History Characters / TheLegendOfZelda

* ImpliedLoveInterest: A lot of fans see her as Link's one true love even though their relationship in most of the games is purely platonic.

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* SpinOff: Freshly-picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland.

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* CatchPhrase: "NAYRU!!![[MemeticMutation !!!!!!!!!!!!!]][[OverlyLongGag !!!!!!!!!!!]]"

* SayMyName: "NAYRU!!!"

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* CatchPhrase: "NAYRU!!![[MemeticMutation !!!!!!!!!!!!!]] [[OverlyLongGag !!!!!!!!!!!]]"

* FireyRedhead
* [[GrandfatherParadox Grandmother Paradox]]: Queen Ambi.

* OneWingedAngel: One she doesn't want anyone to see.

* [[spoiler:OurGhostsAreDifferent: In ''SpiritTracks''. Expect lots of "''Thank you Zelda, [[{{supermariobrothers}} but your body is in another dungeon]].''"]]

* [[spoiler:OurGhostsAreDifferent: In ''SpiritTracks''. Expect lots of "''Thank you Zelda, but your body is in another dungeon.''"]]

* LawfulEvil

** Apparently happens again in ''SpiritTracks'', only this time her soul's been put in a suit of armor. Multiple suits of armor, in fact. Also in ''Spirit Tracks'', [[spoiler:[[BiggerBad Maladus]]]] inhabits her empty shell as part of a boss battle.

** Apparently happens again in ''SpiritTracks'', only this time her soul's been put in a suit of armor. Multiple suits of armor, in fact. Also in ''Spirit Tracks'', [[spoiler:[[BiggerBad Maladus]] inhabits her empty shell as part of a boss battle.

* ChaoticGood

** Several, in this case, meaning four.

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* PantsFree: Played straight in most of the earlier games, generally averted after ''Majora's Mask''.

** I first played ''OcarinaOfTime'' in a store display. Seeing the label, "Zelda," I assumed that the main character was female based on that. The fact that Link is {{Bishonen}} didn't help.

* IAmNotShazam

* MagicMusic: The Ocarina, flute, etc.

* NobuyukiHiyama (Adult Link's seiyuu in ''Ocarina of Time'' and spinoff series until ''Twilight Princess''. Quite possibly his most recognizable role in America (In Japan, it's [[GaoGaiGar Guy Shishioh]]).)
** In a moment of grand, awesome coincidence, both characters' main trait is their Courage.
** Nintendo seems to often chose Link's voice actors according to such details, since his newest seiyuu in SpiritTracks is ''Yuuki Kodaira'', whose first name [[strike: litteraly]] is a homophone of [[strike: means]] "Courage". [[FridgeBrilliance This is too awesome to be a coincidence]]!
* OneManArmy: Repeatedly shown to be utterly superior to Hyrule's ''official'' [[RedShirtArmy army]].

* WarriorPoet: Often speculated to be this in {{Fanon}} judging by the multitude of instruments the various Links play.

** Apparently happens again in ''SpiritTracks'', only this time her soul's been put in a suit of armor. Yes, ''a suit of armor''.
** Similarities to FullMetalAlchemist are completely coincidental, I guess.

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Not really, you only see Shiek when she wants you to

* PirateGirl: [[CaptainObvious See]] [[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy above.]]

* SignificantAnagram: In the italian version of ''TheWindWaker'', Tetra's name is "Dazel".

* {{Tsundere}}: Tetra is a very good friend of Link. A very good friend who mercilessly catapults him against a solid wall of stone, talks him down at every given opportunity and wonders aloud how an [[YouSuck Idiot like him]] did manage to save her from Ganondorf.

* AGodAmI: He masquerades as a god in ''Twilight Princess.''

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Him and all the Gerudo people, they live in deserts, so it's probably justified. Ganondorf himself, however, is Ambiguously ''Green''.
* {{Archenemy}}
* BackFromTheDead: This happened if you got a Game Over in ''Zelda II.''

* DualWield: Does this in ''Wind Waker''

** It's implied, particularly in ''Ocarina of Time,'' that the Triforce of Power grants him immortality.

* LegacyCharacter: Actually subverted. Its heavily implied, if not outright stated, that every one of his appearances throughout the series is the same Ganon.

* ScaryBlackMan: Only because there's no page for Scary Green Man yet.

* UnfortunateImplications: Hasn't anyone else raised their eyebrows over the fact that the only dark-skinned man is the main villain? And that, being from the desert, he is basically an [[EvilForeigner Evil Arab]]?
** YourMileageMayVary: Although these examples are both female, Nabooru is also dark-skinned and is a Sage, and Telma is overwhelmingly a good character; it is strongly implied that she's of Gerudo ancestry. His race isn't used to accentuate his evil qualities; most Gerudo follow Ganondorf [[LawfulNeutral merely because their laws mandate that they do]], not because they're an evil [[PlanetOfHats Nation of Hats]]. Finally, his human character design first came out with Ocarina of Time, which was in 1998, three years before 9/11 and major outbreaks of Arab Peril.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Unless the player is fast with button presses, she doesn't normally say "Listen!" right after "Hey!".

* [[HeyItsThatVoice Hey Listen, It's That Voice!]]: [[WhatTheHellCastingAgency *deep breath*]] [[KaoriMizuhashi ...She's]] [[{{Disgaea}} Laharl.]]

