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The fifth entry in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series was released to great fanfare on the [[Nintendo 64]] in November of 1998. It was the first 3D game in the series, and it set the standard for all the later games in the series, with its then-unheard of style of cinematic presentation and for introducing many mainstay elements of the franchise, including an extensive use of [[Magic Music]].
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The game had a [[Video Game Remake|remake]] produced by Grezzo for the [[Nintendo 3DS]], titled ''The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D'', which updated the visuals and controls, but left the story, music<ref>save for a newly orchestrated piece over the porting team's half of the end credits</ref>, world, and even some of the [[Ascended Glitch|glitches and bugs]] intact.
 
''Due to the insane popularity of the game and the fame of its various plot twists, [[You{{Unmarked Have Been Warned|expect unmarked spoilers]].Spoilers}}''
 
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* [[Abridged Series]]: [[Legend of Zelda the Abridged Series|Multiple.]]
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* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Link is the Boy Without A Fairy, and thus teased by all the "other" Kokiri...in the [[Backstory]], at least. The game ''begins'' with [[Exposition Fairy|Navi]] bonding to Link. In a subversion, most of the Kokiri are happy for him. Only [[The Rival|Link's rival]] [[Stupid Boss|Mido]] continues to be a douche about it. In the future, on the other hand, he's still the odd one out as the only outsider who ''does'' have a fairy.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Kokiri with blond hair is called Fado. Her name was only ever revealed on the old Zelda64 site.
* [[Alternate Timeline]]: As noted above, confirmed with ''[[All There in the Manual|Hyrule Historia]]''. {{spoiler|Later games confirm a split in the Zelda universe's timelines, as a result of the [[Time Skip]] in this game--one where Young Link returns to his own time and grows up normally, the other where Adult Link disappears (when he returns to his own time as Young Link). The former leads into ''Majora's Mask'' and ''Twilight Princess'', while the latter leads into ''Wind Waker'' and its sequels. A 2011 encyclopedia revealed a third timeline, created if Link failed to beat Ganon in this game, which leads to ''[[A Link to the Past]]''.}}.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Ocarinas were real even before this game came out. [[Defictionalization|But now]] you can buy ones that look just like Zelda's.
* [[Always Close]]: No matter how much time you had left, Link and Zelda always manage to get out of Ganondorf's castle immediately before it explodes and crumbles into itself.
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* [[BFS]]: The Biggoron Sword. It requires both hands to wield, and, at least in the remake, it's about as long as adult Link is tall.
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: Jabu Jabu's Belly. It's [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], having extremely large intestinal tracts as a dungeon. For some reason, monsters are living inside there.
* [[Big Yes]]: Part of Darunia's reaction to "Saria's Song.".
* [[Bishonen]]: Adult Link.
* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: The Forest Temple has some wonderful mind-screwing corridors that can twist 90 degrees.
* [[Bleak Level]]: The Shadow and Spirit Temple.
* [[Blinding Bangs]]: The beggar that buys bottled fish and bugs. (Hishis counterpart in Termina, the banker, has this trait as well.).
** Some of the Kokiri children, particularly the Know-it-all brothers.
* [[Block Puzzle]]: No ''Zelda'' game should be without them.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: Ganondorf, upon defeat of his first form. In the 1.0 version of the game, it's red, but in every other release, it's green, [[Narm|making it look like he instead either a) hocked a tremendous loogie or b) got beaten so bad he vomited]].
* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: The Gerudo Training Grounds -- a maze of puzzles that earn you keys to solve a maze of locked doors. The prize at the end is the Ice Arrows. Useful for [[100% Completion]], not particularly useful [[Bragging Rights Reward|for anything else]] in the game.
* [[Book Ends]]: Link's meeting with Zelda in the castle. Possibly even the same one only this time it will turn out differently...
* [[Boss Arena Recovery]]: There's frequently junk around the periphery of boss arenas that can be used to restore health.
* [[Boss Banter]]: Koume and Kotake [[Affably Evil|chat with you]] before doing their [[Transformation Sequence]].
