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''For the first game in the series, which shares the name, [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|go here]].''
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[[Nintendo]]'s video game series that codified the [[Action Adventure]] genre and [[Video Game Long Runners|began in 1986]] on the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]].
'''''The Legend of Zelda''''' franchise is, in essence, a mythos in the classical sense of the word: An evil [[Sorcerous Overlord|wizard/warlock]]/thief/[[Humanoid Abomination|monster]] named [[Big Bad|Ganon]] (or Ganondorf, but [[Gannon Banned|not Gannon]]) has cast a great evil over the [[The Kingdom|land of Hyrule]], and a young boy in a sort of green [[Peter Pan]] / [[Robin Hood]] costume must save Hyrule by [[Gotta Catch Them All|recovering powerful artifacts]] that rest in [[Temple of Doom|places tainted]] [[Dungeon Crawling|by Ganon]]. [[Badass Princess|Princess Zelda]] is his resourceful and sometimes [[Implied Love Interest|secretive love interest]]. He either must [[Save the Princess|rescue her]] or is guided by her, if not both at once. The story is repeated in many of the games, showing many eras, generations and [[Alternate Timeline|Alternate Timelines]] for the land of Hyrule, and [[Legacy Character|as many young boys named Link who find themselves forced to become heroes]]. An [[w:The Legend of Zelda#Fictional chronology|official timeline]]
'''Games in the Legend of Zelda canon include:'''
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' ([[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]], 1986)
* ''[[Zelda II: The
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages]]'' ([[Game Boy Color]], 2001)
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda Four Swords]]'' (the multiplayer mode for the ''Link to the Past'' remake; [[Game Boy Advance]], 2002; [[Video Game Remake|remade]] for [[Nintendo DS|DSiWare]], 2011)
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds]]'' ([[Nintendo 3DS]], 2013)
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes]]'' ([[Nintendo 3DS]], 2015)
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]]'' ([[Wii U]] and [[Nintendo Switch]], 2017)
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]], 2023)
Around the time ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|Link to the Past]]'' was released, three more games came out which... haven't made the canon: ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Link: The Faces of Evil]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Zelda's Adventure]]'', the latter two of which are the only games in the franchise in which you play as Zelda throughout the game.
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* ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Link: The Faces of Evil]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|Zelda's Adventure]]'' for the [[Philips CD-i]]
* ''[[Cadence of Hyrule]]'' for [[Nintendo Switch]]
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|The Legend Of Zelda]]'' [[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|cartoon]]
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (comics)|The Legend Of Zelda]]'' [[The Legend of Zelda (comics)|comic book]] published by Valiant
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (manga)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' [[The Legend of Zelda (manga)|manga]]
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* [[8.8]]: Indirectly, because of the score ''Twilight Princess'' received in a Gamespot review.
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* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Link's catchphrase in the cartoon.
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== A-C ==
* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: Kaepora Gaebora and the other Owls.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Link is an all-around nice kid. People who end up on his bad side wind up with multiple stab wounds to their everything.
** Princess Zelda as well. Yeah, she gets kidnapped repeatedly but the girl has shown she is a decent archer, knows a bit of magic, has some Sheikah training in ''Ocarina of Time'' and is willing to fight with a sword in ''Twilight Princess''. Even in ''[[Spirit Tracks]]'', as an [[Animated Armor]], when you attack her too much, she'll go berserk on Link, and even safe zones can't protect him from her wrath!
* [[
* [[Big Bad]]: Ganon(dorf) in most cases (8 games), followed at a relatively distant second by Vaati (3 games), with every other villain except Twinrova having one appearance each so far.
* [[Bigger Bad]]: {{spoiler|Demise,}} as ''Skyward Sword'' reveals. {{spoiler|He is responsible for Ganondorf's and every other monster's existence.}}
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** However, later games made use of them in interesting ways, mostly as a minigame.
* [[Bootstrapped Theme]] / [[Bootstrapped Leitmotif]]: The title screen / overworld theme from the first Zelda game along with many others are used in later games both as the series' Main Theme and as Link's [[Leitmotif]].
* [[Bow and Sword
* [[Bowdlerize]]: ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[A Link to The Past]]'' was named as such in English because of Nintendo of America's aversion to even the most tenuous of religious themes; what the translated title should have been was ''Triforce of the Gods''.
** One game later, in ''[[Links Awakening|Link's Awakening]]'', they changed cross-shaped grave markers into "RIP" rounded-block gravestones. Also the bikini top of the Mermaid became a... pearl amulet.
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* [[Cartoon Bomb]]
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: Part of the charm of the 3D Zelda games are seeing what crazy character designs the developers came up with for each and every [[
* [[Cataclysm Backstory]]: Two notable examples are {{spoiler|Demise's fight against the Goddess Hylia in Skyward Sword}} and the battle to seal Ganon in the backstory of ''A Link to the Past''.
