Misused: Urban Legend Of Zelda

We decided to move those examples to Urban Legends.

Are we going to start the transfer soon? And if so, would you guys like me to move the In-Universe examples to a different section like I suggested?

edited 17th Apr '18 11:09:47 PM by MrMediaGuy2

Alright, it was time-consuming work, but I moved the In-Universe references to real life urban legends to their own section on the Urban Legends page.

Anyone want to start moving Urban Legend of Zelda examples there?

Where would stuff like the Paul is Dead rumor go?

Basically, for a while in the 60's there was a rumor that Paul Mc Cartney was actually dead and everyone was covering it up. The part where it might overlap with this trope is that people would insist that clues about this were hidden throughout The Beatles music, most notably in symbolism in the cover to Abbey Road.

So I think this would qualify as "rumors about hidden content" but not interactive media...

Urban Legends.

What about the non-game examples on Urban Legend of Zelda?

Also Urban Legends.

Just transferred all the non-game examples to Urban Legends.

One of these (Wreck-It Ralph) was an In-Universe example. I added it back to Urban Legend of Zelda.

edited 24th Apr '18 7:34:02 AM by Zuxtron

Anything else to do here?

I moved a few examples from sub-pages to the gaming section of Urban Legends. I don't think there's much, if anything, left to fix.

Probably crosswick cleanup. I still occasionally see this trope misused on Trivia pages, for both games and other media.

My Urban Legends thread remains unlocked so I'll repost it here since it's relevant to Urban Legend of Zelda.

Most of the non-game examples have been moved to Urban Legends, but Urban Legends isn't a Trivia trope. What should be done about that?

Edited by Pichu-kun on May 31st 2019 at 4:13:33 AM

I think we should create a separate page for Urban Legends about media that's Trivia. I think Pop-Culture Urban Legends would be a good name.

I already made a TLP about it, but some people in the comments don't understand why it should be its own trope instead of God Never Said That.

Pop-Culture Urban Legends has been successfully launched. Now that's left to do is the wick replacements.

Good. And not all of the examples have anything to do with God Never Said That. Is it only for production legends, or also for other stuff not about hidden content?

Edited by Lymantria on Jun 14th 2019 at 3:15:32 PM

Pop-Culture Urban Legends is for legends in general. For example, many are about (supposed) episodes that only aired once or versions of episodes that were later censored.

Yes, I thought so.

Is there anything left to do here?

I think examples that aren't about fake video game unlockables (which includes all non-video game examples in addition to video game rumors that aren't about fake unlockables) still need to be moved to Pop-Culture Urban Legends. If it matters, Pop-Culture Urban Legends hadn't been launched yet when this thread was starred (which was in late 2017 or early 2018), hence why moving to Urban Legends was the original plan.

Since Urban Legends is a regular trope while Urban Legend of Zelda and Pop-Culture Urban Legends are Trivia, I think that caused some confusion regarding where to move examples to, and probably hindered progress. Since it's now clear that misuse of Urban Legend of Zelda would probably better fit Pop-Culture Urban Legends, I'd imagine the cleanup process wouldn't be complex, though it would still probably take a while due to how many wicks there are.

I might work on this after I'm done being sick, though I intend to finish Literary Agent Hypothesis cleanup first (since it doesn't have as many wicks, and I've already gone through some of them).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 23rd 2020 at 5:37:28 AM

Bumping, what else needs to be done?

Misuse still needs to be moved to Pop-Culture Urban Legends if it hasn't already.

I've done the YMMV namespace wicks, but I can't say that their content endorses the idea that this Audience Reaction should have a subdivision between hidden and nothidden content.

I noticed that a few of your edits actually seemed to be correct usage of Urban Legend of Zelda (a rumor about hidden content in interactive media, e.g. videogames), and I'm not sure why they were changed to Pop-Culture Urban Legends:

Dark Souls:

• Pop Culture Urban Legend: Hidetaka Miyazaki suggested before the game released that the player should choose the Pendant as a starting gift or nothing at all. Many players followed suit, and a crusade began to find the truth about the item but nothing was found. Rumors began circulating until Miyazaki eventually broke and admitted that the Pendant has no use. Despite this, many players still believe that he is trolling and there is still a use behind the Pendant that no one has found.
  • He was actually lying; there is precisely one use for the pendant (although even then it's not a very good one)- you can trade it to Snuggly the Crow for a Souvenir of Reprisal, used to advance in the Blade of the Darkmoon covenant. Not really a "use", but it's something.

Destiny:

• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: The MIDA Multi-Tool sports a compass on the side that points off somewhere. Players have claimed that this compass points towards chests or will light up when pointed in the direction of a chest in the area you're in. Other say that it's merely the reflection of light causing the compass to light up and pointed out that the compass just simply points at whatever it considers to be "North".