** As well as bicker with each other after they're defeated and are going to... [[Fridge Logic|heaven?]]
* [[Boss Battle]]: Notable in that each has their own unique type:
** Gohma: [[Warmup Boss]] / [[Flunky Boss]]
** King Dodongo: [[Get Back Here Boss]]
** Barinade: [[Shielded Core Boss]]
** Phantom Ganon: [[Final Boss Preview]] / [["Wake -Up Call" Boss]]
** Volvagia: [[Collapsing Ceiling Boss]]
** Dark Link: [[Mirror Boss]]
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* [[Bowdlerization]]:
** Originally, Ganondorf coughed blood shortly before the castle escape, and Ganon also bled with the final few hits. This was recolored green in later versions of the game, so when Ganondorf coughed up that blood...it looked more like throw-up, and green slime poured out of Ganon in the final blows. Surprisingly, all blood when Link is hit, as well as the bloody spots and skeletons in the Bottom of the Well, as well as the bones in the graves, are kept, E-Rating and all!
** In the Fire Temple, the original version specifically sounds like the Arabic for the First Pillar of Islam ("There is no god but God, and Mohammed is his Prophet") and "God is great.". All of these changes were only made in game v1.2, not the gold cart (v1.0) and first run regular carts (v1.1).
:[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-9-pop-fiction/710815 A Gametrailers video elaborates on this slightly.]
**::* Let's not forget the Gerudo crest, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131021022544/http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/d/d1/Ocarina_Of_Time_-_Mirror_Shield.png Mirror] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509130557/http://www.playoldgames.net/stories/game_sprites/oot/newmirrorshield.jpg Shield] being a late game example. Much like the Fire Temple theme these were altered because the Gerudo Crest was too similar to the Islamic Crescent Moon.
**::* There's ONE spot in the game where they forgot to change the symbol: the ceiling of Dampe's tomb in the room where he gives you the hookshot.
* [[Brats with Slingshots]]: The first dungeon item is a slingshot.
* [[Broad Strokes]]: The general plot is similar to the back story for ''[[A Link to The Past]]''. The official timeline confirms that the earlier game takes place in a timeline where the Hero of Time fails to stop Ganondorf.
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* [[Cape Swish]]: Ganondorf does one of these right before you fight him.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Navi, most of the time. This is made even worse by the fact that the game has no script in place to recognize where you are when she's giving advice. "There's a cold breeze blowing from Zora's Domain" notes Navi, as you stand in the middle of its icy ruins.
:This is taken to the logical extreme when Navi blatantly says "You should go Kakariko Village" ''as you're standing in Kakariko Village''.
:Navi's third most common phrase (after "Hey!" and "Listen") is what she screams when an enemy is attacking you and you Z-target. "Watch out!"
* [[Cave Behind the Falls]]: Zora's Domain. There are some in Gerudo Valley as well.
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* [[Character Tics]]: OoT Link is well-known for his inability to drink anything without [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|dramatically brandishing it in front of himself first]].
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Link might need quest items to perform ''some'' feats of strength, but as a boy he can already pick up football-sized boulders, hold them above his head, and hurl them a good ten feet.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Both the Skull Kid in the Lost Woods whom you teach Saria's Song to and the Happy Mask Shop owner become pivotal characters in ''[[Vidoe Game/The LegendofLegend of Zelda: MajorasMajora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]''.
* [[Cherry Tapping]]: A lengthy yet surprisingly effective method of battling Dark Link is using the broken Giant's Knife. Using the stab attack with Link's default sword will make Dark Link [[Combat Pragmatist|jump onto the blade and deliver an unavoidable attack.]] However, since the broken sword has no blade to jump on, the stab will always hit. Just be prepared to do it ''a lot''.
* [[Chick Magnet]]:
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* [[Dude, Where's My Reward?]]: For every ten of the first fifty Gold Skulltulas you find, you get a significant reward. For finding the ''other'' fifty, a task that requires you to scour every nook and cranny in the land, you get... money. By that time you'll essentially have done everything in the game that requires money anyway.
