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*[[Damsel in Distress]]: This game puts an extra twist on it. Link and Zelda are separated in the beginning, but Link (and the player) are constantly kept guessing as to where she is, whether she is there via her own free will or at the villain’s mercy, what she is doing there, or why the villain wants her (if indeed he does). All Link knows is, he must find her to prevent… something bad from happening. {{spoiler|Eventually, subverted - the trouble she is in is of a very different sort than this Trope.}}
** Played straight however with three of the fashionable NPCs {{spoiler| who have been kidnapped by the Yiga clan and forced to make their uniforms. Rescue all of them to get the Yiga armor set.}}
*[[Damage Sponge Boss]]: {{spoiler|The Final Boss is this. Ganondorf is a Sequential Boss, the first stage being a strict one-on-one, though it is easy to tell he is pulling his punches. When he truly lets loose in stage two, his Life Bar seems the same as the other bosses… and then keeps growing until it is literally off the screen, making it double the length of a normal boss’.}}
*[[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: Draconification. A Sage who willingly swallows his or her Secret Stone undergoes an instantaneous and painful transformation into an immortal dragon, gaining incredible might and immortality, at the cost of their soul and memory, cursed to wander Hyrule forever as a mindless beast. Despite knowing the cost, Zelda willingly undergoes this process, as it is the only way to give Link a fighting chance.
** {{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.}}
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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 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.
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.
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).
▲* [[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.
* [[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?]]: 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!]]
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