* [[Celtic Mythology]]: Just a little bit. The default name of Link's horse, in the games where she appears, is Epona - which is the name of the Celtic goddess of horses.
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* [[Chaos Architecture]]: The realm of Hyrule itself. Landmarks such as Lake Hylia, Hyrule Castle, Death Mountain, Kakariko Village, and the Lost Woods tend to move around from game to game. Often [[Fan Wank|excused]] as corruption introduced in each "telling" of the titular "legend," verging on [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]].
* [[Chest Monster]]
* [[
** Dialogue text will [[Rainbow Speak|often have important words highlighted in a different color than the rest of the words]], sometimes using appropriate colors (like "forest" in green, "lake" in blue, etc).
* [[Commonplace Rare]]: Bottles. In every game that they were featured in, Bottles seem to be something that SHOULD be easy to get. But as it so-happens, the Bottles tend to be only possessed by a few (if that many) people in Hyrule. And these people NORMALLY require some quest or mini-game to be completed. Despite obvious glass windows in quite a few places in the series...are storage containers made from this material THAT sought after? I suppose when you have a kid [[Kleptomaniac Hero|breaking into everyone's houses and smashing their clay pots to steal their hard earned items]], [[Fridge Brilliance|an apparently unbreakable jar seems like the best thing ever]].
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* [[Culture Chop Suey]]: Probably more than one example, but Link's use of a boomerang in a relatively (at least in the earlier games) [[Medieval European Fantasy|medieval]] setting stands out the most.
* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Young Link, Kafei, Colin.
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** And ''Skyward Sword'' gives us {{spoiler|Demise, with ebony skin and (literally) flaming hair}}.
* [[Deadly Rotary Fan]]: Peahats attack using these in the N64 games.
* [[Demonic Spiders]]: Enough examples for [[Demonic Spiders/Video Games/Action Adventure/The Legend of Zelda|their own page]].
* [[Despotism Justifies the Means]]: Ganondorf.
* [[Determinator]]: Link's determination is outweighed only by his courage. Curses, giant monsters, long falls, dangerous terrains, being flung across the ocean... the Links go through a lot. Ghirahim comments on this in ''Skyward Sword'': "But instead of scurrying away like any creature with a basic instinct to survive, you just kept coming back. Again...and again...and again."
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* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: All throughout the series, from laser barriers in ''The Wind Waker'' to Beamos in multiple games which shoot lasers. ''A Link to the Past'' has the enemy called the Laser Eye, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|which is an eye that shoots lasers]].
* [[Attack Its Weak Point|Attack Its Blatant Glowing Red Spot]] [[For Massive Damage]]
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* [[The Hero]]: Link is often "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Hero]]" in a literal sense -- of [[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|Hyrule]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Time]], [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Winds]], or [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|chosen by the Gods]]. He may start out as an unassuming [[Farm Boy]], but heroism is inevitably [[Because Destiny Says So|his destiny]].
* [[The Hero Dies]]: ''[[All There in the Manual|Hyrule Historia]]'' states that one of the timelines in the series is created when Link fails to stop Ganon in ''Ocarina Of Time'' and creates the Imprisoning War, (aka leads up to ''A Link Into The Past''.)
* [[
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: It is quite possible that Groose {{spoiler|is the physical ancestor of the Gerudo}}. He matches the physical attributes very well (namely the red hair, yellowish gold eyes and dark skin). Worth mentioning is how Groose and his cronies stole Link's loftwing and hid it away. The Gerudo are well known thieves.
* [[Iconic Item]]: Link's green tunic and hood and, to a lesser extent, the Master Sword. The Triforce also serves as the [[Iconic Item]] for the entire series.
* [[Iconic Logo]]: The page image.
* [[Immortality]]: Ganon from ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' is both Type VII External and Type I Perfect (In addition to his obvious Joker Immunity), as he can't be killed as long as he holds the Triforce of Power (though he has shown a few signs of slow aging, before he turned from a human to a [[Pig Man]] form). There are also several incarnations of fellow Triforce bearers Link and Princess Zelda, definite cases of [[Legacy Character]] and [[Generation Xerox]] at least, and a few [[Epileptic Trees]] extend this into Type IV Reincarnation Immortality (which would also be Type VII External), but the series has never gone into the details.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]]'' has dropped some hints. {{spoiler|It's suggested that Link and Zelda do have Reincarnation Immortality, though it's not caused by the Triforce; instead the Demon King Demise cursed them into an endless cycle of conflict. In addition, Zelda is the mortal reincarnation of the goddess Hylia and Ganon is the manifestation of the hatred of Demise.}}
* [[Implied Love Interest]]: Link and Zelda in many (but not all) of the games. The biggest examples are ''[[Spirit Tracks]]'' and ''[[Skyward Sword]]''.