* [[Dummied Out]]: Quite a few things. Most notably the Wind and Ice Medallions (and their associated Temples, although the Wind Temple survived in a somewhat altered state as the Forest Temple, and the Forest portion of Ganon's Castle and the Ice Cavern have more in common with the scrapped Wind and Ice Temples than the Forest and Water Temples) and... an [[Star Fox (series)|Arwing]] as a fightable enemy, which was originally used to test Z-Targetting in early development.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]] / [[Easter Egg]]: In the remake, one of the rooms of the Thieves' Hideout (specifically, the one that is above the room closest to the cell you are thrown into if you are caught) contains a poster of the Link from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]'' behind two crates. Similar posters can be found on the wall of the Bombchu Shop in Hyrule Castle Town, and in the bedroom at Lon Lon Ranch as an adult.
* [[An Economy Is You]]: Everyone sells things that are handy for your quest, and all trading between other people is done via Link moving goods and money around.
** Played straight with the Fisherman (the guy in the Fishing Hole at Lake Hylia), who actually tells Link that he's his only customer.
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* [[Gender Rarity Value]]: The Gerudo have only one male child every century, who becomes their king.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** The Poe collector suggests theyhe could run a [[The Oldest Profession|"different kind of business"]] if theyhe were as attractive as Link.
** Nabooru promising you as a kid to "give you something special". It seems innocent enough until you're an adult and she says this little tidbit: "If I'd known you would have grown up to look this good, I would have kept my promise." Yes, Nintendo got a sex and ''[[Shotacon]]'' reference past the radar.
** Pretty much everything involving the Great Fairies.
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** The eye switches. To trigger one, you have to shoot an arrow into it. Similarly, the "blind the eyes of the statue" stage in the Gerudo Training Complex.
** You can't reach King Dodongo without bombing the eyes of a huge Dodongo skull.
* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in the remake: non-[[Game Breaking Bug|Game-Breaking Bugs]] were [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103015710/http://www.zeldadungeon.net/2011/06/bugs-were-intentionally-preserved/ intentionally left in the game to add charm and replay value.]
* [[Good Is Dumb]]: Despite that basic Gerudo guards are one of the weakest enemies in the entire game (taking one hit from anything to knock out) and Link could probably take on the entire Gerudo Fortress and win, if he's spotted he will always raise his hands and let himself be carted back to his cell. Though since the Gerudo themselves aren't evil (except for Ganondorf and Twinrova) it comes full circle, as they just throw him with all his gear into the same pit he's escaped from the last sixteen times they did that.
* [[Good Morning, Crono]]: Navi flies into Link's house to wake him up in the beginning.
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** Malon, Zelda, and Ruto also grow from precious children into gorgeous adults after the seven years.
* [[Happy Ending Override]]: The opening sequence in ''[[The Wind Waker]]'' reveals that after the events of this game, Ganondorf eventually escapes his prison, and conquers Hyrule easily, because Link was not there to stop him. The gods then flood the earth and Hyrule is lost forever. Things didn't go well in the [[Twilight Princess|other timeline]] either, but at least Hyrule stayed dry.
** The game's ending itself actually has quite a few shades of bittersweet: {{spoiler|Zelda (from the adult timeline) and Link have to say goodbye, as do the friends and family of the sages. Navi also leaves for unspecified reasons, which impels Link to leave Hyrule in search of her, setting up for ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]''. Additionally, given the horrific damage Ganondorf caused during his time as tyrant, we can presume it took quite awhile to rebuild everything.}}. In light of what happens in both timelines and the nigh unending strife Ganondorf causes in years to come, the events of ''Ocarina of Time'' are fairly tragic.
** The ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|A Link to the Past]]'' branch of the timeline ''also'' counts in that {{spoiler|it's caused by Link dying in his battle against Ganon}}.
