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 ** {{spoiler|In the final battle, when his defeat seems eminent, Ganondorf decides to do the same thing, swallowing his Stone, and turning himself into the dark demon dragon.}}
 *[[Dark Is Evil]]: Ganondorf, who spreads an even deadlier strain of Malice called Gloom around Hyrule, and is so in tune with unholy dark magic that he comes off as a demon in human form.
-Dark is Not Evil:
+*[[Dark is Not Evil]]:
-The Bargainer entities speak through creepy statues that are found in the Depths, but they at least claim that the reason they want Link to collect Poes (which are lost souls) in order to send them to the afterlife to receive their rightful reward (or punishment). Because they can also speak through a Goddess statue, they may be her allies, servants, or even darker aspects of the Goddess.  This may, however, be a case of Good is Not Nice, as the Yiga journals say the statues stole the souls of their comrades, which at very least suggests the Bargainers killed them.
+**The Bargainer entities speak through creepy statues that are found in the Depths, but they at least claim that the reason they want Link to collect Poes (which are lost souls) in order to send them to the afterlife to receive their rightful reward (or punishment). Because they can also speak through a Goddess statue, they may be her allies, servants, or even darker aspects of the Goddess. This may, however, be a case of [[Good Is Not Nice]], as {{spoiler|the Yiga journals say the statues stole the souls of their comrades, which at very least suggests the Bargainers killed them.}}
-The same goes for many of the items they sell, including the Dark and Depths Armor sets.
+***The same goes for many of the items they sell, including the Dark and Depths Armor sets.
 Link himself can gain many sinister-looking armor sets, like the Evil Spirit Armor, Dark Armor (makes him look like Dark Link), Phantom Set, Radiant Set, and Depths Set, but he uses them for good purposes.
-King Rauru is a tall, intimidating Beast Man with black skin, horns, and bony spurs on his face, who wields incredibly powerful magic. But he is the Good King and a potent ally.
+**King Rauru is a tall, intimidating [[Beast Man]] with black skin, horns, and bony spurs on his face, who wields incredibly powerful magic. But he is [[The Good King]] and a potent ally. Though as the [[Flashback]]s show, [[Good Is Not Soft]] with him.
-Also in the Depths are shadowy entities that give Link a weapon if he interacts with them; their basic shape seems to resemble Hyrulian Soldiers from previous games like Ocarina of Time. They don’t like the Yiga either, as the clan members can only see the weapon when they look towards them.
+**Also in the Depths are shadowy entities that give Link a weapon if he interacts with them; their basic shape seems to resemble Hyrulian Soldiers from previous games like ''Ocarina of Time''. {{spoiler|They don’t like the Yiga either, as the clan members can only see the weapon when they look towards them.}}
+*[[Dark Reprise]]: The first time you visit any given area, the background music is gloomy and morose to reflect the crisis at hand. When the crisis is resolved, the music returns to the cheerier upbeat score.
+*[[Dark World]]: In many ways, the depths are a negative image of the surface of Hyrule. First off, the place is dark, infested with Gloom, and Ganon’s minions are more aggressive and more dangerous. There are also weird trees and other twisted plant life, plus giant fungus. No fruit grows here, but many useful plants like Bomb Flowers, Muddle Buds, and Puff Shrooms are common. Many places in the Depths are often geographically the opposite of the surface directly above. A mountain on the surface might have a chasm under it in the depths (and vice versa) while bodies of water on the surface are impassible floor-to-ceiling cliffs in the depths. Also, certain landmarks also have vertical correlations. Each Shrine has a Lightroot directly under it (making one easier to find if you have registered its counterpart), towns are above abandoned mines, while each Bargainer Statue is underneath a Goddess statue on the surface. Stables on the surface are right over Lionel lairs in the depths, and commemorative monuments on the surface have groups of the dark spirit warriors underneath in the Depths.
-Dark Reprise: The first time you visit any given area, the background music is gloomy and morose to reflect the crisis at hand. When the crisis is resolved, the music returns to the cheerier upbeat score.
