Been in a Ganondorf kind of mood lately
April 25, 2016
2:51 am
Just the fact that there’s a Zelda timeline where they kinda Minority Report Ganondorf and take him out for a crime he had yet to commit based on the accusations of two ten year olds seems to imply the dude didn’t have much incentive to try to play nice with Hyrule to start with.
I’m gonna say for the sake of the joke and the ongoing character of beaten down petty old man MGDMT Ganondorf this is before the meeting that Link eavesdrops on. He can go to Hyrule castle more than once. Zelda can hold a grudge.
Yours is my favorite Ganon. I just love how ultimately he’s an average joe really. And this is my current favorite of your work.
I agree wholeheartedly.
It is a great version and I look forward to each comic she does with him in it. A refreshing view on the character really rather then generic evil dude.
Is it your canon Ganon?
Sadly, this is not my canon Ganon. Just fanon.
=D
Does your fanon Ganon eat Dannon?
Well played sir, well played.
The non-canon fanon Ganon, with all his mammon, eats Dannon in Mannon, Illinois before firing off his cannon.
you stop that it is too much
Ahh, but the question the Non-canon fanon Ganon with mammon fires a cannon in Mannon Illinois, does his Dannon taste like Salmon?
I propose a ban on this Ganon spammin’.
Do you mean a bannin? :D
You’re making me groanin.
Oh, is that where they got the name for the Mammon Machine from, then? Always thought it was just a nonsense word.
There’s actually a few missing steps there.
The archaic definition noted above was used by the Catholic Church as a euphemism for unrighteous worldliness by way of misquoting Jesus (“
the love ofmoney is the root of all evil”).That version of the word is now serving double duty as a euphemism for heretical and pagan faiths, and as the name of a particular demon in some esoteric forms of Christianity. This one, finally, is where the name for the Mammon Machine came from.
I now can’t unsee this having been basically how everything happened in OoT…
Almost. Link actually carries the Triforce of Courage when he returns in time, you can see it on his hand when he meets young Zelda at the end of the game.
“they kinda Minority Report Ganondorf and take him out for a crime he had yet to commit based on the accusations of two ten year olds”
What the hell game was this?! D:
That’s how Ocarina of Time ends. Link beats Ganon, Zelda sends him back in time, Kid Link and Kid Zelda convince the king Ganondorf is evil and must be stopped. I think that’s the timeline that leads to Windwaker, but hell if I can keep them straight anymore.
The post-Ocarina timeline that leads to Twilight Princess, where Link got to live through a childhood instead of just skipping an entire seven years of his life
It’s the end of OOT. Link gets returned to the timeline at some point before Zelda flees the castle (as the last shot is them standing in the garden) and assuming nothing else has changed, they convince the king to evict ole Ganondorf before he can do any mischief. Which makes absolutely no sense given how time-travel had previously been shown to work.
Different methods of time travel produce different results I think.
I don’t remember any plot holes with the way the time travel there works. Link seems to start a new parallel timeline every time he travels; that’s the only way there could be a Ganondorf Wins timeline (which has been confirmed): when Link leaves the future, that timeline continues on without his interference, so there are numerous nearly-identical timelines where Ganondorf wins, but before he did, things got slightly better for an increasing number of people for a brief time.
Every time he leaves the past, of course, it just feeds into whatever future time he returns to.
The only plot hole is the Song of Storms, which has essentially just been written off by most people as a paradox that nobody should question too heavily.
The OoT timeline split, you get one timeline where Link beats him in the future and restores Hyrule to it’s former glory and one where they take care of him in the past before he has a chance to stage his hostile takeover. So really, before he did anything wrong, based on the accusations of Zelda and the strange little forest boy who broke into the castle.
To be fair, that ten year old forest boy is carrying the Triforce of Courage.
You can see it on the back of his hand in the final scene of Ocarina of Time, despite him being returned to a time before Ganondorf split the Triforce.
This is probably why Ganondorf eventually gets the Triforce of Power; rather than Ganondorf’s intervention, it was Link’s return in time that caused the Triforce to split in that timeline, and apparently the Power piece was a bit slow to find its way.
I like to think the goddesses gave Ganondorf the triforce because of the Gerodoian genocide, as a punishment for the Hylians. I mean, during twilight princess there are no gerudo, so somewhere between oot child link timeline and Tp the gerudo are either wiped out or driven away. I mean, the goddesses don’t just do stuff randomly, the obviously gave him the triforce knowing of what he would do with it, the only reason to do so would be to punish the Hylians for something. Ergo the Hylians had to do something terrible between executing Ganondorf and Link going back in time. That coupled with the disappearance of the Gerudo, a military torture prison (Tp Arbiters grounds), the red hair in the Twili race, and Ganondorf in cannon fighting them in-between getting accused and executed paints a grizzly picture of the Hylians going all war crimes on them.
Well, going completely by the canon timeline, the Twili can’t be the Gerudo. Or at least, not all of the Gerudo can be Twili.
The Twilight Mirror is basically atomized at the end of Twilight Princess; the Twili will never again leave the Twilight Realm because the only entrance is irreparably broken.
Yet, Gerudos appear in the Gerudo Desert in what is chronologically the next game, Four Swords Adventures. They appear to have a good bond with the Hylians and live next to a bountiful oasis. There’s no mention of them being thieves either.
Even if the Goddesses are angry at Gerudo injustice, the logical candidate for the Triforce of Power would be Nabooru, although of course a possible explanation is that Nabooru had the Triforce of Power, was destroyed in the Hyrule onslaught and after her death, the Triforce was granted to the only remaining Gerudo.
The problem with this is that the Twili seem to have been around long before Ganondorf’s execution.
No, I’m saying some of the captured Gerudo were “executed” and thrown into the Twili realm where they eventually faded into the genepool. It would make sense that at least some Gerudo refugees survived and made their way out of Hyrule to create other tribes then to come back for the four swords Gerudo, but the fact remains that the Gerudo where notably absent in Tp. Also as Nabooru never had interactions with child link, she was probably executed for treason or turned into a Dark Knuckle, kinda grim.
Nah, Nabooru was a sage, and her memories awakened even in the alternate child link timeline, same as the others. She would’ve been able to protect herself this time from Ganondorf and Koume and Kotake.
Whoops, ignore that, turns out I confused fanfic for game canon.
Well most of the games depict the Gerudo as some manner of thief, pirate, or otherwise largely female tribe of criminals. So, aside from time shenanigans, we can readily presume that the Gerudo are at least mostly /considered/ criminals either accurately or based on racial biases (I mean the Hylians are a feudal people after all, most of those aren’t known for being forward thinking and progressive on social fronts) so it works one way or the other.
