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A serial comic for ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' magazine by the acclaimed manga author [[Shotaro Ishinomori]], and later collected in graphic novel form, this told an alternate version of the events from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: aA Link Toto T Hethe Past (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]''
 
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* [[Badass Damsel]]: Zelda assists Link in the battle with Ganon, firing the Silver Arrow to kill him. In some later games, Zelda fires Light Arrows to help Link in the same manner. When Zelda deals the final blow in the comic, she does so by aiming at a glowing wound Link carves across Ganon's chest to paralyze him - Ganondorf possesses a similar wound in Twilight Princess.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]] {{spoiler|In the end, Link saves the day, kills Ganon and wins Zelda's heart...but they can never be together because he has to guard the Triforce forever, all alone. Some reward.}}
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Zelda laments that her [[Psychic Link|psychic bond]] with Link makes {{spoiler|their separation}} eternally painful.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Roam may technically be a good guy, but he is one creepy suspicious mamma-jamma.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Agahnim cuts down Link's uncle with a [[Laser Blade|swath of lightning]] from his sword.
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* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Arrghus is reimagined as a bright red jellyfish with tentacles.
* [[Comm Links]]: The first Maiden hands over the Comfork, a crystal tuning fork. Later, the Comfork begins to ring and Link sees an image of his friends back in Kakariko. At first, Sahasrahla disregards Link's voice [[It's Probably Nothing|as having been his imagination]], the others eventually realize that the Comfork allows them to speak with Link even though they are on opposite worlds.
* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: Those trapped in the Dark World are cursed to become beasts without artifacts or [[Heroic Willpower]]. Roam, however, takes advantage of being able to become an eagle.
* [[The Dark Side]]: The Dark World feeds on the more unpleasant emotions, threatening to turn Link into a beast a few times. The hotheaded Roam is even more susceptible.
* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Sahasrahla reveals that Link's parents were Knights of Hyrule who stumbled into the Dark World. After they disappeared, Link's uncle adopted him to shield him from the royal drama.
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* [[Don't Think, Feel]]: Zelda telepathically instructs Link to trust his "feelings" to guide him to her prison block.
* [[Dramatic Thunder]]: The Sanctuary, [[Empathic Environment|foreshadowing]] Agahnim's entrance.
* [[Dressing Asas the Enemy]]: Zora grants Link the Zora's Mask to disguise himself and not look so conspicuous as he is sneaking around the Dark Palace. This is a nifty precursor to the actual Zora Mask first seen in ''Ocarina of Time.'' (Rather than an actual mask, Zora plucks off one of his own scales and slaps it on Link's mug.)
* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Roam plugging two of Trinexx's heads with arrows, just in time to save a hapless Link. May also qualify as a [[Villainous Rescue]].
* [[Evil Hand]]: On Death mountain, Link sees a vision of his dead parents standing with his uncle. Link reaches for his mother's hand when she extends hers out to him, but Link's hand turns into a werewolf claw when it passes the portal's boundary.
* [[Eureka Moment]]: The librarian gets the idea for a hot air balloon from the boy, who draws an analogy to his bubble bath.
* [[Excalibur in Thethe Rust]]: The last panel shows the Master Sword overgrown by foliage as it sleeps.
* [[Exposition Fairy]]: In the Dark World, Link is accompanied by Epheremelda who offers him the lay of the land. This is before ''[[Ocarina of Time]]'' introduced Navi as the first canon Fairy sidekick.
* [[Expy]]: [http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/a/ac/Roam.png Roam] is based on [[media:cyb002_2097.jpg|002]] from Shotaro Ishinomori's earlier work ''[[Cyborg 009 (Manga)|Cyborg 009]]'', whose pre-cyborg name was [[Stealth Pun|Jet Link]].
* [[Failure Hero]]: When rushing to put out the library fire ("'''I'll''' save him!"), Link accidentally dumps a pail of water over his own head.
