History Headscratchers / HyruleWarriors

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** But this game follows the child timeline, which means that Sheik never happened in the [=OoT=] era. Now if we had Medli, Linebeck, and Byrne instead of Agitha, Midna, and Zant, THEN your argument would hold some weight.
** This game doesn't follow any of the timelines, it's its own thing aside from the canon.
** No, it clearly follows the child timeline. Non-canon it may be, (which is bullcrap in my opinion, especially when there's a Game Over timeline) but this game takes place in the child timeline. Wind Waker is treated as a parallel universe, and we have Twilight Princess characters. Anyway, Zelda probably didn't know her ancestor used the Sheik guise in another timeline. She likely just figured posing as a Sheikah would be the most effective way to hide. She mostly relies on her harp as Sheik, so [[WildMassGuessing perhaps her martial arts came from training with Impa, which Zelda slightly modified for her ninja disguise.]] And it's clear Impa is important to her (she sticks solely to Impa the entire time she's disguised), so that may have played a part.
*** The reason the game is non-canon is so Nintendo doesn't have explain why every character in the series has had these awesome combat movesets all this time and yet never bothered to use them.
** Correct me if I'm wrong, but Zelda didn't know that her enemy was a time-gazing witch when she assumed the Sheik disguise...right? So at that point in time, she could be forgiven for assuming it to be an effective disguise.

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* Why does ''Legends'' have Skull Kid wearing Majora's Mask when you play as him? It may sound like I'm nitpicking, but the mask was supposed to be a bad influence on him, drawing strength from Skull Kid's depression and bitterness in order to try and cause mayhem. He was just a lonely child who was using the mask to take out his anger on others...It clearly wasn't supposed to be a ''good thing'' that he was using it, and he seemed to learn to make friends without it in the end, so why is he shown using it here?

** It's iconic to his character, a similarly could be said about the fused shadows. They were destroyed in Twlight Princess, yet imp Midna wears it.
** But the Fused Shadows didn't do anything ''evil'' like Majora's Mask did. Besides, just because it's iconic? What sort of a message is that? "It's okay to use something that's addictive and very, very bad for you, as long as it looks cool? As long as people like you more when you're wearing it?"
*** Excuse me, what? The Fused Shadows are shown to be ''very'' evil, and ''very'' corrupting, in much the same way Majora's Mask is. Fyrus is a downright good Goron turned into a monster by mere proximity to a single piece of the Fused Shadow, Lanayru waens Link about its corrupting influence, and Midna is shown to have very flimsy control of the full artifact when she uses it. The effects may be less world-ending than Majora's Mask, but it's definitely not a safe artifact.
** You do know every piece of fanservice isn't there to send some moralistic message, right? It's there because it's identified with the character. You asked the question, you got the answer.
** Skull Kid is in this game as a villain. Him using the mask is not supposed to be seen as a "good thing" at all.
** There are some quotes he has that also show the mask may have more control over skull kid than he realizes.
** To add to that, there's his boss intro, giving him the title "Majora's Puppet: Skull Kid", a much more sinister title compared to "Demon Lord: Ghirahim" or "The Hero: Link", showing that Skull Kid is not fully in control of his actions.
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** Perhaps the Guardian is there to signal others to step in. To awaken a Link, or direct intervention from the Goddesses

* So both Cia and Ganondorf end up obtaining the complete Triforce at different points in the game, with Cia making it look criminally easy. Cia's goal is to have Link all to herself, so she uses the Triforce's omnipotent power to... mix the timelines together for the BiggerBad's evil plan. Why didn't Cia just wish for Link to be hers forever and for Zelda to vanish? And when Ganondorf tries to hijack the plot, she separates the Triforce, then uses the Triforce of Power to seal Ganondorf. WHY?! Why couldn't she use the whole Triforce for that? What was the point of separating it? And then we have the latter, who uses the Triforce to gather power to become Ganon again. That is more reasonable, but that still begs the question why he didn't use the Triforce to wish for all the heroes to vanish as soon as the battle started going south. Both villains get the ultimate power and they both waste it! Is there any reason behind this or is it just bad writing?