In fairness at this point he has already commited some actual crimes – he’s already killed the Deku Tree, attempted to kill Jabu Jabu and attempted to starve the Gorons.
Or this comic takes place before those deeds.
Atleast the Deku Tree one has to have occured, if Link’s strolling up to Zelda with the same timing as the original trip. I’d also say given how hungry the Gorons claim to be that rock was put there a while ago for starving them. Dunno about Jabu-Jabu, however.
not sure, could have been at least 3 trips to hyrule, this being the first one,
the middle ones where he does actually commit some international crimes,
the last one being where link eavesdrops with zelda,
Or he didn’t leave Hyrule at this point in the comic, but immediately starts taking steps to weaken Hyrule’s people in preparation for his later invasion.
Actually, you missed a split. There is one where Link FAILED to kill Ganon and Zelda is forced to just seal him away, causing the original Zelda games to occur.
I didn’t miss it, I didn’t mention it because it wasn’t relevant to the conversation.
All this is very helpful for me. I never had the opportunity to play these games, and my best friend is obsessed. I’m kinda interested now… I’ll hafta see if my old systems work and track down the games.
For the first two 3D games (Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask, respectively) I’d actually go with the 3DS remakes. They’re very faithful, but have upgrade graphical quality.
For what it’s worth, a lot of these connections are never made explicit in the games. Most of them operate as self-contained stories, with vague, mythical references to what happened earlier. The definite connections of, “when the sages in This Game talked about banishing Ganondorf it was because of child link talking to Zelda at the end of That Game”, either come from interviews with the staff or from secondary sources like Hyrule Historia.
I’m just mentioning it so you don’t go in expecting a tightly-woven series narrative, but also so you know you don’t have to start at any particular point to understand the story.
(of course there are a few exceptions that are direct sequels to other games, like Majora’s Mask)
I prefer my theory that every single Zelda game is happening at the same time in the same place.
What about the split where Link travels FURTHER back in time than intended, grows older, meets a nice hylian girl and they have a baby which he realizes too late is HIMSELF and explains why he can’t say anything other than “huagh, hut, hurrraahh!”
Does his even older self become a woman, is made younger, and sent back in time to be his own mother?
No, that would be ridiculous.
His mother is his second child.
What about the future timeline where a woman with the Spirit of the Hero loses her parents and is adopted by the descendants of the Ooccoo, who now call themselves the Chozo?
That just made me drop my phone. And my jaw.
Well, his people are basically a cross between the Greek Lesbos Amazons and a large Gypsy clan. Matriarchal societies have traditionally been political pariahs when Patriarchal societies dominate the neighboring kingdoms. The Greeks didn’t give Crete the time of day for centuries until Minos took advantage of his wife’s insanity to size power. A similar attitude may be why Zelda’s father agreed to see Ganon at all. Even so, a King of Thieves is not likely to garner as much respect as an entrepreneur like Minos did (unless he betrayed Daedalus as much to stiff him for the maze bill as to silence him), so that the King of Hyrule showed even a speck of respect for a person who’s people are regarded by most other elves as scum to be shot on sight is remarkable. Ganon had to know any diplomacy would be a long shot, but for it to break down on the whim of a brat had to be extra galling.
Before Link reaches the castle Ganondorf had definitely poisoned the Deku tree and possibly already sealed Dodongo’s cavern.
This is one of his earlier visits, before Link arrives.
you forgot the timeline where link dies trying.
Didn’t forget it, wasn’t relevant.
Yeah, the ‘child Link timeline’ is the one where the Hero of Time returns to his childhood where he left off, with the knowledge of what Ganondorf did in the other timeline, and prevents him from rising to power in the first place, thereby preventing all the destruction you saw as an adult which resulted from seven years of Ganondorf’s rule (and leaving the timeline you just left behind as an adult only slightly less fucked than if you had never been there, resulting in the apocalypse we see in Wind Waker).
How you do this as a child is not really specified. In Twilight Princess though, we learn that Ganondorf ended up leading the Gerudo to war with Hyrule (probably because you fucked him over at the diplomacy table), but since he didn’t have the Triforce of Power he got smacked down. Then, just as he was about to be executed in the prison facility the Hyleans had converted the Gerudo’s sacred temple into, the Triforce of Power came to him anyway, allowing him to survive, so they banished him into the Twilight instead, which is what caused THAT whole clusterfuck.
Child Link goes off to Termina. He then becomes that Stalfos in Twilight Princess who teaches you all the special sword techniques.
IIRC, Wind Waker’s Hyrule getting messed up isn’t a result of Link not sticking around to fix things in the adult timeline, but a result of Ganondorf returning later down the line with no hero rising up for THAT event. By all accounts, the citizens of Hyrule managed to piece the country together just fine after Ganondorf was sealed away.
Hadn’t Ganondorf cursed the Great Deku Tree, Poisoned Lord Jabu-Jabu and blocked off the Goron’s cave before this encounter? I’m just sayin’ Ganon’s always been a bit biased. Towards himself.
I’m gonna say for the sake of the joke and the ongoing character of beaten down petty old man MGDMT Ganondorf this is before the meeting that Link eavesdrops on. He can go to Hyrule castle more than once.
To be fair, Ganondorf also only cursed them after they refused to give him the stones
How does that make things fair?
“Give me your most sacred artifact or I’LL SUMMON SPIDERS INSIDE YOU!!!”
… replace “Great Deku Tree” with 90% of all other old wise caretakers of orphans and this E rated classic goes M really quickly.
We don’t actually know entirely how those meetings went beforehand. And the fact that he tried a potentially peaceful option first means that it allows enough ambiguity for the comic to work without spitting on canon, especially when you consider that OoT was released so far before SS that they didn’t have Demise even considered yet
It probably went along these lines.
Ganon: “Hey, great Deku tree! I hear your some big, powerful, and wise being, right?
Deku: “I have been told that.”
G: “Well then you know that the Hyrulians are massive jack a****, and really need to be put in their place. Give me your shiny gem thing so I can do that.”
D: “I’m sorry, but I wont let you burn down my neighbors, you should just try to slowly iron out the Geurdo racism over time.”
G: “Dude your just like them! Well f*** you I hope you die a painful death!” *magic powers, spiders, angry stopping off.*
D: “Well great. Hey, Navi, go find that one forest kid and annoy him into helping me.”
