WMG / The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Link's wish was, at least in part...

For all those innocents who died to be brought back. Thus explaining the unexplained return of the King, Link's uncle, the Flute boy, and presumably all the guards who ended up in the crossfire.

Zelda is Link's...

• Sister.
• Destiny.
  • Supported by this line from the GBA re-release of ALttP: "{Link}... you must rescue Princess Zelda. Our people are fated to do so." Then again, it is never explained who "our people" are.
    • The whole reason that Link can do the quest is that after his uncle dies, he is the last remaining descendant of the Knights of Hyrule who can fulfill the prophecy/legend. That's almost certainly the meaning of "our people".
• Comical Third Option!
  • She's destined to be his sister. But Fate (or possibly The Lady) took a Comical Third Option and made him an orphan!
• Mother. Cue extremely dramatic and also tragic background story involving time travel gone awry, loads and loads of confusion over where the next Zelda comes from, and speculation for Link being the new King of Hyrule, which also possibly makes him his own father.
• Father.
• "... princess... protect her... with your life..." * croaks at a much less WMG-friendly point in the conversation*
• DINNER.
• Density
• Liege lady, and he is duty-bound to help her in her time of need.
• Daughter.
• Father's brother's nephew's cousin's FORMER ROOMMATE!

Zelda would often sneak her non-noble friends in and out of the castle at night

This explains why the non-hostile guards don't react when they see her following Link; they think she's up to her usual hijinks.

Agahnim was possessed.

At the end of A Link to the Past, it's implied in-game that Agahnim was simply Ganon in disguise (he calls Agahnim "my alter-ego"), but the way Agahnim falls dead and Ganon's essence flies out of his body suggests to me that the wizard was once a normal man whom Ganon possessed. Maybe he was an innocent man who was entrapped by Ganon, or maybe he was wicked to begin with and intentionally let Ganon out of the Dark World. In addition, his pale skin brings to mind Zelda's appearance in Twilight Princess when she's possessed by Ganondorf.

• Supported in the manga for ALttP (not the Nintendo Power comics), where he was an old friend of Link's father.

Link's Uncle was another Link

Though clearly not in the best of shape, a lot of peripheral material claims that Link's Uncle was once a warrior and defender of the realm, which feeds off Link having descended from a line of nearly-extinct knights (meaning Uncle did too.) This could help explain why he got Zelda's call for help as well, and completely put to bed any questioning why he owns a sword and shield. In fact, if he hadn't gotten killed first thing in the game, we might have even seen him with the Master Sword. However, regardless of whether or not Link's Uncle was another Link, It's the player character Link's destiny, not his Uncle's, to save Hyrule.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is a spinoff to A Link to the Past

It takes place much later in the Dark World. The people who went in could not get out, and eventually evolved into Pokémon. This is why there are no people in that series as well.

ALttP takes place in New Hyrule.

IIRC ALttP is already believed to be the last chronologically because of what happens to the Master Sword or something like that. The castle layout is a big ALttP nod.

• Jossed. ALttP takes place in a different timeline from the one where New Hyrule is founded.

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