Gohma
General
- Adaptational Intelligence: In most of their appearances, the Gohma are generally either mindless animals or monsters controlled by other villains. The Gohma in Hyrule Conquest may still qualify, depending on how much of their hierarchy is controlled and maintained by Sulkaris and the Baga Tree.
- Attack Animal: Most Gohma qualify, having little independent intelligence and only minimal (though often brutal) instinct to guide them.
- Bug War: The Gohma's wars with the Kokiri and Hylians.
- Extreme Omnivore: The Gohma are willing to eat nearly anything.
- Four-Legged Insect: And not just four. Some Gohma units seemingly walk on two legs.
- Giant Spider: Gohma larvae (let alone bigger units like Armogohma and Shrouders) are far bigger than a normal spider should be.
- Go for the Eye: All Gohma have the weakness of having giant eyes that are the principal target for enemies. In the cases of heavily-armored Gohma such as Shield Gohmas and Armogohma, the eye is pretty much the only target.
- Spider Swarm: A Horde of Alien Locusts where the locusts in question are spiders.
- Swamps Are Evil: The Gohma's homeland is the Misery Mire, a swamp located to the south of Hyrule.
- Wall Crawl: Gohma can use webbing to crawl over fortifications.
- Zerg Rush: Gohma tactics revolve around swarming with an overwhelming number of spiders.
Larva Nest Units
Eye Larva, Soldier Larva, Spine Larva, Royal Larva, Burstgohma.
Clockwise from top right: Soldier Larva, Royal Larva, Burstgohma, Spine Larva, Eye Larva.
- Defeat Equals Explosion: When killed, a Burst Gohma violently explodes and burns everything around itself.
Birthing Chamber Units
Pincergohma, Gohma Stinger, Webweaver, Trap-door Gohma.
Clockwise from top right: Gohma Stinger, Trap-door Gohma, Webweaver, Pincergohma.
- Note: For the Shield Gohma, see its section in Queen Moruge's entry below.
Giant Incubator Units
Gohma Long Legs, Rocktite, Carrier, Tank Gohma.
Clockwise from top right: Rocktite, Tank Gohma, Carrier, Gohma Long Legs.
- Note: For the Armogohma, see its section in Queen Armos's entry below.
Queen's Nest Units
Gohma Queen, Mothula, Morth Swarm.
Clockwise from top right: Mothula, Morth Swarm, Gohma Queen.
- Note: For the Mite Keeper, see its section in Queen Arborachnid's entry below. For the Shrouder, see its section in Queen Sulkaris's.
- King Mook: The Gohma Queens.
- Mother of a Thousand Young: A single Queen could lay hundreds of eggs in a single day.
Gohma Heroes
Queen Baga
Queen Baga
Not to be confused with Baga Yaga.
- First Appearance: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Adaptational Name Change: Simply called Queen Gohma in Ocarina of Time.
- Hive Queen: As all the other Gohma Queens.
Queen Midoro
Queen Midoro
Everyone's least favorite insect becomes apex predator.
- First Appearance: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Adaptational Name Change: Simply called Mothula in the Wind Waker.
- Mythology Gag: Due to acting as a Replacement Artifact for a certain Mido.
- Hive Queen: Of the Mothulas.
Queen Arborachnid
Queen Arborachnid
Half-spider, half-tree, full nightmare.
- First Appearance: The Legend of Zelda: The Missing Link
- Adaptational Species Change: Downplayed. It's never stated in The Missing Link what the Arborachnid is, but certainly not a Gohma.
- Canon Foreigner: Does not appear in any of the games, instead making her debut in The Missing Link.
- Gender Flip: In The Missing Link, Arborachnid was described as a male. Here, Arborachnid is female.
- Hive Queen: Of the Mites.
Unique Unit: Mite Keeper
Crawling on your skin.
- First Appearance: Hyrule Conquest
- Canon Foreigner: Does not appear in any of the games.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Their mites don't do a lot of damage, but they do it consistently and in large numbers, meaning they can quickly shred through enemy health.
- Mother of a Thousand Young: A thousand young little mites.
- Weaponized Offspring: The mites which they spawn.
Queen Moruge
Queen Moruge
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you said you want more.
- First Appearance: Hyrule Warriors
- Adaptational Name Change: Simply called Gohma in Hyrule Warriors and Praetorian in older versions of Hyrule Conquest.
- Bio-Armor: In addition to her already thick carapace, her two front claws form a metallic or stone-like shield.