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** [[spoiler:By that time, there was no point in hiding her true identity, since Cia already discovered the secret after gaining the Triforce of Wisdom from her Sheik alter ego.]]
** RuleOfCool. She needed to have a cool reveal while fighting [[spoiler:Dark Zelda/Wizzro.]]
** As far as how Zelda learned to fight as Sheik, it could be HandWaved if one assumes the "Guise of Sheik" is just another magical weapon of the Hyrulian Royal Family. ''Ocarina of Time'' Zelda used Sheik in the past, so perhaps the magical powers that allowed that Zelda to be a Sheikah Warrior was passed down generations, the same as the Goddess Harp, Royal Rapier, Wind Waker, and Dominion Rod. As for ''why'' she remained as Sheik [[spoiler:after her Triforce piece was stolen]], it could be that she was afraid that if she revealed herself, Impa would refuse to let her continue fighting, and this Zelda didn't want to just sit safely in her castle while her entire kingdom was in peril. Of course, a lot of this is just conjecture.

* Related to the above, aside from just having a reason to get her into the game, ''what exactly'' was the point of the whole Sheik persona? Zelda's excuse was flimsy at best. Cia [[spoiler:stole her Triforce 2 levels]] before Zelda turned back to normal. And the enemy even used Zelda's disappearance to cause even more trouble for the Hylian forces. And of course, once she changes back, the whole thing is never mentioned again.

* Cia's the one who cursed Midna in this game, right? How is she gonna fix that? [[spoiler:She never does get cured of the condition at the end, which takes place after Cia's death, even.]]

* So both Cia and [[spoiler:Ganondorf]] end up obtaining the complete Triforce at different points in the game, with Cia making it look criminally easy. Cia's goal is to have Link all to herself, so she uses the Triforce's omnipotent power to... mix the timelines together for the BiggerBad's evil plan. Why didn't Cia just wish for Link to be hers forever and for Zelda to vanish? And when [[spoiler:Ganondorf tries to hijack the plot, she separates the Triforce, then uses the Triforce of Power to seal Ganondorf. WHY?! Why couldn't she use the whole Triforce for that? What was the point of seperating it?]] And then we have the latter, who uses the Triforce to [[spoiler:gather power to become Ganon again.]] That is more reasonable, but that still begs the question [[spoiler:why he didn't use the Triforce to wish for all the heroes to vanish as soon as the battle started going south.]] Both villains get the ultimate power and they both waste it! Is there any reason behind this or is it just bad writing?

** Perhaps evil fell to vices: Cia to pettiness and [[spoiler:Ganondorf]] to pride. At first, under the BigBad's influence, Cia was not able to bring about her own wish, and later, in order to spite [[spoiler:Ganondorf]], she performs her acts in defiance of the BigBad. As for [[spoiler:Ganondorf]] -- come on, it's [[spoiler:the King of Evil himself]], they've got to show their stuff, which translates to personally squashing the resistance with extreme prejudice.

** I kind of took the 'destined for each other' bit as more that their destinies would always intertwine due to the triforce and such, doesn't necessarily have to be romantic (big case being Twilight Princess). Mind you, I ship Zelink like nobodies business (TP being like the only exception due to Midna and Illia having better chemistry with Link in that game), but I think the 'destined for romance' idea may have been an oversight in the writing or the translation. At the very least, the way I see it is Cia, watching Link and Zelda's destinies constantly being involved with each other, regardless of how platonic they may be, became jealous of how they were destined to be involved in each other's lives. That being said, while the relationship wasn't handled particularly well, the game's story is as basic as basic gets. I don't think it was meant to be deep anyway so this could be over analyzing what is supposed to be a fairly shallow story.

** Legends expands the story a bit more, and in the new ending [[spoiler:Cia is resurrected and Lana and Cia work together as the guardians of the timelines.]]

[[folder: Zelda's body]]
* Where is Toon Zelda's body while she's busy fighting foes in ''Hyrule Warriors''? If it's during the time that Malladus was possessing it, why isn't she doing anything to try and get it back? If not, does that mean her spirit can leave her body at will now?
** Presumably tucked away so it won't git dirty.
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** Maybe saying "someone named Zelda" instead of just "Zelda" was her way of differentiating between the newcomer and the princess from her own time?

** Hey, maybe she did wish for Link to be hers, in a way... Maybe she wished for it to make her happier by letting her have a loving relationship with Link, but the Triforce did so by giving this relationship to Lana, her other half, in the form of a ''friendship'' as opposed to a romantic one. It was Lana accepting Link as a friend and conveying this feeling of acceptance to Cia that allowed her to attain happiness, if only briefly, in the end... Maybe.