* [[Impossible Item Drop]]: Most enemies (and [[Die, Chair, Die!|random objects like pots or bushes]]) drop rupees, arrows, bombs, magic potion vials, and hearts at random. Even better, whenever you get a new item (bow, bomb bag, slingshot, etc...) that consumes something, whatever it is suddenly starts appearing everywhere in spite of its not showing up before.
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* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The Magical Sword in the first game, the Level 2 Sword in ''[[Links Awakening]]'', Biggoron's Sword in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'', and the Great Fairy's Sword in ''[[Majoras Mask]]''.
* [[Insurmountable Waist High Fence]]: Though Link has no problems at all with ladders, steep mountain trails, and vine-covered walls, he is unable to pass man-made fences without the aid of his horse.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120817000619/http://wii.ign.com/articles/117/1175200p1.html However], this gets averted in [[Skyward Sword]], where Link is actually able to move around it automatically. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]], indeed.
* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]]: A staple of the series since Day One. The first [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|two]] [[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|titles]] even had keys that worked in ''any'' dungeon.
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: If there are empty spots in your item and quest menu, rest assured that they will be filled up later on. Notably [[Averted Trope|averted]] in ''[[Oracle of Seasons]]'' and ''[[Oracle of Ages]]'' in which you get several more item spaces than you actually need, and ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', where the item menu is a circle where the items are evenly spaced, and the quest menu puts all the [[Plot Coupon|Plot Coupons]] in one space where they float around. ''[[Links Awakening]]'' actually has more items than inventory spaces-- one has to be traded away for another (and traded back if you need it again, as buying a new one will make the game [[Unwinnable]]).
* [[Interquel]]: According to ''[[All There in the Manual|Hyrule Historia]]'', the ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|Oracle]]'' games and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|Link's Awakening]]'' are set between ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|A Link to the Past]]'' and [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|the original game]], while ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]'' is this to ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|Four Swords Adventures]]''.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Gets mentioned (and usually poked fun at) in several games.
** In ''Link's Awakening'', there's a subquest where you have to deliver a picture from a shy man and his female penpal. Said penpal turns out to be a talking goat in Animal Town (who sends him back a photo of [[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Princess Peach]] to boot).
** In ''Majora's Mask'', Treasure Chest Shop Owner (a female Terminan) will flirt with you while you're wearing the Zora Mask.
** In ''Oracle of Seasons'', Link need to go on a date with a Subrosian (mysterious, subterranean people who wear cloaks, eat metal and bathe in molten lava) in order to proceed and can ask her for further dates as well.
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* [[Invincible Villain]]: Ganon has shades of this. After being pelted with holy arrows, exposed to powerful magics and stabbed lord knows how many times with the ultimate sword of good, Ganon tends to stay alive through it all.
** To scary limits at the end of ''Ocarina'' when he is shown after being sealed away. He showed no signs of being harmed at all despite receiving a stab wound ''to the face'' moments earlier.
* [[Irony]]: The game with the best ending is probably in ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link]]'', where Ganon is truly defeated for good and Link and Zelda are truly together. The irony is, this is the conclusion of the "Hero Defeated" timeline, the timeline that is created should ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' end with Link's ''failure'' to defeat Ganon.
* [[Item Get]]: Link reacts to new items and treasures in the most enthusiastic way possible (and [[Fanfare|the music agrees]]) in every game. Increasingly [[Lampshaded]] as the series goes on.
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* [[No Export for You]]: ''Tetra's Trackers'' from the Japanese version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|Four Swords Adventures]]''.
** The Sattelaview games for the Super Fmicom: the first being a remake of Zelda 1 (with different map layouts), and the second being a [[Timed Mission]] in the ''[[A Link to The Past]]'' engine, where your hero (not Link, who's caught in Windfish Island) must collect the 8 stone tablets to seal Ganon again, after his seal weakened.
** The three Tingle [[Spin-Off]] games: the first one, ''[[Freshly
* [[No Hero Discount]]: You can save the world as long as you have enough rupees.
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: In (almost) every game, Link and Zelda never express romance, though there's an undercurrent in several games.
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* [[One-Gender Race]]: Well, almost. The Gerudo (most prominent in ''Ocarina of Time'') are ''almost'' all female. One man is born to the race every hundred years, and the only known male Gerudo in the whole series is Ganondorf. It's implied by a Gossip Stone that the Gerudo mate with Hylians.
** It also appears as though all Gorons are male. Every Goron is referred to as a "brother" by each other and so far, no definitely female Gorons have come forth.
* [[One Head Taller]]: [[Gender
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Often Ganondorf.
* [[Our Fairies Are Different]]: [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|In]] [[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|so]][[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|me]] [[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|ti]][[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|tl]][[The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap|es]], they're depicted as female [[Winged Humanoid|winged humanoids]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|whi]][[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|le]] [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|in]] [[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|ot]][[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|he]][[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|rs]], they're depicted as winged orbs of lights.
