History Narm / TheLegendOfZelda

* Even ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', despite the humor relying heavily on slapstick anyway, managed to have a short narm scene in the final boss battle, when Ganondorf attacks Tetra. Upon seeing it, Link snaps into a weird, somewhat angry-ish, facial expression for a split second... It's obviously meant to look badass because now ItsPersonal, but ended up looking more like Ganondorf just trashed Link's Treehouse or something, not like he smacked one of his best friends brutally to the ground.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', after [[spoiler:killing Sonia]], Ganondorf breaks out into a glorious, ear-to-ear troll smile and laughs.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Unlike most games, in BOTW you can equip Link with a variety of different outfits and pieces of armor. Needless to say, some of the cutscenes are hard to take seriously if Link is standing there wearing nothing but his underwear and a monster mask.

* In ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', when you get a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2VnS8mwW-g Game Over]], Ganon's EvilLaugh sounds more silly than intimidating.[[note]]It's the same audio clip as Soda Popinski from ''VideoGame/PunchOut''. The Japanese version uses a [[HellIsThatNoise roar that sounds like an angle grinder on bone]] instead.[[/note]]

->''"Straight up, the only reason [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames the Phillips CD-i Zelda titles]] are considered to have exceptionally bad dialogue is because they're fully voiced. There's dialogue in the mainline Zelda titles that'd be far more [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop YTP]]-worthy than anything in Faces of Evil if it were to be spoken by an actual human being, and deep down I think we all know it.\\

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', there's the moment where Marin becomes a GuestStarPartyMember after the date, during which Link just ''holds her above his head'' like he does with [[ItemGet every important item he finds]] while wearing a big smile on his face, complete with triumphant fanfare.
---> ''Is this your big chance?''

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'':
** The scene where Link returns to the Sanctuary to find Zelda kidnapped and the Old Man near-death might have been more of a tear-jerker if the Old Man's body didn't have a typical old-school video game death animation, complete with blinking followed by disappearing, as well as sound effects.
** This was the first ''Zelda'' game with extensive dialogue; as such, it can come across as simplistic, stilted and harder to take seriously compared to the dialogue in later games, especially since the characters aren't nearly as fleshed out as in the [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening next game]] or the 3D games following that (to the point that the maidens have near-identical appearances and personalities, and share several lines of dialogue between them).
** Sahasrahla refers to the Master Sword as "The blade that makes evil retreat," vs. the more well-known and more-awesome, "Blade of evil's bane" as it would be described in future games.
** ''Agahnim's sprite.'' He's supposed to look intimidating, but compare his [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/c/cc/ALttP%26FS_Agahnim_Artwork.png/revision/latest?cb=20140125032941 official artwork]] to [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/1/1e/ALttP_Agahnim_Sprite.png/revision/latest?cb=20111107195544 how he looks in-game]]. It didn't stop other people from [[https://www.deviantart.com/the-blue-pirate/art/The-Legend-of-Zelda-A-Link-to-the-Past-Agahnim-371132565 seeing]] [[https://www.deviantart.com/spacepig22/art/Agahnim-362363356 him]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/MisreadSprites/comments/8ct8e5/the_sprites/ like this]], almost making it look a bit OffModel.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'':
** If you steal from the shop, you will permanently get renamed "THIEF", which utterly ruins the serious scenes like the date with Marin or the ending.
** Then there's the moment where Marin becomes a GuestStarPartyMember after the date, during which Link just ''holds her above his head'' like he does with [[ItemGet every important item he finds]] while wearing a big smile on his face, complete with triumphant fanfare.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has the cutscene of Ganon's Castle collapsing into the ground. It looks less like it's breaking down and more like a toy castle that's sinking into the ground, looking nothing like destruction. The castle looks like it's just folding over.
** From ''Ocarina of Time'' again you have Ganondorf's last bit of dialogue: "CURSE YOU ZELDA!!! CURSE YOU SAGES!!! CURSE YOU... LINK!!!" Not helped by the face he makes, which is even somewhat reminiscent of ''[[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h3k5EAN97wE/hqdefault.jpg CD-i Ganon's infamous face.]]''
** And unless you used all-caps for your name (which would go against the game's naming convention), his last sentence is actually written as "CURSE YOU...Link!"
** Ganondorf's last bit of the text after the fight with Phantom Ganon:
---> '''Ganondorf:''' What a worthless creation that ghost was! I will banish it to the gap between dimensions!!