* [[He Was Right There All Along]]:
** Several bosses, particularly Gohma where the boss fight won't trigger until you look up into her eye.
:*** Dark Link takes the cake, as he is Link's reflection, literally having been with Link his entire life until the Water Temple brought it to life. When you enter the room (which has an illusion cast on it to resemble a foggy lake), there is a lone island in the centre of the lake. Link's reflection is blatantly visible on the mirror-like surface of the water until he steps on the island, after which point his reflection has ''completely vanished''. Dark Link appears by the tree on the island as soon as Link turns his back, attacking only once he's been spotted. And once he's been defeated, the illusion fades, revealing that the very solid island - which you could ''physically stand on'' - was never there to begin with; it was a spell that served to turn Link's reflection against him.
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: Almost every Zelda game does this. Often a cause of some problems for those who don't understand that "Zelda" is the princess' name and not the hero's, given it turns key speeches into yuri slashfics.
{{quote|'''Zelda:''' What's your name? ...Zelda... Stange, it sounds... [[Captain Obvious|familiar]].}}
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* [[Hero's Journey]]: Even more literal than usual. The 'Belly of the Whale' stage of the journey is a dungeon inside a giant fish, and the hero, thanks to the timebending, ''literally'' Comes Of Age when he draws the Master Sword from its pedestal.
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Kokiri Village.
* [[Hobbits]]: The Kokiri.
* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: The formerly silver arrows in the previous games become arrows of weaponized light here.
* [[100% Completion]]: If you want to get everything in the game, you had better scour every single area with the most precise attention to detail and logic possible, [[Guide Dang It|or have a trusty player's guide at your side]]-you have a LOT of ground to cover. Besides the crucial items, there are the side-quests, finding all of the fairy fountains, the bonus items like a bigger arrow bag and the bottles, the heart pieces, the mask subquest, and let's not forget those bloody Gold Skulltulas.
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* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]]: A standard for the series; the "small keys" do this, though there's sometimes one-off puzzles requiring more specific keys.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Link and Ruto. It's confirmed in the sequel that Zora lay eggs.
* [[Irony]]: The Failure Timeline is what occurs if Link is defeated in this story, which means [[The Bad Guy Wins]] with serious repercussions for Hyrule. Despite this, the timeline evetually leads to ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]'', the story where Ganon is, in fact, dealt the most decisive defeat in the franchise. The villain also seems to have lost his humanity via this victory, as Ganondorf no longer appears in this timeline, only Ganon (his bestial form) appears.
* [[Item Get]]: The most famous version is born in this game, to the point where it's reached levels of [[Memetic Mutation]].
* [[Jerkass]]: Mido. His walk seems designed to say "I have a stick up my ass", at least until you meet him in the future, where he seems to [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|regret how mean he was to Link.]]
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** Impa, and supposedly Sheik later on, {{spoiler|or so you're led to think}}.
*** Zelda herself is the last of the [[Royal Blood|Royal Hylian Bloodline]].
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: If you've ever played ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' or ''Brawl'', there's about a 99.9% chance you know that {{spoiler|[[Self-Demonstrating Article|Sheik is Zelda]].}}.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Just before the second to final battle between Link and Ganondorf.
* [[Lethal Joke Weapon]]: Even though the Giant's Knife is stronger than the Master Sword and has the unfortunate flaw of shattering after a few swings, it still retains its attack power as an shattered blade... It's just you have to be standing right next to an enemy to actually land an attack with it.
* [[Light and Mirrors Puzzle]]: Many of the puzzles in the Spirit Temple.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Everyone is still wearing the same clothes after seven years, meaning Hyrule must be an extremely smelly place to live.
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** At one point, Mido says "Grumble, grumble..." an infamous line uttered in the first game at a frustrating [[Guide Dang It]] moment.
** The Sages and Mido are named after the towns from ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Zelda II the Adventure of Link]]''. The same game is also the source of Volvagia<ref>The ''Zelda II'' version was originally [[Spell My Name with an "S"|translated as Barba]], but the Japanese version and the ''Collector's Edition'' release use Volvagia</ref>, Dark Link, and Iron Knuckles (which are used instead of the Darknuts used in 2D games other than the second game as well as later 3D games).