See, I never got the impression of Ganondorf as a beaten down old man from your comics. He seemed like the sort of guy that spent his twenties and early thirties playing the role of the angry young man. Then one day he woke up going “Wait, what am I doing with my life?”.
Was a bit of a nut when he was younger, but he’s mellowed out and is now a pretty relaxed and pleasant guy to work with.
While I agree with you that this isn’t a valid interperetation of “canondorf”, it’s a joke.
In MGDMT, people from all over video games, comics, real life, and more get together to be ludicrously masculine for the purposes of parody.
In MDGMT, Ganondorf had a different timeline in which Ganondorf was goaded into it by poor diplomacy. Simple as that, no overthinking required.
Not sure, my impression was that for once Link went back a bit earlier, to before he’d first met Zelda, so they could head off Ganondorf’s efforts in advance. Which if there wasn’t other extenuating bits of evidence still around (the Sage’s memories and the triforce still being split) might not have worked.
It’s possible that this is even before Ganondorf decided to go after the Triforce and do all that other stuff though, and Zelda and the King’s comments are pure dramatic irony.
Lies and slander! The winners make history and they’ve got the Kings ear! :D In this one I did take it as stuff was just happening and Link being the predjudicial little jerk he is was the one telling people it happened the way the game told us it did.
If we have a joking interpretation of Ganon and Link, we can go all out and do a joking interpretation of OoT.
Gerudo racism is so ugly to look at.
If you don’t think this is canon, DO NOT TALK TO ME
But… I… you… I have all this evid… ggrrrrrrrrrrrrr
his hair is so short!
In the Ocarina of Time official art and in Smash Bros Melee he almost has a buzzcut. Quite different from his wavy locks at the end of the game.
Coelasquid’s interpretation looks more like a young version of Twilight Princess Ganondorf. Like in Twilight Princess and the Windwaker, this Ganondorf has pointed teeth, a thick flat nose and elvish ears; in Ocarina of Time, he has round ears and an incredible pointy nose, just like all the other Gerudos.
I always figured his Triforce of Power made him a bit more pig-like as he aged, explaining the pointed ears, sharp teeth and flatter nose, though honestly I just think the developers wanted to move away from his early design. I can’t blame ’em, Coelasquid’s drawing of the character looks much better.
I just use Hyrule Warriors OoT design for his face now, considering the OoT Gerudo facial features were steeped in some pretty serious racist-caricature-of-Middle-Eastern-people themes Nintendo has been trying to back off, which I can appreciate.
I always wondered what bothered me so much about Ganondorf’s OoT design and I can definitely see it now. Thanks! And yeah, this:
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/GANON06_thumb.jpg
is much nicer than this:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6837993535_a5347d4743_o.jpg
I’m not super well-versed in Japanese middle-eastern stereotypes from the 90s, but which ones does this fulfill that the more modern one doesn’t? This looks like your standard evil wizard’s face (but olive-toned) on a super buff dude with perhaps too much access to spikes.
The noses in particular that they used on the Gerudos are pretty standard anti-Islamic/anti-semetic fare. In some cases people will accidentally perpetuate these kind of design elements in characters innocently because the design conventions have been passed around so much that they’ve become divorced from their original context (For example, the design most people think of for witches has a lot of the same anti-semetic origins, but Halloween store witches have been so exaggerated and so removed from that context that most people don’t connect the two). In the case of the Gerudo, however, they were going full throttle on the Islamic references before they (I assume) realized how that looks on the global stage they were trying to sell the games from and started easing off the gas. To the point that the original Gerudo logo was basically a mirrored Islamic star and crescent before they realized it wasn’t going to reflect well on them and changed it.
The simplest way to put it, they were trying to stylize aquiline noses in a way that would make them distinct from the the rest of the characters in the game and did it so dramatically with such old well-trodden racial stereotypes that the end result was bordering on non-human. When people joke about how Ganondorf gets more handsome in every game, what’s really happening is they’re dropping more of the racially charged elements of his design and making him look more like a human with suitably stylized strong aquiline features.
I see. Thanks! I had pegged those things as a reflection of him being an evil wizard (mostly the hawkish nose you always see described on evil wizards) that could also beat the shit out of you if he had to. And the olive skin coming from people living in deserts generally having olive-colored skin. What’s up with his stooped posture, though? His neck is practically at a right angle to his body.
This is really fascinating! I always learn a lot about art in media when I read these comics/comments from Coela. (I’m still your biggest fangirl for the stuff you did for Monster High XD ) Thanks for the info!
So I am kinda offtopic here, buuuut~~! Would it be maybe possible to setup a separate RSS feed for when the colored versions of the strips appear? I really like/liked the comic but ever since I caught up and mostly see the linearts in my feed I have problem staying committed to it, for some reason my brain has a lot of trouble parsing the imagery and I end up being utterly confused.
As for on-topic, I really like the idea of Ganondorf not being evil for the sake of being evil. People aren’t like that, the bad guys don’t see themselves as the bad ones, so this adds a lot of depth to the character.
Lack of time to get it coloured on time suggest lack of time to figure out how to set up two RSS feeds and update them separately.
Orrrrr you could just use the lineart RSS update to check the coloured version. Just ignore the lineart till the next lineart update when it’s liable to be coloured.
It’s what I do.
Personally I love the lineart, and try to make sure I pop in every Monday to catch it before it’s replaced with the colored version (which is also fantastic).
Rite? It’s like a bonus update every week! I am a fan
Same!
They explained that they have difficulty parsing the art from the lineart, which is why the plea for the colored RSS thing. They have trouble seeing it.
‘My country lay within a vast desert. When the sun rose into the sky, a burning wind punished my lands, searing the world. And when the moon climbed into the dark of night, a frigid gale pierced our homes. No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing… Death. But the winds that blew across the green fields of Hyrule brought something other than suffering and ruin. I coveted that wind, I suppose.’
Wind Waker’s Ganondorf did a heck of a lot to offer a more balanced version of the character then OOT’s.
I just enter here once a Monday and then a few days later for the coloured version. These strips are good enough to read twice, and in some cases more. Besides, it’s interesting the difference in artistic expression from when it’s not coloured to coloured version. I appreciate that sort of thing!
Honestly, what really drives me to sympathy is how much sense diplomacy would make here; the Gerudo live in an environment with no natural resources and tend to be forced to steal food.
Of course, they pride themselves on being thieves, but I can imagine that’s only because the alternative is begging. And when there’s a vast, empty, lush Hyrule Field, imagine the life the Gerudo could have been leading if they were granted a piece of that fertile land.
