other gear so as to be practically useless (such as the Spinner) outside of the specific places where you need to use them. There's also one example of an item that becomes completely useless when you get another item that fills the same role, but better (namely the Slingshot being supplanted by the Hero's Bow). | |
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Mini-Dungeon | |
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Mini-Dungeon: Almost all games since Link's Awakening have one or two each. Majora's Mask has more of them to make up for the lower amount of main dungeons. | |
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Prime Timeline | |
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Prime Timeline: The Adult Timeline, debuting in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, is the original setting of the franchise, with the Child and Fallen Hero Timelines being created through time travel and one version of Link dying against Ganon, respectively. | |
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Easily Conquered World | |
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Easily Conquered World: If the main villain, Ganon, is alive during the events of a game, odds are he's taken over the kingdom of Hyrule, whether in the backstory (like in the original or Wind Waker) or during the events of the story (like in Ocarina of Time). This isn't even exclusive to him, looking at evil sorcerer Zant's takeover of Hyrule in Twilight Princess and the Demon Lord Ghirahim's domination of the Surface World in Skyward Sword. In spite of this, the Hylian army is often regarded in-universe as very powerful (they managed to form and then maintain a vast empire in several continuities), even if all we see of them in-game is a sparse handful of inept guards. | |
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Excalibur | |
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Excalibur: The Master Sword is called this in the French versions, except for in Ocarina of Time and Skyward Sword, where it is called l'Épée de Légende (the Sword of Legend). | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: Link, in his adult forms, is usually supposed to be around the age of 16 or 17, but the artwork often depicts him as looking around the age of 20 or 21. The same is true of Princess Zelda, who is almost always the same age as him but also frequently confused for a 20-something in her adult iterations. | |
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Standard Japanese Fantasy Setting | |
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Standard Japanese Fantasy Setting: A major Trope Codifier, originally drawing heavy inspiration from The Lord of the Rings and other western fantasy. Over time, the game has also incorporated many other elements of Japanese fantasy; Ganon was conceived as a "Maou" from the beginning, but the fact that he, Link and Princess Zelda are destined to eternally reincarnate to battle each other was added in later games, as were concepts like different brands of Precursors, which are more explicitly magical in earlier games but tend to leave much more technological legacies in later ones, and a variety of deities, spirits and demonic entities. The series' mortal races don't fit into either the Western or Japanese archetypes very closely, as they tend to be original creations, but there are usually a variety of the Nature Spirit sei races (such as the Kokiri/Korok forest children, the fairies, and the wise and ancient Great Deku Tree), the monstrous hordes of the ma races under Ganon's thrall, and holy shin beings (such as the goddess Hylia and a variety of lesser deities and immortal dragons). | |
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Hearts Are Health | |
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Hearts Are Health: One of the most memorable examples. | |
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Token Aquatic Race | |
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Token Aquatic Race: The only recurring underwater race are the Zoras. They come in two varieties - a more monstrous, green kind called River Zoras, and a more humanoid, blue kind called Sea Zoras - but the only game where both appear is Oracle of Ages. | |
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Only Good People May Pass | |
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Only Good People May Pass: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: The Great Palace (the final dungeon of the game) houses the Triforce of Courage—and true to the item's name, the Temple's barrier will not open unless the entrant has placed eight jewels in the other temples as proof of their courage. The final challenge, before the person can claim the Triforce itself, is to fight the evil within them. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The entrance to the Sacred Realm (also known as the Golden Land) where the Triforce dwells is hidden and requires four sacred objects (the Kokiri Emerald, Goron Ruby, Zora Sapphire and Ocarina of Time) that are each protected by the various nations that populate Hyrule. Only possessing all four and then playing the Song of Time in the Temple of Time will reveal the hidden entrance, but this is technically possible if the items are stolen through nefarious means. The final test, however, is pulling out the Master Sword, which can't be touched by someone evil. Unfortunately, there's nothing stopping someone evil from waiting for a good person to do all that, and then step inside and enter the Sacred Realm themselves. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: At the conclusion of Ocarina of Time, the previous Chosen One that wielded the Master Sword was sent back to his original time, thus breaking the cycle of reincarnation which spawns a new Chosen One. The Tower of the Gods was created to test anyone who wanted to wield the sword in the future, and it requires three pearls that embody the virtues of the goddesses themselves to unlock it. | |
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Cartography Sidequest | |
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Cartography Sidequest: Every game since Link's Awakening (except A Link Between Worlds, for consistency with A Link to the Past) reveals sections of map as you progress. The Wind Waker adds to this by having the player hunt down the Fishmen to fill in the Sea Chart. Uncharted Isle in Phantom Hourglass has no map, but the player can write on the lower screen to take notes. Most will follow the map borders and trace Link's path to actually draw the map. | |
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Earth Drift | |