* StopHelpingMe: '''Hey! Listen!!'''
** YourMilageMayVary: Not only did she not bother this troper much in his playthrough, but he found her voice to be actually comforting. A sort of lone friend in a hostile environment thing.
*** Same here. For all of her hatedom Navi has quite the large fandom.

* ReplacementScrappy: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]: she ''replaces'' a Scrappy.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection

A fairy with LaserGuidedAmnesia, who found Link on the shore. She helps him throughout ''Phantom Hourglass''

* ExpositionFairy: Well, she not an Expy of Navi [[spoiler:and Tatl]] for nothing, right?
* DeadpanSnarker: Only regarding Linebeck. She does not just hate his Jerk-like, cowardly behaviour, she despises it... [[spoiler:which is kind of justified, since she's the spirit of courage]]. She still seems to like the "Heart of Gold part" in his "Jerk".

* DirtyOldMan: He's several hundreds years old yet its mentioned in the Four Swords he kidnaps young girls soley out of lust.

The demon trapped inside Majora's Mask. When the mischievous Skull Kid steals the Mask, it begins to corrupt him, causing the moon to slowly crash into Termina. Not much is said about it, but it remains one of the only Zelda villains to not be HijackedByGanon.

* HeelFaceTurn: Averted. The Twinrova sisters in Majora's Mask sure look the same, and have the same names and color coding at all, but similar things can be said for several other suspiciously similar characters of the same game...

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Actually 400 years old, but one of the twins insists that she's only 380.

A suspicious wizard who appears out of nowhere in the backstory for ''A Link to the Past.'' He performs magic to heal people and halt natural disasters. The king is naturally a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter and makes him his adviser. Agahnim promptly kills the king and begins sacrificing maidens to open the door to the DarkWorld.

* HijackedByGanon: One of the earliest examples. [[spoiler:He's actually (probably) Ganon in disguise.]]
* PlayingTennisWithTheBoss: Again, one of the earliest examples.

* TimeStop: How you get it to stop so you can hit its weak point.

* TheDragon

* DemonicSpider
* TheDragon

* MsFanService

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted. He only fought on Ganondorf's side because he thought he was stronger.

* LawfulNeutral: ...kinda

* BigBad

* LargeHam: While having three lines total in the whole game, each of them still manages to be incredibly hammy.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Shows several instances of it. First he skips the elaborate plans and kills Zelda at the beginning of the game, and then, later on [[spoiler: [[FlawExploitation he uses Zelda's fear of mice against her]] in a boss battle.]]

* TheDragon

Byrne (or Staven in the European translations) is Chancellor Cole's right-hand man in ''SpiritTracks.'' He is a renegade member of the Lokomo tribe who turned away from the Spirits of Good and served the Demon King. [[spoiler: After Cole betrays him, Byrne helps Link and Zelda defeat Malladus.]]

* EpilepticTrees[=/=]{{Fanon}}: It is believed that he is the incarnation of Rauru, the Sage of Light. Although it says in ''Ocarina of Time'' that he may be an incarnation of an ancient sage, it doesn't explicitly tell us who it is.

* HeroesWantRedHeads: According to Link/Malon shippers, anyway.

* NightmareFuel ([[NightmareFuelUnleaded Unleaded]]): He can be [[{{Understatement}} kind of creepy]] at times.
* ShoutOut: Some of the masks he is carrying resemble {{Mario}}, Elvis, and [[StarWars Darth Maul]].

* MacGuffinGirl

* MacGuffinGirl

*{{Fanon}}/EpilepticTrees: While she herself states to have been Tetra's friend, the [[WildMassGuessing theory]] that she actually is Tetra herself, ascended to another race, is still very popular. Popular enough, in fact, to have survived the release of the game without getting an obligatory {{Jossed}} marking on the WMG page.

*[[MrExposition Mrs. Exposition]]

* EpilepticTrees: Due to some simmilarities in terms of personality and both using the TomeIsWhereTheHeatIs trope, it is speculated by some that Shad from ''TwilightPrincess'' is his AlternateTimeline counterpart.

* GrandpaGod (Okay, he may not be God, but he looks like the common depiction of him)
* IncorruptiblePurePureness (He is the Sage of Light, after all)
* JusticeWillPrevail (Even if we wait seven years to act while the King of Evil takes control of Hyrule)

* [[{{Precursors}} Precursor]]: He is one of the original Sages who created the Temple of Time/Temple of Light to protect the Triforce from evil.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's a Kokiri, and stays a child forever- so we don't actually know how old she is, though she's definitely older than Link.

* PlantAliens: Just that he's not an alien. His race even used to be humanoid.

* EpilepticTrees: Some think that she may be descended from the Gerudo.

** Possibly a ShoutOut to a very similar EscortMission from Majora's Mask... except with much bigger breasts, a Link old enough to fully enjoy it, and uh... ...wait, what do you mean, no MarshmallowHell!?

* TeamMom

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* LawfulGood

* NeutralEvil
** LawfulEvil in ''Wind Waker'', arguably.

** YourMilageMayVary: Not only did she not bother this troper much in his playthrough, but he found her voice to be acctually comforting. A sort of lone friend in a hostile environment thing.