History NightmareFuel / TheLegendOfZelda

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom Tears of the Kingdom]]'', there is the Gloom Spawn, an [[EldritchAbomination eldritch entity]] consisting of five dark Floormasters surrounded by blood-red malice. The hands will grab you and reduce your maximum HP, giving the impression that the Gloom Spawn is effectively ''[[YourSoulIsMine eating your soul]]''. Try to slay the Floormasters, and they will eventually respawn after some time (with less HP). If you do manage to destroy the Gloom Spawn, then [[OhCrap Phantom Ganon appears in its place]].

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom Tears of the Kingdom]]'', there is the Gloom Spawn, an [[EldritchAbomination eldritch entity]] consisting of five dark Floormasters surrounded by blood-red malice. They will grab you and reduce your maximum HP, giving the impression that the Gloom Spawn is effectively ''[[YourSoulIsMine eating your soul]]''. Try to slay the Floormasters, and they will eventually respawn after some time (with less HP). If you do manage to destroy the Gloom Spawn, then [[OhCrap Phantom Ganon appears in its place]].

** NightmareFuel/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom

* NightmareFuel/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom

* In the first quest, [=NPCs=] can do annoying things like take your money for breaking into their houses ("Pay me for the door repair."), trick you into paying a lot of money for nothing ("Pay me and I'll talk." "Boy, you're rich!") or run shady gambling schemes ("Let's play money making game."), but never harm you in direct ways unless you provoke them by hitting them. In the Second Quest, however, there are outright malicious [=NPCs=] in dungeons who lock the door behind you and threaten "Leave your life or money." Got 50 Rupees? You're fine. No? Assuming you don't just reload your file, you lose a heart container [[PermanentlyMissableContent for the rest of the game]].

* NightmareFuel/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames

* Yuu Mishouzaki's ''Zelda'' [[http://www.glitterberri.com/the-legend-of-zelda/mishouzaki-manga/part-1/ manga]] is notable for its many interesting changes to the source material, one of those changes is [[http://www.glitterberri.com/content/zelda_series/loz/manga/012.jpg the manner in which Ganon is depicted]]. Originally, he was a giant blue pig; here, he's a razor-fanged, bloodshot-eyed, practically-unstoppable [[EldritchAbomination abomination unto nature]]. That image in the link? That's taken from him looming over the first Princess Zelda [[spoiler: right before he kills her]], and he utterly ''dwarfs'' her. And the demons that he leads? They all share those characteristics. ''All of them.''

Sometimes...the King of Evil and his minions decided to really scare us.

* In the first quest, [=NPCs=] can do annoyhing things like take your money for breaking into their houses ("Pay me for the door repair."), trick you into paying a lot of money for nothing ("Pay me and I'll talk." "Boy, you're rich!") or run shady gambling schemes ("Let's play money making game."), but never harm you in direct ways unless you provoke them by hitting them. In the Second Quest, however, there are outright malicious [=NPCs=] in dungeons who lock the door behind you and threaten "Leave your life or money." Got 50 Rupees? You're fine. No? Assuming you don't just reload your file, you lose a heart container [[PermanentlyMissableContent for the rest of the game]].

* The Tektites in the cartoon look pretty creepy, and they're savvy enough to tie Zelda up and rob Link of his sword before pouncing on him.

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[[caption-width-right:175: [- Just in case that isn't disturbing enough, wait until you hear [[HellIsThatNoise the sound]] it makes.[[note]] And as of the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS VideoGameRemake, the console's graphics now allow it ''to actually look like the artwork.''[[/note]] -] ]]