Liefesa wrote a poem on this, and it resonates with me quite well:
http://pre07.deviantart.net/f42e/th/pre/f/2012/008/f/8/ganondorf_by_kokirileaf-d4lr6yq.jpg
One of my favourite stories has them eating those leever cactus things, which is about as appetizing as it sounds.
But yeah, desert, thief, and warrior pride aside, the Gerudo really got a bad deal, and to an extent their motivation for attacking Hyrule is sympathetic. You can kinda see where Ganondorf probably started out his triforce schemes to benefit his people, got involved with some dark forces, and when his people turned on him for that, he decided “well fine then, I’ll get all this power for myself instead.”
It’s also possible Ganondorf is the only one who was really bothered by the cards he was dealt in life. The words “I coveted that wind, I suppose…” doesn’t really say much about what his people wanted from him.
Coelasquid actually has a humorous piece on this on her Tumblr that argues because Ganondorf is in such a sexualized, impractical skintight leather outfit as the figurehead of the Gerudo, he’s got a much harder time surviving in the desert.
http://41.media.tumblr.com/5176137aca4b79fbe6662283b116a7c9/tumblr_o614blpw2O1qjm6tmo1_500.png
I didn’t know she has a tumblr. Now I do. :D
kelly, have you ever read the fanfic Ao3 called Zelda, Don’t Be Racist by BetterBeMeta? it takes this idea to an awesome place.
Anyone else think Young Ganon looks a lot like the Commander, actually?
Maybe the military used bits of Gannondorf/Gerudo DNA to build the Commander.
Also, there is a lot of time travel and alternate universes in this comic and in Legend of Zelda. Maybe they’re alternate universe versions of each other.
Thought that that was Rocky at first
This explains sooooo much o.o… also why does Ganon look like Stardust Crusaders DIO when you remove the sideburns?
Coelasquid draws manly men with a subtly, but nevertheless notably handsome face. Most other artists draw very buff characters as epitomes of snarling steroid rage, or give them squinty eyes to the point of being unable to see anything.
Coelasquid tends to remove the “Steroid Stu” aesthetic from them and gives them calm, relaxed facial features and in general draws the characters in casual environments.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is one of the few comics that portrays impossibly buff men as genuinely handsome figures who can have slightly feminine features and sexualized poses without fear of making them comic relief or less impressive.
Dio isn’t just your typical strong man with sharp, evil features. He’s sexy. He poses with his pelvis jutting out absurd amounts. He’s got his whole femme-fatale vamp thing going on, as a literal vampire.
In general, both JoJo and MGDMT break stereotypes by portraying buff guys as attractive, even when they’re evil.
My headcanon has always been they believe back-in-time Link because he’s got the Triforce of Courage but I like this version better.
I’ve never played a second of Zelda and I only know anything about it from this comic and this was f*cking brilliant, Coelasquid.
Damn, G-dorf’s eyeliner game is incredible.
He has a lot of sisters.
Hrm, well even if he did go on to do those crimes, Zelda did say “I had a dream that he was bad and told Daddy about it” which implied she’d already tried this route before Link arrived at the castle. So that’s that I guess.
I really like your design on Young Ganondorf…it weirdly strikes me as somewhat similar to the Commander in some aspects…especially in panel 3.
I always kept the pet theory that the dreams Link and Zelda had just ensured that Link gathered all of the keys to open the Door of Time which gave Ganondorf easy access to the Triforce.
Ganondorf didn’t manage to obtain any of the spiritual stones, and since Zelda managed to evade him for seven years, it’s possible he might have never obtained the Ocarina of Time either.
Basically, if Link and Zelda had never tried to open the Door of Time, Ganondorf would have had a much harder time conquering Hyrule.
I just can’t believe Zelda and Link would both receive a vision that ended up screwing them over.
Ganondorf was able to read Zelda/Tetra’s dreams in The Wind Waker. What if Ganondorf was able to control them? To goad the princess and a young boy that shows the same potential as the heroes of old to do Ganondorf’s work for him?
I dunno, I just think it would add a lot to Ganondorf’s character to have him be that cunning.
“Look, if they’re going to execute me I may as well earn it.”
Gannondorf mood is totally okay, and the fact that i get to see more gorgeous gorudo warrior women is a bonus.
Considering these three are fated to just reincarnate as themselves over and over again to repeat the same bsttle, you’d think they’ll eventually learn to say, “You know what fate? Forget this nonsense. We’re going to open up a nice beach resort or something.”
We kind of see that Gannon has kinda moved on in one of the early strips, when Link shows up being his usual annoying destructive self trying to provoke a fight, nd Gannon basically just tells him “Go away boy, you bother me” (tried to find the original W.C. Fields version :( )
It is now my headcanon that this DOES happen sometimes. But very rarely, most incarnations would be at odds, letting the games happen.
I didn’t know this! It makes a lot of sense that they include that in the games. Hyrule must be a fucked up place where people store their valuables in pots and break them rather than turning them upside-down to empty them.
In ancient Greece, people would keep their money in narrow-necked pots made of a clay called pyg. When they wanted to spend the money inside, they would smash the pot, since coins weren’t all a regular shape then, and could easily get stuck on the pot and each other when trying to pour them out. It also served as a sort of mental emergency brake–if you didn’t want something badly enough to smash a pot over it, then you didn’t really want it.
The story goes that modern piggy banks are a result of someone misunderstanding an order for pyg banks, and explains why the “smash open your piggy bank” meme continues to this day, even though they’re now usually made with some way to get the money out harmlessly.
*he pulls out a Nokia phone and uses it to smash down all of the kingdom.*
Hail the invincible Nokia!
You draw so sexy gerudos. Both Nabooru and Ganondorf.
They were also corroborated by the sages, who were big deals with their respective races, and who had memories of the alternate timeline, as did both Link and Zelda. And it was the Sages who did the (attempted) execution in the Twilight Princess timeline anyway. I think also by that time the Triforce had split somehow too because Ganondorf is still the holder of the Triforce of Power in Twilight Princess, and Link and Zelda still had Courage and Wisdom, so that was proof. So here’s King Harkinian, trying to be diplomatic with everyone, and getting pressure from all the other races to get rid of the King of the Gerudo, including the Gerudo second in command, and there’s all this other weird ominous religious stuff happening, so persecuting Ganondorf does start to make some sense from that perspective.
