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* [[Awesome But Impractical]]: You can surf down hills and mountains on your shield. It sounds like fun, except that it does a ''serious'' number on its durability and will lead to it breaking a lot faster than if you saved it for blocking attacks.
** Royal Guard weapons are some of the strongest in the game thanks to their ridiculous damage output... but for some ungodly reason, their durability is on par with that of the incredibly weak Bokoblin weapons, so it's usually best not to bother with them since they break really fast.
** Downplayed with Ancient Arrows: they're incredibly useful for getting Lynels and Silver/Gold enemies off your back. But if you want the gear and items they drop upon dying, you'll have to save them because enemies killed by Ancient Arrows won't drop anything.
* [[Baby Got Back]]: Zelda has a ''big'' butt, and the tight pants she wears are incredibly flattering.
* [[Back from the Dead]]:
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** Drawing your bow while you're in the air will slow down time to a snail's pace so you can easily aim your arrows. This will quickly drain your stamina, though.
** An similar effect occurs when you dodge an enemy's attack at the right moment, enabling you to hit your opponent multiple times in the span of a few seconds.
* [[Bus Crash]]: Several divine
** [[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Wind Fish]] appears as Gerudo Valley's Great Skeleton, and is theorized to have died due to somehow becoming trapped in the desert and succumbing to its harsh environment.
** The Hebra Great Skeleton is either the [[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|Ocean King]] or [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Lord Jabu-Jabu]]. No matter who it is, they're theorized to have died in a freak ice age.
** And the Eldin Great Skeleton is a dead-ringer for [[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Levias]], who likely died by getting caught in a past volcanic eruption given the skeleton's close proximity to Death Mountain.
* [[Came Back Strong]]: Slay an entire camp's worth of Bokoblins, Moblins, or Lizalfos, and when the Blood Moon respawns them, one of a group might be the stronger, silver type. This can happen to Lynels too.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Bolson is a mix of this and [[Manly Gay]]: he's flamboyant, swishy, flirts with Link, and wears pink clothes and lipstick
* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]: Link has to go all way back to the beginning of a path towards a certain shrine if he damages the flowers surrounding it. Even if the damage happens accidentally, like while fighting an enemy.
* [[Changing Clothes Is a Free Action]]: Played straight, despite the generally increased realism compared to previous Zelda games.
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* [[Elite Mook]]: Moblins are bigger, stronger, and sturdier than their weaker Bokoblin brethren, and Lynels are ''far'' stronger than even them to the point of being extremely dangerous [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Bosses in Mook Clothing]]. Yiga Swordsmen are also a hell of a lot tougher than the rank-and-file assassins, especially the ones encountered when you infiltrate their hideout since they can instantly kill Link while bypassing any safeguards he has. And yes, that includes the fairies ''and'' Mipha's Grace.
* [[Everything's Worse with Wolves]]: Instead of using the Wolfos from past Zelda games, ''Breath of the Wild'' has normal wolves that will stalk Link and attack in packs. Luckily they're weak and cowardly: drop one with a well-placed arrow or bomb, and the rest will hightail it out of there.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: {{spoiler|Calamity Ganon's first form is sporting Ganondorf's red hair, but growing wildly to emphasize his feral state of mind.}} Red-Maned Lynels also invoke this with their... well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|red lion manes.]]
* [[Exposed to the Elements]]: Again, averted. Link needs warm clothing or magic (or to be carrying a lit torch or have a flame weapon equipped) to survive blizzards and high altitudes, and the colder it is, the more protection he needs. Similarly, surviving the heat of Gerudo Desert during daytime requires cool clothing or magic (or to have an ice weapon equipped), and the hottest temperatures require twice the protection. Oddly, fireproof clothing and elixirs provide no protection from the desert heat.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Unlike their buff incarnations in past games, ''Breath of the Wild'''s Hinoxes are grotesquely fat. The leader of the Yiga Clan, Master Kohga, is also quite paunchy.
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** The Yiga Blademasters patrolling the Yiga Clan hideout will immediately abandon their post and happily skip towards any Mighty Bananas you drop as bait, allowing you to either sneak up on and kill them, or slip by undetected.
* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: Mostly averted given the game's preference for realistic biomes, but the two adjacent Gerudo territories are wildly different in terms of climate: Gerudo Desert is, as the name would imply, a scorching hot desert (during the day) while the Gerudo Highlands are frigid snowy mountains. In some places, you can take one step over the boundary between the two and experience some ridiculous temperature spikes.
* [[Hand Cannon]]: Windblight Ganon has an impressive laser gun in place of its right hand.
