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That'd be fantastic if it was Samus.

I entirely support her being Samus.

edited 1st Jun '16 12:39:57 PM by TobiasDrake

I don't know, Samus doesn't seem the type to be impressed just because someone does photocopies for Captain Falcon.

But then, that could just be me reading into the comic too much.

But then maybe that's just misleading/misguiding the fact that right next to that is a picture of Mr. Fish. Which does seem like something Samus might actually be impressed by.

Still, can't say I'm entirely sold on the idea of Samus being the secret identity of Jared's internet girlfriend.

edited 1st Jun '16 1:48:58 PM by TheSpaceJawa

Manly Guys Doing Manly Voice Acting.

edited 1st Jun '16 1:49:30 PM by thebandragoness

That Jared's girlfriend hooked up with him because she was impressed by Jared's celebrity coworkers is just Commander's speculation.

This reminds me of Coelasquid's Ganon.

Yeah, in attitude especially. Not bad drawing. Not too bad at all.

I see that author goes with the "Fi has no arms" theory, as opposed to "Fi's arms are sewn into her cape." That said, yeah, that does seem similar to 'Squid's Ganondorf. I actually kinda wonder what MGDMT Ganondorf feels about that particular timeline.

I've always thought that while ganondorf is all to happy to fuck around with link, his Toon counterpart scares ganondorf shitless.

Commander: He's Just a Kid!

Ganondorf: He crushed the skull of my pet bird then put his sword through mine.

Well, the Child Soldier aspect of a younger Link is pretty unnerving, though the fact that a young Link is the one that definitively ended one aspect of him is also significant.

Ganondorf keeps dying to kids. The Hero of Time is also a kid, mentally.

That wasn't a death.

@2661 Well, I wasn't being euphemistic - I don't just mean that the Hero of Winds killed him (though he certainly did that), but he literally ended Ganondorf's cycle of reincarnation on that timeline. Ganondorf can certainly handle a bit of getting killed (happens all the time, really), but to have that death stick? That probably affects him deeply.

Ganondorf doesn't have a cycle of reincarnation.

He just tends to get resurrected.

There was that one time his soul may have possessed his descendent via a cursed trident, but that's not quite reincarnation.

Okay, that's hair-splitting, and you know what I meant. It's not reincarnating in a Dungeons & Dragons sense, but it still fits.

I wouldn't call D&D's Reincarnate spell actual reincarnation either.

Ganon's been killed and resurrected a few times, and sealed and unsealed considerably more times. But he's never died and passed on, his soul being reborn as a newborn child not knowing of his previous life, the way it sometimes happens with Link. His is one persisting identity.

Okay, if we're going to insist on splitting hairs, "reincarnation" is the act of a spirit retaking physical form. In several religions, such as Buddhism, reincarnation is done by the process of a post-death spirit being placed into a new body at birth. However, any spirit that lost its body (be it by death, ascension, or whatever method one may desire) that subsequently takes a new physical form is reincarnating. If you want to be precise, Ganondorf has been shown to reincarnate several times without being reborn. Link and Zelda have an explicit rebirth cycle (the mechanics of which have never been fully explored, and I strongly suspect that they never will).

Link doesn't reincarnate either. There have, in fact, been two Links at a single time.

On one occasion, there were two Zeldas, which is a bit weirder given that she is supposed to reincarnate but Early-Installment Weirdness might cover that one. The two Links were much more recent.

edited 3rd Jun '16 2:34:24 PM by TobiasDrake

I thought that the general term of a spirit taking corporeal form was just "incarnation", and "reincarnation" refers to the rebirth of a soul into a new life after death.

There have been many instances in which there were two Zeldas. Think about it: it's a royal family with a single line of succession. Every princess, and then Queen, is named Zelda. Unless every Princess Zelda's mother died in childbirth, there will have been a period of years in which Princess Zelda knows Queen Zelda as her mother.

That's a good point. So while we know that Zelda reincarnates, there is no guarantee that any given Zelda is THE Zelda. Especially since only a minority of them have actually possessed the Triforce of Wisdom.

It's possible that she may not reincarnate in the way Link does. After all, the curse was placed on the Hero's spirit, and on Zelda's blood. Hard to tell for sure.

Don't forget about old man Link from LTTP being in ALBW.

I think he's aLink, but I doubt he's ALTTP Link. ALBW is far enough away that ALTTP has faded into legend.

Cable needs to invest in some pocket labels.