History NightmareFuel / TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToTHePast

* This is the first game in the series where Ganon has the ''entire'' Triforce.
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* Agahnim is probably one of the most competent Zelda villains; he kills the King and apparently vaporizes the maidens, including Zelda. When he's defeated the first time, he transports Link to the Dark World.

* Link is framed for Zelda's kidnapping at the start of the game, making Kakariko Village an unsafe place to be. If citizens see you, they'll sic guards on you until you leave the screen or kill them.

* If you exploit some glitches to battle and defeat Agahnim early in the game before you get the Magic Mirror or Moon Pearl (as mentioned under UnwinnableByInsanity), you get transported into the Dark World, where you get transformed into Bunny Link and can do absolutely nothing beyond wandering around helplessly until you eventually get killed. In addition to being a scary enough concept in itself -- not helped by the somber "Bunny Link" theme playing as he gets pelted by spears and bombs from the assorted enemies -- the horror of the situation is turned UpToEleven when you realize this was the fate of ''everyone'' who wandered into a magical transporter or got zapped into the Dark World by Agahnim.

* The many thieves lurking in both the Lost Woods of the Light World and the Skeleton Forest of the Dark World. They follow you constantly (unless you fake them out and leave them obstructed by a tree stump of whatever), if you ''do'' encounter them directly, they bump into you '''without warning''' and make off with your hard-earned goodies(!) like rupees and bombs before you can even grab them back for yourself, you CANNOT kill them or even wound them, and both versions by themselves are pretty creepy in their own right. Since animals replace people in the latter, when you first see it, you think nothing of a random fox until it approaches you and the former has a permanent scowl on his face and ''has white triangles where his eyes should be.'' Yikes.

[[caption-width-right:256: Ahh! KillItWithFire! [[note]]Note: Literally. The only way to go inside is to burn the mouth with the fire rod.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:256: Ahh! [[KillItWithFire]]! [[note]]Note: Literally. The only way to go inside is to burn the mouth with the fire rod.[[/note]]]]

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* Both the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9lu1V5Wc-0 Light World]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVmRJoEe8s8&playnext=1&list=PLD16C33B52469BE21 Dark World]] dungeon themes give one a sense of desolation and dread.

* The many thieves lurking in both the Lost Woods of the Light World and the Skull Woods of the Dark World. They follow you constantly (unless you fake them out and leave them obstructed by a tree stump of whatever), if you ''do'' encounter them directly, they bump into you '''without warning''' and make off with your hard-earned goodies(!) like rupees and bombs before you can even grab them back for yourself, you CANNOT kill them or even wound them, and both versions are pretty creepy in their own right. Since animals replace people in the latter, when you first see it, you think nothing of it until it attacks you and the former has a permanent scowl on his face and ''has green-yellow triangles where his eyes should be.'' Yikes.

* The thieves lurking in both the Light World and the Dark World versions of the Lost Woods. They follow you constantly (unless you fake them out and leave them obstructed by a tree stump of whatever), if you ''do'' encounter them directly, they bump into you '''without warning''' and make off with your hard-earned goodies(!) like rupees and bombs before you can even grab them back for yourself, you CANNOT kill them or even wound them, and both versions are pretty creepy in their own right. Since animals replace people in the latter, when you first see it, you think nothing of it until it attacks you and the former has a permanent scowl on his face and ''has green-yellow triangles where his eyes should be.'' Yikes.

** in the GBA release you're forced to watch the intro everytime you start a new file, whereas in the original SNES version it only came up as long as you didn't press start on the title screen.

* In the opening to the game, you can see the Hyrule King deader than dead (meaning only his clothes and bones are left).

* Agahnim is probably one of the most competent Zelda villains; he kills the King and apparently vaporizes the maidens, including Zelda. When he's defeated the first time, he transports Link to the Dark World.

** Alternately, some of them may simply be demons and monsters in suits of armor, or even just plain animated armor.

* The music in the Dark World before you obtain the moon pearl.

** It's implied that the WorldHealingWave at the end undoes this, as [[spoilers: the King and Link's Uncle are both]] shown alive and well at the end - so why not the random innocent mooks you killed?

* Here's some FridgeHorror: The most common enemies you fight in the Light World are brainwashed human soldiers, members of Hyrule's military. You're killing members of your own side whose minds have been enslaved by their enemy. And imagine what things will be like after Agahnim and Ganon have been defeated for the families of the brainwashed soldiers.

* THE GORIYAS. In this game, they're fairly large, they mirror your moves (the red ones also shoot arrows), and ''there are black hollows where their eyes should be''.

* The entirety of [[RibcageRidge Skull Woods]] and its dungeon, as well as [[ThatOneBoss Mothula]].