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Earth Drift: The first games had crosses sprinkled about, and A Link to the Past has artwork showing Link kneeling before a crucifix. All of this would be phased out in favor of a more original mythos. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Skull Kid before he found Majora's Mask (more so afterward). Mido remains a jerkass until he puts his jealousy of Link aside. Groose is the best example in Skyward Sword. He kidnaps Link's Loftwing at the beginning of the game and becomes both a friend and hero at the end. | |
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Hitodama Light | |
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Hitodama Light: An uncaptured Poe usually looks like your typical sheet-ghost, but from far away or in bottles, they're bluish-white and balls of flame. They can usually be captured in bottles and traded for money, plot coupons or upgrades. Bubbles are directly referred to as hitodama in the Japanese manual of the first game. When Link touches one, he generally loses the ability to draw his sword for a few seconds. | |
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Blob Monster | |
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The Like Like, a Blob Monster that appears throughout the series, is a downplayed example. When it sees Link, it will indeed swallow him up. But then it'll spit him out, but not without eating his shield. | |
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Mundane MacGuffin Person | |
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Mundane MacGuffin Person: Princess Zelda, most notably in the original Legend of Zelda. She is usually the key to saving the world and is kidnapped by the Big Bad in order to give him whatever power he needs for the game's plot. Traditionally, this is her segment of the Triforce, but not always. Zelda herself lampshades this in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, saying that being a distressed damsel is a family tradition. | |
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Eat Dirt, Cheap | |
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Eat Dirt, Cheap: The Gorons, a race of underground Golems, eat rocks, though the Gorons in Ocarina of Time prefer gemstones and ask Link to clear out Dodongo's Cavern since they can't bear to eat ordinary rocks. | |
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Color-Coded Item Tiers | |
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Color-Coded Item Tiers: Rupees usually have different colors to denote their value, though higher colors tend to vary. Over time, the games have settled (mostly) consistently with the values: Green=1, Blue=5, Yellow=10, Red=20, Purple=50, Silver=100, and Gold=200 or 300. | |
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Japanese Spirit | |
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Japanese Spirit: The central moral virtues of Courage, Wisdom, and Power were not present in the first two games (the Triforce of Courage was not introduced until the second game), nor is it used in many of the side games (such as Link's Awakening); however, it's still an underlying theme in every game in the series. The overall story of a weak but courageous hero, supported by a character that embodies wisdom, defeating a despicable villain focused exclusively on power, is what the Zelda series is all about. | |
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Infinite Stock For Sale | |
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Infinite Stock For Sale: Generally, in the games, some shops will sell items that Link can use forever, such as new armor or pieces of heart. Once these are gone, they will sometimes be replaced with different wares, but more often, they will be sold out forever, denoted by a wooden sign with an X painted on it. This is just as unrealistic in the opposite direction, as it means these shops only have one of the given item and had no prospects of selling them to anyone else (though in one game, once all these one-sell only items are sold, he immediately announces that he has enough money to retire). Items that can be used or lost, like potions or ammo, will never run out, and otherwise infinite-use items that can be lost (such as a wooden shield that was destroyed) will be back in stock after they are lost. | |
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Mundane Utility | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_eff83d77 | comment |
Mundane Utility: Apart from being an ancient, powerful holy weapon forged by the gods/sages/Link/people of Hyrule, the Master Sword is also an excellent lawn-mower. (Bo TW does ask you not to do so, however.) | |
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Oddball in the Series | |
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Oddball in the Series: Zelda II, Link's Awakening, Majora's Mask, and Four Swords Adventures, all to various degrees. | |
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But Now I Must Go | |
| The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) / int_f0fe7e80 | comment |
But Now I Must Go: Link’s companions usually part ways with him at the end of the game. Link sometimes pulls this himself. | |
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Being Evil Sucks | |
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Being Evil Sucks: This trope only comes into play once Link is in action. Until that point, the villains' plans tend go incredibly well without many issues plaguing them. Then Link undoes all their damage, seals or kills the evil, and generally gives the story a happy ending. Simply put, staying evil in the Zelda universe guarantees failure in the end, even if your power rivals a goddess' own power. One exception to the Link part is when Ganon breaks free and his takeover is a success because the Hero of Time was not around to put him down. But even then, Ganondorf's plans were thwarted when the Goddesses flooded Hyrule. | |
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Chain of Deals | |
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Chain of Deals: Several games have long sidequests requiring multiple stops between characters, often resulting in a powerful optional weapon as a reward. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: Series-wide example. A heroic Hyrule Castle theme heard in A Link to the Past gets a darker reprise in Minish Cap. | |
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Deadly Rotary Fan | |
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Deadly Rotary Fan: Peahats attack using whirling sharp leaves in the N64 titles. | |