** In the remake, the Happy Mask Salesman has the masks that were attached to his pack in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]''.
** In the remake, when you visit the bedroom of Lon Lon Ranch, you can see on the wall some of Malon's paper drawings. One of them is [[Links Awakening|Marin]].
** In the remake, Impa's house has a book on the table that resembles the Book of Mudora from ''[[A Link to The Past]]''.
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* [[New Game+]]: In the 3DS remake, completing the game unlocks the Master Quest mode.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: As explained before, the remake adds the Boss Rush mode. Oh boy...the Master Quest's Boss Gauntlet does away with recovery items between bosses. Made even worse when you're only given three hearts to fight all bosses who can potentially kill you with one hit due to double damage. Yes, the game is forcing you to do a [[Minimalist Run]].
** Master Quest in general, which redesigns the dungeons to produce trickier puzzles and more confusing layouts (with the major exception of the Water Temple, which was made ''easier'').
* [[No Fair Cheating]]: Using a teleport song while delivering a time-sensitive item as part of the Biggoron Sword quest will reduce the timer to 1 second upon arriving at your destination, causing it to immediately spoil. Likewise, if you use a teleport song during the Running Man contest, the timer will skip ahead to several seconds before the time you're supposed to beat.
* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Averted.
* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: Ruto and the Zoras.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: It's no wonder the Sheikahs aren't around anymore if their idea of a good place to build a settlement is the base of an active volcano and ''then keep'' it there on top of a reasonable facsimile of hell.
* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Saria and the rest of the Kokiri.
* [[Novelization]]: The strategy guide was sort of written as one of these. There was also a more straight-up novelization. You're probably better off not reading the later.
* [[Oblivious Adoption]]: Link is a variation of this.
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* [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]]: The seven years Link spends in the Temple of Time.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: The Gorons are, on average, probably the most cheerful, friendly race in the game. Which only makes it even more disturbing to see them begging for mercy in the Fire Temple, where they're about to be fed to a dragon, [[Make an Example of Them|as a "warning" to those who might oppose Ganondorf.]]
* [[Poor Man's Substitute]]: Phantom Ganon is this to Ganondorf, {{spoiler|[[In Name Only|but oddly not to the real Ganon.]]}}.
* [[Prequel]]: Set before ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|A Link to the Past]]'''s Imprisoning War... so to speak. See [[Alternate Timeline]] above.
* [[Primordial Chaos]]: "Three golden goddesses descended upon the chaos that was Hyrule..."
* [[Prison Episode]]: The Gerudo Fortress.
* [[Purple Prose]]: [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140212143451/http://zeldawiki.org/Sheik/Quotes Sheik's dialog].
* [[The Red Stapler]]: Over ten years later, replicas of the Ocarina of Time and other Zelda-styled flutes can still be found at ren faires and the like.
* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: In Hyrule, money literally grows on trees. And under bushes. And, um, inside pottery and rocks. They have yet to perfect a method of getting into any of these without destroying them in the process. According to ''The Minish Cap'', the Minish put them there.
* [[Roar Before Beating]]: Ganon.
* [[Royal Blood]]: Princess Zelda, the Seventh Sage.
* [[Sailor Fuku]]: Malon's dress has a similar cut, but obviously isn't a school uniform.
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* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]: What happened when young Link pulled the Master Sword out of its pedestal: He ''is'' [[The Chosen One]], [[Because Destiny Says So|but destiny felt he was too young]] to wield the sword properly, so it sealed him up for seven years. To the player this is nothing more than a [[Time Skip]] (and [[Time Travel]]), but for the rest of the world...
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: To the point that you could finish the game without going to any dungeon or temple if skilled enough...in little more than an hour. "Normal" sequence breaking includes finishing (not going to) Lord Jabu-Jabu before Dodongo's Cavern, doing the Fire Temple before the Forest Temple, doing the Water Temple before the Fire Temple, doing the Spirit Temple before the Shadow Temple, and completely skipping the Bottom of the Well. It's also possible to save all four carpenters and get the Gerudo's Membership Card before even ''setting foot'' inside any of the temples.
