History Fridge / HyruleWarriors

* Why do ''Ocarina of Time'' Stalfos and Stalchildren appear instead of another form of Stalfos, such as ''Twilight Princess''[='=] Staltroops and Stalkin? The other enemy troops are ''Twilight Princess''[='=] Bulblins, ''Skyward Sword''[='=]s Bokoblins, and, in ''Legends'', ''Wind Waker''[='=]s Miniblins. They're in there as ''Ocarina of Time'' representatives first, Stalfos second.

* The Water element in this game causes the damage-over-time effect, unlike, say, Fire or Lightning. The image of the water effect is a large bubble of solid water covering the enemy's head. The damage-over-time is the victim ''drowning''. And now that Young Link from Majora's Mask will be playable, this could potentially lead to comparisons with a [[BenDrowned certain creepypasta]].

*** NightmareRetardant: Ghirahim, who is a sword spirit same as Fi, is shown to have removeable clothing, so it's actually quite possible for the player to simply have stolen her footwear instead of her feet.

* Phantom Ganon not having BossSubtitles seems strange, especially considering that (A) the Helmaroc King, coming from a game that didn't even have the boss' names shown, gets them, and (B) the only other Giant Boss in the game without them is The Imprisoned. But if you pay attention during Ganon's intro, the layout of ''his'' name isn't Subtitles: Name either; it's not '''Dark Beast: Ganon''', it's '''Dark Beast Ganon'''.[[note]]Foreshadowing for ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]''? Maybe.[[/note]] Or, arguably, it's not '''Phantom Ganon''', it's '''Phantom: Ganon'''.

* A lot of people complained that Lana and Cia felt out of place in Hyrule Warriors, being original characters who didn't appear in the franchise before. However, once we know more about their origin, specifically that [[spoiler:they are in fact 2 parts of the same being]], you can begin to notice similarities with another Zelda character. Whose characters in the Zelda universe are both sorceresses who use opposite elements and who can [[spoiler:unite to become a single being]]? Twinrova. Even their colors are similar (Lana and Kotake wear blue and white while Cia and Koume wear mostly red and purple). Cia in particular is Hyrule's [[VideoGame/EternalDarkness Mantorok]], with her being the time guardian - something which Mantorok himself can use - as well as being able to use the timelines - Cia using Hyrule's timelines to beat Zant and Ghriahim, and [[spoiler:Mantorok using the 3 Ancient Timelines against one another]] - to their advantage, whereas they also share the same purple color like Farore / Xel'lotath (Green color, as well as Courage/Madness), Nayru / Ulyaoth (Blue color, using magic and knowledge), and Din / Chattur'gha (Red color, and uses pure power).
* Cia's StalkerShrine to Link features Young Link, Wolf Link, and Right-Handed Link. However, remember the three games whose characters were playable... Ocarina Of Time is the game Young Link comes from, Twilight Princess is the game Wolf Link comes from, and Skyward Sword is the only Zelda game to canonically have a Right-Handed Link. Cia is a creepy stalker towards every Link she could theoretically have met or seen prior to her StartOfDarkness.

* The sudden deconstruction of the OneManArmy trope might seem a bit out of left field for some people, but then again, the game tells you Link had started feeling a bit cocky once he had the Master Sword, like he could do anything. Wouldn't most players think that once they had the Master Sword, considering obtaining the Master Sword in a regular Zelda game is normally a late-game thing, and it is used to help take down the final boss? I'd say the game was talking about the player as much as it was about Link.

* For the game advertising that it unites the Zelda games, it only really draws elements from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]], and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]], with references to other games being mere cameos at best. It really bugged me at first (especially as a fan of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]), but then I realised: all of these games fit on the Child Timeline of the Zelda canon. This game could very well be set in the Child Timeline, perhaps some several generations after Twilight Princess, and Cia was able to unite several points in time into one realm... but she couldn't quite break into the alternate timelines!
* In the new Majora's Mask Adventure Mode map, as per the usual with the previous maps, it resembles Termina with each area spread out in the four directions. None of the areas connect to each other... except the east (Ikana Canyon) and south (Woodfall), like they did through a tunnel in the river that transports Link from the canyon to outside the swamp potion shop.
* In the Badge Market, the item used to represent a longer Special Attack bar is the Fierce Diety mask. When the Majora's Mask Pack came out and introduced Young Link, what is the best use of his Special Attack bar? Converting it to Magic to maintain his Fierce Deity form.
* Kinda a Cross game Meta example; doubles as [[AC:FridgeHorror]] in a Meta way as well, but Young Link is based off of his [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]] appearance, in which you only had 3 days to save the land of Termina, in Hyrule Warriors the Maximum amount of Special Attack bars is 3, by playing the Song of Time and transferring His Special attack gauge into his Magic gauge, it's like Young Link is giving up his 3 days to get right to the final confrontation, Fierce Deity vs Majora and [[spoiler:The Moon]]
* Also, Young Link doesn't play the Song of Time in the proper cadence, because that would take too long. Instead he just plays the notes as fast as possible to get the song to register, like a player in his home game might if they were near the End of the Third Day and running out of time.