Final Fantasy VI:

• Let's recount the Pop-Culture Urban Legends about the Eight Dragons, shall we? By Petrifying the Blue Dragon you can get the Raiden magicite without losing Odin, allowing you to get all the Magicite pieces at once. Then once you killed all Eight Dragons and got Crusader, you would be forced into a rematch with stronger forms of the Eight Dragons, ending with a fight against their boss, CzarDragon. Well, take a look at the Gameboy Advance port — the bonus dungeon Dragon's Den pits you against powered-up forms of the Eight Dragons to unlock the path to the depths of the dungeon where you fight the superboss Kaiser Dragon, he guards the ultimate Magicite Diabolos, and the Soul Shrine bonus dungeons ends with a fight against all Eight Dragons followed by Kaiser Dragon. And let us not forgot that Kaiser Dragon's sprite and pre-battle taunt are all obviously updated versions of CzarDragon's sprite and taunt found by hacking the SNES coding. It's like Ascended Meme and Dummied Out came together to have a beautiful ironic baby that made the fandom's rumors about cut content come to life.

Gotcha Force:

• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: Persistent rumors as to how to legitimately unlock G Black.

Pokémon X and Y:

• The fandom responded very positively to Inkay and Malamar for their unique Dark/Psychic typing, as well as appearing like something out of an H. P. Lovecraft story. It helps that Inkay's method of evolution (holding the 3DS upside-down when it reaches at least level 30) is almost identical to a rumored method of evolving Lickitung way back in Generation I. Malamar in particular is very popular with the Brazilian fandom due to its Japanese name, Karamanero, which sounds like the term "Cara maneiro", meaning "Cool guy". The anime's use of the line helped. ^note Inkay became a prominent Team Rocket member, while Malamar became a recurring rare independent Pokémon antagonist

Super Mario 64:

• L Is Real, aka the many urban legends regarding how to unlock Luigi in the original game. This has spawned numerous jokes about the secret to unlocking Luigi involving the player performing a chain of ludicrously specific and repetitive, time-consuming actions in-game.
• Super Mario 64 conspiracy theories ^Explanation A series of facetious conspiracy theories levying various surreal allegations◊ about nonexistent content that is supposedly either hidden in Super Mario 64 or was removed from it during development, oftentimes based in content from pre-release trailers and demos (particularly the build shown off at Shoshinkai 1995), actual unused content in the game's code, or completely fabricated fanmade content. Such theories include a giant, sentient Wario head (dubbed "the Wario Apparition") that haunts the castle basement, an inaccessible "Bowser room" that's simply a White Void Room with a portrait of Bowser in it, and an alleged early build of the game dated at July 29, 1995 (roughly four months before Shoshinkai) that was highly prone to a glitch where textures would rapidly change colors. Most of these theories are based on the high prevalence of Pop-Culture Urban Legends in the late 90's, the tendency for people to develop inaccurate memories about the games they played as a kid, and the general allure of earlier versions of popular games. It helps that no early builds of Super Mario 64 have ever been leaked, leading aspects like the Shoshinkai 1995 build to garner a particularly large sense of mystique. The memes ended up spawning a sub-genre of Mario 64 fan content based around re-creating the subjects of these theories, including videos of the "Wario Apparition" and even a video miniseries in the vein of Ben Drowned.

Super Mario Galaxy:

• It Was His Sled: The fact that getting all 120 stars allowed one to play as Luigi became common knowledge shortly before the game even came out. Helped by the fact that him being playable in a 3D Mario game was widely rumored and demanded ever since his omission in Super Mario 64.

Super Metroid:

• The very large (for the time) scale of the game and the incredibly high number of secret passages and hidden powerups, a lot of which were unnecessary for beating the game, prompted some Metroid fans to mess with new players by talking about the hidden region of "Warfair" and the super-hidden items known as the "Wood Beam" and "Pipe Boots". With the proliferation of sites like GameFAQs that make it rather more obvious that this is a hoax, this meme has mostly died about, but it still occasionally pops up on boards filled with Metroid veterans.

Tekken:

• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: Tekken Bowl in the PS2 version of Tekken Tag Tournament. Anyone who tells you they didn't waste hours playing it is a liar. The persistent rumour of unlocking Dr. Bosconovitch through it didn't help matters. So popular, it even appeared as a free iOS app to celebrate the premiere of Blood Vengeance and was brought back in the console versions of Tekken 7, with improved ball and pin physics. Tekken Ball in Tekken 3 also counts.

As far as I can tell, these are all legitimate uses of Urban Legend of Zelda. I had also reverted an edit on The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds before I noticed that it was Septimus Heap making the edit for this thread... a thread that I had started myself in order to ensure correct usage of this trope!