The more I think about this the more sense it makes
September 29, 2014
2:26 am
I’ve known people for like fifteen years without realizing they had waist length hair the whole time because it was always up in a bun whenever I was around them.
I’m sure as the father of a young girl Commander is always on the lookout for fun weird things to do to hair.
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I am now jealous of Ganondorf’s pretty hair. {Which isn’t good as I already jealous of Ganondorf for a myriad of other reasons prior to this}.
But it does make perfect sense so I’m quite glad you’ve brought this beautiful idea to light.
I feel the same way. I’m so oddly envious of metrosexual Ganondorf.
He’s just so…together. Like, you get the feeling that you’d go in his office, and his inbox tray would be completely empty, with everything taken care of days in advance.
And he’s would not even be done taken care of business.
He WAS one of the very few male gerudos. Had a lot of female influence growing up.
It makes me soooooo happy to see Ganondorf back in MGDMT again. Really hoping that Hyrule Warriors gives you a lot of inspiration with him Coelasquid. Seeing him bounce off of Commander is always fun to see.
I agree. Coela’s Gannondorf is my second favorite of her parodied characters (the first being Poison, since I’m trans I’m pretty sure I have to like her best), because unlike so many of his counterparts at the agency, he’s cool and calm and collected and seems to have his shit together. Coela could have taken the easy way out and done him as a raging megalomaniacal psychopath, he’s GANON after all, but she went another direction entirely and gave Commander someone equal in temperment that he can have these quiet moments of conversation with, which in my opinion is much cooler.
Also, it’s hilarious that Coela’s Link is the irrational one who’s always giving Gannondorf a hard time, and Gannondorf just quietly disregards his shenanigans.
Ehh, it’s not like G doesn’t give as good as he gets.
I love how C’s so calm about all that in that one. Just like, chill.
I can SEE the giggles in the corners of G’s mouth, too. Panel 5.
Speaking of, Panel 5 in this one has him giggling too.
Gannondorf does, depending on the timeline and incarnation, have a surprising grip on the situation. The Wind Waker timeline most of all. Which is also the one furthest removed from Skyward Sword and Demise. I’d read his record as standing at: 1 win (Adult Link), 1 draw (Fallen Hero), and 1 loss (Child Link). I give him the win in the Adult Link timeline because he did, technically conqueror the world, to the point the goddesses had to get involved and wipe the slate clean. If it hadn’t been for deus ex machina chicanery the Tri-force would have been his on that one. Fallen Hero is in perpetual stalemate, with Ganon on kind of a resurrection hold. Only in the Child Link timeline did he get soundly thumped, dying on his feet, without direct divine intervention.
Now imagine Gannondorf doing Poison’s hair.
Can that be a Comic, Comic Overlord Writer Person?
I co-sign this idea!
That photo. THAT PHOTO!!! I want a life size version to hang on my wall. Thank you for this gorgeous piece. :3
Craap, now i need to see him in a ponytail.
Twintail!
While I knew that his hair was put up like that, I honestly imagined it about shoulder length, not waist length. Also going to get hyrule warriors in a few hours, can’t wait to see how he looks in it.
It took me longer than I care to admit to understand the reference to sisters
I honestly am still missing that reference …
He was raised in a society comprised entirely of women where he was the only male born in a hundred years.
Kind of raises the question how his mother gave birth to him, though.
Granted, this is early Nintendo era. Babies aren’t born, they’re delivered via stork.
*Sigh* The Gerudo, as stated by the Gossip Stones in Ocarina of Time, often go to Hyrule seeking boyfriends. Ganondorf is half hyilian, and one male is born every hundred years. Voila, Ganondorf.
I think with the Gerudo being a magical fantasy race and all it’s not so far fetched to say a Gerudo plus any suitor they choose makes another Gerudo. Not like the bloodlined is weakened by being half-Hylian or anything.
Reminds me of pokemon. Crossbreed all you want, the egg is going to look like mama.
My understanding was that Gerudo women would take Hylian men to keep their species going. And the whole one man every hundred years was some sort of divine sign, which elevated to male to royalty basically.
What do you think the Carpenters were doing in those jails? Rotting?
Noooo… they were getting more “some” then they could ever want.
And considering that it is widely believed they were gay….. they did.