* To some, Cia's final stand [[spoiler: where she [[CastfromLifespan casts from her own health]] to bolster her forces and magic might not make much sense at first for why she's dying of it.]] But remember, [[spoiler: Cia was split in half, Lana being cast out (along with her good traits) and Cia retaining her normal bad traits, being a literal dark side to Lana's light. Cia's decision to bolster herself and her monsters with her own darkness? All she is IS Darkness. Because she's using her own darkness as fuel, she's quite literally tearing herself apart in any effort to win the hero.]]
* Why is Fi a [[DanceBattler Dance Battler]]? Beyond that she had done so in Skyward Sword to awaken new places to look for the flames, take notice of when she transforms into a sword, especially when charging herself with light. Her head and neck is the pommel and grip, her shoulder-arms are the guard and her legs are the blade! Also abit of Fridge Horror, as what does Ghirahim need for most of his items? Fi's Legs. In other words, it's like he needs the [[spoiler: Master Sword's]] blade for his badges!
* In ''Legends'', Cia's HeelFaceTurn may come out of nowhere until you realize that when Lana rescued her, she was separated from the darkness. Being possessed by Ganondorf probably magnified her lust to the point where it caused her SanitySlippage, pushing her over the edge even after the Demon King regained his physical form. But with the remaining darkness purged from her soul, she was able to regain control of herself as well as her feelings and thus, let Link, Zelda, and the rest of Hyrule be.
** That goes double if you believe the theory that the Temple of Souls is based on Cia's mental world. When Lana arrives there to rescue her, Cia shows none of the hostility she had previously to anyone except the Dark Cia, who she says was trying to consume and replace her. Free of Gannondorf's active influence, she was able to expel the corruption as an EnemyWithout, returning the original to her senses.
* Time for an Adventure Mode entry. On the Twilight Map, you have several items exclusive to Twilight Princess, such as Water Bombs, Fishing Rods, Spinners, and even the Hookshot is redesigned to look like an 8 bit Clawshot. However, among these are the Digging Mitts, which weren't even in that game. This seems out of place, until you remember that Twilight Princess had several areas where Wolf Link had to dig to find a hidden grotto in that game. And none of your characters are wolves, so...
* The Great Sea and Wind Waker maps are based on the map of the great sea for the Wind Waker. Forsaken Fortress is two dungeon based areas together, while the other locations with dungeons just have one. Why is this? Because you originally visited Forsaken Fortress twice!
* Why do Ocarina of Time Stalfos and Stalchildren appear instead of another form of Stalfos, such as Twilight Princess' Staltroops and Stalkin? The other enemy troops are Twilight Princess' Bulblins, Skyward Sword's Bokoblins, and, in Legends, Wind Waker's Miniblins. They're in there as Ocarina of Time representatives first, Stalfos second.

* And on that note, it seems strange at first when she spouts her normal extremely hostile lines to Link in adventure mode. Then you remember that Cia can see all possible time streams, and was the one who opened the gates there in the first place. She has her ''pick'', of whatever Link she likes, and can try again if she drives one away. She has to deal with the one native to her point of observation, win or lose, because otherwise he's fated to screw up her plans.
* Ganondorf's weapons are scary in their own rights (serrated zweihanders, anybody?), but his 8-Bit weapons - dungeon boss keys - are quite silly...until you notice two things. One is that Ganondorf in most games didn't need those boss keys, and secondly is that those boss keys are serrated ''[[KingdomHearts Keyblades]]''.