* [[Feed It a Bomb]]: Link defeats the Hinox by hurling [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|one of his own bombs]] back at it, causing it to get lodged down its mouth. Whoops. After the Hinox explodes, the fairy appears next to an [[Ash Face|Ash Faced]] Link.
* [[Forgot I Couldn't Swim]]: When the Water Palace begins to flood, the Taurus grabs onto a Hirox, gasping that he can't swim. The Taurus's armor ends up dragging them both underwater.
* [[Giant Spider]]: The monster fought in the Tower of Hera is a giant tarantula as opposed to the Moldorm fought in the game. However, when the monster's ghost appears in Ganon's Tower, Link identifies it as Moldorm.
* [[Giving the Sword Toto A Noob]]: Nobody in Kakariko takes Link very seriously. Even Sahashrala's wife finds it surprising that the pendant was entrusted to him.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Molderm.
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: The Pendant of Courage gives Link the jolt he needs to cut a stormtrooper in half. This sends the other mooks [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|wailing out of the temple]] in terror.
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* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: When Roam sniffs at Link's "immaturity," deriding all the crap he's been through, Link throws a tantrum. "I'll show [[I Will Show You X|YOU]] who's weak!"
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Link is portrayed as a complete dope in this story, but he gets the job done.
* [[It Was Withwith You All Along]]: Roam reveals that he is seeking the Silver Arrow spoken of in the Book of Mudora, which prophesied that Ganon can only be defeated by a sacred arrow. Although he reveals to Link that he has yet to find it, Roam continues to search for the Silver Arrow to defeat Ganon with it and prove himself to be the legendary hero. However, when Link and Zelda arrive to Ganon's Tower, Roam returns and admits he has failed to find the Arrow. After Roam {{spoiler|dies saving Zelda}}, the princess uses [[Take Up My Sword|Roam's crossbow]] to fire an arrow at Ganon. As it whistles through the air, the power of the Maidens, Zelda, Link, and Roam, turn the arrow into the Silver Arrow.
* [[Large and In Charge]]: Upon arrival in the Dark World, Link is confronted by three thieves and their "boss," a Hinox. They make trouble by questioning link about a fairy they're hunting.
* [[Lotus Position]]: Sahasrahla when we first meet him.
* [[Loved I Not Honor More]] / [[Married to Thethe Job]]: {{spoiler|Link grows distant after Ganon's defeat, dedicating his life to guarding the Triforce}}.
* [[Mouthy Kid]]: The boy.
* [[Mirror Scare]]: Link and the fairy duo head out to the Swamp Palace but discover that it's completely dried up. Link calls to Sahasrahla for help and asks him to go to the Light World location of the Palace, where Sahasrahla and the boy find a fountain. The boy, excited to see Link in the pool of water, suddenly shouts at Link to look out for the Taurus right behind him.
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* [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]: In the rubble of the Dark Palace, a knight introduces himself as Roam and challenges Link for the right to wield the Master Sword.
* [[Nameless Narrative]]: The boy from Kakariko doesn't have a canon name, and is known as "Sahasrala's friend."
* [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]]: Is there anything the handy Master Sword ''can't'' do? In addition to it's established powers (deflecting Agahnim's magic and paralyzing Ganon), it can channel Link's rage into energy, causing electric storms.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Link tries whacking at the Lanmola with his sword, but its hide is too hard to cause any damage to it. However, after the Lanmola launches him in the air, he lands on top of the scorpion statue and retrieves the Pendant.
{{quote| "[[Lampshade Hanging|Nice job, ugly!]] [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall|Now you're playing with the Pendant of Power!]]"}}
* [[No Body Left Behind]]: This regularly happens with the boss monsters Link fights. Minor foes are either revealed as [[Animated Armor]] or blown to smithereens in an explosion.
* [[Nobody Here but Us Statues]]: Inverted -- Link mistakes a Rocklops for a statue. "[[Don't Sneak Up On Me Like That|Don't scare me like that!]]"
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