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Disc-One Final Dungeon | |
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Disc-One Final Dungeon: Hyrule Castle in A Link to the Past, the Palace of Twilight in Twilight Princess, the 24th floor of the Tower of Spirits in Spirit Tracks. | |
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Natural Spotlight | |
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Natural Spotlight: The Master Sword tends to be highlighted by beams of light wherever it is placed to rest. | |
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Ambidextrous Sprite | |
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Ambidextrous Sprite: Played straight in the 2D games, although most incarnations of Link are canonically left-handed. The LttP manual attempts to either justify this or hang a lampshade on it (depending on who reads it) by stating that Link always points his shield towards Death Mountain due to superstitious beliefs. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Between Link and Zelda. It has been shown in many games, most notably in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. | |
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Cosmic Keystone | |
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Cosmic Keystone: The Triforce. Or, as revealed in A Link Between Worlds, the Triforces...plural. To the point that, when Lorule's Triforce is destroyed, the entire kingdom suffers a slow, inevitable destruction. To prevent this, Princess Hilda tries to steal Hyrule's Triforce to compensate, and it's stated that this would eventually lead Hyrule to the same fate. Link and Zelda instead wish on Hyrule's Triforce to restore Lorule's. | |
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Medieval European Fantasy | |
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Medieval European Fantasy: The main setting of the series, although with noticeable Greek and Eastern influences. Link's Awakening, Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass avert it, however, having more modern Pacific/Caribbean-style tropical island settings. | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential: Keep hitting those Cuccos. See what happens. | |
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The High King | |
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The High King: Originally, the land of Hyrule was governed by a wide number of different kings and queens of roughly equal power. However, over time, the various nations of people began fighting over control of the Triforce, which eventually led to all of Hyrule being unified under what would become the Hyrule Royal Family. The Royal Family's duty was to both protect the Triforce and use it responsibly for the benefit of the entire world. While other kingdoms and monarchs still exist (the Goron, Zora, and Gerudo kings, for example), they only guard a specific artifact which is part of a set needed to claim either the Triforce or Master Sword. The Hyrule Royal Family, in the games where it exists intact, are the final guardians of the Triforce itself (or, in games like A Link To The Past, some other vastly important thing such as a seal). | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Don't attack the Cuccos, or they'll kill you faster than enemies and bosses do. Since A Link to the Past, bosses in subsequent games tended to have at least one Weaksauce Weakness of some sort among the lot (and it's usually the Climax Boss or Final Boss on top of that). It happens so often that it can't just be a Good Bad Bug. In short order: Agahnim's energy balls can be reflected with the Bug-Catching Net. His cameo in Link's Awakening has a similar trick with the Shovel. Phantom Ganon's energy blasts can be reflected with an empty bottle. Dark Link can be easily defeated with the Broken Goron's Sword (due to the fact that his attempts to stand on your sword fail without, y'know, an actual blade). Ganondorf is easily distracted by the fishing rod, of all things. In what is almost certainly a twofer nod to A Link to the Past and Twilight Princess, Demise suddenly stops to look at your bug-catching net if you pull it out. It can also reflect his lightning strikes. The Final Boss of the Champion's Ballad DLC in Breath of the Wild can be distracted by Mighty Bananas, just like the Yiga Blademasters. It Only Works Once though. The highly memetic phrase "IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYBODY", originally spoken by a surprisingly generous Moblin in the first game, has appeared in many other titles. Interestingly, earlier games correct the grammar by changing the wording, but later ones lean more into the "Blind Idiot" Translation that made the original line so memorable in the first place. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: The master lockpicker who opens a chest for you requests that you "keep it a secret from everyone else." The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Before Zelda gives you her Info Dump after your first meeting with her, she asks "Please keep this a secret from everyone." The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: After Kafei reveals his backstory and why he's in hiding, he tells you "Keep what we just talked about a secret from everyone." The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: After Zant traps Hyrule Castle in a force field, Link can talk to a Goron on a balcony in Castle Town who's apparently the only one who's noticed the problem. The Goron remarks "I have kept this a secret from the others. Yes, it is a secret to everybody." The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Both a Kikwi and a Parella use the phrase as they're about to give Link some sensitive information. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: After rescuing her and later finding her in a cave, the thief girl gives you 100 rupees and says, "How about we just keep this a secret to everybody." The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Oaki, a Korok, tasks you with helping him decorate a hidden chamber he's made inside the Great Deku Tree's mouth. After you complete it, he happily declares "It's a secret to everybody that I built a room in here!" | |
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Equipment-Based Progression | |
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Equipment-Based Progression: The series (with the exception of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, which experimented with RPG Elements) uses this trope, having Link pick up a new weapon in each dungeon. | |
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Never Trust a Title | |
