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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]].

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[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-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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