Weren’t they locked up for being gross creeps and leering at the girls or something? They were just like “fuck off creepy dudes go to jail, this is our turf”
Nop. In-game villagers talk about how Gerudo girls are constantly looking for boyfriends in Hyrule. And those carpenter dudes were straight up kidnapped like Sausage Flies.
Though creeping on the girls isn’t beyond them. They are essentially just giant construction workers. Hooting at them very logically would’ve resulted in getting more than they bargained for.
See yo turned “looking for boyfriends” into “kidnapping men against their will” on your own there.
did some research. Apparently they weren’t locked up for being creeps or because they were amazonian sperm captives. They were unhappy being carpenters and were contemplating if maybe thieves had an easier life. They were locked up because that’s just what the Gerudo do to anybody trespassing. The fact they wanted to join the tribe of desert thieves may’ve been irrelevant.
Furthermore, in the untranslated Japanese, the carpenters refer to themselves using female first person pronouns (atashi, atai) and tend to end sentences with the particle “wa,” which I guess is a uuusuually feminine way of injecting great emphasis or feeling into the sentence. UGUUUU.
“”カワイイ ボーヤ！助けてくれて サンキュー！。” (Cute boy! Thank you for rescuing me!) – Jiro
there’s probably a moral about reading into things here, but as a cisexual shitlord, I’ll defer.
Huh, I forgot about that, I guess I must have gotten the creeping thing from the head carpenter parallel in Majora’s Mask who won’t help you until you bring him a creepshot.
It’s actually the Fisherman in Majora’s Mask who wants a creepshot. He’s the parallel of the Treasure Chest Game operator in Ocarina of Time, the one you can cheat your way through with the Lens of Truth.
I usually confuse him with the carpenters too though, I think they share a model for the lower body.
I think the fisherman is the head carpenter in OoT.
Genetically seen they just need to get a male from an other society, or more like a couple of males for reproduction.
Instead of barbarians riding out to steal women, they ride to other parts of the country to steal *coughcough* you know..and if their genetic traits are dominant over all other traits, you get the typical gerudo female out of it.
Their traits just overrule all of the males, like black hair is dominant over every other colour.
There are also genetic traits where the male fetus is unable to survive while the females survive because of two x-chromosomes.
This would also imply that the rarely seen male either has a non damaged x-chromosome from his father, or he is immune against the damage and has a mutation which makes him able to survive.
If he has a *changed* x chromosome and the gerudo women have two, that would again lead to solely surviving girls and if the mutation is not in the cells needed for reproduction, no male babies survive.
This explains why not more gerudo males pop up and only every few hundred years.
A mutation that only happens through unknown circumstances and the right parents who might carry each a part of the genetic change needed to cause the mutation if the circumstances are right.
So even if the same male and female would get at it again, it would not guarantee another surviving male.
Right genetic material and the egg and sperm had to carry it, right gender(only males) and right circumstances (once during a blue moon)..pretty low chances for the right combination.
Especially if mom slept with a couple of males and she killed them/doesn´t know which was it who got her pregnant.
But, that would also mean that there have to be male people out there who carry non-lethal recessive gerudo traits that will show up when paired with the dominant gerudo women traits.
And maybe only those pregnancies where recessive male traits and dominant female traits get together, there is a female fetus that survives the pregnancy.
Gerudo women who get together with men without the reccessive trait won´t get pregnant or the fetus dies very soon before the mother realises she is pregnant.
A genetical trait needed to get a viable pregancy, which is deadly to male offspring, but without that recessive trait no viable pregnancy occurs..now that would be a nice genetic puzzle to solve.
Similiar to the gen which makes the odd blue coat in collies and tiger stripes in certain dog breeds, but which will kill the pups when two dominant carriers get together while a non carrier will result in pups with normal coat but who (nearly) all carry the gen.
But maybe gerudo women are more similiar to a certain kind of fish where they mate with males not of their species and the sperm docks to the egg and than dies but the egg just starts to grow with only the female dna.
There are no male fish of those species, but the species has not died out because of that genetic mutation where the sperm is killed when entering the egg but triggers the growth of a female clone
And that explains why all gerudo women look so similiar.
