History Awesome / TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames

Even a game trilogy as infamous and silly as the UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi Zelda games have some pretty awesome moments, as these examples will attest.

* [[TinTyrant Militron's]] BadassBoast "Now, you must '''DIE!"''' and his AsskickingPose during the phrase is quite a standout in an otherwise very silly game, because it actually comes off as an intimidating line acted with conviction, not to mention the fact that the animation in that sequence is actually pretty good by the game's standards. Also, "Feel the fires of war!" is just as badass.

* CD-I Ganon might be the weakest incarnation of him in two of the three games, but in ''Zelda's Adventure'', he is scarily competent. He conquers another realm as usual and actually manages to defeat and capture Link by himself. His design is one of his most nightmarish, and he can restore all previous bosses who worked for him to life for a BossRush. Then does he go down in one hit, like his other CD-I incarnations? '''Nope.''' He teleports, has a hard to avoid and damaging spell, and takes a lot of punishment before he is defeated. [[AdaptationalBadass Ganon's newfound competence between the two other stories]] is maybe the best part of this game.

-->'''Onkled''': Please, your omnipotence! [[VillainsWantMercy Have mercy!]]
-->'''Harkinian''': After you've scrubbed all the floors in Hyrule, ''[[ShutUpHannibal then]]'' [[ShutUpHannibal we can talk about mercy]]. Take him away!

* How about Link defeating his powerful archnemesis Ganon by simply throwing the Book Of Koridai at him? And Zelda gets to do this in her own game by defeating Ganon with the Wand of Gamelon?

* Militron also is the one boss in the side-scrolling CDI games who is actually tough. He can shoot fireballs from his mouth and takes four hits in the head with the sword to be beaten. While he would be basic in any other game, here he is way above the boss standards by actually being a proper boss.
* King Harkinian gets a chance to establish himself as Hyrule's powerful ruler in the ending of ''Wand of Gamelon'', by blowing off the traitorous Duke Onkled's plea for mercy by sentencing him to scrub every single floor in Hyrule.
** Keep in mind, this may imply he has to scrub the floors of the dungeons in Hyrule too -- the "filled to the brim with killer monsters and various deadly booby traps" dungeons. If this is true; then The King is, by proxy, sending the Duke off to his death!
*** And even if the dungeons weren't among the locations Onkled would have to scrub, having to clean the floors of commoners would still be a pretty humiliating punishment for a traitorous duke.
* The Ice Queen's two sequences are surprisingly competently done by these games' rather low standards, and in some ways they actually don't feel like they'd be place in a proper Zelda title. Aside from some DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment RhymingWithItself in the second sequence, there's nothing unintentionally goofy, Link looks dignified for once rather than a goofy idiot (and a pretty-boy too, much like his various counterparts) and he doesn't ruin the scenes with any dialogue. The contrast with the rest of the two sidescrolling games is so notable that the WebVideo/GameGrumps speculated that it was directed by someone other than the normal director.
* CD-I Ganon might be the weakest incarnation of him in two of the three games, but in ''Zelda's Adventure'' he is scarily competent. He conquers another realm as usual and actually manages to beat and capture Link by himself. His design is one of his most demonic and he can restore all previous bosses who worked for him to life for a BossRush. Then does he go down in one hit, like his other CD-I incarnations? '''Nope.''' He teleports, has a hard to avoid and damaging spell, and takes a lot of punishment before he is defeated. His competence is maybe the best part of this game.

* [[TinTyrant Militron's]] BadassBoast "Now, you must '''DIE!"''' and his AsskickingPose during the phrase is quite a standout in an otherwise very silly game, because it actually comes off as an intimidating line acted with conviction, not to mention the fact that the animation in that sequence is actually pretty good by the game's standards.

* CD-I Ganon might be the weakest incarnation of him in two of the three games, but in ''Zelda's Adventure'' he is scarily competent. He conquers another realm as usual and actually manages to beat and capture Link by himself. His design is one of his most demonic and he can restore all previous bosses who worked for him to life for a BossRush. Then does he go down in one hit, like his other CD-I incarnations? ''"Nope.''' He teleports, has a hard to avoid and damaging spell, and takes a lot of punishment before he is defeated. His competence is maybe the best part of this game.

!!Meta
* This [[https://www.deviantart.com/takfloyd/art/True-Hyrule-Warriors-474412194 fanart]], which turns some of the most mocked characters from the games into badasses.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvxE6IUCPxU Zelda CDI ReAnimated Collab]], hosted up by [=PatchToons=] and Sky Streak deserves to be mentioned, as over 200 animators gathered to redo every animated cutscene in both ''The Faces of Evil'' and ''Wand of Gamelon''.
* Someone submitted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g08AOcFoE1Q a MIDI track]] with the claim that it was the Overworld theme for ''Zelda's Adventure''. While it wasn't, and indeed there IS no Overworld theme for ''Zelda's Adventure'', the track is very much SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and even got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89KyKNU7j9Y a remix]] as a ShoutOut in ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdIIAssimilation''.