-Dark World: In many ways, the depths are a negative image of the surface of Hyrule. First off, the place is dark, infested with Gloom, and Ganon’s minions are more aggressive and more dangerous. There are also weird trees and other twisted plant life, plus giant fungus. No fruit grows here, but many useful plants like Bomb Flowers, Muddle Buds, and Puff Shrooms are common. Many places in the Depths are often geographically the opposite of the surface directly above. A mountain on the surface might have a chasm under it in the depths (and vice versa) while bodies of water on the surface are impassible floor-to-ceiling cliffs in the depths. Also, certain landmarks also have vertical correlations. Each Shrine has a Lightroot directly under it (making one easier to find if you have registered its counterpart), towns are above abandoned mines, while each Bargainer Statue is underneath a Goddess statue on the surface. Stables on the surface are right over Lionel lairs in the depths, and commemorative monuments on the surface have groups of the dark spirit warriors underneath in the Depths.
 * [[Darker and Edgier]]: The game's pre-release trailers really made the game's tone out to be this way, what with the creepy reversed music, zombie Ganondorf rising from the dead, and lifting Hyrule Castle into the sky in the crimson light of the Blood Moon. While Ganondorf is an intimidating villain who is a force to be reckoned with, the game's tone isn't that much different from ''Breath of the Wild'' (if anything it's a bit ''lighter'', since aside from the issues caused by Ganondorf and the Upheaval, post-restoration Hyrule has a much more optimistic and hopeful vibe than the more overt post-apocalyptic Hyrule from the first game).
+*[[Death Mountain]]: The iconic [[Trope Namer]] is still there, and it plays a more important role in this game than last time. During the fire temple quest, Link and Yanobo have to enter the depths through the mountain's crater, and before they do, they have to fight Moragia, a dragon made of rock, that spews lava from its three mouths, looking like nothing less than Death Mountain come to life! Fortunately, it's not as difficult as it looks.
 * [[Decoy Damsel]]: Princess Zelda is allegedly sighted by plenty of people all around Hyrule, sometimes doing uncharacteristically cruel things, sometimes doing uncharacteristically ''bizarre'' things. {{spoiler|Naturally, this isn't Zelda at all, but Phantom Ganon and members of the Yiga Clan disguising themselves as her.}}
+* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
-* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: A once prosperous city has fallen on hard times thanks to a sinister figure circulating a highly addictive substance that messes with people's minds around the community, turning them into lazy oafs at best and violent thugs at worst. The kids are scared, the elders are disappointed, and the younger adult generation is for the most part high out of its mind. As many fans gleefully proclaim: [[Memetic Mutation|the crack epidemic has reached Goron City!]]
+**A once prosperous city has fallen on hard times thanks to a sinister figure circulating a highly addictive substance that messes with people's minds around the community, turning them into lazy oafs at best and violent thugs at worst. The kids are scared, the elders are disappointed, and the younger adult generation is for the most part high out of its mind. As many fans gleefully proclaim: [[Memetic Mutation|the crack epidemic has reached Goron City!]]
+**In the Regional Phenomena quest line, the Zora are plagued by black goo falling from the sky that pains them and impairs their ability to swim, not unlike an oil spill would affect aquatic wildlife.
+**The towers in this game look disturbingly like rocket silos, and indeed, activating them requires using Link as the rocket. Hard to blame him for looking so scared when he first does so.
 * [[Draconic Demon]]: {{spoiler|A literal example that nearly matches this trope word for word: when Ganondorf swallows his Sacred Stone during the final battle, he transforms into a mindless, obscenely powerful, downright Satanic-looking dragon called the Demon Dragon.}}
 ** As far as lesser examples go, there are the Gleeoks: powerful, frightening-looking three-headed dragons who can generate dangerous elemental auras when they initiate combat. They're easily the toughest overworld bosses, and are widely feared by players and in-game characters alike.