I do like the Windwaker Ganondorf who’s starting to get tired of all the constant conflict. I like to think of that as a split between the mortal person versus the tireless immortal hatred of Demise in Skyward Sword, and that every now and then Demise possesses a new incarnation of Ganondorf as a vessel to try to get the Triforce and destroy Hyrule, some of them with more or less enthusiasm and sanity.
“They were also corroborated by the sages, who were big deals with their respective races, and who had memories of the alternate timeline, as did both Link and Zelda”
[citation needed]
Here’s what Hyrule Historia has to say
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In short, Zelda remembered nothing and there is no mention of the sages remembering anything.
“And it was the Sages who did the (attempted) execution in the Twilight Princess timeline anyway”
Bearded old white spectres. Probably not the same generation of Sages.
“So here’s King Harkinian”
… the guy from the CDi games????????
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crap, formatting issues:
“Link told Princess Zelda what will happen in the future. She listened and so to prevent Ganondorf from entering the Sacred Realm, entrusted Link with the Ocarina of Time and instructed him to leave with it.
This time, the back of Link’s hand was shining with the proof of the Triforce of Courage. Finished with the battle with evil from the future world, the hero carried the burden of the secret journey.”
– Hyrule Historia, page 110, GlitterBerri translations.
Whoops, confused fanfic with game canon again. The Harkinian thing is surprisingly common in fanfics, even among people who don’t acknowledge the cd-i games.
It’s been a while since I read Hyrule Historia, I suppose I was under the impression that the big party at the end of OOT was happening in Hyrule field after Ganondorf’s arrest in the child Link timeline. All the Sages were there. But now that you mention it I think Goron Link was adult sized, so maybe not. And it does sound from that like Zelda, who was also a Sage, didn’t remember the future, and it’s not like her age should have stopped her from awakening, and clearly her having the Triforce of Wisdom didn’t help either.
I think a lot of the backstory in TP is stylized though, so I’m not sure we can say that because the sages in TP looked like spectres, they weren’t the OOT sages. Ganondorf’s arrest and execution by the sages seems likely to have happened in the lifetime of the original sages.
To follow up more, I’m remembering now that the Harkinian thing eventually fell out of favor in place of Daphnes Nohanssen Hyrule. Sorry again about that.
Remember how last time I said you draw Ganondorf more badass each time you draw him? Add this to that.
I love how confounded he was on the topic of his eyes.
B-but… the poor Deku Tree :'(
T_T
That smug look on Zelda’s face in panel 5.
That’s a clear sign of a brat if there ever were one.
Always knew Zelda was an evil manipulative cow!!
Ths raises the question: did Gannon go ‘evil’ because of Link and his lies from the ‘future’? Or was he just tricked into being Zelda’s scapegoat so she could rule Hyrule after Gannon kills her father?
That’s racist towards cows :c
Wouldn’t that more be ‘speciest’? o_O
Young Gan is super hot (SUPER. HOT. SUPER. HOT)
Is that a SuperHot reference? It MUST be! :D
This makes way too much sense to me.
In short: It’s all Zelda’s fault.
This is perfect.
The true story of the Legend of Zelda. Love that evil look on Zelda.
I never get tired of how you portray Ganondorf and his relations with the other Hyrulean characters.
Hyrulean? Hyilian? Ah, I always forget which one it is.
I am not sure if it is fanon or canon, but both are valid from what I remember.
Hylian refers to the humans with pointy ears race that Link and Zelda are a part of.
Hyrulean refers to all sentient races in Hyrule, or at least the humans, hylians, goron and zora.
Man, Zelda looks so insufferably smug I’m ready to help Ganon burn it all to the ground.
Would I be allowed to print out the black and white comics for use as a colouring page? Asking ’cause I want to colour Gannon as Commander and vice versa.
Ahahaha if you want
Please share it with us when it’s finished if you want. Thank you.
She just had to say “but he t-touched me” and despite never have been in the same geografical area before that moment, they would have lynched him. The Rolling Stones would have probably made an article.
You’re so precious.
And you’re personally insulting and staggeringly condescending.
It was a fairly unnecessary and inappropriate place to take this.
So what?
You think you´ll find “appropiate content” on the comentaries of a comedy site?.
If it made people unconfortable then perhaps those people are the ones that should hear this kind of comentaries more often. Broaden your orizons perhaps.
It’s my website, I can screen the comments as I please, and do so when I feel that commenters are being overly hostile or inappropriate. Despite finding your comments tacky I’ve left them up because they don’t cross the line where I start pruning, but if they do, I’ll have to. I provide people with these comics and respectfully ask that they behave themselves in the space where I post them.
Sure, you have the power to erase my comment, but to what effect? Is “tacky”, “inapropiate enough” to warrant censorship?.
If not, then why mention it? What is the apropiate response here?
Look, I was never trying to offend anyone (except perhaps Rolling Stone magazine), but I was trying to make a point there. A point about a real problem that happends to real people. And all I get is condescencion, acusations of tackiness and veiled treaths of censorship.
Who is behaving innapropiately?.
Dude I’m just asking people please be respectful on my site. What you said wasn’t “making a point” about anything, it came across as a fumbled a fumbled attempt at edgy shock humour, followed by a pretty rude “what do you expect” rant. I just ask people to be respectful in the comments, calling that “threatening censorship” is fairly histrionic.
I’m leaving the comments up because I’m asking people to please not be rude and hostile on my website. This is basically my house that I have to live in and I’d rather not cultivate that kind of atmosphere in it.
You. It’s you. Personally I would have deleted your comment, because it’s gross. Also you have no idea what censorship actually is. Hint: It is not the action of not getting to say whatever gross ass thought you have in privately owned places. If you walked into a store and started making gross ass unfunny child molester jokes and the store asked you to stop or leave that is well within their rights and you can’t cry censorship.
— Dirk
Yawn, good that you don´t run the site then.
And I think the one who has no idea what censorship is. You equate it with US goverment policies.
And it wasn´t a “child molester joke”, it was in fact a “false rape acusation” joke.
And sure,I think it is within the rights of the owner to censor people in their own property (on principle, not because your goberment policies). But to have a right doesn´t make it a good thing.
The right to free speech means the government can’t prosecute you for opinions.
Maybe just make less shitty jokes? Or if you gotta make crude jokes, have the humor outweigh the shittiness?
dekler
Why? because some people can´t take them? nah, i´m ok. People often find “shittyness” in truth.
“The goverment” coudn´t prosecute me even if they wanted, I´m far from their jurisdiction.
Even though the joke wasn´t meant for laughs, I do have the humor for taking shit, since I was raped by a coprophiliac.