- Hive Queen: As all the other Gohma Queens.
Unique Unit: Gohma Blocker/Shield Gohma
It's just a flesh wound.
- First Appearance: Hyrule Conquest
- Bio-Armor: Their thick, almost leathery carapace is as tough as conventional armor.
- Canon Foreigner: They don't quite have an exact equivalent in Zelda games, though they're apparently meant to resemble the Gohma from Hyrule Warriors.
- Go Through Me: Their main role is to protect an advancing army from enemy arrow fire with their own bodies.
- Gohma Pincushion Their rendered portrait shows them with several arrows stuck in their carapace.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Their name seems to alternate between Shield Gohma and Gohma Blocker just about every update on the developers' whims.
- Stone Wall: Their main trait is their high defense, meaning they can soak up quite a lot of hits before dying. However, it's usually better just to put your Rupees into offensive units.
Queen Armos/Queen Armogohma
Queen Armos/Queen Armogohma
You blinked!
- First Appearance: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Adaptational Name Change: Called Armogohma in Twilight Princess and Matriarch in older versions of Hyrule Conquest.
- Bio-Armor: In her second form, she dons an armor with metallic chitin, and becomes nearly impenetrable to anything.
- Hive Queen: As all the other Gohma Queens.
Unique Unit: Armogohma
"And I want giant spiders with lasers in their eyes!"
- First Appearance: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Anti-Structure: The Armogohma is a living equivalent of a siege engine, armed with its own structure-burning laser.
- Bio-Armor: With an upgrade, these Armogohma can gain the same impenetrable armor as their mother.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: That laser they shoot from their eyes? That's napalm tears according to
the developer. - Decomposite Character: There was only one Armogohma in Twilight Princess. In Conquest, there's an entire species of these things.
- Eye Beams: Armogohma shoot fire from their eyes at enemies.
- Lovecraftian Superpower: The Armogohma's ability may qualify as such.
- Heavily Armored Mook: Some of the heaviest armored in the entire game with the armor upgrade.
Queen Sulkaris
Sulkaris, The Forgotten Sage
Old foe, new look.
- First Appearance: The Legend of Zelda: The Fallen Sage
- Adaptational Species Change: While in all previous versions she was portrayed as a goddess or goddess-like being, this version of Sulkaris is an Akkalan.
- Badass Cape: If it can even be called a cape at this state.
- Canon Foreigner: Made her first debut in the fangame Legend of Zelda: The Fallen Sage and has remained a staple since.
- Evil Matriarch: She isn't called Queen Sulkaris for no reason.
- Green Thumb: Was gifted with the understanding of life and its processes as a Sage.
- Hive Queen: Has become one of the Gohma Queens through unknown means.
- Large and in Charge: Appears as a gigantic Hylian woman, standing at least 15 feet tall.
- Last of Her Kind: It is implied all the other First Sages have perished in the preceding ages.
- Lean and Mean: She is freakishly tall for a human.
- Meaningful Name: Sulkaris sulks around.
- Sigil Spam: Oddly enough for the Kokiri, as her branches form the Kokiri Emerald.
- The Ageless: Became this after turning into a half-tree.
- The Dreaded: Has become a scary myth to the Kokiri and Hylians.
- Time Abyss: Is at least as old as King Gustaf.
- Truer to the Text: Her design calls back to her original sprites from Legend of Zelda: The Fallen Sage, in which she was portrayed as a shrouded being before gaining a human-ish form.
- Was Once a Man: Allegedly an Akkalan.
- Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: They glow too.
Unique Unit: Shrouder
I don't like these magical mushrooms.
- First Appearance: Hyrule Conquest
- Canon Foreigner: Does not appear in any of the games.
- Fog of Doom: The Shrouder's mist (dubbed Gohma Shroud) blocks line of sight and gives a debuff. The more units get caught in the shroud, the better.
- Fungus Humongous: They're mushroom-shaped.
- Ominous Fog: Shrouders can create a thick cloud of fog around themselves that hurt the morale of enemies caught in it.
The Great Baga Tree
The Great Baga Tree
Truly the face only a Gohma mother could love.
- First Appearance: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1999 manga)
- Evil Counterpart: To the Great Deku Tree.
- No Name Given: Unlike Kasuto, the Baga tree is simply the Baga tree.
- When Trees Attack: And it gets worse. Unlike the other walking trees, who use their roots somewhat like spiders, the Baga Tree's roots bend like tentacles as they pull him along the ground.
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