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* [[Feed It a Bomb]]: Much like Dodongos, you can do some serious damage to Froxes by hurling bombs into their open maws.
* [[Flunky Boss]]: Queen Gibdo. Like any queen insect worth her salt, she sics hordes of Gibdo drones on Link and Riju during her boss fights.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
**The game's logo is an ouroboros symbol composed of two dragons eating each other’s tails. This foreshadows {{spoiler|the [[Stable Time Loop]] that leads to Ganondorf’s initial defeat 10,000 years ago and the conflict between him and Link in the present day, from the time-displaced Zelda’s point of view. It also predicts the [[Final Battle]], with Ganondorf consuming his Stone to become the Dark Demon Dragon and the aerial battle high above Hyrule where Link engages the villain while riding atop Zelda’s similar aspect of the Light Dragon.}}
**When Ganondorf wakes up in the opening scene, he clearly recognizes Zelda (although she has no idea who he is) but not Link, only assuming it is him because he has the Master Sword. The reason for this - {{spoiler|he knew her personally in the distant past via the Stable Time Loop = is revealed later in the Memories.}}
**When Link receives the Recall ability from Zelda, it foreshadows his alliance with the Sages and how he will gain their Vows; Zelda is later revealed {{spoiler|to be the Sage of Time, and the hand-to-hand contact is how their abilities are transferred to Link.}}
**On a similar note, the game at first implies that there are four Sages, one for each Elemental power, their oaths given to Link via rings on Rauru’s prosthetic hand. But… the hand has five rings…
**At the end of the Great Sky Island section (the tutorial level, more or less) there is a strange cutscene that foreshadows many important events in the game:
***First, when Link places the broken Master Sword in an orb of light; Zelda briefly appears, takes it, and vanishes. Astute players will notice how this scene resembles how the surroundings change when Recall is used. This subtly implies that Link is sending the Sword into the past so Zelda can retrieve it, although exactly how far into the past he sends it is not revealed until much later.
***Second, after sending the sword to Zelda, the Light Dragon flies upwards through the nearby clouds, revealing the land of Hyrule below and eliminating the [[Broken Bridge]] that prevented Link from going there. The Light Dragon is later revealed to be Zelda herself, having sacrificed her mind and personality in order to nourish the Master Sword with divine light over ten-thousand years so it would be at full power when Link was able to obtain it. Her actions in this scene hint that a small trace of Zelda’s true consciousness still remains, which becomes evident in the Final Battle.
***Third, before Link can take this newly-opened route to the surface, Zelda’s voice calls to him, telling him he must find her. Once the whole story is revealed, and it becomes definite that ''this'' is the real Zelda, {{spoiler| all the supposed Zelda sightings over the course of the main line quest and most of the Lucky Clover Gazette side quests are the result of an imposter}}. While the player might realize that on his own, gameplay wise there is no way to make the connection and consider her “found” until many of the memories are obtained from the Dragon Tears.
**Also, there are many hints that foreshadow the identity of the Light Dragon:
***First, the mere existence of the Dragon of Light is suspicious, as it was not one of the dragons in the previous game (all three of whom return in this one). Also, unlike those dragons, this one is not given a name. If Link gains a scale, horn, or claw from it, the description text says it exudes an “oddly familiar” power. {{spoiler|Also, these parts are used in every step of upgrading the Champion’s Leathers armor, which Zelda herself crafted prior to the events of this game, suggesting the Light Dragon is tied to Zelda and the armor in some way.}}
***The quests to collect memories from the geoglyphs involves finding pools of water in the shape of glowing water, which become droplets that allow Link to view the memories from Zelda’s perspective. {{spoiler|Seeing as the name of the questline is “The Dragon’s Tears”, it pretty much spells out the source of the memories and the identity of the Light Dragon right from the start.}}
***[[Trailers Always Spoil| Even the trailer has some hints to this.]] The second trailer ends with “Zelda’s Lullaby” played on an ehru, {{spoiler|the same instrument used for the Light Dragon’s [[Leitmotif]]. Since the Tears of the Kingdom are literally tears of a dragon, they give access to Zelda’s memories, and there is “coincidently” a never-before-seen dragon flying over Hyrule.}}
* [[Free-Fall Fight]]: Colgera's boss fight mostly takes place in the sky, where a powerful updraft keeps Link afloat. Bonus points for being able to hurt the colossal monster ''through free-falling!'' {{spoiler|The final battle against Ganondorf's Demon Dragon form also takes place high in the sky and through near-constant free-falling.}}
* [[Fungus Humongous]]: Towering stalks of fungi grow like trees in the Depths. The caps of this giant fungus can be used as platforms for Link to use with Ascend in order to reach high cliffs.
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