Zelda II: The Adventure of Link/Characters

Link


He's the same one from the first game, and after defeating Ganon, he stays in Hyrule to help rebuild. On his sixteenth birthday, a strange mark appears on the back of his hand; when he shows it to Impa, she takes him to a locked room in the North Castle, where the mark in question causes the door to open. This leads to the explanation of the original Princess Zelda and her centuries of sleep. Link is then tasked with returning six crystals to six palaces in order to acquire the Triforce of Courage, which will enable him to awaken her.


 * The Chosen
 * Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday
 * Magic Knight
 * Only the Worthy May Pass: The birthmark on his hand means that he's the only one worthy of recovering the Triforce of Courage.
 * Silent Protagonist: Actually one of the few games to break this rule. Upon finding a mirror, Link exclaims, "I found a mirror under the table."
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Fairy spell
 * When All You Have Is a Hammer: Unlike other games, Link doesn't obtain much in the way of weaponry, using only magic and sword techniques through the game.

Zelda


The Princess that Link rescues in this game has been asleep for centuries. She had been cursed by the evil wizard who wanted the Triforce at her brother's command. By breaking the curse on the palaces and retrieving the Triforce of Courage, Link rescues her.


 * Heroes Want Redheads: Invokes this trope, if you believe they kiss at the end.
 * King in The Mountain
 * One Steve Limit: Averted; this is a different Princess Zelda than the Princess Zelda in the first game even though Link, Impa, and Ganon are the same characters. Although as something of a straight example, the Princess Zelda from the first game does not make an appearance anywhere in this game or in the manual.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: There were other Princess Zeldas before her, but she's the one indirectly responsible for the law requiring every princess to be named Zelda, as explained by the backstory.
 * Sealed Good in A Can
 * Sleeping Beauty
 * Smooch of Victory: It's implied she gives Link one in the ending.

The King of Hyrule


Centuries before the events of the original game, this ancestor of Princess Zelda was the ruler of Hyrule, and beloved by the people for being just and wise. In a radical departure from the Triforce mythos of the later games, the King held all three parts of the Triforce. As he knew himself to be dying, he realized that his son should not inherit the entire Triforce. He therefore broke it apart, bequeathing only the Triforces of Wisdom and Power to his son, and concealing the Triforce of Courage in a hidden location until such time as a worthy hero would be born who could retrieve it. The secret of what he had done he disclosed only to his daughter, Princess Zelda.


 * All There in the Manual
 * Big Good
 * Expy: Has one in King Harkinian, from the animated adaptation, whose look was clearly inspired by this official art.
 * No Name Given
 * Requisite Royal Regalia: As shown here in official art.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something

The Prince of Hyrule


When his father died, the Prince was enraged that he could not inherit the entire Triforce. An evil wizard counseled him that Zelda knew where the Triforce of Courage was hidden. When she would not tell him, the Prince told the wizard to make her talk, and the wizard responded by cursing her, then dying.


 * All There in the Manual: He never appears in the game and he's currently the page image. Justified, since he's been dead for at least a hundred years by the time the game takes place.
 * Ambition Is Evil
 * My God What Have I Done: After the wizard curses Zelda into eternal slumber, he repents and decrees that every princess must be named Zelda in honor of his sister.
 * Nice Job Breaking It Hero: Well, he wasn't really much of a good guy, anyway. However, you know that magician he hired to extract the secret of the Triforce from Zelda? Well, that magician, according to the Hyrule Historia, was actually an alter-ego of Ganon, or at the very least one of Ganon's minions, meaning the prince was most likely directly responsible for the events that happened in the first Zelda game.
 * No Name Given
 * Royal Brat
 * Whip It Good: As shown in this piece of official art.

Link's Shadow


Later known as "Dark Link" and "Shadow Link", he is Link's Doppelganger who appears as the surprise final boss created by a wizard to test Link.


 * The Blank: Probably due to the graphics, his in-game sprite is featureless.
 * Doppelganger
 * Duel Boss
 * Evil Twin
 * Enemy Without: He is explicitly seen jumping out of Link.
 * Eyes of Gold: In one of his artworks for this game.
 * Fearful Symmetry: One of his favorite combat tactics.
 * Paint It Black: One of his artworks actually has colors, just a lot darker than Link's, and another depicts him completely gray with Eyes of Gold, but his in-game sprite is fully black.
 * Prophet Eyes: In one of his artworks for this game.

Error


A minor NPC who appears in the town of Ruto with seemingly no purpose besides his signature line, "I AM ERROR." He later serves an actual purpose by giving you instructions on how to get to the Island Palace.


 * Chekhov's Gunman: The description above.
 * Memetic Mutation: One of the most (if not THE most) referenced parts of the game by the fandom.
 * Punny Name: He and his friend Bagu are named after programming errors and bugs.
 * Welcome to Corneria

Ganon
The evil overlord who Link defeated in the first Legend of Zelda, he doesn't physically appear in this game, but his remaining minions are still around and need Link's blood to revive their vanquished master.


 * Bigger Bad
 * The Man Behind the Man: Not in the game's present events for obvious reasons, but the Hyrule Historia implies that he was involved in cursing the first Zelda into falling asleep by either using the magician as an alter ego or at the very least having the magician under his employ.
 * Game Over Man: "GAME OVER RETURN OF GANON". You will be seeing this screen a plenty.