The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • A few of the interactions you can have with the Old Man upon starting the game are pure comedic gold. If you grab a Baked Apple sitting in front of his campfire, he'll holler at you for stealing... only to crack up and reveal that he's just messing with you. Also, once he reveals to have the Paraglider you'll need to leave the Plateau, a lot of the following dialogue options have Link intensely, rudely demand for him to fork it over. And while he'll normally offer you a Woodcutter's Axe after talking to him, he'll scold you if you decide to just swipe it before talking to him. All in all, it's a nice way to defuse the tension that comes with the suspicious circumstances surrounding Link's awakening.
  • Some of the many weapons you can use are pot lids, wooden spoons, and mops. They absolutely suck, but it's still funny to whack a Bokoblin, Yiga assassin, or even a Lynel over the head with them.
    • With proper timing however, you can parry attacks with the Pot Lid like with any other shield, and it won't break if you pull it off. And yes, this includes Guardian lasers. Nothing's cooler or funnier than killing one of the most fearsome enemies in the game with kitchenware.
  • When you go to an inn, you have an option to sleep in a standard bed as well as one that's a lot comfier. The major towns each have their own kind of "comfier bed", and Hilarity Ensues when you pick a few of them.
    • The inn at Zora's Domain has a water bed. If you have Link sleep in it, you can clearly hear him having the time of his life as he bounces around and giggles during the Fade to Black.
    • Gerudo Town's inn has a spa package bundled with its best bed, and it includes a full-body massage. Somehow, the masseuse is hilariously oblivious to Link's true gender and assumes he's a girl despite getting a good look at his "voeish figure".
    • Goron City's inn includes a massage with its best bed as well. But while Link can be heard sighing contently during a Gerudo Town massage, all you can hear during the Fade to Black is bones popping, joints cracking, and Link screaming in terror as the Goron masseuse goes hog-wild.
  • When you botch a meal while cooking, you end up with the Dubious Food: a dish so disgusting that its picture has to be censored for the player's safety.
  • Bokoblins, Moblins, and Lizalfos are some of the most expressive enemies in the series, and it can be funny to mess with them. If you knock a weapon out of their hands and swipe it, they'll be pissed, with the Bokoblins in particular pointing at you and stomping their feet like bratty little children. And if you shoot down a beehive near a Bokoblin camp, they'll flee in terror while the bees chase and sting them.
  • Bokoblins on horseback are irritating opponents, but it's worth running into them for the sole purpose of using Stasis+ on them. The horse will gallop away, but the rider will be left hovering in the air until it wears off, which will send him crashing down straight to the ground. It's like something straight out of Looney Tunes.
  • The Yiga Clan are an utter menace, but there's plenty of silly interactions with them that keep their presence from darkening up the game too badly.
    • When you're infiltrating the Yiga Hideout, sneaking around the hulking Blademasters is tense thanks to their ability to one-hit kill you. But if you set down some Mighty Bananas, they'll abandon their post and excitedly tiptoe towards them before swiping them like a little kid sneaking some cookies before dinner. It's a great way to sneak past them, and an even better way to kill them.
    • A question you'll likely find yourself asking is "What kind of man is Master Kohga, anyway? How powerful and scary do you have to be to lead a clan of ninja as dangerous as the Yiga? When you finally fight him, the answer is not in the slightest. He's a fat, goofy manchild who's far hammier than even the hammiest Yiga assassins, and you beat him by making him drop the metal balls he summons onto his head, which will cause him to be stuck in the ground ass-over-teakettle while desperately kicking his stubby little legs around. Once you beat him, he actually kills himself when his last desperate attack backfires on him. A hilariously stupid ending for a hilariously stupid man.
    • One assassin disguises himself as a banana salesman, and will actually offer to sell his stock before attacking. It doesn't matter if you buy some, all, or none at all, he'll attack you all the same in the name of delicious fruit!
    • Another is a starstruck lady who's smitten with Master Kohga, and talking to her can potentially lead to this priceless exchange:

Traveler: Isn't Master Kohga just so dreamy? I could stare at that poochy tummy of his all day long.
Link: He's got a dumb belly.
Traveler: A dumb... belly? You filth, you have no appreciation for true beauty! I'll take your life!

