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General:

  • It's okay to take bribes from enemy monsters not to tell where they are, but duly appointed (albeit brainwashed) guardians of the royal family must be killed for standing in your way!
  • If you're The Hero, it's perfectly acceptable for you to break into people's homes, destroy their property, and rummage through/steal their personal belongings. Cupboards, however, are strictly off-limits.
  • Hacking up the local plant and animal life is a good way to find money.
  • A small child with no combat experience or training is the only one who can defeat an army of monsters.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time:

  • A king should immediately cease contacts with an allied race because his ten year old daughter thinks their leader looks evil. It's also completely unreasonable for him not to believe her, when she says that some vague dream about clouds is a prophecy about how evil that allied leader is. However, another ten-year-old claiming to have come back from a future in which said leader took over the country will immediately convince him.
  • Adults can’t pick up sticks or use slingshots, that’s just too childish. Go find a bow and shoot an arrow through a lit torch at your target with expert precision while standing on a rotating platform rather than just walk over to your target with a burning stick, you wimp.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask:

  • Do you want to be treated like an adult? Carry a lethal weapon at all times. If you wear a cow mask as well, you'll be considered even more mature.
  • Impersonating people's loved ones is a perfectly acceptable way to help solve their immediate problems. You also shouldn't worry about the effect your sudden absence will have on them once you return to your own country, even if they thought you were their boyfriend or the leader of the tribe.
  • Even if you change shape right in front of people, no one will ever realize you're the same person.
  • If you encounter a dying person, you should remove their face and wear it in order to impersonate them.
  • When it comes to side quests, even if you know that your actions will have no lasting benefits for other people it's still ok to do them for the lasting benefits to yourself.
  • Being turned into a child won't upset your fiance, all that matters is that you have your wedding band.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess:

  • People should respect your honorable qualities and fear your darker qualities. But they should never learn that you have both, and certainly shouldn't believe that your darker aspects are being harnessed for the greater good.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening:

  • Shoplifting is punishable by DEATH!
  • Going hiking on a dangerous mountain is fine, even if you know you'll get lost and stranded. A stranger with extra food will come along and help you.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

  • Rain is the worst weather there is, and it's extremely easy and common to be struck by lightning.
  • An Interspecies Romance with a fish-like humanoid is a beautiful thing.
  • Eat any wild mushroom you find. It will replenish your health and heal your wounds.
  • Medicine is made from bug bits, parts of lizards, and the bones and teeth of monsters. Turns out that 'eye of newt' stuff was pretty accurate science.
  • The best way to motivate your daughter is to insult what she loves and demand she take seriously everything else in her life that you are slowly making her despise and is forcing her down a road of depression and sorrow. Don't apologize, as something will always go horribly wrong the day you try.
    • Age of Calamity Corollary: Every beloved item that you confiscate from her will save your life later as a result. Keep up the good work!
  • Shady voices who promise you amazing services in return for large sums of money upfront are to be trusted. However, friendly travelling merchants may actually be trying to kill you.
  • Anyone whose name you don't know is probably going to try to kill you.
  • Before digging up a robot army, make sure you know what a password manager is.
  • Every song in existence was written specifically to help you become stronger. And only you.
  • Wolves are cowards who give up easily. They're also delicious!
  • Weapons are made out of paper. If you found one that doesn't break in a few swings? Use it to cut down trees.

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