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq8hWJqX2EQ Adult Link's voice]] sounds rather goofy and narmy at times.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': The moon's redesign in the 3DS remake and Hyrule Warriors, with its exaggerated features.[[https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/zelda_gamepedia_en/1/1a/MM3D_Nintendo_Direct_10.png?version=e06740d792918f37dc18276494496ee9]] Likely done to make it look more grotesque, but it ended up looking [[NightmareRetardant less scary and more derpy than anything.]]

** Additional narm in this same scene is the way that Ganondorf attacks Zelda. Once Link does enough damage to him during the first part of the battle, Ganondorf will turn to the camera dramatically and seem to [[FailedASpotCheck only just realize that Zelda is helping Link.]] In response, he leaps over to Zelda, over-dramatically sheathes his sword, and then... slaps her. The developers most likely did the scene this way because her injuries would look much more serious if he sliced her, or used any sort of attack with his sword for that matter, but this has the unfortunate outcome of instead making it look like he deliberately put on the kid gloves at that moment to make sure Zelda didn’t get too injured from his attack. Even though he’s supposedly attempting a TakingYouWithMe and there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t be trying to kill both of them at this point. A magic spell would have probably been the best way to portray a non-lethal attack without making Ganondorf look like an idiot, but alas.

** ''Twilight Princess'' again, we get the scene where Ilia regains her memories. With over the top music and Epona doing the "Majestic Horse" pose in the background.

** Several minor scenes suffer from poor animation or unrealistic movements (such as the bizarre way Zelda's sword fell, or the utterly silly stumbling animation of the boss in the Goron Mines).
** Those noises Link makes as he's turning into a wolf for the first time sounds more like he's having sex.
** The scene on the bridge where Link's horse rears up while he poses, framed against the setting sun. It comes across as trying too hard to be epic that it comes across as narm.

*** Then there's the music of the transformation scene. Or, as [[LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNo ThornBrain]] interpreted it...
--->"[[https://youtu.be/UiEsj2tibyE?t=1m21s Rape rape rape raperaperape rape rape raperaperape...]]"
** Many people think the chanting during the boss fight against [[spoiler:Beast Ganon]] sounds like [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] repeatedly shouting "get a job!" If that's what you hear, it ''really'' sucks the tension and thrill out of the fight.

* Zelda's SparklingStreamOfTears near the end of ''Spirit Tracks'' comes off as this to some people. Ironically, she ruined a TearJerker scene with it.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoaHDOYTosw Ghirahim]] doing his tongue thing.
*** Link's face is hilarious in that scene as well, seeing as he's just as bemused as the player probably is.
** This news has filled Ghirahim's heart with rainbows.
** Ghirahim is too fabulous to take seriously, [[NarmCharm and we love him for it]].
*** Until he ''really'' [[UnstoppableRage gets]] [[NightmareFuel serious]], anyway.
*** Unfortunately, he goes on to ruin his perfectly compelling misdeeds at the end of the game with looping peals of [[EvilLaugh evil laughter]] that may in fact make the player join in the giggles after a few seconds.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKUKssBn37g Ghirahim's funky dance breakdown.]]
** Also in ''Skyward Sword'', Tentalus' introduction after a [[NightmareFuel rather scary moment]] of the Sandship being torn to pieces with you inside; you'd be expecting some sort of badass-looking kraken, but instead you get a ridiculous chubby looking [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cyclops with no hands and Medusa-esque tentacles for hair]] that would look right at home in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' (as Creator/TheAutarch and LetsPlay/RabbidLuigi put it, it looks like Mike and Celia's offspring).
** The game opens with a rather horrifying nightmare of Link's, involving what appears to be an enormous mouth in an eyeless face made of black scales. One of the nightmares ends as the creature appears to devour Zelda. The figure from Link's nightmare is a boss later in the game, The Imprisoned. When it appears, it tears itself out of its seal in the earth, and you see its enormous mouth... stood up on a pair of short, stubby legs with goofy, balloon-like "toes". Suddenly, the creature is no longer the supremely evil being it first seemed to be.
*** Even worse: ''it falls over if it doesn't have toes.'' Any fans of LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} will have an absolute field day with this boss.[[note]]There was a RunningGag in his ''Majora's Mask'' Let's Play where he kept on chopping off the bosses' toes to finish them off.[[/note]] And just wait until it grows its hilariously oversized arms with similar balloon-like "fingers".
*** The inside of its mouth kind of looks like an anus. You've got a gigantic, armless, stubby-legged, scaly ''anus'' roaring at you.
** There's this one scene where Groose is about to go cry and it plays the saddest violin music that it can manage.