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* [[Recurring Riff]]: The main motif of overworld theme of the first Zelda game can be heard in numerous songs throughout the series.
* [[Redshirt Army]]: The entire Hyrulean army. It's a wonder that they still bother.
* [[Reincarnation (trope)|Reincarnation]]: In ''Spirit Tracks'', the Lokomo [[Ascend To A Higher Plane]] at the end of the game and say they will return in a new form without memories of their previous life. In ''Skyward Sword'', {{spoiler|the goddess Hylia is reborn as that game's Zelda.}}
* [[The Reveal]]: Ever since ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|A Link to the Past]]'', almost every game has had at least one of these, ranging from "oh, that's pretty interesting" to '''"HOLY CRAP, DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?!"'''
** ''A Link to the Past'': {{spoiler|Agahnim is actually Ganon's alter ego}}.
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** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]'': {{spoiler|Zelda herself is the goddess Hylia in human form, [[Big Bad|Ghirahim]] is essentially the [[Evil Counterpart]] to Fi, [[Bigger Bad|Demise]] creates Ganon as the manifestation of his own hatred, and the Old Woman at the Sealed Temple is actually Impa.}}
* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]: Such a perennial favorite that it is a minor shock when someone calls you out for destroying scenery for your own benefit:
{{quote|'''[[Skyward Sword|Lumpy Pumpkin]] Owner: Why would you do that!'''
'''Link:''' ''(Picks up Heart Piece from chandelier wreckage)''
'''Player:''' TOTALLY [[Worth It|WORTH IT!]] }}
** Also sometimes you get money from people for keeping their secret places that you just discovered for yourself. Subverted in the first game and the Oracle games, where you sometimes have to pay for the door you just destroyed.
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* [[Sequel Difficulty Spike]]: ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Adventure Of Link]]'', full stop. The first game was already a certain level of [[Nintendo Hard]], but the second game took that and added [[Platform Hell]] and a hard-to-master combat system. ''[[Majoras Mask]]'' may count as well, as it can be hard to keep track of everything that resets with each [[Groundhog Day Loop]]. (Though an in-game "appointment book" helps.)
* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: Since the beginning, typically termed the Gerudo Desert.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Mostly to [[Donkey Kong|Mario]].
* [[Sigil Spam]]: The Triforce is only the most prominent example. This series loves its recurring symbols. An incomplete but extensive list can be found [http://zeldawiki.org/Symbols here].
* [[Silver Bullet]]: The Silver Arrow plays a crucial part in slaying Ganon in both the original ''Legend of Zelda'' and ''A Link to the Past''. Stab him as many times as you want with any sword in those games. Without the Silver Arrow finishing him off, Ganon will keep coming for more.
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* [[Songs in the Key of Panic]]: Since the 3D games, minigames and timed switches use this method to tell you to hurry up. Then there's ''[[Majoras Mask]]'', which takes the whole concept of limited time and uses it to mess with your head.
* [[Sound of No Damage]]: Used for both Link's shield deflecting projectiles and enemies getting hit in armored areas.
* [[Spin-Off]]: Link's Crossbow Training (of ''Twilight Princess''), ''[[Freshly
* [[Spoiler Title]]: ''Link's Awakening'' and ''Twilight Princess''.
* [[Stab the Sky]]: Almost every time Link gets a sword.
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*** Steal from the [[It Makes Sense in Context|afro-wearing merchant bird]] in [[Twilight Princess]]? Prepare to be continuously pecked any time you enter the "shop" until you pay up.
* [[Video Game Tools]]: Many of the iconic items are these: Boomerang, Bombs, Bow and Arrow.
* [[Villain-Beating Artifact]]: Most of the games requires Link to use the Master Sword to defeat Ganon.
* [[Visible Silence]]
* [[Voice Grunting]]: The games with any "voice acting" use this exclusively, with the exceptions of the Tetra and the pirates in "Navi Trackers", Midna in ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', and in ''Skyward Sword'' Zelda's singing voice and Fi, the last three [[Speaking Simlish|speaking (or singing) Simlish]].
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* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: Most bosses follow the "expose the weak point with the dungeon's item, then whack it with your sword" schema.
* [[Xenafication]]: Zelda has progressively become more active in the games as the series went on. Originally just a classic [[Damsel in Distress]], in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' she gained the badass {{spoiler|([[Sweet Polly Oliver|though in drag]] alter-ego Sheik, who}} admittedly didn't do much against the actual [[Big Bad]]. But in the later games, starting with ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]'', it became her schtick to fire Light Arrows at Ganon during the final battle, and in ''[[Spirit Tracks]]'' she even {{spoiler|helps Link push his sword into Malladus' head}}.
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