** For most of the characters, the materials you receive from defeating them are a significant article of clothing - Link's boots and scarf, Lana's hair clip and cloak, and so on. Ganon's and Midna's hair are personal, but those are elements that can be easily regrown. However, the rare drop from Wizzro is his ring. Except that it's revealed that his [[LivingBattery soul]] is in his ring - you take Wizzro's very ''soul'' to reforge into the best defensive badges for the appropriate characters.

* Mixed with ContinuityNod and TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything, notice how there are several Adventure Mode missions labelled as "Defeat the mountain beast!", "Defeat the forest dragon!", "Defeat the island beast!", etc. The missions are as follows: Run through the map, capture keeps, defeat the enemy commander... ''then defeat the giant boss!'' That sounds like a dungeon in any Zelda game, but look where those missions are. They are on the squares where the very first Zelda dungeons are! And the Dark Ruler is located on the same square as the final dungeon of the game!

* A lot of people complained that Lana and Cia felt out of place in Hyrule Warriors, being original characters who didn't appear in the franchise before. However, once we know more about their origin, specifically that [[spoiler:they are in fact 2 parts of the same being]], you can begin to notice similarities with another Zelda character. Whose characters in the Zelda universe are both sorceresses who use opposite elements and who can [[spoiler:unite to become a single being]]? Twinrova. Even their colors are similar (Lana and Kotake wear blue and white while Cia and Koume wear mostly red and purple). Cia in particular is Hyrule's [[EternalDarkness Mantorok]], with her being the time guardian - something which Mantorok himself can use - as well as being able to use the timelines - Cia using Hyrule's timelines to beat Zant and Ghriahim, and [[spoiler:Mantorok using the 3 Ancient Timelines against one another]] - to their advantage, whereas they also share the same purple color like Farore / Xel'lotath (Green color, as well as Courage/Madness), Nayru / Ulyaoth (Blue color, using magic and knowledge), and Din / Chattur'gha (Red color, and uses pure power).

* In this game, Cia is a {{Southpaw}}. That's fine considering she's a villain, right? Not so fast. As stated before, Cia has a [[StalkerWithACrush major]] [[{{Yandere}} crush]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil on Link]], up to and including a StalkerShrine for all the various Links across generations, and considering Link is ''also'' usually a Southpaw... [[NightmareFuel yikes!]]

* A lot of people complained that Lana and Cia felt out of place in Hyrule Warriors, being original characters who didn't appear in the franchise before. However, once we know more about their origin, specifically that [[spoiler:they are in fact 2 parts of the same being]], you can begin to notice similarities with another Zelda character. Whose characters in the Zelda universe are both sorceresses who use opposite elements and who can [[spoiler:unite to become a single being]]? Twinrova. Even their colors are similar (Lana and Kotake wear blue and white while Cia and Koume wear mostly red and purple).
** Cia in particular is Hyrule's [[EternalDarkness Mantorok]], with her being the time guardian - something which Mantorok himself can use - as well as being able to use the timelines - Cia using Hyrule's timelines to beat Zant and Ghriahim, and [[spoiler:Mantorok using the 3 Ancient Timelines against one another]] - to their advantage, whereas they also share the same purple color like Farore / Xel'lotath (Green color, as well as Courage/Madness), Nayru / Ulyaoth (Blue color, using magic and knowledge), and Din / Chattur'gha (Red color, and uses pure power).

** Kinda a Cross game Meta example; doubles as [[AC:FridgeHorror]] in a Meta way as well, but Young Link is based off of his [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]] appearance, in which you only had 3 days to save the land of Termina, in Hyrule Warriors the Maximum amount of Special Attack bars is 3, by playing the Song of Time and transferring His Special attack gauge into his Magic gauge, it's like Young Link is giving up his 3 days to get right to the final confrontation, Fierce Deity vs Majora and [[spoiler:The Moon]]

* The Water element in this game causes the damage-over-time effect, unlike, say, Fire or Lightning. The image of the water effect is a large bubble of solid water covering the enemy's head. The damage-over-time is the victim ''drowning''.
** And now that Young Link from Majora's Mask will be playable, this could potentially lead to comparisons with a [[BenDrowned certain creepypasta]].