The male gerudo would be an anomaly where the sperm does survive somehow, and a male child occurs. And that had to be damn rare to occur.
tl;dr version: There is a plausiblish reason for male Gerudo to be so rare involving genes and complicated things which basically amounts to: They can bang all they want and still have about the same chance of producing a male offspring, which is as above so eloquently explained, damn rare.
Matpat, is that you?
I actually read all of this… This would have been a great example in class today!
And I thought his eyebrows were amazing.
ok now I have to admit that’s impressive. And normally I’m not impressed by hair.
I tried ONCE to grow my hair out, hoping to have one of those epic ponytails that everyone envies.
All I managed to get was a little past my shoulders, which just made me look like I was sporting a mullet. Never again.
I feel ya. I shaved my hair down to my scalp and just never touched it to see how long it would grow. It reached just below my shoulders after six months, then didn’t move for three years. I didn’t even know human hair could stop growing.
I’ve heard on average hair grows about three feet long on average, but it’s often more or less for different people. That and the texture of your hair can have a big effect on how difficult it is to grow out as well.
That’s what my hairdressers have told me in the past. I’ve got crazy thin hair, so I’m unlikely to ever have hair longer than, say, the middle of my back because it breaks so easily.
That sounds like a song cue if I ever heard one.
Never have to cut it cuz it stops by itself~
You think that’s bad? I tried growing out my hair once only to discover it goes up in an afro (even though I’m whiter than white cheese).
Saaaaaame.
And just WHAT, exactly, is wrong with having a mullet?
This is legit. Ganondorf with his signature suit and coffee, impressing Commander with his rather long hair, that he knows how to do stuff with considering he’s one of the men born every hundred years to the Gerudo people. Well done Coelasquid, well done.
Oh yeah, and Hyrule Warriors.
I know it is Nintendo’s doing, but I find it odd that Ganon is black with red hair. Just not a combination you see much in nature.
Actually, it’s not that uncommon to see people with dark skin and red hair. Perhaps it’s just the area where Inlive, but I’ve met a couple of them where I work.
He’s only sometimes black, he’s also green and/or blue fairly often.
A lot of the time he’s interpreted as being green skinned he’s actually got tan olive skin, it’s just the unfortunate contrast against the orange hair makes it look totally inhuman.
He IS often portrayed as more tan and olive in concept art than in-game though. And in later games he’s subtly become less human-looking, with an almost grey skin, emphasized canines, ears that changed from round to pointy for some reason…
I’m actually pretty sure it’s due to him being the male child of of a Gerudo. The red hair is kinda their thing.
Malcolm X’s pre-Nation of Islam nickname was “Detroit Red” for precisely that reason.
Actually, I do recall reading something about Egyptians considering red hairs a lucky color.
So much some of them would dye their hairs to get a red color for them.
Is it just me, or does this remind anyone else of Book’s hair in Firefly?
Not that you mention it, MGDMT Gannon is a lot like Book.
I love your ganondorf. I seriously wish there was a bunch of fanfics or something written about the zelda world where ganondorf acted the way he does in your comics. It would be bloody brilliant. Please include him more in the comics, he doesn’t get enough time. though I am a very biased person regarding that.
During my college days my hair was long. Reached midway down my back, which is really something for naturally curly hair. It took some work to maintain, but I loved it. Now I’m thinning on top so the long hair idea doesn’t work for me anymore. How jelly I am of Ganondorf right now.
Oh, I love this, your Ganondorf is always fun to see. :D
And he’s so awesome in Hyrule Warriors! And all that hair <3
I’ve noticed that when someone wears a certain style for as long as you’ve known them, they tend to look extra good when wearing the opposite of their style. G is no exception. I love his armor and battle gear, but, man does he look good in a suit!
Guess someone is going to be invited around next time it’s Rocky’s time to have the kids :D
And suddenly the meat punching comic makes so much more sense.
I want that poster of Ganon on my wall now, please. Also, I’d love to see him with all of his hair unfurled and in that suit.
This is also amazing attention to detail. Ganondorf is a Gerudo, and the only male of his generation; ergo, he would have quite a few sisters!
as a man with long, pretty hair, I’m crazy jealous of G’s braiding skills.
Hm… I wonder if Ganondorf will consider to do dreadlocks?
Coincidentally, Grrlpower also featured hair in today’s update: http://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1493
*red hair
I absolutely love that Commander is legitimately impressed by this.
