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* [[Bizarre Seasons]]: Occurs in ''Seasons''. The seasons are all a jumbled mess because of the Oracle being imprisoned and the Temple of Seasons being sunk below the earth.
* [[Boxing Kangaroo]]: Ricky.
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Some of the rings. One is awarded by using a [[New Game Plus+|Hero's Secret]]. Another two can be bought from stores that are only available by playing the game on a GBA. Another ring is given as a reward for beating Ganon in a linked game. There's also the rings you get for killing 1000 enemies and breaking 100 signs. The first ring you get would even count as one.
* [[Clown Car Grave]]: Each game has at least one undead themed dungeon, where this trope is played straight. Though strangely, undead enemies are seen a lot of other locations where there ''aren't any graves at all''.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: ''Seasons'' has a ton of references to [[The Legend of Zelda (Video Game)|the first game]], which makes sense, considering that these games began development as remakes of the NES games. Most notably, the first level shares the exact same layout as the first level of the original game, and the same boss is also featured.
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: Twice in ''Ages''; in both cases [[Contrived Coincidence|it's a good thing you have the mystery seeds (from the second dungeon), the seed shooter (from the third dungeon), and the switch hook (from the fourth dungeon).]]
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: The Oracles. More egregiously with Din; Onox sends a little tornado to carry her away and she's not seen again until Link goes and rescues her. Less so with Nayru, because Veran possessed her, and presumably she didn't have the strength or the time (likely both) to resist, and she's freed approximately once you're about two thirds through the game. And {{spoiler|Princess Zelda}} in a linked game.
* [[Dual World Gameplay]]: ''Oracle of Ages'' has time portals connecting the past and future. A few of them are [[A Wizard Did It|conveniently opened at the start of the game]] when Nayru's time powers are used, and the [[Ancient Artifact|Harp of Ages]] lets Link open them on his own. Once Link [[Magic Music|learns more songs,]] he can travel [[Shout -Out|Back To The Future]] from the past, and by the end of the game he can jump back and forth anywhere he wants.
** A less literal example is ''Seasons'', where the Rod of Seasons changes the seasons but you remain in the same world. The effects are the same though, the environment changes to open/close new paths depending on the season, like snow piling up or lakebeds drying up.
* [[Dummied Out]]: A bit of a meta case; an entire ''game'' was dummied out. The Oracle titles were originally supposed to be a trilogy, with a third title based around color-changing puzzles. Making three linked games quickly became too much to handle for the development team though, so they cut it down to two. Remaining evidence in the game code is limited to just the existence of Farore, and Koume and Kotake claiming Ganon's resurrection was initiated due to three bad emotions when only two plot events occurred to cause them (they worked around it by having {{spoiler|Zelda's kidnapping}} cause the third). This situation is given a [[Shout -Out]] in ''[[Minish Cap]]'', in which all three Oracle girls appear in cameos, but you can only have houses in Hyrule Castle Town built for two of them to live in.
** It's also worth noting that, in ''Minish'' Cap, giving Farore, the one whose game was [[Dummied Out]], a house, you get a better charm.
*** Giving her a house means the charm has the effects of both Din and Nayru's charms, but not as potent.
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* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Subrosia has tons of lava, with the occasional eruption for you to dodge, but it's really more of a subversion: there are few enemies, and the inhabitants are friendly.
* [[Let's Play]]: [http://www.youtube.com/user/mcgammar Boltage McGammar's] LP has him playing ''Ages'' first. If you want to see ''Seasons'' played first, check out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DcuZZp_PqM CeilingNinja's] LP.
** Alternatively, [http://lparchive.org/Legend-of-Zelda-Oracle-Series/ MeccaPrime's] LP does both games in parallel, with ''Ages'' as a [[Minimalist Run]] and ''Seasons'' as a [[Hundred -Percent Completion]] run.
* [[MacGuffin Girl]]: The titular Oracles, and {{spoiler|Princess Zelda in the linked game.}}
* [[Magic Wand]]: The Rod of Seasons.
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* [[Nerf]]: The jumping distance when using the Roc's Feather was shortened compared to the jumping distance in ''Link's Awakening''.
** This is however inverted in ''Seasons'' when you pick up Roc's Cape which is a L2 Roc's Feather.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In ''Ages'', the only reason Veran is able to possess Naryu is because Link disrupts the barrier separating the two in a [[But Thou Must!]] moment.
** A much more literal example in ages, is the second dungeon. After going through the fairies' woods to reach it, there is a rock in the way. Okay, equip the power bracelet, and move it, except this makes the WHOLE FREAKING DUNGEON COLLAPSE...and you have to use time travel to get in at that point...(in retrospect, why hasn't ganondorf done this in any of the 800 other dungeons in the [[Lo Z]] series, just one would doom link to failure...)
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: The aforementioned references to the first game often involve similarities between dungeons. In particular, the first dungeon of ''Seasons'' has the exact same layout as the first dungeon of the original Legend of Zelda, with the same boss.
* [[One Game for The Price of Two]]: Both averted and played straight: the games by themselves are completely different (items, dungeons, bosses and so on), but if you want to complete the storyline you need to play a Linked Game requiring both games.
** And a linked game is a sort of [[New Game Plus+]]. You start off with one more heart container than normal and can access more things than a fresh game.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: The final bosses of both games. {{spoiler|Veran [[Sequential Boss|has three.]]}}
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: The Tokay, anthropomorphic lizards with a penchant for theft.
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* [[San Dimas Time]]: In ''Ages'', Veran goes back in time to alter things in her favor. Some of the effects are instantaneous, while others, like the construction of the Tower, are incremental based on your progress through the game.
* [[Save This Person Save the World]]: Play straight with Din in ''Seasons'', but averted with Nayru in ''Ages''. Link actually manages to save Nayru and get her back to the present shortly after the sixth dungeon, but Veran is able to possess Queen Ambi and as she's still in the past can use Ambi's influence to complete her scheme even without Nayru.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Many, many to the original Legend of Zelda in ''Seasons''. Even most of the bosses in ''Seasons'' are re-worked versions of the original ''Zelda'' bosses.
** One of the Mini-Bosses in a linked ''Ages'' game is a shout out to the original ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' arcade.
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: It is possible in ''Seasons'' to do the 5th dungeon before the 4th one if you know how to get Autumn.
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* [[Underwater Boss Battle]]: The sixth and seventh dungeons in ''Ages''--the boss of the sixth moves back and forth between the surface and underwater, while the seventh is underwater for the entire battle.
* [[Valley Girl]]: Rosa from ''Seasons''.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: The Tokay in the Japanese version have a [[Pokémon -Speak]] tic of using "toka" at odd moments. This was removed in the dub since Western audiences don't find that quite as endearing.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: The cuccos are still around.
** [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: And they still fight back.
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* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]: Valuable items like Pieces of Heart and Gasha Seeds are sold in junk stores in Subrosia. Another Subrosian is seen throwing such items into lava in order to cause a volcano to erupt.
** Sadly, they cannot be caught out of the air.
* [[Yin -Yang Clash]]: One miniboss in ''Ages'' wields a supposedly unbreakable sword, and a supposedly unbreakable shield. You can only defeat him by tricking him into hitting the one with the other, breaking both.
 
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