* [[Healing Hands]]: Mipha's special ability is to be able to heal wounds through magic.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: While this is the first Zelda game to have voice actors, Link, as always, remains silent. This is emphasized in one scene where [[Action Girl| Urbosa]] asks him a question, but he does not vocally answer, and she says, [[The Silent Bob|"Yes, your silence speaks volumes."]]
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: All four of the Champions qualify, each having gained heroic prestige among their own peoples long before meeting Link.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The easiest way of taking down a Guardian is parrying their attack with a shield, reflecting their energy beam attack back on them. {{spoiler|Master Kohga also accidentally kills himself when one of his giant metal balls chases him down the bottomless pit in the middle of his room.}}
* [[Hot Amazon]]: The Gerudo in this game are just as scantily clad and attractive as the ones in ''Ocarina of Time'' and ''Majora's Mask'', but are also incredibly muscular and fit.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Kiana of Lurelin Village, [[Big Beautiful Woman|a full-figured mother of two]] who's very pretty and shows off a healthy amount of midriff. Teba's wife Saki is also a very pretty Rito.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The Divine Beasts are robots constructed to fight Ganon, and can be controlled by a dedicated pilot.
* [[An Ice Person]]:
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*** Riju's Sand Seal, [[Pungeon Master|Patricia]], incorporates them into her words of wisdom; but Padda spares Link the pain of most of them. (It's not hard to figure out what they were going to be, though.)
** Sayge, the dye shop owner, also gets quite “colorful”.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: There are three dragons in Hyrule; Dinraal, Farosh, and Naydra. All three divine beings of unearthly beauty with [[Physical God|
* [[Jerkass]]: Revali is not a nice guy, and belittles and insults Link every chance he gets. Unfortunately for him, getting killed by Windblight Ganon and having to watch Link take care of it as a formless spirit forces him to eat a nice, big slice of [[Humble Pie]].
* [[Joke Weapon]]: Tree branches, mops, hoes, wooden spoons... if it isn't a conventional weapon, chances are it'll be wimpy and break almost immediately. Still, they're handy in a pinch during the very early game, where you need any weapon you can get until the really good ones start rolling in.
* [[Jungle Japes]]: The Faron region, which is a massive expanse of jungle filled with tropical fruits, abandoned Mayan-style ruins, and home to swarms of Lizalfos.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Icy enemies
* [[Kill It with Ice]]: Fiery enemies have the same weakness to ice weapons.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Grabbing everything you can take from defeated foes - be it rupees, weapons, food, gems, or [[Organ Drops]] - is highly recommended.
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: In a game that isn't that sexual, Urbosa walks around wearing a [[Chainmail Bikini]] while using a scarf as a sarong. Every other Gerudo around her age is just as scantily-clad and gorgeous.
** This game's Great Fairies are [[Big Beautiful Woman|Big Beautiful Women]] with robust figures, skimpy outfits, and they are ''very'' flirty towards Link, usually hugging and kissing him when they level up his gear.
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: It may go against everything the Great Deku Tree tells you, but the Master Sword is an ''awesome'' all-purpose tool. It may be the Sword That Seals The Darkness, but it's also an excellent lawnmower, pickaxe, and woodcutting tool! Sure, the latter two options will eat through its durability, but it doesn't take too long to repair itself, and you don't really need to use it outside of Guardian fights, Divine Beast exploration, and Hyrule Castle.
* [[Nightmare Face]]: Wizzrobes don't look too bad from far away despite their wide, bulging eyes and fanged grins. You might even consider them [[Ugly Cute|unconventionally cute]]... [https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/hutma9/never_take_closeup_shots_of_wizzrobes/| until you get a close look at their overly detailed faces and wish you never did.]
** Magda also pulls off some seriously deranged facial expressions if you keep trampling on and destroying her flowers.
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: The evil Yiga Clan are decent fighters, but their obsession with bananas and over-the-top buffoon of a leader may lead you into thinking that they are just comical foes like the Bokoblins. {{spoiler|But then you learn about Dorian's backstory as a former Yiga Clan member. The Yiga Clan, in response to his defection, killed his wife and now threaten to kill his children if he does not give up information about Link and Kakariko Village. Even when he complies to their wishes, the clan members decide to execute him for outliving his usefulness, and would have succeeded if Link had not intervened. Despite their goofy demeanor, they are still a ruthless and murderous cult carrying out Calamity Ganon's will.}}
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Calamity Ganon, even more so than before. He's a
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Purah has the looks and size of a small child thanks to an experiment [[Gone Horribly Right]]. Finley also looks like a little Zora girl, but she's an adult whose growth spurt has yet to take effect, much to her dismay.