* For most of the characters, the materials you receive from defeating them are a significant article of clothing - Link's boots and scarf, Lana's hair clip and cloak, and so on. Ganon's and Midna's hair are personal, but those are elements that can be easily regrown. However, the rare drop from Wizzro is his ring. Except that it's revealed that his [[LivingBattery soul]] is in his ring - you take Wizzro's very ''soul'' to reforge into the best defensive badges for the appropriate characters.
** Adding to the above, the various materials acquired from lesser enemies like Moblins and Aerolfos, which are more often than not ''actual'' body parts like their flank and wing. And Fi's Heels brings a shudder as well, since she is a spirit and unlikely to have removable clothing, implying that the player just cut her feet off [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz for some slippers!]]

** Cia in particular is Hyrule's [[EternalDarkness Mantorok]], with her being the time guardian - something of which Mantorok himself can use - as well as being able to use the timelines - Cia using Hyrule's timelines to beat Zant and Ghriahim, and [[spoiler:Mantorok using the 3 Ancient Timelines against one another]] - to their advantage, where as they also share the same purple color like Farore / Xel'lotath (Green color, as well as Courage/Madness), Nayru / Ulyaoth (Blue color, using magic and knowledge) and Din / Chattur'gha (Red color, and uses pure power.)
* Cia's StalkerShrine to Link features Young Link, Wolf Link, and Right-Handed Link. However, remember the three games whose characters were playable... Ocarina Of Time which is the game Young Link comes from, Twilight Princess which is the game Wolf Link comes from, and Skyward Sword which is the only Zelda game to canonically have a Right-Handed Link. Cia is a creepy stalker towards every Link she could theoretically have met or seen prior to her StartOfDarkness.
* Lana's obviously based on J-pop idols. Take for a moment though in regards to the cultural background behind said J-pop idols. In Japan, idols aren't allowed to have boyfriends due to business related belief that such relationships would destroy the fantasy that they're providing for their audience and customers. With that in mind, [[spoiler: Lana not pursuing Link despite her own feelings]] takes a new, if somewhat more tragic, meaning.
* The sudden deconstruction of the OneManArmy trope might seem a bit out of left field for some people, but then again, the game tells you Link had started feeling a bit cocky once he had the Master Sword, like he could do anything. Wouldn't most players think that once they had the Master Sword, considering obtaining the Master Sword in a regular Zelda game is normally a late game thing, and it is used to help take down the final boss. I'd say the game was talking about the player as much as it was about Link.

* Zelda's weapons consist of the Rapier (a type of sword symbolically associated with royalty, and which her ''Twilight princess'' incarnation was seen wielding), the Baton and the Dominion Rod. Both of the latter are based on the various treasures that have, in past games, been associated with the Royal Family of Hyrule.

* For the game advertising that it unites the Zelda games, it only really draws elements from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]], and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]], with references to other games being mere cameos at best. It really bugged me at first (especially as a fan of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]), but then I realised: all of these games fit on the Child Timeline of Zelda canon. This game could very well be set in the Child Timeline, perhaps some several generations after Twilight Princess, and Cia was able to unite several points in time into one realm... but she couldn't quite break into the alternate timelines!

* In the Badge Market, the item used to represent a longer Special Attack bar is the Fierce Diety mask. When the Majora's Mask Pack came out and introduced Young Link, what is the best use of his Special Attack bar? Converting it to Magic to maintain his Fierce Deity form

* The Water element in this game causes the damage-over-time effect, unlike say Fire or Lightning. The image of the water effect is a large bubble of solid water covering the enemy's head. The damage-over-time is the victim ''drowning''.
** And now that Young Link From Majora's Mask will be playable, this could potentially lead to comparisons with a [[BenDrowned certain creepypasta]].

* In this game, Cia is a {{Southpaw}}. That's fine considering she's a villain, right? Not so fast. As stated before, Cia has a [[StalkerWithACrush major]] [[{{Yandere}} crush]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil on Link]], up to and including a StalkerShrine for all the various Links across generations, and considering Link is ''also'' usually a Southpaw...[[NightmareFuel yikes!]]

** Cia in particular is Hyrule's [[EternalDarkness Mantorok]], with her being the time guardian - something of which Mantorok himself can use - as well as being able to use the timelines - Cia using Hyrule's timelines to beat Zant and Ghriahim, and [[spoiler:Mantorok using the 3 Ancient Timelines against one another]] - to their advantage, where as they share the same purple color like Farore / Xel'lotath (Green color, as well as Courage/Madness), Nayru / Ulyaoth (Blue color, using magic and knowledge) and Din / Chattur'gha (Red color, and uses pure power.)