History Fridge / HyruleWarriors

*** Take the sealed Master Sword to the Twilight/Termina Map and THEN raise the argument.

** Items dropped by characters include whole cloaks, belts, and robes. None of them appear damaged from combat, and many of them do not look like they would fall off easily. How are they obtained? Are enemies fleeing from fights partially nude? For example, Twili Midna can drop her robe, and, looking at her design, she wearing isn't much besides her robe.

** 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!]]

* Link's AcquredSituationalNarcissism at the midgame climax has been argued to be an AssPull by some, but in-context, it does make sense: this Link is just a gifted soldier in the Hyrulean Army all his life. Suddenly, he saves his commanding officer and has a fragment of the gods' greatest treasure in his hand. He's immediately promoted to a commander of the army equal to said superior, the Princess takes a personal interest in him, the enemy is obsessed with him, and to top it all off, he's meant to be the chosen wielder of the most powerful weapon on earth. It's hardly unusual he'd get a big head, he became possibly the most important person alive practically overnight!

* 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!
** This troper gets your point, but ''Skyward Sword'' and ''Ocarina of Time'' are NOT part of the child timeline. According to ''Literature/HyruleHistoria'' (which IS regarded as canon, as it was written by the series' production team), they are part of the "Unified Timeline", as ''Skyward Sword'' is chronologically the first game in the series, while ''Ocarina of Time'''s end caused the timeline to split up in the first place.

* Cia is a {{Southpaw}}. 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, apparently she's modeling herself after Link.

* Kinda a cross-game meta example and 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 The Moon.

* 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 they are in fact 2 parts of the same being, you can begin to notice similarities with another Zelda character. Which characters in the ''Zelda'' universe are both sorceresses who use opposite elements and who can 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 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).
** "Original characters who didn't appear in the franchise before" is a really petty reason to accuse a character of being out of place, considering that literally every Zelda game in the series has had such characters.
*** If one thinks on it a little more, it starts to make more sense why they feel out of place. They actually ''don't'' belong in Hyrule at all. The game itself flat out states that Cia was never supposed to get involved and merely watch over time.
* 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.

* 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. Which 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).

* Lana's obviously based on [[IdolSinger 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 a 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.

* Kinda a cross-game meta example and 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]].

* 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 a bit of Fridge Horror, as what does Ghirahim need for most of his items? Fi's Heels. In other words, it's like he needs the [[spoiler:Master Sword's]] blade for his badges!

* Ravio's Rental Hammer moveset uses a lot of the weapon types that he would rent out in ''A Link Between Worlds''... but none of the same model designs. Most notable is his use of the Gale Boomerang, but his bow is a Sacred Bow, his bombs look like Super Bombs, and even his level 1 hammer looks a touch like the one from ''Legends''. Then you remember that [[spoiler:Ravio is ''Link's Lorulean counterpart''... and Link is a LegacyCharacter. Who's to say Ravio is any different? Lorule was introduced in A Link Between Worlds, but it's entirely possible that ''this'' Ravio comes from the Lorulean equivalent of the era in which Hyrule Warriors takes place!]]

* Fridge horror occurs if you take the master sword into any level including Fi as an enemy. After all, you have just forced Fi to kill herself

** There is another layer to this sequence that, if taken the right way, serves as a deconstruction of the ''Zelda'' series as a whole. For the first act of the game, you start off as Link, and you acquire a new party member in every mission as you progress, with the option to choose any of them for the next mission. Once you hit the second act, the party splits up, you play as all three groups, ''and'' you recruit a new member in each branch who can be selected in that branch's second mission. All seven[[note]]Agitha and Ruto are not unlocked as warriors in Legend Mode[[/note]] are capable warriors even in canon (assuming that Fi is displaying what happens when she chooses to wield herself in lieu of her Master), and all of them are capable of victory. So what happens when they reunite in the third act? You play as Link for the rest of the story missions. And ''only Link''. To the point that the others are relegated to seal-unlocking "sage" status for the Temple of the Sealed Sword. In this light, the lesson from storming Cia's palace is not "don't be a OneManArmy". It's "stop pretending that [[ItsUpToYou Link is the only character who can be the hero in this series]]!" (And to solidify this, after this character development occurs and the mission is complete, you can replay it with any of the other characters who were there to support him.)

* In the Badge Market, the item used to represent a longer Special Attack bar is the Fierce Deity 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.

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* 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 trops 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.

* 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 a 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.

* 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 a bit 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!