History ComicBook / TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Molderm.

* AttackItsWeakpoint:

* BittersweetEnding: In the end, Link saves the day, kills Ganon and wins Zelda's heart... [[spoiler:but they can never be together because he has to guard the Triforce forever, all alone]].

* DeadlyGaze: Agahnihm paralyzes Link by glaring at him, rendering him unable to stop him from transporting Zelda to the Dark World.

* ForgotICouldntSwim: When the Water Palace begins to flood, the Taurus grabs onto a Hirox, gasping that he can't swim. The Taurus's armor ends up dragging them both underwater.

See also ''Manga/TheLegendOfZelda'' manga, which includes other adaptations of ''A Link to the Past''; and ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZelda'' comics by Valiant, which were also made specifically for an American audience. For the Mario Bros. comic that ran concurrently with this one, see ''ComicBook/SuperMarioAdventures''.

* WomanInWhite: Zelda on horseback in the epilogue.

** CombinedEnergyAttack: Zelda begins to ask for the aid of the maidens and fires an ordinary arrow from the crossbow, but as it approaches Ganon, the power of the maidens, Zelda, Link, and Roam, turn the arrow into the Silver Arrow, destroying Ganon.

* AlienGeometries: The Ice Palace is featured in the comic, except it is called the Ice Tower and [[http://www.zeldawiki.org/File:Tower_of_Ice_%28comic%29.png spans both sides of a canyon]].

* AttackItsWeakpoint: When tangling with one of Agahnim's soldiers, Link zips around him and holds him at swordpoint, demanding to be taken to the Princess. His sword accidentally stabs through a convenient hole in the soldier's armor ("[[BigWhat What?]]"), causing him to explode into light and leaves his armor [[NoBodyLeftBehind clattering to the floor]].

* MrExposition: Several, with Sahashrala and the archetypical Old Man being most prominent.

* PowerGlows: The Pendants.

* [[spoiler:StarCrossedLovers]]: Link and Zelda in the epilogue.

* PGExplosives: Traditional ''Zelda'' bombs are replaced with pineapple grenades (dubbed "firecorn") in the comic.

* AncestralWeapon: Sahashrala reveals to Link that he is the son of Hyrilian knights. This puts him in the running to wield the Master Sword, like Roam.

A serial comic for ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' magazine by the acclaimed manga author ShotaroIshinomori, and later collected in graphic novel form, this told an alternate version of the events from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast.'' Despite the involvement of UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese talent, it was produced for a North American audience, and is not considered to be a {{Manga}}.

* LovedINotHonorMore / MarriedToTheJob: [[spoiler:Link grows distant after Ganon's defeat, dedicating his life to guarding the Triforce.]]

* NamelessNarrative: The boy from Kakariko doesn't have a canon name, and is known as "Sahasrala's friend."

* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Inverted -- Link mistakes a Rocklops for a statue. "[[DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat Don't scare me like that!]]"

* RuleOfDrama: Link cannot travel freely between worlds and is trapped in the Dark World once Agahnim transports him there. He maintains his form in the Dark World by controlling his emotions, whereas in the game the Moon Pearl is needed to keep human form.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Roam may technically be a good guy, but he is one creepy suspicious mamma-jamma.

##Agahnim and Ganon are explicitly shown to be different beings, communicating between worlds in one scene. (The Agahnim in Ganon's Castle, however, is just a {{glamour}} used by Ganon himself.)
##The events of the Dark World are heavily abridged, and Link only saves two maidens before finding Zelda; though Link visits Misery Mire and the Ice Palace, no maidens are imprisoned there.
##The Wizzrobe impersonating Zelda is an obvious riff on Blind the Thief. Rather than revert to his true form in sunlight, he waits for Link to sidle up before doing a creepy FaceRevealingTurn.
##The collection of items vital to the game's completion are either changed (the "Bird") or excised entirely, with only the Book of Mudora appearing in the same capacity.
## Interestingly, the Eastern Temple more resembles the game's Great Pyramid. In exchange, Ganon's lair has been modified into an alien-looking orb.

* WeirdMoon: A full moon hovers over Hyrule, counting down the nights until Agahnim's spell. In the Dark World, the moon sports a [[BadMoonRising skull face]].

* StopHelpingMe: The Boy cheers Link on by pounding the head of one the statues that pour into the fountain. This triggers the Swamp Palace in the Dark World to get flooded, washing away the monsters ''and'' Link. "[[OhCrap Uh-oh.]]"
** Subverted in that the flooding water helps him defeat the two enemies he was fighting and get him to a high hole in the wall.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Boy cheers Link on by pounding the head of one the statues that pour into the fountain. This triggers the Swamp Palace in the Dark World to get flooded, washing away the monsters ''and'' Link. "[[OhCrap Uh-oh.]]"
** Subverted in that the flooding water helps him defeat the two enemies he was fighting and get him to a high hole in the wall.

* ShortCutsMakeLongDelays: Epheremelda doesn't buy into the idea that Zelda has suddenly warped from Turtle Rock to the wasteland, and recommends that they go find the map first. Link, blinded by his devotion, forges ahead and mounts of a successful rescue of...a Wizzrobe. Whoops.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Link fighting the Trinexx. "This is one schitzoid serpent!"

A serial comic for ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' magazine by the acclaimed manga author ShotaroIshinomori, and later collected in graphic novel form, this told an alternate version of the events from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast''

* DeadlyGaze: Aganihm paralyzes Link by glaring at him, rendering him unable to stop him from transporting Zelda to the Dark World.

* AdaptationalBadass: Link's Uncle is more of a badass in this adaptation. Instead of being overrun and killed in the very first room of the dungeon, he is struck down by no less than Agahnim himself. This is technically keeping in continuity, as we never see his attacker in ''Link to the Past'' (though it could have been a rat).

* BadassInDistress: Link ends up getting thrashed by a ''Wizzrobe'', of all things, requiring Zora to rescue him.
** Then again, they ''are'' DemonicSpiders...
* BittersweetEnding In the end, Link saves the day, kills Ganon and wins Zelda's heart... [[spoiler:but they can never be together because he has to guard the Triforce forever, all alone]]. Some reward.

See also ''Manga/TheLegendOfZelda'' manga, which includes other adaptations of ''A Link to the Past''; and ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZelda'' comics by Valiant, which were also made specifically for an American audience.

* BlessedWithSuck & LoveHurts: The comic adaptation has one the most downbeat endings ever found in the ''Zelda'' universe. Zelda laments that her [[PsychicLink psychic bond]] with Link makes [[spoiler:their separation]] physically painful, and this will likely continue until both of their deaths.

* BlessedWithSuck: Zelda laments that her [[PsychicLink psychic bond]] with Link makes [[spoiler:their separation]] eternally painful.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Is there anything the handy Master Sword ''can't'' do? In addition to it's established powers (deflecting Agahnim's magic and paralyzing Ganon), it can channel Link's rage into energy, causing electric storms.

* StopHelpingMe: The Boy cheers Link on by pounding the head of one the statues that pour into the fountain. This triggers the Swamp Palace in the Dark World to get flooded, washing away the monsters ''and'' Link. "[[OhCrap Uh-oh.]]"
** Subverted in that the flooding water helps him defeat the two enemies he was fighting and get him to a high hole in the wall.

* ShortCutsMakeLongDelays: Epheremelda doesn't buy into the idea that Zelda has suddenly warped from Turtle Rock to the wasteland, and recommends that they go find the map first. Link, blinded by his devotion, says no way.