Kid, I could talk about all the crap we men go through. The higher suicide rate, the higher homeless rate, prostate cancer, the screwed up judicial system. All of these things I could talk about, but I don’t here. You know why? Because know your audience. No one is here to read your rants. We’re here to read about people with fat budgie raptors. Free range fire. Ganon putting up with a bigoted Link. Someone put a flag behind me!
*US Flag behind me.*
We don’t read to hear the rantings and ravings of someone who is no fun at parties. Someone who makes themselves out to be a victim because he’s told this is not the place for that. This is america son, and you might have the right to say whatever you want, but we’re all protected from having to listen to it. So talk to your wall, and when you’re done trying to be a pity troll, then maybe you can actually see how to make a complaint actually effective.
This is Nick Manly! And I’m riding a fire breathing robot unicornitops! I don’t even know what that is!
Got news for you rookie, if every one of the following comments after your “joke” blast you, maybe it’s not them that’s the problem.
I´ll be sure to tell that to every minority ever opressed by a mayority. You know, maybe it´s them that´s the problem.
So, how’s that cross? I hope it’s comfortable. It is THE accessory of choice for self made martyrs. Carry it with your knees, not your back.
No Sir, I think you got me mistaken. I´m not claiming to be a minority or opressed. I pointed out the error of thinking that having the majority on “your side” makes you right, or justified… or someone else wrong, something which your condescending attitude seems to pass for wisdom.
In this case I think you are wrong, because I get the ones feeling you think I am a troll… which I think is a missidentifier, for you missinterpret my intentions and actions. When making the single joke which started this conversation, I expected little. I honestly didn´t gave it a second thought.
I wanted to be surprised, to perhaps find a decent dialog, an interesting new point of view, even one that challenged my worldview. Sometimes it happens despite the delicate sensivilities peer preasure imposess on us, that someone rises to the ocasion and uses the oportunity to either expose an important part of their new ideas, or challenge him/herself ideologically and respond with curiosity to such jokes… perhaps even making a joke him or herself. Or even do something that defies all my expectations.
Personally, all the people here might “blast me” all they want, and I woudn´t care unless I got one of those bright moments. For those are the moments I´ll truly teasure where a mind shows it´s true worth.
But If you “rookie”prefeer to stick with that condescending attitude towards the people here that you think you know, and that you think can´t handle your “vast” knowledge I think you will keep limiting yourself to the unicornitops.
Also, I find it funny you portray as patriotic closing your ears to new Ideas or jokes. I just think other people from your country might disagree.
The reason why I call you a self made martyr, to explain things, is because you say something not apropos to the conversation, you get asked to not do it and you start complaining about censorship. Then you start trying to go on about race issues of minorities. Like you’re saying something really deep and new no one is aware of and it’s a crime to ask you to choose a better time and location. That’s why I teased you a bit about carrying a cross.
If this was any other type of place than a fun webcomic for a woman trying to expand her career I would be more open to actually talking to you about these issues. You would actually find me receptive, friendly, and open minded. But as I said before, you instantly went off about censorship when you were asked politely to choose another place to talk about the UVA scandal, which does deserve serious attention but not here. This is not your platform. This is not about your politics. This place is not about you.
But hey, I’m open to jokes, especially on a comedy site, so go ahead. Tell one.
These posts are giving me cancer.
How do I react like if it´s a crime to ask you to choose a better time and location?
By refusing to do it? Or by pointing out what you do in response?
No thanx, I even find this conversation is entertaining.
Of course this is not about me. In fact, the joke was about the comic if you remember. You people keep trying to make it about me; hell, Dirk specifically says “It´s you.”
Other hand for me is all about you, what actions you make when something makes you unconfortable, and how you people react when I point out what you respond.
And you know what they say, laughter is the best medicine… unless you have cancer.
You know, I’ll be glad when monday rolls around, for a new comic, and you just won’t admit that you might just be wrong about the point of bringing up the idiots at the Rolling stone. I’m done with you.
This is sort of in line with my personal interpretation of the Timeline(s). The way I see it, Ganondorf didn’t become evil until his visit to Hyrule. He saw how good the Hyruleans had it compared to the Gerudo, met with the King for whatever diplomatic purpose, and somewhere along the line, he learned of the Sacred Realm and the Triforce. He probably thought that divine favor would be a good way to improve life for his people, but his methods for attaining his goals became increasingly brutal, no doubt Demise’s curse was beginning to take root in his soul. He crossed the Moral Event Horizon in the Sacred Realm, where him and his followers found the Triforce and he slew them all and seized it for himself (an NPC in LttP explicitly mentions this happening, and it explains where the headless Gerudo inside the Iron Knuckles came from and why Nabooru despises him so much). By this point, he no longer really cares about the Gerudo, seeing them only as tools to be exploited, and seeks only to increase his own power. Tragic, but compelling.
Also, Zelda and Ganondorf’s faces in panel 5 made me chuckle.
I read this 6 times in a row and giggled each time at panel 5.
Ganondorf is still my favorite video game husband, and I love how you draw him.
That 5th panel, has the smuggest Zelda I have ever seen and I love it.
Seconded, she is gloriously smug.
I like to think that the games are all a big fairy tale that a father is telling his kids as a bedtime story. The changes are him changing the story up as the kids start getting older. Majora’s Mask is a halloween episode told over a campfire, Spirit Tracks is to one of his kids that likes trains while Wind Waker is for the one that likes pirates.
I like your interpretation. It’s certainly less cluttered than a cluster-bomb of reincarnation along alternate timelines.
And it explains why the heroes always look the same.
Reminds me of this dad who modded the Wind Waker to have Link referred to with female pronouns, so his daughter could play a good, cute game with a female protagonist. Link certainly was androgynous enough in that game for it to work out.
Apparently he got some really, really shitty hate mail from the internet. :(
That’s asinine to attack him. People make all sorts of mods. My favorite is a summon in Skyrim for a guitar playing bear because it gives me the giggles.
Dude was doing something nice for his daughter, we’re real inconsistent on what’s allowed before we attack.
Ganondorf is my favorite character and I am very very happy every single time he shows up. Bless you for making Link a petty and awful child; Zelda too
I have to admire how you used the King design from the CD-i games.