There needs to be art of Ganon with his fully un-braided, curly mane of flowing locks. It would be MAJESTIC.
Or… he might look like Cousin It.
Wow. Long time fan, first time poster. I just love the comic, seriously rocking stuff. Ganon(also the name of an old friend funny enough) is such a fun character with the way you portray him. Hes move past all the saturday morning villainy and made himself a respectable businessman. Just awesome.
Ganondorf looks surprisingly snappy in a suit, still.
Next Zelda game should have Link and Ganondorf facing off in the board room. G evilly crushes Link’s sweet investment proposal that would win the heart of President of the Board Zelda. So Link has to go on a rampage through the marketing and finance departments, solving puzzles, smashing pots and collecting rupees.
10/10 would buy
You loved it when Layton clashed with Pheonix… now enjoy the next game in this amazing series, Legend of Zelda vs The Apprentice!
Rupees Rupees Rupees RUPEEEES! RUPEES!
I was having a pretty crappy day until this. It put a smile on my face, for real. :D
That was me, I used to have hair down to my butt that I’d hide up in my work hat every day.
I kind of want to see a game with Gannondorf’s sisters. Or a cartoon series — like Muppet Babies or Li’l Gotham, but with Nintendo characters.
All the Gerudos are his sisters, aunts, cousins…
I am reminded that someone pointed out to me that, in… I think it was probably Twilight Princess… that Ganondorf’s horse has an immaculately braided mane. Canonically, the Gerudo love horses, so it’s not too farfetched to say he did it himself, so yeah, Ganny could probably do a good job as a hairdresser… if his rep could survive it anyway.
Ganon seems like one of the more well-adjusted guys in the agency, so he could probably become a hairdresser without caring too much about what all the other guys think.
You have to get a license to dress hair, though, and depending on where you do it that can take a year to earn. If he really liked dressing hair that much, he’d probably already have the job.
Actually, if all you are doing is braiding and you are avoiding chemical processes, you can usually practice without the standard licence.
TIL!
Aw yiss I’m all hyped to Ganondorf all over some poor enemy troops in HW. *_*
Also, I’m sure Junebug will have the coolest hair in all school soon enough. :V
G is really hot. I mean, really. Hot. Particularly in a suit like that, but even though I’ve never played the games and have zero interest in doing so, the character has always struck me as being much more than just “yet another bad guy with great hair”.
Also, I would love to see Ganondorf meet his very-similar-in-many-ways Elfquest analog of Two-Edge.
YES!!! SO YES. I love Two-Edge. He is my favorite. <3 And yeah, Ganondorf does have lots going for him. He has reasons. Also, the Zelda games are really fun. But if you don't want to play them, there are manga adaptations and such. *nods*
This page made me laugh out loud!
I am a ginger with insanely long hair and this shiitake to me on a spiritual level. Now I want that hairstyle. Desperately.
… What? Speaks to me. This speaks to me. What’s up with Swype…
I dunno, I liked the idea of spiritual shiitake!
Shiitake to enlightenment.
Shiitake to the max!
Oh. My. Oh my. I do believe this is my favorite page so far. I squealed. I did. I love his pretty, pretty hair. And I am so jelly. I wish mine was so pretty, And the sisters line! XD And canonically, he probably does. And aunts, and cousins…..all female. XD Poor boy.
Now that Link showed up in a Japanese commercial wearing a top hat, I think I can classify suit-and-tie Ganondorf as Canon.
I realize I’m but some insignificant peon, but I’d really like to see a follow-up comic with the Commander calmly sitting off watching Ganon doing both Sammy and June’s hair and each panel has someone come in, say nothing, and just watch. All the while Ganon just concentrates on the kids hair and Commander watches the room fill up with onlookers, all of which have a LOT of hair.
Meanwhile, Kratos is having a tantrum outside.
Things we can have around Kratos:
HairThings we can have around Kratos:
large crowds of onlookersMaybe not this exactly, but that whole lube or thinking makes perfect sense now. And the pretty men, too.
LINE OF THINKING. Swype: it’s always right except when you forget to proofread.
*grabs popcorn and waits for Somebody to post again*
omg your autocorrects are fantastic.
“Lube of thinking”?!? Man, I coulda used some of that in school! It would have make tests (and dating) so much easier!