** "You've killed meeeeeee!" "Good!" So Narmy it forced a HeroicBSOD on ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''.

** "The chains! [[BigNo NOOOOOOOO!!!]] You haven't seen the last of me!"
** "No! Not into the pit. It burns!"

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': The scene where Link returns to the Sanctuary to find Zelda kidnapped and the Old Man near-death might have been more of a tear-jerker if the Old Man's body didn't have a typical old-school video game death animation, complete with blinking followed by disappearing, as well as sound effects.

** And unless you used all-caps for your name (which would go against the game's naming convention), his last sentence is actually written as "CURSE YOU... Link!!!"

** From ''Ocarina of Time'' again you have Ganondorf's last bit of dialogue: "CURSE YOU ZELDA!!! CURSE YOU SAGES!!! CURSE YOU... LINK!!!"

** "Join me, Link, and I will make you a face[[note]][[{{Mondegreen}} heard as "Your face"]][[/note]] the grrrrrrrreatest in Koridai... or else you will DIE!" Ganon's WeCanRuleTogether speech loses what menace it had immediately afterwards when he lunges at the camera while making what is probably [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ganon_die.jpg the single most narmish face in the entire game]]. It seems to have been intentionally drawn as ridiculously as possible.

*** Then there's the music of the transformation scene.

*** Then there's the music of the transformation scene. Or, as [[LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNo ThornBrain]] interpreted it...
--->"[[https://youtu.be/UiEsj2tibyE?t=1m21s Rape rape rape raperaperape rape rape raperaperape...]]"

** There's also the fact that he's so feminine-looking that he resembles Music/LadyGaga.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoaHDOYTosw Ghirahim]] doing his tongue thing.

*** That's if you stuck with the default name. "CURSE YOU ... [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude DUDE]]!!!"
*** Or worse if you're a [[GrammarNazi grammar whore]]: "CURSE YOU... Link!!!"
*** Even worse than that if you used AllLowercaseLetters: "CURSE YOU... link!!!"
*** Or, as LetsPlay/SirRonLionheart translates it, "MOTHERFU-YOU LINK!"
*** And the current SpeedRun on Speed Demos Archive: CURSE YOU... T!
*** CURSE YOU... [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation FUCK]] [[LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} ME!!!]]
*** [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Alternatively]]: CURSE YOU... [[StockBritishPhrases I]] [[WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn SAY]]!!!
*** CURSE YOU... I FARTED!!!
*** CURSE YOU...[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV TROPES]]!!
*** CURSE YOU....[[LetsPlay/FreelanceAstronauts Lunk!]]
*** [[LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun CURSE YOU... CapriSun!!!]]
*** And then there's the fact that LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun actually lost his voice during that part due to trying to shout the lines in his Ganondorf voice. If you've watched his [=LP=], you'll remember how funny that was every time you watch that scene, making it even more Narmy.
*** Oh, and if you're one of those people who named themselves "Zelda", to get a scene where Zelda says "Zelda... That name sounds... familiar", you get Ganon cursing out Zelda twice.
*** And then there's the face he makes as he's saying "CURSE YOU..."
*** It's even reminiscent of CD-i Ganon's face!