The crown and the white beard and squared mustache bears much more resemblance to Daphnes Nohanssen Hyrule, the king from the Wind Waker, or his ancestors from the Minish Cap.
i just love the last panel and how deadpan he looks and say the line.
its like he’s saying the most serious, matter-of-fact truth “fuck this place”
Now I want strip where is shows young Ganon taunting teen Zelda (you know, like right after he finally captures her) and saying its all her fault, and she’s like “I was freaking ten! What did you expect, a bushel of roses and a big welcome hug?”
‘I have Gerudo eyes… because I’m a Gerudo…’
This is god damn hilarious
Now you have me wondering how Ganondorf would react to his depiction in the Zelda TV show. Was he just going through a tough time, is it a different Ganondorf, is it just baseless and hurtful slander in an attempt to dehumanize the Gerudo, was it internet bullying with photoshop? The TV series also wins the award for “Biggest Dick Link” and “Hypercompetent Zelda” characterizations.
For a bit I couldn’t figure what TV show you were talking about that had “Biggest Dick Link” because who the heck would make a show like that for kids. I then promptly realized I misunderstood.
I figure tough time. He’s mentioned the many timelines before. I figure if called on it Ganondorf would admit Ganon was when he was in a bad place himself from the death and resurrection, and also a pig monster. That last bit never helps.
It’s cool seeing you draw classic OoT Ganondorf with the shorter hair. This is the first time he’s appeared so far right?
Ganondorf apologist
I wont lie I LOVE how you drew Nabooru in that last panel. Also given all the absurd puzzles and gimmicks to unlock/seal away the most powerful sword in the franchise among other stuff I can see that “2 suspicious 10 year olds” rule being there
I really like your take on OoT Ganondorf here. Ever since Twilight Princess, short-haired beardless Ganondorf has just looked wrong to me, but you make him look good.
Okay, so he didn’t actually have those big muttonchops in OoT, but I am willing to forgive a lot for the sake of big muttonchops.
I’ve just adopted the Hyrule Warriors OoT design as the superior OoT Ganondorf. He had chops in that one, plus they cleaned up a lot of the unfortunately racist aspects of the original OoT look.
I actually never took a second look at that costume before now. Thanks for drawing my attention to it — it really is a nice upgrade.
This comic is easily the best part of my day ^_^
I already loved this comic because of Zelda’s horrible child face, but now that it’s got colour and there’s that gorgeous bar light and the king is dressed just like King Daphness, I love it a lot more!
If I may, that is probably the most attractively portrayed Nabooru I’ve seen to date.
I checked out of the Zelda franchise years ago (last game I played was Link to the Past) so I didn’t get the events referenced in the comment describing the comic and I still found this hilarious. This is one of my favorite webcomics for a reason :) (yea I know I hardly ever comment, my bad.)
Ah, the misadventures of Ganondorf Dragmire. I cant wait to see what the Kokiri, the Gorons, and the Zora do to set him off. Then there’s his own people, what could possibly happen to make him turn on them?
The first Kokiri he encountered was the creepy blonde girl who would later giggle about grown-up Link turning into a Stalfos. It only escalated from there.
“Wait, wait, wait, he’s king because he’s the only boy born in a hundred years? Does that sound stupid to anyone else? I mean, I had to prove myself a hundred ways to lead you guys, and you’ve all proven yourselves a hundred ways to me. This guy just shows up and expects to run the show because ‘tradition says?’ Screw that.” -Nabooru’s revolution is born.
“Look, you’ve been nice, and I sympathize about the ‘no water’ thing, sounds terrible, but I just can’t give you the Zora’s Sapphire.”
“Why not? We’d make great allies! Catch the Hylians between us, they’d have to retreat north. The lake would be yours, those fields would be ours. You’d even have us as a buffer against reprisals.”
“It’s not that the offer isn’t appealing, it’s just that, er… we don’t have it.”
“What? What do you mean you don’t have it?”
“This is very embarrassing… my daughter was feeding our god, and she… dropped it.”
“Dropped it?”
“Yes.”
“While feeding your god?”
“Yes.”
“The big hippo thing out back?”
“…Indeed.”
“Well, hell, that’s no problem–I’ll just make him cough it back up, we can seal this pact before lunch. C’mon, Jabu-Jabu, barf like a freshman!”
The Goron’s probably laughed him off.
“Hahahahahaha, you want our gem stone? No way man, this stone is a sacred artifact, I’m not just gonna give it to some guy just because he’s but sour over what some little kid and senile man said. Plus, I heard you screwed over the Great Deku Tree. I freaking love the forest people, especially their music. No way am I going to help you after that!
And wars have been started for much less than that. (sigh)
Smugface Zelda is my favorite.
I mean, have you seen the way he slurps up his soup?
https://youtu.be/9mdQdYtEybg?t=5m19s
I did a ctrl-f on slurps just to see if anyone else thought of that. Love that animation!
I like your portrayal of Ganondorf, reminds me of Adamwestslapdog’s view of Ganondorf:
https://youtu.be/UQFH5JmTioE?t=3m23s
I haven’t read this in, like, two years, and it took a depressingly short time to catch up on it.
Updates every week.
Maybe see it as a compliment; when it’s top quality all the way through, any book, comic or show will be depressingly short.
I’m guessing that for the sake of the joke, your version of Ganondorf isn’t the reincarnation of a demon’s hatred.
From what I read on the comments, I get the feeling that as said, Ganon is just tired of the whole thing. He might still have voices telling him to burn and maim, but probably took some group therapy, maybe a few yoga classes and just figured that he can do more with his life than just crush his enemies and wait for a blonde kid with a sock on his head to come beat him up.
As great as your linework is, I’ve really got to say I enjoy the touches you add with color. The details on Ganon and Nabooru’s clothes, in this instance.
I congratulate you, Coelasquid.
Panel 4 is just another perfect image. I totally dig how the king is drawn there, and lil’ Zelda sad face only adds to that.
That smug Zelda face, though. Best Zelda ever.
I’m in love with Zelda’s smug smile. It’s just so perfect. XD
Am I the only one getting some serious Raoh vibes from Ganon in the last panel?
Is this Game Grumps? Cause I’m totally getting the Game Grumps vibe from this.
Is it bad I am starting to ship Ganon/Commander….they are already by brotp and slowly becoming my fav tp because of their antics together…
Ugh I am such shipper trash but I love it.
-Meant My not By
ugh stupid wrist brace
I love the evil look on Zelda’s face…
I would totally support a Commander and Gannon adventure story arc. You Gannon is cool AF.
I love the smugass face Zelda’s making.
