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** The little round pink eyes that appear in the usually empty space beneath Phantom's helmets are more than enough to qualify her.
* [[Badass Mustache]]: {{spoiler|Malladus' final form.}}
* [[Balloon Belly]]: During his boss fight, Fraaz will slowly inflate his belly until it's completely spherical. Ideally, you want to hit him with the element he's currently weak to before he finishes inflating, because if he does, he'll unleash powerful and tough-to-avoid blasts of elemental energy.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Joynas, the lady in charge of Take 'Em All On! She wears a tube top that shows off her stomach, similar to [[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|her ancestor Jolene]].
* [[Battle Couple]]: {{spoiler|Link and Zelda.}}
* [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]]: This has got to be the most tongue-in-cheek ''Zelda'' so far.
* [[Big Bad]]: Chancellor Cole, who {{spoiler|ends up [[The Unfought]]}}.
* [[Bigger Bad]]: Malladus, who Cole wants to resurrect.
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: Various giant bugs show up as enemies, but the biggest of them all is Stagnox, a humongous stag beetle and the game's very first boss.
* [[Big No]]: Zelda does this when she finds out what Chancellor Cole is planning to do with her body.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Sort of. {{spoiler|Link and Zelda kill Malladus and save the day once again, but all the Lokomos, including Byrne, disappear.}} One of the three [[Multiple Endings]] also gives off this vibe, due to {{spoiler|hinting that Link left Hyrule.}}
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* [[Brain Bleach]]: In-universe, Zelda is understandably freaked out by the idea of the Demon King possessing her body.
* [[Breath Weapon]]: To activate the Whirlwind, you have to blow into the microphone.
* [[Bully Bulldog]]: Big Blins, which are basically a rebranded version of the bulldog-style Moblins from older ''Zelda'' games. They command entire gangs of Miniblin pirates and will try to kidnap the passengers traveling in Link's train. Their boss fights double as [[Escort Mission|Escort Missions]].
* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]: Tektites and Roktite's eyes glow in the dark, which is the only way to spot them.
* [[Cel Shading]]
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{{quote|''Zelda:'' "Please get changed so we can leave. ...Oh! I-I'm sorry. I'll look the other way." }}
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Princess Zelda. She is cursed into being a ghost. This gives her, among others, the ability to hover (which she openly enjoys in the trailer), turn into a [[Exposition Fairy|fairy-like orb of light]] and, most importantly, possess the deadly Phantom-soldiers.
* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]: Big Blins take a lot of hits before going down. And by a lot, we ''mean'' a lot. Though it's justified since during most of their appearances, they aren't supposed to be dangerous to Link. They're trying to kidnap the passengers Link ferries across Hyrule on his train, meaning that the challenge comes from trying to fight and kill this ridiculously tanky monster before it can stroll through the passenger car and swipe the poor sap hiding at the very end of it.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Chancellor Cole, who decides to skip the elaborate plots and just separate Zelda's soul and steal her body himself. Also Fraaz, boss of {{spoiler|the Snow Temple, who at one point of the fight will simply destroy the summoning torches you were using to break his defenses}}.
* [[Deceptive Disciple]]: {{spoiler|Byrne, who betrayed his master, Anjean, out of his thirst for power}}.
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* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: {{spoiler|Malladus and Cole seem pretty chummy at first, but after Zelda manages to get her body back, Malladus swallows Cole whole to transform into his final phase.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|Byrne is quickly betrayed by Cole when Malladus starts possessing Zelda's body}}.
* [[Exposition Fairy]]: Zelda --
* [[Expy]]: Alfonzo, Link's teacher and master, bears a striking resemblance to Gonzo, Tetra's first mate in ''[[The Wind Waker]]''. He's descended him, which would make this an example of [[Generation Xerox]] as well, along with Zelda ("Legacy-Expy" of Tetra) and Link ("Legacy-Expy" of...well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|you know]]).
** For that matter, Malladus is {{spoiler|a giant blue pig-thing who possesses Zelda}}. If that doesn't sound at least a little Ganon-ish, you either don't know much about Zelda or {{spoiler|haven't reached the end of ''[[Twilight Princess]]''}}.
*** While his movement and basic design
* [[Feed It a Bomb]]: The carnivorous Fire Baba plants will readily swallow Bombs, blowing themselves up in the process.
* [[Final Boss, New Dimension]]:
* [[Friendly Playful Dolphin|Friendly Playful Dolphins]]: This game has yellow dolphins that swim alongside the train while it's going over water. They squeak and jump out of the water when you blow the whistle, and they are ''adorable''. If you keep blowing your whistle, they give you hearts to heal your train.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: Princess Zelda; Link; Linebeck III; Alfonzo -> Miss Tetra; Link (''Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass''); Linebeck I; Gonzo. However, it is unclear if this Link is a descendant of WW Link, since Niko says that this Link reminds him of an old friend rather than this Link's grandfather.
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** You travel to forest, snow, ocean and mountain, with a large tower standing in the middle. There's some differences, but the resemblance to [[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Termina]] is hard not to notice.
** The whip is known as the "rope snake." In several games in the series, the snake enemies are called 'Ropes'.
** Considering that ''Skyward Sword'' was in development at the same time that this game was, {{spoiler|Malladus seems to be a deliberate [[Call Forward]] to Demise, that game's [[Big Bad]] and the [[Ultimate Evil]] of the ''entire series''. He's explicitly called a Demon King, has fiery orange hair and grey skin (albeit grey that shifts into blue) with black markings similar to Demise's scaly body, and he spends most of the game in an incomplete state. And to restore him, his pompous, vain henchman hopes to carry out a dark ritual involving the body of Princess Zelda. If his dying curse is taken to be him literally cursing future incarnations of Link and Zelda to do battle with physical incarnations of his hatred, Malladus might actually ''be'' one of those incarnations.}}
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: The guy who runs the Rabbitland Rescue really, ''really'' loves bunnies...so much so that he left his wife behind in Castle Town with no indication of where he went. When Link brings her to see him, she's angry at first, but relents and decides to stay and help him take care of the bunnies, since it makes him happy.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: From Zelda:
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* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: The races for treasure at the aptly-named Slippery Station.
* [[Smug Snake]]: Subverted: Cole has all the trappings of never becoming anything more than an annoying little twat, but he's a surprisingly effective villain.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Chancellor Cole. He's a raging narcissist who uses people as stepping stones in his pursuit of ultimate power, revels in betraying those who trust him (Zelda, {{spoiler|Byrne}}), and despite actually being fairly intelligent and competent, {{spoiler|he wasn't good enough at planning ahead to realize that if Malladus was ever denied Zelda's body, he was the prime candidate to serve as an unwilling backup host}}.
* [[Some Dexterity Required]]: The final boss fights that require you to control both Zelda and Link, as well as the Lokomo duets.
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: The tip of Link's infamous hat randomly rises in one scene where Princess Zelda hugs him.
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