* [[Orange-Blue Contrast]]: Sheikah Towers glow orange until Link activates them with his Sheikah Slate, then they turn blue. Shrines have three states: All orange to start with; then when opened by Link's Sheikah Slate, the base turns blue while the tip stays orange; finally, the tip turns blue when completed.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: The spirit dragons Dinraal, Farosh, and Naydra are serpentine Eastern-style dragons, but have incredibly
* [[Our Ogres Are Hungrier]]: Hinoxes are the ogres to the Moblins' orcs and Bokoblins' goblins, and are ferocious, gluttonous beasts that tower over their weaker counterparts.
* [[Our Orcs Are Different]]: Moblins are orclike thanks to their porcine appearances, brawny builds, and violent nature. But their long trunklike snouts and unicorn horns make for
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: Every time Sidon pops up outside of Zora's Domain, he strikes a pose, smiles, and shows off his shiny teeth in a winning smile. ''Every single time''. From the time you begin your trek to the domain all the way until you battle and infiltrate Vah Ruta, it happens at ''least'' a dozen times.
* [[Panthera Awesome]]: Lynels, badass lion-centaurs that are some of the most dangerous enemies in the game.
* [[Palmtree Panic]]: Lurelin Village is a quiet, peaceful beach town with palm trees, tropical fruit, and seafood galore. The coastal beaches in general also invoke this trope, as does Eventide Isle.
* [[Plant Person|Plant People]]: The Koroks, as well as the Great Deku Tree.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: For the first time in the series' history, there's actually a bit of light swearing: specifically one instance of it. If you
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Brigo is deathly afraid of the world ending, and you can't really blame him since he's actually very in tune with the world around him: the activation of the towers and shrines following Link's awakening are genuine signs of Zelda's power waning, as is Calamity Ganon's increasing activity around Hyrule Castle.
* [[Railroading]]: Usually averted given the game's open-ended nature, but you ''will'' stay on the Great Plateau until you're given the paraglider. There may be a few spots where you can safely climb down to the rest of Hyrule despite the Old Man's insistence that leaving safely is impossible, but you'll just be teleported back up to the Plateau until it's officially time to leave.
** You also can't board the Divine Beasts until you've advanced the story in the areas they're wreaking havoc at. Trying to do so will end in failure.
** You also have to talk to Impa first if you want to interact with Purah and Robbie, which keeps you from
** There's no cheesing the Yiga Clan Hideout by flying in through the back way: Kohga won't appear unless you go through the front door and work your way down as intended.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: While it's still a fantastic medieval fantasy game, ''Breath of the Wild'' goes for a more realistic approach with how it handles physics compared to other Zelda games.
** Link isn't immune to [[Exposed to the Elements]]; his health will drain and he can even die of cold if you don't keep a heat source (like a flame) near him, or make him wear adequate clothes for cold. And if you don't have a way to cool him down in sweltering environments, he'll die from the heat. His wooden gear will even burst into the flames the deeper you go into the volcanic Death Mountain.
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* [[The Undead]]: It wouldn't be a Zelda game without them: skeletal versions of enemies like Bokoblins and Moblins will harass you at night, and the Sheikah Monks are living mummies. {{spoiler|You get to fight one such mummified monk in the Champion's Ballad DLC as one of the game's toughest opponents.}}
* [[Underground Monkey]]: Moblins and Bokoblins have Red (weakest), Blue, Black, Cursed, and Silver (toughest) varieties; Master Mode adds the even tougher Gold variety. Keese, Lizalfos, and Chuchus come in normal, Fire, Ice and Lightning varieties; Wizzrobes have the same types except “normal” as well as stronger variations of each elemental form: Meteor (Fire), Blizzard (Ice), and Thunder (Lightning). Octoroks have Water, Forest, Rock, Snow, Treasure, and Sky varieties. Talus and Pebblits have lava and ice variants.
* [[Unique Enemy]]: Bears, which are incredibly rare and appear in a select few places over the vast expanse of Hyrule. They come in Honeyvore and Grizzlemaw varieties, but most players are likely to never see either unless they really go out of they way to explore.
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: You see all those adorable dogs and beautiful horses? You can feed them and endear them to you, while you can also pet your horses in order to strengthen your bonds with them. One prominent sidequest chain also helps you establish a new town in the mostly-empty Hyrule, and culminates in you {{spoiler|helping a man and woman get married.}}
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]:
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