** Additional narm in this same scene is the way that Ganondorf attacks Zelda. Once Link does enough damage to him during the first part of the battle, Ganondorf will turn to the camera dramatically and seem to [[FailedASpotCheck only just realize that Zelda is helping Link.]] In response, he leaps over to Zelda, over-dramatically sheathes his sword, and then does an OffhandBackhand to knock her over. The developers most likely did the scene this way because her injuries would look much more serious if he sliced her, or used any sort of attack with his sword for that matter, but this has the unfortunate outcome of instead making it look like he deliberately put on the kid gloves at that moment to make sure Zelda didn’t get too injured from his attack. Even though he’s supposedly attempting a TakingYouWithMe and there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t be trying to kill both of them at this point. A magic spell would have probably been the best way to portray a non-lethal attack without making Ganondorf look like an idiot, but alas.

* Even ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', despite the humor relying heavily on slapstick anyway, managed to have a short narm scene in the final boss battle, when Ganondorf attacks Tetra. Upon seeing it, Link snaps into a weird, somewhat angry-ish, facial expression for a split second... It's obviously meant to look badass because now ItsPersonal, but ended up looking more like Ganondorf just trashed Link's Treehome or something, not like he smacked one of his best friends brutally to the ground.

** ''Twilight Princess'' again, we get the scene were Ilia regains her memories. With over the top music and Epona doing the "Majestic Horse" pose in the background.

* Even ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', despite the humor relying heavily on slapstick anyway, managed to have a short narm scene in the final boss battle, when Ganondorf attacks Tetra. Upon seeing it, Link snaps into a weird, somewhat angry-ish, facial expression for a split second... It's obviously meant to look badass because now ItsPersonal, but ended up looking more like Ganondorf just trashed Link's Treehome or something, not like he smacked one of his best friends brutally to the ground.

->''"Straight up, the only reason [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames the Phillips CD-i Zelda titles]] are considered to have exceptionally bad dialogue is because they’re fully voiced. There’s dialogue in the mainline Zelda titles that’d be far more [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop YTP]]-worthy than anything in Faces of Evil if it were to be spoken by an actual human being, and deep down I think we all know it.\\

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', if you steal from the shop, you will permanently get renamed "THIEF", which utterly ruins the serious scenes like the date with Marin or the ending.

--> ''Is this your big chance?''

--->"[[https://youtu.be/UiEsj2tibyE?t=1m21s Rape rape rape]] [[EarWorm raperaperape]] [[{{Mondegreen}} rape rape]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice raperaperape...]]"

* Zelda's SparklingStreamOfTears near the end of ''Spirit Tracks'' comes off as this to some people. Ironically, she ruined a TearJerker scene with it. Fight tears with tears, I'd say...

--> ''Is this yout big chance?''

** Then there's the moment where Marin becomes a GuestStarPartyMember after the date, during which Link actually ''holds her above his head'' like he does with [[ItemGet every important item he finds]] while wearing a big smile on his face.

** Then there's the moment where Marin becomes a GuestStarPartyMember after the date, during which Link actually ''holds her above his head'' like he does with [[ItemGet every important item he finds]] wearing a big smile on his face.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': The moon's redesign in the 3DS remake and Hyrule Warriors, with its exaggerated features.[[https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/zelda_gamepedia_en/1/1a/MM3D_Nintendo_Direct_10.png?version=e06740d792918f37dc18276494496ee9]] Likely done in an attempt at making it look more grotesque, but it ended up looking [[NightmareRetardant less scary and more derpy than anything.]]

** Also in ''Skyward Sword'', Tentalus' introduction after a [[NightmareFuel rather scary moment]] of the Sandship being torn to pieces with you inside; you'd be expecting some sort of badass-looking kraken, but instead you get a chubby looking cyclops with no hands and tentacles for hair that would look right at home in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' (as Creator/TheAutarch and LetsPlay/RabbidLuigi put it, it looks like Mike and Celia's offspring).