That’s what I like the most. Commander has NO problem on stating how impressed he is on that skill. That’s why I’ve liked this char from the start, a guy who has no need to ‘act’ manly, since he knows he’s whatever he wants to be and still badass.
You have no idea how much I’ve had to explain to others that, yes, I can be a straight guy and STILL like cute things ._.
If you like cute things, good for you. I personally don’t explain myself to anyone. The last time I had to, I turned it around on them and asked if their sexuality was so weak they had to wonder about anyone doing their own thing. Worked like a charm.
ok so how did he do his hair like that? did he put it up in little buns? I don’t think he braided it…
I think Ganons hair is similiar to the hairstyle of roman/egyptian people where they put up their hair without braiding but sewing it together with fine threads of hair/yarn so it stayed up in very similiar curls seen with Ganon.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324900204578286272195339456
And yes you can sew it up yourself and also open up the thread with one pull if you know how.
Reminds me of Buddha’s hair in Saint Oniisan XD
Today I walked past a barbershop, the barber had dreadlocks. Made me wonder.
ahahaha, that last sentence really got me XD
I don’t know why, but i imagine Ganondorf has a really posh voice when he’s not being in the zelda games. Like a mother humping sir!
I had just past shoulder length hair when I was younger. Had a friend who hated it, so around her, I used to wear it top knot style. Now ironically, half the year I tend to go shaved bald.
also if you look more closely you can see that ganondorf was a bit more….healthier then. Oh how it must suck to:
1/ grow out of your youthful form
2/ get defeated by link after you got old ( 2 times actually if you count wind waker and twilight princess canon ( ganon.)).
3/ get fat to the point of no return
4/ in the end of everything become a salesman
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but hey who cares, its all just gruff. It doesn’t mean anything anymore. Cause you know what? at least he still has that super awsome flowing orange gladiator hair after all that nonsense. hell he’s old and it’s not even graying yet. That’s a +1 in my book ganon.
but then here is the question…..why does he have it curled up like that? something as magnificent and god like shouldn’t be held back by puny clip that don’t deserve to even be near his hair.
SPORT IT REAL GANON!
There’s this place called The Long Hair Community.
I want to post this comic there. Or you should. Cause it’s awesome.
http://longhaircommunity.com
Any time I hear something described as “off the chain” I can’t help but mentally ask “So it ran into the neighbors yard and mauled their cat?”
And then I pictured G-man’s hair jumping off his head and running off to find an unfortunate feline. I can’t help it. This is just the way my brain works.
Just saying, I think the one male born every couple hundred years thing may have been blown slightly out of proportion,
If I remember correctly,
Talking to the red haired twins in Hyrule market while wearing the gerudo mask will
cause them to accidentally refer to you as Mom.
Basically males are born more often than they let on, but only ambitious badasses like Ganon get to stick around.
His eyebrows are part of his beard. What the hell.
I can’t even come up with a way to express how cool it is that Commander is this this… Well. Cool! I know it’s already been explained that he’s the ultimate form of masculinity and he doesn’t judge people/is very open and understanding/accepting of other people… But this just gives me the warm and fuzzies.
laughing so hard at this. Nostalgia bombed remembering the girls at school who went around doing girly things to any boy with long hair, as compulsed as goats are to nibble things.
Couple days ago there was a picture that was awarded a Daily Deviation:
http://eternalegend.deviantart.com/art/The-King-of-Evil-479586730
I can’t tell you how much I adore average business man Ganondorf.
Gannon is so chill.
I say this as a bi-curious lesbian woman, but . . . damn Ganon is hot.
I can’t tell you how much of a revelation it was for me to get Hyrule Warriors for my birthday this year, reach the part of the campaign where Ganny turns up, be like “dang, that’s a cool design for Ganondorf”, play AS him, realise he’s even cooler and somehow it spilled over to ‘okay, he’s hot as hell, how did I never realise before?!” it’s blowing my mind. I’ve always been into finding the hot older guys. And now suddenly an obsession has begun.
Anyway… On the subject, Business Ganon is adorable, and there’s something really appealing about undoing all his hair like that. Guess I really have got it bad, haha!
Okay, Gannondorf’s my #2 favourite character in this comic now, because he’s just so cool with talking about hair and admitting he learned how to do it from his sisters.