* Someone submitted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g08AOcFoE1Q a MIDI track]] with the claim that it was the Overworld theme for ''Zelda's Adventure''. While it wasn't, and indeed there IS no Overworld theme for ''Zelda's Adventure'', the track is very much AwesomeMusic and even got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89KyKNU7j9Y a remix]] as a ShoutOut in ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdIIAssimilation''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvxE6IUCPxU Zelda CDI ReAnimated Collab]], hosted up by [=PatchToons=] and Sky Streak deserves to be mentioned, as over 200 animators gathered to redo every animated cutscene in both ''The Faces of Evil'' and ''Wand of Gamelon''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvxE6IUCPxU Zelda CDI ReAnimated Collab]], hosted up by [=PatchToons=] and Sky Streak deserves to be mentioned, as over 200 animators gathered to redo every animated cutscene in both ''The Faces of evil'' and ''Wand of Gamelon''.

* [[TinTyrant Militron's]] BadassBoast "Now, you must DIE!" and his AsskickingPose during the phrase is quite a standout in an otherwise very silly game, because it actually comes off as an intimidating line acted with conviction, not to mention the fact that the animation in that sequence is actually pretty good by the game's standards.

* Militron's BadassBoast "Now, you must DIE!" and his AsskickingPose during the phrase is quite a standout in an otherwise very silly game, because it actually comes off as an intimidating line acted with conviction, not to mention the fact that the animation in that sequence is actually pretty good by the game's standards.

* This [[https://www.deviantart.com/takfloyd/art/True-Hyrule-Warriors-474412194 fanart]], which turns some of the most mocked characters from the games into badasses.

* How about Link defeating his powerful archnemesis Ganon by simply throwing a book at him? And Zelda gets to do this in her own game by defeating Ganon with a simple wand?
* Heck, how about the fact that Zelda herself, the person the whole series is named after and usually delegated to being a DamselInDistress, is not only made playable (something Nintendo never did until ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' many years later) but got two entire games all to herself in this series?

* King Harkinian gets a chance to establish himself as Hyrule's powerful ruler in the ending of Wand of Gamelon, by blowing off the traitorous Duke Onkled's plea for mercy by sentencing him to scrub every single floor in Hyrule.
** Keep in mind, this may imply he has to scrub the floors of the dungeons in Hyrule too--the "filled to the brim with killer monsters" dungeons. If this is true, then The King is by proxy sending the Duke off to his death!

* King Harkanian gets a chance to establish himself as Hyrule's powerful ruler in the ending of Wand of Gamelon, by blowing off the traitorous Duke Onkled's plea for mercy by sentencing him to scrub every single floor in Hyrule.

* The Ice Queen's two sequences are surprisingly competently done by these games' rather low standards, and in some ways they actually don't feel like they'd be place in a proper Zelda title. Aside from some DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment RhymingWithItself in the second sequence, there's nothing unintentionally goofy, Link looks dignified for once rather than a goofy idiot (and a pretty-boy too, much like his various counterparts) and he doesn't ruin the scenes with any dialogue. The contrast with the rest of the two sidescrolling games is so notable that the WebVideo/GameGrumps speculated that it was directed by someone other than the normal director.

* King Harkanian gets a chance to establish himself as Hyrule's powerful ruler in the ending of Wand of Gamelon, by blowing off the traitorous Duke Onkled's plea for mercy by sentencing him to scrub every single floor in Hyrule. Keep in mind, this implies he has to scrub the floors of the dungeons in Hyrule too--the "filled to the brim with killer monsters" dungeons. The King is by proxy sending the Duke off to his death!

* Militron's BadassBoast "Now, you must DIE!" and his AsskickingPose during the phrase is quite a standout in an otherwise very silly game, because it actually comes off as an intimidating line acted with conviction.

* Militron's BadassBoast "Now, you must DIE!" and his strong pose during the phrase is quite a standout in an otherwise very silly game, because it actually comes off as an intimidating line acted with conviction.

* King Harkanian gets a chance to establish himself as Hyrule's powerful ruler in the ending of Wand of Gamelon, by blowing off the traitorous Duke Onkled's plea for mercy by sentencing him to scrub every single floor in Hyrule. Keep in mind, this implies he has to scrub the floors of the dungeons in Hyrule too--the "filled to the brim with killer monsters" dungeons. The King is by proxy sending the Duke off to his death!

Even a game trilogy as infamous and silly as the CDi Zelda games have some pretty awesome moments, as these examples will attest.

* Heck, how about the fact that Zelda herself, the person the whole series is named after and usually delegated to being a DamselInDistress, is not only made playable (something Nintendo never did until Zelda: Spirit Tracks many years later) but got two entire games all to herself in this series?

* King Harkanian blowing off the traitorous Duke Onkled's plea for mercy by sentencing him to scrub every single floor in Hyrule. Keep in mind, this implies he has to scrub the floors of the dungeons in Hyrule too--the "filled to the brim with killer monsters" dungeons. The King is by proxy sending the Duke off to his death!

* How about Link defeating his powerful archnemesis Ganon by simply throwing a book at him? And Zelda gets to do this in her own game by defeating Ganon with a simple wand?

* Militron's BadassBoast "Now, you must DIE!" and his strong pose during the phrase is quite a standout in an otherwise very silly game, because it actually comes off as an intimidating line acted with conviction.

* How about Link defeating the powerful Ganon by simply throwing a book at him? And Zelda gets in in the action in her own game and defeats Ganon with a simple wand?
* Heck, how about the fact that Zelda herself, the person the whole series is named after, got not one, is not only made playable but got two entire games all to herself in this series, something that Nintendo themselves would never do prior to making Zelda: Spirit Tracks many, many years later?

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