History VideoGame / TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask

** Also, as revealed in ''SkywardSword'', Majora and The Moon are descended from [[spoiler:the UltimateEvil, Demise]]. Which is rather surprising for the former, given that [[spoiler:Majora is a tad bit on {{the ditz}}y side of the evil, and it [[GreyAndGreyMorality doesn't act evil]] when you personally meet it on The Moon itself]].

* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: The Bunny Hood is one of the most useful masks in the game, allowing you to run twice as fast. (In a game where ''everything'' runs on a Doomsday Clock, this is important!) Link also looks completely adorable when wearing it.

* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: The Bunny Hood is one of the most useful masks in the game, allowing you to run twice as fast. Link also looks completely adorable when wearing it.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The world is going to end in three days and only you can go back in time to prevent it from happening. All the while people around you are depressed or dying, the four areas are in turmoil with suffering for all who live there, and trying to help anyone is pointless because you have to turn back the clock eventually to stop the end of the world making all your efforts to help pointless. All the while the Moon continues to stare down at you, scaring you and mocking your efforts at the same time. And yet despite all that you still keep going. You struggle for the light at the end of this dark tunnel. And when you finally see the sun rise on the 4th day, you know it was all because ''you didn't give up.''

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The world is going to end in three days and only you can go back in time to prevent it from happening. All the while people around you are depressed or dying, the four areas are in turmoil with suffering for all who live there, and trying to help anyone is pointless because you have to turn back the clock eventually to stop the end of the world making all your efforts to help pointless. All the while the Moon continues to stare down at you, scaring you and mocking your efforts at the same time. And yet despite all that you still keep going. You struggle for the light at the end of this dark tunnel. And when you finally see the sun rise on the 4th day, you know it was all because ''you didn't give up.'' Averted in some cases, as there are plotlines or character dilemmas that can't or don't have a satisfying conclusion regardless of how Link alters events - the origins of the masks being a more unsettling example.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The eponymous mask, which the Happy Mask Salesman is desperate for Link to retrieve from the Skull Kid at all costs.

* ApatheticCitizens: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] - Most citizens refuse to believe that the moon is actually falling. However, this is later subverted; on the third day, when the moon is ''very, very large'', everyone is panicking and evacuating the town.
* ApocalypseHow: What happens if you fail. Class 5 definitely, possibly even Class X but the further results of the moon crashing aren't seen after Link's (pretty horrible) demise.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: You, after putting on the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Giant's Mask]]. This only works in Stone Tower Temple's boss room, though.

** FridgeBrilliance: Link's boyish features mask the man he really is.

* CrapsackWorld: What Skull Kid is turning Termina into. Very mutable. There's only so much darkness Zelda games can take.
** Arguably, considering what the owl is implying about the doomed Deku and the (un)dead Ikana Canyon, two problems long before the Skull Kid showed up, it's pretty much up in the air as to whether he's making Termina a Crapsack World, or if he's putting them out of their misery.

* CurbStompBattle: The fight with Majora with the Fierce Deity's Mask on.
** ''Any'' boss with the Fierce Deity's Mask, really.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The world is going to end in three days and only you can go back in time to prevent it from happening. All the while people around you are depressed or dying, the four areas are in turmoil with suffering for all who live there, and trying to help anyone is pointless because you have to turn back the clock eventually to stop the end of the world making all your efforts to help pointless. All the while the Moon continues to stare down at you, scaring you and mocking your efforts at the same time. And yet despite all that you still keep going. You struggle for the light at the end of this dark tunnel. And when you finally see the sun rise on the 4th day, you know it was all because ''you didn't give up.''
** Extra in both the "earn" and "happy" parts of this trope if you can manage to fix ''everything'' in the three days you have and then save the world. It's hard as all get out to do, but it is possible and all the more satisfying.
** Subverted in some cases, as there are plotlines or character dilemmas that can't or don't have a satisfying conclusion regardless of how Link alters events - the origins of the masks being a more unsettling example.

* {{Expy}}: About ninety percent of the game's [=NPCs=] have character models [[YouAllLookFamiliar from Ocarina of Time]]. Justified since Termina is a parallel world to Hyrule.

* NightmareRetardant: Throughout most of the nightmarish atmosphere, seeing [=ReDeads=] dance is downright ''hilarious.''
* {{Ninja}}: The Garos act like this, particularly the whole "never leaving behind a body" bit.
** The game description outright states the Garo are ninjas:

* RepeatableQuestion: All sidequests are repeatable in a manner of speaking, as the game's three day cycle allows them to be retaken during each iteration.

-->'''Child on the Moon:''' The right thing... what is it? I wonder, if you do the right thing, does it really make everyone happy?\\

** FridgeBrilliance: Link's boyish features mask the man he really is.

* BagOfSpilling: Zigzagged: Link doesn't keep any of the items he had at the end of ''OcarinaOfTime'' (bomb bag, Lens of Truth, etc.) apart from his sword and the eponymous instrument (a gift from Zelda), but he ''does'' keep a metal shield (similar to, but not the Hylian Shield) and Epona (whom he never got to ride as a kid). Playing the "Song of Time" to reset the in-game clock also causes you to lose pretty much anything that's not a key item (current rupees, bombs/arrows, etc. which are shown flying out of Link as you tumble back through time) and resets pretty much all sidequests and {{Boss Battle}}s. And then there's the banker in West Clock Town who always remembers how much you've deposited in your account (don't ask how he can remember what you [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble deposited tomorrow five loops back]], that "stamp" he gives you must really be special)
** Clearly that stamp is updated every time you make a deposit. So you're not actually saving your rupees, you're just ripping off the banker.

* PerceptionFilter: The Stone Mask, which makes Link "inconspicuous as a stone", having most NPCs not see and interact with you. Unless it's a plot-related event, in which case the NPCs will [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] your usage of the mask.

* InvisibilityCloak: The Stone Mask, which doesn't technically make you invisible, just so uninteresting that the effect is the same.
** That technically makes it a PerceptionFilter.

* BattleTops: In its final form, Majora's Incarnation, the mask attacks with a pair of whip-like appendages and razor studded spinning tops.

* DrunkOnMilk: Milk in this case.

** FridgeBrilliance: You didn't know where Epona was, or that she was locked up. Playing the song wouldn't have done anything until you learned it, anyway.

* DrunkOnMalts: Or milk, in this case.

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