You know, I come for the comics, but return for the comments (and the newer comics). Kinda disappointed that no one really pointed out that Link isnt a single person or name. Its his title. A Link to different events and points in time that shares similar characteristics and personalities. Though that kinda opens another can of worms as to who or what Zelda really is, so many try to ignore this… <(-_-<)
Side comment/question: So, how bout that Linkle lass?
Technically it’s a reincarnation, like Zelda is. Same might be true with Ganondorf too.
Okay..somehow my reply went to the one below. My mistake.
Why would anyone bring that up? Link has nothing to do with this comic. Aside from that, your “title” explanation is something brought up as a possibility by Hyrule historia. One of many.
This comment straight up baffles me.
Well, I never played any Zelda games (*SHOCKED GASPS*), and after seeing this I’m actually kind of glad I didn’t. The timeline mixups in Steins;Gate and BlazBlue are easier to understand than this conversation (which I have to assume is based on a lot of other assumptions).
It’s less so much that there’s timeline mix ups in any one game, but more what happens when you try to arrange the games together in a chronological order.
The games themselves are very easy to follow, and most of them work as a standalone.
Well, slight correction: there are three games I can think of with time travel (Oracle of Ages, Ocarina of Time, and Majora’s Mask). But the point is even they don’t have really convoluted time travel plots. The time travel is more of a way to get from point A to point B.
The overall Legend of Zelda timeline for all the games is a whole other kettle of fish that people still will argue about, even after Nintendo released a canon explanation.
Not quite. Twilight Princess kinda threw that theory in the grave by putting a former “Link” (Majora’s Mask one) into a future links realm. Also Ganon is the same in most. Just a series of resurrection or seals depending on the specific timeline.Though I think there is one reincarnation. Zelda is the one that bothers me the most. Like Link, its a title. However its within a set bloodline. Basically the royal family has a clone born every generation. Lets just stay off the Zelda topic and go back to admiration of Noncannon Ganon fanon.
… how does the Hero of Time’s ghost appearing in Twilight Princess have anything to do with Lemuria’s comment?
Oh right I gotcha.
I tell people I sympathize with Ganondorf… and they get mad at me. This is the EXACT reason I sympathize with him. How can you NOT feel bad for him with crap like this happening to him???? D’:
I’m reading this strip over and I’ve noticed that the little ten-year-old child is only asking his father to GET RID of Ganondorf. The child doesn’t state that he is to be executed. Getting rid of him might mean merely booting him out of the country. It’s the king who automatically jumps to the conclusion that he should be executed. That states a lot about the king’s ideas of governing.
holy crap, i am screaming
That, or he knows fully well what his daughter means when she asks her daddy to “get rid” of someone.
No, Zelda is a sheltered little princess at this point. She definitely meant just kick him out, maybe not even the kingdom but just the castle. She possibly doesn’t even know what execution truly entails. The King is totally the one who went strait to execution, and since he is seen as a good king by his people, it is likely because he was thinking of executing Ganon himself, and therefore jumped to the conclusion that that is what Zelda wanted. Ganon didn’t get mad until The Kings comment, so he likely knew what Zelda initially meant as well.
If daddy dearest is throwing around the word “execute” so freely around his daughter and his guest, what would stop him from having done that before? That girl’s not sheltered. She’s rotten.
it is a clever interpretation and i like it…
however, zelda’s evil facial expressions when her dad tells her about the execusion suggests otherwise.
maybe it is a mix of both, she initially wanted him kicked out, but then daddy dearest went to execution and that just made her even happier
I’m just picturing him with that angry stare, talking to himself, in a very calm and rational tone. Like he just had an epiphany.
I will never understand or care to understand the Zelder timeline stuff. I’m old enough that I remember when there was just one straight line uniting each game, until someone thought way too hard about time travel and then it became a complete mess.
Having said that, I’m perfectly ok with this particular take on the series.
This doesn’t top #50. But it’s easily my second favorite strip.
I just want to say that I adore the coloring in this comic so much! This page is especially pretty; that purple lighting in the first panel is great!
I love how your OoT Ganandorf looks. Literally the coolest rendition ever!
I love this comic and everything you do with Ganondorf!
For fun, I once thought up an alternate plot for Ocarina of Time telling the story from G’s perspective. Like Hyrule Warriors except without Link or Zelda. Why did he seek power, and why do the rest of the things he did? What if it went like this: as a tribe of hot females, the Gerudo were used as spies for Hyrule a lot. So they found out about threats to Hyrule from foreign powers, and when big G went to the castle, he intended to lend his strength to the king to fight them. But the king was a hopelessly-inept figurehead, and was in fact leading the kingdom to ruin. So G designed a plan to obtain the triforce of power, install someone else as king (like Suikoden), and protect Hyrule from its enemies.
Zelda wouldn’t have known any of that, since she was just a kid, and also therefore would’ve had faith in her father. And if she heard anything about G’s plan, she would just assume he was a bad guy. Then she’d have told Link that, setting OOT in motion. Then, as he said, G let Link collect the keys to the Temple of Time because he knew he’d succeed.
For one reason or another, G launched his coup when Link was returning with the last key to the temple. Then G himself went in and got the triforce of power. But it was too much power for him to handle, and it drove him insane. With its power he successfully defeated Hyrule’s enemies. But rather than installing a good king, he gave himself the position and in his madness let Hyrule fall into ruin. By the time Link awoke, he was beyond help, and so Link had to defeat him to restore peace to Hyrule.
I am not an artist but I really like the color combinations happening at the last panel. The contrast between the desert-themed colors of the Gerudos and the luscious evening plains of Hyrule really pop out.
Is it wrong that I like/love the fact that he is still Raoh-dorf, even in OOT style?
You Ganondorf isn’t even that evil. He conquersaid a single city and then sits on his ass for 10 years. If anyone is truly evil in the Zelda franchise, it’s Majora and Scull Kid. They decided to destroy the whole planet by crashing the moon into it.
Though an avid LOZ fan, this will always be my new reason too adore the series. Way to go, Zelda. You’ve f*cked up the whole kingdom.
Just when did Ganon turn into a bearded green skinned dude from a warthog-faced wizard?!? I probably missed a Zelda game or 10 since the old cartoon…
Roughly since Ocarina of Time. That came out in 1998. Note, though, that despite now having a more human form, he hasn’t lost the ‘Pig’; he always tends to hulk out into some monstrosity with pig-like features.
He’s not much of a wizard, though.
I love your version of Ganon. x)
If Ganondorf isn’t that bad of a guy, then why did Nabooru betray him? Is she a sociopath in this comic? That would be interesting.
Kratos is the only recurring bald character.