** There are so many possibilities for sequence breaking in this game that speedrunners master different "categories", such as complete (all 3 stones) Young Link runs, Any% runs where only getting to the ending matters, 100% runs where a player must complete everything, the list goes on. There's even [http://speedrunslive.com/tools/oot-bingo-v3/ bingo card generators]{{Dead link}} with a series of objectives competing runners must complete.
** To give an idea of the possibilities that people keep finding about, an speedrunner without any assistance beat the time of an early TAS of the game. ''By several hours''.
* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: The Haunted Wasteland.
* [[Shotacon]]: IfJudging youby knewthe aboutimplications Nabooru'sbehind her "promise", Nabooru seems to be one.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The four Poe Sisters are named [[Little Women|Jo, Amy, Meg and Beth]].
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** Also in the German translation, Ingo is referred to as [[Fawlty Towers|Basil]], though the Manual still calls him Ingo.
** Also there are four Mario references: outside Link's house is a drawing of a knight fighting Bowser with a mushroom dropping from above him, Malon and Talon have Bowser head brooches and there are pictures of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, and Yoshi in the Castle Courtyard. Then there's [[Expy|Talon and]] [[Super Mario Bros.|Ingo]] themselves...
:*** The remake does away with the paintings in the Courtyard, but looking through the window does show what looks like a level from ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]''.
** If you play The Song of Storms to the group of frogs in Zora's River, they sing the opening lines to "[[Singin' in the Rain]]".
** Miyamoto has stated that Navi has a crush on Link and is jealous of Zelda... [[Peter Pan|sound familiar?]] Strangely, this kind of relationship was also in [[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|the Western animated series.]]
* [[Sidenote Full Story]]: The game is an expansion of the prologue detailed in ''[[A Link to the Past]]'''s intro cutscene.
* [[Sigil Spam]]: The Triforce symbol is on almost everything, and the [http://www.zeldawiki.org/Gerudo_Symbol Gerudo symbol] is on every block and switch in the game.
* [[The Slow Path]]: While you time travel, everyone else has to live through all seven years of Ganondorf's rule.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Ganondorf. He murders anyone who gets in his way, manipulates people to further his own agenda, abuses his followers, and is charismatic enough to sucker the king of Hyrule into thinking that a notorious thief like him would be a trustworthy ally.
* [[Songs in the Key of Lock]]: Ladies and gentlemen, the [[Title Drop|ocarina]].
* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Those organs playing in the background? That's Ganondorf.
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* [[Stable Time Loop]]:
** In the future, Link meets an irritated musician who accidentally teaches him a song a young boy played in his windmill seven years ago by recollecting it. Of course, it's then your mission to go back and play it to him so he can later teach it to you in the future. Not to mention Master Quest's subversion of this: In the Spirit Temple, you create a chest as Adult Link then go ''back in time'' where it's somehow ''still there''. Note that it wasn't there the first time you visited the Temple.
:** The Song of Storms may've have also lead to another one. Though not directly stated, there's a good chance that Link's actions that broke the windmill and drained the well helped free Bongo Bongo. And the only reason Link needed to drain the well in the first place was to get the Eye of Truth from under it to enter the Shadow Temple to fight Bongo Bongo, who wouldn't have escaped if Link didn't need to get the Lens of Truth, which he only needed because he needed it to defeat Bongo Bongo that only escaped because... [[Austin Powers|oh no, I've gone cross-eyed!]]
* [[Standard Hero Reward]]: For defeating Barinade, Ruto basically proposes to you. Of course, [[Puppy Love|you're both kids at the time]], so it doesn't quite turn out that way.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: For Ganondorf / Ganon.
* [[Stay on the Path]]: Hyrule Field at night. At least for Young Link.
* [[Stealth -Based Mission]]: Getting past the guards at Hyrule Castle. Also, rescuing the carpenters from the Gerudo compound. And, to a lesser extent, the maze to get to the Forest Temple.
* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: Navi.
** Less famous for it, but the owl is at least as bad, due to his unskippable speeches, his "Do you want to hear everything again?" question being said to Yes by default while you're mashing the A button to get through it and the fun that he occasionally asks "Did you understand?", meaning you need to answer Yes to continue instead.
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* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: although there is not a gameplay option that provides this, one of the canonical timelines resulting from this game happens because of this scenario.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The four kidnapped carpenters are named after [[Bilingual Bonus|Japanese numbers]]: Ichiro (Ichi, 1), Jiro (Ni/Ji, 2), Sabooro (San, 3), Shiro (Shi, 4).
** The poePoe sisters in the forest temple are named after the sisters from ''[[Little Women]]'' by Louisa May Alcott.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: See [[Villainous Breakdown]] below.
{{quote|'''Ganondorf''': [[Third Person Person|The Great Evil King Ganondorf]] ... beaten by this kid?!}}
* [[This Is the Final Battle]]: Spoken by Navi.
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** Saria, who apparently has her ''own'' [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] in Mido.
** Navi counts too since you've known her since the beginning of your journey and [[Word of God]] is that she had feelings for Link.
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: Link's "attack" default move is a short forward roll. It can break crates, knock stuff out of trees, and give you some extra distance in jumping, but that's about it. The only combat purpose it is good for {{spoiler|is rolling under Ganon's legs. It gets you in position to attack his tail without shooting him in the face or taking time to circle around.}}.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: This may exist between Link and Zelda during the end of the game.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: By getting all of the Spiritual Stones and taking the Master Sword, Link allows Ganondorf's plans to come to fruition.
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: A version of the game that was packaged with certain copies of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Wind Waker]]'' featured "Master Quest", which is similar to vanilla ''Ocarina of Time'' but reorganizes puzzles inside the dungeons, making them more difficult.
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]:
** Finding the Triforce, defrosting Zora's Domain within the game, beating The Marathon Man. The former is based on pre-release trailers showing Link finding the entire Triforce; the second only happens during the ending, and the latter is impossible; the programmers couldn't figure out a good prize for beating him, so the Marathon Man always beats you "by one second". Even if you somehow cheat the race to finish in 0 seconds.
** Also, the Temple of Light as a hidden dungeon. This one was proven false, though it's theorized that it was in the beta version, but was [[Dummied Out]].
* [[Variable Mix]]: In Hyrule Field, the music is made up of 21 different segments that are about 15 seconds long and shift around depending on whether Link is standing still, moving, or near an enemy.
* [[Video Game 3D Leap]]
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]:
** The King is mentioned in the cutscene where you meet Zelda for the first time and later by Darunia (who refers to him as his "sworn brother".). He's never mentioned after, not even in the context of what happened to him when Ganon took over.
** Lord Jabu-Jabu seems to have met some diabolical but undefined fate in the future, too.
** Navi. She just...flies away. It's likely she goes to the new Deku Tree's side, since Majora's Mask begins with Link searching for her in the Lost Woods.
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Saria.
* [[You Have to Burn the Web]]: Thanks to this game, no one knows that spider webs aren't actually flammable -- not even other game developers.
* [[You Shouldn't Know This Already]]: Even if you hit the right notes, the special effects associated with a given ocarina song (like the Sun's Song, which changes from day to night) won't activate until you've been officially taught the song by another character. Likewise, although the Scarecrow lets you play him a song as a kid (which becomes the Scarecrow's Song as an adult), it ''has'' to be a custom song -- if you play a song that you're supposed to learn later (such as the Bolero of Fire), he won't remember it, but only tells you he can't say why. (Hehe also says this to any song that's fewer than eight notes long.).
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{{quote|'''Kaepora Gaebora''': Would you like to play this game again?
--'''[[Main Page|No]]'''|[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zelda-The-Ocarina-Time-N64/dp/B00000DMB3/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid{{=}}1338046464&sr=8-2 Yes]}}
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