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''The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage'' is an alleged script of an animated movie based on ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' video game series by IGN forum user [[http://www.herbalcell.com/tloc/ Joe_Cracker]]. Joe_Cracker's attempts to get his script, which was itself [[SoBadItsGood of dubious quality]], are a saga unto themselves, but several denizens of the forum got together and made several animations based directly on the script and posted them on the internet. These shorts lift dialogue directly from the script, complete with syntactical and grammatical errors. The characters were [[StylisticSuck rendered in a blocky, polygonal style]] with several [[ThrowItIn animation errors kept in for humorous effect.]] This resulted in shorts that are pretty funny to watch on their own, but absolutely hilarious if one knows the saga behind them.

View the three shorts [[http://www.youtube.com/user/grusd here]]. Read about the author's three-year-long odyssey to get his movie made [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/joecracker.html here]].

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!!These shorts contain examples of:

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "I'm not impressed. I've seen better battles with beetles in a bottle. *{{Rimshot}}*"
* AllStarCast: Joe_Cracker's ideal vision for the movie would have starred BruceWillis, WhoopiGoldberg, and BritneySpears.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Mr. Cracker himself.
* AnimationBump: The third video has the most amount of effort put into it, and it shows.
* ArtShift: The third video has a short dungeon crawling sequence done entirety with a mix of {{Claymation}} and action figures.
* AuthorAvatar: Eian.
* BadBadActing: Ganon in the third short.
* BeamSpam: During the BigNo sequence below he starts shooting sword beams wildly, even hitting Eian with one.
* BigNo: Link pulls one off after Zelda is crushed by rocks for thirty seconds in the third short.
* BloodlessCarnage: Ganon's hand gets severed with nary a drop of blood. The animators had originally tried for HighPressureBlood, but then decided against it.
* CampGay: Prince Phasod in the second short, possibly Tingle.
* {{Claymation}}: During the "dungeon sequence" in the third short.
* ClothingDamage: Link destroys Ganon's robe with a sword beam.
* CreatorInJoke: They later released a version of the third short [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5ngNUN2yo with annotations explaining all of them]].
* ColonyDrop: "I cased over the moon. It will fall onto Hyrule Castle in a few hours time destroying this world."
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "My son keeps getting stronger and more braver every day."
* DevelopmentHell: The planned fourth short. So far all it has is a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q-oH86K0eg trailer]] after two years. Though, this is {{Lampshaded}} on the creators' Website/{{Youtube}} page and website. The trailer's tagline is "Coming Eventually," and its official release date in July 26, 2035.
* [[DifferentInEveryEpisode Different In Every Shot]]: Eian's shirt and jacket and Ganon's robe.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Eian.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: So many.
* HairstyleMalfunction: When Zelda tosses the chest containing the Master Sword to Link, her hair goes with it.
* LargeHam: Ganon, [[PigMan quite]] [[IncrediblyLamePun literally]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Ganon could be considered to have the most "normal" model out of all of the characters.
* OffModel
* OmnicidalManiac: Majora's Mask.
* PlotHole: Zelda was apparently crushed by rocks, but later, she's completely fine.
** Contrary to what the annotations of Dancing Triforce's video may say, the script does explain this with a ChekhovsGun: Link is given a "Ring of Love" by his grandmother, a magic family heirloom that supposedly protects its bearer from death (albeit not a natural death). Link gives it to Zelda as an engagement ring before they go to fight Ganon, where it rescues her from the pile of rocks [[AWizardDidIt with no other explanation.]]
* {{Rimshot}}: Whenever Eian tells a joke. Just so you know it's supposed to be funny.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The script is filled to the brim with them. This comes out quite obviously in the dialogue.
* StealthParody: One could watch it without reading the story behind it and think it's just a series of incompetent fan-films. In fact, for a long time, many believed that this was actually a pilot episode made by DIC (the group behind the Zelda cartoon) to test the waters for a 3D-animated Zelda series.
** This is partly because even Cracker HIMSELF believed this, hence his voice appearing in the first short as Majora's Mask. The three co-conspirators posed as DiC animator "John Grusd" in order to con Cracker into believing that his wish for TLOC to become a movie was being brought to fruition. HilarityEnsues.
* StylisticSuck: It's obvious that the creators could animate competently if they wanted to (Ganon in the third short is almost professional-quality), but it's just funnier this way.
* TakeThat: "This guy's got more mouth than Robert [=McGee=]!" [[hottip:*:Robert [=McGee=] is apparently Joe_Cracker's real name.]]
** Joe_Cracker's TLOC script is abused a couple of times near the start of the third video, first stepped on by the heroes, then used as a torch.
** Joe_Cracker's name in the credits is obscured by a sword beam.
* TalkingToHimself: Played literally for a VisualPun in the third short. The animators put in two Links in a scene where Link was supposed to do this.
* ThrowItIn: Link's eye tic, Ganon's robe ripping during the battle sequence, numerous other errors that were kept in for laughs.
* TwitchyEye: Link, although this was just an animation error at first.
* VisualPun: Most of the jokes are like this, because the shorts follow Joe_Cracker's script word-for-word.
* TheWatson: When he isn't cracking wise [[ButtMonkey or getting repeatedly killed]], Eian serves as this to explain who Tingle is.

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