* The death of Link's Uncle at the beginning of the game --
--> '''Link's Uncle:''' Link... you must rescue Princess Zelda. Our people are fated to do so. But do not fall victim... to fate... Link...
-->''I shall always remember... our time... together...''
* The Flute Boy scene. He can't play his flute anymore and asks Link to play it for him. Then he turns into a tree.
** When you tell his father:
---> "I just wish I could have seen him... one more time."
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJh3D_zX0To credits music]]. Holy shit, that credits music.
* The scene that plays if you return to the Sanctuary after getting the Master Sword. [[spoiler: There, Link finds the Sanctuary ransacked, with Zelda kidnapped to be used as a sacrifice by Agahnim, and the Sanctuary Keeper fatally wounded.]]
* The fact that this is the first game in the official timeline that takes place in the era where [[TheBadGuyWins the Hero of Time is defeated by Ganon]]. The weight of this game becomes a lot more harrowing when you realize the most iconic incarnation of the hero's legacy had to ''lose'' in order for it to happen.