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Never Trust a Title: Perhaps one of the most famous in gaming; Princess Zelda is not the main character in any of the mainline games — that honor always goes to Link, who is always a boy. Some games aren't even about Zelda, and she ends up making a brief cameo or not appearing at all in a game franchise that's named after her. | |
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Video Game Tools | |
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Video Game Tools: Many of the iconic items are these: Boomerang, Bombs, Bow, and Arrow. Most games have an item or two whose main purpose is clearly not battle, but which can still be weaponized in some form. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: The Spinner is largely a movement tool, allowing you to climb certain walls and boost your speed quickly, but its "burst" move can be used to attack enemies. Even the humble Empty Bottle can be used to reflect certain attacks! The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Hookshot is excellent at this. You can use it to one-hit kill the small Moblins in the annoying Lost Woods hedge maze and stun the extremely annoying giant Moblin guarding the way to the Forest Temple. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The line between "tool" and "weapon" is blurred —weapons can be used to break ore, chop down trees, or light fires; and you can kill enemies with an iron sledgehammer or even a wooden ladle. Durability comes into play instead: yes, you can chop down trees with your Royal Broadsword (attack level 36), but it'll wear the sword down a lot faster than it would a Woodcutter's Axe (attack level 3). | |
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Puzzle Pan | |
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Puzzle Pan: Used occasionally for some bigger puzzles. | |
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One-Winged Angel | |
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One-Winged Angel: Often Ganondorf, who turns into Ganon for the final battle. Even when his human form is the Final Boss, he still does turn into Ganon at one point. | |
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You Shouldn't Know This Already | |
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You Shouldn't Know This Already: There's the Ocarina Songs from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, the Wind Waker's songs, and the sword fighting moves from Minish Cap, Twilight Princess, and Zelda II. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Link is an all-around nice kid. People who end up on his bad side tend to wind up with multiple stab wounds to their everything. Princess Zelda as well. Indeed, she gets kidnapped repeatedly, but the girl has shown she is a decent archer, knows a bit of magic, has some Sheikah training in Ocarina of Time, and is willing to fight with a sword in Twilight Princess. Even in Spirit Tracks, as an Animated Armor, when you attack her too much, she'll go berserk on Link, and even safe zones can't protect him from her wrath! | |
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment | |
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Revenge of the Cuccos! Also possible in Spirit Tracks if you hit Zelda with a boomerang, whip, etc. Lampshaded in Spirit Tracks when Rael asks you to bring Cuccos to the Sand Sanctuary. Apparently, they're needed for research. "They are flightless. But, when cornered, they can call their friends to unleash an amazing power." Also the pigs in The Wind Waker. Steal from the merchant in Link's Awakening? Prepare to be zapped. Steal from the afro-wearing merchant bird in Twilight Princess? Prepare to be continuously pecked any time you enter the "shop" until you pay up. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: Most of the dungeons throughout the series are named after either their element or their location. | |
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Depending on the Writer | |
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Depending on the Writer: Various things in the series vary depending on the writer. For example, whether monsters like octoroks, Deku Scrubs and Moblins are Made of Evil or just wild fauna/another race of sapient beings that get in way of the player. Similarly the monsters vary between actively serving the Big Bad or are just territorial/independent bandits. | |
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New Weapon Target Range | |
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New Weapon Target Range: In multiple games, you get a new item only to be locked into a room where you have to use the new item and learn its mechanics to get out. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild The First Town is a plateau that the player can't get off until they unlock the glider, by completing several Shrines (effectively self contained puzzle rooms). Each shrine grants the player a new ability for their Sheikah slate and is solved only using that ability. To proceed at this point, the player has to use the orbs they unlocked from these shrines to buy a heart or stamina upgrade from a nearby shrine (teaching the player the mechanic that rewards them for finding and completing shrines). Upon unlocking the glider, the player must glide down from a rooftop. The rest of the game downplays the trope significantly compared to the first few hours and the rest of the series; every item is available from the start (since it's a Wide-Open Sandbox), but side quests and main quests where they're needed usually give them a ready source of the item in question (e.g. shock arrows in Zora's domain). Getting the Master Sword in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker causes the time stop on Hyrule Castle to be undone, allowing the powerful enemies frozen within to roam free. This gives players a quick chance to use their new weapon. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Once you get the Spinner in the sixth dungeon, the door locks, and you need to use the spinner to navigate the grooves in the walls allowing you to reach the exit. | |
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Spider Tank | |
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Breath of the Wild features numerous Sheikah artifacts from 10,000 years ago in the game's plot, ranging from the Sheikah Slate that Link and Zelda are shown using and the Ancient Armor and weapons, to the mecha-like Divine Beasts, Guardians, and Shrines. All of these are made out of mysterious ancient materials that far surpass other contemporary materials in all aspects at the time of the game's scenario. | |
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