  • To sneak inside Gerudo Town, Link needs to look like a woman. So how does he do that? Buy Gerudo clothes from Vilia, a "woman" who looks suspiciously like a man using a veil. Link ends up making a perfect girl and even presses his cheeks with his hands like an embarrassed teenager, since he didn't expect to look that good. And then a sudden desert wind lifts the veil, revealing that Vilia is indeed a man, and he warns about how the wind can easily ruin the disguise. Link facepalms, partially because he just spent 600 rupees in a fragile disguise, but also out of embarrassment for Vilia's crossdressing antics. And if you had Link compliment him on how pretty he looked beforehand, the embarrassment runs even deeper.
  • Link's Chick Magnet tendencies backfire on him hard when he visits the Great Fairies. Kaysa in particular is an aggressive flirt, but all of them have no regard for his personal space when upgrading his gear. While things start out tame with them blowing kisses to a flustered Link, third-level upgrades have them lean in and give him a smooch while he cries out and hides his face in embarrassment. Then when you go for a fourth level upgrade, things escalate to them snatching him up in a powerful bear hug (and keep in mind, they're so big that Link can fit into the palm of their hands!) and dragging him down into their pools while aggressively cuddling the screaming hero. By the time you've fully upgraded a piece of gear the poor guy's been to hell and back... so of course, if you want to fully upgrade the rest of that gear's set (let alone every individual set), he'll have to be subjected to the entire process all over again.
  • One of the game's ideal speedrunning strategies is the "bomb impact launch", which allows you to catapult Link across huge distances by blowing him up with his own bombs in a specific way. Because Link's personality is a mostly blank slate, it's fun to imagine him as a Crazy Awesome Mad Bomber who can save Zelda mere minutes after leaving the Great Plateau by constantly blowing himself up.
  • When the stablemasters say you can only board horses with them, they mean it. Riding a bear or a deer causes the annoyed stablemaster to chew you out, while a Stalhorse will make them afraid of it eating the other horses. Then there's the Lord of the Mountain, who they refuse to board out of fear of being cursed by it.
  • While talking to Hudson, Link adopts his stoic, blunt manner of speaking, leading to weirdly amusing Terse Talker exchanges between the two.
  • Even Koroks have nightmares, as demonstrated by Pepp when you catch him napping. Talking to him will reveal that poor guy's dreaming about being terrorized by hungry vegetarians.
  • Paya has a huge crush on Link, and gets flustered and feverish when talking to him. If you really want to make her squirm, strip down to your underwear before striking up a conversation. She'll squeal and hide her face, begging for him to cover up... while peeking at him through her fingers every few seconds.
    • Another great Paya moment is when she tries to explain the origin of her name. She was named after the papaya fruit thanks to having a birthmark shaped like one of its seeds. But she can't bring herself to explain exactly where it is, so Impa speaks up on her behalf in the most embarrassing way possible.

Impa: It's smack in the middle of her left buttcheek!
Paya: GRANDMOTHER!!!

  • Urbosa may be a stoic and serious warrior, but she isn't above having a little fun. And her idea of "fun" is startling a sleeping Zelda with a booming thunderclap generated by her lightning magic, and laughing her ass off while the confused princess tries to figure out what woke her up.
  • You can buy hilariously fake and cheap-looking monster masks from Kilton, which are meant to be disguises to fool whichever monsters you're dressed up as. Despite putting the "Paper-Thin" in "Paper-Thin Disguise", they work. Bokoblins, Moblins, and Lizalfos will be completely fooled by your disguises and won't object to you raiding their camps and stealing their weapons.
  • One Shrine Task has you showing pictures of different Guardians to a woman in exchange for a Shrine Orb. The reason why you're doing this is because she's in love with the orb to the point of stroking it affectionately, sweet-talking it, and naming it Roscoe, but also has a Guardian fetish and will abandon "Roscoe" after getting a good look at them.
    • Even funnier is her name. She's actually named Loone.
  • Next time you see a Goron, attack him or whip out a bomb. Because terrified Gorons look hilarious.
  • While you're exploring the Taobab Grassland, you might see a smoke signal coming from a nearby mountain. When you investigate a source, you meet a random woman surrounded by tons of rotten food while she's beating a horribly charred roast that's simmering in a cooking pot. Talking to her reveals that she's confused by all the Dubious Food and Rock-Hard Food she accidentally cooks... only to go on and advise you to cook with gems, monster parts, and Guardian parts. Yeah, there's no telling why her food is always terrible. What a mystery it is.
    • A funny bit of Fridge Humor is the fact that the smoke her food is kicking up can likely be seen by both Lynels patrolling the Taobab Grasslands, which are said to be murderous marauders who will kill anyone they catch near their stomping grounds. And yet, they've done absolutely nothing about her despite the fact that she's a civilian armed with cooking equipment. It really makes you wonder if they're aware of her presence, but are so disgusted with the smell of her campsite that they refuse to go anywhere near it...
  • Death Mountain is so hot that you can cook food just by setting it on the ground. This is actually how the chef of Goron City's Protein Palace cooks food for non-Goron tourists... but the fact that they can do it themselves means that his business is floundering.
  • A flashback during the Champions' Ballad DLC reveals the one thing the big, burly Daruk is afraid of: dogs. When he saves an adorable pooch from being killed by Bokoblins, the poor guy's shivering and cowering as it happily looks his way and panics, throwing up Daruk's protection when it barks. Thankfully, he's a good sport about it and laughs it off while talking with Zelda.
  • Also from the Champions' Ballad, Kass will show up to give musical hints about the trials the Champions faced, as well as talk about how he's met with the leaders of their hometowns to learn more about them. Riju and Buliara of Gerudo Town are among them, and he mentions how embarrassing it was to meet them. Can't imagine why.
  • Yet again, the Champions' Ballad allows you to read the Champions' diaries to learn more about their lives. After a rematch against Waterblight Ganon in the Illusory Realm, the way Mipha can call attention to hers is hilarious. And by hilarious, we mean that the normally sweet and soft-spoken Zora princess completely flips out.

Mipha: Link, if you, uh... That is to say, if you should find my diary somewhere... DON'T YOU DARE READ IT!

Back to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild/Funny?oldid=2016704"